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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - You're Richer Than You Think | May 4, 2025
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- [announcer] 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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- As a pastor, i've listened to many struggling christians
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- Tell 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
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- Who are looking for a deeper sense
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- Of god's supernatural presence in their everyday lives.
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- Well, if more sounds out of reach for you today,
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- Then let me 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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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ you took my place, laid inside my tomb of sin ♪
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- ♪ you were buried for three days ♪
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- ♪ and then you walked right out again ♪
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- ♪ and now death has no sting ♪
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- ♪ and life has no end ♪
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- ♪ i have been transformed by the blood of the lamb ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, for the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, it has washed me white ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ there to my heart was the blood of christ ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, for the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, it has washed me white ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness, brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ into glorious light, glorious light ♪
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- ♪ thank you for these glorious light ♪
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- [announcer] god never intended for the holy spirit
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- 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, dr. robert jeffress
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- 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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- An old indian chief living in oklahoma
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- Was thrilled when he struck oil on the small parcel of land
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- That he owned.
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- Suddenly this indian chief was richer than jed clampett,
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- And he had always wanted more than anything
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- A shiny red cadillac automobile,
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- And now he had the money to purchase it.
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- So one day he went down,
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- And he pulled out a wad of thousand dollar bills,
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- And he bought his 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,
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- And he would drive around the town square
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- In that small city in oklahoma,
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- And the old chief while driving the car
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- Would open his driver's window,
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- And he would wave at folks on the left.
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- And then he would open the passenger window,
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- And he would wave at folks on the right,
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- And sometimes he got so distracted
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- He would actually lean out of the driver's window,
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- And he would start talking to the people on the town square,
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- And they would talk to him back.
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- But nobody was really too concerned
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- About the chief's erratic driving patterns.
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- Instead, they would simply smile and wave back at him
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- As they watched him in his shiny new red cadillac
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- Being drawn by the two horses
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- He had attached to the front bumper.
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- (audience laughing)
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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
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- Convinced that they can travel no farther
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- And no faster than they're traveling 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
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- That they can never experience
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- Any miraculous answers to their prayers.
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- They can never experience victory
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- Over temptation in their life.
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- They can never expect god to speak
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- To them in a supernatural way.
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- Instead, they just travel around in the same circle
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- Year after year.
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- But there are some christians
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- Who want more in their 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
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- And we see some christians jetting past us,
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- Whizzing by us in a faster model of christianity,
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- And we wonder, well, maybe what's wrong is
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- I have the wrong kind of christianity.
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- Maybe i need to trade in my faith
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- For a shinier, a newer model.
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- Well, before you do that,
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- It's important to read the owner's manual
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- And understand the power that is available to you already.
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- If you want more than you're experiencing
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- In your christian life right now,
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- What you really are longing for
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- Is the power of the holy spirit.
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- And today we're going to begin
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- A brand new series of messages i've titled
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- "unleashed: experiencing the power of the holy spirit
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- "in your everyday life."
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- And as we begin our study today,
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- We're going to answer two essential questions
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- About the holy spirit of god.
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- If you have your bibles,
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- Turn to first corinthians chapter 12
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- As we discover why it is you're richer than you think.
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- First corinthians chapter 12.
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- The first question we're going to look at briefly today is
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- Who is the holy spirit?
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- If indeed the answer to the greatest longing
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- You have in your life right now
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- Is the power of the holy spirit,
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- We need to understand who the holy spirit is,
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- And i want to make two statements this morning
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- 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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- 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
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- That mention the holy spirit of god is equal to god.
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- Genesis one, verse two reminds us
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- That the holy spirit was involved in creation.
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- Moses wrote, "the earth was formless and void,
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- "and darkness was over the surface of the deep,
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- "and the spirit of god was moving over
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- "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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- We're in matthew 28, verse 19.
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- Jesus said, "when you baptize, baptize in the name
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- "of god, the father, the son, and" who?
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- The holy spirit.
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- Or remember, the apostle paul
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- Equated the holy spirit with god
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- In second corinthians 13, verse 14.
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- He wrote, "the grace of the lord jesus christ
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- "and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit
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- "be with you."
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- Remember the story in acts chapter five,
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- Verses three and four about ananias and sapphira.
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- Ananias and sapphira had made a pledge
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- Before the whole church that they were going to sell
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- A piece of land and give all the proceeds
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- To the church's building campaign
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- They were having back then,
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- And ananias and sapphira,
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- Even though they publicly made this commitment,
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- They sold the piece of land, they kept back a portion
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- For themselves.
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- What happened to them?
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- Verses three, verses three and four of acts five,
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- Peter confronted them and said,
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- "ananias, why has satan filled your heart as to lie
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- "to the holy spirit
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- "and to keep back some of the price of land?"
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- And then in verse four, 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,
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- You've lied 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.
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- The same power of god
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- That flung billions of galaxies into existence
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- With a single word,
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- The same power of god that changed five loaves and two fish
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- Into enough food to feed 25,000 people,
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- The same power of god that lifted jesus christ
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- Out of the grave, that same power of god is in you right now
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- 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
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- We need to understand.
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- Not only is the holy spirit god,
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- The holy spirit is also a person.
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- And that's why whenever the new testament
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- Talks about the holy spirit,
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- 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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- That 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
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- That is he thinks, he understands,
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- He comprehends the thoughts of god.
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- Jot down first corinthians two, verse 11,
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- "for who among men knows the thoughts of a man
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- "except the spirit of the man which is in him.
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- "even so the thoughts of god,
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- "no one knows except the spirit of god."
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- The holy spirit of god can understand
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- What we can never understand,
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- And that is the thoughts of god himself.
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- Secondly, the holy spirit possesses a will.
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- That is he makes decisions.
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- One of the decisions he makes is
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- What spiritual gifts he's going to give
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- To individual christians.
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- It's the holy spirit of god who decides
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- What gifts you receive.
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- First corinthians 12:11 says,
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- "but one and the same spirit works all these things
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- "distributing to each one 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,
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- Any sin you engage in,
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- You are taking the holy spirit with you
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- To be a part of that sin if he's living in your life.
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- And that's why ephesians four, verse 30 says,
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- "do not grieve the holy spirit of god,
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- "by whom you were sealed in the day of redemption."
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- The next time you're tempted to enter into sin,
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- Ask yourself, do i feel comfortable
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- 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.
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- 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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- If indeed the deepest longing we have
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- Can be filled by experiencing the holy spirit,
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- Don't you think it's important to ask
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- And answer the question well, when do we receive
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- The holy spirit of god in our lives?
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- And i want you to look at verse 13 of first corinthians 12.
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- Paul explains the process
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- By which the holy spirit sets up residence
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- In every believer's life.
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- In verse 13, he writes, "for with one spirit
- 00:14:02.264 --> 00:14:05.034
- "we were all baptized into one body,
- 00:14:05.034 --> 00:14:08.871
- "whether jews or greeks, whether slaves or free,
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- "and we were all made to drink of one spirit."
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- We can have diversity,
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- But there still has to be unity.
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- Unity in diversity.
- 00:14:21.884 --> 00:14:23.786
- 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.
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- You're not one giant ear or one giant eyeball
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- Or one giant nostril.
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- Your body consists of a variety of different parts,
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- And yet all of those parts are functioning together
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- For the same purpose.
- 00:14:48.911 --> 00:14:50.346
- Now that's the way the church is to be.
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- Look at verse 12, first corinthians 12.
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- "for even as the body is one and yet has many parts
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- "and all the members of the body though they are many
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- "are one body, so also is christ."
- 00:15:00.856 --> 00:15:04.293
- Just as the human body has a variety of parts
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- That are working together for one purpose,
- 00:15:07.529 --> 00:15:09.565
- So does the body of christ, the church.
- 00:15:09.565 --> 00:15:13.302
- Many different kinds of people all joined together
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- For one purpose.
- 00:15:16.739 --> 00:15:18.440
- And the way the church comes together
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- From a diversity of backgrounds to be one
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- Is with the baptism of the holy spirit of god.
- 00:15:23.579 --> 00:15:26.348
- Now, there are four words in this verse
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- I want you to write down to understand,
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- Key words to understand.
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- First of all, the word baptized.
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- For with one spirit, we were all baptized with one spirit.
- 00:15:34.356 --> 00:15:39.628
- Now that word baptized, as you know,
- 00:15:40.429 --> 00:15:43.032
- Is a transliteration of the greek word baptizo.
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- It's exactly like it sounds in greek baptizo.
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- And the greek word baptizo doesn't mean a variety 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,
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- The holy spirit of god
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- Changes your spiritual color completely.
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- He immerses you, he pours over you.
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- He transforms you from a guilty rebellious enemy of god
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- Into a forgiving, obedient disciple of jesus christ.
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- That's what happens.
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- Your spiritual color is changed forever.
- 00:16:20.436 --> 00:16:23.872
- But not only that,
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- The baptism with the holy spirit not only changes us,
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- But get this, the baptism with the holy spirit joins us
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- To jesus christ, the head of the body
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- And to other christians
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- Who are already part of the body of christ.
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- Do you understand that?
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- The baptism, the immersion with the holy spirit of god
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- Changes our spiritual color, changes us individually,
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- But it also joins us together
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- To jesus christ and other believers.
- 00:16:52.234 --> 00:16:54.603
- And that's why paul says,
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- "for with one spirit we were all baptized."
- 00:16:55.904 --> 00:17:00.042
- Now the second word in this verse to understand
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- Is the word by.
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- B-y, that little preposition for by one spirit.
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- Did you know that the bible never speaks of the baptism
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- Of the holy spirit?
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- Never.
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- Some translations translate it that way,
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- But it's a mistranslation.
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- It is never the translation of the holy spirit.
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- This word translated by is a word that is best translated
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- With, for with one spirit.
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- By is not a good translation
- 00:17:33.142 --> 00:17:35.310
- Because people misunderstand that word by.
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- When you use the word by,
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- It appears that the holy spirit is the one
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- Who is baptizing us.
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- My point is the baptism of the holy spirit
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- Is accomplished by jesus.
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- It's what he does for us.
- 00:17:48.056 --> 00:17:50.092
- And you see that all throughout scripture.
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- Jot down mark 1:8, john the baptist said,
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- "i, john, baptized you with water,
- 00:17:55.531 --> 00:17:58.867
- "but jesus will baptize you with the holy spirit."
- 00:17:58.867 --> 00:18:04.406
- Do you see that?
- 00:18:04.773 --> 00:18:06.141
- That's why we never pray to the holy spirit of god
- 00:18:06.141 --> 00:18:09.011
- Asking him to baptize us.
- 00:18:09.011 --> 00:18:10.846
- No, jesus baptizes us with the holy spirit.
- 00:18:10.846 --> 00:18:14.917
- The third word is the word were.
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- For with one spirit, we were all baptized.
- 00:18:18.520 --> 00:18:22.925
- Notice that is past tense.
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- It's denoting an action that has already taken place.
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- There were no corinthian christians
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- Who were sitting around waiting for the holy spirit
- 00:18:31.633 --> 00:18:35.270
- To come into their life.
- 00:18:35.270 --> 00:18:36.738
- In fact, it is something that had already taken place.
- 00:18:36.738 --> 00:18:40.042
- For with one spirit, we were baptized.
- 00:18:40.042 --> 00:18:43.979
- In his excellent book, "god in you,"
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- David jeremiah gives three categories of verses in the bible
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- Dealing with the holy spirit.
- 00:18:51.486 --> 00:18:53.488
- And it's important to be able to classify these verses
- 00:18:53.488 --> 00:18:55.991
- Because there's a lot of confusion about this topic.
- 00:18:55.991 --> 00:18:58.527
- David says, some of the verses are verses of expectancy.
- 00:18:58.527 --> 00:19:02.898
- Now those are verses mainly in the old testament
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- And some of the gospels
- 00:19:05.300 --> 00:19:06.868
- That anticipate the time when the holy spirit will come
- 00:19:06.868 --> 00:19:10.372
- And set up residence, will en dwell every christian.
- 00:19:10.372 --> 00:19:14.343
- For example, joel chapter two, verse 28,
- 00:19:14.343 --> 00:19:16.812
- "and it will come about after this
- 00:19:16.812 --> 00:19:18.914
- "that i will pour out my spirit on all mankind.
- 00:19:18.914 --> 00:19:23.085
- "god is looking forward to that time
- 00:19:23.085 --> 00:19:25.454
- "when he would pour out his spirit on all believers."
- 00:19:25.454 --> 00:19:29.057
- Or in luke chapter three, verse 16,
- 00:19:29.057 --> 00:19:30.859
- "john answered and said to them all, 'as for me,
- 00:19:30.859 --> 00:19:33.128
- "'i baptize you with water, but one,'"
- 00:19:33.128 --> 00:19:36.298
- Talking about jesus,
- 00:19:36.298 --> 00:19:37.466
- "'is coming who is mightier than i,
- 00:19:37.466 --> 00:19:39.368
- "'and he will baptize you with the holy spirit and fire.'"
- 00:19:39.368 --> 00:19:42.404
- Even in the new testament and the gospels
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- They were looking forward to with expectancy
- 00:19:44.306 --> 00:19:46.708
- The baptism with the holy spirit.
- 00:19:46.708 --> 00:19:49.878
- Secondly, verses that deal with experience,
- 00:19:49.878 --> 00:19:53.315
- Verses that teach us about the experience
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- Of the holy spirit.
- 00:19:55.584 --> 00:19:57.953
- These are verses and acts that record
- 00:19:57.953 --> 00:20:00.122
- The actual coming of the holy spirit into believers' lives.
- 00:20:00.122 --> 00:20:03.091
- And of course that happened
- 00:20:03.091 --> 00:20:04.459
- At the day of pentecost
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- When people believed, thousands believed,
- 00:20:05.927 --> 00:20:08.163
- And they were baptized immediately
- 00:20:08.163 --> 00:20:10.599
- With the holy spirit of god.
- 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:12.901
- Peter looks back on that experience of pentecost,
- 00:20:12.901 --> 00:20:16.004
- And he says, "and i remembered the word of the lord,
- 00:20:16.004 --> 00:20:19.474
- "how he used to say, 'john baptized with water,
- 00:20:19.474 --> 00:20:22.911
- "'but you shall be baptized with the holy spirit.'"
- 00:20:22.911 --> 00:20:26.581
- And then thirdly, verses of explanation.
- 00:20:26.581 --> 00:20:29.651
- These are verses in the new testament
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- That deal with the benefits of experiencing the baptism
- 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:36.058
- With the holy spirit or the empowering with the holy spirit.
- 00:20:36.058 --> 00:20:39.628
- We're going to talk about the difference in two weeks.
- 00:20:39.628 --> 00:20:41.830
- The baptism with the spirit
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- Is something every believer experiences,
- 00:20:43.465 --> 00:20:45.534
- But only a few experience the filling or the empowering
- 00:20:45.534 --> 00:20:49.871
- Of the holy spirit.
- 00:20:49.871 --> 00:20:51.573
- These are verses of explanation.
- 00:20:51.573 --> 00:20:53.442
- For example, romans six, verses three to four.
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- "or do you not know that all of us
- 00:20:56.445 --> 00:20:58.080
- "who have been baptized into christ jesus
- 00:20:58.080 --> 00:21:00.215
- "have been baptized into his death?
- 00:21:00.215 --> 00:21:02.984
- "therefore we have been buried with him
- 00:21:02.984 --> 00:21:04.986
- "through baptism into death,
- 00:21:04.986 --> 00:21:07.222
- "in order that as christ was raised from the dead
- 00:21:07.222 --> 00:21:09.758
- "through the glory of god the father,
- 00:21:09.758 --> 00:21:11.460
- "so we too might walk in newness of life."
- 00:21:11.460 --> 00:21:15.297
- After acts chapter eight, the pattern is clear.
- 00:21:16.298 --> 00:21:20.035
- The moment somebody trusts in christ,
- 00:21:20.035 --> 00:21:22.637
- He is baptized with the holy spirit of god.
- 00:21:22.637 --> 00:21:26.341
- And that leads to a fourth word in this verse
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- That's key to understanding this whole principle.
- 00:21:28.310 --> 00:21:30.645
- And that is the word all.
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- For with one spirit, we were all baptized into one body.
- 00:21:32.881 --> 00:21:39.221
- You know that one little word all
- 00:21:39.955 --> 00:21:42.924
- Should drive a stake through this idea that is out there
- 00:21:42.924 --> 00:21:47.429
- That the baptism with the holy spirit
- 00:21:47.429 --> 00:21:49.865
- Is a special experience
- 00:21:49.865 --> 00:21:52.601
- Reserved for only a certain class of christians.
- 00:21:52.601 --> 00:21:55.871
- It's kind of like a spiritual upgrade
- 00:21:55.871 --> 00:21:58.306
- For that group of christians
- 00:21:58.306 --> 00:21:59.775
- Who want to have a first class relationship with christ
- 00:21:59.775 --> 00:22:01.877
- And are willing to pay a little bit extra to experience it.
- 00:22:01.877 --> 00:22:05.013
- No, the bible says it's part of the basic package.
- 00:22:05.013 --> 00:22:09.050
- For with one spirit we were all baptized into one body.
- 00:22:09.050 --> 00:22:14.389
- I want you to turn it over and, for just a moment
- 00:22:15.390 --> 00:22:16.758
- To second peter chapter one, verses three to four,
- 00:22:16.758 --> 00:22:19.428
- Peter writes, seeing that god's divine power
- 00:22:19.428 --> 00:22:23.432
- "has granted to us everything pertaining to life
- 00:22:24.433 --> 00:22:28.737
- "and godliness through the true knowledge of him
- 00:22:28.737 --> 00:22:31.239
- "who called us by his own glory and excellence.
- 00:22:31.239 --> 00:22:34.075
- "for by these things he has granted to us,
- 00:22:34.075 --> 00:22:36.278
- "his precious and magnificent promises, so that by them
- 00:22:36.278 --> 00:22:40.782
- "you have become partakers of the divine nature,
- 00:22:40.782 --> 00:22:44.786
- "having escaped the corruption that is in the world
- 00:22:44.786 --> 00:22:47.622
- "through lust."
- 00:22:47.622 --> 00:22:49.324
- Now i want you to underline in verse three this phrase.
- 00:22:49.324 --> 00:22:50.959
- "he has granted to us everything pertaining to life
- 00:22:50.959 --> 00:22:56.198
- "and godliness."
- 00:22:56.565 --> 00:22:58.667
- Do you realize what that passage is saying?
- 00:22:58.667 --> 00:23:01.503
- If there's one truth i want you to walk away with today,
- 00:23:01.503 --> 00:23:03.872
- It's this.
- 00:23:03.872 --> 00:23:05.240
- God has not shortchanged you if you're a christian.
- 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:09.277
- God isn't over here reserving something extra
- 00:23:09.277 --> 00:23:12.180
- That you need to beg him and ask him to do in your life.
- 00:23:12.180 --> 00:23:15.450
- He has granted to you everything you need
- 00:23:15.450 --> 00:23:19.187
- To lead a supernatural, fulfilling existence
- 00:23:20.088 --> 00:23:24.125
- While here on earth.
- 00:23:24.125 --> 00:23:25.594
- He has granted to you everything pertaining to life
- 00:23:25.594 --> 00:23:28.296
- And to godliness.
- 00:23:28.296 --> 00:23:30.031
- Everything he has given you is all wrapped up
- 00:23:30.966 --> 00:23:34.603
- In the holy spirit of god.
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- And that's why there was a delay between believing
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- 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.
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- So there had to be one point in history
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- When the holy spirit would come as had been prophesied.
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- And that point in time was the day of pentecost.
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