Tony Evans - The Seal

January 19, 2025 | S25:E3

Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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  • Tony evans: if you're a believer,
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  • You got a little bit of heaven already in you.
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  • That's where you get to experience him
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  • At work in your life.
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  • You're no longer to be dependent upon your own human ingenuity.
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  • You have the spirit of god.
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  • The holy spirit is sealed within you.
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  • God wants to unfold knowledge of himself to you,
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  • But only as you walk in dependency on the spirit
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  • That you already have.
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  • Tony: i want to talk to you today
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  • About the name of the holy spirit, the seal.
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  • In ephesians chapter 1, verses 13 and 14,
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  • We read these words.
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  • "in him you also after listening to the message of truth,
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  • The gospel of your salvation, having also believed,
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  • You were sealed in him with the holy spirit
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  • Of promise."
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  • You were sealed with the holy spirit of promise.
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  • Verse 14, "who is given as a pledge of our inheritance,
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  • With a view to the redemption of god's own possession
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  • To the praise of his glory."
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  • Verse 13 calls the holy spirit the seal.
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  • Now, there are three concepts tied to the sealing presence
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  • Of the holy spirit in the life of a believer.
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  • One is that guarantees security.
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  • Two, it establishes ownership.
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  • And three, it is reflective of authority.
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  • Security, ownership, and authority.
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  • When you are sealed with the holy spirit,
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  • He provides you, first of all, security.
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  • We're gonna look at it more in a moment,
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  • But ephesians 4:30 says, "you were sealed
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  • Till the day of redemption."
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  • In other words, the seal cannot be broken
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  • Until redemption has occurred.
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  • So there is a permanency to the seal.
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  • In other words, you can't lose your salvation.
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  • Isn't it good to know that you don't have to
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  • Keep yourself saved?
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  • Once you have accepted jesus christ,
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  • You have been birthed into the family of god.
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  • He has linked you to union with christ
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  • And union with the family of god,
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  • And it is a seal that cannot be broken.
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  • When a person is born into a family,
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  • That biological connection can never be undone,
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  • Because it's a birth issue.
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  • When you are born again, that spiritual connection
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  • Can never be undone.
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  • I love the way that paul talks about this permanency
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  • In the book of romans chapter 8 when he asked the question
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  • In verse 35, "who will separate us
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  • From the love of christ?"
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  • And then he asked about tribulation, distress,
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  • Persecution, and famine, nakedness, peril, or sword.
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  • He says, "in all these things," verse 37,
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  • "we are overwhelmingly conquerors
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  • Through him who loved us."
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  • He concludes in verse 39, "height nor depth,
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  • Nor any other created thing will be able to separate us
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  • From the love of god which is in christ jesus
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  • Our lord."
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  • So if it's been created, it can't separate you
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  • Once you've come to jesus christ.
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  • You can live with the assurance and the security of the seal.
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  • You have been sealed into the family of god,
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  • And nobody, not even you, nor the devil,
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  • Can break the seal, because god is
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  • The one who sealed you.
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  • And if god tightens the cap, there's nobody
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  • Who can unscrew that.
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  • You have been sealed.
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  • You've been vacuum-packed, sealed.
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  • God has secured your salvation until your redemption.
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  • That ought to give you a reason to praise him, to glorify him.
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  • Sealing is also designed to keep out contamination.
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  • You seal it so that air, bacteria, can't get in
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  • And spoil it.
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  • God has sealed your new nature so that it cannot be destroyed
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  • By the world, the flesh, or the devil.
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  • Ah, to know that your eternal destiny
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  • Is forever sealed in christ and that it cannot be broken.
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  • With this comes ownership.
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  • Ownership.
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  • For example, when jeremiah,
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  • In jeremiah chapter 32, verses 9 and 10,
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  • He bought a piece of property god told him to buy
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  • And he put a seal on it.
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  • He established ownership of it.
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  • This is my property.
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  • Many documents that we deal with,
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  • We have seals on them.
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  • We establish the authenticity.
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  • We establish the fact that it belongs to us
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  • If we buy a house or a car.
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  • In other words, it establishes ownership.
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  • And isn't that what god says
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  • In 1 corinthians chapter 6, verses 19 and 20?
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  • He tells us, "you are not your own.
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  • You've been bought with a price.
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  • Therefore glorify the lord with your body."
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  • He says, "i own you now."
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  • Do you know that the sealing of the holy spirit
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  • Establishes you have been owned by someone else?
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  • You are no longer self-owning.
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  • See, the problem today is we've got too many christians
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  • Who still think they own stuff.
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  • You own nothing.
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  • That's why the bible calls you and a mere steward.
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  • We get to use that which god provides,
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  • But you have been purchased and you have been sealed
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  • By the ownership of almighty god.
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  • And so god has secured you and god now owns you.
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  • Now this is critical, because if you insist
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  • On owning yourself, you're going to be in conflict
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  • With the owner, with the one who redeemed you,
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  • Saved you, gave you eternal life.
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  • He secured you, and now he wants to own you.
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  • So the question is, have you given up ownership of yourself
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  • To the lord so that the spirit of god
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  • Can do what he wants to do in your life?
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  • The holy spirit is there to represent god the father
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  • And jesus the son, to do his work in your life,
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  • But you can't own yourself.
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  • That's why he's placed a seal on you.
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  • But not only that, the seal established authority.
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  • When you get a certified letter, that means the only person
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  • Who has been authorized to open the letter
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  • Is the person to whom the letter has been sent,
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  • Because it's been certified.
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  • So, the sender can open it if it's sent back to the sender
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  • Or the receiver can open it, but only the person
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  • Whose name is on it, because it has been authorized,
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  • Authority has been given, but only been given
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  • To the person whose name is on the envelope.
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  • When jesus christ saved you and gave you the holy spirit,
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  • He has given you divine authorization
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  • To utilize the spirit on your behalf.
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  • Other folk can't use the holy spirit
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  • Because they have not been sealed
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  • With the holy spirit.
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  • But as a believer in christ, you have the seal.
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  • This seal shows up many times in scripture.
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  • When jesus was crucified, pilate authorized that
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  • The tomb would be sealed.
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  • In other words, this was a governmental seal.
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  • You better not tamper with this.
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  • In the book of esther chapter 8, verse 8,
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  • The king put down a seal so that nothing could change.
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  • In daniel chapter 6, verse 17, the king put down a seal
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  • So that there could be no change.
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  • In other words, it was based on authority.
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  • According to revelation chapter 5, verses 1 through 3,
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  • Only god has authority to break the seal
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  • Of the holy spirit.
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  • Only god can unseal this seal, so that you are secure,
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  • You are owned, and you are authorized.
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  • You bear the authority of the one who has sealed you.
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  • No man can reverse it.
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  • Nobody can steal it,
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  • Because you've been divinely authorized by god.
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  • If you have, according to verse 13 of ephesians 1,
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  • If you have listened to the message of the gospel,
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  • Heard the good news about the forgiveness of sins
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  • That comes by faith in christ, and if you believe,
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  • That is, trust in christ
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  • For the forgiveness of your sins,
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  • And you've received the gift of eternal life,
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  • He says, then you are sealed.
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  • You don't have to go holy ghost hunting.
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  • You don't have to go holy ghost looking.
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  • You are sealed by receiving christ,
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  • Because the holy spirit is christ in you.
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  • Now as we've already seen, you've got to be filled
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  • With the spirit, you must walk in the spirit,
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  • But you can do both, because you are now sealed
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  • With the spirit.
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  • Now, the spirit is sealed in terms of your human spirit.
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  • Let's explain.
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  • You have spirit, soul, and body.
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  • Spirit gives you ability to communicate with god.
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  • Soul gives you the ability to communicate with yourself.
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  • You know you exist because you have a soul.
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  • Your body gives you the ability to communicate
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  • With your environment through your five senses.
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  • When you accepted jesus christ, the holy spirit
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  • Entered into your human spirit.
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  • So actually what got saved that day is
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  • Not so much your soul, but your spirit got saved.
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  • Your soul has to grow and be transformed
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  • By the work of the holy spirit inside of you.
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  • But guess where the holy spirit is?
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  • He is inside of you.
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  • So the work that god wants to do is coming from the inside out.
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  • 1 thessalonians 5:23, "may you be sanctified
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  • From your spirit, soul, and body."
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  • So the way this works is that your spirit is
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  • Supposed to inform your soul, and your soul is
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  • Supposed to inform your body.
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  • So your body changes what it does
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  • Because the soul is telling it to do different things.
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  • But the soul is telling it to do different things
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  • Because the holy spirit, which has infiltrated
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  • Your human spirit, is giving new data to your soul
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  • As you grow in grace and the knowledge
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  • Of jesus christ.
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  • So you are owned, you are sealed.
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  • God in christ is in you, in the person
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  • Of the holy spirit.
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  • He is the one who is to do the work of god
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  • Inside of you to make you into the person that
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  • God wants you to be, to guide you in the way
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  • That god wants you to go, to help you with the support
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  • That you need from god.
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  • So when you call on god, that gets translated
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  • To the work of the holy spirit, who is locked up inside of you,
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  • Securely and eternally.
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  • But that's not all.
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  • Verse 14 says, "who is given as a pledge of our inheritance."
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  • Ah, some versions call it a deposit.
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  • A pledge or deposit is a down payment,
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  • Is a down payment, meaning you're committed
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  • To the purchase, but there's more to come.
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  • He says the holy spirit sealed inside of you
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  • Is your deposit.
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  • It is the first installment of a layaway plan
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  • Tied to your redemption.
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  • In other words, when you accepted christ
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  • And you received the holy spirit,
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  • That's a guarantee that god's gonna--
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  • He's gonna finish this purchase.
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  • He's gonna take you to glory.
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  • What god has done is given every believer
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  • An engagement ring, a pledge, to say we gonna get married.
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  • It's called the marriage supper of the lamb.
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  • "i'm going to bring you to live with me.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you, and if i go to prepare
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  • A place for you, i'm going to come
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  • And receive you unto myself that where i am you may be also."
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  • That's what jesus told his disciples
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  • In john 14.
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  • In other words, god is going to bring you to his house.
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  • He's not going to get an engagement with you,
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  • A pledge, a deposit, and not marry you,
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  • That is, not bring you to ultimate conclusion
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  • And consummation of our great salvation.
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  • You have the holy spirit.
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  • He promises it to every believer who's trusted christ, he says,
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  • With a view to the redemption when we're in his presence,
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  • When we're with him.
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  • And the more you have this perspective,
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  • The more the ring, the deposit, will mean to you.
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  • If you do not have an eternal perspective,
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  • You will not be able to maximize the weight.
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  • Let's go a little bit further.
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  • In chapter 4, verse 30, "do not grieve
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  • The holy spirit of god by whom you were sealed
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  • For the day of redemption."
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  • Here's our word sealed again.
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  • "do not grieve the holy spirit of god
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  • By whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
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  • He now brings up grieving the seal, okay?
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  • The holy spirit is sealed into the life of every believer.
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  • He's god's holy spirit, the third member of the trinity.
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  • He says do not grieve him.
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  • To grieve somebody is to make them sad.
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  • Do not make him sad.
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  • So the question is, what grieves the holy spirit?
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  • He is grieved by bitterness, he goes on to say,
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  • Where you intentionally carry around
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  • A bitter spirit, wrath, where you're seeking
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  • To hurt somebody else due to your anger,
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  • You slander people, you try to destroy them
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  • With your tongue, the absence of kindness,
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  • To be hard-hearted and cruel,
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  • Mean-spirited, and to hold grudges.
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  • Now, this forgiveness doesn't mean you've reconciled.
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  • Reconciliation only comes when repentance is there.
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  • But you must forgive so that you can go on, why?
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  • Because you do not want to have a grieved holy spirit
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  • Locked up inside of you.
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  • So every believer has the holy spirit.
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  • The holy spirit is locked up inside of you.
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  • He is sealed.
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  • So when you grieve him, where is he going to express his grief?
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  • Inside of you.
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  • Because guess where he is?
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  • He's inside of you.
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  • How long is he inside of you?
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  • Till the day of redemption.
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  • So he's permanently inside of you.
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  • Which means if you grieve the holy spirit
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  • On a regular basis, watch this now,
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  • You are going to be an unhappy christian.
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  • Ah, you know why a lot of christians
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  • Are miserable?
  • 00:17:59.428 --> 00:18:00.762
  • Because they got a mourning holy spirit
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  • Operating within them.
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  • And if he's sad all the time, and i'm using human language
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  • Of tears to express the grief, the sadness,
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  • So if he's sad and he's sealed in you,
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  • You're gonna be sad.
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  • If you make him happy, you're gonna be happy.
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  • By your speech, by your attitude,
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  • By your kindness, by your forgiveness,
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  • Then he's smiling, your soul is smiling,
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  • So we can see a new grin on your face.
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  • That's really the joy of the lord.
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  • So one other thing then.
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  • What is the work that the holy spirit wants to do
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  • In your life?
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  • Ephesians chapter 1 again.
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  • After talking about the holy spirit,
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  • Paul says, "i pray," because prayer is the way
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  • You engage the holy spirit, "that the eyes of your heart
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  • May be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope
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  • Of his calling, riches of the glory of the inheritance
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  • Of the saints."
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  • And you notice, he wants you to know the inheritance
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  • Of the saints, okay?
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  • So after saying that, he says, "and what
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  • The surpassing greatness of the power
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  • Toward us who believe."
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  • He wants you to know-- in fact,
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  • Let me back up to verse 17.
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  • "that the god of our lord jesus christ,
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  • The father of glory, may give you a spirit--
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  • Spirit of wisdom and of revelation
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  • In the knowledge of him."
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  • So let's bring in spirit.
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  • That's why he's praying.
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  • He says, "i want the holy spirit to give you a spirit,"
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  • Because he's attached to your human spirit.
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  • "i want the holy spirit to inform your human spirit
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  • In wisdom," he says, "and revelation
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  • In the knowledge of him."
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  • What does god want the holy spirit to do
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  • In your human spirit?
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  • This is deep.
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  • He wants the holy spirit to inform your human spirit
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  • So that your human spirit grows and is magnified
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  • In the wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of him.
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  • In other words, he wants you to experience
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  • More of god's reality in your life.
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  • He's not talking about learning more bible verses.
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  • He's talking about that you will experience this.
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  • That's why he says that your eyes may be open.
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  • See, you can look at things and not see things clearly.
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  • Our spiritual eyes are darkened.
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  • We don't see things spiritually.
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  • So all we do is react to the physical.
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  • That's why you need the revelation and the wisdom
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  • And the manifestation of the experiential knowledge
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  • Of god.
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  • You need the revelation, you need the information,
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  • But you want the wisdom, because wisdom
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  • Is the ability to apply revelation,
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  • To perceive things, and apply god's truth
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  • To the thing you perceive from god's perspective.
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  • Because if what you see is all that you see,
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  • Then you do not see all there is to be seen.
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  • If all you see is the physical, and you can never look
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  • Behind the physical to ascertain what god is doing,
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  • To perceive how you should negotiate a situation
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  • Because you're hearing from inner guidance
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  • By the holy spirit and not just outward information
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  • By mankind, then you're missing out.
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  • You know what you're missing out?
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  • On the knowledge of god.
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  • That is, seeing god experientially working
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  • Based on his word in your life through the indwelling work
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  • Of the holy spirit, who has sealed you.
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  • When you get the knowledge of god,
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  • When god starts showing up and you start seeing things
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  • Spiritually first, you don't ignore the physical,
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  • But you don't limit yourself to the physical,
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  • Because you know behind what you see
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  • Is what you do not see that's equally as real,
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  • That's more real, because it's the basis
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  • Of whatever you see, whether good or bad,
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  • Whether satan spiritually brought it
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  • Or god spiritually brought it.
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  • But you need to be able to have--
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  • To know god well enough to be able to differentiate
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  • Between the two.
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  • Look, all through the bible, the wisdom of god
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  • Would cause people to do things outside of
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  • What they would normally do.
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  • Joshua wouldn't normally have a military strategy
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  • Of walking around the walls of jericho seven times
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  • For the wall to fall down.
  • 00:23:07.402 --> 00:23:09.237
  • That's not a political strategy, but it was the wise way
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  • God wanted him to go.
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  • Gideon would not, as a normal strategy,
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  • Go down from 30,000 to 300 men to fight a big army.
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  • That's not how you decide, but that was
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  • The knowledge of god and how god wanted him
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  • To fight that battle.
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  • Abraham would have never come up with the idea of offering up
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  • Isaac as a way to experience a deeper revelation of god,
  • 00:23:29.524 --> 00:23:34.362
  • But that was god's wisdom for that moment.
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  • You see, if you're missing the wisdom of god,
  • 00:23:36.698 --> 00:23:38.967
  • You're missing the strategies god wants you to use
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  • To deal with the situations that you have to face in life.
  • 00:23:41.937 --> 00:23:45.574
  • But if the holy spirit is grieved,
  • 00:23:45.574 --> 00:23:48.443
  • Then he's not free to express it,
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  • So you won't get the knowledge.
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  • Look, he says, but if you understand
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  • That you have god inside of you, sealed,
  • 00:23:54.850 --> 00:23:59.387
  • And that the holy spirit wants to do his work
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  • In your life, to unfold and take the blinders
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  • Off your eyes so you're seeing spiritual things,
  • 00:24:06.361 --> 00:24:11.199
  • So you know how to deal with the physical things
  • 00:24:11.199 --> 00:24:13.134
  • That you face,
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  • Until we decide to no longer live
  • 00:24:16.137 --> 00:24:20.275
  • By human wisdom, that is, man's approach,
  • 00:24:20.275 --> 00:24:26.481
  • But to utilize the indwelling seal,
  • 00:24:26.481 --> 00:24:30.118
  • Because he's already there, locked up, tied up,
  • 00:24:30.118 --> 00:24:32.721
  • Bound up inside of you and me and us
  • 00:24:32.721 --> 00:24:36.424
  • Who are believers in christ,
  • 00:24:36.424 --> 00:24:37.792
  • Until we decide to utilize that, we'll be
  • 00:24:37.792 --> 00:24:40.762
  • Just like everybody else, floundering around, you know,
  • 00:24:40.762 --> 00:24:44.866
  • Doing the best we can without any supernatural,
  • 00:24:44.866 --> 00:24:48.303
  • Heavenly sent insight.
  • 00:24:48.303 --> 00:24:51.406
  • You have the spirit of god.
  • 00:24:51.406 --> 00:24:53.375
  • You're no longer be-- to be dependent
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  • Upon your own human ingenuity.
  • 00:24:56.011 --> 00:24:58.413
  • Too many christians are pit bulls in their heads.
  • 00:24:58.413 --> 00:25:02.150
  • We got big heads.
  • 00:25:02.150 --> 00:25:03.485
  • That is, we think we know more than we know.
  • 00:25:03.485 --> 00:25:06.588
  • Our heads are too big because it's full
  • 00:25:06.588 --> 00:25:09.157
  • Of human wisdom, what people think,
  • 00:25:09.157 --> 00:25:11.726
  • What scholars think.
  • 00:25:11.726 --> 00:25:13.261
  • We want to know what everybody else thinks,
  • 00:25:13.261 --> 00:25:15.397
  • And we don't even want to know or we find out way late
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  • What god says and what god thinks.
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  • And even when god brings things in our lives
  • 00:25:21.870 --> 00:25:24.205
  • To pull us back the other way, our heads are so big
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  • With human wisdom and not the knowledge of the one
  • 00:25:27.776 --> 00:25:31.379
  • Who can unwrap us from all the things
  • 00:25:31.379 --> 00:25:33.848
  • That's got us tied up, and we live lives of misery
  • 00:25:33.848 --> 00:25:37.953
  • Even though we belong to the owner.
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  • You belong to jesus christ.
  • 00:25:40.655 --> 00:25:42.958
  • The holy spirit is sealed within you.
  • 00:25:42.958 --> 00:25:45.360
  • God wants to unfold knowledge of himself to you,
  • 00:25:45.360 --> 00:25:50.265
  • But only as you walk in dependency on the spirit
  • 00:25:50.265 --> 00:25:54.202
  • That you already have.
  • 00:25:54.202 --> 00:25:57.706
  • And if you don't have the spirit,
  • 00:25:57.706 --> 00:25:59.274
  • The bible says you're none of his.
  • 00:25:59.274 --> 00:26:01.810
  • You want to experience a down payment?
  • 00:26:01.810 --> 00:26:03.411
  • You want an engagement ring?
  • 00:26:03.411 --> 00:26:05.280
  • A down payment on eternal life.
  • 00:26:05.280 --> 00:26:10.151
  • He'll give you the down payment now
  • 00:26:10.151 --> 00:26:11.519
  • Because he'll give you the spirit now.
  • 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:13.788
  • How do you get it? doesn't cost you a thing.
  • 00:26:13.788 --> 00:26:16.224
  • You don't have to buy it.
  • 00:26:16.224 --> 00:26:17.559
  • He's giving the spirit away.
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  • If you come to jesus christ for the forgiveness
  • 00:26:19.961 --> 00:26:23.198
  • Of your sins, if you come to jesus christ
  • 00:26:23.198 --> 00:26:25.867
  • For your eternal salvation, if you go to the cross right now
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  • And say, "lord jesus, i'm a sinner.
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  • I need a savior.
  • 00:26:32.307 --> 00:26:33.842
  • And i trust you now to come into my life,
  • 00:26:33.842 --> 00:26:36.945
  • Forgive me of my personal sin, and give me
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  • The eternal life you promised,"
  • 00:26:40.181 --> 00:26:42.050
  • If you believe in him for that right now,
  • 00:26:42.050 --> 00:26:44.319
  • He will save you,
  • 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:45.954
  • Deposit the holy spirit within you,
  • 00:26:45.954 --> 00:26:48.156
  • So that you will get a little bit of heaven now
  • 00:26:48.156 --> 00:26:51.092
  • As a down payment of a lot of heaven later.
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  • Will you come to christ right now?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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