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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - The Seal | January 19, 2025
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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?
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- 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.
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- 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,
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- But that was god's wisdom for that moment.
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- You see, if you're missing the wisdom of god,
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- 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.
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- But if the holy spirit is grieved,
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- So you know how to deal with the physical things
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- That you face,
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- Until we decide to no longer live
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- By human wisdom, that is, man's approach,
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- But to utilize the indwelling seal,
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- Because he's already there, locked up, tied up,
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- Bound up inside of you and me and us
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- Who are believers in christ,
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- Until we decide to utilize that, we'll be
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- Just like everybody else, floundering around, you know,
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- Doing the best we can without any supernatural,
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- Heavenly sent insight.
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- You have the spirit of god.
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- You're no longer be-- to be dependent
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- Upon your own human ingenuity.
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- Too many christians are pit bulls in their heads.
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- We got big heads.
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- That is, we think we know more than we know.
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- Our heads are too big because it's full
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- Of human wisdom, what people think,
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- What scholars think.
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- We want to know what everybody else thinks,
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- 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
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- 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
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- Who can unwrap us from all the things
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- That's got us tied up, and we live lives of misery
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- Even though we belong to the owner.
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- You belong to jesus christ.
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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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- And if you don't have the spirit,
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- The bible says you're none of his.
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- You want to experience a down payment?
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- You want an engagement ring?
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- A down payment on eternal life.
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- He'll give you the down payment now
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- Because he'll give you the spirit now.
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- How do you get it? doesn't cost you a thing.
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- You don't have to buy it.
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- He's giving the spirit away.
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- If you come to jesus christ for the forgiveness
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- Of your sins, if you come to jesus christ
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- 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.
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- And i trust you now to come into my life,
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- Forgive me of my personal sin, and give me
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- The eternal life you promised,"
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- If you believe in him for that right now,
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- He will save you,
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- Deposit the holy spirit within you,
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- So that you will get a little bit of heaven now
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- 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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