Lawson Perdue - Romans 8 (Part 4)

August 21, 2025 | S25 E3405 | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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  • (uplifting music)
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  • - praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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  • You don't wanna miss the teaching today,
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  • We are teaching from romans 8,
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  • And we're gonna talk about some of the promise
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  • That god has given to us as believers
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  • And how you can walk in victory
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  • Between now and the time you get to heaven.
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  • Glory to god, we have hope in jesus,
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  • And that's gonna lead us to victory,
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  • But we can walk in victory between now and then.
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  • See how.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • Friends, we're so glad to be here
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  • Sharing the word of god.
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  • Do you know it is the word of god that changes our life,
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  • And when we understand god's word,
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  • It changes the way that we live.
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  • And i know there are a lot of believers
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  • That don't have a revelation really, of the true gospel,
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  • But when you get a revelation of the gospel,
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  • It will revolutionize your life.
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  • And paul, we've been sharing from romans 8,
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  • It's actually my favorite chapter of the bible
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  • And my favorite book of the bible,
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  • With my favorite verse, which was verse 11,
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  • Which we just shared on tuesday.
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  • But in verse 11, paul says, "if the spirit of him
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  • That raised up jesus from the dead, dwell in you,
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  • He will quicken your mortal body."
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  • He'll bring to life your mortal body,
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  • By his spirit that dwells in you.
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  • We have the exact same spirit
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  • That raised up jesus from the dead
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  • Dwelling on the inside of us.
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  • And you know what?
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  • If you have jesus living in you,
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  • You're gonna win long term,
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  • As long as you keep your faith in jesus.
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  • Amen.
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  • If you don't, you need to believe jesus
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  • And let him come live his life through you, amen.
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  • Now, when we jump into,
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  • We're gonna move into verse 19,
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  • We talked about there's no condemnation,
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  • We talked about we live by a new law,
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  • The law of the spirit of life in christ jesus,
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  • The law of love, the law of faith.
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  • That's the new testament law.
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  • We talked about how that we need to think
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  • On the things of god,
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  • Not focus on the things of the flesh,
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  • Or the outward man, or the old man, or religion,
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  • But we need to be spiritually minded.
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  • The bible actually says this in romans 8:6,
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  • "for to be carnally minded,"
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  • To be minded according to the flesh,
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  • According to religion, according to the old man,
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  • According to, "is death," according to the world.
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  • "but to be spiritually minded,"
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  • To be minded according to the word
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  • And understanding who god is, who christ is,
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  • Who the holy spirit is,
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  • Who you are in christ, "is life and peace."
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  • If you're not experiencing life and peace as a believer,
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  • It's because you're not spiritually minded.
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  • Then we talked about, you know what,
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  • When jesus comes to live on the inside of you,
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  • You live in a completely different way.
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  • Paul says, "if christ be in you,
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  • The body's dead because of sin,
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  • But the spirit's alive because of righteousness."
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  • And we talked about what it means
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  • To be adopted into the family of god.
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  • And as children of god, that we're let out of fear,
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  • We're led into freedom and we're led into our divine rights
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  • And privileges as children of god.
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  • But then he begins to talk about our new hope in christ.
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  • And let's begin, aaron, in verse 19,
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  • Where paul's talking about
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  • The hope that we have in our body.
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  • And you can just read as much as you wanna read there
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  • In romans 8, beginning in verse 19.
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  • - so it says, "for the earnest expectation of the creation
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  • Eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of god.
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  • For the creation was subjected to futility,
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  • Not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.
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  • Because the creation itself also will be delivered
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  • From the bondage of corruption
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  • Into the glorious liberty of the children of god.
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  • For we know that the whole creation groans
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  • And labors with birth pangs together until now.
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  • Not only that, but we also,
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  • Who have the first fruits of the spirit,
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  • Even we ourselves groan within ourselves
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  • Eagerly waiting for the adoption,
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  • The redemption of our body."
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  • - amen.
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  • So paul's talking about the hope that we have in christ.
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  • You know, my spirit, when you understand this,
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  • Paul makes a statement,
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  • If we want to turn really quickly to 2 corinthians 1:9-11,
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  • Paul makes a statement.
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  • He's talking about life and death,
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  • But i just want to share this.
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  • And he says, "for we have this sentence of death
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  • In ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but god
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  • Who raises the dead."
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  • But he says this in verse 10, 2 corinthians 1:10,
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  • He says, "we trust in god who raises the dead,
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  • Who delivered us from so great a death."
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  • That is spiritual death.
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  • That's when we were born again,
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  • That's when we believed on jesus.
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  • Ephesians 2:1 says, "you hath he quickened,
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  • You hath he made alive
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  • Who were dead in trespasses and sin."
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  • He delivered us from a great death, spiritual death.
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  • He says, "and does deliver."
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  • Not only has our spirit been saved,
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  • But he is delivering us from death.
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  • You know, the bible says in galatians,
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  • I believe it's chapter one verse four,
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  • That jesus gave himself for us that he might deliver us
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  • From this present evil world.
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  • So when you get saved, you're being delivered,
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  • You're being set free from the evil that is present
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  • In this world.
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  • I thank god that i got saved when i was eight,
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  • And then i got baptized in the holy spirit,
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  • And got a revelation of the holy spirit,
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  • Who i was in christ, when i was just 14-years-old.
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  • And it really just saved me from a lot of death
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  • And destruction and problems that were in the world.
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  • But he says, "we trust that he will yet deliver us."
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  • So when you understand this,
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  • As a understanding of the true gospel,
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  • Number one, we have been delivered from death,
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  • Spiritual death.
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  • We're alive to god in christ.
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  • Number two, we're being delivered from the evil
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  • That's present in this world,
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  • Through our relationship with jesus.
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  • But number three, we're gonna be delivered
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  • From the death when christ come.
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  • You know, there's salvation that's past, present, future.
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  • My spirit has been saved,
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  • My soul is being saved,
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  • And my body will be saved
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  • When jesus comes again.
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  • What paul is talking about in romans 8:19-25,
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  • He's talking about this redemption of our body.
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  • "the earnest expectation of the creation,"
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  • The physical body, "waits for the manifestation
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  • Of the sons of god," waiting for jesus to come.
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  • Praise god.
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  • "for the creature," the physical body,
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  • "was made subject to vanity, not willingly,
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  • But by reason of him who subjected the same in hope."
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  • In other words, you didn't just come into sin
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  • Because you willed it,
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  • But you were born in sin because of adam's transgression.
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  • This is what paul says in romans 5,
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  • That sin and death passed upon all men.
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  • So adam subjected all of humanity to sin
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  • When he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  • He says, "because the creature," this physical body,
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  • He says, "shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption
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  • To the glorious liberty of the children of god."
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  • Just like we have this physical body
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  • That deals with challenges and difficulties
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  • And problems and sin,
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  • We're gonna get a glorified body
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  • That's not gonna deal with all that garbage
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  • When we keep our faith in jesus
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  • When jesus comes again.
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  • He says, "for we know that the whole creation groans
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  • And travails in pain together till now and not only they."
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  • So all of creation is waiting.
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  • The bible actually calls jesus this,
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  • I believe it's in the book of haggai,
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  • But it calls him, the desire of all nations
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  • In the prophet.
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  • So he says, "the whole creation is groaning
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  • And travailing in pain together now,
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  • Not only they but ourselves
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  • Who have the first fruit of the spirit.
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  • We are waiting for jesus.
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  • We are groaning within ourselves,
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  • Waiting for the adoption, to wit,
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  • The redemption of our body."
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  • Man, i am looking for jesus to come.
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  • - you know, i remember when i went to college,
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  • When i was 18, i went to,
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  • You know, carnegie mellon university,
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  • And i was talking to a friend of mine
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  • Who was a music major as well.
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  • He, i think he was from china actually,
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  • And he was a great classical guitarist.
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  • But he was a very staunch atheist.
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  • And he is like the first person i had met who was a very,
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  • Just, that was like his religion.
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  • - [lawson] mad at god.
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  • - and i remember asking him about,
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  • Just what he feels if someone close to him dies.
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  • I asked him if like he had ever lost anyone in his family
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  • And like how he felt.
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  • And he said he was very grieved when that happened.
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  • And like, the scripture saying that there's this groaning,
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  • This brokenness. - that is a great example.
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  • - and i said, well, why would you,
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  • As an atheist, why would you be upset
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  • And feel broken and like that,
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  • Because, you know,
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  • If you believe there's only the material world,
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  • Everything in the material world dies.
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  • Every single person dies. - absolutely.
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  • - every single plant dies, every single animal dies.
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  • Even, you know, my son fisher,
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  • He just went on a field trip to a,
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  • Like a nasa type thing where they,
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  • You know, get in a rover and do all these things.
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  • And one of the scientists there said,
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  • You know, in 4 billion years,
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  • The milky way galaxy is gonna collide into another galaxy
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  • And so everything's gonna blow up.
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  • So even materialists believe that
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  • Even this universe is gonna blow up someday.
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  • So why would you even care as an atheist and feel bad?
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  • And i told him, you feel bad because there's something
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  • On the inside of you that's eternal,
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  • And there's something
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  • On the inside of your loved ones that's eternal.
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  • And you know that death is not, is not right.
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  • It's not part of how things should be.
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  • There is something that's eternal.
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  • There is a spirit,
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  • There's something that goes beyond the material.
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  • - amen. - and i think it kind of
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  • Made him think for the first time.
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  • - yes. - you know,
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  • Maybe there's a part of me that does believe
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  • In more than just what i see.
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  • - yeah, and most people who claim to be atheists,
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  • You know, you read romans 1
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  • And it basically says this in about verse 19 and 20,
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  • 21 right in there,
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  • "that every created being understands,
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  • Knows it has a creator."
  • 00:10:59.367 --> 00:11:01.670
  • And they say that there are no atheists in the foxhole.
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  • And what you're talking about, aaron,
  • 00:11:05.741 --> 00:11:07.476
  • Is written actually job,
  • 00:11:07.476 --> 00:11:09.177
  • Which most people believe is the oldest book
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  • In the canon of the scripture,
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  • In job 32:8, job wrote and he recorded,
  • 00:11:13.949 --> 00:11:17.152
  • "there is a spirit in man,
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  • And the inspiration of the almighty
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  • Gives him understanding."
  • 00:11:22.190 --> 00:11:24.025
  • What you were talking to this friend about is,
  • 00:11:24.025 --> 00:11:26.061
  • There's a spiritual aspect.
  • 00:11:26.061 --> 00:11:28.730
  • And you may think that there's only a physical aspect,
  • 00:11:28.730 --> 00:11:31.566
  • But there is a spiritual aspect.
  • 00:11:31.566 --> 00:11:34.202
  • And you know what?
  • 00:11:34.202 --> 00:11:35.570
  • If you don't know god, you need to get to know god.
  • 00:11:35.570 --> 00:11:39.107
  • And most, i said,
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  • You know, your friend's probably mad at god.
  • 00:11:40.675 --> 00:11:42.344
  • Most people who claim to be atheists are mad
  • 00:11:42.344 --> 00:11:45.447
  • Because they believe that god killed someone
  • 00:11:45.447 --> 00:11:48.250
  • Or took someone from 'em,
  • 00:11:48.250 --> 00:11:50.485
  • Or gave somebody some terrible debilitating disease
  • 00:11:50.485 --> 00:11:54.656
  • And god is not the author of death and destruction.
  • 00:11:54.656 --> 00:11:58.760
  • The reason that sin and death and destruction
  • 00:11:58.760 --> 00:12:01.863
  • Exists on this world is because adam
  • 00:12:01.863 --> 00:12:05.000
  • Ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and sin,
  • 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.069
  • And when he did, he opened the floodgates
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  • Of sin, death, disease, lack, all of this on the human race.
  • 00:12:11.506 --> 00:12:16.778
  • But jesus came to redeem us.
  • 00:12:17.379 --> 00:12:19.014
  • This bible is a bible of redemption, a book of redemption,
  • 00:12:19.014 --> 00:12:25.020
  • And to restore us to right relationship with god.
  • 00:12:26.021 --> 00:12:28.690
  • And if you understand it,
  • 00:12:28.690 --> 00:12:30.192
  • It says this in the book of revelation,
  • 00:12:30.192 --> 00:12:32.627
  • "that he who overcomes will eat of the,
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  • God will give to eat of the tree of life,
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  • Which is in the midst of paradise of god."
  • 00:12:38.433 --> 00:12:41.770
  • The bible begins in paradise,
  • 00:12:41.770 --> 00:12:44.172
  • With man in paradise with god.
  • 00:12:44.172 --> 00:12:47.242
  • And the bible ends in paradise
  • 00:12:47.242 --> 00:12:50.111
  • With man in paradise with god.
  • 00:12:50.111 --> 00:12:53.281
  • Revelation 22, we're going back to the river of life,
  • 00:12:53.281 --> 00:12:56.785
  • The tree of life and it says,
  • 00:12:56.785 --> 00:12:58.587
  • "there shall be no more curse."
  • 00:12:58.587 --> 00:13:03.091
  • That is eternally god's plan.
  • 00:13:03.091 --> 00:13:05.493
  • God is eternally good
  • 00:13:05.493 --> 00:13:07.095
  • And he wants what's eternally good for us,
  • 00:13:07.095 --> 00:13:09.364
  • But the way we find it is through jesus.
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  • Friend, i hope you've been enjoying this teaching
  • 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:13.602
  • On romans 8.
  • 00:13:13.602 --> 00:13:15.503
  • This is actually just a part
  • 00:13:15.503 --> 00:13:17.539
  • Of the teachings that we have available.
  • 00:13:17.539 --> 00:13:20.141
  • I have a syllabus on the book of romans
  • 00:13:20.141 --> 00:13:22.611
  • That's absolutely free of charge.
  • 00:13:22.611 --> 00:13:24.946
  • I have a book that i've written
  • 00:13:24.946 --> 00:13:27.349
  • On the book of romans that you can get on our website.
  • 00:13:27.349 --> 00:13:30.452
  • And i also have, on our website,
  • 00:13:30.452 --> 00:13:33.255
  • Downloadable audios, downloadable videos
  • 00:13:33.255 --> 00:13:36.424
  • Free of charge on romans.
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  • Blessings.
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  • - what i think what i was always longing for,
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  • Raised in a pentecostal church,
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  • When you are coming here and you're seen,
  • 00:13:46.868 --> 00:13:48.970
  • There is no drama,
  • 00:13:48.970 --> 00:13:51.139
  • Jesus showed us here how a healthy church is really working.
  • 00:13:51.139 --> 00:13:58.213
  • God wants to show us like how church really worked,
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  • So that was wonderful to see here.
  • 00:14:02.584 --> 00:14:05.587
  • (uplifting music)
  • 00:14:05.587 --> 00:14:11.993
  • - you know, you mentioned about the,
  • 00:14:12.794 --> 00:14:14.562
  • You believe there's no true atheist,
  • 00:14:14.562 --> 00:14:16.131
  • Just people who are mad at god.
  • 00:14:16.131 --> 00:14:17.799
  • - yeah.
  • 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:19.067
  • - and i've actually thought about that.
  • 00:14:19.067 --> 00:14:20.368
  • You know, there were three german leaders,
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  • German thinkers in the 1800s
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  • That really ushered in this kind of modern,
  • 00:14:26.341 --> 00:14:30.578
  • Anti-god, anti-christian mentality
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  • That's still very persistent in the world today.
  • 00:14:34.582 --> 00:14:37.886
  • Sigmund freud, kind of the father of modern psychology,
  • 00:14:37.886 --> 00:14:41.256
  • He had a lot of screwed up philosophy.
  • 00:14:41.256 --> 00:14:43.625
  • Carl marx, the father of communism.
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  • You know, it's affect.
  • 00:14:46.227 --> 00:14:48.997
  • You know, millions of people have died
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  • Because of his philosophy.
  • 00:14:50.332 --> 00:14:52.033
  • - yeah. - and carl nietzsche,
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  • Who what was very staunch atheist,
  • 00:14:56.604 --> 00:15:00.608
  • A philosopher.
  • 00:15:00.608 --> 00:15:02.377
  • - and he was actually mad at god because.
  • 00:15:03.278 --> 00:15:04.679
  • - well, yeah, when he was 10-years-old,
  • 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:06.681
  • His father was a lutheran pastor
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  • And his father died of brain tumors when he was just 10.
  • 00:15:08.516 --> 00:15:12.320
  • And i think that he was actually mad at god,
  • 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:14.689
  • And his famous quote is that god is dead.
  • 00:15:14.689 --> 00:15:17.792
  • You know, a brilliant writer and thinker,
  • 00:15:17.792 --> 00:15:20.929
  • But he actually lost his mind.
  • 00:15:20.929 --> 00:15:22.731
  • He died in an insane asylum.
  • 00:15:22.731 --> 00:15:26.267
  • You know, if you going around.
  • 00:15:26.267 --> 00:15:27.802
  • - you know, the devil will make you crazy if you let him.
  • 00:15:27.802 --> 00:15:31.039
  • God doesn't want you to be crazy.
  • 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:32.474
  • - you might have a huge iq,
  • 00:15:32.474 --> 00:15:34.776
  • You might have a perfect sat score,
  • 00:15:34.776 --> 00:15:36.711
  • Like this guy probably off the charts intellectually,
  • 00:15:36.711 --> 00:15:40.215
  • But he probably hated god
  • 00:15:40.215 --> 00:15:42.417
  • And ended up losing his mind.
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  • - amen. yeah.
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  • The fool has said in his heart, there is no god.
  • 00:15:46.054 --> 00:15:49.190
  • That's what david said in the psalms,
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  • And that's still true today.
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  • You know, he goes on.
  • 00:15:52.394 --> 00:15:53.828
  • He says, "this creature will be delivered
  • 00:15:53.828 --> 00:15:55.830
  • From the bondage of corruption," romans 8:21,
  • 00:15:55.830 --> 00:15:58.566
  • "to the glorious liberties."
  • 00:15:58.566 --> 00:15:59.701
  • He's talking of the children of god.
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  • He's talking about when jesus comes.
  • 00:16:01.236 --> 00:16:03.338
  • We're gonna get a glorified body,
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  • According to 1 corinthians 15:51-58,
  • 00:16:05.106 --> 00:16:09.277
  • When christ comes again, we're gonna get a glorified body.
  • 00:16:09.277 --> 00:16:13.014
  • And according to 1 thessalonians 4:13-18.
  • 00:16:13.014 --> 00:16:18.386
  • You can't just take those scriptures out of the bible.
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  • Some of you don't believe in that.
  • 00:16:20.555 --> 00:16:22.490
  • Just gotta believe it.
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  • Amen. have faith.
  • 00:16:24.626 --> 00:16:26.261
  • So he says, "you know that the whole creation
  • 00:16:26.261 --> 00:16:29.130
  • Groans and travails in pain, and not only they."
  • 00:16:29.130 --> 00:16:31.566
  • You're talking about how, you know,
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  • This person who claimed to be an atheist
  • 00:16:33.601 --> 00:16:36.704
  • Felt separation when his family member died.
  • 00:16:36.704 --> 00:16:40.442
  • And that's because there's a spiritual aspect.
  • 00:16:40.442 --> 00:16:42.877
  • There is a spirit in man.
  • 00:16:42.877 --> 00:16:45.180
  • "and the inspiration of the almighty
  • 00:16:45.180 --> 00:16:46.981
  • Gives him understanding.
  • 00:16:46.981 --> 00:16:47.949
  • But we groan within ourselves,
  • 00:16:47.949 --> 00:16:49.684
  • Waiting for the adoption,
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  • That is the redemption of our body."
  • 00:16:51.186 --> 00:16:53.822
  • He says, he goes on to say this in verse 24,
  • 00:16:53.822 --> 00:16:56.991
  • "for we are saved by hope,
  • 00:16:56.991 --> 00:16:59.060
  • But hope that is seen is not hope."
  • 00:16:59.060 --> 00:17:01.763
  • You know, we're saved.
  • 00:17:01.763 --> 00:17:02.630
  • We believe in jesus.
  • 00:17:02.630 --> 00:17:03.898
  • We believe that jesus is the son of god,
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  • That he died on the cross for our sins,
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  • That god raised him from the dead
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  • In a physical body on the third day,
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  • That jesus ascended into heaven
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  • And sent the holy spirit and that jesus is coming again.
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  • Praise god. we believe that.
  • 00:17:19.114 --> 00:17:21.282
  • We are saved by hope but hope that is seen.
  • 00:17:21.282 --> 00:17:24.152
  • There are aspects of that that have not been seen yet,
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  • But we believe it.
  • 00:17:27.055 --> 00:17:29.057
  • Is not hope for what a man sees,
  • 00:17:29.057 --> 00:17:31.459
  • What does he yet hope for?
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  • If you've seen it all, then you don't have to hope.
  • 00:17:32.861 --> 00:17:34.829
  • But we're hoping for things that we have not seen.
  • 00:17:34.829 --> 00:17:37.732
  • But if we hope for that, we see not,
  • 00:17:37.732 --> 00:17:39.934
  • Then we with patience wait for.
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  • I'm patiently waiting for jesus to come.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:17:45.173 --> 00:17:46.708
  • And i thank god for the hope that we have in the gospel.
  • 00:17:46.708 --> 00:17:49.277
  • But between now and then, what do we do?
  • 00:17:49.277 --> 00:17:52.280
  • Look at verse 20. read verse 26 and verse 27, aaron.
  • 00:17:52.280 --> 00:17:55.783
  • - it says, "likewise,
  • 00:17:55.783 --> 00:17:57.051
  • The spirit also helps in our weaknesses,
  • 00:17:57.051 --> 00:17:59.554
  • For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought.
  • 00:17:59.554 --> 00:18:02.957
  • But the spirit himself makes intercession for us
  • 00:18:02.957 --> 00:18:05.426
  • With groanings which cannot be uttered.
  • 00:18:05.426 --> 00:18:08.029
  • Now he who searches the hearts
  • 00:18:08.029 --> 00:18:09.631
  • Knows what the mind of the spirit is
  • 00:18:09.631 --> 00:18:11.499
  • Because he makes intercession for the saints
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  • According to the will of god."
  • 00:18:14.135 --> 00:18:15.637
  • - amen. so the spirit is helping our weaknesses.
  • 00:18:15.637 --> 00:18:19.407
  • And here's how he does it.
  • 00:18:19.407 --> 00:18:21.409
  • It says, "for we don't know how to pray like we should,
  • 00:18:21.409 --> 00:18:25.847
  • But the spirit himself
  • 00:18:25.847 --> 00:18:27.949
  • Makes intercession for us with groanings
  • 00:18:27.949 --> 00:18:30.718
  • That cannot be uttered."
  • 00:18:30.718 --> 00:18:32.921
  • In the literal greek
  • 00:18:32.921 --> 00:18:34.189
  • It says something like this in verse 26,
  • 00:18:34.189 --> 00:18:36.024
  • "the spirit takes hold together with us
  • 00:18:36.024 --> 00:18:39.527
  • Against our infirmities."
  • 00:18:39.527 --> 00:18:42.063
  • Man, we have the same spirit
  • 00:18:42.063 --> 00:18:43.631
  • That raised up jesus from the dead living in us.
  • 00:18:43.631 --> 00:18:46.568
  • And if you get baptized in the holy spirit,
  • 00:18:46.568 --> 00:18:48.670
  • That is another dimension of the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:48.670 --> 00:18:51.072
  • And you can check out our teachings on our website
  • 00:18:51.072 --> 00:18:53.975
  • Charischristiancenter.com
  • 00:18:53.975 --> 00:18:55.977
  • On the baptism of the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:55.977 --> 00:18:58.346
  • You can get my book "absolute victory in christ,"
  • 00:18:58.346 --> 00:19:00.982
  • Where i explain this, that you've been born into victory
  • 00:19:00.982 --> 00:19:04.519
  • And you're baptized into victory.
  • 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:06.788
  • And you can believe into victory.
  • 00:19:06.788 --> 00:19:08.923
  • Jesus already paid for you to have victory.
  • 00:19:08.923 --> 00:19:11.492
  • But you know what?
  • 00:19:11.492 --> 00:19:12.727
  • You need to access what he's given you.
  • 00:19:12.727 --> 00:19:14.862
  • And one way to access it
  • 00:19:14.862 --> 00:19:16.497
  • Is by the baptism of the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:16.497 --> 00:19:19.067
  • So when you start praying
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  • With groanings that cannot be uttered,
  • 00:19:20.702 --> 00:19:22.804
  • One translation says, in an intelligent language.
  • 00:19:22.804 --> 00:19:25.707
  • When you start praying in the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:25.707 --> 00:19:28.876
  • That will help you come against your weaknesses
  • 00:19:29.811 --> 00:19:32.747
  • And begin to operate in the victory jesus.
  • 00:19:32.747 --> 00:19:35.016
  • - yeah, a lot of people see the holy spirit
  • 00:19:35.016 --> 00:19:37.885
  • As the spirit that convicts you and condemns you,
  • 00:19:37.885 --> 00:19:42.557
  • And points out your flaws.
  • 00:19:42.557 --> 00:19:45.059
  • But really, the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:46.327
  • Jesus, the word that jesus used the most
  • 00:19:46.327 --> 00:19:48.963
  • To describe the holy spirit is helper.
  • 00:19:48.963 --> 00:19:51.032
  • - amen. - helper.
  • 00:19:51.032 --> 00:19:52.233
  • In the greek, it's parakletos.
  • 00:19:52.233 --> 00:19:54.168
  • - yes - helper.
  • 00:19:54.168 --> 00:19:55.770
  • So here he's talking about the holy spirit, how he helps us.
  • 00:19:55.770 --> 00:19:57.605
  • So i really love that paul has that revelation too
  • 00:19:57.605 --> 00:19:59.807
  • About the ministry, the relationship with the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:59.807 --> 00:20:03.211
  • That he's there to help us, to make intercession for us.
  • 00:20:03.211 --> 00:20:06.447
  • - amen.
  • 00:20:06.447 --> 00:20:07.682
  • You know, paul, some people teach that,
  • 00:20:07.682 --> 00:20:09.150
  • You know, speaking in tongues isn't a present gift,
  • 00:20:09.150 --> 00:20:11.586
  • But paul said, "i thank god that i pray in tongues
  • 00:20:11.586 --> 00:20:14.088
  • More than you all."
  • 00:20:14.088 --> 00:20:15.623
  • And paul wasn't there when the disciples
  • 00:20:15.623 --> 00:20:18.426
  • Were initially baptized in the holy spirit in acts 2,
  • 00:20:18.426 --> 00:20:24.265
  • On the day of pentecost and the church was born.
  • 00:20:24.265 --> 00:20:27.101
  • But paul said,
  • 00:20:27.101 --> 00:20:28.536
  • "i thank god i pray in tongues more than you all."
  • 00:20:28.536 --> 00:20:30.705
  • And when the holy spirit was initially given
  • 00:20:30.705 --> 00:20:34.542
  • On the day of pentecost,
  • 00:20:34.542 --> 00:20:36.311
  • And they were all filled with the spirit
  • 00:20:36.311 --> 00:20:38.880
  • And spoke with other tongues
  • 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:40.048
  • As the spirit gave them utterance,
  • 00:20:40.048 --> 00:20:41.883
  • Later peter preached and he said,
  • 00:20:41.883 --> 00:20:44.085
  • "this same jesus that you crucified,
  • 00:20:44.085 --> 00:20:46.120
  • God raised him from the dead
  • 00:20:46.120 --> 00:20:47.922
  • And he has sent forth this which you now see and hear."
  • 00:20:47.922 --> 00:20:52.393
  • And they said, "what must we do?"
  • 00:20:52.393 --> 00:20:55.496
  • And he said, "repent,
  • 00:20:55.496 --> 00:20:57.265
  • Change your thinking and believe on jesus, right,
  • 00:20:57.265 --> 00:21:00.201
  • And be baptized
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  • And you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost."
  • 00:21:01.736 --> 00:21:04.839
  • That's acts 2:38.
  • 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:06.974
  • But he says in verse 39,
  • 00:21:06.974 --> 00:21:08.843
  • "for this promise is to you
  • 00:21:08.843 --> 00:21:12.080
  • And to your children,
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  • And to as many as are far off,
  • 00:21:14.349 --> 00:21:17.051
  • Even as many as the lord our god shall call."
  • 00:21:17.051 --> 00:21:20.355
  • I believe that god called everyone into salvation
  • 00:21:21.356 --> 00:21:25.159
  • At the cross of jesus christ.
  • 00:21:25.159 --> 00:21:27.462
  • And if you have received the gift of salvation,
  • 00:21:27.462 --> 00:21:31.532
  • The gift of righteousness by faith in jesus,
  • 00:21:31.532 --> 00:21:34.535
  • You ought to go ahead
  • 00:21:34.535 --> 00:21:35.937
  • And just receive the baptism of the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:35.937 --> 00:21:39.374
  • He said, this promise is to everybody that god calls.
  • 00:21:39.374 --> 00:21:42.543
  • And if you receive that,
  • 00:21:42.543 --> 00:21:43.745
  • The holy spirit can pray through you
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  • With languages that you don't learn,
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  • And it'll help you.
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  • When you pray in the holy spirit,
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  • The bible says in jude verse 20,
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  • That you're building up your most holy faith,
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  • Praying in the holy ghost.
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  • And the holy spirit will help you overcome these weaknesses,
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  • These challenges and difficulties
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  • That you are dealing with.
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  • And he goes on to say,
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  • I believe this is talking about jesus in verse 27,
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  • "he that searches the hearts,
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  • Knows the mind of the holy spirit."
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  • Jesus is searching your heart.
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  • Jesus, all things are naked and open before the eyes
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  • Of him with whom we have to do,
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  • Because he, jesus, is making intercession for the saints,
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  • He's praying for the church
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  • According to the will of god.
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  • The holy spirit prays through us
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  • The perfect will of god the father.
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  • And jesus is searching our heart,
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  • Knowing the mind of the spirit.
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  • And when we pray in the holy spirit,
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  • We are moving into the perfect will of god.
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  • That's why the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • And praying in tongues is so powerful,
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  • Because you don't know what you're praying,
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  • But the holy spirit is praying through you
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  • The perfect will of god.
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  • You know, i received the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • Over 45 years ago.
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  • And if i haven't prayed in tongues every day since then,
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  • I've prayed in tongues nearly every day since then.
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  • And the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • Has completely changed my life.
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  • And i actually believe
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  • That's what paul's talking about here.
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  • Amen.
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  • So when you receive these gifts from god,
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  • You know, paul's talking about we have hope in christ,
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  • But what do we do between now and the time jesus comes?
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  • We need to be boldly pursuing jesus.
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  • We need to be boldly sharing our faith.
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  • But how can we do that without the help of the holy spirit?
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  • You know, there's some challenges
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  • And difficulties and problems that we face,
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  • But we can receive the holy spirit.
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  • And if you haven't received the holy spirit today,
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  • I want you to call in and pray with our prayer ministers
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  • And receive the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • With the evidence of speaking in tongues.
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  • It will change your life.
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  • We got teachings on this on the internet,
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  • Downloadable audio, downloadable video.
  • 00:24:06.420 --> 00:24:08.689
  • They're free of charge.
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  • I got a book about it, "absolute victory in christ,"
  • 00:24:10.157 --> 00:24:13.427
  • And everybody needs.
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  • Those of you that are watching today,
  • 00:24:16.731 --> 00:24:18.399
  • Almost none of you would've ever heard of me
  • 00:24:18.399 --> 00:24:21.669
  • If it wasn't for the baptism of the holy spirit.
  • 00:24:21.669 --> 00:24:24.472
  • Because god changed my life
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  • When he baptized me in the holy spirit.
  • 00:24:26.107 --> 00:24:28.543
  • - you know, and i like something that jesus said
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  • About when we would receive the holy spirit.
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  • You know, he told his disciples to wait in jerusalem till,
  • 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:37.218
  • You know, they received the holy spirit,
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  • They received the outpouring.
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  • But he said two things that would happen.
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  • He said, you receive power,
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  • But also you'd be a witness.
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  • - amen - unto me
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  • In jerusalem, judea, to the end of the world.
  • 00:24:47.161 --> 00:24:50.431
  • So i tell people, you know, like you're gonna receive power,
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  • But also the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • Isn't just for you, it's to be a witness to other people.
  • 00:24:55.136 --> 00:24:57.738
  • - you know, aaron, we had people.
  • 00:24:57.738 --> 00:24:59.140
  • We lived out in the farm.
  • 00:24:59.140 --> 00:25:00.808
  • You know, our nearest neighbors
  • 00:25:00.808 --> 00:25:02.209
  • Were like nearly a mile away,
  • 00:25:02.209 --> 00:25:04.045
  • Well, we had some a quarter mile away.
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  • But after we got involved,
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  • And we'd been in church our whole life,
  • 00:25:07.982 --> 00:25:09.417
  • But when we got involved
  • 00:25:09.417 --> 00:25:11.018
  • In a spirit-filled ministry, our lives changed.
  • 00:25:11.018 --> 00:25:14.488
  • And we didn't go around just telling everybody,
  • 00:25:14.488 --> 00:25:16.724
  • But people said, "where do you go to church,
  • 00:25:16.724 --> 00:25:19.093
  • And what's happened?"
  • 00:25:19.093 --> 00:25:20.661
  • And i know our neighbors live right down the road from us,
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  • They ended up coming to our church.
  • 00:25:23.631 --> 00:25:26.567
  • They became part of the same church that we were part of
  • 00:25:26.567 --> 00:25:30.571
  • Because they saw how much it changed my mom, my dad, myself,
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  • Our entire family changed
  • 00:25:35.009 --> 00:25:36.711
  • When we got ahold of the full gospel.
  • 00:25:36.711 --> 00:25:38.779
  • And man, if you haven't received it,
  • 00:25:38.779 --> 00:25:40.615
  • You need to receive the baptism of the holy spirit.
  • 00:25:40.615 --> 00:25:43.417
  • It will change your life. praise god.
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  • God is so good.
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  • "romans, the revelation of righteousness."
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  • Romans is actually my favorite book
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  • In all of the scriptures,
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  • And i've been teaching this for decades
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  • At charis bible college, here in colorado.
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  • So you want to get this teaching.
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  • I believe when you understand
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  • That you are the righteousness of god in christ,
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  • And what the gospel has done for you,
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  • It will change your life for good.
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