Jack Graham - Spirit-Filled Living

February 16, 2025 | S25:E7

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Spirit-Filled Living | February 16, 2025

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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The key to abundant life... the key to a victorious life is to
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Know the holy spirit. and we introduced the subject last
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Week, reminding everyone, as peter told us: "put into
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Remembrance the gifts that are in you." so we're reminding you
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As christians some of these basic biblical truths of
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Christian living: what we believe, why we believe it and
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How to live the christian life; what we should know.
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And so the holy spirit is a person. we described him as the
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Third person of... of the spirit as the scripture
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Describes him. and i ask you a question. i begin this message
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Today with a question: are you right now personally
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Experiencing the power of the holy spirit in your life? i'm
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Told it's not polite to ask personal questions, but this is
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Very personal and you don't have to answer it out loud. but
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Ask yourself: am i right now consciously, conspicuously,
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Continually filled with god's spirit? because this is the
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Command of scripture:
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18) don't be drunk with wine (ephesians 5:18) but be filled
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With the holy spirit.
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We're going to talk about what that means in just a moment.
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There are two great needs in your life. one is the need for
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Forgiveness. and god sent his son jesus to die on the cross
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So that we can be forgiven of all of our sins and that we
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Could have eternal life. we need to be forgiven. every
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Person has broken god's commandments, has sinned
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Against god, and therefore, christ died for you. he went to
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The cross voluntarily, laid down his life. and god sent his
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Son jesus to give you eternal life, the forgiveness of all
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Your sin.
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But there's a second need in every person's life according
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To dr. billy graham, and that is not only forgiveness, but it
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Is goodness. and there is a cry in the heart of every person
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And a demand from god himself for goodness, and yet man is
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Not good. but in christ we can be made good because our great
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God... our good god lives in us. and so he gave us... god
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Sent his son to save us and god sent his spirit to fill us. to
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Give us not only forgiveness, but goodness; to give us
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Eternal life but to also give us abundant life, victorious
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Life. you know, the bible says that when christ rose and he
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Ascended, he gave gifts to men: the gift of the holy spirit and
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Those gifts that come with god's spirit.
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And therefore, the work of the holy spirit is to reproduce the
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Life of christ in us... christ's likeness, and god
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Works in us and through us by his spirit. god works for us by
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His son jesus, and he works in us and through us by his
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Spirit. got that? say, "got it."
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Jesus promised his spirit and he delivered big time on the
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Day of pentecost, acts chapter 1 and verse 8. he said, "but ye
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Shall receive power after the holy spirit has come upon you;
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And you will be my witnesses in jerusalem, judea, samaria, and
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The uttermost parts of the world." it all starts; it's all
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Going to finish in jerusalem. it's where the gospel was
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Launched. and ultimately christ is returning to the holy city,
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To jerusalem, and when you see all these wars and rumors of
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Wars surrounding jerusalem, you know god... the devil hates
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God, he hates his son, he hates his church, and therefore, he
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Hates the people that god loves. satan hates the people
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That god loves.
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And so it began in jerusalem and we all then have in christ
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The holy spirit.
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So here's another question: you have the holy spirit in your
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Life if you are a christian. the question is does the holy
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Spirit have you? does he have all of you? does he have more
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And more of you? i've learned as a christian over the
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Years... and i've been walking with the lord a long time
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Now... there's always more. we're satisfied with jesus and
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What christ has done for us, but we're not satisfied with
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Where we are, are we? there's always more. more people to
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Tell about jesus. there's always more... more people who
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Need my love. there's always more for me... there's more
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Victory, more power, more strength, more... more glory.
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The scripture says we move from glory to glory and faith to
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Faith. and so in the christian life there is something more
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For you.
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You don't have to live where you're living. you don't have
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To stay where you are spiritually. you can experience
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More in your christian life. when we walk in the spirit, we
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Live in his victory. we're empowered by the holy spirit
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And the fullness and the freshness of every day is
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Greater because of what christ has done for us. it's christmas
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And easter... it's easter and christmas every day. and i'm
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Not talking about the holidays; i'm talking about the
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Incarnation at christmas; i'm talking about the resurrection
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At easter. because of easter and what happened then...
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Because of what happened when god became a human being in
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Christ. what happened then, happens now! we have the holy
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Spirit in our lives! and when the spirit came down on the
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Church that day at pentecost, the church went out and it
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Changed the world... the world was changed. and what god has
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Called us to do as his people... as his church is to
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Be full of the holy spirit.
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♪♪♪
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Many people consider romans chapter eight to be the epic
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Biblical masterpiece written by the most prolific contributor
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To the new testament, the apostle paul, the great apostle
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Paul. and this powerful message of scripture sends one message
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Loud and clear. as a follower of jesus, you have every reason
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To live in hope. now i realize with so much anxiety and fear
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And depression in our world today, finding hope can be a
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Real challenge.
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But as believers, you and i are called to look at everything
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That's going on around us. our gaze is meant to be pointed
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Elsewhere, somewhere higher, someone high. and his name is
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Jesus. that's why i wrote a book of meditations on romans 8
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Called “a hope and a future,” to help you experience this
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Hope that god wants us to have.
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[announcer] in “a hope and a future,” you'll find the life
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Preserver that god throws to you when you find yourself
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Sinking in confusion, doubt, or fear. you'll find help when you
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Seek and find rest in the lord jesus christ. pastor graham
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[jack graham] “a hope and a future” is our thanks for your
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Gift today in helping us share the gospel with more and more
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People all over the world - ‘til the whole world hears.
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♪♪♪
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Have you made the discovery that the christian life
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Is not hard; it's impossible in your own strength! but the
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Scripture says "i can do all things through christ who
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Strengthens me." so the christian life is not
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Determination; it is dependence... it is dependence
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Upon christ to live his life in me.
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And i've often illustrated it with a glove. that's why i
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Brought my bat. this is actually a jack graham bat...
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Hardin-simmons university. a bat similar to one i used - 34
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Ounces. seems like it's a lot heavier these days than...
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[laughter] ...than it was then but... but let's just say, you
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Know, i said to this glove (brought a batting glove), and
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I said to this... to this glove, "all right, glove. what
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I want you to do is pick up that bat. just pick it up. go
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Ahead." and the glove is inanimate; it just lays there.
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I said, "come on," i decide to preach to the glove, and i just
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Talk louder.
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“pick up the bat! do it! i command you to pick up that
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Bat!” and, of course, the glove is incapable. it's impossible.
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You see where this is going, right? maybe i give the glove
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An example. i say, “hey, glove. what you do is it's like this:
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You pick it up, put your thumb here, your fingers around it,
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Hold it tight and you're ready to go. go ahead. go, thou, and
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Do likewise.” and the glove can do nothing.
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But if i put my hand in this glove and i say, “glove, what i
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Want you to do is to pick up that bat.” and now the glove
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Can do anything that my hand can do. the dexterity in my
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Hand and fingers becomes the dexterity of this glove. the
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Strength of my hand becomes the strength of the glove, because
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Now life is in the glove and i pick up the bat.
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And i give you that almost child-like illustration to
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Remind you how important it is that you not attempt to live
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This christian life on your own. but that you allow the
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Spirit of god to infill you, to do what only god can do in you.
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This is the work of the holy spirit.
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And, oh, how we need this in the church today. i was reading
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So statistics about evangelism going on world-wide and it
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Appears by all the good data that we have that nearly
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100,000 people a day are coming to faith in jesus christ around
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The world. 100,000 a day! and so millions of people are
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Coming to faith in christ around the world. that's the
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Good news. but the sad part, the sad news is that in north
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America and in western europe of that 100,000 ... of these
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100,000 who are coming to faith in christ, in north america and
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Western europe it's about 5,000 a day. and we're losing the
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Culture.
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You know, when revival comes, it happens in the church... it
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Happens in the christian. when spiritual awakening comes, it
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Happens in the culture. god changes the christian in
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Revival. god changes the church in revival. but god changes the
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Culture when there's spiritual awakening... when revival
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Spreads. and we are praying for revival in these last days,
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That one more time god will pour out his spirit upon his
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Church and that there will be a spiritual awakening. that's the
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Only solution for the problems we face in this country. and
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We've got plenty of them!
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And i was just reading some things about america. did you
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Know that in america, we spend more money... a lot more money
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On porn than we do professional sports. and that doesn't even
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Include the free porn that people are getting online. the
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U. s. leads the industrial world in teenage pregnancies.
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One out of three teens become pregnant in america... 81
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Percent out of wedlock. and, of course, we are meeting young
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Women and their families at their point of need through our
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Pregnancy centers, overcoming evil with good. providing hope
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And opportunity and salvation in christ, and helping women to
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Choose life. life in christ and life for their child. but it's
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A major problem and because of the secularization of our
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Culture and the immorality that results.
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America... same-sex marriage is now the law of the land. you
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Know that probably. which is an ominous thing to contemplate;
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It is an ominous implication for your religious freedom
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Going forward, in many ways.
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But god is not done with us. his spirit is alive in us. so
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Why would we be weak when he is so strong? why would we fail
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When we have the promise of his spirit? the new testament
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Church... they changed the world. they turned it upside
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Down. they had so little. we have so much! what did they
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Have? the power and the presence of the holy spirit.
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And the same spirit ...
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Think about the... the greatest christian you've ever known.
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Let me remind you, the same spirit of jesus,
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The same holy spirit that lived in them, lives in you. what's
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Keeping you from living a victorious christian life? if
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You will yield to the holy spirit, you will receive his
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Spirit.
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When jesus said in acts 1:8: "but you shall receive power
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When the holy spirit is come upon you." it's a personal
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You... second person, plural. it means you and you and you
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And you and you and you... and every you. all of you!
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Now here's the thing about the work of the holy spirit in our
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Lives. we often think of the spiritual power as being a
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Great cataclysmic event in our life, and it can happen that
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Way. there are people who testify it was just god's
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Spirit overwhelming them and god's spirit moving in in a
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Momentous, miraculous way. there are powerful testimonies
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To that effect. but for most of us it doesn't happen that way.
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I was reading a message from one of my heroes in life and
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Ministry, dr. w. a. criswell, and he was saying, "a christian
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Living a normal life of yieldedness to god experiences
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A moment-by-moment fullness of the spirit... of the spirit."
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He said, "some people experience a spectacular,
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Miraculous, unique fullness that stands out over all the
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Other fillings." and he mentions a few people like john
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Wesley or dwight moody or r. a. torrey... some great christians
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Of yesteryear. they had one great filling of the spirit
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That stood out above all others. but most of us, he
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Said, experience the filling of the spirit in repeated
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Succession. that's why the scripture says it's like
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Walking in the spirit. it's a step at a time. not some big
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Event, but an experience that is daily. "and each work,"
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Criswell says, "brings its measure of endowment and
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Inspiration."
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The filling of the holy spirt means that we live under the
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Influence of the holy spirit, under the control of the holy
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Spirit, under the dominion and domination and dynamic of the
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Holy spirit. and so dr. criswell said this: “under
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Dominion of the holy spirit, we are also changed persons. we
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Are doing what we never thought of doing. we are saying what we
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Never thought of saying. we are attempting what we never
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Thought of attempting. and the unique glory in this remarkable
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Confidence and praiseworthy achievement is that in god we
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Are different, changed people.”
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This is the work of the holy spirit in you. it changes us,
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The way we think, the way we talk, our morals, our mouth,
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Our mentality. we're now living not under the control of the
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Flesh, but we're living under the control of the freshness
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And the fullness of the spirit. not the flesh but the fresh
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Work of the holy spirit in our lives.
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So how are we filled with the holy spirit? how can you walk
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In the spirit day by day? let me mention three ways that i
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Ask and invite god's spirit to fill me, and i believe it's
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God's way that he will fill you.
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Number one... number one is that we each one of us would
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Experience and desire... a desire to be filled with the
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Holy spirit. you know, maybe yesterday some of these
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Halftime speeches of the coaches of these football
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Teams, coach might have said something like, "guys, you got
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To want it! where's your heart? come on! you got to want this!"
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And so when it comes to our walk and our win in the holy
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Spirit, you got to want it. i don't know how much of god you
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Have, but let me tell you something, you have all you
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Want. because he's in you. all of him is in you. is he in all
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Of you? every part, every heart given to him! are you willing
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To say, “lord, more than anything in my life i want you
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To live your life through me!” too many christians don't have
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That desire. and even god cannot, will not fill what is
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Already filled with self, self-pursuits and
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Self-indulgence and fleshy behavior and all the rest. so i
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Have to be willing to empty myself and say, “lord, less of
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Me and more of you; all of you, none of me!” it's a desire.
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What did jesus say? “blessed are they who hunger and thirst
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After righteousness for they shall be filled.” “like a deer
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Pants for the water, my soul pants for you, o god.” don't
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Chase some experience if you want to be filled with the holy
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Spirit. chase god! desire him!
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And secondly, if you want to be filled with the holy spirit,
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Denounce all sin in your life. i'm talking to christians now.
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Because we deal with temptation and sin and we fail and the
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Flesh gets the best of us. and so what i need to do and what
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I'm reminding you to do is to ask the lord to search your
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Heart "and to see if there's any wicked way in me." "god, is
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There something in me that is corroding the power of the
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Spirit in my life when... when..."
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I got my first car when i was sixteen. i bought it for $75.
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It was a rambler with a hole in the fender. it had a hole in
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The floorboard; it had a hole in the front fender. it was
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Rusted out. it would barely drive, but it did drive. it got
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Me to school and back. wasn't necessarily a chick magnet but
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It [laughter] ... my buddies were driving gto's and camaros
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And i'm driving a rambler. but i was okay with that. it was a
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Car.
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But here's the thing, that car wouldn't start half the time. i
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Couldn't never figure out. and my dad wasn't a mechanic. you
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Know, he was a lumber guy and a hardware store guy. you know,
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He didn't know much about cars. but we opened up the hood and
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We looked at the battery and there was all kinds of
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Corrosion... rust and corrosion. just stuff all over
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The battery cables. so we did figure out... we were pouring
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Stuff on there to get all the corrosion off. and once we got
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The corroded battery working, the car would start.
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So in my life, what i have to do is to look under the hood
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And to ask god to search me and know me, to show me, convict
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Me, if there's anything in my life that is quenching the holy
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Spirit or grieving the holy spirit, that i would deal with
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It; that i would... that god would reveal it, that i would
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Repent of it. and you know, when i've asked god... don't
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Ask god to show you some sin in your life. be careful. if you
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Say, "god, show me if there's anything in my life that is
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Displeasing or dishonoring to you." if you pray that, get
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Ready because 100 percent of the time he's going to show
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You. and then you have to be ready to say, "lord, i confess
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My sin."
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If we're cherishing sin... if we're holding on some habit
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That we know displeases god, that is disobedient to god, i
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Tell you what this does. this quenches the holy spirit. this
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Is a sin for christians against the holy spirit to quench the
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Holy spirit. do you know what that means? to quench the holy
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Spirit, it's like quenching a thirst or dousing a fire. so
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The holy spirit is moving, the holy spirit is working in my
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Life and i quench the holy spirit... how? by not doing
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What the holy spirit is calling or commanding me to do. that's
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Quenching the spirit.
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God is calling you to witness to your neighbor. god is
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Calling you to pray for a friend. god is calling you to
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Be bold in your convictions. god is convicting you of... of
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His will in a certain matter in your life. so you say, "well,
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No, i'm not doing that." that's quenching the spirit and that's
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A sin against the holy spirit. so to quench the spirit is to
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Not do what god is telling you to do.
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But in ephesians 5, it says that we can grieve the spirit
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And it mentions grieving the spirit by anger. so many of the
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Sins of... against the spirit are not sins of dissipation
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Like immorality or fleshly sins. it can be that, of
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Course. but so often the sins of disposition of attitude,
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Toxic thinking and running your mouth in a way that doesn't
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Honor god, and all those things. and so to grieve the
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Holy spirit is to do what god tells you not to do. you see?
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So, on both ends... i can quench the spirit by not doing
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What god tells me to do, the spirit has prompted me to do; i
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Can grieve the holy spirit and sin against the holy spirit.
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Another reason we say the holy spirit is not an it, an
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Influence but a person. you cannot grieve that bat; you
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Can't grieve this pulpit, but you can grieve another human
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Being and grieve a person. your grieving... your children can
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Grieve you because you love them.
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And so when we grieve the holy spirit, that's the thing that,
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For me, the sin or not to sin is a question of whether i want
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To disappoint god or not.
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I remember when i was a young person that my primary
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Motivation in not being a fool at school or wherever was i
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Didn't want to disappoint my parents. i wanted to honor my
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Parents. and i didn't always do that. but that was my
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Motivation. my parents loved me. they gave enough... so i
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Didn't want to disappoint my dad. i didn't want to
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Disappoint my mom because i knew they loved me; wanted the
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Best for me.
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Now in a big, big, much bigger way, i want to live so that i'm
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Not dishonoring god, disappointing god in any way.
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Not that god is going to take his hand and strike me, but
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That he would take his hand off me and not use me. because the
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Purpose of the holy spirit in our lives to fill us is that he
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Might use us to be his witnesses. so it's not about me
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And it's not about you; it's all about loving and serving
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Him, and making a difference in the world. and we can do it in
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The power of the holy spirit.
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♪♪♪
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Jack Graham - Spirit-Filled Living

February 16, 2025 | S25:E7

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