David Jeremiah - A God-Inspired Life

March 9, 2025 | S25:E10

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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - A God-Inspired Life | March 9, 2025

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Male announcer: prepare your heart for the celebration
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Of easter with "season of hope" by dr. david jeremiah.
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This treasury of inspirational easter devotionals, readings,
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And scripture will take you on a 25-day journey to easter sunday
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And is sure to become a cherished volume
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♪♪♪
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Dr. david jeremiah: each of us has just one life to live.
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Our life should count.
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It should matter.
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It should have purpose,
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And frankly, it should be amazing.
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But as i look around me, i see lives lived in disarray,
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Defeat, and discouragement.
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I've been deeply burdened about this because, you see,
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An unfulfilled life is just no way to exist.
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And from what i read in the scripture, god promises us
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A life of blessings beyond our comprehension,
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Literally a life beyond amazing.
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Announcer: coming up on "turning point."
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Dr. jeremiah: but as long as you keep holding on
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To your own ambitions and you want to do it your way
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And you want to do your thing
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And you're not willing to trust him,
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You will get what you can get,
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But it will never be as much as god wants you to have.
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The bible says: "commit your way unto the lord," listen to this,
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"and he will give you the desires of your heart."
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♪ every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ every word of worship with one accord ♪
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♪ every praise, every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ sing hallelujah to our god ♪
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♪ glory hallelujah is due our god ♪
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♪ every praise, every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ every word of worship with one accord ♪
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♪ every praise, every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ sing hallelujah to our god ♪
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♪ glory hallelujah is due our god ♪
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♪ every praise, every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ god my savior ♪
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♪ god my healer ♪
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♪ god my deliverer ♪
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♪ yes he is, yes he is ♪
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♪ god my savior ♪
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♪ god my healer ♪
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♪ god my deliverer ♪
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♪ yes he is, yes he is ♪
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♪ yes he is, yes he is ♪
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♪ every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ every word of worship with one accord ♪
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♪ every praise, every praise is to our god ♪
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♪ sing hallelujah to our god ♪
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♪ glory hallelujah is due our god ♪
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♪ every praise, every praise ♪
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♪ every praise, every praise is to our god ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Announcer: what are the signs of a life beyond amazing?
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Among them, joy that is not dependent on circumstance,
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Integrity that settles for no exceptions,
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And self-discipline that stands firm.
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But how do you get them into your life?
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It takes a decision, actually nine decisions each day,
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To commit these into your heart and actions.
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Discover the steps to the life of blessings god has for you in
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Dr. david jeremiah's inspiring book, "a life beyond amazing:
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Nine decisions that will transform your life today."
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Order this transformational book from dr. jeremiah today
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When you give a gift of any amount
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In support of this program.
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And if you give $60 or more, dr. jeremiah will send you in
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Appreciation his comprehensive "a life beyond amazing" set.
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It contains his book, his entire teaching series on cd or dvd,
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A correlating study guide
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And the "life beyond amazing" scripture cards.
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Also available the "30 days to a life beyond amazing" workbook.
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Implement the nine key decisions from "a life beyond amazing"
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In powerful and practical ways.
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Plus it includes a dvd with video instructions
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From dr. jeremiah.
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Available on its own for $30 or more or as part
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Of the "life beyond amazing" set for a gift of $85 or more.
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Decide today to start living a life beyond what you thought
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Possible, a life beyond amazing.
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Order these resources when you contact "turning point" today.
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♪♪♪
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♪ who am i that the highest king ♪
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♪ would welcome me ♪
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♪ i was lost but he brought me in ♪
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♪ oh, his love for me, oh, his love for me ♪
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♪ who the son sets free ♪
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♪ oh, is free indeed ♪
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♪ i'm a child of god ♪
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♪ yes i am ♪
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♪ i am chosen, not forsaken ♪
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♪ i am who you say i am ♪
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♪ you are for me, not against me ♪
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♪ i am who you say i am ♪
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♪ who the son sets free ♪
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♪ oh, is free indeed ♪
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♪ i'm a child of god ♪
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♪ yes i am ♪
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♪ in my father's house ♪
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♪ there's a place for me ♪
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♪ i'm a child of god ♪
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♪ yes i am ♪♪
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♪ jesus paid it all ♪
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♪ all to him i owe ♪
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♪ sin had left a crimson stain ♪
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♪ he washed it white as snow ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ i hear the savior say ♪
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♪ "thy strength indeed is small ♪
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♪ child of weakness, watch and pray ♪
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♪ find in me thine all in all." ♪
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♪ jesus paid it all ♪
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♪ all to him i owe ♪
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♪ sin had left a crimson stain ♪
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♪ he washed it white as snow ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ lord, now indeed i find ♪
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♪ thy power and thine alone ♪
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♪ can change the leper's spots ♪
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♪ and melt the heart of stone ♪
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♪ jesus paid it all ♪
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♪ all to him i owe ♪
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♪ sin had left a crimson stain ♪
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♪ he washed it white as snow ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ and when before the throne ♪
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♪ i stand in him complete ♪
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♪ jesus died my soul to save ♪
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♪ my lips shall still repeat ♪
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♪ jesus paid it all ♪
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♪ all to him i owe ♪
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♪ sin had left a crimson stain ♪
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♪ he washed it white as snow ♪
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♪ sin had left a crimson stain ♪
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♪ he washed it white as snow ♪♪
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Announcer: a brighter day and a better year
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Begins by living in god's light.
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Introducing dr. david jeremiah's newest 365-day devotional
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For 2025, "living in his light."
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Dr. jeremiah's inspiring insights and reflections
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Will keep you connected to god's presence
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And walking in the brilliance of his love,
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Day by day, all year long.
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With a beautifully designed cover and stunning images
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Throughout, each reading will not only lift your spirit
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But brighten your entire day.
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Even when the world looks bleak and your days seem dark,
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Let dr. jeremiah remind you each day
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That the closer you are to christ,
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The brighter your days will be.
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Yours for a gift of any amount.
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Or for a gift of $120 or more, receive 4 copies.
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Request "living in his light" when you contact
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♪♪♪
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♪ give god the glory ♪
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♪ and he will give you ♪
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♪ the victory ♪
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♪ when i was lost in a world of sin ♪
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♪ oh, and jesus came, and he took me in ♪
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♪ yes he did ♪
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♪ now i give him all my problems ♪
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♪ am his forever more ♪
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♪ we need to give god all of the praise ♪
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♪ give god the glory ♪
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♪ and he will give you ♪
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♪ the victory ♪
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♪ see, satan is so busy trying to deceive you ♪
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♪ he wants to stop you if he can ♪
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♪ yes he does ♪
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♪ but you don't have to give up ♪
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♪ let jesus give you the victory ♪
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♪ give god all, all of our praise ♪
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♪ give god the glory ♪
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♪ and he will give you ♪
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♪ the victory ♪
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♪ satan, the blood of jesus is against you ♪
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♪ so, let us give god ♪
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♪ so, let us give god ♪
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♪ all of the praise ♪
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♪ satan, the blood of jesus is against you ♪
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♪ you're not welcome here, no ♪
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♪ satan, the blood of jesus is against you ♪
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♪ so let us give god ♪
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♪ all of the praise ♪
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♪ give god the glory ♪
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♪ and he will give you ♪
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♪ the victory ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Announcer: what are the signs of a life beyond amazing?
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Among them, joy that is not dependent on circumstance,
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Integrity that settles for no exceptions,
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And self-discipline that stands firm.
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But how do you get them into your life?
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It takes a decision, actually nine decisions each day,
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To commit these into your heart and actions.
00:16:14.278 --> 00:16:17.148
Discover the steps to the life of blessings god has for you in
00:16:17.148 --> 00:16:20.718
Dr. david jeremiah's inspiring book, "a life beyond amazing:
00:16:20.718 --> 00:16:24.956
Nine decisions that will transform your life today."
00:16:24.956 --> 00:16:28.359
Order this transformational book from dr. jeremiah today
00:16:28.359 --> 00:16:31.763
When you give a gift of any amount
00:16:31.763 --> 00:16:33.264
In support of this program.
00:16:33.264 --> 00:16:34.999
And if you give $60 or more, dr. jeremiah will send you in
00:16:34.999 --> 00:16:38.903
Appreciation his comprehensive "a life beyond amazing" set.
00:16:38.903 --> 00:16:43.441
It contains his book, his entire teaching series on cd or dvd,
00:16:43.441 --> 00:16:47.879
A correlating study guide, and the "life beyond amazing"
00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:50.782
Scripture cards.
00:16:50.782 --> 00:16:52.784
Also available, the "30 days to a life beyond amazing" workbook.
00:16:52.784 --> 00:16:56.954
Implement the nine key decisions from "a life beyond amazing"
00:16:56.954 --> 00:17:00.224
In powerful and practical ways.
00:17:00.224 --> 00:17:02.727
Plus, it includes a dvd with video instructions
00:17:02.727 --> 00:17:05.463
From dr. jeremiah, available on its own for $30 or more,
00:17:05.463 --> 00:17:09.700
Or as part of the "life beyond amazing" set
00:17:09.700 --> 00:17:12.537
For a gift of $85 or more.
00:17:12.537 --> 00:17:15.306
Decide today to start living a life beyond what you thought
00:17:15.306 --> 00:17:18.810
Possible, a life beyond amazing.
00:17:18.810 --> 00:17:21.712
Order these resources when you contact "turning point" today.
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Announcer: thank you for watching
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"a life beyond amazing"
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Here on "turning point."
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In appreciation of your viewership, dr. jeremiah
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Would like to send you the "life beyond amazing"
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Scripture cards absolutely free.
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Contact "turning point" today.
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And now, here is dr. jeremiah with his message,
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"a god-inspired life."
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Dr. jeremiah: it was 1979, and donna and i were happily leading
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The blackhawk baptist church of fort wayne, indiana.
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This was my first church.
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Our family was young, and i was learning every day
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How to serve a growing congregation.
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We'd completed two building projects,
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And we had started a school,
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And we had a weekend television program
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That was now being seen in five markets in the midwest,
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And that's when the defining decision
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In our shared lives happened.
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A man by the name of tim lahaye.
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Tim never was bashful about what he thought
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And what he thought should happen.
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So one day he just told me outright that i was going to be
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The next pastor of the church that he had led for 25 years.
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He didn't ask me.
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He didn't say, "we're gonna pray about it."
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He just said, "you are going to be the next pastor."
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Well, it took me 2 years to process that.
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And over those next 2 years, i resisted the message.
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How could god be in this?
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I mean, what did i know about ministering in california?
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I'd heard about all of you guys before i came out here,
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And i had no idea what i was getting into.
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But as we processed all of this,
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Our lives became dominated by this opportunity.
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And the interesting thing is that donna knew
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God was calling us to california long before i did.
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I didn't want to know.
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I didn't want to see it.
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I was holding back, holding on to the church
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That i'd started and was building.
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And finally, one day in desperation, donna said to me,
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I remember exactly where i was when she said it,
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"david, if god himself were to come down here
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And tell you to go to california,
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I don't think it would make any difference."
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Well, god didn't actually come down,
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But something pretty close happened.
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One day we were discussing coming to california
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And we got on the subject of earthquakes.
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Earthquakes was my latest excuse not to come to california.
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I reminded donna that earthquakes
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Happen out here a lot,
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A lot more than in indiana, and sure enough,
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The next day in fort wayne, they had an earthquake.
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That's the truth.
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And it suddenly dawned on me
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That god could send an earthquake wherever he chose,
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And we decided to come to california.
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That one decision changed everything in our lives.
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Changed where our children went to school.
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It changed who they married.
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It changed where our 12 grandchildren would grow up.
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It changed what kind of ministry i would have.
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It opened doors that before that time were shut,
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And it shut doors that before that time were open.
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In these messages, i've encouraged you
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To make nine decisions that will transform your life.
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But behind each of these decisions is one decision
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That impacts all of the others,
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And that decision is, what will you decide to do
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With the lord jesus christ?
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The bible says that jesus came into this world to deliver us
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From a life of sin and selfishness
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And separation from god.
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In a very familiar verse to most of us, the scripture says,
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All of us have sinned and we have fallen short
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Of the glory of god.
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But through the death, burial, and resurrection
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Of jesus christ, that barrier between our holy god
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And sinful man has been removed.
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And when we decide to put our trust in jesus christ
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For eternal life and we invite him
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Into our hearts and our lives,
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He gives us a life beyond amazing,
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The life you've been listening to in these weeks.
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The lord jesus wants us to have that life,
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But it cannot begin until we make
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That defining decision to put our trust
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In jesus christ.
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So if you've been listening to these messages
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And you've been intrigued by the kind
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Of motivational content of some of it,
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That's all well and good.
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But you can't even start any of these things
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Until jesus christ is at home in your life.
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If you've never accepted him, if you've never invited him
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Into your life, let me give you that invitation today.
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Make jesus christ the lord of your life.
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Ask him to forgive your sin, and he's never refused
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To do that for anyone who comes, honestly, to ask.
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In these messages that we have been sharing,
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I have focused on what a life might look like
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If jesus is involved,
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And how we might activate that life in our everyday lives.
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Now, there's one more decision to make.
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Jesus christ is in your heart.
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The holy spirit has come to live within your life
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If you're a christian.
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But now, here is the question you must answer.
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Will i be willing to turn my life over to the holy spirit,
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The person god has given to each of us
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To orchestrate this life beyond amazing?
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Am i willing to let him take control?
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When i was first starting in the ministry
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And trying to learn how to present the gospel,
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I was introduced to the four spiritual laws.
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Bill bright at campus crusade put those together.
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He also had a little pamphlet on the holy spirit,
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And i'll never forget that pamphlet
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Because as you opened it up,
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You saw inside of this pamphlet, a chair.
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It was a throne, and the question was,
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Who is sitting on the throne of your life?
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Is that throne occupied by the spirit of god,
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Or are you still sitting there
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Trying to make stuff happen because you're unwilling
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To trust that the holy spirit has a better plan
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For your life than you could ever, ever dream up?
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So i wanna talk with you today about how to give control
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Of your life over to the holy spirit.
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I've called this message, "a god-inspired life."
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It is the one irreducible minimum
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To all of these decisions, and without this component,
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You will be frustrated in all of the other things
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You decide to do.
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Let me suggest to you that living a life
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Empowered by the holy spirit is the only way
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You can ever be successful as a christian.
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It was back in 2013 on the 10th of february
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That a fire broke out in an engine room
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Of the carnival cruise ship, "triumph,"
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And knocked out all of the ship's power.
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More than 4200 people were aboard this cruise ship,
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And they were left in limbo,
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Drifting in the gulf of mexico and its current.
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No power meant it was impossible to flush the toilets,
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Keep cool under the blazing tropical sun,
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Or preserve and cook all the perishable food
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That was on board.
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Passengers reported long lines for food,
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Shortages of fresh water, illness, and widespread boredom.
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Many passengers slept in hallways or outside
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To escape the odors and the heat below decks.
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The ship finally ported safely in mobile, alabama,
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Four agonizing days later, and the ship and its tour
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Became known as the cruise from hell.
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The awful ordeal of the "triumph" is a riveting reminder
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Of what happens to anything or anyone
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Who gets disconnected from its source of power.
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For those of us who are christians,
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The bible teaches us that our power source
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As believers is the holy spirit.
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You and i know that there are millions who suffer darkness
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In spirit, millions of christians
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Who endure spiritual misery and pain
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And seem to have no hope or relief.
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For them, the surge of power the holy spirit brings
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Is instantly amazing.
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And for others, it may feel more like a gradual process.
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But i'm here to tell you today
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That unless you embrace the power of the holy spirit,
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The power that only he can provide,
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You'll be running on empty.
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And that's a pretty miserable place to be.
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If you've tried to sustain
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Any of these nine characteristic traits
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That i have taught you over these last weeks,
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If you've tried to do that in your own strength,
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You've discovered that it's simply too difficult for you.
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And you know what?
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You're absolutely right.
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The christian life is not hard, it's not difficult;
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It's impossible unless the holy spirit is in control.
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In the entire history of humanity,
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Only one person has lived a perfect life.
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That person is jesus christ.
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But you may be amazed to discover that even jesus christ
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Did not live that life by his own power.
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Though he was one with god in power in heaven,
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To be a complete and perfect human,
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The scripture says that for the years
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He was on this earth, he voluntarily laid aside
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The independent use of his divine attributes
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So that he could identify with us in every way.
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So guess what?
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While he was on this earth,
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He lived by the power of the father
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And the power of the holy spirit.
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One day jesus told his disciples,
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"the words that i speak to you,
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I do not speak of my own authority;
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But the father who dwells in me, he does the work."
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Jesus lived and thought and worked and taught
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And conquered sin and won victories for god
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In the power of that same spirit
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Who lives within all of us, the spirit whom all of us
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May have if we will accept his control of our lives.
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Well, you say, "pastor jeremiah, how do i do that?
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I'm a christian, i know that i'm saved.
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I know i'm on my way to heaven, i know my sins are forgiven,
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But i have these things in my life
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That i've tried to get my arms around
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And i never seem to get victory over them.
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It's really frustrating.
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If there's something i'm missing out on,
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Please tell me."
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Well, i just want to tell you,
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You're not missing the holy spirit.
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He lives within you.
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But you may not be appropriating him properly or allowing him
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To have control in your life, and if that's true,
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You will never be able to live the life beyond amazing
00:28:30.914 --> 00:28:34.218
With any consistency at all.
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There are certain things that you are going to have
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To recognize and realize if you want that edge
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In your christian experience.
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Living a life engaged with the holy spirit.
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I hope that as you've listened to these messages and heard me
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Talk about all the possibilities to be a person of love and joy
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And peace, and a person that has integrity,
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And a person that has self-discipline,
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I hope if you listened to all these things
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That you've found within your own heart,
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A hungering and thirsting after this, and saying,
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"i want that to be true of my life."
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Well, i want to tell you again
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That that's one of the most critical things
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That you can have, and that's a desire.
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The holy spirit takes up residency in our hearts
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The moment we believe, but we do not at that moment
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Instantaneously become a fully mature christian.
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It takes time for the fruit that the spirit brings to ripen
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And become visible in our lives, and we have to do our part,
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And here's the first thing we have to do.
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We have to desire the holy spirit
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To be in control.
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You say, "well, that seems kind of, i mean,
00:29:39.683 --> 00:29:42.486
Why are you telling-- it doesn't make any--
00:29:42.486 --> 00:29:43.921
Why would you say that?
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Wouldn't anybody desire the holy spirit?"
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No, we don't.
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Let me tell you where many christians,
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And i think if i could quote people that i've read
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And if i could look down into the hearts of people
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That i've met,
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Way too many christians get saved
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And the only thing they care about
00:29:58.035 --> 00:29:59.369
Is that they're not going to hell,
00:29:59.369 --> 00:30:00.704
And they're going to heaven, and now they're gonna do
00:30:00.704 --> 00:30:02.139
Their own thing all the way through life.
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If you said to them, "do you want more of god?
00:30:05.175 --> 00:30:06.977
Do you want more of the spiritual control in your life?"
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Many people would say, "so what does that mean?"
00:30:09.046 --> 00:30:12.015
And then when you start talking about
00:30:12.015 --> 00:30:13.650
What god may do in their lives,
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They back away and say, "you know, i'm cool, i'm great."
00:30:15.118 --> 00:30:18.088
And many of them will say,
00:30:18.088 --> 00:30:19.423
"don't bother me with all that stuff.
00:30:19.423 --> 00:30:20.791
I know i'm saved, i know i'm going to heaven,
00:30:20.791 --> 00:30:22.593
And i'm confident of that, and i'm comfortable with that,
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And that's all i want.
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I'm not into all of this."
00:30:26.763 --> 00:30:28.465
And they think really walking in the spirit
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Is some kind of over-the-line, out-of-control walk.
00:30:31.001 --> 00:30:38.008
The bible says if you want the spirit of god
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To control your life,
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If you want his power source turned on,
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You have to desire it.
00:30:44.081 --> 00:30:46.717
At the climax of one of israel's festivals,
00:30:46.717 --> 00:30:49.419
Jesus stood up in the temple and he said,
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"if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink."
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And if you read the next verse, you find out he was talking
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About the holy spirit.
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In another passage, jesus said, "if you then, being evil,
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Know how to give good gifts to your children,
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How much more will your heavenly father give the holy spirit
00:31:09.306 --> 00:31:13.810
To those who ask him!"
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Both of these passages indicate the same thing.
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We have to desire the holy spirit to control us.
00:31:20.484 --> 00:31:24.421
We have to thirst for his direction in our lives.
00:31:24.421 --> 00:31:28.325
And although the holy spirit wants to direct our lives,
00:31:28.325 --> 00:31:30.894
He doesn't override our free will
00:31:30.894 --> 00:31:34.598
Or seize control of our minds.
00:31:34.598 --> 00:31:37.968
I like this.
00:31:37.968 --> 00:31:39.836
He works more like a combination of a gps system
00:31:39.836 --> 00:31:42.906
And power steering in your car.
00:31:42.906 --> 00:31:46.076
He gives you direction,
00:31:46.076 --> 00:31:48.979
And then he waits for your decision to follow him.
00:31:48.979 --> 00:31:53.183
You have to decide to turn the wheel in the direction
00:31:53.183 --> 00:31:56.753
That he points, and once you do that,
00:31:56.753 --> 00:31:59.256
He provides the power to steer the car
00:31:59.256 --> 00:32:01.992
And move it down the road.
00:32:01.992 --> 00:32:04.661
The direction to the destination and the power to get there
00:32:04.661 --> 00:32:08.498
Belong to the spirit,
00:32:08.498 --> 00:32:10.400
But the decision to continually drive forward
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:12.803
To the correct destination remains with you.
00:32:12.803 --> 00:32:18.041
By the way, i have a running dispute with the lady
00:32:18.041 --> 00:32:21.044
In my gps system.
00:32:21.044 --> 00:32:22.679
She's not always telling me the truth.
00:32:22.679 --> 00:32:27.384
Sometimes she says, "turn right," and i know better.
00:32:27.384 --> 00:32:29.586
I'm supposed to go forward.
00:32:29.586 --> 00:32:33.390
And do you know what happens when you don't follow the lady
00:32:33.390 --> 00:32:38.095
In the little box in your car?
00:32:38.095 --> 00:32:41.631
You just wait a few moments and you hear these words,
00:32:41.631 --> 00:32:44.234
"recalculating, recalculating."
00:32:44.234 --> 00:32:48.872
And i thought to myself this week, i wonder how many times
00:32:48.872 --> 00:32:51.241
The spirit of god has directed me
00:32:51.241 --> 00:32:53.710
And i've gone on my own way
00:32:53.710 --> 00:32:55.779
And the spirit of god has said, "recalculating."
00:32:55.779 --> 00:32:59.483
One of the things i know is that god never gives up on us.
00:32:59.483 --> 00:33:02.419
We take a wrong turn, he doesn't say,
00:33:02.419 --> 00:33:04.054
"okay, that's it for jeremiah.
00:33:04.054 --> 00:33:05.489
He went right, and i told him to go straight.
00:33:05.489 --> 00:33:07.324
I'm done with him."
00:33:07.324 --> 00:33:09.459
No, he keeps after us.
00:33:09.459 --> 00:33:10.961
He keeps recalculating and bringing our lives back.
00:33:10.961 --> 00:33:13.830
But here's the issue.
00:33:13.830 --> 00:33:15.599
The holy spirit doesn't do the work.
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:18.635
He shows you what to do, gives you the strength to do it,
00:33:18.635 --> 00:33:22.339
But you have to make the decision to follow it.
00:33:22.339 --> 00:33:26.576
And if you don't, then your gps system's worthless
00:33:26.576 --> 00:33:33.917
And you will be lost and you won't find your way.
00:33:33.917 --> 00:33:38.889
I remember reading before he died
00:33:38.889 --> 00:33:41.491
The late john stott's morning prayer.
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You know, when you read what people say, that's really not in
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The mainstream of what they do, you learn why they have power.
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You want to know why a man like john stott,
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Who moved the world from britain
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With his great preaching and writing,
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Why he was the way he was?
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Here's his daily prayer: "heavenly father,
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I pray that this day i may live in your presence
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And please you more and more.
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Lord jesus, i pray that this day i may take up my cross
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And follow you.
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Holy spirit, i pray that this day you will fill me with
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Yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life:
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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
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Faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."
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And every day he prayed that prayer.
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Every day he said, "at the beginning of this day,
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I'm turning over the control of my life to the holy spirit
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Who lives within me."
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So you have to ask yourself the question today,
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Do you want these qualities developed in your life?
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Do you want to be in a cooperative program
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With lord god to work out your own salvation,
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To work out what god has worked in?
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Then the holy spirit's gonna be involved
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And you have to give him control.
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Second, you have to denounce your sin.
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I love to tell people when i talk about the holy spirit
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That the holy spirit has two names
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And his first name is holy.
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Because he is holy, the holy spirit cannot thrive
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In a contaminated environment.
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Ephesians 4:30 says this: "do not bring sorrow
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To god's holy spirit by the way that you live."
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I think the new king james says: "grieve not the holy spirit."
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Remember, he has identified you as his own,
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Guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.
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One of the classes that impacted me the most during my time
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At dallas seminary was a course taught by charles ryrie
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On the holy spirit.
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In the years since, i have returned to dr. ryrie's
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Little book on the holy spirit time and time again.
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In fact, one of the guys who helps me in the research part
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Of what i do in the library over there where i keep my books,
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Asked me what happened to this book, because the cover's gone.
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There's no back cover, there's no front cover.
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I said, "i just wore it out," because every time
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I turned around, i was picking that book up.
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If you know charles ryrie and his writing,
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You know he always was a man of few words.
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He said a lot more in a few words
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Than most people say in volumes.
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In that book, he wrote: "the victorious life,
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Or the life which does not grieve the holy spirit,
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Is the undefeated life.
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It is the life which is constantly responding
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To the light as it is revealed in god's word.
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As response is made, this will bring to light more areas
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Of darkness which then need to be confessed.
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And then more light comes, which in turn requires more confession
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Of newly discovered darkness.
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And so it goes throughout life, but this is the normal way
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Life grows that does not grieve the spirit."
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Did you understand what he was saying?
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He didn't say, if you're living a life
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That's not grieving the holy spirit,
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You don't ever make any mistakes or you don't ever sin.
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No, what the bible teaches is that if you're living a life
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That does not grieve the holy spirit,
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You're acknowledging sin
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When it becomes known unto you and you deal with it.
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And here's what you learn: as you get older in christ
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And as you grow in christ,
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You will become sensitive to things later on
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That you never even thought of before.
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And as you become sensitive to the things that you know are not
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Pleasing to god, you don't just blow them off
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Or you don't just excuse yourself for them.
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You deal with them, and you ask god to forgive you,
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And you repent.
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And repentance means to turn from it.
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It means to take a 180.
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You're going this way in this particular practice,
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And god brings conviction to your heart about it,
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And you say, "lord god, i know this is wrong,
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And i repent of this, and i'm sorry for this,"
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But that's not the end of it.
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When you do that, you turn, and you go the other direction.
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Repentance is not a matter of sorrow and tears and crying.
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Repentance means to stop doing what you're doing
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And start doing the right thing, to repent.
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And what is so wonderful about charles ryrie's statement
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Is that we think what i'm talking about
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Is some kind of subnormal, abnormal.
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No, this is the way the christian life is.
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Someone once told me the christian life is getting up
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And falling down, falling down and getting up,
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Falling down and getting up all the way to heaven.
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Nobody lives a perfect life.
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Nobody gets there without challenges.
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But the issue isn't, are you gonna be challenged
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In your life?
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The issue is, what will you do when it happens?
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How will you respond to it?
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How honest are you willing to be before god
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When he puts his finger on something
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And he surely will if you wanna walk with him,
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And he'll say, "that spirit you have toward
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That person is wrong."
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Lord god, i'm sorry.
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"that's not enough.
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Go fix it."
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Walking in the spirit, not grieving the spirit,
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Is living a life where you listen to the spirit of god
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When he puts his finger on something in your life.
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And 1 john 1:9 is the great encouragement
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That "if we confess our sin,
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He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
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And cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
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Do you know that verse wasn't written to unbelievers?
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That verse was written to young believers,
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And the apostle john said,
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"listen, when you're walking along the way as a christian
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And you mess up or you step in a hole or you do something
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You shouldn't do or you say something you shouldn't say,
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Listen to me, here's what you need to know.
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If you confess your sin, he is faithful and just to forgive
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Your sin and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
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Get back on the road and keep walking and don't stop."
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The christian life is not an uninterrupted road
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From where you become a christian all the way to heaven.
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You're gonna have some stops and some starts.
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Here's the third thing.
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Devote yourself to the word of god.
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"well, what does that have to do with anything?"
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The process of growing in christ is impossible without this book.
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Did you know that nobody has ever been saved
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Except for two things.
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You have to have the spirit of god
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And the word of god.
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Nobody will get to heaven unless the spirit of god
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And the word of god has worked in their life.
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That's how you become a christian.
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But did you know also that once you become a christian,
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Nobody ever grows in their faith without the spirit of god
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And the word of god?
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Let me tell you how this works.
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If you want the fruit of love to develop in your life,
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Read the passages in the bible about love,
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1 corinthians 13, others.
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If you want to learn how to endure and have greater
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Endurance, study the lives of men like job or moses.
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Do you want to grow in integrity?
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I suggest you get acquainted with noah and abraham
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And joseph and hannah and daniel and a whole bunch of others.
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Every day, you and i face situations
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That require decisions.
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And if we're gonna make the right decisions to be ready for
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Every good work, we have to store up as much of god's word
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In our hearts as we can.
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That way, when those moments come,
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The holy spirit can bring to our mind
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The passages that we've read and studied and meditated upon,
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And the principles from those passages
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Will guide us.
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Let me see if i can make it even clearer.
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It's like what happens when we use our computers?
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We store information on the hard drive.
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Then the operating system uses that information
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To accomplish the given task.
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I know that's an oversimplification,
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But that's basically how it works.
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Studying and memorizing the word of god
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Is like loading up your spiritual hard drive
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With good information,
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And the holy spirit, who is your operating system,
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Uses what you've stored up to operate your life.
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But if you don't put anything on your hard drive,
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You short-circuit the holy spirit.
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The holy spirit doesn't work in a vacuum.
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The holy spirit works with the word of god.
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Sometimes you say, "well, i'm just reading the scripture
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And i don't understand it all, i'm not confident
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That i'm really getting everything out of it."
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Just read it.
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Keep reading it.
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Sooner or later, it'll start to come alive for you.
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But if you don't read it, if you do not put the word of god
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On your hard drive, the holy spirit
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Doesn't have anything to work with in your life.
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And you're just left like that ship out in the sea,
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Just kind of floating along, drifting along with the current.
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No power.
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Here's one that's tough for all of us, men especially.
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Die to your own ambition.
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Not to ambition; to your own ambition.
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The bible says in galatians 5: "those who are christ's have
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Crucified the flesh with its passions and its desires.
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If we live in the spirit, we have to walk in the spirit."
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We're commanded to walk in the spirit.
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It's simply a matter of obedience.
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We must be willing to let god be god, and all god's resources
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Will be available to us if we simply walk in the spirit.
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And paul uses this word "walk."
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It's very interesting.
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How many of you know walk is one step at a time?
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Powerful, taking one step at a time.
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That's how you live the christian life,
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One step at a time,
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Putting one spiritual foot in front of the other.
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Sometimes you walk into the wind.
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Sometimes you walk with the wind at your back.
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No matter, regardless of what you're doing in your life,
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The person who is walking in the spirit is making progress.
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When we let go of our ambition, we say to the holy spirit,
00:43:49.966 --> 00:43:52.735
"okay, i'm gonna get off the throne of my life
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And i'm gonna put you there.
00:43:55.938 --> 00:43:58.341
And from now on, what you want will be what i do."
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I remember a leader who was going through
00:44:02.211 --> 00:44:03.646
Some real struggles in his church,
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And he said he finally came to grips with--
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This is how he was gonna handle it.
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Every day when he went to work, he'd open his office
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And look there at the chair in his office
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And envision that the spirit of god was there,
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And he would say to the spirit of god,
00:44:15.558 --> 00:44:17.126
"i don't know what to do with this mess.
00:44:17.126 --> 00:44:18.528
It's in your hands."
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And he would go someplace else and study.
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Those of us who've grown up in the american ethic know
00:44:25.301 --> 00:44:27.804
That we're pushed and driven to be self-made people.
00:44:27.804 --> 00:44:34.677
We're motivated to do better, and learn, be effective.
00:44:34.677 --> 00:44:38.648
All of that is well and good, but you have to stop somewhere
00:44:38.648 --> 00:44:43.753
Along the way and ask yourself,
00:44:43.753 --> 00:44:45.788
"who is this for and what is this about?"
00:44:45.788 --> 00:44:50.059
And you have to ask god to give you clarity on that.
00:44:50.059 --> 00:44:54.597
No servant can serve two masters.
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You cannot have two ceos in your life.
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You can only get to have one.
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And you have to make the decision.
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The lord god isn't gonna make it for you.
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You have to decide, "okay, i've been tooling along
00:45:07.777 --> 00:45:10.046
Here in my boat with a whole lot less power
00:45:10.046 --> 00:45:11.781
Than i think i should have, maybe there's something else."
00:45:11.781 --> 00:45:16.319
And then just stop dead in your tracks and say,
00:45:16.319 --> 00:45:18.755
"i'm gonna let god take control.
00:45:18.755 --> 00:45:21.491
I'm gonna let god run my life.
00:45:21.491 --> 00:45:23.593
I'm gonna read his word.
00:45:23.593 --> 00:45:25.261
I'm gonna let the holy spirit direct me."
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The holy spirit is the only one who can lead you
00:45:29.031 --> 00:45:32.568
Into the life of power that you desire.
00:45:32.568 --> 00:45:37.173
Letting go of your ambition may seem risky,
00:45:37.173 --> 00:45:40.543
But i want to tell you something.
00:45:40.543 --> 00:45:42.645
God's plan for your life is way better than yours.
00:45:42.645 --> 00:45:47.383
Do you believe that?
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I'll tell you this.
00:45:49.318 --> 00:45:50.653
When i got into college, i didn't have a lot
00:45:50.653 --> 00:45:54.390
Of spiritual direction in my life.
00:45:54.390 --> 00:45:56.259
It wasn't until i was a senior that god called me to preach.
00:45:56.259 --> 00:45:59.028
So in those early years of college,
00:45:59.028 --> 00:46:00.530
I was deciding what i was gonna do.
00:46:00.530 --> 00:46:03.633
I was really interested in radio and television.
00:46:03.633 --> 00:46:05.768
I was taking classes, and donna and i started wcdr,
00:46:05.768 --> 00:46:10.740
Which was the campus radio station in cedarville.
00:46:10.740 --> 00:46:14.010
Believe it or not, i was a disc jockey on a station
00:46:14.010 --> 00:46:16.179
In springfield, ohio, weec, played all the music,
00:46:16.179 --> 00:46:19.282
Gave the news, the weather.
00:46:19.282 --> 00:46:21.517
That's where i was headed.
00:46:21.517 --> 00:46:23.119
That's what i wanted to do.
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:25.121
I loved it.
00:46:25.121 --> 00:46:26.489
I used--you guys, i used to build heathkits
00:46:26.489 --> 00:46:28.624
When i was a kid, the little kits you put together.
00:46:28.624 --> 00:46:32.328
My mother used to tell me, "you're gonna electrocute
00:46:32.328 --> 00:46:34.197
The whole family before this is over."
00:46:34.197 --> 00:46:35.932
She would say that.
00:46:35.932 --> 00:46:37.733
Had wires running everywhere.
00:46:37.733 --> 00:46:39.836
I've always loved this industry, radio and television industry.
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One day, god called me to preach.
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And i remember telling donna, "the only thing
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That i'm struggling with is, goodbye to radio,
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Goodbye to television.
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I'm going to go be a preacher."
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You know, i don't know how good i would have ever been
00:47:01.023 --> 00:47:02.825
As a secular disc jockey, but i promise you
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I wouldn't have been on 2200 stations.
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Listen to me, god's plan for your life
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Is better than any you can imagine,
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But as long as you keep holding on to your own ambitions
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And you want to do it your way and you want to do your thing
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And you're not willing to trust him,
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You will get what you can get
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But it will never be as much as god wants you to have.
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The bible says: "commit your way unto the lord," listen to this,
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"and he will give you the desires of your heart."
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So ask yourself, what is it you desire?
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And then commit yourself to the lord.
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The spirit of god is just waiting for you to say,
00:47:40.596 --> 00:47:42.632
"yes, yes, take control.
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I'll follow your direction."
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And then you've got to commit yourself to do
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What he tells you to do.
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So the question is this, what do you want your life to be like?
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God is building a house.
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Some of you may be satisfied if your life is a cottage.
00:48:02.818 --> 00:48:06.222
Most people are not satisfied with a decent little cottage.
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They want something better.
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So the question is, what do you want your life to be like,
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A cottage or a palace?
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Do you desire the nine virtues of a good and joyful life
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Enough to turn your life over to the holy spirit?
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Or do you want to retain control and risk the works of the flesh
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Inching their way into more and more of your life
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And leading you further and further
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From the possibility of joy?
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The apostle paul puts it very plainly: "if you live according
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To the flesh you will die; but if by the spirit
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You put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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For as many as are led by the spirit of god,
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These are the sons of god."
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So now that you know the five steps to be filled
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With the spirit, what's next?
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What will your life be like when you're led by the spirit of god?
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Will all the potholes be filled, all the detours straightened,
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All the doors opened?
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Absolutely not.
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Being filled by the spirit doesn't mean your world
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Suddenly becomes a garden of eden.
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You still deal with crabgrass and storms and clouds
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In your life, but you'll see a huge difference
00:49:16.625 --> 00:49:18.627
In how you deal with them
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Because it's not now just you, it's the holy spirit in you,
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Doing his work through your life.
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When the holy spirit is at home in your life,
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The nine virtues that we have been talking about
00:49:29.005 --> 00:49:32.008
Will not only be the gifts of god
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That you have received at your salvation,
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They will be virtues that are growing,
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And you will be able to discern growth
00:49:38.514 --> 00:49:40.383
In your life because the holy spirit is at work.
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Along the way, there'll be a lot of blessings.
00:49:44.620 --> 00:49:47.289
Along the way, there'll be some tests.
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But along the way, you will feel the presence
00:49:49.425 --> 00:49:51.093
Of the holy spirit every day.
00:49:51.093 --> 00:49:54.063
And the fruit of the spirit is about transformation
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And making you different.
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So here we are at the end of this series,
00:49:59.268 --> 00:50:00.970
And here we are at the end of this message,
00:50:00.970 --> 00:50:02.538
And where do we go from here?
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I just want to leave you with this thought,
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Wherever you are on this journey.
00:50:06.342 --> 00:50:08.077
Many of you are christians, have been for a long time,
00:50:08.077 --> 00:50:10.780
Still looking for that power in your life to be used of god.
00:50:10.780 --> 00:50:15.084
Some of you are brand new in the faith.
00:50:15.084 --> 00:50:16.752
Maybe you've just been baptized
00:50:16.752 --> 00:50:18.220
And you're getting your start as walking with the lord.
00:50:18.220 --> 00:50:22.224
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, just keep going.
00:50:22.224 --> 00:50:25.861
Don't quit.
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Keep utilizing what god gives you.
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Keep taking what you learn and putting it into practice.
00:50:30.433 --> 00:50:35.538
Don't just be a collector of information.
00:50:35.538 --> 00:50:37.873
I'm glad when i see you take notes,
00:50:37.873 --> 00:50:39.408
But i hope you're taking notes
00:50:39.408 --> 00:50:40.976
So you can remember what the word of god says,
00:50:40.976 --> 00:50:42.978
So you can remember when you read it again what to do.
00:50:42.978 --> 00:50:47.083
The bible says we're not to be hearers of the word only,
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But doers.
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One of my greatest fears is that i'm a teacher
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Of the word of god, and people come
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And they're more smart about the bible than they ever were,
00:50:54.223 --> 00:50:56.892
But they don't allow the word of god
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To matriculate down into the everyday life that they live.
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So here's what i'm saying, just keep going.
00:51:02.631 --> 00:51:05.301
Don't quit.
00:51:05.301 --> 00:51:07.169
There's a story about a mother who had a young son
00:51:07.169 --> 00:51:10.639
Who was struggling to learn to play the piano,
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And she thought it might encourage him
00:51:13.742 --> 00:51:15.578
To attend a concert of a great pianist
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Who was visiting their city.
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As they were seated, the mother spotted a friend
00:51:21.450 --> 00:51:24.487
And left her seat to go speak to her.
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Her son, a very curious young man, took the opportunity
00:51:28.190 --> 00:51:31.994
To explore the grand music hall where this event
00:51:31.994 --> 00:51:35.664
Was taking place.
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Soon he wandered through a door marked, "no admittance."
00:51:38.200 --> 00:51:43.539
When the house lights dimmed and the mother returned to her seat
00:51:43.539 --> 00:51:47.209
And realized that her child was missing,
00:51:47.209 --> 00:51:49.345
Before she could do anything about it,
00:51:49.345 --> 00:51:51.514
The curtains opened on the spotlighted center stage
00:51:51.514 --> 00:51:54.517
And the audience gasped with a mixture
00:51:54.517 --> 00:51:56.986
Of laughter and anger.
00:51:56.986 --> 00:51:58.687
When the mother saw the cause of her reaction,
00:51:58.687 --> 00:52:01.023
She gasped in horror.
00:52:01.023 --> 00:52:02.725
There at the keyboard of this grand piano sat her little boy,
00:52:02.725 --> 00:52:07.563
Innocently picking out, "twinkle, twinkle little star."
00:52:07.563 --> 00:52:14.370
At that moment, the master pianist made his entrance.
00:52:14.370 --> 00:52:19.175
He quickly moved to the piano and whispered
00:52:19.175 --> 00:52:21.377
In the little boy's ear, "don't quit, keep playing."
00:52:21.377 --> 00:52:26.315
And then the great piano master leaned over the boy
00:52:26.315 --> 00:52:28.551
With his left hand and began filling in
00:52:28.551 --> 00:52:30.853
The bass accompaniment to "twinkle, twinkle little star."
00:52:30.853 --> 00:52:33.923
And a moment later, his right arm reached around
00:52:33.923 --> 00:52:36.458
To the other side and added a running obbligato.
00:52:36.458 --> 00:52:40.262
And when the last note sounded, the mesmerized audience stood
00:52:40.262 --> 00:52:43.732
To their feet and thundered their applause.
00:52:43.732 --> 00:52:47.436
Together, the old master and the young novice
00:52:47.436 --> 00:52:50.105
Had transformed an awkward situation
00:52:50.105 --> 00:52:53.442
Into a wonderfully creative moment.
00:52:53.442 --> 00:52:57.947
And this is what god does with us.
00:52:57.947 --> 00:53:01.283
No matter how hard we try to live godly lives,
00:53:01.283 --> 00:53:04.086
Our efforts always seem to come up short.
00:53:04.086 --> 00:53:07.556
But when god enters,
00:53:07.556 --> 00:53:09.725
He turns our halting music into a masterpiece.
00:53:09.725 --> 00:53:14.396
He takes our efforts done in good faith,
00:53:14.396 --> 00:53:18.334
And he honors our efforts.
00:53:18.334 --> 00:53:20.169
But not only that, by his holy spirit,
00:53:20.169 --> 00:53:22.238
He transformed those efforts into something beyond
00:53:22.238 --> 00:53:24.873
What we could ever do
00:53:24.873 --> 00:53:26.475
If we had the best day of our life.
00:53:26.475 --> 00:53:29.478
And that is what paul was telling us when he wrote,
00:53:29.478 --> 00:53:31.847
"work out your own salvation in fear and trembling."
00:53:31.847 --> 00:53:35.384
Sit down at the piano and begin to play.
00:53:35.384 --> 00:53:39.088
But don't worry, it is god who works in you,
00:53:39.088 --> 00:53:43.525
Both to will with his right hand and to do with his left hand
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What is necessary.
00:53:49.898 --> 00:53:53.135
So the indispensable key is what the master said
00:53:53.135 --> 00:53:56.305
To the little boy: "don't quit, keep playing."
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Announcer: dr. jeremiah will return with one more
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Dr. jeremiah: throughout this series, i have encouraged you
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To make decisions that will lead to a life beyond amazing,
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A life of love, joy, peace, endurance, compassion,
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Generosity, integrity, humility, and self-discipline.
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You may be thinking,
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"well, that's a lot easier said than done."
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But that is exactly how the bible tells us to live.
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We can become the people god wants us to be
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And claim the abundant life he has for us
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If we will depend on the power of the holy spirit.
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That can only happen when we are born again by faith
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In jesus christ.
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Dr. jeremiah: do you want to do something great?
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Do you want to be strong?
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Start with knowing god.
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Knowing god will give you the strength you need to be good at
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What you do, to excel in your particular purpose of life.
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It starts with knowing god.
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Don't ever forget that verse.
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"those who know their god will be strong
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And do great, great things."
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Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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Join dr. jeremiah next time for his series,
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"the god you may not know," here on "turning point."
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David Jeremiah - A God-Inspired Life

March 9, 2025 | S25:E10

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