David Jeremiah - The Promise of the Spirit

May 23, 2026 | 57:29

The Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, plays a specific role in our lives as Christians. He is our Helper who lives within us, provides us with strength, and points us to the truth.

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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - The Promise of the Spirit | May 23, 2026

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Dr. david jeremiah: many would say,
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"i believe in the holy spirit."
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But my question is, do you know the holy spirit?
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Do you know what he does, what he provides?
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He was there at creation.
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He came in power at pentecost.
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He's the most personal and perhaps
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The most misunderstood member of the trinity.
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The study of the holy spirit as revealed in the scripture
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Shows he is more than a feeling,
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More than a force, more than an emotion,
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More than an experience.
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So, who is the holy spirit?
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The holy spirit is god with us, god in us,
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And god at work through us.
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Discover more about the holy spirit
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Than you ever imagined and experience his presence
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And power as never before.
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♪ soon and very soon, we are going to see the king ♪
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♪ soon and very soon, we are going to see the king ♪
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♪ soon and very soon, we are going to see the king ♪
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♪ hallelujah, hallelujah, we're going to see the king ♪
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♪ hallelujah, hallelujah, we're going to see the king ♪
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♪ hallelujah, hallelujah, we're going to see the king ♪♪
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Male announcer: coming up on "turning point."
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Dr. jeremiah: when you get jesus,
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You get the holy spirit.
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The holy spirit comes to live within you.
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So if you're a christian, you have
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The indwelling holy spirit.
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He's living within you right now.
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You may not feel it, you may not know it,
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You may not understand it, but doesn't make any difference.
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It's still true.
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The holy spirit indwells every single believer.
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Announcer: that's coming up today on "turning point."
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Announcer: isn't it time to take the journey
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From knowing about the holy spirit
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To deeply knowing him?
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"the holy spirit you may not know,"
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To experience the presence and power
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Of the holy spirit in your life.
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You may know about the holy spirit
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As the third person of the trinity,
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But do you know him as your helper,
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Your comforter, your counselor, and friend?
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In "the holy spirit you may not know,"
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Dr. jeremiah shows you how the spirit
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Equips you with spiritual gifts, provides guidance
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In your decisions, and empowers you
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To live the dynamic life jesus promised.
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Because you may not know the holy spirit
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As well as you think, but once you do,
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You'll never be the same.
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♪ who breaks the power of sin and darkness? ♪
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♪ whose love is mighty and so much stronger? ♪
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♪ the king of glory, the king above all kings ♪
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♪ who shakes the whole earth with holy thunder? ♪
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♪ who leaves us breathless in awe and wonder? ♪
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♪ the king of glory, the king above all kings ♪
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♪ this is amazing grace ♪
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♪ this is unfailing love ♪
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♪ that you would take my place ♪
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♪ that you would bear my cross ♪
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♪ you laid down your life ♪
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♪ that i would be set free ♪
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♪ oh, jesus, i sing for all that you've done for me ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb who was slain ♪
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♪ worthy is the king who conquered the grave ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb who was slain ♪
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♪ worthy is the king who conquered the grave ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb who was slain ♪
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♪ worthy is the king who conquered the grave ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb who was slain ♪
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♪ worthy is the king ♪
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♪ this is amazing grace ♪
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♪ this is unfailing love ♪
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♪ that you would take my place ♪
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♪ that you would bear my cross ♪
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♪ you laid down your life ♪
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♪ that i would be set free ♪
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♪ oh, jesus, i sing for all that you've done for me ♪
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♪♪♪
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"i raise a hallelujah."
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♪ i raise a hallelujah ♪
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♪ in the presence of my enemies ♪
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♪ i raise a hallelujah ♪
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♪ louder than the unbelief ♪
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♪ i raise a hallelujah ♪
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♪ my weapon is a melody ♪
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♪ i raise a hallelujah ♪
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♪ heaven comes to fight for me ♪
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♪ i'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm ♪
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♪ louder and louder ♪
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♪ you're gonna hear my praises roar ♪
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♪ up from the ashes hope will arise ♪
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♪ death is defeated, the king is alive ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ i have decided to follow jesus ♪
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♪ no turning back, no turning back ♪
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♪ i have decided to follow jesus ♪
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♪ no turning back, no turning back ♪
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♪ the cross before me, the world behind me ♪
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♪ no turning back, no turning back ♪
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♪ the cross before me, the world behind me ♪
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♪ no turning back, no turning back ♪
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♪ i'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm ♪
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♪ louder and louder ♪
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♪ you're gonna hear my praises roar ♪
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♪ up from the ashes hope will arise ♪
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♪ death is defeated, the king is alive ♪
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♪ i raise a hallelujah ♪
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♪ in the presence of my enemies ♪
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♪ i raise a hallelujah ♪
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♪ louder than the unbelief ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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♪♪♪
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♪ i stand amazed in the presence ♪
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♪ of jesus the nazarene ♪
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♪ and wonder how he could love me ♪
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♪ a sinner condemned unclean ♪
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♪ how marvelous, how wonderful ♪
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♪ and my song shall ever be ♪
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♪ how marvelous, how wonderful ♪
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♪ is my savior's love for me ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ when with the ransomed in glory ♪
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♪ his face i at last shall see ♪
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♪ twill be my joy through the ages ♪
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♪ to sing of his love for me ♪
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♪ how marvelous, how wonderful ♪
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♪ and my song shall ever be ♪
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♪ how marvelous, how wonderful ♪
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♪ is my savior's love for me ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ how marvelous, how wonderful ♪
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♪ and my song shall ever be ♪
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♪ how marvelous, how wonderful ♪
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♪ is my savior's love for me ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you and me ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you and me ♪
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♪ he gave his life ♪
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♪ what more could he give? ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves me ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you and me ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you and me ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you and me ♪
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♪ he gave his life ♪
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♪ what more could he give? ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves me ♪
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♪ oh, how he loves you and me ♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ do you feel the world is broken? ♪
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♪ we do ♪
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♪ do you feel the shadows deepen? ♪
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♪ we do ♪
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♪ do you know that all the dark ♪
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♪ won't stop the light from getting through? ♪
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♪ we do ♪
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♪ do you wish then you could see it all made new? ♪
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♪ we do ♪
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♪ is all creation groaning? ♪
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♪ it is ♪
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♪ is a new creation coming? ♪
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♪ it is ♪
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♪ is the glory of the lord ♪
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♪ to be the light within our midst? ♪
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♪ it is ♪
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♪ is it good that we remind ourselves of this? ♪
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♪ it is ♪
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♪ is anyone worthy? ♪
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♪ is anyone whole? ♪
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♪ is anyone able to break the seal ♪
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♪ and open the scroll? ♪
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♪ the lion of judah who conquered the grave ♪
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♪ he is david's root and the lamb who died ♪
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♪ to ransom the slave ♪
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♪ is he worthy, is he worthy of all blessing ♪
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♪ and honor and glory? ♪
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♪ is he worthy of this? ♪
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♪ he is ♪
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♪ does the father truly love us? ♪
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♪ he does ♪
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♪ does the spirit move among us? ♪
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♪ he does ♪
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♪ and does jesus our messiah hold forever those he loves? ♪
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♪ he does ♪
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♪ does our god intend to dwell again with us? ♪
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♪ he does ♪
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♪ is anyone worthy? ♪
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♪ is anyone whole? ♪
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♪ is anyone able to break the seal ♪
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♪ and open the scroll? ♪
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♪ the lion of judah who conquered the grave ♪
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♪ he is david's root and the lamb who died ♪
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♪ to ransom the slave ♪
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♪ from every people and tribe, every nation and tongue ♪
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♪ he has made us a kingdom ♪
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♪ and priests to god to reign with the son ♪
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♪ is he worthy, is he worthy of all blessing ♪
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♪ and honor and glory? ♪
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♪ is he worthy? ♪
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♪ is he worthy? ♪
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♪ is he worthy of this? ♪
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♪ he is ♪
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♪ is he worthy? ♪
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♪ is he worthy? ♪
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♪ he is ♪
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♪ oh, he is ♪
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♪ is he worthy? ♪
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♪ is he worthy? ♪
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Announcer: take the journey from knowing about the holy spirit
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Equips you with spiritual gifts, provides guidance
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And now, here is dr. jeremiah
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With his message "the promise of the spirit."
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Dr. jeremiah: during the darkest days
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Of world war ii, president franklin d. roosevelt
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Had a man who was always with him.
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His name was harry hopkins.
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Hopkins wasn't a general or a politician.
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In fact, he was a sickly, frail,
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Weakened-by-years- of-battling-cancer man,
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But roosevelt trusted him and loved him
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More than anyone else.
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Hopkins even moved into the white house
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So he could be close by, recovering from surgery
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While serving the president.
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For more than three years he lived just down the hall,
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Eating at roosevelt's table, sitting in
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On late-night strategy sessions, sometimes even meeting
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With world leaders in the president's bedroom.
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Churchill nicknamed him lord root of the matter
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Because hopkins had a way of cutting through confusion
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To the heart of an issue.
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Stalin, though suspicious of americans,
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Trusted this man when he promised
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That the united states would stand with the allies
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Until hitler was defeated.
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Roosevelt once said the reason he leaned on hopkins so much
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Was simple.
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He said, "harry is the one man i can count on
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To always tell me the truth and do what needs to be done."
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He also said in a later time
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That he loved this man because he knew
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He was not after anything for himself.
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He was just trying to be a help to the president.
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He was in every sense the president's helper.
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He was unseen by most, unknown by many,
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But indispensable to history.
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And yet, as remarkable as harry hopkins was,
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His help could only go so far.
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You see, his body weakened, his strength gave out,
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And when his life ended, so did his service.
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That's the way it is with every human helper.
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Their support is valuable, but it's always temporary.
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Now, think of another moment in history.
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The night before the cross, jesus sat down
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With his disciples for one final meal.
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He told them he was leaving, and their hearts were troubled.
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They couldn't imagine life without him.
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Who would guide them? who would help them?
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And that's when jesus gave them a promise they never expected.
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He said, john 14:16, "i will pray the father,
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And he will give you another helper,
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That he may abide with you forever."
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For the disciples those words felt like a lifeline.
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Jesus was about to leave, but he promised
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They wouldn't be alone.
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Someone was coming to help them,
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And that someone was god the holy spirit.
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Some people don't know much about him,
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Others misunderstand him.
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The bible tells us the truth.
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The spirit of god is living inside every one of us
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If we're christians.
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The spirit hovered over the waters of creation,
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The spirit gave joseph the wisdom to lead a nation
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Through famine, the spirit,
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The holy spirit gave david the strength
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To face giants and enemies.
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And here's the incredible part.
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That same spirit is alive today, and he's ready to help you.
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When you don't know what to do, he can guide you.
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When worries keep you up at night,
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He can calm you down.
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When life feels too big or too hard,
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He can give you the courage to stand strong
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And move forward.
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To know the holy spirit is to know god himself.
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It is to know his presence and his power in your life.
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So let's get started learning about him.
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First of all, let me tell you about his personality.
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John 14:16-17 says, "and i will pray the father,
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And he will give you another helper,
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That he may abide with you forever,
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And the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
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Because it neither sees him nor knows him;
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But you know him, for he dwells with you
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And will be in you."
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When jesus spoke these words, he wasn't promising a force
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Or some type of vague, spiritual electricity.
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He was promising a person.
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Now, this is where some people
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Get tripped up about the holy spirit.
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They refer to the holy spirit as an it.
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But the holy spirit is not an it, he is god,
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The third person of the trinity.
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Think of it this way.
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Electricity can't love you, gravity can't teach you,
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A magnetic field won't comfort you
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At 2 o'clock in the morning, but the spirit of god
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Does all of that and more.
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Jesus said he would teach us.
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And in the book of acts the holy spirit speaks
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And he makes decisions and prevents people's plans,
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And paul said he can be grieved.
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And you can't hurt electricity's feelings.
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Did you know that?
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The spirit intercedes for us in prayer.
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So the holy spirit is not an it,
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It's not a force like electricity.
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The holy spirit is a person, the third person of the trinity.
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The holy spirit is god.
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And here's the clincher.
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The holy spirit has all of the marks of personality.
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Psychologists tell us that personality is made up
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Of three things, intellect, emotion, and volition or will.
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And the holy spirit has all of those things.
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He searches and knows the deep things of god,
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He has knowledge, he loves,
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He has emotion, and he makes choices
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Like distributing the spiritual gifts
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To his people.
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He has mind, emotion, and will,
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The complete profile of a person.
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So lemme hear you say this in your own mind.
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"the holy spirit is a person."
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Say that. "the holy spirit is a person."
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Jesus said, "i will send you this person."
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And he gave him a name. he called him another helper.
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He wasn't sending an it, he was sending a he,
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Someone who would walk alongside the disciples,
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Just as he did,
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Someone who knows and feels and chooses,
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Someone who could fill the empty seat at the table
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When jesus returned to the father.
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Perhaps you wonder, "why does it matter
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Whether the spirit is a person or a force?"
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Listen to r.a. torrey, who wrote this.
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He said, "if you think of the spirit
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As a power to use, it will lead to pride,
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And you will start to think you're better than others.
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But if you understand that the spirit is god himself,
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Full of majesty and glory,
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Who comes to live in your heart and work in your life,
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It will make you humble.
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Just think of it,
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The god of heaven chooses to live in you."
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What an awesome thought that is.
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Oh, men and women, it makes all the difference
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What you believe about the holy spirit.
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If he is an it, an impersonal influence
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That we learn to harness, then we may boast,
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"i've got it."
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But the truth is far different.
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The holy spirit is the person of god
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Who comes to live in our hearts.
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And when we realize that, pride goes away
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And humility fills our lips,
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And, "god has chosen to live within me."
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I don't know if you know it or not,
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But throughout the ranks of christianity,
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There are some people who believe that if you
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Become a christian, you don't have
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The holy spirit quite yet, you have to have
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The second blessing, and if you don't have
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The holy spirit, they put you down.
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"you don't have that yet? you don't--" listen to me.
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The bible tells us that when you become
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A christian, immediately upon becoming a christian,
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You receive the holy spirit.
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Every christian has the holy spirit.
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And the holy spirit is not an influence.
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The holy spirit is a person who comes to live
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Within your heart.
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Let me talk with you about the priority
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Of the holy spirit.
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Why is the holy spirit important?
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What kind of a person is he?
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Is he simply an angel?
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Is he higher than the angels?
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We've already begun to answer that question,
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But jesus gave us the clearest reply
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In a single word, and that word is another.
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You don't often build a sermon on one word, but i could preach
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A whole sermon on the word another.
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Jesus said, "i will pray the father,
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And he will give you another helper."
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Now, in the greek language, there are only two words
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For the word another.
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One is the word heteros, which means
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Another of a different kind.
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That's where we get the word heterosexual,
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A different kind.
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But the other word is the word allos,
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And that word means another of the very same kind.
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So what jesus said is, "i'm gonna give you
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Another helper of the very same kind that i am.
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This will be another one just like me.
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Someone you can trust in, someone you can know,
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Someone who will live within you."
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What does that mean?
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Jesus was saying, "don't be afraid
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That i'm leaving.
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When i return to the father,
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He's going to send another helper
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Like the one you already have."
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Another one just like jesus, another who is god,
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For jesus is god, another who is a person,
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For jesus is a person.
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Someone has put it this way.
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Another instead of jesus, another like jesus,
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Another beside jesus.
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All three are true.
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The disciples weren't losing jesus.
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They were gaining the spirit.
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Jesus promised his continuing presence,
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But now they would also enjoy the spirit's presence.
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Two instead of one, jesus alongside of you
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And in you and the holy spirit indwelling you.
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It's like what people say at a wedding.
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A father gives away his daughter
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And friends console him, "you're not losing a daughter,
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You're gaining a son-in-law."
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Now, that could depend on the kinda guy she marries,
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But in this case, there's no doubt.
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Jesus was saying, "you're receiving another one
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Just like the one you already have."
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And here's the wonder of it.
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They weren't even losing the one they loved.
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Jesus would still be with them closer than ever,
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Living inside them through the holy spirit.
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The personality of the holy spirit,
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The priority of it.
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What is the purpose of the holy spirit?
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Now, listen to me carefully in these next moments.
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I'm sure you know there's a lot of confusion,
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A lot of discussion,
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A lot of disagreement sometimes even leading to division
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About the holy spirit.
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And the holy spirit can unify churches,
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But if he's misunderstood, he can divide churches.
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You can get into the ones who have him and the ones
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Who don't, and pretty soon you've got
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This conflict going on.
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I know something about that from experiences
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I've had in churches that i've pastored.
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The purpose of the holy spirit is really important.
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There are many ways to answer the question,
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What is he here for, but let me tell you
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What he's here for.
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First of all, to promote jesus christ.
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The holy spirit is here to promote jesus christ.
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The bible tells us that.
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Listen to john 15:26.
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"when the helper comes, whom i shall send to you
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From the father, the spirit of truth
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Who proceeds from the father, he,"
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The holy spirit, said jesus,
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"will testify of me."
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And in chapter 16 we read, "when he, the spirit of truth,
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Has come, he will guide you into all truth;
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For he will not speak of his own authority,
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But whatever he hears he will speak;
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And he will tell you things to come."
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Now, watch this.
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"he will glorify me, for he will take of what is mine
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And declare it to you."
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Do you see it?
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The holy spirit does not glorify himself.
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He glorifies christ.
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The first and foremost purpose of the holy spirit
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Is to lift up the name of jesus.
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That means something very practical.
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And teaching any emphasis that puts the spirit of god
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Ahead of the son of god
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Is not accurate and not from the bible.
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As important as the holy spirit is,
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He never preempts the place of christ.
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On the other hand, wherever christ
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Is magnified, you can be sure
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The holy spirit is at work.
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His task is to make much of jesus.
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This is a word needed in our generation,
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Men and women, because there are groups today
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Who have elevated the spirit
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In such a way that jesus is almost lost.
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To be sure, the spirit is god.
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We do not need to make him god,
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He already is, but his place in the trinity
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Is to glorify jesus christ.
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And when the spirit is doing his work
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In your life, you will not be going around
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Talking primarily about the holy spirit.
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You'll be talking about jesus.
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You will be talking about jesus christ
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Because the spirit comes to lift him up.
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Spirit-filled christians, men and women,
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Are christ-centered christians.
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Like john the baptist who said, "he must increase,
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But i must decrease."
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So the holy spirit comes, first of all,
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To promote jesus christ.
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And the holy spirit did not come
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To promote himself, he came to promote jesus.
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And if you're filled with the spirit of jesus,
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You'll be filled with the spirit itself.
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That's the way that works
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And that's what the bible teaches.
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So he's here to promote jesus christ.
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Secondly, the holy spirit has come to provide strength
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For believers.
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I want you to know that's very special to me,
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Especially during these days.
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I'm sure it's special to some of you
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Even though you may not know what's going on.
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John 14:16 says, "i will pray the father,
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And he will send you another helper."
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How many of you could use another helper?
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I mean, amen.
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We could use a little help, couldn't we?
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Jesus called the holy spirit helper.
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That word has the meaning of someone
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Who comes alongside of you, who walks beside you.
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The word is parakaleo, called alongside of.
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Someone once said the holy spirit
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Is the rod of iron in your back.
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The holy spirit is the one who gives you the backbone
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To do the things you don't have the courage to do.
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How we need that today, how we need that
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In our world today, in our churches today.
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We live in a time of immense pressure,
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And without the spirit's strength,
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We will collapse.
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Think of simon peter.
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He's a great illustration.
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On the night jesus was betrayed,
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Peter denied the lord three times.
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When confronted, he swore, "i don't even know the man,"
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Speaking of jesus.
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What a pitiful picture of cowardice.
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Yet wait 40 days, and that same peter
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Stands before a hostile crowd on the day of pentecost
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And proclaims jesus christ crucified and risen,
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And 3,000 people are converted.
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So you say, "what made the difference
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Between peter on the night before jesus died
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And peter 40 days later?"
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Two things, the resurrection of jesus christ
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And the coming of the holy spirit.
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The holy spirit transformed peter
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From a coward to a courageous preacher.
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The holy spirit was the steel in peter's backbone.
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He was the source of his power.
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And that's what jesus promised.
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He said, "i will send you another helper."
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He is the strength we need to live boldly
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And faithfully in a hostile world.
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How many of you know that if you
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Only ever do the things you think you can do,
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You will never do the things god called you to do?
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I'm sure it would surprise you
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That many times i don't feel like preaching
00:37:48.616 --> 00:37:50.785
To you on sunday.
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I'm tired, maybe i've had a busy week,
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Or i'm not feeling good physically.
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But you know what?
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One of the most wonderful things
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In the world to be a preacher is to stand up here
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And feel weak and know that the holy spirit
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Has filled you with his power.
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Sometimes it's almost like i'm standing over here
00:38:09.570 --> 00:38:11.572
Watching someone else preach
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Because the holy spirit is doing it.
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In 1966, a 22-year-old english woman
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Named jackie pullinger boarded a ship
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With little more than a suitcase and a few dollars and a prayer.
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She had asked god to show her where to get off.
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At every port the ship stopped,
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She felt no peace until the ship docked
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In hong kong.
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There god led her to kowloon walled city,
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A lawless maze of alleys ruled by gangs
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And filled with heroin addicts and street children.
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Jackie moved into a tiny room in that dark city.
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She had no money, no program, and no plan.
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All she had was the holy spirit.
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At first she felt helpless, but when addicts
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Came to her for prayer, she discovered
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Something astonishing.
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Many of them who got prayed for were delivered
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From heroin without withdrawal pain.
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Doctors couldn't explain it.
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Jackie simply said, "i discovered the holy spirit
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Is stronger than heroin.
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I just show up and he brings life."
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Her ministry became known as st. stephen's society.
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It has since helped thousands of people recover
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From drug addiction.
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Former gang members have become pastors,
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Addicts free, and broken lives became whole.
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We may never walk into a walled city of crime
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And addiction as jackie did, but all of us know
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What it's like to feel powerless,
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And it is in those very moments that the holy spirit
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Comes alongside us to help us and to strengthen us
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And to enable us to do what we could never do
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If he weren't active.
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The bible says, "you shall receive power
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After the holy spirit has come upon you."
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The bible says, "i pray that from his glorious,
00:39:59.613 --> 00:40:02.850
Unlimited resources, he will empower you
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With inner strength through his spirit."
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The bible says, "god has not given us
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A spirit of fear, but of power and of love
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And of a sound mind."
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Ladies and gentlemen, one of the purposes
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Of the holy spirit is to give you
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The strength you don't have without him.
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He gives you the power, the courage to do things
00:40:21.535 --> 00:40:24.438
You would never do on your own.
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He comes to promote jesus christ,
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He comes to provide strength for christian living.
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Here's the third thing.
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The holy spirit comes to point us to the truth.
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Jesus said this about the holy spirit
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In john 14:26.
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"but the helper, the holy spirit,
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Whom the father will send in my name,
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He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
00:40:45.659 --> 00:40:51.332
All things that i said to you."
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And two chapters later, jesus said,
00:40:55.669 --> 00:40:57.605
"i still have many things to say to you,
00:40:57.605 --> 00:41:00.107
But you cannot bear them now.
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However, when he, the spirit of truth,
00:41:01.642 --> 00:41:04.111
Has come, he will guide you into all truth."
00:41:04.111 --> 00:41:09.183
You know, truth is almost lost in our world today, is it not?
00:41:09.183 --> 00:41:12.887
You wonder if anybody really even knows
00:41:12.887 --> 00:41:14.622
What the meaning of it is.
00:41:14.622 --> 00:41:16.824
People talk about their truth.
00:41:16.824 --> 00:41:18.158
It's just another way of describing
00:41:18.158 --> 00:41:20.661
Their deception and lies.
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But the bible says there is truth, and jesus christ
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Is the truth.
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And sometimes as we look at what's going on in life,
00:41:26.634 --> 00:41:28.903
We need someone to help us understand
00:41:28.903 --> 00:41:30.771
The truth, what is true.
00:41:30.771 --> 00:41:33.440
In john 14:26, jesus explained
00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:36.010
That the spirit would be the disciples's helper
00:41:36.010 --> 00:41:38.746
And that he would teach them
00:41:38.746 --> 00:41:40.381
Everything they needed to know and even bring back
00:41:40.381 --> 00:41:43.150
To their mind the words he had already spoken.
00:41:43.150 --> 00:41:47.254
In john 16, jesus said there was more truth
00:41:47.254 --> 00:41:49.990
Waiting for them, but they weren't ready for it yet.
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He said he would handle that too.
00:41:52.927 --> 00:41:54.495
When the time came, he would give them the truth
00:41:54.495 --> 00:41:56.630
That they needed at that moment.
00:41:56.630 --> 00:41:58.766
So let me just tell you this.
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The same spirit still teaches us today,
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Reminding us of god's word when we need it most
00:42:03.404 --> 00:42:05.773
And leading us into deeper understanding
00:42:05.773 --> 00:42:07.875
As we grow.
00:42:07.875 --> 00:42:09.276
If you've ever memorized any verses,
00:42:09.276 --> 00:42:11.278
If you have a little hard drive full of verses
00:42:11.278 --> 00:42:14.281
Back here somewhere, you know that sometimes
00:42:14.281 --> 00:42:17.117
When you're in a situation, that verse
00:42:17.117 --> 00:42:18.485
Will pop into your mind.
00:42:18.485 --> 00:42:19.820
Who does that? the holy spirit does that.
00:42:19.820 --> 00:42:22.122
The holy spirit brings to your memory
00:42:22.122 --> 00:42:24.024
The things jesus has already said, so you have
00:42:24.024 --> 00:42:26.260
That verse when you need it the most.
00:42:26.260 --> 00:42:28.462
And, you know, sometimes what i've discovered is,
00:42:28.462 --> 00:42:30.698
And i don't know if this happens to you,
00:42:30.698 --> 00:42:32.333
These are verses i haven't even reviewed in a long time.
00:42:32.333 --> 00:42:35.269
And if you told me, "could you say that verse
00:42:35.269 --> 00:42:36.904
And do it perfectly," i couldn't,
00:42:36.904 --> 00:42:38.238
But the holy spirit can.
00:42:38.238 --> 00:42:39.707
And he brings that verse back to your mind
00:42:39.707 --> 00:42:41.241
So when you're in the midst of a situation,
00:42:41.241 --> 00:42:42.977
You know exactly what it is you should say
00:42:42.977 --> 00:42:45.512
Because the spirit of truth is working in your heart.
00:42:45.512 --> 00:42:49.650
The holy spirit comes to promote jesus christ.
00:42:49.650 --> 00:42:53.220
The holy spirit comes to provide strength
00:42:53.220 --> 00:42:55.289
For your life.
00:42:55.289 --> 00:42:56.657
The holy spirit comes to point you to the truth.
00:42:56.657 --> 00:42:59.126
And here's the one that i love maybe the most.
00:42:59.126 --> 00:43:02.262
The holy spirit comes to pray for us.
00:43:02.262 --> 00:43:06.533
The holy spirit prays for us.
00:43:06.533 --> 00:43:08.836
Listen to this.
00:43:08.836 --> 00:43:10.337
Did you know that you have two prayer partners?
00:43:10.337 --> 00:43:13.374
One is in heaven, the lord jesus christ,
00:43:13.374 --> 00:43:15.542
Who ever lives to make intercession for you
00:43:15.542 --> 00:43:17.277
At the right hand of the father,
00:43:17.277 --> 00:43:19.413
And the other lives within you, the holy spirit.
00:43:19.413 --> 00:43:23.584
Romans 8:26-27 says, "likewise the spirit
00:43:23.584 --> 00:43:28.155
Also helps in our weakness.
00:43:28.155 --> 00:43:30.691
For we do not know what we should pray for
00:43:30.691 --> 00:43:32.493
As we ought, but the spirit himself
00:43:32.493 --> 00:43:35.162
Makes intercession for us
00:43:35.162 --> 00:43:37.731
With groanings which cannot be uttered.
00:43:37.731 --> 00:43:39.967
Now he who searches the heart knows what the mind
00:43:39.967 --> 00:43:42.369
Of the spirit is, because he makes intercession
00:43:42.369 --> 00:43:45.072
For the saints according to the will of god."
00:43:45.072 --> 00:43:47.941
Paul says--listen to this.
00:43:47.941 --> 00:43:49.810
Paul says that the spirit of god prays for us
00:43:49.810 --> 00:43:52.479
When we don't know how to pray.
00:43:52.479 --> 00:43:53.814
Have you ever been in a situation
00:43:53.814 --> 00:43:55.149
Where you didn't know how to pray?
00:43:55.149 --> 00:43:56.817
You tried to pray, the words wouldn't come.
00:43:56.817 --> 00:43:58.719
You couldn't put your thoughts together.
00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:00.120
It was such a deep problem, you didn't even know
00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:01.922
How to address it.
00:44:01.922 --> 00:44:04.124
That's something we can all picture,
00:44:04.124 --> 00:44:05.993
Something we've all experienced.
00:44:05.993 --> 00:44:07.561
It's like the little boy who knelt by his bed
00:44:07.561 --> 00:44:09.563
And he folded his hands and whispered, "god,
00:44:09.563 --> 00:44:12.266
A, b, c, d, e, f, g," all the way to z.
00:44:12.266 --> 00:44:15.569
And his mother smiled and asked what he was doing.
00:44:15.569 --> 00:44:17.805
He said, "i don't know what to pray,
00:44:17.805 --> 00:44:19.506
So i just gave god all the letters,
00:44:19.506 --> 00:44:22.176
And he can put them together any way he wants."
00:44:22.176 --> 00:44:26.647
There are times when praying feels almost impossible.
00:44:26.647 --> 00:44:30.517
Life can get so stressful or painful that we
00:44:30.517 --> 00:44:32.853
Don't even know what to say to god.
00:44:32.853 --> 00:44:35.989
I remember one time years ago when i was going through cancer.
00:44:35.989 --> 00:44:40.427
I was going to the hospital, and they
00:44:40.427 --> 00:44:41.762
Were gonna do a biopsy of my spleen.
00:44:41.762 --> 00:44:46.266
And when they told me how they were gonna do that,
00:44:46.266 --> 00:44:49.503
I didn't wanna do it.
00:44:49.503 --> 00:44:51.972
And we were in the operating room
00:44:51.972 --> 00:44:54.842
Where they were getting ready to do it
00:44:54.842 --> 00:44:56.176
And the doctor said something about, "do you wanna pray?"
00:44:56.176 --> 00:45:01.515
And i couldn't pray.
00:45:01.515 --> 00:45:04.051
Donna was there and she prayed great,
00:45:04.051 --> 00:45:06.854
But i couldn't pray, but i knew
00:45:06.854 --> 00:45:08.422
That the spirit of god was in that moment,
00:45:08.422 --> 00:45:10.591
That he was helping me.
00:45:10.591 --> 00:45:11.925
When you can't even put your words together,
00:45:11.925 --> 00:45:13.660
The holy spirit is there.
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And the bible says he makes intercession for you
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With groanings that cannot be uttered.
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Oh, what a precious thing that is.
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Someone has said, in prayer, it's better to have a heart
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Without words than it is to have words without a heart.
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And when the heart cannot find words,
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The holy spirit makes intercession
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With groanings too deep for words.
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Have you ever felt so sad or mixed up inside
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That you couldn't find the right words?
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Maybe you just didn't know what to say.
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You sighed, you groaned, you whispered jesus's name.
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Paul says in those moments, the holy spirit
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Take what's in your heart, even if it's just a sigh,
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And he brings it to god.
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He understands what's going on inside you
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Better than you understand yourself.
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It's like when you ask a friend to pray for you,
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But you can't really explain what's wrong.
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The amazing thing is you don't have to explain
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Anything to the holy spirit.
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He already knows your worries
00:46:13.787 --> 00:46:15.155
And your struggles, and he carries them
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Straight to god's throne.
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The spirit takes those wordless longings
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And he shapes them and he lays them
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Before the father through the intercession
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Of christ.
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No wonder god answers prayer.
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Prayer is the combined work of the holy spirit within us,
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The son beside the father,
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And the father receiving their request.
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Did you know when you pray, the entire trinity
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Gets involved?
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It's no wonder god answers prayer.
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So the personality of the holy spirit,
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The priority of the holy spirit, the purpose of the holy spirit.
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And let me talk with you for just a moment
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About the permanency of the holy spirit.
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In the old testament, the holy spirit's ministry
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Was much different than it is today.
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In the old testament, the holy spirit
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Would come upon people for certain occasions.
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He came upon samson for feats of strength,
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The holy spirit came upon gideon for leadership,
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The holy spirit came upon the prophets
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For their ministry, but his presence
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Was just temporary.
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He came and went according to the purposes
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Of god.
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But notice carefully what jesus said
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About the holy spirit now.
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"and i will pray the father, and he will give you
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Another helper, that he may abide with you,"
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For how long, "forever, the spirit of truth
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Whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him
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Nor knows him; but you know him."
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Now, here is a phrase that tells you the difference
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Between the old testament and the new testament.
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In the old testament, he is with you.
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In the new testament, he is in you.
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Aren't you glad you live in the new testament days?
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We don't live in the old testament.
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The bible says that when you become a christian,
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You are baptized in the holy spirit.
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The holy spirit becomes your possession.
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And in fact, the scripture actually says
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If you don't have the spirit, you can't be a christian.
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You don't have to wait for the holy spirit,
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You don't have to have some ecstatic experience
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And then you get the holy spirit.
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When you get jesus, you get the holy spirit.
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The holy spirit comes to live within you.
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So if you're a christian, you have
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The indwelling holy spirit.
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He's living within you right now.
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You may not feel it, you may not know it,
00:48:24.217 --> 00:48:26.520
You may not understand it, but doesn't make any difference.
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It's still true.
00:48:28.989 --> 00:48:30.324
The holy spirit indwells every single believer.
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I met a man once who told me
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That he'd been away from god for 16 years.
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He'd come to christ as a boy, but he'd wandered so far.
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That night he returned in repentance.
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Sixteen years of rebellion had not driven
00:48:45.205 --> 00:48:48.008
The holy spirit away.
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The spirit had been resident all along,
00:48:50.344 --> 00:48:52.412
Convicting him, drawing him until he came back.
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That's the difference between having the spirit
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As a resident, having the spirit as the president.
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He may live in your life, but he longs to reign
00:49:03.724 --> 00:49:06.093
In your life.
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And joy comes not just from having the holy spirit
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Within you, joy comes when the holy spirit within you
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Is sitting on the throne of your life
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And he's running the show.
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And you're not doing this on your own,
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But you're asking god to help you.
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Perhaps that is why some of you are miserable.
00:49:21.742 --> 00:49:24.811
You know christ and the spirit is in you,
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But you have pushed him to the side and taken charge
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Of everything yourself.
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The conviction you feel even now is the spirit's way
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.389
Of reminding you that you will never know peace
00:49:35.389 --> 00:49:38.392
Until the holy spirit is the president of your life.
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Don't just accept him as the resident,
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Anoint him as the president.
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Do what he says.
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Tell him that you want to be under his authority
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And do what he tells you to do.
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The bible says god's spirit will not always strive with man.
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That means that when the holy spirit
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Is speaking to you, don't take it for granted
00:50:01.314 --> 00:50:04.217
Because he may not speak to you again
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In such a way.
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I think of that often when we come to the end
00:50:06.887 --> 00:50:08.455
Of a service and i ask you to give your heart to christ.
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Some of you say, "well, i think i won't do that today.
00:50:12.092 --> 00:50:13.860
Maybe i'll do it next time."
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You don't even know if you're gonna have
00:50:15.295 --> 00:50:16.630
A next time, but one thing you
00:50:16.630 --> 00:50:17.964
Can't be sure of, will the holy spirit
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Still be striving within your heart then
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As he is today?
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Years ago in europe, a young man and woman
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Were walking together along the banks of a wide river
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And their conversation turned to a friend they both admired.
00:50:31.378 --> 00:50:35.515
"mary has such a radiant personality,"
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The young man remarked.
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His companion smiled. "she really does.
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But what do you think makes her that way?"
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They walked in silence for a moment,
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And then the path opened to a clearing with a clear view
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Across the water.
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On the opposite bank stood an ancient stone castle,
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Its towers rising against the sky,
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And the young man pointed.
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He said, "when i was a boy, i loved to sit here
00:50:58.305 --> 00:51:00.740
In the evening and watch that castle,
00:51:00.740 --> 00:51:02.943
And you could always tell what was happening inside
00:51:02.943 --> 00:51:05.078
By the lights in the window.
00:51:05.078 --> 00:51:07.414
If only a few people were home,
00:51:07.414 --> 00:51:09.316
Just a dim glow showed, but when guests arrived,
00:51:09.316 --> 00:51:12.319
The place came alive with brightness.
00:51:12.319 --> 00:51:14.821
I'll never forget the night a member of the royal family
00:51:14.821 --> 00:51:17.390
Visited.
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Every single window blazed with light
00:51:18.725 --> 00:51:20.794
And the castle seemed to shine from within.
00:51:20.794 --> 00:51:23.163
It was unforgettable."
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He paused and then he said, "that's how i explain
00:51:25.699 --> 00:51:29.503
Mary's radiance.
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She's entertaining a royal guest.
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She's got the holy spirit within her shining through her."
00:51:34.541 --> 00:51:38.211
So it is when the holy spirit lives in us.
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He fills every room of our heart with light.
00:51:40.780 --> 00:51:43.683
And when others see on the outside,
00:51:43.683 --> 00:51:45.252
It's simply the glow of his presence.
00:51:45.252 --> 00:51:48.155
There's an old french film called "jean de florette."
00:51:48.155 --> 00:51:51.958
Takes place in the hills of provence
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After the first world war.
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:56.363
A man named jean, a city tax collector
00:51:56.363 --> 00:51:58.765
Inherits a small farm, and he moves there
00:51:58.765 --> 00:52:01.401
With his wife and his little daughter.
00:52:01.401 --> 00:52:04.371
He's full of dreams and he's convinced
00:52:04.371 --> 00:52:06.273
That with enough effort he can make
00:52:06.273 --> 00:52:07.807
The rocky land flourish, but there's one big problem.
00:52:07.807 --> 00:52:12.846
There's no water.
00:52:12.846 --> 00:52:14.981
The ground is dry.
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Jean doesn't realize that a strong hidden spring
00:52:16.383 --> 00:52:19.119
Is right beneath the property.
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:21.321
So instead, day and night, he straps barrels
00:52:21.321 --> 00:52:24.424
To his donkey and trudges to fetch water
00:52:24.424 --> 00:52:26.526
From a distant source.
00:52:26.526 --> 00:52:28.495
Heat is brutal, work never ends,
00:52:28.495 --> 00:52:31.131
And he wears himself out trying to survive.
00:52:31.131 --> 00:52:34.935
Sadly, jean never discovers the spring.
00:52:34.935 --> 00:52:38.004
His health breaks down from the constant strain
00:52:38.004 --> 00:52:40.340
And he dies without ever tapping into the water
00:52:40.340 --> 00:52:43.743
That was already his, and you know what?
00:52:43.743 --> 00:52:46.012
That's a picture of a lot of us.
00:52:46.012 --> 00:52:49.149
We exhaust ourselves trying to find help
00:52:49.149 --> 00:52:51.518
Somewhere out there.
00:52:51.518 --> 00:52:54.221
We're running around from one specialist to another,
00:52:54.221 --> 00:52:56.656
Reading one email, one internet post,
00:52:56.656 --> 00:53:00.594
Trying to find the answers to our problems,
00:53:00.594 --> 00:53:02.762
When all the while the spirit of god
00:53:02.762 --> 00:53:04.497
Is right here living inside of us.
00:53:04.497 --> 00:53:07.334
Jesus called him rivers of living water.
00:53:07.334 --> 00:53:11.004
He is our inexhaustible supply.
00:53:11.004 --> 00:53:13.306
And the question is, are we gonna wear ourselves out
00:53:13.306 --> 00:53:16.276
Like jean or are we gonna draw
00:53:16.276 --> 00:53:17.978
From the spirit who's already in us?
00:53:17.978 --> 00:53:20.647
So many christians i know try to do the lord's work
00:53:20.647 --> 00:53:24.451
In the energy of the flesh.
00:53:24.451 --> 00:53:27.053
How impossible that is.
00:53:27.053 --> 00:53:28.788
The lord's work can't be done in the energy of the flesh
00:53:28.788 --> 00:53:31.524
Because the lord's work is way too big and too hard
00:53:31.524 --> 00:53:35.795
And too difficult.
00:53:35.795 --> 00:53:37.931
You need the spirit of god within you
00:53:37.931 --> 00:53:39.599
To do the work of god, to live the life of god.
00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:42.969
And my question to you is, have you ever
00:53:42.969 --> 00:53:47.007
Come to the realization that within you is
00:53:47.007 --> 00:53:51.211
That power, the power of the holy spirit?
00:53:51.211 --> 00:53:54.781
If you're a christian, if you have put your trust
00:53:54.781 --> 00:53:57.517
In jesus christ, i'm making an announcement today
00:53:57.517 --> 00:54:00.520
That may surprise some of you.
00:54:00.520 --> 00:54:02.422
You already have the holy spirit living within you.
00:54:02.422 --> 00:54:05.859
You don't have to get him, you don't have to go
00:54:05.859 --> 00:54:07.894
To a conference and try to find the holy spirit.
00:54:07.894 --> 00:54:10.463
The holy spirit lives within you.
00:54:10.463 --> 00:54:12.065
The bible says if there is no holy spirit
00:54:12.065 --> 00:54:14.000
Within you, you're not a christian.
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.803
So now that you have the holy spirit,
00:54:16.803 --> 00:54:18.371
What are you gonna do about it?
00:54:18.371 --> 00:54:20.607
I don't know about the rest of you,
00:54:20.607 --> 00:54:22.375
I find a great need for this in my life right now,
00:54:22.375 --> 00:54:26.946
And i know that god has promised to meet that need
00:54:26.946 --> 00:54:30.750
Through the person of the holy spirit.
00:54:30.750 --> 00:54:33.353
Here's the other thing you need to understand.
00:54:33.353 --> 00:54:34.888
If you don't have jesus, you don't have the holy spirit.
00:54:34.888 --> 00:54:38.291
If you're not a christian, you just can't put any of this
00:54:38.291 --> 00:54:42.162
Into operation because you have to have jesus
00:54:42.162 --> 00:54:45.332
To have the holy spirit.
00:54:45.332 --> 00:54:47.400
When you come to a saving knowledge
00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:48.968
Of jesus christ, the holy spirit comes to live within you.
00:54:48.968 --> 00:54:52.138
So if you're interested in all the things
00:54:52.138 --> 00:54:53.506
We've talked about, the first thing you need to do
00:54:53.506 --> 00:54:54.941
Is this.
00:54:54.941 --> 00:54:56.276
Put your trust in jesus christ as your savior.
00:54:56.276 --> 00:54:59.512
Don't wait any longer, do it now.
00:54:59.512 --> 00:55:01.781
You have no idea what you're missing
00:55:01.781 --> 00:55:03.983
By holding out on jesus.
00:55:03.983 --> 00:55:06.720
He's come to give you everything:
00:55:06.720 --> 00:55:08.288
Eternal life, and not just that, but spiritual power
00:55:08.288 --> 00:55:12.859
If you just trust him.
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David Jeremiah - The Promise of the Spirit

May 23, 2026 | 57:29

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