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Walking by Faith | The Test | August 13, 2021
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- female: Thanks for watching today.
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- I pray that the message you're about to hear will empower you
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- to use your voice, help change the way you think, and refresh
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- your spirit.
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- find them on the "On Demand" page of WalkingByFaith.tv or on
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- our app.
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- The Holy Spirit is one of our biggest reinforcements to
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- resisting the enemy.
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- When we're filled with the Spirit, he'll lead us in the
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- right direction.
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- He's always got our back.
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- In today's message, "The Test," Pastor Duane will be showing us
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- the benefits of having the Holy Spirit on our side.
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- Let's jump right in.
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- Duane Vander Klok: Now, in Galatians chapter 3 verse 13, it
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- says, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
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- become a curse for us.
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- For it's written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.'"
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- Verse 14, "That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the
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- Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of
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- the Spirit through faith."
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- If you have a Bible, you should underline "Blessing of Abraham,"
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- and "The promise of the Spirit," and then "Through faith."
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- If we go back and look all the way back to Genesis to find what
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- happened to Abraham in Genesis 12, God calls Abraham to the
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- Promised Land, to a different life, to literally to walk with
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- God and to walk by faith.
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- Part of the promise is that he's going to have descendants, and
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- they're gonna possess the land of Canaan.
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- Well, years pass, and somehow he's not having any children.
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- And so he says in Genesis 15, "God, how can I know for sure
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- that this is going to happen?"
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- Well, God said to him, he said to take some animals and cut
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- them in half and put them on altars.
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- Well, when Abraham heard that, there was something that came
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- into his mind immediately.
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- He knew what God was gonna do.
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- Exactly what happened is found in Galatians chapter 3. It says,
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- "And to Abraham, and to his seed," singular, "Were the
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- promises made."
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- Not too many, as seed, but one seed.
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- And then it tells us his seed who is Christ.
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- So literally, God the Father and God the Son show up and walk
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- through the pieces and make promises to each other.
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- Now, here's what's gonna happen.
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- As they're walking through the pieces, God makes a promise, and
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- one of the promises that God makes is that he is going to
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- give his Son to pay for our sin.
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- So, because God's going to give his Son, Abraham needs to be
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- willing to give his son.
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- Now, God didn't just test Abraham, he tests every one
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- of us.
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- And there's a number of ways that God tests us.
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- One of the ways God tests us is to simply see if we're faithful
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- in the secret.
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- It's one thing to live a certain way when everybody's watching,
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- it's something else to live that way in secret.
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- Jesus talked about going to the secret place.
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- Then he tests us in small things.
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- You see, in Luke chapter 16, he says if you're faithful in
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- little, you'll also be faithful in much.
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- But if you're unfaithful in little, you will be unfaithful
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- in much.
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- And then, this one shocks people.
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- But according to Jesus, one of the ways God tests us is how we
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- handle money.
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- Jesus said if you haven't been faithful with unrighteous
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- mammon, with money, who will commit to your trust
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- true riches?
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- If we aren't faithful with money, God's not gonna commit to
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- us spiritual things, the true riches.
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- He says you gotta be faithful with money.
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- And then it says another person's.
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- In the 12th verse, Jesus said, "And if you haven't been
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- faithful in which is another man's, who will give you what's
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- your own?"
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- So, we've got to be faithful in working for somebody else.
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- And when we show ourselves faithful, then God will
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- promote us.
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- So, Abraham takes his son up on the mountain, you know the
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- story, Mount Moriah, he's ready to kill his son, God stops him
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- and says now I know.
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- Now I know you are willing.
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- You were willing.
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- God didn't want his son, he just wanted him to be willing to give
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- his son, because God was going to give his Son for your and
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- my sin.
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- Well, promises were made.
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- One of the promises in the New Testament is referred to as the
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- promise of the Father, but we'll get there in just a moment.
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- Matthew chapter 3 and verse 11, John the Baptist says, "I indeed
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- baptize with water unto repentance, but he who is coming
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- after me is mightier than I whose sandal I'm not worthy
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- to carry.
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- He, Jesus, will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire."
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- The baptism in the Holy Spirit is not something somebody
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- invented 120 years ago.
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- The baptism in the Holy Spirit is something the Bible talks
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- about in the New Testament.
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- In fact, it traces its roots all the way back to the promise that
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- God gave to Abraham.
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- Now, so often what we do is today, we think, you know, if I
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- had been around in Jesus's time, I would have received
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- Jesus's ministry.
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- But when you look, the religious people of Jesus's day, the
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- majority of them did not receive his ministry.
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- Today, Jesus is still ministering.
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- In fact, if you look in the New Testament, Jesus's present-day
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- ministry has three parts.
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- First of all, the Bible says he ever lives to make intercession
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- for us, part one.
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- Hebrews 3 verse 1 says he is the high priest of our confession,
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- part two.
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- And John the Baptist said he, Jesus, will baptize you with the
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- Holy Spirit.
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- You see, Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit.
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- It is part of Jesus's present-day ministry.
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- And for us to think I would have received Jesus's ministry if I
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- had been in Galilee 2.000 years ago, but we won't receive his
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- ministry today, is really foolishness.
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- Now, every believer, every believer has the Holy Spirit.
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- When we receive Jesus, instantly the Holy Spirit comes on the
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- inside of us and makes us new, makes us part of the family of
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- God, puts us into the kingdom of God.
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- Jesus, with his disciples, after he arose from the dead, in John
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- chapter 20, it says when he was with them, he talks about
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- forgiveness of sins, and then he breathed on them, verse 22, and
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- said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit."
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- So, Jesus is breathing on the disciples, and said, "Receive
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- the Holy Spirit."
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- How many of you believed they received?
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- I do too.
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- They received the Holy Spirit.
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- But later, in Acts chapter 1, he's been talking to them now
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- for 40 days about things pertaining to the kingdom of
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- God, and it says, "And being assembled together with them, he
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- commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for
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- the promise of the Father."
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- Remember Galatians 3:14?
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- The promise of the Spirit.
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- The promise of the Father.
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- It's part of the blessing of Abraham.
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- It goes way back to Genesis chapter 15 when God and Jesus,
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- the Father and the Son, walk through the parts in blood, and
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- made promises to each other.
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- It says, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the
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- promise of the Father which you've heard from me.
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- For John truly baptized with water, but you will be baptized
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- with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
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- Now, Jesus had already breathed on them.
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- They had received the Holy Spirit.
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- But Jesus still tells them you need to stay in Jerusalem until
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- the promise of the Father, the baptism of the Holy
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- Spirit, comes.
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- And then verse--well, we could just jump down to verse 8 for
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- time's sake.
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- And Jesus said, "But you shall receive power."
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- The Greek is dunamis.
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- We get our word dynamite from it.
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- "You'll receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
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- and you shall be witnesses unto me,
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- both in Jerusalem, Samaria--" excuse me--
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- "Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,
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- and unto the uttermost parts of the earth."
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- Now, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is referred to in the New
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- Testament as the promise of the Father, as the outpouring of the
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- Spirit, being baptized, being given, having received the Holy
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- Spirit coming upon them.
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- They are all terms that refer to the exact same experience.
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- So, Jesus tells them you need to wait in Jerusalem.
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- He said this is not really optional.
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- If you want to have power, if you want to move in the kingdom
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- of God, he said this is something that is not optional
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- for you.
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- This is something that you absolutely need to have.
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- So, the day of Pentecost comes.
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- He told them they needed to wait, found in Acts chapter 2
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- and verse 1. "When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they
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- were all in one accord in one place, and suddenly, there came
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- a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it
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- filled the whole house where they were sitting.
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- And there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire sat
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- upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
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- and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave
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- them utterance."
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- So, what I would like to do in the next maybe 20 minutes is
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- talk about whether the baptism in the Holy Spirit is, I would
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- say it this way, simultaneous or part of salvation, or whether
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- it's a separate event, and does what happened on the day of
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- Pentecost, that promise, is it still for us today?
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- In fact, in Acts chapter 2 the people say, "What do we need
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- to do?"
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- And Peter said, "Let every one of you be baptized in the name
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- of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sin, and you will
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- receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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- For the promise is to you and to your children and to as many as
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- are afar off, as many as the Lord your God shall call."
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- The promise of the Holy Spirit, the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
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- is not just for first century, it's for their children and to
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- as many as are afar off.
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- It's been about 2.000 years.
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- How many know we're afar off?
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- But that promise is for us today.
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- Notice, he said be baptized and receive the gift of the
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- Holy Spirit.
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- That is the normal pattern.
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- Even if we're looking--he told them you be baptized, and you
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- receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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- Now, in the New Testament, you'll find that's the pattern.
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- If you look at Jesus, he's baptized in water, the Holy
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- Spirit descends upon him.
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- If you go to the Old Testament, they're goin' through the
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- Red Sea.
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- The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 that they
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- were baptized unto Moses in the water, in the sea, and under
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- the cloud.
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- Now, by the way, the cloud they passed all night was a pillar
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- of fire.
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- The sea represents water baptism, the cloud represents
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- Spirit baptism.
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- So, persecution arises in Jerusalem, and the disciples
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- began to go, and one of the deacons by the name of Philip,
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- goes down to the city of Samaria.
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- And it says, "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and
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- he preached Christ to them.
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- And the multitude with one accord hearing the things spoken
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- by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did for
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- unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many
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- who were possessed.
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- Many who were paralyzed and lame were healed, and there was great
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- joy in that city."
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- Verse 12, "But when they believed Philip's preaching, the
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- things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus
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- Christ, both men and women were baptized."
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- So, they believed what Phillip taught about the kingdom of God
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- and the name of Jesus, and they were water baptized.
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- The Bible says he who believes and is baptized will be saved.
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- Can we all agree they're saved?
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- Alright, verse 14, "Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem
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- heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent unto
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- them Peter and John, who when they were come down, prayed for
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- them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet
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- fallen upon, King James, none or any of them, only they'd been
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- baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus."
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- So, they had believed, they were water baptized, but the Holy
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- Spirit had fallen upon how many?
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- Zero, naught, neither, not one.
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- But they were saved, they were water baptized, they believed.
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- Jesus said he who is baptized and believes will be saved.
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- They're saved, but yet the Holy Spirit has not yet fallen
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- upon them.
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- Now, listen, they're saved, so the Holy Spirit is on
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- the inside.
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- He's in them.
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- When we received Jesus, he comes and lives on the inside of us,
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- but there is something else.
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- There is an enduement of power to be a witness.
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- Literally, when you become saved, the Holy Spirit comes on
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- the inside, and it's about your personal life.
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- It's to empower you for your life.
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- But Jesus said you'll receive dunamis that you can become
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- a witness.
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- It's not about you personally, it's about having power in your
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- life spiritually to be a witness for Jesus.
- 00:14:41.729 --> 00:14:45.833
- "When they were come down, they prayed for them that they might
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- receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen upon any of
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- them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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- When they laid their hands on them, they received the
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- Holy Spirit."
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- Then in Acts 19 verse 1, it says, "And it came to pass while
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- Apollus was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the
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- upper coasts, came to Ephesus, and finding some disciples, and
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- he said to them, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since
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- you believed.'"
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- Now, that's a good question.
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- Not have you received the Holy Spirit.
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- When you receive, believe, because everybody did,
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- that's automatic.
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- He comes and he's living on the inside of us.
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- But this is not an inside deal.
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- This is an enduement from power--of power.
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- He said he will come upon you.
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- He says have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?
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- If It was automatic, Paul would've never asked
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- that question.
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- If every Christian had received the enduement of power, the
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- baptism in the Holy Spirit, it was a question that would have
- 00:15:48.930 --> 00:15:51.099
- made no sense.
- 00:15:51.099 --> 00:15:52.500
- "And they said unto him, 'We have not so much as heard that
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- there is even a Holy Spirit.'"
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- You know, I thought when I read that, I thought well, they went
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- to my church when I grew up.
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- Because in the church that I grew up in, we didn't know
- 00:16:03.444 --> 00:16:05.780
- anything about the Holy Spirit.
- 00:16:05.780 --> 00:16:08.149
- The only time he was ever mentioned is if we repeated the
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- Apostle's Creed.
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- But other than that, you didn't even know there was a
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- holy Spirit.
- 00:16:14.622 --> 00:16:16.691
- So, Paul said, "John indeed baptized with a baptism of
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- repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him
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- who would come after him that is on Christ Jesus.
- 00:16:22.263 --> 00:16:26.234
- When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the
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- Lord Jesus."
- 00:16:28.336 --> 00:16:29.771
- So again, they believe, and they're baptized, and when Paul
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- had laid his hands on them, and when Paul laid his hands
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- on them.
- 00:16:38.146 --> 00:16:39.514
- Not when they believed, not automatically, "But when Paul
- 00:16:39.514 --> 00:16:42.383
- laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and
- 00:16:42.383 --> 00:16:46.354
- they spoke with tongues and prophesied."
- 00:16:46.354 --> 00:16:51.859
- Somebody will undoubtedly ask, "Well, what about that whole
- 00:16:51.859 --> 00:16:54.962
- tongues business?"
- 00:16:54.962 --> 00:16:59.534
- I know for some people, it's a problem, it shouldn't be.
- 00:16:59.534 --> 00:17:03.037
- It shouldn't be.
- 00:17:03.037 --> 00:17:04.505
- Somebody says, "Do I have to?"
- 00:17:04.505 --> 00:17:05.940
- No, you do not have to speak in tongues.
- 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:08.109
- A lot of people think the Holy Ghost speaks with tongues.
- 00:17:08.109 --> 00:17:10.311
- No, he doesn't, he enables you to, but you're the one who's
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- gonna do the speaking.
- 00:17:15.183 --> 00:17:16.751
- And if you don't speak, there's not gonna be any manifestation
- 00:17:16.751 --> 00:17:23.524
- of tongues, unless you and I begin to speak with
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- other tongues.
- 00:17:26.961 --> 00:17:28.296
- Listen, anytime there's anything that's supernatural, anything,
- 00:17:28.296 --> 00:17:31.766
- there's two parts.
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- There's a human part, and there's a divine part.
- 00:17:33.601 --> 00:17:36.838
- Let me give you an example.
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- Jesus said lay hands on the sick and they'll recover.
- 00:17:39.173 --> 00:17:43.611
- You lay hands on the sick, that's natural, God caused them
- 00:17:43.611 --> 00:17:46.981
- to recover, that's supernatural.
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- Jesus is walking on the water.
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- He says to Peter, "Come," Peter gets out of the boat and starts
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- to walk on the water.
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- Two things are happening.
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- God is getting underneath so he doesn't sink, and
- 00:18:00.695 --> 00:18:03.397
- Peter's walking.
- 00:18:03.397 --> 00:18:04.665
- God did the supernatural and got underneath so he wouldn't sink.
- 00:18:04.665 --> 00:18:08.970
- Anytime there's something that is supernatural, there is a
- 00:18:08.970 --> 00:18:12.573
- natural, human part.
- 00:18:12.573 --> 00:18:13.975
- God said to Moses, "You're gonna have to split that sea," so what
- 00:18:13.975 --> 00:18:18.045
- happened is, Moses extended the rod, that's a natural thing, God
- 00:18:18.045 --> 00:18:23.184
- opened the sea, that was supernatural.
- 00:18:23.184 --> 00:18:26.787
- There's always a human portion and a divine portion.
- 00:18:26.787 --> 00:18:30.791
- And the same thing is true when it comes to any supernatural
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- thing, including speaking with tongues.
- 00:18:36.564 --> 00:18:38.900
- There's a natural part and there is a supernatural part.
- 00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:43.671
- When a person receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
- 00:18:43.671 --> 00:18:47.041
- there's normally certain things that just happen.
- 00:18:47.041 --> 00:18:50.511
- There's a deeper compassion for the lost, there's a greater
- 00:18:50.511 --> 00:18:54.148
- readiness to serve, there's a heightened hunger for
- 00:18:54.148 --> 00:18:58.286
- spiritual things.
- 00:18:58.286 --> 00:19:00.121
- There's a greater belief in the supernatural and healing,
- 00:19:00.121 --> 00:19:02.623
- deliverance, the authority of the believer, alright, and there
- 00:19:02.623 --> 00:19:05.660
- is power to become a witness.
- 00:19:05.660 --> 00:19:08.563
- Before Peter received the baptism, he denies Jesus
- 00:19:08.563 --> 00:19:12.066
- three times.
- 00:19:12.066 --> 00:19:13.401
- After he received the baptism the Holy Ghost, he gets up and
- 00:19:13.401 --> 00:19:16.470
- he says to the people, "You're the ones who crucified Christ."
- 00:19:16.470 --> 00:19:20.141
- Yeah, you're the one who denied him.
- 00:19:20.141 --> 00:19:23.311
- You know what?
- 00:19:23.311 --> 00:19:24.679
- But suddenly there was a supernatural boldness that came
- 00:19:24.679 --> 00:19:27.348
- upon him.
- 00:19:27.348 --> 00:19:28.916
- Now, in Acts chapter 10, Peter goes to Cornelius's house, and
- 00:19:28.916 --> 00:19:32.987
- as he is preaching, the Bible says the Holy Spirit fell upon
- 00:19:32.987 --> 00:19:38.626
- all who listened to him.
- 00:19:38.626 --> 00:19:41.062
- And those that were with him, the Jews, they were astonished,
- 00:19:41.062 --> 00:19:43.931
- because the Holy Spirit had fallen upon Gentiles, non-Jews.
- 00:19:43.931 --> 00:19:48.603
- But they couldn't deny it, the Bible says, because they heard
- 00:19:48.603 --> 00:19:50.871
- them speak with tongues and prophesied.
- 00:19:50.871 --> 00:19:53.641
- Now, at that time, this occasion, it was instantaneous.
- 00:19:53.641 --> 00:19:59.380
- Salvation and the Holy Spirit, the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
- 00:19:59.380 --> 00:20:02.984
- was instantaneous.
- 00:20:02.984 --> 00:20:04.318
- Of the five instances in the New Testament, it's the only one
- 00:20:04.318 --> 00:20:08.756
- that's instantaneous.
- 00:20:08.756 --> 00:20:10.124
- Eighty percent of the time, it is subsequent to salvation.
- 00:20:10.124 --> 00:20:13.961
- Now, sometimes what people do, "Well, I received the Holy
- 00:20:13.961 --> 00:20:17.565
- Spirit 25 years ago."
- 00:20:17.565 --> 00:20:20.167
- Well, you need to receive the Holy Spirit again.
- 00:20:20.167 --> 00:20:23.070
- You say why?
- 00:20:23.070 --> 00:20:24.405
- Because you leak.
- 00:20:24.405 --> 00:20:26.307
- You just simply, you leak.
- 00:20:26.307 --> 00:20:27.875
- The Bible says in Ephesians 5 and verse 18, it says, "But be
- 00:20:27.875 --> 00:20:32.413
- being filled with the Spirit."
- 00:20:32.413 --> 00:20:35.449
- Be being filled.
- 00:20:35.449 --> 00:20:36.817
- Not something that happens just one time.
- 00:20:36.817 --> 00:20:38.986
- I mean, almost every day.
- 00:20:38.986 --> 00:20:40.321
- Yesterday I said, "Lord, fill me with the Holy Spirit."
- 00:20:40.321 --> 00:20:42.923
- This morning, "Lord, fill me with the Holy Spirit."
- 00:20:42.923 --> 00:20:45.860
- It's not something that just happens one time, it's something
- 00:20:45.860 --> 00:20:48.296
- that should be happening regularly in our lives.
- 00:20:48.296 --> 00:20:53.301
- Now, again, getting back to the tongues portion, some people are
- 00:20:53.301 --> 00:20:57.338
- a little bit afraid of it or don't understand it.
- 00:20:57.338 --> 00:21:00.174
- Let me just say this, in 1 Corinthians 14 verse 5, Paul
- 00:21:00.174 --> 00:21:03.811
- said, "I wish that you all spoke with tongues."
- 00:21:03.811 --> 00:21:08.416
- In fact, he said I speak with tongues more than y'all.
- 00:21:08.416 --> 00:21:12.019
- He's from Texas, y'all.
- 00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:15.389
- But he said, "I speak with tongues more than you all."
- 00:21:15.389 --> 00:21:17.658
- Somebody says, "Well, what is happening?"
- 00:21:17.658 --> 00:21:19.927
- Well, in 1 Corinthians 14 the 14th verse says it this way,
- 00:21:19.927 --> 00:21:23.030
- "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit, by the Holy
- 00:21:23.030 --> 00:21:28.602
- Spirit within me, prays, but my mind is unproductive," or does
- 00:21:28.602 --> 00:21:34.642
- not understand, it's unfruitful, the King James says.
- 00:21:36.610 --> 00:21:39.747
- So, when you pray in a tongue, it's your spirit, by the Holy
- 00:21:39.747 --> 00:21:43.951
- Spirit, that's praying.
- 00:21:43.951 --> 00:21:45.920
- So, certain things happen.
- 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:47.321
- There's no selfish prayers, then all the prayers that we pray
- 00:21:47.321 --> 00:21:51.258
- then are the will of God.
- 00:21:51.258 --> 00:21:54.095
- In 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 2 it says, "He who speaks
- 00:21:54.095 --> 00:21:58.199
- in an unknown tongue does not speak to men, but to God.
- 00:21:58.199 --> 00:22:01.836
- For no one, or no man, understands him.
- 00:22:01.836 --> 00:22:05.139
- How be it in the Spirit, he speaks mysteries."
- 00:22:05.139 --> 00:22:07.641
- Now notice first of all, it says when you're speaking in tongue,
- 00:22:07.641 --> 00:22:09.977
- you're talking to God.
- 00:22:09.977 --> 00:22:11.312
- How many know that's good?
- 00:22:11.312 --> 00:22:12.880
- It is good to talk to God.
- 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:14.248
- We call that prayer.
- 00:22:14.248 --> 00:22:15.716
- And notice it says who understands him?
- 00:22:15.716 --> 00:22:19.253
- No one, somebody said, "Well, I heard somebody speaking in
- 00:22:19.253 --> 00:22:21.422
- tongues, I didn't get a thing out of it.
- 00:22:21.422 --> 00:22:23.023
- Sounds like a bunch of gibberish."
- 00:22:23.023 --> 00:22:24.392
- Well, quit eavesdropping, they're not talking to you.
- 00:22:24.392 --> 00:22:28.529
- They're talking to God, and he is the only one
- 00:22:28.529 --> 00:22:33.401
- that understands.
- 00:22:33.401 --> 00:22:35.469
- In fact, in Jude, which is the second to the last book in your
- 00:22:35.469 --> 00:22:39.907
- Bible, it's a little one chapter, but in the 20th verse,
- 00:22:39.907 --> 00:22:42.476
- it says, "But you, beloved, building yourself up on your
- 00:22:42.476 --> 00:22:44.812
- most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost," or in the
- 00:22:44.812 --> 00:22:49.049
- Holy Spirit.
- 00:22:49.049 --> 00:22:50.484
- It's talking about praying in tongues, and it says your gonna
- 00:22:50.484 --> 00:22:53.354
- edify yourself, build yourself up, edify yourself.
- 00:22:53.354 --> 00:22:56.657
- We're in an edifice.
- 00:22:56.657 --> 00:22:58.626
- I remember when this building was being built, took about
- 00:22:58.626 --> 00:23:00.928
- three years.
- 00:23:00.928 --> 00:23:02.296
- About once a week, I would wander down from my office on
- 00:23:02.296 --> 00:23:05.466
- the other end and I would just take a look as they were putting
- 00:23:05.466 --> 00:23:08.002
- it up little by little by little.
- 00:23:08.002 --> 00:23:10.404
- But when you pray in tongues, you are building yourself
- 00:23:10.404 --> 00:23:14.809
- up spiritually.
- 00:23:14.809 --> 00:23:16.477
- Every day, little bit every day, a little bit every day, a little
- 00:23:16.477 --> 00:23:19.780
- bit every day.
- 00:23:19.780 --> 00:23:21.148
- Somebody says, "That sounds very selfish.
- 00:23:21.148 --> 00:23:22.616
- It's just about you."
- 00:23:22.616 --> 00:23:24.552
- Well, if you're broke, and I'm broke, I can't help you.
- 00:23:24.552 --> 00:23:28.322
- Spiritually, if you're in trouble, but I'm built up, I can
- 00:23:28.322 --> 00:23:33.494
- help you.
- 00:23:33.494 --> 00:23:34.829
- You've got to build yourself up in your most holy faith.
- 00:23:34.829 --> 00:23:38.666
- And Jesus said this in Luke the 11th chapter.
- 00:23:38.666 --> 00:23:42.470
- He said, verse 13, "If you then being evil, you know how to give
- 00:23:42.470 --> 00:23:46.307
- good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly
- 00:23:46.307 --> 00:23:51.612
- Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
- 00:23:51.612 --> 00:23:57.651
- Duane: Well, I want to thank you for being with us today, and I
- 00:23:57.718 --> 00:24:00.554
- want to ask you a question.
- 00:24:00.554 --> 00:24:02.089
- I want you to look inside and tell me, are you right with God?
- 00:24:02.089 --> 00:24:05.459
- You know, some people, we've done so many things to be right
- 00:24:05.459 --> 00:24:09.897
- with God, but yet we don't have peace.
- 00:24:09.897 --> 00:24:12.233
- We don't know we're forgiven, you know?
- 00:24:12.233 --> 00:24:14.869
- And the Bible tells us to know that you have everlasting life.
- 00:24:14.869 --> 00:24:19.273
- We're not supposed to die and find out if we're right with
- 00:24:19.273 --> 00:24:21.609
- God, we're supposed to know.
- 00:24:21.609 --> 00:24:23.444
- And if you don't know, if you say I'm not sure if I'm right
- 00:24:23.444 --> 00:24:27.348
- with God, or I know I'm not right with God, but I want to
- 00:24:27.348 --> 00:24:30.184
- be, I want to tell you there's two things that God wants
- 00:24:30.184 --> 00:24:33.754
- from you.
- 00:24:33.754 --> 00:24:35.089
- First, really, he wants to give you something.
- 00:24:35.089 --> 00:24:36.991
- He wants you to receive forgiveness.
- 00:24:36.991 --> 00:24:39.527
- And secondly, he wants you to surrender your life to Jesus.
- 00:24:39.527 --> 00:24:43.564
- And I want to pray a prayer with you right now to receive the
- 00:24:43.564 --> 00:24:46.500
- forgiveness that God offers you, and to surrender your life
- 00:24:46.500 --> 00:24:49.637
- to Jesus.
- 00:24:49.637 --> 00:24:51.005
- If you're not right with God right now, I want you to just
- 00:24:51.005 --> 00:24:53.807
- close your eyes, make these words your own.
- 00:24:53.807 --> 00:24:55.976
- Just say: O God, I believe Jesus died on the cross.
- 00:24:55.976 --> 00:25:00.381
- I believe that his blood paid for my sins, and I believe he
- 00:25:00.381 --> 00:25:04.018
- rose again.
- 00:25:04.018 --> 00:25:05.519
- Today, I receive your forgiveness, and I surrender my
- 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:09.990
- life to Jesus.
- 00:25:09.990 --> 00:25:11.725
- I hold nothing back, and I thank you you've heard my prayer, that
- 00:25:11.725 --> 00:25:16.597
- I am forgiven, that I'm a part of your family, today and
- 00:25:16.597 --> 00:25:21.569
- forever, in Jesus's name, amen.
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