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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Spirit-Filled Life | May 21, 2026
- You go to
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- A church and you hear more than anything else,
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit,
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit, you got another church.
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- All you hear is doctrine.
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- We need doctrine.
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- We need biblical truth.
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- We have to have doctrine.
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- Both of them are what sided
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- And not biblical.
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- You see, the holy spirit operates
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- Get that?
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- And truth is found in doctrine,
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- In biblical truth,
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- We're studying
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- Romans chapter eight.
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- Many people believe it is the goat of the bible,
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- The greatest of all time.
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- The greatest word of instruction to us. and
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- We've made our way all the way through the 17th verse.
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- But we're going back
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- And we're going through verse
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- 12 and 17 again,
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- Because there's so much depth in there.
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- Remember chapter eight, primary purpose is
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- To understand that those who are in christ,
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- Who are in christ, they in turn
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- Have the assurance, the assurance of heaven.
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- But you have to be in christ.
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- And chapter eight shows us how
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- If we're in the family of god, we're in christ.
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- The holy spirit gives us assurance.
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- A couple of verses up front.
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- Let's go back to eight.
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- Verse number six.
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- The mind
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- Governed by the flesh
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- Is death,
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- But the mind governed by the spirit
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- Is life.
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- Hold on to that.
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- All the battle that we've been talking about,
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- Between the spirit and the flesh,
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- The flesh and the spirit, the spirit and the flesh.
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- And here god tells us that
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- The mind set on the flesh
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- Is death.
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- There are many different kinds of death,
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- And the mind set on the spirit
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- Is life.
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- A lot of times when we live
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- On a strictly human level,
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- We don't see spiritual things.
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- And the spiritual things are the things that last forever.
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- Remember when this old body dies,
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- The soul and the spirit will remain,
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- And this body is thrown aside, and we'll get
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- A resurrection body
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- When we leave this life, a body that's equipped for heaven
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- That will be in the spiritual area, and a resurrection
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- Body will be a prototype we see in jesus.
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- So we're talking about spiritual insight,
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- And we come to christ.
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- We begin to understand that
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- And what gives us this spiritual quality.
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- It's the holy spirit,
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- The third person of the trinity,
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- God the father, god the son, god the holy spirit.
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- You say, i don't understand how you can have three.
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- Can you understand that h2o can be ice,
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- It can be liquid, it can be vapor.
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- So we understand there are three natures of god almighty.
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- And those natures perform certain duties,
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- Have certain functions and they overlap.
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- But we have to understand this spiritually.
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- So we go right back to the book of romans,
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- Chapter eight, verse number 12.
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- He's already talked about the battle
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- Between the flesh and the spirit,
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- And the spirit and the flesh.
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- And paul tells us that the spirit has won.
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- And now he says, this is how we live the life.
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- Therefore, brothers
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- And sisters, christians, we have an obligation.
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- Your translation may say duty.
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- We have an obligation, and our obligation
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- Has a negative aspect to it and a positive aspect.
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- Other words, we become christians.
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- There's a negative part of the christian life, he said.
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- But it is not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
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- The holy spirit has brought us this far,
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- And now we are in the in the flesh.
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- But yet there's a spiritual dimension to us,
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- And the holy spirit is involved in everything in your life
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- And in my life, first of all, in salvation,
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- We heard, are you full of the spirit?
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- Do you have the fullness of the spirit?
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- It's involved in salvation.
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- Acts chapter number nine.
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- Paul damascus road, confronted by christ, struck
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- Blind, went to damascus.
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- There he was blind, knowing that now the one he had
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- Persecuted is indeed the messiah, the son of god.
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- And then ananias comes over there and puts his hand
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- On paul's head, instructed by the holy spirit.
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- And paul could see
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- And it says he was filled with the holy spirit.
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- So in salvation, the holy spirit comes
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- And fills us with his spirit.
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- Now i became a christian.
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- I was about 11, but i didn't understand
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- All this, as some do not understand all this now.
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- But the holy spirit comes and enables us
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- To understand things we didn't understand before
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- Christmas.
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- Calvary, easter,
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- Resurrection, ascension,
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- Jesus at the right hand of god,
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- Interceding for those who are in his family.
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- So the holy spirit was a part of your salvation in mind.
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- Also, the holy spirit was a part of our sanctification.
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- Ephesians five paul says, be filled with the spirit.
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- How do you know you're filled with the spirit?
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- Singing, singing.
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- Thanksgiving.
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- And then he moves on and says, submission, submitting.
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- And it says, submit one to another.
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- These are marks that we are growing
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- In our word, sanctification.
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- Remember that. that means we're growing up.
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- We're maturing
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- Before the spirit, the spirit involved in our salvation.
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- It's involved in our growth in the lord jesus christ.
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- And then finally, it's involved in something else.
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- It's involved in our assurance.
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- And you read that in acts chapter four, man,
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- You know what happened at pentecost.
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- And then he moves from pentecost
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- And they're persecuted.
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- And people understood in their own language.
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- And 3000 came to
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- Christ and 5000 came to christ, and they came and jerked up.
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- Peter and paul put them before the sanhedrin,
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- And they were bold in what they did,
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- And they somehow let them go and said, don't tell anybody.
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- But they said, how can we not tell people
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- What we've experience and what we've heard?
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- And it says they were full of the holy spirit.
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- The holy spirit gives us assurance.
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- So in every aspect of life,
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- And if we had time, we can look biblically
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- And see that god the father, god the son, god
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- The holy spirit is involved in all three
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- Of these endeavors, our salvation and our assurance
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- That we are indeed in the family of almighty god.
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- So we see
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- We have to understand this and it comes out in a negative
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- Way, this obligation, we understand that.
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- And then it says, for if you live
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- According to the flesh, you will die.
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- Now there's a controversial verse in the bible,
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- You will die.
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- So here i am, i receive christ, i've been baptized,
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- I know him, i claim that i'm a christian.
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- I have the name.
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- But, you know, i'm
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- Sort of went back in the old flesh
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- And i've got the same old habits coming up again.
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- And i confess, and i repent and believe,
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- And suddenly i'm way away, away from the lord.
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- And when i came to christ,
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- I didn't know, i didn't understand.
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- What i really wanted was about $3 worth of god.
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- I didn't want any more than that.
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- About $3 of god.
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- And all of a sudden it says, if we profess christ
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- And we continue to live with besetting, ongoing sin,
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- This may be the
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- Unpardonable sin in a sense that god
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- Sometimes i think, take people who mouth profession
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- And are a million miles from living profession,
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- And they just take them out of this world.
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- They just take them out of this world.
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- Because when we're in god's family, christ is in you.
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- Christ is in me.
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- We don't have a blank check now.
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- We're in the family.
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- We want to live like a member of the family.
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- Dangerous verse.
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- So there's a negative thing here.
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- And we have to understand that clearly.
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- Then there's a positive part of this obligation.
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- It goes that said for verse 13, for if you live
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- According to the flesh, you will die.
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- But if by the spirit you will put to death
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- The misdeeds, the sin in your body,
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- The holy spirit helps you, and i kill sin.
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- Now, if you hadn't figured it out
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- Yet, sin will kill you or we have to kill sin.
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- You got it.
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- Sin died on the cross with christ,
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- I know that, but yet, here's
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- The obligation for those of us who are now in the family.
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- We have to be in the business of killing sin
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- Because we haven't reached perfection yet, have we?
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- We haven't gotten there yet.
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- You see, when sin comes in your life,
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- And in my life, it is like a tick.
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- And it sucks life out of you and sucks life that me
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- And we have to have.
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- Something sin dealt with effectively
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- Is sin dealt with radically.
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- What is sin?
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- Basically, it's my running, my own life.
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- You're running your own life,
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- You say, well, i don't know what my sin is.
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- Just spend about it won't take long.
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- 3 or 4 minutes before the lord and ask him,
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- Man, every time i do that,
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- The answer comes back like.
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- If you're in christ, if you're in christ.
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- So we have an obligation
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- Not to the flesh, but we have obligation to the spirit.
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- And then we move to the second stanza of this,
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- Reminding us once again, again
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- That we're in the family of god.
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- Verse 14, for those who are led by the spirit of god,
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- Our children of god, the spirit you receive
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- Does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again.
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- Rather, the spirit you receive brought about your adoption
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- To sonship, adoption to sonship.
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- Now we think of adoption in a high level.
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- But in the greco-roman world, adoption
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- Was in another level, more than we can think about it.
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- The father of the son or daughter
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- Would have to say to the one who wanted to die.
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- Here's the price. they would agree on it.
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- The deal would be closed,
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- And then they would go back on the deal.
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- Time would pass. they would agree on it.
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- It'd be closed.
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- They'd go back on the deal,
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- Time would pass, would be closed,
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- And the third time it would be dogmatic.
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- And now that adopted son or daughter would be a member
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- That family and have all the rights
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- And privileges of someone who was blood kin,
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- A son or daughter who was born in that family.
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- And if you were a legitimate son and daughter
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- By blood, born into the family in a natural way,
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- You could be disowned by the father.
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- But if you were adopted,
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- You could never be disowned by the father.
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- When i was a boy, there was a popular
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- Little song called mother.
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- Derived from the acrostic motif.
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- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
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- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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- Would you believe that?
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- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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- For mother's day only.
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- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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- You say, what about jesus?
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- He, god the father, god the son.
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- He was disowned by god.
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- Did you not know that?
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- Did you not remember that from the cross?
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- When all the trash, your trash and my trash
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- Were placed about him, god the father turned
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- His back on his son and disowned him.
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- Jesus says,
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- My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?
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- And remember, that's the only place in the bible
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- Where jesus offers to god is god.
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- Every other time he says, abba, father.
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- He was disowned for that moment, but
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- We know he took him back in.
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- Jesus said,
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- My god, abba, abba,
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- I come into you, my spirit.
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- So when you're adopted and we're adopted and
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- Look what happens to where adopted, it's amazing to me.
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- I just read it over and over again.
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- We cry.
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- I'm a father now.
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- We can say, abba, dad.
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- The spirit in self testifies to our spirit that we are
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- God's children.
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- How do you know that you're really in christ?
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- How do you know you're really a son or daughter of god?
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- It's because the holy spirit affirms
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- That in my spirit and my spirit firms it
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- With the holy spirit,
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- And that should be for all who are in christ.
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- It's an affirmation,
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- And we have to understand the function of the spirit.
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- Remember, we've talked about it.
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- The holy spirit has a
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- Floodlight ministry, the holy spirit.
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- If jesus is in front of me and i am here, the holy spirit,
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- I don't look to the holy spirit.
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- The holy spirit turns light on jesus and the holy spirit.
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- Primary purpose is to honor jesus this.
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- Remember we said, let me remind you,
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- You know, say, do you know jesus?
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- Certainly, if you're in christ,
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- We've already dealt with that.
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- But do you have the holy spirit?
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- Certainly we have the holy spirit.
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- It is in your life, in my life from the beginning.
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- And now we grow becomes more and more powerful.
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- It is that search like ministry.
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- A word of warning.
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- You go to a church and you hear more than anything
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- Else, holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit,
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit, you got another church.
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- All you hear is doctrine.
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- We need doctrine.
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- We need biblical truth.
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- We have to have doctrine.
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- Both of them are what sided and not biblical.
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- You see, the holy spirit operates
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- Get that?
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- Always on the basis of truth.
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- And truth is found in doctrine,
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- In biblical truth, and therefore biblical truth
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- Is necessary for the holy spirit to operate
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- Because the holy spirit operates on the basis of truth.
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- How do you know this?
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- Those who wrote this scripture
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- Were inspired by the holy spirit,
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- And they wrote this word of god.
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- And therefore we have to know and properly interpret
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- The word.
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- And then the holy spirit can work in and through your life.
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- Now look at the rest of it.
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- And by him we cry, abba, father!
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- The spirit himself testifies with our spirit.
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- We're god's children now.
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- If we are, then we are heirs and heirs
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- Of god and co-heirs with christ.
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- Man, what a wonderful thing that is.
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- In other words, we take the truth of the bible
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- In our life.
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- The holy spirit helps us interpret it, and then we
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- Not only have to know it and interpret it.
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- The challenge we have is to live it out.
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- You see, the bible gives us information,
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- And then we have to take and let the holy spirit
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- Take that information and plant it in our heart.
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- It has to be mental and emotional with application.
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- That's how we as christians are to live,
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- Ladies and gentlemen.
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- And then the end of this is absolutely magnificent.
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- And we're just going to touch on the operative word here.
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- It says we're heirs and co heirs with christ.
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- If indeed we share in his sufferings
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- In order that we may also share in
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- His glory,
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- Glory, glory,
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- We're going to meet glory in other places.
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- He's saying here that now when the family of god
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- Now we know what
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- Our obligation not to do
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- Is now in order to obligation that we are to do
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- Now we know the inheritance that is ours.
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- Now we know how to distinguish.
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- The holy spirit gives us light in a darkened world.
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- And now, he says,
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- We are to share in the sufferings of christ.
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- We're to share in suffering.
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- So we experience more and more of his glory.
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- I don't know about you.
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- I'm sorry he brought up suffering, aren't you?
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- I mean, you know
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- That anybody here think
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- That you and i, in our era of influence,
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- Can make a difference in this broken world and culture
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- And many of our families, without suffering,
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- We think that god can use us.
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- It'll be slick and smooth and everybody.
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- Oh, that's the truth.
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- I'll change.
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- It takes suffering from addiction.
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- And i have a feeling that the body of christ,
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- Those who hang in there, they may not be, but 2 or 3,
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- They may or may not be, but 2 or 3000,
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- But those that hang in there and stand for god in christ in
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- This book
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- Are going to know something
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- About suffering in the 21st century.
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- We never know that much in america.
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- Hang on, it will be coming
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- If there's even a second chance
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- For our united states.
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- And the result of that
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- Is absolutely fabulous.
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- It says we may also share
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- In his glory here a lot about glory.
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- Oh, give glory to god.
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- You know how you basically give glory?
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- You have.
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- The word glory means doxa.
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- It means weight.
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- It means heavy.
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- You and i glorify god when jesus christ in your life
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- And my life, empowered by the holy spirit, makes jesus
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- Heavy to you, makes jesus weighty to me.
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- And jesus has great significance in our life.
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- That's what it means.
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- Do we give glory when jesus?
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- Can't we don't keep jesus on the outskirts of the city.
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- We put him right in the middle of the town,
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- And we take the holy spirit and use the holy spirit
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- As a grid for everything you do and everything i do.
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- Well in the business world, no,
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- Especially the business world,
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- Especially the family world, especially in relationships.
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- We run everything by through the grid of the holy spirit.
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- You will discover in
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- A practical way the difference between knowledge.
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- Oh, i know that.
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- I understand that i've studied that and wisdom.
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- The holy spirit takes knowledge that we have
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- And tax on it wisdom.
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- And that's a different dimension.
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- Now we move into the spiritual area of living
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- That he's not on the outskirts.
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- He's right downtown, this holy spirit,
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- This holy spirit is the middle of your life.
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- In my life of decision, the action of fun
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- And life and everything that comes out.
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- You see,
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- We not only have knowledge and figures out,
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- All of a sudden, we've got
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- Absolutely the mind of god in jesus christ.
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- We have wisdom.
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- See this briefly here.
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- It's fabulous in the book of second corinthians,
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- One of my my favorite favorite passages, verse number 16.
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- But whenever anyone turns to the lord,
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- The veil is taken away.
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- Now the lord is the is the spirit.
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- And where the spirit is the lord, there is freedom.
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- And we all who with unveiled faces
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- Remember moses in the presence of god,
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- Had the reflection of god on him, and his face shone.
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- And every time he'd go before the people, they said,
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- That's moses.
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- His face is showing he was with god.
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- And then finally the the, the shekinah melted
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- And his the, his face no longer shown.
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- So moses were ovale.
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- So all the people would think,
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- Man, i'm still got my face shining.
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- I was with god, but he was gone.
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- And now paul says, when we come to jesus christ.
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- Look what happens.
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- There is freedom and we all come and our faith,
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- Our faces are unveiled.
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- We contemplate the lord's glory.
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- What is glory?
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- The weight,
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- The influence of christ in your life and in my life
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- With ever increasing glory
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- Which comes from the lord, who is the spirit.
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- That is a fabulous.
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- We could spend ten years on that one passage.
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- Do you see it?
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- In other words, moses had the reflection of god.
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- We who are in the family of god, see,
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- We've got so much more than we ever
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- Calculate, understand, believe a claim.
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- That's what we got to pick up.
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- We're in the family of god.
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- We don't have reflected glory because christ is in us,
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- The christ in you.
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- We have a radiant glory that comes out of us,
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- And that is that unveiled faith.
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- And the more we walk and grow with christ,
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- The bright it becomes.
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- There's a beam from lives.
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- You see somebody
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- Sold out to god in christ.
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- When you're with them,
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- They don't have to advertise anything.
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- It just overflows with the glory
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- Because they've given jesus christ,
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- The sinner, and the heaviness of their life
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- And the significance of their life.
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- Deep water,
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- Water to swim in,
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- Going deeper with god.
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- And this is just the introduction to the glory
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- That's going to follow.
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- Thanks be to god.
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- Thanks be unto god.
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- Available to everybody.
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- The spiritual dimension of life
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- Takes a physical dimension, and it catches fire
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- As we give him center place.
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- Significance
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- Slowly.
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- Sure has been slow with me.
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- Slowly, slowly through the process,
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- We begin to give forth light
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- And the glory
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- Of almighty god.
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- When i was a boy,
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- There was a popular little song called mother.
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- Derived from the acrostic motif.
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- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
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- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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- Would you believe that?
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- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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- For mother's day only.
- 00:25:56.100 --> 00:25:58.235
- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
- 00:25:58.235 --> 00:26:02.139
- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
- 00:26:02.139 --> 00:26:05.676
- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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- Before we go,
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- Let me remind you, as i remind myself,
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- No burden is too heavy when it is shared with the lord
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- And with caring people
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- Who stand beside you and stand beside me.
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- If you're facing financial pressure, family
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- Struggles, marriage difficulties,
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- Or a season of deep doubt and uncertainty.
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- Please reach out to us.
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- Our prayer team will be honored to personally listen to you,
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- And to pray with you, and to encourage you
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- And help you stand up in your faith.
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- You're not alone.
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- God bless you and thank you for spending time
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- Today as we are learning more and more how to have in life
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- Or when he woke, especially with our families.
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