BIBLE SPEAK-Controversial Topics On The Holy Spirit?

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Have you ever wondered who the Holy Spirit is,

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what His ministry is, and how it should actually

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impact your life? I want to tell you, all across

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the globe, people are asking these very, very

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important and common questions. Today, we're

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going to be answering them, and I believe it's

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going to be life -changing. This is the Bible

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Speaks series, where we allow Scripture to speak

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for itself. Guys, welcome to the Faith in Mission

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podcast. I'm Steve Hannett. This is a production

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of the Gospel Mission Network. And this podcast

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is all about talking about theology, Christian

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topics, Christian living, early church practices,

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church leadership. It's just filled with a whole

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bunch of things. But here's our goal. We want

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you to be able to be challenged. We want you

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to grow. And we want you to be able to experience

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the fullness. of Jesus Christ. Listen, today

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we have a very, very interesting episode because

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I got a team of friends here and they're from

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different backgrounds, different ages, different

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levels of Christian maturity and experiences

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and we're going to unpack this together today

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but instead of me teaching or just doing an interview,

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we're actually going to bring you into the conversation

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and we're going to do something that is really

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awesome. You see in the Bible, They didn't really

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lecture as much as people may have thought. They

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actually engaged in conversation and dialogue.

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Jesus did this all the time. Jesus constantly

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asked people questions. He engaged them in conversation.

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He spoke to Nicodemus. He spoke to a woman, the

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Samaritan woman at the well. He even spoke in

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parables to get us to think and to penetrate

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the issues of the kingdom in our heart. Even

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the Apostle Paul, he reasoned through the scriptures

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with people in the synagogue. And the Bible even

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gives instruction to us about how to have a fruitful

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dialogue around Scripture. Why is this important?

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Well, it's simple, because we're here to learn.

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We're not here to just kind of say what we think.

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We're here to learn. And that's why we're going

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to be opening up the Bible together as a team.

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And so we want you to get your Bible, get your

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phone, get a pad, just pull up a chair, get comfortable.

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and join the conversation with us today about

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the Holy Spirit. Now, our goal is to eventually

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cover three things. In fact, these are the three

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most sought after questions in the world right

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now. Number one is, who is the Holy Spirit? Number

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two, what is the ministry of the Holy Spirit?

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Like, what does He do? What is His function?

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And three, is all about how we individually,

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as Christians, can experience His power and His

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anointing in our lives. So what we're going to

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do is unpack this, but we're going to be focused

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on the scripture. That's why I want you to grab

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your Bible, because we're going to be going to

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the text to try to answer these questions. Now

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I want to let you know ahead of time, we're going

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to challenge you. We're probably going to say

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things today that are going to get you to think,

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and that's the purpose. It's a process in growing

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in understanding the Word of God. We need to

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do this. We need to step back. We need to be

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humble. We need to be teachable because the Holy

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Spirit is the third person of God. But listen,

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the whole teaching around the Holy Spirit is

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often mistaught and misunderstood. In fact, even

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things like the gifts of the Holy Spirit are

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more debated in countries than they are received.

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We want to change this. We really believe that

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God died so that we would have the Holy Spirit.

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And so, we're gonna go on this journey together

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now, and we really believe that this conversation

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is going to be life -changing for you. Now, with

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us, we have Yadi, who's a dear sister and daughter

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in Christ, and Michael Hernandez and Pastor Carlos

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Reyes, and we've got Steve Paul here, and we're

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just gonna engage in this conversation, and we're

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gonna launch off. So, we want you to be part

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of it. Here's how you can do it. Type your questions,

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type your thoughts, type your responses, type

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your opinions, and engage in the conversation.

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And we'll do our best to get back to each one

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of your responses as you're listening through

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this. And we just encourage you to right now

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join us in prayer for the Holy Spirit to show

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us. So Father, we just thank you for your word.

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And we ask that your Holy Spirit would even minister

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to us about His ministry. his purpose, his role,

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and that we may clearly understand the joy and

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the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen. Thank you, God. Well, guys, I'm really,

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really excited. We're going to kick off with

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the first question here, and it's this. It's

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who is the Holy Spirit? Yeah, the Holy Spirit

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is the third person of the Trinity. All right,

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let's unpack that a little bit, because that's

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a big thing, because are you saying that he's

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God? He is God. He is God. Often He is mistaken

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as the fire, as a cloud, as a wind, but He is

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a person. And He lives in us. And that's something

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that we need to acknowledge, that the Holy Spirit

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is not just a fire. It's not a cloud. It's a

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wind or oil. He is a person that we can come

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and speak to Him and address Him in anything.

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Yeah, awesome. Any other thoughts about that?

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Who is the Holy Spirit? I think the interesting

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thing is, and this is probably where the controversy

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comes in, that he is God, right? And in the scriptures,

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I think in the book of Acts, where they're relying

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to the Holy Spirit. Do you know that scripture?

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Can you unpack that scripture real quick? Work

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as a team over here, come on. Let's go to Acts

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chapter five. Again, join us as we study through

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this, the book of Acts chapter five. And we're

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gonna go ahead and read through this. Michael,

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could you read the first four verses for us?

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But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira

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his wife, sold a possession. and he kept back

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part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware

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of it, and brought a certain part and laid it

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at the apostle's feet. But Peter said, Ananias,

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why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the

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Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of

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the land for yourself? While it remained, was

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it not your own? And after it was sold, was it

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not in your own control? Why have you conceived

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this thing in your heart? You have not lied to

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men, but to God. Wow. So guys, as we look at

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this text, where do we see that the Holy Spirit

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is God? Where is it coming out that the Holy

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Spirit is God? Because it clearly says that Ananias

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lied to the Holy Spirit. Right. Yes. I would

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say right at the end before, it says you have

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not lied to men. but to God. Right? It's plain.

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Right there. Right. But you have to look at three

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and four together because in three he talks about

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lying to the Holy Spirit and then he wraps it

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up in four by saying lie to God. So that makes

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the equation there. You have to see both. So

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lying to the Holy Spirit was lying to God himself.

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Lying to God. Yeah. And what's interesting too

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is the context because he wouldn't at first seemed

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like that's a lie. I mean, it's not like he said

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something. It was an action. And that action

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was a lie to God. Yeah. And that's that's quite

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a thought that a certain action could be a lie

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to God. Yeah. Let's look at First Corinthians

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316. And I think this is really, really powerful.

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Do you not know that you are the temple? Of God.

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and that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Let's

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talk about that a little bit. Where do we see

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that the identity of the Holy Spirit is revealed

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there? I feel when he says, you know that you

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are the temple of God, that the Spirit of God

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dwells in you. First of all, he said, we're not

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our own. The Holy Spirit lives within us. Yeah.

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When we go back to the verse prior in Acts, it

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says, you have lied to the Holy Spirit, to the

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Holy Spirit within us who also bears witness

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of Christ in us. So we see here the connection

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of the Spirit of God also dwelling within us

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that we now, you know, now we can discern right

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from wrong by having that Spirit in us. Yeah,

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that's good. It's pretty powerful, guys, because

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Paul the apostle is writing to Corinthian believers,

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and he's not talking about them just as individuals

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with knowledge. He's actually saying your temples,

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your containers of God himself, but he describes

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what you're contained with, right? What's filling

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you? The spirit of God is dwelling in you. So,

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Yahdi, you said it's just not a fire, it's just

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not a feeling. This is something that someone

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who is dwelling inside of the Corinthian believers,

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and this is obviously meant for everybody. And

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again, we see that equivalence where it's speaking

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of God and speaking of the Spirit, and that equivalent

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way that he's talking about that makes it clear.

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In other words, do you not know that you are

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the temple of God? Well, a temple is a place

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of dwelling of someone or something. And then

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he very quickly then says that the Spirit of

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God dwells in you, so there's the Spirit dwelling,

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so the Spirit is God. Yeah, this is very very

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powerful. You know, there's teaching out there

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that that tries to separate the Holy Spirit Yes

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from from God and really what we're doing is

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we're talking about the Trinitarian teaching

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right of God the Father God the Son God the Holy

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Spirit So it's really important that we get this

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topic, right? Because if we don't we're actually

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misunderstanding God This is not a side teaching

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or doctrine of the Christian faith. But it's

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so much controversy around it. And I could apply

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it to my own life, like in Ephesians 430 where

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it says, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of

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God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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I think sometimes in my own life you can separate

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sometimes what happened then and not realize

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that He's in you now. And now when you make distinctions

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in your life, you have that pumping of the brakes

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of the Holy Spirit inside of you, the evidence

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of your salvation. You're sealed with this. So

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now you say, I have right and wrong in front

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of me. I now must take my free will and chew.

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Yeah. It's also powerful, Michael. You just said

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that the Holy Spirit could be grieved. That's

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like what you were saying. Yes. A person. Yes.

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Yeah. That's a personal attribute that that's

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attributing it to someone is getting grieved.

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Yeah. And also Paul shares with us about it's

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no longer us. It's now Jesus in us. Yes. And

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that's where we go like the Holy Spirit is in

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us. The whole Trinity is in us. And another thing

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that's so freeing about that and is such good

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news is that so many times we think of God like

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he's ready to judge us, right? But God grieves

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when we don't get from him what he wants us to

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have from him. And that's a whole different picture

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than a God who's waiting to hit me with a thunderbolt,

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right? God loves, and he's expressing it so clearly.

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He's highly relational. Yeah, the loving is coming

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at you like a loving father. That's right. He

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must be someone we can have a relationship with,

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otherwise we couldn't grieve though. And you're

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not grieved unless you care about someone. Right.

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So did you guys just, I think I just heard something,

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did you just say that we're supposed to have

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a relationship with God? Would that also extend

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then, relationship to the Holy Spirit? 100%.

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Yeah, somebody talk to us about that. I mean,

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everything from the time that I received the

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Lord is relational. Just to laying down in bed

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and, oh Lord, can you believe what they said?

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And this happened and this happened. It's not

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so sterile, it's real. It's crying when I need

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to cry. and rejoicing when I need to rejoice,

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it's not, you know, God doesn't leave us at amen.

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Being aware of Him and relation, talking to Him

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as if we're talking right now, you know, everything

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that I see, the ways God designed everything

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is highly relational, being completely dependent

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upon Him in all things. Anybody else? To me,

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it's cultivating, cultivating a relationship

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with Him. And just like we're sharing over here,

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it's the same thing that we can do at our homes,

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at our gatherings, and we can share with the

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Holy Spirit. Yes, we can see Him, but we know

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He's there. He listens and He sees. So that's

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something that He, the Trinity is looking towards

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that all the time when we meet. It's just like,

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because He's a person. Enjoy that look forward

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have expectation because the Holy Spirit is just

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waiting for us because he wants to teach us and

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we need to be teachable in order to to in order

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to The main thing is taking this gospel the great

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commission to others. Yeah, because it's not

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about us. It's about the body. It's about the

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world Let's let's look at um I love to hear what

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you guys think about this there. There's a bunch

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of texts that reveal this other answer to who

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is the Holy Spirit. Let's go to John chapter

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14 verse 26. Hey guys, we're happy to be using

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the New King James version of the Bible if anybody

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is interested in that, but it would be great

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also for you to look at your translation as we're

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working through the text. So John 14 26. Carlos,

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maybe you could read that for us. But the helper

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of the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send

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in my name, he will teach you all things and

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bring you to remembrance of all things that I

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said to you. Yeah. What do we see here? Holy

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Spirit is a teacher and he's highlighting the

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very teachings of Jesus or reminding us of the

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teachings that Jesus Left us And there's also

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in the scripture we did refer Jesus. I mean the

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Holy Spirit had the spirit of truth So when Jesus

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spoke he spoke truth and the Holy Spirit is near

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to remind us of that truth So the Holy Spirit

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is a teacher So he's God And he's teacher So

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God is teaching We need this today, don't we?

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We have too many people teaching instead of God

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providing the teaching. Yes. Yeah. In comparative,

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we let the words speak. Yeah, that's right. What

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else do we see in John 14 26? Who else is the

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Holy Spirit? Helper. He's a helper. He's a helper.

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So we can see this in John 14 16, John 14 26,

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John 15 26, John 16 7, like throughout the Gospels.

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this message is coming that the Holy Spirit is

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helping. Yes, he's a helper. I love this and

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I love how it's like capitalized helper. And

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because when we read the scriptures, he helps

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us to understand the word of God because we just

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come empty handed and he's the one who fills

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us. And the word also says that it's the living

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water. So the word becomes a living water inside

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of us. As he as he unpacks the word that for

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many of us, sometimes we read and we don't understand.

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But when we ask the Holy Spirit to release what

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he has for us, it's just amazing. You see the

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word in a different way. And it's like it's clear.

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And you see something and it ministers to your

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life. You know, Paul wrote about this. He said

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in Corinthians, who knows the mind of God except

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the spirit of God? Yes. So the spirit of God,

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which is another name for the Holy Spirit, is

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taking the things from the mind of God and he's

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presenting them to us. Yeah. Jesus said these

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things. He said, I'm not going to leave you orphans.

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I'm going to send someone to you. Yeah. So we'll

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lead you. Yeah. but not just any someone, the

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someone, the helper, the comforter. The word

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in Greek is a parakeet, the helper. He's coming

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up alongside. Pastor Steve, may I read John 16

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verse 13 and 15 and highlight what I said a little

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bit earlier. It says, however, when he, meaning

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Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth has come, he

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will guide you into all truth. For he will speak

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for he would not speak on his own authority,

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but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will

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tell you things to come. He will glorify me for

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he will take over his mind. Meaning Jesus is

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saying that I declare it to you all things that

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the father has are mine. Therefore, I said that

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he will take of mine and declare it to you. I

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think what's so powerful, what we're talking

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about, there's this Father Son Holy Spirit that

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is just in constant motion with each other Just

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this this whole thing when we talk about the

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temple and we think that you know Holy Spirit

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is in me as a temple that's individually but

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not really it's actually corporately And so that's

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that corporate aspect that within God himself.

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There was relationship So when he said let us

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make man in our own image It's in context of

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community and relationship. So you see Father

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Son Holy Spirit that were from the beginning

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that it's actually God, and there's this unique

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relationship that they had from the beginning,

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and then we're invited into that. And I think

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even in reference to the scripture, it's talking

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about Jesus is being glorified through the teachings

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that the Holy Spirit is teaching us. And he's

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really, and you see that, he's highlighting,

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the Holy Spirit is highlighting Jesus, but also

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highlighting the Father. So you can see them

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constantly working together. And I think the

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beautiful thing is that we're invited corporately

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into that setting. And this is probably the reason

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why we're able to gather together around the

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scripture, which is not just words on a paper.

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It's a living word. Yeah. So let's let's unpack

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this a little bit further. So you got this idea

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that Father, Son, Holy Spirit are in this divine

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oneness community. And then Carlos said, and

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the father's inviting us into that. So it's kind

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of sad if we left the Holy Spirit out of our

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Christian experience because then we wouldn't

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be fellowshipping with the fellowship of God

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as fully, maybe, as God has intended us. I was

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just writing the same thing. Nothing is possible

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without the Holy Spirit. So if He is God and

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He is delivering us the truth, but we don't believe

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that he exists or that he's moving now, and the

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scripture knows that God is the same yesterday,

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today, and forever, and the Father, Son, and

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the Spirit are one. So how could we possibly

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try to separate, knowingly or unknowingly, the

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validity and the power of God himself in the

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Holy Spirit, who is going to deliver us the truth?

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Yeah, so he is delivering truth. In fact, let's

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look at that because John 14, 17, chapter 14

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verse 17. And Carlos brought this out. The Holy

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Spirit is specifically called the Spirit of Truth,

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not a spirit of truth. You were saying that,

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Steve. It's not just anyone. The Spirit of Truth,

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whom the world cannot receive because it neither

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sees Him nor knows Him, but you know Him. Boy

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that that brings us right back to what you said

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He is a him. He's a person for he dwells with

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you and will be in you So he's with us and he's

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in us the spirit of truth Guys, I want you to

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hear something for a moment. You know, a lot

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of times we learn that we're supposed to rely

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upon the pastor who's preaching on Sunday, and

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I want to reinforce that God has given us pastors

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and teachers to bring the word of God in the

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teaching. However, we must be very careful because

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the scripture itself is not pushing up a human

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being to say that they're the spirit of truth.

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Every teacher and every believer should be moved

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by the indwelling spirit of truth to be able

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to preach and to be able to teach. So really

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we have to take human beings off of the pedestals

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that we have put on them and Church history has

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taught us that basically the spirit of man is

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elevated and and they'll teach what's right and

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what's wrong, but what I read is that The gospel

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is bringing each of us into a personal relationship

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with the spirit of truth That's why even in our

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local church I tell people all the time, you

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prove me, you test me with the word of God to

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see if the things that I'm sharing are indeed

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truth by the written word of God. It's so relevant

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for our time, too, because even the disciples

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said to Jesus, should we call down fire on this

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guy now? Because what he said, he said, you don't

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know what spirit you are of. And it's so relevant

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for today because people will say, well, I'm

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not religious, but I'm spiritual. or I don't

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go to church, but I'm spiritual. But we have

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to know the difference. There are different spirits.

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That's why it's so critical that we know the

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spirit who is the spirit of truth. There is truth.

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But that's very freeing. It's the only place

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we can be. So yeah, we need a lot of discernment.

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And it's a really good point. I want to talk

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about one, because there's so many. answers to

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who the Holy Spirit is, but there's one more

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that I think is vital. Let's go to Luke chapter

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24, and it's verse 49. I just think this is powerful

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because some people may be thinking to themselves,

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yeah, this is all good, but what about me? Yeah,

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Steve, could you go ahead and read verse 49 for

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us? Luke 22, 49. Luke 24, actually. 24, 49. I

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didn't think that looked like the right verse.

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24, 49. Okay, here we go. Behold, I send the

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promise of my Father upon you, but tarry in the

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city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power

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from on high. All right, yeah. All right. What's

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what's what's that verse revealing about who

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the Holy Spirit is? A promise. He's a promise

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of my Father upon you. In fact, it's even capitalized

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in my version and edition here. Promise. Yes.

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That's powerful. I think you said earlier, Pastor

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Steven, you talk about promise is a covenant

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language. So when I look at a promise, the Holy

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Spirit is the promise. It's like now I'm looking

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at it in reference to the lens of covenant. So

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the Holy Spirit is a person that is establishing

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and sealing this covenant. We talked a little

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bit about it in reference to the guarantee, the

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seal that is connected to covenant. of promise

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yeah so that's kind of like when i now i'm like

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looking at things so such such in a different

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way yes so you know actually can you read the

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verse one more time yeah behold i send the promise

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of my father upon you but tarry in the city of

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jerusalem until you are endued with power from

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on high all right so we got us a promise but

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there's more information given about it what

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What do we know more about the promise? Who's

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it coming from? The Father. And Jesus said this.

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He said, I only do what I hear from my Father

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to do. My food is to do the will of my Father.

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So he's carrying out also what we see in Matthew

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11, where he says, indeed, I baptize you with

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water unto repentance. So the Father is promising

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the Holy Spirit. It puts it at a whole other

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level, doesn't it? Yeah. It's not a human being.

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It's not a denomination. Depending on what denomination

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we are from, we may be thinking, well, the Pentecostals

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are the ones that speak about the Holy Spirit

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or the Charismatics, and maybe other denominations

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wouldn't speak in the same way. But here's what

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I think we're doing. We're trying to unpack.

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Wait, this is a promise from the Father. What

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did the Father promise? Who is he? Well, he promised

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that God would dwell in us. We established that.

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We established that, that God would send a helper.

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Jesus himself said that. And we established also

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that the Holy Spirit is power. Here it is right

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here in this verse, right? Wait for the promise.

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You'll be imbued with power. Now, one of the

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things that just, I have a hard time wrapping

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my brain around is, is not just, I mean, this

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is not just a promise made the other day. This

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goes so far back. I don't want to bring us down

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a rabbit hole because I don't want us to be starting

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to talk about the covenant. We could be, you

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know, seven hours just on that, right? But just

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to remember that the promise goes way, way back,

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way back. I mean. Do you think you would say,

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Pastor, goes even back to Genesis? It does. Yeah.

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Yeah. God breathed into Adam. Yeah. The Ruach.

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Yeah. Yes. Right. And depending how people interpret

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that verse, but I believe that God was putting

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his spirit, his life inside. I love what it says

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in Isaiah 44 .3 and talking about the promise.

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So this is not just now. And like Steve mentioned,

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it's like all the way back. And over here it

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says on Isaiah 44 .3, for I will pour water on

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him who is thirsty and floods on the dry ground.

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I will pour my spirit on your descendants and

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my blessings on your offsprings. So powerful.

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And in the book of Acts, when the Holy Spirit

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was released on what we call the Day of Pentecost,

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Joel or Peter refers back to the prophet Joel

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and says, you know, your older men are going

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to have dreams and your young men are going to

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have visions. And he's describing that it's going

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to be poured out. Yeah. There's this idea that

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God isn't finished with just sending his son.

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Yeah. Yeah. He's sending his son who is going

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to send God himself, the helper and the spirit

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of truth and power. I want to share something.

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I'm getting so excited, so much revelation. And

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I'm looking at it differently because we're being

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taught, right? Talk about promise. I'm like,

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OK, you know, but now that's covenant language.

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Right away, it just opened up my mind and be

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like, wait a minute, what is this power about?

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Right. I think the power is connected to covenant.

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Yeah. And it's connected to the beginning. Yes.

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And this is what we've been going after. This

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is what we've been doing here as Gospel Mission

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Network, a family of families. Right. So the

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first great commission was in the garden. Yeah.

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And it's Adam and Eve, be full for and multiply.

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That's family. That's family language. But that's

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also covenant language. But then you transition

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from multiplying family to now subduing and taking

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dominion. So when we talk, I mean, for me, when

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I talk about power, I'm not just talking about

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miracle signs or wonders. I'm talking about the

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power to have community. I'm talking about the

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power to be a family. The power to be like the

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very image of God, because within God there was

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relationship. So we're going back to God's original

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intent. So it's not just power for a particular

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task, it's the power to live the Christian life.

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Paul said, I didn't just come up with the word,

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I also came with power and demonstration. But

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that demonstration is not just a show, it's the

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purpose of God that goes all the way back to

00:30:45.819 --> 00:30:48.259
his original intent all the way back. That's

00:30:48.259 --> 00:30:51.819
right. So who's it for? And we're talking about

00:30:51.819 --> 00:30:57.039
the promise, but who's the promise for? I would

00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:00.200
say the promise is for us and it's also for others.

00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.839
I mean, I mean, if he's a spirit of truth, I

00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:06.000
cannot have intimacy with God, you know, and

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.339
Jesus said, you know, who do you say that I am?

00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.339
And these things are not, you know, before receiving

00:31:11.339 --> 00:31:13.440
the Lord, I could not come up with that understanding

00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:16.579
or knowledge on my own. Yeah. But it goes right

00:31:16.579 --> 00:31:18.920
back to covenant again and family, right? Because

00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:21.559
doesn't it say in Acts two? this promise is for

00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:25.380
you and for your children. It's making all sense

00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:29.579
now. This is incredible. This is Bible though.

00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:32.920
It's like this is in the scriptures. Like we're

00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:35.000
not making this up. It's in yours too. It's in

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:38.339
our Bible man. This is amazing. So you know when

00:31:38.339 --> 00:31:42.359
we look at Acts 2, let's just go there because

00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.549
again we We don't want to think something about

00:31:45.549 --> 00:31:49.109
God. We want to know something about God. And

00:31:49.109 --> 00:31:51.730
I don't know how you can pray a prayer of faith

00:31:51.730 --> 00:31:55.470
unless you know that you know that God has promised

00:31:55.470 --> 00:32:00.390
it. And a prayer of faith is what? It means like,

00:32:01.029 --> 00:32:03.710
I know that I know that I know that I know that

00:32:03.710 --> 00:32:06.990
I know that that's gonna happen. I believe that

00:32:06.990 --> 00:32:09.230
with all my heart without any doubting. And you

00:32:09.230 --> 00:32:12.009
know what, guys, something really helped me.

00:32:12.089 --> 00:32:15.930
Somewhere along the line, I received that God

00:32:15.930 --> 00:32:19.890
can't lie. So if he can't lie and he promised

00:32:19.890 --> 00:32:23.369
it, I'm like, this is done. I got what he says.

00:32:24.130 --> 00:32:28.650
All right, let's go to Acts 2. And Yadi, could

00:32:28.650 --> 00:32:32.349
you read verse 38 and 39? Because this is gonna

00:32:32.349 --> 00:32:36.299
really answer the question, who? Who gets to

00:32:36.299 --> 00:32:41.339
receive this problem? Then Peter said to them,

00:32:41.740 --> 00:32:45.740
repent and let every one of you be baptized in

00:32:45.740 --> 00:32:49.140
the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of

00:32:49.140 --> 00:32:52.799
sin and you shall receive the gift of the Holy

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.240
Spirit for the promise is to you and to your

00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:01.700
children and to all who are afar off as many

00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:15.299
as the Lord our God will call. I think going

00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:20.059
back to this corporate family and it's interesting

00:33:20.059 --> 00:33:22.000
because we go back to this promise and I'm like

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.500
looking at it in such a different way now and

00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:27.000
I'm looking at this promise and representation

00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:31.579
of this covenant. You asked the question about

00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:35.599
of the Holy Spirit. For who is it for the Holy

00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:39.079
Spirit? I think it's for us individually. It's

00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:43.380
for us individually in reference to being corporate.

00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.500
It's not just for us, it's corporate. Like not

00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:49.180
just the individual us, but it's not just for

00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:53.400
me. It's for me in reference to community, in

00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:56.099
reference to family in a sense. It's like it's

00:33:56.099 --> 00:33:58.329
to you and then it's through you. to everyone

00:33:58.329 --> 00:34:01.109
else but I love what the verse how it starts

00:34:01.109 --> 00:34:04.650
it says then Peter said to them repent and that's

00:34:04.650 --> 00:34:08.429
the key unless you repent you're not going to

00:34:08.429 --> 00:34:12.610
receive the Holy Spirit wow that's you need to

00:34:12.610 --> 00:34:16.269
repent that's important um wasn't it John who

00:34:16.269 --> 00:34:22.409
said repent but the kingdom heaven is near powerful

00:34:22.409 --> 00:34:29.090
yes repent uh repent turning away, right? Turning

00:34:29.090 --> 00:34:32.010
from something and then turning to something.

00:34:33.030 --> 00:34:36.449
So it's kind of like we're born into Adam, we're

00:34:36.449 --> 00:34:38.630
turning away from Adam and now we're turning

00:34:38.630 --> 00:34:44.630
to Christ. The thing that really impresses upon

00:34:44.630 --> 00:34:48.289
me in verse 39 says, for the promise. So this

00:34:48.289 --> 00:34:50.449
is referring to the promise we've been speaking

00:34:50.449 --> 00:34:56.760
about in Luke. for the promise is to you and

00:34:56.760 --> 00:35:00.260
to your children. That's the familial generational

00:35:00.260 --> 00:35:05.219
movement. That means it's including us, right?

00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.519
Passed down from then. And to all who are far

00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:12.159
off, I believe that's not only talking about

00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:15.559
the Jewish people, we're talking about the Gentile

00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:19.199
community. As many as the Lord our God will call.

00:35:20.260 --> 00:35:23.820
So tell me if you agree with this. God's calling

00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:29.500
everyone. God died for everyone. God so loved

00:35:29.500 --> 00:35:32.780
the world in John 3, 16. That he gave his only

00:35:32.780 --> 00:35:35.280
begotten son, that whosoever would believe in

00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:41.000
him. So the love, the promise is offered to all.

00:35:41.579 --> 00:35:44.360
The redemption, right? Jesus paid for our sins

00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:49.679
is offered to all. But you bring up this point.

00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:55.530
Peter's language, is to those who have repented,

00:35:56.429 --> 00:35:59.449
to those who have believed. It sounds like those

00:35:59.449 --> 00:36:03.309
are the ones who can partake. Like it's offered

00:36:03.309 --> 00:36:06.510
to everybody, but it isn't able to be received

00:36:06.510 --> 00:36:09.630
by everyone. Maybe you can speak into that a

00:36:09.630 --> 00:36:12.550
little bit. Something had to change within them.

00:36:13.230 --> 00:36:15.610
Something inside of them changed. And I keep

00:36:15.610 --> 00:36:17.590
coming back to what you're saying about intimacy

00:36:17.590 --> 00:36:21.079
and relationship. It's key. because something

00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.900
had to change within me to even receive what

00:36:23.900 --> 00:36:26.400
the Holy Spirit had to offer me. Before then,

00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:29.199
it was just like getting nowhere. And you see

00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.840
that something happened to them inside. I don't

00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:33.699
think this was just rhetoric. I don't think it

00:36:33.699 --> 00:36:35.920
was because of the eloquence of the speaking.

00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:40.500
But it says right here in chapter two, it says

00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:43.420
in verse 37, now, when they heard this, they

00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:46.820
were cut to the heart. There are so many times

00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:49.539
when I know the Holy Spirit is cutting me to

00:36:49.539 --> 00:36:52.900
the heart. Yeah. And it's a, you know, Proverbs

00:36:52.900 --> 00:36:55.780
says, faithful are the wounds of a friend. Sometimes

00:36:55.780 --> 00:36:58.599
it's not to say, well, you know, to reprove me

00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.260
because I've done something wrong with. But he

00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:04.219
just seeing him, seeing how he wants to have

00:37:04.219 --> 00:37:08.099
intimacy with me. Yes. That just cuts me to the

00:37:08.099 --> 00:37:10.500
heart. Yeah. And so something happens inside.

00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:14.659
And that's when the person, this person, we can

00:37:14.659 --> 00:37:18.289
fellowship with him. It's just amazing. So, you

00:37:18.289 --> 00:37:20.710
know, we're really seeing that the Holy Spirit

00:37:20.710 --> 00:37:23.969
is God, and he's the Spirit of truth. He's offered

00:37:23.969 --> 00:37:28.510
to everyone through a covenantal promise, through

00:37:28.510 --> 00:37:32.269
the generational lineage of you and your whole

00:37:32.269 --> 00:37:36.710
household. But this call is linked to salvation.

00:37:37.849 --> 00:37:41.889
This call is linked to this change that happens

00:37:41.889 --> 00:37:45.389
with inward. And you know, a lot of people Carlos,

00:37:45.550 --> 00:37:47.429
I know that you've experienced this a little

00:37:47.429 --> 00:37:53.289
bit. In fact, maybe more of us have. People are

00:37:53.289 --> 00:37:58.250
hungry for power. And they say, I'm spiritual.

00:38:00.170 --> 00:38:04.869
And they want spiritual power. And that leads

00:38:04.869 --> 00:38:08.389
them down paths into going to get their palms

00:38:08.389 --> 00:38:15.699
read. Astrology. and even some demonic things

00:38:15.699 --> 00:38:18.059
that are out there, and a lot of the New Age

00:38:18.059 --> 00:38:21.980
stuff that's out there has even invaded the church.

00:38:22.059 --> 00:38:26.260
And they're talking about, oh, I have power,

00:38:26.380 --> 00:38:32.219
or I have spiritual power. Has anybody seen or

00:38:32.219 --> 00:38:34.440
encountered this in the church, that people are

00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:38.340
like, you know, yeah, I want to experience signs

00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:41.789
and wonders, but... it can get a little dangerous

00:38:41.789 --> 00:38:44.369
because it's not necessarily linked to repentance.

00:38:44.849 --> 00:38:47.789
I think this is why the scriptures are so important.

00:38:48.349 --> 00:38:51.130
The scriptures is the poem line. And so a lot

00:38:51.130 --> 00:38:52.969
of people, they start right, but then they get

00:38:52.969 --> 00:38:57.329
off course. And we're not paying attention spiritually.

00:38:57.690 --> 00:38:59.610
Right. What does this really look like? Well,

00:38:59.670 --> 00:39:02.949
forget the gift in reference to prophecy and

00:39:02.949 --> 00:39:05.849
all that. Let's work on the fruit. Let's look

00:39:05.849 --> 00:39:10.989
at that. Let's look at the why. Why power? Yeah.

00:39:11.469 --> 00:39:13.170
Most of the time, that's the culture that we

00:39:13.170 --> 00:39:15.949
live in is to be seen. And even going back to

00:39:15.949 --> 00:39:18.309
this repentance, you always preach about two

00:39:18.309 --> 00:39:21.289
realms. Talk about two realms. So when I look

00:39:21.289 --> 00:39:23.789
at two realms, I'm looking at two seeds. One

00:39:23.789 --> 00:39:26.730
seed is corrupted and the other one is not. And

00:39:26.730 --> 00:39:29.269
so you got a lot of people speaking spiritual

00:39:29.269 --> 00:39:32.550
things, but from the wrong realm, the realm of

00:39:32.550 --> 00:39:35.030
Adam, they still orphan in a sense. Yeah. Right.

00:39:35.530 --> 00:39:37.909
So when you talk about repentance, we're turning

00:39:37.909 --> 00:39:41.300
away from this broken nature, this corrupted

00:39:41.300 --> 00:39:43.500
nature, now we're turning to Christ, but that's

00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:46.199
just the beginning because now it's repent, turn

00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:49.420
from this to this, but now we have a kingdom

00:39:49.420 --> 00:39:51.760
mandate. How are you going to understand the

00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.519
kingdom? The Great Commission, everything that

00:39:54.519 --> 00:39:58.500
Jesus taught. So the kingdom has a lot to do

00:39:58.500 --> 00:40:02.000
with studying the scriptures. So this idea is

00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.539
we're entering into a different kingdom, and

00:40:04.539 --> 00:40:08.340
that's not Satan's kingdom, that is God's kingdom.

00:40:08.889 --> 00:40:11.050
Yeah, has anybody else had any other experience

00:40:11.050 --> 00:40:14.070
with people wanting power and dabbing, you know,

00:40:14.210 --> 00:40:16.429
dabbling in something that is not the spirit

00:40:16.429 --> 00:40:20.510
of God? And I want to share the verse in Acts,

00:40:21.710 --> 00:40:27.550
in Acts 8, where it says, well, I will read verse

00:40:27.550 --> 00:40:30.969
17 where it says, Then they lay hands on them

00:40:30.969 --> 00:40:33.650
and they received the Holy Spirit. And when Simon

00:40:33.650 --> 00:40:36.630
saw that through the laying of the apostles hands,

00:40:36.690 --> 00:40:40.250
the Holy Spirit was given. He offered them money.

00:40:42.389 --> 00:40:45.989
Yeah. And that's what's happening now. You know,

00:40:46.110 --> 00:40:48.429
this relates to the power. Yeah. He thought that

00:40:48.429 --> 00:40:51.550
he can buy that. Yeah. Can you finish that? Yes.

00:40:51.630 --> 00:40:53.409
That verse there, because it says it right there

00:40:53.409 --> 00:40:56.550
in the text. Yes. And saying, give me this power

00:40:56.550 --> 00:41:01.219
also that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive

00:41:01.219 --> 00:41:04.420
the Holy Spirit. Come on, let's read that. Your

00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:08.780
money perished with you because you thought that

00:41:08.780 --> 00:41:11.900
the gift of God could be purchased with money.

00:41:12.539 --> 00:41:17.400
Simon was a sorcerer. Simon was practicing witchcraft.

00:41:18.380 --> 00:41:20.460
And today, witches and warlocks, they're all

00:41:20.460 --> 00:41:22.960
over the place, but they're undercover. And they

00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:26.349
offer people power. But we got to be very clear

00:41:26.349 --> 00:41:29.230
that what we're speaking about in this is that

00:41:29.230 --> 00:41:32.550
the Holy Spirit is God, which means he's light

00:41:32.550 --> 00:41:37.190
and in him there is no darkness. And the Holy

00:41:37.190 --> 00:41:43.889
Spirit is called the Holy Spirit of holiness.

00:41:45.130 --> 00:41:52.250
So this is not a prostituted power that makes

00:41:52.250 --> 00:41:54.329
people feel like I can do something and I can

00:41:54.329 --> 00:41:57.889
do this. It's not manipulation. This is holy

00:41:57.889 --> 00:42:02.989
and it requires a change on the inside, which

00:42:02.989 --> 00:42:08.469
is becoming saved, right? Meaning that our sins

00:42:08.469 --> 00:42:11.989
have been forgiven. this idea of I'm no longer

00:42:11.989 --> 00:42:16.130
gonna be who I was and Now become a new creation.

00:42:16.349 --> 00:42:19.210
Yes Yeah, and guys this really leads us into

00:42:19.210 --> 00:42:22.929
the second question That that we have to discuss

00:42:22.929 --> 00:42:25.530
that that people are really wanting to know about

00:42:25.530 --> 00:42:28.469
in the nation's and we did some research What

00:42:28.469 --> 00:42:30.269
if people you know throughout the world want

00:42:30.269 --> 00:42:32.750
to know? Because you know, so we've established

00:42:32.750 --> 00:42:37.389
a little bit. We just scratched the surface But

00:42:37.389 --> 00:42:40.099
we've established this idea that He's God and

00:42:40.099 --> 00:42:44.320
he's meant to dwell in everyone. Right. And that

00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:45.900
kind of leads us to this idea that people are

00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:48.019
asking us. But, you know, what is this whole

00:42:48.019 --> 00:42:52.820
baptism of the Holy Spirit thing? Like in some

00:42:52.820 --> 00:42:54.860
denominations, those are even like concerning

00:42:54.860 --> 00:42:57.559
words. What do you mean the baptism of the Holy

00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:01.099
Spirit? And, you know, we believe in the gifts

00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:04.139
of the spirit. We believe in in signs, wonders

00:43:04.139 --> 00:43:07.480
and miracles. And and some people are saying,

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:11.940
well, you know, the power of God is there, but

00:43:11.940 --> 00:43:14.679
it may only be to obey God. Or other people say

00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:18.880
power of God is there for healing. But this idea

00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:22.800
of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we got to

00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:26.000
understand it a bit more. But I don't think we

00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:27.780
can understand the baptism of the Holy Spirit

00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:30.639
until we kind of unpack what baptism is. And

00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:38.119
Carlos began to go there a little bit. just the

00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:40.559
concept, not a particular type of baptism, but

00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:44.860
let's just talk about the idea of baptism. What

00:43:44.860 --> 00:43:49.000
comes to mind when you think of baptism? I immediately

00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.360
think of immersion being completely immersed.

00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:57.000
Just the word baptism, completely. And I know

00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:58.760
some people have different views on that, too.

00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:00.480
Yeah, they do. When they hear the word baptism,

00:44:00.780 --> 00:44:04.420
they think sprinkle. But the actual word, aptizo,

00:44:04.889 --> 00:44:08.550
literally means submerge submerge yet to go under

00:44:08.550 --> 00:44:13.349
yet to go under yeah it's something that happens

00:44:13.349 --> 00:44:19.429
to the totality of your life but it's imperative

00:44:19.429 --> 00:44:22.070
that when jesus always spoke about the heart

00:44:22.070 --> 00:44:25.489
and we we touched on it before with desires of

00:44:25.489 --> 00:44:28.849
power jesus spoke often to traditions to religious

00:44:28.849 --> 00:44:31.469
burdens that people were putting on others It

00:44:31.469 --> 00:44:33.710
was all about the heart. When I think of baptism,

00:44:33.989 --> 00:44:36.130
when I called out to the Lord, as we all have

00:44:36.130 --> 00:44:39.210
our testimony, this was something that happened

00:44:39.210 --> 00:44:43.949
inside of me that now what happened on the inside

00:44:43.949 --> 00:44:45.789
is now I read the scripture and it says, now

00:44:45.789 --> 00:44:48.889
be baptized. So something had already occurred

00:44:48.889 --> 00:44:53.010
within me that led me to want to be submerged

00:44:53.010 --> 00:44:57.050
in the water. Yeah, there was some inward change

00:44:57.050 --> 00:44:59.889
to it. That's it's imperative because without

00:44:59.889 --> 00:45:04.510
that, That's the Spirit of God working in you

00:45:04.510 --> 00:45:06.750
and then leading you, as we spoke before, into

00:45:06.750 --> 00:45:09.630
all truths, and this is the truth, to be baptized.

00:45:12.369 --> 00:45:15.730
So baptism, this idea of immersion, this idea

00:45:15.730 --> 00:45:17.510
that it's happening to all of us and it's something

00:45:17.510 --> 00:45:21.530
that's inside. This idea of baptism wasn't new

00:45:21.530 --> 00:45:24.190
in the New Testament. Yeah, they did it in the

00:45:24.190 --> 00:45:25.750
Old Testament. They did it in the Old Testament.

00:45:26.369 --> 00:45:28.730
Yeah, so there was language of this idea of a

00:45:28.730 --> 00:45:33.170
rebirth. of a total and complete cleansing. And

00:45:33.170 --> 00:45:35.969
you know, it's reported that the Jews, when they

00:45:35.969 --> 00:45:38.139
would practice this, would go into the water

00:45:38.139 --> 00:45:42.199
and they would curl up into a ball to closely

00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:48.260
resemble what a baby looks like inside of the

00:45:48.260 --> 00:45:53.039
womb to try to get this idea of if I can be reborn,

00:45:53.219 --> 00:45:57.280
if I can go back to the time of innocence when

00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:01.900
I was in the womb. Nicodemus asks this question,

00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:06.320
how can I be born again? Yes. Can I go into my

00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:09.139
mother's memory? And this is the allusion to

00:46:09.139 --> 00:46:13.719
that Hebrew mindset for that tradition that we

00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:16.320
see. So the baptism that I think that we're talking

00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:18.780
about is the baptism of a born -again experience

00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:21.679
of baptism of repentance. But then we're also

00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:23.900
talking about baptism where you're going to be

00:46:23.900 --> 00:46:28.260
doomed with power. So different baptism. So we

00:46:28.260 --> 00:46:31.039
got to understand this. There is not one type

00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:34.760
of baptism or essence of baptism in scripture.

00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.659
Same spirit. Same spirit. There's one Lord, there's

00:46:38.659 --> 00:46:42.920
one baptism, but that baptism into God has almost

00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:46.420
described in scripture as multiple components

00:46:46.420 --> 00:46:49.679
almost. So we have to understand them because

00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:52.000
listen, I want to encourage you because God is

00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.900
so good, His grace is so good, and there is so

00:46:54.900 --> 00:46:57.340
much more that we should be experiencing in the

00:46:57.340 --> 00:47:00.079
Christian life than what the church is experiencing,

00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:03.420
even preaching about. And, you know, let's talk

00:47:03.420 --> 00:47:04.699
about the first one, though. Yeah, go ahead.

00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:06.900
I think where you're talking about, some people

00:47:06.900 --> 00:47:10.659
have stopped in the baptism of repentance, as

00:47:10.659 --> 00:47:14.639
far as they got. Right. There's more than that.

00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:17.340
There's that baptism and that submerging in power.

00:47:17.659 --> 00:47:20.820
And I think I shared this a little bit before

00:47:20.820 --> 00:47:24.920
in reference to salvation. Going again, that's

00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:28.679
inwardly. For me, that's salvation. Now you're

00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:32.460
submerged. That's for others. That's that endowment

00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:36.179
of power. That's the Acts 1 -8 kind of thing.

00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:41.239
He said wait, tarry, right? And until what you

00:47:41.239 --> 00:47:44.960
receive is the Holy Spirit. Here's what's interesting

00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:46.639
and reference to this baptism. We're talking

00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:48.119
about baptism now. We're not talking about the

00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:49.840
baptism of repentance. We're talking about the

00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:53.139
baptism with the endowment with power. And it's

00:47:53.139 --> 00:47:56.420
interesting in the book of Acts 1 -8, it talks

00:47:56.420 --> 00:48:00.840
about you should be a witness unto me. It's not

00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:04.019
knocking on a door. and speaking about it. That's

00:48:04.019 --> 00:48:06.340
not why you need power to knock on the door.

00:48:06.980 --> 00:48:10.039
So that word witness is the word it's used in

00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:12.900
the court of law. It's to testify or witness

00:48:12.900 --> 00:48:15.719
on behalf of somebody. So it says witness unto

00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:18.719
me. meaning you better have some evidence. If

00:48:18.719 --> 00:48:21.719
you don't talk about, I'm gonna do it with power

00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:23.980
so that you can have evidence and show people

00:48:23.980 --> 00:48:26.679
that I am who I say I am. So let's circle back

00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:28.820
to our conversation. You have evidence that you

00:48:28.820 --> 00:48:31.659
are with God, that God is with you, that God

00:48:31.659 --> 00:48:35.219
is in you, that the spirit of truth dwells in

00:48:35.219 --> 00:48:38.440
you, the spirit of holiness dwells in you. You're

00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:41.539
witnessing the work of Jesus Christ. I encountered

00:48:41.539 --> 00:48:44.460
him. I'm different now. I'm not the way that

00:48:44.460 --> 00:48:46.119
I was. And you bear witness to all your friends

00:48:46.119 --> 00:48:48.500
who used to know you the way you were and say,

00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:50.639
what's different about you? And now I can bear

00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:52.739
witness and say, this is what happened to me.

00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:54.920
I called out to the Lord and he heard me. He

00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:56.940
changed me from the inside. I'm down right now.

00:48:57.420 --> 00:49:01.179
So let's go to, and by the way, guys, this is

00:49:01.179 --> 00:49:03.599
like an important conversation because this is

00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:05.840
fundamental to the Great Commission. Jesus said,

00:49:05.980 --> 00:49:08.329
therefore go out into all the world. right? And

00:49:08.329 --> 00:49:10.110
he said to make disciples. And what did he do?

00:49:10.250 --> 00:49:12.730
He commended, baptize them in the name of the

00:49:12.730 --> 00:49:14.769
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. What did

00:49:14.769 --> 00:49:18.690
I talk about? Completely come under the authority

00:49:18.690 --> 00:49:25.940
of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit.

00:49:26.219 --> 00:49:29.000
You see, if we leave that off as a side doctrine,

00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:31.219
we're not even understanding the Great Commission.

00:49:31.340 --> 00:49:32.920
We don't have the fullness. We don't have the

00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:35.440
fullness. So we're coming underneath the authority

00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:39.539
of the triune God, God the Father, God the Son,

00:49:39.699 --> 00:49:44.820
and God the Holy Spirit. You're baptized in the

00:49:44.820 --> 00:49:48.420
Trinity. You're baptized in every one of the

00:49:48.420 --> 00:49:51.880
persons of God. He comes and seals everything,

00:49:51.980 --> 00:49:54.269
the Holy Spirit, because He's a seal. You're

00:49:54.269 --> 00:49:57.769
baptized into a family. Yes. Yes. That's right.

00:49:57.769 --> 00:50:01.110
A body. Romans 8 .15, where it's the cry out

00:50:01.110 --> 00:50:05.849
the spirit of adoption. Why would I call you

00:50:05.849 --> 00:50:07.530
brother if we don't have the same father? Yeah,

00:50:07.530 --> 00:50:11.389
that's right. And that's why, you know, we, I

00:50:11.389 --> 00:50:15.090
want to get to Matthew three, but you know what?

00:50:15.190 --> 00:50:17.409
Because like, let's understand the ministry here.

00:50:17.550 --> 00:50:23.909
The Holy Spirit is bringing us to the sun. The

00:50:23.909 --> 00:50:27.849
Son of God is bringing us to the Father. But

00:50:27.849 --> 00:50:30.289
here's what's amazing. And now we become adopted

00:50:30.289 --> 00:50:34.289
children of the Father. But here's what's amazing.

00:50:34.449 --> 00:50:38.809
The Father is the one that sent the Son. And

00:50:38.809 --> 00:50:43.570
the Son is the one that sent the Holy Spirit.

00:50:44.530 --> 00:50:49.150
So you have this beautiful movement from heaven

00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:52.659
down to earth and the Holy Spirit's on the earth

00:50:52.659 --> 00:50:56.599
leading us to the Son who leads us to the Father.

00:50:56.800 --> 00:50:59.800
And so we have to understand this idea of baptism

00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:04.579
because when we understand the movement of God

00:51:04.579 --> 00:51:10.480
to man and the movement of man to God, we see

00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:17.300
the baptisms inside of those movements. So let's

00:51:17.300 --> 00:51:20.059
go to Matthew. But then, you know, you see the

00:51:20.059 --> 00:51:23.599
word proceeding from God. Yes. Right. The word

00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:26.780
doesn't return to him void. That's right. So

00:51:26.780 --> 00:51:29.400
he sends the word. All of this is happening and

00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:32.880
it returns to him. And part of the witness is

00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:37.570
we say, the promise reached to me. The promise

00:51:37.570 --> 00:51:41.230
reached to me, even me. That's why Peter in Acts

00:51:41.230 --> 00:51:44.710
2 was preaching, this is a promise, it's the

00:51:44.710 --> 00:51:47.289
normal expression of Christianity. So you know

00:51:47.289 --> 00:51:49.650
what's great? There was no Methodist movement

00:51:49.650 --> 00:51:55.269
then, no Presbyterian, no Pentecostals, no Charismatic,

00:51:55.949 --> 00:52:00.289
these carnal divisions that Paul spoke to them.

00:52:00.980 --> 00:52:04.639
We're not even in existence yet. That's why,

00:52:04.659 --> 00:52:07.019
listen, that's why as a network, as a gospel

00:52:07.019 --> 00:52:09.800
mission network, we do our best to go back to

00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:12.400
the early church. We do our best to go back to

00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:14.960
when it was simple. And I even want to speak

00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:16.900
to leaders right now because maybe you've been

00:52:16.900 --> 00:52:21.139
to a process that may have been very, very blessed,

00:52:21.139 --> 00:52:24.960
but I just want to gently guard our hearts because

00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:32.070
we have to go to the original text. that is helping

00:52:32.070 --> 00:52:36.809
paint the picture of these truths and then evaluate

00:52:36.809 --> 00:52:40.150
the traditions that we've come from. We can't

00:52:40.150 --> 00:52:44.650
evaluate the scripture through the lens of the

00:52:44.650 --> 00:52:46.909
traditions that we've come from. We've got to

00:52:46.909 --> 00:52:49.510
look at the Word of God and do that theology

00:52:49.510 --> 00:52:52.750
afresh to really see what it's teaching. One

00:52:52.750 --> 00:52:56.789
body, one spirit. That's right. What was originally

00:52:56.789 --> 00:52:59.909
taught and then let us figure out what to do

00:52:59.909 --> 00:53:02.889
with that. Yeah, all right, Matthew chapter three.

00:53:03.989 --> 00:53:07.449
I hear this all the time, and I grew up with

00:53:07.449 --> 00:53:11.989
this tradition. So here, guys, we're gonna do,

00:53:12.150 --> 00:53:13.929
we're gonna hopefully break a religious mindset

00:53:13.929 --> 00:53:17.070
about something. How many of us have heard about

00:53:17.070 --> 00:53:20.889
water baptism? Everybody, right? Yes. Yeah, it's

00:53:20.889 --> 00:53:24.510
actually called water baptism. This is not actually

00:53:24.510 --> 00:53:26.610
what I would say is a scriptural description

00:53:26.610 --> 00:53:29.210
of the first type of baptism We're gonna go over

00:53:29.210 --> 00:53:35.329
let's go to Matthew 3 verse 11 John the Baptist

00:53:35.329 --> 00:53:39.769
is Preparing the way of the Lord and he says

00:53:39.769 --> 00:53:47.829
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance

00:53:47.829 --> 00:53:52.670
I'd like to hear your thoughts about this because

00:53:52.670 --> 00:53:56.570
the water is only the symbol. I hear I hear that

00:53:56.570 --> 00:54:01.309
there. Were you done? Yeah, no, no, no, no. It's

00:54:01.309 --> 00:54:04.250
OK. It's OK. I like like precedes the water now

00:54:04.250 --> 00:54:07.250
is something I'm not just getting you wet. Correct.

00:54:07.309 --> 00:54:10.190
What's the reason? So now now from from within

00:54:10.190 --> 00:54:13.030
you should be repentance. That's right. So this

00:54:13.030 --> 00:54:15.050
is this is the beginning. It's not I'm done.

00:54:15.170 --> 00:54:17.409
I'm good. Yeah. Now we can get let's get started.

00:54:17.570 --> 00:54:21.199
That's why the baptism of John. is not a baptism

00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:26.219
of water. It's a baptism with water. John's focus

00:54:26.219 --> 00:54:30.880
wasn't the water. John's focus was the repentance.

00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:33.800
This is going back to what we heard Peter preach

00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:38.760
in Acts chapter 2. He said, repent. Right? And

00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:40.820
how many times the Bible say this? We also see

00:54:40.820 --> 00:54:43.300
this in other places. Repent and be baptized.

00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:47.820
The repentant. is the focus. Repentance in no

00:54:47.820 --> 00:54:49.960
more. That's the greater thing happening. Yes.

00:54:50.579 --> 00:54:55.119
So this first repentant, this first baptism is

00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:58.780
more scripturally a baptism of repentance. And

00:54:58.780 --> 00:55:01.460
I believe the Lord is really working in our heart

00:55:01.460 --> 00:55:04.280
through this process. Through this process, I

00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:07.119
mean, of working out in us these things that

00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:09.340
are lacking. Paul would say, till Christ is formed

00:55:09.340 --> 00:55:12.280
in you. But this idea of repentance through baptism

00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:14.920
is something's changed within me, now I'm going

00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:18.019
to align myself with the Spirit of God who is

00:55:18.019 --> 00:55:21.280
now teaching me the Word and now what I do next.

00:55:21.639 --> 00:55:24.440
Yes, yes. But, I mean, isn't it also a big change

00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:27.500
of mind? Yes. You know, good leaders signal ahead,

00:55:27.780 --> 00:55:30.619
hey, there's a change coming up. Yes. God's signal,

00:55:30.739 --> 00:55:33.039
there's a big change coming right now. Yes, that's

00:55:33.039 --> 00:55:35.099
right. Paul says be transformed by the written

00:55:35.099 --> 00:55:38.019
way of your life. So they were so used to Well,

00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:41.260
godliness is about what I do and acting the right

00:55:41.260 --> 00:55:43.820
way and fulfilling the, you know, what the law

00:55:43.820 --> 00:55:47.079
says. And this was a major shift that had to

00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:49.019
happen in their mind as well as in the heart,

00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:51.820
because this is a, you know, they had to completely

00:55:51.820 --> 00:55:55.639
change their mind about what salvation was actually

00:55:55.639 --> 00:55:58.320
about. That's repentance in Greek metnoia, a

00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:01.659
change of mind. I like it, right? I think the

00:56:01.659 --> 00:56:04.119
first part is the first part of repentance. But

00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:05.940
when Jesus came in, he didn't just say repent.

00:56:06.329 --> 00:56:09.409
it shall repent for the kingdom of God is at

00:56:09.409 --> 00:56:13.989
hand. So the first part of repentance is changing

00:56:13.989 --> 00:56:18.510
realms, changing realms. Now, the second part

00:56:18.510 --> 00:56:20.590
of it is now living from that realm, which is

00:56:20.590 --> 00:56:24.909
the kingdom, invading the earth. One realm invading,

00:56:25.230 --> 00:56:27.989
I love that, you know, I got that from passage.

00:56:29.389 --> 00:56:33.070
But you see how simple it is, right? So the first

00:56:33.070 --> 00:56:35.820
part is changing realms. And now in the second

00:56:35.820 --> 00:56:37.760
part, which is the kingdom is living from that

00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:40.079
realm. That's where Metanoia comes in. So I got

00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:43.280
to change my thinking according to what he says.

00:56:43.860 --> 00:56:45.920
And I think at the heart of the idea of repentance

00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:48.920
is not changed behavior. It's a change of lordship.

00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:54.280
Yes. I'm recognizing Jesus Christ as Lord. And

00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:59.340
because he's Lord, because he's Lord, I now think

00:56:59.340 --> 00:57:03.619
differently. I now. view, truth, different. And

00:57:03.619 --> 00:57:07.900
the spirit of truth is bringing things from the

00:57:07.900 --> 00:57:12.300
Lord, the Holy Spirit. And now we're like, wait,

00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:15.300
okay, I used to live this way, now I'm gonna

00:57:15.300 --> 00:57:19.539
live this way. So it starts with Lordship, and

00:57:19.539 --> 00:57:24.219
then it shows up in behavior change. But to have

00:57:24.219 --> 00:57:29.210
the Holy Spirit, To have the Holy Spirit, you

00:57:29.210 --> 00:57:35.829
can't change behavior without Lordship. You can't

00:57:35.829 --> 00:57:38.070
make everything nice and neat in the outside

00:57:38.070 --> 00:57:42.309
and then say, okay, God, I want your promise.

00:57:43.409 --> 00:57:48.449
The promise is to those who repent. So a lot

00:57:48.449 --> 00:57:51.230
of people don't have the Holy Spirit because

00:57:51.230 --> 00:57:53.030
they have not repented. It's the first step and

00:57:53.030 --> 00:57:55.170
it's the first baptism. And that's where it all

00:57:55.170 --> 00:57:58.719
starts. it starts at repentance because you know

00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:01.099
we all been through that we were in the world

00:58:01.099 --> 00:58:04.119
and then we came and the first thing that we

00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:07.980
did was repent because it's amazing how the Holy

00:58:07.980 --> 00:58:11.760
Spirit it's already at work in us even before

00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:15.739
we repent he's taking us to that place where

00:58:15.739 --> 00:58:19.000
he's saying look you're not in the right place

00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:22.400
this is what it is you know and it's just amazing

00:58:22.650 --> 00:58:27.230
how he ministers to us, and that's where everything

00:58:27.230 --> 00:58:30.869
takes place, and like you were saying, then he

00:58:30.869 --> 00:58:33.730
teaches us, he's teaching us, and how to have

00:58:33.730 --> 00:58:35.809
that relationship with him, because it's not

00:58:35.809 --> 00:58:38.730
like you say, oh, I'm ready now. No, it doesn't

00:58:38.730 --> 00:58:43.170
work that way. So, baptism of repentance is the

00:58:43.170 --> 00:58:44.929
first one. The second one that we need to think

00:58:44.929 --> 00:58:47.469
about, and again, is just another aspect of it.

00:58:47.730 --> 00:58:50.010
I want to look at Romans for a second, Romans

00:58:50.010 --> 00:58:56.349
6, 3 to 5. And this is a baptism that is the

00:58:56.349 --> 00:59:00.969
idea of being baptized into his body. There's

00:59:00.969 --> 00:59:03.170
more scriptures here, and I'm not talking baptized

00:59:03.170 --> 00:59:06.090
into a local church, I'm talking about you're

00:59:06.090 --> 00:59:09.429
being brought into that family. You're bringing

00:59:09.429 --> 00:59:11.210
brought into that. That's why even baptism is

00:59:11.210 --> 00:59:16.030
a public profession to the others that are saved.

00:59:16.829 --> 00:59:21.130
I also... have turned my life over. I've repented

00:59:21.130 --> 00:59:24.670
and you're being brought into this idea of inclusion

00:59:24.670 --> 00:59:27.710
into the family. It's happening when you're repenting.

00:59:27.789 --> 00:59:30.070
It's happening. But the scriptures are helping

00:59:30.070 --> 00:59:33.369
us understand it. But in Romans six, three, it

00:59:33.369 --> 00:59:35.710
says, or do you not know that as many of us as

00:59:35.710 --> 00:59:40.289
we're baptized into Christ Jesus? Ah, this is

00:59:40.289 --> 00:59:43.690
a different baptism. Yes. And guys, listen, I

00:59:43.690 --> 00:59:45.510
know that I don't want anybody to get confused.

00:59:45.769 --> 00:59:49.110
we're only bringing out the details of Scripture,

00:59:49.289 --> 00:59:55.250
that we would understand the essence of the focus

00:59:55.250 --> 00:59:59.989
of the different aspects of baptism. But there

00:59:59.989 --> 01:00:04.730
is one baptism in Christianity. So listen, it

01:00:04.730 --> 01:00:08.510
says, or do you not know that as many of you

01:00:08.510 --> 01:00:12.750
as were baptized into Christ Jesus, So we're

01:00:12.750 --> 01:00:17.250
baptized unto repentance. That's talking about

01:00:17.250 --> 01:00:21.989
leaving. Yes. But baptized into Christ Jesus

01:00:21.989 --> 01:00:27.269
means I'm immersed in Him. Amen. Not natural

01:00:27.269 --> 01:00:30.309
water. But also within each other, right? Because

01:00:30.309 --> 01:00:32.429
we're His body. So it's not just because we're

01:00:32.429 --> 01:00:36.369
in Christ. That's right. I'm baptized into Christ

01:00:36.369 --> 01:00:38.690
in reference to a body. That's right. Corporate.

01:00:38.750 --> 01:00:41.050
Corporate. So one of the things that we deal

01:00:41.050 --> 01:00:43.929
with is a lot of people that they're, it's just

01:00:43.929 --> 01:00:47.170
me and God. It's just me and Jesus. That's so

01:00:47.170 --> 01:00:50.230
umbilical. So this repentance is highlighting

01:00:50.230 --> 01:00:52.849
the importance of saying, yeah, there's a repentance

01:00:52.849 --> 01:00:56.210
into a family and not just, oh, it's just me

01:00:56.210 --> 01:00:58.789
and Jesus. He tells you, or even the Holy Spirit.

01:00:59.269 --> 01:01:00.550
Most of the time, the Holy Spirit ain't telling

01:01:00.550 --> 01:01:04.019
you that. We are a body, so we need each other.

01:01:04.219 --> 01:01:07.360
Even the word says, you know, the I cannot tell

01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:10.079
that you're oh, I don't need you. And this this

01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:11.920
language is all throughout scripture. Even it

01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:16.329
says we were engrafted. into Israel, right? We're

01:01:16.329 --> 01:01:19.889
made part of this idea of I'm an individual.

01:01:20.510 --> 01:01:22.030
Listen, I want to speak to you because maybe

01:01:22.030 --> 01:01:24.269
you're alone. Maybe you're going through difficulties

01:01:24.269 --> 01:01:26.590
and you're like, I have my Bible at home. I want

01:01:26.590 --> 01:01:28.869
to tell you amen to that. But you need to have

01:01:28.869 --> 01:01:32.090
your Bible with family. That's why God's church

01:01:32.090 --> 01:01:35.949
is called a household of God. It's his household.

01:01:36.070 --> 01:01:39.070
And what's in his household? His sons and daughters.

01:01:39.570 --> 01:01:42.329
And who's dwelling in them? The Holy Spirit.

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That's why we come together like this, and this

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is what our church does, this is what our network

01:01:46.809 --> 01:01:49.650
does. We study together, we look through scripture

01:01:49.650 --> 01:01:52.929
together, and we learn together. Amen? This speaks

01:01:52.929 --> 01:01:56.110
about identity also, Pastor. You've been from

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something. You've been translated out of darkness.

01:01:58.210 --> 01:02:00.849
You said before you left. You left the darks.

01:02:01.489 --> 01:02:04.170
Now you're engrafted into the body of Christ

01:02:04.170 --> 01:02:06.869
through covenant, and your identity is now son

01:02:06.869 --> 01:02:11.019
and daughter. Amen. just church member, right?

01:02:12.059 --> 01:02:13.840
That's why we don't even utilize that language

01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:19.360
much. Listen, if we've been baptized into his

01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:22.360
family, then I'm a son. You're a daughter, we're

01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:25.079
sons, we're brothers and sisters. Let's just

01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:26.599
unpack this a little bit further before we go

01:02:26.599 --> 01:02:28.619
to the last one that we're going to cover today.

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It says, therefore, verse four, Romans six, four,

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therefore we were buried with him through baptism

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into death. that just as Christ was raised from

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the dead by the glory of the Father, even so

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we also should walk in newness of life. For if

01:02:45.659 --> 01:02:48.179
we have been united together in the likeness

01:02:48.179 --> 01:02:52.460
of his death, certainly we also shall be in the

01:02:52.460 --> 01:02:55.420
likeness of his resurrection. So this idea of

01:02:55.420 --> 01:02:59.639
buried with him in baptism is... through many

01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:02.460
scriptures, but Galatians 3 .27, it says, for

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as many of you as were baptized into Christ.

01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:09.099
You see, that's giving more information than

01:03:09.099 --> 01:03:12.159
just baptized into repentance with water. That's

01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:14.440
saying I'm baptized into Christ. I'm immersed

01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:21.739
in Christ. He died. I'm in him. He rose. I'm

01:03:21.739 --> 01:03:23.800
in him. Start saying it's no longer I who live.

01:03:25.410 --> 01:03:29.050
So Paul is saying, you know, in Romans six, four,

01:03:29.510 --> 01:03:32.610
that we're not just baptized in leading something.

01:03:32.989 --> 01:03:36.670
We're baptized into a new life and baptized into

01:03:36.670 --> 01:03:40.650
Christ. So the Holy Spirit, in my understanding

01:03:40.650 --> 01:03:44.269
of scripture, is indwelling in defile temples.

01:03:44.269 --> 01:03:47.570
Right. And what's happening actually in the gospel,

01:03:47.650 --> 01:03:52.539
guys, is the father sends Jesus. that we may

01:03:52.539 --> 01:03:56.219
go through a cleanse, the forgiveness of our

01:03:56.219 --> 01:03:59.760
sins by His sacrifice on the cross. His blood

01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:03.880
is washing and cleansing us. But something else

01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:07.239
happens. Now we're rebirthed. If you've ever

01:04:07.239 --> 01:04:10.360
heard that saying, born again Christian, it literally

01:04:10.360 --> 01:04:15.199
means that God is birthing a new creation made

01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:19.699
from His Spirit within us. And so now we have

01:04:19.699 --> 01:04:24.159
our life in the natural world, but we have who

01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:26.320
we really are and that's our born again spirit.

01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:29.099
This is so critical that Jesus even said, you

01:04:29.099 --> 01:04:32.940
must be born again in order to see the kingdom

01:04:32.940 --> 01:04:37.360
of God. And so now this new creation is being

01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.840
birthed and what's happening? Kind of think of

01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:46.579
it like your body is your outer shell and inside.

01:04:46.909 --> 01:04:53.010
is the new creation. And inside the new creation

01:04:53.010 --> 01:05:00.650
is the Holy Spirit. And so that's why you see

01:05:00.650 --> 01:05:03.630
first the Father send the Son, the Son is cleansing

01:05:03.630 --> 01:05:06.699
humanity, those who believe. those who receive,

01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:10.780
Jesus is now Lord, and now they've become birthed,

01:05:10.780 --> 01:05:15.400
and now the Holy Spirit is able to imbue the

01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:19.059
new creation. He will convict, now that he's

01:05:19.059 --> 01:05:21.659
in your sin, righteousness, and justice, so this

01:05:21.659 --> 01:05:25.920
Holy Spirit is now convicting us within us, which

01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:29.380
wasn't there in our... in the life that we were

01:05:29.380 --> 01:05:31.519
dead in sin and trespasses. It wasn't there before.

01:05:31.860 --> 01:05:34.360
So here's what's powerful. And we're going to

01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:36.380
get to the last one here, and we're probably

01:05:36.380 --> 01:05:38.679
going to meet again at some point and unpack

01:05:38.679 --> 01:05:42.059
more about that third baptism. But it's the idea

01:05:42.059 --> 01:05:45.699
of the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a separate,

01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:51.699
distinct event from being saved. And this is

01:05:51.699 --> 01:05:56.900
the releasing of the power. of the Holy Spirit

01:05:56.900 --> 01:06:01.380
in the born again believer's life. And so I'd

01:06:01.380 --> 01:06:05.940
like to go to the scripture quickly. And again,

01:06:05.940 --> 01:06:08.019
we're just going to look at this a little bit,

01:06:08.019 --> 01:06:12.840
but we see different evidences where even the

01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:16.739
disciples, Jesus sees them in John 20, the Gospel

01:06:16.739 --> 01:06:19.880
of John, and he says he breathed on them and

01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:23.320
he received the Holy Spirit. Yes. When we get

01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:27.260
saved, we have received, praise God, the Holy

01:06:27.260 --> 01:06:31.780
Spirit. Everybody who has gone through the baptism

01:06:31.780 --> 01:06:35.139
with water unto repentance receives the Holy

01:06:35.139 --> 01:06:38.699
Spirit and what we become baptized into Christ.

01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:44.079
But we see in Acts chapter eight, and we'll go

01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:47.860
there together, that you could have the baptism

01:06:47.860 --> 01:06:54.849
of John. and not necessarily have the fullness

01:06:54.849 --> 01:07:00.170
of the experience as in the first century church.

01:07:01.110 --> 01:07:05.670
And so I want to take a look at this. And if

01:07:05.670 --> 01:07:09.929
you find it with me, it's when they said, do

01:07:09.929 --> 01:07:14.349
you have the baptism? And they said, we only

01:07:14.349 --> 01:07:19.260
have the baptism of John the Baptist. Yeah, they

01:07:19.260 --> 01:07:22.179
didn't even know the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

01:07:22.260 --> 01:07:24.280
We didn't even heard of the baptism of the Holy

01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:26.800
Spirit. Right. No, the baptism of John. That's

01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:28.800
right. And so we're gonna go there in a second

01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:31.880
when we find it, but Carlos, you know, in your

01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:35.559
experience, did you receive, and anybody I can

01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:38.920
ask this before we go to that text, did you receive

01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:45.920
a separate experience with signs following or

01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:49.059
with evidence or with this idea of saying well

01:07:49.059 --> 01:07:52.760
I got saved and then this this next infilling

01:07:52.760 --> 01:07:55.559
happened this next release happened has that

01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:59.719
happened to you guys I think my experience was

01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:02.300
really different I had a radical encounter so

01:08:02.300 --> 01:08:06.199
like my conversion was like like radical I was

01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:09.840
walking in the prophetic I was getting revelation

01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:12.760
through the scriptures I was getting more of

01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:16.939
a sense of Raymer than Logos. But I had such

01:08:16.939 --> 01:08:20.260
a fear of God, then I wanted to make sure that

01:08:20.260 --> 01:08:23.819
the Raymer was God. Because you got to like,

01:08:23.939 --> 01:08:26.180
Oh yeah, I feel this, you know, that God is telling

01:08:26.180 --> 01:08:28.539
me this. And I was doing that, but I didn't know

01:08:28.539 --> 01:08:31.199
the scriptures. So I wanted to make sure that

01:08:31.199 --> 01:08:33.159
if it's the Lord, it's not going to contradict.

01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:36.800
I had that sense of fear of God to not just be

01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:38.359
throwing it out there like, oh yeah, God told

01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:41.020
me this, and it's not in the scriptures. Well,

01:08:41.020 --> 01:08:43.060
I found the verse that I was thinking about,

01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:45.579
it's Acts chapter eight. I was in the right chapter,

01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:49.460
just needed help getting to the specific scripture,

01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:53.000
but verse 12, it says, but when they believed

01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:55.640
Philip as he preached the things concerning the

01:08:55.640 --> 01:08:58.260
kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,

01:08:59.060 --> 01:09:01.310
both men and women were baptized. All right,

01:09:01.310 --> 01:09:03.409
so we got that. So baptism happened when the

01:09:03.409 --> 01:09:06.170
preaching took place, verse 13. Then Simon himself

01:09:06.170 --> 01:09:09.229
also believed. And when he was baptized, he continued

01:09:09.229 --> 01:09:12.670
with Philip and was amazed seeing the miracles

01:09:12.670 --> 01:09:16.149
and signs which were done. Now, verse 14. Now,

01:09:16.149 --> 01:09:19.090
when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard

01:09:19.090 --> 01:09:23.909
that Samaria had received the word of God, they

01:09:23.909 --> 01:09:26.909
sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had

01:09:26.909 --> 01:09:29.010
come down, prayed for them that they might receive

01:09:29.010 --> 01:09:33.949
the Holy Spirit. for as yet he had fallen upon

01:09:33.949 --> 01:09:38.989
none of them. They had only been baptized in

01:09:38.989 --> 01:09:44.970
the name of the Lord Jesus. Verse 17, then they

01:09:44.970 --> 01:09:48.770
laid hands on them and they received the Holy

01:09:48.770 --> 01:09:52.789
Spirit. You see, so this is evident. Jesus breathes

01:09:52.789 --> 01:09:55.109
on them and he says, receive the Holy Spirit.

01:09:55.329 --> 01:09:57.649
Book of Acts, he says, wait, don't leave Jerusalem

01:09:57.649 --> 01:10:00.810
until you receive. power. Acts chapter eight,

01:10:00.850 --> 01:10:03.149
the early church's understanding was, all right,

01:10:03.210 --> 01:10:06.489
let's send the guys from Jerusalem to Samaria.

01:10:07.109 --> 01:10:11.430
Oh, you only had the baptism of Jesus. Oh, okay.

01:10:11.689 --> 01:10:14.989
Let us lay hands on you. And they received the

01:10:14.989 --> 01:10:17.350
Holy Spirit. This is not a different Holy Spirit,

01:10:17.510 --> 01:10:20.430
right? There's only one Holy Spirit, but it's

01:10:20.430 --> 01:10:24.170
as if there's almost like releases of the things

01:10:24.170 --> 01:10:29.039
of the Holy Spirit. So we're going to take a

01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:33.000
break here and we're gonna need to unpack more

01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:36.439
of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy

01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:40.539
Spirit because these empowerments actually have

01:10:40.539 --> 01:10:44.199
gifts with evidence. And they should be operating

01:10:44.199 --> 01:10:47.479
in the church. And I wanna tell you, if I release

01:10:47.479 --> 01:10:49.920
these people to talk about what they've seen

01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:53.850
and what they've heard. and how it matches Scripture.

01:10:54.390 --> 01:10:57.829
In fact, all throughout the global testimony

01:10:57.829 --> 01:11:01.689
of the Church, we will see the very things that

01:11:01.689 --> 01:11:05.489
God said would happen through the empowerment

01:11:05.489 --> 01:11:09.010
or the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They're evidenced

01:11:09.010 --> 01:11:11.550
all over the globe. Yes, I know they're debated,

01:11:11.869 --> 01:11:15.630
but it's good and prudent to go and look and

01:11:15.630 --> 01:11:19.510
see if the signs that confirm the Word are happening

01:11:19.510 --> 01:11:22.979
in the earth. And so listen, it's been great

01:11:22.979 --> 01:11:27.859
having you guys. So wonderful for each of you

01:11:27.859 --> 01:11:30.039
to be here with us and to do this. We're going

01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:32.039
to have to get together again. We're going to

01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:34.960
have future guests. But guys, we refer to what

01:11:34.960 --> 01:11:37.979
just happened here as Bible speak. And this is

01:11:37.979 --> 01:11:41.039
just a special type of forum that we have to

01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:45.899
let the Bible speak from the scripture and it

01:11:45.899 --> 01:11:51.210
be released into conversation. around the text.

01:11:51.430 --> 01:11:53.289
We pray that you've been really, really blessed.

01:11:53.529 --> 01:11:57.609
And listen, at the taping of this episode of

01:11:57.609 --> 01:12:02.010
the Faith and Mission podcast, we're coming up

01:12:02.010 --> 01:12:06.050
to Pentecost Sunday, and we want to invite you

01:12:06.050 --> 01:12:10.109
to not just learn about Pentecost, which was

01:12:10.109 --> 01:12:12.510
the releasing of the Holy Spirit in the early

01:12:12.510 --> 01:12:16.300
Church, found in Acts chapter two. But we also

01:12:16.300 --> 01:12:20.920
want to invite you into the encounter because

01:12:20.920 --> 01:12:23.500
we're not talking about a philosophy. We're talking

01:12:23.500 --> 01:12:28.659
about the promise of the Father. And that's why

01:12:28.659 --> 01:12:32.039
this is a very real thing. The Holy Spirit is

01:12:32.039 --> 01:12:35.779
the one who's ministering healing to the brokenhearted.

01:12:36.119 --> 01:12:39.439
The Holy Spirit is the one who is setting captives

01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:42.960
free. The Holy Spirit is the one casting demons

01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:46.039
out of people. The Holy Spirit, according to

01:12:46.039 --> 01:12:49.819
Acts 10 .38, is the one that is bringing healing.

01:12:50.399 --> 01:12:53.659
And so we see these things in many churches who

01:12:53.659 --> 01:12:57.119
really adhere to the testimony of scripture are

01:12:57.119 --> 01:13:00.399
seeing. That's why we're constantly going back

01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:03.279
to the early church. And together we want to

01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:06.399
be a church of the word and we want to be a ministry

01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:09.640
of the spirit. And so we're very excited about

01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:13.680
that. So make sure you check out abundant grace

01:13:13.680 --> 01:13:16.319
in Rutherford, New Jersey. You could reach us

01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:19.479
at I want grace dot org. And guys, it's all about

01:13:19.479 --> 01:13:23.470
experiencing what Jesus Christ died. for us to

01:13:23.470 --> 01:13:26.170
experience. So many of you may not know, but

01:13:26.170 --> 01:13:28.770
we are a network, a gospel mission network, and

01:13:28.770 --> 01:13:31.430
we're a collection of churches and leaders and

01:13:31.430 --> 01:13:33.949
ministries gathered around the principles of

01:13:33.949 --> 01:13:37.380
the early church. But yeah, come visit our local

01:13:37.380 --> 01:13:40.520
church where really great things are happening.

01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:43.100
And if you're not near Rutherford, I would love

01:13:43.100 --> 01:13:46.539
for you to write in the comments, please send

01:13:46.539 --> 01:13:49.399
to me a church who believes this, who you can

01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:52.079
encounter, and we've got wonderful relationships

01:13:52.079 --> 01:13:55.300
not only in the United States but in other countries.

01:13:55.689 --> 01:13:58.590
And we will reach out and try to send you someplace

01:13:58.590 --> 01:14:02.250
that you can sit underneath the teaching of the

01:14:02.250 --> 01:14:05.550
scripture and live with and receive not only

01:14:05.550 --> 01:14:08.649
the baptism unto repentance, not only baptized

01:14:08.649 --> 01:14:13.590
into Christ in his body, but receive the infilling

01:14:13.590 --> 01:14:17.550
power of the Holy Spirit. And I want to encourage

01:14:17.550 --> 01:14:22.109
you. This is not just about a now. It's about

01:14:22.109 --> 01:14:25.829
your entire life. It's not just about an experience.

01:14:26.350 --> 01:14:29.329
It's about living it out the way Christ intended.

01:14:30.029 --> 01:14:32.970
So please reach out to us. If you've never received

01:14:32.970 --> 01:14:35.689
Jesus Christ before, and you say, I want more

01:14:35.689 --> 01:14:38.890
information, please put it in the comment. We'd

01:14:38.890 --> 01:14:41.710
love to connect one of our team members to you

01:14:41.710 --> 01:14:45.010
and help you even more fully understand the good

01:14:45.010 --> 01:14:48.970
news, the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's been an

01:14:48.970 --> 01:14:51.500
honor to be with you. And I'd also love to tell

01:14:51.500 --> 01:14:54.260
you about our Be Healed podcast, which by God's

01:14:54.260 --> 01:14:57.920
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01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:03.659
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01:15:03.659 --> 01:15:06.220
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01:15:06.220 --> 01:15:08.100
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