(297) “What Happens to Your Mouth When You Are Filled with the Holy Spirit?”

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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit

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has come upon you and you will be my witnesses

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in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and

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to the ends of the earth. So what happens when

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the Holy Spirit comes upon them? They get changed.

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Right. They're going to be witnesses. What happens

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to their mouth? It takes off. Yeah. When God

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touches your spirit, it comes out your mouth.

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God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring. so that we may

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engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so glad that you're with us. We are going

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to give you a peek into our devotional time today

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and how the Lord led us and what he's talking

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about in our spirits, what he's encouraging us

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with is what happens to your mouth when you're

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filled with the Holy Spirit. You might be surprised

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at where this is going to go. Thank you so much

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for joining us today. We're just delighted that

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you're with us. It's going to be a very exciting

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discussion that we're going to have and looking

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through Scripture, comparing Scripture with Scripture.

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But before we get started, we want to encourage

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And it's going to be a glorious time, a time

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God? Is that why you're listening to this podcast?

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Is it because you are getting fed and you like

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the meaty word of God? Well, you'll get. a huge

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dose of it at the convention, and an opportunity

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to meet other people that are of like precious

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faith. We have just an amazing array of speakers

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that'll be with us, Tony Kemp and Dean Braxton,

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Anna Werner. Claire McQueen and I will be speaking

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there, and it's just going to be an opportunity

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to worship with people from the nations, get

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connected with people from the nations, and just

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get a heart for the outpouring, get a special

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dose of more of God. So it's going to be glorious,

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and we encourage you to come. So this morning,

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in our devotions time, you know, we're recording

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this just before Christmas. to be broadcast,

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to be streamed. What do you call it? To be posted

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the next week, just before New Year's. And we

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were just continuing in our studies about Christmas

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and about, you know, this is a time when we remember

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the birth of Jesus. So we wanted to go back to

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the book of Luke once again. And we found a thread,

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a thread that was running through It's a very

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long chapter. If you haven't read it recently,

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it's over 80 verses. And there are several stories

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within it. And what we saw when we were reading

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this time, and I love the fact that you can read

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the same scripture time after time after time

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after time. You could still get more. You get

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something new. Yeah. So we saw something new

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about the different ones that were filled with

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the Holy Spirit during... this chapter. It starts

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with Zacharias in the temple, and how he has

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a visit from Gabriel, and he's not believing

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what Gabriel says, and Gabriel says, okay. No,

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what he was asking was, give me a sign. Give

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me a sign. Okay. He says, okay, here's your sign.

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You're going to be silent. It's time for you

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to be quiet. He was more merciful to Mary. Yes.

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Well, I think Mary was asking a different question.

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Mary was asking, How could this be? How can this

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be? Like, I don't understand. Zacharias was asking

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for a sign. Oh, okay. So, you know, it's kind

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of like, we've got some serious unbelief here.

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And for Mary, it was like, I don't understand.

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How does this work? How can I have a baby when

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I haven't had any relationship with a man? And

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she's engaged, but nothing's happened sexually

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there. Okay. So the thing that stood out to us

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was Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

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When she heard Mary greet her, you know, I'm

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sure Mary came to the door and said, Shalom.

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Yeah. Shalom, Elizabeth. And in that moment,

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John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit

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in her womb. Yes. Because that was prophesied.

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That's what Gabriel said was going to happen.

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But he couldn't talk, but he leaped. Yeah. It

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could be that he went kind of glove, glove or

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something. Glove, glove. I don't know if babies

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can make sounds in the womb or not. He leaped.

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He moved. She felt him doing calisthenics or

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something in her womb. I remember when I was

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expecting our daughter, and there was an occasion

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where I fell into the lake. And we were boating.

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I won't go into all the details. I think we've

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told that story before. But I fell in, and I'm

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looking up at the bottom of the boat and thinking,

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Philip doesn't swim well, and I can swim. I don't

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want him jumping in. I better get up to the surface

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so that he knows I'm okay. So, you know, I said,

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thrash, thrash, thrash, get up to the top. And

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I said, I'm okay. And then people came running

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and pulled me up onto the dock, and I felt our

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daughter thrashing. I mean, she experienced my

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adrenaline. And so, you know, a baby threshing

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in your womb, you know that there's something

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serious going on. And she was more than six months

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at that point. She had dreams for a while of

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drowning. Yeah, she did. She did. We prayed,

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but we had some serious issues with that one.

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Anyway, the point is that a baby in the womb

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can react to circumstances. And that's what happened

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with John. That's the point. The point is that

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John reacted. John received the Holy Spirit in

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that moment when Jesus in the womb showed up

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at his house. So, you know, there was already

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interaction between these cousins in the womb.

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Wireless. Yes, wireless. Absolutely. Yeah, there

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was an atmosphere of the presence of God that

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had come on Mary. So she was filled with the

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Holy Spirit, I would say. Yeah, the Holy Spirit's

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living in her. Yeah, the Holy Spirit in the flesh,

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fathered by the Holy Spirit. Jesus was in her

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womb. And so there was an infilling there. Just

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to go back to where Elizabeth was filled, Luke

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1. 41 to 45 from the ESV says, and when Elizabeth

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heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in

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her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy

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Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry. So

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here's what happened when she was filled with

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the Holy Spirit. What happened with her mouth?

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Well, she exclaimed, blessed are you among women

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and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why

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is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord

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should come to me? For behold, when the sound

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of your greeting came to my ears. The baby in

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my womb leaped for joy, and blessed is she who

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believed that there would be a fulfillment of

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that which was spoken to her from the Lord. Wow.

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So she's prophesying. So she gets filled with

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the Holy Spirit, and boom, out of her mouth comes

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prophecy. How did she know? How did she know

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that it was Mary? Well, she probably recognized

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Mary's voice. Yeah. But to be able to say, blessed

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is the fruit of your womb, Blessed are you among

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women, the mother of my Lord. I mean, how would

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she know that? Except I just came on spontaneous.

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Right, because the Holy Spirit came upon her.

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She was filled with the Holy Spirit. So you made

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the comment this morning when we were studying

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this, that the first person to be filled with

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the Holy Spirit in the New Testament was Elizabeth.

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And she prophesied. She prophesied, yeah. That's

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pretty good, you know. Yeah, it wasn't on the

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Temple Mount, no. No. It wasn't Jerusalem. I

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think the name of the town that is the traditional

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place that Elizabeth and Zacharias lived was

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Ankarim, which is a suburb of Jerusalem. The

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priests didn't necessarily live in Jerusalem,

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but he was close by, Zacharias, I mean. So anyway,

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so Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit, and

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in this exchange. You know, they're both being

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moved by the Holy Spirit in that moment. They're

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prophesying to each other, kind of. And Mary

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responds with, oh, how my soul praises the Lord.

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This is from the New Living Translation. How

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my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he took

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notice of his lowly servant girl. And from now

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on, all generations will call me blessed. For

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the mighty one is holy. And he has done great

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things for me. He shows mercy. from generation

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to generation to all who fear him. His mighty

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arm has done tremendous things. He has scattered

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the proud and haughty ones. He has brought down

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princes from their thrones and exalted the humble.

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You know, she could have been seeing in the spirit

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to what was going to be going on in the heavenlies

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as Jesus overcame the... Powers of darkness,

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right? Yeah. He has brought down princes from

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their thrones and exalted the humble. He has

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filled the hungry with good things and sent the

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rich away with empty hands. So it's like the

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servant of the boat. Yeah. Yeah. He has helped

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his servant Israel and remembered to be merciful.

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For he made this promise to our ancestors, to

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Abraham and his children forever. Yeah. Doesn't

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change. Doesn't change. You know, God didn't

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throw away the Jewish people. He didn't throw

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away Israel. Just get that out of your head.

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If you've been taught that, it's not true. So

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after John the Baptist is born, then comes Zacharias'

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turn to be filled with the Holy Spirit. He was

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quiet for all those nine months. This was in

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the midst of people. Yes. So we're still in Luke

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chapter 1, verses 57 to 79 tells this part of

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the story. Now the time had come for Elizabeth.

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to give birth, and she had a son. Then her neighbors

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and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her

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great mercy, and they rejoiced with her. When

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they came to circumcise the child on the eighth

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day, they were going to name him Zechariah after

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his father. But his mother responded, no, he

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will be called John. Then they said to her, none

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of your relatives has that name. So they motioned

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to his father to find out what he wanted him

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to be called. Now, it's interesting to me He

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was not able to speak, but it doesn't mean that

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he was deaf. So I don't know why they were motioning

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to him. They couldn't just ask him. So he asked

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for a writing tablet and wrote, his name is John.

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And they were all amazed. Immediately his mouth

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was opened and his tongue set free and he began

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to speak, praising God. Fear came on all those

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who lived around them and all these things were

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being talked about throughout the hill country

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of Judea. All who heard about it took it to heart,

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saying, What then will this child become? For

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indeed the Lord's hand was with him. Then his

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father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit

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and prophesied. Okay, so here's what happens

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to his mouth when he gets filled with the Holy

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Spirit. He prophesies. Blessed is the Lord, the

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God of Israel, because he has visited and provided

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redemption for his people. He has raised up a

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horn of salvation for us in the house of his

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servant David, just as he spoke by the mouth

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of his holy prophets in ancient times. Pause

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there for just a second. Think about Mary came

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when Elizabeth was in her sixth month, and Zacharias

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would have been home. He would have been there,

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okay? Yeah, because his course didn't start yet.

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So when she's retelling the story of what happened

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when Gabriel appeared to her, I mean, his eyes

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must have gotten wide because he saw the same

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angel. Ooh, yeah, Gabriel. Yeah, he saw Gabriel.

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Gabriel gave this message to him. So it's like,

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oh, this is bigger than I thought. So going on,

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he prophesied. He's raised up a horn of salvation

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for us in the house of his servant David, just

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as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets

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in ancient times. Salvation from our enemies

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and from the hand of those who hate us. He has

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dealt mercifully with our ancestors and remembered

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his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our father

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Abraham to grant that we, having been rescued

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from the hand of our enemies, would serve him

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without fear in holiness and righteousness in

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his presence all our days. And you, child, will

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be called a prophet of the Most High, for you

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will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

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to give his people knowledge of salvation through

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the forgiveness of their sins. Because of our

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God's merciful compassion, the dawn from on high

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will visit us to shine on those who live in darkness

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and the shadow of death to guide our feet in

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the way of peace. Wow. That's huge. That's huge.

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That's huge. He was speaking as a prophet of

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the Lord in that moment in his home or wherever

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it was that they were circumcising John the Baptist.

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I don't know whether that was done. At the temple?

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Probably not the temple, but probably the local

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synagogue. It kind of sounds like the people

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came to their house to do it. Okay, yeah. So

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this is the beginnings of the New Testament.

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But there are numerous times in the Old Testament

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where it talks about how the Holy Spirit came

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upon people or filled them and what was the result.

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Okay, let's look at what happened to their mouths.

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So in Numbers 11, 24 to 29, we've got the 70

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elders in the wilderness. Remember, God was merciful

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to Moses and used Moses' father -in -law. To

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say, look, this is too much for you. You shouldn't

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be sitting with everybody all day working out

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their little problems when you can have somebody

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else, other people, pick this up. And God instructed

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him to choose out 70 elders. Can you imagine

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how many billion people out there coming to your

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door when there's a problem? So it says, Numbers

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11, 24 to 29. Moses went out and told the people

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the words of the Lord. He brought 70 men from

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the elders of the people and had them stand around

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the tent. Then the Lord, Yehovah, I'll add that

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because it's capital L, capital O, capital R,

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capital D. Then Yehovah descended in the cloud

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and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit

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who was on Moses and placed the spirit on the

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70 elders. As the spirit rested on them, they

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prophesied. But they never did it again. But

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they never did it again. Isn't that interesting?

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It was a spontaneous thing. Yeah, it just came

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on them to show, okay, God is saying, you've

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got the goods, you've got the qualifications

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to stand in this position and take care of the

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needs of the people. If you get a tough thing

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that you can't handle, then take it to Moses

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was the instruction. But here is a taste. of

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what happens when the Holy Spirit comes on you.

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They only did it once, but they did it, okay?

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And then, it's interesting, in the next verse

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it says, two men had remained in the camp, one

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named Eldad and the other Medad. The Spirit rested

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on them. They were among those listed. In other

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words, they were called to the tent, but they

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didn't go. Interesting. So they were part of

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the body of 70. That's good. But really there

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were only 68 that showed up at the tent. You

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know, many revivals, you know, it's not just

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what's going in the church. People out in the

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parking lot and other places can get hit with

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the Holy Spirit even though they're not in the

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building. Exactly. It happens. And it's because

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Eldad and Medad were called, even though they

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didn't show up, they were called, they had that

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same calling on them to be part of the 70. And

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so when it came down on the other 68 by the tent,

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they got it wherever they were. Yeah. And they

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prophesied. So they prophesied in the camp. And

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then a young man ran and reported to Moses, Eldad

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and Medad are prophesying in the camp. Joshua,

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son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth,

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responded, Moses, my Lord, stop them. But Moses

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asked him, are you jealous on my account? If

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only all the Lord's people were prophets and

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the Lord would place his spirit on them. They

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wouldn't have all the problems they have. Yeah,

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exactly. And that's why we have opportunities

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as we can become filled with the Holy Spirit.

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The point of what God is doing in the New Testament

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times from the outpouring of the Holy Spirit

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on the day of Pentecost, the point is that the

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Holy Spirit comes to dwell in us. And work on

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us. Work on us, yeah. And work in us and work

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the character of Christ in us. And just uses

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us even when we need it. Yes, exactly. So here's

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another situation. When the first king was being

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appointed, right? Saul. Saul, okay. Which wasn't

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really part of the plan, but that's what the

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people wanted. Give us a king. Right. Give us

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a king. Give us a king. King to reign over us.

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Right. Because we want to be like everybody else.

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Wow. So in 1 Samuel 10, verse 1 says, Samuel

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took the flask of oil, poured it on Saul's head,

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kissed him and said, Hasn't the Lord anointed

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you ruler over his inheritance? And then he goes

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on and tells him a bunch of details about. What

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he's going to do. Yeah. Here's what he's going

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to do. Here's where he's going to go. You're

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going to meet these people. They're going to

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give you bread. They're going to prophesy. And

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then you're going to meet these people with harps

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and tambourines and flutes. And then you're going

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to prophesy with them. So verse five says, after

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that, you will come to Gibeah of God, where there

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are Philistine garrisons. When you arrive at

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the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming

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down from the high place prophesying. They will

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be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and

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lyres. The Spirit of the Lord, Spirit of Yehovah,

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will come powerfully on you, and you will prophesy

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with them, and you will be transformed. There's

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your opportunity. That's what happens when the

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Holy Spirit hits you. Yeah, you can be transformed.

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Transformed, yeah. But you've got to let him

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stay there and work on you. Yeah, not just a

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one -time thing. Right, just like those 70 elders.

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They had it once. So it was a sign that they

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were okay to do their job, but it wasn't an indwelling

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spirit, right? Verse 10, when Saul and his servant

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arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him.

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Then the spirit of God came powerfully on him

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and he prophesied along with them. Everyone who

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knew him previously and saw him prophesy with

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the prophets asked each other, what has happened

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to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

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So was he among the prophets? It looked like

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it at that moment. He had the gift, and it looked

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like it was in operation. Right. But we know

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that a spirit came on him, and he would— He was

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over jealousy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was jealous

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of David. When they were singing the song, Saul

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killed his thousands and David his ten thousands.

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Right. That didn't go over good. No. No, he was

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insecure. Yeah. And he was insecure from the

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beginning. He really didn't have it in his head

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that he wanted to be king. Yeah, because they

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had to flee when it was time to do it. He was

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hiding. Yeah. He was an unwilling king. Then

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later on, you know, David is playing his harp

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for him, you know, because this evil spirit had

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come on him. And it says, Saul sought to pin

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David against the wall with the spear, but he

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eluded Saul so that he struck the spear into

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the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

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Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch

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him, that he might kill him in the morning. But

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Michal, David's wife, who was Saul's daughter,

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told him, if you do not escape with your life

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tonight, tomorrow you'll be killed. So Michal,

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some people call her Michael, so Michal let David

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down through the window, and he fled away and

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escaped. Michal took an image and laid it on

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the bed and put a pillow of goat's hair at its

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head and covered it with the clothes. Now, what

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was she doing with an image? Could have been

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a bust of David. That wouldn't come until years

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later. I suppose not. Michelangelo hadn't been

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born yet. So anyway, we won't go down that bunny

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trail, but that's just an interesting thought.

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And when Saul sent messengers to take David,

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she said, he's sick. Then Saul sent the messengers

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to see David saying, bring him up to me in the

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bed that I may kill him. And when the messengers

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came in, behold, the image was in the bed with

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the pillow of goat's hair at its head. Saul said

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to Michal, why have you deceived me thus and

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let my enemy go so he has escaped? And Michal

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answered Saul, he said to me, let me go. Why

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should I kill you? Now David fled and escaped,

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and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all

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that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel

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went and lived at Naoth. That was a safe place.

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Yeah. It was Samuel. And it was told Saul, Behold,

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David is at Naoth in Ramah. Then Saul sent messengers

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to take David. And when they saw the company

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of prophets prophesying and Samuel standing as

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head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the

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messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

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So what happened to their mouths? The Holy Spirit

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took over. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Probably just

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this one time. Yep. Could be. When it was told

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Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also

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prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the

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third time, and they also prophesied. So because

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they've prophesied, in other words, because the

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Holy Spirit came on them and they began to speak

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the oracles of God, they were not able to do

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the bidding of the king because the king of kings

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gave them different orders. Yes. Hallelujah.

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So then he himself went to Ramah and came to

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the great well that is in Siku. And he asked,

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where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold,

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they are at Naoth and Ramah. And he went there

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to Naoth and Ramah, and the Spirit of God came

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upon him also. And as he went, he prophesied

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until he came to Naoth at Ramah. And he too stripped

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off his clothes, and he too prophesied before

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Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that

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night. Talk about being humbled. Yeah, I guess.

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Thus it is said, Is Saul also among the prophets?

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So that happened twice. That the Spirit of God

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came on Saul in spite of his flesh. So let's

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just pause and think for just a second. Because

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sometimes, as we get filled with the Holy Spirit,

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we can prophesy. But if we don't let the Spirit

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of God work in us to deal with our flesh, we're

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not going to present the character of Christ

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that... He's designed us to walk in. That indwelling

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Holy Spirit is there to bring us into a deeper

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place with him, into a place of walking in the

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light as he is in the light, so that we can have

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fellowship one with another. Too many times our

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fellowship gets broken because we might be able

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to prophesy when the Spirit of God is moving.

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But when we go home from church or wherever it

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is that we've been prophesying, when we go home,

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if we can't treat our spouse correctly, if we

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can't treat our children according to the Word

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of God with loving correction, okay, it's important

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to have discipline, but it's important to speak

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the truth in love and all of those kind of things.

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be visitors in this place of the moving of God,

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the moving of his Holy Spirit. I don't want to

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just be a visitor. I want to live there. I want

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him to have continuous access to my spirit, soul,

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and body so that he can do anything he wants

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to do anytime. I remember our founder, Sister

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Gwen Shaw. She was amazing in the Spirit of God.

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Like the Holy Spirit would just come over her

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and she would prophesy. She had a tremendous

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gift of prophecy. And she would prophesy things

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in the moment. It's not like she needed to have

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a, what was that scripture in the Old Testament?

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I think it was Elisha said, send for a minstrel.

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Yeah, send for a minstrel. And the minstrel plays

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and the anointing comes and then you can prophesy,

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right? Yeah. A lot of people can prophesy when

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the anointing is there. But the anointing would

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come on Sister Gwen and she would just prophesy

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at the kitchen table. She'd prophesy in the living

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room. She would prophesy in the office. She would

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prophesy. Or in the bathroom. Anywhere. Anywhere.

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Anywhere she was, the Holy Ghost would come on

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her. Yeah. And she would start to prophesy. And

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she was very accurate. Very, very accurate. I

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mean, she prophesied things like the Berlin Wall

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coming down, and it came down, right? She prophesied

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that Ariel Sharon would be the next prime minister,

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and he was, you know, back in that time. She

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was just amazing. And she prophesied Pastor Zapata

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into Spain, and God used him just like she prophesied.

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And Carlos Anacondia. Yes, yes. She prophesied

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over him. Argentina. Yeah. She prophesied into

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his life. So it's about walking with the Lord

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and having a continuous relationship going where

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he can just stop us at any second and get past

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our flesh and into the Spirit in just a moment.

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So there's these situations where people will

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get into that anointing place and they can prophesy.

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If they're not walking with him all the time,

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it might not just happen all the time. Yeah,

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that's good. That's well put. And I think that's

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probably what happened to the 70 elders. They

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had enough of righteousness in them to do the

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right thing, but they didn't have enough presence.

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They didn't walk with him up to that time. I

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mean, these people had been slaves in Egypt,

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right? A lot of baggage. Probably so. A lot of

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anger. Could be. A lot of hurt. Could be. But,

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you know, they did have enough wisdom from the

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Lord. When God took that spirit from, off of

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Moses, it's like, I'm picturing it this way.

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Okay. I'm not saying this is what happened, but

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here's how I'm picturing it. That God put one

00:29:04.849 --> 00:29:08.509
hand on Moses and then one by one, bam, bam,

00:29:08.549 --> 00:29:11.529
bam, bam, bam, put it on the other 70 and transferred

00:29:11.529 --> 00:29:14.390
something. Yeah. Okay. That he had given to Moses.

00:29:15.049 --> 00:29:17.289
It all came from him. He probably didn't actually

00:29:17.289 --> 00:29:19.369
do that. I'm just saying this is how I'm picturing

00:29:19.369 --> 00:29:22.589
it in this moment. So anyway, there were other

00:29:22.589 --> 00:29:24.769
people that the Spirit of the Lord came upon,

00:29:24.890 --> 00:29:27.630
like in the book of Judges. It says that the

00:29:27.630 --> 00:29:30.269
Spirit of the Lord or the Spirit of Yehovah came

00:29:30.269 --> 00:29:34.130
upon Othniel, came upon Gideon, Jephthah, Samson.

00:29:34.369 --> 00:29:38.210
And there's like three different words in the

00:29:38.210 --> 00:29:41.009
Hebrew that are used here. And I won't go deeply

00:29:41.009 --> 00:29:44.049
into this, but when the Spirit came on Gideon.

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.039
And he blew the trumpet and drew the Israelites

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:50.079
to battle. It says that the Spirit of the Lord

00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:53.339
clothed him. That's beautiful. Isn't that an

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:57.180
amazing expression? Kind of like cuckoo. Yeah,

00:29:57.180 --> 00:30:00.980
yeah. So it's like the Spirit just came around

00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:03.980
him. And when he blew the trumpet, something

00:30:03.980 --> 00:30:06.200
happened. So that's what happened to his mouth.

00:30:06.650 --> 00:30:08.990
Okay, it's not like he prophesied, but the Spirit

00:30:08.990 --> 00:30:11.710
of God came upon him and his mouth blew the trumpet.

00:30:11.809 --> 00:30:13.769
It was probably a shofar. Yeah, went through

00:30:13.769 --> 00:30:17.210
the shofar. And everybody heard it somehow and

00:30:17.210 --> 00:30:21.410
gathered to the battle. And then there's Othniel,

00:30:21.490 --> 00:30:25.170
when the Spirit of the Lord came on him. It was

00:30:25.170 --> 00:30:28.150
like the Spirit happened to him. The Spirit came

00:30:28.150 --> 00:30:31.480
on him. And he judged. OK, he judged Israel.

00:30:31.579 --> 00:30:34.420
He went to war and the land had rest for 40 years.

00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.519
40 years. I mean, that's a big deal because of

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.759
the spirit of God came upon him. But it wasn't

00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.640
like he prophesied, but he was able to judge.

00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.400
OK, so he was speaking. There was something that

00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.440
came out of his mouth for him to be able to speak,

00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.519
for him to be able to go to war and lead people

00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:53.529
into war and deal with the enemies. And then

00:30:53.529 --> 00:30:55.670
there's Jephthah, and he subdued his enemies

00:30:55.670 --> 00:30:59.849
also. And then there's another expression for

00:30:59.849 --> 00:31:01.970
Samson. When the Spirit of the Lord came upon

00:31:01.970 --> 00:31:04.849
him, it's like the Spirit came mightily upon

00:31:04.849 --> 00:31:07.250
him. Mightily, wow. Yeah, and we talked about

00:31:07.250 --> 00:31:09.809
this the last time we mentioned Samson, that

00:31:09.809 --> 00:31:13.509
people who have seen him in heaven or have been

00:31:13.509 --> 00:31:16.150
taken there to see him in action, you know, like

00:31:16.150 --> 00:31:20.369
the Holy Spirit can take you there to see. almost

00:31:20.369 --> 00:31:23.769
like time travel, but not time travel. It's just

00:31:23.769 --> 00:31:26.470
being transferred in the spirit to be able to

00:31:26.470 --> 00:31:29.890
see it happen. And they say that he was just

00:31:29.890 --> 00:31:33.150
an ordinary guy. He was not some big muscle man

00:31:33.150 --> 00:31:35.589
like we picture him. We picture him, yeah. Yeah,

00:31:35.589 --> 00:31:38.990
like all the cartoons picture him as this muscular

00:31:38.990 --> 00:31:42.710
guy. But no, he was just an ordinary guy. And

00:31:42.710 --> 00:31:45.529
that's why you could really tell that it was

00:31:45.529 --> 00:31:47.789
the spirit of the Lord that did it. And then

00:31:47.789 --> 00:31:51.809
we have... Here's a case of someone who is not

00:31:51.809 --> 00:31:56.630
a righteous person, and that's Balaam. Oh, my.

00:31:56.950 --> 00:31:59.250
Okay, so in the book of Numbers, you have this

00:31:59.250 --> 00:32:03.309
story about the king of Moab, and some of the

00:32:03.309 --> 00:32:05.829
other kings were hiring him to come and curse.

00:32:06.190 --> 00:32:09.369
Yeah, curse Israel. Right? And at first he says,

00:32:09.569 --> 00:32:12.569
I think he had a dream, and the Lord said, don't

00:32:12.569 --> 00:32:16.109
you go with them. So he told them no. When the

00:32:16.109 --> 00:32:17.930
messengers came, he said, nope, can't do it.

00:32:18.380 --> 00:32:22.339
And it's because, okay, now he was a seer, he

00:32:22.339 --> 00:32:26.259
was a prophet, but he was not a prophet of the

00:32:26.259 --> 00:32:29.599
Lord. He was a prophet that was connected to

00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.880
his own gods, but he had a gift that originated

00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.980
from the Lord. But his understanding, as I'm

00:32:37.980 --> 00:32:41.440
seeing it, okay, don't start a doctrine about

00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:45.539
it, but as I see it, it was, he recognized that.

00:32:46.170 --> 00:32:50.549
He had to acknowledge the God of the people he

00:32:50.549 --> 00:32:54.190
was being sent to curse. And that he had to operate

00:32:54.190 --> 00:32:58.490
under their God in order to speak what needed

00:32:58.490 --> 00:33:02.230
to be spoken. And so the second time they came

00:33:02.230 --> 00:33:05.230
to him, the Lord said, okay, you can go with

00:33:05.230 --> 00:33:09.109
them, but only say what I tell you to say. So

00:33:09.109 --> 00:33:12.329
this is when he's on the donkey, right? And the

00:33:12.329 --> 00:33:16.029
donkey sees this angel of the Lord. And she pushed

00:33:16.029 --> 00:33:19.210
against the wall and pressed Balaam's foot against

00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:22.130
the wall. So he struck her and struck her again.

00:33:22.230 --> 00:33:24.029
This is the second time that angel of the Lord

00:33:24.029 --> 00:33:26.210
went ahead and stood in a narrow place where

00:33:26.210 --> 00:33:28.849
there was no way to turn either to the right

00:33:28.849 --> 00:33:31.609
or to the left. When the donkey saw the angel

00:33:31.609 --> 00:33:34.890
of the Lord, she laid down under Balaam. Balaam's

00:33:34.890 --> 00:33:37.309
anger was kindled and set and he struck the donkey

00:33:37.309 --> 00:33:41.559
with his staff. Then the Lord, Yehovah. open

00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:44.460
the mouth of the donkey. So here's a case of

00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:48.319
the donkey prophesying, okay? And she said to

00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:50.779
Balaam, what have I done to you that you've struck

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:53.500
me these three times? And Balaam said to the

00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:56.119
donkey, now that's funny that he's talking back.

00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:59.759
Because you've made a fool of me, I wish I had

00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.460
a sword in my hand for I would kill you. And

00:34:02.460 --> 00:34:04.880
the donkey said to Balaam, am I not your donkey

00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:07.460
on which you have ridden all your life long to

00:34:07.460 --> 00:34:10.340
this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?

00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:15.780
And he said, no. What version is this? What version

00:34:15.780 --> 00:34:19.739
is this? That's the ESV, English Standard Version.

00:34:20.139 --> 00:34:23.320
So then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam. Now,

00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.199
he was a seer, but he hadn't seen this bit. Yeah.

00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:29.260
The Lord opened the eyes of Balaam. Yehovah opened

00:34:29.260 --> 00:34:31.940
the eyes of Balaam. And he saw the angel of Yehovah

00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:34.860
standing in the way with his sword drawn in his

00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:37.860
hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.

00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:41.440
And the angel of Yehovah said to him, Why have

00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:44.659
you struck your donkey these three times? Behold,

00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:48.039
I have come out to oppose you because your way

00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.860
is perverse before me. The donkey saw me and

00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:54.179
turned aside before me these three times. If

00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:56.159
she had not turned aside for me, surely just

00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:58.659
now, I would have killed you and let her live.

00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:04.940
So that's Numbers 22, 25 to 33. And in the end,

00:35:04.940 --> 00:35:07.539
he could not curse Israel. Yeah, he tried and

00:35:07.539 --> 00:35:11.159
tried and tried. But he knew for his own life's

00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:13.380
sake that he better speak only what he heard

00:35:13.380 --> 00:35:16.510
and saw. And so he did. And of course, Balak

00:35:16.510 --> 00:35:19.110
wasn't very happy or the Amalekites, whoever

00:35:19.110 --> 00:35:23.050
they were with. But then, you know, being evil

00:35:23.050 --> 00:35:27.989
hearted, really, he told them how to get to Israel

00:35:27.989 --> 00:35:30.690
to get them to sin. See, as long as God could

00:35:30.690 --> 00:35:34.389
see them as righteous and obedient, then they

00:35:34.389 --> 00:35:38.070
were protected. But if he could get them to sin,

00:35:38.230 --> 00:35:41.030
then that's when he had the Moabite women go

00:35:41.030 --> 00:35:46.110
in and get the young men enticed and et cetera,

00:35:46.170 --> 00:35:49.269
et cetera, and to worship their idols with them

00:35:49.269 --> 00:35:55.150
and participate in illicit things, illicit sex

00:35:55.150 --> 00:35:59.030
and so on. Then it would remove the hand of God

00:35:59.030 --> 00:36:02.969
from them until Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,

00:36:03.030 --> 00:36:05.989
the son of Aaron, the priest. came and dealt

00:36:05.989 --> 00:36:11.070
with that one, one of the sons of Israel, brought

00:36:11.070 --> 00:36:14.690
unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight

00:36:14.690 --> 00:36:16.590
of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation

00:36:16.590 --> 00:36:19.309
of the children of Israel, who were weeping before

00:36:19.309 --> 00:36:21.630
the tabernacle of the congregation. When Phinehas,

00:36:21.809 --> 00:36:24.869
the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest,

00:36:24.909 --> 00:36:26.909
saw it, he rose up from among the congregation

00:36:26.909 --> 00:36:29.510
and took a javelin in his hand and went after

00:36:29.510 --> 00:36:31.849
the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both

00:36:31.849 --> 00:36:35.920
of them through. That stopped the plague. That

00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:38.019
stopped the plague. The sin brought a plague.

00:36:38.380 --> 00:36:42.320
Yeah, yeah. So, you know, that was the way that

00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:44.920
Balaam taught them the back door into bringing

00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:48.400
a curse on Israel because sexual immorality is

00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:52.059
going to bring a curse. So Balaam actually spoke

00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:57.579
rightly from the Lord. And, yeah, he also spoke

00:36:57.579 --> 00:37:01.960
badly. And I don't think we're going to meet

00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:04.630
him in heaven. I really don't think so. It could

00:37:04.630 --> 00:37:07.650
be that he repented, but I kind of doubt it since

00:37:07.650 --> 00:37:09.710
he was mentioned in the book of Revelation as

00:37:09.710 --> 00:37:13.409
well. But, you know, this is a situation where

00:37:13.409 --> 00:37:20.570
someone very unlikely gets anointed to speak

00:37:20.570 --> 00:37:24.989
something anointed and to prophesy something

00:37:24.989 --> 00:37:28.849
anointed. Now, this morning, we were quite surprised

00:37:28.849 --> 00:37:32.519
to find out a story. Well, let me back up and

00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:36.719
just say this. We've been invited to do a special

00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:40.460
number for the Christmas Eve service at our little

00:37:40.460 --> 00:37:42.940
church, Methodist Church in Jasper, Arkansas.

00:37:43.579 --> 00:37:46.000
And so, you know, we were kind of praying into

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:49.400
what song should we do. And I said, honey, you

00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:54.010
need to do the Oh Holy Night. Because everybody

00:37:54.010 --> 00:37:56.409
just loves that. And they love him singing it.

00:37:56.489 --> 00:37:58.889
So we're working on that one. So I thought, you

00:37:58.889 --> 00:38:02.610
know, let's find out the story behind this song.

00:38:03.090 --> 00:38:07.429
And we were ever so surprised to find out what

00:38:07.429 --> 00:38:09.429
the story is. Because it's another one of those

00:38:09.429 --> 00:38:14.550
unlikely, very, very unlikely things that...

00:38:14.940 --> 00:38:17.400
It's like Silent Night, the organ was broken,

00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.340
so they used a guitar. Exactly, exactly. You

00:38:20.340 --> 00:38:22.420
know, a special song was written for the moment,

00:38:22.539 --> 00:38:28.099
right? For the moment. So back in the 1840s,

00:38:28.099 --> 00:38:31.679
I think it was 1847, there was a little French

00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:37.099
village, and the priest asked this local poet,

00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:41.260
would you write a poem for the Christmas Eve

00:38:41.260 --> 00:38:47.070
Mass? He agreed to do it. But the thing was that

00:38:47.070 --> 00:38:53.750
he was not a godly man. He was an atheist, according

00:38:53.750 --> 00:38:57.769
to this story, and even a socialist. It's not

00:38:57.769 --> 00:39:00.150
the picture of someone you would think writing

00:39:00.150 --> 00:39:03.789
a worship song. Right. But he took on the job,

00:39:03.949 --> 00:39:07.289
and he was kind of excited about it. So I guess

00:39:07.289 --> 00:39:09.590
he decided that the best thing to do is go back

00:39:09.590 --> 00:39:12.980
to the book of Luke and read. So he went where

00:39:12.980 --> 00:39:17.539
we went today, and he read the story, and he

00:39:17.539 --> 00:39:22.039
got anointed to write a poem. Okay? He got anointed

00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:26.219
for it. And he was so pleased with how it turned

00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:28.539
out that he said, you know, this shouldn't be

00:39:28.539 --> 00:39:31.380
just a poem. This could be a song. And he reached

00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:35.940
out to a friend of his who was a composer. And

00:39:35.940 --> 00:39:40.179
he was Jewish. And he was Jewish. And so the

00:39:40.179 --> 00:39:43.400
composer wrote this beautiful tune that we all

00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:47.420
have come to love, O Holy Night, right? And they

00:39:47.420 --> 00:39:50.760
sang it, yeah, I guess they sang it for the Christmas

00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:56.639
Eve Mass, and everybody loved it. And then when

00:39:56.639 --> 00:40:02.110
the word got out of the fact that An atheist

00:40:02.110 --> 00:40:05.389
and a Jewish man were involved in writing this

00:40:05.389 --> 00:40:08.010
thing. It was actually banned for a while in

00:40:08.010 --> 00:40:10.769
the church. But the people were still singing

00:40:10.769 --> 00:40:14.630
it at home. And that's not where the story ends.

00:40:14.789 --> 00:40:18.449
This is a multilayered story. There's a legend

00:40:18.449 --> 00:40:22.510
that even during World War I, when the French

00:40:22.510 --> 00:40:24.409
and the Germans were fighting each other on the

00:40:24.409 --> 00:40:27.289
battlefield, that... On Christmas Eve. There

00:40:27.289 --> 00:40:29.489
was a truce. On Christmas Eve. I remember reading

00:40:29.489 --> 00:40:32.809
this a couple of times in some articles. So there

00:40:32.809 --> 00:40:35.610
was a truce that was started by a Frenchman standing

00:40:35.610 --> 00:40:39.170
up and singing this song. And then a German stood

00:40:39.170 --> 00:40:41.789
up and sang, you know, some German Christmas

00:40:41.789 --> 00:40:44.849
carol. And they sang back and forth to each other

00:40:44.849 --> 00:40:47.530
these Christmas carols and just stopped shooting

00:40:47.530 --> 00:40:50.929
for Christmas. And then they went back to their

00:40:50.929 --> 00:40:54.329
war. But it started with that one anointed song.

00:40:54.730 --> 00:40:57.650
And then, I guess actually it would have been

00:40:57.650 --> 00:41:02.090
shortly after it was written, there was an abolitionist

00:41:02.090 --> 00:41:08.190
in 1855. John Sullivan Dwight translated it into

00:41:08.190 --> 00:41:11.090
English. And so the words that we currently have

00:41:11.090 --> 00:41:14.969
are from his translation. Here's some pieces

00:41:14.969 --> 00:41:18.349
from the original poem. Midnight, Christians,

00:41:18.429 --> 00:41:21.719
is the solemn hour. When God as man descended

00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:25.159
unto us to erase the stain of original sin and

00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:28.300
to end the wrath of his Father, the entire world

00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:30.719
thrills with hope on this night that gives it

00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:33.840
a Savior. People, kneel down, await your deliverance.

00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:36.980
Christmas, Christmas, here is the Redeemer. Christmas,

00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.599
Christmas, here is the Redeemer. The Redeemer

00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:42.420
has broken every bond. The earth is free and

00:41:42.420 --> 00:41:45.380
heaven is open. He sees a brother where there

00:41:45.380 --> 00:41:49.000
was only a slave. Love unites those that iron

00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.960
had chained. Wow. So you have this abolitionist

00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:56.940
in America that reads this, and obviously he...

00:41:57.210 --> 00:42:00.630
could understand French and translated his version

00:42:00.630 --> 00:42:03.650
of it. And it talks about the slave being our

00:42:03.650 --> 00:42:06.250
brother. Because at that time, it was just before

00:42:06.250 --> 00:42:08.269
the Civil War. It was just before the Civil War.

00:42:08.829 --> 00:42:13.449
And so you have that flavor of how this became

00:42:13.449 --> 00:42:17.130
loved in America as well, but particularly in

00:42:17.130 --> 00:42:19.570
the North, because I don't think they were singing

00:42:19.570 --> 00:42:22.929
it in the South. At least not that verse. At

00:42:22.929 --> 00:42:26.989
least not that verse. So the story goes on. that

00:42:26.989 --> 00:42:32.210
in 1906, there was a man named Reginald Fessenden,

00:42:32.349 --> 00:42:37.090
that on Christmas Eve, this young man was a 33

00:42:37.090 --> 00:42:40.269
-year -old university professor and former chief

00:42:40.269 --> 00:42:43.489
chemist for Thomas Edison. He did something that

00:42:43.489 --> 00:42:46.670
everyone thought was impossible. He had created

00:42:46.670 --> 00:42:51.530
a new type of generator, and he connected a microphone

00:42:51.530 --> 00:42:57.289
to the wireless system. for telegraph. Okay.

00:42:58.050 --> 00:43:00.690
Like for Morse code, how they would send Morse

00:43:00.690 --> 00:43:03.250
code. Right. So, you know, telegraph, everything

00:43:03.250 --> 00:43:09.250
was sent. Yeah. And I don't know what I just

00:43:09.250 --> 00:43:12.849
said because I don't know Morse code. I only

00:43:12.849 --> 00:43:17.469
know SOS. Anyway, he connected this microphone.

00:43:17.789 --> 00:43:23.809
And on Christmas Eve of 1906, he started up.

00:43:24.030 --> 00:43:26.269
his microphone and his new little generator,

00:43:26.530 --> 00:43:29.289
and he read the Christmas story from the Book

00:43:29.289 --> 00:43:32.550
of Luke. And it came to pass in those days that

00:43:32.550 --> 00:43:34.949
they went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that

00:43:34.949 --> 00:43:37.809
all the world should be text. So he reads this,

00:43:37.809 --> 00:43:41.789
and everybody who is connected at that point,

00:43:41.829 --> 00:43:45.650
listening to the telegraph, is for the first

00:43:45.650 --> 00:43:49.570
time hearing a radio transmission. It's the very

00:43:49.570 --> 00:43:52.980
first radio transmission in history. And they're

00:43:52.980 --> 00:43:55.420
hearing it on Christmas Eve. The first thing

00:43:55.420 --> 00:43:59.139
was the word of God talking about Jesus coming.

00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.400
And then he picked up his violin and he played

00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:07.940
O Holy Night. Wow. There's an anointing on that

00:44:07.940 --> 00:44:12.940
song. My point is that God can put an anointing

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on unlikely people to bring forth the word of

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the Lord. Remember how Caiaphas. spoke, because

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he was the high priest, because of his office,

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God anointed him to say, it's better for one

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man to die than that the whole nation should

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perish. Right. Okay. So it's not that he was

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personally such an anointed man. No, he wasn't.

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But he was standing in God's anointed office.

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And these people, this atheist and this Jewish

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man who probably at that point, had not connected

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with Jesus. I'm trusting that he did before his

00:44:51.619 --> 00:44:55.179
days were over, and I'm trusting that the other

00:44:55.179 --> 00:44:58.300
man did too, that he had an encounter with Jesus.

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But, you know, the point is that God can take

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these unlikely people and use them in a way that

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you just wouldn't expect because they weren't

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walking in righteousness. But God used them and

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anointed them to bring forth something that would

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be life -changing for people, that would cause

00:45:20.050 --> 00:45:23.730
people to turn their eyes on Jesus at Christmastime.

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Hallelujah. So it's one of those unusual stories,

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right? Yes. We have the promise that was made

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in the Old Testament from Joel 2 .28, and it

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shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour

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out my Spirit on all flesh. See, that was a case

00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:43.119
of all flesh. All flesh. Those guys were all

00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:48.260
flesh types, okay? That's good, yes. They weren't

00:45:48.260 --> 00:45:50.860
your typical—it's like Saul. Saul got in the

00:45:50.860 --> 00:45:53.420
right place at the right time, and he's prophesying.

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And it wasn't his kind of flesh thing to do,

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but his flesh came under the Holy Spirit. Yes.

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And so God pours out his spirit on all flesh.

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We say that every time we start a podcast. And

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then in Isaiah 44, 3, it says, For I will pour

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water on him who is thirsty and floods on the

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dry ground. I will pour my spirit on your descendants

00:46:15.010 --> 00:46:18.030
and my blessing on your offspring. And Ezekiel

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39, 29 says, I will not hide my face from them

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anymore, for I shall have poured out my spirit

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on the house of Israel, says the Lord God. And

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then we have Acts chapter 1. Jesus has been on

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the earth for his ministry, and he's been pouring

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into his disciples. He has died. He has come

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back from the dead, and he's about to ascend

00:46:40.539 --> 00:46:44.000
into heaven. And in Acts chapter 1, verses 4

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and 5, it says, And while staying with them,

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he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem,

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but to wait for the promise of the Father, which

00:46:51.110 --> 00:46:53.809
he said, You heard from me for John baptized

00:46:53.809 --> 00:46:56.329
with water, but you will be baptized with the

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Holy Spirit not many days from now. And then

00:46:59.050 --> 00:47:01.710
in verse 8 it says, But you will receive power

00:47:01.710 --> 00:47:04.690
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you

00:47:04.690 --> 00:47:07.650
will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all

00:47:07.650 --> 00:47:10.969
Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

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Okay. Yes. So what happens when the Holy Spirit

00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.340
comes upon them? Wow. They get changed. Right.

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They're going to be witnesses. Witnesses. What

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happens to their mouth? It takes off. Yeah. Their

00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:26.260
mouths begin to prophesy. Their mouths begin

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to speak. This comes out of their spirit. Yes.

00:47:28.820 --> 00:47:31.679
Yeah. When God touches your spirit. Right. Wow.

00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:34.659
Yeah. When God touches your spirit, it comes

00:47:34.659 --> 00:47:37.539
out your mouth. Yeah. So in Acts chapter 2, then

00:47:37.539 --> 00:47:40.739
the day of Pentecost comes. And the Holy Ghost

00:47:40.739 --> 00:47:42.880
comes upon them and they begin to speak with

00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:46.039
other tongues and declare the mighty works of

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God. And all these different languages are hearing

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the voice of the Lord. They're hearing these

00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:54.940
disciples talking about the wonderful works of

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God in their languages. Whether they're speaking

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their language or whether they're hearing it

00:48:00.219 --> 00:48:03.639
doesn't matter. They got the message. They're

00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:06.780
in that position of the presence of God where

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he's being poured out. And they're saying, now

00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:13.710
what do we do? So in Acts chapter 2 and verse

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37, it says, When they heard this, they were

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pierced thoroughly, they were agitated in their

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heart, and they said unto Peter and to the rest

00:48:23.690 --> 00:48:25.389
of the disciples, Men and brethren, what should

00:48:25.389 --> 00:48:28.380
we do? And Peter said to them, Repent and be

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baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus

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Christ, for the remission of sins. And you shall

00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:36.079
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, for the promise

00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:38.539
is unto you and to your children and all that

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are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God

00:48:41.219 --> 00:48:45.699
shall call. It's for you, listener. It's for

00:48:45.699 --> 00:48:49.019
you. It's for you and for your children and even

00:48:49.019 --> 00:48:52.500
for as many as are far off. All the people that

00:48:52.500 --> 00:48:55.800
you can think of that are far off from God, it's

00:48:55.800 --> 00:49:00.119
for them too. And as we contend in the Spirit,

00:49:00.219 --> 00:49:03.760
as we believe God and we ask God to forgive the

00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:06.719
sins and we remit the sins of those who have

00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:10.380
hurt us, we remit the sins of those who are misbehaving

00:49:10.380 --> 00:49:13.429
in the earth. asking God to bring repentance

00:49:13.429 --> 00:49:16.110
to them. God is going to do something. He's going

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to pour out his spirit on all flesh. Jesus said

00:49:19.289 --> 00:49:24.030
in John 7, there was this occasion in verse 37,

00:49:24.250 --> 00:49:26.690
it says, on the last and most important day of

00:49:26.690 --> 00:49:29.489
the feast, the festival, Jesus stood up and cried

00:49:29.489 --> 00:49:31.150
out. Now, this was the Feast of Tabernacles.

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If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and

00:49:34.710 --> 00:49:37.840
drink. The one who believes in me, as the scripture

00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:41.300
has said, will have streams of living water flowing

00:49:41.300 --> 00:49:44.280
from deep within him. He said this about the

00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.820
spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going

00:49:46.820 --> 00:49:49.019
to receive the spirit for the spirit had not

00:49:49.019 --> 00:49:51.820
yet been given because Jesus had not yet been

00:49:51.820 --> 00:49:56.380
glorified. So it's for you and it's for me. Yes.

00:49:56.400 --> 00:50:01.340
And it's for us to walk in continuously. And

00:50:01.340 --> 00:50:03.659
when we make a mistake, we just repent. Yeah.

00:50:03.860 --> 00:50:08.329
Okay. So it's for all of us. And I just want

00:50:08.329 --> 00:50:11.050
to encourage you as you're listening to this,

00:50:11.190 --> 00:50:14.170
whether you have been filled with the Holy Spirit

00:50:14.170 --> 00:50:17.869
previously or not, whatever your experience has

00:50:17.869 --> 00:50:22.250
been, God wants to do a fresh infilling to you

00:50:22.250 --> 00:50:26.329
today. I remember hearing the testimony of one

00:50:26.329 --> 00:50:28.110
of our listeners, and I hope you're listening

00:50:28.110 --> 00:50:33.150
again. He was on his way to work. Yeah. A man

00:50:33.150 --> 00:50:35.619
from Indonesia. He was on his way to work, and

00:50:35.619 --> 00:50:37.940
he was listening to one of our episodes where

00:50:37.940 --> 00:50:39.820
we were talking about being filled with the Holy

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Spirit. It was on a scooter. Or a motorcycle.

00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.780
Or a motorcycle, rather. And he was on his way,

00:50:45.820 --> 00:50:48.480
and he's riding his motorcycle. He's in traffic.

00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:52.119
And as we prayed for the people that were listening

00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.400
to be filled with the Holy Spirit, he received

00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:56.780
and began speaking in tongues for the first time

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in his life. When the Holy Spirit comes upon

00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:01.239
you, something's going to happen in your mouth.

00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:03.199
Something's going to happen, yeah. Something's

00:51:03.199 --> 00:51:05.659
going to happen in your life. Maybe God's going

00:51:05.659 --> 00:51:08.960
to empower you in ways that you haven't been

00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:11.719
empowered before. And one of the things that

00:51:11.719 --> 00:51:13.920
happened in the book of Acts, when there were

00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:17.059
threatenings of things to be done against the

00:51:17.059 --> 00:51:19.960
disciples, they went and they prayed and they

00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:24.219
asked God for boldness. So boldness can be a

00:51:24.219 --> 00:51:26.599
thing that happens to your mouth, that all of

00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:28.780
a sudden you speak boldly about things that you

00:51:28.780 --> 00:51:31.429
might not have spoken boldly about before. And

00:51:31.429 --> 00:51:34.230
God is going to anoint you and bring you into

00:51:34.230 --> 00:51:38.030
a new place. So let's pray so that you can have

00:51:38.030 --> 00:51:41.110
a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit right here,

00:51:41.150 --> 00:51:44.590
right now, to go farther and deeper and greater

00:51:44.590 --> 00:51:46.869
than anything that's ever happened to you before.

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Father, we just reach out to you and we're asking

00:51:50.570 --> 00:51:53.929
you, Lord, to pour your anointing on the people

00:51:53.929 --> 00:51:56.769
who are listening. Pour your anointing on those

00:51:56.769 --> 00:51:58.530
that they're going to share it with and they're

00:51:58.530 --> 00:52:00.739
going to listen. Lord, we're asking you. for

00:52:00.739 --> 00:52:04.719
an outpouring of your spirit right now on every

00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:08.159
single listener that they will be filled in a

00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:11.119
new way, in a fresh way, whether it's speaking

00:52:11.119 --> 00:52:13.760
in tongues for the first time or the first time

00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.619
in a long time or whether they're going to start

00:52:15.619 --> 00:52:17.340
to prophesy or whether they're going to start

00:52:17.340 --> 00:52:20.760
to speak boldly and be witnesses into all Judea

00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.019
and to the nations of the world. Lord, we're

00:52:23.019 --> 00:52:25.639
just declaring the power of your Holy Spirit

00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:28.039
to come upon each and every one who's listening

00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:31.659
right now in Jesus' name. name, receive it. And

00:52:31.659 --> 00:52:35.360
we receive it too in Jesus name. Thank you, Father.

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Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. We thank

00:52:37.460 --> 00:52:39.739
you. We give you glory. We give you honor. You

00:52:39.739 --> 00:52:42.920
are so awesome, Father. Pour out your spirit.

00:52:43.019 --> 00:52:44.900
Give us your heart for the outpouring, Lord,

00:52:44.980 --> 00:52:48.239
that we can go farther and greater and deeper

00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:52.510
with you, that you can have your way in us. every

00:52:52.510 --> 00:52:56.090
way, forming your character in us and prophesying

00:52:56.090 --> 00:52:59.389
and bringing forth your glory in healing, in

00:52:59.389 --> 00:53:02.449
miracles, in ways that are going to give you

00:53:02.449 --> 00:53:05.750
glory beyond anything we've ever even heard of

00:53:05.750 --> 00:53:15.829
before. In Jesus' name, amen. If you enjoyed

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