(314) “Holy Spirit, the Flesh Tamer”

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The real you is your spirit. And your spirit

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is one with the Spirit of God. So it's two against

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one, really. Because, you know, you really can

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overcome your flesh because the true self, the

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real you, is your spirit. And the Holy Spirit

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is there with your spirit, one with your spirit,

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to help you, to help me overcome the flesh. God

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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 just want

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to encourage you, if you're having any kind of

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battles with the flesh, maybe you're not, but...

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You know, sometimes we just do. And sometimes

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it's all the time. And sometimes it's every day.

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But we have this wonderful friend who's been

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given to us to help us. The Holy Spirit. He's

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the flesh tamer. Thanks so much for joining us.

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We're so glad that you're with us. It's just

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a pleasure to be able to get together with you

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for quite some time. So we just want to invite

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pouring of the Holy Spirit, and we want to equip

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-changing. We've been doing this convention for

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many years, and it's always, always life -changing,

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but this one's going to be taking place on Shavuot,

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on Pentecost, and we're expecting... and unprecedented

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outpouring. We want you to be there with us.

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So today we're going to talk about the Holy Spirit

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as the flesh tamer. You know, I don't know about

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you. Philip, do you ever have issues where you

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need help with your flesh? Yeah. You do? Maybe

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not on a daily basis, you know. Maybe it's just

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me that has it on the daily basis. And then it

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could be, too, you know, things just happen.

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You know, if you're locked up in your house,

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you don't have opportunities for that to happen.

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Well, maybe. But if you're out in your car or

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you're out in the marketplace or you're, you

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know, you get plenty of opportunities. Sure,

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sure. There are things that provoke us in the

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flesh that trigger us. And, you know, since Pastor

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Tony Kemp's message on episode 306, I keep encouraging

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everybody, if you haven't heard it, go back and

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listen to this. This is life changing. We have

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been pressing in. I have been pressing in for

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sure about expanding my capacity. And, you know,

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the Holy Spirit really used him to. bring to

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the surface things that God had already been

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dealing with me about. And, you know, I was squirming

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a little bit and, you know, it's like, poke,

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poke, poke, poke. You need to deal with this.

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And so I've been really pressing into yielding

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to the Holy Spirit because it's the Holy Spirit

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that is our helper. So what did Jesus say when

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he was with his disciples? that last supper that

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they had together. And he gave what is known

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by scholars as the upper room discourse. It was

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his last message to his disciples where he's

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pouring out his heart to them and trying to get

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them ready for what's coming. And he says to

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them something about the Holy Spirit that he

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hadn't had to tell them prior to that. But what

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did he say, Philip, in John 14, 15 to 17? If

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you love me, you will keep my commandments. And

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I will ask the Father, and he will give you another

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helper to be with you forever. Even the Spirit

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of truth, whom the world cannot perceive, because

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it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him,

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for he dwells with you and will be in you. Where

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Jesus is saying, you know him, for he dwells

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with you and will be in you. So remember when

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Jesus was baptized, and some of these disciples

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were there when that happened. Yeah. And the

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Holy Spirit came down on him. It says like a

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dove, but I think it also could mean like the

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fluttering of a dove, like there was something

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that came on him and remained on him. So it was

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the Holy Spirit that was, it was really the Holy

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Spirit doing all the stuff through Jesus. And

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Jesus was our model as to what it looks like

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to be a mature son of God. right? Because he

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was the perfect son of God. He never failed in

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anything that God gave him to do. And so he's

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our model of what he wants us to be. And it says

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here, you know him for he dwells with you and

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will be in you. So we know that that is what

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happened at Pentecost. We're not going to focus

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on that on this episode. what we did a few episodes

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ago. We talked seriously about Shavuot, about

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Pentecost, and what that's all about. In this

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episode, it's on my heart to talk about how the

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Holy Spirit works with us to help us overcome

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the flesh. Because I really, personally, maybe

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I'm just doing this for me. But just in case

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it could help you, I'll share it with you, okay?

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So if we go back to this upper room discourse,

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Jesus is talking about significant things about

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the Holy Spirit. And in John 14, 26, it says

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the helper. Now, in other translations, it says

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the comforter. So he's very much a comforter

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and he's very much a helper. The helper, the

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Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my

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name, he will teach you all things and bring

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to your remembrance all that I've said to you.

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Man, that's really important that we have this

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teacher who's living inside of us. You know,

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it's the Holy Spirit that draws us to Jesus in

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the first place. He's drawing us to the Father.

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He's drawing us to Jesus. He's participating

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with the Father and Jesus in helping us get into

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the place that God designed for us to be. So

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what does he say in John 15? But when the Helper

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comes, whom I will send to you from the Father,

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the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father,

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he will bear witness about me. And you also will

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bear witness because you have been with me from

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the beginning. Oh, that's really good. So he's

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the Spirit of Truth. Okay, think back to the

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Garden of Eden, and you've got this snake that's

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lying to Eve. Eve needed the Holy Spirit. Eve

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probably had the Holy Spirit. But she was paying

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attention to this other thing that was trying

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to cause her to doubt and trying to cause her

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to sin, trying to cause her to rebel against

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the Word of God, just making her doubt what God

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said. And so the Spirit of truth will help us

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to sort out what's truth, right? And so he's

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going to bear witness about Jesus. So he's going

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to bring to our remembrance the things that Jesus

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has said to us. And so many times when I'm asking

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the Lord for an answer about something, it comes

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into my mind as a scripture. Okay. And it really

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helps that you study the scriptures, you know.

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you know that the Scripture is written by the

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inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So it has the

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truth that we need for every situation. Every

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situation, there's a Scripture that fits it.

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Every single situation that you're in. So that's

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why it's really important for us to be studying

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the Scriptures on a regular basis. And we've

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been doing this for years. We've been pouring

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ourselves into the Scripture and pouring the

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Scripture into us. Well, how come we're not perfected

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yet? Because it's a process. And every time we

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yield to the Holy Spirit, it gets a little easier

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to yield to the Holy Spirit. And in the same

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way, every time we yield to the flesh. it gets

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a little easier to yield to the flesh. So that's

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why it's important for us to lean on that spirit

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of truth who is going to bear witness of Jesus

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so that we can bear witness of him. So when you

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know you're supposed to say something to somebody

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about Jesus, you know, a total stranger and you're

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sweating bullets because you... You're not used

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to this. And it's like, I'm afraid. But the spirit

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of truth will come up inside of you. That Holy

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Spirit that bears witness of Jesus comes up inside

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of you to give you the words. And sometimes all

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he gives you is just one word or two. But if

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you'll say the one or two words, then it's going

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to open up the channel for more to come. If you

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go back to the podcast that we did with Anna

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Werner recently, she illustrated that beautifully

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about how the Lord just gave her a picture of

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this very, very stately woman, conservative woman

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on a pool noodle. Yeah. Like, what? But if you

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step out on what you've been given, then the

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rest comes. And the Holy Spirit's the one that

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does the work. All we have to do is co -operate

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with him. Just let him give it to you and step

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out in faith. And it's amazing what he'll do

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if we'll work with him. So he's the spirit of

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truth. He brings things to our remembrance. He

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helps us. He helps us bear witness. What else

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does he do? John 16, I think it's verse 8. What

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does that say? And when he comes, he will convict

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the world concerning sin and righteousness and

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judgment. Okay. Uh -huh. Have you ever felt the

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conviction of the Holy Spirit? Oh, yes, I have.

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Yeah. And sometimes it's, oh, okay, man. You

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know, how many times, even when we were in our

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youth, and we made a commitment to the Lord,

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and then... The next Sunday we hear a sermon

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that's convicting us again, and we're back at

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the altar again. Yeah, like I did something during

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the week. Yeah? You know, like my Catholic friends

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used to say, you know, we party or do something

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on Friday night and then go to confession on

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Saturday morning. And then you're good for another

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week, you know? Well, that's probably not God's

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best way. No. But the Holy Spirit will convict

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us, and the sooner we learn to repent. Like repent

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immediately. Yeah. You know, there's times like,

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you know, when you do have to immediately, you

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know, you repent, you felt something. But we

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had an instance about three weeks ago. I think

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it was maybe two and a half weeks. And we had

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put a letter out on things that we need. And

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one was in an industrial mower for our area.

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And so we had this brother, God bless him, you

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know, that just sent the money in for this mower.

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They're not cheap. And so I'm going and I'm looking

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at this mower and I'm talking to the sales guy.

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And it had a price tag of like $7 ,800 on it.

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You know, I thought, okay, that's really neat.

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Maybe that's the one we buy. And so I come back

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the next day and I go in. We got approval from

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the board to do it. We got approval from the

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board. And when he's out there, he's looking

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at it and he types in the serial number. And

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he says, no, that's a 52 -inch. That's not the

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60 that we needed. So he had quoted it wrong.

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And so we're looking at one inside. Yeah, it's

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the 60 -inch. And so I took a picture of it,

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and I took a picture of the price tag, and then

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I looked. It was about $2 ,000 more because it's

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the next series higher. It's more of a heavier

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industrial one. But I held my peace on it. I

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thought, I'm just going to wait on this. And

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so we go back. A few days later, you know, they

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test it, run it. I look at it, and it's the one

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that had a $9 ,700 price tag on it, which is

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like a $2 ,000 difference. Now, that's a lot

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of money. I thought, did they miss this somehow?

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So, you know, we brought it home because I didn't

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feel a thing. to say something right at the moment.

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I mean, normally I would just say, wait, wait,

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wait, wait, you know, but I didn't feel to say

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that. I just waited. And we went back a couple

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of days ago. You know, I went in and talked to

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the guy and says, hey, I want to show you something

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out here. So I go out there and I show him a

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picture of the price tag of the higher series

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mower that was on the inside. I said, was this

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a mistake? You know, did you? quote me the wrong

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price and you feel now obligated. You have to

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give us the $2 ,000 more one for the same price.

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And he says, no, we just discounted it that much.

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Favor. Favor. It was tremendous favor. And, you

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know, I said, I really appreciate that because

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I want to make sure because we're not going to

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hold you to that if it's coming out of somebody's

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pocket or, you know, somebody gets in trouble.

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And he says, no, we discounted that for you.

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I mean, that was a major discount. I mean, we're

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your friend forever, you know. And we have been.

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We've been buying from this hardware store for

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the last, since the 1970s, you know. But that

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was favor. But it was just leading of the Holy

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Spirit. Because sometimes, you know, when there's

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an instant, you have to immediately say something.

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But then there's something which doesn't happen

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as much. Just wait a little bit. You know, like

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just wait, like wait to see if you get a bigger

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bite. You're talking about fishing, right? Yeah.

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And when we did, I did go fishing two weeks ago.

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You know, I just felt this thing to go. I think

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the walleye are coming up the river. And so I

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go there and pay $5 to go down to this one spot

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on the river where it's wider, a little deeper.

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I threw everything I had. I didn't get a hit.

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So I'm pretty discouraged. So I go to another

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spot of the river and I walk in a ways. I'm not

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getting a hit. And so I'm chatting with this

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guy. I chatted with a little bit as I was going

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in there. And then just as I'm leaving, you know,

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kind of, he was from another state, you know,

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and I says, oh, do you know Jesus? And he says,

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I don't want to talk about it. It's been nice

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talking to you. Turns his head away and it felt

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like a slap in the face, you know, like. You

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know, this day's not going well. I'm not catching

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any fish and all that. So I go up to the car

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and this guy pulls in and, you know, we own a

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1984 Land Cruiser, Toyota Land Cruiser. That's

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in very good condition. And we get a lot of,

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do you want to sell it? You know, and no, we've

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had it for all these years. We're keeping it.

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And this guy pulls in, he starts, you know, saying,

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I really like that Land Cruiser. He's kind of

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a roughy -looking guy, and the inside of the

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car is pretty rough -looking, and he's got a

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cigarette in his hand and all that. And we're

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just talking about things, and I just say, do

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you know Jesus? He says, yeah, I just love Jesus,

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you know, but I don't go to church. So here's

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a guy that was hurt in church, you know, and

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we're just having a real good conversation. He

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was having some health issues, so I prayed for

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him, and then he drove off. I got in the car

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and took off to another part of the lake, and

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I couldn't get to it. It was closed, so I just

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came home. Pretty, you know, disappointed, but,

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you know, got to. pray for this guy and all that.

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I thought, was this whole trip based on him?

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Or was it just my flesh that really wanted to

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go fishing? Well, I think you made an impression

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on that fish. And it might even be the one that

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completely rejected you. Your words might have

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just been enough to begin the process of the

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convicting of the Holy Spirit, or maybe lots

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of times. People who are under conviction are

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really upset. They'll lash out. They'll lash

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out. Yeah. Because the Spirit of God is dealing

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with them. So he does convict of sin, and he's

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drawing. It's the poke, poke, poke, poke, poke,

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trying to get your attention. Yeah. You know,

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we just went last night to see the movie Awakening.

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And Awakening, yeah. A great awakening. Great

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awakening. And George Whitefield was just...

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who befriended Benjamin Franklin, just working

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on him. And at the end, not knowing that George

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Whitefield's at the end of his life because he's

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probably got pneumonia or something, and he just

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really comes out to Benjamin Franklin, why won't

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you change? And then Benjamin Franklin goes off

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to England because of representing the colonies.

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And when he's in talking to the big up -and -up

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guy, a guy comes in and interrupts just to let

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you know George Whitefield passed away. Like,

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wow. But the last words he had impacted him,

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and he turned his life over at the end. You need

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to go see that. It was just an incredible. moving.

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So moving along. Yes. It's about conviction of

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sin. So, I mean, that really fits with what the

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Holy Spirit does. Yeah, that was a freebie. We

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just threw this in. It wasn't part of the script,

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you know, if we have a script. It's not exactly

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a script. So what does verse 13 say in John 16?

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When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide

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you into all truth. Yes. For he will not speak

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of his own authority, but whatever he hears,

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he will speak, and he will declare to you the

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things that are to come. Oh, that's important.

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Yeah. That's important. He's going to guide you

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into truth because he's the spirit of truth.

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Yeah. And he's going to declare to you things

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that are to come. How many times have you gotten

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a thought? of something that's going to happen.

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And it came from the Holy Spirit to prepare you.

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You know, like I remember when our sister -in

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-law was with us for a family event, and she'd

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been ill for quite some time. And I just had

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this thought that I think this is the last time.

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Yeah, we saw her in the wheelchair. Yeah, this

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is the last time we're going to see her like

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this. And the next time we saw her was on her

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deathbed and she was unable to communicate. And

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so the Holy Spirit will lead you and guide you

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and give you things that you need to know for

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what's coming. It's important. And then what

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does verse 14 say? He will glorify me for he

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will take what is mine and declare it to you.

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So the Holy Spirit is going to hear from. the

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Father and Jesus and give us instructions. He's

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going to hear what the Father's saying and speak

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that to us. And then we can speak it to others.

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So that's where this ability to witness comes

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also, you know, the ability to give a witness

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of what the Holy Spirit is saying. And I think

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it was made very clear in that episode we did

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with Anna that you only give what you get from

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the Lord. Like if you get a picture in your mind

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of something or a vision or if you hear a word,

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just say what you hear or see. Yeah. Because

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we can get things completely goofed up if we

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add to it. If we try to interpret it, we're going

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to blow it. And why is it a lot of times, you

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know, like... morning choir time, you know, you

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get a quickening, you say, okay, Holy Spirit,

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just pour out of me today and lead me and guide

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me, you know, and everything starts good, but

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sometimes it only takes one thing and it just

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seems to mess everything else up. And it's just

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like, why wasn't he louder right when I needed

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him? Still small boys. Yeah, it might have something

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to do with how many times we've ignored him.

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Flash, flash. Yes. Yeah. But that's what the

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Holy Spirit is doing right now is to help us

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overcome our flesh. Yeah. Overcome those flesh

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flashes so that it's like he'll give us the grace

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to stop before we go ahead and do or say what

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we were about to do or say. And, you know, I've

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said this before that I so appreciate what he's

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doing in me that when a thought comes into my

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head. That's like judgmental or something that,

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you know, growing up, you know, I had two older

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brothers that were real sharp with one of them

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even called it stiletto comments of cutting people

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down. And I learned that from my brothers. And

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I started out that way. a good many years ago,

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and the Holy Spirit has been tempering me. So,

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you know, one of those thoughts comes into my

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head of some quip that I'm just going to blurt

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out, and it's like, and He stops me. He's giving

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me the grace to say no to my flesh so that my

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flesh doesn't flash and hurt somebody. We don't

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need to be hurting people. Yeah, because stuff

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you hear on TV, even though it's comedy. Yeah.

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Like I was going to say, do your brothers watch

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too much Monty Python or something like that?

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Sometimes British humor was very, you know, slapping

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you in the face. And if you look at enough stuff

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like that, especially as a kid, it can become

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part of your vocabulary. Right. That's the tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil, having to

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choose between good and evil, where we weren't

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designed to be. influenced by evil. We're designed

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to be influenced by the Spirit of God. So 1 Corinthians

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2, 6 through 16, Paul is talking and he says,

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yet among the mature, we do impart wisdom, although

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it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers

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of this age who are doomed to pass away. But

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we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God,

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which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

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Remember, the Holy Spirit is bringing to us things

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of God, even hidden things, even secret things,

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right? None of the rulers of this age understood

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this, for if they had, they would not have crucified

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the Lord of glory. But as it is written, what

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no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart

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of man imagined. What God has prepared for those

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who love him, these things God has revealed to

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us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches

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everything, even the depths of God. For who knows

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a person's thoughts except the Spirit of that

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person which is in him? So also no one comprehends

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the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

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Now we have received not the Spirit of the world.

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but the Spirit who is from God, that we might

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understand the things freely given us by God.

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And we impart this in words not taught by human

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wisdom, but taught by the Spirit. See, that's

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what the Spirit is doing in us. The Holy Spirit

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is working in us. He's giving us words of the

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Father. He's giving us secrets, right? Interpreting

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spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

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The natural person does not accept the things

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of the Spirit of God for their foolishness to

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him, and he is not able to understand them because

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they are spiritually discerned. For the spiritual

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person judges all things, but is himself to be

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judged by no one. For who has understood the

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mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we

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have the mind of Christ. How do we have the mind

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of Christ? It comes by the Holy Spirit. So that's

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how we can depend on the Holy Spirit to help

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us to tame the flesh and to come up as mature

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sons of God, right? So I just, I love how Paul

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expresses in Romans 7 about... The struggle that

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we have with the flesh. We need the Holy Spirit

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as our flesh tamer. I mean, Paul who wrote the

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majority of the New Testament, but here he is

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dealing with his flesh flashes and putting it

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in a letter to the church. So it's not like we

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put Paul on a pedestal. We do, but he's human.

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Absolutely. He bears his soul in this passage

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in Romans 7. You want to read that for us? This

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is from the Passion Translation. I once lived

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without a clear understanding of the law. But

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when I heard God's commandments, sin sprung to

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life and brought with it a death sentence. The

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commandment that was intended to bring life brought

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me death instead. Sin, by means of the commandment,

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built a base of operation within me to overpower

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me and put me to death. So then, we have to conclude

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that the problem is not with the law itself,

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for the law is holy, and its commandments are

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correct and for our good. So, did something meant

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to be good become death to me? Certainly not.

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It was not the law but sin en masse that produced

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my spiritual death. The sacred commandment merely

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uncovered the evil of sin so it could be seen

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for what it is. Isn't that amazing when he wrote

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that? Wow. Yep. And now I realize that it is

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no longer my true self doing it, but the unwelcome

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intruder of sin in my humanity. Grab that. Grab

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that. It's not my true identity that's doing

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it. That it is no longer my true self doing it,

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but the unwelcome intruder of sin in my humanity.

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Yep. I know that nothing good lives within the

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flesh of my fallen humanity. The longings to

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do what is right are within me, but willpower

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is not enough to accomplish it. My lofty desires

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to do what is good are dashed when I do the things

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I want to avoid. So if my behavior contradicts

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my desires to do good, I must conclude that it's

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not my true identity doing it, but the unwelcome

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intruder of sin hindering me from being who I

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really am. So the real you is your spirit. And

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your spirit is one with the Spirit of God. Yeah.

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So it's two against one, really. Because, you

00:29:33.460 --> 00:29:36.819
know, you really can overcome your flesh because

00:29:36.819 --> 00:29:40.900
the true self, the real you, is your spirit.

00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:43.339
And the Holy Spirit is there with your spirit,

00:29:43.420 --> 00:29:46.480
one with your spirit, to help you, to help me

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:50.539
overcome. the flesh. And you really have to want

00:29:50.539 --> 00:29:53.039
to overcome your flesh. I think we really do.

00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:56.099
The real true identity, the real true you wants

00:29:56.099 --> 00:29:59.519
to do the right thing. Through my experience

00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:02.319
of this principle, I discovered that even when

00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:05.660
I want to do good, evil is ready to sabotage

00:30:05.660 --> 00:30:09.400
me. Oh man, that's so well put. Truly, deep within

00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:32.099
my true identity, What an agonizing situation

00:30:32.099 --> 00:30:35.859
I am in. So who has the power to rescue this

00:30:35.859 --> 00:30:38.359
miserable man from the unwelcome intruder of

00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:42.109
sin and death? Yeah. I give all my thanks to

00:30:42.109 --> 00:30:46.210
God for his mighty power has finally provided

00:30:46.210 --> 00:30:49.509
a way out through our Lord Jesus, the anointed

00:30:49.509 --> 00:30:53.390
one. So if left to myself, the flesh is aligned

00:30:53.390 --> 00:30:57.049
within the law of sin. But now my renewed mind

00:30:57.049 --> 00:30:59.930
is fixed on and submitted to God's righteous

00:30:59.930 --> 00:31:03.670
principles. Beautiful. Oh, yes. Beautiful. I

00:31:03.670 --> 00:31:06.099
like the way he puts it. And I like the way it's

00:31:06.099 --> 00:31:09.099
translated or interpreted. I think this is an

00:31:09.099 --> 00:31:11.720
interpretation rather than a translation. And

00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:16.519
the interpretation here is that this sin nature

00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:22.359
is an unwelcome intruder. We all have it. But

00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:26.019
it's not according to the design that our Father

00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:30.019
made for us. We're designed to work with him

00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:35.890
in our spirit and keep our flesh. in check and

00:31:35.890 --> 00:31:41.710
keep our whole being whole by submitting to the

00:31:41.710 --> 00:31:46.130
Holy Spirit. You keep that flesh tamed by submitting

00:31:46.130 --> 00:31:49.930
to the Holy Spirit. So this word mind, I like

00:31:49.930 --> 00:31:53.789
this, my renewed mind is fixed on and submitted

00:31:53.789 --> 00:31:58.049
to God's righteous principles. So this word mind

00:31:58.049 --> 00:32:02.920
in the Greek is the word nous. And the outline

00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.980
of biblical usage from the Blue Letter Bible

00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:10.940
that I use, it gives these different ways of

00:32:10.940 --> 00:32:14.740
interpreting this word nous for mind. It says

00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:18.559
the mind comprising alike the faculties of perceiving

00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:22.720
and understanding and those of feeling, judging,

00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.500
determining. OK, so our mind is involved in this

00:32:28.500 --> 00:32:32.750
process of making choices. and examining things

00:32:32.750 --> 00:32:34.490
and trying to figure out, now, is this true?

00:32:34.569 --> 00:32:37.529
Is this a lie? Is this the flesh or is this the

00:32:37.529 --> 00:32:40.529
spirit? Is this evil or is this good? So it's

00:32:40.529 --> 00:32:42.990
the intellectual faculty, the understanding.

00:32:43.390 --> 00:32:46.230
So, you know, Paul and the book of Proverbs,

00:32:46.269 --> 00:32:51.269
there are many places that encourages us to get

00:32:51.269 --> 00:32:54.269
understanding. And Paul prays for us in the book

00:32:54.269 --> 00:32:57.190
of Ephesians that your understanding may be enlightened.

00:32:57.690 --> 00:33:01.269
That we get that light of the Holy Spirit into

00:33:01.269 --> 00:33:04.470
our understanding. So the Spirit is working in

00:33:04.470 --> 00:33:08.890
our minds to renew us and set us free from that

00:33:08.890 --> 00:33:12.950
unwelcome intruder. It's kind of like a tick

00:33:12.950 --> 00:33:16.230
is an unwelcome intruder. Yes, it is. What has

00:33:16.230 --> 00:33:20.890
it done? It's sucking the life out of you. It's

00:33:20.890 --> 00:33:24.000
trying to. Yeah. Yeah, we've both had our experiences

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.680
with texts last week. Yes. We won't go there.

00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:30.079
Let's not talk about that further. Anyway, so

00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.859
it's also, this word nous, is reason in a narrower

00:33:34.859 --> 00:33:38.759
sense as the capacity for spiritual truth. Capacity.

00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:42.440
The capacity. Here we go. The higher powers of

00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:45.200
the soul, the faculty of perceiving divine things,

00:33:45.420 --> 00:33:48.319
of recognizing goodness and of hating evil. So

00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:52.250
this is what the Holy Spirit is. Working on in

00:33:52.250 --> 00:33:57.509
our minds, okay? So we've been taught that our

00:33:57.509 --> 00:34:01.289
soul is the mind, will, and emotions. And I think

00:34:01.289 --> 00:34:07.269
there's more to this idea of the mind that isn't

00:34:07.269 --> 00:34:11.789
only just the intellectual mind that thinks it's

00:34:11.789 --> 00:34:14.599
superior to the things of the spirit. right?

00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:17.980
There is that mind. There's that rebellious mind.

00:34:18.099 --> 00:34:21.659
There's that mind that fears all those things

00:34:21.659 --> 00:34:25.760
that are not a part of the kingdom of God. Those

00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:29.900
things are part of the mind, but they're not

00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:33.079
the renewed mind. And the renewed mind comes

00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:35.860
from the Holy Spirit. So it's also the power

00:34:35.860 --> 00:34:40.119
of considering and judging soberly, calmly, and

00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:44.489
impartially. Now, this is the thing that The

00:34:44.489 --> 00:34:48.230
Holy Spirit's been working on me in my reactions

00:34:48.230 --> 00:34:52.570
to things. Those triggers, right? Those triggers,

00:34:52.750 --> 00:34:57.150
those things that annoy me or those things that

00:34:57.150 --> 00:35:00.809
are contrary to what I'm expecting or contrary

00:35:00.809 --> 00:35:03.550
to what I think it should be. And it causes my

00:35:03.550 --> 00:35:06.510
emotions to come up. And Holy Spirit's working

00:35:06.510 --> 00:35:10.670
on me to calm that down. Maybe that's not an

00:35:10.670 --> 00:35:14.139
issue for you, but I'm sharing. From my heart.

00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:18.099
the reality of things that God is doing because

00:35:18.099 --> 00:35:21.420
God is at work because I want my capacity to

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:24.880
flow with him to be expanded so that he can do

00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:28.599
what he wants to do in answer to my prayers for

00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:30.860
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I want to

00:35:30.860 --> 00:35:34.780
be equipped. I want to be contending for the

00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:37.559
overcoming of the flesh. I want my own personal

00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:41.579
outpouring so that he will do in me and through

00:35:41.579 --> 00:35:44.639
me what he wants to do. which is what I want

00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:49.420
him to do, right? And so it also involves a particular

00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:53.320
mode of thinking and judging, like this is the

00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:56.059
thoughts, feelings, purposes, and desires, okay?

00:35:56.400 --> 00:36:00.119
Now, we have this thing from the book of Genesis

00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:04.280
about the operations of the flesh. There was

00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:07.920
this time early on after Adam and Eve had been

00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:11.909
sent out of the Garden of Eden and Cain and Abel

00:36:11.909 --> 00:36:16.250
are born. They grow up. Cain is raising crops

00:36:16.250 --> 00:36:19.989
and Abel is raising sheep. They both make an

00:36:19.989 --> 00:36:23.469
offering to God. And Abel's was accepted and

00:36:23.469 --> 00:36:28.289
Cain's wasn't. Now, there's all kinds of theories

00:36:28.289 --> 00:36:31.960
about why Cain's was not accepted. You know,

00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:34.079
some people think, well, he didn't give the first

00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:38.340
fruits of his crop. Yeah, or for two, well, it

00:36:38.340 --> 00:36:41.780
wasn't like a blood sacrifice, but that isn't

00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:45.099
what Cain was doing because he was like a tiller

00:36:45.099 --> 00:36:47.900
of the ground. Right. And then you read, you

00:36:47.900 --> 00:36:49.760
know, with the priest. Right. You know, they

00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:52.500
would bring, you know, the first fruits, the

00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:55.480
wave offering, which was grain and that. So it's

00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:59.500
not. A blood sacrifice. Right. And it's not necessarily

00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:02.039
just the first fruits because there are other

00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:05.099
offerings that are just requiring that you bring

00:37:05.099 --> 00:37:09.840
some of the flour or the grain that you've brought

00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:13.260
along with your sacrifice, along with the blood

00:37:13.260 --> 00:37:16.519
sacrifice or whatever. But there are food offerings.

00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:18.960
So I don't think it has anything to do with the

00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:21.900
blood. But in the book of Hebrews in chapter

00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:26.539
11, it says, by faith. Abel offered a better

00:37:26.539 --> 00:37:31.280
sacrifice than Cain. So if we look at what happened

00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:34.659
in Genesis from the point of view of the book

00:37:34.659 --> 00:37:37.940
of Hebrews, there must have been something about

00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:41.079
Cain's heart that wasn't right. Was Cain having

00:37:41.079 --> 00:37:43.659
a flush flash when he went to offer the sacrifice?

00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:47.719
Maybe. Maybe he was. Maybe he was already jealous

00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:50.500
of his brother about something else. Maybe there

00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:53.530
was something about Abel that... that he just

00:37:53.530 --> 00:37:56.309
didn't like. We don't know exactly what it was,

00:37:56.369 --> 00:37:59.289
but in Genesis 4 -7, God is speaking to Cain,

00:37:59.369 --> 00:38:04.130
and he says, if you do well, will you not be

00:38:04.130 --> 00:38:07.409
accepted? So there must have been something he

00:38:07.409 --> 00:38:11.610
wasn't doing well, okay? There was something

00:38:11.610 --> 00:38:15.110
amiss in his heart that God was seeing in his

00:38:15.110 --> 00:38:19.610
heart, right? And there's a footnote that says,

00:38:20.090 --> 00:38:22.650
that the Hebrew could also be rendered, will

00:38:22.650 --> 00:38:26.630
there not be a lifting up of your face? So in

00:38:26.630 --> 00:38:31.250
other words, he was downcast. Okay, his face

00:38:31.250 --> 00:38:35.730
was, you know, his face. So he was grumpy when

00:38:35.730 --> 00:38:38.489
he gave the sacrifice? I don't know if he was

00:38:38.489 --> 00:38:40.550
grumpy when he gave the sacrifice, but he certainly

00:38:40.550 --> 00:38:45.090
was grumpy after it wasn't accepted. And God

00:38:45.090 --> 00:38:47.050
says, if you do well, will you not be accepted?

00:38:47.190 --> 00:38:49.869
If you do well, will there not be a lifting up

00:38:49.869 --> 00:38:52.269
of your face? So there must have been something

00:38:52.269 --> 00:38:55.409
about his heart that wasn't right. Yeah, even

00:38:55.409 --> 00:38:58.010
before the sacrifice. And then afterwards, that's

00:38:58.010 --> 00:39:01.050
when murder came in. Right. And so then he says,

00:39:01.150 --> 00:39:04.889
if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the

00:39:04.889 --> 00:39:08.570
door. There's that unwelcome intruder. The unwelcome

00:39:08.570 --> 00:39:13.030
intruder was ready to leap on Cain. Which he

00:39:13.030 --> 00:39:16.650
did. Which he did. Because Cain didn't get his

00:39:16.650 --> 00:39:20.769
heart right at that point. Well. If he had gotten

00:39:20.769 --> 00:39:23.550
his heart right, if he would have yielded to

00:39:23.550 --> 00:39:27.750
God, God spoke to him directly. Yeah. And sometimes

00:39:27.750 --> 00:39:30.010
God speaks to us directly and we ignore him.

00:39:30.389 --> 00:39:33.269
Yeah. And it said its desire is for you, the

00:39:33.269 --> 00:39:36.690
intruder. Exactly. And you must rule over it.

00:39:36.710 --> 00:39:39.570
Exactly. That is words of wisdom for us every

00:39:39.570 --> 00:39:43.039
day. Right. We must rule over it. Absolutely.

00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:49.239
So it's the ruling over that unwelcome intruder

00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:54.480
of sin that we get because Jesus died for us

00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:58.940
and he went to heaven and the Father sent the

00:39:58.940 --> 00:40:03.199
Holy Spirit so that we could have what we need

00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:06.519
to help us deal with that unwelcome intruder

00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:11.829
that's in our flesh. It's just there. Going on

00:40:11.829 --> 00:40:14.929
from Romans 7, we have Romans 8. Glory to God.

00:40:15.070 --> 00:40:18.289
Oh, hallelujah. So give us some of that, Philip,

00:40:18.409 --> 00:40:21.730
out of the Passion Translation. So now there

00:40:21.730 --> 00:40:24.469
is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ

00:40:24.469 --> 00:40:27.550
Jesus. Hallelujah. And because you belong to

00:40:27.550 --> 00:40:30.769
him, the power of the life -giving Spirit has

00:40:30.769 --> 00:40:33.230
freed you from the power of sin that leads to

00:40:33.230 --> 00:40:43.780
death. Yes. That's that unwelcome and true. Yes.

00:40:56.269 --> 00:40:58.769
He did this so that the just requirement of the

00:40:58.769 --> 00:41:02.510
law would be fully satisfied for us who no longer

00:41:02.510 --> 00:41:05.250
follow our sinful nature, but instead follow

00:41:05.250 --> 00:41:07.949
the Spirit. There's the key. Follow the Spirit.

00:41:08.070 --> 00:41:10.809
Go ahead. Those who are dominated by the sinful

00:41:10.809 --> 00:41:14.309
nature think about sinful things. But those who

00:41:14.309 --> 00:41:16.630
are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about

00:41:16.630 --> 00:41:19.650
things that please the Spirit. Yes. So letting

00:41:19.650 --> 00:41:22.610
your sinful nature control your mind leads to

00:41:22.610 --> 00:41:25.429
death. Ah, there's your mind. What's going on

00:41:25.429 --> 00:41:27.630
in your mind? We're having to have this fight

00:41:27.630 --> 00:41:30.969
in our minds, right? Yeah. But letting the Spirit

00:41:30.969 --> 00:41:34.469
control your mind leads to life and peace. For

00:41:34.469 --> 00:41:38.030
the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It

00:41:38.030 --> 00:41:40.409
never did obey God's laws, and it never will.

00:41:40.570 --> 00:41:43.789
It never will. Yeah. That's why those who are

00:41:43.789 --> 00:41:46.510
still under the control of their sinful nature

00:41:46.510 --> 00:41:50.590
can never please God. But you who are not controlled

00:41:50.590 --> 00:41:53.530
by your sinful nature, you're controlled by the

00:41:53.530 --> 00:41:55.750
Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in

00:41:55.750 --> 00:41:58.889
you. And remember that those who do not have

00:41:58.889 --> 00:42:01.969
the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong

00:42:01.969 --> 00:42:05.949
to Him at all. And Christ lives within you. So

00:42:05.949 --> 00:42:08.329
even though your body will die because of sin,

00:42:08.570 --> 00:42:11.510
the Spirit gives you life because you have been

00:42:11.510 --> 00:42:15.300
made right with God. The Spirit of God, who raised

00:42:15.300 --> 00:42:19.059
Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as

00:42:19.059 --> 00:42:22.059
God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, he will

00:42:22.059 --> 00:42:24.860
give life to your mortal bodies by the same Spirit

00:42:24.860 --> 00:42:28.159
living within you. Yes. Therefore, dear brothers

00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:32.320
and sisters, you have no obligation to do what

00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:35.400
your sinful nature urges you to do. And doesn't

00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:40.079
it urge us? Oh, wow. For if you live by its dictates,

00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:43.250
you will die. But if through the power of the

00:42:43.250 --> 00:42:45.769
Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful

00:42:45.769 --> 00:42:48.630
nature, you will live. Yes, hallelujah. For all

00:42:48.630 --> 00:42:51.030
who are led by the Spirit of God are children

00:42:51.030 --> 00:42:54.449
of God. So you have not received a spirit that

00:42:54.449 --> 00:42:57.730
makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received

00:42:57.730 --> 00:43:00.929
God's Spirit when He adopted you as His own children.

00:43:01.690 --> 00:43:04.949
Now we call Him Abba Father. Now, I just have

00:43:04.949 --> 00:43:07.329
to put in a... Yeah, I know where you're going.

00:43:07.510 --> 00:43:10.110
There's a picture in my mind whenever I see in

00:43:10.110 --> 00:43:13.829
the scripture, Abba, Father. I imagine myself

00:43:13.829 --> 00:43:19.010
in the airport in Tel Aviv or in New York or

00:43:19.010 --> 00:43:21.909
wherever we're flying from. And there's Jewish

00:43:21.909 --> 00:43:25.929
families there. And it's late at night. And it's

00:43:25.929 --> 00:43:28.590
past the children's bedtime. And the children

00:43:28.590 --> 00:43:33.219
are cranky. And you hear them saying, Abba. And

00:43:33.219 --> 00:43:35.460
they're, you know, they're just crying out to

00:43:35.460 --> 00:43:37.579
be held or they're crying, you know, because

00:43:37.579 --> 00:43:40.960
something, they dropped something or, you know,

00:43:40.980 --> 00:43:43.920
it's hard enough on children anyway, but when

00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:48.400
they're tired, they just need help. And they

00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:53.920
reach out to Abba, right? So this is the cry

00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:59.679
of our hearts. Abba, Father, I need you. And

00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:02.750
he's there. He's always there for us. Go ahead.

00:44:04.630 --> 00:44:23.539
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yep. Yet what we suffer now is

00:44:23.539 --> 00:44:26.119
nothing compared to the glory he will reveal

00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:30.099
to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly

00:44:30.099 --> 00:44:33.260
for that future day when God will reveal who

00:44:33.260 --> 00:44:37.079
his children really are. Against its will, all

00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:40.820
creation was subjected to God's curse. But with

00:44:40.820 --> 00:44:43.460
eager hope, the creation looks forward to the

00:44:43.460 --> 00:44:45.960
day when it will join God's children in glorious

00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:50.559
freedom from death and decay. For we know that

00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:53.920
all creation has been groaning as in the pains

00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:58.039
of childbirth right up to the present time. Yes.

00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:01.500
And we believers also groan that though we have

00:45:01.500 --> 00:45:04.440
the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future

00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:08.099
glory, we will long for our bodies to be released

00:45:08.099 --> 00:45:12.340
from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager

00:45:12.340 --> 00:45:14.840
hope for the day when God will give us our full

00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:18.659
rights as His adopted children, including the

00:45:18.659 --> 00:45:21.900
new bodies He has promised us. We were given

00:45:21.900 --> 00:45:25.039
this hope when we were saved. If we already have

00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:28.000
something, we don't need to hope for it. But

00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.360
if we look forward to something we don't yet

00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:33.619
have, we must wait patiently and confidently.

00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:37.199
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.

00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.780
For example, we don't know what God wants us

00:45:40.780 --> 00:46:07.809
to pray for. Yes. Yes. Yes. For God knew his

00:46:07.809 --> 00:46:10.849
people in advance, and he chose them to become

00:46:10.849 --> 00:46:14.110
like his son. Exactly. So that his son would

00:46:14.110 --> 00:46:16.949
be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

00:46:17.630 --> 00:46:20.809
And having chosen them, he called them to come

00:46:20.809 --> 00:46:23.869
to him. And having called them, he gave them

00:46:23.869 --> 00:46:27.489
right standing with himself. And having given

00:46:27.489 --> 00:46:30.369
them right standing, he gave them his glory.

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:34.880
So the goal of the Christian life is to become

00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:39.179
like Jesus. Yes, amen. We are predestined to

00:46:39.179 --> 00:46:43.139
be conformed to the image of his son. That's

00:46:43.139 --> 00:46:47.320
what that scripture is. It's written in our books

00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:51.440
that we're designed. We're designed to go through

00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.659
this process to become like him. And we're given

00:46:54.659 --> 00:46:59.789
these things to overcome. only through the Holy

00:46:59.789 --> 00:47:04.570
Spirit, only through this wonderful co -laboring

00:47:04.570 --> 00:47:08.719
together. We can become like Jesus because it

00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:10.699
was the Holy Spirit that helped him do all the

00:47:10.699 --> 00:47:12.820
stuff that he did, all the miracles, all the

00:47:12.820 --> 00:47:17.440
signs, all the wonders, all the compassion, all

00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:21.239
of the things that we look at Jesus, the good

00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:24.920
shepherd. He cares for his sheep. He lays down

00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:27.760
his life for his sheep. It's that same spirit

00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:31.440
that is available to us and is given to us to

00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:35.349
bring us into this maturity. And looking like

00:47:35.349 --> 00:47:38.650
him. We're designed to look like him. Don't have

00:47:38.650 --> 00:47:40.889
that scripture in front of me that's like, faith

00:47:40.889 --> 00:47:43.909
without works is dead. I would like to read that

00:47:43.909 --> 00:47:47.630
in another translation. But if we don't have

00:47:47.630 --> 00:47:50.269
the trials, I mean, faith is a muscle. It's a

00:47:50.269 --> 00:47:54.070
spiritual muscle. When you're working out, you

00:47:54.070 --> 00:47:56.949
know, to lift weights, you don't lift that whole

00:47:56.949 --> 00:47:59.469
thing in one shot. You know, have you ever tried

00:47:59.469 --> 00:48:02.699
to press 120 pounds? You know, when you only

00:48:02.699 --> 00:48:07.039
weigh 140, you know, you don't start by just,

00:48:07.059 --> 00:48:10.539
you start at a lower weight. And when you have

00:48:10.539 --> 00:48:12.940
something you're comfortable with, you work it

00:48:12.940 --> 00:48:15.119
up, then you add some more weight, you know,

00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:18.039
and you build those muscles gradually. You can't

00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:20.320
do it all at one time. Right. And it's the same

00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.760
way with faith. Yes. You know, it doesn't always

00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:26.050
come at one. time, you know, we have to have

00:48:26.050 --> 00:48:29.090
our experiences to build our faith. And when

00:48:29.090 --> 00:48:32.469
we're faithful in little things, He will have

00:48:32.469 --> 00:48:35.510
greater things. Right. And this is how we glorify

00:48:35.510 --> 00:48:38.730
the Father, by letting the Holy Spirit work through

00:48:38.730 --> 00:48:42.929
us and bring forth fruit. So John 15, verse 8

00:48:42.929 --> 00:48:45.690
says, By this is my Father glorified that you

00:48:45.690 --> 00:48:49.590
bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

00:48:50.530 --> 00:48:53.110
Now, Galatians 5, we don't have time to go into

00:48:53.110 --> 00:48:56.590
the whole thing, but Galatians 5 talks about

00:48:56.590 --> 00:49:00.929
how if you don't give into the flesh and you

00:49:00.929 --> 00:49:02.829
walk by the Spirit, you're going to overcome

00:49:02.829 --> 00:49:05.349
the flesh, right? And then there's this whole

00:49:05.349 --> 00:49:08.710
long list of the works of the flesh that, you

00:49:08.710 --> 00:49:10.409
know, you can go there and look for yourself.

00:49:10.650 --> 00:49:13.829
But we pretty much know what the issues of our

00:49:13.829 --> 00:49:16.380
own flesh are. You know, you know what yours

00:49:16.380 --> 00:49:18.820
are. I know what mine are. Yeah. And you've lived

00:49:18.820 --> 00:49:21.300
long enough. You know what you got to do. Yes.

00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:24.619
And so those are those things that that the Holy

00:49:24.619 --> 00:49:27.559
Spirit wants to help us with. He wants to help

00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:30.579
us to overcome and to to overcome the world.

00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:33.860
First John 5, 4 and 5 says, for whatever is born

00:49:33.860 --> 00:49:37.159
of God overcomes the world, the world, the flesh

00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:39.739
and the devil. OK, the stuff that's going on

00:49:39.739 --> 00:49:42.079
in our flesh, overcoming it. And this is the

00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:46.070
victory that has overcome the world. faith. It's

00:49:46.070 --> 00:49:48.730
as we're stepping out to work with him in the

00:49:48.730 --> 00:49:52.530
Spirit and let him work his character in us.

00:49:52.750 --> 00:49:55.309
Who is he who overcomes the world? But he who

00:49:55.309 --> 00:49:58.329
believes that Jesus is the Son of God. So you

00:49:58.329 --> 00:50:02.530
have this overcoming that comes through the Holy

00:50:02.530 --> 00:50:05.750
Spirit. And what fruit is it that the Spirit

00:50:05.750 --> 00:50:10.469
produces in us? When we overcome, Jesus has come

00:50:10.469 --> 00:50:14.969
over. Oh, that's so good, Philip. Yes, absolutely.

00:50:15.289 --> 00:50:18.829
Come on over. Come on over. Come up here. You

00:50:18.829 --> 00:50:21.809
know, that's what in Revelation to John, come

00:50:21.809 --> 00:50:26.190
up here. Amen. Amen. And so it's the coming up

00:50:26.190 --> 00:50:29.489
into the character of Christ. So the fruit that

00:50:29.489 --> 00:50:33.349
the Spirit works in us is spelled out for us

00:50:33.349 --> 00:50:36.750
so well in Galatians 5, 22 to 26. And I'm just

00:50:36.750 --> 00:50:45.179
going to read it from the ESV. joy, peace, patience,

00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:52.139
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:57.679
self -control. There's the biggie right there.

00:50:57.820 --> 00:51:00.559
So the Holy Spirit is working these things in

00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:05.130
us. So the more we work with him, the more we

00:51:05.130 --> 00:51:08.969
cooperate with him, he's going to produce this

00:51:08.969 --> 00:51:12.309
fruit that gives our Father glory, because it's

00:51:12.309 --> 00:51:14.389
the character of Christ that he's building into

00:51:14.389 --> 00:51:18.670
us. And those who belong to Jesus Christ have

00:51:18.670 --> 00:51:22.630
crucified the flesh. Okay, that part of us that

00:51:22.630 --> 00:51:26.269
is the unwelcome intruder of sin. That's that

00:51:26.269 --> 00:51:29.389
flesh that has to be crucified. We've crucified

00:51:29.389 --> 00:51:32.989
the flesh with its passions and desires. If we

00:51:32.989 --> 00:51:36.710
live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step

00:51:36.710 --> 00:51:39.750
with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited,

00:51:39.809 --> 00:51:42.590
provoking one another, envying one another. So

00:51:42.590 --> 00:51:46.309
I looked up this word provoke, and it's got a

00:51:46.309 --> 00:51:49.809
good side and a bad side. It's the triggers,

00:51:50.010 --> 00:51:53.809
okay? So the outline of biblical usage for this

00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:59.300
greek word is to make sharp or sharpen to stimulate

00:51:59.300 --> 00:52:05.280
spur on urge okay so you know think about riding

00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:08.780
a horse and you kind of you kind of click your

00:52:08.780 --> 00:52:11.760
heels against the the horse's side you know in

00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:14.219
some cases they use spurs i yeah i thought only

00:52:14.219 --> 00:52:17.579
cowboys did that you know the racer racing horses

00:52:17.579 --> 00:52:21.099
are are also spurred on right you're encouraging

00:52:21.099 --> 00:52:24.349
the horse to go go go go go So the Holy Spirit

00:52:24.349 --> 00:52:27.630
will do that in us. The Holy Spirit will provoke

00:52:27.630 --> 00:52:30.949
us, and sometimes we provoke one another in a

00:52:30.949 --> 00:52:35.230
good way to encourage one another, to inspire

00:52:35.230 --> 00:52:39.070
one another. You can do it. You can do this thing.

00:52:39.150 --> 00:52:41.949
You can overcome your flesh. You've got the Holy

00:52:41.949 --> 00:52:44.869
Spirit. He will help you. He's living right inside

00:52:44.869 --> 00:52:48.820
you. But then there's this other kind. of provoking.

00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:53.179
That's to irritate, to arouse to anger, to scorn,

00:52:53.179 --> 00:52:56.159
despise, provoke, make angry, to exasperate,

00:52:56.159 --> 00:52:59.300
to burn with anger. You know, like fathers, don't

00:52:59.300 --> 00:53:02.460
provoke your children to wrath. Okay, bring them

00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:04.260
up in the nurture and admonition of the God.

00:53:04.380 --> 00:53:07.300
That's the King James Version. But it's don't

00:53:07.300 --> 00:53:12.599
trigger people. Do Holy Spirit triggering, encouraging.

00:53:13.409 --> 00:53:16.349
urging to do the right thing, but do it in love,

00:53:16.449 --> 00:53:19.349
right? Do it with all of these fruit of the Spirit.

00:53:19.510 --> 00:53:21.969
So if you're doing it in love, if you're doing

00:53:21.969 --> 00:53:25.230
it with peace, if you're doing it with joy, if

00:53:25.230 --> 00:53:29.550
you're doing it with patience and kindness, you

00:53:29.550 --> 00:53:33.010
can help to provoke people to be like Jesus,

00:53:33.070 --> 00:53:35.909
because that's what this is all about. And 2

00:53:35.909 --> 00:53:38.909
Peter 1, 3 to 12, you want to read that, Philip?

00:53:39.530 --> 00:53:42.489
His divine power has granted to us all things

00:53:42.489 --> 00:53:45.230
that pertain to life and godliness, through the

00:53:45.230 --> 00:53:48.130
knowledge of him who called us to his own glory

00:53:48.130 --> 00:53:50.769
and excellence, by which he has granted to us

00:53:50.769 --> 00:53:53.929
his precious and very great promises, so that

00:53:53.929 --> 00:53:56.170
through them you may become partakers of the

00:53:56.170 --> 00:54:04.309
divine nature. In the 21st century. I haven't

00:54:04.309 --> 00:54:08.309
heard anybody except in biblical things. So there's

00:54:08.309 --> 00:54:11.210
other translations that use the word participators

00:54:11.210 --> 00:54:14.409
so that you can participate in the divine nature.

00:54:14.510 --> 00:54:18.510
I just want us to grab that idea of because the

00:54:18.510 --> 00:54:21.949
Holy Spirit is working with us. He's given us

00:54:21.949 --> 00:54:26.429
the privilege of participating in his divine

00:54:26.429 --> 00:54:30.170
nature or to have partnership or to share in

00:54:30.170 --> 00:54:32.829
his divine nature. It's something the Holy Spirit

00:54:32.829 --> 00:54:37.590
is working in us. Carry on. Having escaped from

00:54:37.590 --> 00:54:40.070
the corruption that is in the world because of

00:54:40.070 --> 00:54:45.650
sinful desire. That old unwelcome, unwelcome

00:54:45.650 --> 00:54:48.789
sin, right? Unwelcome intruder. Yeah, unwelcome

00:54:48.789 --> 00:54:51.679
intruder. For this very reason, make every effort

00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:55.019
to supplement your faith with virtue and virtue

00:54:55.019 --> 00:54:57.820
with knowledge and knowledge with self -control

00:54:57.820 --> 00:55:01.599
and self -control with steadfastness and steadfastness

00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:05.400
with godliness and godliness with brotherly affection

00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:09.079
and brotherly affection with love. See, all these

00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:11.019
things go together. It's the same thing that

00:55:11.019 --> 00:55:13.139
comes from the Holy Spirit. I mean, it is the

00:55:13.139 --> 00:55:29.110
Holy Spirit that's doing this. Oh, say that again.

00:55:29.150 --> 00:55:39.030
That is such an amazing statement. See there,

00:55:39.210 --> 00:55:45.010
we forget sometimes that the church is the, body

00:55:45.010 --> 00:55:49.030
of Christ and that we're all in this journey

00:55:49.030 --> 00:55:52.250
together. And all of us are having to learn to

00:55:52.250 --> 00:55:55.929
deal with our own unwelcome intruder of sin in

00:55:55.929 --> 00:56:00.809
our lives. All those works of the flesh that

00:56:00.809 --> 00:56:04.010
don't glorify God. And sometimes people pop off

00:56:04.010 --> 00:56:06.809
and have a flesh flash and it drives people out

00:56:06.809 --> 00:56:10.309
of the church. It's because we're all subject

00:56:10.309 --> 00:56:14.130
to this fleshly nature, but we all are in this

00:56:14.130 --> 00:56:17.610
process of, you know, growing to be like him.

00:56:17.690 --> 00:56:22.010
So if we want God to have mercy on us, we need

00:56:22.010 --> 00:56:24.670
to have mercy on other people who are having

00:56:24.670 --> 00:56:27.409
flash flashes and realizing that they're just

00:56:27.409 --> 00:56:30.980
dealing with their stuff. And instead of... complaining

00:56:30.980 --> 00:56:33.440
about them, and instead of being hurt by them,

00:56:33.559 --> 00:56:37.340
we need to be instantly moved to intercession

00:56:37.340 --> 00:56:40.079
because they need help from the Holy Spirit.

00:56:40.940 --> 00:56:43.460
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent

00:56:43.460 --> 00:56:46.639
to confirm your calling and election. For if

00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:48.559
you practice these qualities, you will never

00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:52.980
fall. I like that. Say it again. If you practice.

00:56:53.179 --> 00:56:55.820
For if you practice these qualities, you will

00:56:55.820 --> 00:57:00.139
never fall. You will never fall. Yeah. Oh. Beautiful.

00:57:00.460 --> 00:57:03.039
For in this way there will be richly provided

00:57:03.039 --> 00:57:05.559
for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom

00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:09.639
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Therefore,

00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:12.539
I intend always to remind you of these qualities,

00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:15.920
though you know them and are established in the

00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:19.820
truth that you have. Hallelujah. These eternal

00:57:19.820 --> 00:57:24.059
qualities, eternal qualities of brotherly affection

00:57:24.059 --> 00:57:26.880
and love. And God's going to add all these things

00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:31.219
to us by His Spirit, taming the flesh, taming

00:57:31.219 --> 00:57:35.139
the flesh. So I want to just close with, we've

00:57:35.139 --> 00:57:38.420
already read this, but just to bring it back

00:57:38.420 --> 00:57:44.079
again. Romans 8, verses 12 to 14, it says, So

00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:48.409
then, beloved ones. The flesh has no claims on

00:57:48.409 --> 00:57:52.750
us at all. And we have no further obligation

00:57:52.750 --> 00:57:56.090
to live in obedience to it. We just say, no,

00:57:56.230 --> 00:57:59.530
I'm not going to do that. I refuse to do that.

00:57:59.610 --> 00:58:04.690
I refuse to let that unwelcome intruder of sin

00:58:04.690 --> 00:58:08.909
nature, sinful fleshly nature, rule me. I'm ruled

00:58:08.909 --> 00:58:12.030
by the Holy Spirit. I'm going to walk in these

00:58:12.030 --> 00:58:15.909
things. For if you live controlled by the flesh,

00:58:15.969 --> 00:58:20.469
you're about to die. But if the life of the Spirit

00:58:20.469 --> 00:58:24.849
puts to death the corrupt ways of the flesh,

00:58:25.090 --> 00:58:30.719
we then taste his abundant life. The mature children

00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:34.940
of God are those who are moved by the impulses

00:58:34.940 --> 00:58:37.940
of the Holy Spirit. I'm going to say that again,

00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:40.320
and I'm going to add what's in the footnote.

00:58:40.340 --> 00:58:42.920
It says the Greek is quite emphatic, those and

00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:46.820
only those. Let me say it again. The mature children

00:58:46.820 --> 00:58:51.599
of God are those and only those. who are moved

00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:56.159
by the impulses of the Holy Spirit. So let's

00:58:56.159 --> 00:59:01.119
walk in that wonderful cooperation, that wonderful

00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:06.679
fellowship. with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit,

00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:10.480
I just thank you for what you are doing in our

00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:15.260
lives to make us like Jesus, that you are giving

00:59:15.260 --> 00:59:19.340
us the grace and the ability to say no to that

00:59:19.340 --> 00:59:23.019
unwelcome intruder because of what Jesus did

00:59:23.019 --> 00:59:28.340
for us on the cross. He bore all of our sinful

00:59:28.340 --> 00:59:34.679
nature. He took that horrific torture. and crucifixion

00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:39.039
to set us free from the law of sin and death.

00:59:39.219 --> 00:59:41.699
And Holy Spirit, we just thank you that you're

00:59:41.699 --> 00:59:44.219
working your life in us, that you're working

00:59:44.219 --> 00:59:48.880
in eternal love and joy and peace and patience

00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:52.849
and kindness and goodness. all of these things

00:59:52.849 --> 00:59:56.610
that are the character of Jesus. Thank you for

00:59:56.610 --> 00:59:59.949
doing that in us to prepare us for what you are

00:59:59.949 --> 01:00:03.210
about to do in a greater way than we've ever

01:00:03.210 --> 01:00:06.210
seen before. As you pour out your spirit on all

01:00:06.210 --> 01:00:09.429
flesh, Lord, pour out your spirit right now on

01:00:09.429 --> 01:00:13.289
our flesh individually to get us ready for the

01:00:13.289 --> 01:00:17.849
big one that's coming in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

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