Life With And Without The Holy Spirit

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Welcome to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.

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This is your host David Friend. We have a wonderful

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series we're dealing with here in dealing with

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the Holy Spirit. And today's podcast is Life

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With or Without the Holy Spirit. We're gonna

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kind of hit both sides of that and see where

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the Lord takes us. But first we need to pray.

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Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of

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Jesus asking for your divine touch on this podcast.

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Anoint those that are listening in and open their

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ears and their hearts. Help me to present a podcast

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that will bless them and help them and encourage

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them I thank you now for what you've done in

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all these podcasts over all these years. I pray

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your anointing would fall down upon the ears

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of those who need to receive special information

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about the Holy Spirit. So, Lord, I yield to you.

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Holy Spirit, take control. I give you praise

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and glory for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Well,

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what would it be like to have a life led by the

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Holy Spirit and then all of a sudden find out

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that your life is without Him? Now, if you're

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a Christian, a believer of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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you don't lose the Holy Spirit. lose connection

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with Him. We can lose our communication with

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Him. So how do we know when we are in the Spirit,

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in the Holy Spirit, or in our own flesh? And

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how can we lose our relationship with the Holy

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Spirit? So how do we then in turn reconnect with

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the Holy Spirit? So a lot of hows, but a lot

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of scripture to deal with that. So let's get

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right into that right now. I'm going to read

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Romans chapter 8 verse, now let's see, verse

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9. Romans chapter 8 verse 9, New Living Translation.

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Paul's writing to the church and Let's see what

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he had to say, led by the Holy Spirit, of course.

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But you are not controlled by your sinful nature.

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You are controlled by the Spirit, if you have

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the Spirit of God living in you. Now, that's

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a giant word, that if, but that if only applies

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to people if they don't know Jesus Christ as

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their Lord and Savior, because as we know, and

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I've said many times, The Holy Spirit comes to

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live and dwell inside of us when we receive Jesus

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as our Lord and Savior. So let's read it again

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slower. But you are not controlled by your sinful

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nature. See, when we have the Holy Spirit who

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lives in us, we're not controlled by him. We

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have to submit or yield ourselves to him in order

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for him to have any kind of impact on our life.

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You are controlled by the Spirit if you have

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the Spirit of God living in you. And it's so

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important that this podcast is focusing on kind

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of life. with the Holy Spirit and kind of life

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without the Holy Spirit dealing with us. Now,

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once again, I need to reiterate, and that is

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that once you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord

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and Savior, the Spirit comes to dwell inside

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of us and you don't lose Him. We don't lose Him,

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but we can lose connection or communication with

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Him. And it's very easy to lose communication

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if we don't seek Him. You know, it's the same

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thing with a friend or a relative or a husband

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or wife. If they don't communicate, they're going

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to lose communication. And so it's truly the

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same thing when you were talking about the relationship

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that we need to have with the Spirit of the Living

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God, the Holy Spirit, who lives and dwells in

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believers. In 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14,

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it says this in the New Living Translation, but

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people who are not spiritual, that means they

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don't have the Holy Spirit, or have only a physical

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life, they really can't receive these truths

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from the Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them

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and they can't understand what the Spirit means.

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And verse 16 says it ends with, we have the mind

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of Christ. So that's is really so important for

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us to understand when we're talking to people

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who are not Christians. They're not follower

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of the Lord Jesus Christ. They've not surrendered

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their life to him. So therefore they do not have

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the Holy Spirit living and dwelling inside of

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them. So these people don't understand and that's

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why sometimes people want to witness their faith

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to someone and they start talking in spiritual

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terms that the other person doesn't understand.

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Or they get the Bible out and they start reading

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big heavy verses and and start what we call thumping

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their Bible or putting their Bible in somebody's

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face, and when the person has no connection with

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that at all, we need to first make a connection

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with people, show them that we love them. Jesus

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did that by feeding people. He did that by showing

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that he loved them, by healing people. Once they

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had a connection with him and started to see

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and to build a relationship with him, then they

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came to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

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Then the Holy Spirit, when he went to heaven,

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Jesus did. The Holy Spirit came to live inside

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of the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. So

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let me read this scripture again, slow. Let's

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just ponder it a little bit as we go through

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it. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 in the New

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Living Translation, but people who are not spiritual,

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okay, these are not followers of Jesus, they

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don't have the Holy Spirit in them, or have only

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a physical life, that's all they know is the

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flesh, the physical life, they cannot receive

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the truths that God's Spirit has brought us.

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It all sounds foolishness to them, because I've

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had people tell me, oh, that's silly, that's

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dumb, that's foolish. It's foolishness to them

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and they don't understand or they can't understand.

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what the Spirit means but we followers of the

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Lord Jesus Christ in verse 16 tells us it ends

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with we have the mind of Christ now when we have

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the mind of Christ we've got it all I mean we

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have everything that we possibly need in living

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here on earth and we have the mind of Christ

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only be because we follow the Holy Spirit. We

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ask the Spirit to help us. We seek His guidance

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and direction. We pray and ask the Holy Spirit

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to tell us things, give us wisdom, give us insight,

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because He has numerous supernatural gifts to

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give followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. All

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we have to do is seek Him, seek God's Word, read

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God's Word, and claim the promises in God's Word.

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If we don't do that... then we could have our

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relationship with the Holy Spirit kind of separate

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a little bit. Once again, he's still in us, but

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we're not talking to them. We're not communicating

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with him. Maybe some people, they stop going

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to church, they stop reading the Bible, they

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stop praying, and all of a sudden they become

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kind of cold and indifferent to the Holy Spirit,

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and then he can't work with them. And that's

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so important. It can happen to any one of us.

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So we need to draw close to him, seek him, and

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spend our some time every day in addressing the

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Holy Spirit through the Word of God. reading

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the divine Holy Spirit scriptures that were led

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by the Holy Spirit for these people to write.

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That's what the Word of God is. It's a divine

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inspiration of the Holy Spirit. In Jude chapter

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1 verse 19 in the New Living Translation, listen

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to this, they follow their natural instincts

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because they don't have God's Spirit in them.

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All these scriptures are talking about the fact

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that some people have the Holy Spirit living

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in them and others do not. Those who have not

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given their life to Jesus Christ do not. This

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would be a perfect time then for me to invite

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anyone here if you've never given your life to

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Christ. For those of you who are Christian, pray

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with me and believe with me that people are going

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to pray and receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

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But if you don't know Christ, if you're not sure

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where you're going to spend eternity, you're

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not sure about this heaven thing, you can settle

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that right now. If you're earnest when you pray

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this prayer, Jesus can come into your life right

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now. Say, Heavenly Father, I'm sorry for the

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sins I've committed. I need a Savior. I want

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you to come in and change my life. I've sinned

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and I'm so sorry for that. Please forgive me

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and I want you to be my Lord and my Savior and

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I want to follow you all the days my life I believe

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that you are the Son of God and that you were

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born of the Virgin Mary and I believe that you

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died for me So that I could have eternal life

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So on this day at the beginning of this podcast

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dealing with life with or without the Holy Spirit

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I invite the Holy Spirit now to come into me

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and I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior

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In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Quite frankly, it's

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as simple as that. You know, people say, no,

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it's not that simple. You have to go through

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all these classes. You have to do all this training

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and you have to get all these various techniques

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down and understand the Word of God front to

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back in order to become a Christian. Well, that's

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just not true. My example is the thief on the

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cross. There were two thieves on the cross next

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to Jesus. One was cussing at Jesus and said,

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you know, basically I just, you know, I don't

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care or whatever, I care less about Jesus. The

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other one looked at Jesus and said, basically,

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He's saying, you don't deserve this. I do, he

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said. I'm a sinner. He said, but you're not.

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And Jesus looked at the man who had come and

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had compassion on him, the one who turned to

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Jesus and received and understood who Jesus was.

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Jesus said, today you'll be with me. paradise.

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That is so powerful when you think about it.

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This man that went into heaven, went with Jesus,

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he didn't go to classes, he didn't tithe, he

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didn't pray much at all and yet Jesus knew his

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heart and knew his heart was right and he had

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compassion on him and received him. That's so

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important to understand that, is that we can

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come to know Jesus Christ just by simply humbling

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ourselves and confessing our sins to receive

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Jesus. So I felt like I should say that a little

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bit, because some people say, well, why do you

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have these altar calls in the middle of your

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podcasts? And I don't plan them out. There's

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no notes that I have. Do it now, do it here.

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I just wait upon the Holy Spirit. And at the

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right moment, I believe He knows the hearts of

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people listening in, and He knows who's receiving.

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And for those of you who know Jesus Christ as

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your Lord and Savior, when this podcast over

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could you just say a little prayer for those

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who may have prayed that prayer it may have only

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been one there may have been a thousand I don't

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know because this goes all over the world but

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if you are sincere about your walk with God you'll

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want them to be sincere with their walk with

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God and you'll pray for those who made a commitment

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to Jesus Christ in this podcast okay after receiving

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the Holy Spirit it's difficult for Christians

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to understand how non -believers can deal with

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life's trials. You know, I have the Holy Spirit

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living in me and all of you who are followers

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of the Lord Jesus Christ, you have the power

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and the presence of the Holy Spirit in you and

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we deal with challenges, difficult times. I know

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I've had cancers, I've had all kinds of issues

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in my life. I don't know how people can deal

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with it if they don't have a relationship with

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the Holy Spirit, a relationship with the Lord

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Jesus Christ. So therefore, there is a difference,

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there's a giant difference between the two and

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we need to understand how we can get closer to

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the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit seems

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to drift. away from us even though he's not drifting

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we're the ones that are drifting the purpose

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of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit are numerous

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they're just there's so many purposes it's proof

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of our salvation and assurance of our eternal

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life with the Lord Jesus Christ It's helped to

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live a godly life, to experience the gifts and

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the fruit of the Spirit. The purpose of the Holy

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Spirit is to give us strength and confidence

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in God and knowing that trusting in Him is what

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it's all about. We put our trust in Him and in

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His Word. Holy Spirit helps us to understand

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and live according to God's Word. When we read

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the Word of God, it's the Holy Spirit that opens

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it up to us and speaks to us. When I read a scripture

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and like Proverbs 5 .3 that says, I trust in

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the Lord with all my heart, lean not on my own

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understanding and all my ways acknowledge him

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and he'll direct my path, the Holy Spirit is

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giving me confidence and trust. in the Lord.

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Give me confidence in God my Father and Jesus

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Christ my Savior that He's going to help me in

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my life and that I don't want to operate on my

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understanding, I want to operate on the Holy

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Spirit's understanding. And when we do that we

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understand that the Lord God loves us so much

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and that we can have a very close intimate personal

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relationship with Jesus with the Holy Spirit.

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His purpose is to be our advocate, our paraclete.

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His purpose is to help us with our prayers. You

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know the word of God tells us and you know, I've

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done so many podcasts on the Holy Spirit and

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I've talked about the gifts of the Spirit and

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the fruit of the Spirit and talked about how

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the Holy Spirit, you know, does pray for us and

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through words and groanings that we know not

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of, and those are all wonderful scriptures, but

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I just want us to catch that now, to realize

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that when we're praying, if we lose track of

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what we're praying for, who we're praying for,

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and why we're praying, we can just yield to the

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Holy Spirit and say, Holy Spirit, help me in

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my prayer time. guide my words, direct my thoughts,

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and just wait, and wait on Him. Don't expect

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all of a sudden a massive amount of thoughts

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and scriptures come flying at you. It can be

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slow, it can be sweet, it can be tender, it can

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be just simply the Holy Spirit speaking and telling

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you, call this person and pray with them, or

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talk to that person and apologize to them, or

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tell your boss he's a great guy, or call your

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mother up that you haven't called in a long time,

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or your dad, or whatever it might be. That's

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the Holy Spirit helping us and telling us through

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our prayer. life how to pray and when to pray

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and then of course there's the gift of a prayer

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language which is a heavenly prayer language

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where we're praying in the Spirit and that is

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our prayer language between us and God. God knows

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what we're praying and we're praying the divine

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will of God. I've done several podcasts dealing

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with understanding the gift of the baptism of

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the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking

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in other tongues. That's not tongues and interpretation.

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That's for the congregation. But our prayer language,

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that baptism of the Holy Spirit is where we have

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communion with God through the Spirit in a prayer

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language that we don't even know what it is.

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we are praying according to the divine will.

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of our Heavenly Father. Now we've talked about

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what life is like with the Holy Spirit and how

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we can't, it's hard for us to understand how

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someone who doesn't have the Holy Spirit living

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in them because they're not a believer can deal

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with life and the challenges and that's why a

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lot of people get into problems with drugs and

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alcohol and pornography and running around living

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a terrible life, an ungodly life because they're

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not yielding to the Holy Spirit or they've never

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surrendered to the Holy Spirit. They've kicked

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him out of their life and never asked Jesus Christ

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into their heart to receive forgiveness for their

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sins and be led by the Spirit of God. Those folks

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blessed their hearts. We need to pray for them.

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We were all people like that. I didn't get saved

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until I was 25 years old. I didn't give my life

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to Jesus until 25. My wife was 25 years old.

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My mom and dad didn't become Christians until

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they were in their 50s, and I got to pray with

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both of them to receive Jesus Christ as their

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Lord and Savior. They were good people, really

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good, wonderful, hardworking people, but they

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had never committed their life to Christ. But

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when they did, they changed. I mean, they loved

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me before, but they loved me in a totally different

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way when they changed and they became followers

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of Lord Jesus Christ because they had the Holy

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Spirit working inside of them. So now, we've

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talked a lot about having the Holy Spirit. What

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would life be like without the Holy Spirit? First,

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we must think of what it was like to live before

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we became followers of Lord Jesus Christ. Before

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I became a Christian, before I gave my life to

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Christ, I was a very focused person on my life,

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my career. my business, my career with the bank.

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That's all I thought about. I wanted to be successful.

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I wanted to provide a nice house and all that

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for my wife, but I was not loving. I was not

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the kind of person who was sincere. I was kind

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of manipulating people to try and get ahead.

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I wasn't a crook, I wasn't a criminal, but it

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was all about me. Life was absolutely all about

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me. I thought about myself more than anyone else.

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I didn't really have the love for others that

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I needed to have. And all of a sudden, when I

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received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,

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Everything changed. I looked at my wife differently.

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I looked at my job differently. I looked at my

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children differently. Because God said, you know,

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it's not all about your career. It's not all

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about making money. I've got a greater plan for

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you. And my son, our son was four, about five

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years old when... I became a follower of the

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Lord Jesus Christ. And at about five years of

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age, he looked at me, he says, Daddy, he says,

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I know that you've changed. And I said, well,

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what do you mean I've changed? I'm not a drinker.

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I don't swear in front of you. I've never beaten

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you up or that type of thing. What do you mean

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I've changed? He says, it's Jesus. And I know

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it's Jesus. And he was five years old. And he

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said, I just want you to know I love you, Daddy.

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And I just love who you are. And it was so amazing

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and so touching that he could experience that.

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I'll never forget that conversation. It was so

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powerful. Life without the Holy Spirit, though,

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is spiritual death. And you've heard preachers

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or people say, you know, without Jesus, you're

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as good as being dead. What they're referring

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to is spiritual death. Spiritual death, I mean,

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there's no life in it. There's absolutely no

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vibrancy in it. It's all the flesh. It's always

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me, myself and I. It's always trying to get what

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I can get and not being concerned about other

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people and their faith and their walk with God.

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That doesn't mean you can't be a good person

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and treat people nice and all that and not be

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a Christian. You can be a good person and do

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that, but there's a total different relationship

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with people when you start thinking about their

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future, whether they're going to spend eternity

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in heaven or hell or not. And that's how you

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look at people when you have the Holy Spirit

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in you and He dwells inside of you. You look

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at people who are lost as being spiritually dead

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and they have no hope and we've got to love them

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and care for them and not beat them up with scriptures

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and kind of pound it into them and turn or burn

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type messages. No, we need to show love and compassion

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and caring for people who don't know Jesus, who

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do not have the Holy Spirit living in them. Life

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without the Holy Spirit is based on luck and

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it's based upon things that have no substance.

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coincidences, things of that nature that simply

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are just not what Christians believe in. We don't

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believe in luck. We don't believe in a coincidence.

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There are no coincidences. Our steps are led

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by God. We have no luck because God is our provider.

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He's our source. Every Christian must delete

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the word luck from their vocabulary. Every Christian

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must avoid talking about a coincidence. Oh, look

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what happened. No, things don't just randomly

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happen. When we're a follower of the Lord Jesus

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Christ, we have the Holy Spirit living and dwelling

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inside of us, we simply don't have a coincidence.

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The word coincidence talks about events without

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any connection. Some would call it the luck of

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the draw, like playing cards or a game. A coincidence

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is an event that has no connection. That is not

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something a part of a Christian. We can't have

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a coincidence. We know that our thoughts, our

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steps are led of God and we know that the Holy

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Spirit is there to help us and to guide our steps

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and direct our steps and direct the thoughts

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that we have. The words luck or coincidence have

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nothing to do with God's Word. The Bible does

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not accept these words because God's Word is

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always a blessing from the Holy Spirit. The Word

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of God is not our source of strength without

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the Holy Spirit. The Word of God is our strength

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when we have the Holy Spirit. When people who

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are not followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and

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they do not have the Holy Spirit living and dwelling

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on them, they have a very difficult time accepting

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the Bible. the Word of God. Some of them will

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just reject it and just say, I don't believe

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in that. I don't believe in that. And they'll

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find all kinds of reasons to say it's not true.

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It's not real. It's not anything that's important.

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There's mistakes through it. It contradicts itself.

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The Bible never contradicts itself. The Bible

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has no mistakes in it. It has no errors in it.

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The Word of God is the divine inspired Word of

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God that was spoken out through people that the

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Holy Spirit anointed and blessed. And that anointing

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came through the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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When King David sinned and he fell into sin,

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he prayed to God and he says, create in me a

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clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit

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within me. It was the Holy Spirit that helped

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him. People say, well, the Holy Spirit wasn't

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around back then. Well, that's not true. The

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Holy Spirit was around during the creation. The

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Spirit of God hovered around the earth and that

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was the Holy Spirit of God. But then God sent

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the Holy Spirit to us when Jesus left. earth

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to heaven he sent it so that we could have a

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great personal relationship with him as i kind

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of working towards closing this out i'm not real

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close but i'm getting close it's important that

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we in this podcast that we talk about real life

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real vibrant quality of life with the holy spirit

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and a life that's lacking if we do not allow

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ourselves to be led by the spirit of god When

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we're done here, I'm going to pray. To some people,

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it'll be an extreme radical prayer because they

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won't quite understand it, because maybe they've

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not given their life to Christ. To others, they'll

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embrace that prayer because they know that the

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Holy Spirit is the one guiding and directing

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that prayer. And if you've never surrendered

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your life to Christ, and you did recently, just

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about 20 minutes ago or 15 minutes ago, you gave

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your life to Christ, remember you've got to now

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nurture and train yourself and grow in your walk

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with God. It's called the process of sanctification.

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That's getting the Bible out and reading it,

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reading it with other friends who are Christians,

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finding a good church and settling down in a

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good church, a church that believes in the workings

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of the Holy Spirit, a church that believes that

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you can have the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

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the evidence of having a wonderful prayer life.

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And those are things that are important to you.

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Find a good pastor that you can become friends

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with and get to know them. Get around Christian

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people. Go to church faithfully. When the doors

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are open, be there. Read your Word, the Word

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of God faithfully. Pray every day, even if it's

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only for a minute. or two, be sure and pray and

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seek God and get the Word of God into your life.

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That's the only way that will maintain and improve

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the relationship that we have with the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is inside of us. He wants so

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bad to have a wonderful personal intimate relationship

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with us. But many times we grieve him because

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we don't talk to him. We don't listen to him.

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We don't wait on him. We just make decisions

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on our own. We do things all on our own and then

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we find the results sometimes are not very good.

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So I'm just gonna kind of start wrapping this

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up with a couple of thoughts. One, we're talking

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about life with the Holy Spirit. Unlimited blessings,

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unlimited potential. And then there's life without

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the Holy Spirit. And that is having no hope for

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eternity. understanding what life and death is

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not understanding what heaven is and then there's

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this life in between where we have the Holy Spirit

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living in us but we don't nurture that relationship

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we don't think about him my challenge to you

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my challenge to anyone listening today is to

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to go back and listen to these podcasts I've

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done now 50 I think 54 55 of these every single

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week for 50 for 54 55 weeks on the Holy Spirit

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if you have questions about the Holy Spirit go

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back and listen to them they're all little short

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25 minute at max. They go close to 30 minutes,

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but that's because I make some comments at the

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end. But the actual meat of each podcast runs

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to be about 24 or 25 minutes. That's because

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it's easy to listen to and easy to remember.

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I encourage you to go back and listen to some

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of these podcasts. There's people that tell me

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they go back and listen to them all the time.

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They'll go back and re -listen to a podcast.

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Maybe one, some they'll go back and listen to

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the same podcast four, five, six, seven times

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just to make sure that it settles into their

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spirit. So I just pray that that all of us will

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seek the Holy Spirit for guidance, direction,

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and that He would lead us. And I pray that those

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of us who know Jesus as our Lord and Savior and

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the Holy Spirit living inside of us build that

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relationship, increase that relationship, get

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the Word of God out and understand the difference

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between no relationship with the Holy Spirit

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and one with the Holy Spirit. Because remember

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I read 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 and in

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verse 16 it ends with these words, we have the

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mind of Christ. Just simply we have the mind

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of Christ. How can and we have the mind of Christ.

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We can only have it through the Holy Spirit and

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the leading and guidance and direction of Him.

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Father, I want to pray one more time. I pray

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for those who just gave their life to Christ

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that they would run to a good church, get the

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word of God into their heart, pray and seek God,

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get around Christian people. For those who've

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been Christians and they know what it is to operate

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in the gifts of the Spirit and to operate with

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the love of Christ in their heart and feeding

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the compassion, the comfort, the guidance and

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direction, the wisdom, the knowledge of the Holy

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Spirit, I thank you for them, Father. May they

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continue to do that. And for those who are Christians

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that maybe struggle with trying to get intimacy

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with the Holy Spirit, I pray that this podcast

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would help them open up their hearts to release

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it. to believe and receive the difference between

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not communicating with Him and communicating

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with Him. The Holy Spirit is there to help every

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one of us in our walk with God. I don't care

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how long you've been a Christian, how much you've

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operated in the gifts of the Spirit, we need

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to continue every day to seek the guidance and

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the direction of the Holy Spirit. I pray that

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would come forth. I'll give you praise for it,

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Father, now in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Wow,

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I cannot believe how fast this podcast went today.

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There's just so much to cover, so much area there.

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But I pray, and I'm very sincere when I say this,

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that we'll all make an effort to get closer to

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the Holy Spirit. I'm so blessed because I get

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to spend hours and hours putting these thoughts

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together, getting these ideas together, looking

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up scriptures that will help people. So I get

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to spend so much time in it and I just thank

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God for that. And I do want to thank you for

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listening and I'm gonna give you the title of

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the name of the podcast. Next one has to be,

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Come Speak to Us Holy Spirit. And that's kind

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of a long title, but quite frankly, that's so

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crucial. So with God's leading, that'll be the

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next podcast. We're gonna have to address what

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it means. There's an old song that said, come

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Holy Spirit, I need thee. And it was a wonderful

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song, a very powerful song. What was that saying?

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What does that mean to us? And how do we know

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for sure that that is the Spirit, the Holy Spirit

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speaking to us and not just a guilt or some sadness

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that we've got or regret or something like that.

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There's a huge difference between the Holy Spirit

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speaking to us and guilt and rejection and regret

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for things that's taking place. The regret beats

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us up and the guilt beats us up, but the Holy

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Spirit comes to give life and to give freedom

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and to bring truth and give it to us abundantly.

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So we'll get into that and see how the Holy Spirit

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leads us. So I do want to again thank you for

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listening to this. And if you really enjoyed

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this podcast, please take a moment to rate it

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and to review the podcast. It really helps us

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reach more people and you can leave a review

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podcast network or just simply give us a star

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rating on Spotify. However you decide to do that,

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we certainly appreciate it and there's a blessing

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to us and I want to thank you for that in advance.

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Once again, I thank you for listening to the

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Quality Christian Learys series on the Holy Spirit.

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You know, I keep thinking it's going to come

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close to a close here in the next few weeks and

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whatever and every time I start a new podcast

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to get prepared, the Holy Spirit starts showing

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me other areas and different topics to cover

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and in different ways to discuss things. We've

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got a lot of different topics that we're going

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to be looking at in weeks to come. If the Spirit

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is willing, we're going to talk about the Holy

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Spirit's love and talk about the Holy Spirit

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in the book of Proverbs, and the Holy Spirit

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in worship, and the Holy Spirit in worry and

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anxiety, and the Holy Spirit gives us talents

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and abilities and then shows us how to use them,

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how to apply them, and how the Holy Spirit helps

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us from worrying and not letting that get into

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our mind. He also helps us us to stop having

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negative thoughts. You see what I mean? It just

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can go on and on and on. So I thank God for it.

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I really do. I feel like if God wants me to go

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on for another year in this, then so be it. If

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that's what the Holy Spirit wants, then I want

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to follow that. I want to be in God's will in

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this podcast more than anything else. And congratulations

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to those who prayed that prayer to give their

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life to Jesus Christ. We'll be praying for you.

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If you'd like to know more about Quality Christian

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Living, the podcast itself, the whole series,

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all these series that fall under it, you can

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go to my webpage at davidcfriendauthor .com.

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And when you go there, right on the front page,

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you'll see a link to the podcast. And there are

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so many topics and so many subjects. This will

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be the 374th or 75th podcast that will be listed

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there. And I'm sure there'll be something there

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of interest to you. There'll be a blessing to

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you. People are listening to them all the time.

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And I'm always amazed how many of the older podcasts

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that they go back to and listen to. So I hope

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that'll be a blessing to you. So with that, I'm

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going to close. I pray the Lord will bless you

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and keep you. And I pray that his face will shine

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upon you and be gracious to you and give you

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peace. And I pray that you're going to prosper

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and be in good health even as your soul prospers.

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And I pray that... The Holy Spirit will become

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so alive in you that things will change. You'll

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think differently. We all need that. I need that.

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We all need to think in the ways the Holy Spirit

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wants us to think. Holy Spirit, guide our thoughts

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and direct our thoughts. Once again, I want to

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thank you for listening to the Quality Christian

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Living podcast. I'm your host, David Friend.

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I'll look forward to you next time when we address

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Come Holy Spirit. God bless you all.