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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Holy Spirit III
Publishing Date: 2012-12-16T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/holy-spirit-iii/

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Last week we ended on this note, we said that the spirit's presence in us is established,

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but his presence does not automatically ensure that we are quickened or we have a fervent,

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filled up, saturated spirit life.

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That's what we ended on.

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We said that the spirit's presence in us is established.

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That's a given.

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We know that.

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We are quickened, fervent, fervent in our spirit, but the Holy Spirit's presence in

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us does not automatically ensure a quickened, fervent, filled life.

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So what we want to do is examine why the Bible says stuff like fan into flames or stir up

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or be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Why the Bible talks about that.

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So we'll do part one today.

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These are just some of the things that we can look at.

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As to how do we go about living a life that, as the Bible says,

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is fanned into flame or stirred up or is fervent or quickened?

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How is it possible for a Christian who

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has the Spirit of God living in him

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to begin to live that kind of a life?

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So we're going to look at some of the ways we can do that.

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And so just start with Ephesians 5.18.

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Ephesians 5.18.

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A lot of Bible turning today.

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If you need a Bible, just ask somebody

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who looks like they've been here for a while.

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What do they look like?

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Usually happy.

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So just check with them.

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Usually happy.

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And they'll provide you a Bible.

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Ephesians 5.18.

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Ephesians 5.18.

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Now let's start at verse 15.

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Ephesians 5.15 onwards.

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Here goes.

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Be very careful, then, how you live, not as unwise,

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but as wise, taking the most of every opportunity,

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because the days are evil.

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Verse 17.

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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand

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what the Lord's will is.

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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery.

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Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

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Speak to one another with psalms, hymns,

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and spiritual songs.

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Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.

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Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything

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in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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And it says in verse 18, do not get drunk on wine,

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which leads to debauchery.

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Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

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Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

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Guys, one of the first things you

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need to note about Ephesians 5.18

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is it's not being spoken to individuals.

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It's being spoken to the body.

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It's being spoken to believers in relationship

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with each other.

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Even the way we read the Bible, guys,

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needs to change a little in the sense,

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yes, you're supposed to take what is written

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for individual development.

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But understand the context that the Bible, often

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when it says things, is saying it

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to a whole body where believers are in relationship.

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And it's saying to the believers, listen, guys,

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be filled with the Spirit.

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So it's saying to Acts 29, guys, this

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is the command of the Lord, that be filled with the Spirit.

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But your question should be, but didn't you, oh, God,

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give us the Spirit right off the bat when we got born again?

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We've been talking about that over the last two weeks.

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And this is another happy tension

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that we talked about last week.

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On one hand, you have the full person of the Holy Spirit

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resident in you.

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And on the other hand, God is saying,

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be filled with the Spirit.

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And he's saying it to a body.

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Why am I emphasizing that?

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Because most things of the Spirit

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happen in the context of the body.

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Yes, he is resident in you.

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But how did he first come on the earth?

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He came upon a people who were gathered in a room in obedience

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in one accord.

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Acts chapter 2, verses 1 and 4.

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And they were all in one accord in one place, verse 4.

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And they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Cornelius' house, they were together in the house.

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Acts 10, 44, the Spirit of God fell upon them.

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It always happens in the context of a people.

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Why?

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Because what's one of the main things?

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Let me ask you this question just

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to check whether you remember your notes.

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What is the main objective of salvation?

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Salvation.

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You have been given honorary superior membership at Acts 29,

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just for that for a day.

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Good for you, Mariam.

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The reason one is saved is so that the Spirit of God

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may create a people called by the name of God, who can now

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begin to represent God accurately here on earth,

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and that we may live the life of the future in the present.

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We talked about the Obama-Romney thing last time.

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Pick up the CD if you don't remember.

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But the point being, guys, the Spirit of God

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is so into creating a community of people

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who can be called by God's name and who can represent God

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accurately.

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This is deep in the heart of the Spirit.

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And I know I've repeated it for the last four years,

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but that's how we learn that the Spirit of God

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is intensely desirous of forging a people who

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are called by God's name and who display the character of God

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in their lives so that others can say, hmm,

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so here is a group, bunch of guys,

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who operate by a different set of values.

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Not here is an individual.

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Here is a bunch of guys who operate by a different value.

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So when the Bible says be filled with the Spirit,

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again, it's in the context of the body.

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One of the first things we need to understand

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is that if you want to be filled with the Spirit,

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as in if you want to be saturated or topped up,

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if you want to be topped up on a regular basis in the person

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of the Spirit of God, it happens best in the context of a people

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not as solo individuals.

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Why?

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Because Isaiah 65, 8, and we talked about this many moons

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ago, Isaiah 65, 8 says the Jews is in the cluster.

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The Jews is in the cluster.

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Isaiah 65, 8 says that because the Jews

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is in the cluster, do not destroy the wine.

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You don't make grape juice out of one grape.

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I mean, you can, but it doesn't go very far.

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Yeah.

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The Jews is in the cluster.

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And it's the same principle, guys.

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The filling of the Spirit is in the context of the cluster

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because of many individual grapes now being formed into one body

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called the body of Christ.

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So when the Spirit of God works with the people now,

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it's Christ unlimited in session.

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I love that phrase, Christ unlimited in session.

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Guys, how many gifts can I have that are really

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active on a regular basis?

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How many different ways of Christ's functioning

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can one person have?

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It's limited.

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But what if 26 to 30 people gather,

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and now Christ is manifested through different people,

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now you have Jews in the cluster?

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Because one grape, even though he may be a fat, good-looking grape,

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can only squeeze so much juice.

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We had some massive grapes at Bob Cran's house yesterday,

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by the way.

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They were the size of potatoes.

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Well, small potatoes.

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And so just remember, guys, that the Jews is in the cluster,

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and one person cannot contain all of Christ.

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If one person contained all of Christ,

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you need to bow down before that one person because he is Christ.

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But when different people are together,

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now the Spirit of God begins to manifest

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because it's Christ unlimited in session.

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Christ unlimited in session.

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But then one hand represents the body of Christ.

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Sorry, say that again, Marcus.

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One person from that body can represent himself.

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Yeah, knowing that he's connected.

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Yeah, knowing that he's connected.

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So when my hand shakes Jason's hand,

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my hand not for a second thinks that I'm a hand shaking another hand.

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No, I'm Jacob shaking Jason's hand

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because the hand is so connected to the rest of the body

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that the hand never sees its identity as separate from the rest of Jacob.

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That is the important part.

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The nose is never breathing for its own.

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It's breathing for a heck of a lot of other things

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that are involved in my respiratory system.

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So everything then becomes connected.

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Guys, like I said last week, you are getting it.

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And I am so happy about that.

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Not you are getting it, you've gotten it and you're adding to it.

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So guys, if you want to be topped up or filled with the Spirit on a regular basis,

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understand the importance of being in a body in one accord.

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And become Hebron.

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I don't know if you remember Hebron, that was from 2009.

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Hebron is a oneness of intimate participation

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where individuals recognize each other as divinely placed.

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So the whole concept of Hebron is a oneness, not fake kumbaya unity,

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but oneness as in understanding that we draw from one common source

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and recognizing each other.

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So recognizing Armin, recognizing Maximo.

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And recognizing them how?

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Recognizing them as divinely placed in this body.

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None of you, and Pastor Mike said this when he came here,

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none of you turned up here to become part of this house by accident.

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Because this is a hard house to stay in by accident.

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You were divinely placed.

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And if you were divinely placed, my God, do I need to recognize you.

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Not recognize you as, oh, Diana, you're back again.

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No.

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No, recognize you as in, OK, so what graces, what gifts, how is she today?

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That kind of recognition.

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And you do that well, too.

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And when we create a place like that, it becomes an environment

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that God can laugh, delight, and dance in.

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It becomes an environment in which God laughs, delights, and dances.

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Nothing catches him, attracts his heart, as much as a people

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who have become one.

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How do we know that?

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Because Jesus in John 17, 21 is praying to his father.

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And he says to his father, oh, God, Father, you and I are one.

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And now, can you make this people one so that just as you and I are one,

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they may be one with each other and with us.

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He delights and dances in an environment where

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that kind of oneness is created.

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So if you want not to be filled by the Spirit,

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and if you just want him to be resident, but you don't want

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to be fervent in the Spirit, you just want to get by,

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then please continue to be individualistic, independent,

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and continue to cultivate an arm's length affiliation with the body.

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So I want to ask you to be independent.

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I want to ask you to be independent.

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I want to ask you to be independent.

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I want to ask you to be independent.

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Cultivate an arm's length affiliation with the body.

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So as my friend Ryan would put this, this is negative psychology.

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So he's doing his degree in psychology.

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So if you don't want to be filled with the Spirit,

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and if you want to have a so-so existence, here's how you do it.

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Be individualistic.

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Be independent.

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Have an arm's length affiliation with the body.

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And you will have then the ability to be an anesthetized limb,

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and yet you can still be the part of the body.

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So just imagine that.

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If my finger was under anesthesia right now,

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it's still part of the body, but it experiences nothing

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that the body is going through.

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Many of us can render ourselves as anesthetized parts of the body

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when we choose to be individualistic, independent,

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and want to have an arm's length affiliation with the body.

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Can't do that.

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Full of the Spirit as an individual

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may be the fervent expression of the life of the Spirit

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is not possible till you're vitally connected to a body.

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So Jacob, what does that look like?

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Check your own family.

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Don't you have people in your family,

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sometimes even sons and daughters, and definitely

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cousins, uncles, and aunts?

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They turn up for Christmas parties,

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and you wish they didn't come.

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Because they sit there completely disconnected

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from the family.

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Are they blood relatives?

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Yes.

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Can they give you a kidney?

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Yes.

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But would you want their kidney?

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No.

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Because there's so much a part of the family, and yet they are not.

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So that's what I mean by being at arm's length affiliation

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with the body.

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So you can be full of the Spirit of God

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because you're born again, and yet not

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have the fervent life of the Spirit

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because you're disconnected with the body.

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So Jacob, why is this so?

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Why?

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Because the priceless oil of the Holy Spirit

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flows down from the head to the beard to the garments

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and the rest of the body.

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Where's that from?

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Psalm 133.

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Three.

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Psalm 133.

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Verse two, yeah.

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Oh, I told one.

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Psalm 133, and here's what it says.

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It says, how blessed are brothers and sisters who

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dwell together in unity, for they are like.

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And then it goes on to talk about the oil that

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flows from the head down to the beard, down to the garments,

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down to the body.

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The point being, why is it important for us

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to understand this one accordness for the Spirit of God

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to become fervent in your individual lives?

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Because that is the way God has designed the body, where

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the oil flows from the head, as in Christ himself,

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to the rest of his body, which is the Church.

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You are a part of the body.

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You are not a complete microcosm in yourself.

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And secondly, it talks about this in Ephesians 2 22.

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Ephesians 2 22 says, we are being built together

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to become a habitation in which God dwells.

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Hear that, huh?

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We are being built together to become a habitation

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in which God dwells.

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We are being built together.

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We're being built together to become a habitation

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in which God dwells.

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People being put together to become a habitation in which

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God dwells.

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Where does he dwell?

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In our people that have been put together

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to form a habitation or a dwelling place

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in which he can be resident.

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So it is natural then for the Spirit of God

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to be most fervently expressed in the context of a body.

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Where does a bridegroom reveal himself?

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Who does a bridegroom reveal himself to?

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To the bride.

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Be connected with the bride of Christ.

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Because you can sit at home.

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But I assure you, Christ will not

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be revealed to you the way he is revealed

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in the context of the body, because he reveals himself

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fully to the bride.

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And you are not the bride.

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You are part of the bride.

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Any questions before we move on?

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What are we talking about right now?

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We're talking about how we can be fervent or filled

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with the Spirit.

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Connect to the body of Christ, because that

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has become the habitation or the dwelling of the Spirit.

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And therein will you be filled and find yourself fervent.

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The unity in body is this whole idea of, one,

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recognizing each other, two, valuing each other,

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three, understanding that you cannot survive on your own self.

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See, as a pastor, and especially as a guy who's pretty gifted,

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it would be very easy for me to assume

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that I can do without you.

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And there have been large periods of times in my life

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where I have thought that I could do without anybody.

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You just did your sermons in the mirror?

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No.

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No, I didn't do the sermons in the mirror.

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But I didn't think I needed a church to be part of.

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I was a good teacher, a good preacher.

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I can pray and a few healings will happen.

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I can be invited without being part of anything.

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And years of my life have been spent like that.

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My dreams were to do crusades and stuff like that on my own.

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But at some point, thank God, at some point, it changed.

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And I understood that my significance comes only

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because I'm a part of this amazing body

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called Acts 29.

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Everything.

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Hey, what is the evidence of the grace and gifts in me?

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You.

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What is the evidence of anything?

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Everything in my life is so deeply connected to you.

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You have no idea, guys.

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Everything in my life is so deeply connected to you.

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Where am I a son first in this house?

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Where am I a servant first in this house?

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Where am I the grace gift that I operate in this house?

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Where am I a father in this house?

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Where am I a part of a body in this house?

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Where do I get my immunity and authority

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from when I go out from this house

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because I belong to a body?

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Where am I a part of the bride of Christ in this house?

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Where does my significance come from?

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Where does my significance come from?

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This house.

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Where do I have sons in this house?

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Where did I find my father in context?

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This house.

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Where do I return to?

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This house.

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Which vineyard provides me?

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This vineyard.

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Where do I sow?

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This house.

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Where do I come and report things?

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This house.

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Who do I yearn for with great desire?

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You.

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Why am I under pressure about a place not appearing yet?

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Because I don't carry on in my bag,

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but I sure want the best for us.

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Everything in my life is connected to the body

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that I belong to.

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And as you go, so I go.

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As I go, so you go.

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Amazing, eh?

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This is a shift, guys, which took time.

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That sounded hollow.

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Yes, I know, Sue.

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But I'm glad you did.

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2013 will go well for your sister.

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The second, guys, I was just telling you

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how I'm involved in this house.

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Try to cultivate the same way of thinking.

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Try to cultivate the same way of thinking.

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Who am I submitted to?

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This house.

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Can you believe that?

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Who am I submitted to?

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I'm not submitted to anybody else.

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I'm not even submitted to Eddie first.

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I'm submitted to this house first.

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Why?

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Because this is the father's house of which I'm a part.

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Who in the world has the right to discipline me?

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This house.

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And we've set up systems so that if I am in error,

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this house has the ability to approach me and correct me.

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And if I don't listen, it has the ability

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to go to others to come and correct me.

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Who am I submitted to in all the world?

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This house.

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Who can I be disciplined by?

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This house.

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Amazing.

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I haven't been pressed for only this week about this house.

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I have a friend who's not with any of you about this question.

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And he said, if I ever went to church,

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it would be this place.

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So he's been doing it for a few years.

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Glory to God, man.

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Glory to God.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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Reflecting his character.

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Another way we can be filled with the Holy Spirit

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is from Acts chapter 2.

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Notice what they did after they got baptized

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and became believers.

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Acts chapter 2.

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Acts chapter 2 says, verse 42.

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Let's start at verse 41.

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Those who accepted his message were baptized,

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and about 3,000 were added to their number that day.

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And then look how they went about doing things.

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They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching

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and to fellowship and to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

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Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders

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and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.

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All the believers were together and had everything in common,

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selling the possessions and goods they gave to anyone

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as had need.

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Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.

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They broke bread in their homes and ate together

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with glad and sincere hearts, praising God

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and enjoying the favor of all the people.

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And the Lord added to their number daily

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those who were being saved.

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Guys, there's a fourfold pattern for filling.

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And what I mean by that is once you have become a believer,

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keep these four things center.

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Apostolic teaching or the doctrine in the church,

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fellowship or participation, as we just mentioned,

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the breaking of bread.

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And for those of you who have lost that practice,

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start again.

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We talked about that.

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I mean, when was the last time you

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broke bread at a restaurant or in an airplane

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or in your house or with your children?

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When was the last time?

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These are practices that we begin

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to ignore after a season.

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Heidi, the day before yesterday or three days ago,

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when she went to visit Robert in hospital in Germany,

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one of the things she decided to do

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was go and break bread with her wife and husband.

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And just before she entered the room,

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the doctor came and revived him out of his sleep.

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He was sleeping, and so he was able to partake in it.

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And the breaking of bread is a mechanism of healing,

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as we've spoken and taught here before.

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The point being, guys, these are four things

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that the church was instructed in.

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And what happened was joy happened, growth happened,

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favor happened, and the spirit of God

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created a culture in which neither Elimas the sorcerer

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nor Ananias and Sapphira could thrive.

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We create a culture of the spirit

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in which things that are not of the spirit

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find it very hard to thrive.

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One of the things I always tell Eric

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is build a house where people are beginning

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to understand the body and beginning

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to connect with each other, and it'll be very hard for wolves

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and sheep's clothing to come in.

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You won't have to worry about who's a wolf,

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because the sheep know each other so well that they can

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smell a wolf a distance away.

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So creating a culture of the spirit

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through one apostle's doctrine, or the apostle's doctrine

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is basically the doctrine that is taught, fellowship,

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as in we already talked about fellowship,

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as in we already talked about participation

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in each other's life.

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Breaking a bread, renew it, guys, renew it.

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And don't do it in hidden enclaves.

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Do it publicly.

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Go to a restaurant and order bread and grape juice

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and let people see how you are a people who

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keep proclaiming the death and the life of Christ.

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Do it at your home with your children

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so that your children have no sense of a mystified meal

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that you have in church.

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Demystify it completely.

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Tell them what it is about.

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Practice it between husband and wife at your home.

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Practice it sometimes alone if you have a need, especially

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a need for healing.

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Practice it.

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It's not a pastoral privilege, nor is it gender-based.

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And the fourth one is prayer, which we've talked about.

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But just keep these four distinctives together, right?

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Hunger and practice it, hunger and practice it,

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because you will find that it will result in signs and wonders.

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It will result in joy.

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It will result in favor.

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It will result in growth.

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And it will result in sufficient fear in your friends,

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a good kind of fear.

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Practice it.

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Apostolic doctrine.

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How do you practice apostolic doctrine?

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Do what Anne Osmond sometimes does.

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Writes the notes, takes them home, prints them out,

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reads them over and over again, practices them,

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reads it again, practices them.

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Or do what Jacob does.

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Matt was asking me yesterday in the car,

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when he stepped into the car and started the car,

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he started hearing me through the speakers.

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So he started laughing and saying,

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so you listen to yourself in your car, do you?

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And yes, I do.

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Why?

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Because I've got to learn what I teach.

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And half of what I teach is not in my notes.

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So I've got to learn.

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So just remember that, guys.

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Apostolic doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread.

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So is breaking of bread magical?

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No.

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It's a recounting of the benefits of his death.

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A recounting of the benefits of his death.

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That's what you do every time you break bread.

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You're saying, I remember what you did for me, Jesus.

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Yeah.

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And fourthly, prayer.

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Moving on.

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The next thing that will cause the fervency of the Holy

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Spirit in you, and this is important to us guys,

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is you can be filled through worship.

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Filled through worship.

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Be continually filled with the Holy Spirit.

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You know, do you know that in Colossians 3, 16 and Ephesians

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5, 18, what Paul is saying is, listen,

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teach, admonish, and speak to one another

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in all wisdom with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.

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I didn't know that, man.

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Turn to Colossians 3, 16.

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Colossians 3, 16.

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Let the word of Christ dwell in you

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richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom

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as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude

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in your hearts to God.

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Worship is even used not just as a method of singing to God,

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but to actually teach and to correct.

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Singing with gratitude in your heart.

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Remember, gratitude in your heart is good,

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but the Bible very clearly says, sing.

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Let me repeat it.

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Songs are a method of great wisdom from God used to correct,

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to worship, and to teach.

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That's why some of the songs that we write

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have great teaching value.

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Why do you think you have a generation that

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wants to escape to heaven every day?

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Why?

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Because all their songs are about,

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we have a mansion in heaven in the street by and by,

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and one day we will disappear in the sky.

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And so if you sing that for 40 years,

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that becomes your theology.

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So just remember that.

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Songs are used to teach, and then it says,

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sing with gratitude in your heart, sing.

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One of the places where there's a fervency of the spirit that

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takes over your heart is sheerly through worship.

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Sheerly through worship.

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Was there singing and worship before the earth was created?

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Yes.

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The angelic hosts engaged in that.

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Was there singing and worship in the book of Exodus

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when Israel was led through out of Egypt?

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Yes.

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Miriam's song is proof for that.

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Was there singing in the tabernacle

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that David constructed?

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Yes.

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Is that tabernacle being restored now?

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Acts 15 says yes.

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Was there singing in the time of Jesus?

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Yes.

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We hear about that in the Mount of Olives.

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Was there singing in the New Testament church?

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Hey, Paul actually writes songs in some of his letters.

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Is there singing in the book of Revelation?

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Absolutely.

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Is the book of Revelation a picture of the church today?

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Yes.

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So should there be singing with gratitude and worship

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in the church?

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Yes.

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Does singing involve opening our mouths?

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Hmm.

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Has God given everyone brilliant voices?

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No.

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Does that mean they don't sing?

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No.

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Make a joyful noise.

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You have no idea of the joyful noises

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that were coming out of people at caroling yesterday.

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And it used to get worse when we attempted to harmonize.

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But it was so much fun.

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Yeah.

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And I love what it says in Ephesians 5.17.

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It says, do not be a fool or unwise,

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but understand the will of God.

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Don't be drunk, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking,

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singing, and submitting.

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And don't be a fool in this.

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Don't be unwise in this.

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Is that settled now, guys?

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We don't need to go over that again, right?

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May you make an attempt, wherever

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we are low in any of these, may we make an attempt to pull it

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up.

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The next one, thirst-inducing outflow.

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Acts chapter 4, verse 24.

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Acts chapter 4.

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Who made the coffee today?

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Sue, you did it?

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I did.

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And it's good?

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Yeah.

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I made it.

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Acts chapter 4.

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Acts chapter 4, verse 24, and then 29 to 31.

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Acts chapter 4.

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When they heard this, they raised their voices together

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in prayer to God.

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And look at verse 29 to 31.

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Now, Lord, this is what they prayed.

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Now, Lord, consider their threats

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and enable your servants to speak

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your word with great boldness.

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Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs

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and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

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After they prayed, the place where they were meeting

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was shaken.

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And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit

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and spoke the word of God boldly.

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Guys, refilling, when you ask God to fill you again,

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the question you need to ask is, are you already

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doing what you need to exhaust what you have?

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Stagnation inhibits filling, while outflow induces thirst.

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Stagnation inhibits filling, while outflow induces thirst.

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I'll say that again.

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Stagnation inhibits thirst or filling,

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while an outflow is absolutely necessary to induce thirst.

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So here are these guys praying that, oh, God, here's

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what we want of you.

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We want you to give us bold preaching.

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Why were they praying that?

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Because they had been boldly preaching

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and were being threatened.

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And then they asked, oh, God, may healings happen.

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But healings were already happening,

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and now they were being threatened because of that.

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Miraculous signs and wonders.

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Stretch out your hand to do miraculous signs and wonders,

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but it was already happening.

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The point being, guys, if I stagnate

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in terms of what the Spirit of God wants to do through me,

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then I am not able to induce thirst to ask

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for more in a sense of speaking.

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John 7, 37 and 38.

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Here's what Jesus is saying.

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Jesus is saying, out of you shall

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flow rivers of living water.

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Well, then let it flow a little.

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He didn't say, and in you shall be an ocean of living water,

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which would have sounded as holy, too.

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I mean, it would have sounded tremendously popular.

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In thy belly lieth an ocean of living water.

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No, he said, out of thy belly shall flow rivers

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of living water.

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There's an outflow, and an outflow induces thirst.

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So we can't all be Billy Graham's and all

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the other names that go around doing stuff.

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True.

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But where do you start?

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Give me some place where some water is leaking.

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At your work, in your family, at home, in Kenya, in Burnaby,

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somewhere where there's an outflow.

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Guys, an outflow will make you want more, guys, want more.

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Until I take that step, I'll never

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be able to come to a place where I can induce thirst.

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Many times, I want more to happen,

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but I don't want to be able to do that.

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Many times, I want more to happen through my life,

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but I'm scared to take that extra step to begin.

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Really.

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There are so many things I want to happen through my life.

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And many of those things, I want an assurance

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that it'll happen before I will step out.

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So as long as I don't step out in that area,

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I cannot induce thirst.

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I'm sufficiently afraid.

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Example.

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Example.

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There are so many times where I go to a place, and I see cripples,

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and I see this and that and the other.

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And I just want the Book of Acts to come alive through my life

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and people to be restored.

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I want God to be shown off.

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I don't mind getting a little bit of the glory, too,

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but I want God to be shown off.

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But in the process, I realize that when I approach them,

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I skirt around it, man.

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I have progressive prayers like, may you get better in six months,

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or just avoid the whole thing.

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Why?

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Because I don't want to look like a fool,

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but there is no outflow without looking foolish, guys.

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So let me add the whole equation together.

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Stagnation inhibits thirst.

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Outflow induces thirst.

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But it is impossible to be someone who operates an outflow

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without being foolish.

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These are the things that are not in my notes.

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It is impossible to be someone who has an outflow through him

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unless you choose to be foolish.

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Peter was foolish.

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In the middle of a stormy lake, he steps out of the boat.

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I mean, that's the height of foolishness.

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On one simple word, come.

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Is that why we call it foolish?

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It is, but in certain things, God has already spoken.

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You will do greater works in this.

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My cry is, Father, how come not?

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Which is why we came up with that whole theme of showtime

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for 2013, that we will have a greater expectancy for signs

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and manifestations.

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We will hear the voice of God, and we will show his nature.

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But I've got to be foolish.

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Foolishness helps outflow happen.

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Guys, go home, and think of this.

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Where am I holding back?

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Where am I holding back?

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Why am I so afraid?

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When will I begin to take a step?

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Not to stand on a soap box and preach on number three road.

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It's too busy there.

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You might get knocked out.

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But do things that are within your present capacity

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and keeping credit.

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Do things that are within your present capacity and keep increasing it, but a step at a time

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step at a time

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Today I'm going to be doing something at the end of this

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afternoon for which for me will be a step out of

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my my

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normal ways of functioning

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Now you're all thinking what's it gonna be what's it gonna be?

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Stew in it

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The next thing you want to do if you want the fervency or the filling of the spirit in you is very simple

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Do not grieve the Holy Spirit do not grieve the Holy Spirit

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Do not grieve the Holy Spirit what I mean by that is do not vex him do not

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Don't cause him

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The grief is not that he gets sad because like I said, we've painted the Holy Spirit to be so super sensitive

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It's like one of those

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Plants that you touch and the leaves shrivel up. The Holy Spirit is not like that

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Like I said last week or I don't know where it's oh, I said it in Vernon. He's

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someone who is

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irreprete irreprecibly full of laughter and who's raring for a fight now that is his nature

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That's not someone who if you touch him shrivels up

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But when we say do not grieve the Holy Spirit what we mean is one don't

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Don't provoke or agitate him and how do we provoke agitating him by testing?

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Him or what do we mean by testing him it means to attempt to

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Prove

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Attempt to prove what that means is okay. Show me you really love me

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Give me this if you really love me

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If you really love me, you would do this for me. Oh God. You don't really love me. I'm leaving. I'm leaving

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Attempting to

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Force God to prove himself over and over and over and over again

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Oh if God was really good, he would have done that for me

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Oh if God says he's my father then how come he is not provided for the last two months and it goes on and on

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Agitates and provokes God it tempts God and Israel did this in the desert in the end

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God said I'm exasperated with you guys ten times. You've provoked me in the desert. You've tempted tempted me

00:41:02.160 --> 00:41:09.100
You've a saved my character. You've saved me to see if I'm really God and ten times I obliged but stop it now

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That grieves the Spirit of God

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The second thing that grieves us and that's in that's in

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Psalm 78 was 17 and 18

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The second way we grieve the Spirit of God is by resisting him

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By resisting him resisting him is

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When you know he's saying something to choose not to to just keep resisting saying no not right now other important things

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Not right now. Not right now won't work out

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Sorry not right now resisting him in Act 751 Act 751

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Stephen is speaking to the Israel to the Pharisees and other Israelites

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And he says to them you guys are stiff neck like your forefathers

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And you've continuously resisted God meaning every time he tries to make an attempt to bring it you say not now

00:42:07.940 --> 00:42:12.320
Oh, no, no, no not ready to accept just resistance and the last one and

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This is almost an increase in intensity the last one is rebellion

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Rebellion is not just resistance rebellion is defiant disobedience that grieves the spirit

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And I've done all three at different points in my life

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Rebellion is not resistance rebellion is defiant disobedience

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And you find that in Isaiah 63 10 very very clearly says that the Holy Spirit was resisted by the Israelites

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Isaiah 63 10

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These three are the things that grieve the spirit guys and you can understand why you as a father would be grieved

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Along the same lines if your child did this

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Any questions since Diana has left the room I can ask

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Diana must be quite famous in many different parts of the world wherever they listen to our CDs

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because she gets a mention once every three or four weeks

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Next one

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Next one guys is a father focused view and where I'm going with this is going to surprise you a little

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See

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And we are talking about the fervency of the spirit in us

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And I don't think you'll hear this in too many places that this can bring about the fervency of the spirit on one hand guys

00:43:45.660 --> 00:43:47.660
There is only one father

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That Jesus made visible

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And that is the father

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There is only one father

00:43:55.220 --> 00:43:58.220
That Jesus made visible no man can be a father

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Let me say that again on one hand there is only one father Jesus made him visible and no man can be a father

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But what God does here on earth is that he substitutes his fatherhood

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He substitutes his fatherhood. Let me say that again

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Starting again because it's important to understand this I'm glad you're listening Jason

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There is only one father and that is the father that Jesus made visible the heavenly father and no man can be a father

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In terms of who he is. Well, one of the things God does on the earth is he

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Substitutes and he says represent me

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Or in other words God comes into a family

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Through a representative figure who substitutes for him God comes into a family through a representative figure

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Who substitutes for him? That's how he creates households on the face of the earth

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God

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Comes into a family through the representative figure

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Who substitutes for him?

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And that's how he creates households on earth guys

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Think of this I'll think of this for a second just so you know that this applies all across the board

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You see that with Jesus Jesus was the only begotten son of the father

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He was born of a virgin without any sexual agency of a man

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He was born of a virgin who was pregnant without the agency of a man yet

00:45:41.620 --> 00:45:46.460
He was placed in the care of a substitute father in Joseph and

00:45:47.620 --> 00:45:51.300
Because of that he drew his family line from Judah

00:45:53.540 --> 00:45:55.540
You see it guys

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There is only one father that Jesus made evident to us

00:46:00.020 --> 00:46:02.020
No one can replace him

00:46:02.180 --> 00:46:04.100
No one can take his place

00:46:04.100 --> 00:46:10.780
But God works here on earth through this principle of substitution where he says go represent me

00:46:12.220 --> 00:46:17.860
So God enters families through this principle of representation where he

00:46:18.500 --> 00:46:22.140
Substitutes himself and creates households and this is what he did with Jesus

00:46:22.660 --> 00:46:29.220
Even with Jesus the begotten son of the father who was born through a virgin who became pregnant without the agency of a man

00:46:31.140 --> 00:46:37.900
Was still placed in the care of a substitute father whose name was Joseph so that

00:46:38.420 --> 00:46:43.580
Jesus could now draw his lineage from a tribe or a family called Judah

00:46:44.460 --> 00:46:50.380
Which was important cause prophecy had to come to pass the Levi's were being replaced replaced by the tribe of

00:46:51.100 --> 00:46:53.100
Judah the priesthood had changed

00:46:56.580 --> 00:46:58.340
As so now

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It's the same thing guys and this is so vital for fervency in the spirit

00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:06.060
I'll talk about that some more before we move on to the last one

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There's no ownership in fathers and sons in a household

00:47:09.340 --> 00:47:13.340
There's only stewardship by the way your children are still you just so you know

00:47:14.220 --> 00:47:16.220
You are stewards over your children, too

00:47:18.660 --> 00:47:23.500
Ryan has been lent to Marcus and

00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:27.300
Laurie and

00:47:30.060 --> 00:47:33.620
He was put in their charge to be stewarded over

00:47:33.700 --> 00:47:35.700
Josh and Becca have been

00:47:36.260 --> 00:47:43.380
Given Eli so that they can steward him through these times and brought to a place your stewards over your children

00:47:49.220 --> 00:47:54.740
In a house to there's no ownership there's only stewardship because all sons belong to the heavenly father

00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:57.300
And he doesn't own me

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Anyone in this house who says that Jacob I am your son. I don't know you own you

00:48:02.180 --> 00:48:08.460
All I can do is convey the grace the love the correction and the will of the father to you all I can do is

00:48:08.460 --> 00:48:14.380
Convey the grace the will the correction and the love of the father to you

00:48:17.460 --> 00:48:24.340
So Jacob why are you bringing on fathering in terms of fervency of the Holy Spirit simple guys fathering is a

00:48:24.660 --> 00:48:26.660
a means of

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reconstituting or

00:48:29.300 --> 00:48:31.300
Repositioning you spiritually

00:48:38.020 --> 00:48:40.020
To

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It's a means of expanding your capacity

00:48:58.740 --> 00:49:00.740
To

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Three

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It's a means of stirring up things

00:49:07.780 --> 00:49:10.620
Stirring up things of the spirit in you

00:49:10.620 --> 00:49:16.140
Fathering is a means towards one reconstituting and positioning you

00:49:16.940 --> 00:49:18.460
spiritually

00:49:18.460 --> 00:49:21.500
Second it's a means of expanding your capacity

00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:28.380
Third it's a means of stirring up things in the spirit in you you see really

00:49:28.940 --> 00:49:30.940
It's a means of expanding your capacity

00:49:32.460 --> 00:49:37.660
It's a means of stirring up things in the spirit in you you see really

00:49:38.620 --> 00:49:40.700
You

00:49:40.700 --> 00:49:41.300
read about this in

00:49:41.300 --> 00:49:47.620
1st Corinthians 4 15 to 17 when Paul talks to his son Timothy and he says you may have many guardians you may have

00:49:47.980 --> 00:49:52.820
10,000 guardians, but you only have you you do not have many fathers, and then in

00:49:53.380 --> 00:49:56.900
Secondrrrrr everybody one-six. He says to Timothy Remember

00:49:58.020 --> 00:49:59.520
how I

00:49:59.520 --> 00:50:05.820
laid hands on you had stirred up the things of the Spirit in you 2nd Timothy 1 6 guys this

00:50:05.820 --> 00:50:12.300
This radically happened to me when Eddie came into my life.

00:50:12.300 --> 00:50:16.060
This has radically happened to some of you.

00:50:16.060 --> 00:50:19.060
I mean, one guy I can call right now and ask him to speak

00:50:19.060 --> 00:50:19.900
would be Jason.

00:50:19.900 --> 00:50:22.820
It's radically transformed his life.

00:50:22.820 --> 00:50:26.020
It's completely reconstituted and repositioned

00:50:26.020 --> 00:50:26.780
him spiritually.

00:50:26.780 --> 00:50:28.580
You've heard him talk about it.

00:50:28.580 --> 00:50:31.540
It's expanded his capacity.

00:50:31.540 --> 00:50:33.500
And it stirred up things of the spirit in him.

00:50:33.500 --> 00:50:35.780
And I can say the same for many others in this room.

00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:45.820
This is not a recruitment thing, man.

00:50:45.820 --> 00:50:47.020
I'm not out collecting sons.

00:50:47.020 --> 00:50:47.820
You know that.

00:50:47.820 --> 00:50:52.140
But the point being, guys, this is such a priceless way

00:50:52.140 --> 00:50:57.060
of stirring up such fervency in you

00:50:57.060 --> 00:51:01.300
that it's almost irreplaceable.

00:51:01.300 --> 00:51:04.780
Irreplaceable.

00:51:04.780 --> 00:51:07.740
Some of you have already, I want to put it this way, guys.

00:51:07.740 --> 00:51:09.740
You don't have to receive me as your father.

00:51:09.740 --> 00:51:12.620
But you need to see that Acts 29 is a family.

00:51:12.620 --> 00:51:14.700
And I'm the father of the family,

00:51:14.700 --> 00:51:17.060
even if I'm not your father.

00:51:17.060 --> 00:51:18.540
Let me read that again.

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Because not for a second do I assume that everybody sitting

00:51:21.040 --> 00:51:25.540
here has gotten the hang of fathers and sons.

00:51:25.540 --> 00:51:27.140
But I want to put it this way.

00:51:27.140 --> 00:51:30.740
You don't have to receive me as your spiritual father.

00:51:30.740 --> 00:51:33.620
But you need to see that we are a family.

00:51:33.620 --> 00:51:35.980
And I am the father of this family,

00:51:35.980 --> 00:51:38.020
even if I'm not your father.

00:51:38.020 --> 00:51:40.140
Because if you don't even see that, you won't benefit

00:51:40.140 --> 00:51:41.860
from this house at all.

00:51:41.860 --> 00:51:45.260
Begin there and move on from there.

00:51:45.260 --> 00:51:47.060
Some of you have already come to that place.

00:51:47.060 --> 00:51:49.420
Some of you will come to that place,

00:51:49.420 --> 00:51:52.140
where you will see me both as the father of this family

00:51:52.140 --> 00:51:54.140
and your spiritual father.

00:51:54.140 --> 00:51:55.820
And when you do that, the Spirit of God

00:51:55.820 --> 00:51:57.780
will reconstitute you and ready you.

00:51:57.780 --> 00:52:00.380
Because in Luke 1, 17, it says, the hearts of the father

00:52:00.380 --> 00:52:02.780
shall turn towards the sons, and the hearts of the son

00:52:02.780 --> 00:52:04.500
shall turn towards the father.

00:52:04.500 --> 00:52:08.260
Disobedience, skepticism, and evil will be disbanded.

00:52:08.260 --> 00:52:11.220
And instead, the Spirit of God will prepare and ready

00:52:11.220 --> 00:52:13.100
your people for the Lord Himself,

00:52:13.100 --> 00:52:14.700
and the curse shall be banned.

00:52:17.980 --> 00:52:20.740
Malachi 4, 6, and 7, and Luke 1, 17 and 18.

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And even as sons, guys, you can be affiliated

00:52:32.540 --> 00:52:34.380
or you can be connected.

00:52:34.380 --> 00:52:38.420
One who knows how to access the father in a man or a woman

00:52:38.420 --> 00:52:40.700
can begin to soar on eagles wings.

00:52:40.700 --> 00:52:44.340
One who knows how to access the father in either a man

00:52:44.340 --> 00:52:47.260
or a woman can begin to soar on eagles wings.

00:52:47.260 --> 00:52:48.820
Why do I say man or woman?

00:52:48.820 --> 00:52:51.060
Because the heart of the father and the qualities

00:52:51.060 --> 00:52:53.180
and the attributes of the father are genderless.

00:52:53.180 --> 00:52:54.700
So if I were a woman and I was still

00:52:54.700 --> 00:52:58.020
the father of this house in some convoluted fashion,

00:52:58.020 --> 00:53:02.460
then it would still be possible to access the father in a man

00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:05.260
or a woman and soar on the wings of an eagle

00:53:05.260 --> 00:53:08.100
while others are still walking, depending on how you connect

00:53:08.100 --> 00:53:10.500
or whether you're affiliated.

00:53:10.500 --> 00:53:11.420
Very simple, guys.

00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:19.700
Yesterday, I had the privilege of spending time

00:53:19.700 --> 00:53:21.460
talking to Ryan on the way back.

00:53:21.460 --> 00:53:24.660
And the more I spoke to him, the more I realized, one,

00:53:24.660 --> 00:53:26.500
his character as a fine young man.

00:53:26.500 --> 00:53:28.900
And two, it was a reflection on his parenting, too.

00:53:33.140 --> 00:53:33.980
Applied both ways.

00:53:37.180 --> 00:53:40.340
Fathering reconstitutes or repositions you.

00:53:40.340 --> 00:53:46.300
Fathering expands your capacity, makes the horizon much broader.

00:53:46.300 --> 00:53:50.340
And fathering stirs up the things of the spirit in you.

00:53:50.340 --> 00:53:52.180
And if you're already a son in this house,

00:53:52.180 --> 00:53:53.320
don't stay affiliated.

00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:54.560
Stay connected.

00:53:54.560 --> 00:53:57.680
And you will soar on the wings of an eagle,

00:53:57.680 --> 00:53:59.720
not because of the man Jacob, but because

00:53:59.720 --> 00:54:03.200
of the grace of a father in this man that you can access.

00:54:03.200 --> 00:54:07.480
Just as I have accessed Eddie, and Eddie is a man

00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:08.720
with faults and flaws.

00:54:12.520 --> 00:54:14.040
But I can access the grace in him.

00:54:14.040 --> 00:54:17.480
And it has caused me to soar on the wings of an eagle,

00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:19.720
on the wings of the eagle as in the spirit of God.

00:54:19.720 --> 00:54:22.680
It has caused me to be completely reconstituted

00:54:22.680 --> 00:54:24.040
or positioned spiritually.

00:54:24.040 --> 00:54:26.760
And those of you who knew me before know that for true.

00:54:26.760 --> 00:54:29.480
It has expanded my capacity, and it keeps expanding.

00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:32.960
I'm turning 40 this year, and it still goes on.

00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:36.160
And it stirs up the things of the spirit in me continuously.

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The last point.

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Any questions, guys, on that before we move on?

00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:47.080
Any questions on that?

00:54:47.080 --> 00:54:49.080
If there was a question about your age over here.

00:54:49.080 --> 00:54:54.080
Haven't you been taught that you shouldn't ask men their age?

00:54:54.080 --> 00:54:56.080
Especially when they're over 40.

00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:08.080
I'll tell you a story after we are done,

00:55:08.080 --> 00:55:09.560
because I don't want it to be on tape.

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The last one for, and this is part one,

00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:18.360
next time we can talk about some other things.

00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:21.360
The last one is laying on of hands,

00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:23.760
where the fervency or the filling of the Holy Spirit

00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:25.760
happens through the laying on of hands.

00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:28.360
Guys, the filling of the Holy Spirit

00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:31.160
with the gift of speaking tongues and prophecy

00:55:31.160 --> 00:55:35.160
is seen with the laying on of hands in Acts 8, 14 to 17.

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Turn to Acts 8.

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Acts 8.

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Acts 8, 14 to 17.

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Turn to Acts 8.

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Acts 8.

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14 to 17.

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Acts 8, 14 to 17.

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Here's what it says.

00:55:56.840 --> 00:56:00.840
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted...

00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:01.840
Ryan?

00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:06.840
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God,

00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:08.920
they sent Peter and John to them.

00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:10.920
When they arrived, they prayed for them

00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:12.920
that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:15.920
because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them.

00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:18.920
They had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:20.920
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them

00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:22.920
and they received the Holy Spirit.

00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:23.920
Let's look at another one.

00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:26.920
Acts 19, 4 to 6.

00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:28.920
Acts 19, 4 to 6.

00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:31.000
Acts 19, 4 to 6.

00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.000
Paul said John's baptism was a baptism of repentance.

00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.000
Paul said...

00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:43.000
verse 4.

00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:46.000
Paul said John's baptism was a baptism of repentance.

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:49.000
He told the people to believe in the one coming after him,

00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:51.000
that is in Jesus.

00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:53.000
On hearing this,

00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:58.000
on hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

00:56:58.080 --> 00:57:01.080
When Paul placed his hands on them,

00:57:01.080 --> 00:57:03.080
they spoke in tongues and prophesied,

00:57:03.080 --> 00:57:05.080
there were about 12 men in all.

00:57:05.080 --> 00:57:09.080
So on one hand, you see that sometimes the gifts

00:57:09.080 --> 00:57:11.080
and the filling of the Holy Spirit

00:57:11.080 --> 00:57:13.080
is seen through the laying on of hands.

00:57:13.080 --> 00:57:15.080
But then again, if you go to Acts 10, 44,

00:57:15.080 --> 00:57:17.080
Acts 10, 44,

00:57:17.080 --> 00:57:19.080
Acts 10, 44,

00:57:21.080 --> 00:57:24.080
you see that it's not always so.

00:57:24.080 --> 00:57:26.080
Acts 10, 44,

00:57:26.160 --> 00:57:28.160
and it says in Acts 10, 44,

00:57:28.160 --> 00:57:30.160
while Peter was still speaking these words,

00:57:30.160 --> 00:57:32.160
the Holy Spirit came on them.

00:57:32.160 --> 00:57:34.160
Came on all who heard the message.

00:57:34.160 --> 00:57:36.160
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter

00:57:36.160 --> 00:57:38.160
were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit

00:57:38.160 --> 00:57:41.160
had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

00:57:41.160 --> 00:57:43.160
For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.

00:57:43.160 --> 00:57:45.160
So in Acts 10, 44 to 46,

00:57:45.160 --> 00:57:48.160
we see that the laying of hands was not necessary,

00:57:48.160 --> 00:57:50.160
but simply through the preaching

00:57:50.160 --> 00:57:53.160
that Peter was doing, the Spirit of God fell upon them.

00:57:53.160 --> 00:57:55.160
What I'm trying to say is,

00:57:55.240 --> 00:57:58.240
yes, there is a place for the laying on of hands

00:57:58.240 --> 00:58:01.240
as a means of bestowing the gift of the Spirit

00:58:01.240 --> 00:58:03.240
when it's done in agreement with God's Word.

00:58:03.240 --> 00:58:05.240
It's not a magical thing

00:58:05.240 --> 00:58:07.240
because there was a guy who thought it was magical.

00:58:07.240 --> 00:58:10.240
Acts chapter 8, verse 41,

00:58:10.240 --> 00:58:12.240
there was this guy called Simon Magus,

00:58:12.240 --> 00:58:13.240
Simon the Sorcerer,

00:58:13.240 --> 00:58:15.240
and he sees Peter going around

00:58:15.240 --> 00:58:16.240
laying hands on people

00:58:16.240 --> 00:58:18.240
and they get filled up with the Holy Spirit.

00:58:18.240 --> 00:58:19.240
So he goes and says,

00:58:19.240 --> 00:58:21.240
here, how about $100?

00:58:21.240 --> 00:58:22.240
Can I have that gift too?

00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:24.240
Because he thought it was magical

00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:26.320
and he was a sorcerer to begin with.

00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:27.320
So on one hand,

00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:29.320
there is a bestowing of the gift of the Spirit

00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:31.320
or the person of the Spirit

00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:33.320
into a person's life through the laying on of hands

00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:35.320
and yet it's not always the case,

00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:36.320
it's not a formula.

00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:39.320
And finally, go to 2 Timothy 1, 6.

00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:41.320
2 Timothy 1, 6.

00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:44.320
For those of you who don't know where that is,

00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:45.320
it's towards the end of the Bible

00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:46.320
and it's after Thessalonians.

00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:48.320
2 Timothy 1, 6.

00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:53.320
After 1 Timothy.

00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:56.320
2 Timothy 1, 6.

00:58:57.320 --> 00:58:58.320
And here's what it says.

00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:00.320
It says there,

00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:02.320
that for this reason,

00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:05.320
I remind you to fan into flame

00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:07.320
the gift of God,

00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:08.320
which is in you

00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:09.320
through the laying on of my hands.

00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:10.320
For this reason,

00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:12.320
I remind you to fan into flame

00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:14.320
the gift of God,

00:59:14.320 --> 00:59:15.320
which is in you

00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:16.320
through the laying on of my hands.

00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:20.320
Now let's just look at 1 Timothy 4, 14

00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:22.320
to get a better idea of what he was talking about.

00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:23.400
1 Timothy 4, 14.

00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:30.400
1 Timothy 4, 14

00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:31.400
and here's what it says.

00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:37.400
Do not neglect your gift,

00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:39.400
which was given you through a prophetic message

00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:42.400
when the body of elders laid their hands on you.

00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.400
So here we see that certain grace gifts

00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:47.400
and what do we mean by grace gifts?

00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:49.400
Apostle, Prophet, teacher, pastor, evangelist

00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:50.400
and the gifts of the Spirit

00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:53.480
are imparted through a prophetic word

00:59:53.480 --> 00:59:56.480
and sealed with the laying on of hands.

00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:58.480
So that happens too.

00:59:58.480 --> 01:00:00.480
So what we are going to do now

01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:05.480
is I'm going to ask Chris and

01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:10.480
I'm not going to call Marcus and Jason.

01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:13.480
We'll do this just with the piano.

01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:16.480
I'm going to ask that we sing these two songs

01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:19.480
and feel free to leave

01:00:19.560 --> 01:00:20.560
whenever you have to leave

01:00:20.560 --> 01:00:22.560
because we are kind of done.

01:00:22.560 --> 01:00:24.560
But if you want

01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:28.560
and if you so sense after we sing these two songs

01:00:28.560 --> 01:00:33.560
to come up and have hands laid on you

01:00:33.560 --> 01:00:36.560
praying for a fervency or a filling of the Spirit

01:00:36.560 --> 01:00:39.560
or whatever else the Spirit or God wants to do with you today

01:00:39.560 --> 01:00:41.560
then feel free to come up.

01:00:41.560 --> 01:00:42.560
But otherwise we are done

01:00:42.560 --> 01:00:44.560
and we'll be meeting on the 23rd.

01:00:44.560 --> 01:00:45.560
So while we are singing

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if you feel you have to leave

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well then you have to leave.

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But if you want to

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if you sense otherwise feel free.

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Any time today Chris.