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Speaker 3: Hi, if you have a Bible, I want you to

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Speaker 3: special feature entitled The Empowering Presence. Now when we talk

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Speaker 3: huge gap of dissatisfaction. Well, is it because God moved?

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Speaker 3: Is it because God didn't do his job, or that

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Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit didn't come. No, because the empowering promise

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Speaker 3: is that rivers plural of living water will start flowing

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Speaker 3: from within. I think of a river, Think of a

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Speaker 3: fast moving river, Think of a forceful river. Okay, that's

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Speaker 3: game changing. You get into that thing and stuff's going on.

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Speaker 3: You're moving forward. Second, Jesus promises experiences from within, so

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Speaker 3: our thirst is quenched. Right, whoever's thirsty, let him come

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Speaker 3: to me and drink our thirsties quench, and then we'll

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Speaker 3: have experiences. And that's the rivers that he's talking about.

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Speaker 3: Rivers plural, rivers of living water are gonna start doing things.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna start changing your attitude, They're gonna start changing

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Speaker 3: your perspective. You know, a river of thought is gonna

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Speaker 3: take you down another path, a good path, a holy path,

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Speaker 3: a righteous path, a good path. Right, another river is

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Speaker 3: gonna flow, and it's gonna flow towards your marriage, and

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Speaker 3: that's gonna get better. Right, And then there's another river

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Speaker 3: that's gonna flow, that's gonna just message you and tell

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Speaker 3: you you aren't worthless. No, you're a child of the

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Speaker 3: Most High God, and he has a plan for you

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Speaker 3: right where you are. See what I mean, Rivers of

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Speaker 3: living water are gonna start flowing. We're gonna start having

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Speaker 3: forceful experiences. In the John fourteen passage, Jesus says that

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Speaker 3: we're going to be encouraged from within. Right, we're not

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Speaker 3: gonna feel rejected, We're not gonna feel abandoned. Those are

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Speaker 3: both feelings of rejection, feeling of loneliness, feeling of abandonment.

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Speaker 3: Those are all negative. Jesus is like, Nope, I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: be in you. I'm not gonna abandon you as orphans.

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Speaker 3: You received me, you receive my spirit. I'm gonna lead

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Speaker 3: you from within. I'm gonna encourage you from within. You

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Speaker 3: know some of that. Some of you are listening right now.

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Speaker 3: You need that, you need some encouragement. Well, just can

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Speaker 3: I tell you there is encouragement already dormant in you

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Speaker 3: that we're going to be accessing through the person and

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Speaker 3: work of the Holy Spirit in you. You just hang on,

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Speaker 3: you stay tuned, keep listening. And then the last Jesus

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Speaker 3: tells the disciples and the Acts passage that they're gonna

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Speaker 3: be empowered from within. It's really interesting. Does he satisfy

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Speaker 3: their curiosity or does he want them to have power?

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Speaker 3: It's really interesting. Christians are so curious and ask the

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Speaker 3: most curious questions that have no relevance to the promised

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Speaker 3: supernatural power and life that they should be living. Doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean that we shouldn't be curious, but like these first

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Speaker 3: century Christians, we can be so focused on one thing

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Speaker 3: that we're missing it. With Jesus, it's like he doesn't

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Speaker 3: even want us focused on that. He's like, you're not

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Speaker 3: supposed to know when I'm coming back and when I'm

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Speaker 3: going to establish my kingdom, But you're gonna receive power.

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Speaker 3: I'll talk to you about that right now, because you're

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Speaker 3: gonna need power to live your life on earth between

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Speaker 3: this second and when I come back, or when you

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Speaker 3: come to me, my brother, my sister. That's what you

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Speaker 3: need right now. I know there's a lot of things

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Speaker 3: on your mind. I know that you're concerned about many things.

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Speaker 3: You might even be concerned about biblical things. But Jesus

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Speaker 3: is more interested in you having power now to love

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Speaker 3: Him and love others the right way and experience the

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Speaker 3: abundant life and supernatural living than he is about satisfying

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Speaker 3: some peripheral curiosity about the future that you might have.

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Speaker 3: So I see myself in the Disciples. You see all

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Speaker 3: of this, the satisfaction, the experiences, the encouragement, the empowerment

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Speaker 3: that's not promised in the absence of change and challenge

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Speaker 3: on earth, that's promised to happen in the midst of earth.

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Speaker 3: Right remember the words of Isaiah. Even though you stumble

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Speaker 3: badly and you grow weary, those who hope in the Lord.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna renew their strength. They're gonna mount up with

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Speaker 3: wings like eagles. They're gonna be walking on earth, but

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Speaker 3: they're gonna be living two dimensionally. They're going to transcend

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Speaker 3: their circumstances. They're going to rise above whatever circumstances they're in.

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Speaker 3: Some of you are listening to my voice, and you're

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Speaker 3: in a federal prison right now. You're in a local

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Speaker 3: state or state prison right now. And guess what. You're

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Speaker 3: bigger than your circumstances. Your God's bigger than your circumstances.

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Speaker 3: Your God wants to come down. He wants to satisfy you,

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Speaker 3: he wants to give you experiences, he wants to encourage you,

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Speaker 3: he wants to empower you. Right where you are, you

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Speaker 3: have the empowering presence, and you can mount up with

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Speaker 3: wings like eagles, and you can transcend your circumstances and

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Speaker 3: step into this supernatural thing called the Kingdom of God,

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Speaker 3: where whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.

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Speaker 3: Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven.

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Speaker 3: You can live connected to the Kingdom of God while

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Speaker 3: you're walking the spaces in places on Earth, and there's

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Speaker 3: nothing more satisfying than being a son of the Most

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Speaker 3: High right where you live. So there's the content Biblically,

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Speaker 3: I want you to see that it's normal to allow

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Speaker 3: some thoughts to get into your head, like, yes, I

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Speaker 3: believe in Jesus, Yes I believe in God, but it

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Speaker 3: seems like God's forgotten about me. And I know there's

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Speaker 3: an abundant life. I know there's a supernatural life, but

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Speaker 3: it's just not for me. Right now. That's a lie

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Speaker 3: and I reject that lie. And you should too, all right,

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Speaker 3: because those who hope in the Lord, the promise of

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Speaker 3: the Bible is they renew their strength, all right. They

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Speaker 3: have been given a promise by God that they're gonna

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Speaker 3: mount up with wings like eagles. And the promise is

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Speaker 3: the supernatural activation and power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 3: Now in any partnership, because that's how the Bible communicates,

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Speaker 3: this presence within you of Christ's Spirit and you working

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Speaker 3: with Christ's Spirit in partnership, listening, conversing, checking in in

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Speaker 3: any partnership, one person could choose not to partner, okay.

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Speaker 3: And the Bible is is crystal clear that every believer

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Speaker 3: possesses the Holy Spirit, but not every believer is actively

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Speaker 3: partnering with the Holy Spirit. In fact, most believers, and

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Speaker 3: that's that's not an exaggeration. Most believers are missing out

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Speaker 3: on this partnership, even though scripture assumes that you are partnering.

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Speaker 3: That's why it says in Galatians five twenty five, since

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Speaker 3: we live by the spirit, let us keep in step

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Speaker 3: with the Spirit, like it's the assumption of life. Well,

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Speaker 3: of course you're partnering with the Holy Spirit. You know Jesus,

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Speaker 3: you're connected to his spirit. His spirit lives within you,

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Speaker 3: and you're constantly in this rhythm of working with the

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit as he communicates to your mind and heart

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Speaker 3: and soul to do that next thing that shows love

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Speaker 3: for God and people. So there's always a threat right

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Speaker 3: to a fracture in this partnership. There's things that can

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Speaker 3: you know, how like you break a bone or something,

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Speaker 3: you know, there's fracture. Doesn't mean that the bone is

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Speaker 3: not in your body. It just means it's fractured. It

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Speaker 3: means that you've kind of lost the function of whatever

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Speaker 3: limb that bone is broken in. All right, same is

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Speaker 3: true in your relationship with God. The Bible says that

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Speaker 3: you can grieve the Holy Spirit. You can lie to

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Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit, you can quench the Spirit's fire. There

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Speaker 3: can be Holy Spirit fracture where you don't lose the

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Speaker 3: indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, but there's certainly fractures.

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Speaker 3: So that's why we need to talk about the endangering

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Speaker 3: problem to the empowering presence. There's things, the choices that

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Speaker 3: we could make that can I mean, it's just like

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Speaker 3: pulling a plug out of the wall like that can

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Speaker 3: cut off the power of the Holy Spirit and a believer. Fortunately,

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Speaker 3: there's a remedy. We're going to talk about that as well.

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Speaker 3: But let's look and just define the word danger. Okay.

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Speaker 3: So there's the promise, and there's the reality of the

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Speaker 3: presence of God in us and our ability to partner

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Speaker 3: with the Holy Spirit, and Jesus is saying we could

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Speaker 3: be satisfied, we can be encouraged, we can be empowered.

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Speaker 3: But there's a threat to that. There's a danger something

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Speaker 3: that may cause injury to those promises or a loss

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Speaker 3: of that promises, or even pain connected to fracturing your

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Speaker 3: relationship with the Holy Spirit. So let's look at four

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Speaker 3: commissions to all believers. Okay, just for truths, I'm calling

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Speaker 3: them commissions, and I use strong language. I use the

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Speaker 3: word we cannot, but I think you'll get it once

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Speaker 3: we look at each theme. All right. Number one, we

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Speaker 3: cannot experience discipleship without dependence on the spirit. Okay, used

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Speaker 3: the big word there, discipleship. What does that mean? Discipleship?

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Speaker 3: It means being with Jesus, to be like Jesus. You

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Speaker 3: become a disciple. You spend time with Jesus, and as

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Speaker 3: we watch Jesus do his thing, then we want to

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Speaker 3: do that thing that he does it with us, and

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Speaker 3: then we do it. Okay, that's discipleship. When Jesus follow me,

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Speaker 3: it just means be with me, to become like me.

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Speaker 3: That's discipleship. But there is no becoming like Jesus. There

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Speaker 3: is no christ formation in you, which is God's plan

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Speaker 3: after salvation, without dependence on the spirit. First Corinthians, chapter two,

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Speaker 3: verse twelve says this, we believers have not received the

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Speaker 3: spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God,

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Speaker 3: that we may understand what God has freely given to us.

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Speaker 3: In other words, there's cultural messaging. There's messaging of your

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Speaker 3: family formation, there's messaging about you that is without God.

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Speaker 3: And we have taken that in, or we take that

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Speaker 3: in in the absence of God's presence in our life,

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Speaker 3: but not anymore. We're saved. We believed in the person

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Speaker 3: and work of Jesus Christ, and now we're in this

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Speaker 3: process of Christ's formation because his spirit lives within us.

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Speaker 3: And the Bible says, but we've received the spirit who

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Speaker 3: is from God, that we may understand what God has

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Speaker 3: given us. What's God saying here in his word to believers.

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Speaker 3: He's saying, don't try to use listen to me, worldly

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Speaker 3: or cultural feeling or thinking to try to live a

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Speaker 3: godly life. I don't use worldly thinking to live a

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Speaker 3: godly life. In other words, I don't draw from places

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Speaker 3: that exist and live without God to try to live

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Speaker 3: a godly life. Right. That can be your peer group,

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Speaker 3: that can be what you see on TV. That can

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Speaker 3: be the messaging of the world, which says, hey, indulge yourself,

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Speaker 3: you know, increase all right, impress people, you know, puff

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Speaker 3: be that guy. All right. That kind of thinking doesn't

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Speaker 3: make you like Jesus. In fact, you don't grow in character,

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Speaker 3: and you get less mature and you become more fearful. Right,

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Speaker 3: so we cannot experience discipleship without keyword dependence on the spirit.

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Speaker 3: If we did by the spirit, then let us keep

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Speaker 3: in step with spirit. That picture is of a dependent relationship.

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Speaker 3: You can't understand who you are in Christ unless you're

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Speaker 3: depending on the Spirit. Number two, we cannot exchange spirit

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Speaker 3: dependence for self reliance. Now, I know there's probably ninety

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Speaker 3: percent of the dudes listening out there. You got to

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Speaker 3: where you are because you feel like, you know, I

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Speaker 3: pull my boost up, I worked bootstraps up, I worked hard,

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Speaker 3: I performed or whatever that might work in the world. Okay,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't work in God. You can't become like Jesus

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Speaker 3: performing your way there, doing the right things, reading the

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Speaker 3: right things, even reading your Bible. Those are spaces that

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Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit can use to make you like Christ.

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Speaker 3: But the effort that the earning of that, the self

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Speaker 3: reliance versus the dependence on the Spirit, that's not gonna

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Speaker 3: get you there. But I see with a lot of guys,

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Speaker 3: they just bring their whole work ethic into the spiritual

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Speaker 3: life and they don't become like Jesus at all because

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Speaker 3: they get all the credit. Yes, because I do this

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Speaker 3: and do that, and do this and do that, and

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Speaker 3: they push all their chips to the middle of the

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Speaker 3: table on their performance or on their works, versus on

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Speaker 3: the spirit, which the Bible says, the spirit makes us holy.

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Speaker 3: The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience.

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Speaker 3: Claim the spirit is conforming us to the image of

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Speaker 3: Christ and setting us free. Number three, Well.

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Speaker 2: Let me go back.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of an important point. We don't want to

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Speaker 3: miss a passage of scripture, so under the fill in

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Speaker 3: of we cannot exchange spirit to penance for self reliance.

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Speaker 3: Listen to Paul's warning. Okay wrote most of the New

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Speaker 3: Testament pastoral epistles. He is the spiritual coach for Christians

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Speaker 3: during his time. He says, this, are you so foolish

642
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Speaker 3: after beginning with the spirit? Are you now trying to

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Speaker 3: attain your goal by human effort? You see, I was

644
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Speaker 3: raised in a military family. In a military family, it's

645
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Speaker 3: authority and accountability. Perform under the authority and accountability, and

646
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Speaker 3: then you get acceptance and affirmation. You got to perform

647
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Speaker 3: your way into intimacy. Wow. Really, well, if you have

648
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Speaker 3: to perform your way into any you can lose it

649
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Speaker 3: for lack of performance. Okay, so Paul's just going, Hey,

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Speaker 3: this isn't a human effort thing you began by the spirit.

651
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Speaker 3: What saves you, sustained you. The Holy Spirit saves a Christian,

652
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Speaker 3: and a holy spirit, the Holy Spirit sustains the next

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Speaker 3: part of the process, which is christ Formation number three.

654
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Speaker 3: We cannot blend spirit, our spirit lead nature with our

655
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Speaker 3: old nature. This is just you know, oil and water,

656
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Speaker 3: flesh and spirit. You know, there's your old life, there's

657
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Speaker 3: your new life in Christ. But you got more muscle

658
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Speaker 3: memory and your old life. But He's calling you to

659
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Speaker 3: a new life. And then somewhere along the line you're

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Speaker 3: just like, can't I just blend the too? Can I

661
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Speaker 3: be a spirit filled Christian who sometimes does this stuff?

662
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about. You guys know what

663
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Speaker 3: you're stepping. You're smelling what I'm stepping in, right. We

664
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Speaker 3: all have this like, gosh, this is Can I just

665
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Speaker 3: like go backwards a little bit? You know, then I'll

666
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Speaker 3: go forward right, and then it'll be a longer time between.

667
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Speaker 3: But if you do that, that's not that's not only

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Speaker 3: not biblical, but it it presumes that well, yeah, God

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Speaker 3: saved me and his grace save me, and I can

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Speaker 3: just take a vacation from my identity every now and

671
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Speaker 3: then and then live this way. That's not what the

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Speaker 3: Bible teaches. Look at what the Bible teaches in Galatians

673
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Speaker 3: five seventeen says this, For the sinful nature desires what

674
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Speaker 3: is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit what is

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Speaker 3: contrary to the sinful nature or old you. They are

676
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Speaker 3: in conflict with each other, so that you do not

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Speaker 3: do what you want, all right. The Christian life is

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Speaker 3: not the best of Jesus and the best of the

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Speaker 3: old me. No, it's just the best of Jesus. If

680
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Speaker 3: any man's in Christ, he's a new creation. Behold, the

681
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Speaker 3: old things pass away, and all things are new. God

682
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Speaker 3: completely shook the board clean. It's like, nope, I'm gonna

683
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Speaker 3: build you in the image of my son. It's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a process, but that is the goal, all right.

685
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Speaker 3: The reason why you don't feel the same freedom to

686
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Speaker 3: be your old self is because you have the spirit

687
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Speaker 3: of God in you. You have a force that is

688
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Speaker 3: in you that is now fighting against the forces of

689
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Speaker 3: the old self. And only one's gonna win. And the

690
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Speaker 3: one who wins is the one you partner with. You

691
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Speaker 3: can partner with the flesh and be a Christian but

692
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Speaker 3: you're not gonna have the power of the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 3: if you're doing that. So, we can't experience discipleship without

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Speaker 3: dependence on the Spirit. Where we cannot exchange spirit dependence

695
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Speaker 3: for self reliance. We can't blend our spirit lead in

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Speaker 3: nature with our old nager number four. We cannot win

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Speaker 3: Christ's formation without Holy Spirit submission. And this is where

698
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Speaker 3: the rubber hits the road. Remember this, if you're taking notes,

699
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Speaker 3: write this down. The issue is control. Who is in

700
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Speaker 3: control of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your

701
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Speaker 3: strength at any given moment. Listen to what the Bible says.

702
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Speaker 3: The Bible says, but those who are controlled circle that

703
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Speaker 3: by the Holy Spirit. Think about things that please the Spirit. Now,

704
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Speaker 3: why is that verse so important? Why is Romans eight

705
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Speaker 3: five so important? Because it begs the question who's in control?

706
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Speaker 3: Is it the Holy Spirit? Is it your flesh? Is

707
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Speaker 3: it another spirit? Little s right? Who are you turning to?

708
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Speaker 3: Who we are you checking in with as you make

709
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Speaker 3: decisions today? Right now in your circumstances, right now, are

710
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Speaker 3: you checking in with the Holy Spirit? Holy Spirit? What

711
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Speaker 3: is it that God wants me to do? Holy Spirit?

712
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Speaker 3: Show me what shows love for you? Show me what

713
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Speaker 3: shows love for others, Holy Spirit, or you're checking in

714
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Speaker 3: with Yeah, I hear what you're saying, Holy Spirit, but

715
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Speaker 3: I got this one in pride. Or I hear you,

716
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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. I know what you're calling me to do

717
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Speaker 3: because I'm a child of Son of the Most High.

718
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Speaker 3: I'm a child of God. But I'm going to press

719
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Speaker 3: the mute button on you, and then I'm going to

720
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Speaker 3: do what I want to do, because if I do

721
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Speaker 3: what you want me to do that I see maybe

722
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Speaker 3: in your word or that I sense is consistent with Jesus,

723
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Speaker 3: then I'm not going to get what I want. And

724
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Speaker 3: right now I want what I want when I want it,

725
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Speaker 3: in the forum that I wanted it. Wow. Okay, So

726
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Speaker 3: all of us have experienced that where in pride we

727
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Speaker 3: say thank but no thanks, or if I do it

728
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Speaker 3: your way, I might lose some experience or lose something.

729
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Speaker 3: If I'm still gonna choose to do it my way,

730
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Speaker 3: listen to what the Bible says. You know, those are

731
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Speaker 3: controlled by the spirit. Think about the things of the

732
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Speaker 3: Spirit Romans eight five. Now, how does that relate to

733
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Speaker 3: christ formation in becoming like Jesus. Well, look at what

734
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Speaker 3: it says in John eight twenty nine. Right, this Jesus talking,

735
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Speaker 3: he says, and the one who sent me is with me. Okay,

736
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Speaker 3: see that abiding presence. Right, he has not deserted me,

737
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Speaker 3: for I always do what pleases him. So Jesus anointed

738
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Speaker 3: by the Spirit, connected with Father and Holy Spirit, the

739
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Speaker 3: Son connected with them, he pleases God. He's connected. Okay,

740
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Speaker 3: he's submitted. Right. Not mine will be done, but your

741
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Speaker 3: will be done. Same is true for us. Are we

742
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Speaker 3: submitted to God? The Holy Spirit will tell us things

743
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Speaker 3: to do, things that give us an opportunity to submit

744
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Speaker 3: to a loving God who has our best interest in mind,

745
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Speaker 3: who is wiser, and who always loves us in telling

746
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Speaker 3: us what to do. So in the end, we cannot

747
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Speaker 3: win christ'formation without Holy Spirit submission. Okay. So those are

748
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Speaker 3: the endangering problems. These are subtle battles that come into

749
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Speaker 3: your partnership with the Holy Spirit that can threaten it.

750
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Speaker 3: They're a danger to it. So now let's look at

751
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Speaker 3: the empowering practice. What do we do, Okay, what is

752
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Speaker 3: the exact one, two three of this partnership of the

753
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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. Well, if you're taking notes, write down this

754
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Speaker 3: number one. Surrender control to the Holy Spirit. Surrender control

755
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Speaker 3: to the Holy Spirit. So if the issue is control

756
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Speaker 3: those who are controlled by the spirit, then we have

757
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Speaker 3: to have a real practical surrender to the control of

758
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Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit. Okay, look at what it says in

759
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Speaker 3: Ephesians five. It says, don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what

760
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 3: the Lord wants you to do. Don't be drunk with

761
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Speaker 3: wine because that will ruin your life. Instead, say it

762
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Speaker 3: with me. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. What's great

763
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Speaker 3: in the Bible is when you see the Bible say,

764
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Speaker 3: understand what the Lord's will is. Pay really close attention

765
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Speaker 3: to what happened. What is said next, this is the

766
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Speaker 3: Lord's will. If you want to do the Lord's will,

767
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Speaker 3: what is the Lord's will, be filled with the Holy Spirit.

768
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Speaker 3: What that means is that the word filled is is

769
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Speaker 3: be being filled. It's a it's an ongoing, continuous filling.

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Speaker 3: It's not like a one time poor. The one time

771
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Speaker 3: poor happened at salvation. Holy Spirit is always in us.

772
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Speaker 3: But then filling of the Holy Spirit. There's many fillings

773
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Speaker 3: of the Holy Spirit. Because sometimes we can fracture our

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Speaker 3: relationship with the Holy Spirit. So the Bible says, surrender

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Speaker 3: control to the Holy Spirit. Like when I wake up

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Speaker 3: in the morning, I say, Holy Spirit, film me, take over,

777
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Speaker 3: overtake me, Holy Spirit, lead me, Holy Spirit, control me.

778
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Speaker 3: I'm borrowing the words of scripture that are encouraged or

779
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Speaker 3: commanded film me, control me, lead me. Those are all

780
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Speaker 3: verbs assigned to the Holy Spirit and me. So I'm

781
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 3: going to pray those words. You can even say in

782
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Speaker 3: with me right now, Holy Spirit, film me, Holy Spirit,

783
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Speaker 3: control me, Holy Spirit, film me, or lead me. So

784
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Speaker 3: you can do that every day. That's partnering with the

785
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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. Second, seek to guard the ongoing connection. So

786
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Speaker 3: I'm filled with the Holy Spirit. Now I have to

787
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Speaker 3: Now I have to guard it. Look at what it

788
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Speaker 3: says here on the screen Galatians five twenty five. It says,

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Speaker 3: since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow

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Speaker 3: the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. So

791
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Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit will lead you in your relationships, your friendships,

792
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 3: all right. The Holy Spirit will lead you and how

793
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 3: you treat other people. The Holy Spirit will lead you

794
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 3: to do things that show love for God and not

795
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 3: do things that don't show love for God. So what

796
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 3: you want to do is you want to guard that connection.

797
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 3: And every time you obey the voice of the Spirit,

798
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 3: you're guarding that connection. It's like guarding a relationship. Let's

799
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Speaker 3: just say a man and a woman are married and

800
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Speaker 3: the relationship is threatened by a third party, whether it's

801
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Speaker 3: the woman or the man. Okay, we have to guard

802
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,280
Speaker 3: that covenant relationship with our spouse, just like we guard

803
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 3: our relationship with the Holy spirits, the most important relationship

804
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 3: we have. We're gonna guard it all right. Now, here

805
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 3: is the next step, because in any relationships, have you

806
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,479
Speaker 3: ever blown it in a relationship? Have you ever done

807
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 3: something that like now, you guys are not getting along

808
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,359
Speaker 3: all right? You blow it? Okay? Well, God always loves us.

809
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 3: It's not like God of Harbor's feelings. But God will

810
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 3: always wait for us to take ownership of what we've

811
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Speaker 3: done wrong. So that's the third step. Just say, quote,

812
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 3: I blew it when you blow it?

813
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 2: Okay.

814
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Speaker 3: Isn't that how we reconcile human relationships. It's like you

815
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 3: know what I own an apology?

816
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 2: I blew it.

817
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Speaker 3: You know back there, when I did that, I was wrong,

818
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 3: was wrong, shouldn't have done it? Please forgive me. Now,

819
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 3: if only we did that quicker and sooner rather than later,

820
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 3: and if only we had the courage and humility to

821
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 3: admit when we've done something wrong. Well, in your relationship

822
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 3: with God, it's kind of essential because it is the

823
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 3: relationship that we say we blew it when we blow it.

824
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 3: So look at what the Bible says in first John

825
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 3: one nine. It says, if we admit our sins, simply

826
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 3: come clean about them, he won't let us down. He'll

827
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Speaker 3: be true to himself. He'll forgive our sins and purgase

828
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 3: of all wrong doing. Even on a human level. We

829
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 3: know this is true when we just go, you know,

830
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 3: somebody we love loves us, and we just go, you

831
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 3: know what, back there right there, that was wrong. Should

832
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 3: have never done that. I'm so sorry. Would you please

833
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 3: forgive me? Of course, it's all about the sincerity of heart. Right,

834
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 3: It's like you meant that. You know there are other

835
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 3: people who don't mean it, but God knows when you

836
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 3: mean it. Okay, so say you blew it when you

837
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 3: blow it? All right, here's the last simple practice of

838
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 3: those who partner with the Holy Spirit. Well, and it's this, sincerely,

839
00:56:55,640 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 3: desire and activate his presence. Activate and desire his presence.

840
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 3: Look at what Jesus says in John seven. We read

841
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 3: this earlier. But he says, Jesus said stood and said

842
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 3: in a loud voice, let anyone. Okay, so who does

843
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 3: that about? Anyone who's thirsty, come to me and drink.

844
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 3: And here's the key keywords, whoever believes in me. As

845
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 3: Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from

846
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 3: within them. So if we want to activate this supernatural, powerful, encouraging,

847
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 3: satisfying life, we need to surrender control. We need to

848
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 3: guard our relationship with the Holy Spirit. If we blow it,

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Speaker 3: we say we blew it. When we've blown it, and

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Speaker 3: then guess what, Because it's our desire. We desire to

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Speaker 3: activate His presence ongoing every day, be filled with the

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. Right, but you know what that requires. That's

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Speaker 3: what Jesus says. Whoever believes in me? Okay, so belief desire.

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Speaker 3: I want to live the spirit led life. As Scripture

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Speaker 3: has said, Look at Jesus referencing scripture, rivers of living

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Speaker 3: water will flow from within them. Okay. So as we

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Speaker 3: partner with His empowering presence. Okay, what happens we soar

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Speaker 3: into Christ's likeness, We start becoming like Jesus, we believe,

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Speaker 3: and we're saved. What is the gospel, though, it's believing,

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Speaker 3: being with and becoming like Jesus. That's the gospel. That's

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Speaker 3: what the gospel offers. It's not just fire insurance. It's

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Speaker 3: radical transformation. Okay. Now, the best verse in all of

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Speaker 3: scripture that summarizes everything we're talking about is in Second

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Speaker 3: Corinthians three, sixteen to eighteen. We're gonna put that on

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Speaker 3: the screen. It says this, but whenever anyone turns to

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Speaker 3: the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord

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Speaker 3: is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord

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Speaker 3: is there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled

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Speaker 3: faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image,

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Speaker 3: with ever increasing glory which comes from the Lord. Say

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Speaker 3: it with me, who is the Spirit? In other words,

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Speaker 3: my Christ's formation and life in God hinges on my

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Speaker 3: connection with and partnership with the Holy Spirit. I love

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Speaker 3: this passage of scripture because it tells us what God's

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Speaker 3: endgame is. When you read in Philippians, he who began

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Speaker 3: a good work in you is faithful to complete it

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Speaker 3: and bring it to a flo flourishing finish on the

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Speaker 3: very day of Christ Jesus. In Philippians one to six.

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Speaker 3: This is the end name. To believe in Jesus, to

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Speaker 3: be with Jesus, to become like Jesus. And what is

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Speaker 3: the key. The key is partnering with the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 3: in everyday life. Every day you wake up, every place

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Speaker 3: where you find yourself keeping in step with the Spirit.

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Speaker 3: So I've created a little acrostic because we started talking

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Speaker 3: about eagles, right, those who hope in the Lord will

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Speaker 3: bound up with wings like eagles. And the offer of

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Speaker 3: this transcendent supernatural life. Well, eagle sore, let's unpack soar.

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Speaker 3: The essen sore is say yes, say yes to the

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. Okay, I accept, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Fill me,

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit, control me, Holy Spirit, leave me according to

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Speaker 3: the command promise of God. The oh in sore is

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Speaker 3: open doors to the Holy Spirit. Open doors of your life.

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Speaker 3: You know, the Bible says that our lives are like

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Speaker 3: houses that are built on foundations. Our lives. Jesus said,

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Speaker 3: he stands at the door, knocks, We let him in.

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Speaker 3: We open the door. He comes in, right. But when

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Speaker 3: Jesus comes in initially through the front door of your belief,

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Speaker 3: then he wants to spend some time in your house.

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Speaker 3: He kind of looking around can I go in that room?

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Speaker 3: And can I go in that room? All right? There

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Speaker 3: are some of you that are listening to me right now.

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Speaker 3: There are there are rooms in your house. It's like

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Speaker 3: they have that yellow police tape across It's like, you

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Speaker 3: can go in that room, you can go out, but

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Speaker 3: you can't go in that room. But guess what Right now,

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Speaker 3: Jesus is knocking on that door. He wants to go

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Speaker 3: in the room that you've never let anybody in. Maybe

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Speaker 3: it's a room of your past that you just don't

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Speaker 3: like talking about. Maybe it's an experience that you've had.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it's something that you did, or maybe it's

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Speaker 3: something that somebody else did to you. But Jesus wants

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Speaker 3: to go in there with you and you come out free.

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Speaker 3: So say yes to the Holy Spirit, open doors, a

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Speaker 3: actively partner with the Holy Spirit. Okay, check in, check in.

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Speaker 3: You ever went to make a decision and he's like, Hey,

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Speaker 3: I gotta check in with the boss, or I gotta

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Speaker 3: check in with my wife, or I gotta check with

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Speaker 3: my buddy. All right, how about check in with the

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit, Like before you make any decision that impacts

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Speaker 3: your relationship with God or with people. How about you.

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Speaker 3: Check in with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, lead me

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Speaker 3: in this situation. Holy Spirit, Remind me of your word,

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit, Show me, Holy Spirit, take me to scripture

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Speaker 3: and show me God's will, and don't make that decision

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Speaker 3: until you get thumbs up from the Holy Spirit. They

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Speaker 3: are in sore is. Release the power once you have

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Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit in you. Jesus said you're gonna receive

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Speaker 3: power and then the Holy Spirit's gonna come out of you.

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Speaker 3: How do we know that's true? Three years, twelve dudes,

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Speaker 3: twenty centuries of power. I went from twelve when Jesus

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Speaker 3: was walking with them to today two point eight billion

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Speaker 3: followers of Jesus, and you're one of them. Release the power.

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Speaker 3: The power is just like this ongoing thing. People believe

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Speaker 3: they get the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit fills them,

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Speaker 3: and then they start releasing that power in the spaces

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Speaker 3: and places that they occupied. See, I can't be where

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Speaker 3: you are and you can't be where I am. But

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Speaker 3: we both have the Holy Spirit, and our job is

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Speaker 3: to release the power of the Holy Spirit and advance

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Speaker 3: the Kingdom of God. Now what I've done just to

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Speaker 3: make this super practical, as I've scripted literally a prayer

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Speaker 3: that calls into account the truth of scripture and what

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Speaker 3: you have just learned. And so I'm going to read

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Speaker 3: this with you. I want to pray this with you,

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Speaker 3: and then we'll conclude our time. So let's let's just

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Speaker 3: kind of take a look at the screen and we're

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Speaker 3: going to put the prayer up there, and let's pray together,

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Speaker 3: and let's have that empowering presence in us activated for

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Speaker 3: us so that we can live with power and mount

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Speaker 3: up with wings like egos. Ready, let's pray together, Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 3: Thank you for dwelling in me. Thank you for sealing

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Speaker 3: my identity. Thank you for conforming me to the image

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Speaker 3: of Christ. Thank You for filling me and controlling me.

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Speaker 3: Thank You for manifesting the fruit of the Spirit and

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Speaker 3: the gifts of the Spirit in me. Thank You for

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Speaker 3: being the fire of God in me, transforming me in

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Speaker 3: my inner man, giving me the character of Christ. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for securing my spirit through God's love and acceptance,

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Speaker 3: setting me free from condemnation and comparison. Holy Spirit, in

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Speaker 3: the name of Jesus, I surrender to your overflow from

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Speaker 3: me and into the spaces, places, and people you have

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Speaker 3: assigned to my life. I want the greater works of

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Speaker 3: Christ manifested in me and through me. Right now, according

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Speaker 3: to your word and promise, align my spirit, my energy,

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Speaker 3: and my body with your kingdom superstory, Holy Spirit. Use

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Speaker 3: me today open my eyes to the Kingdom of God

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Speaker 3: and the exact part I am playing in it. Open

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Speaker 3: new doors and help me to step through them in Jesus'

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Speaker 3: name and for your pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Amen, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: You will be like God.

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Speaker 3: Human unity with God was severed, and through it all

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Speaker 3: God's promise remain true.

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Speaker 1: Follow me, April, and I will make you grad This

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Speaker 1: is the Chosen People.

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Speaker 3: Listen to the Chosen People at the Chosen People dot com.

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Speaker 3: That's the Chosen People dot com.