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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. My name is Rick Burgess.

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Speaker 1: We welcome you here. It's a brand new study. We're

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Speaker 1: only in our second installments. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: go ahead and turn to Ephesians chapter one, this series

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Speaker 1: will be Paul's prison letters and we'll work through them

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Speaker 1: as they appear in the Holy Scripture of that particular order.

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Speaker 1: So we are still in Ephesians chapter one today. We

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Speaker 1: are going to move a little slower than maybe some

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Speaker 1: of our other Bible studies, but then we'll pick up

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Speaker 1: the tempo a little bit throughout some of the other chapters.

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Speaker 1: But Paul is saying so much on the front end

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is saying through these powerful words today in Ephesians. Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for today. May your Holy hand be upon

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Speaker 1: Bible study. You have arranged before the foundation of the

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Speaker 1: be here. So the next question is what do you

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Speaker 1: have to say? Only you can speak to every individual

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Speaker 1: heart while at the same time speak to every single

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Speaker 1: Spirit to discern all that you're saying, as our world

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Speaker 1: In your name, we pray Amen. So let's look at this.

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Speaker 1: Paul is continuing this introduction to the churches in Ephesus,

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Speaker 1: Versus seven through fourteen. So we're only going to go

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Speaker 1: They're doing it out of desperation. It's not commitment. It's desperation. Well,

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Speaker 1: who reminded me when I was talking to someone on

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Speaker 1: who's cleaned it up. We have access to the way

425
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Speaker 1: things should be, and that kingdom is available to us.

426
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Speaker 1: Right now. You have victory in Jesus right now. Because

427
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, you can win on the road. And so

428
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Speaker 1: he's saying, Jesus has the power to make all this

429
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Speaker 1: right on heaven and earth, and he is setting things straight.

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Speaker 1: Wherever is the need, Somebody write this down, wherever is

431
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Speaker 1: the need, or whatever is your need, Jesus is the solution.

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Speaker 1: If somebody comes to me and said, what's the solution,

433
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Speaker 1: I say, Jesus my situation, what's the solution Jesus, And

434
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Speaker 1: let me tell you why that's true. Let's talk about

435
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Speaker 1: things that have been going on all in here. Okay,

436
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: I got a big issue. I've gone to Jesus. I've

437
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: asked him to heal somebody. I've asked him to do this.

438
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Speaker 1: I've asked him to do that. Here's the beauty of Jesus.

439
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: If you get let's use healing. If you get the

440
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Speaker 1: healing for yourself or for your loved one, he was

441
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Speaker 1: a solution. If the healing is not God's will, he's

442
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: a solution again. He's where I go to celebrate the healing.

443
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: He's where I go to be to be healed of

444
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: the lack of the healing. He's a solution either way.

445
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Speaker 1: You know why because if we've done our job, whoever

446
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Speaker 1: we love that is about to pass or or or

447
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: what's healed, whichever way that goes, because of Jesus, we

448
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: haven't lost them. I know it's okay to say this,

449
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be all. You know, I

450
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: don't sit here ready to jump on people, or I

451
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: don't correct my wife sometimes when she says it. But

452
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Speaker 1: I will tell you something when it comes to For instance,

453
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Speaker 1: I know you all got your own people, and I

454
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Speaker 1: know your people, and I've been grieving with you as

455
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: you grieved with me. And I've got other people that

456
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Speaker 1: have gone but just taken. For instance, because anytime a

457
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Speaker 1: young person a baby dies in earthly death, that rattles

458
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Speaker 1: people a little more than an eighty three year old man.

459
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Speaker 1: I mean, it just does, and they're both hurt. But

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Speaker 1: I don't even like the phrase. Well, two thousand and eight,

461
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Speaker 1: that's when I lost my son. I haven't lost my son.

462
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Speaker 1: That's when my son died as earthly death. But I

463
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Speaker 1: haven't lost him. Why because of the solution. Because of Jesus.

464
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Speaker 1: I'm separated from him, but I haven't lost him. If

465
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Speaker 1: you're here today and your loved one has died this year.

466
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Speaker 1: In my goodness, we've had a lot, okay, or last year.

467
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Speaker 1: I mean, guys, I'm telling you right now, I've learned

468
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Speaker 1: when you turn sixty one years old, people die a lot.

469
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Speaker 1: And because we're all getting older, we're all getting sicker

470
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Speaker 1: and all this. But I will tell you this. Anybody

471
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Speaker 1: that is redeemed, if you're redeemed and there you had

472
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Speaker 1: lost them, now they may have passed. I mean there's one,

473
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Speaker 1: but there's some guys not here right now because there's

474
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Speaker 1: another service going on. And you know, and that woman

475
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Speaker 1: that was in our church and a pillar of our church,

476
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Speaker 1: her health had declined, she had been in decline. But

477
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell this, because of her redemption, she's got

478
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Speaker 1: a glorified body right now. And all of us know,

479
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Speaker 1: and the people we know that have been sick and

480
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Speaker 1: we watch them suffer, right now, they have a glorified body.

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Speaker 1: I promise you. My daddy is not He doesn't deal

482
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Speaker 1: with Alzheimer's anymore. Your loved one doesn't deal with cancer anymore,

483
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Speaker 1: the kidney failure, whatever the case may be. If they're redeemed,

484
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Speaker 1: they went from here to glorification, they went to perfection.

485
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Speaker 1: They don't have sickness, they don't have suffering. They're in

486
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Speaker 1: a glorified state. And let me tell you something. Stop

487
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Speaker 1: hoping for them to come back. Get your act together

488
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Speaker 1: so you can go to them, because I promise you

489
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Speaker 1: where they are, they're now living in the present all

490
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Speaker 1: the time. Like we talked about about this time thing,

491
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Speaker 1: everybody seems to be thinking they figured out with their

492
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Speaker 1: finite mind, which is hilarious. Okay, well, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you what you know. Sharon and I have talked about

494
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Speaker 1: this before. When you think about the fact that God

495
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Speaker 1: is present, always remember we said I am I am am,

496
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Speaker 1: not I was I am, and I'm gonna be I am,

497
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Speaker 1: I am am. That we're gonna sit here and we're

498
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Speaker 1: gonna pine for days and days and days. See to me,

499
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here thinking, okay, it's been it's been eighteen

500
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Speaker 1: years since I've seen my youngest son. So but when

501
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: I step into eternity or the Lord returns, when I

502
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Speaker 1: look at how God does not answer to time and

503
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Speaker 1: is above time and now lives in the present of

504
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Speaker 1: eternity all the time, and all those that are redeemed

505
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Speaker 1: are now on that timeline with him, that it is

506
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Speaker 1: possible that all those that have gone before us that

507
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Speaker 1: they had their day, they stepped into the presence of

508
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Speaker 1: the Lord, and they turned around and we were there

509
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Speaker 1: with them. It didn't seem like any time to them.

510
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Speaker 1: I promise you. I don't think it feels like eighteen

511
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Speaker 1: years to him when he sees me again, or whenever

512
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Speaker 1: that would be. I could go on, you know, if

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Speaker 1: the Lord terries another twenty twenty five years. But I

514
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Speaker 1: think that when we step into that place where they

515
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Speaker 1: are because of Jesus the solution, I don't think any

516
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Speaker 1: times passed for them at all. I think they go

517
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Speaker 1: I was with you at the house, I stepped into glory.

518
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Speaker 1: I turned around, and you're stepping into now. I don't

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Speaker 1: have the answer on that because I can't comprehend that.

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Speaker 1: But if God is always in the present, that makes

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Speaker 1: sense to me. So I remember that's one thing that

522
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Speaker 1: Sherry's struggle is. She goes I know he's with his

523
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Speaker 1: perfect Father. I know he is in glory. I know

524
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Speaker 1: he suffers no more. He's only one of our kids

525
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: that has done with all the troubles of this world. However,

526
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Speaker 1: it's hard for me to comprehend. Doesn't he miss his mama.

527
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Speaker 1: And then the more we study, she goes, I don't

528
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Speaker 1: think he ever misses his mama. First of all, he's imperfection.

529
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Speaker 1: But I think he's going to look up and his

530
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Speaker 1: Mama's going to already be there. You know so, because

531
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Speaker 1: why the solution. Listen, if you didn't love Jesus before,

532
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: right now, I hope you love him now, because I mean,

533
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: there is a lot to celebrate, to say thank you Jesus.

534
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Speaker 1: The next he says this, in verse eleven, he says,

535
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Speaker 1: here's what's coming for the redeemed in him. There is

536
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Speaker 1: again the solution. We have obtained an inheritance. Did you

537
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Speaker 1: know that we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined

538
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Speaker 1: according to the purpose of Him who works all things

539
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Speaker 1: according to what the counsel of his is will. So

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Speaker 1: Jesus provide ride's an inheritance for the redeemed. You can

541
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Speaker 1: also let's look real quick. Okay, First Corinthians is not

542
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: that far away. You gotta go back a little bit.

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Speaker 1: First Corinthians. Let's go to chapter two, just a few

544
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Speaker 1: pages over, chapter two, verse nineteen. Chapter two of not

545
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Speaker 1: chapter two nineteen, Chapter two nine. Look at verse nine

546
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Speaker 1: here's Paul again talking about this very very same thing.

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Speaker 1: But as it is written, what no eye has seen

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Speaker 1: nor heard, nor the heart of a man imagined, What

549
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: God has prepared for those who love him, He say,

550
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Speaker 1: nobody's seen it. You can't even comprehend this inheritance that

551
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: Paul is talking about, but it is there. What we

552
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: have coming is impossible to even imagine. But here's the thing.

553
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Speaker 1: We may yearn for it from time to time. Raise

554
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Speaker 1: hanf you're yearning for it from time to time. Minds up.

555
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Speaker 1: But we can be as share do do God's predestined will,

556
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Speaker 1: that our inheritance is there. Now. What what's so? What? What?

557
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Rick? Well, God, as I said,

558
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: had predestined the plan of salvation, that his will is

559
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Speaker 1: always in the present time. He knew before Adam and Eve,

560
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Speaker 1: even though I absolutely believe that he allowed that choice

561
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Speaker 1: because it looks like they had to choose something. Okay,

562
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Speaker 1: I heard Joshua say to the people way back before then,

563
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Speaker 1: choose this day what you're gonna do. Choose whether you're

564
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Speaker 1: going to serve the Lord. As for me in my house,

565
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: we're going to but you got to choose whether you're

566
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Speaker 1: going to whether this word choose is being thrown around

567
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: a lot. You may you can do anything here in

568
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Speaker 1: the garden, except I don't want you dealing with this

569
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: particular tree. But apparently they had a choice whether they

570
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Speaker 1: did that or not. You have a choice to decide that.

571
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: Let me decide what's right and wrong because I'm perfect,

572
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: or you can make the choice to violate that and

573
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: think you can decide it for you. And what do

574
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: they do? They made the wrong choice. But even with

575
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Speaker 1: all that going on, Jesus crying over Jerusalem in Matthew

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Speaker 1: twenty three thirty seven, he said, I had actually longed

577
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Speaker 1: to gather you together as a hen gathers her chicks

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00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: under her wings, to protect you from what's coming to

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Speaker 1: you the Hebrews because you rejected me as Messiah. I

580
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: actually preferred to wrap my wings around you and protect

581
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Speaker 1: you from that, but you were not willing. So in

582
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Speaker 1: his predestined perfect will, he knew we would make the

583
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Speaker 1: wrong choices. But that doesn't mean choices were taken away.

584
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Speaker 1: But what it does mean is he had predestined the

585
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Speaker 1: solution which is in Jesus, and had predestined the inheritance

586
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: of eternal life. Still be made available even though we

587
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: are rebellious people. He already had a plan to resolve

588
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: the problem. And the solution is Jesus. And here's the

589
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: deal now with these earthly inheritances we have when you

590
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: and you will inherit some money. Now, look, if you're

591
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: part of my family, you've never lived your life expecting

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Speaker 1: somebody to give you, to have an inheritance of a

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00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: lot of money from you. We just not money people. Uh,

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00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: we don't leave much around for if so, I've never

595
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: I've never had my life going that. There's some grandmama,

596
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: there's some uncle, there's some my parents have got some

597
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: great inheritance coming to me, because you just don't. You

598
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: don't plan like that in our family. However, you know

599
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: what people can also do with an earthly inheritance. They

600
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: can squander it. Raise your hand if you've ever seen that. Okay, so,

601
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: but but not not that. Not the inheritance from the

602
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: one and only living God. It can't be squandered. You

603
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: can sit here right now and you can know that

604
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 1: your inheritance in heaven, your inheritance and eternity is secure.

605
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna squander it. It's there so even on those

606
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: days that you find yourself just yearning for it, let

607
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 1: me tell you what, you never have to fear. I'm

608
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: yearning for it, but I wonder if I'll ever have it.

609
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: It's guaranteed you got it in its fullness because of Jesus.

610
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: So he's saying, remember that we are assured because of

611
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Speaker 1: God's predestined will, his perfect will. Now remember, I absolutely

612
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: believe that he has a permissive will too, That's where

613
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: those choices are being made. However, he has a perfect

614
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: will that nobody can stop. And so his perfect will

615
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: is us the redeemed to have this inheritance, and it

616
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: cannot be squandered. Now look at verse twelve, rejoicing, Look

617
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Speaker 1: at voice. How about this so that we who were

618
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: the first to hope in Christ might be to the

619
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Speaker 1: praise of His glory. We will rejoice, we will praise him.

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Speaker 1: It will be a joyful commotion in heaven when we

621
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Speaker 1: get there. But here's something we talked about this before.

622
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Speaker 1: Did you know that every time any of us, okay,

623
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Speaker 1: actually do what the solution told us to do, Jesus

624
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: to go out to teach them everything I've taught you,

625
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: everything that I have available to you, you go out

626
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: and you tell others about me. You make disciples as

627
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: you are my disciples. You baptize them, and the name

628
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And

629
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Speaker 1: don't worry. My presence, my boldness, my spirit, the Holy

630
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: Spirit will be with you. You'll never do it by yourself.

631
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Speaker 1: Did you know that that joyful commotion that we will

632
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: experience when we are there in glory, that a joyful

633
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: commotion goes off in heaven every time somebody's redeemed. You

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Speaker 1: ever stopped and thought about that? Have you ever sat

635
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Speaker 1: in front of somebody, I hope have you ever had

636
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: that pleasure of the Lord God bringing someone to him.

637
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: We don't redeem anybody, we're just obedience, obedient. Have you

638
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: ever been obedient and watch God redeem somebody? You ever

639
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: been there? It's one of the greatest experiences ever. Nothing

640
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 1: on this earth compares to it. And those wonderful moments

641
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: when I don't forget, when I think there's a commotion

642
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: going on in heaven right now, because remember the Paul's

643
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: told us as we were taught this, we learn in

644
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Speaker 1: the scripture that the angels this redemption plan for human

645
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: beings is it's a mystery to us and to them too.

646
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: It says, they have this anticipation of watching God do

647
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: it again, and they rejoice. And all those that are

648
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: already there rejoice. There's someone else that the solution has redeemed,

649
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: and there's a celebration every time somebody comes. So then

650
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: next he wants us to know. And this will wrap

651
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Speaker 1: up our study this week, verse thirteen and fourteenth. So

652
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: we at fourteen we have discussed what God the Father.

653
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: We've really been discussing God the Son. Well, now we

654
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 1: will discuss God the Holy Spirit, the witness of the Spirit.

655
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Speaker 1: So look at thirteen. In verse thirteen, the apostle Paul says,

656
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Speaker 1: in him, you also when you heard the Word of Truth,

657
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,959
Speaker 1: the Gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were

658
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit. Let's talk

659
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: about that. First. First thing he tells us is his word,

660
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: the Word of God. No one can be saved without

661
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: the Word of Truth. The witness of the Holy Spirit

662
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: causes us to be convicted and convinced of our need

663
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: for redemption. How did you know that you were sinful

664
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Speaker 1: because of the Holy Spirit? How did you go to

665
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: the Word of God and discern it, and it teach

666
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: you about redemption through the Holy Spirit. You know, you've

667
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: heard me talk about this analogy. It's and it was

668
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: brilliant salesmanship by the optometrists. So I go because I've

669
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: been nearsighted since I was like in junior high. And

670
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: so I had the glasses and then I had the

671
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: Lasik surgery. And then that day that everybody tells you

672
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: you're just old, okay, and I started having some vision

673
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: problems again. I think they're gonna fix it again with

674
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: the laser, and then they say, let me talk to you,

675
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: old man. That's over. Okay. We can do a lot

676
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: of things, we can't do anything about the aging of

677
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: the eyes. You can't read because you're old. So so,

678
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: so then I'm giving some reading glasses, you know, And

679
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: I do the reading glasses thing for a while, you know.

680
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: And how many of those do you break and lose?

681
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: I mean so many? And so so I used to

682
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: just have them laying everywhere. I just have I just

683
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: have two or three dollar glasses just laying everywhere. And

684
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: so I go in and he says I do. He says, hey,

685
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: lit's up. Let me. I think you might need you

686
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: might want to go to the world of the progressive lens. Well,

687
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 1: at that time, I don't. I didn't like hearing about

688
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: progressives because they're ruining our country. So I was like,

689
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't really want anything to do with that.

690
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: And then and then he said, it's a bifocal. I said,

691
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: I was this some pr movie y'all have. Now, we

692
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: don't call it bifocals anymore. Of course, people people are

693
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: too prideful to say they have bifocals, he said, pretty much.

694
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Speaker 1: So uh so. Anyway, so he's he's given me all

695
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Speaker 1: these looks, and he says, you can see pretty good,

696
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: but let me show you how you could see. And

697
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: I knew right then I was buying glasses. I knew

698
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: it was over. I mean, that's just too good of

699
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: a setup. Any of you in sales, y'all know he's

700
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: got me, now, you know. And so he goes, if

701
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: you wanted to get some progressives today, you could see

702
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: like this, and I was like, sold, I want to

703
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: see like that. That's the Holy Spirit, you know. It's

704
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: like I read the Bible. I read the Bible. I

705
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: read the Bible. But when I was redeemed and I

706
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: got God, the Holy Spirit, God Seed about it in me.

707
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, it's like I put on

708
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: these Holy Spirit glasses and I begin to see things

709
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: in Scripture I'd never seen before. And I'll tell you this,

710
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 1: because you're redeemed. That's the reason why we're sitting here

711
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: right now. And you've studied these verses over and over again,

712
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: and today you're getting something fresh because it's supernatural. People.

713
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,959
Speaker 1: This is a supernatural word of God, and the Holy

714
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: Spirit is saying, you're ready for this today. You weren't

715
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: ready for this a few years ago, but because of

716
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: your spiritual growth, you're hearing these verses with more clarity

717
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: than maybe you heard them before. I've read these verses

718
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: over and over again. I've been through a whole I've

719
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: been through a whole Bible. Study of this was some

720
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: of the greatest Bible teachers the world has to know.

721
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: And do you think I'm learning something new you right now?

722
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 1: I am things I didn't quite catch that that last round.

723
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: I bet you if I study it ten years from now,

724
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: I'll learn something. And I'm still alive. So so look

725
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: at this. So first of all, he says, the Holy

726
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: Spirit his word, no one can be saved without the

727
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: Word of Truth. The witness of the Holy Spirit causes

728
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 1: us to be convicted of our sin, but it also

729
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 1: gives us the peace of being convinced of our need

730
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: for redemption. That's what made me cry out that night.

731
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: It was the Holy Spirit. Tonight's the night I want

732
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: to be redeemed. I know you love me. I don't

733
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: love you, but tonight I care about that. Why the

734
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit? And so he said the witness of the

735
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Next he says that his work is a

736
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 1: witness to the Christian That's the second part of verse thirteen.

737
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: He says, in him you also when you heard the

738
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation and believed

739
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: in him. So he's witnessing to the actual redeemed. He saying,

740
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: it helped you to understand how this all works. And

741
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: then the last part, it was sealed with the Holy Spirit,

742
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: absolute assurance, eternal security, never to lose your salvation, not sealed,

743
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: you know, just you know, for you to be like different,

744
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: meaning it'll make a difference in your life. Yes, that's important.

745
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: But when we get sealed by the Holy Spirit, we're

746
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: not sealed from difficulty. Let me say that again, we're

747
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: sealed from destruction, but we're not sealed from difficulty. We

748
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: need to get that right, okay, because I think sometimes

749
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: when you get some of these false prosperity gospels out there,

750
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: they claim through the Holy Spirit there's a way to

751
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: be sealed from difficulty. That's impossible. That's just a lie

752
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: from the pits of hill. So raise your hand if

753
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: you're redeemed but you've been through difficulty. Yeah, okay, so

754
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: some of you are going through difficulty right now. But

755
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: but the Holy Spirit didn't say while you're here on

756
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: earth with that earth suit and that sin suit still on,

757
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: you're not going to be sealed from difficulty. As a

758
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I might want to use difficulty to

759
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: get you closer to me. But you are sealed from destruction.

760
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: You are sealed from destruction, and you're also sealed from

761
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: doubting your redemption. You may stumble. Sanctification has highs and

762
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: lows until we're glorified. But if you are living a

763
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: life that is in conflict with God, that does not

764
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: have the fruit of the spirit, that does not have

765
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: evidence of transformation, I'm not talking about perfection. I'm talking

766
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: about transformation. I know some people try to take that

767
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: as well. See, there are salvation is not secure. This

768
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: person has fallen from grace. Now I would tell that

769
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: person's never been redeemed. Now the redeem will stumble, the

770
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: redeem will make mistakes, But the redeemed, according to John

771
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: and Sean, do not practice sin. Do not live a

772
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: life of deliberate perpetual sin. There's things in your life

773
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: that are evident that they are of God. But that's

774
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: not perfection. But that doesn't mean that you are not redeemed.

775
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: It means you are a work in progress. But if

776
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: there is no progress, now that's different. So some people

777
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: try to say, well, that just means that your salvation

778
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: is not secure. No, it probably means you just never

779
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: war save because I've been that person. I claim to

780
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: be redeemed when I wasn't. And the claim of redemption

781
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: and actual redem actual redemption, it's not in day. When

782
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: you're redeemed, you know it. So fourteen, According to this

783
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: it has been sealed by the Holy Spirit. So fourteen,

784
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire

785
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: possession of it, to the praise of His glory? What

786
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is reassuring us is you do have

787
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: an inheritance. Now, it's a pledge for the future. The

788
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit isn't just a seal. He's also this is interesting.

789
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: How many of you remember the first time you heard

790
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: the term earnest money. Anybody remember that I panicked. I

791
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: had figured out that i'd make the payment on my

792
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: first ever house, and then somebody said, but we got

793
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: to have some earnest money. I said, earnest money? What

794
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: is that? Does that mean money? Now? He said, yeah,

795
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: we got to give this guy one thousand dollars to

796
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: show him you're serious. You remember the first time at

797
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: through you loop do I get it back? And you know?

798
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, yeah, but I mean if you don't,

799
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: if you decide to back out on the house, he

800
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: gonna keep it. Well, the Holy Spirit is proof of

801
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: our position in Christ. He's our pledge of possession in Christ.

802
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: He's the one that says I will guarantee it. He's

803
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: not only confirming our faith, he's confirming our future. You

804
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: see that, he's the earnest money. He's that presence of

805
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: God we have now that says, look, this is this

806
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: is a little money down on what is coming. But

807
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:23,919
Speaker 1: this money down is guaranteeing that the inheritance is there.

808
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: He's confirming our future. He's not only the guarantee of

809
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: our eternal security, he also guarantees our eternal satisfaction. Can

810
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 1: you imagine? Can you imagine being satisfied every single moment

811
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: of every single day, completely satisfied. I've been satisfied and little,

812
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, peaks and valleys. Well, that doesn't go long.

813
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: When I think about eating, it's frustrating, doesn't it. You

814
00:50:58,239 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: ever had like a man, you said, you know what,

815
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever eat again, And then all

816
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 1: of a sudden, what you already scrambing around for a

817
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: snack watching TV that night? You know that didn't last

818
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: very long. But uh, and think about any I mean,

819
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean think about think about the greatest things that

820
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: that are provided by God that we can participate in.

821
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: It never quite satisfies, does it? Before you know what

822
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: you're looking for it again? How many times you've seen

823
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: people they you know, you know, they say this all

824
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: the time. I don't mean to be insensitive. Even though

825
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 1: I've dealt with it, been around it, been on the

826
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: front lines with it. It was never my personal struggle. Now,

827
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: I struggle with alcohol, but I never struggle with drugs.

828
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: But not not for lack of trying. But the but

829
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: the but what I what what I've been told by

830
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 1: those who deal with addicts is that when the attic

831
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: experiences the drug for the first time, that is the purest,

832
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: most beautiful high they ever have, and they chase it

833
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: the rest of their time. They can't get it again.

834
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: The next time they do the drug, it's not as good,

835
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: and so they do more of it. And then when

836
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: you see a lot of times drug addicts die when

837
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: they've been in rehab, they come back and they don't

838
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: start back easing into again. They go take the same

839
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: amount they were taking, you know, when they've been had

840
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: already kind of adapted to it, and it kills them

841
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: immediately because they're trying to go back and they're trying

842
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: to get that particular high again. They're not satisfied. There

843
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: was never a high that's enough. You always want the

844
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Speaker 1: next high. You see people what never being satisfiable? Money?

845
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Speaker 1: You know, if Paul's gonna tell us in another prison

846
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Speaker 1: letter in Philippians, what was one of the things he

847
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Speaker 1: said that he really really helped him and he's in

848
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Speaker 1: jail at the time. He said, I've just learned to

849
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Speaker 1: be content in whatever my situation. You know, I won't

850
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Speaker 1: tell some of you be careful. It's okay to say

851
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be satisfied with, say the work

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Speaker 1: I've done for the Kingdom of God. It is interesting

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Speaker 1: that some of us will take our story from thirty

854
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Speaker 1: years ago and live off of the rest of our lives.

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Speaker 1: But if we we wouldn't dare do that. In our business,

856
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Speaker 1: we wouldn't dare do that, because what do we always

857
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Speaker 1: want to do? I always want to show that I

858
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Speaker 1: can do even better. Right, It's never enough. That's why

859
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: you say, all these celebrities, I can't quite get it done.

860
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Speaker 1: It's never enough. How many how many movie roles, how

861
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Speaker 1: much money, how many houses, how many cars, how many women,

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Speaker 1: how many men, how many whatever? You know. Then you

863
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: see these people saying, maybe children will give me what

864
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. Then hey, that's great, putting that kind

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Speaker 1: of pressure on a kid that they've got to satisfy you,

866
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Speaker 1: when when that's that's not their role. They're a blessing.

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Speaker 1: But they're's don't put that kind of pressure on them.

868
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: But but but if you would just get right with God,

869
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit says, I'll give you satisfaction, and I'll

870
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: give you satisfaction and guarantee you satisfaction to come. But

871
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: as long as you're right with God and you have

872
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: that right, then whatever else happens is secondary at the

873
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: end of it all. As Paul taught us, what's the

874
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: worst thing they can do to you? They can kill you,

875
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: We can die well. For the Redeemed. Death has no stake.

876
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: We trash talk death. We don't go around looking for

877
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: it because it's God's decision and we wanted to enjoy

878
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: every day He gives us. But at the end of it,

879
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: we might fear the process of dying. I think that's natural,

880
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: but not death itself, because even that has no power

881
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: overs So we have to we have to tap into

882
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: God's presence, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's a big deal.

883
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,240
Speaker 1: Just like Jesus is God, the Holy Spirit is God,

884
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: just like the Father is God. They're try you God's

885
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 1: presence in our life, and the Holy Spirit is God himself,

886
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: And so we take possession of that inherent It's one day,

887
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: but the Holy Spirit lets us taste it and sense

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00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: it even now. Paul shows us. When we understand the

889
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:18,439
Speaker 1: will of the Father, and when we understand the work

890
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Speaker 1: of the Son, and when we rest in the power

891
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: of the witness of the Holy Spirit, now we can

892
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: move forward. So do you understand the will of the Father?

893
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: Do you understand the sacrifice of the Son? And do

894
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:39,879
Speaker 1: you understand the witness of the Holy Spirit. Well, if

895
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: you do, then you're experiencing God in his fullness, equal, distinct, powerful,

896
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: all working together in this beautiful dance. God, the Father, God,

897
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: the Son, God, the Holy Spirit. The solution. Do you

898
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: have it? Let's pray, Lord, thank you for whatever is

899
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: the problem. You are the solution. Forgive us for our

900
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: being so prone to wonder, so prone to worry, so

901
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: prone to be anxious, so prone to be fearful, so

902
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 1: prone to be ill, so prone to complain. I don't

903
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: know why you love us, but I don't have to

904
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 1: know why. I just rejoiced in the fact that you do.

905
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: And if you do, then it's right. Because you do

906
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: what you do, you are who you are. You have

907
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 1: allowed me to experience you as best I can handle.

908
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,399
Speaker 1: And one day, oh, one day, Lord, when you come

909
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: for us or we stand before you as the Apostle

910
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: Paul told us, And no one tried harder to know

911
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: you than him that I know of. And he said

912
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: all he could still get was just a glimpse, still

913
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: a little blurry, he said. But one day I'll see him.

914
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: I'll see him clearly. He's already there. We're not there yet.

915
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: When we look around and we see even the place

916
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Speaker 1: we are now, when you show us the little glimpses

917
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Speaker 1: of who you are, even the most beautiful sunset, the

918
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: most calming sunrise it's falling, I can't imagine what it's

919
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: like how you intended it. I pray Lord, for those

920
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: right now who don't know you, I pray that they

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00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: repent and turn to you. Maybe they're like me, They

922
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: just need to realize how much you love them today,

923
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: but at the same time acknowledge they don't love you.

924
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: Because they did, they would obey you. That was my conviction.

925
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: If I loved you, I would actually live my life

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00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: the way you said. And I don't so teach me

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Speaker 1: to love you. And you are so wonderful and gracious

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00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: that you actually will. May your Holy Spirit overwhelm us

929
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Speaker 1: to day as we're confronted with the wonderful joyful commotion

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00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: and celebration that is you and your holy name. We

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Speaker 1: pray Amen,