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It's good to see you guys. 
I hope that you're well. 

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My name is Kyla, service lead 
Pastor here and I'm glad that 

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you're here to worship with us. 
If you're visiting today we are 

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in a series right now through 
the book of well, through the 

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chapter of Romans chapter 8, and
it's been very good for us, this

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is the fifth week that we've 
been in this series, we are 

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examining how in Christ. 
We have everything we need for 

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life and godliness and so we're 
saying all of Christ for all of 

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us. 
Life. 

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And Romans 8 helps us see this. 
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might be a bit confusing for us,
as we're going through this, if 

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we lose the context of what 
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it's a whole lot of talk about 
the spirits. 

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And so, you might think, well, 
it's all of Christ for all of 

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life. 
It is the spirit doing all of 

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this work in us. 
That's right. 

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All right, so the spirit of God 
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bestowed on us because of the 
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read in 81 there is therefore 
now no condemnation for those 

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who are in Christ Jesus. 
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then immediately we see how the 
law of the spirit of life has 

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come to us to reside in us that 
we might live, according to the 

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spirit rather than according to 
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So all this has been worked in 
us because of Christ by the Holy

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Spirit through the grace of God.
Amen. 

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And that's what we're seeing 
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So, Romans 8, Yes, we're going 
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just a second. 
What we find here is a little 

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bit more about what Christ 
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When he says in John 16, John 14
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be a helper who comes for you or
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Even as use there we find out a 
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And today, what we're going to 
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our Advocate, he's an advocate 
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so if you're taking notes, you 
can write this down. 

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The holy spirit is our Advocate 
and In prayer carrying our 

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prayers to God and working. 
His will in us. 

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Holy spirit is an advocate in 
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God and working, his will in us.
So, when I ask that you stand, 

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one more time, we're going to 
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When I finish reading, I'll say 
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and I ask that you respond. 
Thanks be to God. 

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Likewise the spirit helps us in 
our weakness. 

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For we, do not know what to pray
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But the spirit himself 
intercedes for us with groanings

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too deep for words. 
And he who searches Hearts 

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knows, what is the mind of the 
spirit because the spirit 

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intercedes for the Saints, 
according to the will of God, 

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this is the word of the Lord. 
Thanks be to God. 

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Let me pray for us and we'll be 
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Heavenly Father, we thank you 
for your word and we thank you 

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Lord. 
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you have given us your spirit 
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advocate for us as we pray. 
Even now to you or to Sweet 

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petition, you we know that Lord,
he brings those things before 

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you even in our weaknesses he 
makes them strong And Lord so 

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that you might work, your will 
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And so we pray. 
Lord that as we read your word, 

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as we study, your word, as we 
hear it taught today. 

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Lord would you Enlighten Us by 
the spirit of God as we listen 

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today? 
Help us to understand these 

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things and to live, according to
these truths. 

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I do believe that we have some 
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for us in our prayer life. 
And so help us to be attentive, 

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help us Lord to put these things
into action. 

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So now, Of Christ. 
I pray. 

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Amen. 
And you may have a seat. 

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I think that if I were to take a
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most difficult spiritual habits 
for you to maintain a suspect 

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that the most frequent answer is
you would give would either be 

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Bible reading or prayer. 
Maybe the kind of go 

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hand-in-hand for you Bible 
reading and prayer. 

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Now, I don't think this is a 
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I don't think it's a coincidence
that we all find it difficult to

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maintain a life of Bible reading
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I don't think it's a coincidence
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men and women, boys and girls 
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prayer. 
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reason that this isn't a 
coincidence is that they are two

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of the most useful tools that 
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They're two of the most at hand 
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you for your daily spiritual 
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Satan knowing this seeing their 
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Believers of God's people works 
to destroy their effectiveness 

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by distracting us so he cannot 
touch the effectiveness of the 

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works, but he can keep you from 
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All right, he can do things to 
Tim's, you to not participate in

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Reading God's word to not 
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Though the benefits that they 
bring, he cannot touch, those 

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are God's men and so he'll work 
to destroy your effectiveness 

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at, maintaining these Habits by 
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He'll fill you, with all manner 
of things, right? 

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Anything that would look 
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that would look fulfilling in a 
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Ecclesiastes and home groups and
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we saw is that there is no end 
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there no end to the vain pursuit
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Because the vein, Pursuits of 
mankind, never fulfill you, they

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never leave a lasting 
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you have to go on to the next 
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And so if you want more money, 
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All right, if you want to lust 
more, you will pursue more 

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pornography you will pursue. 
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which would be adultery against 
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And there are things that you 
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remove his hand, you would run 
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And so, we see this, there's no 
end to these Pursuits and so 

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will seek to fill ourselves with
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I think social media is a good 
example of this I have quoted 

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before. 
Before, and I'll do it. 

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Now, John Piper mentioned that 
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on the last day. 
On the day of judgment is going 

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to be to hold it before us. 
And to show us that we had 

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plenty of time for Bible reading
and prayer in our lives, we had 

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plenty of time to submit 
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It plenty of times to do the 
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do. 
And yet we spin it right and On 

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social media TV podcast, music 
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Whispers of, hey, you can sleep 
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you've earned it. 
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you shouldn't rest occasionally 
but to be always sleeping in, is

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to be what Proverbs calls a 
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All right, it's to miss the 
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after things and doing things. 
There's a reason, the early bird

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gets the worm. 
You're right. 

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It's not just worldly wisdom. 
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all manner of things that will 
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There's all sorts of things that
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Christ early in the morning as 
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we see Jesus do in the gospels 
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and went away by himself to 
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father, when we Ponce away the 
responsibilities to build 

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routines of Bible reading and 
prayer into our lives, we're not

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freeing up more time for 
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We're not freeing our schedule 
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We are only further, burdening 
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things that make sense. 
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you are the more freedom you 
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It's not just a joker, Willie 
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Godly wisdom, discipline does 
equal, freedom, and to be 

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disciplined in prayer to be 
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Reading brings about freedom. 
And so, when you park that away,

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you're not freeing up more time.
You're actively, you're engaging

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in the act of cutting away, one 
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you have for your soul to God. 
You're working to cut it away, 

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you're working to say, I can 
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And Bible reading and prayer, 
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spirit. 
You find it difficult, right 

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man? 
I'm assuming this, because I to 

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find that difficult Bible 
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difficult. 
We find it difficult though 

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because we're not, depending on 
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any kind of way. 
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spirit of God is not helping us 
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He does But when we actively 
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in this dependency, as we sang 
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prayed for, when we engage 
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the spirit of God to be ever 
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A help to us as we read and 
study as we pray the spirit 

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illuminates, the scripture, so 
that we may understand them 

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illuminates them, not just for 
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knowledge puffs up, right? 
He's not trying to create a 

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puffed-up people. 
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prideful. 
Arrogant folk or hi. 

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He wants to create people who 
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Who live? 
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Kings, who are about bringing 
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every area of life. 
So it's not about creating a 

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puffed-up people. 
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We become puffed up, as we read 
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Let's not at all the points of 
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But as knowledge, grows Godly, 
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so does Love, and so it works 
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And so, without the spirits, 
help, what we understand, these 

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are spiritual things written in 
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discern them, but we cannot 
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We must have the spirit of God. 
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So what Paul talks about in 
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he explains that there's a Vel 
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unbelieving. 
I can't see these glorious but 

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those who believe the veil has 
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God, which is now alive in us, 
and we can follow after the 

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things that God has written, we 
can obey him And so we can abide

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in his word, not only are they a
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But we live them out. 
We hold fast to them as our text

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today, reveals, the spirit 
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So, I've coupled Bible reading 
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of help expose what I'm talking 
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But from here forward, we're 
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The spirit intercedes for us in 
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Many he carries as we see here, 
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us. 
He's present in our heart. 

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Interceding. 
For us Christ is present in 

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heaven, interceding for us, 
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both of those together. 
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They're great help for you 
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Great encouragement and comfort 
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That as you pray your prayers, 
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That you don't have to wish that
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wonder if they do. 
You can pray with confidence. 

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You can pray knowing that you're
being helped and not only are 

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your prayers, making it to God 
and the spirit mean, we'll get 

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into it, but the spirits even 
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Right? 
We don't know what to pray as we

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ought, but the spirit helps us 
in our weaknesses and so the 

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spirit is helping us, he carries
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brings the will of God into our 
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He works in us as he resides in 
us, that we become men and women

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and boys and girls who are 
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of God acting out his will in 
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He is our Advocates. 
That's what I'm saying. 

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He's our advocate. 
He is our help. 

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He's our Advocate to God and 
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whether we are reading the 
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depend on the request. 
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On the on and request the help 
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So if you neglect prayer what 
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you're forfeiting. 
One of the greatest blessings 

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that God has given you as a 
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Your just saying, I don't need 
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his spirit. 
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What have we just talked about? 
We're hoping, and we're waiting,

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and we're groaning right for the
day, that Christ is revealed and

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that the sons of God, meaning 
the children of God are revealed

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were hoping for the day when 
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And we're looking forward to the
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pain. 
There is no more toil or 

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struggle. 
There's no more loss of life. 

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There's no more. 
Here's, there's no more sin, 

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right? 
It's a perfect redeemed. 

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World Christ. 
Makes All Things New in the new 

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Heaven and the Earth and we're 
hoping for that we're longing 

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for that. 
But what happens in this life 

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will Paul said last week as 
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and verse 18 that we suffer We 
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endure. 
Hardships and heartaches we 

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endure loss of life. 
We practice sins. 

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Like we were Unholy at times. 
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And while we're waiting for that
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sufferings awaiting the present 
life, what does he intend for us

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to do? 
What does what does God want us 

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to be doing to be praying? 
Three men and women and boys and

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girls are prayer to depend on 
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You see hope supposes desire 
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we're this is our hope that 
Christ returns and does. 

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This is a sure and steady, hope 
for us, it's something we can 

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fix our eyes on. 
He says, you don't look to the 

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things that you see and hope for
those because you already have a

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right? 
But you're looking to the thing 

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that is unseen and you're hoping
for to something that isn't yet 

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complete. 
Dated. 

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But you know that it will be 
it's a promise of God and so you

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hope for that. 
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then what naturally comes as 
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there's a desire for it. 
If I'm hoping for something, I 

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have a desire for it, right? 
As I was, I was finishing up 

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college and was actively seeking
hoping that Patricia would be 

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interested in me. 
I had a strong desire for her. 

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I had a strong desire to help 
her have the same desire for me,

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right? 
It's my greatest accomplishment 

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to this date. 
All right, and I owe it all to 

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the Lord and possibly her own 
blindness, but Cuz you far 

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prettier than I am sweetheart. 
So Let's it's weird for a man to

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say men there, but okay. 
So hope supposes desire, right? 

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I hoped and I desired. 
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this. 
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things. 
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longing for that day yet we 
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live now. 
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to work things into our lives, 
that would bring about his 

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kingdom on earth, right? 
That would be about establishing

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life as he has it in. 
Heaven just as Christ. 

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Pray not my will, but yours be 
done. 

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Not my kingdom, but your kingdom
be established here on the 

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Earth, right? 
That's what we want on Earth as 

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it is in heaven. 
That's what we're hoping for and

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when we offer those desires to 
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You hope for something you 
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It you offer those desires to 
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That's called prayer. 
When I was offering my desires 

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to Patricia that was called 
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But it's prayer its pleading to 
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It's petitioning God for 
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Now, the thing is here is 
sometimes you might only grown 

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for that. 
I mean, there were times you 

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come boldly confidently before 
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your children. 
May be seeking wisdom for a 

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decision, maybe because someone 
sick or you've received, you 

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know, a bad Health Report you 
come boldly before the Lord and 

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those moments your petitioning, 
God, but there are moments where

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suffering is so great. 
And so difficult that all you 

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can do is grown before the Lord.
You grow. 

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And that's where our groanings 
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Tied to our groanings in the 
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moment. 
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What keeps you from praying? 
More frequently? 

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Answer that to yourself. 
I don't need you to answer out 

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loud, but what keeps you from? 
Answer for praying more 

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frequently. 
The time. 

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Distractions. 
Maybe it's guilt or shame. 

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Guilt and shame have a way of 
paralyzing us thinking that we 

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don't deserve to go to God for 
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So encourage you, he was 14, he 
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absolutely. 
Otherwise says to come boldly to

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the high priest who is unable to
sympathize with you in your 

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weaknesses that you might 
receive mercy and Grace in your 

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time of need. 
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shame, go to the Lord, don't let
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Lord. 
Is it a lack of confidence and 

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what to pray for? 
Maybe you don't understand the 

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will of God maybe don't know the
will of God and so you don't 

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pray. 
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confidence that God even hears 
you when you pray after all 

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having a conversation with 
someone face-to-face fills a bit

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easier, right? 
Like sometimes we'll go seek the

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counsel of a friend before. 
Will seek the counsel from what 

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Isaiah calls are wonderful. 
Counselor in heaven, a perfect 

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counselor. 
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because we're looking for itchy 
for the Silver Bullet Right. 

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Like we want the saying that 
somebody can say in a moment in 

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a quick moments, going to fix 
the issue. 

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And God, grants biblical wisdom 
to men and women of God for such

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moments. 
Not denying that. 

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How much stronger would your 
faith be if you sought the Lord 

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as well? 
If you ask the Lord for help, 

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right? 
So, have I have a confidence to 

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pray, have a confidence that God
hears you. 

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There may be other reasons, you 
don't pray, but those were a few

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that I brainstormed And you may 
fight against one of those, some

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of those, all of those are, none
of those. 

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You might have something 
different. 

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The point is that we are weak. 
We're weak. 

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We must humbly acknowledge our 
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That's why Paul writes here. 
The spirit helps us in our 

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weakness. 
It's just confessing we're weak.

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We're we can prayer where we can
spiritual strength or weakened 

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the ability to approach the 
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And he gives some reasons. 
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just a moment. 
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garden to pray and his disciples
continued to fall asleep, He 

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finally said to them that the 
spirit is willing, but the flesh

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is weak. 
So the spirit of God Rest In You

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and the spirit of God is willing
to petition God on your behalf 

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and in many ways, the spirit of 
God is petitioning. 

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God on your behalf, unbeknownst 
to you. 

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But in those moments where your 
flesh is so weak that you won't 

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even get the words out, you 
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Prayer. 
You're really forfeiting. 

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Again, a great blessing that God
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What I want for you today. 101 
for you today is to grasp 

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deeply, deep in your heart. 
Deep in your mind, deep in your 

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spirit that you have you possess
this wonderful truth that were 

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reading here, that God has given
you, his Spirit to intercede on 

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your behalf to help you in your 
weaknesses in prayer. 

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Because I think this is wife 
change. 

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I think you think God and His 
astounding Grace has provided 

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for you real help for your 
prayers as he gives you his 

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spirit. 
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the holy spirit is an advocate 
in prayer. 

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He's an advocate in that, he 
carries our prayers to God, and 

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he carries God's will back down 
to us, right? 

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He works his will in us. 
So let's examine this weakness 

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that we're talking about. 
And then let's look at the hope 

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that we have also Our weakness 
in prayer in a word is our 

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infirmities. 
Our weakness in prayer is our 

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infirmities. 
Romans 8:26 again, likewise the 

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spirit helps us in our weakness.
The word for weakness there is 

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infirmities. 
In capabilities. 

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For we do not know what to pray 
for as we ought but the spirit 

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himself intercedes for us with 
groanings too deep for words. 

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Now alluded to it a moment ago 
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starts likewise here. 
It's kind of like starting a 

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sentence with for or because 
Right. 

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Well, he's referencing back to 
something. 

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So, the likewise we saw last 
week that has creation as the 

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creation. 
The universe groans in agony 

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awaiting, the day of the 
children of God to be revealed 

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when Christ establishes, new 
Heaven and the Earth. 

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And as we saw there that the 
children of God also grown in 

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their sufferings, in this 
present day, who are also 

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awaiting the glories of Heaven 
to be revealed. 

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So, too, does the spirit grown? 
Spirit groans, is he intercedes 

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for us. 
So, here's the difference. 

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The creation groans totally 
unable to help itself subjected 

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to futility not of its own, 
right. 

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It wasn't its own doing God, 
subjected to futility in his 

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judgment because of the sin of 
man in Genesis chapter 3, when 

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Adam and Eve ate of that fruit, 
which he told them not to eat 

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it. 
Disobeyed God, they rebelled and

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creation was subjected to 
futility. 

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And it was broken mankind. 
Now, lives in this broken, 

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Stakes relationship with God 
now, fractured by our sin, we 

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have a nature about us, our 
flesh, in which we want to do, 

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we want to live, according to 
the Flesh and we want to live 

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according to the spirit if we're
saved. 

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And these two things are at war 
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And so we groan also we groan 
inwardly because we are 

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subjected to the same kinds of 
utilities we're broken and we 

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groan outwardly as well because 
we Look at the world that is 

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broken around us. 
Things happen to us, things 

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happen from within us sure. 
But things happen to us as well.

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And we grown for these things, 
but we're not alone in our 

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groaning. 
The problem is our groaning is 

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unable to do anything. 
But the spirit of God groans 

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likewise the spirit of God's 
groaning is able to take those 

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groanings of mankind. 
Those groanings of the children 

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of God to the throne of God and 
which God then in Acts his will 

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in her life. 
So the spirits groanings are 

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effective. 
My point is you don't want to 

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grown alone. 
Don't don't grown by yourself 

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grown in prayer. 
If you must grown seek, the Lord

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in prayer trust that he is 
helping you. 

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So the groaning of the spirit 
comes as a result of his 

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sympathy to our weaknesses that 
come as a result of his deep 

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desire to work out the will of 
God in us of the word weakness. 

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Again means infirmities and 
capacities as those things that 

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hinder our prayers. 
The spirit helps us in our 

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weakness. 
For we, do not know what, Pray 

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for as we ought. 
And so, the first weakness that 

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we see here is that we do not 
know what to ask and that's what

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he says for. 
We do not know what to ask Or 

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what's a prey, right? 
And so, the point here is that 

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we are not competent judges of 
our own condition. 

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Ecclesiastes, 6, just really a 
tremendous book for helping 

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expose these things and 
Ecclesiastes, 6, verse 12, the 

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preacher, their rides. 
He says, for, who knows what is 

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good for man while he lives in 
the view days of his vein, life,

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who knows what is good? 
Who knows what is good, right? 

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Jeremiah 17:9 the heart is 
deceitful above all things and 

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desperately wicked, who can 
understand it. 

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As we see an issue here with the
inwardness of us, we are unable.

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The comprehend. 
What we need. 

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We're not competent judges of 
our own condition on our own. 

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We are extremely weak in 
spiritual Insight on our own. 

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We think too, highly of 
ourselves most of the time on 

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our own. 
We live with this bias toward 

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our own flesh. 
We think that we know what's 

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best. 
We're short-sighted. 

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We're studying the book, The 
Pilgrim's Progress in biblical, 

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manhood walking through that and
there's a couple of characters 

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in there. 
I'm Christian and hopeful and 

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they're traveling together. 
And in the book. 

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The the path that they're on is 
called the way. 

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And this is the straight and 
narrow path to that leads to 

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heaven. 
And then the the book is an 

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allegory for all the different 
things that come along. 

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And so the path begins to get a 
little rough. 

449
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,400
Its Stony, it's not comfortable 
to their feet. 

450
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,000
It's an uncomfortable pass. 
How many of you have been in the

451
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,100
way and it's uncomfortable at 
times, right? 

452
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,500
But they look over to their left
and there's a very conveniently.

453
00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:30,400
So, a ladder that goes over a 
fence onto a Green Meadow with a

454
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,600
Path. 
That looks like it goes parallel

455
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,900
to the path that they're on and 
so naturally Christian says, hey

456
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,500
look at this, let me go look at 
it. 

457
00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:41,300
So he goes and loads. 
It's like, oh, it does. 

458
00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:44,200
It runs parallel to the path. 
This will be much more 

459
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,800
comfortable for us. 
And so they exit the way and get

460
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:54,100
on a path that very soon becomes
terrible for them as they end up

461
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:59,900
in the doubting Castle, 
repeatedly, bludgeoned by the 

462
00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:02,700
Giant. 
Despair, and it's a really 

463
00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:05,600
fascinating part. 
In the book point, I want to 

464
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,300
make, is that soda. 
We also separate the end from 

465
00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:12,700
the way. 
There was one way for them to 

466
00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,500
reach the end, and they 
separated themselves from it. 

467
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:19,200
We're guilty of this as well. 
We think that, we can choose our

468
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,000
own way at times. 
We're all too happy to think 

469
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000
that we know best far too 
frequently. 

470
00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,100
And so we're in that way. 
We're like full of children who 

471
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,900
are prone to cry for fruit 
before it's ripe and before it's

472
00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:38,100
fit for them to eat. 
James says of prayer, you have 

473
00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:42,100
not because you ask him but then
he adds you ask and you do not 

474
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:45,700
receive because you ask with 
selfish ambition, there's two 

475
00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:47,800
reasons, why you don't get your 
answers to prayer. 

476
00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:52,000
One is you don't ever ask. 
So you're not praying to you're 

477
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,300
asking, selfishly you ask for 
that which would only benefit 

478
00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:58,200
you that which is your desires 
are not God's desires. 

479
00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:01,100
And so God does not answer those
prayers. 

480
00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:04,700
The implication then is that we 
often do not pray because we do 

481
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:08,400
not know what to ask. 
But the second weakness we see 

482
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,700
is that we do not know how to 
pray as we ought Listen, it's a 

483
00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:16,100
good thing to start doing that, 
which is good. 

484
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,500
It's a good thing to begin 
praying, even if you're 

485
00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:22,200
stumbling in prayer, even if 
you're working to figure it out 

486
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,400
like it's better to start 
something and begin to work it 

487
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,100
out and try to figure out how to
do it. 

488
00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:28,900
Then it is to never do it at 
all. 

489
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,300
To wait until you think. 
You've got a perfectly mastered 

490
00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:34,400
before you do it. 
You can never Master anything 

491
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,600
without beginning, something 
just not possible. 

492
00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:42,600
You must practice it so it is a 
good thing to start but it's not

493
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,500
good enough just to do that 
which is good. 

494
00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:48,800
We must not think that because 
we are able to stumble around in

495
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,400
prayer that we should. 
Always just be satisfied with 

496
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,200
stumbling around in prayer. 
We must learn to do it. 

497
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,900
Well, we will learn to pray 
according to the word of God. 

498
00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:01,600
In other words, start praying. 
Now, if you're not praying, 

499
00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:04,700
don't don't forego prayer any 
longer. 

500
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,600
And as you praise today seek to 
pray, well, The best way to do 

501
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,200
that is to read God's word, read
the songs, which are literally 

502
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,500
written as prayers of God's 
people read the gospels. 

503
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:23,500
See who Christ is no, his heart 
for you, and for his people that

504
00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:26,500
will help you approach him more,
right? 

505
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,700
Read the word of God and that 
will instruct your prayers as 

506
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,800
the point I'm trying to make but
I want you to take heart as 

507
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,200
well. 
Even though were weak in this 

508
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,100
area, right? 
And so we avoid praying all 

509
00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:40,700
together, we were weak in our 
affections. 

510
00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:44,000
They're cold at times work. 
Our thoughts can wander around 

511
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,100
of, right. 
Like you might try to sit and 

512
00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:49,500
pray and then your lumbered with
all these thoughts, right? 

513
00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:51,700
And and, and now you're just 
distracted and then you're 

514
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:54,000
frustrated because you can't 
focus on prayer and now your 

515
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,700
time's up and you've got to go 
right now. 

516
00:31:56,700 --> 00:32:00,200
All those things can happen. 
It's difficult at times to find 

517
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,100
the heart to pray. 
Like the want to pray the desire

518
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:07,000
to pray, but I want you to take 
Hearts take heart, but because 

519
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,900
the Apostle Paul speaks in the 
first person, here, he is saying

520
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:12,200
to us. 
We do not know what to pray for.

521
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:17,800
As we ought, we do not know what
to pray for as we ought and so 

522
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,900
he's putting himself among the 
saints of God, which he talks 

523
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:22,900
about later, which is the people
of God. 

524
00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:25,900
If you're a believer in Christ, 
you're numbered among the saints

525
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:28,300
of God. 
And so we all complain of a 

526
00:32:28,308 --> 00:32:31,800
Folly and weakness and 
distraction and prayer, but if a

527
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,400
great Saint like Paul didn't 
know what to pray for at times, 

528
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:40,000
that gives us a very little 
reason to not press on and 

529
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,900
establishing a life of Prayer in
our own strength, right? 

530
00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:47,400
We have very little reason now 
to say well I can't get it right

531
00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:51,500
even Paul was expressing 
weakness in this manner and so 

532
00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,300
the holy spirit is our Advocate 
and Prairie carries our prayers 

533
00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:58,800
to God. 
He works his will in US I want 

534
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,500
you to see your help in prayer, 
that was Psalm about our 

535
00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:05,400
infirmities, our inabilities to 
pray the things we struggle in, 

536
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,400
but let's look at this, Our Hope
and prayer is intercession. 

537
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,000
For that we read again, Romans 
8, 26, and 27. 

538
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,400
The spirit himself intercedes 
for us. 

539
00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:23,000
And he who searches Hearts knows
that, what is the mind of the 

540
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000
spirit because the spirit 
intercedes for the Saints, 

541
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000
according to the will of God And
so the great help and prayer the

542
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,000
great encouragement in prayer, 
comes to us through the 

543
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,200
intercession of the spirit. 
He helps our weaknesses. 

544
00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:41,800
He helps your infirmities meant 
here, especially as a help for 

545
00:33:41,808 --> 00:33:45,900
your praying weaknesses, right? 
The spirit no doubt helps all of

546
00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:48,700
our weakness as part of his 
sanctification, but let's not 

547
00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:51,600
neglect. 
The spirit of sanctification in 

548
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,000
our prayer lives as well. 
Let's not think that he's not 

549
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,700
also helping us there and that's
especially what Paul is honing 

550
00:33:57,700 --> 00:33:59,600
in on here. 
Is that he helps us in this. 

551
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,400
Remember, just a few weeks ago, 
the spirit was helping us put to

552
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,200
death, the Deeds of the flesh. 
So he was sanctifying us. 

553
00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:07,100
Now, the spirit is helping us 
pray. 

554
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:12,100
He's helping his grow in prayer.
When you pray, the Holy Spirit, 

555
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:15,699
Carries your prayers to God as 
they should have been prayed. 

556
00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:20,300
And then he works God's will in 
us as we desire or should have 

557
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:24,300
desired originally. 
And so, we have many helps from 

558
00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:27,000
the spirit just like about a 
couple with me, right? 

559
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,600
The spirit of the word helps 
write, as we read the word of 

560
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,800
God, we find many Commandments 
and Promises to help us in this 

561
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,000
life and we find them in God's 
word, the spirit illuminates, 

562
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,100
the god of the word of God for 
us. 

563
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:44,600
Second Timothy 3:16 and 17 says 
that the scriptures are God. 

564
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,600
Breathed for us that they're 
God's instruction for us that 

565
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,800
they're able to teach us to 
correct us to recruit. 

566
00:34:51,900 --> 00:34:56,199
Move and rebuke and to train us 
for all godliness. 

567
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:59,200
So that the man of God may be 
perfect and complete, lacking. 

568
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,600
Nothing that lacking. 
Nothing is found here. 

569
00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:08,500
That'll hit you square between 
the eyes, right? 

570
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:11,700
Because how many of us Wonder 
away to something else? 

571
00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:14,900
When we lack something and we go
looking for it everywhere else, 

572
00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:23,800
but the scriptures, I'm guilty 
of this The spirit in our heart 

573
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,200
helps as I'm just talking about 
as he dwells in us. 

574
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,900
He works in us as a spirit of 
Grace and supplication, 

575
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,800
especially with respect to our 
weaknesses that we have in a 

576
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,300
suffering State. 
When life is not good. 

577
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,700
When our faith is most prone to 
fellow us. 

578
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,800
The spirit is there as a ba 
chourus as a help, as a buoy to 

579
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,900
are sinking faith. 
It is to the sin that the Holy 

580
00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:50,500
Spirit was poured out on 
Believers. 

581
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,100
It's what Paul says in Romans 5 
1 through 5 he says therefore 

582
00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:57,000
since we have been justified by 
faith, we have peace with God 

583
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,700
through our Lord Jesus Christ 
justified by faith. 

584
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:01,600
There's peace with God through 
him. 

585
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,500
We also have obtained access by 
faith into this grace in which 

586
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,900
we stand. 
So Not only was Grace saving us 

587
00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:11,800
but now we stand in Grace also 
and we rejoice in the hope of 

588
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:17,400
the glory of God. 
So saving sanctifying glorifying

589
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,900
graces are ours because of 
Christ. 

590
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:23,700
Jesus from God, not only that, 
but we rejoice in our 

591
00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:27,000
sufferings, knowing that 
suffering, produces endurance 

592
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,800
and endurance, produces 
character and character produces

593
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,900
hope and hope does not put us to
shame because God's love has 

594
00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:39,200
been poured into our hearts 
through the Holy Spirit, who has

595
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,000
been given to us. 
Amazing. 

596
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:44,700
So you see, right there, how all
Of these things work together, 

597
00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:48,000
how the Trinity of God, right? 
This Triune God is at work and 

598
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,600
your life. 
God, giving the son who dies for

599
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,800
us, makes a way for us to be 
saved. 

600
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,900
That salvation Comes To Us by 
the spirit who grants new life 

601
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,400
and in that new life, he is also
keeping us. 

602
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,700
He's sanctifying us until one 
day, we will be glorified with 

603
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:07,900
Christ in heaven as we were 
intended to be. 

604
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,400
The sense in which he helps us 
is really significant for you to

605
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,000
understand today. 
On one hand, he helps you 

606
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,700
totally, which is what I was 
just explaining that in all of 

607
00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:22,300
life, the spirit of God is 
helping you. 

608
00:37:24,900 --> 00:37:28,000
The theologians call this 
montages, it means that it is 

609
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,200
his work alone and it comes to 
us. 

610
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,500
It's a monitor gistic work. 
All right. 

611
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,100
On the other hand, though we 
must make use of him, right? 

612
00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:42,900
He's giving us new life. 
He gives us new desires for 

613
00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:45,100
God's will. 
He's working those things into 

614
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:47,900
us, but on the other hand, we 
must make use of him. 

615
00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:52,300
We can't be sluggards. 
We must put forth the effort to 

616
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:55,300
obey the Lord to follow his 
commands. 

617
00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:00,400
So say you're attempting to pick
up a large log off the ground, 

618
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,600
right? 
Maybe trying to build a house or

619
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,000
something, but you got this log 
solved down, you're ready to 

620
00:38:05,008 --> 00:38:07,400
pick it up and you go to pick up
one end and you can't pick it 

621
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,400
up. 
You move to the middle you still

622
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,500
can't pick it up, right? 
And so you realize like I'm 

623
00:38:11,508 --> 00:38:12,800
going to need some help for 
this. 

624
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,100
So you call, Buddy, Buddy, 
comes, he grabbed one and you 

625
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:18,400
grab one end, guess what? 
Now you're on the move, right? 

626
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:24,200
You've picked up the slock. 
The spirit is helping us in a 

627
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,800
similar way. 
He's lifting up burdens, he's 

628
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:34,100
helps us, he helps with us, I 
should say, as we do that which 

629
00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:37,900
God commands here, it is prayer 
here. 

630
00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:41,300
Paul has in mind, the help that 
we have from the spirit in our 

631
00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:43,600
prayers. 
We pray in the strength, we have

632
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,500
though. 
It is an utterly weak strength. 

633
00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:50,700
I admit this yet the spirit of 
God helps us where we are weak. 

634
00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:53,200
We become strong. 
Because we're depending on the 

635
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,900
spirit, what I mean is that it 
is sinful for us to sit steel 

636
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,000
and to expect God to do all the 
work apart from his people. 

637
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,400
That's not the way he's a door 
deigned to do things. 

638
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,900
You God, answers. 
The prayers of his people 

639
00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:11,200
because he ordains the prayers 
of his people and he ordains the

640
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,400
outcomes of those prayers. 
This is why we can have 

641
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,900
confidence in prayer when we 
pray according to the will of 

642
00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:19,000
God. 
We're praying things that God 

643
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,700
has said he will do. 
Amen. 

644
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,500
But he wants to bring those 
about through the prayers of his

645
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:27,900
people. 
He doesn't want to do those 

646
00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:29,600
things. 
Apart from his people, he wants 

647
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,800
to use. 
His people has given us a spirit

648
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,400
of himself to do these things. 
And some of the spirit is 

649
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,700
promised to us, we were foolish.
If we do not put the spirit of 

650
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:44,200
God to work in our efforts to 
gain his help and our 

651
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,400
weaknesses, you've been given 
the spirit of God to overcome 

652
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,100
the flesh right to put to death,
the Deeds of the flesh that was 

653
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:52,800
23 sermons. 
Ago. 

654
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,700
You've been given the spirit of 
God. 

655
00:39:54,700 --> 00:40:00,000
Now, for prayer. 
To overcome your infirmities and

656
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,400
prayer. 
I don't have time. 

657
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,200
I'm too weak. 
I can't stay focused. 

658
00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:08,600
I don't know what to pray for. 
The spirit of God, helps you in 

659
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,500
your weaknesses, especially in 
your sufferings. 

660
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,300
We cannot do anything without 
God. 

661
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,000
Yeah. 
That does not mean that we are 

662
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,500
to do nothing. 
Amen. 

663
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,700
Only that we are to submit every
effort. 

664
00:40:22,700 --> 00:40:25,500
We do exert every prayer that we
do. 

665
00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:28,900
Pray were to submit those, huh? 
Blade to the Lord. 

666
00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:32,300
And then expect the spirit of 
God to help us because that is 

667
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:34,100
what God has promised to us 
here. 

668
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:38,900
The great help that we have is 
the intercession of the spirit, 

669
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,300
he petition God on our behalf 
and he works all those 

670
00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:44,700
petitions. 
According to the will of God 

671
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:47,400
into our lives. 
The spirit, dictates our 

672
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:53,800
request, he rides are petitions.
He draws up a plea for us as we 

673
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:58,100
utter those prayers. 
You see Jenna's Jesus Christ, 

674
00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:01,200
intercedes for us in heaven, 
he's able to save to the 

675
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,900
uttermost, all those who draw 
near to God through him because 

676
00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:08,500
he always lives to make 
intercession on their behalf. 

677
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:11,800
That's what Hebrews 7:25 Tulsa's
incredible. 

678
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,700
He's always before the Lord 
interceding for his people and 

679
00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:19,300
now we have the spirit 
interceding for us in our hearts

680
00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:22,800
while we're on Earth. 
So God has graciously provided. 

681
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,300
All the encouragement that you 
need to pray every day. 

682
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:31,000
Every moment of your life. 
We have no excuse, not to pray. 

683
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,300
We have no excuse not to have 
confidence in prayer. 

684
00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:36,900
God has said, I see your lack of
confidence. 

685
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:40,700
Here is my word I see your need 
for help. 

686
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,200
Here is my spirit. 
Right? 

687
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,700
So he gives you the desires to 
pray through the spirit, and 

688
00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:49,500
then by the spirit, he hopes 
your prayers. 

689
00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:54,300
He's with you, through and 
through, and all of it, the 

690
00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:57,900
spirit enlightens us. 
He teaches us what to pray. 

691
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,800
The spirit sanctifies us. 
He gives us a desires to pray 

692
00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:07,900
and he transforms our prayers. 
The spirit Comforts Us by 

693
00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:11,500
silencing our fears of praying 
and he helps us in our 

694
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:14,500
discouragements. 
What we have seen in Romans as 

695
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:18,500
far as that the holy spirit is 
the spring of all the Godly 

696
00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:20,500
life. 
He's the spring from which we 

697
00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:25,700
drank all our desires to God or 
then from him unto the glory of 

698
00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:28,400
the Lord. 
So the center session that he 

699
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,000
makes for us as with groanings 
too deep for words. 

700
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,700
So let me be clear Paul is not 
talking about speaking in 

701
00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:37,100
tongues here. 
I've heard this verse used my 

702
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:41,200
whole life, referring to praying
in the spirit as charismatic 

703
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,900
would Define praying in the 
spirit or Pentecostals or 

704
00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:47,300
similes of God, whatever we're 
not going to debate praying in 

705
00:42:47,308 --> 00:42:49,600
the spirit as a thing in this 
message. 

706
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,900
But I'm just telling you, that's
not what these verses are about.

707
00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:54,300
There's nothing in the context 
of Romans 8, that gives us any 

708
00:42:54,300 --> 00:42:57,100
reason to think that Paul is 
talking about praying in 

709
00:42:57,100 --> 00:43:00,400
tongues. 
He never once mentions Besides 

710
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:05,000
the fact, he says that all of us
have the spirit of God helping 

711
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,800
us here. 
And then in First Corinthians 

712
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,400
12, he says that some will 
receive the gift of tongues, not

713
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,200
every believer. 
Okay, so we know again, this is 

714
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:19,200
not about tongues rather Paul is
describing the strength and the 

715
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:24,000
fervency of those desires which 
the Holy Spirit works for us and

716
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
in us, that's what he means by 
these groanings, too deep for 

717
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,200
words. 
He said, the spirit is actively 

718
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,700
praying for you. 
He's strong in his prayer. 

719
00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:35,300
He's fervent in his prayer. 
It's like, groanings that are 

720
00:43:35,308 --> 00:43:40,800
too deep to understand. 
We're commanded elsewhere to be 

721
00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:43,200
praying in the spirit at all 
times. 

722
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:46,600
So what Ephesians 6 tells us is 
it talks about the armour of GOD

723
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,900
that we've been given there. 
It says there to be praying in 

724
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:52,500
the spirit at all times but 
praying in the spirit may not 

725
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:56,700
necessitate words. 
Moses is an example. 

726
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,100
Exodus 415 you shall speak to 
him and put the words in his 

727
00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:03,500
mouth and I will be with your 
mouth and with his mouth, that 

728
00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:07,900
will teach you both what to do. 
So as he's helping Moses along. 

729
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,500
We see it with Hannah. 
And first Samuel 1, Hannah was 

730
00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:13,300
speaking. 
In our heart, only her lips 

731
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:16,700
moved and her voice was not 
heard there for Eli, took her to

732
00:44:16,700 --> 00:44:19,700
be a drunken woman. 
Right? 

733
00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:22,800
That it's not doesn't always 
necessitate that you're, you're 

734
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,700
audibly praying. 
This is a great comfort to all 

735
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:30,200
of us. 
What this means, listen to this.

736
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,600
What this means is, it doesn't 
matter how eloquent or not 

737
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:37,000
eloquent your prayers are Right?
Like some of us are afraid to 

738
00:44:37,008 --> 00:44:40,600
pray because we think that our 
words matter in those prayers 

739
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,200
that the were not eloquent 
enough that I don't pray like 

740
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,500
Pastor so-and-so or I don't you 
know, person who leaves my small

741
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:48,400
girl for whatever. 
Like I don't pray like those men

742
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:52,700
are those women. 
But here, what we see is that, 

743
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:54,800
it's not the eloquence of the 
prayers of matters, the faith 

744
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,200
and the fervency of your prayers
that the spirit Works in us 

745
00:44:58,500 --> 00:45:02,400
through his intercession. 
It's the faith, the fervency 

746
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,500
that you bring to the Lord in 
these phases. 

747
00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:08,600
Groaning too deep for words, 
meaning their Indescribable. 

748
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,400
And when we find ourselves 
confused, where we find 

749
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,100
ourselves with our souls 
harassed by Temptations and 

750
00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:18,800
troubles. 
We may not know what to say, nor

751
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,500
how to express ourselves. 
Elves in prayer. 

752
00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:24,000
We may stumble in this, we may 
struggle to get it out yet. 

753
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:28,000
Here we see that the spirit 
intercedes with groanings too 

754
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,900
deep for words. 
In other words as we saw earlier

755
00:45:32,900 --> 00:45:36,500
in Romans 8 you have not been 
given a spirit of fear but a 

756
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:42,000
spirit of adoption by which we 
cry Abba Father Which is a way 

757
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,100
of addressing God as your 
father, and an intimate way. 

758
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,600
I mean, there's a closeness 
there, right? 

759
00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:59,000
and so, when you can only cry, 
Abba, Father, And come to him 

760
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:04,100
with a holy Vault, humble 
boldness, that's the work of the

761
00:46:04,100 --> 00:46:06,800
spirit in you. 
That's what I'm trying to teach 

762
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,300
you. 
So let me see if I can get 

763
00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:17,100
through this illustration. 
Shoot Many Times. 

764
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,600
Chuck it down since when he's 
passing in September many times.

765
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,300
I can't count. 
At all. 

766
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:34,500
But I have felt so distraught. 
So despairing. 

767
00:46:35,700 --> 00:46:39,000
That that my chest feels as 
though, there's 200 pound 

768
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,900
weight, just sitting on top of 
it. 

769
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,500
And that I will literally 
physically crumble into a 

770
00:46:44,508 --> 00:46:47,300
thousand pieces at any moment, 
I'm not kidding. 

771
00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:52,500
Like, I'm not trying to be. 
I'm not trying to exaggerate 

772
00:46:52,500 --> 00:47:01,300
anything here. but in those 
moments, And I still remember 

773
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:06,300
many of them vividly, but I can.
I can only, I've only been able 

774
00:47:06,300 --> 00:47:10,600
to cry to the father. 
Father, help me. 

775
00:47:12,100 --> 00:47:19,200
Lord help me and that's it. 
Like I I've lamented that at 

776
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:25,000
times. 
I went to Josh about it, and I 

777
00:47:25,008 --> 00:47:28,000
was just like Josh that I'm 
struggling in this. 

778
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:32,300
Let me see, help me to see in 
the scriptures where a prayer 

779
00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:38,000
like Lord help me is enough. 
Because I felt like I lamented 

780
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,100
that and I felt like if that's 
all I can do in those moments 

781
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:47,400
that must not be enough. 
But the Lord has helped me 

782
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:54,100
greatly. 
He's comforted me greatly, and 

783
00:47:54,100 --> 00:48:01,200
these words from Romans AIDS. 
And I know, I know that he is 

784
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,000
helping me by his spirits on 
those occasions. 

785
00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:10,600
And he'll help you to like this 
is not special Grace reserved 

786
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:19,000
for Kyle calls, a, he's a fool. 
Kyle is an idiot's often but I 

787
00:48:19,008 --> 00:48:22,000
know he's like you guys have 
high opinions of me but you 

788
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,000
don't see what I see. 
If you saw what I saw. 

789
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,500
You wouldn't have those opinions
with me. 

790
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,500
But my God is strong is what I'm
trying to tell you Kyle's, not 

791
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:32,700
strong, but you're from, I've 
told people this, hold up, we're

792
00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:35,400
not stroke the Lord in us has 
been strong. 

793
00:48:37,300 --> 00:48:40,600
But I know that he's helping me 
on those occasions. 

794
00:48:41,100 --> 00:48:42,700
I know that he strengthened my 
faith. 

795
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:45,700
I know that he strengthened my 
resolve to fight and to move 

796
00:48:45,700 --> 00:48:47,600
forward. 
I know that he strengthened my 

797
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,900
peace and my Joys and switch 
more in ways that I will not 

798
00:48:51,900 --> 00:48:53,600
fully understand this side of 
Heaven. 

799
00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:59,900
I know that. 
And he's done it, simply through

800
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:04,200
mine, coupled with the spirits 
groanings unto him. 

801
00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:14,700
And so smart. 
Paul says for I, I know that the

802
00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:16,800
present sufferings are not worth
comparing. 

803
00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:23,800
With the eternal glory to come. 
Because even in your suffering 

804
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,000
and Paul suffered a lot, even in
your suffering, even when all 

805
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,400
you can get out is, Lord help me
Abba, Father, I just crying to 

806
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,800
your father to help you. 
Even when that's all you can get

807
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:41,300
out what you find is, strength 
Beyond strength, Grace Beyond 

808
00:49:41,300 --> 00:49:47,400
Grace, help beyond all help, and
its immediate and it's personal 

809
00:49:47,700 --> 00:49:52,200
and it's satisfying and it's 
lasting and it makes you realize

810
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,200
I can do this because Christ is 
in me. 

811
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,100
That's it. 
There's no other confidence, 

812
00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:03,500
there's no greater confidence, 
that's for sure, but I suspect 

813
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:06,400
there's no other confidence than
that. 

814
00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:12,900
We also see that the spirit here
help intercedes for us, 

815
00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:17,400
according to the will of God. 
Spirit intercedes for the 

816
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:18,900
Saints. 
According to the will of God, 

817
00:50:19,700 --> 00:50:23,400
that is to say that the spirit 
in the heart, never contradicts 

818
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,400
the spirit in the word of God. 
But there's never a 

819
00:50:27,408 --> 00:50:30,200
contradiction between what the 
spirit is working in you. 

820
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,300
This is why you must depend on 
him because there are all sorts 

821
00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:36,000
of contradictions in your own 
heart, compared to the word of 

822
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:41,000
God, all manner of filthiness. 
But when the spirit of God is 

823
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,800
what you're depending on, and 
when you're trusting in the 

824
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:49,700
spirit of God, as you pray, you 
can be sure, 100% sure that the 

825
00:50:49,707 --> 00:50:52,400
spirit is helping you and that 
why you're praying those 

826
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,400
desires. 
You have are now according to 

827
00:50:55,600 --> 00:51:01,100
the will of God. 
There's no greater confidence in

828
00:51:01,100 --> 00:51:05,800
prayer than this. 
Why desires my longings? 

829
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,700
Even in prayer may be selfish 
but the spirits in my heart is 

830
00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:14,500
never selfish on my behalf, he 
is never interested and what I 

831
00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:17,100
think is best for my life, he's 
only interested in that which 

832
00:51:17,100 --> 00:51:21,200
God deems is best for my life 
that which God ordains is best 

833
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,100
for my life, that is what the 
spirit will work into your heart

834
00:51:24,100 --> 00:51:28,000
and mind. 
And he acts only according to 

835
00:51:28,008 --> 00:51:32,100
God's will, he went all Grammy 
anything less than what God 

836
00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:34,400
means. 
For my good, which even includes

837
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,900
hardships, I recognize this job.
The Book of Job helps us. 

838
00:51:37,900 --> 00:51:44,200
See this vividly, But the spirit
interceding for us, melts our 

839
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,400
Wills to the will of God so that
we can say with Christ. 

840
00:51:48,500 --> 00:51:51,300
Nevertheless, not my will but 
your will be done. 

841
00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:56,700
Father. 
The holy spirit is our advocate 

842
00:51:56,700 --> 00:51:58,800
in prayer. 
He carries our prayers to God. 

843
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,600
He works. 
His will in us. 

844
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,600
I want you to see one final 
thing about the intercessory 

845
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,700
help that is yours. 
In Romans 8, 27 it begins this 

846
00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:10,100
way. 
He says and he who searches 

847
00:52:10,100 --> 00:52:13,400
Hearts knows, what is the mind 
of the spirits? 

848
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:18,600
This is tough. 
Okay, this is a tough one to 

849
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,700
think about because to the 
Hypocrites a hypocrite is one 

850
00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:25,900
whose entire religion lies in 
what he says not and what he 

851
00:52:25,900 --> 00:52:28,700
does. 
All right. 

852
00:52:28,700 --> 00:52:31,700
It's in his mouth. 
Not at his actions. 

853
00:52:31,900 --> 00:52:35,200
That's what a hypocrite is. 
To the hypocrite. 

854
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:40,400
There is nothing more Dreadful 
than seeing that God searches 

855
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,800
the heart and sees through all 
of his false professions, that's

856
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:49,200
a terrifying place to stand. 
And you must let it terrify you.

857
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:53,900
If you are a hypocrite, Are you 
you must think about that and 

858
00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:56,800
let it lead you to repentance 
because you may fall others. 

859
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:01,600
But you will never fool God. 
You'll never fully. 

860
00:53:04,300 --> 00:53:08,200
And Proverbs 5 we read there 
that the man's ways are always 

861
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,400
before the Lord and that he 
suffers death due to a lack of 

862
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:15,700
discipline. 
Know that God is watching you 

863
00:53:15,700 --> 00:53:20,800
and be disciplined men. 
Be disciplined women, be 

864
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:26,200
disciplined, boys and girls. 
Young men, young women, be 

865
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:31,800
disciplined in these things. 
So it's frightful it's Dreadful 

866
00:53:32,300 --> 00:53:37,700
to a hypocrite but to a faithful
Christian to a sincere believer 

867
00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:40,800
to someone who is saying, I want
what God wants. 

868
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,000
Even if I don't always see it in
my life, I want what he wants. 

869
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,000
Even if I fail to act on it at 
times, his ball doesn't Romans 

870
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,600
7, I want. 
What God wants, I desire him. 

871
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,100
I desire. 
What he desires, I'm delighting 

872
00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:57,300
in him right to one who is doing
that, there's nothing more 

873
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:02,200
comforting than to see the Gods.
Searches the heart for then we 

874
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,700
know that God will hear and that
he will answer those desires 

875
00:54:05,700 --> 00:54:08,000
which we want our words to 
express. 

876
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:13,600
And so often they don't The 
desires that he gives to us as 

877
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:16,200
we Delight ourselves in him. 
Psalm 37:4, right? 

878
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,900
The light yourself in the Lord 
and He will give you the desires

879
00:54:18,900 --> 00:54:21,300
of your heart. 
That literally means people 

880
00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:25,300
place the desires, his desires 
into your heart, and they become

881
00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:27,100
your desires as you Delight in 
him. 

882
00:54:28,300 --> 00:54:31,400
The truth is, that God knows 
what you need before you ask. 

883
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:36,400
He has it all mapped out, 
Matthew 68, Jesus, I don't be 

884
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,400
like the Pharisees. 
Those Hypocrites, do not be like

885
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,100
them for your father, knows what
you need before you ask him. 

886
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,800
Paul shows us here in Romans 8 
that God knows what is in the 

887
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,500
mind of his own Spirit within 
us. 

888
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:53,200
He's placed him there as an 
advocate for us, a help for us. 

889
00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:56,900
And as he always hears the Sun 
interceding for us in heaven. 

890
00:54:57,100 --> 00:55:01,100
So he also always hears the 
spirit interceding for us in our

891
00:55:01,100 --> 00:55:04,000
hearts because the intercession 
from the Sun and the 

892
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,800
intercession from the spirit are
both. 

893
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,600
According to the will of the 
father. 

894
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,800
Amen. 
You Don't Have To Doubt. 

895
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,900
To what more could God do to 
comfort you in your prayers? 

896
00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:21,600
My question for you today. 
What greater encouragement could

897
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,500
you receive for your prayers? 
Then these truths in Romans 

898
00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:28,600
8:26-27 today. 
I submit that these are the 

899
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,000
greatest Goods he could do. 
And the reason I say that is 

900
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,600
because he only does that, which
is best he only does that, which

901
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,700
is perfect. so we can't look and
say, well that's insufficient, 

902
00:55:40,700 --> 00:55:46,000
it's not he's telling you it's 
not Jesus, Christ said, whatever

903
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,100
you ask the father according to 
his will, he will give to you. 

904
00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:53,200
But how do you learn the will of
God through the spirit of God, 

905
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,700
by the word of God? 
Right, spirit will teach you as 

906
00:55:57,700 --> 00:56:01,100
you pray and as you read the 
scriptures, what God's will is. 

907
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,700
So I plead with you, put prayer 
to work. 

908
00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:12,500
But prayer to work. 
Be a Praying Christian. 

909
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,400
Pray for your life. 
Pray for the lives of your loved

910
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:20,100
ones, pray for the lives of 
unbelievers that, you know, pray

911
00:56:20,100 --> 00:56:22,800
for your church, pray for its 
leaders. 

912
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:26,500
Its fellow members among you 
pray for your state and your 

913
00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:29,200
nation. 
Pray, as you go throughout your 

914
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,700
day, right? 
There's a discipline issue with 

915
00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:34,600
your child. 
You come home from work, 

916
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,000
father's. 
You've got to handle this 

917
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,400
discipline issue, pray to God as
you go into the room for 

918
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,300
strength and for wisdom and for 
help in that moment. 

919
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,800
It is not going to be good for 
you to fly off the head. 

920
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:48,400
It's not going to be good to 
provoke. 

921
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,600
Your child to wrath. 
Those things are going to go 

922
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,900
really bad for you. 
Come teenage years. 

923
00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:57,000
But I'm telling you pray for 
help. 

924
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,900
You're having a conversation 
with your wife or your husband 

925
00:56:59,900 --> 00:57:02,600
about something, pray during the
conversation. 

926
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,000
It's a conversation that needs 
to happen. 

927
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:05,300
You've been putting it off too 
long. 

928
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,100
It's time to have the 
conversation, right? 

929
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:12,100
Pray as you're going in your 
mind and your heart, be a 

930
00:57:12,107 --> 00:57:15,000
prayerful person. 
Ask for the wisdom of God. 

931
00:57:16,100 --> 00:57:19,400
As you're driving to work and we
pray, Lord help me put my hands 

932
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,400
to good. 
Use, protect me from Evil today.

933
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,900
Help me keep my eyes pure today.
Like, pray for these things, as 

934
00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:31,200
you go. 
There's no shortage of things to

935
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,700
pray for throughout your day. 
You can literally pray for each 

936
00:57:33,700 --> 00:57:36,700
situation that comes as, I mean,
you stop and pray and have to 

937
00:57:36,700 --> 00:57:38,700
kneel. 
I'm just talk about an ongoing 

938
00:57:38,900 --> 00:57:41,100
prayer with God. 
Be always praying. 

939
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:51,000
Chances are real, I like 100% 
that you already Mumble to 

940
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,500
yourself throughout the day. 
Right now, you might not want to

941
00:57:53,500 --> 00:57:57,500
admit it, but in your mumblings 
might be Inward and, you know, 

942
00:57:57,500 --> 00:58:00,100
some of us suffer from the that 
outward mumbling. 

943
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,100
And so, I'm always afraid in the
grocery store that somebody's 

944
00:58:04,100 --> 00:58:09,500
going to hear me, but What you 
Mumble to yourself, you talk to 

945
00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:12,000
yourself, you encourage 
yourself, you're trying to help 

946
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,300
yourself. 
You give yourself a pep talks, 

947
00:58:13,300 --> 00:58:15,300
or you might just degrade 
yourself. 

948
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:21,600
You might beat yourself up. 
Even if not audibly, what I'm 

949
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,600
saying, is that in your mind and
in your heart when you're angry,

950
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:26,500
when you're happy, when you're 
confused, when you're looking 

951
00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:28,400
for wisdom. 
And any number of situations, 

952
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:33,100
you're expressing that he just 
threw groanings or mumblings. 

953
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:39,800
Turn those things into prayer. 
Let them be trigger points for 

954
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:43,100
prayer for your life. 
It's that practical. 

955
00:58:43,100 --> 00:58:47,500
It's that simple to just pray 
about those things. 

956
00:58:49,500 --> 00:58:53,800
One of the things that I think 
is is pretty amazing. 

957
00:58:54,100 --> 00:58:56,300
Anytime brother, John Ed will 
pray for you. 

958
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,900
He begins with Lord. 
I do and he, I did Lord. 

959
00:58:59,900 --> 00:59:01,900
I do just come to you today or a
lord I do. 

960
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,300
And it's just like, it's an 
ongoing conversation, it's not 

961
00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:06,500
me. 
Bragging on John Ed, I'm just 

962
00:59:06,500 --> 00:59:10,900
saying like that, that's the 
kind of like, just familiarity 

963
00:59:10,900 --> 00:59:13,200
with prayer. 
We should all seek to cultivate 

964
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:18,300
Right, like they're just 
beginning where you left off. 

965
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,300
This understand that as you're 
praying that way, the spirit is 

966
00:59:23,300 --> 00:59:25,400
helping. 
You understand that as you pray,

967
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,000
that way the Spirit Carries your
prayers, to the throne of God 

968
00:59:28,500 --> 00:59:32,500
understand that he works his 
will into you and this is for 

969
00:59:32,500 --> 00:59:36,300
your ultimate good. 
Amen, let me pray for you, 

970
00:59:36,500 --> 00:59:37,800
heavenly father. 
I praise you. 

971
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:43,400
And thank you for today. 
God, I asked for you to make us 

972
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:46,200
men and women and young men and 
women and boys and girls of 

973
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,700
Prayer. 
But father, we seek your help in

974
00:59:49,700 --> 00:59:54,000
this. 
Lord help us to be confident 

975
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:55,800
that, as we come to you that, 
you hear us. 

976
00:59:56,700 --> 00:59:58,300
Let us not be like the 
Hypocrites. 

977
01:00:00,100 --> 01:00:05,500
Let us not be like the Pharisees
who other veins sayings and just

978
01:00:05,500 --> 01:00:09,400
all manner of words before he 
helped us to be sincere in 

979
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:14,600
prayer or troubled to bring it 
before you when we're happy to 

980
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:19,700
praise you. when we're seeking 
counsel to come to you first, 

981
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,800
whatever that may be Lord, I 
pray that you would make that 

982
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:29,400
known to these men and women by 
your spirit today, Help them to 

983
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,500
see that they can pray. 
That prayer is a great benefit 

984
01:00:32,500 --> 01:00:36,200
to us given to us by your spirit
in which you help us. 

985
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:42,200
You strengthen us, give us Godly
lives through it. 

986
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,500
Lord help us not to give legal 
echt prayer. 

987
01:00:46,500 --> 01:00:51,000
Any longer. 
Father, we love you, we thank 

988
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,800
you that we have Christ 
interceding able to save to the 

989
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:58,800
uttermost, all of those who draw
near to the father through him. 

990
01:00:59,700 --> 01:01:02,800
And so Lord, if there is anyone 
in here who has not done that, I

991
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:06,600
pray that they would find Christ
to be their savior. 

992
01:01:07,300 --> 01:01:11,200
Grant them faith in his Works 
faith and what he's doing. 

993
01:01:13,500 --> 01:01:16,600
And Lord for us as Believers. 
Help us to be confident that 

994
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:20,700
Christ intercedes for us whether
we're living an Unholy or holy 

995
01:01:20,700 --> 01:01:24,100
life as Christians were, there 
were failing or succeeding. 

996
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,800
It's not by our works. 
It's by his work. 

997
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:33,200
His continued intercession in 
heaven, And when we pray, were 

998
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,300
helped in that. 
Also, by the spirit that dwells 

999
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:38,600
in us, we thank you for this 
life-giving Spirit. 

1000
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,400
We have some the name of Christ 
I pray. 

1001
01:01:41,900 --> 01:01:33,600
Amen. 
And when we pray, were helped in

1002
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,300
that. 
Also, by the spirit that dwells 

1003
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:38,600
in us, we thank you for this 
life-giving Spirit. 

1004
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,400
We have some the name of Christ 
I pray. 

1005
01:01:41,900 --> 01:01:42,400
Amen.