1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,720 We speak a great word of welcome, Trevor, one this 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,760 evening and we're thankful that you are here. 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,280 As we announced last evening, and even nine or two before 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,800 that, we would spend one night studying with you on the Holy 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,920 Spirit. Now, I have several sermons that 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,120 I preach on the Holy Spirit. This one is one that I've 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,160 preached off and on in the last probably five years, three to 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,080 five years. And I encourage you to write 9 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:29,240 down or take a picture of the board work if you would like to 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,119 do that. And if you have any question 11 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:36,680 about the lesson, about any of these verses or the application 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,120 that we give, we welcome that. We're not here to to be a know 13 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,200 it all. We're just simply here to show 14 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:48,000 you what the Bible teaches about the Holy Spirit in the New 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,880 Testament. That is the thrust of today's 16 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,720 lesson. Many years ago I did a four part 17 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,840 series on the Holy Spirit and then I passed it around to a 18 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,960 number of my preaching brethren, some that were older, some that 19 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,880 were younger, something about my age, and and we conferred back 20 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,800 and forth along the way. Of course, everybody didn't 21 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,840 agree with everything. I didn't expect that, but I was 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,560 definitely open minded to what people concluded as far as being 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,160 right and wrong and accurate and not accurate. 24 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,840 And I want to hear it because I want to preach the truth of the 25 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,240 Holy Spirit. And what I don't want is people 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,560 to misrepresent God's Holy Spirit. 27 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,640 So therefore, as with all the other lessons that we've heard 28 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,400 throughout this week, you know, we can give you book, chapter, 29 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,360 verse. It's going to be there. 30 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,840 And I want you to take special note and special interest. 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,760 There's a number of verses that we will not be going to tonight 32 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,200 that are very valuable. However, I've chosen this 33 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,040 afternoon, late last night, these verses to cover for today 34 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,320 and primarily because I want to cover an additional category or 35 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,880 two that I haven't covered perhaps on an earlier lesson. 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,840 So let's get underway. And again, if you have any 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,560 questions, please make a note of it. 38 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,600 I'll be more than happy to study with you, visit with you, even 39 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,720 here or later. You can call me, you can text 40 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,200 me, you can e-mail me, communicate with me, however you 41 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:24,120 want to do it, and we can go with it further as we study. 42 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,720 Therefore, as you sit on the board, the Holy Spirit and the 43 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,000 New Testament. Now this is very, very important 44 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,000 because this is what we want to know and you don't have any 45 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,480 guess for it. There's no infants or buts about 46 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,880 it. The Holy Spirit is alive and 47 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,760 well and active in the New Testament. 48 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,400 No doubts about it. It is Now here's the point that 49 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,520 I want to make it In my earlier years of preaching this, I made 50 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,160 this point, my last point, but it didn't take me too terribly 51 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,080 long to realize I need to make my last point my first point. 52 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,480 Therefore, I've started that and I've done that in the last two 53 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,400 to three years. Point #1 The Word of God, the 54 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,200 Bible is inspired of the Holy Spirit. 55 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,920 This is very important. And again, that used to be my 56 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:18,120 last point and I'll just hit it and run with it, but this is 57 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,440 very important. I want you to understand this. 58 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,840 Please everybody understand this important point. 59 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:30,360 Nobody knows anything about the Holy Spirit unless they can read 60 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,440 about it in the Bible. It's the Word of God, book, 61 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,880 chapter, verse. You want to read about it in the 62 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,240 Bible. Now people come up with things 63 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,960 far out about the Holy Spirit and they imagine this and 64 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,040 imagine that. Listen, I could care less what 65 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,760 people imagine. I want to know book, chapter, 66 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,000 verse in the Bible. I want to know some Matthew, 67 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,920 Martin, Luke all the way through Revelation. 68 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,640 That's what I want to know. So therefore, please understand 69 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:03,000 the only thing you know or I know about the Holy Spirit is 70 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,560 what I can read about in the the Bible. 71 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,680 And that's huge because we don't want anybody to be misled in any 72 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:14,200 way in any shape or any form. Therefore, when we establish the 73 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,839 fact that God's word in the Bible is inspired of the Holy 74 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,880 Spirit, we now know one of the things the Holy Spirit does. 75 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:25,360 Listen, the Holy Spirit is very active at the Lord's word. 76 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,960 The Lord has designed the plan. As a matter of fact, you can 77 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,040 begin in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, chapter 1. 78 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,920 And in chapter 1 you're going to say God the Father, you're going 79 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,800 to say Jesus Christ the Son, and you're going to say the Holy 80 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,600 Spirit. And guess what? 81 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,400 You go all the way through 39 of the Old Testament books, all the 82 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,720 way 27 books of the New Testament. 83 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,440 You get all the way to Revelation, the very last 84 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,920 chapter of Revelation, chapter 22. 85 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,560 And you know what you find there? 86 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,440 God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Son of the Holy Spirit, God 87 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,480 the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are all involved, not in 88 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,120 every chapter, not even on every page, but from the Old Testament 89 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,240 to the New Testament in the paper article, law, the Mosaic 90 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,600 law, the Christian law, the Holy Spirit has been part of God's 91 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,800 plan. Now I'll be, I'll be very frank 92 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,280 with you. I do not and I am not impressed 93 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:24,200 with anybody who indicates that the Holy Spirit is not active 94 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:25,840 today, not doing the thing today. 95 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 It's only God in Christ. I want you to know that is not 96 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,280 accurate. It's not accurate. 97 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:36,400 What is accurate is that God's Word teaches us in his in the 98 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,160 Bible what we know about the Holy Spirit. 99 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,560 And that's the point that I want you to remember as you leave 100 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,040 here this evening, that the only thing we know about the Holy 101 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,360 Spirit is book, chapter, verse that we can find in Scripture. 102 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:50,920 I'm not reading all these verses. 103 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,880 Some of these we've even given through the week, but for the 104 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,600 records sake and for those who are this is going to be a video 105 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,560 and your podcast and etcetera. I want to read the verses into 106 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,360 the record number one, Second Timothy 3, verse 16 and 17. 107 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,280 A couple of nights ago we referenced that where he said 108 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:13,520 all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, profitable 109 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,680 for doctrine or proof, correction for instruction and 110 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,560 righteousness, that the matter of God would be perfect, 111 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,800 thoroughly furnished unto all good words. 112 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,880 It's very clear. All Scripture is given by the 113 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,440 inspiration of God, and that's what we need to pay attention to 114 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,640 and we make need to make absolutely sure, regardless of 115 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,800 who it is, if it's me, if it's you, or if it's anybody else. 116 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,280 If anybody tries to take away these verses as if they don't 117 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,720 apply, my dear friends, you don't have to walk very far to 118 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,560 walk away from that kind of conversation because this is 119 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,400 very much biblically talked. All right, a second passage, 120 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:58,000 second Peter 1 point #2 and #3 second Peter one verse 3 says 121 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:04,120 according to his divine power has given us all things we need 122 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,040 for life and godliness, the Holy Spirit and the word of God, we 123 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,600 learned that he'll give us everything we need for eternal 124 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,640 life. That is fabulous. 125 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,680 That's what we need to know, and it's. 126 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,360 Because that's God's plan. Also in chapter 1, the last two 127 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,040 verses of the chapter and verses 20 and 21, it mentions how holy 128 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:30,640 men of God moved in the past by the Holy Spirit and inspiring 129 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:31,720 God's. Word. 130 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:37,600 Dear friends today so therefore this entire lesson tonight we'll 131 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,240 be given book chapter verse in the Bible. 132 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,640 It is based on a thus sense of Lord. 133 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,600 It's based on what the word of God does say and we do not need 134 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,560 to be doing any guesswork. We do not need to be reading 135 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,360 between the words and the lines and the spaces. 136 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,680 We need to embrace it. You know, there are times today 137 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,960 in which we live that people they've come up with man made 138 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,440 ideas or descriptive terms about the Holy Spirit. 139 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,440 You know one example is some say with Holy Spirit works through 140 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:15,240 the word only. Who said that God's Word did not 141 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,080 say that? I can even show you in Scripture 142 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:23,640 where the Bible says people were working in a capacity of 143 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,520 spiritual gifts at one time, and it was not by word only in the 144 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,360 Thessalonian letter. Then again, another very popular 145 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:38,880 phrase, and that is personally indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 146 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:44,000 Now I've been raised to hear that phrase quite a bit and 147 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,320 here's my situation. That phrase is not in the Bible 148 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:48,920 literally. I want to be honest with you, 149 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,920 that phrase is not in the Bible. Now I believe in the dweller of 150 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,960 the Holy Spirit. I definitely believe in, I'm 151 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,040 going to show you today in the Bible, no uncertain terms, it's 152 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,040 in there. But here's what we don't need to 153 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,280 do. We do not need to come up with 154 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,080 some man made phraseology as if that was taught in the Bible. 155 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,280 What I want us to do is go to the Scripture and speak where 156 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,400 the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent. 157 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,280 Here's what I'm going to show you later on in the lesson, and 158 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,320 we're going to spend quite a bit of time over here once we get 159 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,600 there, but we're going to more hurriedly cover the first two 160 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,080 parts here. But what we wanted to show you 161 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,080 tonight, according to the Bible, we believe in the non miraculous 162 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,040 and dwelling of the Holy Spirit. That's Bible. 163 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,040 Here's a number of verses and we can nearly fill the board up. 164 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,560 With. From passages that would support 165 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:43,080 that. Now I will make some of my good 166 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,840 buddies upset at me who agree with me in principle on the 167 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,480 indwelling of the Holy Spirit. However, they like the phrase 168 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:53,400 the person who dwelling in the Holy Spirit, and I just choose 169 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,560 not to use that phrase because I can't read it in the Bible. 170 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,760 Is that too much to ask? If you can't read something in 171 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,640 the Bible, it's not too much and people will ask you all kind of 172 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,840 questions. Say all I want to know what's in 173 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:07,920 the Bible. Therefore, what I can tell you 174 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,080 is in the Bible is that the Holy Spirit dwells in all. 175 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,360 New Testament Christians, I can show you that. 176 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:19,000 Therefore I'm not shy, I'm not timid, I'm not in any way taking 177 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,120 a step back. It's fine for me to say we today 178 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,280 believe the Bible teaches in the New Testament of non miraculous 179 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,000 and dwelling of the Holy Spirit. When I get over here, we'll talk 180 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,080 a lot more about that. Momentarily. 181 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:32,800 But what have we learned already? 182 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,640 We've learned that every conclusion we draw about the 183 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,080 Holy Spirit of the New Testament needs to be biblically based. 184 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:43,760 That's what we've got to do. We do not go beyond it. 185 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,080 We don't fall short. We don't cut it short. 186 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,960 We simply go by the Bible. I don't care what your 187 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,880 translation of preference is. This is very important, very 188 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,520 important. OK, let's look at #2 I want to 189 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,520 show you all three of the Godhead. 190 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,160 Now, I've used these type of passages and there's a lot more 191 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,680 of them, but then I'm not necessarily going to notice 192 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:07,080 every one of these, but I'm going to read them into the 193 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,880 record. For those of you that are 194 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:14,280 listening via your podcast, there are 6 verses we're going 195 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:20,360 to reference briefly. Matthew 3, verse 16 and 17 #2 196 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,600 Matthew 28, verse 19 #3 John 14 and 26. 197 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:34,120 Also John 15 and 26 #4 Ephesians 2 and 18 #5 Ephesians 4, four 198 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,560 number six, first, first John six and five. 199 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,640 Many years ago, when I was 18 years old, I had my very first 200 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:46,440 public debate, and it was a debate on the Godhead, and it 201 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,920 was a United Pentecostal Church. And to preach on that particular 202 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,520 time, he took the position that the United Pentecostal Church 203 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,640 takes, and that is there's only one person in the Godhead, 204 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:03,280 namely Jesus, and that is God the Father, Jesus Christ the 205 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,800 Son, and the Holy Spirit. All the same guy. 206 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:10,560 They're all the same person. Of course, I didn't believe 207 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:13,480 that. I took the position that God the 208 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,480 Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit of three 209 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,520 separate and distinct individuals. 210 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:26,120 There's one God head comprised of three separate and distinct 211 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,240 individuals. And it's really easy to prove 212 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,920 that. But this lesson is not where I'm 213 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,560 going to do all of that, but I am going to show you this. 214 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:38,480 I'm going to show you that God's plan in that one Godhead is 215 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,320 showing you verse of the Scripture for all three God, 216 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,560 Christ and the Holy Spirit used in the same passage. 217 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,440 This is very important because see this is the way God designed 218 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,960 it to be. Now Matthew the 3rd chapter, 219 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,600 verse 16 and 17 is the baptism of Jesus. 220 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,880 And when Jesus has been baptized, all of a sudden the 221 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,760 Bible said, Behold the Holy Spirit and send it like a dove 222 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,760 and lighted upon him. And a voice out of the cloud 223 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:11,160 said, This is my beloved Son, and whom I am well pleased, God 224 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,720 the Father Speaking of Jesus. So here we find 3 different 225 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,680 people in three different places doing 3 different things at the 226 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:22,920 same identical time. You've got Jesus coming up out 227 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,800 of the water. You got the Holy Spirit 228 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:26,680 descending from heaven as a dove. 229 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,040 You've got God the Father speaking from heaven. 230 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,720 That's the way it works according to God's plan, and we 231 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,760 should be very happy to know that God has a plan that invites 232 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:42,560 and welcomes the working of His Son and that of the Holy Spirit 233 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,760 that He is designed. All right #2 Matthew 2819. 234 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,720 We mentioned that the other night about a scriptural baptism 235 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,120 requires a baptism of the Great Commission that is in the name 236 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,080 of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 237 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,760 Now you see these the Bible passages that illustrate for all 238 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,520 three are busy at work and the one godhead, just as the Bible 239 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,640 teaches because it's the word of God and as long as I can get you 240 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,080 focused in stand with what the Bible says the rest of us a 241 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,720 piece of cake. It is so beautiful. 242 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,920 All right, look at the third verse John 1426 also John 15 and 243 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,640 26. This is where Jesus had just 244 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,040 told his disciples or his apostles, I'm going to have to 245 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,800 leave you. They were old, they're beside 246 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,000 themselves. They don't want him to go 247 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,320 anywhere. They like Jesus being around. 248 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,160 And he said, no, no, here's the way it works. 249 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,840 I, Jesus, I'm going to go to the father #2 and I will send the 250 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,640 Holy Spirit to you from the Father. 251 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:50,600 John 1426 and John 1526. What does this tell me? 252 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,960 What does it show you? It shows you. 253 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,440 You got three different beings again doing 3 different things. 254 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,320 Jesus on earth. Going to the Father in heaven, 255 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,280 sending the Holy Spirit from heaven, you have all three of 256 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,000 these divine beings busy about the Lord's work. 257 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,240 That's important and we need to take hold of that and really 258 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,960 appreciate the fact that we have biblical evidence based on the 259 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,240 Word of God, the inspired Word of God. 260 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,200 It's what's teaching us this in Ephesians 2 and verse 18. 261 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:29,320 I remember the very night that this verse some way somehow sunk 262 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,840 in my thick skull. We were doing our nightly Bible 263 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,400 reading. Let's turn it over with you. 264 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,440 I just want to show it to you. In Ephesians 2 verse 18 it has 265 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,720 again. All three people in the Godhead. 266 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,520 This is very important. I love this verse. 267 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,040 It reassured me. It reconfirmed some things that 268 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,720 I believe from other passages, but this one here sealed the 269 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,240 deal and Ephesians the second chapter verse 18. 270 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,720 Look here. It says for through him this 271 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,560 hymn of Jesus. When you look in the contest for 272 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,840 through Jesus, we both have access by 1 Spirit. 273 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,200 That's Holy Spirit unto the Father. 274 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,360 When you pray, and I'm not going to mention this again in passing 275 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,320 later on in the lesson, but when you pray, you pray like Jesus 276 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:19,160 said, our Father, which art in heaven you're, you pray in the 277 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:23,200 name of them by the authority of Jesus Christ and the Holy 278 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,520 Spirit. The Bible said in Ephesians 2 279 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,040 and 18 that he would take our prayers to the Father. 280 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,560 Wow, that makes me feel really good about them. 281 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,800 Praying, praying and being thankful. 282 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,000 What the Holy Spirit would do. The Bible teaches they all work 283 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,680 together. My dear friend, please don't 284 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,560 ever let anybody take that away from you because praying is 285 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,800 wonderful. We've heard some beautiful 286 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,640 prayers here throughout this week. 287 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,800 You're opening prayer, the prayer, that's your general 288 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,480 prayer, your main prayer, the dismissal prayer, the prayer for 289 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,560 the food. A lot of prayers throughout this 290 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,280 week. And it's been wonderful. 291 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,120 And these prayers are fabulous. And what we find here in 292 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,960 Ephesians 2 and 18 that the Holy Spirit's involved in your prayer 293 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,520 just like God the Father. Is in Jesus Christ. 294 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:19,119 I write in Ephesians 4 four. You find 7 ones and concluding 295 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:24,520 of those 7 ones it's one. God, it's one Father, one God, 1 296 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,599 Lord, Lord Jesus Christ and one Holy Spirit. 297 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:32,400 Ephesians 4 Four through 6 you. See, all of this is God's plan. 298 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,680 And the reason I emphasize this is because there are people who 299 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,800 act like the Holy Spirit is doing nothing today. 300 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,200 I don't get that. God is not through working and 301 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,480 utilizing the Holy Spirit. And I do not like to hear people 302 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:49,880 say, well, he does not do anything today. 303 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,440 I'm going to ask preachers that what's the Holy Spirit doing 304 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:53,960 today? And they had a hard time 305 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,280 answering it. Listen, there's something wrong 306 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,400 if you think 1/3 of the Godhead is lying dormant not doing 307 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,280 anything. There's something wrong with 308 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,600 that picture and with that conclusion. 309 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,880 What is important is that things are done according to God's will 310 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,920 and God's way. What is important is what is 311 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,320 recorded in Scripture that we got book shops reversed for. 312 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,640 That's what's important. Now when people give you some 313 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,600 man made idea and think those are not important at all. 314 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,360 No, if they're not giving you book, chapter, verse, you can 315 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:28,280 simply just say no, I'm not interested in that. 316 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:29,800 I want to hear it from the Bible. 317 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:34,560 All right, let's look at another passage first John 5 verse 7. 318 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:37,360 This is another really good verse. 319 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:43,400 And now when you have a public debate on the Godhead defending 320 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,440 3 John first John five and seven said there are three. 321 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,040 They're buried record in heaven, the Father, the word and the 322 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,480 spirit. And these three are one. 323 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,960 They're one in unity, one in faith, one in words. 324 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:00,800 No, not one person, No more than. 325 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,280 You and your spouse or one person? 326 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,880 Whether the Bible says husband or wife or what, but not one 327 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,640 person. No, they work together in God's 328 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,560 plan. Did you know when Jesus prayed 329 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:19,080 to John 17, he began the prayer about praying for himself and 330 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,200 then the second part of the prayer he prayed for his current 331 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,160 apostles and the third part of the prayer he prayed for all. 332 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,120 Future Christian, that's you and that's me. 333 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,040 And my dear friends, what is so beautiful about Jesus praying 334 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,760 for us in these ways is that He's identifying the need for us 335 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,320 to have prayer. And he prayed to God Almighty 336 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,720 that we would be 1 even as He and the Father are one. 337 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,000 That's not clear. See, God and the Father are one. 338 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,640 Husband and wife are one. All of us disciples are one. 339 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:59,920 No, not one person. But we're one in unity and faith 340 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,760 and work and wisdom and dedication and following the 341 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,440 Lord Jesus. We're highly committed to making 342 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,160 sure we do things according to the Bible and let nothing get in 343 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,160 our way. Well, see, now we find we've got 344 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,600 the Word of God that's inspired, that's telling us exactly what 345 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,000 it is that's right and wrong, and what we can know bound in 346 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,200 the Bible is wonderful. And down here, we've already 347 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,920 been taught in the New Testament how. 348 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,440 The three are working together in a variety of ways. 349 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,120 Baptism of Jesus, baptism of the Great Commission, when Jesus go 350 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:37,560 back to heaven and said the Holy Spirit back here showing us how 351 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,640 it works in our prayer, showing us here how it's part of the 352 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,520 seven ones, which is very, very important, and also showing that 353 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,240 these three are one that's all Bible. 354 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:53,520 I didn't make up any of that. It's all right there for you to 355 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,480 look at, for you to read, for you to study, for you to give 356 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,360 yourself holy unto them. Meditate upon these things that 357 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:06,160 that's the right way to do it. All right #3 now, this is very 358 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,320 important. And with this row right here, 359 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,280 listen quick because we're going to go through it quickly. 360 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,040 This is very. Very important, though. 361 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,400 It's very important that we grasp this point. 362 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:21,000 All right #3 Jesus had the Holy Spirit. 363 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,200 A chance is what I abbreviated for brevity's sake on the board. 364 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,640 Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure. 365 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,880 John 3 and verse 34. I'll give you a moment to turn. 366 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,920 This is a very important message, and it's the only time 367 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:40,720 is mentioned in Scripture. John 3 and verse 34 and the 368 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,640 reason I want to go here because this is very important, but it 369 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,880 shows a distinct difference. Get hold of this now how the 370 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,920 Holy Spirit works in the life of Jesus on earth, different than 371 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,800 he worked with the apostles and the difference in the way He 372 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:00,400 works for you or me today. John 334 the word of God says 373 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,640 the following. Please pay very very close 374 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,400 attention because this is a very important principle. 375 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:11,280 John 3 verse 34 For he whom God has sent speaketh the words of 376 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:16,080 God. For God giveth not the Spirit by 377 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,200 measure unto him. God did not give the Holy Spirit 378 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,320 with measure, that is without any limitations. 379 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:29,240 God gave the Holy Spirit to Jesus without measure. 380 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:33,080 The King James rendering, that is without any limitation. 381 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,680 Jesus had the Holy Spirit in a way that anything the Holy 382 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,480 Spirit could do, he could do through Jesus. 383 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,760 You would never have that, and neither will I. 384 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,080 The apostles never had that, never have, never will. 385 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,400 Jesus had it. God made sure. 386 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,520 These are ways we learn to get hold of this. 387 00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:00,360 I do not mean to be repetitious. I want to reinforce what's true 388 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:05,440 in the New Testament. We learned Jesus was given the 389 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,240 Holy Spirit without any limitation or measure, without 390 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,600 any limitation at all. According to John 334. 391 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,320 We learned about the Holy Spirit in the New Testament based on 392 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,440 that verse right there. I love to learn about the Bible 393 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,960 from the Bible and I love. For you too too. 394 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,560 So therefore. I want you to understand this is 395 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,720 so very important. We learn the Holy Spirit in the 396 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,920 New Testament, that Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure 397 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,240 and God is one who gave it to him, the lot he did. 398 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,040 Now when you want to read the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and 399 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,480 John, it's amazing. Did you know this? 400 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:48,320 Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as synoptic gospels. 401 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,000 They cover essentially the same thing, but one may cover 402 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,240 something another one may leave off. 403 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,040 But Matthew, Mark and Luke are very very similar. 404 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:08,120 But John. John has 92% of information that 405 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:10,560 Matthew, Mark and Luke did not even include. 406 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:16,600 Wow, that's a lot 92%. That just shows there's a lot 407 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,760 more than what Matthew, Mark and Luke gave us. 408 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,120 God gave us the Gospel of John too, and the Holy Spirit is far 409 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,480 that book. Dear friends, listen, there's so 410 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,480 much to learn. I just want I mentioned this in 411 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,240 passing the other day, but I want the Bible to be the number 412 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,800 one book you read. You open that up and you read 413 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,240 it. You concentrate on it. 414 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,200 You pray to God. He'll help you understand this 415 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,240 and I've appreciated different. Ones throughout the week who 416 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,760 pray that that we would understand the scriptures and we 417 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,960 would apply to our lives. That's what's important. 418 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,080 So now remember from this point forward, because these each of 419 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,080 these points are not for you to just hear one time and forget. 420 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,560 These are very important principles taught and that is 421 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,160 here #3 Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure. 422 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,680 And that's exactly what we need to understand. 423 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,720 He's the only person ever have the holy. 424 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:14,560 Spirit without measure, it is Jesus your Lord and our Savior, 425 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,760 the Son of God. OK #4 the. 426 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,720 Apostles receive the Holy Spirit baptism. 427 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,120 You got that in your notes. Holy Spirit baptism. 428 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,560 Guess what? Once you're looking at. 429 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,120 Acts one and five. I'll turn there with you. 430 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:38,000 Melman here. The Holy Spirit baptism was 431 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,160 never a commandment, no. One has ever. 432 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,920 Been commanded to be baptized with Holy Spirit baptism. 433 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,800 Did the the apostle receive the Holy Spirit? 434 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,800 Well sure they did. They received the Holy Spirit 435 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,240 baptism. But look at Acts 15. 436 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,560 It's the Holy Spirit baptism which was a promise. 437 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,680 Many of you are writing notes and that's good. 438 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,440 Write it down. The Holy Spirit baptism was a 439 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:08,120 promise. It was never a commandment. 440 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,520 It's important we're learning the differences in the way God 441 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,320 has chosen to use the Holy Spirit. 442 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,080 We've learned how he did with Jesus. 443 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,320 Now we're learning how he did with the apostles. 444 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:23,440 See, here's something important, the Holy Spirit baptism that the 445 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:29,040 apostles received in Acts 15 and Acts 2 verse one through 8, My 446 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,920 dear friend, that's. Part of God's plan. 447 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,920 Guess what? You would never receive the Holy 448 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,640 Spirit baptism and never will lie. 449 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,560 It's not God's plan for me or you, just like it's not God's 450 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,840 plan for me to receive the Holy Spirit without. 451 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,520 Measure, it's not God's plan for you too. 452 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,440 Will there it was. That plan was for Jesus to get 453 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,680 the Holy Spirit without measure, then the apostles, they receive 454 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,600 the Holy Spirit baptism and you would never get it, never will 455 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,560 lie. All right, let's look at Acts 456 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,800 1:00 and 5:00. These passages are very clear 457 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:08,120 and very precise, and I just like to read the thrust passage 458 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,720 rather than all the context right now because we've got a 459 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,680 lot of material that I'm wanting to cover. 460 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,760 Acts one verse 5. The word of God says the 461 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,200 following. Actually I want to read the tale 462 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,000 end of verse 4. If you've got a red letter 463 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,840 edition Bible, you can see the latter part of verse four and 464 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,000 all of verse 5. Will be red letter, meaning it's 465 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,800 the words of Jesus. Listen to what it said Acts 1 466 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:39,600 beginning about midway verse 4 but wait for the promise of the 467 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,760 Father, which saith he you've heard of me. 468 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,800 Verse 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you should be 469 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,720 baptized with Holy Ghost not many days hence. 470 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,360 Wow. Here they're being told, the 471 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,920 apostle been told, listen, you're going to be baptized with 472 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,000 the baptism of the Holy Spirit not many days from now. 473 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,720 That's the reason that when you're reading the very tale 474 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,440 ending of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and you're reading the 475 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,800 beginning of Acts 1 and Acts 2, what you're finding out is that 476 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,680 the apostle, we're told you, you should stay right here. 477 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,720 You don't leave, you don't leave Jerusalem, you stay right here 478 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,880 because they have something big coming down the Pike, you know, 479 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,640 while it's coming down the pipe you find in Acts 2 verses one 480 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,080 through 8 is where the Holy Spirit baptism came to the. 481 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,040 Apostles. Oh, this is important, and now 482 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,320 here's what's important. What is important is for 483 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,160 everybody to know how the Holy Spirit works in the New 484 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,840 Testament. The only way we know that is by 485 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:55,280 studying the New Testament. Don't let anybody ever get get 486 00:28:55,280 --> 00:29:00,040 you sidetracked, distracted. No, we learned from reading the 487 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,160 New Testament how Jesus received it. 488 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,040 We learned the New Testament how the Holy Spirit received the 489 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,880 Holy Spirit baptism. And my dear friends, we're off 490 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,520 and running. We have already learned how they 491 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,640 all work together according to God's plan. 492 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,840 We've learned everything we know about the Holy Spirit. 493 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,280 We've learned from. God, I'd love to see everything 494 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,160 fit together so well. And that's exactly what's 495 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,880 happening tonight. Now, when you put in these 496 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,080 sermons together, so all the sermons don't always go good 497 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,920 together. So we have to work it out to 498 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,280 make it where every bit of it is biblical in every way. 499 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,120 But this one right here, my friend, is. 500 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,600 Biblical in every way, and we welcome you the input that you 501 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,480 have pro our time. That's fine, but this is 502 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,360 important. You see now how Jesus received 503 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,120 the Holy Spirit, how the apostle received the Holy Spirit 504 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,880 baptism. Now what about those of the 505 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:56,960 whole the apostles talked the the next first, the next group 506 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,400 of people they had laid on of the apostles hands. 507 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:06,000 Now when I gave this at the New Year meeting 3-4 years ago, 508 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,800 somewhere in that range of the Oklahoma New Year meeting, you 509 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,240 only have 15 minutes to give a 45 minute sermon, hour sermon, 510 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,120 but it's OK. But you know, I went right down 511 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,720 this list and I just gave, you know, gave a verse and gave a 512 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,080 point, gave verse, gave a point. I wanted that nearly 1000 people 513 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,200 that were there, I wanted them to have a good grasp. 514 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,640 And understanding of the Holy Spirit of New Testament, because 515 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:37,240 listen, here it is. It's unsettling to me to hear 516 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,200 people just discount the Holy Spirit. 517 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,440 I like the Holy Spirit, not a big deal. 518 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,000 I want you to know right now, the Holy Spirit is a big deal. 519 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,200 It's a big deal. As a matter of fact. 520 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,120 We need to embrace what the Word of God teaches about the Holy 521 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,720 Spirit. Many of you have heard me preach 522 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:59,360 this Lodi or Manteca, maybe Oakdale, a number of years ago. 523 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,560 It's been a while since been to Oakdale, but I preach that all 524 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,120 around and I preach all across the country in different ways, 525 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:10,320 different approaches, but all of them because it's important for 526 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,880 God's children, for my brothers and my sisters to understand 527 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,360 this according to the Bible. Now there are people who are 528 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,040 just going to tell you something and they couldn't want you to 529 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,320 believe what they've said because they've said it. 530 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,640 But let me tell you what, if you don't give me some books, I 531 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,760 prefer to go along with it. I don't care who says it. 532 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,320 It's what does the word of God say? 533 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,680 That's what matters. I don't I'm not being unkind. 534 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,360 I have been respectful, but I want you to know for a fact what 535 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,880 I want to know and what I want you to know and that is simple. 536 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,880 This what does the word God say? Not only this topic, but every 537 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,360 topic is that important. All right, just look here. 538 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,800 The land on the apostles hand. Acts of 6th chapter and verse 6. 539 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,880 And it's the first. Time you have an occasion where 540 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,680 the apostle lay hands on people. Let me tell you what happened 541 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,480 here. And this is brief because I'm 542 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,880 not going to detail because this is not with the thrush of the 543 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,600 lesson, but it is showing you from the Bible how the Holy 544 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,600 Spirit works, but what the apostles could do. 545 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,240 See, the apostles we're going to receive and I'm going to begin 546 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:21,320 to tie in .5 and six number six spiritual gifts that is found in 547 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,760 Acts 8 verse 12 and 13, Acts 8 verse 7 and 18, First 548 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,480 Corinthians chapter 12, chapter 13 and chapter 14. 549 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,120 And the reason I'm tie these in because they fit together. 550 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:39,440 The apostles have the ability to lay hands on people and give 551 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,040 them one of the 9 spiritual gifts that were mentioned in 552 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,960 First Corinthians chapter 12. There's 9 gifts given possible 553 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,360 to give one person the gift of interpretation, that if they can 554 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,480 interpret a language they've never even studied before, they 555 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,640 can give one the spiritual knowledge they have a supreme 556 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,840 amount of knowledge even though they they never had gone. 557 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,920 And got an. Education in that area, but they 558 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,200 were able to receive that well, here's the view. 559 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,640 The part about it, you know, we began to see House and fold in 560 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,960 here. From without measure to Jesus 561 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,360 the Holy Spirit, Baptism will measure to the land on the hands 562 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,960 of the apostles to receive the spiritual gifts to those who are 563 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,640 not non apostles but they are new converts in that time frame 564 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,800 and the apostles to lay hands on them and give them one or more 565 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,440 of the 9 spiritual gifts. See that's how God has got the 566 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,280 plan working. Now, friends, listen, here's 567 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,240 what's important. We're seeing that from Genesis 1 568 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,360 to Revelation 22. The Holy Spirit's involved, just 569 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,760 like God and Christ are. And now in the New Testament, 570 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,640 we're already seeing how it's working, and it's working in 571 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,400 different ways, but it's working. 572 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,880 It's valuable, It's God's plan, it's God's will, it's God's way. 573 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,440 Don't ever dismiss this, not on your life. 574 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,480 You need to have this right here handy because your friends from 575 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,800 the community, they'll be more than happy to talk with you 576 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,600 about the Holy Spirit and many of them have different ideas 577 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,320 from what they have been. Taught but when you have these 578 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,560 type passages real handy for you, it's easy to show people 579 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,199 here's what the Bible says. So easy. 580 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,760 It is so heartwarming to me. I love preaching it and I 581 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,679 appreciate people who want me to preach it and those who don't 582 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:35,560 want me to preach it. I want to know if I can study 583 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,360 with them on it because I want every man and woman, young and 584 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,080 old, to fully understand the work of the Holy Spirit 585 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:48,440 according to the New Testament. OK, now you are ready to see how 586 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,679 it is different, but it's all dealing with the Holy Spirit .33 587 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:54,679 point 6. Now we're going to spend the 588 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:56,880 remaining part of our time right here. 589 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:03,360 Look at #7. Non miraculous things wasn't the 590 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,200 Holy Spirit now I've got I'm friends that nearly every. 591 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,480 Preacher we've got in the Brotherhood. 592 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,560 Maybe all of them, I don't know, but some of them maybe more than 593 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,880 others. But anyway, they don't like 594 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,840 this. They don't like my category, and 595 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,600 I've had to tell them, can't you come up with something a little 596 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,560 bit more creative? I'm going to tell you what we 597 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,120 do. You come up with something more 598 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,840 creative. As long as it describes what I 599 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,760 believe, I believe without any doubt according to the Bible. 600 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,560 I got all these verses to prove it. 601 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,440 It is a non miraculous. The reason I do that is because 602 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,840 those who believe in the word only, they're not shy at all 603 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,040 about saying the reason we are word only is we're afraid. 604 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,480 People go off into Pentecostalism and they want to 605 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,800 label people as if they're going to lose their grip on 606 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,120 spirituality. There is not any evidence of 607 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,840 truth to that any more than somebody who's word only who 608 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,280 will leave and go to Pentecostalism because they 609 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,600 don't have an Holy Spirit. And I can take that and run with 610 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,400 it other way you wanted to go. The fact of the matter is what 611 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,520 we're interested in is what does the Bible say? 612 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:13,040 What the Bible shows us is, and this is what I emphasize, I 613 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,880 emphasize non miraculous. Some of my really good friends, 614 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,480 you know, just come up sometime. You 2 you come up with something 615 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,360 else. You change that. 616 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,240 As long as it teaches what I believe, I'll be glad to change 617 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:26,120 it. You know, I've been preaching 618 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,520 this now 5 to 10 years and not one person has come up with 619 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,320 something different. That's OK if they do, I don't 620 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,560 mind. I'm not. 621 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,600 I don't have some big high horse on it. 622 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,040 I just. Wanted to be sure to say what I 623 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,280 mean and mean what I say. Now here's the deal. 624 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,800 By non miraculous, it simply means it's none of these 625 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,960 miracles that were in this second column here, none of 626 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,080 these miracles. No, no, we're not living during 627 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,760 the days of miracles. And I want new people in church, 628 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,280 new converts. I want people who are not 629 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,320 acquainted with first Corinthian teaching and all that. 630 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,920 I want everybody to understand there's not today miraculous 631 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,840 powers like the word of yesteryear, but the. 632 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,480 Apostles and all of them. It's not here today. 633 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,640 It's fulfilled the studies of the 1st Corinthians 1213 and 14. 634 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,360 Let me just give you a brief point. 635 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:20,400 Chapter 12 will list you the 9 spiritual gifts of First 636 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,760 Corinthians. OK, First Corinthians 12 will 637 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,400 give you the 9 spiritual gifts. Chapter 13 is going to tell you 638 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,560 how long it's. Going to last They're going to 639 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,320 last for a limited amount of time. 640 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:36,040 The 9 Spiritual Gifts chapter 14 tells you how to utilize them 641 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,080 while they're currently in practice. 642 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:44,160 So that's chapter 12/13/14. And we learned this because the 643 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,000 Bible teaches it to us. Well, I do today. 644 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,200 Today, according to these scriptures that I'm getting 645 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,840 ready to read into the record, we believe they're going to 646 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:57,560 teach you the non miraculous and dwelling of the Holy Spirit. 647 00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:01,160 I'm not ashamed, I'm not embarrassed, I'm not intimidated 648 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,520 in any way, shape or form. I don't mind telling anybody and 649 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:10,360 everybody that we believe the Bible teaches non miraculous 650 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,400 indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Non miraculous. 651 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,760 Don't worry about the preachers of the day who believe in the 652 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,400 indwelling of the Holy Spirit going off the deep end because 653 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,400 they're not going anywhere but to book chapter verse to prove 654 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,480 their point. That's what everybody needs to 655 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,800 do. You can't find what the Holy 656 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,880 Spirit works on through the Word period. 657 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:37,640 You can't find that I want everybody to stay with God's 658 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,600 word. Now I'm not going to quote all 659 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:40,960 these verse. I'm not going to read all of 660 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,400 them actually. But here at the. 661 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,280 Passage. I do want to read these into the 662 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,720 record now. I'm miraculously dwell in the 663 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,640 Holy Spirit. Romans, the 8th chapter, verse 9 664 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,320 through 11. I'll be back there in a moment. 665 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:57,120 Acts 2, verse 3839. Acts 5, verse 32, The 4th 666 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,840 passage, First Corinthian 316, The 5th passage, First 667 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:05,520 Corinthian 6th 18 through 26th passage, Galatians four and six, 668 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,600 7 second 10114 That's just a little bit of them. 669 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,960 It's a whole bunch we can give. I want you to understand this 670 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,320 right here. The thus saith the Lord this 671 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,160 right here the book chapter verse given to us by God 672 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,360 Almighty, inspired by the Holy Spirit and this all flows 673 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:32,680 together so beautifully it is magnificent yes today we all 674 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,200 need to believe in the non miraculous that is we don't 675 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,640 believe in the miracles today because that first one then 676 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,800 12/13/14 tells us what they are and how long they're going to 677 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,920 last and they. They have taken care of their 678 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,600 time. They're not hate, but we do 679 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,320 believe in the non miraculous. We do believe in the endweller. 680 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,520 Why don't we believe in the endweller? 681 00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:53,000 I'm getting there. Hang tight, I'm going to. 682 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,960 Be there in just a moment, but we believe what the non 683 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,720 miraculous Now get that in your head and get to think about it 684 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:04,040 by non miraculous these non miracles and dwelling of the 685 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,000 Holy Spirit Romans 8 All right, let's look at it. 686 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,000 I'm putting a little Bible mark here because I wanted to stop 687 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,120 here and I wanted to look. This is real easy to find. 688 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:21,440 Romans 8 verses 9/10/11 All right, 891011 that's pretty easy 689 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,160 to remember. Romans 8 verses 9/10/11 is going 690 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,480 to teach us how the Holy Spirit indwells. 691 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,960 Romans 8 verse 9 through 11. The Word of God says begin verse 692 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:37,120 9, but you're not in the flesh, but you're in the Spirit. 693 00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:41,480 If so, be that the Spirit of God dwell in you, You know what? 694 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,480 I know exactly how it does. Now He dwells in me. 695 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,440 Who does? The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of 696 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,600 God not here. He dwells in us. 697 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,720 Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of 698 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:53,640 his. Now let's tell everybody, get 699 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:58,640 your homework up to anybody who does not believe in the dwelling 700 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,520 of the Holy Spirit. If Christ, if the Holy Spirit is 701 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,240 not dwelling in you, you are none of His. 702 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,200 Do you understand that? That is serious business. 703 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,920 That's what the Bible says. If you do not have the Holy 704 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,000 Spirit dwelling in you, quote UN quote, He is none of his. 705 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,360 We are none of him. If we don't have the Holy Spirit 706 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,080 dwelling in us. Let me tell you one thing. 707 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,520 You better be thankful to your God. 708 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,000 You got the Holy Spirit dwelling in you. 709 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,200 That's Bible. Without the Holy Spirit dwelling 710 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,160 in us, we don't have it at all. All right, look at the nest 711 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,400 first. Oh, there's more from where that 712 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:36,320 came from verse 10 and if Christ be in you, the body is dead 713 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,760 because of sin, but the spirit is life because of 714 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,560 righteousness. But if the spirit of him the 715 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,240 raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he's raised up 716 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:49,400 Christ from the dead shall also quicken, which means to be 717 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,920 making life quicken. You are more the body and his 718 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:58,160 spirit that dwelleth in you. No, if, no as and no buts, you 719 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,120 have no doubt about it the. The Holy Spirit dwells in you. 720 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,880 It's said it two or three times right here in three verses. 721 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,760 You don't let anybody take that away from you. 722 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,040 This is Bible talk. This is Scripture. 723 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,240 This is Romans 8 verse. 9 through 11. 724 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,520 Very very important. So what did we learn from Romans 725 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:20,960 8? We learned the Holy Spirit 726 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,440 dwells in it. Therefore, when I say non 727 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,160 miraculous and dwell with the Holy Spirit, I get that from 728 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:31,200 Romans 8 verse 9 through 11. All right #2 Acts 238. 729 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,560 I want you to turn your Bible here back up a book. 730 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,960 We're in Romans, go back up to Acts. 731 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,520 I want to show you something very important here and I'm I'm 732 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,240 not going to write. It on the board because I'm 733 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:45,120 going to run out of room and I want to leave this on the board 734 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:50,520 for those who have chosen to take notes or take pictures, but 735 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:54,600 let's look at Acts 238. This is very, very important and 736 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,920 very consoling. It is so exciting. 737 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,360 This is God's will and God's way. 738 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,240 Acts the 2nd chapter, the beginning verse 14. 739 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,600 The Bible said Peter stood up with the 11. 740 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,800 He lift up his voice and began to preach and he's just 741 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,480 preaching his heart out all the way down. 742 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,600 And then all of a sudden about verse 34, he was interrupted and 743 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,040 they would want to know, you know, what shall we do? 744 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,200 He went down through actually verse 36, I'll read verse 36. 745 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,440 He said, therefore, let all the House of edition know assuredly 746 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,520 that God has made that same Jesus crucified both Lord and 747 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,000 Christ. So his sermon began in verse 14 748 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,920 through verse 36 and all of a sudden the people were just 749 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,520 really struck with their heart. They began to realize, wow, we 750 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,040 killed the Son of God. It's been prophesied for all 751 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,760 these years and we have murdered him. 752 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,240 What did they do? Verse 37, the word of God said 753 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,160 when they that's the Jewish people of the day at the at that 754 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,680 particular setting. Now when the Jews there, when 755 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,640 they heard this, they were printing their heart and they 756 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,800 said it to Peter. You maybe started sermon in 757 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,560 verse 14. They said it to Peter and to the 758 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,880 rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? 759 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,400 They knew they're in trouble. They knew they're getting ready 760 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,640 to lose their eternal soul. They knew they would go to hell. 761 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,400 They didn't change. Now we want to. 762 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,240 What shall we do? My dear friend, if any of you 763 00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:25,880 are lost today, you need to find out what shall we do? 764 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,160 Let's get rid of our sin. Let's get rid of our problem. 765 00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:33,280 Peter didn't hesitate. He didn't beat around the Bush. 766 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,520 He didn't him haul around. He said, tell you what, here's 767 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:37,880 where it's going to work. Right here. 768 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:42,800 And Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized. 769 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,640 Who? Everyone of you? 770 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,120 That's pretty inclusive, Everyone of you. 771 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,080 If you repent and you be baptized, everyone of you and 772 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:56,200 the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall 773 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:57,720 receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 774 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:05,560 That's all found in Acts 238. OK, now write down to I've got 775 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,920 several things right there. There's two major points from 776 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,440 this one verse, Acts 238 that I want you to write down if you 777 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,120 choose to do so. Number one, there are two 778 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,880 commandments in Acts 238. Number one is repentance. 779 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,440 Repent. Well, they said, what shall we 780 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,920 do? Peter said repent #1 #2 have 781 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,200 been baptized for the remission of your sins. 782 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,920 Those are the two commands in Acts 238. 783 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,000 That's what these shoes were told. 784 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,640 If you look down in verse 42, you can see about 3000 people 785 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,960 obeyed the gospel. So there are two commands #1 786 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,160 repent #2 be baptized. Not all of that. 787 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,000 There's two blessings in the same verse. 788 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,720 This is a lovely passage. The two blessings are and you 789 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:56,840 shall receive remission of sins. Number one, you shall receive 790 00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:57,560 the gift. Of the Holy. 791 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:05,080 Spirit #2 Now Christian friends, listen very important. 792 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,280 When did you receive the Holy? Spirit. 793 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,200 You receive the Holy Spirit the same time you receive remission 794 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:19,120 of your sins, and Acts 238 the same time you're baptized in the 795 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,120 name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and the 796 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,560 name of the Father, said Holy Spirit, and you're laid buried 797 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,320 in water, grave of baptism, you receive remission of sin. 798 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,240 And it's at that time, according to Acts 238, you receive 799 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,240 remission of sins and you've received the gift of the Holy 800 00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:38,320 Spirit. That what is that? 801 00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,520 It's a non miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit according to 802 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,720 Acts 238. Well, who does this all apply 803 00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:47,120 to? I know he said everyone of you 804 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,560 need to repent me baptized. Oh, let's look at it. 805 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,600 How long does this last? Verse 39, the very next verse, 806 00:46:55,640 --> 00:47:01,040 the word of God said, for the promise is under you. 807 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,760 That's you, the Jews. OK, that for the promise is 808 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:09,120 under you, the Jews. And to your children, that is 809 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,480 your generations to come, and to as many that are far off. 810 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,480 And that's your Gentile people. They not come. 811 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,480 They come in Acts 10, but they're not there yet. 812 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:23,800 OK, So it's to use the Jews to your ancestors to come and to 813 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,240 those who are far off. Which is the. 814 00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:30,280 Gentiles and then it said to as many as the Lord our God shall 815 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:36,000 call. I love that what we learned from 816 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,840 Acts 2 and verse 39 is similar to this, this same teaching that 817 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,720 applied on the day of Pentecost and Acts 2, that they need to 818 00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:48,440 repent and be baptized soon. Everyone of you in the name of 819 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,560 the Lord Jesus Christ for their mission, sin and you shall have 820 00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:52,800 sinned to give to the Holy Spirit. 821 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,720 That's the same thing that you need and I need when we obey the 822 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:56,320 gospel. Wow. 823 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,960 OK, I get that. You see, when we do things in 824 00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:07,960 Bible way, it is so easy. It is so easy. 825 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,520 I'm not making this complicated. I'm giving you the verses. 826 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,760 I'm just maybe illustrating the points. 827 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,320 But all these verses are very amazing. 828 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:20,000 OK, now we've been in Acts 2. That's going over to Acts 5. 829 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,560 I love this one too. I know you say you love them 830 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:23,360 all. Yeah, I do. 831 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,600 Guilty Acts 532. The Bible said God. 832 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:34,800 Give the Holy Spirit to who? To them that obey Him. 833 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,600 Dear friends, when we obey the gospel, we become a child of 834 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,960 God, a son or daughter of God. Almighty God will give the Holy 835 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,560 Spirit to all of them that are obeyed. 836 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,040 Well, when is he going to do that? 837 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,440 Well, when you're baptized, according to Acts 238. 838 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,360 That's what it says. Repent, be baptized, You'll 839 00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:54,680 receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 840 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,120 Level of permission of sin. Nothing hard about that. 841 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,200 This is all Bible here. All right, let's go to 1st 842 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,120 Corinthians. There's two passages, First 843 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:08,440 Corinthians 3 verse 16 and 1st Corinthians 6 verse 18 through 844 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,040 20. Take a good look here. 845 00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,440 I mean, just take it for what it says and you'll be so excited to 846 00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,240 have learned these truths. All right, so let's go together. 847 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,880 First Corinthians 3 and verse 16. 848 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:28,400 The word God said, no, you not, but that you are the temple of 849 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,360 God and that the Spirit of God, that's Holy Spirit, the Spirit 850 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:36,360 of God dwells in you. Now, is there anybody here? 851 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,320 Nobody raise your hand or speak up, but is there anybody here 852 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,000 that don't believe that? I don't believe there's a single 853 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,240 person. Here that don't believe that it 854 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:48,960 says right here 1st 316 don't you know or know you not that 855 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,280 the temple of God and that the Spirit of God, was there anybody 856 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,600 that does not believe that? No, I don't believe there's 857 00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:57,880 anybody here that doesn't believe that. 858 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,760 I'll be shocked if anybody here doesn't believe that. 859 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,480 I'll tell you what you we do believe. 860 00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,200 We believe not non miraculous, no miracle. 861 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,720 And one of the Holy Spirit first in the 316 said your body is a 862 00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,640 temple of the Holy Spirit. Oh, flip on over three chapters. 863 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:18,800 Go to chapter 6, chapter 6, First Corinthians 6 and let's 864 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,600 look here please, verses 18 through 20. 865 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,000 This is continued reinforcement. Paul is addressing it so clean, 866 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,120 so clear here. It is so wonderful. 867 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,160 First friends and sits. Please begin verse 18. 868 00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,600 He says flee fornication. He's talking about some 869 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:41,280 individual who's been immoral. He says flee fornication, so 870 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,400 understand that he's talking to an individual. 871 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,600 And then he said every sin that a man doeth is without the body. 872 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,520 He that committeth fornication sentence against his own body. 873 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,560 Have you ever thought of that? If you commit immorality, you've 874 00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,040 sinned against your own body. That's not even what we're 875 00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,720 preaching over the night. But it's pretty. 876 00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:02,480 Important, isn't it? Now look at verse 19. 877 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,440 Verse 19 says what? One word sentence? 878 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:11,600 What he said no you not that your body is the temple of the 879 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,000 Holy Ghost, which is in you. I want to ask you a question 880 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,120 right now. Is your body a temple of the 881 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,160 Holy Ghost? That's what the Bible says. 882 00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,360 That's your body, a temple of the Holy Ghost. 883 00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,040 This verse says what No, you not. 884 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,760 Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, 885 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,160 which you have of God. You're not your own. 886 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:34,080 You got it from God, so why? Don't complain, don't bellyache, 887 00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:36,760 don't try to figure out a way to excuse it away. 888 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,400 Just simply embrace it because that's put Chuck and verse from 889 00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,200 the Bible that teaches us the holy. 890 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,840 Spirit, according to the New Testament, This is why this is 891 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:50,360 so very important. He said your body, your body. 892 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,800 You remember the previous verse 18, I said he's talking to an 893 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:58,600 individual and he says fleet fornication, fleet fornication. 894 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,360 You sin, you commit fornication, you sin against your own body, 895 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,720 he said. Why don't you know your body? 896 00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,280 Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. 897 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,600 You know what that means? It means the Holy Spirit dwells 898 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:14,080 in you. Wow, that's. 899 00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:19,440 Refreshing. Thank you Lord for these great 900 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,840 verses that teach us the great truth. 901 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:26,280 OK look at verse 20, the last verse of first one and six for 902 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,480 you. Bought with the price. 903 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,880 Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit. 904 00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:38,320 Which are God's wow, I, I just totally love that all of this is 905 00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:42,320 coming together so beautifully and so well that there's no room 906 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,240 to argue. There's, there's every bit of 907 00:52:45,240 --> 00:52:48,640 the room to embrace it because this is God's will. 908 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,760 Some of you have heard sermons that I preached on YouTube. 909 00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:57,320 There's two or three sermons out there on it and other places 910 00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,040 that I've held meetings and they record and one thing after 911 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,240 another. Well listen, you know all the 912 00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:05,200 sermons may vary a little bit because I'm emphasizing one 913 00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,320 thing or another, but they all going to take the same thing and 914 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,880 that's right here. The 9 miraculous involved in the 915 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,960 Holy Spirit. OK, now I want you to go to 916 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,520 Galatians. This is really, really good. 917 00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:21,680 Galatians 4 and verse 6. Now the Church of Galatians, we 918 00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:26,200 talked a little bit about it last evening for this is really 919 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,880 promising to us and we'll find out why God gives us hell. 920 00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,920 The Spirit. Whoa, don't we want to know 921 00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,120 that? But here it is Galatians 4 and 922 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,200 verse 6. The word of God said, And 923 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:45,200 because ye are sons. God has sent forth the Spirit. 924 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:46,720 That's your Holy Spirit right there. 925 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,160 God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, I 926 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:51,920 have a father. Why? 927 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,400 It said right at the beginning, because you are sons, because 928 00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:00,000 you're baptized believers, because you've obeyed the gospel 929 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,720 God. God has sent forth His Holy 930 00:54:03,720 --> 00:54:06,960 Spirit into yours, and your of His Son into your hearts. 931 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:12,280 Crying to have a father, Wow. So when you look at these 932 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:16,160 passages and all of a sudden you began to see the power of the 933 00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,640 passage and the power of the Word of God, it begins to be 934 00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:23,520 real and it is so very real. All right. 935 00:54:23,720 --> 00:54:27,200 The last verse under this category of non miraculous and 936 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,920 dwell in the Holy Spirit is found in the young preacher 937 00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,760 Timothy receiving a letter. The second Timothy chapter 1. 938 00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,520 You don't hear many people talk about this particular passage, 939 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,560 so I want to talk with you briefly about it this evening. 940 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:48,000 Second Peter 1, verse 14. Listen carefully, please. 941 00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:54,160 That good thing which is committed unto thee, keep by. 942 00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,200 The Holy Ghost whom dwelleth in US. 943 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,160 You know what? I can read you a list about 944 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:02,960 passages that I don't have on the board. 945 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,360 Holy Spirit dwells in you Holy Spirit dwells in you. 946 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:07,840 Holy Spirit dwells in you. Holy Spirit dwells in you. 947 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,480 There's no need to argue about. That just accept it because 948 00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:17,120 that's God's way this verse right here said it so clear Holy 949 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,800 Ghost which dwelleth in US. Who's going to deny that? 950 00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,160 Nobody who believes in the word of. 951 00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:25,000 God. Well, what we're learning. 952 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:29,960 Here, even with these few verses, we're learning that God 953 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,600 has a plan. He started way back here, way, 954 00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,880 way back to Genesis, but in the New Testament started right here 955 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:39,200 with Jesus, then the apostles, then those that laid hands on 956 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,040 here in the day, the spiritual gifts, and now for me and you, 957 00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,800 the non miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 958 00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,880 Well, the one question that was asked essentially every time 959 00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:53,280 I've given this lesson, it's my final point from the night 960 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,640 that's right here. Why does the Holy Spirit do for 961 00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,640 us according to the New Testament? 962 00:56:01,240 --> 00:56:05,160 I'm glad we talked about that, but early on I just simply 963 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:09,240 talked the lesson and then we, I think we'll take up the next 964 00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:11,000 part a little bit later. But I. 965 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,360 Found out. No, no, no. 966 00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:13,720 People want to talk about it now. 967 00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,800 They'll accept the fact that the Holy Spirit runs in you. 968 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:18,680 They'll accept them. They won't know what they can do 969 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,760 for you. OK, let's talk about that and 970 00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,120 then we will. To begin to think about 971 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:25,800 concluding y'all have been wonderful tonight. 972 00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:27,880 I told you last night I'm going to go a little longer. 973 00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,280 So I'm doing that Madam, I worried. 974 00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,320 OK, look at it. Romans 826 Here's what we're 975 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,480 going to do. And I've designed this in a way 976 00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:41,000 because I knew I'd be running late on time, just self 977 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,320 appointed. Nobody has given me a time, but 978 00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,480 I'm going to. Romans and Ephesians and there's 979 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,160 many other verses we could go to. 980 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,480 But this is enough for what we need tonight. 981 00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:53,680 This will help us to know. What the Holy Spirit does 982 00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:58,080 according to the New Testament. Let's look at Romans 826, Romans 983 00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,640 8 and 27, and then we go to Ephesians. 984 00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,160 All right, everybody, please turn over. 985 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,760 This is big. This is big news right here. 986 00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:10,640 This is headline news. All right, Romans 8 and 26. 987 00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,960 Listen carefully here. The Bible says likewise the 988 00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:18,280 Spirit talk about Holy Spirit now likewise the Spirit also 989 00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:21,560 helpeth our infirmities. Well #1 thank you. 990 00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,200 The Holy Spirit helps our affirmative. 991 00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,560 Guess what? We all have infirmities. 992 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,480 It is so great to know the Holy Spirit will help our 993 00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,200 affirmative. For we know not what we should 994 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:38,000 pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself get hold of this. 995 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,040 The Spirit itself makes intercession for us as grown as 996 00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,480 they cannot be uttered. Listen to that. 997 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:50,880 That is absolutely wonderful. The Holy Spirit intercedes for 998 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:56,080 your prayers when you pray our Father, which art in heaven, and 999 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,040 you let your requests be made known unto God, and you come 1000 00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:04,440 boldly under the throne of God. The Holy Spirit intercedes for 1001 00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,680 your prayers according to the will of God. 1002 00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:14,320 So when you pray, you understand your prayers being heard by God 1003 00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,840 in the name of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. 1004 00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:18,400 He intercedes. You don't what the word 1005 00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,920 intercedes me. It just simply means to speak on 1006 00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:24,680 behalf of another. So the Holy Spirit is to speak 1007 00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:29,880 to God on your behalf. Wow, I love that I may butcher 1008 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:31,880 up a prayer I may not even finish. 1009 00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,360 I remember times I wouldn't sleep there and praying with my 1010 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,080 kids and they said, Dad, wake up, finish your prayer. 1011 00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,440 Yeah. Hey listen, the Holy Spirit will 1012 00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,880 let us see for your prayers. According to the will of God, 1013 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,240 the Bible says according to the New Testament, it would do that. 1014 00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:52,080 So when you look at Romans 826, what we learn is Holy Spirit 1015 00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,800 will help within our affirmatives because we don't 1016 00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,520 always know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Holy 1017 00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,480 Spirit will let us see for you according to the will of God. 1018 00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:05,000 It just does my heart good to know that the Holy Spirit will 1019 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,400 intercede from my prayers. Now I'm not ever going to in 1020 00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:11,320 depth on this. For some reason I feel like I'm 1021 00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:12,680 rushed from giving my lesson here. 1022 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,520 But I know it's a little late but give me a little bit more 1023 00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:17,280 time here. Thank you. 1024 00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,880 The reason I feel it's so important that we understand 1025 00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:26,400 intercession is that when you speak on behalf of another, 1026 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,480 you're interceding for them. For an example, if someone asks 1027 00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,160 you, please pray for me, you know you're glad to do that. 1028 00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,240 Pray for your brother, pray for your sister, whoever it is. 1029 00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,040 Did you know when you do that you're interceding for them? 1030 00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:44,040 You look at first Timothy 2 verses one and two, and the 1031 00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:48,440 Bible teaches that you intercede from one another by your 1032 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,080 prayers. Wow, that's neat. 1033 00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:56,080 Not only that, if you're back at Romans and not read the verse 1034 00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,680 but take it on, just tell you what it says, but Romans 8 verse 1035 00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:02,400 34 it said Jesus also intercedes for us. 1036 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,640 So when I pray for you or you pray for me, we're into seeing 1037 01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,240 for one another. According to first Timothy 2, 1038 01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:13,200 verse one and two, Jesus and the seas for us, the Holy Spirit and 1039 01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:15,280 the seas. We pray to God the Father in the 1040 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,640 name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit goes to work. 1041 01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:21,560 My dear friends, big things happen when we put God first in 1042 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:22,120 our. Life. 1043 01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,440 Don't you dare ever walk away from the Lord now. 1044 01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:29,360 You've got so many blessings to come your way because you've 1045 01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:32,640 obeyed the gospel and become a member of God's family. 1046 01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:38,760 OK, now let's look at Romans 8. We read 26. 1047 01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,000 You could look verse 27 also, but let's go ahead and go down 1048 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:45,000 to Ephesians just for uniqueness sake. 1049 01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,160 Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 2 and Ephesians 3. 1050 01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,320 Matter of fact, I've got a sermon in the making right now. 1051 01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,280 The Holy Spirit in the book of Ephesians. 1052 01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,680 It's amazing what all Ephesians said about it. 1053 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,880 But that's just a little teaser for another sermon whenever I'm 1054 01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:04,080 back out in California sometime. But you maybe would hear that 1055 01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:05,040 sermon. All right, let's. 1056 01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,440 Look at Ephesians. I'm going to look at chapter 1, 1057 01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:11,640 chapter 2, and chapter 3 now. This chapter one will really 1058 01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:15,280 blow your socks off. It's amazing. 1059 01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,800 It is so encouraging. Look at it. 1060 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:21,560 Ephesians chapter 1. Here's what the Bible says, 1061 01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,600 verse 13 and verse 14, by the way. 1062 01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:31,160 Ephesians one verse 13 and 14, and whom you also trusted, after 1063 01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,840 you have heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your 1064 01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:39,680 salvation, and whom also you have believed you were sealed 1065 01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:45,560 with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of 1066 01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,480 our inheritance under the redemption of the purchased 1067 01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,680 possession, under the praise of this glory. 1068 01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,240 Wow. The whole lesson can be preached 1069 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:56,680 on those two verses. You're sealed with the Holy 1070 01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:02,880 Spirit of promise. It's kind of like a down payment 1071 01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,120 to buy a house or down payment to buy a car. 1072 01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:09,000 You've got just a little bit of what heaven has to offer that 1073 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:12,720 God has given to all of us. But we got future blessings to 1074 01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:15,920 come, eternal life in heaven. Listen, we're just to be. 1075 01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,400 Thankful to God Almighty for eternal life in heaven. 1076 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,880 And it's for everybody here that's faithful until the day 1077 01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,680 they die. I'm not afraid. 1078 01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:27,920 Listen, the devil doesn't stand a chance. 1079 01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:32,480 Not when you put the Lord first. The devil is a loser. 1080 01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:37,720 He is a loser. OK, flip chapter 2. 1081 01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:39,520 I'm just going to reference this passage. 1082 01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:42,800 We've already read it, chapter 2, verse 18, where the Holy 1083 01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:45,440 Spirit takes your prayers to the Father. 1084 01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:50,040 That's just an Ephesian passage. OK, flip on over to chapter 3 1085 01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,080 and verse 16. This is a really encouraging 1086 01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,560 passage. Ephesians the 3rd chapter verse 1087 01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:59,640 16 that he would grant you according to the riches of his 1088 01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:05,040 glory, to be strengthened with my house by his Spirit and the 1089 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,440 inner man. Now Christian friend, I want to 1090 01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:13,360 be honest with you. How many more verses do you need 1091 01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:19,240 to hear to believe that Holy Spirit dwelled in non righteous 1092 01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,800 way of indwelling in you the Holy Spirit, non righteous 1093 01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,800 indwelling the Holy Spirit. How many more verses here and 1094 01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,280 here do you need to believe that? 1095 01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,640 I want everybody here to believe it because this is Bible, this 1096 01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,320 is encouragement, this is helping you. 1097 01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,840 It's Holy Spirit's interceded to God for you. 1098 01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,560 You learned it from the day you were baptized, and that's 2:38. 1099 01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,120 That's when you get it. You learned it from many 1100 01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:51,280 generations down. The Lord has prayed for us, my 1101 01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:52,640 friend. This is all Bible. 1102 01:03:53,160 --> 01:04:00,400 It's absolutely all Bible. One of the hardest jobs I had 1103 01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,120 tonight was figure out what to include and what not to include. 1104 01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,160 If I was going to hold a whole weekend meeting on the Holy 1105 01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,040 Spirit, then it wouldn't be hard at all. 1106 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:13,480 But being that I only had one night that I've designated to 1107 01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:16,920 speak on this topic because I really wanted to, because I want 1108 01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:20,760 you to understand the value of what the Holy Spirit would do 1109 01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,560 with you for you. According to Scripture, you 1110 01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:27,440 don't believe anything anybody says in the church or out of the 1111 01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,040 church about the Holy Spirit if they don't give you book, 1112 01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:31,840 chapter verse in the Bible to prove it. 1113 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,520 People mean well, but people can be mistaken. 1114 01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,760 When you get book, chapter, verse, you can get confirmation 1115 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,200 and that's what we need. But you've been magnificent. 1116 01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,600 I can keep on preaching. I think you'd keep on listening, 1117 01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:48,920 but thank you. If you're in this assembly 1118 01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:51,560 tonight and you've never obeyed the gospel, it's time. 1119 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:54,600 It's time for you. Because when you obey the gospel 1120 01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,640 for the admission of your sins and you've received the gift of 1121 01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,880 the Holy Spirit, my dear friend, the devil just takes off. 1122 01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:05,600 He runs away because he knows he is a defeated foe. 1123 01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,800 If you've obeyed the gospel, but you've not been living right, 1124 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,000 you've not been doing the right things, you're not actually 1125 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,080 right. Repent of your sins, confess 1126 01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:16,160 your faults. We'll pray with him for you that 1127 01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:20,640 your sins be all gone. We're here to serve you, to 1128 01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:24,640 serve the congregation. The leadership here is 1129 01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:28,640 encouraged by your presence, by your membership. 1130 01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:33,240 We're all one spiritually happy family and we need to work 1131 01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,360 together to help each other. Go to heaven. 1132 01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:37,520 Allow us together to work with you. 1133 01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:41,640 Please come. We thank you for listening to 1134 01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:47,000 our podcast put on by the Church of Christ at 2215 Plans Rd. in 1135 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,960 Bakersfield. If you would like any additional 1136 01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,240 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 1137 01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:57,160 correspondence course by mail, please e-mail us at 1138 01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:03,640 info@churchofchristbakersfield.com. 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