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You are listening to the Anchor 
Faith Church message podcast, 

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enjoy the message. 
Well, I'm Pastor Vanessa for 

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those that don't know me. 
I am usually behind those behind

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that wall back there with our 
kiddos and Nautilus kindergarten

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through fifth grade, which is an
honor. 

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I get to minister to them 
Sundays and Wednesdays and it's 

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a pure delight. 
So you're going to get a little 

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object lessons tonight because I
do that quite frequently over 

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there. 
So the title of my message 

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tonight. 
It is called get a grip. 

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Everybody say Get a Grip. 
Say Get a Grip. 

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We're going to talk about what 
it means to get a grip and how 

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to do that tonight and how to 
maintain that grip. 

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Amen. 
As I was coming, I got lots of 

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scripture, so I'm going to try 
to get through all the them 

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tonight. 
It is an honor to stand behind 

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this. 
Pulpit pastors are Lamar see or 

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of course, it can't meeting 
right now. 

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And if you have not heard Pastor
the last few days, he has been 

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on fire. 
About faith in, it's been 

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awesome. 
So we want to continue to lift 

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them up and prayer. 
Is there an Oklahoma? 

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Getting soaking up the word? 
You know if he's ministered the 

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word and so we want to continue 
to lift them up for the next few

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services that they'll be there 
and he'll be returning back, I 

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believe for Sunday service so 
that all the way into the 

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parking lot. 
I got this scripture wasn't even

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on my notes, so I just added it 
to and this is a really good 

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scripture in 2nd. 
Timothy 3:16, you know, we all 

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came tonight for service, we all
have a part to play when we come

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to serve. 
It's not just about the past or 

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the teacher, the preacher 
whoever's behind the pulpit, we 

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all come and have something to 
give and we all just 

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participated in worship. 
That's one of the elements of 

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that. 
But we you hit, there's giftings

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that God has placed and put in 
the body where he sees fit and 

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you need to come expecting every
service because God has you to 

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be here for the part of this 
service. 

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Amen. 
And I like 2nd, Timothy 3:16 

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that says all scripture is 
god-breathed, you know? 

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Spinning about him, the breath 
in our lungs. 

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But he it all the scripture that
he's given us in his word is 

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god-breathed and is useful for 
teaching, rebuking correcting 

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and training in righteousness. 
That was the NIV version NLT 

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Version. 
New Living Translation, says 

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this, it says all scripture is 
inspired by God and it is useful

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to teach us what is true and 
make us realize what is wrong in

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our lives. 
It corrects us when we are wrong

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and it teaches us to do what is 
right. 

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You know, many times in a 
message we you know we don't 

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come just to hear all the 
positive, the feel good, you 

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know, robbery you're doing 
awesome. 

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This is good. 
We you know there's sometimes a 

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little bit of both so tonight's 
gonna be a little bit of both 

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you know we're going to talk 
about there's going to be some 

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that you're going to take this 
as a correction. 

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Others is going to say. 
Yes. 

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That's what I needed to hear. 
I just I needed to get out of 

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what I'm doing and I need to 
change some things. 

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So sometimes there's a little 
bit of both, you know, there's 

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some teaching. 
There's some training. 

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Ultimately God is speaking 
through his word so that we will

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live a Victorious. 
Aureus life. 

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You know, he didn't put his 
places worth places human, a 

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Humanity on Earth to fail. 
That wasn't the original intent.

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We know in their original intent
of his kingdom was for us to 

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flourish on the earth and take 
dominion and have rule over the 

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Earth. 
It wasn't for man to sin. 

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And disobey but praise God, he 
had a plan and all of that, you 

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know, was was changed by because
of his son, Jesus living out in 

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fulfilling his purpose. 
Amen. 

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Well tonight, I want to Define 
for you. 

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You the phrase, get a grip ever,
say Get a Grip. 

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All right? 
So if you, you know, raise your 

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hand, if you've heard that 
phrase ever before used, okay, 

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you might have used it. 
Somebody might have told you, 

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but here's some here is the deck
dictionary, definition of grip. 

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It's the act of grasping seizing
holding fast or a firm grasp of 

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something to hold faster 
gripping of something or to 

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take. 
Hold of. 

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Even one of the definitions is 
to take hold on the And 

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specifically to have a firm grip
in your mind. 

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Okay, here's some Street 
definitions. 

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Okay when a person has their, 
let's throw emotions take 

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control of their actions and 
their thoughts in and that's 

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when people will, sometimes tell
someone somebody else. 

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Hey, get a grip. 
You know, another way is how 

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someone understands. 
How to deal with something. 

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Another definition is something.
That's obviously not right. 

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In an Ocean or in a situation 
and needs to be repaired. 

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It needs to be, you know, it 
needs to get things, right? 

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So get a grip. 
It's to make an effort to 

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control your emotions and tuba 
cave more calmly. 

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And one, you know, sentence, 
that they gave which I thought 

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was good. 
As I just think he ought to get 

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a grip on himself. 
He's behaving like a child, 

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right? 
I think the only time we should 

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be behaving like a child is when
we have childlike Faith, right? 

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And his kingdom, other than 
that, we should be able to 

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handle some mature word. 
Right. 

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We've been if you've been in 
church for any length of time, 

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you know? 
The word is fresh. 

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Every time it's spoken, right? 
If you haven't, if you sir first

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time with you with us tonight, 
welcome, we welcome you to 

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Anchor Faith Church. 
We have a saying around here. 

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It's you can't experience. 
Anchor, Faith Church. 

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You got to come back. 
Five times case in point, you 

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will always hear me. 
You want to come back. 

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When you can hear Pastor Earle 
some of our other administrative

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staff that Minister, you know, 
God's got some great gifts 

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within our staff and within in 
this body. 

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So you want to make sure you 
come back and experience it so, 

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and if you are new to here in 
the scripture, just open your 

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open, your ears to hear tonight 
because God's going to speak 

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something to you. 
So, you can get a firm grip, 

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say, Get a Grip. 
See, God doesn't want us to be 

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led by our emotions. 
He doesn't want us to be on the 

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hamster. 
Wheel of just doing the same 

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thing. 
The way we've always done it. 

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He wants us to have a firm grip 
in him. 

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And he is the only one that we 
need to have our hold of in our 

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grip to our passage at we're 
going to start out tonight, is 

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in John 14. 
So what should I hang on with 

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me? 
We're going to read a little bit

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and then we're going to kind of 
dissect it throughout the 

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evening, but we're going to go 
to John chapter 14 in the living

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Bible. 
So I'm going to highlight a few 

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things as a re on and this is 
Jesus you know I love how he 

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gives us the model of training 
his disciples, he spent that 

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time with him, we know 43. 
Years. 

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They were out doing Ministry and
it was a training session for 

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them so we can take a lot from 
the Bible when it comes to what 

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God was doing with his 
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You know we are still being made
disciples so we need to always 

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go back and have that training 
but I love how he's telling his 

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disciples about some things that
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So here in John 14, he says in 
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says, let not your heart be 
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Now trusted me there are many 
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lives and I'm going to prepare 
them for your coming when 

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everything is ready, then I will
come and get you so that you can

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always be with me where I am. 
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So I would have told you plainly
and you know where I'm going and

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how to get there. 
Thomas says, no we don't. 

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He says we haven't any idea 
where you're going so how can we

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know the way? 
So he's going to give a little 

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correction little bit more 
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He said this is Jesus. 
He says I And the way. 

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Yes, and the truth and the life,
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except by me. 
If you have known who I am, then

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you would have known who my 
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him and have seen him, Philip 
said, sir, show us the father 

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and we will be satisfied and 
she's rude. 

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Jesus replied. 
Don't you even know that? 

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I am who I am Phillip. 
Even after all this time, I have

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been with you. 
Anyone who has seen me, has seen

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the father. 
So why are you asking to see 

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him? 
Don't you believe that I am the 

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father and the father is in me. 
The words, I say are not my own,

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but are from my father who lives
in me and does his work through 

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me verse 11, just believe it 
that I am the father and the 

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father is in me, or else believe
it, because the mighty Miracles 

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you have seen in me. 
Got to remember. 

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They've been with him. 
So they've spent some time with 

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him. 
They've seen his character. 

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They've seen what he said come 
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And again they needed a little 
bit of reminding so we go and 

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verse 15. 
If you love me obey me and I 

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will ask the father and he will 
give you another comforter and 

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he will never leave you verse 
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He is the Holy Spirit. 
The spirit who leads into all 

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Truth, The World At Large cannot
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Isn't looking for him and 
doesn't recognize him but you do

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for he lives with you now and 
someday shall be in you You so 

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Jesus is preparing him. 
I've got to go away. 

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Another one's going to come. 
I need you to be ready because 

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he's going to not only just be 
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He's going to be in you, he's 
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preparing them and he says again
I'd I won't bow abandoned you or

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leave you as orphans in the 
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I will come to you in just a 
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I'll be gone from the world but 
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With you for again, you will 
have it too. 

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When I come back to life you 
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and you and me and I in you 
verse 21, the one who obeys me 

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is the one who loves me and 
because he loves me, my father 

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will love him and I will too and
I will reveal myself to him. 

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I'm going to go down to verse 
24. 

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It says anyone who doesn't obey 
me doesn't love me and remember,

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I'm not making up this answer to
your question. 

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It is the answer given by the 
father whose Sent me and again, 

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he's reiterating. 
But the father sends the 

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comforter. 
So, the father, I'm going up to 

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the father, but another one's 
coming, and it's called the 

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comforter. 
I mean, the Holy Spirit. 

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He will teach you much as well 
as remind you of everything. 

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I have told you myself, I am 
leaving you with a gift, peace 

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of mind and heart and the peace 
I give isn't fragile like the 

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peace, the world gives so don't 
be Troubled. 

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Or afraid. 
Remember what I told you. 

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I am going away but I'm coming 
back to you again. 

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So he again, he's stirring up 
his disciples. 

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I've got to leave. 
I'm going to send the comforter.

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I've got to go, but I'm coming 
back, but I'm sending something 

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in my place, don't trust in the 
Peace of the world. 

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Don't let your heart be troubled
but Be ready because I have 

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something for you. 
So we're going to read on, in 

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verse 28. 
Remember what I've told you, I'm

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going away verse 29. 
I have told you these things 

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before they happen, so that when
they do, you will believe in me 

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again, he said I'm more time to 
talk. 

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I've, we got to go now, so he's 
given him some instructions, 

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given some training, preparing 
them, right. 

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And in The Message Bible, I'm 
going to point out a few things 

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and verse six and seven. 
He says, this is the same 

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scripture reference in chapter 
14, but he's saying, I am the 

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road also, Oh the truth, also 
the life. 

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Like how he they break that 
down, he's the road, he's the 

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way he's the path, he's the life
in the truth. 

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And then in verse, when he's 
talking about the spirit of 

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Truth coming in verse 15 says if
you love me show it by doing 

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what I have told you, right? 
That's how we show our love for 

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the father is by doing his word.
That is what shows it? 

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Amen. 
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to the father and he will 
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that you will always have 
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This friend is the spirit of 
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take it. 
I can't take it because it 

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doesn't have eyes to see. 
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for. 
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because he has been staying with
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fellowshipped with him. 
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relationship with Jesus and now 
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I'm not going to be here 
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something intimate. 
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that's going to be close with 
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of 14, you know, he speaks to 
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training, he's bringing them 
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Even if they don't realize they 
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In that moment, he's bringing 
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He's telling them of what what 
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Um he's reminding them of who he
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same, you know, you know me you 
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father God you know me were the 
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Instead he said if you live as 
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will obey another key thing in 
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you love Then you're obeying. 
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I mean if you're praying, you 
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work. 
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precursor that if I don't go and
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guess what. 
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earth until that happens. 
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using his name in prayer and 
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something will be sent a 
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is the holy spirit. 
Everybody say Get a Grip. 

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Say Get a Grip if you want to 
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hold fast to the holy spirit 
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because the holy spirit will 
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A lot of different things that 
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We're going to be able to just 
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But I want to encourage you that
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life, and you have the Holy 
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witness with you that truth, So 
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know chaos is happening in the 
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upon the one that lives on the 
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telling of the truth that God's 
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you the peace, that passes all 
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It's the one who's going to 
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we're going to talk about it as 
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But I like, you know, I didn't 
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going to sing that tonight, but 
there's a few definitions of the

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The word, Holy Spirit in the 
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So I've got three different ones
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point out. 
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wind and river, and he's really 
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I might butcher this little bit 
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is Nu 0, which is the word that 
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low means lungs, basically, but 
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wind or to breathe. 
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Other one is parakletos, I'm 
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parrot. 
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always think about the parrot 
being there, you know, a parrot 

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always on the shoulder but it's 
an advocate. 

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Several different definitions 
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call to one's a tour alongside 
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descriptors for. 
That one is Advocate intercessor

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counselor comforter and helper 
so there's five different things

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right there that the Holy Spirit
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help with us. 
Right? 

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It's next to us to Aid in our 
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it's our Helper. 
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no, which is to stay abide and 
remain which is what he does. 

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Whenever we're born again. 
He comes to live and reside as 

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our spirit man, he that's two, 
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Then in Christ we've been says 
the old is gone and the new has 

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come and now the whole Lee 
Spirit than a child Wells on the

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inside of us. 
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And he desires to remain there 
to be that comforter to be that 

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helper to be the one that we 
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to give us that strength. 
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Ephesians 2:6 tells us that says
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him and seated him in Heavenly 
places in Christ Jesus, you 

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know, when he When were born 
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We've got the Holy Spirit and, 
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this. 
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this drop down on my spirit. 
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you know, an assistant, but the 
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an assistant. 
You know, an assistant, the 

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thing about that is I always 
joke and say I need an assistant

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would love to have one and be 
great, right? 

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Because I have a lots of 
different things and I was like,

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I love to give that to somebody.
D to do but you know an 

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assistant you go and tell them 
what to do you know really in 

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job descriptions they have 
different tasks that need to do.

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But a personal assistant will 
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go pick up, go pick up the 
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laundry. 
I need to go take care of this, 

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you know, normally they take 
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But then if you know, or if they
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for me and say, I didn't want 
him to do anymore, I could 

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choose to say. 
Yeah, I don't need you, I don't 

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need you to work on that for me 
or, you know, I'll call you when

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I need you, right? 
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do with the Holy Spirit at all. 
We want to utilize the service 

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within all the time, right? 
In fact an assistant you know 

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sometimes an assistant can know 
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doing that they could you know, 
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essence, an assistant knows of 
everything right. 

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But The one of the world's 
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person who ranks below a senior 
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holy spirit is. 
We actually are seated with him.

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We're working alongside each 
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assistant now an assistant does 
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the Holy Spirit helps in all the
works of our life and every 

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facet. 
And every every day there's not 

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a day that the Holy spirit says 
I don't feel like coming in. 

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I'm calling in sick today. 
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I'm hitting the snooze know, the
holy spirit is all they always 

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there when we're sleeping in the
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How many of you were getting 
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night because something on the 
insides prompted you to pray to 

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get up and pray, that's the Holy
Spirit who doesn't sleep. 

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He's oh he's awake and his 
abiding. 

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You all the time and know what's
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going on and can give You 
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amen. 
So, in the world system, you can

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pick and choose been God's 
system. 

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The one that's full of perfect. 
Peace. 

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If you just have, let him abide 
in you and let him remain in 

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You will have what you need. 

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Amen. 
So we don't want it. 

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We don't want the assistant. 
We want the good gripper will 

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call him. 
The good. 

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Gripper we get good grip. 
Say Get a Grip. 

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See, we want to have a firm 
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In order to do that, we have to 
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know that, like I said, in 
Ephesians 2:6 that we have been 

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seated in Heavenly places far 
above. 

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Amen, far above. 
So the Holy Spirit when you're 

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born again, has been added to 
your life. 

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It's an asset to your life. 
It is better than an assistant 

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but it's not the fur. 
It's the firm grip of the word 

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of God in your life using the 
Holy Spirit. 

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That's going to give you the 
victory and keep you in the 

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Victory and keep you have. 
Being a firm grip on life so 

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that your emotions aren't going 
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but they're firm in what the 
word says, amen. 

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And so, the greater one on the 
inside. 

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I know you're probably wondering
why I've got gifts up here doing

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open them, let's open. 
All right, because earlier, when

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we read in chapter 14, I love 
how he said that, he was going 

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to send in verse. 
Let's see where it's at. 

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He says, in verse 27, of chapter
14, I am leaving with you, a 

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gift, a peace of mind and 
hearts, he got promised a gift 

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that he would send. 
He was given that instruction to

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his disciples and he doesn't 
desire that we just run to him 

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when we have a problem. 
It's God didn't design this 

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whole his kingdom for us, just 
to have like an escape plan or a

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catastrophe plan, or emergency 
plan. 

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It was to have ever lasting 
everyday Victorious life. 

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And, you know, it makes me think
about things that you get gifts 

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that, you get that you often 
forget about, you know, who I 

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can't even remember what did you
get for Christmas? 

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That was like, Like seems like 
three years ago because this 

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year has been so long but can 
anybody remember what you got 

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for Christmas? 
Maybe not right. 

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And I can I can. 
The one gifts that are most 

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memorable to me are the ones 
that usually I get the most or 

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my family gets the most use out 
of right? 

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And there's a couple things I 
can think of right now to were 

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one big thing that we use all 
the time. 

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Any time we're doing 
construction in our home years 

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ago. 
Someone gave us this little 

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light that you plug in and you 
can hang it anywhere. 

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And every time we do something 
in the That requires lighting, 

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my husband goes and grabs that. 
It's just, that's one of those 

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gifts that we got that has been 
so useful over and over and over

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again and we use it, right? 
But there's other things that 

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I've gotten that, you know, I 
might have been excited at the 

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moment that I got it, just like 
your children at Christmas. 

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They're excited that they got 
the toy, but then, come next 

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week, they've already forgotten 
about it and if they're a 

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toddler, they just wanted the 
Box. 

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Anyways, that's that was the 
most fun that they had, right? 

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But it makes me think about, you
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kitchen. 
You know, some of you are, I'm 

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sure love to cook and I know 
everyone who loves to eat. 

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So at some point in your life, 
you have something to do with 

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the kitchen, right? 
So, it makes me think of gifts 

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that you get that somehow wind 
up in the back of the drawer. 

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The bottom of a cabinet 
somewhere things like this. 

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The pro Professionals for 
professionals pineapple slicer, 

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you know, any one of those you, 
this is like one of those things

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you use every day, right? 
This is one of those little 

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gadgets kitchen gadgets. 
You get it. 

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And yes it's on the front of 
the, it's right on your your 

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kitchen counter and you use it 
every day, right? 

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No know who's going to use the 
professionals pineapple slicer. 

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Nope that's one of those 
forgotten items or this one. 

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Like Christmas in July, right? 
Captain, many cast iron 

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rectangular Skillet, right 
because you're just going to 

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make yourself a macaroni and 
cheese Skillet, right? 

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No one in here is going to 
share, right? 

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So yeah, this one's really going
to get used as an it right. 

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Okay, how about let's see, 
what's in the bags here? 

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Not this one, it might be 
promising. a 1 ounce citrus 

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juicer, a 1 ounce because 
Somebody's making some yummy 

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lemonade out of these lemons, 
right? 

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okay, so I've got a couple more 
Let's see what's this one. 

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A scoop and slice tropical fruit
tool, right? 

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Again. 
Another useful tool that you're 

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going to use all the time, 
right? 

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Yes, of course. 
Okay, couple more couple more 

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How can this one might be 
promising? 

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But go pods for your Eggies. 
Okay, listen, there's thousands 

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and thousands of products just 
like this one. 

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I mean I just picked a few. 
I mean I went on the website for

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Bed Bath and Beyond and I mean 
the options were endless. 

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I mean you never Wherever You 
Go. 

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I mean there's was 50 new 2020s 
top 50, kitchen utensils and 

446
00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:23,700
gadgets and gizmos. 
So yes you're definitely going 

447
00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:25,200
to boil your eggs and you're 
going to put them in the 

448
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:26,800
container and then you're going 
to take it to work with you. 

449
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,100
Sure you're going to remember 
that. 

450
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,500
That's going to happen. 
All right let's do this is a big

451
00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:32,000
boxes. 
Must be something fun. 

452
00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:44,300
Rip it open like we do on 
Christmas morning right now. 

453
00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:46,100
This one, you know, it's 
alright. 

454
00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,400
It's a three in one avocado 
tool. 

455
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,600
Right. 
So right now we have 14, 

456
00:25:52,700 --> 00:26:00,400
avocados, 14, X, 14 juice, for 
lemons or limes. 14, pineapples,

457
00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:04,900
14 papayas are kiwis or 
cantaloupes, and then we have 

458
00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:08,300
another baking tool, right? 
But I want to introduce you 

459
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:14,600
tonight, the one that I think 
you're going to really love, 

460
00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,500
right? 
So Usher's, cuz tonight actually

461
00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:21,400
have a gift for all of you. 
So the ushers are going to come 

462
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,500
by now and they're going to give
you what's in this box. 

463
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:32,500
Okay, if I say Get a Grip so 
tonight I'm giving you a 

464
00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:41,700
gripper. 
Hey I'm giving you a green 

465
00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:48,000
anchor face. 
Get a grip gripper because you 

466
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,900
want something that is useful in
your life. 

467
00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:55,300
You want something that is not 
going to be tucked in a cabinet 

468
00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:57,200
somewhere. 
That's forgotten. 

469
00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:00,300
I want you to have a, reminder, 
to take home tonight and there's

470
00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:02,000
something you practically can 
use. 

471
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:07,600
So, about 10 years ago, we were 
looking to move and we happen to

472
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,000
go to An open house at a home 
somewhere and one of the local 

473
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,500
Realtors had have a red one like
this at home and it has the 

474
00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:18,800
realty companies name on and 
phone number. 

475
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:24,900
And from time to time when I 
have needed, it, guess what go 

476
00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,100
to product has been in my drawer
that I have gotten out and used 

477
00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:30,500
as my handy. 
Dandy red gripper, right? 

478
00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:32,400
All right. 
And I've had to get a grip to 

479
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,400
open up a jar. 
That was a little bit. 

480
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,200
I needed some assistance. 
I needed something to help me 

481
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,200
out, right? 
So my gripper, Came in handy, on

482
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,300
those days when I need it, 
right? 

483
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,300
But I want you to know that 
God's Gift of the Holy Spirit. 

484
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,500
Does it need to get tucked into 
a drawer? 

485
00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:53,300
It doesn't need to be one of 
these gifts that's forgotten 

486
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,600
like after Christmas morning or 
your birthday. 

487
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,700
You know, it was a really fun 
kitschy kind of little thing, 

488
00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:02,900
but it doesn't have lasting 
value. 

489
00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:06,300
It just starts taking up, you 
know, space takes up dust in 

490
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,200
your house and is really not 
even useful for you. 

491
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,500
Anymore. 
But when you've got something, 

492
00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:19,000
you know, that's full of power 
and full of Grip. 

493
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,300
Then you're going to keep that 
with you all the time. 

494
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,600
All right, so this is your grip 
over. 

495
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:30,800
Say, Get a Grip, get a grip. 
Listen, in order to get a grip, 

496
00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:35,000
you've got to learn how to yield
to the grip, right? 

497
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,800
So we'll talk about that. 
Just a couple minutes. 

498
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,600
We got to yield to the grip 
yield to the father. 

499
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,100
God, it's Holy Spirit. 
That's living on the inside of 

500
00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:44,500
you. 
This going to teach you how to 

501
00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:46,800
get a grip, right? 
As you read the word. 

502
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,400
He's going to help you with 
that. 

503
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,900
He's in agreement with the word,
the father, and he wants to keep

504
00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:56,900
you on the right path. 
First Corinthians, 2:12 says 

505
00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:00,700
this, it says, what we have 
received is not the spirit of 

506
00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:04,500
the world, but it is the spirit 
who is from God. 

507
00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:08,900
So that we may understand what 
God has freely given us. 

508
00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,400
Again, the spirit that's placed 
on the inside of us when we're 

509
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,500
born again, is not the same as 
the world. 

510
00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:20,100
The world's, like, you know, I 
would be trying to open a jar of

511
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:24,300
spaghetti or tight jar. 
It's it just can't do it. 

512
00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:28,500
But we as Believers, when I 
we're trying to open up 

513
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,400
something we're trying to figure
out something that's going on in

514
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,200
our life, we're trying to get 
some direction and some 

515
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,700
navigation. 
We've got the gripper. 

516
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,200
We've got the one that can get 
in there and open it up and 

517
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:47,500
reveal to us the truth, right? 
And we need to have a firm grip,

518
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:49,900
all the time. 
There's not a time that we need 

519
00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:52,800
to back down. 
If ever before we need to be 

520
00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:57,500
fully engaged with the Holy 
Spirit and every single thing 

521
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,900
that we do. 
Amen. 

522
00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:03,900
There is some, it's the greatest
tool, it's the greatest Gadget, 

523
00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:06,300
it's just it's in us and it's 
amazing. 

524
00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:10,100
Second Corinthians, you know, I 
sound like a little infomercial 

525
00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:13,200
person but, you know, like 
Willie Mays or it, can you 

526
00:30:13,208 --> 00:30:17,900
remember some of the, you know, 
how they have the As Seen On TV,

527
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,100
like deals or whatever. 
It's better than that. 

528
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,100
It's better than there's no easy
payments of $29.95. 

529
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:26,300
It's free. 
He's freely giving it to us. 

530
00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:28,500
Amen. 
And it says in 2nd Corinthians 

531
00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:30,000
10:3 through five in the 
message. 

532
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,700
It says the world is 
unprincipled. 

533
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,800
It is dog-eat-dog out there. 
The world doesn't fight fair but

534
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,700
we don't live or fight our 
battles this way. 

535
00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:45,300
Never have, and never will the 
tools of our trade aren't Or 

536
00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:49,100
marketing or manipulation, but 
they are for demolishing. 

537
00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:54,700
The entire massively corrupt 
culture, we use our powerful 

538
00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:59,200
God, tools for smashing warp 
philosophies, for tearing down 

539
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,200
barriers, erected against the 
truth of God, fitting every 

540
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,100
loose thought and emotion and 
impulse into the structure of 

541
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,800
Life shaped. 
By Christ, Our tools are ready 

542
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,200
at hand for the clearing of the 
ground of a Every obstruction 

543
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,300
and building lives of obedience 
in the maturity. 

544
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,100
We've got the tool we have it, 
you have it say I've got the 

545
00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:30,500
tool, get a grip right. 
We want to be able to be so firm

546
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,100
in our faith that we're like 
pastors been ministered about 

547
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:35,200
being the light. 
We can't be the light if we 

548
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,800
don't got a firm grip, right? 
You know when I like when you if

549
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,600
you've ever Screwed in a 
lightbulb. 

550
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,300
You know, I've got a lamp at my 
bedroom and sometimes it gets 

551
00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:47,400
loose, and I'll go to turn it on
and it had that first thought. 

552
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,600
Oh, the bulbs out. 
No, it's not the bulbs out. 

553
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,200
I gotta just kind of twist it a 
little bit, right? 

554
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,800
It's not firm, it's not secure. 
So I'm not going to get any 

555
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,000
light out of it, if it's not 
secure. 

556
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,800
So it needs to be firmly fitted 
into that area. 

557
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,900
And again, the were the world's 
tools are different than our 

558
00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:08,100
tools but our tools work, our 
tools are long lasting, they 

559
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:13,300
never wear out, they never run. 
Just because he is forever and 

560
00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:16,200
he helps us again to have the 
grip. 

561
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:18,900
So we're going to talk about a 
few of the characteristics of 

562
00:32:18,908 --> 00:32:20,500
the Holy Spirit. 
There's so many. 

563
00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:22,200
We're just going to quickly 
touch on them. 

564
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,200
Of course, in John, 16 7 and 8 
says, but truly very, very 

565
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,800
truly. 
I tell you it is good for it is 

566
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,700
good. 
That I'm going away unless I go 

567
00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:34,400
away The Advocate will not come 
to you. 

568
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,500
But if I go I will send him to 
you when he comes. 

569
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,200
He will prove the world to be in
the wrong. 

570
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,000
About Sin and righteousness and 
judgment. 

571
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,800
So, one of the things that the 
Holy Spirit does is that he 

572
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,200
convicts us of sin, right? 
We were drawn before. 

573
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,300
We knew him, we were being drawn
by the Holy Spirit. 

574
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:55,300
The Holy Spirit wasn't in us, 
but it was drawing us and it was

575
00:32:55,300 --> 00:33:01,800
revealing to us that we needed 
the Creator to come in, and fix 

576
00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:05,900
this, to fix the heart to, to 
transform our life. 

577
00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,900
He was drawing us because he's 
wanting us to come, right? 

578
00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:11,500
So, if Convicting the world of 
sin. 

579
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,400
The next one, John 14, 16 and 
17. 

580
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:17,200
We've read through this one 
already. 

581
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,700
But it says that he will ask the
father and he will give you 

582
00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:25,200
another Advocate to help you. 
And to be with you forever, the 

583
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,100
spirit of Truth. 
Again the world cannot accept 

584
00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:32,600
him because it neither sees him 
nor knows, but he permanently in

585
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,500
dwells within us. 
Again, he abides in us. 

586
00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:42,600
The next one is that he seals us
Ephesians 113 in the English 

587
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,200
Standard Version says, in him. 
You also, when you heard the 

588
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,800
word of Truth, The Gospel of 
your salvation and believed in 

589
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:54,200
him were sealed with the promise
of the Holy Spirit. 

590
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,000
Again, there's that lingo of the
promised. 

591
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,700
The gift that was going to come.
We've been sealed. 

592
00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:02,400
And I, what I love about this, 
this is a Greek word, called 

593
00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:07,600
spag asparagus, which means 
etched or engraved. 

594
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,100
It's a seal that attest to the 
truth. 

595
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:14,300
The Holy Spirit holds. 
The impression of Truth, you 

596
00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:17,300
know, back in the day and in 
Royal terms, you know, they had 

597
00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:21,900
a the the king had a Signet ring
that had to be what dipped in 

598
00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:26,199
the way it wasn't. 
So it wasn't truth unless it had

599
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:30,400
the Kings seal on it. 
The holy spirit is the seal, 

600
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,400
he's in us. 
He testifies to the truth and 

601
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:39,699
everything that. 
As long as we're listening we 

602
00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:43,300
can hear What the word of the 
what of the Lord is saying and 

603
00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:46,500
it will bear witness to the 
truth to what God's word. 

604
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:50,699
The Holy Bible says it will not 
sway from that but it seals us 

605
00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:54,300
it's proof you know like an 
official document and we're 

606
00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:56,400
walking around with us, somebody
needs to know something. 

607
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,800
I got my official document, you 
may not be able to see it but I 

608
00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:02,400
eat testifies. 
It's he it's sealed. 

609
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,800
It's settled amen. 
He teaches us in. 

610
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,800
John 14:26 says, but the 
advocate, the Holy Spirit whom 

611
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,900
the father will send in my name.
Name will teach you all things 

612
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:18,500
and remind you of everything 
that I have said to you, right? 

613
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:20,800
So you're learning your tea, 
you're learning right now, 

614
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,500
you're being taught the word of 
God and when something comes up 

615
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,500
situation comes that jar of 
life. 

616
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:31,300
It's getting you know you need 
something to get it open. 

617
00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,300
He's going to remind you of the 
truth. 

618
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,100
What do you do to apply to this 
situation? 

619
00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,300
But to open it to get a firm 
grip and open and it. 

620
00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:44,400
And how are you going to know 
that by the Holy Spirit bearing 

621
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,700
witness with you? 
What does God's word say about 

622
00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:48,400
it? 
Got symptoms in your body. 

623
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,400
What's the scripture say about 
that? 

624
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,500
Starting to have some thoughts. 
Come he says to take what? 

625
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,900
Every thought captive and you 
make sure what it lines up with 

626
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:02,500
what the word of God says. 
If it doesn't, what do you do? 

627
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,000
You cast it out and you replace 
it. 

628
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:08,900
With what we're God's word says.
So he gives us the ability 

629
00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:11,500
through teaching us and 
reminding us. 

630
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:13,300
I think that's one of the great 
tools. 

631
00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:15,600
I can use especially during the 
school year with our kids. 

632
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,500
It's like, you know, when you go
to take a test, you've had to 

633
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,900
have some time to study, you 
know, he's not going to bring 

634
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:23,800
back something that you don't 
know or haven't studied but you 

635
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:29,300
can pray out and say, God show 
me, show me how many of you I 

636
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:31,700
know that you can some of you 
can testify this because I know 

637
00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:34,200
a few of you in this room that 
done this, I've done this before

638
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,800
where I have, I've lost 
something and I just stop for a 

639
00:36:36,808 --> 00:36:38,700
moment. 
So, Holy Spirit, you know, where

640
00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,200
it's at. 
And I need to know right now. 

641
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:47,000
Many of you the Holy Spirit 
cares so much about every facet 

642
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
of your life that even down to 
you misplacing your keys. 

643
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,300
Or needing to remember 
something. 

644
00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:58,100
You go to the store and you 
forgot your list or you're just 

645
00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:01,500
something and you just stop for 
a moment, you know, wait on him,

646
00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:05,400
the holy spirit will remind you 
will give you something. 

647
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,400
I would say this happens to me a
lot and I have to make sure I 

648
00:37:08,408 --> 00:37:11,800
slowed down because the Holy 
Spirit when you see when you mm,

649
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,000
jumping a little bit head, but 
see when you walk with the holy 

650
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,100
spirit all the time, and you've 
got a firm grip with him, it's 

651
00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:19,300
like you're holding your holding
on firm. 

652
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,800
You begin to like all the time, 
you'll hear. 

653
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,800
Holy Spirit. 
Just in that still Small Voice. 

654
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,700
Say something to you prompt. 
You remind you hey don't forget 

655
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,200
you know I'll be leaving out hit
the garage, go to the car and 

656
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,300
then the Holy Spirit saying you 
forgot something you need to go 

657
00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:39,300
back in the house. 
You know that's the holy spirit.

658
00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:42,000
This is just practical everyday 
living that you can live your 

659
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,200
life where. 
I mean again it's better than a 

660
00:37:44,208 --> 00:37:47,200
personal assistant but yet he's 
their abiding in you and is 

661
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,500
reminding. 
You just you just there that 

662
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,300
that voice to help you to help 
you. 

663
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:57,500
Because if he wants you to have 
good success in your day, you 

664
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,600
know, and a lot of times if we 
would stop and just acknowledge 

665
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,300
the holy spirit's there and he's
ready at any moment to give us 

666
00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:08,900
some guidance it'll save us from
a lot of heartache and a lot of 

667
00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:11,100
turmoil. 
You know I will testify this. 

668
00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:15,100
We were planning a trip for 
March. 

669
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,500
We were thinking about doing a 
cruise and must have been 

670
00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:23,600
somewhere around December. 
I said I just got a sensing and 

671
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,900
that's what it is. 
Sometimes it's just a sensing of

672
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:30,000
In a leading in a guiding in it.
Nope. 

673
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,300
You don't need to do, you don't 
need to book that you do. 

674
00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:35,600
You need to hold off on that. 
And you know, I was like, okay 

675
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,600
well maybe God's got a different
plan, you know? 

676
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,100
Because he he desires that he's 
with us in everything, right? 

677
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:45,900
We're reading a minute, but man 
plans, right? 

678
00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:49,800
But we want to make sure that 
our plans don't supersede The 

679
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,000
Guiding and the leading that God
has for us, we want to be on his

680
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,700
timing and he knows everything 
about. 

681
00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:59,000
He knows the ins and Shouts and 
if we follow him then he can 

682
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,400
protect us and we can know. 
I know I've heard testimony, you

683
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:09,600
know when 9/11 hit of people who
said the holy spirit said, don't

684
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,600
go to work that day and they're 
living because of that, because 

685
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:18,800
of that voice, that the power, 
the grip that they had walk in 

686
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,800
with him every single day, 
right? 

687
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,200
So, he guides us into all truth 
and John 16:13. 

688
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,800
It says, but when he, the spirit
of Truth Comes, he will guide 

689
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,300
you into all truth. 
He will not speak on his own, he

690
00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:34,300
will only speak what he hears 
and he will tell you what is Yet

691
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:36,300
to Come. 
And that again, is that? 

692
00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:39,300
No, he knows what's happening 
from the beginning and the end 

693
00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,200
and if we'll listen will be 
sensitive. 

694
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:46,800
That he will give us some great 
guidance, he will help us keep a

695
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,700
grip. 
Another one is that he advocates

696
00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,700
for a John 14:26. 
You've heard us read that quite 

697
00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:54,600
a quite a bit but that's the 
very first part of that verse 

698
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,500
says, but he's The Advocate, you
know he goes before. 

699
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,100
Before us before our behalf. 
Someone who Advocates goes 

700
00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:05,400
before someone write on their 
behalf again. 

701
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,100
He's a seal on the inside, he's 
the proof but he goes before us 

702
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:12,700
and knows what's happening here 
again. 

703
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:16,200
He reminds us, he bears fruit 
through US, praise God of for 

704
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,300
Galatians, 5:22 and 23 that. 
There's nine, fruits of the 

705
00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:23,400
spirit. 
Again, of the spirit comes from 

706
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:28,400
his spirit that helped us to 
conduct our Everyday life and 

707
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,400
they are. 
But the fruit of the spirit is 

708
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,300
love, joy, peace, patience, 
long-suffering. 

709
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:37,700
Kindness goodness faithfulness, 
gentleness and self-control 

710
00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:41,200
against these are no law. 
These are nine gifts that we get

711
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,900
to participate in every single 
day and the more we yield our 

712
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:49,100
self to the spirit and don't 
live according to the flesh. 

713
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:52,400
It's easier. 
It's easier to walk things out. 

714
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,100
Enjoy it's easier to just be at 
perfect peace and not let 

715
00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:59,500
yourself Get all agitated 
because the day isn't going, 

716
00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:01,400
right? 
No, you can stop. 

717
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,600
And you can pray and you can set
things, right? 

718
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,000
And you say no, you know what? 
Let's do a reset. 

719
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,800
I need to get my gripper, right,
because we all have an off day. 

720
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,800
We're not perfect. 
We're human beings. 

721
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,200
We're all being perfected and 
all being made disciples and 

722
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,100
growing. 
We know the disciples did with 

723
00:41:19,100 --> 00:41:24,400
Jesus right next to him. 
They together, they stayed they 

724
00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:27,300
went to the ends together. 
They mean, Like they had a big 

725
00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:29,300
slumber party everywhere they 
went, they traveled. 

726
00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:31,700
I mean, I'm sure they had great 
times, but here, they spent 

727
00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:36,400
intimate time with Jesus and 
yet, they forgot they forgot who

728
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,500
they've been with when he's 
trying to give them some 

729
00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:40,200
instruction. 
So, sometimes that happens with 

730
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,200
us and we need to be reminded to
get a grip. 

731
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,800
We need to be reminded that the 
word of God is truth, right? 

732
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,000
That it's greater than any 
circumstance that we're facing. 

733
00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:54,600
It's greater than any symptom 
that we're facing is greater 

734
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,500
than any bill, that's 
unexpected. 

735
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,600
Acted, you know, when you get a 
bill that you did weren't 

736
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,600
expecting, praise God, you know,
the air conditioned brakes, the 

737
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,800
brakes go out. 
But it's in that, you know, it's

738
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,900
life. 
Get a grip and hold on tight. 

739
00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:13,800
Don't let go of it. 
Don't let that steal your joy. 

740
00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:19,200
Don't let it overtake you 
because you're of a different 

741
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,600
kind, you know, I love them. 
Pastor said this, I think he got

742
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,600
it for pastor Rowdy, but you're 
the king kind, you know? 

743
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,400
And if the Kings kids do, It a 
certain way, there's a certain 

744
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,300
mandate for you to do that, you 
know, if he should look at us 

745
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:34,800
and say oh yeah that's one of 
the King's kids, right? 

746
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:40,000
Our rent, our reputation should 
be that. 

747
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,500
Oh yeah, that's a person of 
faith that they got a strong 

748
00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:43,500
grip. 
They got a grip. 

749
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:46,800
All right, they got a strong 
grip, right? 

750
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,500
That's us. 
That's who we should be right. 

751
00:42:50,300 --> 00:42:52,100
I'll tell him myself a little 
bit. 

752
00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:53,700
A couple. 
We're in Nautilus right now 

753
00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:57,100
we're doing a series called 
Ready Set few of you know you're

754
00:42:57,100 --> 00:42:59,900
just a win. 
So I'll say The Ready Set right?

755
00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:02,600
Which is totally cool is about 
sports summer camp for not only 

756
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:06,100
40 HP for Treasure Harbor. 
Preschool that That operates 

757
00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:08,600
Monday through Friday, it does 
the same theme usually in the 

758
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,800
summer and a few weeks back, we 
were talking about Legacy and 

759
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,500
what you leave behind and the 
current actually borrowed my 

760
00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:17,500
little prop last week. 
So I apologize for you if 

761
00:43:17,508 --> 00:43:21,400
there's any engine smell in the 
hallway but the youth ministry 

762
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,000
borrowed my prop. 
My prop for model is so Fu, has 

763
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,000
been about a month ago. 
We had a had some beautiful 

764
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,900
smelly spray in a can and we did
a little skit with the kids and 

765
00:43:32,900 --> 00:43:37,500
it was the garbage man came 
through Was Paul in his garbage.

766
00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:40,800
So, things were smelling a 
little stinky, you know, and 

767
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,100
then he broke a little bit of 
wind. 

768
00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:44,500
And so it was pretty pretty 
stinky and everything. 

769
00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:49,000
We had the other character who, 
who was smelled a floral and 

770
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,900
just smell Beautiful, right? 
We talked about leaving a 

771
00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:54,800
legacy. 
What do you leave behind when 

772
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,300
you've been in a situation? 
When you've been in a 

773
00:43:57,308 --> 00:43:59,600
circumstance? 
What are you leaving behind? 

774
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,800
Do you want to leave a nasty 
stench where? 

775
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,800
No one's going to be around you 
or do you want to be the 

776
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,800
fragrance? 
It's of the Lord. 

777
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,800
You want to be the fragrance of 
the king. 

778
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,300
I mean, I know that smell was 
just a horrific, it was horrific

779
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:15,700
and it's, you know, it's pooping
a bottle. 

780
00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:17,800
I can't say the other word, but 
it's the poop in the bottle. 

781
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,400
It's just, it was really, it is 
snow. 

782
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,900
So accurate. 
I don't know how scientists are 

783
00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:26,900
able to replicate that but it's 
really bad but we want to be so 

784
00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:32,100
good at walking in the light and
being who God has made us to be 

785
00:44:32,100 --> 00:44:36,300
that when we leave somewhere, we
leave behind His beautiful 

786
00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:40,000
fragrance. 
We are so firm and our grip of 

787
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,500
faith that we're walking day in 
and day out with the holy spirit

788
00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:49,100
that we have just what we need. 
We have the tool to our disposal

789
00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:51,500
at any time that we can use it. 
Amen. 

790
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,900
So a couple more things that the
Holy Spirit, does he fills us in

791
00:44:56,900 --> 00:45:00,500
Ephesians? 
5:18 it says, in do not be drunk

792
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:05,900
with wine and which it says, but
be filled in the spirit With the

793
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:08,900
spirit, right? 
So of course we've got, we're 

794
00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:11,800
have the Spirit dwelling in 
this, but he desires to come in 

795
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:16,800
and fill even more, right? 
We have the ability as Believers

796
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,400
to have that gift to be baptized
with a, with a spirit with 

797
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,700
evidence of speaking in tongues.
So tonight, as I close, I'm 

798
00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:28,800
definitely gonna ask that 
question if you because this is,

799
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:30,600
we got so much to talk about the
spirit. 

800
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,500
We can't get to everything 
tonight, but there is the 

801
00:45:32,500 --> 00:45:35,400
infilling of the Holy Spirit 
where he comes upon him. 

802
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:40,600
Heals you and you have a kingdom
language, a Heavenly language 

803
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,000
that you can speak out and that 
continues to build up your faith

804
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:48,000
and your relationship with God. 
That builds up your grip, it 

805
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,300
only helps you to become 
stronger as a Believer to have 

806
00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:53,400
that at that and it's for every 
believer. 

807
00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:55,600
You've been. 
If you've been born again, that 

808
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,700
gift is for you. 
So again, and that's a gift of 

809
00:45:58,700 --> 00:46:02,600
his Spirit. 
He empowers us who needs some 

810
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,100
empowerment, right? 
When I am trying to get, The the

811
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:10,600
jar open in essence, this grip 
is what's helping me to get the 

812
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:14,700
strength to turn it and open it 
and pop, you know, opens, then I

813
00:46:14,708 --> 00:46:17,700
can get to it, right? 
It says in Acts 1:8 says, but 

814
00:46:17,700 --> 00:46:20,900
you will receive power when the 
Holy Spirit comes upon you and 

815
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:24,600
you will be my Witnesses in 
Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria 

816
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,600
and to the ends of the Earth. 
Right? 

817
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:32,000
And we know a tax that's when 
the spirit fell in Acts 2 and 

818
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,900
they did begin to speak in new 
tongues. 

819
00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:35,900
So we are his children. 
Children. 

820
00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:39,700
And those who are his children, 
or his son's. 

821
00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:41,500
Right. 
Those who are led by the spirit 

822
00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:45,900
are the sons of God in Romans 8,
bear with me. 

823
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:48,200
We're going to read this whole 
thing is just so good, not to 

824
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,500
read the whole thing, but it 
talks about the life in the 

825
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:55,000
spirit in Romans. 
So it says in chapter one and 

826
00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:57,900
chapter 8, verse 1, it says 
therefore, there is now no 

827
00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:01,300
condemnation for those who are 
in Christ Jesus because through 

828
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:04,800
Christ Jesus, the law of the 
spirit who gives life has set 

829
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,900
you free. 
Free from the law of sin and 

830
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:11,400
death for what the law was 
powerless to do, because it was 

831
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,400
weakened by the flesh. 
God did by sending his own son 

832
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:20,700
in the likeness of sinful flesh,
to be a sin offering, and so he 

833
00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:23,500
condemned sin in the flesh. 
In order that righteousness, 

834
00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:27,800
requirement of the law would be 
made fully met in us, who do not

835
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:32,200
live, according to the flesh. 
But, according to the spirit, 

836
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,000
because we've got a grip says in
verse 5. 

837
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,500
Those who According to the 
flesh, have their minds set on 

838
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:40,900
what the flesh desires, but 
those who live accordance with 

839
00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:43,900
the spirit, have their minds set
on what the spirit desires. 

840
00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:50,000
So it's that constant connection
with the holy spirit that you're

841
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,400
putting your flesh down. 
You're allowing the Galatians 

842
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:57,500
5:22 fruits of the spirit to 
come up and to represent, right?

843
00:47:57,500 --> 00:48:00,000
You're not being governed by 
your flesh. 

844
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,100
It says verse 6, the Mind 
governed by the flesh is death, 

845
00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:07,700
but the Mind governed by the The
spirit is life and peace. 

846
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,100
The Mind governed by the flesh 
is hostile to God, and it does 

847
00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:15,000
not submit to God's law nor can 
it do so those who are in the 

848
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,600
realm of the flesh, cannot 
please God. 

849
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,800
If you're living your life, 
according to the flesh that all 

850
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,700
you're going to do, Is do what 
the flesh wants to do? 

851
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,100
You're not going to be 
sober-minded, you're going to go

852
00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:30,400
after things, right? 
You're going to put away. 

853
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,600
This, you know, this can happen 
to a Believer because just 

854
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,000
because you get the Holy Spirit 
living on the inside of you. 

855
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,400
If you decide, I'm not going to 
listen anymore, whole Spirits 

856
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,500
prompting, you think, I'll just 
put him away. 

857
00:48:42,500 --> 00:48:45,500
I'm not going to listen anymore 
and start to you start to 

858
00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:49,900
instead of yielding and hearing.
You start to kind of close your 

859
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:54,300
ears to what God's telling you. 
And then it's easy to go down a 

860
00:48:54,300 --> 00:49:00,200
road and a path of sin. 
And destruction is easy to go. 

861
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,500
Back to Old Habits that you had 
before. 

862
00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:08,200
You knew Jesus to pick up a 
bottle or to pick up, pick up a 

863
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,100
magazine anywhere. 
I guess, you'd go onto websites 

864
00:49:10,100 --> 00:49:12,100
that you shouldn't be on those 
types of things. 

865
00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:15,400
You start hanging around people 
that you knew you're supposed to

866
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,400
cut off. 
But all of a sudden they show up

867
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,100
and the holy spirit's like nope,
you don't need an answer that 

868
00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:23,000
phone. 
So you don't need to take that 

869
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,800
invitation to lunch, right? 
Nope. 

870
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,000
You just tuck that you tuck that
grip. 

871
00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:30,600
Nope, I don't know. 
Still don't hear them. 

872
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,000
Don't hear him. 
Take those you take those 

873
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,600
invitations and you go down 
paths that you should have never

874
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:40,000
went down because you chose not 
to hear the Holy Spirit. 

875
00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:44,700
But know if you'll let the Holy 
Spirit on the inside lead you 

876
00:49:44,700 --> 00:49:48,500
and guide you in everything that
you do, he'll keep you in. 

877
00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:51,400
He'll protect you. 
I've got a couple of amazing. 

878
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,100
Stories of from my childhood 
where I seen the Holy Spirit. 

879
00:49:55,100 --> 00:49:57,900
Now, I've got one again when I 
was young, like six years old 

880
00:49:57,900 --> 00:50:02,800
but I really made him Lord of my
life at 14 and really put him 

881
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:08,000
first in everything I did. 
And I grew up in a from the 

882
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,100
time. 
I was about 5 years old up, I 

883
00:50:10,100 --> 00:50:12,900
grew up in a home run a and a 
Godly home. 

884
00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:15,300
We went to church, you know, 
Spirit-filled my parents, you 

885
00:50:15,300 --> 00:50:17,600
know, got born again when I was 
five and got filled with the 

886
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,800
Holy Spirit the same time and 
you know, so I remember Early 

887
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,500
days of my dad may be listening 
to different music and I did 

888
00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:26,800
then all of a sudden, the music 
changed. 

889
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,400
It was only worship music. 
And then I remember hearing 

890
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,700
brother, Hagin and Rhema being 
on the TV, and my dad reading 

891
00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:34,800
those books. 
And so, the growing up and in 

892
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:39,600
the faith, and I always felt 
like I had a really strict 

893
00:50:39,700 --> 00:50:41,300
upbringing, like I couldn't do 
anything. 

894
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:43,400
I wasn't allowed to do anything 
and it's just, you know, at 

895
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,800
times. 
It seemed unfair, and I remember

896
00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:52,600
this one particular time where I
went, You had a sleepover at a 

897
00:50:52,608 --> 00:50:56,000
friend's house, that was the 
pastor's family. 

898
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:00,100
We all went there and it was 
like, avarice believe. 

899
00:51:00,100 --> 00:51:03,000
It was like over Labor Day. 
So I like after church, I went 

900
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,400
to their house and a big old 
Sunday dinner, you know, we're 

901
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,900
hanging out, she had horses and 
so, we rode horses and just 

902
00:51:08,900 --> 00:51:11,000
having a great time. 
And I spent the night and then 

903
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,200
Monday, we were supposed to hang
out all day, like, all day. 

904
00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:16,800
And she was, my parents were 
supposed to get me that night. 

905
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:17,600
Because, of course, you're at 
school. 

906
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,100
The next morning. 
Well, my mom calls about 10:30 

907
00:51:21,100 --> 00:51:24,000
in the morning. 
Morning and she says, tell 

908
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,600
Vanessa, I'm coming to get her. 
I'm coming to get her, of 

909
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:27,800
course. 
I'm like, what? 

910
00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:30,500
What have you come to get me? 
I would, when I didn't do 

911
00:51:30,500 --> 00:51:31,400
anything wrong. 
Like what? 

912
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,500
You know, tell Vanessa, I'm 
coming to get her. 

913
00:51:34,300 --> 00:51:37,700
And so, of course, I might mad 
at the world. 

914
00:51:37,700 --> 00:51:39,700
Like, I can't believe it, like, 
why we were having a good time. 

915
00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:41,400
Why do you, why do you need to 
get me early? 

916
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:42,600
You know, I know you promised 
me. 

917
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,500
I could go have the sleepover, 
I've been wanting to have so we 

918
00:51:45,500 --> 00:51:49,300
get home. 
And again, this is my mom. 

919
00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:54,100
My mom being and dad being led 
by the Lee Spirit me getting the

920
00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:56,000
early lessons of it. 
I get home. 

921
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,200
I'm mad probably was in tears 
and upset when the merge stormed

922
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:00,400
off to my room. 
I'm sure. 

923
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:10,200
And, and I was probably at that 
time, about 11 years old and it 

924
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,800
recently around that time is 
when I actually got filled with 

925
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:14,500
the Holy Spirit began to speak 
in tongues. 

926
00:52:14,500 --> 00:52:16,500
So spry all around the same 
time. 

927
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:21,000
We got home and my mom gets a 
phone call about an hour later. 

928
00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:27,100
We only lived a block over, so 
it was a very far and the one of

929
00:52:27,100 --> 00:52:29,800
the neighbor kids whom before my
mom called we were about to all 

930
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,300
go over there and hang out the 
neighbor's house. 

931
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:37,700
And my mom got a phone call. 
And the one of the boys that 

932
00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:40,900
went over that would have. 
We would have all went. 

933
00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:43,500
There was me and my friend 
Lindsay and this other girl joy 

934
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:47,000
and then her brother, we're all 
going to go to this kids house. 

935
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,500
Well since I wasn't there, the 
girls didn't go but my friend 

936
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:54,600
did and he Went over to the 
home, and they were playing with

937
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:59,100
a gun, and the gun went off. 
And that child, tragically lost 

938
00:52:59,100 --> 00:53:03,900
his life, but it was very like, 
whoa. 

939
00:53:05,100 --> 00:53:08,400
It's probably my first 
experience of understanding. 

940
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:12,400
My mom knew something my mom and
dad knew something. 

941
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,800
Because I was protected that 
day. 

942
00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:20,000
I may have very well lost my 
life that day, but my mom knew 

943
00:53:20,100 --> 00:53:25,500
she got a prompting. 
To call and go get your 

944
00:53:25,500 --> 00:53:30,700
daughter. 
So parents You know, sometimes 

945
00:53:30,700 --> 00:53:33,400
we're going to be the bad guys 
and I told my parent my kids, 

946
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:37,400
this I said, you know, I we list
we live by the spirit so you 

947
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:41,700
know, one one size doesn't fit 
all 11 trip, doesn't fit all. 

948
00:53:41,700 --> 00:53:43,200
We're not always going to say, 
yes. 

949
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:47,100
In fact if I say no, don't 
argue. 

950
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:53,900
Just take it because sometimes 
the Lord is going to lead you to

951
00:53:53,900 --> 00:53:58,400
not go somewhere to not do 
something to not go down a path 

952
00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:02,600
and it's for your protection. 
So that's one huge story that I 

953
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,000
can just vividly. 
Remember from being only 11 

954
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,800
years old where the Holy Spirit 
was active happened to me again,

955
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,600
when I was a senior, I might 
have shared this before, but 

956
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,100
when I was a senior in high 
school, I was traveling to do 

957
00:54:15,100 --> 00:54:19,700
some college classes and doing 
nursing and I remember very 

958
00:54:19,700 --> 00:54:26,000
vividly I was 17 years old. 
You know when 1807 17 and I had 

959
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,200
to travel across the highway. 
And I vividly remember the Holy 

960
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,200
Spirit telling me I was at the 
red light and it was in it 

961
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,200
turned green and he said don't 
go. 

962
00:54:36,100 --> 00:54:39,400
So don't go. 
So I just stopped again. 

963
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,000
This wasn't an audible voice. 
It was just a still small voice 

964
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,900
of the Holy Spirit saying, don't
go and I stayed and because I 

965
00:54:46,900 --> 00:54:51,400
did the semi truck that ran the 
red light before me. 

966
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:57,200
I missed it. 
So praise God, it's it's not 

967
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:01,500
just little, it's huge. 
It's life-changing, you know, I 

968
00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:04,100
can remember other opportunities
that, you know, different 

969
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:05,800
things. 
The holy spirit will give you 

970
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,300
the guidance and give you a 
check. 

971
00:55:07,300 --> 00:55:12,100
So, sometimes use that lingo of 
a red flag, sometimes he'll put 

972
00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:14,700
down a red flag and say, or 
he'll like in football terms of 

973
00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:20,800
put a flag on the play, Then you
needed to need to stop that 

974
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,800
right. 
All right, because he knows 

975
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:27,000
what's to come. 
And if we're sensitive, we can 

976
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,500
be warned ahead of time, right? 
So I praise God for having that 

977
00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:34,900
life in the spirit, living that 
life in the spirit. 

978
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:39,400
That recently, this just in the 
last six months, there was a not

979
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,600
to get into too much detail but 
there was a specific thing that 

980
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,400
I wanted to do growing up. 
And when I've always told the 

981
00:55:44,408 --> 00:55:46,800
story, I've said it a certain 
way that my parents wouldn't. 

982
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,900
Let me do this and the Holy 
Spirit arrested Me in the car. 

983
00:55:49,900 --> 00:55:53,500
One day about six months ago and
said, this is why your mom 

984
00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:55,900
wouldn't let you and your dad 
would not let you do this. 

985
00:55:55,900 --> 00:55:59,800
And he revealed to me, why? 
And I was like, Wow, can't go 

986
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,500
into detail what but it was a 
situation where I really wanted 

987
00:56:02,500 --> 00:56:06,900
to do something because sporting
event and the Lord revealed to 

988
00:56:06,900 --> 00:56:10,400
me 25 years later. 
Why? 

989
00:56:11,900 --> 00:56:14,400
So I changed my lingo. 
Now when I say why couldn't do 

990
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:18,000
it, I mean my parents had the 
Holy Spirit. 

991
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:22,700
We have the Holy Spirit, right? 
We want to we want to hide it, 

992
00:56:22,700 --> 00:56:24,900
you know, we don't want to hide 
a word of my little gripper go 

993
00:56:24,900 --> 00:56:27,000
so I hit him. 
Look at there. 

994
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,600
He's right there. 
Found them right. 

995
00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:33,700
The Holy Spirit wants us to be 
allow him, right? 

996
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,200
He's not going to control us. 
He's not going to control this 

997
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:41,800
at all, but he's a gentleman and
will be it will ease there and 

998
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,000
say, listen, listen, don't do 
that. 

999
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,400
Don't go down there. 
Remember what God's word says? 

1000
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,300
Right? 
Don't say that. 

1001
00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:55,100
You're about to say something. 
Don't go down that road. 

1002
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:57,200
Right? 
Restrained. 

1003
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,400
You a little bit, white. 
Remind, you got some 

1004
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,500
self-control. 
Hey, I got self-control here 

1005
00:57:01,500 --> 00:57:06,900
just access it right now. 
Access it right, right. 

1006
00:57:06,900 --> 00:57:10,400
The world is gone and Chaos. 
You know, the news report. 

1007
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,100
Now he may just tell you to shut
the news off completely. 

1008
00:57:13,100 --> 00:57:16,000
And there goes that. 
Then that's that that increases 

1009
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,200
your peace 100% right there, 
right? 

1010
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,000
And he made during the season. 
I mean, he has me a couple 

1011
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,500
times. 
I've had to just Holy Spirit. 

1012
00:57:23,500 --> 00:57:27,000
Said, just shut it off. 
If you feel yourself getting all

1013
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,700
anxious and you feel yourself 
getting angry, and you feel 

1014
00:57:29,700 --> 00:57:32,200
yourself getting in the flesh, 
then you need to turn it off. 

1015
00:57:32,700 --> 00:57:37,300
It's starting to rule you You're
starting to lose your grip, you 

1016
00:57:37,300 --> 00:57:39,000
going to fall, and you don't 
want to do that. 

1017
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,600
You want to keep your grip, you 
want to keep the firm grip. 

1018
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,800
Amen. 
So, let's go on to enrollments. 

1019
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,100
We're not finished reading. 
There's so much in this in the 

1020
00:57:47,100 --> 00:57:50,900
Scripture. 
It says in verse 9, you however,

1021
00:57:50,900 --> 00:57:53,400
are not in the realm of the 
flesh, but are in the realm of 

1022
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,700
the spirit, indeed, the spirit 
of God lives in you. 

1023
00:57:57,100 --> 00:58:00,300
And if anyone does not have the 
spirit of Christ, they do not 

1024
00:58:00,300 --> 00:58:04,400
belong to Christ, but if Christ 
is in you, then even though your

1025
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:07,200
body is, Subject to death 
because the send the spirit 

1026
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,300
gives life because of 
righteousness. 

1027
00:58:10,300 --> 00:58:13,100
And if the spirit of him who 
raised Jesus from the dead is 

1028
00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:15,300
living in you, who raised Christ
from the dead? 

1029
00:58:15,300 --> 00:58:17,700
He will also give you life to 
your mortal bodies because the 

1030
00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:22,100
spirit lives in you and says, 
therefore, brothers and sisters.

1031
00:58:22,100 --> 00:58:25,500
We have an obligation but it is 
not to the flesh to live 

1032
00:58:25,500 --> 00:58:28,200
according to, but it and it goes
on and says it. 

1033
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,300
But if by the spirit you put to 
death the misdeeds of the body, 

1034
00:58:31,300 --> 00:58:35,000
you will live again. 
We are to live by the sea. 

1035
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:39,000
Spirit if we do that, then we 
have a firm grip. 

1036
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,500
Verse 14 says, for those who are
led by the spirit of God are the

1037
00:58:42,500 --> 00:58:45,900
children of God, the spirit 
received does not make you 

1038
00:58:45,900 --> 00:58:48,200
slaves. 
So that you live in fear again, 

1039
00:58:48,500 --> 00:58:51,800
rather the spirit we receive 
brought you about your adoption 

1040
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:56,000
and sonship and by him, we cry, 
Abba, Father, the spirit 

1041
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,800
himself. 
Testifies, with our spirit that 

1042
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:02,600
we are God's children. 
So we that's when you're born 

1043
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,000
again. 
That's the Holy Spirit. 

1044
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,800
If you've ever had a question 
about your salvation, the holy 

1045
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,600
spirit will bear witness and 
testify that you have. 

1046
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:15,200
You've been made a child of God,
it's easy, it's easy. 

1047
00:59:15,300 --> 00:59:18,700
There's no more condemnation. 
You've been now made great make 

1048
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:22,800
good and in right standing with 
God, we go on to verse 17 says. 

1049
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:26,200
Now if we were children, then we
are heirs Heirs of God and 

1050
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:28,600
co-heirs with Christ. 
If indeed, we share in his 

1051
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:34,100
sufferings in order that we may 
also share in his glory, we're 

1052
00:59:34,100 --> 00:59:37,500
going to go on down to verse 31.
It says that we are more than 

1053
00:59:37,500 --> 00:59:39,600
conquerors. 
This Is What then shall we say 

1054
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:43,700
in response to these things? 
If God is for us, then who can 

1055
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:47,800
be against us? 
Who did not spare his own son 

1056
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,300
but gave him up for all of us. 
How will we not also along with 

1057
00:59:51,300 --> 00:59:53,400
him? 
Graciously live, in all things 

1058
00:59:54,300 --> 00:59:56,400
who will bring any charge 
against those who have God's 

1059
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,900
chosen. 
Remember, we've got to seal. 

1060
01:00:00,100 --> 01:00:01,900
Not matter what's coming against
us. 

1061
01:00:01,900 --> 01:00:04,700
Everything it within the spirit,
those things that we've talked 

1062
01:00:04,700 --> 01:00:07,000
about that, he's given us, the 
fruit of the spirit. 

1063
01:00:07,100 --> 01:00:10,800
We have everything to equip us 
to have a firm grip on it. 

1064
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:17,600
Amen. 
And it says that in verse 34, 

1065
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:21,900
who then is the one who condemns
no one Christ Jesus, who died, 

1066
01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:24,500
more than that, who was raised 
to life is at the right hand of 

1067
01:00:24,500 --> 01:00:28,300
God, and is interceding for us 
who shall separate us from the 

1068
01:00:28,300 --> 01:00:32,500
love of Christ shall trouble. 
Or hardship or persecution or 

1069
01:00:32,500 --> 01:00:36,500
famine or nakedness or danger or
sword as it is written for your 

1070
01:00:36,500 --> 01:00:39,600
sake. 
We Face death all day long and 

1071
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,900
goes on and says, verse 37 know.
And all these things, we are 

1072
01:00:42,900 --> 01:00:49,000
what more than conquerors 
through him that who him through

1073
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:50,000
him. 
Who loved us for? 

1074
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,100
I am convinced that neither 
death, nor life, neither angels,

1075
01:00:53,100 --> 01:00:57,200
nor demons, neither the present,
nor the future nor any powers, 

1076
01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:00,800
no height nor depth nor anything
else in Creation will be able to

1077
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,400
separate us from the love of 
God. 

1078
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,800
We really are the only ones who 
can choose to separate our 

1079
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:10,700
separate ourselves. 
We can choose to stop listening,

1080
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:15,300
stopped following the Holy 
Spirit and not allow ourselves 

1081
01:01:15,300 --> 01:01:19,100
to be gripped in him in order to
do it to live a life in the 

1082
01:01:19,100 --> 01:01:22,700
spirit is we've got to continue 
to stay abiding in the vine. 

1083
01:01:23,300 --> 01:01:26,700
You know, your participation in 
coming to church, not to check a

1084
01:01:26,708 --> 01:01:29,800
box but to come to be open and 
ready. 

1085
01:01:29,900 --> 01:01:31,100
He got, what do you got to 
speak? 

1086
01:01:31,100 --> 01:01:33,600
To me today. 
This is this is my training. 

1087
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:37,000
Every time I go to service, God 
made use me to fellowship with 

1088
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,600
somebody and give something out.
There's a part of it. 

1089
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,400
But when it's time to start 
these the services, I'm going to

1090
01:01:42,408 --> 01:01:46,600
be in there, ready to worship. 
Ready to just take everything 

1091
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:50,600
you got for me and when the word
comes I'm taking notes, I'm 

1092
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:54,800
taking notes so I can be ready, 
I can be fully equipped so that 

1093
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:59,000
I can go out there and be that 
light and it every time you do 

1094
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,300
that, it gives you more More and
more fuel a bit like Pastor 

1095
01:02:01,300 --> 01:02:03,400
said, if you've been listening 
to his message, it's just fuels 

1096
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,000
your faith. 
It continues to give you more 

1097
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,400
more and more faith. 
The more you hear, the more you 

1098
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,600
do, you build your faith, the 
more you hear, the more you do, 

1099
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,800
it just continues to build a 
build a building. 

1100
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,200
It's easier, it's easier. 
So get a grip. 

1101
01:02:20,700 --> 01:02:22,200
All right? 
So when you get the grip and you

1102
01:02:22,208 --> 01:02:25,300
get the Holy Spirit, you want to
keep that firm grip, right? 

1103
01:02:25,300 --> 01:02:28,900
So you abide in the vine, you 
you come to service, you read 

1104
01:02:28,900 --> 01:02:32,100
the word you Make the word your 
everything. 

1105
01:02:32,100 --> 01:02:36,200
If you're putting him first in 
everything that you say, and 

1106
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,500
then you do, then, how are you 
going to put him first? 

1107
01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:41,800
If you don't read the word, if 
you don't pray, if you don't 

1108
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,800
consult with the holy spirit 
before you do anything, right? 

1109
01:02:47,300 --> 01:02:50,700
Anything. 
You know, down to the details. 

1110
01:02:50,900 --> 01:02:53,500
Yeah, I'm not saying Lord, 
should I go to the bathroom 

1111
01:02:53,500 --> 01:02:54,900
right now? 
Or should I, you know, should we

1112
01:02:54,900 --> 01:02:58,100
make spaghetti for dinner? 
I mean it's you know, no. 

1113
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,700
But he could in some of the 
little things like that, some of

1114
01:03:01,708 --> 01:03:03,900
the everyday things you must 
say, Okay. 

1115
01:03:03,900 --> 01:03:06,000
God, I need some direction, you 
know? 

1116
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,000
And if it's if you're truly 
coming to him with a question, 

1117
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:11,400
what should I do? 
He's going to give you an 

1118
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:18,200
answer, you know, but it's not 
kooky and every little Thing but

1119
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:22,000
it's just it becomes so natural.
If you have the more you follow 

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01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:26,300
God and the more that you do it 
just becomes natural but the 

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01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:30,300
heart that it becomes harder to 
keep this out in front of you 

1122
01:03:30,300 --> 01:03:33,700
the more that you're away from 
the word and this goes for any 

1123
01:03:33,700 --> 01:03:37,800
of us you know your flesh starts
wanting to like get all crazy 

1124
01:03:38,500 --> 01:03:46,200
and Spazzy when you haven't been
in the word, It's a lot harder 

1125
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:49,600
to let the fruit of love and the
fruit of patience. 

1126
01:03:50,500 --> 01:03:52,700
Come out. 
When you haven't been in the 

1127
01:03:52,700 --> 01:03:55,500
word when you have it been 
fueled, right? 

1128
01:03:55,500 --> 01:03:57,700
When you just kind of sit, well,
I'm not listening to the word if

1129
01:03:57,708 --> 01:03:59,500
you're not, if you're not 
reading the word and you're not 

1130
01:03:59,500 --> 01:04:01,200
going to be listening to the 
holy spirit either. 

1131
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:04,500
And they're going to be bear 
witness. 

1132
01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:05,900
This is the thing about the Holy
Spirit. 

1133
01:04:05,900 --> 01:04:07,400
The Holy Spirit. 
Never going to tell you to do 

1134
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,200
something that's not in the word
of God. 

1135
01:04:09,900 --> 01:04:12,400
They bear witness. 
When one another, they are of 

1136
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,200
the same, we have the Father, 
the Son, the Holy Spirit, the 

1137
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,800
word, they're all one, it's 
wrapped up in one and they were 

1138
01:04:18,900 --> 01:04:21,800
they were here at the beginning.
It says in the beginning was the

1139
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,800
word and the Word was God With 
God. 

1140
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:29,000
It's they're all one and the 
same so they're not going to do 

1141
01:04:29,700 --> 01:04:33,300
anything. 
Contrary to one another And the 

1142
01:04:33,300 --> 01:04:36,700
key into holding in truly, 
keeping a grip. 

1143
01:04:36,700 --> 01:04:41,000
As the participation, you have 
to be a doer of the word, right?

1144
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:44,400
Not just a hearer of the word 
and his word tells us that we 

1145
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:46,500
should have a good grip and I'm 
going to be three scriptures 

1146
01:04:46,500 --> 01:04:48,600
about grip. 
Can you believe it says in the 

1147
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,900
word and Hebrews 10:23 in the 
message translation? 

1148
01:04:51,900 --> 01:04:56,700
It says, let's keep a firm grip 
on the promises that keep us 

1149
01:04:56,700 --> 01:05:00,100
going. 
He always keeps his word. 

1150
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:05,700
So you take away tonight, he 
1023, let's keep a firm grip on 

1151
01:05:05,700 --> 01:05:09,000
the promises that keep us going.
He always keeps his word. 

1152
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:12,900
It's also in Hebrews 2 verses 1 
through 4 in the message. 

1153
01:05:12,900 --> 01:05:16,000
It says it's crucial that we 
keep a firm grip on what we've 

1154
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:20,500
heard so that we don't drift 
off, we don't want to be 

1155
01:05:20,500 --> 01:05:23,700
Drifters. 
We want to be firm in the faith.

1156
01:05:24,500 --> 01:05:25,800
That we don't let you read on 
there. 

1157
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,800
But so later on it it does say 
in the scripture, first of all 

1158
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:31,300
it was delivered by a person. 
The master a curly passed on To 

1159
01:05:31,300 --> 01:05:33,100
Us by those who heard it. 
It from him. 

1160
01:05:33,100 --> 01:05:35,500
All the while God was validated 
it with the gifts, through the 

1161
01:05:35,500 --> 01:05:38,500
holy spirit, all sorts of signs 
and miracles, as he saw again, 

1162
01:05:38,500 --> 01:05:41,000
we know that's what he was 
showing the disciples. 

1163
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,900
But for us, we see his word, we 
see the effects of his word, we 

1164
01:05:43,900 --> 01:05:48,200
see the truth and the more you 
you flow with the Holy Spirit, 

1165
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:50,300
you hear the word and you do the
word. 

1166
01:05:50,500 --> 01:05:54,300
It just becomes so natural and 
it's so easy just to obey. 

1167
01:05:54,900 --> 01:05:59,400
The more you obey the easier it 
is to obey, right? 

1168
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,300
The more you let your life, do 
what? 

1169
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:05,400
Flash is saying the easier. 
It will be whatever you so to 

1170
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:08,600
whatever you give to its, that's
what you're going to get and 

1171
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,800
it's going to be easier, right? 
If you just sit and eat ice 

1172
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:13,200
cream every night, then guess 
what? 

1173
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,600
Your routine of going home. 
And eating ice cream every night

1174
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,500
is what it's going to be so much
easier to pick up that carton of

1175
01:06:20,500 --> 01:06:22,300
ice cream. 
That is going to be an apple. 

1176
01:06:23,700 --> 01:06:27,300
I mean, right? 
But if you make, if this is a 

1177
01:06:27,300 --> 01:06:30,000
habitual thing, if you make a 
habit of that, that's not your 

1178
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:32,700
go to your go to is not the ice 
cream. 

1179
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:34,200
Right now. 
We're not talk about diet, but, 

1180
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:37,000
you know, we know ice cream, 
eating ice cream ever nuts. 

1181
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,900
Not healthy, right? 
We learned that in elementary 

1182
01:06:39,900 --> 01:06:44,700
school, you know? 
What's healthier apple or the 

1183
01:06:44,700 --> 01:06:47,300
ice cream. 
All right, let's give to the 

1184
01:06:47,300 --> 01:06:49,200
Apple. 
Let's give to the spirit. 

1185
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:52,400
Let's do what the word and the 
spirit are saying to us. 

1186
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,700
Let's keep a firm grip. 
Let's keep to the promises like 

1187
01:06:55,700 --> 01:06:58,700
Hebrews and then, 1st Timothy 
1:9 says this. 

1188
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:01,700
Paul is talking. 
He says, keep a firm grip on 

1189
01:07:01,700 --> 01:07:03,800
your faith in on yourself. 
After all. 

1190
01:07:04,100 --> 01:07:05,500
This is a fight. 
We're in. 

1191
01:07:06,700 --> 01:07:10,700
Now, we know we win but a 
soldier doesn't back down. 

1192
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:16,200
Never you never cower down a 
back down. 

1193
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:19,400
Right. 
We got confidence because we 

1194
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:23,500
know the outcome but we still 
have to man our post and stick 

1195
01:07:23,500 --> 01:07:27,800
with our station, right? 
And so again the holy spirit's 

1196
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:31,700
there wants us to listen 
everything that he has to rest, 

1197
01:07:31,700 --> 01:07:33,900
right? 
It's not about a feeling or our 

1198
01:07:33,900 --> 01:07:36,900
feelings are changeable. 
They can come and overwhelming 

1199
01:07:36,900 --> 01:07:39,900
dominate, but we must keep a 
firm grip. 

1200
01:07:42,100 --> 01:07:46,600
Flowing in the spirit, the 
fruits of his Spirit, the gifts 

1201
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:50,600
of his spirit, all those things 
so that we can keep a firm grip.

1202
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:54,500
Amen. 
I'll leave you with this. 

1203
01:07:54,500 --> 01:07:57,800
Have a few more things, but I 
want to be able to pray tonight.

1204
01:07:59,900 --> 01:08:05,900
You as a child of God, it says 
in John 10:27, my sheep, listen 

1205
01:08:05,900 --> 01:08:08,600
to my voice, I know them and 
they follow me. 

1206
01:08:09,900 --> 01:08:15,000
And when you are born again, 
Another comes to live and reside

1207
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,200
in you. 
And that's the Holy Spirit your 

1208
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:22,899
made new and it becomes so easy 
because you know, hear a 

1209
01:08:22,899 --> 01:08:25,200
different voice. 
It's not that the other voice 

1210
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:26,500
you're not going to hear any 
more. 

1211
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:32,200
The temptation of the world and 
it's in is always going to be 

1212
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:36,700
there. 
But as long as you get your grip

1213
01:08:37,100 --> 01:08:39,399
by, allowing the Holy Spirit to 
come on the inside. 

1214
01:08:39,399 --> 01:08:42,700
And then you keep that grip, you
keep a firm grip. 

1215
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:47,600
In the word then you are going 
to it's going to be easier and 

1216
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:50,200
easier for you to hear the 
shepherd's voice. 

1217
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:55,200
To hear the voice of Truth for 
your life and no matter what 

1218
01:08:55,200 --> 01:09:00,200
you're going through. 
There's an answer if you keep 

1219
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:04,100
the grip. 
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1220
01:09:04,100 --> 01:09:06,500
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