July 9, 2025 • 62 mins
The series “Permanent Pentecost” continues with a focus on the transformation of the Believer by the Holy Spirit for God's glory, serving as the primary function of the Church.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Welcome, Welcome to the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio, I'm
Richard Grund. This is when we get back to basics,
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from the Book of x Church, which aims to restore
the priesthood of the believer while regaining the world's shaking
influence that the early Church had. The Church age isn't over.
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it was on the day of Pentecost. It's yours if
you want it. We offer you the Word as the
Apostles would have to the Jewish and gentile believers of
their day, using both Yeshuah and Jesus. When speaking of
the Lord, we prefer to use the term Messiah rather
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referred to by those who knew him. Additionally, we provide
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you to the list or your request because we care
about you. Speaking of prayer, let's pray for America. Texas
is underwater, North Carolina is underwater. Now it's Chicago's underwater
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with very strange flooding rainstorms whatever it is, natural or supernatural,
I believe God's trying to get us, get our attention,
trying to get us to pay attention. So let's let's pray,
let's praise him, let's pray, let's hear the sound of
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the show far and get right into what he wants
to do today. First of all, we praise you, Father.
We praise you for your grace and your mercy and
your love that is everlasting. We praise you for being
patient with us, as a loving father, a loving Abbah
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would be. We also know that you chastise those whom
you love to correct them and to bring them into
right relationship with you. If that's what's happening now, Lord,
we pray that people would have eyes to see and
ears to hear, that we would personally know your will
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and how to pray. Forgive us for anything we've done
to add to your disappointment, because all we want is
your favor. All we want is your grace and your mercy.
Thank you for that. Thank you for sending your shoe up,
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your only begotten son, to pay our price so that
we could be reconciled to you and come home, so
that you could rip the temple veil in two and
have access to your children. Thank you, Lord for doing that,
for shedding every drop of blood, for allowing men to
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do to you what they did over those twenty four
hours that you endured the pain, the shame and set
us free. You broke the curse of sin and death.
You destroyed the work of the enemy, and we thank
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you for that. We thank you for the empty cross,
the empty tomb, and the full upper room at fire
that still falls, that still flows, that you gave to
your disciples and to your church. Your church can already
feel your presence, Lord, and that we want right now.
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We want you Holy Spirit to touch us and to
fill us, to guide us, and for your angels to
guard us. Lord, we pray a hedge of protection over
us and all that we have from the enemy, natural
or supernatural. We pray against all sickness, illness, injury, disease,
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any attacks. Pray a hedge of protection on the technology
and this word as it goes forth, let it do
what you purpose it to do. Thank you for allowing
me another rotation around the sun, so that I can
serve the sun and do what You've called me to do.
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And I pray and praise you. And I ask all
these things in your Shoe's name, And if you agree
with me, say amen.
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Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know, I want to add another prayer. We're talking
about the Holy Spirit. We're talking about permanent Pentecost. So
Holy Spirit again, we invite you into this Bible study.
We invite you to envelop us, to open our eyes,
to unplug our ears, to touch our heart, speak to us,
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Holy Spirit. Our a Tori says this, If we think
of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence,
then our thought will be constantly to how can I
get a hold of and use the Holy Spirit. But
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if we think of him in the biblical way as
a divine person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then
our thought will constantly be, well can the Holy Spirit
get a hold of and use me? That's what I've
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been trying to do here. This is the fifth week
to get you to see the Holy Spirit, not just
for who he is, but for what he was intended
to be in our lives, so that he can get
a hold of us and to use us. So let's
go back to Acts chapter one, verse four. The Lord says,
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you have heard from me for John truly baptized with water.
But you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now. So, of course they wanted to
know about the restoration of the kingdom to Israel, and
he corrects them, It's not for you to know times
or seasons which the Father has put in his own authority.
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But you shall receive power, dunamous, dynamic, explosive, self replicating
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and
you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in
all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
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Will the promise has been fulfilled, Because then we see
in Acts chapter two the day of Pentecost had fully come.
They were all with one accord in one place, and
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing,
mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they
were sitting, and there appeared to them divided tongues as
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of fire, and one sat upon each of them, and
they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to
speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance
to do what to be witnesses to him throughout the world.
This is something John the Baptist spoke of prophetically. Easy
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for you to say, Richard, No, it wasn't, thank you.
He spoke of it prophetically in Luke chapter three, verse sixteen.
He's speaking of the people were asking questions. You know,
he's baptizing them with water. He says, I indeed baptize
you with water. But one mightier than I is coming,
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whose sandals strap I am not worthy to loose. I'm
not even as lowly as a slave. He will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan
is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean out a. Ah,
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we're gonna have fun tonight, folks. And he will thoroughly
clean out his threshing floor and gather the wheat into
his barn, and the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
He will baptize you, yes, you with Holy Spirit and fire.
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Be baptized with Holy Spirit and fire be filled to
overflowing from the top of your head to the bottom
of your feet. Now, the believers study Bible says the
reference to baptizing with the Holy Spirit and fire is
understood by some to refer to one act, that of
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purification by the Holy Spirit as the fire burns away
in purity. Others understand two acts, baptism with the Spirit
for those who are saved, and baptism with fire for
those who are damned. The context suggests two acts because
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he's speaking of the winnowing fan. He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and fire, and that winnowing fork
the thing that he's gonna use to throw the wheat
up into the air, so that the kernels fall and
those chaff floats away. The grain, which represents the righteous
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will be stored, and the chaff, which represents the unrighteous,
will be burned. Chaff refers to the useless shells of
grain that was separated from the useful wheat by the
winnowing fan, which is a wooden fork like shovel. It
lifted the grain in the air and the wind would
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separate it. Hmmm. Indication there of the wind of the Spirit.
The wind of angels wings, separating those at the end
and the chaff gets burnt, and picturing those who undercoat
undergo judgment and that unquenchable fire. It indicates judgment, but
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it's also the refining fire of the Lord that is
always available to us. Look at what it says in
Malachi three, starting verse one, about the coming messenger. Behold,
I will send my messenger, and he will prepare the
way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will
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suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the
Covenant in whom you delight the hold he is coming,
says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the
day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears?
For he is like a refiner's fire and the launderer's soap.
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He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver.
He will pure the sons of Levi and purge them
as gold and silver, that they may offer to the
Lord an offering in righteousness. Then the offering of Judah
and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in
the days of old, as in the former years. Who
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can't endure the day of his coming? No one. That's
why we don't want to be here. We want to
come back with him. As ties to Isaiah sixty one,
starting verse one, which is what the Lord quoted in Nazareth.
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the
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Lord has anointed me to preach the gospel good tidings
to the poor. He has sent me to heal the
broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to those who are bound. To
proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Lord, end the
day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
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to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness, that they
may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord,
that he may be glorified, the beauty for ashes, the
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oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
the Spirit of heaviness. That's what's going on in Texas.
All the families, all the loved ones lost, all the
children lost, all the destruction, all the homes, all the
memories lost. But yet we know that following is Suah
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doesn't mean we escape from all the pain of this world.
That just means we don't go through it alone. To
put on the garment of praise for that spirit of heaviness.
Pray for the oil of Joy, which represents the holiest spirit,
the Holy Spirit for mourning. Be consoled as you mourn.
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Now we know in Looke four verses sixteen through twenty one,
when he goes back to Nazareth out of the wilderness
and quotes from Isaiah that the Lord fulfilled the prophecy
and the countdown to redemption began. So one prophecy about
the coming fire will be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost,
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and the other the end of the age at the
great white throne of judgment. You know, people don't want
to talk about that. They don't want to talk about judgment.
They don't want to talk about being chastised. They don't
want to talk about correction. Well, it's no wonder. The
Church is the myths it is right now. I don't
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do it to make you sad. I don't do it
to make you frightened. I do it to help you
escape being chastised by staying in the right relationship. Look
what the Lord says in Matthew thirteen, starting with verse
thirty seven, talking about the parable of the sower and
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the seeds. He who sows the good seeds is the
son of Man. The field is the world. The good
seeds are the sons of the kingdom. But the tears
are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who
sows sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the
end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore,
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as tears are gathered and burned in the fire, be
at the end of this age, the Son of Man
will send out his angels, and they will gather out
of his kingdom all things that offend and those who
practice lawlessness, and he will cast them into the furnace
of fire. They will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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And then the righteous will shine forth as the son
and the kingdom of their father. He who has ears
to hear, let him hear. Pretty obvious right there, read letters.
How come we can't get that? Why does the church
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ignore that? It comes up again in Revelation chapter twenty,
starting verse eleven. And then I saw a great white throne,
John says, and him who sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heavens fled away, and there
was found no place for them. And I saw the dead,
small and great standing before God. And books were opened,
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and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.
And the dead were judged according to their works by
the things which were written in the books. And the
sea gave up the dead who were in it, and
Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them,
and they were judged, each one according to his works.
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Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second Death. And anyone not found written
in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake
of fire, the Lamb's Book of Life. We won't be
judged by our sins. We won't be judged by our
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past works. It's all under the blood. They'll go to look,
they'll go to look, and I'll turn the page and
it'll be all read. There'll be nothing there to judge
you for in that lake of fire prepared for Satan
and his angels, as said in Matthew twenty five twenty four,
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is there to torment them for the rest of eternity
for their choices in rebelling against God. The Father wasn't
made for humanity. It was made for them. So what
we can do is we can accept the fire of
the Holy Spirit and be cleansed and filled. Now, face
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the fire later. My hope and my goal in doing
these Bible studies is to not only help you to
avoid the fire later and to be filled now, but
to help you do the same for those that you
love and care about and those that you know. The
final judgment on humanity when to effect on the cross.
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When humanity was given a reprieve from Adams sin, now
they would have a personal choice in the matter. So
on that day of Pentecost, the church is born, It's empowered,
and a transformation has taken place in the Upper Room
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to prepare them for what they have been called to do.
Now what.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Now? Now? What?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well? The Spirit was given to us, according to d Almudy,
for this The work of the spirit is to impart life,
to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Messiah.
He says, Christ, I'll say Messiah, to guide us into
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all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer,
and to convict the world of sin. There it is
right there, life, liberty, the gospel, truth, comfort, conviction. That's
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what Now this Bible study. Yes, we're talking about the
Holy Spirit, we're talking about Pentecost. But really got inspired
by the scripture I'm about to read to you go
with many Second Corinthians three verses seventeen and eighteen. Now
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the spirit, the Lord is the spirit. Back up, rewinding.
Now the Lord is the spirit. And where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is liberty. Say there's that
word again, liberty. But we all with unveiled face beholding
as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are
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being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory,
just as by the spirit of the Lord. Now I
read that Friday night at Shabbah. That was the scripture
that came to me, and I read and I thought,
you know what, we need to look at this. And
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then as in looking at it, the Lord began to
build around it. The spirit of the Lord brings liberty.
Wherever it is, there is liberty. There's not bondage, there's
not sin, there's not the enemy. But because of who
we are in our process, we behold it in the mirror,
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the glory of the Lord. Because we're being transformed from
glory to glory. We're time to get in the presence
of the Lord. If you tell me get in the
presence of His glory, we get transformed, just as by
the spirit of the Lord. The spirit of the Lord
is transforming us every time. If you believed that, why
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wouldn't you spend more time in his presence. Why would
you be spending time in your own mind and your
own world and in secular humanism or the things of
this world. No, I'm going to spend it in the Word.
I'm going to spend it in prayer. I'm going to
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spend it in praise. Holy Spirit. We praise you for
doing this for us, for transforming us from glory to glory.
We ask that you do that right now as we're
listening and I'm speaking, transform us, change us now. The
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Lord is the spirit. Where the spirit of the life Lord,
there is liberty. There is emancipation from bondage, there's freedom.
We're right back to Isaiah sixty one, verses one and two.
The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he
has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to
proclaim what liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord, which is the year of Jubilee,
where all debts are forgiven in the day of the
vengeance of our God. And to comfort all who mourn liberty.
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When I got saved on October ninth, nineteen eighty eight,
liberty bondage, broken, prison doors open, broken hearted, healed not
just me, but in my wife and my family, and
those that I'd hurt and those that I'd rejected. The
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healing began because of the spirit of the Lord God
being upon your shoe of that day and passing it
to his disciples, disciples and passing it to us good
tidings to the meek, the poor, the afflicted, to bind
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up the wounds and heal the broken hearted, to proclaim
liberty both physical and spiritual, and opening the prison doors
and opening the eyes those who were bound. Because if
your eyes are not opened, you can't understand what just
happened to you. So again, what was the Lord's purpose
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for the day of Pentecostal? What was his purpose for
sending the Holy spirit, reconciliation, redemption that led to righteousness.
If you can grasp this. The more I do these
Bible studies, and the more I dig deeper into this topic,
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the more I see that anything other than being filled
with the spirit to go set the captives free to
further the kingdom is a waste of my time. And
that's what the enemy wants. He wants us to waste
our time. He wants us to build our own kingdom.
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He wants us to build all these things that are
a distraction from what the mission was for the Holy
Spirit in coming to the church. Look what Paul says
in two Corinthians five, verse eighteen. Now all things are
of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus,
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the Messiah, who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
That is that God was in Messiah reconciling the world
to himself, not imputing their trespassors to them, and has
committed us the word of reconciliation. Now, then here we
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go verse twenty. We are ambassadors for Messiah, as though
God were pleading through us. We employ you on Messiah's behalf.
Be reconciled to God where he made him who knew
no sin to be sin for us, that we might
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become the righteousness of God in him. We are ambassadors
for Messiah, pleading, imploring be reconciled to God. Looking at
the signs of the times, be reconciled to God. Looking
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at the shaking and the chastising, be reconciled to God.
The NLC Study Bible says God is the author of reconciliation,
and the Father and the Son are bound together in
this common purpose. Messiah became the means by which God
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won the sinful world back to himself. Oh, he did it.
Look at that. He won them back to himself. He
did the work, and Jesus the Messiah became one with
sinful humankind and released God's saving power and righteousness to
restore the broken relationship between God and the word world.
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Satan and the angels and their demonic offspring. They did
this to us. Of course, we help them do it.
And God fixed that he didn't have to. He sought
us out. He sent you, Shoeer to die for us
to pay our sins. Without the shedding of blood, there
is no remission of sins. So he sent the Lamb
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of God to shed every drop of blood so that
we can be reconciled to him. Is there any other
purpose to the Church having the Holy Spirit? I don't
see one. God works in human lives through his Holy Spirit.
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And God's plan includes the promise of resurrection when believers
mortal bodies will be transformed into glorified bodies. Every person
that was a believer that died in that flood, lost
somebody in the floods that happened in Texas and are
happening in New Mexico and North Carolina and other places.
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They have a hope, a hope that is not of
this world two Corinthians III, starting verse four. And we
have such trust through Messiah towards God. Not that we
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are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being
from ourselves. But our sufficiency is from God, who also
made us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant, not
of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills,
but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of
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death written engraved on stones was glorious so that the
children of Israel could not look steadily at the face
of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which
glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the
Spirit not be more glorious. For if the ministry of
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condemnation at glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more
in glory. For even what was made glorious had no
glory in this respect because of the glory that excels.
If what it was passing away was glorious, what remains
as much more glorious. Therefore, since we have hope, we
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use boldness of speech, great boldness of speech. Unlike Moses,
who put a veil over his face, so the children
of Visuel could not look steadily at the end of
what was passing away. Remember that we don't want to
see that. You're hurting our eyes. So he covered up,
but their minds were blinded. For until this day, the
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same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament,
because the veil is taken away in Messiah. But even
to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies
on their heart. Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord,
the veil is taken away. Now this is the scripture
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I read to you before becomes the summation of everything
I just said. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and
where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
the same image, from glory to glory. Just as by
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the Spirit of the Lord, our eyes are opened, our
heart is open. We can see, we can hear, we
can feel, we understand the new living translation. Study Bibble
goes on to say, the Lord the quote statement the
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Lord is the Spirit is not an attempt at a
definition of the relationship of the Son to the Spirit.
Is an assertion that one cannot turn to the Lord
without coming to know the ministry of the Spirit. At
this same time, the statement is functional and descriptive and
should be joined to the last phrase of verse eighteen,
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from the Lord the Spirit. Within this framing, Paula firms
that we're the spirit ministers. There is one liberty, there's
two unveiled faces we can see, and there is transformation
metamorphal in the Greek and because of that, an evering,
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an ever increasing glory information for his glory. That was
the purpose of the Holy Spirit on the day of
Pentecost to transform us, which is why paul has to
exhort the Romans in Romans twelve two and do not
be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
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renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is
that good and acceptable and the perfect will of God.
Unfortunately they didn't get it, and a very long time later,
out of Rome, out of that church came false teachings,
an error which has led many astray, metamorphal, transformed, to
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change into another form. In regards to believers, it's the
obligation being to undergo a complete change, which, under the
power of God, will find expression in our character and
our conduct be transformed. Holy Spirit, speak to us right now,
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Show us the areas of our life where we are
not transformed, where the world still has influence over us.
Touch us right now, Holy Spirits speak, Help us to
complete the transformation, so that we can shine the glory
of God, that we can walk in the character and
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the conduct of the Lord. Help us to complete the
inward process. That inward process changes us into the same
image of Messiah, a change that is affected by who.
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If you said, Holy Spirit, you got it right, Freedom, liberty,
rescue from His glory to ours. And one day it'll
be complete physically, spiritually, mentally. Until then we're here. Until
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then we serve. Until then, we are subject to the
enemy and the cares and the things of this world.
That's why, that's why you have to pray, You have
to seek the spirit. You have to use whatever works
for you, prayer or praise to stir it up, to
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not let this world get you down. Yes, things go wrong,
Yes things fail, Yes the system fails. Yes, this people
and everything around us will fail. But He will not.
He will never leave us nor forsake us. So whatever's
going on in your life right now, you in pain, pray,
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seek the spirit, seek the comfort to endure, ask for
the healing. Trust. Are you struggling You need to forgive
someone or seek their forgiveness. Holy Spirit, help help change me,
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transform me. Two Corinthians five seventeen tells me. Therefore, if
anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. He
or she is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold,
all things have become new. Are you new? Have you
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allowed the old things to pass away? Or you're still
dragging them with you? Have you kept him in a bag,
kept him in a box. Every now and then you
open him up and say, oh, I used to do that.
I used to be like that. Oh, I used to
know that person. Throw the box out. Stop walking with
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people that drag you down. Stop dragging you back to Egypt.
You've been set free. Pray for them. Be a new creation,
a new creature. Altogether. Make sure that the old, previous
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moral and spiritual condition of your life has passed away.
That's one of the biggest struggles I've seen in believers
the entire time I've been saved and been in ministry.
As I've said, the enemy knows our buttons. He knows
which button to push. Oops, they're getting a little too
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free and a little too dangerous for my kingdom. So
let's push this button. Anger mm hmm, lust m greed hmm.
He knows the button that's going to get your attention
and get you to look over that way and maybe
take a step in that direction. Aw Tosh says religion
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can reform a person's life, but it can never transform him.
Only the Holy Spirit can transform. Yeah, you can. You
can use religion and the dues and don'ts and the
rules to reform your life, but you won't be transformed.
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The old you will still be there. Only the Holy
Spirit can transform you. Submit, turn to him, seek the
person of the Holy Spirit, not for what he can
do for you. That's the problem most people. I find.
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It's like with the shoe. They want what your shoe
can do for them, but they don't really want him.
They don't want to change their life to have it.
They just want the miracle. They want the blessing. Now,
understanding what Paul's talking about means you need to understand
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the context of the day well. Disillusionment with their current
state of affairs. Let many Jewish interpreters and writers. They
were expecting a new creation in a new age to come,
when all of creation would be liberated from futility and
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transformed into its original goodness as intended by God in
the beginning. For Paul, oh, he knew that the age
with accompanying the future appearance the perusia of Yeshia. But
in two Corinthians five point seventeen, he's suggesting that the
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future reality is already present through being born again. If
anyone is in Messiah, and He is in you, your
new creation, all things have passed away. Behold, all things
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have become new, being born from above. That which is
born of flesh will always be flesh. But that which
is born and the Holy Spirit will be spirit. Now
how's this done Well, It's done through individual converts. It's
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also done through the community of faith. That's why the
Book of Acts starts on the church, the building and
the functions and the actions of the church, the camaraderie,
the family nature, the going out. The church influences change
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by living and spreading the Gospel. Nothing else matters, not buildings,
not programs, not personalities. Nothing else matters living and spreading
the Gospel. By what we say and what we do.
It's all about Yeshiah, and how do we do that
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through the Holy Spirit. Glatian six point fifteen amplified version says,
for neither it is circumcision now of any importance, nor uncircumcision,
but only a new creation, the results of a new
birth and a new nature in Jesus the Messiah. External
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things don't matter. It's the internal things that do. Charles Riray,
in that Book of the Holy Spirit I've quoted before, says, theologically,
regeneration of individuals precisely means the act of God which
imparts eternal life to them. Sometimes it's imprecisely equated and
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used interchangeably with conversion, sanctification, and justification. Although these are
related ideas, they're not synonyms. Regeneration is that which begins
the new life, the new birth. One may put it
all together. Put it together this way. God regenerates according
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to his will through the sovereign works of the Holy Spirit,
when a person believes the Gospel as revealed in the
Word of God. Let me say that again. It's all
comes together right here. God regenerates according to his will
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through the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. When a
person believes the Gospel as revealed in the Word of God.
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Sweet Holy Spirit, Regenerate us, change
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us from the inside out. John three five. Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born of water
and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Flesh cannot walk
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into the Kingdom at the end. Only if you're born again,
only if you're made of the spirit. Only if your
sins are blotted out and you are sealed in the spirit.
You can't pass through the gate. That's why narrow is
the gate, and not a lot make it through. Can't
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bring anything with you get to leave all the flesh,
all the sin, all the old things behind that old
nature can't bring it with you. So right here, right now,
commit to letting go of the past, letting go to
the old nature, letting go of everything that you did
then and who you did it with, and moving on
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with the Lord, filled with the Spirit, manifesting the fruit
and the guilt of the Spirit for the purpose of
the Kingdom and the glory of God. First Peter one,
starting verse twenty two. Since you have purified your souls
in obeying the truth through the Spirit, and sincere love
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of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible
through the Word of God, which lives and abides forever.
And the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God.
The Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
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All things were made through Him, and nothing was made
that was made in him. His life, and the life
was the light of men. And the light shines in
the darkness. And the darkness did not comprehend it couldn't
overcome it through the Word of God, which lives and
abides forever in you through the Holy Spirit. So again,
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what was the spirit's purpose on the day of Pentecost.
If you understand that, then it all comes together. Ministry
becomes easier. You get less bogged down by all the
rules and the regulations, and the religions and the denominationalism
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in this form and that form and formality and this
and that. That's why I believe the most effective people
in the church in the true spreading of the Gospel,
have been those that knew one thing, and one thing
only Jesus and him crucified. You're sure not on the cross,
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but alive forevermore at the right hand of God, knowing
that they are a new creation. If any person is
ingrafted in Messiah, he's a new creation, a new creature. Altogether,
the old, previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold,
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the fresh and the new has come. But all things
are from God, who, through Jesus the Messiah, reconciled us
to himself, received us into favor, brought us into harmony
with themselves. Harmony that you know, when you sing with
somebody and you're all on the same note, you're harmonizing,
it sounds wonderful, But when you're not, it sounds awful,
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but when you're in harmony with God, it's wonderful, and
gave us the ministry of reconciliation that by word and deed,
by our actions, we might aim to bring others into
harmony with Him. It was God personally present in the
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Messiah reconciling and restoring the world to favor with himself,
not counting up or holding against them their trespasses, canceling them,
and committing to us the message of reconciliation, of the
restoration to favor with God. So, as Paul says, we
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are Messiah's ambassadors, God is making his appeal through us,
and we, as Messiah's personal representatives, beg you for his
sake to lay hold of the divine favor now offered
to you and be reconciled to God. That was the
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amplified version of Two Corinthians five seventeen through twenty Freedom, redemption, reconciliation, witnessing, evangelism, healing, liberty.
So we saw on as one they wanted to know
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about the restoration of the kingdom, and the Lord said,
that's a natural focus, that's not for you to know.
But here's a spiritual one. Here's what I want you
to focus on not the kingdom to Israel, but the
Kingdom of God, focusing on being a light in the darkness.
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I read the story and I had to share it.
At age twelve, author Robert Lewis Stevenson was looking out
into the dark from his upstairs window. He was watching
a man like the street lamps. Stephenson's governess came into
the room and asked what he was doing. He replied,
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I'm watching a man cut holes in the darkness. What
a marvelous picture of what our task should be. When
we share God's light with people, we are cutting holes
in their spiritual darkness. That's what happened to me that day.
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That's why I'm so passionate about it. Yes, I was
focused on in the beginning getting even with the enemy
and helping those that were bound, and it changed when
I start to care about the people. Yes the enemy
still gets kicked out, and yes the enemy still gets defeated,
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but now it's about setting them free so they can
spend eternity with their heavenly Aba. So let's go back
to where we started. John baptized with water, which is repentance.
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But not many days from now, you speaking to the disciples,
and the church shall be baptized with shall be placed
into shall I be introduced to the Holy Spirit, And
you shall receive power, the ability, the efficiency, and the
might when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and
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you shall be my witnesses, says the Lord in Jerusalem
and Judea Samaria. And to the ends the very bounds
of the earth. That's what it's all about. So what
are we going to do with that? First, we should
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remember what the Lord said in John fourteen, verses fifteen
through seventeen. If you love me, keep my commandments. Whoops,
most of it goes right out the window for most
people around. Now, well, brother, we're not under the law anymore. No,
we're not under the law of sin and death. But
he gave us commandments. He gave us a perpetual guideline
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for our lives. And the ten Commandments are still in
a face act. If you love me, keep my commandments,
and I will pray the Father, and he will give
you another helper that he may abide with you forever.
The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because
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it neither sees him nor knows him.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
But you know him, for.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
He dwells with you and will be in you, abiding
permanent residents. So it's not about this world. It's not
about being of this world. It's not about anything that
has to do with the world, the worldly things. It's
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about the world to come. So when I hear people
talk about having their best life now, or that their
life coaches or they're guiding people to make the right
decisions in their life, but has nothing to do with
getting saved, healed, and delivered. He shed his blood with that,
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he endured the pain for that. He let them nail
him to a cross, so that you could be a
life coach, or that you could be a counselor how
about setting them free? No money in it, because if
you set them free, they're not coming back for ten
more times. And we need to stop looking at the
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power that's available to everyday believers, and it's demonstrated by
some people and oohing and hying and thinking they're so special. No,
they're just doing what normal everyday believers should be doing. Instead,
we should be asking what am I doing with that power?
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And why am I not manifesting that when it's needed? Oh,
the enemy is so brilliant. Get us to focus on
people and their performance and all the things that they do.
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Oh you see this, brother, look at that deliverance. Yeah,
so this was everyday stuff where I got saved. I mean,
this is problem. This is like nothing. Oh do you
see that emon manifest?
Speaker 2 (56:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (56:23):
Yeah, a couple of thousand times by Now, this is
every day stuff. This is what everybody should be doing
all the time. And just imagine what damage we could
do to the kingdom if everybody believe that. But we
have to start with us inside out. What are you
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doing in your life that is hindering him from using
you to do the things I'm talking about? Ask yourself
the question now, and when we're done you've listened, What
am I doing with the Holy Spirit? And what is
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He doing with me? What am I doing with the
Holy Spirit? And what is He doing with me? If
you don't like the answer, do something about it. And
no answer is never going to be good enough because
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it could always be better, It could always be more.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
One of the things in the Prairie mouth that went
out this morning was right now, in the middle of
a lot of different things. We have a pretty substantial
financial need and the cares of this world and those
things are a distraction, and I know that's a part
of the equation. We walk by faith and not by sight.
But I'm tired of being distracted by the cares of
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this world. I'm tired of having the to me take
my eyes off the mission. So I pray to the
Holy Spirit every day. Send the provision. Lord, heal, deliver
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whatever's keeping me from living the Gospel to its fullest,
from doing the job to its fullest, from running and
not growing weary and rising up with wings as eagles.
Let it be so, Lord, let it happen in my life.
Release your Holy Spirit in me and threw me the
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Holy Spirit. My brothers and my sisters and I come
to you, And in doing so, we know we come
to the Father and the Lord because you're all connected.
We thank you. We thank you for everything you did
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so that we could do this to come into your presence.
Moses had to take the sandals off his feet because
he was on holy ground. He couldn't look at you
directly because his body couldn't handle it. But we have
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been transformed from glory to glory, and we look forward
to that day we can see you face to face.
But right now, I pray that you would envelop your children,
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that you would burn off of us anything that is
not of you, That you would show us every part
of our life that is not in harmony with you.
And let us come into a divine resonance with you
and with each other as they do in the throne room,
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with the angels and the elders and all the saints
and all that are there, and they're worshiping you, that harmony,
that resonance, that divine vibration. If you will restore us,
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reconcile us, change us, transform us. And I pray Lord
that your will has been done, that the Spirit has
said for me everything that you wanted to be said.
But as we touch and agree and come into agreement
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at the end, and here I pray Lord that when
we say amen, it shall be done, and the fire
and the purification would begin, if it hasn't already. I
pray all these things in your Shower's name. A men.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
Lord make his face to shine upon you, be gracious
to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon
you and give you peace, Give you shallow. I'm Richard Grund.
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is underwater, North Carolina is underwater. Now it's Chicago's underwater
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with very strange flooding rainstorms whatever it is, natural or supernatural,
I believe God's trying to get us, get our attention,
trying to get us to pay attention. So let's let's pray,
let's praise him, let's pray, let's hear the sound of
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the show far and get right into what he wants
to do today. First of all, we praise you, Father.
We praise you for your grace and your mercy and
your love that is everlasting. We praise you for being
patient with us, as a loving father, a loving Abbah
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would be. We also know that you chastise those whom
you love to correct them and to bring them into
right relationship with you. If that's what's happening now, Lord,
we pray that people would have eyes to see and
ears to hear, that we would personally know your will
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and how to pray. Forgive us for anything we've done
to add to your disappointment, because all we want is
your favor. All we want is your grace and your mercy.
Thank you for that. Thank you for sending your shoe up,
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your only begotten son, to pay our price so that
we could be reconciled to you and come home, so
that you could rip the temple veil in two and
have access to your children. Thank you, Lord for doing that,
for shedding every drop of blood, for allowing men to
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do to you what they did over those twenty four
hours that you endured the pain, the shame and set
us free. You broke the curse of sin and death.
You destroyed the work of the enemy, and we thank
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you for that. We thank you for the empty cross,
the empty tomb, and the full upper room at fire
that still falls, that still flows, that you gave to
your disciples and to your church. Your church can already
feel your presence, Lord, and that we want right now.
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We want you Holy Spirit to touch us and to
fill us, to guide us, and for your angels to
guard us. Lord, we pray a hedge of protection over
us and all that we have from the enemy, natural
or supernatural. We pray against all sickness, illness, injury, disease,
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any attacks. Pray a hedge of protection on the technology
and this word as it goes forth, let it do
what you purpose it to do. Thank you for allowing
me another rotation around the sun, so that I can
serve the sun and do what You've called me to do.
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And I pray and praise you. And I ask all
these things in your Shoe's name, And if you agree
with me, say amen.
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You know, I want to add another prayer. We're talking
about the Holy Spirit. We're talking about permanent Pentecost. So
Holy Spirit again, we invite you into this Bible study.
We invite you to envelop us, to open our eyes,
to unplug our ears, to touch our heart, speak to us,
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Holy Spirit. Our a Tori says this, If we think
of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence,
then our thought will be constantly to how can I
get a hold of and use the Holy Spirit. But
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if we think of him in the biblical way as
a divine person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then
our thought will constantly be, well can the Holy Spirit
get a hold of and use me? That's what I've
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been trying to do here. This is the fifth week
to get you to see the Holy Spirit, not just
for who he is, but for what he was intended
to be in our lives, so that he can get
a hold of us and to use us. So let's
go back to Acts chapter one, verse four. The Lord says,
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you have heard from me for John truly baptized with water.
But you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now. So, of course they wanted to
know about the restoration of the kingdom to Israel, and
he corrects them, It's not for you to know times
or seasons which the Father has put in his own authority.
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But you shall receive power, dunamous, dynamic, explosive, self replicating
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and
you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in
all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
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Will the promise has been fulfilled, Because then we see
in Acts chapter two the day of Pentecost had fully come.
They were all with one accord in one place, and
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing,
mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they
were sitting, and there appeared to them divided tongues as
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of fire, and one sat upon each of them, and
they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to
speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance
to do what to be witnesses to him throughout the world.
This is something John the Baptist spoke of prophetically. Easy
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for you to say, Richard, No, it wasn't, thank you.
He spoke of it prophetically in Luke chapter three, verse sixteen.
He's speaking of the people were asking questions. You know,
he's baptizing them with water. He says, I indeed baptize
you with water. But one mightier than I is coming,
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whose sandals strap I am not worthy to loose. I'm
not even as lowly as a slave. He will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan
is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean out a. Ah,
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we're gonna have fun tonight, folks. And he will thoroughly
clean out his threshing floor and gather the wheat into
his barn, and the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
He will baptize you, yes, you with Holy Spirit and fire.
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Be baptized with Holy Spirit and fire be filled to
overflowing from the top of your head to the bottom
of your feet. Now, the believers study Bible says the
reference to baptizing with the Holy Spirit and fire is
understood by some to refer to one act, that of
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purification by the Holy Spirit as the fire burns away
in purity. Others understand two acts, baptism with the Spirit
for those who are saved, and baptism with fire for
those who are damned. The context suggests two acts because
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he's speaking of the winnowing fan. He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and fire, and that winnowing fork
the thing that he's gonna use to throw the wheat
up into the air, so that the kernels fall and
those chaff floats away. The grain, which represents the righteous
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will be stored, and the chaff, which represents the unrighteous,
will be burned. Chaff refers to the useless shells of
grain that was separated from the useful wheat by the
winnowing fan, which is a wooden fork like shovel. It
lifted the grain in the air and the wind would
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separate it. Hmmm. Indication there of the wind of the Spirit.
The wind of angels wings, separating those at the end
and the chaff gets burnt, and picturing those who undercoat
undergo judgment and that unquenchable fire. It indicates judgment, but
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it's also the refining fire of the Lord that is
always available to us. Look at what it says in
Malachi three, starting verse one, about the coming messenger. Behold,
I will send my messenger, and he will prepare the
way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will
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suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the
Covenant in whom you delight the hold he is coming,
says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the
day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears?
For he is like a refiner's fire and the launderer's soap.
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He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver.
He will pure the sons of Levi and purge them
as gold and silver, that they may offer to the
Lord an offering in righteousness. Then the offering of Judah
and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in
the days of old, as in the former years. Who
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can't endure the day of his coming? No one. That's
why we don't want to be here. We want to
come back with him. As ties to Isaiah sixty one,
starting verse one, which is what the Lord quoted in Nazareth.
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the
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Lord has anointed me to preach the gospel good tidings
to the poor. He has sent me to heal the
broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to those who are bound. To
proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Lord, end the
day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
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to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness, that they
may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord,
that he may be glorified, the beauty for ashes, the
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oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
the Spirit of heaviness. That's what's going on in Texas.
All the families, all the loved ones lost, all the
children lost, all the destruction, all the homes, all the
memories lost. But yet we know that following is Suah
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doesn't mean we escape from all the pain of this world.
That just means we don't go through it alone. To
put on the garment of praise for that spirit of heaviness.
Pray for the oil of Joy, which represents the holiest spirit,
the Holy Spirit for mourning. Be consoled as you mourn.
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Now we know in Looke four verses sixteen through twenty one,
when he goes back to Nazareth out of the wilderness
and quotes from Isaiah that the Lord fulfilled the prophecy
and the countdown to redemption began. So one prophecy about
the coming fire will be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost,
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and the other the end of the age at the
great white throne of judgment. You know, people don't want
to talk about that. They don't want to talk about judgment.
They don't want to talk about being chastised. They don't
want to talk about correction. Well, it's no wonder. The
Church is the myths it is right now. I don't
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do it to make you sad. I don't do it
to make you frightened. I do it to help you
escape being chastised by staying in the right relationship. Look
what the Lord says in Matthew thirteen, starting with verse
thirty seven, talking about the parable of the sower and
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the seeds. He who sows the good seeds is the
son of Man. The field is the world. The good
seeds are the sons of the kingdom. But the tears
are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who
sows sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the
end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore,
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as tears are gathered and burned in the fire, be
at the end of this age, the Son of Man
will send out his angels, and they will gather out
of his kingdom all things that offend and those who
practice lawlessness, and he will cast them into the furnace
of fire. They will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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And then the righteous will shine forth as the son
and the kingdom of their father. He who has ears
to hear, let him hear. Pretty obvious right there, read letters.
How come we can't get that? Why does the church
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ignore that? It comes up again in Revelation chapter twenty,
starting verse eleven. And then I saw a great white throne,
John says, and him who sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heavens fled away, and there
was found no place for them. And I saw the dead,
small and great standing before God. And books were opened,
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and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.
And the dead were judged according to their works by
the things which were written in the books. And the
sea gave up the dead who were in it, and
Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them,
and they were judged, each one according to his works.
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Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second Death. And anyone not found written
in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake
of fire, the Lamb's Book of Life. We won't be
judged by our sins. We won't be judged by our
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past works. It's all under the blood. They'll go to look,
they'll go to look, and I'll turn the page and
it'll be all read. There'll be nothing there to judge
you for in that lake of fire prepared for Satan
and his angels, as said in Matthew twenty five twenty four,
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is there to torment them for the rest of eternity
for their choices in rebelling against God. The Father wasn't
made for humanity. It was made for them. So what
we can do is we can accept the fire of
the Holy Spirit and be cleansed and filled. Now, face
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the fire later. My hope and my goal in doing
these Bible studies is to not only help you to
avoid the fire later and to be filled now, but
to help you do the same for those that you
love and care about and those that you know. The
final judgment on humanity when to effect on the cross.
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When humanity was given a reprieve from Adams sin, now
they would have a personal choice in the matter. So
on that day of Pentecost, the church is born, It's empowered,
and a transformation has taken place in the Upper Room
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to prepare them for what they have been called to do.
Now what.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Now? Now? What?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well? The Spirit was given to us, according to d Almudy,
for this The work of the spirit is to impart life,
to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Messiah.
He says, Christ, I'll say Messiah, to guide us into
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all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer,
and to convict the world of sin. There it is
right there, life, liberty, the gospel, truth, comfort, conviction. That's
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what Now this Bible study. Yes, we're talking about the
Holy Spirit, we're talking about Pentecost. But really got inspired
by the scripture I'm about to read to you go
with many Second Corinthians three verses seventeen and eighteen. Now
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the spirit, the Lord is the spirit. Back up, rewinding.
Now the Lord is the spirit. And where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is liberty. Say there's that
word again, liberty. But we all with unveiled face beholding
as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are
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being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory,
just as by the spirit of the Lord. Now I
read that Friday night at Shabbah. That was the scripture
that came to me, and I read and I thought,
you know what, we need to look at this. And
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then as in looking at it, the Lord began to
build around it. The spirit of the Lord brings liberty.
Wherever it is, there is liberty. There's not bondage, there's
not sin, there's not the enemy. But because of who
we are in our process, we behold it in the mirror,
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the glory of the Lord. Because we're being transformed from
glory to glory. We're time to get in the presence
of the Lord. If you tell me get in the
presence of His glory, we get transformed, just as by
the spirit of the Lord. The spirit of the Lord
is transforming us every time. If you believed that, why
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wouldn't you spend more time in his presence. Why would
you be spending time in your own mind and your
own world and in secular humanism or the things of
this world. No, I'm going to spend it in the Word.
I'm going to spend it in prayer. I'm going to
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spend it in praise. Holy Spirit. We praise you for
doing this for us, for transforming us from glory to glory.
We ask that you do that right now as we're
listening and I'm speaking, transform us, change us now. The
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Lord is the spirit. Where the spirit of the life Lord,
there is liberty. There is emancipation from bondage, there's freedom.
We're right back to Isaiah sixty one, verses one and two.
The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he
has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to
proclaim what liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord, which is the year of Jubilee,
where all debts are forgiven in the day of the
vengeance of our God. And to comfort all who mourn liberty.
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When I got saved on October ninth, nineteen eighty eight,
liberty bondage, broken, prison doors open, broken hearted, healed not
just me, but in my wife and my family, and
those that I'd hurt and those that I'd rejected. The
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healing began because of the spirit of the Lord God
being upon your shoe of that day and passing it
to his disciples, disciples and passing it to us good
tidings to the meek, the poor, the afflicted, to bind
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up the wounds and heal the broken hearted, to proclaim
liberty both physical and spiritual, and opening the prison doors
and opening the eyes those who were bound. Because if
your eyes are not opened, you can't understand what just
happened to you. So again, what was the Lord's purpose
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for the day of Pentecostal? What was his purpose for
sending the Holy spirit, reconciliation, redemption that led to righteousness.
If you can grasp this. The more I do these
Bible studies, and the more I dig deeper into this topic,
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the more I see that anything other than being filled
with the spirit to go set the captives free to
further the kingdom is a waste of my time. And
that's what the enemy wants. He wants us to waste
our time. He wants us to build our own kingdom.
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He wants us to build all these things that are
a distraction from what the mission was for the Holy
Spirit in coming to the church. Look what Paul says
in two Corinthians five, verse eighteen. Now all things are
of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus,
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the Messiah, who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
That is that God was in Messiah reconciling the world
to himself, not imputing their trespassors to them, and has
committed us the word of reconciliation. Now, then here we
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go verse twenty. We are ambassadors for Messiah, as though
God were pleading through us. We employ you on Messiah's behalf.
Be reconciled to God where he made him who knew
no sin to be sin for us, that we might
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become the righteousness of God in him. We are ambassadors
for Messiah, pleading, imploring be reconciled to God. Looking at
the signs of the times, be reconciled to God. Looking
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at the shaking and the chastising, be reconciled to God.
The NLC Study Bible says God is the author of reconciliation,
and the Father and the Son are bound together in
this common purpose. Messiah became the means by which God
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won the sinful world back to himself. Oh, he did it.
Look at that. He won them back to himself. He
did the work, and Jesus the Messiah became one with
sinful humankind and released God's saving power and righteousness to
restore the broken relationship between God and the word world.
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Satan and the angels and their demonic offspring. They did
this to us. Of course, we help them do it.
And God fixed that he didn't have to. He sought
us out. He sent you, Shoeer to die for us
to pay our sins. Without the shedding of blood, there
is no remission of sins. So he sent the Lamb
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of God to shed every drop of blood so that
we can be reconciled to him. Is there any other
purpose to the Church having the Holy Spirit? I don't
see one. God works in human lives through his Holy Spirit.
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And God's plan includes the promise of resurrection when believers
mortal bodies will be transformed into glorified bodies. Every person
that was a believer that died in that flood, lost
somebody in the floods that happened in Texas and are
happening in New Mexico and North Carolina and other places.
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They have a hope, a hope that is not of
this world two Corinthians III, starting verse four. And we
have such trust through Messiah towards God. Not that we
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are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being
from ourselves. But our sufficiency is from God, who also
made us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant, not
of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills,
but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of
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death written engraved on stones was glorious so that the
children of Israel could not look steadily at the face
of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which
glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the
Spirit not be more glorious. For if the ministry of
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condemnation at glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more
in glory. For even what was made glorious had no
glory in this respect because of the glory that excels.
If what it was passing away was glorious, what remains
as much more glorious. Therefore, since we have hope, we
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use boldness of speech, great boldness of speech. Unlike Moses,
who put a veil over his face, so the children
of Visuel could not look steadily at the end of
what was passing away. Remember that we don't want to
see that. You're hurting our eyes. So he covered up,
but their minds were blinded. For until this day, the
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same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament,
because the veil is taken away in Messiah. But even
to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies
on their heart. Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord,
the veil is taken away. Now this is the scripture
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I read to you before becomes the summation of everything
I just said. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and
where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
the same image, from glory to glory. Just as by
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the Spirit of the Lord, our eyes are opened, our
heart is open. We can see, we can hear, we
can feel, we understand the new living translation. Study Bibble
goes on to say, the Lord the quote statement the
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Lord is the Spirit is not an attempt at a
definition of the relationship of the Son to the Spirit.
Is an assertion that one cannot turn to the Lord
without coming to know the ministry of the Spirit. At
this same time, the statement is functional and descriptive and
should be joined to the last phrase of verse eighteen,
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from the Lord the Spirit. Within this framing, Paula firms
that we're the spirit ministers. There is one liberty, there's
two unveiled faces we can see, and there is transformation
metamorphal in the Greek and because of that, an evering,
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an ever increasing glory information for his glory. That was
the purpose of the Holy Spirit on the day of
Pentecost to transform us, which is why paul has to
exhort the Romans in Romans twelve two and do not
be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
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renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is
that good and acceptable and the perfect will of God.
Unfortunately they didn't get it, and a very long time later,
out of Rome, out of that church came false teachings,
an error which has led many astray, metamorphal, transformed, to
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change into another form. In regards to believers, it's the
obligation being to undergo a complete change, which, under the
power of God, will find expression in our character and
our conduct be transformed. Holy Spirit, speak to us right now,
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Show us the areas of our life where we are
not transformed, where the world still has influence over us.
Touch us right now, Holy Spirits speak, Help us to
complete the transformation, so that we can shine the glory
of God, that we can walk in the character and
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the conduct of the Lord. Help us to complete the
inward process. That inward process changes us into the same
image of Messiah, a change that is affected by who.
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If you said, Holy Spirit, you got it right, Freedom, liberty,
rescue from His glory to ours. And one day it'll
be complete physically, spiritually, mentally. Until then we're here. Until
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then we serve. Until then, we are subject to the
enemy and the cares and the things of this world.
That's why, that's why you have to pray, You have
to seek the spirit. You have to use whatever works
for you, prayer or praise to stir it up, to
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not let this world get you down. Yes, things go wrong,
Yes things fail, Yes the system fails. Yes, this people
and everything around us will fail. But He will not.
He will never leave us nor forsake us. So whatever's
going on in your life right now, you in pain, pray,
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seek the spirit, seek the comfort to endure, ask for
the healing. Trust. Are you struggling You need to forgive
someone or seek their forgiveness. Holy Spirit, help help change me,
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transform me. Two Corinthians five seventeen tells me. Therefore, if
anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. He
or she is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold,
all things have become new. Are you new? Have you
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allowed the old things to pass away? Or you're still
dragging them with you? Have you kept him in a bag,
kept him in a box. Every now and then you
open him up and say, oh, I used to do that.
I used to be like that. Oh, I used to
know that person. Throw the box out. Stop walking with
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people that drag you down. Stop dragging you back to Egypt.
You've been set free. Pray for them. Be a new creation,
a new creature. Altogether. Make sure that the old, previous
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moral and spiritual condition of your life has passed away.
That's one of the biggest struggles I've seen in believers
the entire time I've been saved and been in ministry.
As I've said, the enemy knows our buttons. He knows
which button to push. Oops, they're getting a little too
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free and a little too dangerous for my kingdom. So
let's push this button. Anger mm hmm, lust m greed hmm.
He knows the button that's going to get your attention
and get you to look over that way and maybe
take a step in that direction. Aw Tosh says religion
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can reform a person's life, but it can never transform him.
Only the Holy Spirit can transform. Yeah, you can. You
can use religion and the dues and don'ts and the
rules to reform your life, but you won't be transformed.
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The old you will still be there. Only the Holy
Spirit can transform you. Submit, turn to him, seek the
person of the Holy Spirit, not for what he can
do for you. That's the problem most people. I find.
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It's like with the shoe. They want what your shoe
can do for them, but they don't really want him.
They don't want to change their life to have it.
They just want the miracle. They want the blessing. Now,
understanding what Paul's talking about means you need to understand
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the context of the day well. Disillusionment with their current
state of affairs. Let many Jewish interpreters and writers. They
were expecting a new creation in a new age to come,
when all of creation would be liberated from futility and
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transformed into its original goodness as intended by God in
the beginning. For Paul, oh, he knew that the age
with accompanying the future appearance the perusia of Yeshia. But
in two Corinthians five point seventeen, he's suggesting that the
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future reality is already present through being born again. If
anyone is in Messiah, and He is in you, your
new creation, all things have passed away. Behold, all things
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have become new, being born from above. That which is
born of flesh will always be flesh. But that which
is born and the Holy Spirit will be spirit. Now
how's this done Well, It's done through individual converts. It's
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also done through the community of faith. That's why the
Book of Acts starts on the church, the building and
the functions and the actions of the church, the camaraderie,
the family nature, the going out. The church influences change
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by living and spreading the Gospel. Nothing else matters, not buildings,
not programs, not personalities. Nothing else matters living and spreading
the Gospel. By what we say and what we do.
It's all about Yeshiah, and how do we do that
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through the Holy Spirit. Glatian six point fifteen amplified version says,
for neither it is circumcision now of any importance, nor uncircumcision,
but only a new creation, the results of a new
birth and a new nature in Jesus the Messiah. External
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things don't matter. It's the internal things that do. Charles Riray,
in that Book of the Holy Spirit I've quoted before, says, theologically,
regeneration of individuals precisely means the act of God which
imparts eternal life to them. Sometimes it's imprecisely equated and
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used interchangeably with conversion, sanctification, and justification. Although these are
related ideas, they're not synonyms. Regeneration is that which begins
the new life, the new birth. One may put it
all together. Put it together this way. God regenerates according
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to his will through the sovereign works of the Holy Spirit,
when a person believes the Gospel as revealed in the
Word of God. Let me say that again. It's all
comes together right here. God regenerates according to his will
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through the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. When a
person believes the Gospel as revealed in the Word of God.
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Sweet Holy Spirit, Regenerate us, change
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us from the inside out. John three five. Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born of water
and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Flesh cannot walk
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into the Kingdom at the end. Only if you're born again,
only if you're made of the spirit. Only if your
sins are blotted out and you are sealed in the spirit.
You can't pass through the gate. That's why narrow is
the gate, and not a lot make it through. Can't
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bring anything with you get to leave all the flesh,
all the sin, all the old things behind that old
nature can't bring it with you. So right here, right now,
commit to letting go of the past, letting go to
the old nature, letting go of everything that you did
then and who you did it with, and moving on
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with the Lord, filled with the Spirit, manifesting the fruit
and the guilt of the Spirit for the purpose of
the Kingdom and the glory of God. First Peter one,
starting verse twenty two. Since you have purified your souls
in obeying the truth through the Spirit, and sincere love
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of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible
through the Word of God, which lives and abides forever.
And the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God.
The Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
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All things were made through Him, and nothing was made
that was made in him. His life, and the life
was the light of men. And the light shines in
the darkness. And the darkness did not comprehend it couldn't
overcome it through the Word of God, which lives and
abides forever in you through the Holy Spirit. So again,
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what was the spirit's purpose on the day of Pentecost.
If you understand that, then it all comes together. Ministry
becomes easier. You get less bogged down by all the
rules and the regulations, and the religions and the denominationalism
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in this form and that form and formality and this
and that. That's why I believe the most effective people
in the church in the true spreading of the Gospel,
have been those that knew one thing, and one thing
only Jesus and him crucified. You're sure not on the cross,
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but alive forevermore at the right hand of God, knowing
that they are a new creation. If any person is
ingrafted in Messiah, he's a new creation, a new creature. Altogether,
the old, previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold,
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the fresh and the new has come. But all things
are from God, who, through Jesus the Messiah, reconciled us
to himself, received us into favor, brought us into harmony
with themselves. Harmony that you know, when you sing with
somebody and you're all on the same note, you're harmonizing,
it sounds wonderful, But when you're not, it sounds awful,
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but when you're in harmony with God, it's wonderful, and
gave us the ministry of reconciliation that by word and deed,
by our actions, we might aim to bring others into
harmony with Him. It was God personally present in the
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Messiah reconciling and restoring the world to favor with himself,
not counting up or holding against them their trespasses, canceling them,
and committing to us the message of reconciliation, of the
restoration to favor with God. So, as Paul says, we
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are Messiah's ambassadors, God is making his appeal through us,
and we, as Messiah's personal representatives, beg you for his
sake to lay hold of the divine favor now offered
to you and be reconciled to God. That was the
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amplified version of Two Corinthians five seventeen through twenty Freedom, redemption, reconciliation, witnessing, evangelism, healing, liberty.
So we saw on as one they wanted to know
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about the restoration of the kingdom, and the Lord said,
that's a natural focus, that's not for you to know.
But here's a spiritual one. Here's what I want you
to focus on not the kingdom to Israel, but the
Kingdom of God, focusing on being a light in the darkness.
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I read the story and I had to share it.
At age twelve, author Robert Lewis Stevenson was looking out
into the dark from his upstairs window. He was watching
a man like the street lamps. Stephenson's governess came into
the room and asked what he was doing. He replied,
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I'm watching a man cut holes in the darkness. What
a marvelous picture of what our task should be. When
we share God's light with people, we are cutting holes
in their spiritual darkness. That's what happened to me that day.
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That's why I'm so passionate about it. Yes, I was
focused on in the beginning getting even with the enemy
and helping those that were bound, and it changed when
I start to care about the people. Yes the enemy
still gets kicked out, and yes the enemy still gets defeated,
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but now it's about setting them free so they can
spend eternity with their heavenly Aba. So let's go back
to where we started. John baptized with water, which is repentance.
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But not many days from now, you speaking to the disciples,
and the church shall be baptized with shall be placed
into shall I be introduced to the Holy Spirit, And
you shall receive power, the ability, the efficiency, and the
might when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and
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you shall be my witnesses, says the Lord in Jerusalem
and Judea Samaria. And to the ends the very bounds
of the earth. That's what it's all about. So what
are we going to do with that? First, we should
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remember what the Lord said in John fourteen, verses fifteen
through seventeen. If you love me, keep my commandments. Whoops,
most of it goes right out the window for most
people around. Now, well, brother, we're not under the law anymore. No,
we're not under the law of sin and death. But
he gave us commandments. He gave us a perpetual guideline
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for our lives. And the ten Commandments are still in
a face act. If you love me, keep my commandments,
and I will pray the Father, and he will give
you another helper that he may abide with you forever.
The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because
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it neither sees him nor knows him.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
But you know him, for.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
He dwells with you and will be in you, abiding
permanent residents. So it's not about this world. It's not
about being of this world. It's not about anything that
has to do with the world, the worldly things. It's
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about the world to come. So when I hear people
talk about having their best life now, or that their
life coaches or they're guiding people to make the right
decisions in their life, but has nothing to do with
getting saved, healed, and delivered. He shed his blood with that,
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he endured the pain for that. He let them nail
him to a cross, so that you could be a
life coach, or that you could be a counselor how
about setting them free? No money in it, because if
you set them free, they're not coming back for ten
more times. And we need to stop looking at the
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power that's available to everyday believers, and it's demonstrated by
some people and oohing and hying and thinking they're so special. No,
they're just doing what normal everyday believers should be doing. Instead,
we should be asking what am I doing with that power?
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And why am I not manifesting that when it's needed? Oh,
the enemy is so brilliant. Get us to focus on
people and their performance and all the things that they do.
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Oh you see this, brother, look at that deliverance. Yeah,
so this was everyday stuff where I got saved. I mean,
this is problem. This is like nothing. Oh do you
see that emon manifest?
Speaker 2 (56:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (56:23):
Yeah, a couple of thousand times by Now, this is
every day stuff. This is what everybody should be doing
all the time. And just imagine what damage we could
do to the kingdom if everybody believe that. But we
have to start with us inside out. What are you
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doing in your life that is hindering him from using
you to do the things I'm talking about? Ask yourself
the question now, and when we're done you've listened, What
am I doing with the Holy Spirit? And what is
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He doing with me? What am I doing with the
Holy Spirit? And what is He doing with me? If
you don't like the answer, do something about it. And
no answer is never going to be good enough because
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it could always be better, It could always be more.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
One of the things in the Prairie mouth that went
out this morning was right now, in the middle of
a lot of different things. We have a pretty substantial
financial need and the cares of this world and those
things are a distraction, and I know that's a part
of the equation. We walk by faith and not by sight.
But I'm tired of being distracted by the cares of
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this world. I'm tired of having the to me take
my eyes off the mission. So I pray to the
Holy Spirit every day. Send the provision. Lord, heal, deliver
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whatever's keeping me from living the Gospel to its fullest,
from doing the job to its fullest, from running and
not growing weary and rising up with wings as eagles.
Let it be so, Lord, let it happen in my life.
Release your Holy Spirit in me and threw me the
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Holy Spirit. My brothers and my sisters and I come
to you, And in doing so, we know we come
to the Father and the Lord because you're all connected.
We thank you. We thank you for everything you did
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so that we could do this to come into your presence.
Moses had to take the sandals off his feet because
he was on holy ground. He couldn't look at you
directly because his body couldn't handle it. But we have
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been transformed from glory to glory, and we look forward
to that day we can see you face to face.
But right now, I pray that you would envelop your children,
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that you would burn off of us anything that is
not of you, That you would show us every part
of our life that is not in harmony with you.
And let us come into a divine resonance with you
and with each other as they do in the throne room,
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with the angels and the elders and all the saints
and all that are there, and they're worshiping you, that harmony,
that resonance, that divine vibration. If you will restore us,
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reconcile us, change us, transform us. And I pray Lord
that your will has been done, that the Spirit has
said for me everything that you wanted to be said.
But as we touch and agree and come into agreement
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at the end, and here I pray Lord that when
we say amen, it shall be done, and the fire
and the purification would begin, if it hasn't already. I
pray all these things in your Shower's name. A men.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
Lord make his face to shine upon you, be gracious
to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon
you and give you peace, Give you shallow. I'm Richard Grund.
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