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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dear Father God, we are living on the eve of
the Advent of Jesus Christ, and as a people we
are a fulfilling Bible prophecy. The lay at a Sean church, Lord,
a church that is your church.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Our church.
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Is void of eyesav which is the Holy Spirit, because
the righteousness of Christ is not found as it should
be in us. So, Lord, we're not here to virtue,
signal or point fingers.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
In any group. But we're here to go to the Bible.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
For answers, to know Jesus, to let the Apostolic Gospel
do its good work in us, so that prophetic truth
is about you and not us. So open our ears
and our hearts in Jesus name.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
How many of you have heard of Corey ten Boone.
Corey ten Boone suffered in a concentration camp in World
War Two, where she learned many lessons for life a
wise woman till the day she died. One of those
great lessons is the lesson of forgiveness. When she was
able to forgive a prison guard years later who had
helped to take the life of her sister. Corey Tenboone
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learned to pray and rely upon the Holy Spirit in
her life. Would that be a good thing for us
to do in our life? What do you think it'd
be a hugely important thing to do? Out of her
intense suffering, she dedicated her imperfect life to know God,
to live for God, to share God. Now why do
I say imperfect life?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You know?
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Frankly, as a pastor, I'm tired of people telling me
how perfect they are. The last time I checked, I
am not perfect, are you? If we are deeply hon
Us with ourselves and we fall on our knees, we
must admit the truth that without Jesus we are nothing.
And this dear woman of God learned that through suffering
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that she's very imperfect, she could be transparent about it.
One said this profoundly, Trying to do the Lord's work
and your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting.
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And tedious of all work.
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But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then
the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
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Wow.
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Just before jesus ascension, Jesus told his disciples to go
back into Jerusalem to wait for the promise of the
Holy Spirit. And they went to the very room of
the Last Supper, and by God's grace, they made it
the place where they stayed right there, and they prayed.
They prayed, they prayed, They demonstrated the angels and men.
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The Bible principle that we must meet in one place
to receive God's grace. I'll repeat myself, we must meet
in one place to receive God's grace. We live in
a world that teaches a rugged individualism. America is famous
for that. There's good things about that and bad too.
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And we assume naturally that doing things our way on
our terms God's way. It's built into our DNA. But friend,
it's not God's way. When we insist on our personal
will rather than coming together and unity and asking God
to lead us, not just eye me and my being
here and there and not united in mind and heart,
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will not move the heart of God to save his
church on earth or help anyone get saved in the end.
It will not produce the atmosphere for healing, for victory
of a sin, for spiritual growth and character transformation in
the church. This is why when people say I will
prove to the universe by developing a perfect character and
vindicate the character of God. Lit friends, you don't have
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the stuff in you to vindicate the character of God.
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Why don't you let God do that and enamor.
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Yourself with Jesus, who is our right now, righteousness, goodness
for the judgment day. You see, arrogance will not produce
the atmosphere for healing, for victory of a sin or
anything like it. My way is not our way, and
it definitely is not God's way.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
If we are not united.
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In submission to God in the Church, God would have
us pray in one place and one accord. Key themes
in Acts one and two for person, the person and
the power of the Holy Spirit to come into our lives,
to come into the church to make us not just
met us alive. After the twelve Apostles had called together
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their support group to be in one accord and to
form the one hundred and twenty, in that upper room,
they prayed for wisdom and for the Holy Spirit to
lead them to replace the broken link of Judas the betrayer,
and they chose Matthias's name and he remeans.
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Gift of God.
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They waited it out with God, just as Jesus had
commanded them. By staying in Jerusalem to pray. There are
times when staying is more important than going. There are
times when abiding and listening matters more, because your work
will not work unless you stop and allow God to
do his work inside of you. And as they prayed,
they contemplated the time and the opportunities they had lost,
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the lessons they had missed, the power and knowledge they
might have attained if they had perceived Jesus' true character
as the Son of God. They didn't get it until
late in the game. And now Jesus was gone to
the right hand of God in heaven, and they were
gathered in one accord, in one place to pray for
the Holy Spirit to take Jesus's place. Sister White says,
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he personates Christ. Can't do that if you're not a person.
He personates Christ and the heart and love of the
God had the Father, the love, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit could not be the hoarded love of eternity,
as she calls it, unless there were three persons as one.
And so God sent the one person who had not
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been in the scene so much it was not perceived.
It was in the Old Testament moving. But this is
the age of the Spirit, inaugurated by the death the
bar and the resurrection of Christ. So that we might
have Christ in us the hope of glory, and the
world might be illumined with the knowledge of Christ. So
the right place to be when you're seeking a deeper
relationship with God is on your knees together, searching so
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that God can feel you for the good of other
human beings. Now I have recommended the book Daniel, Are
you here, Daniel Prabakar, where are you at? Come up
here real quick, give me that book. Actually, Apostles. You
got to run, because well you don't have to run,
you can walk and don't trip whatever you do. But
put that book in my hand if you don't mind.
Acts of the Apostles.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Is it over there?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Okay, Well give me the stack of books and I'll
give them back to you and I'll make a plug here.
What book in our Acts series are we paying attention to? Here,
say loud, Acts of the Apostles. Oh yeah, this is
for Samuel. Samuel, these are yours? Come up and get them.
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The Conflict of the Ages series been along the way.
I have learned more about God's Word from these books
than any other book in theology, seminary training anywhere.
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And I want to make a statement that can be proven.
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These works are chiastic, and she didn't sit down and say, oh,
I'm a ride of chiasm. They are supernaturally God carried
to their final form, like the Canon of Scripture was carried.
God gave the remnant church these books. The book Acts
of the Apostles is hugely important in this series. And Samuel,
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it's number four. But I'm giving you the set. You
were supposed to get these after your baptism, so we
need to make sure you get them.
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God bless you. Samuel is a good leader in the church.
I'd like to read three paragraphs from actually Apostles with you.
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Could I I don't have the slide on the screen,
just the place where you.
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Oh, well, look at Lucian. He plugged it in.
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As the disciples waited for the fulfillment of the promise,
they humbled their hearts, and look what she says in
true repentance and confess their unbelief. They called to remembrance
the words that Christ had spoken of them before his death.
They understood more fully their meaning. Truths which had passed
from their memory were again brought to their minds, and
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these they repeated to one another. They reproached themselves for
their misapprehension of the Savior. In other words, they didn't
have a clue who he was until they finally got
it that God in man had come to them in
Jesus like a processionate, scene after scene of his wonderful
life passed before them. As they meditate upon his pure,
holy life. They felt that no toil would be too hard,
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no sacrifice too great, if only they could bear witness
in their lives to the loveliness of Christ's character. Oh,
if they could but have the past three years to
live over. They thought, how differently they would act if
they could only see the Master again. How earnestly they
would strive to show him, how deeply they loved him,
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how sincerely they sorrowed for having ever greemed him by
a word or an act of unbelief. But they were
comforted by the thought. Now Here I love this statement.
They were comforted by the thought. And what does it
say that they were forgiven? And they determined that, so
far as possible, they would atone for their unbelief by
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bravely and confessing him before the world. I like that
she says forgiven people are about sharing forgiveness. They're about
giving that which God has given them.
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She goes on.
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The disciples prayed with intense earnestness for a fitness to
meet men and in their daily intercourse to speak words
that would lead sinners to Christ. Putting away all differences,
all desire for supremacy, they came close together in Christian fellowship.
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They drew nearer and nearer to God.
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And as they did this, they realized what a privilege
had been theirs had been theirs in being permitted to
associate so closely with Christ. Sadness filled their hearts as
they thought of how many times they grieved Him by
their slowness of comprehension failure to understand the lessons for
their good He was trying to teach them. These days
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of preparation, which means the days between His ascension and Pentecost,
were days of deep spiritual searching. The disciples felt their
spiritual need and cried to the Lord for the holy
unction that was to fit them for the work of
saving of soul saving. They did not ask for a
blessing for themselves, merely they were weighted with the burden
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of the salvation of souls. They realized that the Gospel
was to be carried to the world and they claimed
the power that Christ had promised. The power that Christ
had promised is the Holy Spirit. He's called the Finger
of God, the Rod of God, the hand of God,
the ink of God, the Wind of God, the Fire
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of God. I could go on the imagery the Holy
Spirit is immersed in the Old Testament. Doctor Daniel Buxton myself.
We produced a book which we're going to make available
to you on symbolism in the same the Holy Spirit,
to show how much the Holy Spirit appears as a
person in the Old Testament. And we didn't write it
for scholars. We write it for Bible students who want
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to open up their Bible and just let the Word
of God speak. The Bible summarizes the outcome of this
seeking after God that they had through prayer and fellowship
and searching of heart. At last, the floodgates of God's
treasury opened wide, and Heaven's treasure poured down upon the earth.
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That was the day for earth, wind and fire to meet,
The day for the outpoint of the Holy Spirit had
finally come. The Age of the Spirit had broken into
the darkness of the Old Age, and the power of
the Age to come had become the power that animated
and motivated the New Testament Church. Take your Bible's turn
with me to Acts two Verse one. Let's begin the narrative.
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We will not be going far into Acts two. We
will be describing what it is talking about here on
the front side. When the day of Pentecost had come,
the Bible reads, they were all together in one place,
and suddenly a sound came from heaven, like the rush
of a mighty wind. It filled all the house where
they were sitting. The Greek word when panah ace or
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for found in verse two, appears in the Greek Old Testament,
not the Hebrew the Greek Old Testament for the first
time in Genesis two seven. It is deliberately chosen because
here in this passage, Luke is not trying to draw
our attention so much to creation as he is to
the new life that we have because of the wind
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of God. It is not the word used for the
Spirit of God in Genesis one. It's the word used
for when man was created in Genesis two. Let's look
at the verse Genesis two to seven. I'm reading from
the revised Standard version. Then the Lord God formed man
of dust. The Hebrews yatsar. He formed him like a
potter would form a clay vessel from the ground, and
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he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and
man became a living being. So in the Greek Old
Testament of the Hebrew, God breathed into Adam's nostrils the wind,
the breath of life, the exact same word used in
Acts two, verse two, and he became a living being.
Now what's it saying there. You can have all the materials,
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you have the body, that's right, you can have the DNA.
But if you don't have the wind of God in you,
you don't live. And so we don't even get started
in the Christian life unless God's Spirit fills us. The
Church's need is the same as Adam's. Without the Holy
Spirit inside the shell of the body, it's only a
dead organism, no life. There's no movement, no future. And
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this is the latest seeing condition problem in the book Revelation.
It lacks ice have because it's naked, and it lacks
the righteousness of Christ. Adam means earth in the Genesis
account in Hebrew, Adam was made from the red muddy earth.
The word for blood is etymologically connected the word for acts,
and we're blood red earth creatures. And without the Holy Spirit,
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the earth that is us is nothing but mud.
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And there is no life in the.
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Clay without the wind of God. So earth and man
must meet the wind and the fire of God to
live for us to be animated and alive. Life is
wind and fire, not just earth. Jesus told Nicodemus, you
remember the story of Nicodemus. He met Jesus by night,
and Jesus had to talk to this bright theologian about
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how to have a new heart. He was all enamored
with the how and the what of scripture, like the
House of Hillel and Shamah and Judaism, to figure out
all the intricacies.
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Of the Torah.
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But he didn't know God as a savior. He didn't
have a relationship where by his heart was renewed. And
in his need, he came to Jesus by night. And
the Greek is a genitive of time. He gave came
to him, and it was not kind of time for him.
It was darkness in his life and he needed something,
and Jesus took the time to speak to the theologian
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on how to be a converted man. John three six
to eight. A little excerpt from Jesus' interaction with Nicodemus.
Jesus said, that which is born of the flesh is flesh,
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Do not marvel or be surprised that I said.
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To you, you must be born anew. And some translations
will say born again the wind. As soon as he
talks about the new birth, he doesn't talk about some
fanciful religious experience.
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We jump up and down, and you say, oh, I
got the spirit. He says.
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The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the
sound of it, but you do not know whence it
comes or whither it goes. So it is with everyone
who's born of the spirit. When we are born again,
the wind of God is blowing in your life.
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The wind of God that.
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You cannot see, is affecting changes, bringing you to brokenness,
so that the Word of God will interact with you,
so that you will come to since your need of Him.
You cannot do that work. Only the Holy Spirit can
do that work. God sends his spirit to save the world.
This gift of the Holy Spirit comes from Jesus into
our lives. Because Jesus and John three is above all,
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and because Jesus loves the earth that desperately needs the.
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Wind and the fire, and he came to the earth to.
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Give us salvation and ultimately his spirit John three point
thirty one. He who comes from above is above all.
He was of the earth, belongs to the earth, and
the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is
above all.
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Friend.
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Jesus came into this world to save you. He didn't
come to waste his time. He came because he loves you.
Jesus returned to the Father and next one so he
could send the Holy Spirit to complete the divine work
of spreading the Gospel of the world and to fill
us with the Holy Spirit, so we would have Christ
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in us, the Hope of glory. As we have said
that the Spirit of Prophety says he personates Christ. He
brings the person of Christ because he is one with Christ.
The gift of the Holy Spirit is Christ in Us,
the hope of Gloria mystery. But nonetheless, the truth and
what Jesus did for us in coming to earth, the
Holy Spirit applies that work in us so we can
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live on earth as born again, born in New Christians.
I have watched in the church over the years. I'm
sixty two and I still have my hair. Some of
you are cubbageous. Do not break the tenth Commandment. Okay,
but I've lost some of it. On the sides.
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It's definitely getting grayer.
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The point is, when I'm getting older now with gray hair,
what does it symbolize in our culture? You can help
me with this wisdom. All right, I'm slow here, you're not.
And I have noticed over the years certain people come
to church not to be born again, not to be
born anew.
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But to look important. Yes, to be important.
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You realize, friends, that we gather here to maintain a
relationship of God, to be born again and help others
come to Christ.
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That's what the church is about.
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And I've seen over the years people who thank their
God's gift of the world and the church really are
the ones who need conversion the most. Jesus call them
the lost coins. In the church now, as a movement
based on Bible prophecy, we are in desperate need of
conversion in our church, converted lives, converted hearts in the
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remnant church. At the end of time, does Jesus love
our church, yes or no, hugely, and so the message
comes from the Bible to us. In Roman's eight fourteen,
Paul says, all who are led by the spirit of God,
these are the children of God. So is it optional
to have the Holy Spirit in your life? Yes or no,
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It's not optional. They were all praying for the Holy
Spirit for good reasons that Jesus sent the Spirit just
as he had prom Ax one one says that the
day of Pentecost came and they were together literally in
one place.
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And what does this mean? Same place.
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It means that they were expecting the Holy Spirit based
in the promise of Jesus. Bible prophecy was in play,
based on the sanctuary system and the feast of Pentecost.
They were in tune with the signs of the times,
the words of Christ's prophetic leading.
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They understood the Book of Daniel.
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Chapter nine clearly, multiple allusions to it in their testament
in the Praise the Mare of Daniel nine twenty three
to twenty four.
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Dane eight fifteen. The mighty man Mare.
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Is the appearance of Christ, and this is why Romans
three will say, but now a righteousness has been manifested.
Pheneroo and Greek alluding to the Mare of Daniel nine
twenty three the appearance of Christ. So Christ is the
mighty Man, that is part of the evenings and mornings
that brings us to the year eighteen forty four. But basically,
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in real terms, they were enamored by the officecy that
brought Jesus. It became the framework of New Testam escatology,
and so when Christ spoke of the Holy Spirit, they
had open ears, they were prepared, they were ready, they
were there. In one place, Pentecost means fifty in Greek,
it was numbered fifty days from the wave sheaf offering.
Does anybody know what the wave chef offering here is? Say, no,
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pastor what's the wave chief offering? Okay, tomorrow after the Sabbath,
which had been the seventh day Sabbath when Jesus was crucified,
or the feast of unloven bread. But when Jesus was
crucified it was Saturday anyway, so the rabbis had two
different views that Tomorrow after that.
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Was Sunday, when Jesus died. It's the wave sheaf there.
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The priest would enter the temple, you'd take the first
fruits of the dead earth and wave it before the
Lord to say life has come from the.
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Ground this spring.
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And there was a reason they did it, according to
Leviticus twenty three, ten and eleven, that was done to
demonstrate that God had accepted them in the spring. Now,
Mary was at the garden tomb John twenty do you
remember the story, and Jesus said, don't keep on what.
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Holding on to me?
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For I have not yet ascended to my father and
your father, to my God and your God. What he's
saying is, look, I'm going to be gone most of
this morning Sunday, and he wasn't back until the afternoon.
He went straight to the throne of God as the
first fruits from the dead. Based on one Corinthians fifteen
Christ as the first fruits. He presented him before God
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Almighty as the first fruits of the earth, and the
Gospel his life, his death, his resurrection was accepted by
God before the universe.
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As they were all grieving and crying in.
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The great disappointment of AD thirty one, it was no
disappointment in heaven because they were rejoicing because Christ is Victor,
and he came back to comfort the flock and to
tell them how much they were accepted because of his death, burial,
and resurrection. Paul says in One Corinthians fifteen twenty that
Jesus the first fruits and the dead.
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Now turn with me to Levitgus twenty three ten and eleven.
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Here Moses is writing in behalf of God, say to
the people of Israel, when you come to the land
which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall
bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest
to the priest.
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He shall wave the sheaf.
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Before the Lord that happened on Sunday morning, when Jesus
was resurrected, that you may find acceptance on the morrow
after the Sabbath, that would be Sunday, when Jesus was resurrected.
The priest shall wave it. Paul says in One Corinthians
fifteen twenty that Jesus is the first fruits from the dead.
Look at the verse with me. But in fact Christ
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has been raised from the dead. And what does the
Bible call it? Here the calls him the first fruits
of those who've fallen asleep.
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Now why was he raised at all?
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Now we know In First Corinthians fifteen of first importance,
He died for our sins.
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That's the gospel. Paul says. You don't hang on to that.
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You don't get that he was buried, which means our
sins were separated from us. Christ took them into the grave,
and then he was raised in the third day in
accords of the scriptures. But what does it mean that
he would be raised? Look at Romans four twenty five
Jesus who was put to death for our trespasses? And
what does it say in your translation he's raised? What
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for our justification? Now, this word justification in Greek means
legal acquittal. It implies the idea of full acceptance because
you're not guilty anymore. It's the fulfillment of the wave sheaf.
And look at the outcome in Romans five to one. Therefore,
since we are justified by faith, not by works, but
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by faith, what do we have? What does it say?
We have helped me peace with God? Isn't that huge?
You've been worth God? How could God accept me? How
could God be in my life? You know, look at
the sins I made, mistakes I've done. But it says
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because we're justified by faith because of his resurrection, he
was raised for our justification. We have peace with God.
We don't have to prove anything to God. We have
peace with God. How not through us, but through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
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Friends. God has provided.
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For you and me in Jesus a right now righteousness
that's good enough for every day of your life to
bring peace. And it's good enough for the judgment day,
the investigative judgment before the coming of Christ.
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It's good enough.
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We are not little Jesus as completing the victory of
Christ to be accepted in life.
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Pentecost is not the.
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Outcome of our powerful striving, of our competent character, perfection
of our innate or acquired goodness, or any other Christian
virtue we have had or might think we have, or
anything we do to try and impress God or others
with our holiness and growth. No final generation can make
the Holy Spirit to them by being good enough to
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make him come. So you might get mad at me
for preaching that it's true.
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Pentecost only comes because.
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Jesus is good enough, you heard me, Because Jesus got
it done for us. And as death is baron his resurrection,
it is the promise of Jesus for those who need it.
There is no victory that is ours that adds one
speck to his virtuous and complete victory. In the Gospel
of God, the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus, fifty
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days from the wave sheaf offering brings us to the
feast of Pentecost. This is a small jubilee cycle of
forty nine days instead of forty nine years, with the
fiftieth being the jubilee idea seven times seven years. In
the fiftieth year, it brought release for the captives. In
ancient Israel, the time when the land would return to
its rightful owner. It wasn't dependent on anything but the
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time it was time to do it. Deaths would be
forgiven because of the time, and when the rejoicing of
God would be everywhere because of the time. And if
your life was a failure you lost everything you had,
it would come back to you at that time. It
was called the year of the Lord's Favor. Like the Jubilee,
Pentecost was the day of the Lord's favor that would
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do the same thing, to change the church, to change
the disciples, to change the world. A loud trumpet would
be blown throughout the whole land to announce the jubilee,
so expect something loud at the feast of Pentecost. Thus
it was fitting the Holy Spirit came into that upper
room at the right time, when they were in the
right place, in one accord. The Holy Spirit, that is
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a still small voice to Elijah.
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Came like a rushing wind and.
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Loud power, and the room was filled with the loud wind,
the mighty noise, the voice of God. I wish I
could have been there. When you like to been in
that upper room watching that, you know, just like in
the corner, the one hundred and twenty first person there.
I'd like to been there to see it, to feel
to hear it, you know, when the tongues of fire appeared,
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to put my finger right there in the fire and
see it, and burn my finger. Glorious and powerful, the
mighty wind of God, the Holy Spirit came to the church.
It was no accident that this happened in the third Month,
which a coincide of the time after the Passover when
the children of Israel came to Mount Sinai to receive
the law, to become a holy nation of missionaries to
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save the world. God's segula in Hebrew, his prized treasure,
possession of all.
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The nations of the earth.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Thus, the day of Pentecost is the new Covenant day
when God puts his law into the heart by the
gift of the Holy Spirit. The ten Commandments are just
dead works on stone tablets, and thus the Holy Spirit
writes them on our hearts in fire.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
With the wind.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Christ is the Law, and the Spirit brings Christ in us,
the hope of glory into our hearts. Hebrews eight ten.
This is the Covenant's quoting Jeremiah thirty one. This is
the covenant that will make with the House of Israel
after those days, says the Lord, I will put my
laws into their minds. I will write them on their hearts. See,
God doesn't do away with the Law and the Covenant.
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He puts it in us. I will be their God,
and they shall be my people. And they shall not
teach everyone his fellow or everyone his neighbors, saying no,
the Lord, in other words, no virtue signaling will happen here.
Work for all shall know Me, from the least of
them to the greatest. And how is it based Look
at verse twelve. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities.
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How many of you have iniquities.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
In your life?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You raise your hand hi, like an honest Christian should. Okay,
I will be merciful toward their iniquities. And then God says,
and I will remember their sins no more. Paul here
informs us that the Holy Spirit brings the knowledge of
God into our life, the knowledge of grace, mercy, and forgiveness.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
We cannot be crushed by.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Our sins if we accept the Gospel and we are
a new covenant believer. The Spirit puts the law into
our dead bodies so we can live, so we can
know the Lord from the least to the greatest. No
theologian has an advantage here. And God does this because
Jesus died for us, and because God has forgiven all
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our sins in Jesus, making it legal and right to
sin the Holy Spirit. I once had an unfortunate interaction
with a good man who I'm not going to say more,
who was educated but not educated in the New Testaments
he should have been at that time, who would argue
that Christ didn't forgive anybody at the cross, And the
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silliness of that, As Paul says, God in Christ forgave us.
You know, he says it a lot. But when Jesus said, Father,
forgive them, he did. Jesus wouldn't ask the Father to
do something he wouldn't do. And we're tolding them about
Christ's object lessons that the forgiveness of the King in
Matthew eighteen represents a universal forgiveness for all sin in
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the heart of God. He has forgiven to human race.
Now sure we need to accept it, because he won't
force it on us. It becomes operative in our lives.
It's real. But don't tell me that God didn't forgive
humanity at the Cross in Christ.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
It don't work.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
The Bible's too clear and the spirit of prophecy is
too clear. We get the Holy Spirit because God is good,
because his character is mercy and justice, mercy first and
more justice eventually, and because Jesus is the righteousness of God.
That makes it right to do the New covenants based
on God's forgiveness and the Old Covenant, every man died
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for his own sins, and the New Covenant, Jesus dies
for every man and woman sins, putting Mosaic law upside down.
Mercy becomes the foundation you covenant forgiveness is God's mercy
as the guide in law and principle that will be
the stand of the judgment, according to James, to mercy
triumphs over judgment.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Paul says, the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire the
possession of it. Now, how many of you feel like
you're perfect this morning? I mean I had to get
up and start confessing imperfections to the Lord in prayer.
Is I mean before I even started my day, And
I'll probably do some of it at the end of
the day. The neat thing is I'm with God. I
don't have to run from that. Praise the Lord, Paul says.
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He gives us the Holy Spirit until we're fixed, because
we aren't yet. Look at fleege Pesians one thirteen. In Him,
you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the
gossip of your salvation, and have believed in Him. It's Jesus,
we're sealed with.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What does he call it? Here? The Promised Holy Spirit?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And it could be translated, who is the guarantee of
our inheritance until we acquire possession of it?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Or him know of it? To the praise of His glory?
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
The it there, but the person of the Spirit brings
the guarantee of the future into our lives right now. See, friends,
God doesn't wait for you to be perfect to give
you the Holy Spirit. God gives you the Holy Spirit
because you are not perfect.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Did you hear that? Write that now?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
God is going to send me the Holy Spirit. I
asked for him in honesty because I'm not perfect. So
what's all this business about trying to be perfect so
we can receive the outpourt of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
It's non biblical nonsense. It's in our knees, in our need.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
That is the will of the Father that give us
the Holy Spirit right now as we struggle, as we
have problems so that God can heal us, God gives
you the Holy Spirit, encourage you, to help you, to
comfort you, to guide you into the future until the
day you are finally perfect, and that will happen in time,
in God's time. Jesus opened up the floodgate for the
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full blessing and treasure of God. Because we acquire perfection
and our inheritance in principle as a gift, through the
gift of the Holy Spirit, it will become our full
experience after the work of the Holy Spirit has been
completed in life. Now that the Roman Church taught in
the Middle Ages that you aren't accepted by God until
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you have been sanctified.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's why you need purgatory.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And the Reformers taught from scripture that when you are
justified by faith, the regeneration of the Holy Spirit occurs
instantly and you're accepted before God is if.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You had never sinned.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And it's in that acceptance you move forward in life,
which means sanctification is not the Gospel. It is the
fruit of the Gospel. It is what results from the
Good News. And so when we blur those two distinctions,
we move back toward Rome. The Roman Church became a
perfectionistic system and it had you put it codified that
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theology at the Council of Trent, and I've had the
privilege of reading its theology there. And we just don't
want anything in our church, and we shouldn't have any
and our experience that mimics that which the Reformation fought against.
So christ in us the hope of glory based on
the good work of Jesus. It's not based on our accomplishments.
God gives you to you the Holy Spirit because you
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need him. God gives you the Holy Spirit to encourage
you to help you because you are not perfect. Jesus
opened up the floodgate for the full blessing and treasure
of God before we acquire perfection. Because He loves us
in the journey to get there, He accepts us on
the road.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
What does that mean practically?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It means that repentant sinners who cling to God, who
come to Christ and their struggle and their weakness, have
the full right to receive the Holy Spirit and faith
because of Jesus' victory on the cross, his burial, and
his resurrection.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
That's what it means. That's the gospel.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
So you don't twist God's arm to receive the Holy Spirit. Rather,
you need to be in the right place in your life,
humbled by God, praying to him broken, and He will
come to you with the promise of the Spirit. When
you say, please give me the Holy Spirit. I can't
get through life.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
He will. You don't have to guess at it.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
And that's what happened to day Pentecost Acts two, three continues,
and there appear to them tongues is a fire distributing
resting on each one of them, and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in
other tongues, which means languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The Spirit of Prophecy tells us that the same power
is operative in the prophets gives them utterance, and thus
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the utter the utterances of man become the word of God.
She says, don't think for a minute that we have
diminished power in prophetic teaching and writings. The same power
that can convert a language and create it out of
nothing can do the same in the prophetic power of
the written word, in the Spirit of prophecy, in the Bible.
That so much has happened here of importance. When God
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called Moses, Moses was afraid to speak to Pharaoh because
Moses knew.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That he was not eloquent. He ever had a time
he got up there and go, I don't know how
I'm going to say this. Now. I've had times when
I preach I couldn't. I couldn't you know.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I had a headache, I had a migraine. Once I
told the whole church, I have a migraine, so I'd
preach with a Migraine, at least they'd know. And God
told Moses, who has made men's mouth. He said, I
can't go to Pharaoh. I don't know what to say.
And here he's telling us that when a prophet speaks,
God speaks, don't diminish the word of God to be
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something less than it is. Go and I will teach
you what you are to say. Moses went, and God
spoke through Moses and his mouth. A seminary education does
not qualify someone to be a spokesperson for God. We
speak for God when God speaks to us, and when
godfies us, how do we know he speaks to us
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when it lines up with what this book the Bible.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
The prophets are subject to the prophets the Bible. Those
disciples were utterly dependent on God to take the gospep
of the world. They needed Moses, they needed the prophets.
They couldn't get it done on their own power and will.
They needed the Holy Spirit to understand the Bible, to
be true to its teaching, to live out the life
of Christ. At the Tower of Babel, God confused the
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people to create the langes of the world because they
wanted to make a name for themselves instead of accepting
God's name. Psalms one hundred and nineteen fifty five tells
us that God's name is God's law.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I am who I am is what the ten commandments is.
It is a description of God's nature. His law is love.
It has ever been, ever will be. It's who he is.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
They rejected his name, they rejected his character's law, and
because they wanted to make a tower to climb up
to God, to unleash cosmic powers to control the universe.
How many have you been following the Pyramids lately in
the news, You've been noticing that satellite data, at least
someone's in a group's interpretation of it say that there
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are pylons that go all the way down to the
bedrock of the earth beneath the pyramids that have coils
wrapped around them. I don't know, but this is making news.
It's really out there and they're saying this. You know,
there's something else going on with the pyramids now. People
want to focus on something like the pyramids for cosmic power.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
The tire baby was built to harness spiritual forces, God
tells us in deuteronm BE four nineteen. He handed the
nations over the demons because they were seeking that when
he divided the nations and gave to them their inheritance
as recorded in Genesis ten. But for our purposes, we
don't need any of that, do we.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
We don't need to go.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
To some magazine or tabloid and try to figure out
what's happened to the pyramids to get crystal power.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
You know, people, I've picked this.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I was once in a bookstore and a guy came
up to me wanted to show me the secrets power.
He had this satanic thing on him around his neck,
and he showed me his finger and he I guess
he wanted me to admire the fact he had something
black in there, and and I told him, I'm frankly
not interested. I have Jesus Christ in my life and
your power means nothing to me without Jesus. And then
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I tried to spend time with him to help him,
but he was so stuck on how powerful he was.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
We don't have anything. But they wanted to build a tower,
but it's top into heavens now.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
The book Revelation, the tower builders will build a tower.
It says their sins are heaped as high as heaven,
and God remembers end time. Babylon tower building is not
the way to climb up to God. It says in
Exous twenty that we build an altar on level earth.
God says, I will come down to you. You shall
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not build an altar by steps and expose your nakedness.
You fall on the ground, on level ground, and that's
where I find you, on the earth where you live.
The prophet zeph and I have predicted that the day
would come when God's people would finally flee to Mount
Zion for the promise of a pure speech and attitude
of one accord to be rescued from their enemies. The
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prophet knew that only God can reverse the curse of
the Tower of Babel by bringing the Holy Spirit into
our lives.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Zeph and I have three nine yea. At that time,
I will.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech,
that all of them may call on the name of
the Lord and serve him. And what does it say
in verse nine, serve him with one accord? The Hebrews
Shacha machad from beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants,
the daughters of my dispersed ones shall bring my offering
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on that day. You shall not be put to shame
because of the deeds by which you rebelled. Now think
about this. When we mess up in life, our mistakes
crush us, don't they. I mean, look at what I did,
Look what my family did to me. Look at that
awful sin. I live it every day in my head.
He says, on that day, you shall not be put
to shame because of the deeds by which you have
rebelled against me.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That's an awesome statement.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
For then I will remove from your midst, your proudly
exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty. In
my holy mountain, it's a broken, humble people who are
freed from guilt by the cross of Christ. They receive
the Holy Spirit. The condition for receiving the Holy Spirit
is humility, evidenced by confession and repentance. Dear heart, God
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comes to those who come to God in this honest
and sincere and humble way. People who turn from the
rebellion to come to Jesus have every right to ask
God to give them the Holy Spirit. At the Feast
of Pentecost, God reversed the Curse of the Tire of
Babel with the special promise of a pure speech that's kind, clear,
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focused on sharing God's word, on God's truth to save
other human beings. When you honestly care about someone in
your life and your religion is not about you, but
about others more so, as it says in the book
Steps to Christ and the Work and the Life, and
you talk to people as one who cares for them
with agendas, they will hear your voice, the spirit behind
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your voice.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It will get into their heads.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
May they may not understand a word you have to
say to them about the content of your faith, but
they will understand how you say it to them. Loving
people when people to a loving Lord. Now, how does
different people can express love in different ways? Some people
can just have this nice, calm demeanor I really care
about you, and they mean it. Others can fake it
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by doing something like that. Others can say I care
about you, that wrap their arms around you and just
give you a big hug. Look, I don't know what
your temperament is, but when the Holy Spirit is working
in you, you're focused on caring about other people. It
takes the Holy Spirit to be a loving and kind
power inside of you to make you a Christian that
resembles Jesus in your own personality and temperament. When you
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are not the hero in your life, dear heart, God
can then use your life life to help other lives
come to.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
God in Christ.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
God doesn't need you to be a hero. God is
seeking a sinner who turns to Him for grace and
God and God gets it done. And the lives of
imperfect men and women who are in their brokenness love
Him and they come to Him and they value what
Jesus has done for them. Friend, the Holy Spirit settled
on their heads as tongues of fire, and the wind
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didn't blow the fire out because the fire was in
the wind and the storm. The fire and the wind
were one the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was superpositioned.
That's a scientific term. We're using quantum mechanics to describe
a cubit. Something can be more than one. Thing can
be there, or things can be entwined. It can be
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more places than once. The Holy Spirit be everywhere. He's superpositioning,
like quantum mechanics. The Holy Spirit is the fire and
the wind, but it's settled in one hundred and twenty people.
The same Holy Spirit was here. Here here, here, here,
Holy Spirit is the fire and the wind that God
gives that we will all know Him and be born
again from the least to the greatest.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Why does he do it? Because we are the earth.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
In need the mud, and we need wind and fire
of the God's Spirit to make us live. We can't
give ourselves life, dear heart, Earth, wind and fire meet
because Jesus died for us. When that spirit went into
Christ's side and blood and water came out, it represented
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us in the Holy Spirit coming together through forgiveness and sanctification.
And that stream of blessing will never end till this
world is over. It will be the river of life
for all eternity. And let's face it, we don't get
there because we're good people. We get there because we're
God's people. So cling to the Lord and let him
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do his work In you, dear Father, It's an awesome
thing to realize that you have placed the third person
of the Godhead into our lives to bring us Jesus
and You so that we will not be alone, so
that we will have the full benefits of your presence
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as we grow as Christians, as we learn to love
as you have loved us. And Lord, may you finish
the work you start. May we not get in the way.
And Lord, may we be about sharing kindness, life, love
with others, so that you will recognize us as the
children of God, because the Spirit dwells in us. Bless
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your people. May they leave this place if they have
a forgive a heart that it says, Lord, forgive me.
May you impress upon them that they are forgiven. And Lord,
we ask for the Holy Spirit because forgiven people need it,
need him in Jesus's name. Bless your people in Jesus name.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Amen.
Dear Father God, we are living on the eve of
the Advent of Jesus Christ, and as a people we
are a fulfilling Bible prophecy. The lay at a Sean church, Lord,
a church that is your church.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Our church.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Is void of eyesav which is the Holy Spirit, because
the righteousness of Christ is not found as it should
be in us. So, Lord, we're not here to virtue,
signal or point fingers.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
In any group. But we're here to go to the Bible.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
For answers, to know Jesus, to let the Apostolic Gospel
do its good work in us, so that prophetic truth
is about you and not us. So open our ears
and our hearts in Jesus name.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
How many of you have heard of Corey ten Boone.
Corey ten Boone suffered in a concentration camp in World
War Two, where she learned many lessons for life a
wise woman till the day she died. One of those
great lessons is the lesson of forgiveness. When she was
able to forgive a prison guard years later who had
helped to take the life of her sister. Corey Tenboone
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learned to pray and rely upon the Holy Spirit in
her life. Would that be a good thing for us
to do in our life? What do you think it'd
be a hugely important thing to do? Out of her
intense suffering, she dedicated her imperfect life to know God,
to live for God, to share God. Now why do
I say imperfect life?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Frankly, as a pastor, I'm tired of people telling me
how perfect they are. The last time I checked, I
am not perfect, are you? If we are deeply hon
Us with ourselves and we fall on our knees, we
must admit the truth that without Jesus we are nothing.
And this dear woman of God learned that through suffering
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that she's very imperfect, she could be transparent about it.
One said this profoundly, Trying to do the Lord's work
and your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And tedious of all work.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then
the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Just before jesus ascension, Jesus told his disciples to go
back into Jerusalem to wait for the promise of the
Holy Spirit. And they went to the very room of
the Last Supper, and by God's grace, they made it
the place where they stayed right there, and they prayed.
They prayed, they prayed, They demonstrated the angels and men.
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The Bible principle that we must meet in one place
to receive God's grace. I'll repeat myself, we must meet
in one place to receive God's grace. We live in
a world that teaches a rugged individualism. America is famous
for that. There's good things about that and bad too.
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And we assume naturally that doing things our way on
our terms God's way. It's built into our DNA. But friend,
it's not God's way. When we insist on our personal
will rather than coming together and unity and asking God
to lead us, not just eye me and my being
here and there and not united in mind and heart,
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will not move the heart of God to save his
church on earth or help anyone get saved in the end.
It will not produce the atmosphere for healing, for victory
of a sin, for spiritual growth and character transformation in
the church. This is why when people say I will
prove to the universe by developing a perfect character and
vindicate the character of God. Lit friends, you don't have
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the stuff in you to vindicate the character of God.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Why don't you let God do that and enamor.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yourself with Jesus, who is our right now, righteousness, goodness
for the judgment day. You see, arrogance will not produce
the atmosphere for healing, for victory of a sin or
anything like it. My way is not our way, and
it definitely is not God's way.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
If we are not united.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
In submission to God in the Church, God would have
us pray in one place and one accord. Key themes
in Acts one and two for person, the person and
the power of the Holy Spirit to come into our lives,
to come into the church to make us not just
met us alive. After the twelve Apostles had called together
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their support group to be in one accord and to
form the one hundred and twenty, in that upper room,
they prayed for wisdom and for the Holy Spirit to
lead them to replace the broken link of Judas the betrayer,
and they chose Matthias's name and he remeans.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Gift of God.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
They waited it out with God, just as Jesus had
commanded them. By staying in Jerusalem to pray. There are
times when staying is more important than going. There are
times when abiding and listening matters more, because your work
will not work unless you stop and allow God to
do his work inside of you. And as they prayed,
they contemplated the time and the opportunities they had lost,
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the lessons they had missed, the power and knowledge they
might have attained if they had perceived Jesus' true character
as the Son of God. They didn't get it until
late in the game. And now Jesus was gone to
the right hand of God in heaven, and they were
gathered in one accord, in one place to pray for
the Holy Spirit to take Jesus's place. Sister White says,
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he personates Christ. Can't do that if you're not a person.
He personates Christ and the heart and love of the
God had the Father, the love, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit could not be the hoarded love of eternity,
as she calls it, unless there were three persons as one.
And so God sent the one person who had not
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been in the scene so much it was not perceived.
It was in the Old Testament moving. But this is
the age of the Spirit, inaugurated by the death the
bar and the resurrection of Christ. So that we might
have Christ in us the hope of glory, and the
world might be illumined with the knowledge of Christ. So
the right place to be when you're seeking a deeper
relationship with God is on your knees together, searching so
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that God can feel you for the good of other
human beings. Now I have recommended the book Daniel, Are
you here, Daniel Prabakar, where are you at? Come up
here real quick, give me that book. Actually, Apostles. You
got to run, because well you don't have to run,
you can walk and don't trip whatever you do. But
put that book in my hand if you don't mind.
Acts of the Apostles.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Is it over there?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Okay, Well give me the stack of books and I'll
give them back to you and I'll make a plug here.
What book in our Acts series are we paying attention to? Here,
say loud, Acts of the Apostles. Oh yeah, this is
for Samuel. Samuel, these are yours? Come up and get them.
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The Conflict of the Ages series been along the way.
I have learned more about God's Word from these books
than any other book in theology, seminary training anywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I want to make a statement that can be proven.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
These works are chiastic, and she didn't sit down and say, oh,
I'm a ride of chiasm. They are supernaturally God carried
to their final form, like the Canon of Scripture was carried.
God gave the remnant church these books. The book Acts
of the Apostles is hugely important in this series. And Samuel,
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it's number four. But I'm giving you the set. You
were supposed to get these after your baptism, so we
need to make sure you get them.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
God bless you. Samuel is a good leader in the church.
I'd like to read three paragraphs from actually Apostles with you.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Could I I don't have the slide on the screen,
just the place where you.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh, well, look at Lucian. He plugged it in.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
As the disciples waited for the fulfillment of the promise,
they humbled their hearts, and look what she says in
true repentance and confess their unbelief. They called to remembrance
the words that Christ had spoken of them before his death.
They understood more fully their meaning. Truths which had passed
from their memory were again brought to their minds, and
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these they repeated to one another. They reproached themselves for
their misapprehension of the Savior. In other words, they didn't
have a clue who he was until they finally got
it that God in man had come to them in
Jesus like a processionate, scene after scene of his wonderful
life passed before them. As they meditate upon his pure,
holy life. They felt that no toil would be too hard,
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no sacrifice too great, if only they could bear witness
in their lives to the loveliness of Christ's character. Oh,
if they could but have the past three years to
live over. They thought, how differently they would act if
they could only see the Master again. How earnestly they
would strive to show him, how deeply they loved him,
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how sincerely they sorrowed for having ever greemed him by
a word or an act of unbelief. But they were
comforted by the thought. Now Here I love this statement.
They were comforted by the thought. And what does it
say that they were forgiven? And they determined that, so
far as possible, they would atone for their unbelief by
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bravely and confessing him before the world. I like that
she says forgiven people are about sharing forgiveness. They're about
giving that which God has given them.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
She goes on.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
The disciples prayed with intense earnestness for a fitness to
meet men and in their daily intercourse to speak words
that would lead sinners to Christ. Putting away all differences,
all desire for supremacy, they came close together in Christian fellowship.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
They drew nearer and nearer to God.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And as they did this, they realized what a privilege
had been theirs had been theirs in being permitted to
associate so closely with Christ. Sadness filled their hearts as
they thought of how many times they grieved Him by
their slowness of comprehension failure to understand the lessons for
their good He was trying to teach them. These days
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of preparation, which means the days between His ascension and Pentecost,
were days of deep spiritual searching. The disciples felt their
spiritual need and cried to the Lord for the holy
unction that was to fit them for the work of
saving of soul saving. They did not ask for a
blessing for themselves, merely they were weighted with the burden
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of the salvation of souls. They realized that the Gospel
was to be carried to the world and they claimed
the power that Christ had promised. The power that Christ
had promised is the Holy Spirit. He's called the Finger
of God, the Rod of God, the hand of God,
the ink of God, the Wind of God, the Fire
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of God. I could go on the imagery the Holy
Spirit is immersed in the Old Testament. Doctor Daniel Buxton myself.
We produced a book which we're going to make available
to you on symbolism in the same the Holy Spirit,
to show how much the Holy Spirit appears as a
person in the Old Testament. And we didn't write it
for scholars. We write it for Bible students who want
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to open up their Bible and just let the Word
of God speak. The Bible summarizes the outcome of this
seeking after God that they had through prayer and fellowship
and searching of heart. At last, the floodgates of God's
treasury opened wide, and Heaven's treasure poured down upon the earth.
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That was the day for earth, wind and fire to meet,
The day for the outpoint of the Holy Spirit had
finally come. The Age of the Spirit had broken into
the darkness of the Old Age, and the power of
the Age to come had become the power that animated
and motivated the New Testament Church. Take your Bible's turn
with me to Acts two Verse one. Let's begin the narrative.
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We will not be going far into Acts two. We
will be describing what it is talking about here on
the front side. When the day of Pentecost had come,
the Bible reads, they were all together in one place,
and suddenly a sound came from heaven, like the rush
of a mighty wind. It filled all the house where
they were sitting. The Greek word when panah ace or
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for found in verse two, appears in the Greek Old Testament,
not the Hebrew the Greek Old Testament for the first
time in Genesis two seven. It is deliberately chosen because
here in this passage, Luke is not trying to draw
our attention so much to creation as he is to
the new life that we have because of the wind
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of God. It is not the word used for the
Spirit of God in Genesis one. It's the word used
for when man was created in Genesis two. Let's look
at the verse Genesis two to seven. I'm reading from
the revised Standard version. Then the Lord God formed man
of dust. The Hebrews yatsar. He formed him like a
potter would form a clay vessel from the ground, and
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he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and
man became a living being. So in the Greek Old
Testament of the Hebrew, God breathed into Adam's nostrils the wind,
the breath of life, the exact same word used in
Acts two, verse two, and he became a living being.
Now what's it saying there. You can have all the materials,
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you have the body, that's right, you can have the DNA.
But if you don't have the wind of God in you,
you don't live. And so we don't even get started
in the Christian life unless God's Spirit fills us. The
Church's need is the same as Adam's. Without the Holy
Spirit inside the shell of the body, it's only a
dead organism, no life. There's no movement, no future. And
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this is the latest seeing condition problem in the book Revelation.
It lacks ice have because it's naked, and it lacks
the righteousness of Christ. Adam means earth in the Genesis
account in Hebrew, Adam was made from the red muddy earth.
The word for blood is etymologically connected the word for acts,
and we're blood red earth creatures. And without the Holy Spirit,
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the earth that is us is nothing but mud.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And there is no life in the.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Clay without the wind of God. So earth and man
must meet the wind and the fire of God to
live for us to be animated and alive. Life is
wind and fire, not just earth. Jesus told Nicodemus, you
remember the story of Nicodemus. He met Jesus by night,
and Jesus had to talk to this bright theologian about
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how to have a new heart. He was all enamored
with the how and the what of scripture, like the
House of Hillel and Shamah and Judaism, to figure out
all the intricacies.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Of the Torah.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
But he didn't know God as a savior. He didn't
have a relationship where by his heart was renewed. And
in his need, he came to Jesus by night. And
the Greek is a genitive of time. He gave came
to him, and it was not kind of time for him.
It was darkness in his life and he needed something,
and Jesus took the time to speak to the theologian
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on how to be a converted man. John three six
to eight. A little excerpt from Jesus' interaction with Nicodemus.
Jesus said, that which is born of the flesh is flesh,
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Do not marvel or be surprised that I said.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
To you, you must be born anew. And some translations
will say born again the wind. As soon as he
talks about the new birth, he doesn't talk about some
fanciful religious experience.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
We jump up and down, and you say, oh, I
got the spirit. He says.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the
sound of it, but you do not know whence it
comes or whither it goes. So it is with everyone
who's born of the spirit. When we are born again,
the wind of God is blowing in your life.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
The wind of God that.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You cannot see, is affecting changes, bringing you to brokenness,
so that the Word of God will interact with you,
so that you will come to since your need of Him.
You cannot do that work. Only the Holy Spirit can
do that work. God sends his spirit to save the world.
This gift of the Holy Spirit comes from Jesus into
our lives. Because Jesus and John three is above all,
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and because Jesus loves the earth that desperately needs the.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Wind and the fire, and he came to the earth to.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Give us salvation and ultimately his spirit John three point
thirty one. He who comes from above is above all.
He was of the earth, belongs to the earth, and
the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is
above all.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Friend.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Jesus came into this world to save you. He didn't
come to waste his time. He came because he loves you.
Jesus returned to the Father and next one so he
could send the Holy Spirit to complete the divine work
of spreading the Gospel of the world and to fill
us with the Holy Spirit, so we would have Christ
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in us, the Hope of glory. As we have said
that the Spirit of Prophety says he personates Christ. He
brings the person of Christ because he is one with Christ.
The gift of the Holy Spirit is Christ in Us,
the hope of Gloria mystery. But nonetheless, the truth and
what Jesus did for us in coming to earth, the
Holy Spirit applies that work in us so we can
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live on earth as born again, born in New Christians.
I have watched in the church over the years. I'm
sixty two and I still have my hair. Some of
you are cubbageous. Do not break the tenth Commandment. Okay,
but I've lost some of it. On the sides.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's definitely getting grayer.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The point is, when I'm getting older now with gray hair,
what does it symbolize in our culture? You can help
me with this wisdom. All right, I'm slow here, you're not.
And I have noticed over the years certain people come
to church not to be born again, not to be
born anew.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But to look important. Yes, to be important.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You realize, friends, that we gather here to maintain a
relationship of God, to be born again and help others
come to Christ.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That's what the church is about.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And I've seen over the years people who thank their
God's gift of the world and the church really are
the ones who need conversion the most. Jesus call them
the lost coins. In the church now, as a movement
based on Bible prophecy, we are in desperate need of
conversion in our church, converted lives, converted hearts in the
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remnant church. At the end of time, does Jesus love
our church, yes or no, hugely, and so the message
comes from the Bible to us. In Roman's eight fourteen,
Paul says, all who are led by the spirit of God,
these are the children of God. So is it optional
to have the Holy Spirit in your life? Yes or no,
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It's not optional. They were all praying for the Holy
Spirit for good reasons that Jesus sent the Spirit just
as he had prom Ax one one says that the
day of Pentecost came and they were together literally in
one place.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And what does this mean? Same place.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It means that they were expecting the Holy Spirit based
in the promise of Jesus. Bible prophecy was in play,
based on the sanctuary system and the feast of Pentecost.
They were in tune with the signs of the times,
the words of Christ's prophetic leading.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They understood the Book of Daniel.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Chapter nine clearly, multiple allusions to it in their testament
in the Praise the Mare of Daniel nine twenty three
to twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Dane eight fifteen. The mighty man Mare.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Is the appearance of Christ, and this is why Romans
three will say, but now a righteousness has been manifested.
Pheneroo and Greek alluding to the Mare of Daniel nine
twenty three the appearance of Christ. So Christ is the
mighty Man, that is part of the evenings and mornings
that brings us to the year eighteen forty four. But basically,
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in real terms, they were enamored by the officecy that
brought Jesus. It became the framework of New Testam escatology,
and so when Christ spoke of the Holy Spirit, they
had open ears, they were prepared, they were ready, they
were there. In one place, Pentecost means fifty in Greek,
it was numbered fifty days from the wave sheaf offering.
Does anybody know what the wave chef offering here is? Say, no,
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pastor what's the wave chief offering? Okay, tomorrow after the Sabbath,
which had been the seventh day Sabbath when Jesus was crucified,
or the feast of unloven bread. But when Jesus was
crucified it was Saturday anyway, so the rabbis had two
different views that Tomorrow after that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Was Sunday, when Jesus died. It's the wave sheaf there.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The priest would enter the temple, you'd take the first
fruits of the dead earth and wave it before the
Lord to say life has come from the.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Ground this spring.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And there was a reason they did it, according to
Leviticus twenty three, ten and eleven, that was done to
demonstrate that God had accepted them in the spring. Now,
Mary was at the garden tomb John twenty do you
remember the story, and Jesus said, don't keep on what.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Holding on to me?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
For I have not yet ascended to my father and
your father, to my God and your God. What he's
saying is, look, I'm going to be gone most of
this morning Sunday, and he wasn't back until the afternoon.
He went straight to the throne of God as the
first fruits from the dead. Based on one Corinthians fifteen
Christ as the first fruits. He presented him before God
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Almighty as the first fruits of the earth, and the
Gospel his life, his death, his resurrection was accepted by
God before the universe.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
As they were all grieving and crying in.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
The great disappointment of AD thirty one, it was no
disappointment in heaven because they were rejoicing because Christ is Victor,
and he came back to comfort the flock and to
tell them how much they were accepted because of his death, burial,
and resurrection. Paul says in One Corinthians fifteen twenty that
Jesus the first fruits and the dead.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Now turn with me to Levitgus twenty three ten and eleven.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Here Moses is writing in behalf of God, say to
the people of Israel, when you come to the land
which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall
bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest
to the priest.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
He shall wave the sheaf.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Before the Lord that happened on Sunday morning, when Jesus
was resurrected, that you may find acceptance on the morrow
after the Sabbath, that would be Sunday, when Jesus was resurrected.
The priest shall wave it. Paul says in One Corinthians
fifteen twenty that Jesus is the first fruits from the dead.
Look at the verse with me. But in fact Christ
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has been raised from the dead. And what does the
Bible call it? Here the calls him the first fruits
of those who've fallen asleep.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Now why was he raised at all?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Now we know In First Corinthians fifteen of first importance,
He died for our sins.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's the gospel. Paul says. You don't hang on to that.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You don't get that he was buried, which means our
sins were separated from us. Christ took them into the grave,
and then he was raised in the third day in
accords of the scriptures. But what does it mean that
he would be raised? Look at Romans four twenty five
Jesus who was put to death for our trespasses? And
what does it say in your translation he's raised? What
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for our justification? Now, this word justification in Greek means
legal acquittal. It implies the idea of full acceptance because
you're not guilty anymore. It's the fulfillment of the wave sheaf.
And look at the outcome in Romans five to one. Therefore,
since we are justified by faith, not by works, but
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by faith, what do we have? What does it say?
We have helped me peace with God? Isn't that huge?
You've been worth God? How could God accept me? How
could God be in my life? You know, look at
the sins I made, mistakes I've done. But it says
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because we're justified by faith because of his resurrection, he
was raised for our justification. We have peace with God.
We don't have to prove anything to God. We have
peace with God. How not through us, but through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Friends. God has provided.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
For you and me in Jesus a right now righteousness
that's good enough for every day of your life to
bring peace. And it's good enough for the judgment day,
the investigative judgment before the coming of Christ.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's good enough.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
We are not little Jesus as completing the victory of
Christ to be accepted in life.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Pentecost is not the.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Outcome of our powerful striving, of our competent character, perfection
of our innate or acquired goodness, or any other Christian
virtue we have had or might think we have, or
anything we do to try and impress God or others
with our holiness and growth. No final generation can make
the Holy Spirit to them by being good enough to
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make him come. So you might get mad at me
for preaching that it's true.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Pentecost only comes because.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Jesus is good enough, you heard me, Because Jesus got
it done for us. And as death is baron his resurrection,
it is the promise of Jesus for those who need it.
There is no victory that is ours that adds one
speck to his virtuous and complete victory. In the Gospel
of God, the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus, fifty
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days from the wave sheaf offering brings us to the
feast of Pentecost. This is a small jubilee cycle of
forty nine days instead of forty nine years, with the
fiftieth being the jubilee idea seven times seven years. In
the fiftieth year, it brought release for the captives. In
ancient Israel, the time when the land would return to
its rightful owner. It wasn't dependent on anything but the
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time it was time to do it. Deaths would be
forgiven because of the time, and when the rejoicing of
God would be everywhere because of the time. And if
your life was a failure you lost everything you had,
it would come back to you at that time. It
was called the year of the Lord's Favor. Like the Jubilee,
Pentecost was the day of the Lord's favor that would
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do the same thing, to change the church, to change
the disciples, to change the world. A loud trumpet would
be blown throughout the whole land to announce the jubilee,
so expect something loud at the feast of Pentecost. Thus
it was fitting the Holy Spirit came into that upper
room at the right time, when they were in the
right place, in one accord. The Holy Spirit, that is
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a still small voice to Elijah.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Came like a rushing wind and.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Loud power, and the room was filled with the loud wind,
the mighty noise, the voice of God. I wish I
could have been there. When you like to been in
that upper room watching that, you know, just like in
the corner, the one hundred and twenty first person there.
I'd like to been there to see it, to feel
to hear it, you know, when the tongues of fire appeared,
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to put my finger right there in the fire and
see it, and burn my finger. Glorious and powerful, the
mighty wind of God, the Holy Spirit came to the church.
It was no accident that this happened in the third Month,
which a coincide of the time after the Passover when
the children of Israel came to Mount Sinai to receive
the law, to become a holy nation of missionaries to
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save the world. God's segula in Hebrew, his prized treasure,
possession of all.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
The nations of the earth.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Thus, the day of Pentecost is the new Covenant day
when God puts his law into the heart by the
gift of the Holy Spirit. The ten Commandments are just
dead works on stone tablets, and thus the Holy Spirit
writes them on our hearts in fire.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
With the wind.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Christ is the Law, and the Spirit brings Christ in us,
the hope of glory into our hearts. Hebrews eight ten.
This is the Covenant's quoting Jeremiah thirty one. This is
the covenant that will make with the House of Israel
after those days, says the Lord, I will put my
laws into their minds. I will write them on their hearts. See,
God doesn't do away with the Law and the Covenant.
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He puts it in us. I will be their God,
and they shall be my people. And they shall not
teach everyone his fellow or everyone his neighbors, saying no,
the Lord, in other words, no virtue signaling will happen here.
Work for all shall know Me, from the least of
them to the greatest. And how is it based Look
at verse twelve. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities.
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How many of you have iniquities.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
In your life?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You raise your hand hi, like an honest Christian should. Okay,
I will be merciful toward their iniquities. And then God says,
and I will remember their sins no more. Paul here
informs us that the Holy Spirit brings the knowledge of
God into our life, the knowledge of grace, mercy, and forgiveness.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
We cannot be crushed by.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Our sins if we accept the Gospel and we are
a new covenant believer. The Spirit puts the law into
our dead bodies so we can live, so we can
know the Lord from the least to the greatest. No
theologian has an advantage here. And God does this because
Jesus died for us, and because God has forgiven all
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our sins in Jesus, making it legal and right to
sin the Holy Spirit. I once had an unfortunate interaction
with a good man who I'm not going to say more,
who was educated but not educated in the New Testaments
he should have been at that time, who would argue
that Christ didn't forgive anybody at the cross, And the
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silliness of that, As Paul says, God in Christ forgave us.
You know, he says it a lot. But when Jesus said, Father,
forgive them, he did. Jesus wouldn't ask the Father to
do something he wouldn't do. And we're tolding them about
Christ's object lessons that the forgiveness of the King in
Matthew eighteen represents a universal forgiveness for all sin in
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the heart of God. He has forgiven to human race.
Now sure we need to accept it, because he won't
force it on us. It becomes operative in our lives.
It's real. But don't tell me that God didn't forgive
humanity at the Cross in Christ.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
It don't work.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
The Bible's too clear and the spirit of prophecy is
too clear. We get the Holy Spirit because God is good,
because his character is mercy and justice, mercy first and
more justice eventually, and because Jesus is the righteousness of God.
That makes it right to do the New covenants based
on God's forgiveness and the Old Covenant, every man died
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for his own sins, and the New Covenant, Jesus dies
for every man and woman sins, putting Mosaic law upside down.
Mercy becomes the foundation you covenant forgiveness is God's mercy
as the guide in law and principle that will be
the stand of the judgment, according to James, to mercy
triumphs over judgment.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Paul says, the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire the
possession of it. Now, how many of you feel like
you're perfect this morning? I mean I had to get
up and start confessing imperfections to the Lord in prayer.
Is I mean before I even started my day, And
I'll probably do some of it at the end of
the day. The neat thing is I'm with God. I
don't have to run from that. Praise the Lord, Paul says.
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He gives us the Holy Spirit until we're fixed, because
we aren't yet. Look at fleege Pesians one thirteen. In Him,
you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the
gossip of your salvation, and have believed in Him. It's Jesus,
we're sealed with.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What does he call it? Here? The Promised Holy Spirit?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And it could be translated, who is the guarantee of
our inheritance until we acquire possession of it?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Or him know of it? To the praise of His glory?
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
The it there, but the person of the Spirit brings
the guarantee of the future into our lives right now. See, friends,
God doesn't wait for you to be perfect to give
you the Holy Spirit. God gives you the Holy Spirit
because you are not perfect.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Did you hear that? Write that now?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
God is going to send me the Holy Spirit. I
asked for him in honesty because I'm not perfect. So
what's all this business about trying to be perfect so
we can receive the outpourt of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
It's non biblical nonsense. It's in our knees, in our need.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
That is the will of the Father that give us
the Holy Spirit right now as we struggle, as we
have problems so that God can heal us, God gives
you the Holy Spirit, encourage you, to help you, to
comfort you, to guide you into the future until the
day you are finally perfect, and that will happen in time,
in God's time. Jesus opened up the floodgate for the
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full blessing and treasure of God. Because we acquire perfection
and our inheritance in principle as a gift, through the
gift of the Holy Spirit, it will become our full
experience after the work of the Holy Spirit has been
completed in life. Now that the Roman Church taught in
the Middle Ages that you aren't accepted by God until
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you have been sanctified.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's why you need purgatory.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And the Reformers taught from scripture that when you are
justified by faith, the regeneration of the Holy Spirit occurs
instantly and you're accepted before God is if.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You had never sinned.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And it's in that acceptance you move forward in life,
which means sanctification is not the Gospel. It is the
fruit of the Gospel. It is what results from the
Good News. And so when we blur those two distinctions,
we move back toward Rome. The Roman Church became a
perfectionistic system and it had you put it codified that
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theology at the Council of Trent, and I've had the
privilege of reading its theology there. And we just don't
want anything in our church, and we shouldn't have any
and our experience that mimics that which the Reformation fought against.
So christ in us the hope of glory based on
the good work of Jesus. It's not based on our accomplishments.
God gives you to you the Holy Spirit because you
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need him. God gives you the Holy Spirit to encourage
you to help you because you are not perfect. Jesus
opened up the floodgate for the full blessing and treasure
of God before we acquire perfection. Because He loves us
in the journey to get there, He accepts us on
the road.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
What does that mean practically?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It means that repentant sinners who cling to God, who
come to Christ and their struggle and their weakness, have
the full right to receive the Holy Spirit and faith
because of Jesus' victory on the cross, his burial, and
his resurrection.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
That's what it means. That's the gospel.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
So you don't twist God's arm to receive the Holy Spirit. Rather,
you need to be in the right place in your life,
humbled by God, praying to him broken, and He will
come to you with the promise of the Spirit. When
you say, please give me the Holy Spirit. I can't
get through life.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
He will. You don't have to guess at it.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
And that's what happened to day Pentecost Acts two, three continues,
and there appear to them tongues is a fire distributing
resting on each one of them, and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in
other tongues, which means languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The Spirit of Prophecy tells us that the same power
is operative in the prophets gives them utterance, and thus
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the utter the utterances of man become the word of God.
She says, don't think for a minute that we have
diminished power in prophetic teaching and writings. The same power
that can convert a language and create it out of
nothing can do the same in the prophetic power of
the written word, in the Spirit of prophecy, in the Bible.
That so much has happened here of importance. When God
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called Moses, Moses was afraid to speak to Pharaoh because
Moses knew.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That he was not eloquent. He ever had a time
he got up there and go, I don't know how
I'm going to say this. Now. I've had times when
I preach I couldn't. I couldn't you know.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I had a headache, I had a migraine. Once I
told the whole church, I have a migraine, so I'd
preach with a Migraine, at least they'd know. And God
told Moses, who has made men's mouth. He said, I
can't go to Pharaoh. I don't know what to say.
And here he's telling us that when a prophet speaks,
God speaks, don't diminish the word of God to be
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something less than it is. Go and I will teach
you what you are to say. Moses went, and God
spoke through Moses and his mouth. A seminary education does
not qualify someone to be a spokesperson for God. We
speak for God when God speaks to us, and when
godfies us, how do we know he speaks to us
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when it lines up with what this book the Bible.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
The prophets are subject to the prophets the Bible. Those
disciples were utterly dependent on God to take the gospep
of the world. They needed Moses, they needed the prophets.
They couldn't get it done on their own power and will.
They needed the Holy Spirit to understand the Bible, to
be true to its teaching, to live out the life
of Christ. At the Tower of Babel, God confused the
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people to create the langes of the world because they
wanted to make a name for themselves instead of accepting
God's name. Psalms one hundred and nineteen fifty five tells
us that God's name is God's law.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I am who I am is what the ten commandments is.
It is a description of God's nature. His law is love.
It has ever been, ever will be. It's who he is.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
They rejected his name, they rejected his character's law, and
because they wanted to make a tower to climb up
to God, to unleash cosmic powers to control the universe.
How many have you been following the Pyramids lately in
the news, You've been noticing that satellite data, at least
someone's in a group's interpretation of it say that there
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are pylons that go all the way down to the
bedrock of the earth beneath the pyramids that have coils
wrapped around them. I don't know, but this is making news.
It's really out there and they're saying this. You know,
there's something else going on with the pyramids now. People
want to focus on something like the pyramids for cosmic power.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
The tire baby was built to harness spiritual forces, God
tells us in deuteronm BE four nineteen. He handed the
nations over the demons because they were seeking that when
he divided the nations and gave to them their inheritance
as recorded in Genesis ten. But for our purposes, we
don't need any of that, do we.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
We don't need to go.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
To some magazine or tabloid and try to figure out
what's happened to the pyramids to get crystal power.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
You know, people, I've picked this.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I was once in a bookstore and a guy came
up to me wanted to show me the secrets power.
He had this satanic thing on him around his neck,
and he showed me his finger and he I guess
he wanted me to admire the fact he had something
black in there, and and I told him, I'm frankly
not interested. I have Jesus Christ in my life and
your power means nothing to me without Jesus. And then
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I tried to spend time with him to help him,
but he was so stuck on how powerful he was.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
We don't have anything. But they wanted to build a tower,
but it's top into heavens now.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
The book Revelation, the tower builders will build a tower.
It says their sins are heaped as high as heaven,
and God remembers end time. Babylon tower building is not
the way to climb up to God. It says in
Exous twenty that we build an altar on level earth.
God says, I will come down to you. You shall
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not build an altar by steps and expose your nakedness.
You fall on the ground, on level ground, and that's
where I find you, on the earth where you live.
The prophet zeph and I have predicted that the day
would come when God's people would finally flee to Mount
Zion for the promise of a pure speech and attitude
of one accord to be rescued from their enemies. The
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prophet knew that only God can reverse the curse of
the Tower of Babel by bringing the Holy Spirit into
our lives.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Zeph and I have three nine yea. At that time,
I will.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech,
that all of them may call on the name of
the Lord and serve him. And what does it say
in verse nine, serve him with one accord? The Hebrews
Shacha machad from beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants,
the daughters of my dispersed ones shall bring my offering
(40:33):
on that day. You shall not be put to shame
because of the deeds by which you rebelled. Now think
about this. When we mess up in life, our mistakes
crush us, don't they. I mean, look at what I did,
Look what my family did to me. Look at that
awful sin. I live it every day in my head.
He says, on that day, you shall not be put
to shame because of the deeds by which you have
rebelled against me.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That's an awesome statement.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
For then I will remove from your midst, your proudly
exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty. In
my holy mountain, it's a broken, humble people who are
freed from guilt by the cross of Christ. They receive
the Holy Spirit. The condition for receiving the Holy Spirit
is humility, evidenced by confession and repentance. Dear heart, God
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comes to those who come to God in this honest
and sincere and humble way. People who turn from the
rebellion to come to Jesus have every right to ask
God to give them the Holy Spirit. At the Feast
of Pentecost, God reversed the Curse of the Tire of
Babel with the special promise of a pure speech that's kind, clear,
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focused on sharing God's word, on God's truth to save
other human beings. When you honestly care about someone in
your life and your religion is not about you, but
about others more so, as it says in the book
Steps to Christ and the Work and the Life, and
you talk to people as one who cares for them
with agendas, they will hear your voice, the spirit behind
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your voice.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It will get into their heads.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
May they may not understand a word you have to
say to them about the content of your faith, but
they will understand how you say it to them. Loving
people when people to a loving Lord. Now, how does
different people can express love in different ways? Some people
can just have this nice, calm demeanor I really care
about you, and they mean it. Others can fake it
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by doing something like that. Others can say I care
about you, that wrap their arms around you and just
give you a big hug. Look, I don't know what
your temperament is, but when the Holy Spirit is working
in you, you're focused on caring about other people. It
takes the Holy Spirit to be a loving and kind
power inside of you to make you a Christian that
resembles Jesus in your own personality and temperament. When you
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are not the hero in your life, dear heart, God
can then use your life life to help other lives
come to.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
God in Christ.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
God doesn't need you to be a hero. God is
seeking a sinner who turns to Him for grace and
God and God gets it done. And the lives of
imperfect men and women who are in their brokenness love
Him and they come to Him and they value what
Jesus has done for them. Friend, the Holy Spirit settled
on their heads as tongues of fire, and the wind
(43:26):
didn't blow the fire out because the fire was in
the wind and the storm. The fire and the wind
were one the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was superpositioned.
That's a scientific term. We're using quantum mechanics to describe
a cubit. Something can be more than one. Thing can
be there, or things can be entwined. It can be
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more places than once. The Holy Spirit be everywhere. He's superpositioning,
like quantum mechanics. The Holy Spirit is the fire and
the wind, but it's settled in one hundred and twenty people.
The same Holy Spirit was here. Here here, here, here,
Holy Spirit is the fire and the wind that God
gives that we will all know Him and be born
again from the least to the greatest.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Why does he do it? Because we are the earth.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
In need the mud, and we need wind and fire
of the God's Spirit to make us live. We can't
give ourselves life, dear heart, Earth, wind and fire meet
because Jesus died for us. When that spirit went into
Christ's side and blood and water came out, it represented
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us in the Holy Spirit coming together through forgiveness and sanctification.
And that stream of blessing will never end till this
world is over. It will be the river of life
for all eternity. And let's face it, we don't get
there because we're good people. We get there because we're
God's people. So cling to the Lord and let him
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do his work In you, dear Father, It's an awesome
thing to realize that you have placed the third person
of the Godhead into our lives to bring us Jesus
and You so that we will not be alone, so
that we will have the full benefits of your presence
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as we grow as Christians, as we learn to love
as you have loved us. And Lord, may you finish
the work you start. May we not get in the way.
And Lord, may we be about sharing kindness, life, love
with others, so that you will recognize us as the
children of God, because the Spirit dwells in us. Bless
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your people. May they leave this place if they have
a forgive a heart that it says, Lord, forgive me.
May you impress upon them that they are forgiven. And Lord,
we ask for the Holy Spirit because forgiven people need it,
need him in Jesus's name. Bless your people in Jesus name.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Amen.
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