Mark O’Grady – Born of the Spirit – Class 1 – God is Spirit

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Thank you, Brother Jason and a
very warm good afternoon

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brothers and sisters.
I bring the love and fraternal

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greetings of your brothers and
sisters in the Tower Ecclesia

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and also from brothers and
sisters who are meeting in the

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Summer Bible School in New
Zealand at the moment.

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And a special briefing from
Brother Dave and Sister Carolyn

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Bailey from who asked us to send
that their love to you.

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I think they were last seen
looking for lost luggage and

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Blizzard somewhere in Ontario.
I think they’re scarred with

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their experiences of a Canadian
winter.

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Yes, they now travel with only
hand luggage.

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They tell me.
Well, we are in for a wonderful

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topic, quite a magnificent topic
this week as we look at the

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subject of the spirit.
It’s, it’s one of those backdrop

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subjects, isn’t it?
It’s pervasive.

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It’s sort of always there, but I
don’t know when any of you last

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heard a series of studies on the
subject of the Spirit.

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We were thinking at home, and
it’s probably about 20 years

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since we did a study on the
subject of the Spirit in our own

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home, ecclesia.
And it’s one of those subjects

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which cuts right to the heart of
our relationship with God, of

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our of our interaction with our
Heavenly Father.

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It’s about how he works with us
to change us to become more like

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Him.
And so this this topic is about

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how God uses his intense and
extraordinary power to bring

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about his plan and his purpose
with the earth.

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And what we’re going to find
this week, God willing, is that

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actually a correct understanding
of this subject is one of the

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definitive things that separates
the truth from false

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Christianity.
And we’ll see that it’s actually

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probably one of the core things
that separates us from virtually

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all of the rest of the Christian
world, virtually unique.

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If we get this topic wrong, we
find that actually the truth and

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understanding of doctrines
unravels pretty quickly and so

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does behaviour that goes with
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An incorrect understanding on
the Trinity on this subject

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rather is very closely linked to
the Trinity and also to be

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mortal soul.
They have very similar roots

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and, and very similar origin
and, and I don’t know about this

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country, but I know that in many
countries over the decades,

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issues around the subject of the
Spirit raise their head every

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few decades.
So when I was a young child, I

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remember there was some splits
in the ecclesial world.

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In New Zealand from time to time
there’d be people that have

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drifted off and actually set up
churches or joined churches

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because they felt they had the
Holy Spirit power working

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somehow in them to help them
understand.

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So in the process, of course,
they lost their understanding of

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Scripture and their
understanding of the truth and

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also therefore their place in
the covenants.

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Promise.
You know, if we get a simple and

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correct understanding of the
subject, it just binds us

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together with God and it brings
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close and so intense with us in
our daily lives.

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So it’s actually very
comforting.

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It’s a very encouraging subject
when we when we think about

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learning from the Scripture
about how God actually works

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with us in our daily life.
And it’s a subject which it’s

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mind expanding and it will give
us that that strong conviction,

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a burning conviction inside
about the reality of our God.

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All right, so is the subject
important?

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Well, there’s just a few
passages.

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There’s probably many more that
we could have used.

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But John 4 verse 24, our Lord
said God is Spirit, and they

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that worship Him must worship
Him in spirit and in truth.

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That’s fairly mandatory sort of
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They that worship Him must
worship Him in spirit and in

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truth.
Romans 8 verse 11 If the spirit

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of him that raised up Jesus from
the dead dwell in you, he that

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raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal

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bodies by or as it’s better
translated because of His spirit

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that dwells in you.
Well, Romans 8 verse 9 here, not

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in the flesh, but in the spirit
If so be that the Spirit of God

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dwell in you.
Now if any man have not the

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spirit of Christ, He is none of
his.

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So when you look at those
passages and reflect on them.

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So this is actually pretty
important if we want to worship

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God acceptably, if we want to be
one of His as it’s described

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there, if we want to be
quickened or given a mortal

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life, then we need to understand
how God works with us through

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His Spirit and how it becomes an
integral part of who and what we

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are.
All right, I’m going to ask a

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series of questions.
You don’t have to answer them.

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This is a little test on how
well we understand this subject.

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So let’s ask a few questions and
just see how confident you are

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in your mind on the answers.
What exactly is the Spirit?

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Do you have God’s Spirit?
Do you possess God’s spirit?

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Do you receive God’s spirit?
Does God’s spirit work in you?

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Does God’s spirit work with you?
Does the Holy Spirit work in our

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lives?
Does the Spirit of God dwell in

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us?
Does God’s spirit guide us?

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Is it God’s Spirit working
somehow in us that makes us

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faithful or understand or
overcome sin?

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What should we pray for in
relation to the Spirit?

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In what ways in Scripture does
this expression, the Spirit

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actually get used?
The passages on the Holy Spirit

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apply to all believers or only
to those who had the Holy Spirit

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gifts in the 1st century.
The answer to some of those

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questions was yes, and the
answer to some of those

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questions is no.
And hopefully by the time we

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finish our studies together, we
should be confident in our

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answers to to all of those
questions.

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All right, well, let’s start
with some pretty basic

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foundations.
And we’re going to begin with

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the Christadelphian instructor.
And can I have a hands up?

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I won’t ask you any difficult
question, but have any of you

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actually learnt as children or
had your children learn?

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Christadelphian instructor
answers anybody?

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Yep, there’s a few.
I remember when I was at Sunday

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school doing the Christadelphian
instructor.

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Well, there’s no apologies here.
We’re going to be going back to

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the foundation to be a community
in some of the writings of

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Brother Thomas and Brother
Roberts as they opened up our

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understanding of scripture on
some of these things.

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And I thought the best place to
start was with the instructor,

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which was designed for Sunday
school scholars of age 9 and

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upwards.
So as we struggle to understand

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it, just remember that this was
designed for 9 year olds and

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upwards.
OK question #16 in the Christian

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instructor, in what way is God
everywhere if he dwells in

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heaven?
And the answer is, God is

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everywhere present by his spirit
which proceeds from him and

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which fills all space.
We won’t look at all the all the

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passages there, but you’ll
notice that Psalm 139 is

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mentioned there as one of the
proofs.

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And we have this, this
magnificent Psalm which Brother

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Jason read the first 10 verses
of.

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And if we look at verse 7,
whither shall I go from my

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spirit?
Whither shall I flee from my

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presence?
If I send up into heaven, Thou

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art there.
If I make my bed in the grave,

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behold, thou art there.
He describes the fact that God’s

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in front of him.
He’s put his hand behind him.

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His hand is above him.
Everywhere he looks, he’s

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completely enveloped in the
Spirit of God.

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So actually this concept here is
God is everywhere present by his

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spirit.
Next question, what is the

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Spirit of God?
Answer?

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It is His invisible power or
energy breathed forth from His

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presence, and of like nature
with His glorious person.

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By this or by His spirit, heaven
and earth have been made and are

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preserved in being from moment
to moment.

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In this or in God’s Spirit we
live and move and have our being

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in Him.
All right.

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Next question.
Is God separate from or

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different from the Spirit?
Now, this is actually quite key

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because the churches who believe
in the Trinity teach that the

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Spirit is actually a different
being.

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That there’s God, that there’s
Jesus Christ, and that the Holy

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Spirit, which is part of the one
Trinity, is actually a separate

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being in its own right.
And we’ll look at that as we go

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through this particular topic.
And the answer is no.

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God and his Spirit cannot be
separated.

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They are both one.
The sun and the light that comes

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from the sun are both 1.
So God and the Spirit that comes

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from God are both one.
God is the center and glorious,

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substantial form of the Spirit
that fills heaven and earth.

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So we have a few simple little
questions there.

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Now, we say this is the most
basic of doctrines.

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But you know, the wonderful
thing about our doctrines, about

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our beliefs, our understanding
is that it then flows

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immediately through into how we
behave as individuals.

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So you may have heard people
make the comment that good

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doctrine creates good morals.
So what’s the lesson that comes

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from this about God being
everywhere present by his

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Spirit?
So Brother Roberts asks the

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question, do these things teach
you any lesson concerning our

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conduct and the answer for the
children?

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Yes, They teach me that I’m
always in the presence of God,

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even though I don’t feel it.
He always sees me, even when

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it’s dark.
Though I can’t see Him.

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Nothing can happen without His
knowing it.

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Even my inmost thoughts and
intentions He can discern,

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though I should seek to keep
them secret.

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Brothers and sisters, in terms
of our session this afternoon,

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that’s the number one thing for
us to take away.

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Everything we do is in the
presence of the Almighty.

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Every word, every thought, every
impulse, every action is

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absolutely in the presence of
the Almighty.

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As we’re going to see a bit
later, His energy sustains the

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structure of the universe in
which we live.

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So it’s His spirit power which
sustains the energy fields that

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create all substance, because
substance or matter is an energy

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form.
That’s Einstein’s theory of

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relativity equals MC squared.
So there’s enormous energy in

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this lectern.
As I said to the young people

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when I covered the subject with
them this morning, there was

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enough energy in this lectern to
blow Toronto off the face of the

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earth.
It’s just that it’s in a very

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stable form.
So when man understood how to

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break apart the atom, that’s
because they were using uranium,

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which is an unstable material,
easier to break apart.

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But the energy and the power
that actually holds the

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structure of all things together
is phenomenal.

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That is all held together by
God’s Spirit.

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What that means is when we
speak, it’s not that God’s got

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remarkable hearing and he can
somehow hear us from billion

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miles away in space somewhere.
It’s actually that his power is

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right here.
And so when we speak, we speak

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in his presence.
If we think our thinking is

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simply an electrical impulse in
our minds, He feels that sound

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speech are just sound waves.
They’re energy waves.

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And when we think that actually,
as it says in Romans 11 out of

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him were created all things, we
start to realize that God is

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absolutely fundamental to our
existence and everything we feel

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or speak or hear or say, he
feels that.

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So he’s here in a very real
sense, not just with really good

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hearing from some distance away.
OK, so let’s have a look at,

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well actually let’s have a look
at these something we should be

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very familiar with, the
Birmingham amended statement of

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faith.
We won’t spend much time on

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this, but you notice there that
in clause one it talks about the

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fact that there is the only true
God is he that was revealed to

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Abraham.
And if we go down here a little

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bit, He is everywhere present by
His Spirit, which is a unity

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with His person in heaven.
He has out of his own underived

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energy, created everything.
So that’s the first clause in

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the Birmingham Amender statement
of faith.

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Or if we go on to clause 2,
Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of

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God, begotten by the Virgin
Mary, of the Virgin Mary by the

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Holy Spirit, without the
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He was afterwards anointed with
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at his baptism.
Or clause 10, That with Christ

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being so begotten of God and
inhabited or used by God through

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the indwelling of the Holy
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So this concept of the Spirit is
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statement of faith.
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doctrines to be rejected.
So clause 25 of the doctrines,

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doctrines to be rejected that a
man cannot believe without

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possessing the Spirit of God.
It’s a bit of a double negative.

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In fact, it’s actually a triple
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What’s being said there?
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The churches teach that unless
you possess the Holy Spirit

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given to you by God, you can’t
understand or believe.

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And then they believe that
actually, I’ve now got the Holy

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Spirit.
It helps me understand the

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things of God.
I’m no longer so dependent on

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the Bible.
That’s exactly what happens with

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church church teaching.
And we’re going to see that in

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more detail on one of their
later, later studies.

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The concept of the truth is that
actually belief comes from

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hearing and hearing by the Word
of God.

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It’s really straightforward.
It’s a comment that Brother John

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made last night.
The power is in the word, and

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it’s the word that creates our
faith as we have the blessing of

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what the Holy Spirit recorded
for us to read and to believe.

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So these are fairly, fairly
basic doctrines for us.

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OK, the next thing is to say,
well, let’s have a look at the

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words that are used in Scripture
for spirit.

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Does anybody know what the word
is in the Old Testament for

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Spirit?
Any guesses?

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Ruach.
Ruach.

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Excellent.
So ruach is the Hebrew word.

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What about the New Testament?
Numa.

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Excellent.
Numa.

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So if we look at this, it’s
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when you look at words.
First of all, there’s one main

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word and in fact my only word in
the Old Testament which is ruach

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and it means wind or breath or
mind or spirit, and in the New

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Testament pneuma which means
wind or breath or spirit.

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In fact the ideas behind the 2
words are basically exactly the

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same.
Another trick of the question I

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asked for Robert Column Mizzos.
Who’s Greek?

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How you pronounce pneuma?
Any guesses?

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Go for it.
Oh, you’ve had some help.

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Yeah, yes.
Excellent.

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Penfma.
So they pronounce both the P and

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the N Pennet.
But AU is AV, so it’s Pennifma.

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So like the word Eureka is
actually Eureka, not Eureka.

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So just a little, a little one
there.

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If you, if you’re talking to a
Greek, you’ve got to pronounce

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it Pennifma, not Newman.
OK, we’re familiar with the word

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pneuma.
It comes up in a couple of words

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we use in English, pneumatic,
pneumatic tire, pneumatic drill.

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It’s something which is powered
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That’s this idea of air that
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We say, OK, well, at one level
then it’s quite straightforward.

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But then we would say, well,
let’s start to look at how the

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words are used in Scripture, and
suddenly it starts to get a

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little more complex.
So here is the Theological

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Wordbook’s comment about this
Hebrew word ruach, which is

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translated as spirit in the Old
Testament.

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The basic idea of ruach is air
in motion, so moving air.

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The connotations of breath
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Ultimately, breath signifies
activity in life.

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In God’s hand is the breath or
ruach or the life of all

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mankind.
The noun ruach further depicts a

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a disposition of mind or
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Ruach comes finally to denote
the entire immaterial

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consciousness or the thought
processes of men.

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With my spirit within me, I’ll
seek you earnestly.

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Or a wise man rules as spirit.
In fact, what do you think about

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it?
We use the word the spirit in

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the same way.
So if someone’s, I don’t know if

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we’re talking to one of our
children and they’re being very

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unhelpful and they’re not
cooperating at all with mum and

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you say that’s not the sort of
spirit you should be showing.

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So we’re using the word spirit
there, not in terms of them

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having miraculous powers, but in
terms of the attitude of mind.

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The preeminent example, he says,
of a spiritual personality is

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God.
I missed the line there.

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Ruach may designate a
supernatural or angelic being, a

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spirit being, a spirit from God.
Ruach can exhibit a range of

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meaning.
Well, we’ve worked that out,

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haven’t we?
There’s a whole series of

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different things that the ruach
gets used for.

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The breath of God.
Well, that might be a strong

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wind.
So we find there are passages in

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the Old Testament using ruach
that are talking about wind at

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most points.
However, he says the context

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proves, and the analogy of the
New Testament strongly suggests

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that the ruach of Yahweh is the
Holy Spirit.

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So you look at that and think
this is this is suddenly a

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little bit more complex.
There’s a lot more dimensions to

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this.
Jacinius basically says the same

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thing the at night in the second
line down under sea, breath of

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air or air in motion.
All right, well, what about the

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New Testament, the Greek word
Nephma or Numa?

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And this is vines primarily
denotes the wind.

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It’s akin to Nuo, which means to
breathe.

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Also breath, then especially the
spirit, which like the wind, is

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invisible, immaterial, and
powerful.

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The New Testament uses of the
word may be analyzed

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approximately as, and I’ve
popped a few of them there Now.

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I have to say, by the way, I’ve
been quite selective in what I

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put in from vines.
You’ll notice I don’t have AB,

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you don’t have CD and E, and
various others.

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Because what I found with
basically every Christian

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commentator, they all believe in
the Trinity.

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About half of their explanations
are full of dissertations on the

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Trinity.
So if you strip that out in

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terms of the way the words used,
wind, breath, the way in which

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man perceives or reflects or
feels or desires, purpose, aim,

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character, moral qualities, the
Holy Spirit, unclean spirits,

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angels, divine gift for service,
that’s the Holy Spirit gifts.

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So you say, well, actually this
is again quite, quite diverse.

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There’s a related word which is
quite helpful, Pneumaticos.

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Which means spiritual.
So if someone is of a spiritual

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outlook, it’s the Greek word
numaticos, things which have

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their origin with God and which
therefore are in harmony with

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his character.
Men in Christ who walk so as to

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please God are spiritual.
OK, so that gives us then a, a,

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a few dictionary definitions of
this particular word.

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Brother Thomas has got a couple
of quite useful comics to make

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about this word and the use of
the words.

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There were some articles that
were written, published in the

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Christadelphian magazine a few
years ago, back in 1876.

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And there was a succession of
articles in different editions

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of the magazine.
They were entitled The Spirit of

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God and the Baptism thereof.
And he picks up this idea of the

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air in motion.
So the English word spirit comes

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from the Latin Spiritos, which
means to blow from sphero, to

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breathe or to breathe out or to
exhale.

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So the spirit is the idea of
something which is exhaled.

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So you go the idea of air in
motion, something that’s being

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breathed out or exhaled in the
Greek.

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Oh, sorry.
Yeah.

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In the Greek the word which
answers to spirit is pneuma,

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which means exactly the same
thing.

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And in the Hebrew it’s the
ruach.

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So in all of them, it has this
idea of air in motion or air

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being breathed out.
These words tell us they stand

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for something which is radiated
or exhaled.

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So it’s radiating out or being
breathed out, but it doesn’t

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tell us what’s being breathed
out, what the essence or the

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substance of the breathing is.
It might be air in motion, it

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might be wind or breath or
electricity, power, some other

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agent.
So the point that leaves us with

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is we really have to have a look
at Scripture to see if we can

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build a bit of a profile of this
word and how it’s actually used.

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Because he said what the word
represents depends upon

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something which is more than
etymology can supply, more than

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just the study of the words
themselves.

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The words ruach, numa, spiritas
and spirit do not signify the

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same thing in all places.
But whatever they do mean, the

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radical idea or the base idea
behind it is this idea of motion

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outwards.
So breathing out or exhaling

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something which is moving
outwards.

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OK, let’s keep working on this.
So Job, this is Job 33 verse 4

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says the spirit or the Ruach of
God, ale hath made me in the

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breath of Nishima of the
Almighty hath given me life.

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So now we say, oh, that’s
interesting.

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Here’s the spirit is being used
as a creative force.

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The Spirit of God has made me
ale.

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Does anyone know what the word
ale means?

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Power.
So we know that in the Old

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Testament, in the Greek, we have
the word God in the English and

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it’s predominantly 3 Hebrew
words, Ale, a lower or Elohim

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ale, which is the root of each
of those ale and lower.

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And Elohim has the idea of
power, an energy source.

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And that’s the root of this word
God that we find throughout the

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Old Testament.
So the point that’s being made

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here is it’s the spirit being
breathed out of that power

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source which actually creates
us.

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What is ale?
It’s not actually, it means

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strength, might power.
So the spirit of ale is a

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powerful breathing out of power
that comes from that original

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power source.
So then he’s got this little

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statement.
Ale is spirit, there is spirit

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avail.
The fountain and the stream are

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both spirit.
And that’s actually quite a

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helpful analogy.
So let’s put that aside for a

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moment.
In your mind, I want you to

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picture a little fountain
bubbling out of the side of a

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hill.
The fountain is water.

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Then you scoop some of the water
out.

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You say the water has come from
the fountain.

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So the water is both.
What’s coming out is coming out

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that the fountain itself is
water.

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It’s like that with God’s
spirit.

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God is spirit, it’s his energy.
And so as his energy does

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things, you say that actually
that spirit comes from God

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himself.
So it’s actually quite

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straightforward.
There’s nothing deep or

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mysterious about this.
It’s actually the concept of

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being God’s power or his energy.
That’s why we can’t separate it

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from God himself.
OK, let’s, I think probably the

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best thing to do now is, is
actually turn to look at how the

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word is used in Scripture and
see if we can build ourselves a

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bit of an understanding of the
of the ways in which this

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particular phrase is used.
We’re going to look at a few

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quotes, particularly on the
screen, but we might turn a few

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of them up, but I won’t be.
First of all, please to turn up

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Mark chapter 5 and verse 2.
Let’s have a look at Mark 5 and

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verse 2.
We’ll start with the New

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Testament.
So we’re looking at our Greek

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word Numa or Nephma.
Mark chapter 5 and reading from

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verse 2.
This is talking about the Lord.

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He catches the ship across to
the other side of the sea and

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then there comes out of the out
of the tombs.

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And verse 2 we read when he was
come out of the ship,

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immediately they met him out of
the tombs, a man with an unclean

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spirit.
And that’s our word, Numa.

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So here’s a few passages.
Mark 5, Matthew 8, verse 16.

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When even was come, they brought
unto a many that were possessed

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with devils, and he cast out the
spirits, these devils or these

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unclean spirits with his word,
and healed all that was sick.

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Or Ephesians 2, verse 2, in time
past you walked according to the

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course of this world, according
to the Prince of the power of

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00:26:24,280 –> 00:26:29,000
the air, the spirit that now
works in the children of

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disobedience.
So as we look at those passages,

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what’s the common element that
strikes you about those

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00:26:36,200 –> 00:26:38,720
passages?
Any thoughts, any suggestions?

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An unclean way of thinking?
Oops, too far.

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So unclean spirits, illness,
mental illness, or actually

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00:26:55,120 –> 00:26:58,760
unclean minds, which is the
spirit that now works in the

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00:26:58,760 –> 00:27:02,360
children of disobedience.
So the word spirit pneuma can be

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00:27:02,360 –> 00:27:05,320
used of an unclean mind.
All right, so cool.

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00:27:05,480 –> 00:27:08,920
OK, let’s keep going.
What about these?

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00:27:09,640 –> 00:27:12,240
Well, here we’ve got Jesus being
led by the Spirit in Luke 4,

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verse 1.
So he’s full of the Spirit and

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00:27:14,400 –> 00:27:16,440
he’s led by the Spirit into the
wilderness.

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00:27:17,040 –> 00:27:21,840
Or in Acts 2, God says I’ll pour
out my spirit upon all flesh and

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your sons and your daughters
will prophecy.

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00:27:23,920 –> 00:27:26,480
That’s in the context of them
speaking in tongues.

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00:27:26,880 –> 00:27:29,760
Matthew 12 verse 28.
If I cast out devils by the

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00:27:29,760 –> 00:27:32,680
Spirit of God, then the Kingdom
of God has come to you.

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Or second Peter one verse 21,
holy men of God spake.

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00:27:36,520 –> 00:27:39,920
So the inspired writings of
Scripture spoke as they were

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00:27:39,920 –> 00:27:44,040
moved by the Holy Spirit.
So here we have the word spirit

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00:27:44,040 –> 00:27:48,920
being used in what sense?
Actually of divine power, Holy

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00:27:48,920 –> 00:27:52,400
Spirit power.
And when it’s used that way,

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00:27:52,400 –> 00:27:55,080
it’s talking about an ability
which is not natural.

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00:27:55,960 –> 00:27:58,640
I might sometimes use the phrase
supernatural.

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When I do, I’m not referring to
little ghosts and goblins in

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terms of literally what it means
supernatural, something which is

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00:28:06,520 –> 00:28:10,440
above what we can normally do.
So the Holy Spirit power of God

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00:28:10,440 –> 00:28:14,400
was given to people from time to
time to enable them to do things

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00:28:14,600 –> 00:28:18,560
they could not otherwise do.
Miracles, speaking in tongues,

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00:28:18,560 –> 00:28:22,440
the inspiration of prophecy, and
so forth.

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All right, what about these?
Look at verse 55.

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00:28:27,680 –> 00:28:30,200
So this is the little girl who
dies.

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00:28:31,160 –> 00:28:34,920
Her spirit came again, and she
rose straight away, and he

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00:28:34,920 –> 00:28:38,520
commanded to give her meat.
So how’s the word pneuma being

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00:28:38,520 –> 00:28:42,360
used there?
John 19 verse 30 when our when

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00:28:42,360 –> 00:28:46,000
our Lord died, he bowed his head
and gave up the ghost as it says

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00:28:46,000 –> 00:28:48,120
in the AV, it’s the same word
pneuma.

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00:28:48,120 –> 00:28:52,520
He gave up the spirit or X7
verse 59 Stephen when he died

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00:28:53,240 –> 00:28:56,800
was calling upon upon God saying
Lord Jesus.

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00:28:57,040 –> 00:29:00,120
The word God.
There is is an italics Lord

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00:29:00,200 –> 00:29:04,680
Jesus received my spirit.
So in those passages, the word

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00:29:04,680 –> 00:29:09,760
spirit’s being used for life,
life itself, the essence of life

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00:29:09,800 –> 00:29:13,800
itself.
All right, what about these?

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00:29:14,520 –> 00:29:17,680
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of

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00:29:17,680 –> 00:29:21,880
heaven.
Or first to Corinthians 4, shall

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00:29:21,880 –> 00:29:25,120
I come to you with a rod or in
love and in the spirit of

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00:29:25,120 –> 00:29:28,600
meekness?
Second Timothy, one God’s not

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00:29:28,600 –> 00:29:32,560
given us the spirit of fear, but
of power of love, a sound mind.

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00:29:33,000 –> 00:29:35,880
How’s the word spirit being used
in those passages?

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00:29:37,080 –> 00:29:40,920
Well, that’s actually a mind and
a character, someone who’s meek

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00:29:41,200 –> 00:29:47,360
or someone who’s poor in spirit.
All right, what about these

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00:29:48,760 –> 00:29:52,120
Ephesians 4?
Be renewed in the spirit of your

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00:29:52,120 –> 00:29:57,560
mind or cleansing our minds from
all filthiness of the flesh and

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00:29:57,560 –> 00:30:00,800
spirit.
So now we’ve got the word spirit

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00:30:00,800 –> 00:30:03,680
being used in the idea of a mind
that needs to be cleansed to

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00:30:03,720 –> 00:30:08,400
become a new mind, a new way of
thinking and closely linked to

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00:30:08,400 –> 00:30:11,640
that.
They that are after the flesh do

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00:30:11,640 –> 00:30:14,000
mind the things of the flesh,
but they that are after the

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00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:17,360
spirit, they mind the things of
the spirit.

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00:30:17,360 –> 00:30:21,960
Romans 8 verse 5 four verse 6.
To be calmly minded as deaf, but

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00:30:21,960 –> 00:30:25,920
to be spiritually minded is life
and peace.

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00:30:26,120 –> 00:30:30,640
So now we have a spiritual
outlook or a spiritual way of

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00:30:30,640 –> 00:30:33,200
thinking.
Let’s keep going.

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00:30:34,040 –> 00:30:36,120
Hebrews 1 He makes the Angel
spirits.

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00:30:36,120 –> 00:30:39,000
Now we’re talking about a spirit
being, an immortal body, a

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00:30:39,000 –> 00:30:43,400
spirit being.
Or what about John 6 verse 63?

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00:30:44,160 –> 00:30:46,400
It’s the spirit that gives life,
says Christ.

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00:30:46,960 –> 00:30:51,440
The flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you,

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00:30:51,520 –> 00:30:55,440
the words they are spirit.
They are.

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00:30:56,960 –> 00:31:00,760
So now we have the words of
Christ being used in the sense

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00:31:01,080 –> 00:31:05,520
of of being the spirit as well.
So you can see there’s quite a

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00:31:05,520 –> 00:31:09,320
few different ways in which the
spirit is actually used.

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00:31:10,360 –> 00:31:14,200
All right, let’s have a look at
some a few passages using

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00:31:14,200 –> 00:31:17,280
Gruwark because of course, as we
start to go through here,

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00:31:17,280 –> 00:31:19,160
there’s a very big question that
comes up.

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00:31:19,480 –> 00:31:22,040
It just automatically pops up.
Why?

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00:31:22,880 –> 00:31:27,120
Why is the word spirit used in
so many different ways?

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00:31:27,560 –> 00:31:32,600
So let’s have a look at Ruach.
Well, the Ruach spirit was there

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00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:35,960
at creation, second verse of the
Bible.

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00:31:36,280 –> 00:31:39,080
The earth was without form,
void, darkness was upon the face

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00:31:39,080 –> 00:31:43,640
of the deep, and the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the

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00:31:43,640 –> 00:31:46,720
waters.
So here we’ve got God’s spirit

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00:31:47,080 –> 00:31:49,080
and it’s brooding there.
We’re going to look at that in a

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00:31:49,080 –> 00:31:52,520
later study moving upon the face
of the waters.

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00:31:53,400 –> 00:31:56,480
And then Psalm 33 by the word of
Yahweh, where the heavens made

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00:31:56,480 –> 00:32:00,040
and all the host of them by.
And it says the breath of his

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00:32:00,040 –> 00:32:02,000
mouth.
It’s the word ruach by the

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00:32:02,000 –> 00:32:07,240
spirit of his mouth.
So the Spirit of God is used in

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00:32:07,240 –> 00:32:09,800
the creative process in Genesis
chapter 1.

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00:32:10,800 –> 00:32:15,800
And as we’ve seen in Psalm 139,
the Spirit is all pervasive,

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00:32:16,400 –> 00:32:20,120
whether shall I go from my
spirit or whither shall I flee

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00:32:20,520 –> 00:32:27,640
from Thy presence?
So we ask ourselves, sorry,

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00:32:27,800 –> 00:32:31,120
let’s look at that one as well.
Links to the previous one about

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00:32:31,120 –> 00:32:33,520
His presence being everywhere
through His Spirit.

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00:32:33,800 –> 00:32:35,200
This is a very important
element.

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00:32:35,480 –> 00:32:39,400
It sustains life.
Particularly that bottom passage

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00:32:39,400 –> 00:32:42,600
there, Job 34 verse 14.
Just think about the

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00:32:42,600 –> 00:32:46,520
implications of this.
If God set His heart upon man,

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00:32:47,240 –> 00:32:50,640
if He gathered to himself his
spirit, his ruach, and His

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00:32:50,640 –> 00:32:55,440
breath, all flesh would perish
together, and man would turn

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00:32:55,440 –> 00:32:59,280
again to dust.
Or, as it says in Psalm 104,

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00:32:59,280 –> 00:33:02,440
Thou takest away their spirit.
The word breath.

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00:33:02,440 –> 00:33:04,160
There is the word ruach and
spirit.

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00:33:04,600 –> 00:33:09,280
They die and return to the dust.
Thou sent us forth thy spirit,

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00:33:09,280 –> 00:33:13,360
ruach, and they’re created.
So that tells us that the only

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00:33:13,360 –> 00:33:15,520
reason we’re here today, the
only reason we’re actually

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00:33:15,520 –> 00:33:18,600
breathing, is because God’s
spirit is actually holding us

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00:33:18,600 –> 00:33:21,480
alive.
And if he was to look at us and

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00:33:21,480 –> 00:33:25,800
say, actually, I’ll just
withdraw my spirit, all flesh

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00:33:26,040 –> 00:33:29,960
would perish together and
instantly die and return to

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00:33:29,960 –> 00:33:32,440
dust.
So I think, right, this is

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00:33:32,440 –> 00:33:34,880
actually quite extraordinary.
Here we’ve got now the word

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00:33:34,880 –> 00:33:37,920
spirit being used in this whole
range of different things.

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00:33:37,920 –> 00:33:43,600
So is the spirit the power of
God, or is it the mind of God?

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00:33:44,560 –> 00:33:47,360
Is it a godly mind?
Is it life itself?

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00:33:47,720 –> 00:33:50,960
Is it our mind or character?
Is it the air we breathe?

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00:33:51,400 –> 00:33:54,880
Is it the wind that blows?
Is it the power of God-given to

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00:33:54,880 –> 00:33:57,280
man to enable the impossible to
do miracles?

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00:33:57,560 –> 00:34:00,120
Is it the angels?
Is it the words Christ spoke?

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00:34:01,840 –> 00:34:06,160
And the answer is yes, it’s all
of those things.

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00:34:07,720 –> 00:34:10,320
Why?
And that really has to be our

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00:34:10,320 –> 00:34:11,840
number one question this
afternoon.

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00:34:12,120 –> 00:34:16,239
Why?
Why are these simple words used

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00:34:16,280 –> 00:34:21,920
in such a diversity of ways?
Is it just simply coincidence?

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00:34:22,800 –> 00:34:25,800
The one Hebrew word and one
Greek word happened to have a

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00:34:25,800 –> 00:34:29,960
multiplicity of different means.
Take for example the English

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00:34:29,960 –> 00:34:34,280
word bark.
Bark is the outside of a tree.

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00:34:35,360 –> 00:34:38,320
It’s also the strange sound of
God makes completely unrelated.

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00:34:39,239 –> 00:34:41,520
So is this just a case like that
where there are just these

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00:34:41,520 –> 00:34:43,040
different meanings of the same
word?

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00:34:43,040 –> 00:34:46,800
Or is there a very beautiful
element that pulls all these

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00:34:46,800 –> 00:34:51,040
things together for the most
powerful message for us?

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00:34:52,000 –> 00:34:54,600
Is there a glorious truth to be
revealed in this?

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00:34:55,679 –> 00:34:59,480
The answer actually lies in
God’s plan and purpose for the

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00:34:59,520 –> 00:35:00,960
earth.
Now this is a passage we should

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00:35:00,960 –> 00:35:05,040
all know really well.
Why did God create the heavens

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00:35:05,040 –> 00:35:08,320
and the earth?
Well, He wants them to be full

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00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:12,840
of the knowledge of His glory.
The earth will be filled with

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00:35:12,840 –> 00:35:17,920
the knowledge of the glory of
Yahweh as the waters cover the

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00:35:17,920 –> 00:35:26,240
sea.
And the spirit is the means that

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00:35:26,240 –> 00:35:29,120
God uses to achieve that
purpose.

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00:35:30,440 –> 00:35:36,120
That’s it.
God’s spirit is the means that

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00:35:36,120 –> 00:35:41,000
He engages to achieve that
objective or that spirit,

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00:35:41,000 –> 00:35:43,840
because the spirit is God in
action.

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00:35:44,360 –> 00:35:49,520
It’s his power, it’s his
purpose, it’s his capability to

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00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:53,200
achieve his objective with the
earth.

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00:35:55,840 –> 00:36:02,080
So it all began with a shapeless
BLOB which was without form and

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00:36:02,080 –> 00:36:07,080
void, no shape and it was empty.
And the spirit of God was

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00:36:07,080 –> 00:36:10,040
brooding upon the face of the
waters.

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00:36:11,320 –> 00:36:15,360
And then His spirit power was
used to start creating structure

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00:36:15,360 –> 00:36:18,720
and shape and fill the heavens
and the earth as He created the

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00:36:18,880 –> 00:36:21,800
separation, light and dark and
the separation of the waters,

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00:36:21,960 –> 00:36:25,160
the bringing out of dry land,
populating it with with with

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00:36:25,160 –> 00:36:27,880
plants 1st.
And then the seas were fish and

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00:36:27,920 –> 00:36:31,080
the and the air with birds, and
then animals and then finally

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00:36:31,080 –> 00:36:34,400
man on the earth.
All of that was achieved by the

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00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:40,600
Spirit of God.
By His spirit power He

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00:36:40,600 –> 00:36:42,400
established all the laws of
nature.

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00:36:43,360 –> 00:36:48,160
He sustains in His hand the life
of all living creatures.

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00:36:49,360 –> 00:36:51,120
Excuse me, That is the work of
the Spirit.

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00:36:51,280 –> 00:36:54,960
Also.
He gave to the human race a mind

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00:36:54,960 –> 00:36:57,560
that was capable of
understanding spiritual things.

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00:36:57,680 –> 00:37:01,040
They were made in the image and
the likeness of the Elohim.

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00:37:02,160 –> 00:37:06,560
What happened?
Man corrupted God’s way on the

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00:37:06,640 –> 00:37:09,480
earth, and so death came on the
human race.

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00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:14,120
The heart of man became
desperately sick or desperately

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00:37:14,120 –> 00:37:16,280
wicked.
Jeremiah 17.

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00:37:17,240 –> 00:37:22,440
So now we have in the heart of
man with a bias towards sin, an

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00:37:22,560 –> 00:37:26,520
uncleanness of an evil spirit.
That’s the way the human mind

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00:37:26,520 –> 00:37:31,440
now thinks, and it makes them
naturally blind so they can’t

611
00:37:31,440 –> 00:37:37,920
see God’s truth, deaf so they
can’t hear His messages, dumb so

612
00:37:37,920 –> 00:37:42,280
they can’t speak forth his
praises, and it fills them with

613
00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:48,480
madness, fits and torment.
That’s the natural state of the

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00:37:48,480 –> 00:37:51,200
human mind now with the
uncleanness of spirit.

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00:37:52,360 –> 00:37:55,280
So the Spirit of God began a new
creation.

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00:37:55,720 –> 00:38:00,600
His Holy Spirit brought into
being His only begotten Son, who

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00:38:00,600 –> 00:38:04,120
He filled without measure with
His Spirit.

618
00:38:04,720 –> 00:38:08,480
And the words that His Son
spoke, they were Spirit and they

619
00:38:08,480 –> 00:38:11,320
were life.
He came in the power of the

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00:38:11,320 –> 00:38:16,040
Spirit to heal the deaf, the
dumb, the blind, and the lame.

621
00:38:16,800 –> 00:38:20,920
He then sent forth men endowed
with the Holy Spirit to speak

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00:38:20,920 –> 00:38:24,640
the words of the Spirit, to
preach the gospel of good news

623
00:38:24,640 –> 00:38:28,680
to anybody who would listen, and
they had the power of the Spirit

624
00:38:28,680 –> 00:38:32,280
to do wonders and miracles as a
witness of the extraordinary

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00:38:32,280 –> 00:38:35,680
message they were sending out.
And then men and women who

626
00:38:35,680 –> 00:38:39,120
hearkened to that message, they
had minds that were responding

627
00:38:39,120 –> 00:38:42,120
to the things of the Spirit and
their mind.

628
00:38:42,120 –> 00:38:45,120
And their spirit begins to
change and to become like

629
00:38:45,120 –> 00:38:47,840
Christ’s.
The Spirit word begins to dwell

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00:38:47,840 –> 00:38:50,480
in them.
They become spiritual creatures.

631
00:38:50,640 –> 00:38:54,480
This is the new creation in whom
God and Christ come to dwell.

632
00:38:54,800 –> 00:38:59,280
And ultimately they will be
spirit beings like the angels,

633
00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:03,800
with a mortal power as part of
God’s energy source itself.

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00:39:05,520 –> 00:39:09,600
The power that achieves that is
the spirit.

635
00:39:10,720 –> 00:39:15,120
It’s God’s energy, it’s God’s
power, it’s his plan, it’s his

636
00:39:15,120 –> 00:39:19,320
purpose.
And that is why the word Spirit

637
00:39:19,640 –> 00:39:24,600
has so many dimensions, because
it’s telling us about the

638
00:39:24,680 –> 00:39:29,120
journey of the Spirit, of what
God’s purpose was right at the

639
00:39:29,120 –> 00:39:33,680
beginning, and how He is moving
the whole of creation to achieve

640
00:39:33,680 –> 00:39:36,400
His glorious purpose.
And He’s taking us on that

641
00:39:36,400 –> 00:39:39,040
journey.
The only thing in that process

642
00:39:39,040 –> 00:39:42,600
that isn’t breathed out of God
is the uncleanness of the spirit

643
00:39:42,680 –> 00:39:45,760
of the natural mind.
Every other element of that,

644
00:39:45,760 –> 00:39:49,480
brothers and sisters, every
other element has its origin in

645
00:39:49,480 –> 00:39:53,760
God Himself, exiles or breathes
out of them.

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00:39:54,720 –> 00:39:58,080
That’s the power that keeps us
alive.

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00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:03,120
That’s the power that knew that
we would be called in our names,

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00:40:03,120 –> 00:40:05,440
written in the book of life
before the foundation of the

649
00:40:05,440 –> 00:40:08,080
world.
That’s the power that’s working

650
00:40:08,280 –> 00:40:12,480
to teach us His ways who wants
us to respond and develop a mind

651
00:40:12,480 –> 00:40:15,560
like his sons, a spiritual way
of thinking.

652
00:40:15,680 –> 00:40:20,040
It is the journey of the Spirit
that he’s working on with you

653
00:40:20,080 –> 00:40:24,480
and me, and that’s why there’s
such a diversity.

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00:40:24,840 –> 00:40:28,680
Of applications of these simple
words, because in that word it’s

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talking about God’s power to
achieve his plan and purpose for

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the earth.
Let’s put it another way.

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God’s purpose requires men and
women who are alive, who have

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minds which learn His ways and
change, to start thinking in a

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different way from what we do
naturally and demonstrate the

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principles of God’s glorious
truth in their own individual

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lives.
And ultimately they’ll become

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immortal beings as he is.
And that those are all different

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facets of the work of the
Spirit.

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And in the process, he Stoops to
call creatures like us, flawed

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creatures like us.
And somehow he’s able to take

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people like us on that
extraordinary journey.

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What a wonderful thought,
brothers and sisters.

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We look at our own flaws.
We look at our mistakes.

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We look at our natural minds.
And we look at how the Father’s

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trying to work with each of us
and with their children, with

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our brothers and sisters to
develop a group of beings like

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that.
And we just say that’s an

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extraordinary thing.
That’s the journey of the

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spirit.
It’s a magnificent subject,

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brothers and sisters.
So tell me, brothers, sisters,

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4:30 on a Friday afternoon, when
the end of the tough weeks come,

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do you feel like a spirit being
in waiting, full of the Spirit

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of God?
Mums, as you struggle to remain

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patient, as the children are
arguing yet again about whose

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00:42:13,760 –> 00:42:17,320
fault it was that the drink got
spilled on the floor, do you

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feel like you’re full of the
Spirit?

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Brothers, when we realized with
great disappointment we’ve LED

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00:42:24,920 –> 00:42:27,800
our heavenly Father down again
and we’ve succumbed in the face

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of a trial or a temptation yet
again, do we feel like glorious

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spirit beings that God’s working
with?

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Let’s compare ourselves to
Solomon.

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Solomon was a truly outstanding
person, a unique character, with

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the exception of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the wisest man who has

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ever lived.
He was actually endowed with the

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gift of wisdom, the Holy Spirit,
gift of wisdom, most

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extraordinary understanding.
And as Brother Roberts wrote of

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Solomon in an article, actually
that Brother Roberts wrote on

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the Spirit, Solomon is an
example not surpassed in

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Scripture, of what human nature
is at the bottom.

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Though divinely blessed with the
Spirit, enabling him to utter

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00:43:22,320 –> 00:43:26,160
the wisdom of God, and
excitation, warning the proof to

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the things against which he
cautioned his son, he himself

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00:43:32,120 –> 00:43:36,160
gave way.
The man who spoke the pure words

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00:43:36,160 –> 00:43:42,680
of the wisdom of God was himself
an entire failure in the

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application.
So how’s the journey of the

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Spirit if you’re going to be
possible for you and me?

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The answer, of course, brothers
and sisters, lies in the

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greatest work of the Spirit.
And that’s in God’s work with

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the Son, with the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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At least 2 passages and
juxtaposition.

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The earth will be filled with
the knowledge of the glory of

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Yahweh as the waters cover the
sea.

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How?
What’s the New Testament called?

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God who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness.

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Note the echoes there of the
creation process has shined in

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our hearts to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of

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God.
How well we see it in the face

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of Jesus Christ.
So here’s God’s purpose to fill

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the entire earth with the
knowledge of His glory.

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And that becomes possible,
brothers and sisters, because of

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what we see and learn in the
face of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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God has shined in the darkness
of our hearts to give us the

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light of the knowledge of His
glory, and we see it in the work

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is the creative work of the

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Spirit to transform the human
race, people like you and me to

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become a reflection of His
glory.

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And so, brothers and sisters,
this subject, it just

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encapsulates the fullness of
God’s plan and purpose with us.

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It’s just extraordinary to stop
and think about, incredibly

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00:45:27,200 –> 00:45:31,400
encouraging to think about the
fact that God’s objective is to

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continue to work with the human
race to teach us to become a

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reflection of his glory.
And for that work to be

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complete, we need to come to
understand what this idea of the

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Spirit is actually all about.
And throughout the pages of the

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truth of the of the Word, God
explains to us how his Spirit

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works with us in daily life.
And as we go through these

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studies, God willing, that’s
exactly what we want to see.

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We want to see the way in which
God’s Spirit interacts with us

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in the development of our
character to become a reflection

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of His glory.
As I said before, the churches

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get this entirely wrong.
Basically, the whole of

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Christianity says that God’s
Holy Spirit power comes into me

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and all I have to do is submit.
And it just makes me believe.

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It makes me understand.
It helps me resist sin.

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And they turn their back on the
very thing that God has actually

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given us to help us in the
journey of the Spirit.

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Paul says I’m not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ.

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The gospel which is the good
news of the Kingdom and the work

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00:46:44,680 –> 00:46:46,520
of Christ recorded in Scripture
for us.

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The gospel is the power of God
unto salvation to everyone that

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believes the Jew 1st and also to
the Gentiles.

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As our Lord said the words I
speak to you, they are Spirit

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and they are life.
So the question for us really as

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we go through is how will we
respond to the invitation of the

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Spirit?
How will we respond to the words

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00:47:11,680 –> 00:47:15,440
of the Holy Spirit which speak
to us through the words which

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that has recorded through the
inspiration of the pen of those

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of old?
As the Apostle Paul said in

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00:47:23,440 –> 00:47:27,840
first of Corinthians 2, verse 13
of his teaching, he says which

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00:47:27,840 –> 00:47:31,040
things we teach, not in the
words which man’s wisdom

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00:47:31,040 –> 00:47:35,080
teaches, but which the Holy
Spirit teaches, comparing

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00:47:35,080 –> 00:47:39,400
spiritual things with spiritual.
The natural man receives not the

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00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:42,040
things of the Spirit of God for
their foolishness to them,

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00:47:42,320 –> 00:47:45,560
neither can he know them because
they’re spiritually discerned.

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So we have this most most
wonderful blessing, brothers and

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sisters of God’s Word, which
encaptures His mind speaking to

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00:47:55,960 –> 00:47:58,440
us through the pages of
Scripture.

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00:47:59,320 –> 00:48:03,280
And there’s no wonderful power
in that which creates this this

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journey of transformation of our
own hearts and minds as we

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00:48:07,080 –> 00:48:10,200
change to become more like his
glorious son.

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I’d like you to turn with me,
please in conclusion to Romans

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00:48:14,520 –> 00:48:17,000
chapter 8.
Romans chapter 8 is a is a

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00:48:17,040 –> 00:48:21,080
wonderful chapter talking about
the way in which the Spirit of

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Christ or the Spirit of God is
to be developed within our own

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hearts and minds.
And there’s some some beautiful

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00:48:28,280 –> 00:48:31,280
sections in there which we will
no doubt be looking at as we go

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through our studies this week.
But let’s have a look.

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Romans chapter 8 and we’ll
commence in verse 5.

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Those who are after the flesh do
mind the things of the flesh,

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but they that are after the
Spirit, they mind the things of

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00:48:47,600 –> 00:48:50,680
the spirit.
For to be calmly minded is

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00:48:50,680 –> 00:48:53,880
death, but to be spiritually
minded is life in peace.

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There’s the alternative for us,
brothers and sisters, laid out

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00:48:56,960 –> 00:48:59,720
so clearly.
To be calmly minded is death.

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To be spiritually minded is life
and peace.

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00:49:03,840 –> 00:49:06,720
He said It’s a calm mind.
It’s enmity against God.

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00:49:06,720 –> 00:49:09,720
It can’t be subject to it.
So those who are in your flesh

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00:49:09,720 –> 00:49:14,520
can’t please God.
This 9 But you are not in the

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00:49:14,520 –> 00:49:18,800
flesh, he said.
You are in the Spirit if the

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00:49:18,800 –> 00:49:23,400
Spirit of God dwells in you.
We’re going to see as if studies

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00:49:23,400 –> 00:49:25,960
unfold, that it’s talking there
about a new way of thinking

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00:49:25,960 –> 00:49:28,840
here.
The Spirit of God dwells in us

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00:49:29,080 –> 00:49:32,520
as we develop an understanding
of his ways and his principles.

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And literally it transforms the
way in which we think.

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00:49:37,360 –> 00:49:41,600
And so he says in verse 11, if
the Spirit of him that raised up

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00:49:41,760 –> 00:49:46,840
Jesus from the dead dwells in
US, then he that raised up

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00:49:46,840 –> 00:49:51,040
Christ from the dead will also
quicken or bring to life our

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00:49:51,040 –> 00:49:55,640
mortal bodies because of his
spirit as the way it actually

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00:49:55,640 –> 00:49:57,960
means because of his spirit that
dwells in you.

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So there’s the conviction of our
hope, brothers and sisters.

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But in the same way that our
Lord was raised from the dead by

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00:50:05,320 –> 00:50:09,960
the power of God, that power
will achieve God’s ultimate

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00:50:09,960 –> 00:50:13,040
objective with you and me.
Thank you.

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None.