Class 2 from this series was used for GCT Episode 251<\/p>\n
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\nSunday morning, isn’t it?
\nGood morning, my dear brother <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters.
\nThis is the 4th class this <\/p>\n
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\nweekend.
\nIn some ways I think <\/p>\n
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\nunfortunately it’s the most
\ndifficult say that because you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, it really took me, it
\nreally took me a long time to <\/p>\n
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\nget my head around the subject
\nwe’re going to. <\/p>\n
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\nAddressed this morning.
\nAnd sometimes you think to <\/p>\n
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\nyourself as as clear as God’s
\nwhere it is that sometimes that <\/p>\n
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\nhe hasn’t made my mind very
\nclear. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so I struggle to impart to
\nyou some of the things which I <\/p>\n
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\nthink are in the word of God
\nhere. <\/p>\n
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\nBut fortunately, it’s not about
\nme, it’s not about you. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re just going to read God’s
\nwords together and try to gain <\/p>\n
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\nsome spiritual lesson from them.
\nAnd I hope. <\/p>\n
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\nBut leaves you with something
\nmeaningful and helpful this <\/p>\n
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\nmorning is you prepare to
\npartake of the bread and the <\/p>\n
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\nwine.
\nAnd as you recall from last <\/p>\n
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\nnight that we left on a little
\nbit of a cliffhanger. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I guess we did that on
\npurpose, not because we did, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause Paul did.
\nAnd the end of verse four of <\/p>\n
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\nRomans chapter 8.
\nPaul. <\/p>\n
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\nLeaves us with these words.
\nHe talks about these wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nblessings that we have in Christ
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAren’t they wonderful and.
\nAnd and the blessings include <\/p>\n
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\nthis idea that there’s no
\ncondemnation for those who are <\/p>\n
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\nin Christ Jesus.
\nAnd we discussed just what a <\/p>\n
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\nbeautiful idea that is, and how
\nwhen all we see is the mercies <\/p>\n
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\nof Christ that separate us even
\nfrom death itself, that that <\/p>\n
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\nthose words are so precious to
\nus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd and yet these wonderful
\nblessings seem to contend to <\/p>\n
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\nhave some.
\nHanging on on what it means to <\/p>\n
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\nbe in Christ Jesus.
\nAnd and Paul leaves with this <\/p>\n
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\nword in verse four.
\nAnd the word is that this <\/p>\n
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\nblessing, as wonderful as it is,
\nis for those who walk not after <\/p>\n
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\nthe flesh, but after the Spirit.
\nAnd as you recall, I had you cut<\/p>\n
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\nout your pencils, and I had you
\nunderline the word who, because <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s kind of a rather
\nimportant word, wouldn’t you <\/p>\n
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\nsay?
\nGiven that we all want to <\/p>\n
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\nparticipate in these blessings.
\nAnd so and so Paul, I think, I <\/p>\n
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\nthink Paul recognizes for
\nhimself that there’s a tension <\/p>\n
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\nin that word.
\nThere’s a tension in that <\/p>\n
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\nstatement.
\nWho walk after the spirit? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, who are these that walk
\nafter the spirit? <\/p>\n
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\nHow do I do that?
\nWhat does that mean? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Paul’s going to dedicate
\nhimself in the next 5 to 6 <\/p>\n
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\nverses.
\nAnd really trying to explain for<\/p>\n
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\nus what does it mean who are
\nthese people who walk after the <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit?
\nAnd he feels the tension in that<\/p>\n
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\nstatement.
\nSo to resolve the tension for <\/p>\n
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\nfor himself and for us, he
\nexplains what he means. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd starting in Romans 8 and
\nverse five and six and I’m going<\/p>\n
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\nto read now the out of the Rs.
\nV for those who live. <\/p>\n
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\nAccording to the flesh, they set
\ntheir minds on the things of the<\/p>\n
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\nflesh.
\nBut those who live? <\/p>\n
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\nAccording to the Spirit.
\nTo set their minds on the things<\/p>\n
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\nof the Spirit.
\nTo set the mind on the flesh is <\/p>\n
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\ndeath, but to set the mind on
\nthe Spirit is life and it’s <\/p>\n
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\npeace.
\nNow the King James just has the <\/p>\n
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\nword mind, but the RSV really
\nuses that word, set thy mind, <\/p>\n
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\nand that’s important.
\nWe’ll get back to that in a <\/p>\n
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\nsecond, but it seems to me that
\nif we’re going to understand <\/p>\n
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\nanything about Romans chapter 8
\nand verses 5 through 11, we <\/p>\n
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\nreally have to get our minds.
\nAround these words spirit and <\/p>\n
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\nflesh and and and the word mind
\nitself. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what do we what do we make
\nof these words? <\/p>\n
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\nNot that we want to define them
\nbecause Scripture to find some <\/p>\n
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\nforce, but but you know those
\nwords can mean different things <\/p>\n
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\nto different people in this
\naudience and so we have to get <\/p>\n
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\nto a common maybe a common
\nunderstanding what Paul’s really<\/p>\n
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\ntalking about when he uses these
\nwords. <\/p>\n
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\nSo so to begin with what does
\nthe word mind mean? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, following the The Revised
\nStandard Version, the mind is <\/p>\n
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\nsomething that can be set.
\nThat’s quite important because <\/p>\n
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\nit relates to your thoughts.
\nBasically things that have this <\/p>\n
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\nobvious element of choice to
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, now, that may be in
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\nfeelings.
\nActually, you can’t set your <\/p>\n
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\nfeelings very often, you just
\nhave them. <\/p>\n
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\nYou don’t choose your feelings.
\nThose who might be afraid of <\/p>\n
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\nsomething, like heights, they
\ndon’t choose to be afraid of <\/p>\n
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\nheights.
\nThey don’t want to be afraid of <\/p>\n
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\nheights.
\nThey just are. <\/p>\n
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\nSo feelings can often not be
\nset. <\/p>\n
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\nBut your mind, whatever the mind
\nis in these verses, there’s this<\/p>\n
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\nobvious element of choice of
\nthese words, and that matters. <\/p>\n
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\nSo our mind is something here
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\nYou can control what you think
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\nbut then what is flesh?
\nThe first thing we observe about<\/p>\n
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\nflesh, it really isn’t something
\nmaterial, is it? <\/p>\n
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\nFlesh doesn’t refer to the skin
\nand the muscle and the bones in <\/p>\n
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\nour hands and our arms, and but
\nit refers to the way the flesh <\/p>\n
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\nexpresses itself, its desires
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\nThe attitude of the flesh.
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\nyesterday.
\nBut what is the spirit? <\/p>\n
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\nSeems quite important, doesn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause this word spirit comes
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\nThe word spirit comes up 22
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\nBrother Stevens, would you think
\nit’s quite important that we <\/p>\n
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\nfigure out what that word means?
\nI reckon, yeah. <\/p>\n
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\nHe agrees.
\nSo even our presiding brother <\/p>\n
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\nthinks that’s the case.
\nSo. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the spirit again is it’s one
\nof those Bible words, is it not?<\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s it’s a word that’s
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\nit’s also commonly used today,
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\ncontexts now.
\nSo what does the what does the <\/p>\n
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\nspirit mean?
\nNow, unfortunately, we can’t <\/p>\n
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\nlook out the window because all
\nwe see is this Gray, foggy <\/p>\n
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\nstuff.
\nAnd that’s killing me because <\/p>\n
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\nit’s hurting my point.
\nBut if we were to look out the <\/p>\n
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\nwindow, we were to see the trees
\nand we’d see the trees moving. <\/p>\n
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\nBut what’s causing those trees
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\nWell, the wind would be causing
\nthe trees to move, of course, <\/p>\n
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\nbut can you see the wind?
\nSo what the spirit is? <\/p>\n
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\nIs a spirit stood for things in
\nthe Bible that have power where <\/p>\n
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\nthe evidence or the effect of
\nthe power can be seen, but which<\/p>\n
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\nthe agent of the power cannot be
\nseen. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that I don’t know if that
\nclarified anything. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let me say it again.
\nSpirit stands for things that <\/p>\n
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\nhave power.
\nWhere we can see the effect, we <\/p>\n
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\njust can’t see the agent.
\nAnd if you see the wind blowing <\/p>\n
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\nas a tree, you see the effect of
\nthe wind on the tree, because <\/p>\n
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\nthe tree moves and see you see
\nthe tree moving, but you don’t <\/p>\n
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\nsee what’s making the tree move.
\nAnd so the ancients called Wind <\/p>\n
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\nspirit.
\nWhat else has power that can’t <\/p>\n
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\nbe seen well in a live person,
\nfor example, now if I had a dead<\/p>\n
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\nperson and a live person, right?
\nThat’d be pretty spooky, <\/p>\n
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\nwouldn’t it?
\nBut if I had a dead person and <\/p>\n
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\nan alive person right here in
\nthe floor in front of me? <\/p>\n
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\nThey look awfully similar,
\nwouldn’t they? <\/p>\n
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\nI mean the dead person, the live
\nperson, they they both have <\/p>\n
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\nhands and feet and and faces and
\nhair, and they’d have all many <\/p>\n
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\nof the same parts, In fact, all
\nthe same parts. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, they’d be made of the
\nsame stuff. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’d be made of the hydrogen
\nand the carbon and the and the <\/p>\n
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\noxygen, and it had all the same
\nparts and and they’d be made of <\/p>\n
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\nthe same things.
\nBut there’d be one difference <\/p>\n
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\nbetween the two if I told the
\nlive person to. <\/p>\n
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\nThis delay, there very still
\nwill be. <\/p>\n
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\nThe difference is that you’d see
\nin that live person the chests <\/p>\n
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\ngo up and down, up and down.
\nIt’d be the only noticeable <\/p>\n
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\ndifference between the two,
\nperhaps, and that live person <\/p>\n
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\nwould be breathing, and that
\nthing can be thought of as <\/p>\n
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\nbreath and alive people breathe.
\nThey can’t see the air they <\/p>\n
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\nbreathe, but without the air
\nit’s obvious that they die. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so the ancients called
\nbreath that invisible thing that<\/p>\n
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\nseems to make alive people
\nalive. <\/p>\n
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\nWithout it, people die.
\nThey call that spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s also clear that a lot
\npeople can think, no, no one can<\/p>\n
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\nsee your thoughts.
\nI mean I can look in in the <\/p>\n
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\naudience and I see some blank
\nstares. <\/p>\n
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\nI see some people that look
\nconfused and. <\/p>\n
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\nI can see some people that look
\nbored and some people that look <\/p>\n
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\namused.
\nSo I can maybe maybe try to read<\/p>\n
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\nyour thoughts from your from
\nyour, from your face. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I could be getting this
\ntotally wrong. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I can’t see your thoughts per
\nse. <\/p>\n
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\nBut thoughts are quite powerful,
\naren’t they? <\/p>\n
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\nI mean, how motivating are your
\nthoughts? <\/p>\n
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\nThey can think your thoughts can
\ntake you in any any one of many <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent directions is based on
\nthoughts, but they can’t be <\/p>\n
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\nseen.
\nBut they’re very powerful. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so the ancients called.
\nThoughts, Spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s other examples for
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nFor example, angels.
\nThe work of the angels is <\/p>\n
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\nsomewhat obvious.
\nWe see the angels working in our<\/p>\n
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\nlives and and doing things that
\nmay be on retrospect are quite <\/p>\n
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\nclear.
\nBut the time they aren’t. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Bible we see the work of
\nthe angels. <\/p>\n
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\nThey are always seen when
\nthey’re working sometimes, but <\/p>\n
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\nSo we see the effect of the
\nangels work, we don’t see the <\/p>\n
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\nspirits.
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\nWhat about words? <\/p>\n
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\nYou can’t see any of those
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\nYou can’t see, and I can’t see.
\nBut words, words are really <\/p>\n
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\npowerful, aren’t they?
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\ndiscussions.
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\nwas merely words.
\nIt was all words. <\/p>\n
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\nBut but how powerful are words?
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\nBut wouldn’t you admit that
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\nthink about it?
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\nwords.
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\nIf you hear the gospel message,
\nthose invisible words which <\/p>\n
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\npassed from the page, or for
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\nand you heard them, and you
\nbelieved them, and you knew <\/p>\n
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\nit.
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\nthe place where it’s recorded,
\nyour name is now in the book of <\/p>\n
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\nlife because of words, because
\nyou believe those words, because<\/p>\n
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\nyou knew those words.
\nSo words in and of themselves <\/p>\n
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\nare incredibly powerful things,
\nand I can’t see within you <\/p>\n
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\nnecessarily whether you believe.
\nCan’t see whether you know, but <\/p>\n
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\nyou know in, in and of yourself.
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\nwithin you because it changes
\nyou, because you’re different. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy are you different?
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\nSupported by continue learning
\nand renewing grows into love and<\/p>\n
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\nworks and God provides that
\nbeliever life. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I hope that making this
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\ndemystifies this concept of <\/p>\n
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\nspirit for us, because spirit
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\nI mean, people talk about the <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit.
\nWhat does it mean to have the <\/p>\n
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\nAnd sometimes we wonder, can I <\/p>\n
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\nparticipate in that?
\nDo I have the? <\/p>\n
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\nWorking in me, is it? <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know.
\nYou ask yourself that question. <\/p>\n
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\nThe word seems so mysterious, <\/p>\n
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\nand I want to demystify this
\nword. <\/p>\n
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\nI never want spirit to be
\nmysterious. <\/p>\n
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\nFor you again.
\nBecause this doesn’t have to be <\/p>\n
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\nGod doesn’t want it to be
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\nHe wants you to understand it.
\nHe wants you to know that you <\/p>\n
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\nhave it.
\nI want you to ask yourself the <\/p>\n
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\nquestion, Am I any different as
\na person because of what Jesus <\/p>\n
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\ntaught me?
\nAnd if so, would you deny that <\/p>\n
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\nyou have spirit?
\nWould you deny that the words of<\/p>\n
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\nChrist are spirit?
\nWould you deny that you’ve come <\/p>\n
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\nto know Jesus Christ, and that
\nSpirit has power in you to do <\/p>\n
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\nthings for which you would never
\ndo of yourself? <\/p>\n
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\nNor do you have any inclination
\nexcept that which has been <\/p>\n
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\ntaught to you.
\nSo you’re different, and so you <\/p>\n
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\nhave Spirit, and never deny it
\nand never forget it. <\/p>\n
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\nIn first John chapter 4 and
\nverse six we read we are of God.<\/p>\n
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\nHe that knoweth God heareth us.
\nHe that knoweth God heareth us. <\/p>\n
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\nHe that is not of God heareth
\nnot us. <\/p>\n
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\nHereby know we.
\nThe Spirit of truth. <\/p>\n
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\nSo how do we know the spirit of
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\nBecause of what you hear.
\nBecause of what you know. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause of what you confess.
\nSo spirit indicates and this is <\/p>\n
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\nthe word.
\nThis is how John Carter in his <\/p>\n
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\nbook on the Romans, which is a
\nfantastic book, this is how he <\/p>\n
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\nsummarizes this word Spirit.
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\nmoral development through
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\nWhich has its ultimate source in<\/p>\n
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\nGod, who is Spirit and who’s
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\nI think it’s a really good <\/p>\n
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\ndefinition.
\nNow you think about Spirit and <\/p>\n
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\nlearning, and we think about the
\ngospel, don’t we? <\/p>\n
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\nThe gospel, which is the Spirit
\nword of God, Which is. <\/p>\n
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\nThe way that God is revealed to
\nus is truth in the gospel. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd see how Paul speaks about
\nthe gospel. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the first chapter of Romans
\nin verse 16, Paul says it’s <\/p>\n
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\nThere Paul says I’m not ashamed <\/p>\n
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\nof this gospel because, and this
\nis the word, what I want you to <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not ashamed of the gospel.
\nIt’s the power of God to <\/p>\n
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\nsalvation, everyone that has
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy don’t you say the Holy
\nSpirit, The spirit was working <\/p>\n
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\nout.
\nThe salvation was working out. <\/p>\n
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\nSalvation in us was, was, was
\nGod through his power, His <\/p>\n
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\nspirit is working out within us
\nand is calling people still to <\/p>\n
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\nbe saved, to know him, to
\nconfess him that God is doing <\/p>\n
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\nthis through his spirit.
\nBut Paul here says I’m not <\/p>\n
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\nashamed of the gospel, it’s the
\npower of God. <\/p>\n
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\nSo closely associated are these
\nthings and tell me, does God <\/p>\n
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\nhave any power?
\nDoes God’s Spirit have any power<\/p>\n
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\nto save except through the
\ngospel? <\/p>\n
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\nCan God save someone who has
\nnever has any knowledge, or <\/p>\n
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\nnever comes to any knowledge of
\nthe gospel? <\/p>\n
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\nCan God choose to save someone
\nout there and choose to save <\/p>\n
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\nthem but never they come to a
\nknowledge of the gospel. <\/p>\n
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\nHe would not and he does not.
\nSo how can God save through his <\/p>\n
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\nI suppose he could, but he <\/p>\n
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\nSo the gospel itself, Paul says,<\/p>\n
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\nIt what gives God’s spirit <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God’s spirit is using the <\/p>\n
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\ngospel as its means of saving.
\nAnd we can understand that the <\/p>\n
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\nWe can understand the Gospels <\/p>\n
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\nlearned.
\nWe can understand the Gospels <\/p>\n
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\nbelieved through the work of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it becomes the power of God,
\nand it becomes that which in <\/p>\n
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\nsomeone has the ability to save.
\nYou know, in Elpas Israel, <\/p>\n
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\nDoctor Thomas puts it like this.
\nHe says where the truth takes <\/p>\n
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\npossession of the sentiments,
\nwhere the truth takes possession<\/p>\n
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\nSetting them like that word, <\/p>\n
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\nsetting, setting them to work,
\nand so forming the thoughts, it <\/p>\n
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\nbecomes a law of God to them,
\nwhich the Apostle Paul styles <\/p>\n
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\nthe law of his mind.
\nAnd because it is written there <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the hearing of the law
\nand the testimony which came to <\/p>\n
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\nThrough the spirit he terms it <\/p>\n
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\non the fleshly tables of the <\/p>\n
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\nheart, and the law of the spirit
\nof life, because while obeyed <\/p>\n
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\nSo Paul says set your mind on <\/p>\n
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\nthings of the spirit and the
\nspirit he’s think he’s speaking <\/p>\n
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\nIs that spiritual self which is <\/p>\n
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\ngospel through which God <\/p>\n
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\nexercises his power to save, and
\nthrough which God and Christ <\/p>\n
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\ndwell in us and and and we can
\nunderstand this because we go to<\/p>\n
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\nanother verse in the Old
\nTestament. <\/p>\n
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\nIt seems totally clear to us,
\ndoes it not? <\/p>\n
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\nIn in Isaiah chapter 57 and
\nverse 15 we read that God dwells<\/p>\n
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\nin a high in a holy place, but
\nalso with him. <\/p>\n
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\nWho is of a humble spirit, of a
\ncontrite heart? <\/p>\n
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\nreally not confusing to us, is <\/p>\n
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\nWe can understand that like <\/p>\n
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\nIf you, if you see one of a <\/p>\n
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\nbecause of the word of God <\/p>\n
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\nworking in them, you said you
\nknow what God God’s dwelling in <\/p>\n
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\nthat person, that they’re not of
\na humble and a contrite heart. <\/p>\n
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\nNearly, because they were born
\nthat way. <\/p>\n
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\nBut because they have yielded
\nthemselves up to God and that <\/p>\n
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\nGod chooses to dwell with that
\nperson. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s not hard to
\nunderstand, is it? <\/p>\n
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\nWe can understand that.
\nAnd and actually this is the <\/p>\n
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\nAnd every time it’s found in <\/p>\n
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\nverses 5 through 11, it’s the
\nsame meaning every time. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:47,230 –> 00:21:49,190
\nAnd so I think you actually know
\nwhat Spirit means. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:49,970 –> 00:21:52,130
\nI actually think you can look
\ninside yourself right now, and I<\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:52,130 –> 00:21:56,810
\nthink you can find within
\nyourself that which is fed by <\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:56,810 –> 00:22:00,890
\nthe inspired truth of God.
\nI think you can find inside of <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:00,890 –> 00:22:05,570
\nyourself where your faith is.
\nI think you can find within <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:05,570 –> 00:22:07,210
\nyourself where the love of God
\nis. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:08,970 –> 00:22:11,850
\nI think you can find within
\nyourself the part that’s humble,<\/p>\n
348
\n00:22:12,730 –> 00:22:18,530
\nthe part that’s kind, where
\nyou’ve learned Christ, the part <\/p>\n
349
\n00:22:18,530 –> 00:22:21,890
\nthat doesn’t seek self.
\nSeeks the benefit of your <\/p>\n
350
\n00:22:21,890 –> 00:22:25,650
\nbrother and sisters.
\nThe part that rejoices in what <\/p>\n
351
\n00:22:25,650 –> 00:22:28,410
\nis good.
\nThe part that rejoices in the <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:28,410 –> 00:22:32,450
\nwill of the Lord.
\nThe inner man fed by the Word <\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:33,690 –> 00:22:37,610
\nthat loves the Word.
\nAnd this is where God and Christ<\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:37,610 –> 00:22:44,130
\ndwell within you.
\nThis is the right Spirit that <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:44,130 –> 00:22:46,770
\nDavid asks God to restore within
\nhim. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:48,370 –> 00:22:52,630
\nThis is the humble.
\nAnd contrite mind where God <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:52,630 –> 00:22:58,150
\ndwells, I think you know it if
\nyou can find it within yourself.<\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:59,230 –> 00:23:02,190
\nI think you know when it’s fed.
\nI think you know when it’s <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:02,190 –> 00:23:05,990
\nweakened.
\nI think you know that defeat it <\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:05,990 –> 00:23:10,950
\nis to is to have life and to
\nweaken it is to find death. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:12,670 –> 00:23:17,670
\nAnd it’s not hard to understand.
\nAnd strange as it sounds, even <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:17,670 –> 00:23:22,310
\nthose with this spirit, as
\namazing as the spirit is, they <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:22,310 –> 00:23:26,670
\nstill struggle with the flesh.
\nSee, the flesh doesn’t go away. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:27,710 –> 00:23:30,830
\nEven if you have the spirit,
\nthis flesh doesn’t go away and <\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:30,830 –> 00:23:33,710
\nand beyond it not going away.
\nAs if that isn’t bad enough. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:34,270 –> 00:23:39,710
\nIt’s just not satisfied.
\nAnd I remember finding great <\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:39,710 –> 00:23:46,690
\ncomfort, tremendous comfort.
\nIn these words which don’t <\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:46,690 –> 00:23:50,570
\nreally appear to be that
\ncomfortable in Romans 8 and <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:50,570 –> 00:23:54,450
\nverse 7.
\nAnd these words are there where <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:54,450 –> 00:24:02,770
\nwe read because the carnal mind
\nis enmity, enmity against God, <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:03,850 –> 00:24:06,370
\nfor it is not subject to the law
\nof God. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:07,810 –> 00:24:17,370
\nNeither indeed can be.
\nYou know, I remember back in the<\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:17,370 –> 00:24:19,490
\nfirst study, right?
\nAnd I talked about the fact that<\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:19,490 –> 00:24:21,250
\nI was in the missionary.
\nField. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:21,890 –> 00:24:27,090
\nAnd I was in the the Persian
\nGulf, and that sounds like it <\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:27,170 –> 00:24:29,130
\nshould be scary, but it wasn’t
\nthat scary. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:24:29,730 –> 00:24:32,330
\nBut.
\nThings were things were quite <\/p>\n
378
\n00:24:32,330 –> 00:24:36,530
\nhard for my wife and I I
\nremember struggling with my <\/p>\n
379
\n00:24:36,530 –> 00:24:40,850
\nfeelings and money was really
\ntight and I was defrauded and I <\/p>\n
380
\n00:24:40,850 –> 00:24:45,020
\nhad some money stolen which I.
\nThankfully got back, but only by<\/p>\n
381
\n00:24:45,020 –> 00:24:52,460
\nworking with a local lawyer and
\nI remember my wife struggling to<\/p>\n
382
\n00:24:52,460 –> 00:24:55,140
\nget medical care and she had
\ndiabetes and she was pregnant. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:24:55,140 –> 00:24:59,780
\nI remember worrying about the
\nhealth of my child and we didn’t<\/p>\n
384
\n00:24:59,780 –> 00:25:01,180
\nhave an easy way to cook hot
\nfood. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:01,180 –> 00:25:04,180
\nAnd I just felt this pressure
\ninside of me and I I just felt <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:04,180 –> 00:25:06,900
\nthis pressure and actually I
\nkind of felt like I wanted to <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:06,900 –> 00:25:11,420
\ngive up and it was a very, very
\nselfish feeling. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:14,110 –> 00:25:16,270
\nI remember feeling bad that had
\nthe feeling. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:16,270 –> 00:25:17,630
\nAnd how.
\nHow awful is that? <\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:17,910 –> 00:25:21,590
\nNot only do you have this bad
\nfeeling, you feel bad that you <\/p>\n
391
\n00:25:21,590 –> 00:25:28,470
\nhave the bad feeling, right?
\nI thought to myself, I’m doing <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:28,470 –> 00:25:30,270
\nthe Lord’s work.
\nShouldn’t this be joy? <\/p>\n
393
\n00:25:30,950 –> 00:25:33,030
\nShould not be rejoicing and
\ndoing the Lord’s work? <\/p>\n
394
\n00:25:33,630 –> 00:25:36,630
\nAnd sometimes you may have this,
\nsometimes you may not feel good <\/p>\n
395
\n00:25:36,750 –> 00:25:39,870
\ncoming to the meeting on Sunday.
\nSometimes you may not feel good <\/p>\n
396
\n00:25:39,870 –> 00:25:41,470
\npulling at your Bible to do
\nreadings. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:25:42,150 –> 00:25:45,390
\nSometimes you may not feel good
\ncalling in at the hospital on <\/p>\n
398
\n00:25:45,390 –> 00:25:47,910
\nthis new couple with it, with
\nthe twin children, you think, <\/p>\n
399
\n00:25:47,910 –> 00:25:49,190
\noh, I just have so many things
\nto do. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:25:49,190 –> 00:25:52,910
\nI don’t have time to do this.
\nIt doesn’t feel like a joy. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:25:52,910 –> 00:25:58,270
\nYou’re not rejoicing and you
\nfeel bad that you feel bad and <\/p>\n
402
\n00:25:58,270 –> 00:26:00,110
\nyou think to yourself, like,
\nshouldn’t I feel joy? <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:00,470 –> 00:26:05,230
\nShould I feel joy in this?
\nAnd I was feeling guilty about <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:05,230 –> 00:26:08,350
\nthese things.
\nI didn’t understand why I had to<\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:08,350 –> 00:26:12,230
\nstruggle against myself.
\nAnd I came across these verses <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:12,230 –> 00:26:17,150
\nand Romans.
\nAnd in my struggle, as I came <\/p>\n
407
\n00:26:17,150 –> 00:26:21,030
\nacross these verses and Romans,
\nI found tremendous relief. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:22,950 –> 00:26:28,310
\nDo you know why?
\nBecause there’s a part of me, <\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:30,030 –> 00:26:35,790
\nand there’s a part of you that
\nwill never be converted. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:26:38,690 –> 00:26:42,570
\nYou’ll never make it want to do
\nthe will of God. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:26:43,610 –> 00:26:50,090
\nIt will always be selfish.
\nIt will always be rebellious. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:26:50,930 –> 00:26:54,770
\nAnd Paul calls that thing within
\nyou the carnal mind. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:26:56,250 –> 00:27:00,810
\nHe says that it’s enmity with
\nGod and in me. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:00,810 –> 00:27:06,810
\nI could feel the carnal mind.
\nAnd at that time I realized. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:08,160 –> 00:27:13,200
\nI simply need to accept there
\nwas a part of me that would <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:13,240 –> 00:27:17,800
\nalways want to rebel.
\nAnd by focusing on it and by <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:17,800 –> 00:27:20,600
\nfeeling guilty about it, I was
\njust giving it life. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:21,520 –> 00:27:24,720
\nI was making it stronger.
\nSee, I was letting it convince <\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:24,720 –> 00:27:27,200
\nme that I was a fraud, that I
\nwas worthless. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:29,720 –> 00:27:33,880
\nLook how Paul puts it.
\nIn Romans 7, verse 25, thanks be<\/p>\n
421
\n00:27:33,880 –> 00:27:35,640
\nto God through Jesus Christ our
\nLord. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:27:35,640 –> 00:27:39,160
\nSo then I have myself serve the
\nlaw of God with my mind. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:27:40,960 –> 00:27:42,400
\nBut look at this a little bit
\nafter that. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:27:43,080 –> 00:27:46,280
\nBut with my flesh I serve the
\nlaw of sin. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:27:47,840 –> 00:27:52,160
\nAnd Paul realized the the
\ninevitability of this, that the <\/p>\n
426
\n00:27:52,160 –> 00:27:56,480
\nflesh would not be converted.
\nIt would always rebel. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:27:56,760 –> 00:27:59,080
\nIt wouldn’t always want to do
\nits own thing. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:27:59,080 –> 00:28:03,410
\nIt would always be selfish.
\nIt’s not convertible. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:04,090 –> 00:28:11,370
\nThat’s why Jesus destroyed it.
\nThat’s why he destroyed it, <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:12,850 –> 00:28:16,690
\nbecause his enmity with God and
\nhe took that which of the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:16,690 –> 00:28:21,490
\nhimself was enmity with God and
\nit was nailed to the cross. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:24,620 –> 00:28:27,540
\nSo there is within you, and
\nthere is within me that which is<\/p>\n
433
\n00:28:27,540 –> 00:28:30,740
\nan enmity with God and will
\nnever be converted. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:28:31,620 –> 00:28:34,180
\nAnd Paul’s point is so beautiful
\nin its simplicity. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:28:34,940 –> 00:28:38,740
\nYou see, our struggle is not
\ntrying to convert the carnal <\/p>\n
436
\n00:28:38,740 –> 00:28:41,580
\nmind.
\nYou’re not going to convert it. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:28:41,980 –> 00:28:44,140
\nIt’s not convertible.
\nWe can’t. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:28:46,340 –> 00:28:50,940
\nSo what is our struggle?
\nOur struggle then, is choosing <\/p>\n
439
\n00:28:51,820 –> 00:28:57,510
\nto set our mind.
\nOn the Spirit, and that we can <\/p>\n
440
\n00:28:57,510 –> 00:28:59,750
\ndo.
\nAnd so Paul has done, is he’s <\/p>\n
441
\n00:28:59,750 –> 00:29:03,470
\nlifted the struggle from that
\nwhich is inevitable, which is <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:03,470 –> 00:29:05,750
\nthat you want to rebel.
\nThat’s inevitable. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:06,870 –> 00:29:13,190
\nEverybody here wants to rebel.
\nAnd so he’s lifted the struggle <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:13,270 –> 00:29:17,230
\nfrom that which is inevitable.
\nAnd he said no, no, no, it’s not<\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:17,230 –> 00:29:20,510
\nabout that which is inevitable.
\nWith my flesh. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:20,510 –> 00:29:24,940
\nI want to serve the law of sin.
\nHe said, You know what? <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:25,100 –> 00:29:29,300
\nIt’s not about that.
\nIt’s about that which you have <\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:29,340 –> 00:29:35,100
\nchoice over, and you choose to
\nset your mind on the things of <\/p>\n
449
\n00:29:35,100 –> 00:29:39,660
\nthe Spirit, or you choose to set
\nyour mind on the things of the <\/p>\n
450
\n00:29:39,660 –> 00:29:43,060
\nflesh.
\nAnd so that is not inevitable. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:29:43,940 –> 00:29:48,980
\nDesiring sin is inevitable.
\nThe carnal mind within you is <\/p>\n
452
\n00:29:48,980 –> 00:29:51,580
\ninevitable.
\nIt will not be converted. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:29:53,110 –> 00:29:56,830
\nBut what’s not inevitable is
\nwhat you choose to set your mind<\/p>\n
454
\n00:29:56,830 –> 00:30:01,670
\non.
\nSo. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:02,350 –> 00:30:03,870
\nIt’s really not about how you
\nfeel. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:05,910 –> 00:30:07,830
\nIt’s not not about doing what
\nyou want. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:09,470 –> 00:30:12,510
\nIt’s not a matter of following
\nthe spirit because it feels <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:12,510 –> 00:30:17,150
\ngood, or doing what feels good,
\nor hoping that mission work <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:17,150 –> 00:30:21,030
\nfeels good, or hoping that
\nspeaking to contacts feels good.<\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:22,550 –> 00:30:26,630
\nIt’s really not about what feels
\ngood, it’s about what doings, <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:26,630 –> 00:30:28,190
\nwhat about doing what’s.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:30:28,870 –> 00:30:30,430
\nAbout.
\nChoosing to set your mind on <\/p>\n
463
\n00:30:30,430 –> 00:30:34,670
\nthings of the spirit which is
\nnot inevitable, which is your <\/p>\n
464
\n00:30:34,710 –> 00:30:40,070
\narea.
\nOf choice, but how? <\/p>\n
465
\n00:30:40,990 –> 00:30:44,070
\nHow do we do it?
\nHow do we set our mind on things<\/p>\n
466
\n00:30:44,070 –> 00:30:50,120
\nof the Spirit?
\nSo how can you possibly hope to <\/p>\n
467
\n00:30:50,120 –> 00:30:52,640
\nput your mind on things of the
\nSpirit if you don’t know the <\/p>\n
468
\n00:30:52,640 –> 00:30:58,720
\nthings of the Spirit?
\nAs a teenager, teenager I <\/p>\n
469
\n00:30:58,720 –> 00:31:01,520
\nwondered if we’d always had to
\ndo Bible classes all the time <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:01,520 –> 00:31:05,360
\nduring Cy, C’s and and lectures
\nand Sunday School and always <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:05,360 –> 00:31:07,360
\nreopen the Bible, the Bible, the
\nBible, the Bible. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:07,480 –> 00:31:13,120
\nYou know, I wonder if it was
\njust a matter of our elders who <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:13,120 –> 00:31:15,760
\nwanting to torture teenagers or
\nsomething, you know, and <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:17,040 –> 00:31:18,520
\nactually what our elders were
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:23,280
\nIs there a trying to get as much
\nof this in my mind as they <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:23,320 –> 00:31:28,400
\npossibly could?
\nThere’s something in here the <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:28,400 –> 00:31:32,800
\nfun and games can never give you
\nsomething here. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:37,160
\nSo much more precious, so much
\nmore meaningful. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:31:38,400 –> 00:31:41,000
\nAnd it’s not that there’s words.
\nThose words mean nothing if not <\/p>\n
480
\n00:31:41,000 –> 00:31:44,760
\nbelieved, but they’re they’re
\nhoping that if you believe them,<\/p>\n
481
\n00:31:45,720 –> 00:31:50,420
\nthat they can give you a gift.
\nWhich is so much more meaningful<\/p>\n
482
\n00:31:50,420 –> 00:31:52,300
\nthan any fun and game not ever
\ncould be. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:31:56,700 –> 00:32:01,820
\nIt’s a hope the scripture has
\nlearned, believed and acted upon<\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:02,980 –> 00:32:06,940
\nthat it will feed that part in
\nyou and which God wants to <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:06,940 –> 00:32:10,740
\ndwell.
\nNow listen to Paul and turn over<\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:10,740 –> 00:32:15,020
\nto the book of Ephesians.
\nWe’re going to look at Ephesians<\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:15,020 –> 00:32:20,830
\nin chapter 4.
\nWe’re going to look at verses 17<\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:20,830 –> 00:32:26,350
\nthrough 24, and as we’re reading
\nit, what I’d like you to do is <\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:26,350 –> 00:32:29,510
\ntry to identify all the places
\nin this section of scripture <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:29,830 –> 00:32:34,590
\nwhere Paul is talking about
\nunderstanding or learning or <\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:34,590 –> 00:32:38,790
\nhearing or knowledge or
\nteaching, understanding, <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:38,790 –> 00:32:43,510
\nlearning, knowledge, teaching,
\nhearing, these types of words, I<\/p>\n
493
\n00:32:43,510 –> 00:32:47,810
\nwant you to ask yourself.
\nDo all of these words have <\/p>\n
494
\n00:32:47,810 –> 00:32:50,810
\nanything to do with spirit?
\nAnything at all to do with <\/p>\n
495
\n00:32:50,810 –> 00:32:57,250
\nspirit, Anything at all to do
\nwith that inner man, the inner <\/p>\n
496
\n00:32:57,250 –> 00:33:00,650
\nman where God dwells?
\nAll right, so let’s start at <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:00,650 –> 00:33:03,290
\nfirst.
\nYou know, I’ll read out of the <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:03,290 –> 00:33:05,050
\nKing James Version.
\nI have the new King James <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:05,050 –> 00:33:08,050
\nVersion in front of me, but I
\nthink most of us probably has <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:08,170 –> 00:33:11,130
\nhad King James versions.
\nSo we’ll read out of the King <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:11,130 –> 00:33:12,930
\nJames.
\nWe’ll start at verse 17. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:14,500 –> 00:33:18,020
\nThis I say therefore, and
\ntestify in the Lord, that ye <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:18,020 –> 00:33:25,140
\nhenceforth walk not as other
\nGentiles walk in the vanity of <\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:25,140 –> 00:33:32,940
\ntheir mind, having the
\nunderstanding darkened, being <\/p>\n
505
\n00:33:32,940 –> 00:33:39,020
\nalienated from the life of God
\nthrough the ignorance that is in<\/p>\n
506
\n00:33:39,020 –> 00:33:44,140
\nthem because of the blindness of
\ntheir heart. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:33:45,830 –> 00:33:50,990
\nWho, being past feeling, have
\ngiven themselves over to <\/p>\n
508
\n00:33:51,270 –> 00:33:54,870
\nlasciviousness, to work all
\nuncleanness with greediness. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:33:56,270 –> 00:34:11,449
\nThere’s 20 But ye have not so
\nlearned Christ, if so be ye, <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:11,449 –> 00:34:16,850
\nhave heard him, and have been
\ntaught by him. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:18,409 –> 00:34:24,770
\nAs the truth is in Jesus, that
\nye put off concerning the former<\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:24,889 –> 00:34:30,170
\nconversation, the old man which
\nis corrupt according to <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:30,170 –> 00:34:40,449
\ndeceitful lusts, and be renewed
\nin the spirit of your mind, Paul<\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:40,449 –> 00:34:42,639
\nsays here.
\nTo be renewed in the spirit of <\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:42,639 –> 00:34:45,679
\nyour mind now in Colossians, in
\nchapter 3 and verse 10, and what<\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:45,679 –> 00:34:50,360
\nis really a very parallel
\npassage, Paul puts it this way <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:51,159 –> 00:34:58,640
\nand put on the new man, which is
\nrenewed in knowledge after the <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:58,680 –> 00:35:08,480
\nimage of him that created him.
\nDo you understand? <\/p>\n
519
\n00:35:08,480 –> 00:35:11,360
\nWe’re not torturing you
\nteenagers. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:35:12,800 –> 00:35:16,560
\nIsn’t about torture.
\nThere’s some hope, perhaps <\/p>\n
521
\n00:35:17,360 –> 00:35:26,000
\noptimism may play a part that
\nthat the words they do something<\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:26,000 –> 00:35:32,240
\nto your mind and that they renew
\nyou, and that they create a <\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:32,240 –> 00:35:37,800
\nplace within you where Christ
\nand God will dwell and that <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:37,800 –> 00:35:42,900
\nyou’ll change.
\nThat’s what we’re trying to do. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:44,860 –> 00:35:49,100
\nThat’s why every time we get
\ntogether, we focus on the word. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:53,900 –> 00:35:56,300
\nBut how would you react to
\nPaul’s words? <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:56,460 –> 00:35:58,620
\nHow would you react to Paul’s
\nwords that there’s something <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:58,620 –> 00:36:01,580
\ninside of you, this carnal mind
\nthat you have and I have, that’s<\/p>\n
529
\n00:36:01,580 –> 00:36:03,020
\nsimply never going to be
\nconverted? <\/p>\n
530
\n00:36:04,580 –> 00:36:07,860
\nNow I responded by reading those
\nwords in a time when I was. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:36:08,210 –> 00:36:15,890
\nIn a very, very stressful
\nsituation, By saying that makes <\/p>\n
532
\n00:36:15,890 –> 00:36:21,050
\nme feel so much better.
\nBut I think there also could be <\/p>\n
533
\n00:36:21,050 –> 00:36:25,570
\nanother reaction on the opposite
\nside, which says there’s <\/p>\n
534
\n00:36:25,570 –> 00:36:27,410
\nsomething in me that can never
\nbe converted. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:36:27,650 –> 00:36:31,330
\nI almost feel hopeless.
\nI almost feel hopeless. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:36:31,330 –> 00:36:34,170
\nI mean, I’m going to struggle
\nwith this my whole life. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:36:35,010 –> 00:36:37,010
\nThere’s this famous story about
\nHarry Tennant. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:38,020 –> 00:36:42,580
\nAnd and Harry was giving a class
\nfor teenagers at a Bible school.<\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:43,380 –> 00:36:45,620
\nAnd he asked the teenagers
\nessentially about their desire <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:45,620 –> 00:36:49,540
\nto sin and how that desire to
\nsin would change as they aged. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:36:50,460 –> 00:36:54,380
\nAnd the teenagers basically told
\nthem, told him that when they <\/p>\n
542
\n00:36:54,380 –> 00:36:56,180
\ngot older, they wouldn’t want to
\nsin anymore. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:57,780 –> 00:37:00,100
\nAnd so he went out to the class,
\nThe next class he’s given to the<\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:00,100 –> 00:37:01,820
\nadults, he says adults.
\nGood news. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:02,300 –> 00:37:06,460
\nThe teenagers have all concluded
\nthat you don’t want to sin and <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:06,460 –> 00:37:07,700
\nall the adults.
\nLaughed. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:37:09,410 –> 00:37:12,370
\nBut that’s what the teenagers
\nthought, that when I got older, <\/p>\n
548
\n00:37:12,370 –> 00:37:14,610
\nI wouldn’t want to sin anymore.
\nAnd and actually what I’m <\/p>\n
549
\n00:37:14,610 –> 00:37:18,250
\ntelling you is that you’re going
\nto want to sin until you die. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:37:20,170 –> 00:37:23,050
\nThere’s a part of you which will
\nnever be converted. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:37:23,170 –> 00:37:26,650
\nAnd I guess on the extreme end
\nthat might be hopeless for some <\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:26,650 –> 00:37:30,290
\npeople.
\nAnd and I think Paul was <\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:30,290 –> 00:37:32,530
\nthinking maybe people are going
\nto respond the wrong way to <\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:32,530 –> 00:37:34,930
\nthese words.
\nAnd So what he says in the next <\/p>\n
555
\n00:37:34,930 –> 00:37:38,630
\nseveral verses is just meant to.
\nTo make his readers feel more <\/p>\n
556
\n00:37:38,630 –> 00:37:40,230
\ncomfortable about what he just
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:37:40,830 –> 00:37:45,710
\nAnd so he says in verses 9
\nthrough 11 he says, but you’re <\/p>\n
558
\n00:37:45,710 –> 00:37:47,670
\nnot in the flesh, but in the
\nSpirit. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:37:47,830 –> 00:37:49,710
\nHe says, listen, this is
\nhopeless. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:37:50,070 –> 00:37:52,030
\nYou have this Carl mind that’s
\nnever going to be converted. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:52,150 –> 00:37:54,830
\nBut guess what?
\nYou don’t just have the Carl <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:54,830 –> 00:37:57,310
\nmind.
\nYou also have the Spirit. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:37:57,510 –> 00:38:00,350
\nNow, for people without the
\nSpirit, this is truly hopeless. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:02,030 –> 00:38:03,990
\nFor people without the Spirit,
\nthis is truly hopeless. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:03,990 –> 00:38:05,630
\nBut he says, listen, it’s not
\nfor you. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:06,230 –> 00:38:09,150
\nBecause you don’t just have the
\ncarnal mind, you have something <\/p>\n
567
\n00:38:09,150 –> 00:38:11,710
\nmore than the carnal mind.
\nYou actually have the Spirit. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:38:12,110 –> 00:38:14,950
\nAnd so he says in verse 9.
\nBut you are not in the flesh but<\/p>\n
569
\n00:38:14,950 –> 00:38:18,550
\nin the spirit, if indeed the
\nSpirit of God dwells in you. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:38:19,070 –> 00:38:24,190
\nNow if anyone does not have the
\nSpirit of Christ, he is not his.<\/p>\n
571
\n00:38:25,110 –> 00:38:30,110
\nBut if Christ is in you, the
\nbody is dead because of sin, but<\/p>\n
572
\n00:38:30,110 –> 00:38:31,950
\nthe Spirit is the wife because
\nof righteousness. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:38:32,950 –> 00:38:34,150
\nIt’s quite a passage.
\nTo this. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:38:34,690 –> 00:38:38,450
\nBut in summary, simply saying
\nthat that you don’t need to be <\/p>\n
575
\n00:38:38,450 –> 00:38:42,050
\nconcerned if you have the
\nknowledge of Christ and believe <\/p>\n
576
\n00:38:42,050 –> 00:38:45,690
\nhis word, that gospel which has
\npower to save and will save you.<\/p>\n
577
\n00:38:47,490 –> 00:38:48,490
\nThat you don’t have to lose
\nhope. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:38:48,650 –> 00:38:51,970
\nBecause you’re not just in the
\ncarnal mind, you actually have <\/p>\n
579
\n00:38:51,970 –> 00:38:54,890
\nthe spirit too and that spirit
\nwithin you will work out your <\/p>\n
580
\n00:38:54,890 –> 00:38:57,610
\nsalvation.
\nSo don’t lose hope. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:38:58,570 –> 00:39:02,570
\nOf course we read these verses
\nand say is Christ in me? <\/p>\n
582
\n00:39:03,900 –> 00:39:08,020
\nWhat does that mean?
\nWe don’t, we don’t read them <\/p>\n
583
\n00:39:08,020 –> 00:39:10,420
\nwith the intention that Paul
\nwanted to be read because we’re <\/p>\n
584
\n00:39:10,420 –> 00:39:13,500
\ngetting worked worked up over
\nover whether Christ is in us. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:39:14,740 –> 00:39:17,340
\nAnd we ask ourselves the
\nquestion, is Christ in me? <\/p>\n
586
\n00:39:19,060 –> 00:39:22,300
\nAnd some of you might be sitting
\nthere right now going, I don’t <\/p>\n
587
\n00:39:22,300 –> 00:39:27,780
\nknow, is Christ in me?
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:39:28,020 –> 00:39:31,660
\nAnd you ask yourself the
\nquestion, well, what’s that <\/p>\n
589
\n00:39:31,660 –> 00:39:32,820
\nsupposed to feel?
\nLike. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:39:33,610 –> 00:39:36,810
\nWhat does it feel like for the
\nchairman if Christ is in you? <\/p>\n
591
\n00:39:37,730 –> 00:39:40,650
\nBit of a tough one.
\nThat’s the issue. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:39:40,690 –> 00:39:44,570
\nHe thinks it feels great.
\nBut what? <\/p>\n
593
\n00:39:44,570 –> 00:39:47,410
\nWhat brother chairman, if the
\nbrother sisters out there don’t <\/p>\n
594
\n00:39:47,410 –> 00:39:49,490
\nfeel great, does that mean they
\ndon’t have Christ in them? <\/p>\n
595
\n00:39:50,090 –> 00:39:52,850
\nAnd that’s the question.
\nSo that’s that’s the conflict, <\/p>\n
596
\n00:39:53,370 –> 00:39:58,210
\nYou know, what do we do then?
\nWhat do we do if we don’t feel <\/p>\n
597
\n00:39:58,210 –> 00:40:01,970
\ngood?
\nI think that’s where we get <\/p>\n
598
\n00:40:01,970 –> 00:40:05,430
\nourselves tripped up.
\nBecause we think that having <\/p>\n
599
\n00:40:05,430 –> 00:40:09,030
\nChrist in us is supposed to be a
\nfeeling. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:40:10,750 –> 00:40:14,350
\nWe think that’s supposed to feel
\ngood and warm and happy and <\/p>\n
601
\n00:40:14,350 –> 00:40:18,750
\nenthusiastic.
\nAnd here I was on mission work. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:40:19,630 –> 00:40:24,270
\nI didn’t feel warm or happy or
\nenthusiastic. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:40:25,670 –> 00:40:28,870
\nDoes that mean the work was bad,
\nthe work was flawed? <\/p>\n
604
\n00:40:28,870 –> 00:40:32,350
\nDoes that mean Christ had
\nabandoned me? <\/p>\n
605
\n00:40:33,720 –> 00:40:40,040
\nIt wasn’t in me anymore.
\nAnd I think that sometimes we <\/p>\n
606
\n00:40:40,040 –> 00:40:42,560
\ncan think having Christ in us
\nmeans we don’t have to have any <\/p>\n
607
\n00:40:42,560 –> 00:40:46,400
\nhard choices anymore because
\neverything is just so clear and <\/p>\n
608
\n00:40:46,400 –> 00:40:48,040
\nright and wrong and everything
\nis just so obvious. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:40:48,040 –> 00:40:51,400
\nAnd we don’t worry about it
\nmaking bad decisions or doing <\/p>\n
610
\n00:40:51,400 –> 00:40:53,600
\nbad things because we have
\nChrist in us and it just feels <\/p>\n
611
\n00:40:53,600 –> 00:40:59,720
\ngood all the time.
\nAnd yes. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:41:01,400 –> 00:41:03,640
\nHaving Christ in us can bring us
\ngreat contentment. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:41:04,280 –> 00:41:06,680
\nThere’s no doubt that is
\nscriptural. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:41:09,320 –> 00:41:12,720
\nBut you’ll never get there
\nfocusing on feeling good. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:41:13,520 –> 00:41:14,720
\nIsn’t that the great irony of
\nit? <\/p>\n
616
\n00:41:16,600 –> 00:41:19,480
\nYou’ll never get contentment.
\nTrying to get contentment, <\/p>\n
617
\n00:41:21,400 –> 00:41:24,240
\nyou’ll never feel good trying to
\nfeel good. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:41:28,660 –> 00:41:30,860
\nAnd you think after all Paul is
\nsaid about the motions of the <\/p>\n
619
\n00:41:30,860 –> 00:41:33,620
\nflesh and the mind of the
\nSpirit, that having Christ in us<\/p>\n
620
\n00:41:33,620 –> 00:41:38,180
\nis merely replacing a bad
\nfeeling with a good feeling has <\/p>\n
621
\n00:41:38,180 –> 00:41:45,900
\nnothing to do with feelings.
\nNow turn over to John 6, where <\/p>\n
622
\n00:41:45,900 –> 00:41:49,580
\nwe learn a bit more about what
\nChrist in us really means. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:42:06,180 –> 00:42:10,340
\nAnd after Christ fed the 5000,
\nit might be an understatement to<\/p>\n
624
\n00:42:10,340 –> 00:42:13,260
\nsay that people are
\nenthusiastic, enthusiastic. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:42:13,900 –> 00:42:16,140
\nThey wanted to take him by force
\nand make him king. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:42:16,260 –> 00:42:19,060
\nWhy not?
\nGod said in Genesis chapter 3, <\/p>\n
627
\n00:42:19,060 –> 00:42:21,140
\nverse 19 that by the sweat of
\nyour face you’re going to make <\/p>\n
628
\n00:42:21,140 –> 00:42:22,700
\nbread.
\nBut this man has pulled it out <\/p>\n
629
\n00:42:22,700 –> 00:42:25,500
\nof the basket.
\nHow great is that? <\/p>\n
630
\n00:42:26,100 –> 00:42:27,700
\nWho wouldn’t want to make that
\nperson king? <\/p>\n
631
\n00:42:29,300 –> 00:42:30,700
\nOf course they want to make him
\nking. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:42:30,860 –> 00:42:32,740
\nAnd they’re very enthusiastic, I
\nmean. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:42:33,270 –> 00:42:34,670
\nThey’re pumped up.
\nThey’re full of juice. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:42:34,670 –> 00:42:37,590
\nLike all that evangelical stuff
\nlike Hallelujah, Wonderful. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:42:37,590 –> 00:42:38,950
\nYou know, like that’s how they
\nfelt. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:42:39,390 –> 00:42:41,630
\nThey felt good.
\nThey felt really good. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:42:44,430 –> 00:42:49,430
\nAnd Christ retreats to a Quiet
\nPlace to pray because John had <\/p>\n
638
\n00:42:49,430 –> 00:42:53,310
\njust been executed.
\nAnd when John was executed, did <\/p>\n
639
\n00:42:53,310 –> 00:42:58,710
\nthat feel good?
\nWhen John was putting his head <\/p>\n
640
\n00:42:58,710 –> 00:43:02,750
\nagainst the platter, they feel
\ngood. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:43:07,500 –> 00:43:11,380
\nWas Christ not in him when he
\ndid that? <\/p>\n
642
\n00:43:15,700 –> 00:43:19,620
\nAnd Christ moves away to a quiet
\nplace to pray, to gain some <\/p>\n
643
\n00:43:19,620 –> 00:43:24,740
\nstrength, and they find him the
\nnext day on the other side of <\/p>\n
644
\n00:43:24,740 –> 00:43:26,940
\nthe sea, and they’re just as
\nexcited as they were the day <\/p>\n
645
\n00:43:26,940 –> 00:43:31,420
\nbefore.
\nAnd Christ says to them. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:43:32,540 –> 00:43:34,180
\nAnd he proves them with his
\nwords. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:43:34,940 –> 00:43:37,220
\nSays you feel really good.
\nYou feel really good. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:43:37,220 –> 00:43:39,260
\nYou want to make me king?
\nYou want to make me king? <\/p>\n
649
\n00:43:39,260 –> 00:43:42,180
\nYou really do.
\nWell, just listen to what I have<\/p>\n
650
\n00:43:42,180 –> 00:43:48,220
\nto say, he says.
\nYou want to make me king because<\/p>\n
651
\n00:43:48,220 –> 00:43:51,110
\nyou ate bread.
\nYou. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:43:55,670 –> 00:43:57,470
\nWant to make me king because I
\ngave you a free meal? <\/p>\n
653
\n00:43:59,270 –> 00:44:01,670
\nThey said no, no, we want to
\nmake you king because of you. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:44:02,470 –> 00:44:04,430
\nThis isn’t about free meal.
\nYou’re the one. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:44:08,280 –> 00:44:14,440
\nJesus says in John 6, verse 54,
\nwhoever eats my flesh and drinks<\/p>\n
656
\n00:44:14,440 –> 00:44:20,200
\nmy blood has eternal life, and
\nI’ll raise him up at the last <\/p>\n
657
\n00:44:20,200 –> 00:44:26,040
\nday.
\nFor my flesh is food indeed, my <\/p>\n
658
\n00:44:26,040 –> 00:44:31,280
\nblood is drink indeed, and this
\nis the important bit. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:44:32,440 –> 00:44:37,280
\nHe who eats my flesh and drinks
\nmy blood abides in me and I and <\/p>\n
660
\n00:44:37,280 –> 00:44:39,480
\nhim.
\nWell, that’s interesting because<\/p>\n
661
\n00:44:39,480 –> 00:44:42,240
\nthat’s where we’re trying to
\nfind out about what does it mean<\/p>\n
662
\n00:44:42,240 –> 00:44:44,560
\nthat Christ twelves in you?
\nWhat does that really mean? <\/p>\n
663
\n00:44:45,480 –> 00:44:47,880
\nWe’re fortunate because here
\nJesus is really talking about <\/p>\n
664
\n00:44:47,880 –> 00:44:50,880
\nthat very thing, and he’s saying
\nthat He eats my flesh and drinks<\/p>\n
665
\n00:44:50,880 –> 00:44:52,840
\nmy blood abides in me and I and
\nhim. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:44:52,840 –> 00:44:55,880
\nSo what does he mean by that?
\nHe goes on to say, as the living<\/p>\n
667
\n00:44:55,880 –> 00:44:59,200
\nFather sent me, and I live
\nbecause of the Father, so he who<\/p>\n
668
\n00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:01,440
\nfeeds on me will live because of
\nme. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:45:04,860 –> 00:45:07,460
\nJesus says that he abides and
\nsaves those and eat his flesh <\/p>\n
670
\n00:45:07,460 –> 00:45:10,500
\nand drink his blood.
\nSo we should look at this <\/p>\n
671
\n00:45:10,500 –> 00:45:12,980
\nlanguage and say, does this
\nlanguage at all invoke any <\/p>\n
672
\n00:45:12,980 –> 00:45:15,220
\ndiscussion of the Spirit?
\nBecause if it does, we’re <\/p>\n
673
\n00:45:15,220 –> 00:45:17,540
\nprobably on safe ground thinking
\nthat really these are talking <\/p>\n
674
\n00:45:17,540 –> 00:45:20,340
\nabout very similar things that
\nPaul is talking about in Romans <\/p>\n
675
\n00:45:20,340 –> 00:45:22,820
\nchapter 8 might be very similar
\nto what Jesus is talking about <\/p>\n
676
\n00:45:22,820 –> 00:45:26,860
\nhere in John Six.
\nWe can understand what it means <\/p>\n
677
\n00:45:26,860 –> 00:45:31,410
\nthat Christ dwells in us.
\nAnd we move on over 60, And we <\/p>\n
678
\n00:45:31,410 –> 00:45:34,370
\nread their the minions, his
\ndisciples. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:45:34,530 –> 00:45:39,090
\nWhen they heard this, they said,
\nthis is a hard saying. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:45:40,130 –> 00:45:44,370
\nWho can understand it?
\nAnd when Jesus knew in himself <\/p>\n
681
\n00:45:44,370 –> 00:45:47,770
\nthat his disciples complained
\nabout this, his disciples, By <\/p>\n
682
\n00:45:47,770 –> 00:45:49,050
\nthe way, these are his
\ndisciples. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:45:49,050 –> 00:45:52,250
\nThese are not just randoms that
\nhad a free meal, right? <\/p>\n
684
\n00:45:52,250 –> 00:45:54,250
\nI want to be clear about that.
\nThese are, these are his <\/p>\n
685
\n00:45:54,250 –> 00:45:58,770
\ndisciples, he said to them.
\nDoes this offend you? <\/p>\n
686
\n00:46:00,910 –> 00:46:02,390
\nWhat they need.
\nYou should see the Son of man <\/p>\n
687
\n00:46:02,390 –> 00:46:07,390
\nascend where he was before.
\nIt’s the spirit who gives life, <\/p>\n
688
\n00:46:08,630 –> 00:46:13,910
\nthe flesh prophets, nothing.
\nThe words I speak to you are <\/p>\n
689
\n00:46:13,910 –> 00:46:19,350
\nspirit and their life.
\nSo what is the spirit? <\/p>\n
690
\n00:46:22,830 –> 00:46:24,510
\nIt’s very simple brother,
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:46:26,390 –> 00:46:28,510
\nIt’s the words of Jesus that
\ngive life. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:46:30,840 –> 00:46:33,800
\nAnd isn’t that the exact point
\nthat Paul’s making about the <\/p>\n
693
\n00:46:33,800 –> 00:46:35,600
\nspirit of Romans?
\nHe’s saying the Spirit gives <\/p>\n
694
\n00:46:35,600 –> 00:46:38,960
\nlife, that you have this carnal
\nmind, but the Spirit working in <\/p>\n
695
\n00:46:38,960 –> 00:46:41,760
\nyou is going to give life.
\nAnd he says Romans 8 verse 11. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:46:42,000 –> 00:46:44,480
\nBut if the spirit of him who
\nraised Jesus from the dead <\/p>\n
697
\n00:46:44,480 –> 00:46:49,480
\ndwells in you, he who raised
\nChrist and the dead will give <\/p>\n
698
\n00:46:49,480 –> 00:46:53,960
\nlife to your mortal bodies
\nthrough his spirit who dwells in<\/p>\n
699
\n00:46:53,960 –> 00:46:55,280
\nyou.
\nSo the Spirit gives life. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:46:57,310 –> 00:47:00,030
\nIt’s the words of Christ.
\nIt’s his teaching, His precepts,<\/p>\n
701
\n00:47:00,590 –> 00:47:03,710
\nthe knowledge without which we
\ncannot please God, because we <\/p>\n
702
\n00:47:03,710 –> 00:47:08,510
\nwouldn’t know what it was like
\nto be what what God’s like. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:47:08,510 –> 00:47:09,870
\nWe wouldn’t know what his
\ncharacter’s like. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:47:09,870 –> 00:47:12,510
\nWe wouldn’t know what his
\nteaching is, what he what he <\/p>\n
705
\n00:47:12,510 –> 00:47:17,350
\nwants us to know and to believe.
\nBut it’s not just knowledge, <\/p>\n
706
\n00:47:18,190 –> 00:47:20,790
\nokay.
\nIt’s not just knowledge. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:47:20,790 –> 00:47:25,790
\nIt’s just words.
\nYou hear all sorts of words. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:47:26,230 –> 00:47:29,670
\nWords all day long.
\nIt’s not just knowledge. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:47:29,670 –> 00:47:36,790
\nIt’s not just words, is it?
\nAnd we read that from that time <\/p>\n
710
\n00:47:36,990 –> 00:47:39,710
\nmany of his disciples went back
\nand walked with him no more. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:47:41,230 –> 00:47:44,590
\nSo I ask you then, if the Spirit
\nare Jesus words? <\/p>\n
712
\n00:47:45,230 –> 00:47:47,150
\nDid the Spirit give warm
\nfeelings? <\/p>\n
713
\n00:47:48,230 –> 00:47:52,510
\nWhat did the Spirit feel like?
\nWhat did Jesus words? <\/p>\n
714
\n00:47:52,510 –> 00:47:56,370
\nLife giving though they were?
\nWhat do they feel like? <\/p>\n
715
\n00:47:58,010 –> 00:48:03,450
\nI’ll tell you what they offended
\nthey brought up within his <\/p>\n
716
\n00:48:03,450 –> 00:48:06,570
\ndisciples negative and strange
\nand bad feelings. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:48:08,930 –> 00:48:11,050
\nSo I’m going to say this now,
\nand I really mean this very, <\/p>\n
718
\n00:48:11,050 –> 00:48:12,410
\nvery clearly.
\nI don’t know how to say it more <\/p>\n
719
\n00:48:12,410 –> 00:48:14,130
\nclearly.
\nSo to say as clearly as I can, <\/p>\n
720
\n00:48:15,290 –> 00:48:19,690
\nThe Spirit is not about your
\nfeelings, so get rid of that <\/p>\n
721
\n00:48:19,690 –> 00:48:22,970
\nconcept.
\nIt’s not about feeling warm and <\/p>\n
722
\n00:48:22,970 –> 00:48:25,370
\nhappy and secure and comfortable
\nand lovely and safe all the <\/p>\n
723
\n00:48:25,370 –> 00:48:30,930
\ntime.
\nMost often it isn’t about making<\/p>\n
724
\n00:48:30,930 –> 00:48:32,770
\nthe easy choice that feels
\nright. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:48:34,530 –> 00:48:39,010
\nIt’s about making the difficult
\nchoice that’s right no matter <\/p>\n
726
\n00:48:39,010 –> 00:48:43,890
\nhow it feels.
\nAnd the spirit within you is <\/p>\n
727
\n00:48:43,890 –> 00:48:48,970
\ngoing to allow you to make that
\nchoice because you now know what<\/p>\n
728
\n00:48:48,970 –> 00:48:52,070
\nright is.
\nNow know what God’s right and <\/p>\n
729
\n00:48:52,070 –> 00:48:55,510
\nwrong is, what God’s good and
\nevil is, and you’re going to <\/p>\n
730
\n00:48:55,510 –> 00:48:59,230
\nfeel within yourself your own
\ngood and evil come into conflict<\/p>\n
731
\n00:48:59,230 –> 00:49:02,670
\nwith God’s good and evil.
\nSo what’s going to allow you <\/p>\n
732
\n00:49:02,670 –> 00:49:07,750
\nthen within yourself, when you
\nfeel you’re good and evil, come <\/p>\n
733
\n00:49:07,750 –> 00:49:10,710
\ninto conflict with God’s?
\nWhat’s going to allow you to <\/p>\n
734
\n00:49:10,710 –> 00:49:12,390
\nsubmit yourself to God’s good
\nand evil? <\/p>\n
735
\n00:49:13,550 –> 00:49:15,910
\nWhat’s going to allow you to
\nyield yourself to him? <\/p>\n
736
\n00:49:15,910 –> 00:49:21,990
\nIt’s going to be the Spirit.
\nIt might not feel good. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:49:24,670 –> 00:49:29,150
\nAnd then Jesus said to the 12,
\nDo you also want to go away? <\/p>\n
738
\n00:49:32,230 –> 00:49:36,430
\nBut Simon Peter answered him,
\nLord, to whom shall we go? <\/p>\n
739
\n00:49:37,790 –> 00:49:44,790
\nYou have the words of eternal
\nlife also we have come to. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:49:45,720 –> 00:49:49,920
\nTo believe and know that you are
\nthe Christ and so you understand<\/p>\n
741
\n00:49:49,920 –> 00:49:51,800
\nthen it’s not just in the
\nknowing. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:49:53,160 –> 00:49:55,000
\nThe knowing doesn’t do you very
\nmuch good. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:49:56,400 –> 00:49:57,840
\nI know some things about
\neconomics. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:49:57,840 –> 00:49:59,600
\nI studied them in school.
\nThey’re not going to give me <\/p>\n
745
\n00:49:59,880 –> 00:50:02,520
\nanything in the in the Kingdom.
\nIt’s not going to help it. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:50:02,520 –> 00:50:06,440
\nI know it.
\nIt’s not just about knowing. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:50:08,600 –> 00:50:11,760
\nAnd if you think that that we’re
\nup here just a pound scripture <\/p>\n
748
\n00:50:11,760 –> 00:50:14,120
\ninto your into your mind so we
\ncan all be smarter, you’re <\/p>\n
749
\n00:50:14,120 –> 00:50:17,520
\nwrong.
\nIt’s not just so, you know. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:50:18,280 –> 00:50:21,800
\nNow knowing is necessary.
\nBut Peter didn’t just know. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:50:23,600 –> 00:50:30,040
\nHe knew and believed.
\nAnd he says, we have come to <\/p>\n
752
\n00:50:30,040 –> 00:50:36,440
\nbelieve and know that you are
\nthe Christ. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:50:36,840 –> 00:50:39,640
\nAnd so he actually, he completes
\nthis perfect, this perfect <\/p>\n
754
\n00:50:39,640 –> 00:50:43,280
\ncircle.
\nIt’s not just knowing, it’s <\/p>\n
755
\n00:50:43,280 –> 00:50:46,360
\nbelieving.
\nAnd it’s not just believing, <\/p>\n
756
\n00:50:47,200 –> 00:50:54,200
\nit’s confessing.
\nAnd I reckon that as Peter saw <\/p>\n
757
\n00:50:54,280 –> 00:50:59,920
\nhis friends leave Christ, all
\nthose disciples leave Christ, <\/p>\n
758
\n00:51:01,200 –> 00:51:08,640
\nthat it hurt, that didn’t feel
\ngood at all, that he was really <\/p>\n
759
\n00:51:08,640 –> 00:51:15,410
\nsad.
\nBut Christ had the words of <\/p>\n
760
\n00:51:15,410 –> 00:51:19,930
\neternal life.
\nWhere else was he to go? <\/p>\n
761
\n00:51:24,810 –> 00:51:29,010
\nAnd So what we see then here
\nwith Peter is we see that Peter <\/p>\n
762
\n00:51:29,010 –> 00:51:31,690
\nhas a spirit.
\nHe has a spirit of Christ. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:51:33,090 –> 00:51:37,930
\nThat’s what allowed him to say
\nthat he has Christ in him. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:51:39,940 –> 00:51:42,580
\nHe realizes, despite the
\nconfusion, despite the other set<\/p>\n
765
\n00:51:42,580 –> 00:51:44,860
\nof weapons, despite the
\ndifficulty of the words, that <\/p>\n
766
\n00:51:44,860 –> 00:51:47,060
\nChrist is life and Peter
\nbelieved him. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:51:47,060 –> 00:51:50,460
\nAnd in that action the words
\nbecame belief, and that belief <\/p>\n
768
\n00:51:50,460 –> 00:51:53,140
\ndrove decision, and that
\ndecision led to life. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:51:55,460 –> 00:51:58,860
\nAnd brothers and sisters and
\nyoung people, we have the words <\/p>\n
770
\n00:51:58,860 –> 00:52:02,740
\nof Christ, we have the same ones
\nPeter heard, and they dwell in <\/p>\n
771
\n00:52:02,740 –> 00:52:05,820
\nus, and we know them, and we can
\nrecite them or familiar with <\/p>\n
772
\n00:52:05,820 –> 00:52:07,620
\nthem.
\nSo when do they become eternal <\/p>\n
773
\n00:52:07,620 –> 00:52:10,450
\nlife in us?
\nWhen do these words become <\/p>\n
774
\n00:52:10,450 –> 00:52:14,970
\neternal life in us?
\nWhen do they become spirit? <\/p>\n
775
\n00:52:15,690 –> 00:52:19,530
\nWhen does the invisible agent of
\nthe Word working within me? <\/p>\n
776
\n00:52:19,810 –> 00:52:22,850
\nWhen does it display power?
\nWhen does the Word become <\/p>\n
777
\n00:52:22,850 –> 00:52:29,570
\npowerful?
\nWhen we believe, and when that <\/p>\n
778
\n00:52:29,570 –> 00:52:35,490
\nbelief leads us to confess God’s
\nrighteousness and to yield <\/p>\n
779
\n00:52:35,490 –> 00:52:39,130
\nourselves.
\nTo his version of good and evil,<\/p>\n
780
\n00:52:40,530 –> 00:52:45,610
\nand to make difficult choices,
\nNot easy ones, difficult ones, <\/p>\n
781
\n00:52:46,850 –> 00:52:49,410
\nand certainly not choices.
\nAlways feel good at the time, <\/p>\n
782
\n00:52:51,250 –> 00:52:55,770
\nBut which, if you make them,
\nbring great contentment. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:52:59,210 –> 00:53:03,850
\nAnd each Sunday we do take him
\nin, and the bread and the wine, <\/p>\n
784
\n00:53:05,770 –> 00:53:09,110
\nbut just.
\nJust like our flesh is just <\/p>\n
785
\n00:53:09,110 –> 00:53:12,590
\ncarbon and oxygen and hydrogen,
\nso is this bread. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:53:14,990 –> 00:53:18,990
\nI guess in and of itself it’s a
\nloaf of bread, but it’s not for <\/p>\n
787
\n00:53:18,990 –> 00:53:21,030
\nyou.
\nDo you know why it’s not just <\/p>\n
788
\n00:53:21,030 –> 00:53:26,270
\nbread for you?
\nBecause you believe so. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:53:26,270 –> 00:53:30,350
\nIt’s more than just bread.
\nIt is Christ in you. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:53:31,950 –> 00:53:35,790
\nIt is you renewing yourself, and
\nit is in you. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:53:36,530 –> 00:53:42,170
\nProclaiming the Lord Jesus and
\nhis death till he come. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:53:43,290 –> 00:53:46,170
\nAnd so as we take this bread and
\nthis wine, we pass it from hand <\/p>\n
793
\n00:53:46,170 –> 00:53:47,850
\nto hand.
\nWhat do we think of ourselves? <\/p>\n
794
\n00:53:48,890 –> 00:53:50,210
\nWe don’t think of ourselves at
\nall. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:53:51,930 –> 00:53:54,770
\nSuppose we think of the Lord
\nJesus, we think of ourselves <\/p>\n
796
\n00:53:54,770 –> 00:54:00,450
\nonly in relation to Him, and we
\nmake a decision once again to be<\/p>\n
797
\n00:54:00,450 –> 00:54:08,380
\nlike Him, to crucify our flesh.
\nOur desires and our passions and<\/p>\n
798
\n00:54:08,380 –> 00:54:11,020
\nwe choose to proclaim the Lord’s
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:54:12,860 –> 00:54:15,100
\nAnd we ask ourselves a very
\nimportant question. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:54:18,220 –> 00:54:23,180
\nIs Christ alive in me?
\nAnd am I dead to myself?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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