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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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My name is Rick Renner.
Today I am standing
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inside the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St.
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Petersburg. The foundations
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for this building were first laid in 1712,
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and my friend, this place is magnificent.
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The workmanship is so elaborate
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and intricate.
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More than 22 pounds of gold
are used in the decorations
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of this magnificent cathedral,
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but as beautiful as this is,
it pales in comparison to
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what is inside you.
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The Bible tells us in Ephesians 2:10
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that you are God's special workmanship.
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You are a masterpiece.
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When you were born again,
God released his full powers
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to create you to be a workmanship
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of his own design.
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Your spiritual interiors are
more magnificent than this.
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If your eyes were just
open to see what is in you,
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it would boost yourself
image like nothing before.
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You are the repository of
God's richest treasures,
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and that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to the program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and as I told you in the introduction today, I'm gonna talk
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to you about you being the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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My friend, you
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and I have been fashioned
by God to be the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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If our eyes were open to
see what is inside us,
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we would be breathless, flabbergasted,
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because God has created in
us something so magnificent
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that he decided to move into it.
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And today we really are the
walking sanctuary of God.
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God lives in us by his spirit.
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Say - Amen.
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That is so magnificent - but hey -
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We're walking through all the
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and to be an inferno for Jesus
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But open your Bible to 1 Corinthians 6:19.
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This is our anchor verse for this series.
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And in 1 Corinthians 6:19,
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the apostle Paul is writing
to the Corinthians and to us,
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and he says; What -
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Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost,
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which is in you.
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That word in, in Greek, literally means it is inside you,
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which you have God and
you are not your own?
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Paul says - Don't you know? The Greek could be translated
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Have you not comprehended?
Have you not gotten it yet?
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It means this is something we need to really know
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and what is it - that our physical bodies have become the
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temple of the Holy Ghost.
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That word temple, is a Greek word naos,
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which describes a temple or
a highly decorated shrine.
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That's what we have inside us.
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It pictures a place with vaulted ceilings, marble, granite,
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gold, silver, highly
decorated ornamentation,
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and it is exactly the same
word used in the Old Testament
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Septuagint to describe the innermost part
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of the temple in Jerusalem, the Holy of Holies -
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which means - God has fashioned our human bodies in Christ
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to become the Holy of Holies.
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God lives right here. He doesn't live in physical buildings.
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He lives inside us.
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Our physical bodies have become the temple
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of the Holy Spirit, which Paul says you have in you,
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which you have of God
and you are not your own.
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God has done such a marvelous work
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to make us the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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We saw in program No.1,
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that we are God's special project.
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We saw in program No.2: we are a masterpiece
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of God's grace.
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We saw in the last program, it took real divine power
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to do this work in us,
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and today we're going to see
that when God was finished
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doing this work, he sealed
us with the Holy Spirit.
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Wow - it is so powerful.
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But hey, let's go to John 20:19,
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to the 1st time anyone was born again in
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the New Testament.
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And when we come to John 20:19,
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the Bible says,
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Then the same day at evening, being the first day
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of the week when the doors were shut,
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where the disciples
were assembled for fear
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of the Jews came Jesus
and stood in the midst
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and said unto them, peace be unto you.
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This is very important
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because Jesus was about to breathe into them the Holy Spirit
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and they were going to be born again:
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the 1st people ever born again in history.
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Now people had been saved under Old Testament conditions,
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but now it was the new covenant
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and people could be born
again for the very first time
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and the disciples were
about to be born again.
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And Jesus said, peace be unto you.
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This is very important because
peace comes with salvation.
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Peace is the primary fruit of salvation.
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And Jesus said, peace be unto you.
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Then in verse 20; And when he had so said,
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he showed unto them
his hands and his side.
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Then were the disciples
glad when they saw the Lord.
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Verse 21: then said Jesus to them again,
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peace be unto you; as my father hath sent me even so send I
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you. Then in verse 22, listen very carefully to verse 22;
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And when he had said this, he breathed on them
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and said unto them, receive ye the Holy Ghost.
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This was the moment when the disciples were born again under
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the conditions of the New Testament.
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And when the Bible says he breathed on them,
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it is a Greek word emphusaeo, which means to breathe into
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as you would do if you were
going to inflate a balloon;
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you would breathe into the balloon
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and the balloon would catch your breath
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and you would inflate the balloon.
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He literally breathed into them
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and they received his breath.
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is the same identical word which is used
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in Genesis 2:
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7. Listen to what it says;
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And the Lord God formed the man of the dust of the ground
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and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
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and man became a living soul.
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That is such a powerful verse.
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God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground
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and then God breathed into his nostrils
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with the Bible calls the breath of life.
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And in that moment, Adam
received that breath.
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He received it in that moment
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and in that moment, he
became a living soul.
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Now, this same word, emphusaeo, is used in John 20:
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22, when the Bible says,
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And when he had said this, he breathed on them.
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The Greek literally says - he breathed into them. In
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that very moment behind those closed doors, in
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that upper room, Jesus breathed into them
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and said, receive ye the Holy Ghost.
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The word receive is the Greek word, labete.
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The word labete, means take it right now,
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actively receive it in this very moment.
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Now, some have wrongly taught
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that Jesus here was just prophesying that on the day
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of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit would come.
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No, no, no, no, no. The Greek is very clear.
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Jesus said, receive right now,
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actively receive in this very moment.
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He wasn't even breathing on them, prophesying some future
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event; he breathed into them - literally
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and said, receive, receive
right now the Holy Ghost.
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And the Holy Spirit
came into the disciples.
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Up until this moment, the
Holy Spirit had been on them,
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but the Holy Spirit did not
permanently reside on them.
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In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit came
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and rested upon people to
give them power for service
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and then the Holy Spirit would lift
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and the Holy Spirit would leave.
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But this is the first time the
Holy Spirit ever moved into
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the heart of a human being.
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The 1st time in scripture right here in John 20,
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when Jesus breathed into them
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and said, receive - labete -
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receive right now in this
very moment, actively take it,
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receive right now the Holy Spirit
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and the Holy Spirit moved into them.
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And this was such a historical moment
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because it was the 1st time in history
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that the Holy Spirit ever
moved into the hearts
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of human beings.
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That is just remarkable.
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And in that moment, they were
sealed with the Holy Spirit.
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They became the temple of God.
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Now, when you go to Ephesians 1:13,
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the apostle Paul writes about
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what happens when the Holy Spirit comes into a person's life
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at the moment of salvation.
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Listen to what he says in Ephesians 1:13;
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In whom you also trusted,
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after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel
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of your salvation in whom also
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after that you believed you were sealed -
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there you have it - you were sealed with
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that Holy Spirit of promise.
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But notice he says, this
occurred after you believed.
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This word believed, is so very important
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because it shows us again
that all of this is a work
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of God's grace.
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This word believed is a form
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of the Greek word which
describes one who is persuaded
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to believe something, persuaded to trust,
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and it describes a persuasion from God
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that imparts an impulse
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or a divine spark to believe,
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which means God even gives
us the ability to believe.
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My friends, our salvation from the beginning
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to the end is a result of the grace of God.
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God was just looking for a
participant who would agree
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and who would say, yes,
that's me, that's you.
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But God even gave us
the ability to believe
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after we heard the word
of truth, the gospel
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of your salvation.
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We saw in the previous program
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that unbelievers don't
even have eyes to see.
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The Holy Spirit has to
create eyes for them to see
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and to understand the gospel.
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We're told in 2 Corinthians 4:4,
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that Satan has blinded the minds of unbelievers.
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That word blinded, does not just mean to be blinded,
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he means -
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it means he is gouged out their eyes.
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They don't even have eyes to see.
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But when the gospel is shared,
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that is when the Holy
Spirit miraculously begins
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to create eyes in the minds
of unbelievers so they can see
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for the very first time.
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And now we see in this verse
in whom you also trusted
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after you heard the word
of truth, the gospel
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of your salvation,
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that's when eyes were created
in them when they heard the
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truth, in whom also
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after you believed you were sealed with
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that Holy Spirit of promise.
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What does that mean, sealed?
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Well in Greek it is the word, sphragidzo, so listen to this.
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This word sealed pictures,
a seal placed on a package
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after the product has
been thoroughly examined
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and inspected to make
sure it was fully intact
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and complete. It depicts the seal which was proof
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that the product was impeccable.
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Normally, such seals bore
the insignia of a wealthy
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or famous person, which meant
this package was to be treated
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with special and tender care.
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The seal affirmed who was the owner
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and guaranteed that the package would make it
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to its final destination - which means -
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before we were given the Holy
Spirit, God checked us out
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to make sure our faith was intact,
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everything was impeccable,
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and that's when he applied
the Holy Spirit to us
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and we were sealed.
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And in fact, the RIV
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of Ephesians 1:13 would be this - hold onto your seat -
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this is powerful. When
you were placed in Christ,
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God stamped you with a special seal
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and embossed it so deeply that
it cannot be broken, erased,
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rubbed out, wiped out, deleted or removed.
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That unbreakable seal is the Holy Spirit.
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Once you were stamped with him,
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it meant you had God's approval.
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He examined the contents of your heart
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and found nothing flawed or inferior.
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And because everything was
in order, he stamped you
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with the Holy Spirit, which
is his seal of approval.
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Anyone who has this stamp is
headed for special treatment.
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This seal means you belong to God
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and no one is to interfere
with you as His package.
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This Holy Spirit stamp
means the postage is prepaid
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to get you all the way to
your ultimate destination.
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That means you can be sure
that once your journey
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with the Lord begins, you're going to make it all the way to
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where God wants you to go.
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And as good as all of this already seems,
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its only the beginning of
what God has planned for us.
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That's the RIV of verse 13.
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But then listen to the King James Version of verse 14.
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Paul continues describing
the Holy Spirit in us
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and he says - Which is the earnest of our inheritance
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until the redemption of the
purchase possession unto the
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praise of his glory.
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But the word earnest, is the Greek word arrabon.
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And listen to what this
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It is the Greek word arrabon.
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It is a payment given in advance
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to guarantee the whole amount
will be paid afterwards:
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earnest money. It is an installment, a deposit,
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a down payment which guarantees full delivery
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of a promise.
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It is a security deposit given by the purchaser
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to assure confidence
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and peace to the seller that
he will fulfill his promise.
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And the RIV
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of Ephesians 1:14 is like this;
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As good as all of this already seems,
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it's only the beginning of all
that God has planned for us.
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The Holy Spirit is just
the first installment
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of the incredible things that
God has planned as a part
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of our full inheritance.
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You might say the Holy Spirit
is God's down money to show
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that he is serious
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and intends to complete the
deal, finalize all the papers,
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put the product in his name,
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and finally make us
his very own possession
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with no one else having the
ability to exercise any claims
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or liens against us.
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And when this process is finally wrapped up
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and the deal is completely sealed, we're all going to want
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to stand up and give
God a round of applause
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for everything accomplished in our lives
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through his glory.
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That is the RIV of verse 14.
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The Holy Spirit is the seal, God's seal of approval
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and the Holy Spirit is the
earnest of our inheritance.
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And it's interesting that
you find both of these words
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used in 2 Corinthians 1:21, where Paul writes -
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Who has sealed us
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and have given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts.
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The word sealed here, the word sphragidzo: the word earnest,
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the Greek word arrabon,
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and I would translate 2 Corinthians 1:21 like this;
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Who has stamped us with a special seal
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and embosses so deeply that
it cannot be broken, erased,
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rubbed out, wiped out, deleted or removed.
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Because we have that seal, it
means we have God's approval.
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He has examined the contents of our heart -
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that is amazing to me -
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He has examined the contents of our heart,
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found nothing flawed or inferior,
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and stamped us with the Holy Spirit
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as his steal of approval.
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And because we have this stamp, the postage has been prepaid
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to get us all the way to our ultimate destination
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so we can be sure that once our journey
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with the Lord begins, we are going to make it all the way to
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where God wants us to go.
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All of that is the RIV
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of 2 Corinthians 1:21.
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Now friend, this is just remarkable.
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God took us from spiritual death.
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We saw that in Ephesians 2:1
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which says, we were dead in trespasses and sins.
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Ephesians 2:5 says,
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When we were dead in trespasses
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and sins, not looking for
God, not even knowing how
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to respond to God, God loved us so much,
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he quickened us together with Christ.
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That's why Paul says,
by grace are ye saved.
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God is the one that initiated it.
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God is the one that did it all.
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When you get to Ephesians 2:10, Paul says,
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for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus;
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we are God's masterpiece.
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He put forth all of his grace, the exceeding riches
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of his grace in us to
make us trophies of grace.
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We saw in John 1:12,
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that God gave us the power
to become the sons of God.
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And today we have seen
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that when we receive Christ into our life,
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the Holy Spirit comes into us.
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And when the Holy Spirit comes into us,
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the Holy Spirit becomes God's
seal of approval to seal us,
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guarantying everything inside is all right:
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impeccable, nothing inferior, nothing flawed.
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We are God's and we're gonna make it all the way to the end.
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And in fact, God turns us into the
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temple of the Holy Spirit.
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That's 1 Corinthians 6:19,
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which says - What?
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What? No ye not. The Greek
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literally says - do you not get it yet?
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Have you not yet comprehended that your body:
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the word body, the word, soma:
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it is the word for the physical body.
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It's talking about this body.
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Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost,
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which is in you.
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It is in you.
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I told you in the last
program that when I was a kid,
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we used to design pirate maps
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where we would play like
there was hidden treasure.
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And of course, on our pirate maps
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as kids we always put a big X
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because X is where you
find the hidden treasure.
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Well, today, the X is right
here. It's right here.
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It's right on you. If X marks
the spot, it's right here
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because this is where God has
put his greatest treasure.
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The Holy Spirit is in us.
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We have become the temple
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of the Holy Spirit
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and how we need our eyes to be opened so
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that we understand the
rich, marvelous work
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that God has done in us.
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Our spiritual interior
is simply magnificent.
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God by his spirit lives right here.
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Wow! When we come back tomorrow,
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we're gonna talk about this great rich treasure
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that God has placed inside us.
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It's going to be magnificent,
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but I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Do you really know
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what the Bible means when
it says - You are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit? My friend,
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you really are the dwelling
place for the spirit of God,
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and that is amazing and powerful.
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what the Bible means when it declares
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and today I'm seated in the
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And every week I join
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as we discuss the word of God, pray for you.
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We hear testimonies from viewers that have written into us,
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and that's our job to feed many people the
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wonderful word of God.
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And if you're not a part yet
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of the Ministry Expansion Project Giving Team,
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I'm asking you to please join us.
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We wanna knock out this remaining 30% so
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that we can redirect all those
funds to take the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the Earth.
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Isn't it amazing to really meditate on
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what God has done in us?
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God has sealed us with the Holy Spirit.
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He did it the moment that we believed,
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and in that moment, we became
the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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And that's why I'm teaching you this week
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and next week about you being
the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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And I want to encourage you
to order the whole series.
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It's 10 parts called, You are
the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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You need to meditate on this,
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really get this into your heart.
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It would be a great
series for you to share
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with someone else who
needs to really understand
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who they have become now
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that they have been placed in Christ.
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My friends, we're not who we used to be.
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We're something new. We are
the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Isn't that awesome?
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Oh, and this comes with a study guide, so order yours today.
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We're also offering you my book,
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which is called, A Life Ablaze.
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Please go to our website, to our store.
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You can order all of this right now,
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and if you have a special
prayer need, let us know how
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to pray for you.
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You can send us an email
or call us right now.
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We would love to take your call
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or to get your email so we would know how
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to put our faith together with you
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for whatever it is your facing right now.
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Please let us know how to pray for you,
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but Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus for
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what you have done in us,
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what you did the moment
we believed you, sealed us
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with the Holy Spirit
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and gave us the Holy Spirit as the earnest
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of our future inheritance.
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Then you turned us into the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Help us to embrace it.
Oh, we thank you for this.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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I'll see you tomorrow,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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"Where the word of a king is there is power.:
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now: Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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Thank you for joining
Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.