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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
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uncertain times
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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 today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I wanna say thank you for letting me
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come into your space.
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I know you've got a lot
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of things you could be doing right now,
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but you are spending this time
with me means a lot to me,
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and I pray it's gonna mean a lot to you.
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And today we're gonna
continue talking about The
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Spirit Filled Life.
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When I was growing up,
I did not understand
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that God really wanted us to
live a spirit filled life.
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Maybe that preaching was
happening in our church,
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but I didn't hear it.
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I just did not understand the
wonderful spirit filled life
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that God had waiting for me.
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But in 1974, I was filled
with the Holy Spirit
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and that changed everything.
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I was inducted into
the spirit-filled life,
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and I've been living that life ever since.
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And by the way, if
you've never been filled
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with the Holy Spirit, call the
number that is on the screen.
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We would love to pray for
you to receive the infilling
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of the Holy Spirit and to step
into the spirit-filled life.
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But this week I'm doing a series called, The Spirit-Filled
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Life, and we're covering very
many features about the work
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of the Holy Spirit in our life.
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It comes with a study guide so
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that you can read it while you're seen
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or hearing the material.
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And we're also offering you my book,
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which is a 31 day devotional,
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and it is called My Spirit Empowered Day.
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And it's how you can step into
the spirit empowered life.
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This book will walk you right into it.
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It is simple to read,
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and my friends, it will really make
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a difference in your life.
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It would also be a great
gift for you to give
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to someone else, but you
can order all these things
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by going online or by giving us a call.
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And when you reach out to us,
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please let us know how to pray for you.
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We are waiting for the
phone to ring right now,
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and I really mean that we're
waiting for the phone to ring
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because we are here to pray for you
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and we're very serious about
the business of praying
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for those that reach out to us.
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Maybe you'd rather send an email,
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just write the email address on the screen
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and whether you call
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or whether you write, we're
gonna release our faith
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and Jesus is gonna move.
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Jeremiah 33:3 says, Call unto me.
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I'll hear you, I'll answer
you, and I'll show you great
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and mighty things with you.
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We will call out to God in
faith - that's important.
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We will pray scripturally -
that is important.
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God will hear us.
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God will move
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and he'll do something
really mighty in your life.
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Now, I want you to reach for your Bible
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because we always use the
Bible in this program.
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And today we're gonna talk about the fact
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that the Holy Spirit is our seal
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and inside us, he's
earnestly yearning for us.
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But first I want to share something
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that someone wrote to me.
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It says, brother Renner
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and all your helpers in
the Lord, I thank the Lord
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for enabling me to be
a part of your ministry
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and all that he's provided for you to do.
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Thank you for all your prayers
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and for your prayer ministers
that are so faithful to stand
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with us in prayer.
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Well, I wanna say thank you for that note.
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We're very serious about
standing with you in prayer.
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And again, if you've got
a prayer need, we want
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to hear from you too.
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But open your Bible to Ephesians 1,
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and today we're gonna go to one
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of my favorite verses about the work
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of the Holy Spirit in our life.
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Are you ready? Let's go.
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If Ephesians 1:13,
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where the apostle Paul is writing
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and he says - speaking
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to the Ephesians - In whom ye 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 you believed you were sealed with
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that Holy Spirit of promise.
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I'm gonna focus on that word - sealed.
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And in Greek it is the word, sphragidzo.
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It's a very difficult word to pronounce,
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but it's a very important word.
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This word sealed, pictures -
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listen to this - 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.
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The seal was proof, proof
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that the product was impeccable.
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And 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 tender care.
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The seal affirmed who the owner was
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and guaranteed the package would make it
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to its final destination.
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All of that is in this words sphragidzo,
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which here is translated in Ephesians 1:13
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as the word sealed.
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Now, let's go back in time
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and let me give you a little history.
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In Greek and Roman times
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and still in certain places
today, if a package was
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to be dispatched to another location first
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and went through a series of
investigations to make sure
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that the contents were
not flawed, not broken,
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and not shattered: everything
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The sender would examine every
single piece of the contents
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to make sure each part of
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And this meant the process
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of examining every little fragment
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of the context was
extraordinarily important
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for the one charge with
sealing the document
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or sealing the package.
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And finally, if everything was
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and impeccable, then the sender would pour hot wax onto the
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package or onto the fold of the document,
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and then they would in
seal it with the insignia
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of the owner signifying everything is complete,
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everything is perfect, and therefore it can be dispatched.
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And this package was paid for
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with such an expensive postage
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that it guaranteed the package
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to its destination.
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And when people saw the insignia
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and saw who was the owner,
it was a signal to everyone,
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don't mess with this package
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because this package belongs to someone
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very, very important. Now,
did you hear all of that?
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Now, let's take that into Ephesians 1:13 -
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In whom also you 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 after you believed,
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after you believed you were sealed -
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sphragidzo: that's the same Greek word -
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with the Holy Spirit of promise.
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And here's what it means.
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After you believe God sealed
you with the Holy Spirit
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of promise and the
insignia on the package is
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important for several reasons; it bears the name
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of God himself.
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It is the insignia of God on us.
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The Holy Spirit himself is the
seal stating that we belong
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to God and people better not mess with us
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because we belong to the Lord.
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Wow. No one would dare
break such an insignia
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or disturb the contents,
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especially if the owner was
a high ranking individual.
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And likewise, when we have
received the insignia,
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the impression, the seal of the Holy Spirit, it is an alert
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that no one is to mess with us. My friends,
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this is so very powerful
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and I want to give you the RIV
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of Ephesians 1:13.
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Listen to this.
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This is the RIV, which is the Renner Interpretive
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Version of this verse.
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It's not a translation,
it is an interpretation.
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But it says, when you
were placed in Christ,
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God stamped you with a special seal.
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Praise God.
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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,
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erased, rubbed out, wiped
out, deleted or removed.
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That unbreakable seal is the Holy Spirit.
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Wow! And 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 a 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
gonna make it all the way to
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where God wants you to go.
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Now, in that interpretation,
there are so many revelations.
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You know, some people see themselves as damaged products.
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I'm just a damaged product.
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I'm just a flawed product
that God's trying to use:
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not according to this verse. If you've been stamped
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with the Holy Spirit, if you've been sealed
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with the Holy Spirit, after you believe God looked at you,
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he examined you, he
looked at all the contents
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of your heart, your
character, your whole being,
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it doesn't matter how broken, how flawed,
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how messed up you were in the past.
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When you got saved, you
became a brand new creature.
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Not a refurbished creature,
not a fixed creature,
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not a better version
of who you used to be.
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You became brand spanking new.
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And in fact, you were so
impeccable that God sealed you
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with the Holy Spirit as the proof
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that everything was in order.
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And I know that sometimes you may feel
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that life is a little rough
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and you hit some bumps along the way
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and you don't know if you're gonna make
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it to where you need to go,
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but according to this verse, if you've been sealed
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with the Holy Spirit,
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that 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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And 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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So rather than badger yourself, you should wrap your arms
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around yourself
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and say, wow, I've been
stamped with the Holy Spirit.
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That means everything is in order.
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No one is to mess with me,
including the devil himself.
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When he sees the insignia
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of the spirit pressed into
my life, it is a warning
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that no one is to mess
with this personal package
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and the posters has been prepaid
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to guarantee I'm gonna make it.
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I'm gonna make it all the way to the end.
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All of that is in that word sealed
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and there's such comfort in that.
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But I want to tell you something else.
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When the Holy Spirit came into your life,
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not only did he come
as a seal to guarantee
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that everything was in
order, he came in you
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to permanently dwell,
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which means the Holy
Spirit is not a visitor,
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he is a permanent indweller.
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He came in you to permanently abide.
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And we see this in James 4:5,
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where James is writing
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and James says - The spirit that dwells in us
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lusteth to envy. The first thing that James says
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about the Holy Spirit in us is
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that the Holy Spirit dwelleth in us.
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He dwelleth in us.
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In fact, you should just say that out loud -
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the Holy Spirit dwells in me.
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What does that mean? The word dwelleth is a
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compound of two words.
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The word kata means down.
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which means to live.
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katoikeo, which is translated
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as the word dwelleth in James 4:5,
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describes a person who
moves into our residence
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and kata, he settles down.
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kata, means: to live there continuously.
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Which means, when the Holy Spirit came into you,
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did all these wonderful works
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as a transient guest that was coming
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and then leaving, which means
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your heart is a home, it's a home.
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And when the Holy Spirit came inside you
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and the Holy Spirit did all
these marvelous things in you,
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remaking you, refashioning
you creating you brand new,
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you became so fabulous on
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I wanna live in there, I wanna live there.
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That's amazing. That's what
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And the Holy Spirit comes in: kata, he settles down: oikeo,
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he says, I'm gonna live here.
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He settles down to permanently reside
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inside me and inside you.
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And this agrees with what Jesus said in John 14:
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16 when he said - When the spirit comes,
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he will abide with you forever.
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He doesn't come and go, he has moved in.
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Which means when the Holy
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birth, I figuratively say he
laid his own carpets on the
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floor, he hung his own
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He brought in a big easy chair
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and the Holy Spirit settled
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and said, I'd like it here.
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I think I'm gonna stay.
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And he settled down and
made his home inside me
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and inside you.
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But he really did much more than that.
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You say, well, what else did he do?
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Well, the Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 6:
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19 - Know ye not
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that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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And the word temple is a Greek word naos.
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The word naos describes a magnificently
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decorated shrine.
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I live in Moscow, Russia,
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and in Moscow, Russia,
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there are many magnificent cathedrals.
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of an naos, the same Greek word, a temple.
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And when you walk in,
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the floors are covered
with precious stones,
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there's silver, there's gold.
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It is just amazing.
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Those temples just dazzle on the inside.
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That's the very word, naos
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when Paul says - Know ye not that your body is the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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So figuratively, the Holy Spirit came in
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to make himself at home.
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I say that he laid his
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hung his own pictures on the wall
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and settled down at a big easy chair
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and said, I like it here,
I'm just gonna stay here.
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But in reality, he turned
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so magnificent that God said, I wanna live there.
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And if we could see our
interior, we would be amazed:
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amazed. My friends, we've been sealed with the Holy Spirit,
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we've been made brand new,
the postage has been paid
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to guarantee we're gonna make
it all the way to the end.
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And not only that, but
the Spirit dwells in us.
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He's not a transit, he came
into permanently abide.
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But there's even more because we're told in James
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4:5 that the spirit
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that dwells in us also lusteth to envy.
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What does that mean - the Spirit in us lusts?
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Well, according to this verse,
the Holy Spirit dwells in us
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and inside us he is lusting.
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And the word lusting is the Greek word epipotheo.
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It depicts an intense desire or an intense yearning.
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they form the word epipotheo,
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which in this verse is translated as the word lusteth.
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yearning for something.
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Usually it is used in a negative contents
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to describe our yearning for
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to describe the Holy Spirit in us.
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he began to lust or he began to yearn for us.
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And in fact, this word lust is so strong
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that it could be used in a negative context
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to describe a drug addict: a person who's addicted to drugs.
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he becomes doubled over.
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He's bent over, he's yearning,
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He is just gotta have another fix.
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This is a person with
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He can never get enough.
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He wants more and more and more and more.
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And when one fix wears
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And then he is gotta have more
and he is gotta have more.
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That's how it's used, for example, in a negative context.
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it is used in a positive way to tell us
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that when the Holy Spirit
came in us, he yearns for us.
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He wants me, he wants
more of me every day.
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The Holy Spirit wants you.
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He wants more of you and more of you
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and more of you and more of you.
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And it doesn't matter how much
you surrender to him today,
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he's gonna be asking for
more of you tomorrow.
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When I got saved at the age of 5 years old
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and I walked the isle of our church,
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our church was singing the song, I Surrender All.
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All to Jesus, I surrender, all to thee I truly give
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and I surrendered my life.
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Do you know that was just the beginning?
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Because from that time until this time,
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I've been surrendering my life.
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And every day, every week, every year, I find there's more
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of me that needs to be surrendered.
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And the Holy Spirit in me is
not satisfied with the amount
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that I've surrendered to this point.
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He wants more
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and tomorrow he's gonna
reveal more to me that I need
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to reveal to him because he
wants more, he wants more,
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he wants more, he wants more.
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And this is such a divine exchange
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because as I surrender
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he fills me with himself.
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And this is the process of sanctification.
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As we surrender ourself, as we surrender what he reveals
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to us that we need to surrender,
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that we may not even realized yesterday,
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but today we see it,
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he fills that area of our life.
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And tomorrow when we wake up
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and we begin to seek his face,
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he's gonna show us something else that we need to surrender.
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And the spirit in us wants more and more and more
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and more and more, which
means the Holy Spirit in me
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and the Holy Spirit in
you is fixated on us.
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He wants us. He wants all of us.
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He wants to fully fill us
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and fully possess us for himself.
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He's like a divine lover on the inside.
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All of that is a part of
the spirit filled life.
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So today we've seen
that when we got saved,
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we weren't just a repaired broken object, we were recreated.
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And in fact, our contents
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after the Holy Spirit came into us,
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that God gave us the Spirit as a seal.
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The seal of the Holy
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and no one else is to mess with us.
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It means we are impeccable on the inside.
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We've seen the postage
has been prepaid for us
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to make it all the way to
the end in the spirit of God,
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in us is yearning for us.
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He's come in as a permanent indweller.
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He's not a guest, he's not a transient
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that's gonna come and go.
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Your heart is not a hotel, it is a home.
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And he created inside you a cathedral.
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You are a walking cathedral.
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God wanted to live in
you and does live in you.
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And the spirit of God in
you is yearning for you.
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He's saying, give me more of
yourself, surrender to me.
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And as you make that trade,
as you surrender more
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of yourself to him, he fills
you with more of himself.
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And that has everything to do
with the spirit-filled life.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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This is Rick Renner and somebody has asked the question,
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What does it mean to be born again?
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Well, that is a very fundamental and important question,
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and we find that phrase - born again - in John 3:
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3, when Jesus was speaking
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to a religious man named Nicodemus.
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And Jesus answered
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and said unto him, verily,
verily I say unto thee,
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accept a man be born again,
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he cannot see the kingdom of God.
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Nicodemus was perplexed by this
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and he actually said, well,
how can you when you're old,
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reenter your mother's
womb and be born again?
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And Jesus said - no, no, no Nicodemus. In life,
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there are two births.
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There's the natural birth you
receive when you're born from
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your mother's womb,
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but then later in life
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When God's spirit literally comes into you
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and your human spirit is
awakened and it is born again
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and you become alive to God, that's
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what it means to be born
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing inside the Partner Care
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Department of our ministry.
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And this is where the action takes place.
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Thousands of phone calls every day
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and every month come into
this place from people
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reaching out to us.
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And this is my precious
mother who is in heaven
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and she established this
part of the ministry.
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But these are the principles we are dedicated to:
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To fees the entire flock God has brought to this ministry.
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To strengthen those who are dis-eased in any area
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of their lives. To bring healing to those in need
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of any type of healing. To bind up those
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who are broken in any area of their lives.
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To bring back those that have been driven away.
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To reach the lost. and to take the gospel
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and the trusted teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the earth. To shepherd the flock that God has caused
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to hear the voice of this ministry
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and to help them grow in their relationship with Christ
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and become powerful Bible-based believers equipped
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for these last days.
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And - To thank and minister
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to partners whose sacrificial gifts have enabled this
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ministry to fulfill his call around the world.
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And we are very committed to these principles.
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And if you're a partner, you know we're very
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serious about that.
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But hey, right now we're trying to pay off this facility
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and those who are part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project are helping us to do that.
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And if you're a part already, thank you.
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But if you're not part of that Giving Team yet, we need you.
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So would you please become a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Giving Team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and then keep taking the gospel to the ends of the Earth
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where people really are crying out for someone
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to bring them trusted teaching of the Bible.
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And that's us, that's our call
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and my friends together, we can do this.
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And I want to say thank you so much
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today.
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We've been looking at the fact
that when we were born again,
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we were sealed with the spirit of promise.
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That is Ephesians 1:13.
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Then we saw James 4:5.
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Then when the Holy Spirit came into us at the new birth,
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he didn't come in as a guest to come and go.
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He's not a transient.
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He came in as a permanent end dweller
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and created within us
something so magnificent
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that he really wanted to live in us.
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And as a permanent indweller inside us,
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he's yearning for us.
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He's pining for us.
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He wants more and more and
more of us and our friends.
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Our job is to surrender to him.
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But all of this is just
a tiny little piece
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of the series called
The Spirit Filled Life,
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which comes with the study guide.
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And I want you to also
be sure to get my book,
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which is called, My Spirit Empowered Day.
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God wants every day of
your life to be empowered
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by the Holy Spirit.
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And the Holy Spirit is crying
out to you right now saying,
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give me more of yourself.
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So let's pray. Holy
Spirit, we surrender to you
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as you reveal the areas of our
life that are in our control
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but you want the control,
help us to surrender.
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And as we surrender to you, we
ask you to fill us with more
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of yourself and with more of your power.
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In Jesus' name - amen.
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I'll be back again tomorrow
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and tomorrow is gonna be so encouraging.
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Please don't miss it.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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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. Thank you
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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.