WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.311 --> 00:00:02.412 Well, everybody, we are going to have a good time. 2 00:00:02.452 --> 00:00:03.352 It's going to go quick. 3 00:00:03.372 --> 00:00:07.594 I got to warn you right now because we're going to be talking about the missing link. 4 00:00:08.535 --> 00:00:13.417 Yeah, the missing link, not the Darwinian missing link, which is actually a joke. 5 00:00:13.477 --> 00:00:15.277 I'd love to talk about that some other time. 6 00:00:16.318 --> 00:00:21.160 Just this to say, there is no missing link in the evolutionary theory. 7 00:00:21.860 --> 00:00:23.081 There's no chain. 8 00:00:24.401 --> 00:00:26.362 But again, that's for some other time. 9 00:00:26.781 --> 00:00:39.465 We're gonna be talking about the actual true missing link in the Christian experience, in the believer's life, from private life to public life to worship life. 10 00:00:39.525 --> 00:00:45.888 Listen to this, the missing link to what makes a church a New Testament church. 11 00:00:46.048 --> 00:00:50.509 Hear me out, there are a lot of churches in the world. 12 00:00:50.709 --> 00:00:52.570 Not all of them are New Testament churches. 13 00:00:52.690 --> 00:00:55.351 In fact, I would venture to say, 14 00:00:56.680 --> 00:01:03.486 And this is one reporter's opinion that there are very few New Testament churches. 15 00:01:04.467 --> 00:01:17.919 And when you look at the requirements of the New Testament church and the doctrines of the Bible that they are to hold to, that defines a New Testament church. 16 00:01:19.249 --> 00:01:24.012 A 501c3 does not make a church an actual church. 17 00:01:24.712 --> 00:01:42.702 A pastor, board of elders, membership, non-membership, denomination, non-denomination, none of those things make a church, a convocation of people, a New Testament church. 18 00:01:43.162 --> 00:01:44.683 What makes a church? 19 00:01:45.293 --> 00:01:50.356 a New Testament church is outlined throughout the entire New Testament, obviously. 20 00:01:51.376 --> 00:02:00.721 From Matthew 1, verse 1, all the way through to the closing verses of Revelation 22. 21 00:02:00.741 --> 00:02:02.822 I believe it's chapter 13. 22 00:02:03.443 --> 00:02:06.905 I'm losing my memory right now, but Revelation 22. 23 00:02:07.685 --> 00:02:08.966 That's a New Testament church. 24 00:02:09.006 --> 00:02:10.166 For example, baptism. 25 00:02:12.573 --> 00:02:15.575 There's doctrines regarding baptism. 26 00:02:16.316 --> 00:02:20.779 But if you're listening carefully, you should come back to me and say, which baptism? 27 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:22.560 Good question. 28 00:02:22.940 --> 00:02:24.942 There's the baptism of water. 29 00:02:25.142 --> 00:02:27.143 There's the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 30 00:02:27.824 --> 00:02:34.128 There's the baptism of the Spirit of God into a believer's life. 31 00:02:34.248 --> 00:02:36.950 And then there's the baptism that Jesus Christ performs. 32 00:02:37.110 --> 00:02:37.871 Oh, yes, he does. 33 00:02:39.083 --> 00:02:46.545 1 Corinthians chapter 12, Jesus Christ performs the baptism of the Holy Spirit upon a person's life. 34 00:02:46.965 --> 00:02:49.785 John chapter 14, John chapter 16, and others. 35 00:02:50.545 --> 00:02:54.526 So, the missing link, you say, well, Jack, what's the missing link in the New Testament church? 36 00:02:55.327 --> 00:02:55.967 I'll give you a clue. 37 00:02:56.107 --> 00:03:05.289 The missing link was deliberately missing throughout the entire Old Testament era. 38 00:03:09.223 --> 00:03:19.048 The missing link did not appear, arrive, as you and I know, until the day of Pentecost. 39 00:03:20.829 --> 00:03:32.635 The missing link to the believer's life, including Abraham, including David, that missing link was the Holy Spirit indwelling the believer. 40 00:03:33.617 --> 00:03:46.001 So in our, you know, graphics of this podcast, the missing link, you know, I don't know what our great, wonderful, gifted guys are going to make this look like, but I'm going to assume they're going to use something like the missing link. 41 00:03:46.721 --> 00:03:50.562 The missing link is not missing. 42 00:03:51.803 --> 00:03:53.923 The missing link is ignored. 43 00:03:54.364 --> 00:03:57.264 The missing link is not an it, a thing. 44 00:03:58.465 --> 00:04:01.506 The missing link is the person. 45 00:04:02.503 --> 00:04:16.750 of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, New Testament, very different than the Old Testament, and the missing link is the Holy Spirit absent from a church gathering. 46 00:04:17.891 --> 00:04:26.495 When you go to church, I don't want to get too mystical here, but I mean what I'm about to say, and I know this. 47 00:04:26.935 --> 00:04:27.596 Maybe you do too. 48 00:04:28.156 --> 00:04:31.638 When the Holy Spirit is moving somewhere, 49 00:04:33.274 --> 00:04:43.119 let's say a church, you can almost sense the Holy Spirit's presence when you pull into the parking lot, even though you may have never been there before. 50 00:04:43.339 --> 00:04:44.400 Something will be different. 51 00:04:44.440 --> 00:04:47.781 There'll be a strange sense of discernment in the life of the believer. 52 00:04:48.182 --> 00:04:51.884 Hey, wow, what's going, something's up here. 53 00:04:52.164 --> 00:04:59.648 And you walk into that church service with your spiritual radar on because you're judging all things based upon Acts 17, 11? 54 00:05:01.695 --> 00:05:04.936 and you begin to discern the Spirit of God is in this place. 55 00:05:06.077 --> 00:05:09.418 There are people rejoicing in righteousness. 56 00:05:09.798 --> 00:05:13.159 You can see there's people that are wholly dedicated to God here. 57 00:05:14.900 --> 00:05:16.360 Christ is being exalted. 58 00:05:16.380 --> 00:05:22.522 The fruit of the Spirit is being witnessed in the congregants' lives. 59 00:05:22.982 --> 00:05:28.925 How we were greeted, how we were ministered to, or even dealt with. 60 00:05:28.985 --> 00:05:29.745 What if there's some... 61 00:05:30.786 --> 00:05:34.047 rogue, crazy person that shows up to disrupt. 62 00:05:34.867 --> 00:05:38.648 And the body of Christ even deals with them in a spirit-filled way. 63 00:05:39.828 --> 00:05:41.228 That shouldn't surprise you, by the way. 64 00:05:41.308 --> 00:05:44.949 Jesus had to deal with that for three and a half years in his earthly ministry. 65 00:05:45.449 --> 00:05:53.231 Wherever the work of God is happening, the church is going to experience infiltration of the enemy. 66 00:05:53.571 --> 00:05:55.032 And you should be able to feel a difference. 67 00:05:55.612 --> 00:05:56.272 You should feel it. 68 00:05:57.809 --> 00:06:00.290 I've been to churches before where I've been asked to speak. 69 00:06:01.310 --> 00:06:05.031 And I got to tell you, and no, I'm not going to name them. 70 00:06:06.771 --> 00:06:08.931 I couldn't wait to get on an airplane to get out of there. 71 00:06:09.351 --> 00:06:11.852 It's like, man, what a dead place. 72 00:06:11.892 --> 00:06:13.392 I don't even know why they invited me. 73 00:06:13.872 --> 00:06:14.812 This was bizarre. 74 00:06:16.453 --> 00:06:17.853 Dry bones, you know what I'm saying? 75 00:06:18.013 --> 00:06:19.173 Crazy, weird, bizarre. 76 00:06:19.713 --> 00:06:22.214 So what's the missing link in your life, maybe? 77 00:06:22.234 --> 00:06:22.374 Maybe. 78 00:06:23.110 --> 00:06:27.453 I hope it's not your life, but in the life of the church, number one, you caught it. 79 00:06:28.074 --> 00:06:28.514 You got him. 80 00:06:28.814 --> 00:06:29.695 It's the Holy Spirit. 81 00:06:29.775 --> 00:06:31.316 And the number one thing is this, everybody. 82 00:06:31.636 --> 00:06:32.237 Mark this down. 83 00:06:32.257 --> 00:06:33.938 Please check this out. 84 00:06:34.698 --> 00:06:35.839 Drum roll, please. 85 00:06:38.301 --> 00:06:38.881 He's holy. 86 00:06:40.102 --> 00:06:44.025 The Bible says he is the Holy Spirit. 87 00:06:45.486 --> 00:06:50.890 Immediately separating the Holy Spirit of God apart from all other spirits, he's 88 00:06:52.671 --> 00:06:59.713 And because he is the Holy Spirit, definite article, there is no Holy Spirit like him. 89 00:06:59.873 --> 00:07:01.553 There is not a Holy Spirit. 90 00:07:02.273 --> 00:07:03.914 There are not those Holy Spirits. 91 00:07:04.714 --> 00:07:06.434 There are not them Holy Spirits. 92 00:07:07.074 --> 00:07:12.016 It is the singular, no other, one and only Holy Spirit. 93 00:07:12.456 --> 00:07:14.056 And he is holy. 94 00:07:14.196 --> 00:07:15.476 Write this down if you would, please. 95 00:07:15.856 --> 00:07:16.737 Isaiah 63, verse 10. 96 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:24.520 Holy Spirit. 97 00:07:25.582 --> 00:07:26.424 So he turned... 98 00:07:28.668 --> 00:07:36.210 or he himself turned against them as an enemy, and he fought against them. 99 00:07:37.091 --> 00:07:45.413 Some of your Bibles read, they made angry the Holy Spirit of God, and he turned upon them and became their enemy. 100 00:07:45.853 --> 00:07:54.896 The Holy Spirit is holy, and when we rebel against him, when we are disobedient to him, doesn't matter if you're a believer or an unbeliever, 101 00:07:55.727 --> 00:07:56.607 He's holy. 102 00:07:57.007 --> 00:08:16.030 Whenever he is violated, insulted, when he is abused, when the Holy Spirit is misunderstood because of bad teaching or no teaching, or you and I failing to read our Bible to learn about him, he's grieved. 103 00:08:16.430 --> 00:08:20.771 The Bible says in the New Testament, grieve not the Holy Spirit. 104 00:08:26.233 --> 00:08:34.178 The Bible says, Peter says, Why have you conspired in your hearts to sin against God? 105 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:39.902 For you have not only lied unto men, but you have lied unto God. 106 00:08:40.903 --> 00:08:43.365 And you've lied to the Holy Spirit. 107 00:08:44.225 --> 00:08:45.046 The Holy Spirit. 108 00:08:45.706 --> 00:08:46.307 He's holy. 109 00:08:47.398 --> 00:08:48.599 And so you don't want to grieve him. 110 00:08:49.119 --> 00:08:50.120 You don't want to upset him. 111 00:08:50.540 --> 00:08:53.282 Believer, and only the believers know what I'm talking about. 112 00:08:53.302 --> 00:08:55.924 Wherever you and I go, have you noticed who's there with you? 113 00:08:56.824 --> 00:08:57.605 The Holy Spirit. 114 00:08:59.146 --> 00:09:02.808 You can't, listen, you can try to pull a Jonah and run. 115 00:09:03.288 --> 00:09:03.809 Can't do it. 116 00:09:04.709 --> 00:09:07.371 You can, some of you have been in the pit of despair. 117 00:09:08.031 --> 00:09:11.113 So filled with depression, so filled with anguish. 118 00:09:11.494 --> 00:09:12.454 You didn't want to live anymore. 119 00:09:13.015 --> 00:09:14.376 You got in your car and you drove. 120 00:09:14.396 --> 00:09:15.016 Yeah. 121 00:09:15.217 --> 00:09:16.377 and you didn't care if you died. 122 00:09:16.397 --> 00:09:21.018 You deliberately didn't even put on your seatbelt because you had so given up. 123 00:09:21.058 --> 00:09:23.939 You had just said, if I die tonight, anything's better. 124 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.940 If I die, I'm going to go see Jesus, but I don't want this life. 125 00:09:28.380 --> 00:09:29.120 Whatever it might be. 126 00:09:29.340 --> 00:09:42.423 Maybe you lost a bunch of money in a bad deal, and you wound up opening the window, and you stood out on the balcony, and you concluded, I'm more worth to my family if I slip off this balcony 127 00:09:44.328 --> 00:09:44.888 But you didn't. 128 00:09:45.989 --> 00:09:48.050 The Holy Spirit was speaking to you, wasn't he? 129 00:09:49.411 --> 00:10:06.101 Or maybe you committed some sin somewhere and you immediately felt swallowed by condemnation and you were convinced in your mind that as a believer in committing this sin that you're going to be going straight to hell. 130 00:10:07.422 --> 00:10:10.244 And you heard the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit of God. 131 00:10:11.444 --> 00:10:12.005 He's holy. 132 00:10:12.025 --> 00:10:12.745 He's holy. 133 00:10:12.927 --> 00:10:14.147 Isaiah 63.10. 134 00:10:15.268 --> 00:10:18.228 He is God, as I made reference a moment ago. 135 00:10:19.849 --> 00:10:29.391 Acts chapter 5, verse 3 and 5 goes to what we're saying earlier again, but I also want to throw in Genesis chapter 1, verses 1, 2, and 3. 136 00:10:29.851 --> 00:10:32.032 Look for the Holy Spirit being God. 137 00:10:32.732 --> 00:10:32.992 Okay? 138 00:10:34.250 --> 00:10:36.811 But we go to Acts chapter 5, verse 3 and 4. 139 00:10:36.831 --> 00:10:43.954 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 140 00:10:44.555 --> 00:10:47.036 While it remained, was it not your own? 141 00:10:47.296 --> 00:10:49.817 And after it was sold, was it still not in your control? 142 00:10:50.177 --> 00:10:52.418 Why have you then conceived this thing in your heart? 143 00:10:52.838 --> 00:10:55.399 You have not lied to men, but to God. 144 00:10:55.419 --> 00:10:59.421 They lied to God, the Holy Spirit. 145 00:11:00.221 --> 00:11:00.942 He is God. 146 00:11:04.743 --> 00:11:12.626 The creation construction was overseen by Jesus Christ himself. 147 00:11:12.846 --> 00:11:20.930 Genesis chapter 1, the Bible tells us, both Old and New Testament, that Christ was the creator. 148 00:11:21.070 --> 00:11:24.751 By the word of God, all things were framed and created. 149 00:11:25.632 --> 00:11:31.434 But in the Genesis account, you read about the Holy Spirit brooding over the face of the waters. 150 00:11:33.681 --> 00:11:48.827 The word brooding is indicative of Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit at creation being one, of course, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, that the Spirit of God was the... 151 00:11:51.628 --> 00:11:59.634 The action, the activity to the creation overseen by Jesus Christ, the carpenter. 152 00:12:00.655 --> 00:12:01.956 If you want to look at it that way. 153 00:12:02.616 --> 00:12:05.598 Number three, the Holy Spirit is personal. 154 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:08.000 The Holy Spirit has a personality. 155 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:08.761 He's personal. 156 00:12:09.041 --> 00:12:12.704 In fact, listen, you have a personality. 157 00:12:13.284 --> 00:12:14.365 I have a personality. 158 00:12:14.765 --> 00:12:19.769 Can I insert this coming in from the side? 159 00:12:20.369 --> 00:12:21.250 Let's get this straight. 160 00:12:23.027 --> 00:12:31.182 Your personality is different than anyone else's personality on earth, though there may be some similarities of people that you might know. 161 00:12:31.984 --> 00:12:33.046 Does it make them you? 162 00:12:33.627 --> 00:12:35.089 You are uniquely you. 163 00:12:36.407 --> 00:12:38.848 I don't need to get into the cute stuff about the snowflake. 164 00:12:38.888 --> 00:12:43.050 There's only one snowflake, and there will never again a snowflake like that one. 165 00:12:43.530 --> 00:12:49.973 And the same is true about our eye pattern, eye signature, eye recognition. 166 00:12:50.694 --> 00:12:55.016 People might be close, but no one's exactly like you, like me, completely different. 167 00:12:55.436 --> 00:12:55.816 Guess what? 168 00:12:55.856 --> 00:12:56.856 You have a personality. 169 00:12:57.057 --> 00:13:04.200 Did you know that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins to change you from... 170 00:13:05.021 --> 00:13:21.510 a dead creature into a living creature, to take what was old and make new, to take a broken, destroyed, rejected human and make you a new creation in Christ. 171 00:13:22.491 --> 00:13:26.113 Jesus died on the cross for your sins, not your personality. 172 00:13:26.193 --> 00:13:34.538 You do not need to walk around and ask people to forgive you because you're quiet or you're extrovert or you're somewhere in between. 173 00:13:35.721 --> 00:13:40.565 Okay, it's what you do with your personality that makes it sin or not. 174 00:13:41.546 --> 00:13:45.689 But your personality, stop trying to be somebody else. 175 00:13:46.189 --> 00:13:54.015 Why don't you be and find out who he wants you to be as you've been created in Christ? 176 00:13:55.857 --> 00:13:58.719 You have a personality because God the Holy Spirit is, 177 00:13:59.703 --> 00:14:00.604 has a personality. 178 00:14:01.485 --> 00:14:02.786 Jesus has a personality. 179 00:14:03.266 --> 00:14:04.747 The Father has a personality. 180 00:14:05.228 --> 00:14:07.109 That's why you and I have a personality. 181 00:14:07.930 --> 00:14:08.210 Okay? 182 00:14:09.171 --> 00:14:10.372 It's amazing to think. 183 00:14:11.814 --> 00:14:12.074 Wow. 184 00:14:13.915 --> 00:14:14.936 So yeah, he's personal. 185 00:14:15.116 --> 00:14:23.504 Ephesians chapter 4, verse 30, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 186 00:14:24.810 --> 00:14:41.240 The Holy Spirit's job in his personal work is to sow, save you, and to seal you, and to keep you, and to make you one with the Father and one with the Son. 187 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:42.901 That's his job. 188 00:14:44.842 --> 00:14:46.243 And how does he do that? 189 00:14:47.824 --> 00:14:52.327 Your relationship with the Holy Spirit is your preeminent number one 190 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:59.587 door to the Father and to the Son when it comes to the work of God in our lives. 191 00:15:01.129 --> 00:15:03.732 So, God the Father sent the Son, 192 00:15:05.063 --> 00:15:10.467 The Son showed us the keeping of the law, which only He could do, and you cannot, nor can I. 193 00:15:11.127 --> 00:15:17.591 He lived a perfect life, satisfied the demands of God's holiness and righteousness by the law, fulfilling that. 194 00:15:17.991 --> 00:15:23.315 But then He took upon Himself all of our sins, and He died in the body. 195 00:15:23.335 --> 00:15:28.698 And then on the third day, He was resurrected again by the power of the Holy Spirit. 196 00:15:30.179 --> 00:15:34.242 And from that moment on, Christ Jesus, after His ascension, 197 00:15:35.297 --> 00:15:44.204 went back to heaven, and then on Pentecost, 50 days, on the 50th day, he sent his Holy Spirit. 198 00:15:44.544 --> 00:15:48.967 And the Holy Spirit has been here ever since, coming up on 2,000 years, right? 199 00:15:49.868 --> 00:15:51.629 I mean, yeah, surpassing 2,000 years. 200 00:15:51.990 --> 00:15:53.331 The Holy Spirit has been here. 201 00:15:54.231 --> 00:15:58.094 Christ is coming back because Christ is not here right now. 202 00:15:59.335 --> 00:16:00.496 Not physically, right? 203 00:16:01.058 --> 00:16:04.423 So how does God dwell around us, with us, in us? 204 00:16:05.044 --> 00:16:06.146 The Holy Spirit. 205 00:16:06.567 --> 00:16:06.987 That's how. 206 00:16:07.808 --> 00:16:12.756 And, you know, obviously, you guys, I'm giving you a little primer here. 207 00:16:13.457 --> 00:16:15.039 You should do a word study. 208 00:16:15.300 --> 00:16:15.901 Please do this. 209 00:16:17.123 --> 00:16:17.983 a word study. 210 00:16:18.443 --> 00:16:20.564 Do a word study on the Holy Spirit. 211 00:16:21.244 --> 00:16:25.445 Do a biographical study, as it were, on the person of the Holy Spirit throughout the entire Bible. 212 00:16:25.805 --> 00:16:32.227 It will bless you beyond your imagination, and it will probably take you a couple of months, and boy will your faith expand. 213 00:16:32.467 --> 00:16:33.267 It'll be amazing. 214 00:16:36.488 --> 00:16:38.609 So, listen, number four, He's the indweller. 215 00:16:38.709 --> 00:16:39.649 Mentioned that a moment ago. 216 00:16:40.589 --> 00:16:43.370 Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the Father indwells us 217 00:16:44.882 --> 00:16:57.590 although you can go to John chapter 10 and it alludes to this reality, but nowhere does it say as a doctrine, and then the Father will dwell within you. 218 00:16:58.871 --> 00:17:02.354 Somebody might try to make the case in John chapter 10 for this, but just hold on. 219 00:17:03.995 --> 00:17:08.378 You can't make the case that Jesus Christ dwells within you, although... 220 00:17:09.227 --> 00:17:10.388 I'll make my point in a moment. 221 00:17:10.768 --> 00:17:13.810 Somebody could say, but wait a minute, what about this and what about that? 222 00:17:13.891 --> 00:17:14.791 I'm not arguing with you. 223 00:17:15.352 --> 00:17:22.417 There's a way in which a Sunday school child is correct no matter which way their finger goes. 224 00:17:22.597 --> 00:17:23.578 Meaning this, watch this. 225 00:17:25.780 --> 00:17:31.564 If I'm in the pulpit and I ask the congregation, where's Jesus Christ? 226 00:17:31.684 --> 00:17:32.565 Point with your finger. 227 00:17:33.547 --> 00:17:37.611 the entire adult congregation will go like this. 228 00:17:38.011 --> 00:17:39.692 They'll raise their finger upward. 229 00:17:41.454 --> 00:17:56.347 But if that exact same question is asked to all of the children on campus who are in their class at the same time mom and dad is in the adult class, that's how we do things here at this particular church where I'm pastor. 230 00:17:56.787 --> 00:17:58.288 We don't have a Sunday school program. 231 00:17:58.649 --> 00:17:59.970 The whole thing is a Sunday school. 232 00:18:00.790 --> 00:18:07.714 The kids are being taught at the exact same time that the adults are being taught, but all of them in different sanctuaries at their level. 233 00:18:09.675 --> 00:18:10.135 Doctrine. 234 00:18:11.216 --> 00:18:15.018 That said, hey kids, where's Jesus? 235 00:18:16.059 --> 00:18:17.399 Most kids don't go like this. 236 00:18:17.780 --> 00:18:18.860 Most kids don't point up. 237 00:18:19.761 --> 00:18:20.821 Most kids go like this. 238 00:18:22.862 --> 00:18:23.683 They point to their heart. 239 00:18:24.563 --> 00:18:25.164 Who's right? 240 00:18:26.104 --> 00:18:26.685 Who's wrong? 241 00:18:28.466 --> 00:18:29.206 All of them are right. 242 00:18:30.905 --> 00:18:31.566 All of them are right. 243 00:18:31.666 --> 00:18:37.431 You say, wait a minute, how can Jesus be in heaven, enthroned above, and he's going to come back if he's already here? 244 00:18:38.091 --> 00:18:39.793 Ah, good question, good observation. 245 00:18:40.393 --> 00:18:47.239 You see, the parents are right, the adults are right, because Christ is enthroned above with the Father. 246 00:18:48.120 --> 00:18:49.140 He is coming back. 247 00:18:51.582 --> 00:18:58.048 But it's also true that he dwells within us by the Holy Spirit. 248 00:18:59.721 --> 00:19:02.843 That's what the scriptures teach us. 249 00:19:03.183 --> 00:19:05.885 1 Corinthians 6, verse 19. 250 00:19:05.905 --> 00:19:11.608 By the way, read John 14 and read John 15 and John 16. 251 00:19:12.148 --> 00:19:14.329 1 Corinthians 6, verse 19. 252 00:19:14.750 --> 00:19:23.635 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you're not your own? 253 00:19:25.776 --> 00:19:28.779 The Holy Spirit dwells within every true believer. 254 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:33.783 Friend, listen, I don't mean to freak you out about this, but this is going to hit you right between the eyes. 255 00:19:33.943 --> 00:19:34.483 How do I know? 256 00:19:34.844 --> 00:19:36.945 Because I remember when I got hit right between the eyes. 257 00:19:37.806 --> 00:19:45.432 I remember being a Christian, but not being confident or comfortable about me going to heaven. 258 00:19:46.305 --> 00:19:56.210 I was still feeling a lot of condemnation because if I were God, I wouldn't forgive me, but I misunderstood what the gospel really meant. 259 00:19:56.970 --> 00:19:58.451 And God is so patient and kind. 260 00:19:58.491 --> 00:20:01.512 He puts up with us so patiently, right? 261 00:20:02.913 --> 00:20:10.316 So all that to say this, that when we grow up in Jesus, there comes a point when we actually believe him. 262 00:20:12.097 --> 00:20:14.198 We stop trying to argue our own case 263 00:20:15.830 --> 00:20:18.551 either for or against ourselves, we don't argue. 264 00:20:18.972 --> 00:20:23.554 Now, for us at all, we've surrendered to the facts. 265 00:20:24.334 --> 00:20:25.295 And the facts are these. 266 00:20:26.735 --> 00:20:31.598 Every true child of God, the Holy Spirit dwells within them. 267 00:20:33.058 --> 00:20:38.001 And the Holy Spirit dwelling within you bears witness with His Spirit. 268 00:20:38.541 --> 00:20:39.682 That's the Holy Spirit. 269 00:20:40.462 --> 00:20:44.264 Our Spirit, in other words, the redeemed Jack, the new Jack, 270 00:20:45.432 --> 00:20:56.559 reaches over and shakes the hand of the Holy Spirit inside of me, so to speak, and my spirit bears witness with his spirit that I am a child of God. 271 00:20:57.140 --> 00:20:57.980 So says the Bible. 272 00:20:58.160 --> 00:20:58.761 Did you get that? 273 00:20:59.581 --> 00:21:00.502 It's personal. 274 00:21:00.902 --> 00:21:01.703 He's holy. 275 00:21:02.063 --> 00:21:02.844 He's God. 276 00:21:03.284 --> 00:21:04.345 He indwells. 277 00:21:05.265 --> 00:21:05.946 He's amazing. 278 00:21:06.526 --> 00:21:07.206 He's awesome. 279 00:21:08.707 --> 00:21:09.288 Number five, 280 00:21:10.733 --> 00:21:14.157 Forgive my English, but I'm going to put it this way. 281 00:21:14.817 --> 00:21:15.598 The convictor. 282 00:21:16.078 --> 00:21:17.139 He's the convictor. 283 00:21:18.861 --> 00:21:22.444 John chapter 16, verse 8, the Bible says, Jesus is speaking. 284 00:21:23.125 --> 00:21:26.088 And when he has come, notice personal pronoun. 285 00:21:26.768 --> 00:21:27.789 The Holy Spirit is a he. 286 00:21:27.870 --> 00:21:28.210 He is a he. 287 00:21:29.453 --> 00:21:36.355 When he has come, he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. 288 00:21:36.735 --> 00:21:44.157 The Holy Spirit is convicting people of sin, believers and unbelievers. 289 00:21:46.558 --> 00:21:47.278 That's powerful. 290 00:21:47.418 --> 00:21:48.078 Think about that. 291 00:21:48.138 --> 00:21:51.539 I'm hoping to remember a verse in a moment before I wrap this up. 292 00:21:53.460 --> 00:21:57.181 And that verse, in case I forget, I'll just tell you that Jesus... 293 00:21:58.717 --> 00:22:05.259 told the Pharisees and the scribes that, you know, you guys can be, my Father will forgive you guys for all your stupidness. 294 00:22:06.320 --> 00:22:10.801 My Father will forgive you guys for being absolute spiritual bozos. 295 00:22:12.202 --> 00:22:13.462 I'll forgive you for that. 296 00:22:14.783 --> 00:22:26.847 But if you die like this, in this condition you're in, if you die believing that the Father did not send me, the Father's willing to be lenient on you, and so am I. 297 00:22:27.688 --> 00:22:28.989 But you got a problem. 298 00:22:31.030 --> 00:22:44.380 If you believe that and you die like that, if you die rejecting the witness of the Holy Spirit that the Father sent the Son, there is no forgiveness for you in this world, Jesus said, or in the world to come. 299 00:22:46.001 --> 00:22:46.202 Why? 300 00:22:46.642 --> 00:22:48.363 Because you've sinned against the Holy Spirit. 301 00:22:49.364 --> 00:22:50.725 That is the unpardonable sin. 302 00:22:50.745 --> 00:22:50.825 Why? 303 00:22:53.555 --> 00:23:02.959 There's some Pentecostals out there watching right now or some Southern Baptists, and they're saying, I thought smoking, I thought if I smoked, I was going to go to hell. 304 00:23:02.999 --> 00:23:05.140 No, when you go to hell, that's when you smoke. 305 00:23:08.021 --> 00:23:10.623 Well, suicide, that's the unpardonable sin. 306 00:23:10.883 --> 00:23:13.884 It doesn't say that in the Bible, as terrible as that is. 307 00:23:16.325 --> 00:23:18.546 The unpardonable sin is not tithing. 308 00:23:19.547 --> 00:23:20.547 You got to tithe. 309 00:23:21.848 --> 00:23:22.628 That's not either. 310 00:23:24.495 --> 00:23:26.556 The unpardonable sin is not keeping the Sabbath. 311 00:23:27.877 --> 00:23:36.520 We should all obey the Sabbath when it comes to our own personal benefit out of the love of God, but our Sabbath as a Christian is every day of the week, friend. 312 00:23:36.980 --> 00:23:38.061 Why limit it to one day? 313 00:23:38.841 --> 00:23:40.482 But that's not the unpardonable sin. 314 00:23:40.922 --> 00:23:48.265 Did you know the unpardonable sin is not listening to the Holy Spirit as to what he says about who Jesus Christ is? 315 00:23:50.766 --> 00:23:51.627 The unpardonable sin. 316 00:23:53.027 --> 00:23:54.288 But that's not what I'm talking about right now. 317 00:23:56.299 --> 00:23:59.841 He convicts the world of sin and of judgment. 318 00:23:59.861 --> 00:24:00.882 He's the convictor. 319 00:24:03.043 --> 00:24:09.287 You and I don't need to point people's sins out because they're failing. 320 00:24:11.309 --> 00:24:16.072 You and I are supposed to spend more time in prayer for them than we ever would speaking about them. 321 00:24:17.052 --> 00:24:17.312 Why? 322 00:24:17.553 --> 00:24:19.934 Because only the Holy Spirit can convict them. 323 00:24:20.134 --> 00:24:20.554 You can't. 324 00:24:20.735 --> 00:24:21.135 I cannot. 325 00:24:25.277 --> 00:24:25.999 That's number five. 326 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:28.686 Number six is the Holy Spirit is judge. 327 00:24:30.129 --> 00:24:30.891 He's the judge. 328 00:24:31.934 --> 00:24:33.257 Isaiah chapter 4, verse 4. 329 00:24:34.322 --> 00:24:50.047 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning. 330 00:24:50.627 --> 00:25:00.230 And the spirit in your Bible, Old Testament, Isaiah 4, verse 4, is capitalized for a reason because in the Hebrew language, it is referring to not an it, but aphel. 331 00:25:00.470 --> 00:25:04.655 the person of the Holy Spirit of God. 332 00:25:05.716 --> 00:25:06.417 He's the judge. 333 00:25:06.657 --> 00:25:09.119 Number seven, he's the sanctifier. 334 00:25:09.840 --> 00:25:10.681 I love this one. 335 00:25:11.742 --> 00:25:13.164 The Holy Spirit sanctifies. 336 00:25:13.945 --> 00:25:15.526 1 Peter 1, verse 2. 337 00:25:17.629 --> 00:25:21.393 Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God, that's speaking about us, 338 00:25:22.966 --> 00:25:23.446 That's one verse. 339 00:25:23.566 --> 00:25:25.467 1 Peter 1, verse 2 has the Trinity in it right there. 340 00:25:47.949 --> 00:25:55.552 And part of the sanctifying work of the believer is, of course, the Father and is, of course, the Son. 341 00:25:56.353 --> 00:26:12.500 But your relationship to God in this area, almost maybe being conservative here, I'm going to say all areas as a believer, all areas as a believer, is via the Holy Spirit. 342 00:26:14.215 --> 00:26:17.516 This is why so many people are anemic in their spiritual life. 343 00:26:17.956 --> 00:26:23.057 The missing link, it's not the link, it's the missing person. 344 00:26:24.037 --> 00:26:30.678 In your day-to-day life living Christian witness and experience is the Holy Spirit. 345 00:26:32.879 --> 00:26:39.780 When you read your Bible, you should get your coffee or your tea or whatever it is, and it's like this. 346 00:26:41.370 --> 00:26:43.311 Holy Spirit, I'm going to open up the Bible. 347 00:26:44.052 --> 00:26:45.313 I think you can pretty much see this. 348 00:26:45.333 --> 00:26:46.713 You know where we're going on this, Lord. 349 00:26:47.594 --> 00:26:53.998 And I'm going to ask you to unlock to me, Spirit of God, the understanding of the Word of God. 350 00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:57.761 Holy Spirit, you're the author of this book. 351 00:26:59.241 --> 00:27:01.403 It's all about exalting the Lord Jesus Christ. 352 00:27:02.424 --> 00:27:06.806 It's all about Jesus Christ leading us to the Father into heaven forever. 353 00:27:08.267 --> 00:27:09.468 It's all about daily living. 354 00:27:09.968 --> 00:27:10.789 So, Holy Spirit... 355 00:27:12.302 --> 00:27:13.402 You've authored this book. 356 00:27:14.502 --> 00:27:15.503 You dwell within me. 357 00:27:16.383 --> 00:27:25.725 Take this book that I'm about to read, this chapter of the Bible that I'm about to read, and cause it to be my life lived. 358 00:27:26.625 --> 00:27:27.705 In Jesus' name, amen. 359 00:27:28.465 --> 00:27:29.346 So, Lord, here we go. 360 00:27:30.426 --> 00:27:31.246 And you start reading. 361 00:27:32.846 --> 00:27:33.186 Wow. 362 00:27:34.487 --> 00:27:35.227 Watch what happens. 363 00:27:36.322 --> 00:27:37.984 Because he's all about sanctifying you. 364 00:27:38.844 --> 00:27:51.295 Sanctifying means he has, watch, he has taken you out of the world and he has put you in to the world of God, to the life of God, to the kingdom of his dear love, his son. 365 00:27:52.997 --> 00:27:54.658 And he does, Holy Spirit does that. 366 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:58.802 By the way, my cup right here is about three quarters full. 367 00:28:01.097 --> 00:28:14.339 But if we were to keep going on this, if we read John chapter 7, for example, you would find out that it's Jesus' will that the Holy Spirit be in you and overflowing out of you. 368 00:28:17.020 --> 00:28:28.062 And if the Holy Spirit is coming out of your life as a believer, other people around you are going to get wet with the witness of the Holy Spirit of God. 369 00:28:28.502 --> 00:28:29.142 Listen to this. 370 00:28:29.422 --> 00:28:30.742 He sanctifies you. 371 00:28:32.698 --> 00:28:34.199 That's the work of the Spirit. 372 00:28:34.219 --> 00:28:35.159 That's His job. 373 00:28:36.639 --> 00:28:50.244 Look, in God's amazing work, Jesus Christ was born into this world and for three and a half years showed us the kingdom of God and power and then went back to heaven. 374 00:28:51.184 --> 00:28:55.806 And then, as I said, 50 days later, He sends the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. 375 00:28:56.386 --> 00:29:01.308 The Spirit of God has been doing the work ever since. 376 00:29:03.042 --> 00:29:03.502 ever since. 377 00:29:03.622 --> 00:29:07.484 It's the Spirit of God who is or is not at your church. 378 00:29:07.764 --> 00:29:09.245 You say, well, the Spirit of God's everywhere. 379 00:29:09.645 --> 00:29:11.225 Yes, of course, He's everywhere. 380 00:29:11.265 --> 00:29:12.186 Yes, He's everywhere. 381 00:29:13.026 --> 00:29:14.467 Yes, He's at the strip club. 382 00:29:14.607 --> 00:29:15.947 Yes, He's at the Colosseum. 383 00:29:16.368 --> 00:29:17.588 Yes, He's in Congress. 384 00:29:17.788 --> 00:29:18.869 Yes, He's on the beach. 385 00:29:19.249 --> 00:29:21.390 Yes, the Spirit of God is everywhere. 386 00:29:21.850 --> 00:29:29.273 But that doesn't make everywhere sanctified by the Spirit of God, because He is where there's gross sin taking place. 387 00:29:30.073 --> 00:29:31.334 He's there doing the convicting. 388 00:29:32.277 --> 00:29:32.817 Remember that. 389 00:29:33.737 --> 00:29:36.418 But in the life of the believer, he's sanctifying us. 390 00:29:36.798 --> 00:29:51.223 He's taking me out of this belief system or this opinion or this worldview, and he's putting me into his worldview, his opinion, his way of thinking. 391 00:29:52.537 --> 00:29:54.058 In fact, we sum it up this way. 392 00:29:54.618 --> 00:30:00.802 After praying, we say, Lord, nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done. 393 00:30:01.142 --> 00:30:01.962 That's what we mean. 394 00:30:02.002 --> 00:30:03.223 That's what we're talking about doing. 395 00:30:03.863 --> 00:30:04.444 It's amazing. 396 00:30:04.484 --> 00:30:05.044 It's awesome. 397 00:30:05.544 --> 00:30:06.645 He is the sanctifier. 398 00:30:07.325 --> 00:30:09.867 He is the one that takes you out of the world. 399 00:30:09.887 --> 00:30:11.268 Oh, wait, let me put it this way. 400 00:30:13.909 --> 00:30:17.031 He takes you and he takes the world out of you. 401 00:30:18.045 --> 00:30:22.736 and he puts the Holy Spirit's power, Bible influence in you. 402 00:30:22.756 --> 00:30:27.006 And then being sanctified, he puts you back in the world. 403 00:30:28.690 --> 00:30:29.270 Isn't that amazing? 404 00:30:29.811 --> 00:30:41.298 He doesn't pull you out of the world and tell you, I want you to go to that monastery there in Italy or that monastery there in Morocco or that monastery there in South America. 405 00:30:41.678 --> 00:30:53.266 I want you to climb up to the top and I want you to take all your clothes off and put on this robe and sandals and put a bowl on your head and shave your hair. 406 00:30:54.506 --> 00:30:56.647 and be so sanctified. 407 00:30:57.227 --> 00:31:04.110 You're so dedicated to God that you sit up there in this tower and you never talk to another human being again. 408 00:31:04.310 --> 00:31:06.151 That's how dedicated you are to God. 409 00:31:06.911 --> 00:31:08.692 Listen, that's insane. 410 00:31:10.012 --> 00:31:15.534 How are you supposed to lead people to Christ when you're hiding out in a robe somewhere on a mountaintop? 411 00:31:16.474 --> 00:31:17.315 Get out of there. 412 00:31:18.335 --> 00:31:20.316 Get down to where the sinners are at. 413 00:31:21.377 --> 00:31:23.398 because you've been sanctified by the power of God. 414 00:31:23.538 --> 00:31:27.261 Go save somebody by giving them the gospel and show them the way. 415 00:31:27.281 --> 00:31:30.203 It's amazing. 416 00:31:32.424 --> 00:31:33.525 You say, I don't like what you're saying. 417 00:31:33.845 --> 00:31:34.746 Yes, you do. 418 00:31:35.726 --> 00:31:36.226 Yes, you do. 419 00:31:36.347 --> 00:31:39.989 You really do, because Jesus said it in Matthew 28. 420 00:31:41.670 --> 00:31:43.911 Starting at about verse 17, read to the end. 421 00:31:43.951 --> 00:31:49.435 Jesus said, okay, because you belong to me, here's the deal. 422 00:31:50.605 --> 00:31:51.426 I'll be back later. 423 00:31:52.466 --> 00:31:53.527 In the meantime, go to work. 424 00:31:54.508 --> 00:32:03.455 Go to all the ends of the earth, preach this gospel, and make converts, and disciple them. 425 00:32:04.396 --> 00:32:08.019 And the first step after you save them, baptize them. 426 00:32:09.420 --> 00:32:13.022 And then, as long as they're alive, disciple them. 427 00:32:13.543 --> 00:32:14.023 To do what? 428 00:32:14.564 --> 00:32:17.025 To go into all the world and preach the gospel, 429 00:32:17.904 --> 00:32:24.870 And those who accept Christ, have them baptize them, disciple them all the rest, all the days of their life. 430 00:32:26.031 --> 00:32:28.013 And what do we do after that? 431 00:32:28.654 --> 00:32:29.515 Go into all the world. 432 00:32:29.635 --> 00:32:30.555 Are you getting my point? 433 00:32:31.536 --> 00:32:32.597 Don't hide from the world. 434 00:32:32.797 --> 00:32:33.438 Get into it. 435 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:35.920 Because the world's been taken out of you. 436 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:36.741 You can do that. 437 00:32:36.921 --> 00:32:37.982 You know, we've been galvanized. 438 00:32:39.744 --> 00:32:40.484 We've been galvanized. 439 00:32:40.504 --> 00:32:41.645 Okay, I got this. 440 00:32:42.066 --> 00:32:42.466 What is this? 441 00:32:42.626 --> 00:32:44.048 I have a Columbia shirt on right now. 442 00:32:45.225 --> 00:32:45.826 outdoor shirt. 443 00:32:46.366 --> 00:32:48.908 I came from the outdoors, indoors to do this right now. 444 00:32:49.769 --> 00:32:57.675 So supposedly, right, if I believe the sales propaganda, supposedly this thing's like 100% UV protection. 445 00:32:59.156 --> 00:32:59.576 Really? 446 00:32:59.596 --> 00:33:05.281 I don't know if I believe that or not, but if it's 50%, that's pretty amazing. 447 00:33:06.482 --> 00:33:10.465 But I'm galvanized, are you following me with this analogy, against the sun. 448 00:33:10.485 --> 00:33:10.605 Right? 449 00:33:12.076 --> 00:33:12.536 S-U-N. 450 00:33:12.917 --> 00:33:18.421 I'm supposed to be protected with this shirt against harmful UV rays to some degree. 451 00:33:18.461 --> 00:33:21.884 I don't know how that's possible, but that's what the tag said. 452 00:33:23.085 --> 00:33:28.209 Well, in reality, you and I as believers, when the Holy Spirit indwells us, we're not fragile. 453 00:33:29.330 --> 00:33:31.852 Oh, now that I'm a Christian, you know. 454 00:33:33.093 --> 00:33:33.313 What? 455 00:33:35.795 --> 00:33:38.357 Everybody thinks that when they become a Christian, they should go work at a church. 456 00:33:38.377 --> 00:33:38.597 Right? 457 00:33:40.734 --> 00:33:41.774 I couldn't disagree more. 458 00:33:42.855 --> 00:33:45.436 When you become a Christian, you should go work at Google. 459 00:33:46.316 --> 00:33:50.777 You should go work at Joe's Tire or Betty's Bar and Grill. 460 00:33:51.798 --> 00:33:52.878 That's where Christians go? 461 00:33:56.819 --> 00:33:59.320 By the way, it's not easy. 462 00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:01.121 You think it's going to be easy working at a church? 463 00:34:02.201 --> 00:34:09.624 I'm convinced if you've got a spirit-filled, spirit, God-led Bible-teaching church that's making a difference, 464 00:34:10.589 --> 00:34:14.531 I think Satan walks around that church every day checking doorknobs. 465 00:34:15.651 --> 00:34:15.851 Why? 466 00:34:15.871 --> 00:34:17.492 Because he wants to destroy. 467 00:34:18.452 --> 00:34:19.452 And Christian, cheer up. 468 00:34:19.492 --> 00:34:20.473 We're galvanized. 469 00:34:20.693 --> 00:34:22.934 Satan cannot touch us without God's permission. 470 00:34:24.574 --> 00:34:25.575 To me, that is thrilling. 471 00:34:26.415 --> 00:34:29.436 We're invincible, as the Puritan divine said. 472 00:34:29.476 --> 00:34:31.897 We're invincible until Christ calls us home. 473 00:34:32.057 --> 00:34:32.597 I believe that. 474 00:34:33.298 --> 00:34:33.638 So, yep. 475 00:34:34.765 --> 00:34:35.506 We're sanctified. 476 00:34:35.626 --> 00:34:36.727 The elect is sanctified. 477 00:34:37.228 --> 00:34:40.451 And finally with this, he is the sealer. 478 00:34:41.553 --> 00:34:42.233 He's the seal. 479 00:34:44.976 --> 00:34:47.459 Seal like a sealer. 480 00:34:47.940 --> 00:34:48.981 Like a... 481 00:34:49.181 --> 00:34:49.882 I need to read the verse. 482 00:34:51.684 --> 00:34:52.705 Seal like a stamp. 483 00:34:53.666 --> 00:34:54.347 Seal like... 484 00:34:55.506 --> 00:34:55.866 mark. 485 00:34:56.727 --> 00:34:58.547 This is the seal of approval. 486 00:34:58.607 --> 00:35:03.470 This is the Underwriters Laboratory, the UL seal that's on all these devices. 487 00:35:03.710 --> 00:35:03.990 UL. 488 00:35:04.050 --> 00:35:08.412 You'll see on everything that's electronic or something like that, mechanical. 489 00:35:09.232 --> 00:35:09.693 UL. 490 00:35:09.873 --> 00:35:10.813 What is that UL? 491 00:35:10.833 --> 00:35:11.654 You ever wonder what that is? 492 00:35:12.154 --> 00:35:13.694 Underwriters Laboratory. 493 00:35:13.815 --> 00:35:14.415 What does that mean? 494 00:35:14.535 --> 00:35:18.757 It means that it's got, not only it has its patents, but it's safe to use. 495 00:35:19.317 --> 00:35:25.500 It's the underwriter's laboratory that says, for example, it's safe to use as long as you don't try to blow dry your hair in the bathtub. 496 00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:26.960 It's safe to use. 497 00:35:27.261 --> 00:35:28.001 That kind of stuff. 498 00:35:29.081 --> 00:35:30.562 Well, their seal's a big deal. 499 00:35:31.702 --> 00:35:36.224 If you don't have their seal, you're probably not going to do well in the marketplace. 500 00:35:37.945 --> 00:35:38.225 Okay? 501 00:35:39.426 --> 00:35:48.830 And you know what I'm talking about because I can take you right now to downtown L.A. And you can get a Gucci purse for 20 bucks. 502 00:35:51.276 --> 00:35:51.756 Legit. 503 00:35:52.957 --> 00:35:53.678 Legit. 504 00:35:54.198 --> 00:35:55.059 It says Gucci. 505 00:35:56.961 --> 00:35:58.102 It's got the mark on it. 506 00:35:59.643 --> 00:36:00.464 20 bucks, Gucci. 507 00:36:00.544 --> 00:36:02.025 It's normally 2,500 bucks. 508 00:36:02.786 --> 00:36:06.549 But for you, my friend, today, only today, for you, my friend, 20 bucks. 509 00:36:07.810 --> 00:36:08.610 Why is it 20 bucks? 510 00:36:09.671 --> 00:36:14.275 Because it has the markings of, but it's not sealed with. 511 00:36:15.997 --> 00:36:17.298 You can be religious, but... 512 00:36:18.451 --> 00:36:20.612 and have the markings of what? 513 00:36:20.692 --> 00:36:21.092 What are you? 514 00:36:21.953 --> 00:36:23.353 What are you, a Bapticostal? 515 00:36:23.813 --> 00:36:24.514 Are you a Lutheran? 516 00:36:24.574 --> 00:36:25.394 Are you a Presbyterian? 517 00:36:25.414 --> 00:36:26.855 Oh, I'm a Presbyterian. 518 00:36:27.295 --> 00:36:28.895 You think Jesus is a Presbyterian? 519 00:36:30.656 --> 00:36:31.477 I'm a Catholic. 520 00:36:31.957 --> 00:36:32.977 You think God's a Catholic? 521 00:36:35.398 --> 00:36:37.379 Listen, no. 522 00:36:39.040 --> 00:36:40.480 Well, Calvary Chapel. 523 00:36:41.021 --> 00:36:42.481 You think God's Calvary Chapel, dude? 524 00:36:43.342 --> 00:36:44.722 You think God's a Calvary Chapel God? 525 00:36:46.243 --> 00:36:46.423 Nope. 526 00:36:48.286 --> 00:36:49.867 Those are all created by man. 527 00:36:51.067 --> 00:36:51.507 All of them. 528 00:36:53.228 --> 00:36:55.049 The church was created by Jesus Christ. 529 00:36:56.650 --> 00:36:57.210 He bought it. 530 00:36:57.310 --> 00:36:58.010 He owns it. 531 00:36:59.011 --> 00:36:59.531 It's his. 532 00:37:01.292 --> 00:37:03.953 Not only that, when I say he owns it, read your Bible carefully. 533 00:37:04.573 --> 00:37:07.774 He bought the church out of slavery. 534 00:37:09.455 --> 00:37:12.857 And then put his mark upon her of ownership. 535 00:37:14.477 --> 00:37:15.718 You know, some of you have tattoos. 536 00:37:19.176 --> 00:37:23.979 that's kind of cute because most of you, I would assume, you got your tattoos because you decided to get your tattoos. 537 00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:35.484 But do you know there's gangs in the world that they mark their property with their logo of ownership? 538 00:37:35.984 --> 00:37:45.049 Did you know that they literally tattoo their women on the back of the neck or the back of the bum of ownership of this gang, of this group? 539 00:37:47.050 --> 00:37:47.670 We own her. 540 00:37:48.915 --> 00:37:49.735 We own them. 541 00:37:50.936 --> 00:37:54.017 Look, that kid, we owned him since he was five. 542 00:37:54.217 --> 00:37:57.918 We tattooed him with our mark. 543 00:37:59.018 --> 00:37:59.778 Isn't it interesting? 544 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:08.561 Satan's going to try to mark, tattoo his followers through the mark of the beast. 545 00:38:09.461 --> 00:38:16.804 Isn't it amazing that Jesus has his logo, his seal on the believer? 546 00:38:17.858 --> 00:38:20.219 He writes his name upon us. 547 00:38:20.959 --> 00:38:25.700 He owns us because he bought us out of slavery and into freedom. 548 00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:28.000 And how does he maintain that? 549 00:38:28.100 --> 00:38:29.000 By the Holy Spirit. 550 00:38:29.521 --> 00:38:31.561 We enjoy the sealer. 551 00:38:31.801 --> 00:38:33.141 The sealer is the Holy Spirit. 552 00:38:33.481 --> 00:38:34.942 Ephesians 1 verse 13. 553 00:38:35.642 --> 00:38:44.624 In him you also trusted after, notice the chronology of it, 554 00:38:45.497 --> 00:38:48.099 You trusted him after, after what? 555 00:38:48.560 --> 00:38:49.721 After you heard the word of truth. 556 00:38:50.201 --> 00:38:53.744 So you heard the word of truth first and went, wow, that's true. 557 00:38:53.944 --> 00:38:54.625 How did you know that? 558 00:38:55.105 --> 00:38:58.048 The Holy Spirit was over here saying, you just heard some truth. 559 00:38:58.808 --> 00:39:01.170 And you responded to the offer of the Holy Spirit. 560 00:39:01.551 --> 00:39:02.111 Now watch this. 561 00:39:02.852 --> 00:39:06.095 When you trusted the gospel, this is what happened. 562 00:39:07.069 --> 00:39:12.432 in whom also having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. 563 00:39:12.952 --> 00:39:16.775 The word promise is earnest, the earnest money. 564 00:39:17.135 --> 00:39:23.619 So if you're going to buy a home, I don't know how it works in all states, but in California, it works this way. 565 00:39:24.439 --> 00:39:34.265 So if I want to buy a house today, I would see a house for sale and I would make an offer. 566 00:39:34.305 --> 00:39:35.305 What's the asking price? 567 00:39:35.326 --> 00:39:35.686 Oh, pay. 568 00:39:36.709 --> 00:39:45.791 Let me, what's the asking price for this 1,000 square foot shack in Southern California? 569 00:39:46.491 --> 00:39:47.011 A million. 570 00:39:47.611 --> 00:39:48.412 Oh, such a deal. 571 00:39:48.652 --> 00:39:48.992 Woo. 572 00:39:50.232 --> 00:39:50.592 Wow. 573 00:39:50.892 --> 00:39:51.312 A million? 574 00:39:51.572 --> 00:39:53.893 Only a million dollars for this shack? 575 00:39:54.233 --> 00:39:54.833 I'll take it. 576 00:39:56.073 --> 00:40:00.914 Well, what that means is I could say I take it all day long. 577 00:40:01.154 --> 00:40:02.695 I could even shake the guy's hand. 578 00:40:02.955 --> 00:40:03.515 I'll take it. 579 00:40:04.475 --> 00:40:05.135 and walk away. 580 00:40:05.355 --> 00:40:05.815 Guess what? 581 00:40:06.656 --> 00:40:13.038 If somebody comes behind me and says, I want one, I'll pay $1.1 million for that check. 582 00:40:15.398 --> 00:40:18.999 And here's a hundred thousand dollars as a down payment. 583 00:40:20.500 --> 00:40:26.182 Then the guy, the seller, then he pulls out paper and says, well, dude, then sign here. 584 00:40:28.282 --> 00:40:30.663 The first guy walked away thinking, woo, 585 00:40:32.865 --> 00:40:34.006 I just got a house. 586 00:40:34.567 --> 00:40:42.416 I just got a 1,000-square-foot house, shack, Southern California, a million bucks, because I said I'll take it. 587 00:40:43.230 --> 00:40:44.671 You know, everybody's laughing at this guy. 588 00:40:44.951 --> 00:40:46.152 You got to see paperwork, man. 589 00:40:46.492 --> 00:40:46.992 And you know what? 590 00:40:47.252 --> 00:40:50.774 You can't see the paperwork unless you lay down 100 grand to what? 591 00:40:51.335 --> 00:40:53.576 To enter escrow. 592 00:40:54.036 --> 00:40:55.357 It means it's binding. 593 00:40:55.837 --> 00:40:58.559 The seller and the buyer have agreed. 594 00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:00.900 That excludes all other people. 595 00:41:01.161 --> 00:41:05.163 There can be backup offers, but they're away on the outside of the stadium. 596 00:41:05.923 --> 00:41:09.626 Only the two partners are in the stadium. 597 00:41:10.466 --> 00:41:11.887 And a legal document... 598 00:41:13.153 --> 00:41:28.577 commences now all of these things that go into work, soil report, environmental impact, use permit, all these things start to happen, which is law in this state and all this stuff. 599 00:41:29.037 --> 00:41:30.237 What made it different? 600 00:41:31.318 --> 00:41:32.698 The agreement was sealed. 601 00:41:34.323 --> 00:41:35.424 by a down payment. 602 00:41:35.524 --> 00:41:57.882 The Holy Spirit in your life is the down payment that when Jesus Christ comes for you, either at the moment of death or the rapture, all of us who are sealed on the inside by the Holy Spirit's presence, his residence, he's the down payment. 603 00:41:59.144 --> 00:42:03.167 He's the, listen, he's the $100,000 down payment for the million dollar home. 604 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:04.920 He's it. 605 00:42:06.361 --> 00:42:08.661 That seal cannot be broken. 606 00:42:10.442 --> 00:42:19.885 The words used, even when Jesus was laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, and they sealed the tomb with the stone, 607 00:42:20.794 --> 00:42:26.378 And Pilate had a seal of the Roman Empire put upon the great stone. 608 00:42:26.779 --> 00:42:28.880 That means they put leather straps across. 609 00:42:29.361 --> 00:42:35.366 So think of the stone looking like a big wheel, like Fred Flintstone's tire. 610 00:42:37.267 --> 00:42:42.831 And then all across that were leather straps from the Roman Empire. 611 00:42:43.232 --> 00:42:44.593 And they all intersected in the middle. 612 00:42:44.613 --> 00:42:47.675 They all had this intersection, point of intersection in the middle, right? 613 00:42:48.476 --> 00:42:49.597 Like a hub, like an axle. 614 00:42:49.617 --> 00:42:49.737 Right. 615 00:42:51.301 --> 00:42:58.226 That's where they heated up wax and they put wax on that and they stamped the seal of the Roman Empire. 616 00:42:58.806 --> 00:43:07.332 If anyone broke that seal that sealed the tomb of Jesus, if anyone broke it, they would immediately be put to death. 617 00:43:08.373 --> 00:43:18.280 That's why when Jesus rose again from the dead, those guards that were there guarding, did you know that when Christ rose again from the dead, broke that seal? 618 00:43:20.607 --> 00:43:22.868 By the way, wait, sorry. 619 00:43:23.708 --> 00:43:25.329 Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. 620 00:43:25.529 --> 00:43:26.730 Jesus didn't break the seal. 621 00:43:27.050 --> 00:43:28.410 Let's be accurate. 622 00:43:29.971 --> 00:43:30.971 Who broke the seal? 623 00:43:32.752 --> 00:43:34.053 An angel broke the seal. 624 00:43:35.553 --> 00:43:39.375 An angel rolled the stone away, which would have broken the seal. 625 00:43:40.435 --> 00:43:43.396 The stone wasn't rolled away to let Jesus out of that. 626 00:43:44.577 --> 00:43:46.778 Look, if you've got a resurrected Savior and he's saying... 627 00:43:47.758 --> 00:43:48.979 Can somebody let me out? 628 00:43:49.420 --> 00:43:50.641 I have to save the world. 629 00:43:51.402 --> 00:43:52.983 Then we got the wrong one, folks. 630 00:43:53.504 --> 00:43:54.845 Hallelujah. 631 00:43:55.205 --> 00:44:03.733 The seal was broken by the angel who rolled the stone away and then sat on top of the stone to let the disciples in because Jesus was already gone. 632 00:44:03.753 --> 00:44:05.395 Okay? 633 00:44:06.856 --> 00:44:12.442 That same verbiage used for the sealing of the stone is the same words used. 634 00:44:13.235 --> 00:44:19.258 Same verbiage used, same intent for the believer's life being sealed by the Holy Spirit. 635 00:44:19.318 --> 00:44:20.539 Friend, you're not lost. 636 00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:22.640 I don't care what your GPS says. 637 00:44:23.040 --> 00:44:24.922 And I don't care what your conscience is telling you. 638 00:44:25.322 --> 00:44:28.664 And I don't care what some theologian told you. 639 00:44:28.924 --> 00:44:30.445 Is Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior? 640 00:44:30.685 --> 00:44:32.826 Do you believe he died on the cross and rose again from the dead? 641 00:44:33.987 --> 00:44:34.587 God's Son? 642 00:44:35.908 --> 00:44:36.448 The Savior? 643 00:44:37.088 --> 00:44:37.889 You going to trust in him? 644 00:44:38.249 --> 00:44:38.889 Give him your sin. 645 00:44:39.590 --> 00:44:40.050 Be saved. 646 00:44:41.418 --> 00:44:41.898 Trust him. 647 00:44:42.539 --> 00:44:42.999 Be saved. 648 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:45.520 Then you're sealed. 649 00:44:46.600 --> 00:44:49.242 The Holy Spirit comes in, starts setting up house. 650 00:44:50.522 --> 00:45:00.247 Listen, make sure in your life, make absolutely certain in your life that there is no missing link.