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Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture.

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I've told you for years Christianity is not what you do, it's what God does in you and through you.

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The greatest description of a Christian life is yield. Just yield.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibb's.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes.

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Then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibb's.

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So let me ask you how are you doing in these descriptions of having a grounded or maturing faith as a Christ follower.

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We all need to grow. And I'm so grateful that God is patient.

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But look at verse four, he goes on to say, and he will be made to stand.

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You and I will be made to stand for God is able to make him stand.

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You and I, listen, I love this. God is able. Oh, I can I never do enough.

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I never pray enough. I never give enough. I never I never was calm down.

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God is able to do this in your life.

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I've told you for years, Christianity is not what you do. It's what God does in you and through you.

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The greatest description of a Christian life is yield. Just yield.

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And he takes over Philippians chapter two verse 13 says, for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure.

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Are you enjoying your Christian life? You should be.

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You should be enjoying even in this crazy world. You should be enjoying the dynamic of your Christian life.

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And if you're not, you're doing it wrong.

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Stop trying to push a block up a hill.

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Just take a walk with God, will you?

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The Bible also says, listen, in 2 Chronicles 16 verse 9, the Bible says, for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro,

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throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him.

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Notice it says loyal to him. Are you guys with me?

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It doesn't say whose hearts are perfect, whose hearts are loyal.

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In other words, what's your pursuit? Do you pursue God? Do you want to pursue God?

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Is this a sound attractive to you that you can get closer to God?

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Absolutely. God says, I love that. My eyes are on you.

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How'd you love that? I remember years ago, forever ago, Phil and Peggy.

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You guys might remember this. Pastor Chuck was telling us when he was raising up their family.

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One of his sons looked all nervous and all this kind of stuff and his son comes to him and says,

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I heard in Sunday school today, dad, that God is always watching me.

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And he says, that's right son.

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And he saw the terror in his son's face.

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Some people feel like, some of you feel like that. He said, God's watching me.

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And so his son was just mortified, clearly, across the line somewhere in Sunday school.

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Class and the teacher said, God's watching you.

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So dad is the true. He's watching me.

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And Pastor Chuck said, oh, absolutely true.

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At all times, he's watching you. And you can see the spirit of his, the will, just kind of the kid started to wither.

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And Chuck said, it's because God loves you so much. He can't take his eyes off of you.

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And that's good and that is correct. That's a beautiful thing.

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God will make you able to stand.

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God will take care of you. He'll prop you up and strengthen you.

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I heard a song of the day and I just wanted to work it into the message based upon that second Chronicles verse.

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God's always watching.

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So I heard, I forget who sings this, but every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you.

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Every move.

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I don't know. I wasn't asking for it. I mean, I was okay.

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The fact is this is that the love of God for you, the Scripture says it's the goodness of God that leads a man to repentance.

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God's goodness should cause you to run from the evil and run to his arms.

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And even though you might be late and with sin, you come and repentful, tearful, you're convicted, you're mortified.

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I've been found out.

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And my sin, as the Scripture says, David says, is ever before me. I can see it.

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And God says in his word, bring it to me.

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Our tendency is to go running hide and bury it somewhere in the garden and then mingle among the bushes.

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And hope he doesn't walk in and say, Jack, where are you?

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I am convinced if Adam and Eve would have walked out of that garden and said, God, we blew it.

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Please forgive us. I think God would have made an offering.

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And you and I would be walking around now in a garden.

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Jeremiah 29-11 says, this is God speaking. I know the thoughts that I think toward you. Can you imagine that?

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God says, I know what I think about you. And you go, really?

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Yep.

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Says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me and I will listen to you.

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And you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.

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That's a loyal heart. Not a perfect art. We don't have it.

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Would you want them?

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You want Christ to forgive you? You want God to erase away?

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Listen, God will erase by the blood of Christ all of your sin.

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That's why, listen, because Christ lives, because God is real, that's how you and I know sin.

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You know the stuff you don't bring up, the stuff that only you remember, the stuff that you hope nobody else remembers?

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Or the stuff that you hope nobody finds out?

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God says, I'll wash that away if you come to me. Come to me.

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That's the full kill you. Come to me. That's how much He loves you.

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Is that how love works anyway?

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I'm going to read you a compounding of scripture here. It's John chapter four and John chapter seven.

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You can follow on the screens.

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The Bible says, Jesus is speaking, whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him.

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Notice, when you drink water, folks, it goes inside of you.

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But ask yourself, is this you?

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We'll never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.

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That's what God wants for us.

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Couple with John chapter seven.

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On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying,

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if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

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He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

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But this he spoke concerning the spirit of the Holy Spirit,

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whom those believing in him would receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet given

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because Jesus was not yet glorified.

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In other words, the Holy Spirit was not yet given to endure the believer

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because Christ had not yet been crucified and resurrected.

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Up until the day of Pentecost, folks, the Holy Spirit from the day of creation

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could only come upon you and he would leave you.

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That's why David said, take not your Holy Spirit from me.

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Why did he say that?

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Because that's how the Spirit of God worked in the Old Testament economy.

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Jesus comes and brings us a complete fulfillment of God's promises

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as he wrote in the Old Testament.

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I will write my law in your heart.

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I will come into your very being and live inside of you.

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You will be mine and I will be your God.

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That's an Old Testament promise describing the born again opportunity

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that you and I live in today, where the spirit of God now lives in us.

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Listen, a private faith, your personal faith, absolutely,

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but it's impossible to hide it.

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God is working in some of your lives.

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You might even be shy and you love God,

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but you're starting to almost percolate on the inside.

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It's like you were starting to bubble and it's just like,

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cool man, every time I read my Bible,

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every time I go to a sermon,

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I just feel like I'm gonna explode.

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Why?

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Because God has put His Word in you personally and privately

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to possess you.

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That God's truth might come out of you and splash as it were on to others.

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Get them all wet as it were.

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And so listen, I wrote this down.

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I know this is a big statement,

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but it may be the most single, most important verse in the Bible.

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So that's a big statement.

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Yes, it is.

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But listen, John chapter three, verse three,

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Jesus answered and said, that's to Nicodemus.

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Most assuredly, I say to you,

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unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Jesus is to Nicodemus.

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Nicodemus is righteousness, far out, exceeds us completely.

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And Jesus says, you're not going.

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You have to be born and new.

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You have to be born again.

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So when was the first account of somebody being born again?

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Can we qualify this?

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Is it, can it be tested?

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Oh yeah, John chapter 20.

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This is awesome.

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John chapter 20, verse 19,

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then the same day at evening,

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being the first day of the week,

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this is post-resurrection,

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when the doors were shut,

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where the disciples were assembled,

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for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst

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and said to them, peace be with you.

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And when he had said this,

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he showed them his hands and his side,

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that would be his right side.

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Then the disciples were glad

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when they saw the Lord, verse 21.

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So Jesus said to them again,

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peace to you, as the Father sent me,

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I also send you.

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And when he had said this,

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this is Jesus, breathed on them,

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and he said to them, receive the Holy Spirit.

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The word means, receive the Holy Spirit within you.

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That's the born again.

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When was the, if being born again is such a big deal to God

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and pastor, you just said

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this is the most important verse in the Bible,

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when Jesus in John 20 says,

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receive the Spirit and he blows on them.

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The word is the Spirit of God

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when inside of them.

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They were born again in that moment.

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They would not receive the power of the Holy Spirit

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until the day of Pentecost,

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where the Spirit of God didn't come inside of them.

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Very specific Greek word is used.

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The Spirit of God came upon them for ministry and for power.

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Remarkable.

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The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter 12,

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verse 12,

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for as the body is one and has many members,

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but all the members of that one body being many

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are one body, so also as Christ.

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For by one spirit,

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we were all baptized into one body.

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That is the body of Christ, the church.

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Whether Jews or Greeks,

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whether slaves are free,

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and have all been made to drink in one spirit,

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for in fact the body is not one member,

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but many.

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This is us,

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the church.

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You are who you are.

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Can I put it this way?

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Jesus Christ died for your sins and my sins.

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He did not die for my personality or your personality.

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You and I have a different opinion on this,

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but God loves the variation of our personalities.

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We would rather have people be more like the way we want them to be.

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That's why I've made you the church.

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This person is really hard to like over here, Jesus.

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Yeah, any though.

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So get on over there and love on him.

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Oh God, can't you send someone else to love on him?

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Did you know how bad you and I need one another?

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We didn't realize it.

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So I don't know about that.

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Listen, if there's anybody in under this roof,

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or soon to be out in the parking lot,

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and it's like,

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Hey, wait a minute,

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my bumper was further out than yours was.

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God is teaching you to love one another.

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And to grow.

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It's quite remarkable.

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So in Acts chapter one,

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I mentioned the power coming upon.

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So I guess I should begin to wrap it up this way.

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When the moment you say,

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Lord Jesus,

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I I understand now I see that you died in the cross for my sins.

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The Bible says this.

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And even though I was in there 2000 years ago,

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I know that I'm a sinner.

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I have bad thoughts, lustful thoughts, angry thoughts,

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or temperament, or whatever it is.

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That's not good.

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And I have a past.

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Oh, God, you would say,

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please forgive me.

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I'm sorry for my sins.

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The Bible says in that moment,

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you're born again,

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the Holy Spirit moves inside of you.

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Now can somebody tell me what that feels like when you're like,

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Oh, please forgive me and the Holy Spirit moves inside of you

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and you, wow.

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I don't know about you,

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but I've never felt anything.

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The not I got saved.

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All I knew was that message was true.

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I was convicted of my sins.

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God knew everything about me.

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And what I just heard a moment ago gives my mind reason and hope.

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I want Jesus.

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I need Jesus.

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And I went forward and there are people crying around me.

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I'm looking at people on that Monday night.

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They're all crying.

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Forgive me, guys.

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And I'm like, here's me, here's me.

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I'm like this.

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I had enough, I had no feeling.

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And I began to think,

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oh, oh, it must not be working for me.

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And then when you pray the prayer and you go back to the prayer room

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afterward, they give you a new material and I told the guy,

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hey, everybody around me is crying.

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I didn't cry.

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What's the deal?

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He said something that I've used a thousand times since.

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He said, listen, do you understand the gospel?

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Can you tell me the gospel that you just heard?

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I told him.

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He goes, yeah, you got it.

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You got it.

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Now where does it say feeling?

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Goose bumps, tingle down the spine.

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Feel this and you're saved.

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Listen, I'm grateful that I listened,

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kind of did the spiritual math, figured out.

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And this puts me bankrupt.

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Jack is hopeless without Jesus.

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And so, that young man in that counseling,

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that new believers room said,

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nowhere in the Bible this is, it's based on your feelings.

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It's, Bible says it's based on faith.

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Did you come to Jesus?

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Yeah.

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Do you want him?

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Yeah.

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And he said this.

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Why don't you, why don't you tell me right now

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you don't want Jesus?

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You're going to give the Bible back to me.

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And you're going to walk out of here and never step foot

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in this place again.

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I said, why would I do that?

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I don't want to do that.

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And he goes, exactly.

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Pretty clever, right?

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Pretty clever, right?

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No, my friends listen.

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For those of us,

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our pursuit now today is this.

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Jesus said in Acts chapter 1 verse 8,

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you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes,

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not in you, upon you.

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And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem

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and in all of Judea, Samaria,

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and to the ends of the earth.

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Church family,

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when God saves you,

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please listen.

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You can close your Bible.

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It doesn't mean leave.

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Just close your Bible, we're done.

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When God saves you,

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he begins his work

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of maturing you.

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When a baby is born,

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the mother begins her work

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of nursing that baby

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and dead begins the work of changing diapers.

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But the baby doesn't grow

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by having its diaper changed.

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The baby grows

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nursing energy from mom.

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And with that investment,

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the baby grows.

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Jesus says, you must be born again

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to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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You must be born from above.

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The word means born a second time.

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And God will nourish you

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and he's nursing us always

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with every Bible verse,

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every sermon, every song of praise.

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Every time we get together

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and fellowship,

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we are nursing the strength

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of Almighty God that he desires

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for you and I to have.

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And we are growing up in Christ.

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It's a relationship.

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It's a life, it's real.

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