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Welcome to the Harvest Center.

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We're glad you're here today!

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Good morning!

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Good Morning everyone, good morning Church!

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I'm glad to see you all here today. You need to help me this Sunday because I

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feel I woke up this morning with a bit of throat problem and I feel my voice is

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gradually leaving me so I'll leave your collaboration today so forgive my voice

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but it is good to be here. I'm not sure if you're very familiar with what we

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call Christian calendar and if you are what day is today? What do we remember

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today? It's a Pentecost Sunday and of course we as a Pentecostals you know it

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is a very important Sunday for us but not just because we are a Pentecostal

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because the gift that came with the Holy Spirit was something extremely important

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for his church. So I'm gonna read something very quickly in Acts chapter

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2 starting from verse 1 down to verse 4. When the day of Pentecost came they

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were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a

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violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

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They saw what seems to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on

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each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and begun to speak

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in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. And you know my friends my greatest

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desire is for us to experience this today. You know the disciples that were

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gathered together praising God and the Holy Spirit came. We are gathered today

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in his name and we know that from the Bible the Bible says there were two or

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three are gathered in my name I am gonna be there. So the Lord is here among

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us that's for sure yeah and I really would like to encourage you to have an

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open heart and open mind today and to reach out for this wonderful gift that

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God has for us for the church and we will later on speak a little bit about

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this but I really want to encourage you as we worship today to think

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specifically about this. Maybe you've been baptized in the Spirit maybe you

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need to be refreshed maybe you're not been baptized you're seeking whatever

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you are wherever you are God has something prepared for you this morning.

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Why don't we all stand up and just we know we're gonna approach the Lord we're

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gonna spend some time in prayer we're gonna spend some time in worship we're

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gonna spend some time in the presence of God let's invite the Holy Spirit to move

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in us. You see he is already here but he comes he needs an invitation you know

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that we allow him to move in our life you see he cannot do things that we

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don't allow him to do he cannot change things in our life that really we don't

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want him to change. So I want to invite you just to approach God like a blank

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canvas this morning and say God would you paint something beautiful in me

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today. I want to open my heart I want to open my life to you so Holy Spirit we

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are here together today we are here all together today to worship your name Holy

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Spirit we are all together here today because we want to receive something

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fresh from you God and I pray Lord Jesus for all of us here you know our hearts

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you know our mind you know our lives you know our situations we know what we left

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back home you know what is expecting us when we go we will go back after the

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service you know everything about us you know what we think when we wake up in

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the morning the first thoughts that comes in our mind you know what we think

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when we lay in the evening to sleep you know all things about us and Lord God I

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want just to pray have your way among us today have your way Holy Spirit in our

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lives in our hearts in our mind your presence your touch fill our life we

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need more of you in us Lord God less of us and more of your presence so we

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invite you Holy Spirit to move around us in us and through us in Jesus precious

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name amen Jesus we thank you Lord God won't you raise your hands just like I'm

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doing just like these or like that just raise your hands as a sign that you're

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opening your heart before God this morning as a sign that you desire more

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of him in your life Lord God we pray today as we're here together that you

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will feel afresh each one of us Holy Spirit that will be committed completely

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submerged by your presence take over our lives take over our minds they call that

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our hearts Holy Spirit you are precious and wonderful we thank you Lord God

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hallelujah we praise you Jesus we desire more of you in our life God and forgive

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us for how many times we put limits we put boundaries we put like limits to

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what you can do in ours and through ours and around ours we want to open our

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hearts today Holy Spirit we thank you for your presence here among us in Jesus

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precious name amen amen why don't you all sit amen my voice is lowly especially

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after singing but anyway I'm gonna make it now we've got a few notices I think

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I'm gonna start with finding my phone because my notices were there there goes

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my wife okay now that I found my phone well the first one important is we are

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finally here next is it next Saturday got our family fun day in church next

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Saturday so we're one week away I've approached all those who will lead

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different activities and groups and calf and they will probably try to reach out

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to some of you in the church who want to join different teams to help out

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throughout the event so those who are doing anything what doesn't matter what

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you do if it is the coffee or the setting up or or other things I would

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like you to come in church at nine o'clock if that's okay with you in the

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morning so that by 11 you know we we are ready to start you know we because we

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are here we don't need too much time to organize all the things I will you know

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we will also do something on Friday but if you can come at least a couple of

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hours before that would be great so we're gonna start 11 o'clock the event

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yeah starts 11 o'clock finishes at 2 p.m. there are still some leaflets

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available in the calf if you want to grab all of some of them to give out to

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your neighbors to your friends or whatever you know people who may think

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that are interested to come and as well of course we will have the students here

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the IBTI students will or I BTC now college change their name they will come

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here eight of them plus three member of staff to help us out they will stay with

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us throughout the event and then on a Sunday morning they will be leading

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worship and sharing maybe an item together with us and a couple of

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testimonies and we find we managed to find an accommodation for all of them so

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just a massive thank you for those who opened you know your your house to to

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host the students so thank you so much I've got some least of prepared with a

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program if you can approach me at the end of the service I'll give it to you

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so you know what's going on now and I wanted to come and do the notice that

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they're sorry they're announcement about the family good morning I also got a

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scripture some things I only got a notice but do you have a script yeah I

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'm gonna sit down that's okay I know we have been announcing this for the last

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three three weeks we're gonna do four specific meetings for parents on godly

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parenting okay and I've just wanted to read the scripture to you this morning

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it's from judges chapter 13 now judges is an interesting book you come across

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all sorts of stories sometimes you read the story and you think oh well this is

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this is interesting this is this is really cool and there was this one of

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the judges in the long line of judges was a judge called Samson now you have to

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you have to know that in those days and there were no kings and the people of

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Israel were leaving the Lord so they start they would start to worship other

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gods idols and then God and whenever they would cry out to him because they

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were oppressed and in trouble because of their idolatry he would then put in

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charge a judge who would save the people and while the judge was alive the people

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of Israel would do well and then the same thing would happen again when the

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judge was gone unfortunately the people of Israel would fall into disobedience

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again and right here in chapter 13 God is preparing a new judge right so Samson

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is not born yet but this is what and the Bible tells us about Samson's mom and

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dad okay so verse one it says again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the

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Lord so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for 40 years

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and here it comes a certain man from Zorah named Manoah from the clan of the

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Danites had a wife who was sterile and remained childless the angel of the Lord

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appeared to her so to the wife and said you are sterile and childless but you

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are going to conceive and have a son right so what a joy to the family okay

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we have a couple in the church who were waiting and waiting and waiting and now

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they have a daughter Garrett waiting to meet Adelia but you know it was such a

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joy when they shared the news because they prayed and they waited and then the

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joy came right and so then so the Lord appeared and said you're sterile but

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you're going to conceive and have a son now see to it that you drink no wine or

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other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean because you

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will conceive and give birth to a son no razor may be used on his head because

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the boy is going to be a Nazarite and then the scripture goes on and it

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basically describes the wife going back to the husband because remember the

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angel appeared to the wife so the wife runs to the husband and gives him the

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news we can have a son right and then she tells him everything that the angel

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said the rules and the instructions but then in verse 8 the Bible says then

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Manoah that's the dad now right so mom got the news mom met the angels but what

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does dad do okay dad goes then Manoah prayed to the Lord and he says oh Lord

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I beg you let the man of God you send to us come again and teach us how to bring

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up the boy who is to be born now I think this is very interesting the

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reaction of dad is interesting right that says it is not enough that mom had

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all the instructions he says I want to be really purposeful about our child you

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know I'm not gonna run to the psychologist I'm not gonna look up on

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Facebook what the best parenting method is and I'm not gonna consult the

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teachers you know I'm not saying this is wrong it's fine it's a good thing to

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search for help when we need help but the Bible just show us that the first

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source we go to is the Lord when it comes to parenting but this is not it

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then basically then the Lord says okay that's fine God heard Manoah and the

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angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field but her

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husband Manoah was not with her the woman hurried to tell her husband he is

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here the men who appealed to me the other day and then Manoah gets up and

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then he says are you the one speaking to the angel who talked to my wife I am the

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angel says so Manoah asked him when your words are fulfilled what is to be the

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rule for the boys life and work and so if the Bible just says God grants the

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request of the desperate dad who wants to do the right thing with their

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children and I love the scripture because it just shows how how what's the

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right words how we can raise up our children with purpose with a vision with

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a goal you know we can have all the help we can get from the earthly resources

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but God wants us to go to him and you know we Sam and I we have been in places

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where you know we have two little children but Josh's is nine sorry for

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calling you little but you know we have situations where we didn't know what to

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do and it's so tempting to just go on the internet and look things up and I

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just with this four meetings that we're gonna have starting from next week we

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want to do exactly that we wanted to be intentional about what we do as parents

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so if you are a parent or a parent-to-be or if you're a grandparent it's open to

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everybody if you're a kid's work if you want to come we're gonna have Ken and

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Val Sarah and Steve and then Sam and I we're gonna do the last session and we're

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gonna be real about our struggles as parents and we also gonna look at what

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the Bible teaches us about discipline about values about rules about boundaries

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and about all of those things that we might struggle with in our everyday life

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so it's gonna be the next four Sundays and not today but starting next week on

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Sunday and then every Sunday throughout June at 630 you can bring your children

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because there's going to be child care and we were hoping that 630 would be

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early enough for even for those with little children to be able to attend

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yes applause for thank you so much Anna I'm looking forward to this I would say

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it's like you know the word is full of word of God is full of advisors just

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you know parenting and you know capital relationship everything so it's exciting

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whenever we approach the word to find some answers for our day-to-day life now

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I just also want to add to what I was saying and I've got as well something

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gonna keep for the end they've got the life groups are starting soon so it's

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not this coming week the following one which is yeah the first week of June and

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there are some least at the back if you didn't sign up for your for your life

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group you can sign up there there is one least specifically there for the first

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step course first step course is is designed for maybe those who are coming

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out from Alpha or those who are new to the faith and and would like to

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understand more about the basic of what we believe and where we stand in

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relation to the word of God you know the different things that we do in church so

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you know that would be a wonderful a wonderful course for you to attend all

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the dates are there written and there is a graphic as well be behind me you can

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sign up as well on the website if you prefer but it would be great is good to

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get together also during the week you know into to a fellowship together 9th

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of July is a baptism Sunday now yes so I want to encourage you if you are a child

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of God and you've not been baptized yet in I'm not speaking about the baby

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baptism I'm speaking about the baptism where you understand what you do you

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know we I call it sometime adult baptism you know that does not necessarily mean

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a certain age gap yeah but what I mean is a baptism where we understand okay I

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want to be baptized because I'm a follower of Christ so if you have not

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been baptized yet and you would like to be baptized just please come and talk to

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me and join already a group of people who have expressed that desire so that's

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gonna be Sunday the 9th of July Colin Cooper is gonna be our guest speaker it's

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gonna be a very evangelistic Sunday so if you want to bring you know people

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along with you that maybe they never heard about Jesus that will be a

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wonderful opportunity for them to to hear about about God and one last thing

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is like church lunch next Sunday so you will receive a phone call during the

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week there is gonna be Tina Val and Sarah will do some calls to organize the

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meals we're gonna have a church lunch after church the students are gonna be

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with us and so we're gonna have some fellowship there together so why don't

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we take our offering we can have you can give by cash you can give by card at the

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back or you can scan the QR code on the display to give online so once we start

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I just want to kind of carry on from where I left the last time I spoke here

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and which was a couple of Sundays ago and it's gonna be the last with a

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series we were looking together at some of the characteristics of the church and

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we were reading we've been reading a scripture in Acts chapter 2 42 and 47 we

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are gonna read in a moment but you know the old point was like that the church

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is not really an organization but we call it an organism an organism is

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something that developed something that changes something to grow over time so

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it's not something that is static throughout generations throughout

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countries throughout cultures change is probably one of the things that you know

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went through so many changes you know over history independent from culture and

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countries and so on so the church is an organism and and we looked in that in

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our chapter 2 42 47 some of the characteristic that the heraldic

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characteristics that the early church had in order to be these growing

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organism and I'm gonna just read quickly those verses so starting from verse 40

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42 they the disciples or the people who belong to the early church they

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devoted themselves to the Apostles teaching and to fellowship and to the

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breaking of bread and to prayer and everyone was filled with all are the

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many wonders and signs performed by the Apostles all the believers were together

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and had everything in common they sold property and possessions to give to

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anyone who had need every day they continued to meet together in the temple

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courts they broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere

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hearts praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people and the Lord

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added to their number daily those who were being saved and in the first Sunday

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we spoke about the fact that were devoted to the Apostles teaching the and

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we draw a parallel with us today how important it is for the church to be

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devoted to the Word of God we might not have the Apostles around us but their

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teachings are still there you know in the New Testament but we've got even

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the prophets and all the old you know the old Bible that is there for us and

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we need to the important is to be devoted to it and and then as well we

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looked in last time about fellowship but under the key of finances how they were

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you know managing their finances in the church and and today I want to stop on

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the last one which is prayer they were devoted to prayer and remember we we

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give a devotion to we give a definition to the word devotion and we said the

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devotion is like to have a profound dedication to something so the early

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church had a profound dedication to prayer and then they were seeing what

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they were what they saw and the reason for that is because they were they had

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a profound dedication to prayer that was the only reason for that and if I do

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believe that sometime we we do lack a lot of profound devotion to prayer and

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that's probably why you know sometime we wonder why we don't see the things that

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we read in the book of Acts and I always you know I like to challenge you know

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the people who question why I don't see it and see it's like are you are you

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devoted to prayer communal prayer I'm not speaking about praying or will be

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praying on our own they were coming together and praying together by the way

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thank you for those who came out yesterday night for the prayer meeting

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was a wonderful time together so they were devoted to prayer but today's is a

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Pentecost Sunday I want to speak specifically about the Holy Spirit

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because it was in one of these meeting when they were coming together

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worshiping and praying God they actually they received the gift of the Holy

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Spirit and I want to focus on these and then halfway through June I will start

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a new series specifically on prayer we will speak about how do we pray through

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all the seasons of our life and at any time if you like to catch up by the way

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while you walk or while you do go to the gym or do other things you can you know

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catch up on the pop podcast now I want to speak about the Holy Spirit because

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it was in one of these meetings you know is the beginning of chapter 2 when they

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received the Holy Spirit they were going together they were devoted to prayer and

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it was in one of these moments together the Holy Spirit came on them and but

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before going into speak specifically about the baptism in the spirit I just

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want to clear a few things about the person of the Holy Spirit sometimes

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there is a lot of confusion you know we were used when we to pray we say thank

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you God thank you Jesus but the Holy Spirit almost we're not used to say well

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thank you Holy Spirit you are not used to pronounce the name of the Holy Spirit

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as often as we do for the name of God the Father and Jesus the Son and so I

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think the first thing is I think to clarify a few things about Holy Spirit

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maybe you few things that you don't know maybe things that you already know but

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it's good to refresh so first of all he is God the Holy Spirit is not a force

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is not an energy but he is actually a person you know he's part of the Trinity

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of God so he is God himself he has an intelligence he he has feelings about

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what says that we quench that we can quench the Holy Spirit we can sorry we

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can upset the Holy Spirit so he has he has feeling he has he has a mind as well

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on his own he has a will and and he's a person part of the Trinity of God he is

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God he himself is God he dwells in all in all Christian in all of us when the

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day when we give our life to Jesus the Holy Spirit comes and he dwells in our

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life and he's there is like a deposit of guarantee of that we belong to God you

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remember when sometime ago I don't know if you remember we spoke about the

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Jewish wedding you know for those who got good memory for those who don't you

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can go and listen back anyway we spoke about the Jewish wedding and we and we

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sought together that when at the moment of the engagement between a man and a

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woman in the Jewish culture that was really the first act of marriage and you

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remember what happened the man would would leave like a token to his bride to

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be and say look I'm gonna give this to you as a sign that I'm gonna come back

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for you because I've got something to do and then the groom would go and prepare

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a place you know for them to leave after the wedding after wedding was finished

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but there was a deposit that was left you know to the bride to say like you

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belong to me you are taken you know you are mine and this is what the Holy

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Spirit does when we believe in Jesus he come and dwells in our life and it is

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like a deposit like that is a confirmation that we are not on our own

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we belong to God Ephesians 1 verses 13 and 14 we read the following and you and

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you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth the

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gospel of your salvation when you believed you were marked in him with the

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seal you were marked in Jesus with a seal and the seal what was the seal the

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promised Holy Spirit who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the

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redemption of those who are God's possessions to the praise of his glory

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it's like the Holy Spirit is like it's like a mark a seal you know of what a

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deposit of a guarantee of something that is still to come Jesus is gonna come and

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take his church we're gonna spend eternity with him we belong to God you

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know the Holy Spirit in us is there to to give us that confidence that we are

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now children of the Holy Spirit does also a lot of other interesting things

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the Holy Spirit works for for the Christians but as well works for those

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who don't belong to God he's constantly at work in the world doing different

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things and that's what the Holy Spirit does I'm gonna read in the world so I'm

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speaking about non-christian non-christian people people who have not

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yet given their life to the Lord in John 16 verses 8 to 11 this was Jesus

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speaking to his disciples he was speaking about the Holy Spirit and this

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is what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit and when he comes he the Holy

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Spirit he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and

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judgment in regard to sin because they do not believe in me in regard to

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righteousness because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me and

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in regard to judgment because the Prince of this world has been condemned so he

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is working in the world and he did what the Holy Spirit does he convict people

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of three things of sin that they are sinners that they cannot do it on their

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own that they need God you know when we whenever we speak you know I speak from

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here whenever we speak about with our friends about Jesus we're just you know

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the means we're just bringing a message across but then there is the Holy Spirit

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who works in the hearts of people and actually he convict that he convinced

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them that look you need me you know and this is what the Holy Spirit does he

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convict the people of sin you know of righteousness is like look that's the

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righteousness of man and the righteousness of God is not is you

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cannot even quantify there is too much of a difference you know that's why

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Jesus came to die to you know to bridge this gap you know and as well of

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judgment that there is a judgment pending over the heads of those who

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don't belong to God if you don't follow me your life is not going to end up when

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you end when you will go in the grave after there is the eternity and there

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are two option those who are belongs to me will spend eternity with me those who

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don't belong to me will spend eternity in hell a terrible place so what the

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Holy Spirit does for those who don't believe in God he goes around and he

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convict the world of sin he convict the world of righteousness and of judgment

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he works in the life is so that they open their eyes to see because he wants

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to save them so he works in them you know you know highlighting the fact that

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they need God but then as well the work of the spirit carries on after you know

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someone finally decided to open their hearts and and to embrace what Christ

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has done and we become children of God and the Holy Spirit comes and live in

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our life the Holy Spirit you know you know carries on working the heart of

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people by does a complete different work now because we are children of God he

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gave us that assurance that we belong to him that we as I said before that we

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don't belong anymore to the to the world in Romans 8 15 16 we read the

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spirit you received you know that's not the Holy Spirit that you received does

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not make you slaves so that you live in fear and anger rather the spirit you

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received brought about your adoption to sonship and but and by him we cry

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Abba father the spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's

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children so you see this is important because sometimes as a Christian we go

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through times where we feel that you know God is far away from us we don't

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know exactly where we stand we go through difficult situation if you go

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problems and we question things but the Holy Spirit is in there say look you are

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a child of mine you know you still belong to me just trust the process I

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know you're going through a difficult time I know you maybe is a bit hard a

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bit difficult right now is a bit painful but nevertheless you are a child of mine

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I love you and I know what I'm bringing you just trust me you know and this is

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what the Christian experience when when they are indwell by the spirits is that

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assurance that we are God's children that we belong now to God's family so

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there is a work of conviction when you don't belong to God family I work a

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conviction that's saying look you need to come to me otherwise you're gonna be

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in trouble I love you so much I don't want you to be in trouble I want you to

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be with me come come come and the Holy Spirit works and works and then when we

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finally go to the Lord say now you belong to me I'm gonna keep you I'm

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gonna hold you in my hands you we are a new creation forgiven and free from

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judgment you know all the things that we read in in in John 16 8 to 11 has the

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you know the world as the Holy Spirit convicts the non-christian

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people that they are judged because of sin when he showed them the

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righteousness of God and the righteousness of men so when we become

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God's children the work that God does is the opposite he said yes you're a sinner

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but you're forgiven yes maybe you're not perfect but you're righteous to me yes

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maybe you know you you don't deserve to come with me but nevertheless there is

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no judgment over you I pay the price on the cross for you so it does a

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completely different work the Holy Spirit helps us as we walk through life

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as we experience different things the Holy Spirit is there to help us I just

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want to read something again here John 14 verse 16 this was Jesus speaking to

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his disciple and he was speaking about the Holy Spirit yeah that was not yet

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come on his disciples and but Jesus was already preparing them and he said and

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I will ask the father and he will give you another advocate or another helper

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depending the translation that you have to help you and be with you forever now

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you see Jesus knew that he would have not stayed with his disciple forever he

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knew that he would have he was you know some time not a long time

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in a long time he would have died on the cross and they would have resurrected

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and then after some time would have ascended back into heaven so he knew

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that he could have not stayed there with his disciples so he was preparing them

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because you see you can imagine you know how you know it could be something sad

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for them imagine they experience three years of their life walking with Jesus

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and seeing the miracles and and experiencing Jesus as the one who was

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providing providing like food to eat providing wisdom and teaching and

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healing the people it was doing all kinds of stuff and they were they were

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get they were they got used to have Jesus around and imagine how perhaps

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painful would have been for them we know to think that you know Jesus would have

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been taken away from them at one point but Jesus was saying look I will send

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you another helper another advocate and the work and the word here another is

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important the word another is a very important one I want to stop here one

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moment because when you go back in into the Greek the New Testament was written

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in Greek you've got two words to for the word of another the word the first word

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is alos and the second word is heteros so alos means another of the same kind

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heteros means another of a different kind yeah so when they speak and when

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they use the depending what they want if they want something similar something of

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the same kind of something they could they use the word alos for another if

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they want something completely different something that is strange to them they

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use the word heteros and now it's interesting because when you go there you

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know into the Greek and the New Testament the the word that Jesus used

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here you know when they when they reported writing in Greek what Jesus was

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saying they use the word alos another of the same kind so Jesus said look he knew

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that he was he would have been gone soon and he knew that would have been

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painful for his disciples to to be detached from the one who was there to

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heal them to provide them to teach them to guide them to do all the things that

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Christ did but Jesus said I'm gonna say I'm gonna send you another alos another

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of the same kind as me who will be for you forever the Holy Spirit and listen

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he's gonna do the same things I'm doing here he's gonna be with you wherever you

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go he's gonna provide you he's gonna give you wisdom he's gonna teach you

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he's gonna guide your step he's gonna be with you actually is even better

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because you know Jesus although he was the Son of God he had one limit you know

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God Jesus was the Son of God and yet he was not limitless he had one limit and

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his limit was that he could not be everywhere at the same time he was with

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a human body so he was talking to me he was not there talking to someone else he

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could have not been in another country or another you know place talking and

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doing other things Jesus it was one person doing wonderful things where he

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was but very but limited to the fact that he couldn't be everywhere at the

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same time but the Holy Spirit because his spirit you know he's like he's

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everywhere working in the world every all time you know with all languages with

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all races with all cultures with all you know you know at the same moment

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simultaneously in the life in the hearts of people but it's the same kind of

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the same doing the same kind of stuff that Jesus was doing with his 12 but in

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a much larger scale you know and that's why the Holy Spirit is important for us

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he's gonna guide us his church is gonna be always with us is gonna provide to us

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another of the same kind will come an helper an advocate and he will be with

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you forever now in John 20 21 22 I think is in the Bible is the first time where

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the disciples received this indwelling of the spirit yeah they received the

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Holy Spirit in their life we read again Jesus says peace be with you as the

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father has sent me I am sending you and we and with that he breathed on them and

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said receive the Holy Spirit so if Jesus breathed on his disciples and said

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receive the Holy Spirit what do you think the disciple got the Holy Spirit

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did Jesus get what he wants right so he said when Jesus breathed on his

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disciples said receive the Holy Spirit they they for the first time they tasted

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that indwelling of the spirit you see in the Old Testament it was different when

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you want to communicate with God there were the there were the prophets were

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appointed by God to speak on behalf of God to guide the people of Israel you

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know there was almost a detached relationship between the people of

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Israel and God you know they were close to God through the temple to the high

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priest to the priests to the prophets yeah but there was not that relationship

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that we experience today and here for the same time his disciple they received

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that indwelling of the spirit they were about to go some ministry I said look

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before you go I'm gonna he breathed on them he said received the Holy Spirit

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for the first time they received this indwelling of the spirit which is the

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same indwelling of the speak that we receive when we when we decide to follow

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Christ the Holy Spirit comes and live in us and I wanted to make this clear

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because now we're gonna speak a little bit about the baptism in the spirit I

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know there's some time there is a bit of confusion here and I know there are

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different people different churches maybe that you know they take this topic

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from different angles different perspective so we'll try to clarify a

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few things as we go but what we said until now remember is the Holy

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Spirit in dwelling our children of God we were not speaking about the baptism

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in the spirit we were speaking about the presence of God coming in our life the

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day when we decided to follow Christ and now we're gonna read something in Acts

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chapter 1 verses 4 5 and verse 8 Acts chapter 1 on one occasion while he was

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eating with them Jesus was eating with his disciple he gave he gave them this

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command do not leave Jerusalem but wait for the gift my father promised which

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you have heard me speak about for John baptized with water but in a few days

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you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit by and then verse 8 but you will

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receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in

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Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth and then we

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quickly jump to what we're at the beginning of the service job Acts

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chapter 2 verse 1 to 4 it's finally the day of Pentecost when the day of

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Pentecost came they were all together in one place suddenly a sound like the

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blowing of a violent wind came down from heaven and filled the whole house where

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they were sitting they saw what seems to be tongues of fire the separated the

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separated and came to rest on each of them all of them were filled with the

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Holy Spirit and begun to speak in other tongues as the spirit enabled them so

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if back in John chapter 20 we just read that Jesus breathed on his disciples and

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they received the Holy Spirit why then in Acts chapter 1 Jesus said wait for

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the promise of the Holy Spirit wait a second if we're speaking about the simple

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simply they in dwelling of the spirit right then I really received it you

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breathed on me you said received the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit came in my

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life so why now Jesus sometime later to say look do not move from Jerusalem

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and wait for the promise of the Holy Spirit and the reason why he you know he

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said that is because he was speaking about a separate experience he was not

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speaking about the indwelling of the spirit when we believe in the presence

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of God comes and live in our life but he was specifically speaking about

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something different a separate experience something that had nothing to

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do with what his disciples had already experience when Jesus breathed on them

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and said received Holy Spirit is something different so it's like as well

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if you that's the Bible up starting and then as well so this is one element and

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then there is a second element as well we can see that Paul when he was in

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Ephesus so we read in Acts 12 1 to 7 why Apollo's was in Corinth Paul passed

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through the interior and came to Ephesus there he found some disciples and asked

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them did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers not they

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answered we have not even heard that there is the Holy Spirit into what then

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were you baptized Paul asked the baptism of John they replied Paul explained job

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baptism was a baptism of repentance he told the people to believe in the one

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coming after him that is in Jesus on hearing this they were baptized into the

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name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul laid his hands on them the Holy Spirit

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came upon them and they spoke in tongues and prophesied they were about 20 men in

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all so again here is like is interesting because it says Paul asked so did you

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receive the Holy Spirit when you became a believers so he was speaking to

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believers in Ephesus he was speaking to Christians did you receive the Holy

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Spirit when you believe and they said well we don't know such a thing wait a

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second but if when we believe we receive the indwelling of the experience of the

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Holy Spirit we and we experience the Holy Spirit in our life the presence of

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the Holy Spirit in our life why was Paul pointing to something different why was

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Paul asking did you receive the Holy Spirit of course Paul knew that you know

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if it was speaking about indwelling he knew that they had already Holy Spirit

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because he knew that they believed he was speaking to the church the

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Christians in that in Ephesus but still he actually questioned did you receive

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the Holy Spirit like he was speaking about something different and they said

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no we didn't and so then he went there he prayed for them he laid his hand and

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the same thing that happened in Acts chapter 2 happened again they this they

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they started to speak in other tongues and I realized that people here got a

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bit freaky and a bit like strange like what do you mean speaking in tongues

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like it's so strange so you know I can't I cannot understand well if we could

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understand God completely wouldn't be here probably today right it's like it's

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not about understanding hundred percent or what's going on but you know it's

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like something happened in Acts chapter 2 that being filled with the Spirit is

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something as well as being you know throughout the book of Acts and then you

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go in the you know in the in the letters that you see that you know this repeating

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a pattern that was repeating people were receiving the Spirit and they were

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speaking in tongues it was like the speaking in tongues which simply means

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speaking another language was the sign that they would experience something

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different than the than the normal indwelling of the Spirit so there are

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two different things and a lot of people debates yeah no you know they were

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definitely two different things but surely this was something that was just

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for the day of Pentecost it was just for the moment had nothing to do for the

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early church and nothing to do with us today and you know and I will try to I

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will try to make a point there maybe you know something you never thought or

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considered next Acts chapter 2 38 39 this is Peter speaking so after the

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Holy Spirit came on his the promise of the Holy Spirit came on his disciples

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they were speaking in tongues and they they went out and you remember there was

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the first sermon of Peter where thousands of people believed you know

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the very famous sermon in the book of Acts and and this is you know in these

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sermons in these words that Peter was using this is what he says in Acts

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chapter 2 verses 38 39 Peter replied repent and be baptized every one of you

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in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will

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receive the gift so again he was referring here about the gift that Jesus

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spoke earlier on to these disciples you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit

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the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off for all whom

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the Lord our God will call so Peter said look receive the Holy Spirit receive

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this gift and this what you're receiving now is not just for you but for the

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children the children of your children the children your children for all

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generation until the ends of time basically until God will gather all the

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people they need to go with him and and everything will finish you know when the

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Lord will come back and and you know and and put an end to this world you know so

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Peter was already saying look this gift is not just for you but it's what you

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know for all generation for all time a gift available for us today for you and

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me and you know he's also you know the Bible is beautiful it probably could be

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another sermon apart but if you go in the Old Testament there was an episode

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where the languages involved and this was in the Old Testament you remember

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when there's a group of evil people decided to very evil heart decided to

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build a tower the Tower of Babel because they wanted to reach God of course they

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would have never been able to reach God but God was looking at their hearts like

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they were like challenging God not good heart right so they start building this

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tower and God probably was laughing from heaven and then he play a trick on them

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you remember the story suddenly the Bible says that while they were building

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people who are you know they could all communicate in the same language before

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when they started to build this tower so suddenly started to speak in different

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languages like like no I'm not speaking spiritual language I'm speaking like

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different human languages like different countries and and they couldn't

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understand each other anymore and so that all the project of building this

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tower failed but it is like you know if there was a heart that was rebelling

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against God and God say you know what they were speaking together the same

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language you know because they were all there you know probably from the same

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region they were all speaking together but because it was pride in their hearts

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God messed up their plans and he caused them to speak other languages so that

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they could understand each other and then you go in the book of Acts and he's

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the opposite actually this time there is a group of people who were seeking for

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God the disciples and they were like you know you know praying and praising God

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and suddenly the Holy Spirit comes but this time he gives a language one

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language that will bring them together and it's so much so that when they went

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out after being baptized in the spirit you know in Jerusalem at that time they

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were people who were coming from across everywhere in the Roman Empire because

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was that that was the celebration of the day of Pentecost which was called

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differently before but that was one of the days that required all people to

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come in Jerusalem into worship so there were people who were coming from from

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different parts of Europe from different parts of the world they

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couldn't you know they didn't speak the same language but the Bible says about

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while they were they came out baptizing the spirit they heard like they were

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speaking their own languages so you see you know again you know the Bible is

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beautiful because there are parallels in the Bible so while where there is a

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pride heart God comes down and he messed up the language then when there is a

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humble heart God comes and gives something that will unite the church you

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know whatever you go in the world you go in Italy my country go in Germany my

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wife country or whatever other country in the world it's like we all speak

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different languages we all speak you know we've got different cultures but we

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all belong to Christ and God has given something a language that we can all

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share that because it's something that comes from him a spiritual language you

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know the you know a language that he moves beyond beyond the barriers of

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culture and he's so he's like speaking other language it's like how does it

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work you know why is that important why is it even necessary you know the post

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of Paul explains that when we speak another language in the spirit what we

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do we edify ourselves and do you know why we edify ourselves when we speak in

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other languages because sometimes we pray but when we approach God we've got

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so many filters in our mind God I want you to do that but you you cannot even

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finish your prayer would you heal would you provide would you do something in

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this situation we haven't even finished our prayer and there's only a question

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popping in our mind he's not gonna do that is it can't you do that have you

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ever find that pray for a healing I pray for healing it's too desperate now I'm

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sorry it's not gonna happen we question but when we speak in other

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languages when we speak the language of the spirit because we take away our

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logic our understanding we open a channel with God between our spirit the

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spirit of God that is not you know these obstacles these questions are not there

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it's just an open channel you know unfiltered between us and God and that's

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why we manage through that to edify ourselves so why is important to receive

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the baptism in the spirit we kind of explain is a separate experience that

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is an experience that is for all generation why it is important for you

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today for us today to be filled with the spirit remember when Jesus said to his

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disciple look you don't leave Jerusalem please stay in Jerusalem until you will

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receive the Holy Spirit because he will give you power I mean Jesus knew exactly

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what was waiting the early church what was waiting that his disciples in the

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persecution the pain the killing you know for the sake of the gospel he knew

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what they would have faced that he even said to them look they've persecuted me

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they're gonna persecute you so he said look I know that you know I'm going

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probably you are you you you are eager to start speaking about me already now

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but wait you need to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit because he will give

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you power to be witness he will give you what you need in order to be effective

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are you speak about when you speak about me to the people around you he will give

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you the power to withstand what you're gonna face so Jesus was so clear as a

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look don't move in Jerusalem don't move from Jerusalem stay there please wait

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for the gift of the Holy Spirit you need that power in order to function in order

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to really to spread this message across the world you need that don't move from

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Jerusalem stay there a power that is you know we speak about the power of the

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you will receive power we're not speaking about like the superhero power

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power you know flying Superman or flash running fast or or doing crazy things

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you know we are speaking about the power of all to serve the power to witness a

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power to to withstand you know that you know what the enemy when the enemy moves

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around us and he tries to to do things you know to see what he's doing to

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overcome our weaknesses to change negative patterns in our life don't

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underestimate the power that comes with the baptism in the spirit you know

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sometimes we feel stuck in our Christian life I've experienced that in my life

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well it was actually you know it's like my experience was very short because I

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was saved one day was baptizing the spirit the following day but you know I

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felt a change in my life is like from like oh my goodness I'm saved now and I

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00:54:02,740 --> 00:54:06,900
was thinking I need to go back and to share probably about Jesus with my

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schoolmates what they're gonna say they're gonna laugh and then there was

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the first day the second day I got baptized I was like yes I want to go I

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don't care I'm gonna share about you there was something in me that was you

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know it was not coming from me and there are plenty of story I've seen 85 years

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00:54:23,620 --> 00:54:28,540
old men in Italy in my country being baptized in the spirit 85 years old

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00:54:28,540 --> 00:54:31,940
sometimes we think you know once we get old because we're too many we're too

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much you know you know our pattern are very established we're very rigid these

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things cannot happen I've seen an 85 years old old man being baptized in the

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spirit crying before God and walking out for that prayer meeting like a change

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man you know it's like sometimes we think like we need the Holy Spirit I need

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to be good I need to be to show to prove something to God I didn't have time to

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00:55:00,420 --> 00:55:05,020
prove anything to God I got saved one day I was baptized the following day God

649
00:55:05,020 --> 00:55:09,580
is not after you showing something try to you know to prove

650
00:55:09,580 --> 00:55:13,340
yourself that you are good to be good enough you know before you you receive

651
00:55:13,340 --> 00:55:16,780
the baptism in the spirit is actually very often is when you are at your

652
00:55:16,780 --> 00:55:20,740
lowest point in your life that you experience the empowerment of the spirit

653
00:55:20,740 --> 00:55:25,060
is when you are into you're going through difficulties that you receive

654
00:55:25,060 --> 00:55:30,620
the empowering of the spirit and this man there was speaking about 85 years

655
00:55:30,620 --> 00:55:35,660
old you know he got saved when he was 80 he got baptized in the spirit when in

656
00:55:35,660 --> 00:55:41,180
his 80s 85 knew about 85 can't remember exactly and you know he had a very

657
00:55:41,180 --> 00:55:45,960
difficult family situation he had one son he was very much into drugs he was

658
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,100
stealing from his parents he destroyed his house this man was about to kill

659
00:55:49,100 --> 00:55:55,500
himself before he gave his life to God to God and it's a wonderful story I've

660
00:55:55,500 --> 00:56:01,380
not got the time to to tell you to go into details here but he was in a

661
00:56:01,380 --> 00:56:05,620
terrible situation this man for all his life he had this son and really taken

662
00:56:05,620 --> 00:56:09,420
away everything all the money he would go in from the garden shed sell the

663
00:56:09,420 --> 00:56:13,580
tools because he had to buy drugs and it was violent to his parents and in that

664
00:56:13,580 --> 00:56:19,140
moment he experienced that the you know the Holy Spirit he was crying before God

665
00:56:19,140 --> 00:56:25,780
and he was transformed you see he's like do not underestimate the powers that

666
00:56:25,780 --> 00:56:29,700
comes from the Holy Spirit you know sometimes we we we get stuck in things

667
00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:33,260
like oh you know what is this you know speaking in other language that cannot

668
00:56:33,260 --> 00:56:38,060
be just like sometimes we just need to drop our logic and and drop our way of

669
00:56:38,060 --> 00:56:43,820
how we measure God and how we think he should do things just be a blank canvas

670
00:56:43,820 --> 00:56:48,140
you know what I said at the beginning of the service but just God can do

671
00:56:48,140 --> 00:56:56,220
impossible things right who are you to say God you cannot do that so it's

672
00:56:56,220 --> 00:57:01,460
important to be filled with the spirit Jesus said to his disciples do not leave

673
00:57:01,460 --> 00:57:06,340
Jerusalem until you receive the promise remember they already had the Holy

674
00:57:06,340 --> 00:57:09,340
Spirit in them Jesus breathed on them they were already

675
00:57:09,340 --> 00:57:14,380
indwell by the spirit so Jesus was not speaking about that kind of Holy Spirit

676
00:57:14,380 --> 00:57:18,180
presence but he was speaking specifically about what was promised you

677
00:57:18,180 --> 00:57:22,180
know a different a different experience a different event altogether in their

678
00:57:22,180 --> 00:57:28,740
life so how how do we receive the baptism in the spirit there's no secret

679
00:57:28,740 --> 00:57:34,340
formula just ask like everything else God gives you don't have to prove you

680
00:57:34,340 --> 00:57:39,860
have to pay you don't have to to show anything just go before him with a

681
00:57:39,860 --> 00:57:46,420
sincere and say yes Lord I want to receive this gift I want to be baptized

682
00:57:46,420 --> 00:57:51,820
in the spirit do not get stung is stuck as I said before with the tongues

683
00:57:51,820 --> 00:57:58,860
business just remove you know your logic as much as you can try to say Lord just

684
00:57:58,860 --> 00:58:06,500
do whatever you want to do in my life and there's a matter where you are you

685
00:58:06,500 --> 00:58:10,700
can't receive it even if you're in a bad place even if you're in a dark place

686
00:58:10,700 --> 00:58:18,540
you can still receive it now as we speak and I want to do something else

687
00:58:18,540 --> 00:58:23,060
worshiping you can come here we're just gonna pray I want you to stand and just

688
00:58:23,060 --> 00:58:29,940
close your eyes you're not gonna do anything crazy don't worry anything

689
00:58:29,940 --> 00:58:37,360
weird and not doing anything that you may there is reason for you to be

690
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:45,380
worried about just want to ask you as I said before just lift up your your your

691
00:58:45,380 --> 00:58:53,780
your hands keep your eyes closed you know there is nothing worse in church

692
00:58:53,780 --> 00:58:59,900
than those who look around I was saying it's a joke it's like focus on God yeah

693
00:58:59,900 --> 00:59:06,780
you are here for him you're here because he wants to do something in your life

694
00:59:06,780 --> 00:59:15,140
and I want to invite you invite you simply to to ask for the Holy Spirit to

695
00:59:15,140 --> 00:59:26,500
come in your life to feel your life maybe you've been baptized already but

696
00:59:26,500 --> 00:59:30,700
you know sometimes there is we need a refreshment of it we need a refreshment

697
00:59:30,700 --> 00:59:37,540
of the spirit in our life maybe you've been searching and praying for these and

698
00:59:37,540 --> 00:59:41,300
again it's not problem if you're not gonna be baptized today in the spirit

699
00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:48,340
it's not an issue you know sometimes we need to wait for things we need to trust

700
00:59:48,340 --> 00:59:52,100
the process what God is doing in the meantime as well I don't want to put any

701
00:59:52,100 --> 00:59:59,700
pressure on you because you see sometimes it's like time passed by and we wait

702
00:59:59,700 --> 01:00:05,900
it's fine but simply I want to invite you just to open your heart just keep

703
01:00:05,900 --> 01:00:13,820
your hand open your heart and invite the Holy Spirit to come in your life invite

704
01:00:13,820 --> 01:00:20,540
the Holy Spirit to come in your life and you know when the Holy Spirit came for

705
01:00:20,540 --> 01:00:25,660
the first time in his disciples remember they didn't know what to wait what to

706
01:00:25,660 --> 01:00:31,540
expect they didn't know what aspect how to recognize the Holy Spirit that when

707
01:00:31,540 --> 01:00:37,940
the Holy Spirit would come so God made sure that they knew that that was the

708
01:00:37,940 --> 01:00:44,100
gift there were tongues of fire the heard the sound of a wind they spoke in

709
01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:50,500
other languages so they saw something they saw the fire the tongues of fire

710
01:00:50,500 --> 01:00:56,460
they heard the sound of a wind and they spoke three of their senses were full

711
01:00:56,460 --> 01:01:01,700
engaged and you know when we approach God asking for the Holy Spirit you know

712
01:01:01,700 --> 01:01:07,980
people express this in different way I felt like a worm you know building up in

713
01:01:07,980 --> 01:01:14,580
my heart I felt like you know a sound I felt like you know there is there is no

714
01:01:14,580 --> 01:01:20,380
formal really is I cannot tell you what you will feel but I just want to invite

715
01:01:20,380 --> 01:01:25,100
you to open your heart raise your hands and just start by worshiping God just

716
01:01:25,100 --> 01:01:30,940
say thank you Lord you know we we just praise his name come on praise the name

717
01:01:30,940 --> 01:01:37,980
of Jesus praise the name of Jesus come on you speak a lot every day you complain

718
01:01:37,980 --> 01:01:41,980
a lot sometimes you talk you like to talk to your friends but yet you're still

719
01:01:41,980 --> 01:01:49,380
you're standing still here come on call out for God say Lord I bless your name

720
01:01:49,380 --> 01:01:57,900
Lord I worship you open your heart open your heart to the Lord God Lord I praise

721
01:01:57,900 --> 01:02:04,860
your name Lord you are wonderful just praise God come on God has so many

722
01:02:04,860 --> 01:02:11,260
reasons that he deserved to be praised for for your life for the way he the way

723
01:02:11,260 --> 01:02:17,980
how he provides for salvation for the eternal life that is waiting for us just

724
01:02:17,980 --> 01:02:24,220
started by praising the name of Jesus come on praise that him only got

725
01:02:24,220 --> 01:02:29,780
hallelujah we thank you Jesus hallelujah praise the name of the Lord

726
01:02:29,780 --> 01:02:35,780
praise the name of Jesus hallelujah we thank you God we thank you Lord Jesus

727
01:02:35,780 --> 01:02:42,180
hallelujah hallelujah God we thank you Jesus we praise your name we praise

728
01:02:42,180 --> 01:02:50,220
your name Jesus hallelujah we praise your name Lord God hallelujah you are wonderful Jesus you

729
01:02:50,220 --> 01:02:56,700
are wonderful God thank you Lord for dying on the cross for us thank you for giving your life for

730
01:02:56,700 --> 01:03:02,500
us Jesus thank you because you haven't left us alone but you've given us the gift of the Holy

731
01:03:02,500 --> 01:03:08,700
Spirit we thank you for your presence in us God for how you guide us for how you give us you give

732
01:03:08,700 --> 01:03:14,720
us strength when we need strength for how you are there to support us when we fall Lord for the

733
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:20,060
for be there in the moments of need we thank you Holy Spirit for the wonderful work that you do in

734
01:03:20,060 --> 01:03:28,100
our life we thank you Lord God and forgive us Lord for how many times Lord we we do things we we act

735
01:03:28,100 --> 01:03:34,540
in way that you know are not right before you we want to repent we want to become before you and

736
01:03:34,540 --> 01:03:41,340
we want to ask wash us once again with your blood Lord Jesus hallelujah we thank you because in you

737
01:03:41,340 --> 01:03:47,540
there is forgiveness in you there is there is eternal life in you there is love hallelujah we

738
01:03:47,540 --> 01:03:55,260
thank you Jesus we thank you Lord hallelujah we praise your name Jesus hallelujah Holy Spirit

739
01:03:55,260 --> 01:04:03,260
come among us today have your way among us if you this if your heart is to is to serve God in your

740
01:04:03,260 --> 01:04:09,980
life I want to invite you to ask for the baptism in the spirit remember do not move from Jerusalem

741
01:04:09,980 --> 01:04:15,980
you need power and so I feel God is saying to some of you here maybe there is a strong desire in your

742
01:04:15,980 --> 01:04:22,540
heart to serve him by Jesus is say look you need power I know what is waiting for you I know the

743
01:04:22,540 --> 01:04:26,900
moments that will come across with your life the moments where you will cry where you will feel

744
01:04:26,900 --> 01:04:33,100
lonely where you will feel that you don't deserve I know what's coming you need my power in your life

745
01:04:33,100 --> 01:04:40,340
right now today so just lift your hands and receive the gift of the Spirit today hallelujah

746
01:04:40,340 --> 01:04:49,780
we thank you Jesus hallelujah we praise your name hallelujah you are wonderful Jesus hallelujah we

747
01:04:49,780 --> 01:04:56,820
thank you God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah and often it starts with one word if you feel one word

748
01:04:56,820 --> 01:05:02,780
in your mind just pronounce the word speak that word out you know there is no formula there is no

749
01:05:02,780 --> 01:05:08,860
sentence there is no strategy there is no book we cannot learn about it it's just about up opening

750
01:05:08,860 --> 01:05:15,180
our hearts and receiving what God has prepared for us hallelujah we thank you Jesus we praise

751
01:05:15,180 --> 01:05:22,300
your name God hallelujah you are wonderful Jesus hallelujah hallelujah we are your wonderful God

752
01:05:22,300 --> 01:05:30,300
we worship your name you we worship you Lord do not allow your mind to stop God from doing what he

753
01:05:30,300 --> 01:05:35,460
wants to do in your life do not do not allow maybe you've grown up in a different background

754
01:05:35,460 --> 01:05:41,660
and they told you know it's not possible just for a moment be you and God be open to receive from

755
01:05:41,660 --> 01:05:47,580
the Lord you know there is nothing painful nothing weird nothing strange nothing crazy comes from God

756
01:05:47,580 --> 01:05:53,180
all the things that comes from God's are good there is no reason for you to be afraid there is

757
01:05:53,180 --> 01:05:59,900
no reason for you to be concerned the Holy Spirit is good he wants to give you power he wants to give

758
01:05:59,900 --> 01:06:06,140
you power to withstand he wants to be your power to walk in your Christian life you need the power

759
01:06:06,140 --> 01:06:12,980
of the Holy Spirit in your life hallelujah we thank you Jesus we praise your name God hallelujah

760
01:06:12,980 --> 01:06:19,540
oh hallelujah hallelujah and if you've been baptized in the spirit already just you know

761
01:06:19,540 --> 01:06:24,620
praying tongues just speak in other languages don't worry about the person who is next to you

762
01:06:24,620 --> 01:06:31,620
come on let's let's the Holy Spirit work in your life hallelujah oh

763
01:06:31,620 --> 01:06:34,620
hallelujah

764
01:06:34,620 --> 01:06:36,620
oh

765
01:06:52,620 --> 01:06:57,620
hallelujah Jesus hallelujah oh hallelujah

766
01:06:57,620 --> 01:07:10,620
thank you Jesus hallelujah hallelujah Jesus hallelujah hallelujah oh hallelujah Jesus thank you Lord

767
01:07:10,620 --> 01:07:18,620
oh

768
01:07:18,620 --> 01:07:31,620
hallelujah Jesus hallelujah hallelujah

769
01:07:31,620 --> 01:07:43,620
you are wonderful you are wonderful hallelujah hallelujah we thank you Holy Spirit hallelujah

770
01:07:43,620 --> 01:07:53,620
we thank you Holy Spirit oh hallelujah thank you Jesus hallelujah we thank you Lord God hallelujah

771
01:07:53,620 --> 01:08:01,620
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I believe that you know the Lord just like he said to his disciple

772
01:08:01,620 --> 01:08:07,620
do not move from Jerusalem until you receive the gift of the Spirit I feel that the Lord is speaking

773
01:08:07,620 --> 01:08:13,620
to some of you here today do not move from this place do not walk out from this room until you

774
01:08:13,620 --> 01:08:19,620
receive the gift of the Spirit because you need the power that comes from me I feel that God is

775
01:08:19,620 --> 01:08:26,620
ready for you to baptize you today and he's waiting for you to open your heart to open your mind

776
01:08:26,620 --> 01:08:33,620
and just to let the Spirit do his work in your life hallelujah we thank you Jesus we thank you

777
01:08:33,620 --> 01:08:36,620
Lord God hallelujah oh

778
01:08:36,620 --> 01:08:38,620
oh

779
01:08:38,620 --> 01:08:48,620
somebody

780
01:08:56,620 --> 01:09:06,620
hallelujah Jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Jesus hallelujah we thank you God hallelujah

781
01:09:06,620 --> 01:09:15,620
hallelujah hallelujah Jesus we thank you Lord God hallelujah we praise your name Jesus you are

782
01:09:15,620 --> 01:09:25,620
wonderful God you are wonderful hallelujah oh Jesus thank you Lord God your word is wonderful

783
01:09:25,620 --> 01:09:34,620
your promises are perfect you are a good God Holy Spirit we praise you Holy Spirit we praise you

784
01:09:34,620 --> 01:09:42,620
hallelujah move on in this church move in our lives move in this town in this country in this land

785
01:09:42,620 --> 01:09:55,620
across the world oh God oh hallelujah you know you look around you and it is clear that we are

786
01:09:55,620 --> 01:10:02,620
approaching a time in history that is unprecedented you know the level of sin and desperation and

787
01:10:02,620 --> 01:10:12,620
difficulties that is out there is the lowest point ever and worst I mean it's like what you hear

788
01:10:12,620 --> 01:10:23,620
what people say what we see around us we're really you know we are entering a time you know Jesus

789
01:10:23,620 --> 01:10:32,620
says in the last day will be like in the day of Noah that the world got crazy to the point where

790
01:10:32,620 --> 01:10:40,620
God had to put an end to everything and send the flood and so as well you see as the day of the

791
01:10:40,620 --> 01:10:46,620
coming of the Lord is approaching the Bible speaks that you will see things happening you will see

792
01:10:46,620 --> 01:10:54,620
raw wars and rumors of wars and you will see you know people who love you know life driven by the

793
01:10:54,620 --> 01:10:59,620
money and you will see the evil will be called good and the good will be called evil and you will

794
01:10:59,620 --> 01:11:04,620
see all these things and I believe that we are really entering a time in history where we need

795
01:11:04,620 --> 01:11:11,620
the power of the Spirit listen it's not about just being saved and just having a few years together

796
01:11:11,620 --> 01:11:17,620
and then going to heaven but it's about saving a world you know showing to a world out there

797
01:11:17,620 --> 01:11:23,620
he's dying the Christ has given his life for them so it's about withstanding you know I can see

798
01:11:23,620 --> 01:11:28,620
persecution coming in the next 20 years I can see that it's gonna be it's gonna become more and more

799
01:11:28,620 --> 01:11:34,620
difficult to speak and stand for the truth of God he's already happening so it's not I'm not saying

800
01:11:34,620 --> 01:11:40,620
this because I'm a prophet I'm just doing two plus two you know I can see that coming and I believe

801
01:11:40,620 --> 01:11:46,620
that you need the power where the Church of Christ needs the power of the Holy Spirit like never

802
01:11:46,620 --> 01:11:53,620
before in history and I want to really to encourage you to seek for this gift not to be discouraged

803
01:11:53,620 --> 01:11:58,620
if you feel like you're not receiving it just keep on praying for it every day when you when you

804
01:11:58,620 --> 01:12:05,620
spend time with God ask ask and he is a good father he knows you know how to give us and when to give

805
01:12:05,620 --> 01:12:11,620
us the good things at the right time trust God and if you are baptized in the spirit when you spend

806
01:12:11,620 --> 01:12:18,620
time with the Lord pray use other languages just spend the time with God you know to edify yourself

807
01:12:18,620 --> 01:12:23,620
you know sometime Christian I was baptized in the spirit 40 years ago but now because my mind is so

808
01:12:23,620 --> 01:12:29,620
much like you know it's so dogmatic about everything is like I can't even remember what he's

809
01:12:29,620 --> 01:12:35,620
speaking in tongues it's just everything is like black and white but you know be refreshed with the

810
01:12:35,620 --> 01:12:44,620
spirit exercise as you pray you need that for your own edification you need that power to withstand

811
01:12:44,620 --> 01:12:52,620
a dying world that's gonna come after you and me in the next years hallelujah we thank you Jesus

812
01:12:52,620 --> 01:12:59,620
we thank you Lord God Holy Spirit we need more of you more of your power in our life hallelujah

813
01:12:59,620 --> 01:13:09,620
thank you Jesus thank you Lord thank you Jesus you are wonderful hallelujah thank you Jesus

814
01:13:09,620 --> 01:13:17,620
hallelujah Lord God we thank you for today Holy Spirit we thank you for your presence in us we

815
01:13:17,620 --> 01:13:22,620
thank you for all the good things that come from you God and we pray Lord God for the week ahead

816
01:13:22,620 --> 01:13:30,620
Lord we just pray for your protection Lord we pray that you will be always with us Lord as we walk in

817
01:13:30,620 --> 01:13:36,620
our everyday life Lord the people that we talk to Lord God always help help always help us to be a

818
01:13:36,620 --> 01:13:44,620
light for them Lord to show them about you about your love we thank you God in Jesus precious name

819
01:13:44,620 --> 01:13:54,620
amen amen now before you go all gonna say I just want to mention two final things first of all now

820
01:13:54,620 --> 01:14:03,620
well you can sit down yes you can sit down now you probably all like to enjoy a cup of coffee at

821
01:14:03,620 --> 01:14:09,620
the end of the service and if you're like me probably you like to coffee from the machine used

822
01:14:09,620 --> 01:14:17,620
to like the machine we used to have a problem that was always the waiting time was very long and you

823
01:14:17,620 --> 01:14:23,620
know is the coffee was not never coming out the same depending whoever was operating the machine

824
01:14:23,620 --> 01:14:29,620
when I was doing it a few times or other people you know so we tried to simplify the whole process

825
01:14:29,620 --> 01:14:38,620
and we got a new coffee machine so it is a bean to cup coffee machine it does a good coffee okay

826
01:14:38,620 --> 01:14:45,620
and is quicker than what used to do to be before much quicker so I would like to invite you to have

827
01:14:45,620 --> 01:14:52,620
a taste of our new coffee is for free for today just to the calf is very quick yeah 30 seconds per drink

828
01:14:52,620 --> 01:14:58,620
so the queue is gonna move very quickly so just enjoy a cup of coffee cappuccino latte whatever you want

829
01:14:58,620 --> 01:15:04,620
hot chocolate is wonderful feel free to do that now for those who wanted to give by cards that the

830
01:15:04,620 --> 01:15:09,620
card machine was not working during the service is working now please go and see Liana at the end

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01:15:09,620 --> 01:15:15,620
she's sitting there can you wave your hand Liana yeah she's there feel free to give we are still

832
01:15:15,620 --> 01:15:21,620
collecting for Uganda so if you if you would like your donation of or part of your donation to go to

833
01:15:21,620 --> 01:15:29,620
Uganda just mention it to her so she can keep track of where the money will go okay so don't forget to

834
01:15:29,620 --> 01:15:34,620
mention that enjoy a cup of coffee God bless you see you next week