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Welcome everyone to this episode of the Methodist Voice podcast.

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This podcast is finishing off a Sunday morning sermon series we've just finished at a new

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appointment I've taken for the Global Methodist Church in Hobbs, New Mexico.

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The series has been outlining what I believe is the playbook for what John Wesley referred

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to as primitive Christianity or original New Testament Christianity before it began to

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become corrupted with political power and wealth and status amongst the religious leadership

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of the church.

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The primary information we draw from for that playbook is the New Testament of course, but

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the secondary playbook we draw from is the writings of the early church fathers located

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in the first 300 years of the church, that's the primitive church, as well as our own Methodist

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founding fathers.

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Of course, all of the articles from that series can be found on thefoundarypress.org.

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The sermons can be found on the YouTube channel of First Methodist Hobbs, New Mexico, which

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I will link in the notes below.

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But so far we have been showing that in order to be a New Testament church, which at the

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very heart of things is what Methodism is about, we have to become focused on three

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primary things.

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Building a house of worship, learning to take delight in God together, building a house

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of prayer, and building a house of learning.

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So building a house of learning is the last topic of this series.

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We're going to cover that in today's podcast before we transition to our next subject coming

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up this Sunday, which is called the big picture of the Bible.

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So let's get into it today.

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Today we're going to be talking about the knowledge of God.

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Building a house of learning means that we are stewards and we are cultivating the knowledge

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of God together.

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And so the essence of eternal life, the essence of being born again and joined to the body

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of Christ is coming to the knowledge of God.

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The main point of eternal life is that people would be enraptured or take delight in the

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knowledge of God.

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Here's what it says in John 17, three, this is eternal life that they may know.

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And that word means in an experiential way.

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And so when the information, the correct information is received by the human heart, there is an

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encounter with God that occurs.

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This is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you

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have sent.

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This is eternal life.

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Jesus says in John 17, three, so our inheritance and destiny in Christ is to go far beyond

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superficial Christian religion.

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Another phrase I use for that all the time, which you hear me say is American churchy

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entity, a superficial shallow version of the Christian faith.

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But our inheritance is to go far beyond that to experience intimacy with God's heart that

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energizes our heart with God's power.

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Here's what it says in Ephesians three, 16 through 19.

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I pray that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen you with power through his

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spirit in your inner being.

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That is a rich sentence.

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But think about that.

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I pray that out of his glorious riches, the knowledge of God, he may strengthen you, make

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you stronger with power through his spirit in your inner being.

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God wants to strengthen and fortify and release supernatural power in the mind and heart of

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believers, verse 17.

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So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

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And I pray that you being rooted and established in love may have power together with all the

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Lord's holy people to grasp, to understand, to comprehend how wide and long and high and

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deep is the love of Christ.

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And to know this love that surpasses knowledge, it's an experience.

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It's not just information.

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It's information that leads to an experience.

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And then continuing on that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

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Now, as Methodists, we use the word grace a lot, provenient grace, saving grace, justifying

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grace, all these different descriptors we have for the word grace.

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We use that word so much that I think we lose touch on the meaning of the word or what we're

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actually talking about.

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So I want to read to you a definition of grace.

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And this is an old piece by a guy named Robert Girdlestone.

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It is from 1871 and it's from his book Synonyms of the Old Testament.

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So here's what he says about the word grace.

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We have to be on our guard against the supposition that grace is an abstract quality.

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It is an active personal principle, showing itself in our dealings with those by whom

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we are surrounded.

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In the great proportion of passages in which the word grace is found in the New Testament,

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it signifies the unmerited or undeserved operation of God in the heart of man, affected through

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the agency of the Holy Spirit.

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We have gradually come to speak of grace as an inherent quality in man, just as we talk

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of gifts.

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Whereas it is in reality the communication of divine goodness by the inworking of the

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spirit and through the medium of him who is full of grace and truths.

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So at the end of the day, when we talk about God's grace, we're talking about God's ability

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or God's power that is supernatural in nature.

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It does not come from us.

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It comes from outside of us, from an uncreated, all-powerful being who releases something

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on the inside of us to do what we otherwise could not do.

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And that is designed to make an impact on the world around us.

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And so you've heard the word charismatic.

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The root word of charismatic is charis, which is the word grace for the word grace.

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It's supernatural ability that God releases in the mind and hearts of people to affect

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change in the world around them, mainly the people around them.

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The gifts of the Holy Spirit are for the people to help them take steps forward in their face.

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And so that's what we're talking about when we talk about the word grace.

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We're talking about the power of God and the correct understanding of the information is

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an important pathway over which that grace travels.

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So being a learning community, building a house of learning means we are building highways

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over which the power of God can travel into the hearts and minds of believers.

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It is God who reveals God to the human spirit.

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And the point is to awaken love on the inside of us.

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It says in John 17 26, Jesus is praying, I will declare it my father's name, that the

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love with which you loved me may be in them, the same love that Jesus and God share with

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one another.

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He wants deposited in our hearts.

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When you think about love, you know, you think about, you know, again, not an abstract church

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riddled idea of love at its root, love is desire.

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It's desire for someone.

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And that desire leads to great pleasure and delight that we take in that person.

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And so we talk about love, we're talking about strong desires for someone that causes great

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delight and pleasure.

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So it takes God's power to produce that kind of lovingness.

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It is only God's power that awakens desire in our heart.

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And there's nothing more pleasurable or exhilarating than loving God by the power of God.

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It's the highest pleasure there is to have in this life.

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The Father's love is supernaturally poured into our hearts by the person, the work, the

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ministry of the Holy Spirit.

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Our desire for God is God's gift to us.

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Our desire for God is an expression of his desire for us.

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And so the central issue of spiritual warfare is around the knowledge of God.

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The church is powerful when we grow in the knowledge of God.

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And Satan assaults the knowledge of God by blinding people's eyes to it.

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Second Corinthians 4, 4.

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This is this, whose minds the God of this age, which is Satan, referred to in scripture

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as the God of this age, whose minds the God of this age has blinded, lest the light of

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the glory of Christ should shine on them.

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We do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus.

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For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts

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to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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Now in scripture, a lot of times the word strongholds is used and the lack of knowledge

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is precisely what constitutes strongholds.

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We're talking about strongholds of ignorance, strongholds of blindness, strongholds of false

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doctrines.

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So many people don't have a vision that the knowledge of God is actually within their

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reach.

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And so this is one of Paul's prayers for the New Testament church.

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He prays in Ephesians chapter 1 verses 17 through 19.

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Again, that the father of glory may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the

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knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what

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is the hope of his calling, which is our destiny.

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God wants our destiny to be revealed to us so that we can begin reaching for it.

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Continuing on with the scripture, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance

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in the saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe according

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to the working of his mighty power.

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So it all works together.

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The knowledge of God being received by faith in Jesus Christ, the person and work of Jesus

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Christ is the highway over which the power or the grace of God awakens things on the

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inside of us that produce great desire and pleasure and yearning for more.

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It produces a hunger for even more and a searching for even more.

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And it becomes this great spectacular adventure that we go on to really lay hold of our destiny.

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Ultimately, our eternal destiny is what we're talking about.

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And so here's the scripture we read from last Sunday from Proverbs chapter 2 verses 1 through

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We're going to discuss that just a little bit more to wind up this topic.

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And we're going to talk about five conditions for cultivating the knowledge of God.

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And so here's what it says in Proverbs 2 1 through 5, my son, if you accept my words

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and store up my commands within you, populate your mind and heart with the information of

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scriptures what that's talking about.

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Verse 2, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding.

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In other words, we don't just have the information, we are growing in a correct interpretation

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in a more robust understanding of the information.

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Verse 3, indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, if you pray

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and ask for God's help or ability, he will give you power to unlock the hidden meaning

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of the text.

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That's for and if you look for it as silver and search for it as hidden treasure, then

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you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

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And so let's talk about five conditions for cultivating the knowledge of God.

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These conditions need to be met in order for the power of God to unlock the meaning in

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our minds and hearts.

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The number one condition is an intention to obey.

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The Holy Spirit is the only one who can reveal Jesus to us.

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If he is quenched and grieved, like it talks about in Ephesians 4.30, 1st Thessalonians

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5.19, we will not receive his revelation.

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We can't offend the Holy Spirit and still expect him to make Jesus known to our heart

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in a deep and experiential way.

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Our spiritual immaturity is very different from purposely resisting the Holy Spirit

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and refusing to obey him in areas where we know better.

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And so are there areas of deliberate disobedience in your life?

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Deliberate sin blocks spiritual progress and hinders your walk with the Lord.

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So make a consistent resolution to confess and resist sinful areas.

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Please talk to God about it.

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Don't hide from it.

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Talk to God about it.

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Wait for him to help you develop the will to behave differently and realize that God

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looks more at the sincerity of your motives to obey than at your actual attainment of

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spiritual maturity.

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So do you have a sincere, authentic intention to obey God in every area that you know?

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That's a key and critical thing to consider.

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Not that you've attained it, but do you have an authentic and sincere intention to obey?

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Okay, point number two.

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You have to make an adequate investment of time to fill your mind with God's Word and

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then to work at understanding what it means.

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Once you have the information, you have to then begin working at developing the understanding

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of the information.

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And that is going to require time and focus.

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So we treasure God's commandments as we fill our minds with his Word.

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We dialogue with Jesus as a person or we have conversation with him, prayer, meditation,

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things like that.

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It's impossible to grow in intimacy with Jesus without regular meditation on the scripture

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because the scripture is the only thing that reveals Jesus to our minds and hearts.

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Okay, point number three.

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Do you have a teachable spirit?

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Matthew 11 25.

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Are you approaching the Word of God with a childlike spirit?

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In other words, I believe it's true.

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I believe it's right.

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I believe it's real.

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And I'm not going to let a jaded skepticism crowd out my mind and heart with unbelief.

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And so think about kids, they're happily dependent on other people.

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They're easily led and trusting and they're open to correction.

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They're open to leadership.

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And so these are the qualities that we need to bring to the Word of God whenever we approach

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it.

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Point number four.

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We have to engage in persevering prayer for the knowledge of God.

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And so that's one of the items of agenda we need to bring to our prayer life is asking

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God to reveal God through developing our understanding of scripture.

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We've got to actually pray for revelation.

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Do you pray for revelation?

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One of Paul's primary prayers is for the spirit of wisdom and revelation, which we read from

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the book of Ephesians in the knowledge of God.

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So Paul prayed for revelation and understanding for the church.

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If we just added that prayer to our prayer list on a daily basis, God would probably

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do some significant work in our minds and hearts.

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Last point, point number five, determination.

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We must pay any price in our quest to search for God as for hidden treasure.

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If we can live without more of God, then we will go without more of God.

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If we search for him like a covetous man searches for wealth, then we'll attain to the knowledge

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of God.

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Jesus is telling us in the scripture, this is the type of commitment that God is looking

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for.

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The Bible says that the eyes of the Lord search throughout the earth, searching for a man

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whose heart is loyal to him, a man who is focused his heart on obeying and honoring

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the living God.

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So many attend higher education for eight to 10 years, laboring for wisdom and knowledge

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and skill to excel in their occupation.

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Excellence is considered normal to anyone who's looking for excellence.

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And so it's no different with the knowledge of God.

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You can't be lazy, half-hearted and lukewarm practicing American churchianity or superficial

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Christian religion and expect to have an encounter with God that unleashes his power in your

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mind and heart and awakens love, supernatural love, supernatural power and ability to make

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an impact on the world around you that helps other people take steps forward in their faith.

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It's just not going to work that way.

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We have to have this type of five step dedication to see that what is promised in scripture

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will be actualized or realized in our minds and hearts.

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And if you want to know why the American church is weak and impotent and losing ground, it's

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because they've neglected doing these things, practicing these disciplines in the life of

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the body of Christ.

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So this is going to wind up the series and this particular topic on the knowledge of

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God building a house of learning.

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This is why we are going to stay focused on these three things moving forward as a church.

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I recommend that you stay focused on these things moving forward in your personal faith

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and in your personal discipleship because if you want to see the results that they saw

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in the New Testament, you have to do the things that they did.

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That just makes sense.

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And so that winds up this series.

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We'll move on to our next topic next week.

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I'm excited about it.

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The big picture of scripture and really that's going to be projecting forward to the future.

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What does God have planned?

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Not just for human beings, not just for the church, but for the earth moving forward.

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If we don't understand where we're going, it's going to be more difficult to be led

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in the here and now.

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And so we want to be better followers of Jesus Christ in order to do that.

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We kind of need to know where we're going.

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And so that's the topic we're going to cover starting in this next series.

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I'm excited about it.

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I hope you enjoyed this topic and I hope you join us for the next one as we take off into

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that journey that awaits us.

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So blessings to you.

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Happy Fourth of July and we will see you soon.

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Bye bye.