WEBVTT 00:00:00.330 --> 00:00:04.110 I'm going to continue our heart to heart regarding 00:00:04.110 --> 00:00:14.050 the perfect will of God and the Holy Spirit as 00:00:14.050 --> 00:00:19.949 he intercedes before the throne of God in behalf 00:00:19.949 --> 00:00:25.170 of God's child who is seeking God's perfect will. 00:00:26.809 --> 00:00:32.159 I'm a firm believer. And I am sure that my belief 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.359 can be substantiated with the Word of God. Or 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:41.439 that the Word of God substantiates what I believe. 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:48.920 And that is that God has a perfect will for each 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:55.119 individual. I believe that with every atom of 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.500 my being. I believe that... before I made my 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:05.939 first cry as a little bundle of flesh and came 00:01:05.939 --> 00:01:12.260 into this world, that God had a blueprint, a 00:01:12.260 --> 00:01:17.760 perfect will for my life. God had a perfect will 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:30.790 for your life. If only you... could know. If 00:01:30.790 --> 00:01:36.069 only this very moment I could know the details 00:01:36.069 --> 00:01:42.209 of God's perfect will for my life and you could 00:01:42.209 --> 00:01:44.730 know the details of His perfect will for your 00:01:44.730 --> 00:01:54.469 life. How differently our lives might have been 00:01:54.989 --> 00:02:01.709 had we walked in His perfect will and lived according 00:02:01.709 --> 00:02:08.110 to His will. But when we were born, we were also 00:02:08.110 --> 00:02:13.469 born with free moral agency, born with a will, 00:02:13.629 --> 00:02:21.110 separate and apart from His will. And we must 00:02:21.110 --> 00:02:27.490 choose to live according to his will. God never 00:02:27.490 --> 00:02:32.169 planned that any human being should live a defeated 00:02:32.169 --> 00:02:35.830 life. You'll never make me believe. It was never 00:02:35.830 --> 00:02:39.129 in his books. It was never in his thinking. It 00:02:39.129 --> 00:02:44.909 was never in his plan that that man should live 00:02:44.909 --> 00:02:50.560 the life of an alcoholic. Never. You will never 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:52.719 make me believe that it was God's perfect plan 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:56.780 for some man, some woman. You're listening to 00:02:56.780 --> 00:02:59.219 me in this very moment, in the very depths of 00:02:59.219 --> 00:03:06.000 defeat. Your life has been a failure. Right now, 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:12.080 as you come face to face with yourself, you have 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:17.280 been no good to yourself or anyone else. You're 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:23.819 in defeat. You're living in despair. Your life 00:03:23.819 --> 00:03:27.840 is absolutely worthless. And it has been for 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.060 years. Look at yourself. Do you believe that 00:03:33.060 --> 00:03:37.800 it was God's perfect will that you should be 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:39.860 where you are today, living the kind of life 00:03:39.860 --> 00:03:47.319 that you're living? Never. Never. You have... 00:03:47.740 --> 00:03:52.939 You have made the choice. For years you have 00:03:52.939 --> 00:03:57.759 been living contrary to God's perfect will. You 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:03.000 have fought against God. You have not permitted, 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:07.659 you have not allowed Him to be the master of 00:04:07.659 --> 00:04:12.599 your life. And you can only know His perfect 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.129 will. I as an individual can only know God's 00:04:15.129 --> 00:04:20.529 perfect will as I yield my will to His will. 00:04:22.310 --> 00:04:25.829 And then and then only can we claim that wonderful 00:04:25.829 --> 00:04:29.230 scripture that all things work together for good. 00:04:31.110 --> 00:04:35.930 Only those who are living that surrendered life 00:04:35.930 --> 00:04:41.389 or will surrender to His will can claim that 00:04:41.389 --> 00:04:46.579 promise. that no matter what happens to you, 00:04:46.660 --> 00:04:51.560 all things will work together for your good and 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:56.060 his glory. I hope I've made that very clear because 00:04:56.060 --> 00:05:01.180 it's vitally important. Sometimes, as I told 00:05:01.180 --> 00:05:03.639 you in our last heart -to -heart talk, it's the 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:07.240 hardest thing in the world to know God's perfect 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:11.629 will. When we're living His will, we have His 00:05:11.629 --> 00:05:14.389 favor. We have His smile. We have His blessing. 00:05:15.009 --> 00:05:16.889 Oh, I'd rather have death than anything else 00:05:16.889 --> 00:05:21.870 in the whole world. I don't ask to be rich. I 00:05:21.870 --> 00:05:26.990 don't ask for material things. I ask above everything 00:05:26.990 --> 00:05:34.069 else to have His smile, to have His favor, to 00:05:34.069 --> 00:05:40.160 be surrounded with His love. God's blessed man, 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:45.759 God's blessed woman. We have everything when 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:55.079 we have that. And it's just like that. But sometimes 00:05:55.079 --> 00:06:00.000 when we pray, it's the hardest thing to know 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:07.720 how to pray. Here's a precious woman. Her husband. 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:13.939 is at the point of death. She wants God's perfect 00:06:13.939 --> 00:06:22.040 will. Should she pray, heal him, great physician. 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:30.259 Heal this body just now. Raise him up, I pray. 00:06:31.660 --> 00:06:38.040 Or should she pray, take him, Father God. Take 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:42.120 him now. And there isn't a one of us but what 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:46.699 sometime in our life have come face to face. 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:52.839 Sometime we have faced that very situation. Maybe 00:06:52.839 --> 00:07:01.259 not exactly for the passing of a loved one, not 00:07:01.259 --> 00:07:03.180 knowing whether to pray that God should take 00:07:03.180 --> 00:07:06.839 that one or whether God should heal that one. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:12.980 But a simmer situation. You don't know how to 00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:19.980 pray. I've been faced with that. How shall I 00:07:19.980 --> 00:07:25.199 pray? The scripture tells us exactly what to 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:34.420 do. There are three people who know what is God's 00:07:34.420 --> 00:07:41.550 perfect will. God the Father knows his will for 00:07:41.550 --> 00:07:47.129 that one. Jesus Christ, in position of great 00:07:47.129 --> 00:07:50.870 high priest, knows the Father's perfect will 00:07:50.870 --> 00:07:58.829 for that one. The Holy Spirit knows God's perfect 00:07:58.829 --> 00:08:04.829 will for all three are perfect knowledge and 00:08:04.829 --> 00:08:10.800 perfect wisdom. What the Father knows, the Son 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:15.439 knows. What the Son knows, the Holy Spirit knows. 00:08:17.339 --> 00:08:23.240 Three persons working in conjunction, one with 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:28.300 the other, never working separate and apart from 00:08:28.300 --> 00:08:38.460 the other. All three persons know. God's perfect 00:08:38.460 --> 00:08:45.600 will for you. The Holy Spirit is in the world 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:51.919 now. You had been filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:08:53.240 --> 00:09:00.240 He is with you, but he shall be in you. This 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.620 glorious person, the third person of Trinity, 00:09:04.570 --> 00:09:11.090 who governs, who rules, who feels, knows God's 00:09:11.090 --> 00:09:19.110 perfect will for that given matter. Now, let 00:09:19.110 --> 00:09:22.690 me give you the scripture, the eighth chapter 00:09:22.690 --> 00:09:28.649 of Romans. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth 00:09:28.649 --> 00:09:33.639 our infirmities. In other words, he knows our 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:40.059 defects. He knows our personal failings. He knows 00:09:40.059 --> 00:09:45.879 our weaknesses. I told you in our last heart 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.259 -to -heart talk that it's most difficult for 00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:52.159 most of us to know God's perfect will sometimes 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:59.860 because we have our own desire in a given matter. 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.879 And the first thing that you and I have to do 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:09.159 if we're seeking to know the will of God, we 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:12.519 must seek at the beginning to get our heart and 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:15.460 to get our mind into such a state that it has 00:10:15.460 --> 00:10:19.440 no will of its own in regard to a given matter. 00:10:22.179 --> 00:10:27.879 That's the catch. We have our personal weaknesses. 00:10:28.740 --> 00:10:32.919 We have our personal failure. We have our own 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:39.659 defects. The scripture here calls it our infirmities. 00:10:40.779 --> 00:10:47.200 The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities. For 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:50.840 we know not what we should pray for as we ought. 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:56.100 But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for 00:10:56.100 --> 00:11:02.659 us with groanings which cannot be... When you 00:11:02.659 --> 00:11:06.600 get to the place where you do not know how to 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:09.399 pray, when you don't know what it is to pray, 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:14.700 dear Lord, heal that precious one, or pray, dear 00:11:14.700 --> 00:11:22.179 wonderful Jesus, just make his passing be easy. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:28.360 Now, it's pretty hard to know what is God's perfect 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.940 will. And if you don't know how to pray, then 00:11:32.940 --> 00:11:40.539 just let the Spirit pray through you. Let Him 00:11:40.539 --> 00:11:47.259 do the praying. The Spirit itself maketh intercession. 00:11:48.419 --> 00:11:54.659 Oh, this is tremendous. This is marvelous. He 00:11:54.659 --> 00:11:59.360 will intercede. For us, before the Father's throne. 00:11:59.960 --> 00:12:04.000 With groanings which cannot be uttered. Have 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.600 you ever gotten to the place in your life? Of 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.759 course you have. Where it is almost impossible 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.799 for you to pray, the words just will not come. 00:12:12.139 --> 00:12:16.340 You just, you don't know what to say. Perhaps 00:12:16.340 --> 00:12:20.759 the burden is so heavy. You know what I'm talking 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:25.360 about? Perhaps your feelings are so involved, 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.600 There are no words in human vocabulary to express 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:37.460 what you really feel on the inside of you. The 00:12:37.460 --> 00:12:40.919 longing is so great, or the hurt is so great, 00:12:41.100 --> 00:12:50.419 or the lack of wisdom is so prevalent. You do 00:12:50.419 --> 00:12:58.399 not know how to pray. They just keep quiet. Don't 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:04.460 say anything. Don't do anything. Let the Holy 00:13:04.460 --> 00:13:09.240 Spirit who knows God's perfect will intercede 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:15.960 for you. Let him make intercession for you before 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:22.820 the throne of God. He who knows God's perfect 00:13:22.820 --> 00:13:27.580 will will intercede. with groanings which cannot 00:13:27.580 --> 00:13:32.360 be uttered. For he that searches the hearts knoweth 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:35.940 what is in the mind of the Spirit, because he 00:13:35.940 --> 00:13:40.559 maketh intercession for the saints according 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:47.000 to the will of God. You and I may not be able 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.679 to pray according to the will of God, but the 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:54.679 Holy Spirit. will pray and make intercession 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:59.860 for us according to the will of God. And you 00:13:59.860 --> 00:14:05.379 can't miss. It is absolutely impossible to miss 00:14:05.379 --> 00:14:11.059 when the Holy Spirit is making intercession for 00:14:11.059 --> 00:14:19.279 you according to the will of God. Oh. Sure. I 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:24.879 could not tell you. that the Holy Spirit has 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:30.440 ever spoken to me audibly. I would not dare tell 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:34.539 you that God has spoken to me in an audible voice. 00:14:36.620 --> 00:14:43.279 I would not dare tell you that Jesus has spoken 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:47.980 to me in an audible voice. You read the Scripture. 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:53.340 And through the... pages of the Holy Word, when 00:14:53.340 --> 00:14:57.240 the saints of God have said, He spoke to me. 00:14:58.820 --> 00:15:05.259 I doubt seriously that He spoke in an audible 00:15:05.259 --> 00:15:12.000 voice, and yet He speaks to one so definitely, 00:15:12.179 --> 00:15:19.159 as definitely as though you heard an audible 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:24.820 voice. And his speaking is as real to me, as 00:15:24.820 --> 00:15:30.259 much of a reality, as the audible voice of any 00:15:30.259 --> 00:15:37.059 human being. And it's just like that. All right. 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.399 Turn, if you will, please, to the 8th chapter 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:46.179 of Acts. This begins with the 29th verse. And 00:15:46.179 --> 00:15:49.740 always remember that when the Holy Spirit... 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:57.740 That's the speaking. Listen to him. But be dead 00:15:57.740 --> 00:16:02.000 sure it's the Holy Spirit who is doing the speaking. 00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:04.960 Be sure you're listening to the right voice. 00:16:06.379 --> 00:16:11.840 Be vitally sure it's the right voice. But you 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.679 can trust him. I read now from the 8th chapter 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:21.179 of Acts, the 29th verse. Then the Spirit said 00:16:21.179 --> 00:16:25.840 unto Philip, Who did the speaking? The Spirit, 00:16:26.019 --> 00:16:29.779 the Holy Spirit. And I do not believe that Philip 00:16:29.779 --> 00:16:34.580 heard an audible voice, but he knew it's the 00:16:34.580 --> 00:16:39.500 Spirit speaking. Said unto Philip, Go near and 00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:44.399 join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.759 thither to him. and heard him read the prophet 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:52.120 isaiah and said understandest thou what thou 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:58.120 readest and he said how can i except some man 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.320 should guide me and he desired philip that he 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:06.779 would come up and sit with him and did you notice 00:17:06.779 --> 00:17:11.339 something whenever the spirit tells you to do 00:17:11.339 --> 00:17:15.440 something No matter how unreasonable it may seem 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:21.579 in the natural. No matter how unlogical it might 00:17:21.579 --> 00:17:26.480 seem to you in the natural. If you're dead sure 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.519 that the spirit is doing the speaking, you be 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.460 obedient because he'll follow through. Always. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:40.420 There was the eunuch. He knew the heart of the 00:17:40.420 --> 00:17:45.440 eunuch. He knew the mind of the eunuch. And the 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:49.279 spirit said unto Philip, There's a man that I 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:54.920 want to be born again. Go and join thyself to 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:59.759 this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him. 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:04.019 He was obedient. And the place of the scripture 00:18:04.019 --> 00:18:08.160 which he read was this. He was led as a sheep 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.309 to the slaughter. And like a lamb dumb before 00:18:11.309 --> 00:18:15.470 his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. And 00:18:15.470 --> 00:18:18.509 in his humiliation his judgment was taken away. 00:18:19.130 --> 00:18:24.609 And who shall declare his generation? For his 00:18:24.609 --> 00:18:28.970 life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch 00:18:28.970 --> 00:18:33.509 answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom 00:18:33.509 --> 00:18:38.650 speaketh the prophet this? Of himself? or of 00:18:38.650 --> 00:18:43.869 some other man. Then Philip opened his mouth 00:18:43.869 --> 00:18:47.430 and began at the same scripture and preached 00:18:47.430 --> 00:18:54.130 unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, 00:18:54.210 --> 00:18:59.390 they came unto a certain water. And the eunuch 00:18:59.390 --> 00:19:07.099 said, See, here is water. What does hinder me 00:19:07.099 --> 00:19:13.079 to be baptized? Oh, we don't have to go any further. 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:19.880 He's been born again. He's been regenerated. 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:25.119 The Holy Spirit knew he was ready for the new 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:30.900 birth experience. And the Holy Spirit spoke to 00:19:30.900 --> 00:19:35.029 Philip. because he knew he'd be obedient to him. 00:19:35.450 --> 00:19:39.890 And he sent him to the man who was ready for 00:19:39.890 --> 00:19:46.170 regeneration. And sure enough, the heart was 00:19:46.170 --> 00:19:51.109 prepared. He heard the word. He accepted the 00:19:51.109 --> 00:19:56.730 word. And then he said, Look, here's water. And 00:19:56.730 --> 00:20:02.279 I dare say, not anyone spoke. of immersion not 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:06.900 any one spoke of him as being baptized see here's 00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:09.619 water what doth hinder me to be baptized and 00:20:09.619 --> 00:20:12.579 philip said if thou believest with all thine 00:20:12.579 --> 00:20:16.440 heart thou mayest and he answered and said i 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:22.400 believe that jesus christ is the son of god and 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.240 he commanded the chariot to stand still and they 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:29.900 went down both into the water both philip and 00:20:29.900 --> 00:20:35.039 the eunuch, and he was baptized. And when they 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:39.000 were come up out of the water, the Spirit of 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:43.539 the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch 00:20:43.539 --> 00:20:51.819 saw him no more, and he went on his way rejoicing. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:21:00.519 Be obedient to the Spirit. When he speaks.