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I hope you have become personally acquainted

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with the Holy Spirit. Oh, sure, you've known

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Jesus so long. He's been your Redeemer, your

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Savior. And you can honestly say that all these

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years you have loved Him with all of your heart.

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God is your Heavenly Father. All that wonderful

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security that we have in him. And you know that

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you passed from death unto life. You know that

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God is more than just your creator. You know

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he is your heavenly father. There's that wonderful

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relationship. And he's real to you. And the person

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of Jesus is real to you. He's no stranger to

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you. But lo, these many years, you have really

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never gotten acquainted with the third person

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of the Trinity. And this third person is just

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as real as Jesus and just as real as God the

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Father. His work is just as important as the

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Father and as our Savior. You don't know what

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you've been missing. all these years by not having

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gotten acquainted with him. And remember, he

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is a person. Always whenever Jesus spoke of the

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Holy Spirit, he always used the personal pronoun,

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he, the Holy Spirit. He has intellect. He has

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sensibility. He is a person. And in just this

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moment, I'm going to show you that you and I

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are personal to the Holy Spirit. There has always

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been so thrilling to me to know that I am personal

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to the Heavenly Father. I don't know of anything

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that affects me more deeply than when I just

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am quiet and remember. That he knows me. That

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he's interested in me as an individual. Not as

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a great universe filled with people looking down

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just as a great mass of human beings. No. He's

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as interested in me and my needs and my desires.

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As though I was the only person in the whole

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world. Oh, if only you could recognize that.

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This relationship would be so much more thrilling

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if only I could get you to see that the Heavenly

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Father is interested in you as an individual.

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That Jesus is interested in you as though you

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were the only person in the whole world. And

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it's like that. It makes this relationship so

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different because it is so personal. Now, when

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we come to the Holy Spirit, we find that we are

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personal to the Holy Spirit in exactly the same

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sense. Because in 1 Corinthians, the 12th chapter,

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where we have the gifts of the Spirit, the gift

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of knowledge, the gift of wisdom, the gift of

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faith by the same Spirit, to another the gifts

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of healing by the same Spirit, to another the

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working of miracles, to another prophecy, to

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another discerning of spirits, to another divers

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kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation

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of tongues, and so on and so forth. Sure, these

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are all manifestations of the Holy Spirit, but

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don't stop there. Do you see what that... 11

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first says and this is what follows the giving

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of these gifts by the holy spirit but all these

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worketh that one and the self same spirit there

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is only one holy spirit just one and he is the

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giver of these gifts that's the reason i say

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that if one has received A gift of the spirit.

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He will never boast of it. He'll never use it

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for selfish purpose. Never. Never. It'll be something

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so sacred to him. He'll not discuss it. He'll

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not brag about it. There'll not be any spiritual

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pride because of it. That one will recognize

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that it is the... power and the person of the

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Holy Spirit. Dividing to every man severally

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as he will. We're personal to the Spirit. We

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are individuals when it comes to the Spirit and

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the giving of the gifts. He doesn't give these

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gifts out promiscuously. These are Precious,

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special gifts. They're treasures. And he only

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gives these to folk that he feels will use them

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rightly. There are many folks going around talking

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about the fact that they have all the gifts of

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the spirit. All a certain special gift of the

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spirit. I do not believe that the Holy Spirit

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will entrust a man or a woman with something

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as priceless as a gift until that one has proven

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himself and the Holy Spirit knows that he will

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rightly use that gift. He's not just passing

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out something promiscuously and throwing these

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things around. Precious. And he knows the one

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that he can trust with something as sacred. And

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a gift is something that's sacred. It's a trust.

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Dividing to every man severally as he will. We're

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personal to the spirit. All right. Now. Oh, that

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means an awful lot to me. I don't know whether

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the same things that mean so much to me mean

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the same to you or not. Some of these things

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almost overwhelm me. They feed my soul. They

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are almost like an injection to me. They are

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priceless. They're jewels. To me, they are the

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most priceless... Jews in the whole world. I

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pray you shall feel the same about the things

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of the Spirit. Now we come to the activities

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of the Spirit. He guides us. I never leave my

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home any morning, any day of the week. But what

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before I walk out of that kitchen door, I pray

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that I shall be led of the Spirit in all things.

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I'm just telling you something that I do every

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day of my life. Because I know that I do not

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have the wisdom. I know that I cannot depend

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on my own judgment. I know that I must be led

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of the spirit, be led of one who has perfect

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knowledge, perfect wisdom. And if he leads me,

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I don't care where it is, it isn't always in

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the sunshine. It isn't always on the smooth land.

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Sometimes, before the day is over with, it gets

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pretty stormy. Sometimes right out of the clear

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blue sky, we have a tornado, you know. And I'm

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faced with some things that had I known before

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I got out of bed in the morning, I would have

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just stayed in bed all day. Because in myself,

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I would have been afraid to face the things that

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I was going to have to face that day. But I know

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that when I pray to be led of the Spirit, Then

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nothing, absolutely nothing can come into my

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life but what He will be my strengthener and

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He will give the victory. And it's like that.

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Read, if you please, in the 8th chapter, Romans.

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And let's begin with the 14th verse. For as many...

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as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the

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sons of God. I know this thing of eternal security

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has been batted around for generations. The thing

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has been debated. And it has split many a church.

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Precious saints of God, oh, and believe me, they're

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saints of God. I would not for one minute judge

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them. I would not say that they were not Christians.

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And yet, they have split churches, have split

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assemblies over this one thing of eternal security.

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I'm telling you the best way in the world to

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settle this thing once and for all. Regarding

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this thing of once saved, always saved. This

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doctrine of eternal security. You have it right

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here in the 8th chapter of Romans, the 14th verse.

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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,

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they are the sons of God. If you are being led

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by the Spirit of God, then you know that you

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know that you know that you're secure. As many

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as are led by the Spirit of God. Now, if you

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are being led by any other spirit, and after

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all, let's face something. There are only two

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forces in the universe, just two. There's not

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a third party. We're coming to the day, you know,

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when that third party is becoming so popular.

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But I'll tell you, when it comes to things of

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God, there'll never be a third party. No, ma

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'am. There will always remain the two forces.

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The forces of righteousness and the forces of

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evil. The forces of God and the forces of Satan.

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And if you are not led by the Spirit of God,

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then you automatically are being led by the forces

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of the evil one. And how in the world can you

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be a child of God and be led by the forces of

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the devil at the same time? You can't. If you're

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being led by the spirit of the devil, then you

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are a slave to Satan and he is your master. You

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understand what I mean? If you have been born

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again, if you are His child, then you will be

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led by the Spirit of God. It's so simple. There's

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no room for controversy. It's just like that.

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And the Spirit itself beareth witness with our

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spirit that we are the children of God. And if

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children... Somebody said, where is that in the

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Bible? It's the 8th chapter of Romans, beginning

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with the 14th verse. And read right on down.

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All right. Let him search your heart. He guides

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us. Let me ask you very confidentially. Are you

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being led of the spirit? Are you? I see some

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folk who profess to be Christians. who are found

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in some places that I'm dead sure. The Holy Spirit

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never led you into that place. Let's just come

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on, get right down and face facts. You say, is

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this wrong? What is the sin in it? Is it wrong

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for a Christian to do this? And then, before

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anyone can answer, you try to talk God out of

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something and yourself into something and make

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up his mind that it's right for you to do certain

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things. All you have to do is to stop and think.

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Did he lead me into this thing? Was I guided

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into this place by the Spirit? Many a time, a

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saint of God has suddenly stopped and said, how

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did I get in here? What am I doing here? Did

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you ever feel sometime that after you were in

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a place for a few seconds, how did I ever get

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in here? What am I doing in here? What in the

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world am I doing in a place like this? The Lord

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isn't in here. The Holy Spirit didn't lead me

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in this place. I pray that this 14th verse of

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the 8th chapter of Romans will become very real

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to your heart. It's dynamite. It is any doubt

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in your mind as to whether or not a thing is

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wrong or right to stop and think. Will he lead

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me into this place? Mm -hmm. He guides us. Now,

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in the 16th verse, the Spirit itself bears witness

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with our spirit that we are the children of God.

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He confirms this wonderful relationship. How

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can I know that I've passed from death unto life?

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I must be sure. That's right. When you realize

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that everything in the world is at stake, nothing

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is more important to you, absolutely nothing

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is more important to any human being than to

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know they have security for their soul. The old

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physical body. That which is temporal goes back

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again to the dust of the earth from whence it

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came. Do anything that one may with the body

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so far as the flesh is concerned. It's temporal.

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It goes back to the dust. Man is that strange

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combination that's temporal and eternal. You

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may destroy the body. But there is a soul in

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that body that is eternal. You may deny him with

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the very powers of life that he gives you. You

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may deny his reality or the fact of an eternity.

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You may deny the very word of God, but it doesn't

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change the fact one iota. that you will be you

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forever and ever and ever. And that which is

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of the spirit is eternal. And when you've had

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that wonderful experience of being born again,

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regeneration, will you accept the pardon? His

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spirit. will confirm that transaction. There

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will not be a doubt there. The Holy Spirit himself

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puts his own seal upon that transaction. The

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Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit

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that we are the children of God. And there'll

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never be adult regarding it. God bless you.