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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our

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culture.

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I've told you for years, Christianity is not what you do.

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It's what God does in you and through you.

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The greatest description of a Christian life is yield.

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Just yield.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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

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sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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

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a Christ follower?

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

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

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

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You and I, listen, I love this.

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God is able.

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Oh, I can, I never do enough.

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I never pray enough.

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I never give enough.

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I never, I never was calm down.

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God is able to do this in your life.

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I've told you for years, Christianity is not what you do.

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It's what God does in you and through you.

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The greatest description of a Christian life is yield.

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Just yield.

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And he takes over Philippians chapter two, verse 13 says, for it is God who works in you both to

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will and to do for his good pleasure.

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Are you enjoying your Christian life?

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You should be.

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

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

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Stop trying to push a block up a hill.

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Just take a walk with God.

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Will you?

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The Bible also says, listen, in second Chronicles 16, verse nine, the Bible says for the eyes of the Lord

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run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal

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to him.

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Notice it says loyal to him.

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Are you guys with me?

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

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In other words, what's your pursuit?

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Do you pursue God?

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Do you want to pursue God?

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Does it sound attractive to you that you can get closer to God?

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Absolutely.

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God says, I love that.

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My eyes are on you.

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Don't you love that?

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I remember years ago, forever ago, Phil and Peggy, you guys might remember this for Pastor Chuck was telling us

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when he was raising up their family, one of his sons looked all nervous and all this kind of stuff.

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And his son comes to him and says, I heard in Sunday school today, dad, that God is always watching

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me.

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And he says, that's right, son.

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

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Oh, some people feel like, some of you feel like that.

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God's watching me.

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And so his son was just mortified.

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Clearly he had crossed the line somewhere in Sunday school class.

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And the teacher said, God's watching you.

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So dad, is it true he's watching me?

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And Pastor Chuck said, oh, absolutely true.

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At all times he's watching you.

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And he could see the spirit of his, the will, just kind of the kid started to wither.

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And Chuck said, it's because God loves you so much.

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He can't take his eyes off of you.

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And that's good.

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And that is correct.

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That's a beautiful thing.

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God will make you able to stand.

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God will take care of you.

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He'll prop you up and strengthen you.

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I heard a song the other day, and I just wanted to work it into the message based upon that

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second Chronicles verse, God's always watching.

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

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I wasn't asking for it.

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I mean, I was, okay.

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The fact is this, is that the love of God for you, the scripture says it's the goodness of God

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that leads a man to repentance.

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

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

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I've been found out.

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And my sin, as the scripture says, David says, is ever before me.

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I can see it.

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

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

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

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

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Please forgive us.

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I think God would have made an offering and you and I would be walking around now in a garden.

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Jeremiah 29, 11 says, for I know this is God speaking.

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I know the thoughts that I think toward you.

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Can you imagine that?

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God says, I know what I think about you.

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And you go, really?

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

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

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

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That's a loyal heart, not a perfect art.

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We don't have it.

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But do you want him?

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Do you want Christ to forgive you?

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You want God to erase away?

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

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That's why, listen, because Christ lives because God is real.

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That's how you and I know sin.

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

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else remembers or the stuff that you hope nobody finds out.

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God says, I'll wash that away.

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If you come to me, come to me.

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That stuff will kill you.

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Come to me.

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That's how much he loves you.

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Is that how love works anyway?

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I'm going to read you a compounding of scripture here.

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It's John chapter four in John chapter seven.

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You can follow on the screens.

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The Bible says Jesus is speaking.

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Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him notice when you drink water, folks, it goes inside of

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you.

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But ask yourself, is this you will never thirst?

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But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting

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life.

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That's what God wants for us.

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Coupled with John chapter seven on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out

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saying, if anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink.

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

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But this he spoke concerning the spirit of the Holy Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive for the

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Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified.

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In other words, the Holy Spirit was not yet given to indwell the believer because Christ had not yet been

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crucified and resurrected.

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Up until the day of Pentecost, folks, the Holy Spirit from the day of creation could only come upon you

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and he would leave you.

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

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Why did he say that?

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

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Jesus comes and brings us a complete fulfillment of God's promises as he wrote in the Old Testament.

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I will write my law in your heart.

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

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You will be mine and I will be your God.

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That's an Old Testament promise describing the born again opportunity that you and I live in today, where the spirit

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of God now lives in us.

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Listen, a private faith?

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Personal faith?

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But it's impossible to hide it.

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God is working in some of your lives.

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You might even be shy and you love God, but you're starting to almost percolate on the inside.

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It's like you were starting to bubble.

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And it's just like, oh, man, every time I read my Bible, every time I go to a sermon, I

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just feel like I'm going to explode.

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Because God has put his word in you personally and privately to possess you.

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

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Get them all wet as it were.

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And so listen, I wrote this down.

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I know this is a big statement, but it may be the most single, most important verse in the Bible.

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So that's a big statement.

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Yes, it is.

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But listen, John chapter three, verse three, Jesus answered and said, that's to Nicodemus.

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Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Jesus is to Nicodemus.

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Let me tell you, Nicodemus is far out, far out, exceeds us completely.

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And Jesus says, you're not going.

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You have to be born anew.

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You have to be born again.

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

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Can we qualify this?

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Is it, can it be tested?

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John chapter 20.

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John chapter 20, verse 19.

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Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, this is post resurrection.

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When the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in

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the midst and said to them, peace be with you.

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And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side, that would be his right side.

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Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

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So Jesus said to them again, peace to you.

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As the father sent me, I also send you.

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And when he had said this, this is Jesus breathed on them.

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And he said to them, receive the Holy spirit.

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The word means receive the Holy spirit within you.

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That's the born again.

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When was the, if, if being born again is such a big deal to God and pastor, you just said

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it's the most important verse in the Bible.

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When Jesus in John 20 says, receive the spirit and he blows on them.

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The word is the spirit of God went inside of them.

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They were born again in that moment.

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They would not receive the power of the Holy spirit until the day of Pentecost where the spirit of God

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didn't come inside of them.

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Very specific Greek word is used.

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

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Remarkable.

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The Bible tells us in first Corinthians chapter 12, verse 12, for as the body is one and has many

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members, but all the members of that one body being many are one body.

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So also as Christ for by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body.

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That is the body of Christ, the church, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves are free and have all been

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made to drink in one spirit.

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Verse 14 for in fact, the body is not one member, but many.

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This is us, the church.

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You are who you are.

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Can I put it this way?

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Jesus Christ died for your sins and my sins.

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He did not die for my personality or your personality.

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You and I have a different opinion on this, but God loves the variation of our personalities.

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

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And God says, Nope, that's why I've made you the church.

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

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And Jesus says, Yeah, any though.

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So get on over there and love on him.

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

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

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We didn't realize it.

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So I don't know about that.

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Listen, if there's anybody in under this roof or soon to be out in the parking lot, and it's like,

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Hey, wait a minute.

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My bumper was further out than yours was.

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God is teaching you to love one another and to grow.

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It's quite remarkable.

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So in Acts chapter one, I mentioned the power coming upon.

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

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When the moment you say, Lord Jesus, I understand now I see that you died on the cross for my

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The Bible says this.

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And even though I wasn't there 2000 years ago, I know that I'm a sinner.

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I have bad thoughts, lustful thoughts, angry thoughts or temperament or whatever it is.

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That's not good.

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And I have a past.

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Oh, God, you would say, Please forgive me.

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I'm sorry for my sins.

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The Bible says in that moment, you're born again.

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The Holy Spirit moves inside of you.

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Now, can somebody tell me what that feels like when you're like, Oh, please forgive me in the Holy Spirit

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moves inside of you and you Oh, wow.

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I don't know about you, but I've never felt anything that the night I got saved.

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All I knew was that message was true.

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I was convicted of my sins.

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God knew everything about me.

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

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I want Jesus.

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I need Jesus.

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

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I'm looking at people on that Monday night.

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They're all crying.

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Oh, God, forgive me.

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And I'm like, Here's me.

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Here's me.

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I'm like this.

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I had enough.

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I had no feeling.

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And I began to think, Oh, it must not be working for me.

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And then when you pray the prayer and you go back to the prayer room afterward, they give you a

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new material.

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And I told the guy, Hey, everybody around me is crying.

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I didn't cry.

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What's the deal?

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

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He said, Listen, do you understand the gospel?

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Can you tell me the gospel that you just heard?

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I told him.

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He goes, Yeah, you got it.

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You got it.

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Nowhere does this say feeling goosebumps tingle down this point.

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Feel this and you're saved.

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Listen, I'm grateful that I listened, kind of did the spiritual math, figured out.

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And this puts me bankrupt.

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Jack is hopeless without Jesus.

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And so that young man in that counseling, that new believers room said nowhere in the Bible says it's based

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on your feelings.

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

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Did you come to Jesus?

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Yeah.

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Do you want him?

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Yeah.

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And he said this.

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Why don't you?

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Why don't you tell me right now?

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You don't want Jesus.

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You're gonna give the Bible back to me, and you're gonna walk out of here and never step foot in

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this place again.

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I said, Why would I do that?

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I don't want to do that.

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He goes, Exactly.

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Pretty clever, right?

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No, my friends.

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Listen, for those of us, our pursuit now today is this.

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Jesus said in Acts Chapter one verse eight, You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes not in you,

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upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all of Judea, Samaria into the ends

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of the Church family.

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When God saves you, please listen.

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You can close your Bible doesn't mean leave.

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Just close your Bible.

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We're done.

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When God saves you, he begins his work of maturing you.

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When a baby's born, the mother begins her work of nursing that baby, and dad begins the work of changing

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diapers.

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But the baby doesn't grow by having its diaper changed.

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The baby grows nursing energy from mom.

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And with that investment, the baby grows.

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Jesus says you must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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You must be born from above.

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The word means born a second time.

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And God will nurse you.

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And he's nursing us always with every Bible verse, every sermon, every song of praise.

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Every time we get together and fellowship, we are nursing the strength of almighty God that he desires for you

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and I to have.

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And we are growing up in Christ.

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It's a relationship.

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It's alive.

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It's real.

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