(190) You Can Overcome Your Flesh Nature

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The real you is your spirit.

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And there's this war going on

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between your spirit and your flesh

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that your flesh wants to do the right thing,

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but it doesn't.

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And it doesn't want to do the wrong thing, but it does.

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And how am I ever gonna get out of it?

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But it's Jesus that gets us out of it.

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["Pomp and Circumstance"]

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["Pomp and Circumstance"]

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God promises in Joel 2, 28

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to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promised outpouring.

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We equip for that outpouring

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so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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We are so moved by the Holy Spirit

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to minister as much as we can

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to help build you up in the spirit realm,

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to help you overcome the flesh.

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We all have to overcome our flesh.

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And you can overcome your flesh nature.

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We want to give you pointers for how to do it.

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Thank you so much for joining us today.

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Before we get started talking about

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how to overcome the flesh,

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on your birthday.

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He was probably really born in September,

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or maybe October, around the Feast of Tabernacles time.

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So we're excited today to talk about

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what's kind of like continuing on a theme

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that the Holy Spirit has been giving us

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about learning to walk in the Spirit

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and not walk in the flesh.

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Last episode, we talked about how immature the bride

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probably is based on the prophetic dream that I had

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about the little girl that's dressed up as the bride,

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and she's trying to fix herself up,

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but she's just a little girl.

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She hasn't even made it to adolescence yet.

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And the Lord wants us to grow up in Him

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and grow up in the things of the Spirit

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so that we're not moved by the flesh,

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and we're not moved by the things that move the world,

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but we're moved by the Spirit.

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So today, before the Lord,

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I was hearing in my spirit from John 3-6,

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I heard in my spirit,

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that which is born of the flesh is flesh,

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and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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So we know that this comes from the story of Nicodemus

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coming to see Jesus,

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and he's declaring how he knows

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that Jesus has come from God and is doing the works of God.

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Philip, would you please read John 3,

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starting with verse 3, from the Passion Translation?

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Jesus answered, Nicodemus, listen to this eternal truth.

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Before a person can perceive God's kingdom realm,

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they must first experience a rebirth.

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Wait, wait, wait.

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Let me just read the footnote to that.

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Okay.

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The Greek word can be translated born from above.

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However, in the context,

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Nicodemus understood it as a rebirth.

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The Aramaic word is clearly born from the origin.

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Nicodemus came seeking knowledge

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Jesus offered him life.

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You know, I love that.

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And it also could mean born from above.

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Born from above, yeah.

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Yeah, that's what it says in the margin of my Bible.

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Yeah, mine.

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I think mine has that too.

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So take on from verse 4.

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Nicodemus said, rebirth?

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How can a gray-headed man be reborn?

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It's impossible for a man to go back into the womb

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a second time and be reborn, Jesus answered.

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I speak an eternal truth.

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Unless you are born of water and spirit wind,

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you will never enter God's kingdom realm.

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Wow, hang on.

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Let me read the footnote to that one.

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The pure water of the word of God.

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Jesus said, unless you're born of water and the spirit.

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So this is the footnote about the word water.

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The pure water of the word of God cleanses us

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and gives us life.

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Some see in the water and spiritual analogy,

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the creative beginning of Genesis 1,

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where God's life-giving spirit

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fluttered over the chaotic waters.

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New creation life comes the same way.

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Water and blood gushed from the side of our Lord Jesus.

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He was the last Adam who gave birth to his bride

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from his pierced side.

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The water and the blood.

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Beautiful.

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Verse 6.

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For the natural realm can only give birth

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to things that are natural,

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but the spiritual realm gives birth to supernatural life.

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So that's the verse that I heard this morning.

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That which is born of the flesh is flesh,

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and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.

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Would you read that verse again?

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For the natural realm can only give birth

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to things that are natural,

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but the spiritual realm gives birth to supernatural life.

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Yes.

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You shouldn't be amazed by my statement.

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You must be born from above,

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for the spirit wind blows as it chooses.

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You can hear it sound,

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but you don't know where it came from or where it's going.

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So it is within the hearts of those

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who are spirit-born.

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Okay.

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Let me just read a couple of footnotes here from verse 8.

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You can hear it sound,

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but you don't know where it came from or where it's going.

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The footnote says the word for blow

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can also be translated breathe.

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The word for sound can be translated voice,

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and the same word for spirit can also mean wind.

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If our new birth is so mysterious,

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how much more will be the ways of living each moment

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by the movement of the Holy Spirit?

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One can understand how confused Nicodemus was,

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for he took everything at face value

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and couldn't see a deeper meaning.

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And then at the part where it says,

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so it is the same with those who are spirit-born.

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You don't know where it's coming from.

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You don't know where it's going.

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So the footnote there says,

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or the spirit moves as he chooses,

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and you hear his voice,

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but you don't know where he came from or where he goes.

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The Aramaic is so rich and multi-layered in this passage.

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Perhaps it could be paraphrased as the wind,

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the breath, and the spirit are moved by mysterious moods

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and in their own wonderful ways.

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When you feel their touch and hear their voices,

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you know they are real,

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but you don't understand how they flow

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and move over the earth.

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The same mysterious way is the way of everyone

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born by wind, breath, and spirit.

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Oh, that's beautiful.

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Isn't that tremendous?

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So it's really all about learning to walk in the spirit

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and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh.

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You know, the desires of the flesh.

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When you say lust, you kind of automatically...

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It sounds automatic.

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Think it's something really evil.

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Yeah, or sexual.

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Sexual, yeah, it's more sexual.

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But other desires can be,

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go to play golf three times a week.

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You know, if God wants you to spend time with him,

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that kind of gets in the way.

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Yes, the distractions.

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Distract anything.

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Any distraction can be a lust of the flesh.

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It's true.

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You can go into that.

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Yeah, and you know, the Lord really began dealing with me

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some months ago about not spending so much time

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listening to things on YouTube.

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I mean, they were all perfectly harmless.

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Like, you know, I really like archeology.

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So I was listening to all kinds of things about archeology.

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And I like, you know, there's various things that I like

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that are particularly with Bible stuff

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and listening to various teachers.

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And you know, it was all things that were seemingly

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even profitable to the spirit realm.

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But the fact was that I wasn't taking that time

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to just be quiet before the Lord and listen to him.

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I was hearing all these other voices.

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So I really felt like he was speaking to me

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to shut out all these other voices and, you know,

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not be so moved.

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And it's not like you can't listen to our podcast.

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But it was about having too much distraction.

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And even all these distractions were something

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that was kind of feeding my flesh.

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It was kind of feeding my intellect

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rather than feeding my spirit.

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You know, I probably got some things

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in my spirit about it.

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But the Lord is wanting us to learn to focus on him

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and focus on the light of life that he is to us,

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to deliver us from darkness

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and all those little shady things.

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You know, shade is dark.

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When you have the light of the sun on an object,

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it casts a shadow that's keeping you

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from being directly in line with the sun, right?

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The sun isn't shining directly on you.

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You're still getting light around you perhaps,

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but there's a shade that's-

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Something is eclipsing you.

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Exactly, exactly.

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It's eclipsing the light

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and keeping you from seeing the fullness

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of what he wants you to see.

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He wants you to see him.

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He wants us to know him.

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That's really what it's all about.

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So focusing on the light overcoming darkness

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is what we're gonna be talking about today

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of how the light of God can help you deal

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with those various things,

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whether they're distractions that are seemingly innocent

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or whether they're sins.

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You know, there are some sins that are,

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it's kind of like a trap.

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Yeah.

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Like a snare.

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And you get ensnared and you know how the devil entices

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and he entices and he entices.

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And then as soon as you do the thing,

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then he slimes you with condemnation.

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Condemnation, yes.

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Yeah.

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That's right.

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So God wants to help us overcome those things.

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So the idea of that which is born of the flesh is flesh.

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The word there in Greek for flesh is sarx.

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And if you're taking notes,

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it's Strong's number G4561.

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And the outline of biblical usage

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that I find in my Blue Letter Bible app that I use,

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the definitions here are flesh,

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the substance of the living body which covers the bones

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and is permeated with blood of both men and beasts.

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So flesh is flesh of man, flesh of animals.

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And it means the body.

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It means the body of a man,

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used of natural or physical origin,

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generation or relationship, born of natural generation.

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It can mean the sensuous nature of man,

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like an animal nature.

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And it might be without any suggestion of depravity,

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but it also might mean the animal nature with cravings

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which incite to sin.

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And we're all tempted

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because we have fleshly nature, right?

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Yeah.

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And then there's the physical man as subject to suffering.

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And a living creature,

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because possessed of a body of flesh,

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whether man or beast,

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and then the flesh denotes mere human nature,

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the earthly nature of man apart from divine influence

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and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God.

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So it has to do with the physical being,

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the physical body, and the broken nature,

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the broken nature that doesn't go to heaven, okay?

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I've heard Dean Braxton,

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and I think Kevin Zadai has talked about this also,

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that when they went to heaven,

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because they both had a death experience,

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when they went to heaven,

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there was no doubt there.

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Right, uh-huh.

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There was no thinking badly of yourself there.

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No shadows there.

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No shadows, absolutely no shadows.

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Everything is light.

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And so what I'm trying to say is

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that there's a part of our nature

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that is somehow connected to our body.

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It's sometimes it's described as the soul realm,

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but it's that fleshly nature

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that isn't saved yet.

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That's well put.

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It hasn't been transformed yet.

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It hasn't been transformed yet.

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We have to be transformed

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by the renewing of our minds, right?

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So I just want to also make a comment

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because of who we are as global outpouring,

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and our heart from Joel 2.28

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is that God is going to pour out his spirit on all flesh.

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And the word in Acts chapter two,

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where Peter is repeating the promise from Joel,

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the Greek word there is also sarks.

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So it's the outpouring of God,

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the outpouring of the spirit of God on all flesh.

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So we have this wonderful thing to look forward to,

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and we can have as much of it as we want anytime.

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Anytime.

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You just press in for it

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because it is in the presence of God.

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It's coming from him.

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You can have as much of his spirit

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as you will give him room for.

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Yeah.

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How much you give him room for.

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How desperate I want,

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maybe desperate isn't the right word.

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It's just you go through your day

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and you're just getting,

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you're getting more and more oppressed and depressed.

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And that's a good time to stop and go worship.

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Yes.

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I mean, I'm preaching to the choir, you know?

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But that's true.

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Maybe we have a listener who needs to hear that.

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Yeah.

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Just stop what you're doing and go worship.

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Just lift your hands.

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Yeah, there's something about lifting your hands.

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It's like, you know, the filament in a light bulb

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that has one on each side,

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has a little thing in the middle.

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Yes.

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And that's what burns, you know?

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And I always like to, you know, like worship.

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I always kind of relate that to lightning rods,

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two lightning rods.

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Yes.

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Just going up, okay, Holy Spirit, you know,

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just light me up, you know?

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Yes, or like an arcing between two posts,

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you know, the electricity arcing between the two.

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Yeah, like the light bulb.

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Yeah, yeah.

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That was the proper way to say that, yeah.

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Worship will immediately help you to overcome.

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When you're being oppressed by something,

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when you're being tried by something,

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when something's trying to get you to connect with it

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and it's not from God, if you need to get back to God,

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you know, putting your hands up is a sign of surrender.

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Yeah.

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So when you want to worship and put your hands up,

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you are surrendering yourself to God.

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And it's amazing how things that are trying to bind you,

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like chains, will fall off

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when you raise your hands to God.

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And you just lift your hands and you begin to praise

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and you begin to worship and you begin to tell him

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how wonderful he is.

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Come on, let's just try it.

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Father, we just give you praise.

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We give you honor, we give you glory.

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You are so awesome, so glorious.

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There's no one like you, oh God.

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There's no one like you, Jesus.

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You are such a savior.

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Oh, oh, we owe so much to you.

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Glory to your name.

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Glory to your name.

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Yes, Lord.

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Karobah Shambare De De De Dea.

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Thank you, Father.

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Hallelujah.

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We give you glory, Lord.

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Yes, Lord.

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Thank you, Father.

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Hallelujah.

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Now, didn't that help?

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That's like hitting, what is it on the computer,

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the F2 refresh?

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Whatever the number is, I'm not sure.

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It's a refreshing.

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Yes, it does refresh you.

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It absolutely does.

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It says you can come boldly into the throne of grace.

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Yes.

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The throne is the originator of the glory of God.

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It comes from the throne of God.

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So the throne of grace, if you can just press in,

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just picture heaven and however you can picture

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the throne of God with the glory just coming out,

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and that just refreshes you.

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Absolutely.

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It absolutely does.

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If you're walking with the Lord,

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Yes.

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you have to be having this walk with him.

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Yes.

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Because if you're just a once a week,

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read your Bible or prayer, you're not there.

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Right.

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But you can start right now.

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Yes.

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Right this second, you can start a walk.

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If you're not doing it, you can start this moment

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and say, okay, I lift my hands to you, Lord, I surrender.

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I give, I really want this.

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This is what I want.

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Because it reminds me of Romans 7.

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And I love how the passion translation puts it,

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but I'm not gonna take time to read it.

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I'm just gonna make the comment that in Romans 7

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and somewhere in between verses 19 and 22,

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it talks about how the real you is your spirit.

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And there's this war going on between your spirit

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and your flesh that your flesh wants to do the right thing,

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but it doesn't.

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And it doesn't want to do the wrong thing, but it does.

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And how am I ever gonna get out of it?

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But it's Jesus that gets us out of it.

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Yes.

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And in Romans 8, it goes on talking about

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how there's no condemnation for them

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that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh,

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but after the spirit.

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Because like verse five says,

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for they that are after the flesh

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do mind the things of the flesh.

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In other words, you're thinking about flesh all the time.

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If you're after the flesh,

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you're just gonna be thinking flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh,

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think, think, think, flesh, flesh, flesh.

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But if you're after the spirit,

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the spirit is moving in you

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and you're getting things from the Holy Spirit.

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And then verse six says to me,

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to be carnally or fleshly minded is death,

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but to be spiritually minded is life and peace

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because the carnal mind is an enemy of God.

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It's not subject to the law of God

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and it can't be because it's flesh.

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So those that are in the flesh cannot please God.

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But you, you listener, you Philip, you Sharon,

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you're not of the flesh, but the spirit.

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If so be that the spirit of God dwells in you.

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Well, I know the spirit of God dwells in me.

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I know the spirit of God dwells in you.

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Listener, I know that if you're listening to this,

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it's probably because the spirit of God dwells in you.

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And if he doesn't just ask him to come in, it's that easy.

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So if you're living in the flesh, you can't please God.

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But if you're in the spirit, the spirit dwells in you.

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And if you don't have the spirit of Christ,

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you're not any part of his.

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If you live in the flesh, you're gonna die.

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But if through the spirit you put to death

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the deeds of the body, you shall live.

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Hallelujah.

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And we talked in our last episode

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from Galatians chapter five about the works of the flesh,

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the, yeah, the works of the flesh

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and how, you know, there's uncleanness and pornography

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and all kinds of things that are contrary to the spirit.

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And then at the end of Galatians five,

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it tells about what it's like

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when the spirit is operating in you.

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You have his fruit coming forth.

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You're producing.

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You're producing love because love is pouring

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into you by the spirit.

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You're producing joy because joy is pouring

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into you by the spirit.

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You're producing peace.

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Peace is all around you

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because you are walking in the spirit.

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This is what happens when we put down the flesh

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and enter into that spirit realm.

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So then we have first John chapter three

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verses two through 10 from the passion.

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Do you want to read that Philip?

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Beloved, we are God's children right now.

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However, it is not yet apparent what we will become.

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But we do know that when it is finally made visible

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we will be just like him.

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Just like him.

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For we will see him as he truly is.

520
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Yes.

521
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And all who focus their hope on him

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will always be purifying themselves just as Jesus is pure.

523
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Yes.

524
00:22:11,340 --> 00:22:15,040
Anyone who indulges in sin lives in moral anarchy

525
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where the definition of sin is breaking God's law.

526
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And you know without a doubt that Jesus was revealed

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to eradicate sins and there is no sin in him.

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Anyone who continues to live in union with him will not sin.

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But the one who continues sinning hasn't seen him

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with discernment or known him by intimate experience.

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Delightfully loved children,

532
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don't let anyone divert you from this truth.

533
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The person who keeps doing what is right

534
00:22:44,340 --> 00:22:47,040
proves that he is righteous before God

535
00:22:47,940 --> 00:22:50,780
even as a Messiah is righteous.

536
00:22:50,780 --> 00:22:54,680
But the one who indulges in a sinful life is of the devil

537
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,120
because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

538
00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,120
The reason the son of God was revealed

539
00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,160
was to undo and destroy the works of the devil.

540
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,160
Hallelujah.

541
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,520
Amen.

542
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,760
Everyone who is truly God's child will refuse to keep

543
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,040
sinning because God's seed remains within him.

544
00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:15,040
And he is unable to continue sinning

545
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,000
because he has been fathered by God himself.

546
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,800
Here's how God's children can be clearly distinguished

547
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,240
from the children of the evil one.

548
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,040
Anyone who does not demonstrate righteousness

549
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,420
and show love to fellow believers

550
00:23:28,420 --> 00:23:30,880
is not living with God as his source.

551
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,620
Okay, so let's look at these words for just a moment.

552
00:23:33,620 --> 00:23:37,060
Where it's talking about sin,

553
00:23:37,060 --> 00:23:40,920
anyone who continues to live in union with him will not sin.

554
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,800
If that is talking about living a life

555
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,800
of practicing sin as a lifestyle.

556
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:49,640
It's a habit.

557
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,240
A habitual sin that this is how you live.

558
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,680
You're living in that sinful nature

559
00:23:55,680 --> 00:24:00,580
where you just keep on walking in sinful nature.

560
00:24:00,580 --> 00:24:03,580
It's another thing to have a stumble.

561
00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:08,820
Where most of the time you're walking with the Lord

562
00:24:08,820 --> 00:24:11,020
and then once in a while you stumble.

563
00:24:11,020 --> 00:24:14,500
There's provision with the blood of Jesus to overcome that.

564
00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:16,800
But there's also provision with the blood of Jesus

565
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,100
to overcome habitual sin.

566
00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:24,100
This is where you welcome the Holy Spirit to help you.

567
00:24:24,940 --> 00:24:27,680
And one of the ways to help you with this

568
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,840
is to replace that practice of sin.

569
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,280
Like when you, like I remember my grandfather.

570
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,980
At one time he used to smoke.

571
00:24:38,180 --> 00:24:42,260
And when he decided he was going to quit smoking,

572
00:24:42,260 --> 00:24:45,160
he started chewing gum instead.

573
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,860
Probably wasn't good for his teeth.

574
00:24:46,860 --> 00:24:48,400
But.

575
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:49,460
Better for his lungs though.

576
00:24:49,460 --> 00:24:50,860
But it was way better for his lungs.

577
00:24:50,860 --> 00:24:54,000
You can replace teeth but you can't replace your lungs.

578
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,800
True, I guess.

579
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,280
But anyway, it's about replacing the thing

580
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,740
that you shouldn't be doing

581
00:25:01,740 --> 00:25:03,980
with something you should be doing.

582
00:25:03,980 --> 00:25:05,840
And however that works for you,

583
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,880
the Lord is going to show you what to do.

584
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:13,520
Like if there's a group of people that you hang out with

585
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,600
that they party on a certain day.

586
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:22,000
Then go find a Bible study that meets on that day.

587
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000
And start putting in something else

588
00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:30,940
that is going to feed your spirit instead of.

589
00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:31,760
Your flesh.

590
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:32,760
Your flesh.

591
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,340
Instead of doing that sin.

592
00:25:34,340 --> 00:25:36,900
Instead of doing the thing that gets you in trouble.

593
00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:38,340
And that's real hard at first.

594
00:25:38,340 --> 00:25:41,980
But once you just start doing it and stick with it,

595
00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:44,220
then it comes enjoyable when you get into the word.

596
00:25:44,220 --> 00:25:45,540
Right.

597
00:25:45,540 --> 00:25:49,760
And the wonderful thing is you lose your taste for it.

598
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,860
You know, it might be that you've practiced the same thing

599
00:25:53,860 --> 00:25:58,360
over and over all your life, but it loses its appeal.

600
00:25:58,360 --> 00:25:59,360
That's it, yeah.

601
00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:00,800
Years and years ago,

602
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:05,200
I learned that I had a problem with low blood sugar.

603
00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:11,180
And I learned that the way to deal with low blood sugar

604
00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:12,880
is to not eat sugar.

605
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,680
Yes.

606
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,380
Okay, it's actually the same diet that you would have

607
00:26:17,380 --> 00:26:20,480
if you were diabetic, that you avoid sugar.

608
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,220
You shouldn't use sugar.

609
00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:23,860
It's not good for you.

610
00:26:23,860 --> 00:26:25,720
Particularly refined sugar, you know?

611
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:26,560
Yeah.

612
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:27,860
Limited what it get.

613
00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:30,000
You're low already and it puts you in a deeper low.

614
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,200
Yeah, what happens is your insulin spikes go way up high.

615
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,180
And then by the time all the sugar is used up,

616
00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:40,340
you've still got insulin in your blood

617
00:26:40,340 --> 00:26:44,280
and it drops your sugar to a place where you get weak

618
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,120
and faint and all that kind of thing.

619
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:49,720
So I learned not to eat sugar.

620
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,420
And I got to the point where, you know,

621
00:26:52,420 --> 00:26:54,760
it doesn't appeal to me anymore.

622
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,000
I'm not interested in eating sweets.

623
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,620
I used to have a sweet tooth.

624
00:26:59,620 --> 00:27:02,020
You know, I liked all those sweet things.

625
00:27:02,020 --> 00:27:06,100
I liked the cookies and the cake and the, you know,

626
00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:09,040
sometimes I'm still tempted by a chocolate chip cookie.

627
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,100
And then sometimes I get to finish it for you.

628
00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:12,740
Yeah.

629
00:27:12,740 --> 00:27:14,340
Most of the time I just want to taste it

630
00:27:14,340 --> 00:27:15,180
and then that's enough.

631
00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:16,680
I'm not interested.

632
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,440
But all I'm saying is, you know,

633
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,320
this is an example of you lose your taste for it.

634
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,080
And you're going to lose your taste

635
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,020
for those things of the flesh

636
00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:28,120
as you replace them with the spirit.

637
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,120
God is doing something in your life.

638
00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:33,020
Hallelujah.

639
00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:34,320
Hallelujah.

640
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,360
I love 1 Corinthians 9, 27 that says,

641
00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:41,500
I'll just read it to you in the Amplified.

642
00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:45,300
But like a boxer, I strictly discipline my body

643
00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:49,140
and make it my slave so that after I have preached

644
00:27:49,140 --> 00:27:51,840
the gospel to others, I myself will not somehow

645
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,020
be disqualified as unfit for service.

646
00:27:55,020 --> 00:27:56,440
The Berean literal Bible says,

647
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,580
but I batter my body and bring it into servitude

648
00:27:59,580 --> 00:28:01,080
lest having preached to others,

649
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,480
I myself might be disqualified.

650
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,460
New international version says, no,

651
00:28:05,460 --> 00:28:08,920
I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave

652
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,800
so that after I've preached to others,

653
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,800
I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

654
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,800
The word body there, I love this.

655
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,200
This was a discovery for me.

656
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,440
The word body is the Greek word soma.

657
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,840
And it comes from the word sozo.

658
00:28:25,180 --> 00:28:28,980
And the word sozo is Greek 4982.

659
00:28:28,980 --> 00:28:33,820
And it means to save or to keep safe and sound

660
00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:36,160
to rescue from danger or destruction.

661
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,760
It's the word that's used talking about Jesus'

662
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,020
ministry of healing and salvation and restoration

663
00:28:44,020 --> 00:28:46,460
and all of these things, deliverance,

664
00:28:46,460 --> 00:28:48,300
to save from the evils.

665
00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:53,300
So the word body comes from this word, salvation,

666
00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:56,780
or to save, the verb to save.

667
00:28:56,780 --> 00:29:01,780
And that verb comes from another word that means safe.

668
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,840
Safe, yeah.

669
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,080
So as I was pondering this, I thought,

670
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:12,080
now what does the body have to do with being saved

671
00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:15,160
or to be safe?

672
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,060
And as I was pondering it, this thought came to me,

673
00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:19,460
maybe it's a stretch,

674
00:29:19,460 --> 00:29:21,600
but I thought it was a great thing to ponder.

675
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,660
It came to me like you put your valuables in a safe

676
00:29:24,660 --> 00:29:26,640
to keep them safe.

677
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,840
And it's kind of like maybe our Father intended

678
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,440
that our body on earth was meant to be a place

679
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,200
of safekeeping for our spirit,

680
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,240
which is the real you and the real me.

681
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,840
But the body was never meant to rule over the spirit.

682
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,480
The body is meant to house it.

683
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,720
It's our body, remember, our body is the temple

684
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,780
of the living God, the temple of the Lord,

685
00:29:48,780 --> 00:29:50,800
the temple of the Holy Spirit.

686
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,360
And then that word for I make my body a slave,

687
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,460
I bring it to servitude,

688
00:29:56,460 --> 00:30:00,760
that word means to be a slave driver.

689
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:01,600
Oh wow.

690
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,100
To enslave it, okay?

691
00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,500
You're gonna bring it into subjection.

692
00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:08,280
That's what you're gonna do with your body.

693
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,580
You're gonna bring it into subjection.

694
00:30:10,580 --> 00:30:15,120
Jesus gave his life to free us from slavery to the flesh.

695
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,880
We don't have to be slaves to sin.

696
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,060
We don't have to be slaves to the flesh.

697
00:30:19,060 --> 00:30:23,220
We are meant to be servants of the Lord.

698
00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:28,220
And not just a servant that is just a slave in servitude,

699
00:30:28,220 --> 00:30:33,220
but one who has a relationship with our wonderful Father,

700
00:30:34,420 --> 00:30:36,560
with his whole wonderful kingdom,

701
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,100
that we have this love relationship with him.

702
00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:42,500
We have this love relationship with him

703
00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:47,000
that causes us to do things that are his bidding,

704
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,760
to do things that are his way,

705
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,680
to do things according to his will, because we love him.

706
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,080
That's the walk of the spirit.

707
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,080
That's the walk of love.

708
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,780
See, we're wired to be addicted to that love.

709
00:31:00,780 --> 00:31:02,080
Yeah, that's a well put.

710
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,080
And that addiction to his love gets twisted by the flesh,

711
00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,180
so that we get addicted to other things,

712
00:31:10,180 --> 00:31:14,660
like a certain kind of food, or getting addicted to sex,

713
00:31:14,660 --> 00:31:16,100
or getting addicted to drugs,

714
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,200
or getting addicted to caffeine,

715
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,360
or there's things like video games.

716
00:31:23,540 --> 00:31:25,840
There's an addiction in video games.

717
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,480
But God wants us to break that addiction

718
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,480
by using his love, by getting so overwhelmed by his love,

719
00:31:36,020 --> 00:31:40,860
that his love will overtake us and deliver us,

720
00:31:40,860 --> 00:31:45,860
and help us to keep our bodies free from sin,

721
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:53,160
to keep our bodies free from temptation even.

722
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,960
The tempter appeals to your selfishness,

723
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,040
and causes you to think about sinning.

724
00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:02,580
And then, as I said before, then he slimes you.

725
00:32:02,580 --> 00:32:03,540
So, yes.

726
00:32:03,540 --> 00:32:04,840
Okay?

727
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,740
We were listening to a podcast from John Finn,

728
00:32:08,740 --> 00:32:10,320
and he's a seer.

729
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,480
You know, he's one of these, he's a gifted seer,

730
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,080
where he has, you know, his dreams, visions,

731
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,820
and he just sees in the spirit realm.

732
00:32:16,820 --> 00:32:21,820
And the Lord was teaching John about how demons operate,

733
00:32:21,820 --> 00:32:24,420
and the Lord shows him this Christian,

734
00:32:24,420 --> 00:32:28,100
and so this Christian has a habitual sin.

735
00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:31,100
The Lord didn't show him what the sin was, but he did it,

736
00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:33,100
and then he's under condemnation,

737
00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:34,940
and then you repent all over again,

738
00:32:34,940 --> 00:32:36,740
and this is something that would happen

739
00:32:36,740 --> 00:32:40,040
about maybe every couple weeks, you know,

740
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,180
and he was thinking about this,

741
00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:43,940
what he's gonna do and all that,

742
00:32:43,940 --> 00:32:47,940
and he saw, in the spirit, he saw this sphere,

743
00:32:47,940 --> 00:32:49,980
round sphere around the man.

744
00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:52,880
It was a sphere of light, because he's a believer in Jesus.

745
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,920
He has this light, because you are the light of the world.

746
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,360
But the more he's thinking about this,

747
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,560
well, it's like the demons are just kinda talking to him.

748
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,300
They're putting thoughts into your head.

749
00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:06,500
You know, sometimes you're doing something,

750
00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:07,860
and this thought will come into your head

751
00:33:07,860 --> 00:33:10,100
that's not a good one, or this or that,

752
00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:12,700
and it's just like they're trying to open up

753
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:15,400
this sphere that you have, that you can't see.

754
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,580
You have it, but you can't see this.

755
00:33:17,580 --> 00:33:20,540
And the more they keep doing that, you know,

756
00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:24,220
the more the man opens himself up to it, you know,

757
00:33:24,220 --> 00:33:28,620
and all of a sudden, he saw like an opening in the sphere.

758
00:33:28,620 --> 00:33:31,360
It's just like it opened up, and it was just enough

759
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,520
for the demons to kinda wiggle in there,

760
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,560
and all of a sudden, he just had this impulse.

761
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:37,520
He just had to do it.

762
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:38,420
He did what he did.

763
00:33:38,420 --> 00:33:41,500
Maybe he was looking at pornography or something,

764
00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:44,200
and then at the end of it, you know, he just says,

765
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,860
oh, you know, and he repents,

766
00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:49,440
and as soon as the man repented,

767
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,180
he saw the sphere close back up,

768
00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:54,340
but the demons were going all around the sphere

769
00:33:54,340 --> 00:33:57,680
looking for an opening of some kind, whispering things to him,

770
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,380
and as soon as he opened up to that, you know,

771
00:34:00,380 --> 00:34:02,880
and I thought that just makes perfect sense,

772
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,020
because what you, what things you deal with and all that,

773
00:34:06,020 --> 00:34:09,460
and as soon as he repented, the sphere closed up,

774
00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:11,760
and well, the demons had to jump off.

775
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,620
They had to get out, they'd get out off of him,

776
00:34:14,620 --> 00:34:18,660
and then the sphere closed up, you know, once he repented.

777
00:34:18,660 --> 00:34:21,340
So isn't that, what did Paul say?

778
00:34:21,340 --> 00:34:22,600
I die daily.

779
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:23,440
Yeah.

780
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,140
You know, it's just like 1 Thessalonians 4, 4 says

781
00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:30,040
that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel

782
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,680
in sanctification and honor.

783
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,540
So what I think about with this story

784
00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:40,180
that Philip just told is Romans 13 verses 12 and 14

785
00:34:40,180 --> 00:34:42,120
from the Amplified Classic says,

786
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,260
the night is far gone and the day is almost here.

787
00:34:45,260 --> 00:34:48,960
Let us then drop, fling away the works and deeds of darkness

788
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,120
and put on the full armor of light.

789
00:34:52,660 --> 00:34:53,860
And then verse 14 says,

790
00:34:53,860 --> 00:34:57,200
but clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah,

791
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,580
and make no provision for indulging the flesh.

792
00:35:00,580 --> 00:35:03,200
Put a stop to thinking about the evil cravings

793
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:08,220
of your physical nature to gratify its desires, lusts.

794
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,680
And that's really, really good.

795
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,180
And then the Young's literal translation says,

796
00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:16,720
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and for the flesh,

797
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:19,260
take no forethought for desires.

798
00:35:19,260 --> 00:35:22,560
In other words, don't think ahead about desires.

799
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,700
So what happens when you start thinking, okay,

800
00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:28,260
imagine this sphere around you.

801
00:35:28,260 --> 00:35:31,900
You have a sphere around you just like that man

802
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:33,900
that Philip was talking about.

803
00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:36,600
You have a sphere of light around you

804
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,700
and the demons are outside there whispering to you

805
00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:40,940
from the outside.

806
00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:43,180
They are not there in you.

807
00:35:43,180 --> 00:35:46,020
They are trying to influence you,

808
00:35:46,020 --> 00:35:51,020
but you have every opportunity to silence them.

809
00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:55,220
As soon as one of those thoughts comes into your head,

810
00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:59,620
you just say, no, I am not gonna think that way.

811
00:35:59,620 --> 00:36:02,260
I've even heard that one of the things

812
00:36:02,260 --> 00:36:04,540
that you can do physically

813
00:36:04,540 --> 00:36:07,140
when you start having thoughts in your mind

814
00:36:07,140 --> 00:36:07,980
that don't belong in.

815
00:36:07,980 --> 00:36:09,840
That's what, I love it.

816
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,940
That's what Pastor Tony Kemp says.

817
00:36:12,940 --> 00:36:13,980
Yeah, yeah.

818
00:36:13,980 --> 00:36:14,820
Brain chatter.

819
00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:15,640
There's brain chatter.

820
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,280
And you can silence that.

821
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:18,620
But one of the things that you can do

822
00:36:18,620 --> 00:36:21,380
when you realize that you're dealing with something

823
00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:23,780
or maybe even something in front of you

824
00:36:23,780 --> 00:36:27,620
like your imagination has a picture in it

825
00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:31,700
that doesn't belong there, start blinking your eyes.

826
00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:34,060
Just do a rapid blinking

827
00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:36,740
and it'll help to break that electrical charge

828
00:36:36,740 --> 00:36:40,660
or whatever it is that's got something on your imagination

829
00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:43,180
and bring you back to where your eyes,

830
00:36:43,180 --> 00:36:45,900
your literal eyes, your physical eyes

831
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,500
are looking at what you're surrounded by.

832
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:51,860
And you can break off that imagination

833
00:36:51,860 --> 00:36:53,980
by just blinking your eyes.

834
00:36:53,980 --> 00:36:56,940
You just need to throw these thoughts off immediately.

835
00:36:56,940 --> 00:36:59,380
Don't let them dwell for more than seconds.

836
00:36:59,380 --> 00:37:02,560
Give them no chance to take root.

837
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,460
Yes, because once it takes root,

838
00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:07,660
then it's harder to pull it out.

839
00:37:07,660 --> 00:37:09,000
Exactly.

840
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:14,000
So what starts in your mind becomes your meditation

841
00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:19,140
and then that becomes part of what's in your heart.

842
00:37:19,140 --> 00:37:21,420
And then out of the abundance of your heart.

843
00:37:21,420 --> 00:37:22,480
The mouth speaks.

844
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,640
And whatever your mouth speaks becomes your actions.

845
00:37:26,580 --> 00:37:28,960
And sometimes, I don't know about you,

846
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,180
but sometimes I talk to myself.

847
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,080
And I have started recently,

848
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,620
probably in the last year, maybe two years,

849
00:37:38,620 --> 00:37:42,740
when I find myself talking out loud

850
00:37:42,740 --> 00:37:44,980
and saying something as though I'm having

851
00:37:44,980 --> 00:37:49,300
an imaginary conversation with somebody or about somebody,

852
00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:52,300
I begin to repent instantly.

853
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:56,580
I say, oh God, please forgive me for saying those words.

854
00:37:56,580 --> 00:37:57,740
I take them apart.

855
00:37:57,740 --> 00:37:58,820
I speak crop failure.

856
00:37:58,820 --> 00:38:00,780
I command them to fall to the ground

857
00:38:00,780 --> 00:38:03,780
and separate sound by sound and letter by letter

858
00:38:03,780 --> 00:38:06,820
so that they will have no effect

859
00:38:06,820 --> 00:38:10,460
because I don't want those words to have any effect.

860
00:38:10,460 --> 00:38:11,660
I want them to be gone.

861
00:38:11,660 --> 00:38:13,620
I want them under the blood of Jesus Christ

862
00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:15,420
and not to be able to be used.

863
00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:17,180
Like, especially if I'm thinking,

864
00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:21,380
if a thought has come to me, an accusation against somebody.

865
00:38:21,380 --> 00:38:22,500
There's power in words.

866
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:23,900
Yes, there's power in words.

867
00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:25,740
And we have to silence them.

868
00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:29,380
The ones that don't belong, we have to silence them.

869
00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:33,100
So we just learned that Paul disciplined his body.

870
00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:34,660
I keep my body under.

871
00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:35,980
Okay?

872
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:38,340
So you have to discipline yours.

873
00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:40,420
I have to discipline mine.

874
00:38:40,420 --> 00:38:44,140
We have to discipline these thoughts that come to us.

875
00:38:44,140 --> 00:38:45,860
We are responsible ourselves

876
00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:48,220
for keeping the flesh in check.

877
00:38:48,220 --> 00:38:52,020
2 Corinthians 10, three through six will help you.

878
00:38:52,020 --> 00:38:54,580
For though we walk in the flesh,

879
00:38:54,580 --> 00:38:56,780
we do not war after the flesh.

880
00:38:56,780 --> 00:39:00,660
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal or fleshly,

881
00:39:00,660 --> 00:39:04,940
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,

882
00:39:04,940 --> 00:39:07,740
casting down imaginations in every high thing

883
00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:10,340
that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,

884
00:39:10,340 --> 00:39:13,100
and bringing into captivity every thought

885
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:14,660
to the obedience of Christ,

886
00:39:14,660 --> 00:39:18,300
and having a readiness to revenge all disobedience

887
00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:20,380
when your obedience is fulfilled.

888
00:39:20,380 --> 00:39:24,580
You have to get that attitude with your flesh

889
00:39:24,580 --> 00:39:28,580
that says, absolutely not, I'm not doing it.

890
00:39:28,580 --> 00:39:30,100
I'm not gonna think that way.

891
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:31,500
I'm not gonna talk that way.

892
00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:33,260
I'm not gonna act that way.

893
00:39:33,260 --> 00:39:34,660
I'm taking authority.

894
00:39:34,660 --> 00:39:36,620
I'm lining up with the word,

895
00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:40,860
and I'm casting down all of these things that are,

896
00:39:40,860 --> 00:39:44,260
these imaginations, they're just empty.

897
00:39:45,060 --> 00:39:47,260
They have no value here.

898
00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:50,940
And if whatever doesn't have value, throw it down.

899
00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:52,020
Okay?

900
00:39:52,020 --> 00:39:55,060
So we have to say no to those things,

901
00:39:55,060 --> 00:39:58,100
and then you go to war using the word.

902
00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:00,740
So the first thing is you're responsible

903
00:40:00,740 --> 00:40:02,260
to keep your flesh in check.

904
00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:06,180
The second thing is say no, and go to war with the word.

905
00:40:06,180 --> 00:40:10,060
Now Hebrews 412 says, for the word of God

906
00:40:10,060 --> 00:40:13,620
is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.

907
00:40:13,620 --> 00:40:16,500
Would you find that, Philip, in the TPT?

908
00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:19,940
Because I think there might be something helpful there.

909
00:40:19,940 --> 00:40:23,460
For we have the living word of God, which is full of energy,

910
00:40:23,460 --> 00:40:27,380
and it pierces more sharply than a two-edged sword.

911
00:40:27,380 --> 00:40:30,340
It will even penetrate to the very core of our being

912
00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:34,420
where soul and spirit, bone and marrow meet.

913
00:40:34,420 --> 00:40:36,780
It interprets and reveals the true thoughts

914
00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:38,780
and secret motives of our heart.

915
00:40:38,780 --> 00:40:41,940
Oh yeah, secret motives of our hearts.

916
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:43,660
See, that's what God wants to do,

917
00:40:43,660 --> 00:40:46,820
and he wants you to learn his word

918
00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:51,060
so that you know what to use for each circumstance.

919
00:40:51,060 --> 00:40:53,420
Whatever kind of circumstances are coming up,

920
00:40:53,420 --> 00:40:56,340
the word of God is gonna cut them out for you.

921
00:40:56,340 --> 00:40:57,740
It's like a scalpel.

922
00:40:58,740 --> 00:41:03,380
Submit to the surgery of God to cut out those things

923
00:41:03,380 --> 00:41:06,340
out of our flesh that don't belong there.

924
00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:09,060
Okay, so first we're responsible.

925
00:41:09,060 --> 00:41:11,220
Second, we're gonna war with the word.

926
00:41:11,220 --> 00:41:14,220
The third is to war with the prophecies

927
00:41:14,220 --> 00:41:16,060
that have been spoken over us.

928
00:41:16,060 --> 00:41:21,060
So first Timothy 118 in the Passion Translation.

929
00:41:21,460 --> 00:41:24,260
So Timothy, my son, I'm entrusting you

930
00:41:24,260 --> 00:41:26,740
with this responsibility in keeping

931
00:41:26,740 --> 00:41:28,620
with the very first prophecies

932
00:41:28,620 --> 00:41:30,900
that were spoken over your life

933
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:33,180
and are now in the process of fulfillment

934
00:41:33,180 --> 00:41:35,620
in this great work of ministry

935
00:41:35,620 --> 00:41:39,100
and keeping with the prophecies spoken over you.

936
00:41:39,100 --> 00:41:42,180
With this encouragement, use your prophecies as weapons

937
00:41:42,180 --> 00:41:44,700
as you weight spiritual warfare by faith

938
00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:46,460
and with a clean conscience.

939
00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:47,420
Beautiful.

940
00:41:47,420 --> 00:41:51,060
So whatever has been spoken over your life,

941
00:41:51,060 --> 00:41:54,020
the whole word of God is available to you

942
00:41:54,020 --> 00:41:55,860
to war with.

943
00:41:55,860 --> 00:41:59,420
But if you've received a word in your spirit

944
00:41:59,420 --> 00:42:03,500
or if someone has given a prophetic word over you,

945
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:06,620
you can use that in warfare

946
00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:10,380
as you're dealing with your flesh

947
00:42:10,380 --> 00:42:14,020
because there are things that you're not gonna accomplish

948
00:42:14,020 --> 00:42:17,460
if you don't get lined up with the word of God

949
00:42:17,460 --> 00:42:22,020
and with the things that the Lord has put in His plan for you.

950
00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:25,220
So you have to overcome your flesh

951
00:42:25,220 --> 00:42:27,460
in order for these things to come to pass.

952
00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:31,300
Think about Esau, think about the lentil soup

953
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:36,300
that Jacob was making and he gave into his flesh.

954
00:42:38,140 --> 00:42:43,140
He was so hungry that he thought he was gonna die

955
00:42:43,580 --> 00:42:46,140
if he didn't eat right then.

956
00:42:46,140 --> 00:42:50,020
And he didn't value the thing that was in his future.

957
00:42:50,020 --> 00:42:52,820
That's how we war with prophecy.

958
00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:56,740
You understand that if you're gonna fulfill

959
00:42:56,740 --> 00:42:59,140
the thing that God said over your life,

960
00:42:59,140 --> 00:43:02,060
you're gonna have to say no to your flesh.

961
00:43:02,060 --> 00:43:04,820
It's important to let things go

962
00:43:04,820 --> 00:43:08,900
that don't belong in your life and overcome them.

963
00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:10,020
So that's the third thing.

964
00:43:10,020 --> 00:43:12,860
The fourth thing is holy communion.

965
00:43:12,860 --> 00:43:17,860
When Jesus said, this is my body which is given for you,

966
00:43:17,860 --> 00:43:22,860
it's His body, it's His sarks, it's His flesh shredded.

967
00:43:25,740 --> 00:43:28,220
He was mutilated for us.

968
00:43:28,220 --> 00:43:31,020
So when we take that bread

969
00:43:31,020 --> 00:43:33,860
and we realize the power that's in it,

970
00:43:33,860 --> 00:43:37,260
Jesus said, you gotta eat my body and drink my blood

971
00:43:37,260 --> 00:43:39,460
or you have no part of me.

972
00:43:39,460 --> 00:43:43,140
If you want to walk the walk of the Spirit,

973
00:43:43,140 --> 00:43:48,140
use the power of the body of Jesus Christ

974
00:43:48,140 --> 00:43:52,140
to overcome the desires of your body.

975
00:43:52,140 --> 00:43:55,860
And then you have the fifth thing is the blood of Jesus,

976
00:43:55,860 --> 00:43:58,500
the cup that Jesus gave for us.

977
00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:03,140
He said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood.

978
00:44:03,140 --> 00:44:05,700
This cup, my blood.

979
00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:08,100
Drink my blood.

980
00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:11,460
It gives life where you are being tempted

981
00:44:11,460 --> 00:44:15,260
to fall into something that is gonna bring you death.

982
00:44:15,260 --> 00:44:18,140
Use the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.

983
00:44:18,140 --> 00:44:19,780
You can declare it too,

984
00:44:19,780 --> 00:44:21,780
but you can take the holy communion

985
00:44:21,780 --> 00:44:24,380
and you can stand there and say,

986
00:44:24,380 --> 00:44:26,820
because of the blood of Jesus Christ,

987
00:44:26,820 --> 00:44:28,660
I am cleansed from all sin

988
00:44:28,660 --> 00:44:32,540
and I'm not gonna give myself to it in the name of Jesus.

989
00:44:32,540 --> 00:44:34,140
And you can overcome.

990
00:44:34,140 --> 00:44:36,500
So Father, in the name of Jesus Christ,

991
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:38,940
we pray for our listener right now.

992
00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:42,340
You can overcome, listener.

993
00:44:42,340 --> 00:44:45,940
Father, we're asking you to pour your Spirit

994
00:44:45,940 --> 00:44:48,740
out on this listener right now

995
00:44:48,740 --> 00:44:53,740
to enable him or her to overcome their flesh, Lord,

996
00:44:53,740 --> 00:44:56,540
to overcome the things that are temptations,

997
00:44:56,540 --> 00:44:58,620
to overcome the distractions,

998
00:44:58,620 --> 00:45:02,900
to overcome the things that even don't seem all that bad,

999
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:07,060
but they're not leading into the walk of the Spirit.

1000
00:45:07,060 --> 00:45:11,740
Father, pour out your Spirit on this one to prepare him,

1001
00:45:11,740 --> 00:45:14,460
to prepare her for the things

1002
00:45:14,460 --> 00:45:17,940
that you have set them aside for,

1003
00:45:17,940 --> 00:45:20,740
to walk in this earth, Lord,

1004
00:45:20,740 --> 00:45:23,780
to be a beacon of light,

1005
00:45:23,780 --> 00:45:27,060
to be a carrier of your gospel,

1006
00:45:27,060 --> 00:45:32,060
to be a carrier of your light and your life and your glory.

1007
00:45:32,060 --> 00:45:34,580
In these days, Lord, we're thanking you, Father,

1008
00:45:34,580 --> 00:45:37,100
that you are pouring out your Spirit

1009
00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:40,380
to give them the grace and the strength

1010
00:45:40,380 --> 00:45:45,380
to overcome and walk in the Spirit instead of the flesh.

1011
00:45:45,380 --> 00:45:47,580
In Jesus' name, amen.

1012
00:45:47,580 --> 00:45:48,420
Amen.

1013
00:45:48,420 --> 00:45:49,260
Amen.

1014
00:45:49,260 --> 00:45:51,780
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1015
00:45:51,780 --> 00:45:54,500
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00:46:28,660 --> 00:46:32,100
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