Embracing the Transformative Power of the Holy Spirit

Apr 25, 2024

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Most people don't not say, because nobody, nobody ever asked them. I'll wait for the preacher while I wait for the preacher. I'm busy. You do it. Why should I go on your job and taught your paper? When you have the same authority, I have, you have the, you I'm reading my Bible. Go back, go back to John 20 and 23. I want you to read it. This is not a trick Bible. This is a real one. John 20. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. That in your Bible, anybody bring a Bible to church today. Is it in your Bible? Is mine messed up? I don't know. I'm just stuck on this. We have the power to forgive sins. How? By telling them how they can do it." [22:17](Download raw clip | | )

2. "Nothing delights us anymore than somebody asking us for directions. Come on, men, you know it's true. We're getting gas up there. Somebody says, excuse me, sir. Can you tell me where so-and-so is? Yeah. Yeah, I can. You know, our whole demeanor changes. Well, what you're going to do is get back on this road. on, guys, it's just me. You're going to go down this road and go down another road. Don't take that one. That's what we're doing, right? We're giving the facts how they can get. Anyway." [25:20](Download raw clip | | )

3. "You can be known to the whole world, but to the father dead without the regeneration power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is coming back. I mean, like now. I mean, it's close. And there's a lot of people that's going to go with us. They're going to go with us because we won't get stuff like this. We have the authority to give them the antidote their sins. And we give it to them. They're alive to the things of the world, but they're dead to the father and they're going to come home. And their father who reckoned him dead is going to say, let's have a party. Let's be married for my son who was lost. Now he's found." [28:40](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

4. "The hardest thing we do as Christians, it's not giving, it's receiving. Cause we got to try to, we got to try to understand it, you know, try to figure it all out. Try to make sure it fix our belief system and all this guy, man, just, just, just receive what God is trying to give you. And they received it. And then he told them, he says, if you receive the Holy spirit, if you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained. And people read this as, how in the world can we forgive sins? It's actually not a real good translation, but if you do the word study, what it means that Jesus has given us authority to announce forgiveness." [18:33](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

5. "You are Christian because you're someone who's been regenerated by the Holy Spirit of God and Holy Spirit dwells on inside of you. Not because you go to church, not because you, you, you know, God or you have a Bible, but because you believe with all your heart that Jesus is the son of God, that he died for your sins and he rose again from the dead for you. You asked him to your heart for your center and he came in and he separated you and it's still separating you. Remember this part is progressive. It's called sanctification. Sanctification is a, is a process that means we are, we are dead. And are still dying to the things of this world." [10:10](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

### Quotes for Members

1. "It's the Holy Spirit who's bringing that Spirit. The Spirit of Truth. He's revealing. He's guiding you into all truth. And most of the time it's something you really need. You need for that hour. And maybe it's not what you need right then. And you wonder. I wonder why God is bringing this to my remembrance. Or just bringing it out. Because it's something you're probably going to need. It's something you're going to need. Another thing the Holy Spirit loves to do. Is He loves to just. He loves just to put something in your spirit. Just get it in your spirit. And when you get it in your spirit. If it's in you, it's going to come out of you. If it's not in you, it won't come out of you." [03:02](Download raw clip | | )

2. "Whenever he comes home, when the son comes home, he says, for this my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and now he's found. This is a parable. This is a, what is a parable? A parable is a earthly story with a heavenly meaning. This is an earthly story. Tell us about a son who was lost, who was dead, who was separated from the father, but now he's alive again. He was lost and now he's found. It's an earthly story, but it has a heavenly or it has a spiritual meaning to it. That's why parables are so important in the Bible. They're earthly stories so we can understand it. So we can, so we can relate to it, but it has a spiritual meaning." [25:57](Download raw clip | | )

3. "He breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy spirit. This right here is this word. Breathe on them. It's the exact same word that we get is the, is the, is the Hebrew, Hebrew text from the, I'm sorry. It's a Greek text from the Hebrew word in Genesis two and seven. When God breathed on Adam, he became a living soul. This is the exact same word translated into Hebrew, into Greek from Hebrew, Hebrews, old Testament, Greek is new Testament. He breathed on him and, and he breathed on them and they became a living soul. Now, wait a minute. They were living. They're his disciples. So what did he do? He breathed on them. He breathed the breath of God. He breathed the regeneration of the regeneration work of the Holy spirit upon them." [14:38](Download raw clip | | )

4. "The work of the Holy Spirit, I think it's very important for us to know who the Holy Spirit is. And so I've kind of just been jumping around it for the last six or eight months. So I really want to do a study. So just real fast, John 16 and 8. Let's just jump into the Word, John 16 and 8. And don't have any more. Whenever y'all get it, y'all can put them up on the screen as soon as I get it. And when he has come, talking about the Holy Spirit. Remember last week I taught you this? I'm not going to teach it again. I'm just going to read back over it to get us a quick catch up. And when he has come, when who has come? The Holy Spirit. He will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. So here you see how the Bible talks about the Holy Spirit and what he will do here." [00:50](Download raw clip | | )

5. "You can be known to the whole world, but to the father dead without the regeneration power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is coming back. I mean, like now. I mean, it's close. And there's a lot of people that's going to go with us. They're going to go with us because we won't get stuff like this. We have the authority to give them the antidote their sins. And we give it to them. They're alive to the things of the world, but they're dead to the father and they're going to come home. And their father who reckoned him dead is going to say, let's have a party. Let's be married for my son who was lost. Now he's found." [28:40](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

6. "You are Christian because you're someone who's been regenerated by the Holy Spirit of God and Holy Spirit dwells on inside of you. Not because you go to church, not because you, you, you know, God or you have a Bible, but because you believe with all your heart that Jesus is the son of God, that he died for your sins and he rose again from the dead for you. You asked him to your heart for your center and he came in and he separated you and it's still separating you. Remember this part is progressive. It's called sanctification. Sanctification is a, is a process that means we are, we are dead. And are still dying to the things of this world." [10:10](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

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