Empowered Living: Unleashing God's Transformative Power

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The word power there comes from the Greek word dunamis, and there's an English word we get straight from the Greek word dunamis. What is it? What does dunamis sound like to you? Dynamite. It is where we get the English word Dynamite from. The basic meaning of the word is ability to do. [00:01:18]

The power here is an ability to do what you cannot do on your own. It's god-given ability to do. In Luke chapter 6 verse 19, this word is there again. Those troubled by impure Spirits were cured, and the people all tried to touch him because power was coming out from him. [00:04:01]

We had this power in an Earthen vessel. What do you think Paul meant by what's the Earthen vessel? Our bodies like Clay, they're so fragile, they fall, they crack, they break, they have to be tenderized. But the reason we know that we're weak is not to prove to the world we're weak. [00:09:28]

Wouldn't it be wonderful for every one of us here everywhere we are in home at work in our neighborhood all the time constantly manifesting joy and peace, showing the world that the god of Hope is filling us and we are abounding in Hope. [00:12:02]

Being filled with all power, this is to answer the question what's the purpose of this power that we would be filled with all power unto what undo all long-suffering and endurance. If anything that there's too many of today is Christian wimps that give up when it's hard. [00:14:05]

The power of God in Me actually is producing what does it produce? He's not given us a spirit of fear but three things: love, power, and what? Us uh right discipline. It could be translated one of three ways: a sound mind, a disciplined life, or this beautiful term self-control. [00:26:13]

Power without control produces explosions, and explosions are not usually very beautiful. They tear things apart, they destroy and damage things. But God provided power so that we don't have to explode. We can Channel, we deal with anger, we deal with strong emotions, but we can deal with him under control. [00:27:59]

The law is not my answer, Jesus is. Why? Because what the law couldn't do, God did through his son in sinning his own nature so that our nature as Sinners can be changed into his nature as a righteous man. If any man is in Christ he is a New Creation. [00:34:26]

The world mocks the church, and as our it's our fault that they do is because we haven't been living in the surpassing greatness of the power that's available to us. And maybe we didn't inherit a church that was that way, but by the grace of God let's leave that kind of church to the Next Generation. [00:48:55]

The question is what do you want? What kind of Life do you want? You want a common life? You want to comfort Yourself by saying well Nobody's Perfect? I mean I'm no different than everybody else. I mean, that's not that's not how I want to live. I want to know what is the surpassing greatness of his power. [00:47:23]

The message needed to be backed up with some evidence, and you know what the evidence was to validate the message was? Yep, the life of the Believers, the way they lived. And we're back almost in the same situation today. [00:48:32]

God doesn't ask us to do something and not provide the power and the ability to do it, and that's living by faith. Now I will admit that those who actually Fully live this way are rare. They're rare. Guess what? They're rare in the Bible too. [00:46:48]

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