Listen to My Son, Receive My Spirit | Ep. 193

God doesn’t whisper His will through guesswork, He points us straight to Jesus with one unmistakable command: “Hear Him.” That single line from the Transfiguration becomes the thread we pull through Hebrews 2, Acts, and the promises of the new covenant, and it changes how we think about salvation, spiritual power, and what it means to truly know God.

We start in Hebrews 2:1-4, where the warning is simple and piercing: pay close attention or you will drift. From there we trace how God spoke through prophets under the old covenant, then speaks through His Son in these last days. If you want to hear the Father, you come through Jesus Christ, and Jesus’ words and works match because He speaks what the Father speaks and does what the Father does.

Then we tackle a hard question many believers wrestle with: why do signs and wonders sometimes appear around messy, even corrupt ministry? Acts, Mark 16, and the wider witness of Scripture point to a clarifying answer: God confirms His Word, not a personality. Miracles are not a scorecard for a preacher, they are a witness to the gospel of the kingdom.

We close with the most personal and powerful promise of all: the new covenant isn’t just rules on stone, it’s God writing on hearts. Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36 describe a new heart, a new spirit, and God’s Spirit within us, empowering real change and freedom from shame. If you’re hungry for biblical teaching on the Holy Spirit, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and what “Christ in you” means in daily life, this conversation will meet you where you are.

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A Living Picture Of Purpose

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The vision received was that of blood cells traveling throughout the body, supplying the much-needed oxygen and other nutrients to the differing members of the body to fulfill their purpose. Once the blood cells are spent, they must return back to the heart to be refilled before being sent out again and fulfill their purpose.

Reading Acts And Hebrews At Home

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And I've done that with my family. It's not like I've never read Acts. I've probably read Acts uh more often than in many, many other books. But I've read it again with my wife and children at home, one chapter a night, as we go through and started reading Hebrews. And actually, my wife took the challenge before it started, and she began to read Hebrews before we started all of this. Um but just recently I was reading Hebrews, and uh it just had a profound effect on me that I was just I felt overwhelmed and flooded. Uh like he was, it was I felt like an avalanche was just and it wasn't a good bad avalanche, it was just an avalanche of just he was just ministering his word to me. So I'm gonna share that tonight, maybe, maybe in two parts, and I I pray that it is a blessing uh to you all. I told Pastor that most of it was just heavily involved in chapter two, and it is, and then it is not. Uh, but that's how the Lord just ministers to me. He just he he floods me with he talks and it he floods my mind and he floods my heart when I study the word. And as I've studied the word over many, many years, he will just bring it up in a moment and then it just attach new things that I didn't attach before. And so it's just overwhelming at times. It's not that I haven't read the word before, but he's just quickened uh an aspect or or or or or theme of it all, and so that's what I want

Hebrews 2 And The Danger Of Drifting

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to share with you today. So we're gonna read Hebrews chapter 2, verses 1 through 4. That's gonna be our jump off, that's gonna be our starting place, and then I'm just gonna go off from there. Hebrews 2, 1 through 4. Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? Which at first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will. That's where we're gonna start off today.

The Transfiguration And Hear Him

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When I read Hebrews chapter 2, because obviously I read it in order, and I had already read Hebrews 1, and it was into Hebrews 2, immediately what the Lord brought to my mind was back what he said in Hebrews chapter 1, 1 and 2. And it says in Hebrews 1 and 1 and 2 that in the old covenant, God spoke many times, he spoke in many different ways to our fathers in the faith through the prophets. They were the main vocal piece for the Lord to speak to his people. And the prophets heard directly from God, and they then, like a conduit, like a siphon, would then share what was what the Lord had said to them to the brethren. Many times it was rebuke. But that's how he spoke to his people in the days of old. He spoke through the prophets, but then it said, But in these last days, he speaks to us through his son. And that hit me for some reason. And then I remember the Lord dropped in my mind, remember the transfiguration. You had Peter, you had James, you had John, they were, they were, they were directly invited by the Lord Jesus to be with them. It was only those three. And they went up to a high mountain, just those three in Jesus. And something beyond imagination happened where Jesus just began to transform and transfigure right before their sight, and he just began to change and he just began to just be light, so bright that it shined greater than the light of the sun. And then Peter, James, and John were in fear and in confusion, and then all of a sudden, how did they recognize him? I don't know, but he's they saw Elijah, and they saw Moses talking with Jesus, who had just been transfigured into this light before them. And Peter, shaken, not knowing what to say, not really knowing what to do, while he's seeing this scene of Moses and Elijah speaking with Jesus, who's just this bright, bright light shine, brighter than the sun. He says, Would it be a good idea for us to build three tabernacles? One for you, one for Elijah, one for Moses. And I don't know how Jesus responded as that light. I don't know if he was talking to Moses, talking to Elijah, here's here's Peter over there. I don't know if he turns over there and he just looks at him. Maybe he shakes his head. I really don't know. But I just imagine, like all three of them were talking, and he says this, and and then a voice speaks. And I'm reading this from Mark 9, 7 or Luke 9, 35. They're both parallel passages. They're they're both talking about the same thing. It says, A cloud came and it overshadowed them. And a voice came from the cloud saying, This is my beloved son. Hear him. He wants to build a tabernacle for Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. And I don't know if you catch the rebuke, but God in that voice is saying, How do you put Moses and Elijah on par with me? This is my beloved son. Hear him. Not Moses, not Elijah. Listen to my son. The significance of those words cannot be downplayed. If we're going to hear our Father, we must hear him through the Son. It brought to my mind other scriptures that were speaking of, that were spoken of in John chapter 4, 6 and John chapter 4, 9. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man, no one can come unto the Father except through me. We can't think about where we're just going to have a relationship with God, our Father. I'm sorry. It doesn't work that way anymore. You want to hear the Father, you want to speak to the Father? You got to go through the Son. This is my beloved Son. Hear him. Listen to him. But he also said a couple verses later to Philip. He rebuked Philip. Philip. Philip and Peter and the rest of the disciples, they're so much like me. Sticking their foot in their mouth at so many different times. But you know, Jesus said to Philip, Have I been with you so long? And yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you ask me? Show us the Father. My Lord has patience. He has patience. Thank God He has patience. You know, so as I read Hebrews 2 and 3 and 4, which I've already read, it says that this now, how how are we gonna escape, or or how how shall how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord? The salvation of his people was first spoken by the Lord. The Lord, the Son. The Lord, the Son. Oh, wait a second. Peter in Acts chapter 2, that's great that we're reading Hebrews and Acts at the same time. Peter on the day of Pentecost was preaching the gospel, and he said in Acts chapter 2, 36, this man Jesus, whom you crucified, God has made both Lord and Christ. Lord and the anointed one, whom you crucified. So the Lord, the Son, because he's Lord, he spoke first this salvation. And the things that he spoke in the days of his flesh were all about the gospel of the church. No, no, the gospel of the kingdom. Not the church, the gospel of the kingdom. So he's speaking the word, the gospel of the kingdom, and it says, He spoke it, and it was confirmed to us who heard him, meaning the disciples who turned out to be the apostles. And it says, God attested to what Jesus had spoken. But not only Jesus, he also attested to what the apostles had spoken. And we're gonna go through that because also with the disciples turned apostles, he then followed with signs and wonders, with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his will. So let's focus on how he attested

Signs And Wonders Bear Witness

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to Jesus. What was he attesting to Jesus? And if you go through John, I love John. John is my favorite gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. John is my favorite gospel. But in chapter 10 of John, Jesus says many times, I told you, and you don't believe me. The works that I do, I do in my Father's name. They do what? Bear witness of me. They attest to me. They're attesting to the words that I am speaking. And if you think about it, what did John 1:1 start with? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. You skip over to verse 10, and the same was in the beginning with God, and the word was made flesh, and he dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory full of grace and truth. Everything that came out of the mouth of Jesus Christ was the words of our Father. You want to hear him? Listen to my Son. But if I don't do the works of the Father, he continues in verse 37. Don't believe me. But if I do do the works of my Father, though you do not believe me, believe the works. The works are attesting to the things that I am speaking. That you may know and believe what? That the Father is actually in me. You want to see me? Look at my son. You want to hear me? Hear my son. And I in him. And then in chapter 14, verse 10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and my Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I don't speak of my own authority. These are not my bright ideas. What I'm saying is what I'm hearing my father say. What I'm doing is what I'm seeing my father do. He was our example. We want to know how to live this Christian life. We can read all of the letters, and all of them are good, and all of them just bring a practicalness to this supernatural life. But it is a life that needs to be led by the Spirit that is within us if we've received the gift of the Holy Ghost. Because He gives us discernment, He gives us the words to speak in the moment that we need to speak them. We don't have to worry and fret and be in anxiety over situations that we know nothing about. God is going to show up in the moment that we need to show up. And He's going to give us the words that we need to speak. And He's going to give us the heart that we need to have for the moment that's happening. We don't have to be worried. What we have to do is be led of the Spirit of God. Now I want to go to Acts 2 because I believe that the signs and the wonders and the miracles and the gifts followed not only Jesus, but they followed the apostles. In Acts chapter 2, 22, men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you. How? By the miracles, by the wonders, by the signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves also know. Then fear came upon every soul in verse 43 of Acts 2. And many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. I always had issues, and I'm going to ask you this question: why do you think those signs and wonders were done through the apostles? Why were these miracles and wonders and signs that God did through Jesus in the midst? Why was he doing that? I'm going to read some more and then we're going to come to the answer. Acts chapter 5, 12. And through the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were done among the people, and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. I still haven't gotten to the point, but I want you to think about why is he constantly uh following the the the things that they're doing with signs and wonders? Now come to Acts 14, 3. Therefore, they stayed there a long time. They were speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of his grace. He wasn't bearing witness to them. He wasn't sanctifying them as individuals. I don't know if you've ever had this issue, but you know, I grew up in the generation where we watched a lot of uh TBN, we watched a lot of the televangelist from the 80s, from the 90s. That's kind of where I grew up, and we saw all of these things. And as I grew into an adult and I and I really truly came into this covenant, this new covenant, I always ask, why is it does it seem like these preachers and these teachers and all of these people that I see are preaching the word and yet it's not right. But yet I'm seeing these people that are crying out to the Lord and they're being touched by God, and I'm seeing the healings, and I'm seeing the miracles, and I'm seeing the signs. Why I don't understand because they're not even preaching the gospel, they're not preaching the truth, but they I'm seeing these signs and wonders. Why? And it's because God is not attesting to the preacher that he's okay. He is attesting to the word that the preacher is preaching. He is bearing witness to the word. The word is correct, even if that preacher's not correct. You guys have been in Atlanta, you've heard these big, great, big preachers in these mega churches, and they're doing all sorts of great things, supposedly great things and mighty things, and then a couple weeks later you hear, oh, he's fallen. Did you hear what he did with those children and those boys? And and why? Why do we hear those stories? And yet we see all of these things happening in that supposed church. It's because God is going to reach the hopeless, he's gonna reach the lost, he's gonna reach them in spite of what that preacher is doing because he's going to attest to his word. And if he's preaching deliverance and they need deliverance, God is going to bring deliverance because his word is true. His word does not return void, it goes out and accomplishes that which he sent it to, regardless of the pastor. It has nothing to do with the pastor. When you lay hands on the person that's sick and they get healed, it has nothing to do with you. You were just a conduit. You were a conduit where they were placing their faith. Oh, I'm gonna get touched by the Lord, and they get healed, they get delivered. You pray a prayer over them, and they're in need of something, some material thing, and all of a sudden God does something in the next few days, and he's like, Hallelujah! Because he's attesting to the veracity and the validity of his word, not you. I used to have problems with that. Why, why, why? And then I got the answer because I'm attesting to my word, not that preacher, not that teacher. So he's bearing witness to the word of his grace. Why? By granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. Because if you read Acts, that's all they were doing, they were preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and God was uh with follow them with signs and wonders, attesting to the veracity of the gospel of the kingdom they were preaching. How do I know that? Well, you can go back to Mark chapter 16, verse 20. And they went out and they preached everywhere, talking about the disciples, and the Lord working with them and confirming what? Them? No, it says confirming the word through them by accompanying signs and wonders. Amen. We need to understand that our God, whose name is Jesus, has bound himself to his word to perform his word, no matter what man may misunderstand it to be, what man may misperceive it to be, what man may misattribute the reason why that took place. It doesn't matter. He doesn't care what man is going to think wrongly about it. He's reaching the lost through the word that is being preached. He's attesting to his word. I am a healer, I am a deliverer, says the Lord, I am your savior, says the Lord. He's attesting to that, not to the man, not to the woman. But all of these signs, these wonders, these gifts and miracles that took place in Acts, they're still taking place today. But there's one gift that to me is more profound, it is more significant to any and all born-again Christians. And it's amazing that we got that testimony from that young lady. Because that's the gift that I'm talking about.

The New Covenant Gift Within

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If you skip over to Hebrews chapter 8, he says, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. And it's not gonna be according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand and I led them out of the land of Egypt, because they didn't continue on my covenant. And I disregarded them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their mind, I will write them myself in their heart, not on tablets of stone like I did in the days of old. I'm gonna write it myself in their own hearts. Yeah, I will be their God. When that happens, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. None of them are gonna need to teach every his own neighbor and his own brother saying, Hey, you gotta know the Lord, for they're all gonna know me. From the least of them to the greatest of them. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more. As the east is from the west, so far will I cast your sins away for you, never to remember them against you again. And that he says, a new covenant. Listen to this verse. He made the first, what came before, obsolete. Now, what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. There was a circumcision in the old covenant that had significance. The sign of the circumcision of the flesh was the sign of their faith. If you had faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, you circumcised yourself. It was a physical sign that you were different from all the other nations because none of the other nations ever did that. Why would they? Ain't no nation with men are gonna want to circumcise themselves. That's not a bright idea to them. They'd rather stay just as they were born. But God had us go through a little bit of pain so that we can make ourselves, not make ourselves, so that he can show that we are different than they all are. But that has been made obsolete. It makes no difference whether you are circumcised or not. And women, you can't get circumcised now, can you? Nope. This scripture that was quoted in Hebrews comes from several different scriptures of the old covenant where he prophesied through major prophets. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and probably others, but I just chose two. So if you go to Jeremiah 31, 33 through 34, I want to see the progression because if you keep reading about this new covenant, God speaks about the establishment of this new covenant to different prophets because he's speaking to his people over and over and over again. But the more you read it, the more details you get about how he's gonna bring about this new covenant that was quoted in Hebrews. So it says in Jeremiah 31, 33 through 34, This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. Sounds like what was said in Hebrews. After those days saith the Lord, I will put my law on their minds, I will write it on their hearts, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. That's basically what Hebrews just quoted. So Hebrews quoted Jeremiah 31. And I'm not gonna remember their sin anymore and I'm gonna forgive them. Okay, so we get it, it's from Jeremiah. But now look at what he says to Ezekiel, because he says to this other prophet, the same prophecy, but there's some different words there. So consider Ezekiel chapter 11, 17 through 20. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. Then I will give them one heart. And listen, and I will put a new spirit within them. And I'm gonna take that stony heart out of their flesh, and I'm gonna give them a heart of flesh. And you know why I'm gonna do that? Read verse 20. It's there. You really don't have to leave the scriptures. It just keep on reading, and you'll get the why. The why is that they may walk in my statutes, keep my judgments and do them. You see, the church of old, they knew what his statutes were, they just weren't walking in them. They knew what his judgments were, they weren't keeping them, and they weren't doing them. So he said, he prophesied that I'm gonna make a new covenant, and I am going to take their stony, stiff-neck, hard, hardened heart, I'm gonna take it out, and I'm gonna give them a heart of flesh. And why am I gonna do that? Why am I gonna give them a new spirit? Because I want them to walk in my statutes, I want them to keep my judgment and do them, and then they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Now that's a little bit more than what we had before. There's a more meaning, there's more significance, there's more reason. Why is he going to do these things? But now I want you to read Ezekiel 36, because it's one of my most favorite prophetic scriptures regarding this new covenant that you just experienced. Ezekiel chapter 36, verse 25. Then I will I will sprinkle clean water on you, and and you shall be clean. I will I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, from all your idols. And then listen, I will give you a new heart. I will put a new spirit within you. That's the same thing that he said before. We're not that new detail yet, but it says, I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh, I will give you a heart of flesh. Not much difference there yet, but watch, watch this. Listen to this, listen to the words. I will put my spirit within you. Had not been said yet. That had not been declared. I am gonna put my spirit within you. I told you before I'm gonna give you a new heart. I told you before I'm gonna take that stony heart and give you a heart of flesh, but I never said until this moment, I'm gonna put my spirit within you. Why? Keep reading. I put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, to keep my judgments and do them. We have something in this new covenant that all the church of the old covenant never had. They knew the word, they knew the oracles of God. They knew between good and evil, but knowing between good and evil doesn't save you. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil doesn't save you. You got to come to the tree of life. And at the tree of life, you now receive something, which is what this sister just received. She received the Spirit of God in her. She now has, and some of us who have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost now have power that we've never had before. And the power is gonna cause us to walk in his statutes, to keep his judgments and do them. That's power over sin, power over death, hell, and the grave, because the power is not yours, the power is his, living his life through you. Then you will dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. And so he's bringing me to these are all scriptures that I've read before, and they've they've come to me in many different ways for many different teachings, but they they hit me with this Hebrews because the significance of the Spirit of God in you cannot be downplayed.

Forgiveness And Circumcision Of Heart

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Neither can the significance, if you want to hear the Father, you need to listen to the Son. His name is Jesus the Christ. It means Jesus the anointed one. That's really what it means. Jesus the anointed one. Well, I thought John the Apostle said this in 1 John 2.20. But you, he was speaking to the church. John was speaking to the church when he wrote this letter. He said, But you have an anointing from the Holy One. In other scriptures or other translations, that you have an unction from the Holy One. That means anointing. You have been anointed now by the Holy One. There's only one that's holy. You've been anointed by your Father, and you know all these things. So now I go back to Hebrews chapter 10, verse 15. But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, because he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them. After those days, says the Lord, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna put my law in your hearts and in your minds I will write them. And then he adds, their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. So not only is he giving you his Spirit to cause you to walk in his ways, to cause you to keep his judgments, to cause you to do them, he's also gonna forgive you of all your sins, so that you can walk from this point forward with no guilt, no baggage, no ball and chain. Your sins are not gonna be remembered against you. You don't need to be under guilt, you don't need to be under a shadow of shame. Yes, you've done wrong. We all have done wrong. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, but he's made a way in the new covenant to give you power to do what He desires and forgive you. Not just of the things you've done in the past, the things you're gonna do today, and the things you're gonna do in the future, as long as you don't take him for granted. So, that circumcision of the flesh that had some significance back in the days of old, no longer. It has been made obsolete. Read Romans 2, verse 28 through 29. He is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. That don't mean anything anymore. It says, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and the circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God. Are you hearing the Son? Because he's speaking loud and clear tonight. It says that the Son was sent in the name of the Father. Jesus said, I and the Father are going to send the Spirit in my name. We kind of see those as three things, and Jesus was in the days of his flesh, he was a man, and he was trying to communicate something that was a revelation, that was a radical revelation to people that were carnal. I came in my father's name, the spirit is sent in my name, yet he's gonna bear witness of me, and he's gonna speak the things that I want. Yet Jesus came and spoke the things that the Father wanted, and what is he saying? I and the Father are one. There's not two up in heaven, two thrones or three thrones. There is one throne for one lamb, for one lion, for one high priest, for one father, for one God of all creation, for one creator. He is the Lord and Christ and the lion and the lamb. So I'm gonna assume that this sister over here that just received the Holy Ghost is a Gentile, right? I'm assuming. In Acts chapter 15, 8 and 9, it said, God who knows the heart, meaning the heart of man, he acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did unto us. See, Peter was talking about when he went to the household of Cornelius and he preached the gospel to the Gentiles, which he should have never entered into that house. But what he didn't quite understand was that the old had been made obsolete. And God was wanting him to walk into the new, and that's kind of hard for some of us because we get comfortable in what we've been raised in, but we need to listen to the voice of the Son who's saying, Go forward, go forth. It's not supposed to stay in Jerusalem, it's supposed to spread out into Judea, it's supposed to spread out into Samaria, it's supposed to spread out into all the parts of the earth. Because the promise is unto you and to your children and your children's children and to all who are afar off, whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord. So he made no distinction between us, meaning the Jews, and them, meaning the Gentiles, because he purified their hearts by faith. So she exhibited that faith. She mixed her faith with the word. I'm pretty sure the monies were ministering the word, and God attested to the word that they were bringing because she received the gift of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. So this oneness that I addressed to you early, I want to show it to you one other place, and then we'll be done for tonight.

Spirit Of God And Spirit Of Christ

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Romans chapter 8, verse 9 and 10. Paul is writing this letter to the Romans, and he says to them in Romans 2, 8 and 9, you, meaning the church, meaning those that have received of my gospel, that were born again according to the gospel that I preach to you, you are not in the flesh, you are in the spirit. Why? He said, If indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you, there's some Christians that think that they're just gonna be sinners all the time, they never escape it. But I'm here to tell you that it you are not in the flesh anymore, if you've received the gift of the Holy Ghost, if the Holy Spirit of God dwells in you, you don't have to be in the flesh anymore. You're in the spirit. And it listen, if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, I don't know if you caught the change there, but first he said, if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, so he started with the spirit, okay? He said, You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If the spirit of God dwells in you, well, the spirit of God was that was on day one, right? The spirit of God brooded over the surface of the waters and he declared forth the light. That was the spirit of God. Was that not God? Okay, that was God. So God is in a spirit. He isn't he a spirit? Isn't he an invisible spirit? Yes, he is. So God, the spirit of God, if he dwells in you, and then he changes. And he says, Now, if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, so now the spirit of Christ is synonymous with the spirit of God, because the spirit of Christ that was preaching through the prophets of old, it says in first Peter that it was the spirit of Christ prophesying through the prophets of old. But in the old covenant, what what was their perspective? Oh, the spirit of God is on the prophet, the spirit of God is on the prophet and speaking it. But in a new covenant perspective, Peter realized, oh, that was none other than the spirit of Christ. Because when David spoke through the Psalms and he began to quote the things that Jesus was gonna say on the cross, that was the spirit of Christ. The spirit of God and the spirit of Christ are one and the same, there's no difference. And then it says, if you don't have the spirit of Christ, you are not his. Ouch. The significance of the Spirit of God is incredibly significant. Because if you don't have the Spirit of God, you are not His. If you don't have the Spirit of Christ, you are not His. You may think you are, and I've been there, I was there for years thinking I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian, I've been to Christian schools all my life. I thought that for years. I've never been born again. I I I went to the altar, I prayed the sinner's prayer. I invited Jesus in my heart. I did that multiple times seventh, eighth grade, ninth grade, and then I kind of got tired of it and stopped and felt like I did what I needed to do. But it's not till I received the Spirit of God, and it was evidenced by me speaking in tongues, and I was completely alone at the foot of my bed that everything changed for me. I was now in the spirit, and all of my foul mouth cursing that I was doing in my youth of my days, it began progressively to just stop. And that attitude that I had, that I always had this pessimistic attitude that my car, my car, my I called it my golden nugget, 1986 uh 323 hatchback, always broke down, just found a way to break down wherever I was so pessimistic about it. That pessimism just dissolved over time, and no longer was I pessimistic about it. Things changed, and things are gonna change in you, sweet lady, sweet sister, they're gonna change in you, and you're gonna start discerning, you're gonna start discerning things, you're gonna start understanding things, and you keep getting into the word, and oh my god, that the heavens the limit. Not to the sky, the heaven is the limit for you if you will just continue listening to the son, continue listening to the son, continue listening to the word that's preached, and you will have miracles and signs and wonders following after you. Not to attest to you, but to attest to the word that you're now walking in. Praise God. And if Christ is in you, this body is dead because of sin. But the spirit is life because of righteousness. So Paul said, it is no longer I that live, it is what? Come on. Yeah, you could say the Spirit, that's good, that's good, that's that's a smash it. But he actually said, It is not I to live, but Christ that lives in me. Amen. It is Christ that lives in us if we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

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