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00:04 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:14 Doug Batchelor: When we reject the work of the Holy Spirit in 00:17 our lives we are basically burning the bridge that God uses 00:21 to bring us to salvation. 00:27 Doug Batchelor: You know, I'd like to go to a familiar passage 00:29 in John chapter 3, and it's the story where Nicodemus comes to 00:34 Jesus, and I'll begin with verse 1. 00:37 "There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a 00:41 ruler of the Jews, this man came to Jesus by night and he said, 00:45 'Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no 00:49 one can do these things that you do unless God is with them.'" 00:53 And Jesus, anticipating what was really on his heart, "He said to 00:56 him, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again he 01:01 cannot see the kingdom of God,'" We've got to know what that 01:05 means because he's pretty definite there. 01:08 "Nicodemus said to Him, 'How can a man be born 01:11 again when he's old? 01:12 Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and 01:15 be born?' 01:16 And, Jesus answered, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless 01:21 one is born of the water and the spirit, he cannot enter the 01:26 kingdom of God. 01:28 That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of 01:31 spirit is spirit. 01:32 Do not marvel that I say to you, "You must be born again," the 01:36 wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but you 01:39 cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes; so is 01:42 everyone who is born of the spirit.'" 01:46 So that's what we're talking about, what does it mean to be 01:48 born of the spirit, and we want to discuss the importance of the 01:52 work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, and the 01:55 necessity for us to have the Holy Spirit. 01:59 We not only want the initial refreshing that you get when you 02:03 commit your life to the Lord, when you're baptized you should 02:06 receive that gift of the spirit. 02:08 It says there in Acts chapter 2, "Peter told the believers, 02:12 'Repent and be baptized every one of you and you shall receive 02:16 the gift of the Holy Spirit, for the promise is unto you and your 02:20 children and many as the Lord God shall call.'" 02:22 So there's a promise, He gives us His spirit when we first come 02:24 to Him but then the spirit can come in waves. 02:29 Peter, James, John, they were baptized with the Holy Spirit, 02:32 probably by John the Baptist, I mean when they got baptized by 02:35 John the Baptist, but then they receive the Holy Spirit in 02:38 Pentecostal power at Pentecost, Acts chapter 2. 02:43 So we want that latter rain, baptism of the Holy Spirit, we 02:46 need it in the last days. 02:48 In the last days when sin abounds, God's grace does much 02:51 more abound. 02:53 When the spirit of the devil is come down with great wrath 02:56 because he knows his time is short, God's people, through the 02:59 power of God the Spirit, need to compensate and have a double 03:04 portion, as Elisha prayed for, of the Holy Spirit. 03:08 So we're gonna talk now about the biblical priority of the 03:12 Holy Spirit. 03:13 Some people are a little dismissive about the importance 03:16 of the Holy Spirit, they don't talk about it, they don't preach 03:19 about it, and the Bible makes a priority of it. 03:21 In the beginning, you go to Genesis and it says, "The Spirit 03:25 of God moved upon the face of the waters," go to the end of 03:28 the Bible where you see Revelation and it tells us, "The 03:31 Spirit and the bride say, 'Come.'" 03:34 The ministry of Jesus begins, he comes out of the water, he is 03:38 anointed with the Holy Spirit and then, after Christ dies and 03:42 ascends to heaven, his final words are, "Go ye therefore, 03:45 teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, 03:49 and the Son, and the Holy Spirit." 03:51 So you see this priority that God gives to the Holy spirit 03:55 through the Bible. 03:56 Now, I should probably pause here and say, who, what is the 04:00 Holy Spirit? 04:02 Now, I mentioned that like that not because the Holy Spirit is a 04:05 what, but some people talk about the Holy Spirit like 04:07 it's electricity. 04:09 Biblically, the Holy Spirit is a person, He has all of the 04:13 characteristics of the person, He is the third person in 04:17 the Godhead. 04:18 Acts chapter 5, verse 3, "Peter said, 'Ananias, why has Satan 04:24 filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit? 04:26 You've not lied to men but to God.'" 04:30 Peter was telling Ananias you didn't lie to some electrical 04:33 force, some radiation or x-ray, you lied to God 'cause the Holy 04:38 Spirit is the Spirit of God, it is a separate individual. 04:44 In Acts chapter 7, verse 51, it says, "You do resist the 04:49 Holy Spirit." 04:50 Ephesians 4, verse 30, "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit," 04:55 grieving is an emotion of anguish, it says the Holy Spirit 04:58 can be grieved. 04:59 1 Thessalonians 5:19, "Do not quench the Spirit," the Spirit 05:04 of God burns within our hearts and we can quench his work by 05:09 resisting him, that's how you lead on towards the sin against 05:12 the Holy Spirit. 05:14 Acts 13, verse 2, it says, "As they prayed and fasted, the Holy 05:18 Spirit said," Holy Spirit's speaking as a person speaks. 05:22 Notice here, the Holy Spirit speaks, He intercedes, Romans 05:26 8:26, I'm just gonna give these to you quickly 'cause I don't 05:28 have time to read them all. 05:30 He commands, Acts 16:6 and 7, He appoints, Acts 20, verse 28, He 05:36 leads, Romans 8:14, He reproves, John 16:8. 05:40 The Holy Spirit has intellect, emotions, will, He can be 05:43 grieved, He has everything that a personality would have, He 05:48 doesn't have a body. 05:50 Now this is where it gets a little complicated, people have 05:53 a hard time as humans, that even Jesus said, "God is a spirit," 05:57 we try to package God in our terms and it's 06:00 so incomprehensible. 06:02 Now God the Father and Son, evidently, have a form because 06:05 it describes Their eyes and Their hands and Their feet and 06:08 many other facets, but with the Holy Spirit, the spirit comes 06:14 down like a dove on Jesus at His baptism; Holy Spirit comes down 06:18 like tongues of fire at Pentecost; Holy Spirit comes 06:22 like wind, and so sometimes the Holy Spirit's compared to water; 06:26 it's more of these quintesent elements that we see that are 06:33 figurative of the Holy Spirit. 06:35 And so there's something mysterious here, but keep in 06:37 mind the Holy Spirit is a person, Jesus said, "It's 06:40 expedient that I go away; if I go, I will send the comforter 06:43 and He will be with you, He will be in you." 06:46 So Christ is with us through God the Spirit, Christ comes from 06:51 the Father to reveal God the Father, God the Father is a 06:54 separate person revealed through Christ, and Jesus is revealed to 06:59 us through the Holy Spirit. 07:01 So, second point here is a good relationship with the Holy 07:07 Spirit is a life and death issue. 07:11 John, 1 John 5:16, bible tells us, "There is a sin leading to 07:16 death, and I do not say that you should pray about that." 07:20 And people often wonder, why would it be considered more 07:24 dangerous to sin against the Holy Spirit than to sin against 07:28 the Father or the Son? 07:30 And that's based on these verses, let me read this to you 07:32 from Matthew chapter 12, verse 31. 07:34 "Therefore I say unto you, every sin and blasphemy will be 07:38 forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be 07:42 forgiven men. 07:43 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be 07:47 forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will 07:51 not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come." 07:56 That's pretty serious, why is that? 07:58 Well you see, the Holy Spirit is the person of the Godhead that 08:01 brings us to conviction that leads us to repentance, when we 08:05 reject the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives we are 08:08 basically burning the bridge that God uses to bring us to 08:12 salvation; and so that's why it's so important not to grieve, 08:16 not to chase away the Holy Spirit when He's bringing 08:20 conviction to us. 08:21 Now I need to stop right here and explain, if you're wondering 08:24 if you've committed the unpardonable sin, probably not, 08:27 because the very fact you're listening to this program shows 08:29 you still have some spiritual appetite but don't continue to 08:33 resist the conviction and the work of the Spirit in your life, 08:36 that is a dangerous thing to do. 08:39 For three and a half years, Judas wrestled with the idea 08:42 that he should confess his sin to Jesus, that he should forsake 08:46 his sin of stealing, he had been robbing money from the poor the 08:50 whole time. 08:51 And when Jesus knelt to wash his feet there in the upper room, I 08:55 think Judas's heart nearly broke, he wanted to tell the 08:57 Lord what he had done, he wanted to confess and come clean, but 09:00 in his pride he kept putting it off and putting it off and the 09:04 Holy Spirit left him for the last time. 09:06 It says, "Satan entered him" at that point, that's why it's such 09:09 a dangerous thing to continue to reject the work of the Holy 09:13 Spirit; so we need to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. 09:16 Hebrews chapter 6, and this verse frightens people, Hebrews 09:20 chapter 6, verse 4, "For it is impossible for those who were 09:24 once enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have 09:28 become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good 09:31 word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall 09:35 away, to renew them again to repentance, seeing they crucify 09:39 again for themselves the Son of God and put him to an 09:41 open shame." 09:43 If, over the course of our life, we reject the best that God has 09:46 to offer, which is what this is saying, what more is he going 09:49 to do? 09:50 He tells us, look, I gave my son, if that doesn't touch your 09:53 heart what more can God do? 09:56 And so be very careful about rejecting God's best because it 10:00 can get where we don't appreciate the plan 10:02 of salvation. 10:04 Three, we need the Holy Spirit for life, for eternal life. 10:09 Romans 8, verse 6, "For to be carnally minded is death, but to 10:15 be spiritually minded is life and peace." 10:19 Staying in Romans go to verse 9, Romans 8, verse 9, "But you are 10:23 not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of 10:26 God dwells in you. 10:27 Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ he is not his," 10:32 and if you are not Jesus's, then Jesus said, "If you are not with 10:35 Me you are against Me." 10:38 There's only two masters, there's only two roads, you're 10:40 either with Christ-- you might think, "Well I'm in some, you 10:43 know, spiritual Switzerland, I'm neutral." 10:45 No, if you're not with Christ, He said, "You're against Me," 10:49 that means you're with the enemy, you're with the devil. 10:51 Hate to say it that way but that's what Jesus said, he said, 10:55 "If you do not have the Spirit of Christ then you are none 10:57 of His." 10:59 Romans 8:13, "For if you live after the flesh you will die, 11:03 but if through the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the body, 11:08 you will live." 11:10 The Bible tells us that this is a life and death issue, it's not 11:14 optional, it's not that you say, "Well I want to be a Christian, 11:16 I'm not sure I'm gonna be a spirit-filled Christian, I just 11:19 want to be at a sorta okie dokie Christian." 11:22 God is calling everybody to be Spirit-filled, if you're not 11:26 Spirit-filled then what is it? 11:29 I remember Thomas Edison, he illustrated that one time he, he 11:33 told his scientists to measure the volume in one of his light 11:37 bulbs, and they went and got their calculators and started 11:40 doing calculus formulas and geometry, he said, "What are 11:43 you guys doing?" 11:44 They said, "We're trying to figure out how to measure the 11:46 volume in this bulb," and he said, he took the bulb, took the 11:51 cap off the bottom, filled it with water, took it over, put it 11:54 in a square pitcher, said, "Now measure it," they said, "Oh, so 11:59 the way that you get the air out is by pouring the water in." 12:03 If we want to get the devil and the world out of our lives, we 12:07 need to be filled with something else; you cannot be filled with 12:11 the Spirit if you're full of other things. 12:13 So the way to be ready to receive the Spirit is to empty 12:16 yourself, to choose to let go, you come to the place where you 12:20 take up your cross and you say, "Lord, not my will, Thy will 12:24 be done." 12:26 Jesus said, "If you seek to save your life you will lose it, but 12:29 if for Christ's sake you let go, then you will find your life; 12:35 and what profit is it if you gain the whole world and you 12:37 lose your soul?" 12:39 So beginning as a Christian really starts with emptying 12:42 yourself so that God can fill you with what really lasts, and 12:47 that's the Holy Spirit. 12:50 male announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 12:52 free resource. 12:53 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 12:56 download a digital copy straight to your computer or 12:58 mobile device. 13:00 To get your copy of today's free gift, simply call us and ask for 13:03 the offer number shown on your screen, or visit the web address 13:07 and download a digital copy, and be sure to select the digital 13:11 download option on the request page. 13:13 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's Word with 13:16 "Amazing Facts" wherever and whenever you want, and most 13:20 important, to share it with others. 13:24 Doug Batchelor: Furthermore, point number four, we need the 13:27 Holy Spirit for obeying. 13:29 Romans 8, verse 13 and 14, "For if you live after the flesh you 13:35 will die, but if through the Spirit," now how do we do it? 13:38 We touched on this already but I want to emphasize this point, 13:41 "Through the Spirit you mortify," mortify means you 13:44 kill, "Through the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the body, 13:48 you will live. 13:50 For as many as are led by the Spirit they are the sons 13:53 of God." 13:55 In Ezekiel 36, verse 27, "I will put My spirit within you and 14:00 cause you," God says, "I will give you the Holy Spirit and I 14:03 will cause you to walk in My ways, and to keep My 14:06 commandments," now how does this all happen? 14:10 You know, the power really comes, the Holy Spirit gives us 14:13 the new heart, the new heart is a loving heart, it's a heart 14:18 where you love God and you love your neighbor. 14:21 Paul says, "Love is the fulfilling of the law," Jesus 14:25 says, "All of the commandments are fulfilled in this: that we 14:28 love one another," and it's all boiling down to loving the Lord. 14:34 And Jesus was quoting Deuteronomy chapter 6, when He 14:36 said, "Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul and 14:38 strength," and then Jesus quoted Leviticus chapter 19:18, when He 14:43 said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." 14:45 The first four commandments deal with our love relationship with 14:49 God; if we love God we're not gonna worship other gods; if we 14:54 love God we're not going to take His name in vain or miss our 14:57 time with Him or insult Him by likening Him to idols. 15:02 Likewise, if we love our neighbor, when God gives us this 15:05 new heart and the gift of love in our heart for God and our 15:08 fellow man, we're not going to steal from them or kill them or 15:12 rob them or steal their spouse, and you can go through the 15:15 litany of those last six commandments. 15:18 And so love is the fulfilling of the law, that's why Jesus said, 15:22 "If you love Me, keep My commandments, and I will pray 15:25 the Father and he will give you another Helper, that He might 15:28 abide with you forever-- the Spirit of truth, whom the world 15:32 cannot receive because it neither sees Him or knows Him, 15:37 but you know Him for He dwells in you and He will be with you." 15:42 Now this is sort of a double-sided sword, God gives 15:46 the Spirit to those that obey and God gives the Spirit so we 15:50 can obey. 15:52 Living the Christian life is frankly impossible without God, 15:56 following Jesus and living like Jesus is attempting an 16:00 impossibility without the Spirit of God. 16:03 I remember we were in Russia, 25 years ago, yeah, 1992, we went 16:09 right after the iron curtain fell and I went to the city of 16:13 Stavropol, and did some meetings there and we saw 16:15 something interesting. 16:16 The buses, the city busses were rather fall, and the busses 16:20 actually used tires but they're attached to overhead electricity 16:25 which means that the bus driver had the freedom to drive away 16:29 from the electricity, he had to stay kind of on a line that was 16:31 painted and he was relatively sure that this spring-loaded 16:35 mechanism was touching the wires up above. 16:38 Well this one bus driver went to turn a little wide and he got 16:41 disconnected, and he gave out a shout and a bunch of people got 16:47 out of the bus. 16:48 I mean, the thing was just dead in the water stopping all the 16:50 traffic, and we watched the people piled out of the bus, 16:53 they got behind the bus, they started pushing the bus back 16:56 into the right line. 16:57 The driver had a pole, I guess this happened more than once, he 17:00 reached up with his insulated pole, he pulled the 17:02 spring-loaded mechanism back underneath the power, everything 17:05 with back up again, they all climbed back on the bus and they 17:08 took off. 17:10 Well, that's that's the key, you want to be connected to 17:13 the power. 17:14 Now what would you think if the driver told everybody to get out 17:16 of the bus, and say, "We're going to push our way through 17:18 the rest of our bus stops today?" 17:21 That wouldn't make any sense but this is how so many Christians 17:24 operate, they're trying in their own strength without the love of 17:28 God, without the Spirit of God they're trying to push their way 17:31 through living a victorious Christian experience, where what 17:34 they have to do is connect with the power; and I'll tell you, 17:38 there's a lot of power in the Holy Spirit that's available 17:41 to us. 17:42 You read in the Bible, God gives us so many examples of 17:46 extraordinary power. 17:48 The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson, and one man, you know he 17:52 takes on 1,000. 17:54 Not only did it happen with Samson, it happened with David's 17:56 mighty men, it happened with David and Goliath, and the bear 17:59 and the lion, so the Spirit can give you whatever strength you 18:03 need for the task. 18:05 "God is faithful, He will not suffer you to be tempted above 18:08 what you're able, but will with the temptation provide a way 18:12 of escape." 18:13 Whatever temptation you face, you know, God told Paul, "My 18:17 grace is sufficient," He will, through the Spirit, give you 18:21 whatever you need. 18:22 So you never need to say, "It was too much, I couldn't handle 18:24 it," through Christ you can do anything. 18:27 You can't live the Christian life, you can't walk on water, 18:31 but if you keep your eyes on Christ, you can walk on water 18:34 just like Peter did, that's the key. 18:37 It's impossible to live the Christian life unless God works 18:41 a miracle and you keep your eyes on Christ, then you can do 18:44 the impossible. 18:45 We need the Holy Spirit for instruction and for guidance. 18:51 John 6:63, "It is the Spirit that quickens, the flesh profits 18:56 nothing; the words that I speak to you they are spirit and they 19:00 are life." 19:01 John 14:26, "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father 19:06 will send in My name, He," notice again the He, "He will 19:10 teach you all things, and He will bring to your remembrance 19:14 all things of what I have said." 19:17 You know, you have God the Father, God the Son, God the 19:19 Spirit connected with Jesus's baptism, when Christ began His 19:23 life of ministry, all persons of the Godhead we're involved in 19:26 that, and all the persons of the Godhead are involved in our 19:30 conversion, but God then brings the Spirit into our lives. 19:34 "When Christ came out of the water, He was led of the 19:37 Spirit," the Bible says, and He began to perform His miracles at 19:41 that time because a new power came into His life, so we need 19:44 it for instruction. 19:46 Holy Spirit's never gonna tell us anything to contradict what 19:48 the holy Word says, he will bring the word to 19:51 our remembrance. 19:53 John 16, verse 13, "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, 19:57 has come, He will guide you into all truth. 20:00 He will not speak on His own authority but whatever He hears 20:04 He will speak, and He will tell you things to come." 20:07 You'll hear that still small voice and God will guide you, 20:10 He'll say, "This is the way, walk ye in it." 20:13 1 Corinthians 2, verse 14, "But the natural man does not receive 20:18 the things of the Spirit, for they're foolishness to him, nor 20:21 can he know them because they're spiritually discerned." 20:23 Even to understand the Bible we need the Holy Spirit, to 20:27 understand the Book that was inspired by the Holy Spirit, 20:31 Bible says, "Holy men were moved by the Holy Spirit," how much 20:35 then do you need the Holy spirit to understand the holy Word? 20:38 Pray before you read the Bible, God will speak to you. 20:41 Not only does faith come by hearing the Word, I think the 20:43 Holy Spirit comes through us as we read the Word and we pray for 20:47 the Holy Spirit to better understand it. 20:50 That's why Jesus said that prayer, "He that has an ear, let 20:54 him hear what the Spirit says to the churches," and the word here 20:57 there means not just to audibly hear it but to be willing to 21:01 obey and to listen. 21:03 I was reading a book about these men that were crossing Saudi 21:06 Arabia and sometimes, the Arabs, you know, they pretty much saw 21:10 their way around by the stars at night but sometimes they'd be in 21:13 a sandstorm where they couldn't see the sun, moon, or stars. 21:16 On occasions like this, some of the caravan leaders carried with 21:20 them a homing pigeon, and to the homing pigeon's foot they tied a 21:24 long strong thread, and when they were lost in a storm they 21:29 would release the pigeon who would fly in a circle for just a 21:32 moment, and he would tug in the perfect direction they needed to 21:35 go; they had this built in GPS somehow that homing pigeons know 21:40 exactly what direction to go, and that would guide them. 21:44 So as we've got God's Spirit, that dove, He directs us, He 21:48 helps us know which way to go. 21:51 We need the Holy Spirit for effective praying, we must pray 21:55 for the Holy Spirit and yet we need the Spirit to pray. 21:59 Luke 11:13, "If you then, being evil, know how to give good 22:03 gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father 22:07 give the Holy Spirit to those that ask?" 22:09 So, start out and pray for the Holy Spirit. 22:11 When I kneel in the morning to begin my devotions, I get down 22:15 and pray right there and say, "Lord, please give me Your 22:16 Spirit so I even know what I ought to pray for." 22:19 And it's like you read in Romans 8:26, "Likewise the Spirit also 22:25 helps us in our weakness, for we do not know what we should pray 22:28 for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for 22:33 us with groanings that cannot be uttered." 22:36 You know, I like singing, like a lot of people I like singing but 22:39 I may not have the best voice but I like singing surrounded by 22:43 people that do sing, I sound so much better. 22:46 I feel better about my singing when I've got them around me to 22:49 help keep me on key and that's the way it is with the 22:52 Holy Spirit. 22:53 We pray with the Spirit to Christ, praying in the Spirit. 22:58 In Ephesians chapter 6, verse 18, "Praying always with all 23:02 prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this 23:06 end with all perseverance and supplication for all 23:10 the saints." 23:11 Notice, all-all-all, Bible says, "Pray without ceasing." 23:13 So you know a Christian should be praying for the Spirit, 23:16 talking to someone about the Lord, you don't know what to 23:18 say, send up a prayer; driving in your car, pray to stay 23:22 connected to the Spirit. 23:24 You know when bats go out, now some bats fly at night and some 23:27 bats fly in the day, but bats use sonar, and you can't hear it 23:32 but they are constantly squeaking, with special 23:34 instruments they can pick it up. 23:36 And bats are constantly squeaking this very 23:39 ultra-high-frequency that they can hear with their very 23:42 sensitive ears and some of the bats that fly at night, and 23:45 their eyes are virtual vestigial remnants, they can't even 23:48 hardly see. 23:50 They map everywhere they're going, they can spot bugs in the 23:54 air from the sound but they have to constantly keep singing, they 23:59 constantly keep making that noise so they can constantly 24:02 calibrate where they are. 24:04 As soon as they stop, they get lost and crash into things, and 24:09 that's how it is. 24:10 We don't want to lose our spiritual vocal cords because 24:12 it's through our constantly calibrating where we are in 24:16 God's will, through the Spirit, through connecting with prayer. 24:19 It's the Spirit that helps us to pray and pray for all of the 24:23 Spirit that you can possibly get, this city-slicker moved to 24:28 the country and he wanted to be a real country boy so he asked 24:31 his neighbor if he could buy a milk cow, neighbor had several 24:34 milk cows at his dairy, said sure, sold him a milk cow. 24:38 Few weeks later, he said, "You know that milk cow you sold me, 24:41 not putting out very much milk," he said, "At first, it seemed 24:45 like there's plenty of milk," and he said, "Now I'm hardly get 24:47 in any." 24:48 He said, "Well you've been milking it twice a day, right?" 24:50 "Well no," said, "Sometimes I don't need that much, so 24:53 sometimes I just need a pitcher, sometimes we just need a cup 24:57 or two." 24:58 And the farmer said, "Man, if you want that cow to keep 25:00 supplying milk, you gotta milk it for all you can get at least 25:04 twice a day every day." 25:06 And don't be satisfied with a little Spirit, because you're 25:10 going to get what you ask for, pray for the baptism of the Holy 25:14 Spirit and pray for it every day. 25:17 Bible tells us that, "We should ask the Lord rain in the time of 25:20 the latter rain." 25:22 How do we get that experience, friends? 25:24 Ask. 25:26 "If you are evil and you give good gifts to your children, how 25:29 much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy spirit to 25:32 those who ask?" 25:33 Keep knocking, keep seeking, keep asking, every day plead for 25:37 the Spirit, and I believe we'll receive the latter 25:40 rain, friends. 25:41 Make room in your heart and you can do that right now. 25:48 male announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 25:51 free resource. 25:52 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 25:54 download a digital copy straight to your computer or 25:57 mobile device. 25:58 To get your digital copy of today's free gift, simply text 26:02 the keyword on your screen to 40544, or visit the web address 26:06 shown on your screen, and be sure to select a digital 26:09 download option on the request page. 26:11 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's word with 26:15 "Amazing Facts" wherever and whenever you want, and most 26:18 important, to share it with others. 26:22 male announcer: The statistics are grim, millions 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