1 00:00:30,019 --> 00:00:32,075 Man, I appreciate that song. 2 00:00:32,107 --> 00:00:33,435 I'm so thankful for the peace of God. 3 00:00:33,467 --> 00:00:34,235 Aren't you? 4 00:00:34,387 --> 00:00:37,179 And I'm thankful for the peace we have with God. 5 00:00:37,339 --> 00:00:37,739 All right. 6 00:00:37,779 --> 00:00:39,531 Brother Weatherby's gonna come on, preach for us. 7 00:00:39,555 --> 00:00:42,347 Brother Weatherby again, Pastor emeritus of Victory Baptist 8 00:00:42,363 --> 00:00:43,387 Church in Weatherford. 9 00:00:43,563 --> 00:00:44,279 Friend. 10 00:00:45,139 --> 00:00:48,667 And I appreciate already the good preaching. 11 00:00:48,843 --> 00:00:49,755 Thank you. 12 00:00:49,907 --> 00:00:53,639 How many of you know what pastor emeritus is? 13 00:00:54,739 --> 00:00:55,679 Me neither. 14 00:00:57,229 --> 00:01:03,449 But I think it's better than Pastor Enormous or emeritus. 15 00:01:04,909 --> 00:01:05,685 Amen. 16 00:01:05,797 --> 00:01:07,093 You glad you're safe tonight? 17 00:01:07,141 --> 00:01:08,089 Say amen. 18 00:01:09,149 --> 00:01:10,613 That was a beautiful, special. 19 00:01:10,701 --> 00:01:11,061 Ma'am. 20 00:01:11,125 --> 00:01:12,129 God bless you. 21 00:01:12,909 --> 00:01:13,733 Beautiful. 22 00:01:13,861 --> 00:01:15,573 I appreciate so much. 23 00:01:15,741 --> 00:01:19,489 I've been in music all my life, and I just appreciate so much 24 00:01:19,949 --> 00:01:24,695 when somebody like that knows how to serve a song instead of throwing 25 00:01:24,727 --> 00:01:25,619 it at you. 26 00:01:26,399 --> 00:01:27,367 Amen. 27 00:01:27,543 --> 00:01:30,231 I mean, I've heard specialists, and you're almost, you 28 00:01:30,255 --> 00:01:31,863 know, backing up like that. 29 00:01:32,031 --> 00:01:37,799 And she just served it to us, and that was such a blessing and 30 00:01:37,839 --> 00:01:39,431 good to see young people. 31 00:01:39,615 --> 00:01:41,671 I meant to mention you this morning. 32 00:01:41,855 --> 00:01:42,999 I didn't overlook you. 33 00:01:43,039 --> 00:01:46,839 A lot of times us preachers get focused in because my wife really 34 00:01:46,879 --> 00:01:48,299 needs what I'm preaching. 35 00:01:48,729 --> 00:01:51,665 And so I kind of forget the sides over here. 36 00:01:51,817 --> 00:01:54,337 But I appreciate the young people and I hope you're getting 37 00:01:54,393 --> 00:01:55,793 something out of this as well. 38 00:01:55,881 --> 00:01:59,841 It's probably hard for you to imagine or think, but you never know. 39 00:01:59,865 --> 00:02:01,469 You might be married soon. 40 00:02:01,929 --> 00:02:03,873 Somebody picked that young man off the floor. 41 00:02:03,921 --> 00:02:05,469 He just fell off the chair. 42 00:02:07,849 --> 00:02:11,841 You know, when Shelly and I got married, I didn't know a lot 43 00:02:11,865 --> 00:02:12,945 about marriage. 44 00:02:13,137 --> 00:02:15,889 The things I'm telling, teaching you or sharing with you, 45 00:02:15,929 --> 00:02:17,949 I've had to learn over the years. 46 00:02:18,569 --> 00:02:20,869 And I like to challenge parents. 47 00:02:22,489 --> 00:02:26,929 Don't try to give your kids all the things you didn't have, but 48 00:02:26,969 --> 00:02:29,309 try to teach them things you didn't know. 49 00:02:32,169 --> 00:02:36,641 If I knew some of this stuff back before I got married and went 50 00:02:36,665 --> 00:02:39,249 into marriage, I think it helped it a lot. 51 00:02:39,289 --> 00:02:42,917 It wouldn't make, you know, we have to learn as we grow. 52 00:02:42,973 --> 00:02:44,489 You never graduate. 53 00:02:45,229 --> 00:02:51,649 But I thank God that he said, pass it down, pass it down. 54 00:02:52,349 --> 00:02:55,221 And we do that with the doctrines of the word of God, and 55 00:02:55,245 --> 00:02:57,973 we do these principles of marriage. 56 00:02:58,021 --> 00:03:03,973 If you take your Bible and turn to the book of Galatians, chapter 57 00:03:04,021 --> 00:03:05,009 number five. 58 00:03:06,199 --> 00:03:08,459 Galatians, chapter number five. 59 00:03:09,239 --> 00:03:13,739 And I'm speaking tonight on how to make your marriage great again. 60 00:03:15,079 --> 00:03:18,255 A lot of people have given up and they've said, you know, I guess 61 00:03:18,287 --> 00:03:21,791 the best years are over and it'll never be like it was. 62 00:03:21,975 --> 00:03:23,535 And that's not true. 63 00:03:23,727 --> 00:03:25,379 It doesn't have to be true. 64 00:03:25,959 --> 00:03:28,779 And how to make marriage great again. 65 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:31,919 There's so much to it. 66 00:03:31,959 --> 00:03:37,431 It's such a challenge to preach on such a big subject in just 67 00:03:37,455 --> 00:03:39,351 a couple of days or nights or anything. 68 00:03:39,415 --> 00:03:39,879 It's just. 69 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:41,399 I've got more sermons. 70 00:03:41,559 --> 00:03:46,839 Every sermon I've preached since 1975, I have typed up and in 71 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:50,871 notebooks and a lot of times, because I'm not a very good organizer. 72 00:03:50,935 --> 00:03:52,279 Don't say anything, honey. 73 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:57,619 And sometimes I'll think of a sermon and I can't find it. 74 00:03:57,919 --> 00:04:00,455 They used to be alphabetical order, but they're not anymore. 75 00:04:00,487 --> 00:04:03,019 I knit and put them back where they belong. 76 00:04:03,449 --> 00:04:06,269 But so much that God wants us to know. 77 00:04:06,729 --> 00:04:10,065 And I want to say this, but let's read galatians, chapter number 78 00:04:10,137 --> 00:04:11,389 five, verse 16. 79 00:04:12,089 --> 00:04:14,785 And I want you to think about this in the context. 80 00:04:14,817 --> 00:04:17,589 I want you to think about it in the context of marriage. 81 00:04:18,249 --> 00:04:21,829 Just think about that and make this application. 82 00:04:22,249 --> 00:04:28,273 This, I say, then walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill 83 00:04:28,321 --> 00:04:31,039 the lust of the flesh. 84 00:04:31,619 --> 00:04:32,459 For the flesh. 85 00:04:32,539 --> 00:04:35,199 Remember, that's our carnal nature, our old nature. 86 00:04:35,939 --> 00:04:39,387 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against 87 00:04:39,443 --> 00:04:40,319 the flesh. 88 00:04:40,659 --> 00:04:44,199 And these are contrary, the one to the other. 89 00:04:44,579 --> 00:04:47,879 So that ye cannot do the things that you would. 90 00:04:48,659 --> 00:04:55,649 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under by the law. 91 00:04:56,669 --> 00:05:02,021 And in Ephesians, the next book, just a few pages over, in Ephesians, 92 00:05:02,085 --> 00:05:03,089 chapter 5. 93 00:05:03,629 --> 00:05:06,049 I know you know this verse by heart. 94 00:05:06,589 --> 00:05:12,325 In verse 18, it says, Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, 95 00:05:12,517 --> 00:05:16,169 but be filled with the Spirit. 96 00:05:16,909 --> 00:05:20,569 Filled with the Spirit. 97 00:05:21,679 --> 00:05:23,819 I want you to think about that tonight. 98 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:25,191 Filled. 99 00:05:25,255 --> 00:05:27,447 He wasn't saying, it's all right to drink as long as you don't 100 00:05:27,463 --> 00:05:28,379 get drunk. 101 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,623 He was comparing the effects when you're drinking alcohol. 102 00:05:33,671 --> 00:05:35,939 He says how it can affect you. 103 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:38,039 And then he says, but don't do that. 104 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:40,935 He says, be filled with the Spirit. 105 00:05:41,127 --> 00:05:43,047 Because that's so much. 106 00:05:43,183 --> 00:05:45,779 Obviously so much better. 107 00:05:46,889 --> 00:05:52,529 Now, in Galatians, back in chapter number five, where we were, 108 00:05:52,569 --> 00:05:54,589 I want you to look at verse 22. 109 00:05:55,609 --> 00:05:57,249 But the fruit of the Spirit. 110 00:05:57,329 --> 00:05:59,189 He said, walk in the Spirit. 111 00:06:00,809 --> 00:06:02,241 The fruit of the Spirit. 112 00:06:02,385 --> 00:06:05,441 You're thinking about home, family, marriage, parenting. 113 00:06:05,585 --> 00:06:06,913 Your home tonight. 114 00:06:06,961 --> 00:06:07,665 Think about it. 115 00:06:07,737 --> 00:06:15,759 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, 116 00:06:16,659 --> 00:06:24,319 gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. 117 00:06:25,139 --> 00:06:27,319 Against such there is no law. 118 00:06:28,179 --> 00:06:31,515 And they that are Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections 119 00:06:31,547 --> 00:06:32,635 and lusts. 120 00:06:32,827 --> 00:06:41,079 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 121 00:06:42,459 --> 00:06:45,763 How to make marriage great again. 122 00:06:45,851 --> 00:06:47,639 And it's a simple answer. 123 00:06:49,099 --> 00:06:53,639 The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit of God. 124 00:06:56,059 --> 00:06:59,219 I tell people this all the time and they always look at me very 125 00:06:59,259 --> 00:06:59,891 strangely. 126 00:06:59,955 --> 00:07:02,079 And I don't understand why. 127 00:07:02,549 --> 00:07:07,369 I tell them the Christian life is not hard. 128 00:07:09,829 --> 00:07:11,729 It is not even difficult. 129 00:07:12,789 --> 00:07:14,849 It is not even a challenge. 130 00:07:16,789 --> 00:07:18,049 It's impossible. 131 00:07:21,109 --> 00:07:21,757 You say. 132 00:07:21,813 --> 00:07:24,609 Now what you talking about, Lewis? 133 00:07:26,149 --> 00:07:27,213 Think about this. 134 00:07:27,301 --> 00:07:28,285 It is not hard. 135 00:07:28,357 --> 00:07:31,209 The Bible says the way of the transgressor is hard. 136 00:07:32,599 --> 00:07:35,539 But not only is it not hard, it's impossible. 137 00:07:36,039 --> 00:07:42,319 And furthermore, the Bible doesn't even tell us to live that 138 00:07:42,359 --> 00:07:43,007 Christian life. 139 00:07:43,063 --> 00:07:45,183 It says, Paul said it best. 140 00:07:45,351 --> 00:07:47,023 I am crucified with Christ. 141 00:07:47,111 --> 00:07:57,179 Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. 142 00:07:58,389 --> 00:08:01,005 One of the greatest things that can ever happen to a Christian 143 00:08:01,037 --> 00:08:06,461 is to understand the Christian life is letting Jesus live through 144 00:08:06,645 --> 00:08:07,037 you. 145 00:08:07,093 --> 00:08:08,329 It's his life. 146 00:08:09,909 --> 00:08:12,573 He said, I'm going to give you a comforter. 147 00:08:12,621 --> 00:08:14,381 I'm going to give you the Holy Spirit. 148 00:08:14,525 --> 00:08:16,569 And that's going to be me in you. 149 00:08:17,669 --> 00:08:20,637 You understand that Christ is. 150 00:08:20,693 --> 00:08:22,365 I know the Holy Spirit is separate. 151 00:08:22,397 --> 00:08:23,609 I understand the. 152 00:08:23,979 --> 00:08:28,211 The thing, the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the 153 00:08:28,235 --> 00:08:29,315 Holy Spirit. 154 00:08:29,507 --> 00:08:30,803 But you are indwelt. 155 00:08:30,851 --> 00:08:33,299 If you're saved, you're indwelt by the Holy Spirit. 156 00:08:33,379 --> 00:08:35,171 God is in you. 157 00:08:35,355 --> 00:08:38,435 If any man have not the Spirit of God, he's none of his. 158 00:08:38,587 --> 00:08:40,243 We don't pray for the Holy Spirit. 159 00:08:40,291 --> 00:08:42,147 We already have the Holy Spirit. 160 00:08:42,323 --> 00:08:49,879 And yet the Holy Spirit is probably so much ignored and forgotten. 161 00:08:50,689 --> 00:08:53,241 We get up in the morning, we want to read our Bible, we want to 162 00:08:53,265 --> 00:08:54,313 pray to God the Father. 163 00:08:54,361 --> 00:08:59,257 But very seldom do we start today and say, lord, I want to be 164 00:08:59,313 --> 00:09:01,069 filled with the Holy Spirit. 165 00:09:02,289 --> 00:09:04,549 Sometimes it doesn't cross our mind. 166 00:09:05,009 --> 00:09:12,409 And yet the Holy Spirit is the enabler, okay, the enabler. 167 00:09:12,569 --> 00:09:14,829 We're saved by grace, through faith. 168 00:09:15,259 --> 00:09:19,539 But the Holy Spirit of God enables grace, enables us. 169 00:09:19,579 --> 00:09:21,411 He's the one that helps us. 170 00:09:21,515 --> 00:09:24,559 He doesn't just help us do it, he has to do it. 171 00:09:26,059 --> 00:09:29,075 Either you walk in the spirit or if you're walking in the flesh. 172 00:09:29,187 --> 00:09:32,599 Now you connect the dots, okay? 173 00:09:33,019 --> 00:09:38,419 Because marriage, what a difference when a man and woman are 174 00:09:38,459 --> 00:09:39,879 filled with the Holy Spirit. 175 00:09:41,509 --> 00:09:46,809 I wish we could stay filled, don't you? 176 00:09:48,149 --> 00:09:49,933 We're indwelt one time forever. 177 00:09:49,981 --> 00:09:56,609 But to be filled, we have to be filled continually, constantly. 178 00:09:57,029 --> 00:09:57,661 I don't know. 179 00:09:57,685 --> 00:10:00,301 I've asked this question, theologians, no one has the right 180 00:10:00,325 --> 00:10:00,861 answer to me. 181 00:10:00,885 --> 00:10:02,461 I can't figure it out either. 182 00:10:02,605 --> 00:10:06,529 How long can a person be filled with the Holy Spirit, preacher? 183 00:10:07,599 --> 00:10:09,419 Five minutes, 10 minutes? 184 00:10:10,319 --> 00:10:13,379 Paul said, when I do good, evil is present with me. 185 00:10:14,239 --> 00:10:16,939 I mean, how long does it take to get into the flesh? 186 00:10:17,759 --> 00:10:21,351 Somebody says something wrong or looks at you wrong, or you get 187 00:10:21,375 --> 00:10:23,799 a phone call or this happens and that happens. 188 00:10:23,879 --> 00:10:24,711 Nothing controls. 189 00:10:24,775 --> 00:10:29,639 Sometimes it just hits you out of nowhere and before you know it, 190 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,419 we're in the flesh. 191 00:10:33,929 --> 00:10:37,457 And a lot of times that happens. 192 00:10:37,633 --> 00:10:41,949 I would say probably more times we get in the flesh at home 193 00:10:42,649 --> 00:10:44,389 than we do anywhere else. 194 00:10:46,009 --> 00:10:49,041 This is not going to be a very difficult message to understand. 195 00:10:49,145 --> 00:10:52,385 And probably what you're saying and thinking, well, okay, 196 00:10:52,577 --> 00:10:55,793 but how do we be filled and how do we stay filled with the Holy 197 00:10:55,841 --> 00:10:56,469 Spirit? 198 00:10:58,179 --> 00:11:04,139 Think about that, because this will change your life, it'll change 199 00:11:04,179 --> 00:11:04,683 your marriage. 200 00:11:04,731 --> 00:11:07,931 For a husband to come home and say, honey, how was your day? 201 00:11:07,955 --> 00:11:13,931 I love you, and to come in and be filled with the Holy Spirit, then 202 00:11:13,955 --> 00:11:15,323 you're going to have the fruit of the Spirit. 203 00:11:15,371 --> 00:11:19,243 You see, we don't even produce the fruit of the Spirit. 204 00:11:19,291 --> 00:11:21,079 He does, right? 205 00:11:22,989 --> 00:11:25,973 Jesus said, I'm the vine, you're the branches. 206 00:11:26,101 --> 00:11:29,173 The branches don't produce it, they hold it. 207 00:11:29,341 --> 00:11:31,173 The branch just holds the fruit. 208 00:11:31,301 --> 00:11:32,421 And there's nine of them. 209 00:11:32,445 --> 00:11:33,489 We just read. 210 00:11:33,789 --> 00:11:36,245 But Jesus said, if you abide in me, I'm the vine. 211 00:11:36,277 --> 00:11:40,129 If you abide in me, my word abide in you. 212 00:11:40,669 --> 00:11:46,729 That fruit and fruit is to be what is to be eaten. 213 00:11:48,029 --> 00:11:48,821 It's to eat. 214 00:11:48,885 --> 00:11:50,289 That's what fruit is for. 215 00:11:53,019 --> 00:11:56,051 The taste of that Bible says, taste of the Lord and see that he 216 00:11:56,075 --> 00:11:56,879 is good. 217 00:11:57,739 --> 00:12:03,119 But in a marriage, wouldn't it be wonderful if a husband comes home 218 00:12:03,579 --> 00:12:07,811 and can taste of the fruit of the spirit of God in his wife and 219 00:12:07,915 --> 00:12:11,603 she can taste of the spirit of God, the fruit of the spirit. 220 00:12:11,651 --> 00:12:14,035 Love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness. 221 00:12:14,227 --> 00:12:15,571 Just taste it. 222 00:12:15,595 --> 00:12:17,199 Our children could taste it. 223 00:12:19,819 --> 00:12:20,999 What a difference. 224 00:12:21,419 --> 00:12:23,119 What a difference it would make. 225 00:12:25,019 --> 00:12:25,923 How encouraging. 226 00:12:25,971 --> 00:12:26,883 That's the hope. 227 00:12:27,051 --> 00:12:28,915 The blessed hope is the coming of Christ. 228 00:12:28,987 --> 00:12:33,731 But we also have hope that we can, by the power of the Holy Spirit, 229 00:12:33,795 --> 00:12:38,675 according to the power that worketh in us, we can live victoriously 230 00:12:38,707 --> 00:12:43,429 and we can enjoy, not endure, we can enjoy life. 231 00:12:46,849 --> 00:12:52,665 The Holy Spirit, I think, is so grieved so many times, the Holy 232 00:12:52,697 --> 00:12:55,641 Spirit, I could just imagine him saying, if they'd just give me 233 00:12:55,665 --> 00:12:56,585 a chance. 234 00:12:56,777 --> 00:12:59,849 Because you see, the Holy Spirit is not going to force you. 235 00:12:59,889 --> 00:13:01,417 He's not going to make you. 236 00:13:01,553 --> 00:13:02,457 He's right there. 237 00:13:02,513 --> 00:13:03,113 He's cloak. 238 00:13:03,161 --> 00:13:05,549 I mean, he's right indwelling our bodies. 239 00:13:07,009 --> 00:13:10,499 And yet he's forgotten and ignored and overlooked. 240 00:13:13,239 --> 00:13:18,219 Now, how important is the Holy Spirit to you? 241 00:13:18,839 --> 00:13:21,263 And don't you think if you and I were the devil. 242 00:13:21,311 --> 00:13:24,159 That's what we do is keep people from ever understanding anything 243 00:13:24,239 --> 00:13:25,459 about the Holy Spirit. 244 00:13:27,639 --> 00:13:29,263 He wants to keep us from the Bible. 245 00:13:29,311 --> 00:13:32,419 We know that that's hard to do every day, read your Bible. 246 00:13:34,289 --> 00:13:37,593 So he wants to keep you out of the book because you might learn 247 00:13:37,641 --> 00:13:38,229 something. 248 00:13:39,809 --> 00:13:41,657 My people are destroyed. 249 00:13:41,833 --> 00:13:46,889 God said for lack of knowledge didn't mean they didn't have it. 250 00:13:47,009 --> 00:13:48,921 They just didn't read it. 251 00:13:48,945 --> 00:13:49,689 They didn't learn it. 252 00:13:49,729 --> 00:13:50,869 They didn't hear it. 253 00:13:51,969 --> 00:13:54,989 The devil would rather you go soul winning than read the Bible. 254 00:13:56,129 --> 00:13:59,709 The devil would rather you pray than read the Bible. 255 00:14:00,209 --> 00:14:01,497 I guarantee you that. 256 00:14:01,553 --> 00:14:04,905 Because Satan is scared to death that the Bible, somebody's 257 00:14:04,937 --> 00:14:06,749 going to take the Bible seriously. 258 00:14:08,049 --> 00:14:09,305 I mean, he really. 259 00:14:09,457 --> 00:14:16,601 Jesus was tempted 40 days and 40 nights and Satan came to him and 260 00:14:16,625 --> 00:14:19,869 tempted him in all three times Jesus quoted scripture. 261 00:14:20,929 --> 00:14:25,669 And on the third time the Bible says the devil leaveth him. 262 00:14:27,909 --> 00:14:29,209 He came back. 263 00:14:29,749 --> 00:14:35,085 He don't stay gone very long, but he's scared to death of the word 264 00:14:35,117 --> 00:14:39,149 of God, of it getting into your heart, into your habits, into 265 00:14:39,189 --> 00:14:40,009 your home. 266 00:14:42,149 --> 00:14:45,005 But second of all, he don't want you to be filled with the Holy 267 00:14:45,037 --> 00:14:45,729 Spirit. 268 00:14:46,869 --> 00:14:48,049 He's in trouble. 269 00:14:50,704 --> 00:14:52,339 And you may tell you something. 270 00:14:53,599 --> 00:14:56,455 Now fasten your seatbelt because this is going to sound wrong, 271 00:14:56,487 --> 00:14:57,539 but it's right. 272 00:14:59,119 --> 00:15:02,059 You cannot sin and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 273 00:15:05,679 --> 00:15:08,379 Let me tighten that shoelace a little bit tighter. 274 00:15:10,239 --> 00:15:11,499 Are you ready? 275 00:15:14,479 --> 00:15:15,751 You can't rob God. 276 00:15:15,815 --> 00:15:17,339 Be filled with the Holy Spirit. 277 00:15:18,329 --> 00:15:22,149 There's no way he's called holy. 278 00:15:23,369 --> 00:15:26,785 And when you are filled, that means you're under the control of. 279 00:15:26,937 --> 00:15:28,977 That's what it means, be filled with the Holy Spirit. 280 00:15:29,073 --> 00:15:31,585 It means you are yielded to the Holy Spirit. 281 00:15:31,697 --> 00:15:34,785 And he's controlling the tongue, which has done more to tear 282 00:15:34,817 --> 00:15:37,889 up marriages in the home and churches and everything else. 283 00:15:38,049 --> 00:15:39,905 The tongue can no man tame. 284 00:15:40,017 --> 00:15:42,385 But it doesn't say the tongue can't be tamed. 285 00:15:42,417 --> 00:15:44,509 It says no man can tame it. 286 00:15:44,919 --> 00:15:46,539 The Holy Spirit can. 287 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:51,023 And when we are yielded completely, and that's. 288 00:15:51,071 --> 00:15:54,259 I understand that's probably where the problem lies. 289 00:15:54,999 --> 00:15:57,459 And we'll talk about that in a moment. 290 00:15:58,519 --> 00:16:02,415 But when you're filled with the Holy Spirit, you can't fail. 291 00:16:02,487 --> 00:16:10,015 You can't fall, you can't gossip and be filled with the Holy 292 00:16:10,047 --> 00:16:10,659 Spirit. 293 00:16:11,749 --> 00:16:14,429 Now you see why the switch goes on and off and on and off. 294 00:16:14,469 --> 00:16:17,021 Filled, unfilled, filled, unfilled, filled, unfilled, back 295 00:16:17,045 --> 00:16:17,373 and forth. 296 00:16:17,421 --> 00:16:18,861 Carnal flesh, carnal spirit. 297 00:16:18,925 --> 00:16:20,717 I mean, it goes round and round. 298 00:16:20,773 --> 00:16:24,813 And even the apostle Paul gave a whole chapter In Romans, chapter 299 00:16:24,861 --> 00:16:27,837 seven, said, the things I said I'm going to do, I don't do it. 300 00:16:27,893 --> 00:16:29,261 I said, I'm not ever going to do that. 301 00:16:29,285 --> 00:16:29,885 I do it. 302 00:16:29,957 --> 00:16:30,557 He's just. 303 00:16:30,613 --> 00:16:32,889 I mean, just read Romans, chapter seven. 304 00:16:34,709 --> 00:16:36,205 You cannot fail. 305 00:16:36,277 --> 00:16:39,369 You can't lie, be filled with the Holy Spirit. 306 00:16:41,549 --> 00:16:45,569 You can't abuse your wife or your husband or your children. 307 00:16:48,429 --> 00:16:50,009 We can't lose our temper. 308 00:16:51,709 --> 00:16:54,725 You know, that's kind of a misnomer, to lose your temper. 309 00:16:54,917 --> 00:16:57,009 The problem is we need to lose it. 310 00:16:57,309 --> 00:17:00,689 We find it too fast, we know right where it is. 311 00:17:01,069 --> 00:17:02,261 Really think about it. 312 00:17:02,285 --> 00:17:06,219 There's really no such thing, is losing. 313 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:10,539 But you can't be filled with the Holy Spirit. 314 00:17:12,959 --> 00:17:15,223 The Bible doesn't say not to be angry. 315 00:17:15,271 --> 00:17:17,219 It says, be angry, but sin not. 316 00:17:20,479 --> 00:17:23,527 You can't curse and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 317 00:17:23,703 --> 00:17:26,859 You can't look at pornography and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 318 00:17:27,519 --> 00:17:31,439 You can't neglect the church and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 319 00:17:31,519 --> 00:17:33,855 Kind of sounds like the Holy Spirit is the key to everything, 320 00:17:33,927 --> 00:17:34,779 doesn't it? 321 00:17:35,479 --> 00:17:38,879 And yet so little is preached, so little is taught, so much. 322 00:17:38,999 --> 00:17:41,663 Very little of our thought is really given. 323 00:17:41,751 --> 00:17:43,659 Lord, I cannot do this. 324 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:47,579 And God says, you really believe that? 325 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:49,139 Yes, sir. 326 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:51,899 But I can do it through you. 327 00:17:53,879 --> 00:17:59,431 You can't do it, but I can do it through you if you'll allow me 328 00:17:59,455 --> 00:18:00,339 to do that. 329 00:18:01,439 --> 00:18:03,699 That's exactly what he wants to do. 330 00:18:04,879 --> 00:18:06,183 He wants you to bear fruit. 331 00:18:06,231 --> 00:18:11,399 The Bible says, herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much 332 00:18:11,439 --> 00:18:12,059 fruit. 333 00:18:13,599 --> 00:18:15,847 And that fruit ought to flourish at home. 334 00:18:15,903 --> 00:18:20,663 And most of the time it does not, because there's too much flesh 335 00:18:20,711 --> 00:18:21,447 and so little. 336 00:18:21,503 --> 00:18:24,209 Holy Spirit, I'm gonna challenge you tonight. 337 00:18:24,369 --> 00:18:26,909 And I'm gonna challenge me again. 338 00:18:27,769 --> 00:18:30,561 And I've thought about more in the last couple years than I ever 339 00:18:30,585 --> 00:18:30,817 have. 340 00:18:30,873 --> 00:18:34,349 And that's probably why the devil's really still pushing me. 341 00:18:37,289 --> 00:18:39,937 I've been thinking more and more, Lord, if I could just stay 342 00:18:39,993 --> 00:18:44,509 filled with the Holy Spirit of God, what a change. 343 00:18:46,329 --> 00:18:47,729 What a difference that would make. 344 00:18:47,769 --> 00:18:49,485 If I could just do that. 345 00:18:49,657 --> 00:18:53,621 You know, I think, personally, I kind of think Paul maybe had that 346 00:18:53,645 --> 00:18:58,929 in mind when he said, when I'm weak, I'm strong. 347 00:19:00,909 --> 00:19:05,141 In fact, he said, I glory in my infirmities that the Spirit of 348 00:19:05,165 --> 00:19:07,009 God may rest upon me. 349 00:19:08,189 --> 00:19:10,373 Don't raise your hand, but have you ever prayed? 350 00:19:10,421 --> 00:19:11,769 Lord, give me strength. 351 00:19:12,429 --> 00:19:21,599 Of course, but have you ever prayed, Lord, make me weak, keep 352 00:19:21,639 --> 00:19:22,499 me weak. 353 00:19:23,479 --> 00:19:24,591 Have you ever prayed that? 354 00:19:24,615 --> 00:19:25,567 Would you consider me? 355 00:19:25,623 --> 00:19:26,495 I've started. 356 00:19:26,647 --> 00:19:27,855 I really have, honestly. 357 00:19:27,887 --> 00:19:32,127 And I'm not saying I've got it all down, packed, but I have tried. 358 00:19:32,303 --> 00:19:37,139 I have found on purpose, almost on a daily basis. 359 00:19:39,239 --> 00:19:40,899 Lord, I want to be weak. 360 00:19:42,739 --> 00:19:47,323 Driving over here today, yesterday and Friday, I'm driving 361 00:19:47,371 --> 00:19:49,835 along and I'm praying in my heart and in my spirit. 362 00:19:49,867 --> 00:19:52,507 And I say, Lord, I can't really be a. 363 00:19:52,563 --> 00:19:53,899 I can't really preach very good. 364 00:19:53,939 --> 00:19:54,923 I can't be a blessing. 365 00:19:54,971 --> 00:19:56,763 I can't do these things, but you can. 366 00:19:56,851 --> 00:19:59,519 And I'd say, lord, I want to be weak. 367 00:19:59,859 --> 00:20:05,739 The weaker I am, the more I depend on you, the stronger I am, 368 00:20:05,779 --> 00:20:07,399 the less I depend on you. 369 00:20:09,369 --> 00:20:14,189 But I'm talking about marriage and what the Holy Spirit could do 370 00:20:15,929 --> 00:20:17,521 at home and in the marriage. 371 00:20:17,585 --> 00:20:21,073 How many of you wives would love to see your husband filled with 372 00:20:21,081 --> 00:20:22,669 the Holy Spirit more often? 373 00:20:23,369 --> 00:20:26,561 How many of you husbands love to see your wife filled with the 374 00:20:26,585 --> 00:20:27,509 Holy Spirit? 375 00:20:32,579 --> 00:20:34,239 Fruit is to be tasted. 376 00:20:36,099 --> 00:20:37,839 You ever had rotten fruit? 377 00:20:40,259 --> 00:20:43,691 You ever had a situation, you met somebody and talked a little 378 00:20:43,715 --> 00:20:48,683 bit and they said things they shouldn't be saying and implying 379 00:20:48,731 --> 00:20:53,291 things, and you walk away and you say, they left a bad taste in 380 00:20:53,315 --> 00:20:54,239 my mouth. 381 00:20:54,739 --> 00:20:57,399 That person, when I think of them, it just. 382 00:21:01,949 --> 00:21:05,449 But when you're filled with the Holy Spirit, what a difference. 383 00:21:06,589 --> 00:21:08,609 The old man and the new man. 384 00:21:10,829 --> 00:21:12,369 I want to challenge you. 385 00:21:13,309 --> 00:21:14,501 The fruit of the Spirit. 386 00:21:14,565 --> 00:21:14,789 Love. 387 00:21:14,829 --> 00:21:18,613 This is the love of Christ flowing through us and out of us. 388 00:21:18,781 --> 00:21:20,689 That sacrificial love. 389 00:21:23,719 --> 00:21:27,711 Bible says if any man love the world, the love of the Father is 390 00:21:27,735 --> 00:21:28,699 not in him. 391 00:21:29,319 --> 00:21:32,191 It doesn't say if any man love the world, I'm not going to love 392 00:21:32,215 --> 00:21:33,247 him anymore. 393 00:21:33,423 --> 00:21:35,579 No, God will never stop loving you. 394 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:37,791 His love is unconditional. 395 00:21:37,855 --> 00:21:38,819 It's unending. 396 00:21:40,919 --> 00:21:42,739 I mean, it's undescribable. 397 00:21:43,799 --> 00:21:47,071 But he says if the love of God, if you love the world, he said 398 00:21:47,095 --> 00:21:50,859 the love of God will not be flowing through our life. 399 00:21:53,289 --> 00:21:57,793 And yet so many times we're so enamored with the world and we're 400 00:21:57,841 --> 00:21:59,629 so caught up in the world. 401 00:22:02,009 --> 00:22:04,389 The spirit of God is not flowing. 402 00:22:04,809 --> 00:22:06,469 It's not expressed. 403 00:22:07,609 --> 00:22:11,269 The love, the love of God. 404 00:22:13,289 --> 00:22:14,869 And what about joy? 405 00:22:17,059 --> 00:22:21,279 How much joy would you say is in your home and in your marriage? 406 00:22:23,939 --> 00:22:26,795 Did you know, I think some of you, because I know your preacher, 407 00:22:26,827 --> 00:22:28,039 he's taught you this. 408 00:22:29,059 --> 00:22:38,239 But joy, real joy doesn't depend on people or things or circumstances. 409 00:22:40,259 --> 00:22:43,359 No, not the joy that Jesus gives. 410 00:22:43,979 --> 00:22:45,507 Happiness, well, that's different. 411 00:22:45,563 --> 00:22:47,639 Happiness depends on what happens. 412 00:22:48,779 --> 00:22:51,011 A lot of times we're not very happy because of what happens. 413 00:22:51,075 --> 00:22:56,483 But a Christian can have joy even in the storms, even in sorrows, 414 00:22:56,531 --> 00:23:00,899 even standing in the funeral home, even at the hospital, even 415 00:23:00,939 --> 00:23:06,759 driving home after you've lost your job, you can have joy. 416 00:23:08,539 --> 00:23:11,909 And I don't think there's any marriage that says, I don't need 417 00:23:11,949 --> 00:23:17,349 any more joy in my life and in my home and in my ministry. 418 00:23:17,429 --> 00:23:18,277 And you know something? 419 00:23:18,333 --> 00:23:22,389 I think that's why I have such a hard time sometimes reaching our 420 00:23:22,429 --> 00:23:29,529 young people is because they don't see much joy in mom and dad. 421 00:23:31,709 --> 00:23:33,449 They hear a lot of complaining. 422 00:23:34,189 --> 00:23:35,173 Gotta go to church. 423 00:23:35,221 --> 00:23:35,621 What do you mean? 424 00:23:35,645 --> 00:23:37,049 You gotta go to church. 425 00:23:37,799 --> 00:23:39,535 You get to go to church. 426 00:23:39,727 --> 00:23:40,575 But we give. 427 00:23:40,647 --> 00:23:43,711 Sometimes our kids, sometimes we give them this idea that this 428 00:23:43,735 --> 00:23:45,979 is something we don't have a choice, we got to go. 429 00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:49,339 If we don't go, there's no telling what might happen. 430 00:23:49,639 --> 00:23:52,207 Well, that really makes you want to become a Christian, doesn't 431 00:23:52,223 --> 00:23:52,779 it? 432 00:23:53,559 --> 00:23:55,999 And they got this idea, where did they get it from? 433 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,139 That Christians never have any fun. 434 00:23:59,159 --> 00:24:05,019 They look at the world and go, wow, man, must be nice. 435 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,727 We probably thought the same thing. 436 00:24:08,783 --> 00:24:10,259 We don't want to admit it. 437 00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:14,979 But joy, that's different. 438 00:24:16,639 --> 00:24:21,499 And then peace, the peace of God. 439 00:24:21,919 --> 00:24:23,207 And you know something? 440 00:24:23,343 --> 00:24:24,899 Let me remind you this. 441 00:24:25,199 --> 00:24:28,779 You can't have the peace of God unless you're at peace with God. 442 00:24:30,159 --> 00:24:32,979 And how can two walk together except they agree? 443 00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:37,287 The peace that passeth all understanding. 444 00:24:37,383 --> 00:24:40,859 Jesus said, I'm going to give you my peace, not as the world giveth. 445 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:42,903 It doesn't come in a bottle. 446 00:24:42,951 --> 00:24:46,699 It doesn't come in a prescription bottle. 447 00:24:47,439 --> 00:24:49,899 It doesn't come in immorality. 448 00:24:50,879 --> 00:24:53,019 He said, I'm going to give you a different peace. 449 00:24:54,409 --> 00:24:55,953 Peace, peace. 450 00:24:56,081 --> 00:25:02,033 As you sang a moment ago, wonderful peace, a calmness. 451 00:25:02,161 --> 00:25:04,029 You have calmness in your home. 452 00:25:05,929 --> 00:25:07,969 Or is it chaos now? 453 00:25:08,009 --> 00:25:15,409 If you have kids, there's always going to be some chaos, but 454 00:25:15,449 --> 00:25:16,429 that'll pass. 455 00:25:19,129 --> 00:25:21,723 But calmness, contentment. 456 00:25:21,851 --> 00:25:25,851 I was reading in my devotion this morning that Paul said I had 457 00:25:25,875 --> 00:25:26,331 to learn it. 458 00:25:26,355 --> 00:25:31,399 He said, I've learned in whatsoever state I am to be content. 459 00:25:32,739 --> 00:25:34,759 Do you have contentment in your home? 460 00:25:35,859 --> 00:25:39,199 Do you know how to define contentment? 461 00:25:40,979 --> 00:25:46,011 I'm just asking to cause you those wheels to turn just a little 462 00:25:46,035 --> 00:25:46,599 bit. 463 00:25:47,449 --> 00:25:48,961 Contentment, you have to learn. 464 00:25:49,025 --> 00:25:50,309 It's not natural. 465 00:25:52,009 --> 00:25:53,873 You have to learn how to be content. 466 00:25:54,041 --> 00:25:59,709 Paul said, in whatever state I'm in, I've learned to be content. 467 00:26:00,089 --> 00:26:03,709 But we want more and want more and more and more and more and more. 468 00:26:07,209 --> 00:26:09,389 Our materialism is out of control. 469 00:26:11,049 --> 00:26:14,069 In fact, I think it's borderline on idolatry. 470 00:26:14,989 --> 00:26:20,209 We Give more thought and time and energy to material things. 471 00:26:21,229 --> 00:26:24,837 Again, I always have to say this because people may hear something 472 00:26:24,893 --> 00:26:25,969 I didn't say. 473 00:26:26,349 --> 00:26:28,197 It's not a sin to have things. 474 00:26:28,333 --> 00:26:29,813 Money's not the root of all evil. 475 00:26:29,861 --> 00:26:32,329 It's the love of money that's the root of all evil. 476 00:26:33,629 --> 00:26:36,369 If God could trust you with money, he'll give you money. 477 00:26:38,269 --> 00:26:41,397 But if that's going to hurt you and draw you away from God, then 478 00:26:41,533 --> 00:26:43,489 why would he want to do that? 479 00:26:46,149 --> 00:26:47,289 It's a test. 480 00:26:49,189 --> 00:26:57,757 So many times we spend money that we don't have to buy things 481 00:26:57,813 --> 00:27:01,929 we don't need to impress people we don't really like. 482 00:27:06,949 --> 00:27:09,689 Peace, contentment, security. 483 00:27:11,409 --> 00:27:12,921 I love to read Psalm 23. 484 00:27:12,945 --> 00:27:15,193 Do you ever get tired of reading Psalm 23? 485 00:27:15,361 --> 00:27:17,229 Boy, you talk about peace. 486 00:27:17,809 --> 00:27:21,109 You talk about, wow, wouldn't that be a great home? 487 00:27:23,009 --> 00:27:24,509 Still waters. 488 00:27:26,049 --> 00:27:29,513 He leadeth me, restoring my soul. 489 00:27:29,641 --> 00:27:30,409 Oh, you just. 490 00:27:30,449 --> 00:27:32,349 The picture is just so beautiful. 491 00:27:34,369 --> 00:27:36,271 Could you ever have a home like that? 492 00:27:36,425 --> 00:27:37,603 Not without the Holy Spirit. 493 00:27:37,651 --> 00:27:38,399 You can. 494 00:27:39,739 --> 00:27:41,187 And then long suffering. 495 00:27:41,283 --> 00:27:44,083 We don't use that word very much, but boy, it's a lot in the 496 00:27:44,091 --> 00:27:44,755 Bible. 497 00:27:44,947 --> 00:27:46,599 God's long suffering. 498 00:27:47,819 --> 00:27:49,827 You know what long suffering means? 499 00:27:49,963 --> 00:27:53,699 It means you're willing to suffer for a long time for the benefit 500 00:27:53,779 --> 00:27:55,079 of your spouse. 501 00:27:58,059 --> 00:27:59,763 The short version, patience. 502 00:27:59,891 --> 00:28:03,103 I don't like to use that word because that's my big sin is patience. 503 00:28:03,251 --> 00:28:04,199 But it's the same thing. 504 00:28:04,239 --> 00:28:05,415 Long suffering. 505 00:28:05,607 --> 00:28:07,099 It means you're patient. 506 00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:09,607 Could that help anybody's marriage? 507 00:28:09,703 --> 00:28:10,739 I doubt it. 508 00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:15,499 Patience, long suffering. 509 00:28:16,159 --> 00:28:18,951 And by the way, I got a conviction about that because, you 510 00:28:18,975 --> 00:28:20,551 know, the Lord told me. 511 00:28:20,655 --> 00:28:24,023 I mean, he doesn't speak in audible voice, but man, a couple 512 00:28:24,071 --> 00:28:35,921 years ago, I was sitting in the car waiting on my wife and I 513 00:28:35,945 --> 00:28:37,345 was getting impatient. 514 00:28:37,537 --> 00:28:41,409 I stopped honking the horn for her quite a while back, but I used 515 00:28:41,449 --> 00:28:42,193 to do that. 516 00:28:42,281 --> 00:28:44,349 And she tore the horn out of my car. 517 00:28:45,209 --> 00:28:49,029 Now I don't do that anymore, but sometimes I race the engine. 518 00:28:51,609 --> 00:28:54,369 And you know what the Holy Spirit says? 519 00:28:54,409 --> 00:28:55,167 You know what? 520 00:28:55,313 --> 00:28:57,443 You know what your problem is not patience. 521 00:28:57,491 --> 00:28:59,879 He said, your problem is pride. 522 00:29:00,779 --> 00:29:02,799 Cause you think you deserve better. 523 00:29:03,579 --> 00:29:07,599 You think she should get out there because who you think you are? 524 00:29:08,299 --> 00:29:09,411 I'm just sharing with you. 525 00:29:09,435 --> 00:29:11,395 If you don't like it, whatever, that's fine. 526 00:29:11,427 --> 00:29:14,359 But we all have problem with pride. 527 00:29:16,219 --> 00:29:20,039 And we get impatient because we want people on our schedule. 528 00:29:22,549 --> 00:29:23,409 Pride. 529 00:29:24,629 --> 00:29:26,049 But long suffering. 530 00:29:27,269 --> 00:29:27,965 Patience. 531 00:29:28,077 --> 00:29:28,637 And then. 532 00:29:28,693 --> 00:29:35,213 Don't you love the word gentleness there in those nine fruit? 533 00:29:35,261 --> 00:29:37,693 Not fruits, the fruit of the spirit. 534 00:29:37,741 --> 00:29:39,453 You don't pick the fruit on the Tree. 535 00:29:39,581 --> 00:29:40,765 It's the fruit of the Spirit. 536 00:29:40,797 --> 00:29:46,893 You get them all or nothing but kind and gentleness. 537 00:29:46,941 --> 00:29:48,735 Don't you like that word gentle? 538 00:29:48,917 --> 00:29:53,179 The psalmist said, thy gentleness, O Lord, hath made me 539 00:29:53,219 --> 00:29:56,331 great gentleness. 540 00:29:56,395 --> 00:29:57,803 Would that describe your marriage? 541 00:29:57,851 --> 00:29:59,479 Would that describe your home? 542 00:29:59,779 --> 00:30:01,719 The atmosphere in your home? 543 00:30:03,459 --> 00:30:07,579 Gentle gentleness. 544 00:30:07,659 --> 00:30:09,519 Just think about that for a moment. 545 00:30:10,979 --> 00:30:12,559 Sometimes we're so harsh. 546 00:30:14,269 --> 00:30:17,221 It's so harsh when we're not filled with the Holy Spirit. 547 00:30:17,365 --> 00:30:20,529 We're not very gentle in what we say or how we say it. 548 00:30:24,829 --> 00:30:29,289 The Bible speaks of charity, of being kind, easy to be entreated, 549 00:30:30,349 --> 00:30:32,809 not puffed up, soft spoken. 550 00:30:34,189 --> 00:30:36,329 Has God ever dealt with you gently? 551 00:30:38,269 --> 00:30:39,049 Yes. 552 00:30:40,919 --> 00:30:42,219 Yes, he has. 553 00:30:44,439 --> 00:30:45,023 Gentle. 554 00:30:45,071 --> 00:30:46,367 Doing good things for each other. 555 00:30:46,423 --> 00:30:47,583 You see, the Bible. 556 00:30:47,711 --> 00:30:48,607 Let me help you men. 557 00:30:48,663 --> 00:30:49,503 Just a minute here. 558 00:30:49,591 --> 00:30:55,779 The Bible is not a club to beat your wife or kids into submission. 559 00:30:57,159 --> 00:30:59,311 Some people think that's how you do it. 560 00:30:59,335 --> 00:31:03,039 I feel sorry for people like that and more sorry for women and 561 00:31:03,079 --> 00:31:03,423 children. 562 00:31:03,511 --> 00:31:07,471 That Dad's going to rule the roost and he's going to get out the 563 00:31:07,495 --> 00:31:09,739 Bible and he's going to clobber you with it. 564 00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:12,219 The Bible doesn't teach that. 565 00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:20,579 No, you don't make your wife and kids behave. 566 00:31:21,879 --> 00:31:25,019 You make them want to because they see it in you. 567 00:31:27,159 --> 00:31:28,527 They see it in your life. 568 00:31:28,583 --> 00:31:34,739 Daddy, husbands, they can see it. 569 00:31:37,439 --> 00:31:41,019 You see servant leadership. 570 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:44,459 A leader in the Bible is not a dictator. 571 00:31:46,879 --> 00:31:49,063 Not what God had in mind when he designed marriage. 572 00:31:49,111 --> 00:31:54,983 It was for a husband and a father to say to his family by word 573 00:31:55,031 --> 00:31:56,299 and by deed. 574 00:31:56,639 --> 00:31:58,415 Let me show you how to do it. 575 00:31:58,607 --> 00:31:59,739 Follow me. 576 00:32:01,239 --> 00:32:06,099 And setting that example, that's a pretty big responsibility. 577 00:32:07,239 --> 00:32:10,739 But it's not hard when you're filled with the Holy Spirit. 578 00:32:11,959 --> 00:32:14,463 You try to do it without the spirit of God, man, you're going 579 00:32:14,471 --> 00:32:16,499 to have World War Three on your hands. 580 00:32:18,439 --> 00:32:19,247 Goodness. 581 00:32:19,343 --> 00:32:21,311 Doing good things for each other. 582 00:32:21,495 --> 00:32:23,439 I know there's none good but God. 583 00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:27,539 So God has to do good through us by the Holy Spirit. 584 00:32:27,879 --> 00:32:30,639 If you leave here tonight and you say, I don't remember exactly 585 00:32:30,719 --> 00:32:34,207 anything he said, but it was something about, we need to be under 586 00:32:34,263 --> 00:32:35,855 the control of the Holy Spirit. 587 00:32:35,967 --> 00:32:37,019 You got it? 588 00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:43,919 And tonight and tomorrow, the Lord willing to help you to say, 589 00:32:43,959 --> 00:32:47,695 you know, here's the day, I don't want to mess it up, so fill 590 00:32:47,727 --> 00:32:49,459 me with the Holy Spirit, lord. 591 00:32:50,999 --> 00:32:55,641 And to 10 or 15 minutes later you feel like, uh, oh, then say, 592 00:32:55,665 --> 00:32:56,869 lord, fill me again. 593 00:33:00,609 --> 00:33:04,137 Heard a story one time of a woman that went to the altar over 594 00:33:04,193 --> 00:33:05,849 and over again, over and over. 595 00:33:05,889 --> 00:33:07,789 And I'm not Saying that's right or wrong. 596 00:33:08,449 --> 00:33:11,065 And you shouldn't judge people because you don't know what they're 597 00:33:11,097 --> 00:33:14,201 dealing with and what they're facing and the things going on in 598 00:33:14,225 --> 00:33:14,809 their life. 599 00:33:14,929 --> 00:33:18,879 But there was this woman, and she would just the altar and hold 600 00:33:18,919 --> 00:33:22,623 her hands up and she'd say, fill me, Lord, fill me Fill me, Lord, 601 00:33:22,671 --> 00:33:23,579 fill me. 602 00:33:24,039 --> 00:33:27,151 Well, after a while, I mean, it was just every service. 603 00:33:27,255 --> 00:33:29,423 Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. 604 00:33:29,591 --> 00:33:31,407 And you can almost feel it, people. 605 00:33:31,463 --> 00:33:32,639 Oh, here we go again. 606 00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:34,459 Fill me, Lord, fill me. 607 00:33:35,639 --> 00:33:38,591 One man, I know he probably shouldn't have said this, but he 608 00:33:38,615 --> 00:33:39,695 said it a little too loud. 609 00:33:39,807 --> 00:33:42,063 The rest of the people at church said, don't do it, Lord. 610 00:33:42,111 --> 00:33:46,923 She leaks, you know. 611 00:33:47,091 --> 00:33:50,091 We get filled with the Holy Spirit, but it leaks out after a 612 00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:50,679 while. 613 00:33:51,059 --> 00:33:54,119 The Holy Spirit will never leave you, but you can leave him. 614 00:33:58,579 --> 00:34:01,531 And then there's faith, boy. 615 00:34:01,595 --> 00:34:03,947 Faith will work miracles in a marriage. 616 00:34:04,123 --> 00:34:06,879 What it simply means is God's going to keep his promises. 617 00:34:07,699 --> 00:34:14,607 Standing on the promises I cannot fail when the howling storms 618 00:34:14,703 --> 00:34:19,311 of doubt and fear assail by the living word of God I shall prevail 619 00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:24,303 Standing on the promises of God Standing on the promises I cannot 620 00:34:24,351 --> 00:34:28,719 fall Listening every moment to the Spirit's call Resting in my Savior 621 00:34:28,799 --> 00:34:35,705 as my all in all Standing on the promises of God and then there's 622 00:34:35,737 --> 00:34:36,121 meekness. 623 00:34:36,185 --> 00:34:36,937 I'm almost through. 624 00:34:36,993 --> 00:34:38,109 But meekness. 625 00:34:39,329 --> 00:34:40,989 Jesus was meek. 626 00:34:41,489 --> 00:34:43,225 He wasn't effeminate. 627 00:34:43,417 --> 00:34:44,909 He wasn't weak. 628 00:34:45,649 --> 00:34:48,469 Meekness means strength, but it's under control. 629 00:34:49,249 --> 00:34:53,145 It's not someone prancing around trying to prove how wonderful 630 00:34:53,177 --> 00:34:55,349 and great and strong they are. 631 00:34:55,729 --> 00:35:00,617 No, you have strength, but it's not the human kind. 632 00:35:00,673 --> 00:35:02,869 It's the kind that the Holy Spirit can give. 633 00:35:04,268 --> 00:35:04,772 Strength. 634 00:35:04,820 --> 00:35:05,540 Under control. 635 00:35:05,644 --> 00:35:06,580 You're approachable. 636 00:35:06,644 --> 00:35:08,068 Jesus was meek. 637 00:35:08,228 --> 00:35:12,132 Moses, the Bible says there wasn't a meeker man on the face of 638 00:35:12,140 --> 00:35:13,044 the earth than Moses. 639 00:35:13,076 --> 00:35:18,008 And he led two and a half million Jews through the Red Sea. 640 00:35:18,988 --> 00:35:20,328 I can't imagine. 641 00:35:22,828 --> 00:35:27,008 And last of all, temperance, self control. 642 00:35:28,679 --> 00:35:33,819 The control really of the Holy Spirit of God in your life. 643 00:35:35,319 --> 00:35:41,759 I just want to encourage you, take the word of God and say, now, 644 00:35:41,799 --> 00:35:45,935 Lord, as I read this, fill me with the Holy Spirit. 645 00:35:46,127 --> 00:35:47,711 Because I want to live it. 646 00:35:47,735 --> 00:35:49,019 I want to take it in. 647 00:35:49,319 --> 00:35:54,121 I want to look it up in the Bible, let it in to my heart, and 648 00:35:54,145 --> 00:35:55,349 then live it out. 649 00:35:56,849 --> 00:35:58,509 But not me, Lord. 650 00:35:59,089 --> 00:36:03,029 You live through me. 651 00:36:03,969 --> 00:36:09,161 To be filled with the Holy Spirit, you have to consciously, 652 00:36:09,225 --> 00:36:10,169 on purpose. 653 00:36:10,329 --> 00:36:13,497 He's not going to just sit in there dozing and all of a sudden 654 00:36:13,513 --> 00:36:15,689 the Holy Spirit grabs you and fills you. 655 00:36:15,729 --> 00:36:17,469 And that's not the way it works. 656 00:36:19,499 --> 00:36:24,099 But when you say, lord, I cannot do this by myself, I right 657 00:36:24,139 --> 00:36:26,999 now am asking you according to your word. 658 00:36:27,819 --> 00:36:29,763 I'm yielding to you right now. 659 00:36:29,851 --> 00:36:31,719 Fill me with your Holy Spirit. 660 00:36:32,539 --> 00:36:33,919 God will do it. 661 00:36:34,939 --> 00:36:36,675 God will do it every time. 662 00:36:36,827 --> 00:36:38,519 Ask in faith, believing. 663 00:36:40,379 --> 00:36:41,011 Realize. 664 00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:42,211 What's the other option? 665 00:36:42,275 --> 00:36:44,787 If you're not filled with the Holy Spirit, who you gonna be filled 666 00:36:44,803 --> 00:36:45,359 with? 667 00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:47,579 The flesh. 668 00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:52,295 Can you imagine, Brother Garfin? 669 00:36:52,327 --> 00:36:58,231 Can you imagine on just one service, if every person walked in 670 00:36:58,255 --> 00:37:01,019 the door filled with the Holy Spirit? 671 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,943 No wonder in the early church, they had 3,000 saved and then 5,000 672 00:37:06,031 --> 00:37:06,487 saved. 673 00:37:06,583 --> 00:37:09,099 The Bible says they were filled with the Holy Spirit. 674 00:37:11,049 --> 00:37:13,297 But most time people come in half. 675 00:37:13,353 --> 00:37:21,281 Filled or not filled, the flesh profiteth nothing but all the 676 00:37:21,305 --> 00:37:22,789 power of the Holy Spirit. 677 00:37:23,449 --> 00:37:24,849 He's a comforter. 678 00:37:25,009 --> 00:37:26,549 He's a counselor. 679 00:37:27,369 --> 00:37:29,825 Sometimes he confirms you're doing the right thing. 680 00:37:29,897 --> 00:37:32,549 It's like his spirit bears witness with your spirit. 681 00:37:33,849 --> 00:37:34,785 He confirms. 682 00:37:34,897 --> 00:37:36,523 Sometimes he cuts. 683 00:37:36,681 --> 00:37:38,299 Sometimes he convicts. 684 00:37:38,879 --> 00:37:40,231 Sometimes he corrects. 685 00:37:40,295 --> 00:37:42,339 Sometimes he cleanses us. 686 00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:45,779 But, boy, if we could just let him do his work. 687 00:37:46,399 --> 00:37:47,831 What a life. 688 00:37:47,935 --> 00:37:49,079 Stand to your feet, please. 689 00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:51,239 With heads bowed and eyes closed.