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It's kind of amazing everybody like you last week it wasn't like that well we have a minute or so left a bonus minute we might need it it's possible possible possible well welcome again we're really glad you could be here together with us this morning as we open our time let's ask the

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Lord's blessing on his word our great God in father of the Lord Jesus Christ we come into your presence this morning asking you to help us to humble our hearts to open our ears that your spirit would spiritually work within us that our blind eyes would be opened our deaf ears unstopped we would hear from you through your word this morning and that he would apply it for us in our lives in where it's needed we pray that we would not be like those who look in the mirror and turn away and forget what they've seen but that we would be ones who are not just hearers but doers of the word we asked in Jesus name amen okay well welcome open your

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Bibles back to Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 18 as we return again to this text we continue in our series entitled living under the influence as you may or may not remember this kind of mini -series is setting up the longer series of parenting and family because that's the way

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Paul sets it up the concept of being filled with the spirit is so significant so important to the

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Christian life and lays the foundation and the power to fulfill Paul's later commands to husbands and wives and children and and so forth so living under the influence

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Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18 and do not get drunk with wine for that is dissipation but be filled by the

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Spirit now last week just to remind you we learned that the command to be filled by the

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Spirit is obeyed and when we allow the

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Word of Christ to richly dwell within us you remember we looked over at Colossians chapter 3 and verse 16 because it is such a close parallel and help shed light on what's

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Paul is commanding here in other words when we prayerfully immerse ourselves in the scriptures and consistently allow the

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Spirit to use those scriptures to shape the way we think the way we feel the way we react and the way we respond to life's circumstances that's what it means to be filled by the

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Spirit and one way one way that we immerse ourselves in the scriptures is through the public preaching of the scriptures public preaching so this morning by your alert and prayerful attention to the sermon that will soon follow you will be providing the

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Spirit of God with the raw materials necessary to help you fulfill

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Paul's command here in Ephesians 518 so this is how they tie together so that's the advertisement for the sermon this morning pay close attention and you will be cooperating with the

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Spirit's work within you now we've been we've been interrogating this particular passage here in Ephesians 5 beginning in verse 18 through a series of questions that we have ten of them ten questions and these questions are designed to help us understand and live under the influence of the

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Holy Spirit and this morning we take up question number eight so it's question number eight will occupy us for the entire time together this morning and the question is this can the filling leak out can the filling leak out that's our question now

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I briefly attended Dallas Theological Seminary nearly 40 years ago and I remember at the time a

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New Testament professor talking about being filled with the Spirit he took a content view and he talked about being filled with the

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Spirit on a Sunday and then experiencing the heartbreak of having the Spirit leak out

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Monday through Saturday and even at the time that just didn't seem right to me didn't seem right but I was in no position of course to challenge know what

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I have done so to be so disrespectful to have challenged him just a young guy but it just didn't seem right to me at the time the present passive imperative of play or excuse me play

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Rao to be filled does not communicate repeated fillings it does not communicate repeated fillings but rather the idea of continual responsibility to place ourselves in a position where the

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Spirit fully influences us in order to enable us to grow in the likeness of Christ that's what it means now rather than something that repeatedly happens to us it is more accurate to say that it is and I quote here from Andreas Kastenberger a very fine

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New Testament scholar it is a state of being which should continually characterize the worship and relationships in the

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Christian community this is what it means beloved while the

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Spirit does not leak out of us it does not leak out of us we can obstruct his work we can obstruct his work of fully influencing us by giving in to what

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I want to look at with you this morning and I'm calling it the three selves by giving in to the three selves self reliance self exaltation and self will when we give in to the three selves we inhibit or obstruct the working of the

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Spirit in our lives so together this morning let's look briefly at the three selves and this will address the question of does the

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Spirit leak out okay so first the sin of self -reliance turn with me to the right please to 1st

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Thessalonians chapter 5 1st Thessalonians 5 and beginning in verse 19 1st that's 519 looking at verses 19 and 20 1st s 519 and 20 do not quench the

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Spirit do not despise prophetic utterances do not quench the

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Spirit do not despise prophetic utterances now to quench essentially means to put out a fire we quench a fire and in figurative language the

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Holy Spirit is repeatedly spoken of as a fire and a fire that can be suppressed a fire that can be stifled or a fire that can be extinguished now while the context here in 1st

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Thessalonians 5 is larger than the gift of prophecy that's what I want to focus on with you here briefly this morning the basic function of a prophet is to speak forth the counsel of God that is the basic function of a prophet to speak forth the counsel of God in fact that's essentially what the word means we have an excellent illustration and yay

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I would say definition of a prophet back in Exodus chapter 7 so I will turn you back there we're gonna jump around a little bit this morning the scriptures so Exodus chapter 7 and verses 1 & 2 if you're looking for a biblical definition and illustration of a prophet we find it here in Exodus chapter 7 verses 1 & 2 it's really very concise

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Exodus 7 1 & 2 then the Lord said to Moses see

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I make you as God to Pharaoh and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet you shall speak all that I command you and your brother

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Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land so you get the idea

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Moses is as God to Aaron Aaron is as the prophet to Pharaoh that's what a prophet does it speak he or she speak for God he or she speak for God so back to first that's five

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I don't want to get lost here in the contemporary discussion and refutation of the authenticity and legitimacy of the so -called ongoing fallible prophecy

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I I'm putting that all aside okay but instead I want to focus on what we all very commonly agree to and that is that the scriptures are the

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Word of God the scriptures are the Word of God and they are inerrantly recorded by men under the inspiration of the

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Holy Spirit we see that in 1st and 2nd Peter chapter 1 verses 20 and 21 where Peter says but know this first of all that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation in other words it didn't arise out of a out of a private interpretation of a dream or vision or something like that but no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will but men moved or blown along by the

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Holy Spirit spoke from God the scriptures are the Word of God and they are inherently recorded by men under the inspiration of Holy Spirit beyond that they are authoritative and necessary for life and godliness back to 2nd

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Peter chapter 1 verses 2 and 3 where he says grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our

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Lord seeing that his divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness how through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence so they are authoritative and they are necessary for life and godliness inherently recorded by men necessary for life and godliness and therefore therefore to suppress or stifle the impact of the scriptures in our lives either individually or as a local fellowship by thinking and acting as if we do not need to hear from God on a particular matter is the essence of self -reliance and it quenches the

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Spirit of God it quenches the work of the Spirit of God that attitude of self -reliance the idea we don't need to hear from him

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Proverbs chapter 3 verses 5 and 6 Solomon says trust in the

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Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight okay we need the scriptures for straight paths so what are some examples of self -reliance what does it look like to be self -reliant well when we hear a command from scripture and our first thought are what about such and such an exception when our first thought when we hear a command of scripture is to think about an exception then we are listening with a heart of self -reliance in that moment right so rather than take it and receive it as the command our mind twists and turns and says yeah but what about you know and then we construct this elaborate thought process by which we can evade the clear command that's the essence of self -reliance it's trying to get out from under what is plain and clear that's listening with a heart of self -reliance an example of self -reliance is when we raise any other authority source over the scriptures when we raise any other authority source over the scriptures for example tradition when tradition occupies a place of authority above the scriptures that is the essence of self -reliance whether that tradition be church tradition

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I've always done it this way or whether it be some sort of societal tradition or whether it be just a simple family tradition at any time and in any place when we raise tradition above the scriptures that we are engaged in the sin don't call it that because that's what it is the sin of self -reliance listen to self -reliance it shows itself in the raising of academic respectability above the scriptures academic respectability this is perhaps a unique temptation for those who are academically minded and academically trained often this shows itself in what's called the

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Academy where you have people who have studied theology and so forth and they raise their desire to be accepted by the

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Academy the academic acceptance above these scriptures and so they don't want to want to talk about a six -day literal creation because everybody knows that that's for rubes and for uneducated people or they don't want to to speak clearly that a man is a man and a woman is a woman and they don't you know they don't exchange such things because that's no longer academically respectable and so that is self -reliance to raise that above the scriptures some raise and the social sciences above the scriptures so things like psychology and sociology are used as lenses by which to interpret the

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Word of God they become the authority source that's self -reliance that's self -reliance if what

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Peter says is correct that we have everything we need for life and godliness through the scriptures then we don't need in fact

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I would say it is less than helpful medical research is sometimes raised above the scriptures medical research and I just want to remind you of this fact that science is never settled right if we've learned anything over the last few years we've learned that right science is never settled never settled popular opinion can also be raised above the scriptures and personal desires happiness self -esteem comfort prosperity all of these things can assume a place that is not lawfully theirs and become the essence of self -reliance when they become the the commanding reality rather than the scriptures themselves so the first way to obstruct the filling of the spirit is through the sin of self reliance okay second secondly the sin of self -exaltation yes that is the

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Boston Red Sox by the way the sin of self -exaltation and for that I will turn you to Romans chapter 12 as we seek to understand and illustrate this the sin of self -exaltation

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Romans chapter 12 beginning in verse 3 for through the grace given to me

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I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think but to think so as to have sound judgment as God has allotted to each a measure of faith for just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function so we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members one of another now beginning here in verse 3

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Paul is is starting to draw out the implications and detailed applications of the message contained in verses 1 & 2 which is what a transformed mind looks like right 1 & 2 is the command to be transformed by the

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Spirit and then from that point forward really running through the rest of the book is the detailed application of what it means to live like that and in particular

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Paul is calling for the Romans to renew their minds and that leads naturally into the specific application about thinking soberly about themselves particularly in the place of the local congregation the local assembly and all the future instructions concern life in the church chapters 12 13 14 15 16 are all about life in the church and they flow out of an understanding of this teaching here on unity and diversity within the local congregation boasting and big egos are the sin of pride and there are nothing new right boasting and big egos are the sign of pride and they are nothing new they have been taken to an art form in our culture to be sure it has become an art form and we celebrate such wickedness in our sports celebrities and entertainment celebrities but again that's nothing new so did

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Rome so did Rome Rome had her celebrity chefs she had her celebrity sports figures gladiator gladiators she had her her what's the word

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I'm looking for she had her celebrity entertainment figures as well the theater was big okay so there's nothing new under the

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Sun those things that we exalt as a culture Rome exalted as a culture as well and this idea of self -esteem here you perhaps uniquely for us is it's promoted at such an early age all around us everybody gets a participation trophy right because why well because you're really good and you deserve a trophy and so the idea of even an award for those who succeed has now been flattened out to everybody who participates gets some sort of reward that feeds the cult of self -esteem now in opposition to this pervasive manifestation of unregenerate thinking

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Paul's commanding the Christians here not to fall prey to the sin but instead to think biblically by developing a sensible view of themselves and Paul notice addresses the command to everybody in the church everybody in the church and the reason is it because there is nobody in the church that is immune from this none of us are immune from the sin of self -exaltation we're all capable of it now how do we battle it how do we battle against self -exaltation because we feel it in our own hearts don't we we feel it in our own hearts so how do we battle it we do it according to Paul here by refusing to engage in self -comparison by refusing to engage in self -comparison but instead to reflect soberly upon the fact that all

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Christians both great and small are saved in the same way by grace through faith right

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Ephesians chapter 2 in verse 9 for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God if it is a gift then as Paul will say so that we don't boast we've got nothing to boast about it's a gift now notice this expression here in verse 3 for through the grace given to me

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I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think but to think to have sound judgment notice this as God has allotted to each a measure of faith what does that mean a measure of faith this expression measure of faith is what grammarians call a genitive of apposition a genitive of apposition which essentially means that faith is the is the measure faith is the measure the two words are repeated and become almost synonymous so faith is the measure or the standard that produces the sound judgment in self -evaluation so we could almost say that God has allotted to each of us a measure which is faith faith is the measure in other words

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God has allotted faith to each of us and we are completely dependent upon faith to be saved so when we soberly reflect upon that truth then we can accurately evaluate ourselves we can accurately measure ourselves we can think and act with humility rather than self -exaltation you've probably heard this expression at the foot of the cross the ground is level you heard that before at the foot of the cross the ground is level so that means that there is no advantage to a celebrity conversion yet how many times do people say oh if only such -and -such a movie star or sports athlete or something like that were to get saved and and then share their testimony that we all that would do amazing things for God and no no not at all not at all their braggamony about how they came to faith in Christ actually probably diminishes from the gospel at the foot of the cross the ground is level there is no celebrity conversion there's no extra grace involved not at all so accordingly sober thinking requires us to recognize that when it comes to our standing before God there is no hierarchy there's no pecking order

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Paul says it this way in Galatians 328 there is neither

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Jew nor Greek there is neither slave nor free man there is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus looking back now into Romans 12 and beginning in 4

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Paul says here for just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function so we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members one of another so we're thinking requires us to properly appraise our role and relationships within the local church notice the he begins here in verse 4 with the with the preposition for that that links the idea back to what has proceeded so we've all come by faith therefore or for we who are many are one of another

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Paul's using a just -as -so -also kind of construction and he's drawing an illustration from the human body he's doing it in order to clarify the point regarding here the body of Christ it's a simple illustration unity and diversity in the body of Christ Paul uses the same kind of argument over in first Corinthians 12

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I mean you think about it for a minute the human body is fearfully and wonderfully made amen it is a masterpiece of engineering design just think for a moment with me at the macro level what's involved in even this simple function how many independent motor skills are involved in being able to reach down grab a cup bring it up to your mouth take a sip and put it away again it's an incredible design and we when we can do it well even you know giving it any serious thought

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God has built us in that way it's a ballet one could say of hand -in -eye coordination and then we get down to the micro level

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I don't know if you've ever spent any time YouTube has some great videos that show the inner workings of a cell and it is incredible it would put to shame the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world the way it all operates and so the human body is an is an incredible display of unity and diversity where each and every part is necessary for the functioning of the whole and that's the point of the illustration here that Christians like the various parts of the human body each of us we differ in form and function but we're all necessary and under equal obligation to serve one another equal obligation to serve one another why why what does

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Paul give us for an answer the answer is because we are members in one body we all belong to a single whole the body of Christ and the body of Christ is the visibly is in in Paul's terminology here is the visibly identifiable local church editorial here by the way

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I would not deny the universal body of Christ but I would suggest to you that the

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New Testament far in a way in reference to the body of Christ is speaking about a local congregation not the universal and invisible body of Christ okay he's talking here about a locally identifiable church and so when we think and act proudly in self -exaltation we contradict the work of the

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Spirit and bringing about the unity in the church and we thus obstruct his work in filling us in other words conforming us to the image of Christ both individually and corporately individually and corporately so we have the sin of self -reliance we have the sin of self -exaltation the sin of self exaltation and then third and finally we have the sin of self -will the sin of self -will it is in these ways that we quench or obstruct the work of the

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Spirit so the third way here is self -will it's the third way that we resist his influence and what it means is that we live we go about living on the same moral plane as those who are still lost in darkness that's what it means take a look with me over at Ephesians chapter 4 there's the 22 and 23 where Paul says that in reference to your former manner of life you lay aside the old self or the old man which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new self which in the likeness of God is being created in righteousness and holiness of the truth the assertion of self -will is the heart of rebellion it was the heart of rebellion and it saddens the

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Spirit of God who resides within us because it is inconsistent with our status as sons of the living

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God in other words when we give into self -will and live like our former selves we live back in that plane of darkness then we are we are factually denying through our actions the reality of our new status in Christ we're no longer acting out our family identity in fact we're reverting back to the old family identity notice in chapter 4 here in verse 30 where Paul says do not grieve the

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Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption it is by the way this this command and this underlying truth that separates

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Christian ethics and morality from all the other religious morals and ethics throughout the world it's the essence of the renewed mind the essence of the renewed mind and it underpins and it strengthens the

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Christian and it enables us to live in an ethical system that transcends natural human experience we begin to live like who we really are that's way different than sucking it up pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and trying to do better which is how the rest of the world's religious systems deal with morality and ethics but notice what

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Paul is saying here he is saying you were sealed for the day of redemption you were sealed for the day of redemption verse 30 the

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Holy Spirit is that seal he is that seal and he is that seal that secures us he is the seal that authenticates us as the father's adopted sons we looked at that last week chapter 1 and verse 13 where Paul says in him you also after listening to the message of the truth the gospel of your salvation having also believed you were sealed in Christ with the

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Holy Spirit of promise it authenticates us it seals us and in and will remain with us all the way till the end till the final day when

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Christ comes to take us home the Holy Spirit is our seal of redemption and he provides us with the security and assurance that God will fulfill his promised redemption so because God is placed to seal upon us we can be sure that he will never let us go be sure he'll never let us go but we can bring pain and grief into our relationship with him by grieving his

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Holy Spirit okay so when we live on the plane as a believer we revert to living on the plane of the unbeliever in other words we give in to that we do not lose our status as the sons of the

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Living God that has been sealed we have been sealed by the Spirit of God that is not in question however it is not without consequence and the consequence is that it brings pain into the grief into our relationship with God by the grieving of his spirit it grieves him when we live like that when we act like that when we speak like that to grieve is to disappoint it's to sadden is to hurt relationally as Christians we are in a personal relationship with God in which

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God himself and the person of his spirit resides with us and in us with us and in us and yet mysterious as it is

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Paul's telling them and he's telling us that our relationship with the Holy Spirit is such that we can cause him pain we can grieve him now that is by the way the reality of relationships only those we care about have the ability to hurt us only the those that we care about have the ability to hurt us beyond that there is no pain like relational pain it is the most acute of all pains so when we grieve the

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Spirit of God we pain God himself we pain God himself and that is a mystery to be sure how do we grieve the

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Spirit we grieve him by our words chapter 4 verse 29 let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth but only such a word is good for edification edification according the need of the moment so that it will give grace to those who hear so unwholesome speech the idea here is rotten speech not healthy speech but speech like a like a rotted piece of fruit when we speak in that way we grieve the

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Spirit of God who resides within us we can grieve him by our actions verses 31 and 32 that all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice be kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you so when we live in such a way that we give into bitterness or wrath or anger or clamor or engage in slander we grieve the

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Spirit of God who lies within us because in that moment we are betraying our family identity we are no longer living like the sons of the

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Living God that we really are but we are living like the old man Adam we grieve him by our thoughts we grieve the

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Spirit of God by our thoughts impure thoughts jealous envious selfish faithless thoughts these all grieve the

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Spirit of God they all grieve the Spirit of God remember where you are he is where you are he is he hears every word you speak he knows every thought you think you take him with you everywhere you go now we not only grieve the

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Holy Spirit by our actions we can also grieve him by our inactions and grieve him by our inactions when we refuse his prompting and contradict his word we grieve him again beloved this is a powerful and transformational theology this understanding of the work of the

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Spirit in us and our relationship to him and it changes the way we conduct ourselves change the way we conduct ourselves both in society and the church we carry with us

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God himself we are saved all says in Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 6 to the praise of the glory of God's grace that appraise of the glory of his grace and how we live in light of the indwelling spirit is one of the means by which we bring

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God the glory that he deserves it is one of those means furthermore furthermore we can grieve the

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Spirit of God when we do not repent we grieve the Spirit of God when we do not repent and that will inevitably lead to a loss of his presence with us and the resulting lack of fellowship with him a refusal to repent repent of sin when we become aware of it leads to a distancing within the relationship of God and a lack of fellowship are we any less a child of God in the moment we are not was

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David any less a child of God in the moment of his captivity in the sin of Bathsheba and the arrangement of her husband's you know judicial murder as it were no no but was there a massive distance in the relationship with his

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God yes there was there certainly was we experience a diminished joy a lack of assurance in our relationship with God when we are living in unrepentant sin can the filling of the

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Spirit leak out the answer is no the answer is no however we can and we often do hinder and obstruct his work of conforming us to the image of Christ by giving in to the three selves and if and when we experience those times of coldness those times of apathy towards the things of God it's time for some spiritual self -diagnosis time for some spiritual self -diagnosis maybe we are capable of doing it ourselves and maybe we need a trusted friend at that moment somebody who can come alongside us who has objectivity where we don't who we know loves us and is committed to us is committed to Christ and his word a true friend who will help us by asking us some questions these are the questions of self -diagnosis first where am

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I being self -reliant rather than depending upon the scriptures to define what is true where am

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I in my life being self -reliant because I am depending upon something other than the scriptures to define what is true maybe you can detect that in yourself and maybe you need somebody else to help you but that's the first question to ask yourself is where is the self -reliance showing up in my life second perhaps the answer to the first is it's not true

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I'm not being self -reliant okay I passed that question good good so another question to be asked is how am

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I exalting myself how am I exalting myself and seeking my glory rather than the

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Lord's in this particular situation what is it about my self -exaltation that is gotten bound up in this how has my ego become involved in this matter how has my self -worth been somehow wrapped up in this that I'm now seeking my glory rather than the

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Lord's again perhaps you can accurately see yourself and ask that question and perhaps you need help by the way this is where husbands and wives can be really helpful to each other if we have built a trusting relationship and understand and recognize that this person is committed to me like no one else they want my best faithful are the wounds of a friend right deceitful are the kisses of an enemy how am

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I exalting myself third in what way am

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I grieving the spirit by my thinking by my speaking or by my living like one who does not know

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Christ is an area of my life in which I don't live like a

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Christian perhaps there's there's some area that I have yet to be willing to relent and relinquish to the to the control of the

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Spirit of God maybe it's my Irish temper maybe it's some secret sin but I am grieving the spirit in this way is that true is that true and may

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God reveal it to me beloved it's not if we stumble into one of these it's when it's when for all of us so keeping short accounts doing accurate soul work in terms of self -diagnosis helping our spouse or a friend in these matters and the way back is easy isn't it isn't it simple it is to repent and return to the

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Lord and his arms are wide open to us the longer we stay away the more we make excuses the further we dig in the harder back it becomes let's pray our father as we sit here together this morning it is

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I think legitimately our hearts desire not to grieve your spirit but instead to live in submission to his word in our lives we all have areas where sin is constantly nipping at our heels and we confess that all too often we do give in but thanks be to God that we can repent and in a moment notice it can be done quietly even in our own heart even in this moment and surrender back to you and know the cleansing power of your spirit and his forgiveness and the restoration of that fellowship that we so treasure and enjoy our father we also recognize that this is the foundation of Christian marriage the ability to live out our new identity in Christ and bring that into the marriage is what will shape our marriages in such a way that we can recapture much of what was lost in Eden so long ago father help us encourage us as we sit to hear a sermon here in just a short time help us to be locked in with laser focus that we might give the raw materials to your

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Holy Spirit in our lives both today and this week to follow we pray in Jesus name well

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I guess I am actually maybe six minutes early is that true now he said

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Thomas 1020 hey look at that I'm even willing to try a question if you want

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I'm not saying I'm answering it but you can ask it you're either asleep there's no way

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I answered every single question that was raised but that's okay I don't mind enjoy the fellowship with one another bless you

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I did not hear the question right a verse to help to help remind us not to do those things yes

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I'm true I'd say again do not grieve the Holy Spirit yeah there you go thank you yeah

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Ephesians 430 yeah but I'm I've lost the handle to it it does that entire section talks about that that's right there's a few there's another one it's it's rolling around on the fringe of my brain and I am unable to and so rather than stumble all over it

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I'll just say wow it's out there I know it is okay any others okay thank you