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In Touch is sponsored by in touch ministries Oh uh a load a separate slogan leverage polo fitted. In well over well over. The hand of God in the glove of history that's the beautiful way that our teacher Dr J. Vernon McGee describes God's providence in the Book of Esther welcome to through the Bible I'm your host Steve Schwartz welcoming you aboard the Bible bus as we continue our study in the Old Testament Book of Esther now we left off yesterday with kings or axes in despair over the very public disobedience of his wife Queen by. Seeing his depression the king servant suggested a beauty pageant to identify a new queen Well what happens next I will find out in just a minute as we begin our study in Esther chapter 2 verse 4 but 1st we've got a few minutes to share some very encouraging e-mails from our world per team members now here's a note this is from George who writes in addition to being thrilled by the accounts of new brothers and sisters who have placed their faith and their very earthly lives in the hands of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and I sometimes visit their country and city by city Google Maps I am amazed at the beauty and the barrenness that they live with it helps me understand how to pray for them well that's a great tip George and you know I've done the same thing myself with the city of Katmandu in Nepal So thanks for e-mailing us and thank you for faithful prayers another team member name surely writes through your daily emails I'm more aware of the needs of taking the whole word to the whole world now I include producers and translators in my prayers for the country that we're visiting I also include all support staff before I just pray for the lost now that seems too little I look forward to each email and pray with the. Of Jesus for each one well thanks so much Shirley and keep up those prayers and thank you for getting so detailed we're seeing God move in incredible ways aren't way Next let's hear from Arlene I'm glad to have the privilege of associating with an organization that is accomplishing God's mandate to go to the ends of the earth and spread the gospel with my prayer I feel I'm helping however small it may seem while yes you are helping with your prayers Arlene So thanks for joining hearts and hands with our fellow team members around the world and then finally Surely she's in Oklahoma she shares this about her experience on the world prayer team 2 or 3 months ago a young lady from Somalia wrote that scene a friend were listening to through the Bible programs and chose to trust in Jesus she said she had no status in her country and in her home because she was a female and under-age She said many of her friends were listening to that gave me a thrill of thanks about a week before I saw on the news that there had been 2 bombings in Somalia killing over 300 people it gave me hope to know that God's word is being shared and hope is being heard I read the story to my Bible class and at night as I lay in bed I pray for my little sisters in Somalia Well thanks surely for your encouragement and your faithfulness in praying keep it up and if you'd like to join surely in our lean and George and more than 6000 other prayer warriors as we travel the world on our knees praying for God's word to reach his whole world then why don't you sign up today at T T V dot org forward slash pray I can guarantee you'll be blessed and if you're world per team member already we'd love to hear how our time together in prayer is impacting you do you see the world differently as a result of this journey. Is there a specific story or maybe a country that sticks out in your mind well tell us about it email us at Bible bus at T T V dot org or write to us of box 7100 Pasadena California 91109 or in Canada Vox 25325 London Ontario and 6 C 61 let's pray Heavenly Father thank You for the opportunity that we have to join you in your work around the world through prayer as we study today open our eyes to the wonders of your word in Jesus' name we pray Amen Here's through the Bible with Dr J. Vernon McGee I'm friends we're coming back to this rather remarkable Little Book of Esther and we have had occasion to call your attention here to that which almost sounded let's say should send the prayers chapter the wives who refuse to A but are has. And we were introduced so they write their own room and palace and that and quite hall of the great king. Of maybe of pars you know one of the great world rulers of a great world I am and he was planning a campaign against Greece at that time and this man at called in all of the leaders of the 127 provinces in his kingdom and then that happened something that I'm sure he did not anticipate at all is Queen refused to make his command fact of the matter is he would never commanded it and he not been drunk she refused and it revealed a family scandal something had to be done the measures had to be taken and she was satisfied sighed this king then made his campaign against Grace came back home retired in absolute humiliation and beat and in that state of mind he paced up and down his palace every day and so as servants they wanted to do something to cheer the man up they saw as a loneliness and they suggested of beauty contests and the beauty contests brought and girls from all these different province said Now we come to day to day or birds so this 2nd chapter and I'm going to read it and their thought laws and let them I know who plays a king be queen instead of. And the playing please the King and he did so now and shoeshine the palace that was a certain Jew whose name was Marty K.-I the son of Jr the son Shammai the son the kids should be. Then Joe My We now come to the star in verse 5 all that we've had before is just been the window dressing as been a stage prop so we were taken into a pagan heathen court and we were introduced to they happenings that for a very definite purpose that explains this beauty contest and the beauty contest explains how S. There came to the throne and because that's where it came to the throne why the night both her to intervene and enter say it in behalf of our people and an entire people would have been exterminated at that time had she not been that now we began to see that it was the hand of God molding back in this palace as we look and I called attention to the fact I see nothing Sperry Joe lad says godless is anything possibly could be a drunken Arjay that's taking play but God's over ruling and now we have beginning to say what this book teaches it teaches the providence of God and God was a range ing days of a man so that at the proper time he to have someone that intervene on behalf of his people and that becomes very important now somebody is going to raise the question about this beauty contest because they're going to say well as an addict contests you mean to tell me God approves of beauty contests Well my answer is very candidly and no I don't thank you dad but of my friend when a child of God gets out of the will of God gets way out yonder God permits and then it things that he does not approve and he well the route through these events that the Christian is doing today that he does not have broo. And again it leads me to say this one of the things that's employment in the little book of best is to see it that God does all the rule and that most Christians today are living way out Chunder on the brain and NJ of the will of God they're not really being directed by the will of God They are not what we call in the will of God their way out that where God is directing them by His providence and sometimes we call out the leading of God Well only indirectly and this girl now that enters this contest is an illustration heir of the per message well of God Now we are introduced to this man Marty K.-I and he alone and the royal family of Esther ale he belong to the family of Saul oh so kids she was the father of Saul and now this man belong to that royal group and one of the other evidences of it is burst 6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jack and Nyack king of Juda whom have you can as of the king of Babylon had carried away and that that allegation actually a nephew can as it came 3 times against Jerusalem and it was and these 1st 2 times that he came that he carried it away the best of the people that is he carried away the princes and the leaders now this man Marty can I belong to that group apparently as we shall say it must have been a little boy at that time but nevertheless he belonged to that family and he belonged to the family of Saul now we are told here he brought up a disaster that is. Asked there in the vast sun Esther mean the same thing Esther means star by the way and she certainly was a star apparently a very beautiful woman and we're told here that she was actually the step daughter of Marty K.-I he brought up but that said that is as very his uncle's daughter or she had neither father nor mother and the maid was and beautiful whom already K.-I when her father and mother were dead hooker for his own daughter so he's raising this girl in his home and she's a very beautiful girl now he had a position here in the palace by the way we're told that the 1st thing about him he was in shoeshine the palace and the question arises right here the one question we'd like to ask him what are you doing here in shoeshine the palace you ought to be back there in Jerusalem God has given a decree for your return and that's where you should be and here you are in a foreign country why don't you get back there well he's out of the will of God you say and the night my God won't be mentioned in this book he's not here at all not in name but you'll see that his fingerprints are here and not only that but someone as defined Providence as it's the hand of God in the glove of circumstances and believe me his hands moving in the glove of circumstances and friend that's true and your life and it's true and my live. Now he was then the policy had some minor position and in this minor position he was able noticed say these different girls as they came from the different sections of the empire and you always made note of that and I think made it come. I think he said to him south many times well that girl is not never as beautiful as my step daughter asked. And so as we move down through this section year by he is very much concerned now about entering her in the contests and when he saw that she would be a one or least they thought she would he didn't know that we are told so it came to pass when the king's commandment has decree were heard and when many maidens were gathered to gather on the shoeshine the palace of the custody of he guy that Esther was brought also under the king's house the other day and he guy he per the women. Had charge of the contents and these girls came and more to K. I saw that each day and he came to conclusion that his step daughter Esther had a good chance so he ended her in the contest and I'm sure that she was sorry now let's be very candid I must say that this particular juncture I do not have too much respect for this man Marty K.-I But I want to hasten and say this I'm going to change my mind and I'll eat my words and I wish I hadn't said what I'm saying now but I despise them for what he's doing now to begin with he's disobeying God God told his people not they intermarried he's definitely breaking the Mosaic Law when he entered this girl with the idea she'd become the point in the King and then the 2nd we'll discover that any girl that did not win had to enter the harem of the king she became. See that now that's exposed and this girl and all full line and he's willing to take that risk and at this. Point I do not have too much respect for Marty care but I want to say that's now bless you get a wrong impression I've changed my mind back in the matters before with throughout feel like throwing my hat in the air and cheering because I think he took a stand for God and I think probably we're going to be able to see that next time now let's move on down in this section you're getting interesting now I hope because Esther is being entered into the con she's turned over to the one in charge Hey Guy Now verse 9 and a maiden please and she obtained kindness from him and he's the deal they gave her on months for beautification women haven't changed the it and that was a great deal of Mike. And I hope no one's going to take a share with me about their use of makeup and about whether she should enter those contests now very candidly I don't think she should have entered contests and we're going to find out she didn't need Micah The great many extremists and this department today a day a lady came to me when I was passed in downtown Los Angeles and I thought down there in the institute she came to me one day and she thought that some of the girls there were using too much money and she said that she didn't think a Christian ought to use makeup and cause she put me out on lenses What do you think well I said very candid let's on to the woman ends I said I know some women that make up in Prove them and I think we all ought to do the best we can with what God has given to us and I says that some women don't use make up of life which is to me she took that personally and I want to add this she had a reason to do that to like send her a little make up later would improve you a great deal now. I hope you don't want to argue about that because all of this is actually out of the will of God but God is permitting this and it's by his providence now that she has been accepted by this man in charge I think when he looked at me like a very much and he said Boy she looks like a winner so he put her up front and that was as you say well that's an accident oh no Franz God by his problems over rules down here in our lives now that was given to her such things as belong to her 7 maidens who were sent to book to be given are out of the king's house and he removed turn a maiden son to the bass place of the house of the women now that's by the providence of God She's put up the number one slot now verse and asked I had not revealed her people nor her kindred them already Kay I had charged her that she should not make it known Now suppose she had made it known well these people were well known and that a rare they were people who will find out later the Animas said they got strange laws and they worship the living and the true God they did not worship I was and that was known in the minute that she had revealed her nationality she would reveal a religion and these people out of the well of God And when you are you don't boast of your testimony when you are out of the level of god you're not out to be a testimony for the law mumbo Jono on board that ship running away from God He hadn't told them he was a Hebrew you know why because he'd given himself away and he wasn't about to do that and he's quite a talkative following him sound by the way M R K I told her not to reveal who she was now will you notice and Marty K. I walk every day before the Court of the women's. House to know how their day had and what should become of her out I have been told that when you're in the will of God that you can just sit back and Ras and that you can you know say well I'm in the law as well and we'll let things just work out well when you're not in the law as well you're not going to be able to take that position if you do it will sure be a false position Marty Kay I knew that he was out of the will of God And so what did he do set down and white for the decision no Every day he walked up and down in front of the palace wondering how this thing would come out wondering whether if he had made a terrible blunder a mistake and doing this and he had already of bitterness fingernails back to his elbows he is absolutely right and the thing that he's done and he's worried say he's not sleeping at night that is for sure that's a condition a Marty and when you're out of the will of God You're not the rest back on the A lot of roles and say everything will be all right on the will of God not recognize some people this save them say I was on that I remember man that had cancer and that is why rather rebuke me for not trusting the law and she said we are resting on the law and the law won't let him die and all that I say and that you're not trusting the law because you've been going to the doctors and you rest in on them well the only difference say is he's not alive today and I still am I believe that you can be in the Lord's will and go to the doctor and I can assure you that's what I intend to do and that side taking on false position and calling it by Sometimes faith is not by it all it's foolishness and God has never asked anyone to take a leap in the dark by always rests upon. Facts and hear this man's definitely out of the will of God He hasn't anything to rest on at all now will you notice verse 12 now whenever my turn come to go into King Ahaz. After she had been 12 months according to the regulations for the women or so whether days of that beautification accomplished the way it 6 months with all of Martin 6 months with sweet odors and with bombs for the beautifying of the women now I've always felt that duty of parlors a mess 9 I tell my wife you go and I looking I think very good and you come out looking like a peeled on you ARE YOU LOOK LIKE THEY end of the mom that has been over you I don't want to call them beauty plugs then I know that there are many man that spend a lot of time waiting for their Wow so my wife can spend a long time in a beautiful but my friend here we have 6 months or one type of treatment 6 months for another thats one year in a beauty salon and I told my life one day one waited 40 minutes outside and I had in common Well the time she sat still waiting for the men and when she came out I said my YOU MUST BE QUEEN ass to spend that much time in a beautiful are less is quite a beauty treatment friends one year now will you know this 1st 13 then the US came every night none to the king whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the House and the women under the king's house in the evening she went on the next day she returned under the 2nd house of the women now listen to this to the class that they have she asked Gaz the king's Chamberlain who kept the concubine and you say of the girl didn't win the cup. As she became a concubine she came in on to the king no more except the king delighted in her and that she was called by name you see what Marty chaotic s'posed Esther to and apparently she's perfectly well and to do this now we're told in very special again now when the turn of Esther the daughter of Alba hailed oncle of morning who had taken her to his daughter was come to go into the king she required nothing but what he guided the king's Chamberlain the keeper the women upon it and asked Cain favor in the side of all of them looked upon or now it was decided that Esther did not need to have a year's beauty treatment hers was the natural beauty and I said My that's like gilding the lily to send her to the beauty parlor she's already beautiful and a lovely and everyone saw Are they said my There's a winner that's the girl it's going to land she just stood out above everyone else you see and again is the hand of God moving Yeah and this is the will of God No sir this is God move in by his providence ease going to put her younger on the throne next to the king because if she's not lying. Whole nation is going to be destroyed not only that God will be violating his word and you want to know something God never violate says word now that time has come for her to go in before the king and watch the amps are going to be well not only is it time for her to go. It's time to get all the air and that says the place just stop right where it's a cliff hanger and I know all of you well probably not sleep tonight wondering how this thing's going to come out all the providence of God is moving in the life of Esther placing her at the right place at the right time what an exciting story well if you're one of those who has Dr McGee described well lose sleep waiting to hear how the story works out then I suggest you go ahead and read Esther chapter 2 verse 16 through chapter 3 verse 6 in preparation for tomorrow study and in all seriousness we do encourage you every day to read the Bible text before each program so that you can prepare your heart mind for what we're going to study and to help we do provide a little bookmark with the Scripture references of what will cover each day if you want to download your free copy just visit T T V dot org forward slash bookmark or call us at 1865 bible to sign up for our newsletter and begin receiving the bookmark automatically by mail and if you haven't yet downloaded your free copy of briefing the Bible that contains Dr McKee's notes and outlines for Esther and the rest of the books the Bible visit T T V dot org forward slash briefing the Bible that's all for us today I'm Steve sweats and I'll meet you back here tomorrow as we continue to make our way through the 5 O C. 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And it says I therefore the prisoner of the Lord deceived you to walk worthy of the calling which you were called so we're challenged to walk or challenge to take this same grace that we've received and apply it to our living the way that we live our lives last week at Easter celebration we talked about the Gospel and the gospel has a departed from our lives we can apply it in a way that we live and a quick review if you remember in chapter 4 we were encouraged to walk in unity disgrace being expressed to each other to walk in unity but then also to walk in maturity we've all been given differing gifts and to use our gifts to edify the body of Christ and then to walk in transparency and to walk in the light spend a few weeks since we've been in a fusions but 3 weeks ago we talked about sexual integrity sexual purity walking in that light that God has for us now when we get into this section we're going to study this morning I think that it's the most important in the 2nd half of the book of the seasons because it's the life of the spirit the life of the spirit so the 1st is the 1st domino is who you are in Christ the 2nd is being empowered by the Spirit and then that falls to the other dominoes of marriage family work and spiritual warfare when I grew up I grew up in a bowling family my grandparents my grandma grandpa Warren They love to bowl My mom's the youngest of 5 so by the time I came along my grandparents were old even even elderly but they still loved to bowl and I have memories of them with their bowling bag like this in one hand like this and the other getting 2 to the bowling alley so of course my mom loves to bowl so family that I was we would all go to the bowling alley and I hate bowling. And the reason that I hate bowling is I would always lose you know it's no fun to lose your mom and bowling right. You throw a gutter ball loose so my older brother is in bowling and we're competitive as a family we like to compete so if I can't win I'm not enjoying myself and sometimes I think we view the Christian life kind of like bowling I've tried and I sailed I've tried and I failed so I don't want to try to be more or some of you that are going OK now we're going to get into to marriage next week I think I'll take next week off I've heard enough messages about marriage I've tried to be a godly spouse and I continue to throw gutter balls we're going to talk about parenting I don't want to talk about parenting I've heard enough about parenting and I know that I stand as a parent and I say Oh as a parent I throw gutter balls this challenge of last week of sexual integrity I continue to struggle in that area and I'm throwing gutter balls and church we have to hear these sections to be filled with the Holy Spirit how many messages have you heard about marriage that don't include your position in Christ the grace that you receive in Christ they don't include the power of the Holy Spirit and they simply give you your roles and responsibilities as a husband and wife. We're failing to see that it's not our power it's the power of of the Holy Spirit so this is the lynchpin to the Rx of the book confusions we're going to come back to this paragraph of being filled with the Holy Spirit because it is the Spirit of God that enables us to fulfill the rest of the book of the fusions see them that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise words see as an imperative verb in the Greek which means that it's an action guys wanting us to do something here the action is to walk circumspect this means to live carefully Some have translated this verse to see very carefully how you live God One says to you be aware of the decisions that were making walk circumspectly live carefully to be wise and not to be fools why would we have to live carefully what are we watching for what are we being circumspect well or being aware of our own sinful flesh aren't we. So easy to choose sin and have there be grave consequences until we go on to be with the Lord and we're going to struggle with our sinful flesh will there's many things that are looking forward to about Heaven's one of them is to no longer struggle with sense to wake up in God's likeness but until that happens we need to understand no matter how long we walk with the Lord we're still going to wake up and have temptation we're still going to be selfish we're still going to be prideful So we need to be aware of sin but we also need to walk circumspectly because there's a real enemy that wants to destroy US Satan doesn't want you to church this morning St doesn't want you to hear about the power of the Holy Spirit he wants to attack it in a great way and so we need to be aware of the enemy but it's not just of being careful to make sure we don't do the wrong thing but it's also to be careful that we do the right thing and then. There's instructions in the words of things not to do but there's also a glorious camions of the things that God wants us to do and this emphasis on being a person who is wise instead of a person who is foolish got to take a did a whole book of the Bible to wisdom the Book of Proverbs were told there in Proverbs that wisdom is a very precious Jan even more than rubies if you were to have choose wisdom or some monetary value God would say say choose wisdom so we want to walk carefully we want to live circumspectly verse 16 redeeming the time because the days are evil we need to buy back the time this word redeem means to make the most of times because the days are usually doesn't time fly and we are so busy busy busy busy busy people are away I don't even know if I have time to finish this message. Here probably struggling to go I don't know if I have time to come to church this morning I've got all of these things that I need to do we're wrestling in the back of our minds what's the rest of the day has for us right I got to get all of these things done this weekend if you're not sure if we're busy or 9 our culture just go to a busy intersection Academy and last of last will do as you leave church just wait for the light to turn green and go nowhere and see what happens. You're going to have some horns that are honking right because everybody's busy everybody's in a hurry we've got places to go but I'm not sure in our business there we're redeeming a time I'm not sure in our business that we're making the most of the time I'm not sure they were wise we could be foolish to try to imagine listening to the end of your life maybe God allows you to live a nice long full wife. And you have a gradual death bed type of experience in your afflicted complying your life what's going to matter what's what's really important in that and that moment Moses prayed and said so Lord teach us to number of days and we may gain a heart of wisdom Moses wanted to do the math and calculate how much time do I really have because if I know my days I'm going to have to gain a heart of wisdom what would be important on that desk that I'm sure relationship with the Lord. I think relationship with our families becomes of the most importance as well everything we're really going to read in the rest of the book the feature ends with marriage and family those are the things that are important to us in our work life glorifying God not so much what we did for work but how we did our work to do our work unto you the Lord what's brutal about time is once it's gone it's gone isn't it once you spend it it's gone so it vanishes the grave is brutal when someone passes away their time on this earth is over you can't have time with them again and that's what breaks our hearts so severely and we anticipate that we may live a nice full long life but it could be that we've got 6 more months to live with my I have 6 weeks we might have 6 years. Someone that's very close to us or even a distant coworker we may think they've got a lot of years to live but they may not right how would it change the way that I treated people around me if I didn't take for granted time I said this time is a gift I want to redeem the time I want to make the most of the time God tells us the reason to make the most of the time is because the days are evil which is an interesting cause or God is saying is you've got a mission and you've got a job to do the prior paragraph an infusion 5 was that you are light the world needs light and so don't waste time because the days are evil God wants to use our lives to shine his love to a lost and dying world redeem the time for 17 Therefore do not be unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is the 2nd exhortation to wisdom wisdom is redeeming the time understand what the will of the Lord is a wise person is going to understand what God's God's will is and we wrestle with God's will sometimes as your discussions like you know is it God's will that I would wear a flannel today or I would wear a T. Shirt today you know is it God's will that I would have a breakfast burrito or oatmeal for breakfast should I go to AAA or Cordoba which one is God's will definitely should go away and that discussion. Right should I marry this person should I not marry dispersions should I have this job should I not have this job and we get all confused about the will of God but God's words pretty direct about his will in Romans 12 and says Therefore I beseech you brother and by the mercies of God because of God's mercy because of his grace his kindness is an ending love present yourselves as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God What does that mean give your life fully over to God every part of us over to God upon his altar don't be conformed to this world don't be pressed into the world's mold but be transformed by the renewing of your mind as you get into God's word your mind's renewed your life is transformed and then here's this promise you'll be able to prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God flashback to mass class did you ever have a nasty teacher that you got the right answer but they said you need to prove it you need to prove it with your words and show how you got the right answers that brings back nightmares for me. I guessed I got lucky is that good enough I'm excited that I got the right answer but no they they wanted you to be able to have to prove it and show how you got to that conclusion and with the will of God you'll be able to prove it you'll be able to say I know from God's word this is what the Lord would have me to do God's a lot more concerned with who we are in these trivial decisions if whether you were a flannel or a T. Shirt Amen and if we put worship at the forefront a relationship with him in the forefront we're going to know what the will of the Lord is God also tells us why his Willis in 1st testimony says Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing and everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you so if you're thankful you are in the will of God but if I am unfaithful and I'm complaining I'm not in the will of God I spent too many days outside of of the will of God therefore be wise understand what the will of the Lord is verse 18 and do not be drunk with wine in which is dissipation dissipation is reckless living being drunk with wine leads to reckless living but these filled with the Spirit of God So we have a contrast here God is saying this is something I don't want you to do and this is something that I want to do in your lives do not be drunk with wines what is God's word teach us about alcohol it's actually pretty saying it's pretty clear 1st we see right in our text that don't get to the place of drunkenness with wine with alcohol because the reason for that is the substance is controlling you the alcohol is controlling you instead of the Holy Spirit when someone's drawn to their personality gets altered you can tell that someone's trying to you can tell they've had too much to drink because they're not themselves and different personalities respond different ways to being drunk when you're drunk you get to this place it's alcohol is a depressant isn't it how good do you feel the morning after you got drunk. Not very well indeed but the Holy Spirit and said it taking away control provides control the fruit of the Spirit is self-control the theory of the spirit is is love so very clearly without the whole we're not to be drunk the other things to consider with alcohol is your own conscience some of you as you pray this through with the Lord you don't feel at peace about drinking you feel the Lord's led you to not or not drink at all you need to honor your conscience and it's going to be different for different different people and also something very important is we need to make sure that we're not causing somebody else to stumble into liberty that the Lord has given to us so you have a brother or sister in Christ that's chosen not to drink it would be unwise to drink it in front of them you have a friend where alcohol is destroyed their life and they found victory you know you wouldn't want to flaunt your You're living liberty before before that so do you think that this teaching about alcohol could have to do with other substances as well absolutely any substance that you put into your body that's going to alter the ability for the Holy Spirit to lead our lives is something that God doesn't want and God doesn't desire and so whether it's alcohol or it's a substance once that takes control of our lives we're missing out on what the Holy Spirit wants to do in our lives as this flows right into the family of marriage and and children and work how many marriages have been destroyed. Because of alcohol because of drunkenness and can't tell you how many times a pastor is sitting down and talking with people that express the pain of drunkenness and what it's done to their marriage and their kids talking with adults they grew up with a father or a mother that was an alcoholic and said when dad would get drunk he would beat us he would beat mom and those those images are are very real. How much healthier would families be if there wasn't the abuse of drugs and there there wasn't the abuse as as alcohol I hope you know this just because something legal is legal doesn't mean that it's biblical right. If you're looking to the laws of the United States of America to define how you should live your life you have missed it amen right we have a relationship with God the living God He has his word and we respect the laws of the land but just because our country our state says something is legal says some substance is legal you know it's legal to do this is the will to you that we have to look to God's word and say I want to form my view also those of God's words so it's true about alcohol it's true about other substances but I think it doesn't stop there because we in order to be filled with the Holy Spirit there's things that need to be emptied out of our lives out of our hearts pride could be preventing the Spirit to work through my life the way that God would intend God saying I want to fill you with your which is Spirit but you're too full of yourself this anger this bitterness this resentment that you're unwilling to let go he's keeping you from being filled with despair it is anger this is this lust when we get the idea a few years ago I went to a pastor's conference and they gave us analogy bottles as a gift for the conference and that's now a gene bottle goes with me everywhere I go now for the last 3 years as we live in this dry climate. The bottle can only hold $32.00 ounces right and our lives can only hold so much and if we're still to without all were filled with some substance that's what's controlling our lives are filled with anger or pride that's going to prevent the Spirit of God coming and filling us so we need to be emptied how do we get emptied by acknowledging those things and turning away confessing to the Lord confessing to others asking for prayer and asking for the filling of the Holy Spirit what does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit is sometimes we get nervous when we start to study the Holy Spirit because we are confused about the Holy Spirit or maybe you've had a bad experience from the church when it comes to the teaching of the Holy Spirit to be filled with the Holy Spirit doesn't mean that you're going to lose control and start barking like a dog and rolling down the aisles some of you may be saying you know I don't know that that's for me because I don't want to start barking like a dog know that the fruit of the Spirit is going to result and self-control in your lives so let's pause here and talk a little bit about the Holy Spirit 1st this is the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit is God the Holy Spirit is a member of the Trinity the trannies 3 distinct persons but yet one God We know that the Holy Spirit is God because the story was an innocence of fire The text says that they why did the Holy Spirit and also that they lied to God clearly showing that the Holy Spirit is God was referring to the Holy Spirit as God So the Holy Spirit is God What's the role or job of the Holy Spirit inside of of the Trinity the Holy Spirit does a variety of things the Holy Spirit convinces us of our sin and points this to Jesus Christ. The reality of a person getting saved is the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives also Jesus right before he was crucified talking with the disciples in the upper room and he says guys it's to your benefit that I go away that's quite a statement it's going to be better for you that I'm gone and the reason is the Holy Spirit is going to come I'm going to send the Holy Spirit Jesus was X. Turn all as great as it was to have Christ right there with the Holy Spirit was going to be in them and that it was going to be far better for the disciples and Jesus tells us that the Holy Spirit is going to be a comforter and a helper and a teacher don't need a teacher I do. Need a comforter Yes I do need a helper why would we not want the feeling of the Holy Spirit why would we not want the work of the Spirit in our lives Spirit leads us and guides us into truth comforts us this word helper means that to come alongside and help in church this is where I think we've really missed it we got into this next section with husbands and wives it is so important we're praying that God doesn't work in our marriages and in our families but we do it apart from the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit's the one that wants to lead us we attempt to live in in sexual integrity apart from from the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit is the teacher the Holy Spirit's the comforter the Holy Spirit is is the guide we're also told with the Holy Spirit that we can quench the Holy Spirit. In our actions in our in the in in our lives we can quench the Holy Spirit we can also grieve the Holy Spirit so then the next question is how do I get filled with the spirit and is this is so important how do I have a life in the Spirit Jesus told us that we're evil don't you like how we just call it straight he looks at us and says You guys are evil and you know how to give good gifts to your kids even being evil we like to bless our kids and he goes on to say . How much more so will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who asked in one Gospel we have give gifts to those who ask in another gospel $100.00 points the word. 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