Thứ Năm, 30 tháng 3, 2017

Waching daily Mar 30 2017

Hey guys. So I'm doing something a bit different today.

The other week I interviewed Victoria Baek, a violinist, at her solo concert in London.

I want to start doing more interviews for a variety of things.

So for now, enjoy the interview, and apologies for the audio in advance.

There was a lot of people moving stuff behind us.

Hi, my name is Victoria, I'm a violinist and -

Yeah, you're a violinist, exactly

- That's where we go. - I'm not sure, what should I say.

No no, it's fine, it's fine. How do you feel the concert went?

Yeah it went well.

I really enjoyed it, yeah.

Yeah, that's great.

So how long have you been playing violin for?

I've been playing violin for 27 years.

- 27 years? - Yeah

So when I was, 5 years old.

But don't calculate my age!

Oh no! It' fine, don't worry, don't calculate that!

You were obviously very young, but what made you want to start violin?

Also, carry on violin for the rest of your life - what made you want to do that?

Because you know, since I was a child

I always have a dream of becoming a musician

a violinist, so…

Oh wow.

Yeah, there's not any..

- No reason, it's just like - you had to do - No reason, just inside, yeah

Something you had to do - oh lovely, that's great.

How long have you been living in England for?

England, I've been living here..

- Seven years. - Seven?

Since you were seven years old?

- No no, seven years I've been.. - Seven years, oh okay.

- You've been here for 7 years now. - I've been here 7 years.

Oh right. And what was the reason you moved?

Before I moved to London, I was in Russia - Saint Petersburg.

Oh I see.

So I want to see more wide range of cultural things

that's why I decide to come to London.

Something I wanted to ask you, what's the difference between playing

like, in the UK, to Russia, to Korea

what's the difference of playing?

Playing, you know, in Russia or Korea or London is not very different

But, if I say

from the audience view, or audience side

it's very different

because here, there's lots of the amateur auditions as well.

Because we can enjoy the amateur music, to world top class music.

Oh I see.

So every single day, we can enjoy so many various -

- There's something always going on. - It's all going on, yeah.

I see, I see.

What do you like about the UK, about England?

If there's something you can pick.

So

so did you ask me about what I like in..

Yeah in England - since being here.

Since being here..

You can enjoy many range of musical things

We can enjoy the Jazz, the Classical

It's not only Classical things, yeah.

I can enjoy the many various things.

Oh I see, I see, yeah.

For my own curiosity

I was wondering if you could teach me just a couple of Korean words

in regards to this, so -

What's the word for violin in Korean?

Baiollin.

- Is it vio.. - Baiollin.

Ba - is it biolin?

Not violin, ba-i-o-llin.

Ba-i-o-llin.

- Okay, so it is.. - Yeah, baiollin, it's the same.

- Oh it's the same? - Yeah, it's common, yeah.

Oh okay, that's interesting.

What about if you're a violinist?

- Is it just baiollin.. - Baiolliniseuteu.

Baiolliniseuteu?

- Simple, very simple, nothing crazy. - It's simple.

Okay great. How does it feel to finally be doing

like your own, I guess, solo concert in a sense

because you were the main act here tonight, how does that feel?

It's lots of pressure, of course you know.

We have to practise a lot

and then we have to quickly add so many things.

But after this, I really feel like I achieved.

Oh okay, that's great, that's great.

And if there was a combination,

If like, pop music and classical music could work together in some sense.

Yeah, always in the combination it's good, I think.

But nowadays - actually, I don't know about many Korean music before.

-But nowadays, I try to listen so many Kpop. - Oh really?

Yeah, nowadays.

And there are lots of Kpop audition programs?

- I'm really keen on watching.. yeah. - Oh okay.

What kind of groups do you like then?

Group?

Yeah, my viewers would be very interested in what groups you like.

Considering you're a violinist, it'll be interesting to see what you actually -

- Big Bang? - Big Bang? Oh nice, yeah yeah.

- Big Bang, that's nice. - And I like JYP as well.

- JYP. - JYP, yeah. Big Bang and JYP.

It's not a group, but I like him.

I saw Big Bang live once, and -

- it was great. - Oh, I've never been in a live shows, but

Yeah, very expensive, but it was very good.

I'd like to thank Victoria for being here.

And thank you for coming.

No it's fine. I hope you're satisfied with the footage I got

and hopefully I'll be doing more interviews on more stuff soon.

Thank you very much, and thank you very much to Victoria.

And thank you for interviewing me.

No it's fine, it's fine. And I'll send it to you soon.

Thank you very much guys, we'll see you soon, in a bit.

Bye bye!

Thank you very much.

For more infomation >> Interview with London Violinist Victoria Baek / 인터뷰 - 런던 바이올린니스트 빅토리아 백 - Duration: 5:27.

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Polowanie na bidon - który kupić? - Duration: 13:02.

Hey!

Yarpenn here. Welcome in the next episode of the Dwarven Bike series

Today we will not ride but

This episode is concentrated on a very important part of

Cycling gear, namely on a bidon

Every decent Dwarf going on an expedition

Should carry a water bottle

A skin or other container for the vital fluids

Among other dwarven spirits, mead

And water for weaker elves

And this bidon as I mentioned is very important

It can cost from a few copper coins

And most often it is built

With very poor quality plastic

Which may even be harmful over time

The more expensive ones need a bit more

Deeper look into the purse

To draw a few gold coins

Spring is coming, therefore

Another bike season begins

And after two years it would be good to exchange my old bidon for something new

Well, now we to Transa shop

A shop with equipment of all kind

And we'll see what we can buy

Ok, let's go

Perhaps a little small choice, let's go to another store

I wanted to buy Camelback but I can see that

There are only...

Cooling ones, there isn't any traditional water bottle

We go to another store

The prices that you see are given in Swiss francs

Price range is quite large

At the bottom there is one shelf

With more traditional bidons

Where prices are a little lower

I managed to find a traditional Camelback bidon

However I have given a few francs more

To buy a version with additional isolation

To be able to keep liquids cool longer

During very hot days in summer

Quite on the right side you can see water bottles for almost 30 francs

It is a Swiss product but it does not necessarily mean 'quality'

Was purchase was successful remains to be seen

In a moment you'll see the test (review more :P)

How does this compare with the old water bottle

And actually I need to celebrate this, therefore

I go to the cinema to see a movie called 'Logan'

Hey! Welcome in the second part of the 'Bidon hunt'

Small digression

Logan movie, great one, recommended not only to the fans of Marvel Universe

Coming back to the topic: A small surprise, I was able to collect four water bottles

To make a review, comparison

I will try to find the best of them

Looking from the left we have here

Powerade bidon, it is a bottle

That cost zero

It was free, more about this in a moment

Thömus bidon

We do not know who really produced it

But this is a Thömus brand, got it free when I was buying my bike

New one costs ten francs

Later we have Elite bottle bidon

Hygene (Corsa)

Elite speed drink

Which cost 9 Euro

So here the prices are similar, but this bottle

It is ... 480 ... 500 milliliters

While this is 750 milliliters

This is also three-quarters of a liter

And in the end

Camelback water bottle, Podium Big Chill model

0.75 liter too

With additional insert, which allows

Longer storage of cooled fluid

And what I can say about these bidons, the first of them

Powerade

0.75 liter

Gifted , produced by The Coca-Cola Company

I won two in a fairly simple art Powerade contest

Well, unfortunately, it turned out that the quality is so pretty average

In particular, I mean here

This element

So this cap

Which after some time simply

Cracked here and there

This plastic here is very stiff and very hard

And he could not stand the hardships of use on the bike

In addition, the mouthpiece

Had a tendency to get out

Well, as I say, this plastic

Here is mediocre

What it is also important here: digit "two"

In triangle

It is a designation HDPE material

Which was used to produce this bidon

This is one of the two safest materials used for the production of plastics

With the use of the food

Well, and therefore I don't have here objections

Another bottle, Thömus brand, used for two years quite intensively

You can see that he is not so cool anymore

Number

Four

It is also quite good quality plastic

But a little bit worse

Than numbers: two and five (the bottle is really a 'seven' and looks suspicious)

Which we have in these bidons

From what I know at high temperatures

Eg. Hot tea it doesn't suppose to be safe anymore

Very nice bottle, for two years served me

Very well

And I can not really say a bad word about it

Well, you know, here it is

As in the standard bottles

Here, here and here

We have the traditional plastic mouthpiece

Which...

While driving needs to be opened

By teeth or hand

And it is not so comfortable

And of course, if we have a little more sharp teeth ;)

Well, sooner or later, the plastic around here

Wears away

And the bottle starts

To leak, especially when it is full

And nothing is so annoying like leaky bidon

At the time when our precious liquid

Dwarven spirits

Pours on our horse's mane

Well, we don't want that at all

Third bootle

Elite brand, very famous

Very well-known brand

I bought it in France, funny story

I was in France, I wanted to buy some souvenir

Related with Tour de France

Well, of course, in any of the bike shops

They had absolutely nothing which would be related with Tour de France

I wanted to have a souvenir so I bought a bottle, which is...

An Italian production

Well, here we have seven ...

Oh!

(Apparently BPA free and polykarbonat, but who knows?)

Here we have seven

Which means: Other materials

Other plastics

So we really don't now

What sort of plastic it is

And if it's really safe to store

Food

You can find in internet these

Symbols and you may find that there are some materials that won't be safe

(Temp. Fluid only 23 Celsius degrees!)

So it is certainly a very big minus

Next case

This bidon was pretty cool at the beginning

Then it turned out

After a few weeks that this bottle leaks too

This one is leaking, leaking very intensively

Well, this one first after some time

It's hard to fault him here

In contrast, the leaked quite quickly

I was very surprised, as this bottle

Brand of this water bottle is

Very well known, liked and appreciated

And here you could read

An information that this bidon was produced

In January 2015

Theoretically, here is a glass and fork

Intended for dishwashers (at 23 degrees ????)

But I think I still believe ago bidonowi

Well, the last model, Camelback

Podium Big Chill

750 milliliters

In the triangle we have number five

Produced in January 2015

Two years in storage before I bought it

He was waiting for me

And the original

Camelback system

Mouthpiece

Which has two modes

Now it is closed

When we turn - it is open

That is funny: In both of these modes bottle doesn't leak

This is a very high-quality solution

And even as we leave the mouthpiece in open mode

At a time when it is mounted on your bicycle

Nothing is leaking. Herewe have a very good

Very good plastic, which

Only opens when we

Either suck or press

You can hear it

The air went out

But as I press gently, see, you can hear absolutely nothing

Only when I push harder

It is heard that

Something comes out of the water bottle

I tried to do in this way, nothing leaks

It happened only when I pressed it

Of course in the closed mode

Absolutely nothing leaks

Still remains a matter if

It will perfectly mated plastic so that nothing leaks

Oh and I forgot to tell you about the prices, here it was free

Here too, and normally it costs 10 francs

Here 9 Euro but 250 ml less

9 Euros, the prices are similar

Well, here seen before in the movie, how much was there?

A dozen, nearly twenty francs

Therefore, it is around

Two times more expensive

Well, this bidon is one of the most expensive on the market

Well, but here

This is yet an additional isolation layer

Which increases the value, the usefulness of this water bottle

If I had to choose

Well, after I made the purchase

Why I took this Camelback?

I have heard that this is a very good solution

So I decided to test

Absolutely

Fantastic solution with this mouthpiece

I leave it open all the time

I do not have to have open it

With my teeth

Will I succeed or fail

It's just that I'm using it and it works

Of course

This is the most expensive bottle

I realize that not everyone can afford such a solution

And if someone cycles not too much

Basic, oft free solution

Only, of course, the product is not available (normally) on the market

Will serve it's purpose

Of course, if we are ok to the fact that from time to time there will some leakage here or there

And If I couldn't

Buy this Camelback and had to choose another bottle

I would choose this bidon again

Why? Because for two years I could not really fault him

I got used to open a water bottle with my teeth

Well, but I wanted to try something new

Something more useful

The choice fell on Camelback

To this water bottle I would say: 'pass'

It leaked, therefore, the first impression was very poor

And the 'seven' in triangle wakes in me many objections

And what is most important in a water bottle?

Secure material from which it was made

Capacity

Clarity

Because sometimes it is good to see how much fluid do we have

Without looking or weighing in hand

Appearance, it is very important

Stylish, you know what's going on

And the price

A lot of people will be guided by the price of having a limited budget

That is why the market offers many possibilities

And of course the price brings quality

Fantastic mouthpiece solution

Very good plastic

Insulation

Large capacity

And certainty that this bottle is unlikely to leak

But we will be testing, I may find that

In a few months I change my mind

And we will have to return to the topic

And it would be the end

If you have any questions, leave a comment underneath

We'll be in touch

If you liked this video

Leave thumbs up

And subscribe my channel

See you in the next episode, bye!

Little bonus at the end

A band which was added to the

Powerade's bidon, but forgot to mention about it

Personalized band, therefore

I ordered this one: Yarpenn

Well and slogan, which you had to choose

"You can more than you think"

Here still missing from the side

"And you can get to this Ferrari"

Or, "If you really want, you can do anything"

Of course, on the one hand it may look very silly

But honestly I tied to this band

It is always on my main water bottle, therefore

From now on it will be my

Camelback bidon

And that's it for today, bye!

For more infomation >> Polowanie na bidon - który kupić? - Duration: 13:02.

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Top 10 Cutest Babies In The World 2017 - Duration: 2:59.

Babies are cute. People love babies and their "babyhood" movements.

There are times when babies pass a cute little smile once he or she sees his or her, mother/father.

The moments when the baby starts walking and talking, are the cutest and the pleasant times we all enjoy.

Well, we can keep talking about their cuteness. Pages won't be enough.

Hence, I will come directly to the point. I am here to show you the pictures of the cutest babies in the world. So, let's get started.

This little blue eyed baby boy truly justifies the meaning of beauty.

His eyes are the reason for his attractiveness. His blue eyes and innocent looking face make him different from other babies in the world.

This little girl has gray eyes, which not only makes her beautiful but also unique and attractive at the same time.

So okay, she may be older than a typical baby, but she has made on this list because of her cute smile and cute hairstyle. I don't think it will suit more perfectly on anyone else than her.

This baby is so relaxing to look at. Guess the cap has worked very well when capturing the picture. His tongue gives out a sweet impression.

She is wearing a very light pink dress, which makes her look like a princess. She has a cute smile on her face while her small eyes are shining naughtily.

This blue eyed baby boy is so serious, and we can't take our eyes off of his innocent face.

This baby is wearing a cute dress and we can't help but smile while looking at her beautiful face.

Baby boy with open mouth. His clothes and his open mouth made him so adorable and cute.

Her attractive blue eyes and innocent looking face are what makes her more beautiful.

She has a very attractive pair of eyes that make us feel as if we had one of our babies like her.

This innocent, cute baby girl is wearing a beautiful scarf. She looks so cute with her finger on her mouth.

These ten cute babies captured the hearts of many. They are not only adorable but also very lively looking.

While looking at the pictures, you will find yourself appreciating them and loving them at the same time.

For more infomation >> Top 10 Cutest Babies In The World 2017 - Duration: 2:59.

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The Essential Ministry of the Holy Spirit, Part 1 (Selected Scriptures) - Duration: 1:02:10.

Now we want to talk a little bit about the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and I don't want

to get bogged down and spend weeks and weeks and weeks defining every facet of the Spirit's

ministry, but to basically look at what is important and critical and revealed in Scripture

instructive for us and effective and necessary for our spiritual lives with regard to the

Spirit of God.

We have to assume a few things and one is that we're going to assume that you understand

that the Holy Spirit is God.

In fact, in Hebrews 9:14 He is referred to as the eternal Spirit.

And so that in itself affirms that He is God who is eternal and who alone is eternal.

Genesis 1:2 tells us that He was the one who moved across the formless deep and brought

form to it.

Therefore He is the Creator.

Scripture also tells us that He is the divine agent by which by whom the Scriptures were

written, holy men wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

There are Trinitarian passages in the Scripture, such as the baptism of Christ where you have

the Spirit descending as a dove, you have the Father speaking out of heaven, and you

have the Son present.

And so God is not just one God who appears in three different persons at various times,

He is at all times three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We understand then that when we talk about the Holy Spirit, we're talking about God...God,

the third person of the Trinity, fully God, worthy of praise, worthy of worship, worthy

of all that we render to Christ and all that we render to God the Father.

We're going to leave that as the foundation, that we understand that the Holy Spirit is

in fact as He is so designated in Scripture the Spirit of God, just as Jesus is the Son

of God.

But I want us to look based on that assumption of what His divine ministry is.

How He works to accomplish the purposes of God.

In eternity past when the Father and the Son agreed on the unfolding glorious work of redemption,

the Father determining to create a world and out of that world to call into eternal glory

a redeemed humanity as a love gift to His Son...the Son responds by being willing to

receive that gift and to be incarnate in this world and therefore pay the price necessary

to purchase that gift, the price of redemption on the cross.

And so we think about that pledge between the Father and the Son that sets all of redemptive

history in motion, but it's important to affirm as well that the Holy Spirit agrees in all

of that and becomes the one who makes application of that plan.

It is the Spirit, for example, who comes upon Mary and she is given a child without a human

father.

It is the Spirit who fills the Lord Jesus and who works through Him so that to deny

the power of Jesus was to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

It is the Spirit in the Father's will who raises Him from the dead.

It is the Spirit who comes down and establishes the church.

It is the Spirit who regenerates every believer.

It is the Spirit who has given, as I said, full revelation of God so that all we know

about God and all we know about redemptive history, and all we know about salvation is

the product of the Holy Spirit.

So we're talking when we talk about the Holy Spirit of God the very God, as the ancients

used to call Him.

He is equal to God in every...to God the Father in every sense, equal to God the Son in every

sense, and in no sense is He less than equal.

And yet certainly He does not get equal consideration and that would be perhaps more true in this

particular climate than it has been, at least in my life, in the past.

I remember when I began to do ministry as a college student and speak here and there

at youth conventions and places like that, almost everyone wanted me to speak on the

ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Everywhere I went I was asked to speak on what it means to be filled with the Spirit,

what it means to walk in the Spirit, what it means to be sealed by the Spirit, what

it means to be indwelt by the Spirit of God, what it means to be taught by the Spirit,

what it means when the Bible says I'll bring all things to your remembrance through the

Spirit, the Spirit of truth.

This was a major emphasis.

Many books were written about the Holy Spirit, on the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

I would say that it was probably the ministry of the Holy Spirit that was the dominant theme

in those early years of my ministry.

There was a lot less being said about the person and work of Jesus Christ, there were

some things that were sort of standard givens, very little was being said about the doctrine

of justification, substitution, imputation, which is very popular in evangelical circles

today.

And frankly not a lot was being said about God and the character of God and the nature

of God.

If you wanted to find a book like that, you pretty much had to go back to Puritan literature

and find Stephen Charnak's Existence and Attributes of God, or some old book on God, until A.W.

Tozer's little book began to gain public interest, The Knowledge of the Holy, and then J.

I.

Packer's very impactful book, Knowing God arrived on the scene in the early years of

my ministry and people began to their focus toward God.

And little by little the interest in the Holy Spirit diminished and the interest in the

Holy Spirit among evangelicals began to diminish in direct proportion to the ascendency of

the Charismatic Movement.

As the Charismatics increasingly kidnaped the Holy Spirit and held Him hostage to their

aberrant theology, interest in the Holy Spirit began to wane among other evangelicals who

didn't want to start a fight with the Charismatics.

So there was a certain setting aside of the ministry of the Holy Spirit for the sake of

unity because if we are going to teach a biblical doctrine of the Holy Spirit, it's going to

be an all-out attack on aberrant teaching concerning the Holy Spirit which is essentially

rife in that movement.

And so, little by little discussion, meaningful discussion, helpful, direct, accurate, precise,

biblical presentations of the person and work of the Holy Spirit began to disappear.

After the Charismatic Movement had done its work of sort of coopting the Holy Spirit for

its own definitions, along came the Pragmatic Movement.

And pragmatism basically said we can do the work of the church, we can do the work of

the ministry through human means.

If we just figure out sound marketing strategy, we can win people to Christ.

If we figure out how to effectively present the message and approach people on the basis

of their felt need, we can convince them by our technique and by our style to embrace

the gospel.

If we can figure out the psychological keys to people, if we can find out what makes them

tick, if we can define them psychologically and know where their points of psychological

contact really are, then we'll be able to reach them.

And so as the church moved from the Charistmatic Movement to the Psychological Movement and

into the Pragmatic Movement, interest in the Holy Spirit continued to diminish and diminish

and diminish until here we are today and it is a very rare thing to hear a message on

the person of the Holy Spirit or the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

On the one hand we're reluctant to teach the truth as over against the error that's so

popular about the Holy Spirit.

On the other hand, we aren't really sure that the Holy Spirit is that critical about everything

because we're so good at what we do in terms of marketing and strategies and we have figured

out people so well with our psychological analysis that we know basically how to get

to them and maybe the Holy Spirit's ministry isn't as critical as it once was.

In addition to that, we've got so many resources, we have so many books and tapes and CDs and

seminars and opportunities for people to get the information that they need and digest

and process that information and we have so many ministries, endless ministries, so many

teachers on radio, and television, and so many authors proliferating the landscape that

there's certainly enough out there for people to absorb.

And we wouldn't say it but it makes the Holy Spirit a little less critical.

Well something like that was going on in Galatian thinking, in the churches in Galatia and Paul

addressed it.

Turn to Galatians chapter 3, a little different approach but the same idea.

They too were diminishing the place of the Holy Spirit.

Chapter 3 of Galatians, and I don't want to take the time to develop the whole argument

here, but we'll read the first three verses and make a couple of comments just to set

the context. "You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ

was publicly portrayed as crucified?"

This is the only thing I want to find out from you, it's down to this, did you receive

the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

Are you so foolish having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

The Galatians, like all other believers, began their Christian lives in the power of the

Spirit.

That's how they began.

But they were coming under the influence of Judaizing teachers that would be Jews who

would affirm the gospel and the Lord Jesus Christ, but also would add the necessity of

circumcision, literal physical circumcision, and obedience to the Mosaic Law as a necessity

for salvation so that they are essentially asking people to be saved by the Lord Jesus

Christ and then to live their lives if their salvation is to be legitimate, following Mosaic

ceremonies, circumcision, and Mosaic Law.

The gospel of grace then disappears and in its place a system of human effort.

Paul calls this being bewitched...bewitched describes their condition, baskaino is the

Greek verb.

It means to fascinate.

It means to charm in a misleading way.

Who has charmed you away from reality?

Who has charmed you away from the truth?

They had become willing victims, succumbing to a flesh-pleasing kind of spirituality.

They received the Holy Spirit by faith.

They began the Christian life by faith.

Is it going to be perfected by flesh?

Is it going to be perfected by fleshly methods, by circumcision and the keeping of the Law

and ceremonies?

Paul's point is pretty simple.

If a person receives eternal salvation through trust in Christ who is publicly displayed

as crucified, verse 1, and at that point by believing in the crucified Christ has received

the fullness of the indwelling Holy Spirit as all believers do at the point of salvation,

and if with the Spirit taking up residence in that believer's life, the power of God

is therefore placed at that believer's disposal, why would anyone turn to human effort to achieve

spiritual goals?

The Holy Spirit is the Christian's source of life and power.

The Holy Spirit is to the Christian what the Creator is to the creation.

Without God the Creator, the world does not come into existence.

Without God as the sustainer, it does not continue in existence.

It is God who created it and God who sustains it.

And so it is with the Holy Spirit and the Christian.

Without the Holy Spirit we wouldn't be the new creation.

Without the Holy Spirit we wouldn't be born again, we wouldn't be regenerated.

And without the Holy Spirit we would not continue to be constantly being sanctified by divine

power.

We would immediately, apart from the Holy Spirit, fall back into spiritual deadness

from which we came.

The creation cannot continue, it cannot survive without the upholding power of God the Creator,

and neither can a Christian sustain that Christian life by works or by ceremony or by religious

rite or ritual, it can only be sustained by the Holy Spirit.

Were it not sustained by the Holy Spirit, I say it again, we would drop right back into

spiritual deadness.

We live in the Spirit.

We are being kept by the Spirit.

He is the source of our life.

He is the sphere of our spiritual existence.

No one is saved without the Spirit or sanctified without the Spirit.

We cannot minister in the flesh, we minister effectively and only in the Spirit.

So why...he says to the Galatians...would you begin understanding the power of the Spirit

that saved you, and then turn from the work of the Spirit by grace in your heart backwards

to those things which you left, those outward external fleshly shadowy symbolic elements.

Why begin in the power of the Spirit and try to perfect what was begun in the flesh?...in

the flesh?

I have the feeling that the evangelical church today that certainly would claim to have begun

in the power of the Spirit at salvation has now tried to perfect itself in the flesh.

This massive movement called the Charismatic Movement ascribes itself to the Holy Spirit

but it is far more a work of the flesh than it is the work of the Spirit because the Spirit

of God does not invest convincing expressions of His power into aberrant theology.

The Spirit of God doesn't do that.

If there were a gift of healing, it wouldn't belong to a heretic.

God doesn't verify heretics.

It wouldn't belong to a false teacher.

It wouldn't belong to a charlatan.

It wouldn't belong to a fraud.

It wouldn't belong to somebody getting rich at the expense of sick people.

If God gave those kinds of abilities to do miracles, He wouldn't give them to people

who want to take your money and run.

He wouldn't give them to scam artists.

He wouldn't give them to those who teach wrongly about the work of the Holy Spirit.

God does not validate and verify error.

But we've backed away as if people in that movement are the only ones who have a right

to affirm certain things about the Holy Spirit, and it's time without necessarily focusing

only on that movement to say we need to go back and understand what the Bible says about

the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Now if you want to know more about that specific movement, I have written a book called Charismatic

Chaos, it still speaks to that issue clearly on the subjects that are necessary.

But it isn't just that.

As I mentioned a little while ago, we've become very good at what we do, very crafty at what

we do in the church, very skilled at our style and technique, very good at developing music

that attracts a crowd, very good at assessing people's psychological felt needs.

We've become very adept at marketing strategies so that we can sell millions upon millions

of books when we figure out the strategy that's going to work in a given market and a given

culture.

We're good at that kind of stuff.

And that's a big head trip.

And when many numbers of people respond to that, it gives the illusion of spiritual success

and it may have absolutely nothing to do with the Holy Spirit.

Very little talk about the work of the Holy Spirit today, very little interest in the

filling of the Holy Spirit, very little interest in walking in the Spirit.

And as I said, in the early years of my ministry, everywhere I went this was the main issue

to talk about.

I had a period of about two and a half, almost three years just before I came to Grace Church,

way back in the sixties, when I was traveling around preaching about 35 times a month...about

35 times a month.

I did that for about two and a half years, almost three years.

And I was speaking mostly to youth groups here and there.

And in variably everywhere I went they wanted me to talk about the ministry of the Holy

Spirit.

That was just what everybody was interested in.

That was before things got so confusing with the development of the Charismatic and the

Pragmatic and the Psychological Movement.

This is to dishonor the Holy Spirit, of course, and we need to go back and give to the Holy

Spirit the honor that He is due as God.

You cannot set Him aside without bringing dishonor upon God for He is God.

So what are we going to learn about the Holy Spirit?

Let me give you some things to think about, just a little bit of a list, okay?

We're going to kind of work our way through this list.

Before I do that, just one other comment or two.

I really believe that this is a sin in the life of the church to diminish and depreciate

the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

It is a serious sin.

It is a sin to think that we can do what only the Holy Spirit can do, that we can by our

cleverness convert people.

Plagianism, if you will, is a sin, that is to believe that people are saved by their

own will and all we have to do is manipulate their will.

It is a sin against the Holy Spirit.

It is a sin to think that we can win people to Christ by our techniques.

It is a kind of usurping of the role of the Holy Spirit.

It is a kind of blasphemy, if you will.

It's a kind of profanity, really.

And we know that the Holy Spirit always works His work through the Word, and you cannot

honor the Spirit without honoring the Word...for the Spirit is the author of the Word.

It comes down to the fact that the church has lost its interest in the ministry of the

Holy Spirit, feeling that perhaps it can do things better.

And I'm deeply concerned.

And I think the Spirit is quenched and grieved over this.

So let's talk about the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

First of all, we have to start where we have to start, and that is that the Holy Spirit

is the agent of salvation...the Holy Spirit is the agent of salvation.

I don't know if I'll get past this, that's okay.

What do we mean by that?

Let's begin by looking at John 16....John 16.

And I want you to know that there's so much in the Scripture about the Holy Spirit that

we could never do an exhaustive study of this in a few Sunday nights.

We're not attempting to do that, rather to give you an overview.

This is Holy Spirit, class 101.

This is not the advanced study of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

If you want the advanced and more extensive study, you can go to the book store or the

library and you can dig tomes out of the shelves that will expand on the marvelous breadth

of biblical revelation concerning the Holy Spirit.

But there are some things that are so foundational regarding the ministry of the Holy Spirit,

that we need to understand them and understand them well.

In John chapter 16, the Lord Jesus is promising to send the Holy Spirit.

He has been saying that.

He says it in chapter 14, He says it in chapter 15 and He says it again in chapter 16.

Look at verse 7. "If I do not go away," the middle of the verse...the helper, the paraclete

, the one who comes alongside, the Holy Spirit who has been so designated in the earlier

mention in chapter 15 and verse 26 and back in chapter 14 verse 26, the Advocate, the

Helper, Paraclete, the Comforter. "If I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to

you.

But if I go, I will send Him to you and He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning

sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me, concerning

righteousness because I go to the Father and you no longer behold Me.

And concerning judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged."

Now we'll stop there for the moment, anyway.

What is this ministry of the Holy Spirit?

Convicting the world...convicting the world.

That is, bringing upon the heart and soul of unredeemed humanity, the awareness of sin.

He does a convicting work.

He convicts of sin, first of all, because they do not believe in Me and that is THE

sin that damns.

Finally and ultimately, no other sin finally and ultimately will damn you but that one.

Those who go to hell go to hell because they do not believe in Christ.

Any other sin is forgiven when one does believe in Christ.

So this is that ultimate damning sin, rejection of Jesus Christ.

The Spirit then convicts, the Spirit works in the heart to produce guilt and fear and

anxiety and trepidation and terror and the reality of sin.

And then secondly, righteousness, "Because I go to the Father and you no longer behold

Me."

What does that mean?

It means the Spirit convicts the sinner not only of his own sin, but the Spirit convicts

the sinner of the righteousness of Jesus Christ who is utterly unlike the sinner and that

is why the Father received Him at the right hand.

He went to His Father and His Father received Him and sat Him at His right hand because

of His perfect righteousness.

It is the Spirit of God then who works those great realities in the human heart..the reality

of the sin of the sinner and the righteousness of the Savior.

And the Spirit also produces in the heart conviction concerning judgment, that sin will

be judged because the ruler of this world has been judged.

As Christ bruised the serpent's head at the cross, as Christ crushed His enemy as the

seed of the woman of Genesis 3:15 destroys the enemies of our souls, we see the judgment

power of Christ displayed and all who are part of Satan's domain will experience that

same judgment.

Those are the things that the Spirit of God wants to produce in the heart by way of a

conviction...conviction of sin because people don't believe in Christ, conviction of the

absolute perfect righteousness of Christ who has therefore satisfied God with a sufficient

atonement and propitiation and entered into heaven and seating...and being seated at His

right hand, and of the reality of judgment upon those who remain a part of Satan's domain.

Since those are the areas which the Holy Spirit works to convict sinners, then those should

be the areas which we proclaim, right?

The Holy Spirit doesn't do this work in a vacuum.

As we preach sin and righteousness and judgment, we provide the necessary truth for the Spirit

of God to work His great work.

Admittedly, preaching sin is not popular, it's not what people want to hear, but it

is absolutely necessary.

Preaching the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ and the fact that His sacrifice is

there...is therefore a perfect satisfaction to the holy law of God and the perfect...a

perfect offering to satisfy His holy wrath, He then receives Christ to His right hand.

And so we are preaching here the great doctrine of substitution, the great doctrines of propitiation.

And, of course, we preach judgment.

And that means the judgment of the prince of this world and all who are a part of his

kingdom of darkness, we preach eternal judgment, eternal hell, eternal wrath, eternal retribution.

The Spirit of God works to produce these things.

The Spirit of God needs the Word to be proclaimed in these categories in order to do His work.

And there are literally all throughout the pages of Scripture, all throughout the pages

of Scripture, these truths over and over again rehearsed...in the Old Testament by way of

prophecy and type and symbol, and all throughout the New Testament.

Listen to 1 Thessalonians 1:5, "Our gospel did not come to you in Word only, but in power

and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction."

When you preach the gospel in the power of the Spirit, He produces conviction.

If I want to evangelize somebody, if I want to preach a message that really can change

people's hearts, the first thing I have to understand is I can't do that...I can't do

that on my own.

There's only one who transforms people and that's the Holy Spirit.

So I want to ask the question, what is it that the Spirit of God does, what is it that

the Spirit of God uses to begin the work of conviction?

And it is the truth about sin and the truth about Christ and the cross and the truth about

judgment.

Secondly, if we're going to begin at the beginning, we have to understand that it is the Holy

Spirit who produces conviction when the truth is proclaimed and heard and understood.

It is also the Holy Spirit who produces repentance.

It is also the Holy Spirit who produces repentance.

In fact, I'm confident that's precisely what we have in the eleventh chapter of Acts in

the eighteenth verse. "When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God saying,

'Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.'"

And how did this come about?

The preaching mentioned earlier in verses...prior verses.

And then in verse 15 the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He did on us at the beginning.

Verse 17, God gave to them the same gift that He gave to us, also after believing in the

Lord Jesus because the same Spirit who came upon us is the Spirit who came upon them who

had prior to that granted them repentance.

The Spirit produces conviction about sin, conviction about the truth of the cross which

is related to sin and our sinfulness and the only hope we have to escape judgment, and

the Spirit produces conviction about judgment in order to produce repentance.

And, of course, we can add to that, look at 1 Peter 1:12...1 Peter 1:12.

The Spirit energizes the gospel, and these are just different ways at looking at the

same dynamic work of the Spirit, but 1 Peter 1 it says, "It was revealed to them that they

were not serving themselves but you in these things...speaking about the Old Testament

prophets...in these things which now they have announced to you through those who preached

the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven."

The gospel when it is truly preached is preached by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.

Why do we say that?

Are we talking about some mystical power?

Well we're talking certainly about the divine power of the Holy Spirit.

We're also talking about the gospel which has been given to us by the inspiration of

the Holy Spirit.

So the Spirit who is the author of the gospel is also the Energizer, those who preach the

gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.

Again the indication here is the Holy Spirit is the Energizer of gospel preaching.

First John 5 says, "The Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is the truth."

Whatever is a representation of the truth of Scripture comes from the Holy Spirit and

is therefore the witness of the Spirit, it is further energized by the Spirit.

Go back to John chapter 3, and we're just touching on these things ever so briefly in

order to keep moving a little bit.

But in John chapter 3 it all kind of comes together here where Jesus has His conversation

with Nicodemus. "How can a man be born when he is old?" talking about the new birth, talking

about how to get into the Kingdom of God, necessary to be born again.

And then in verse 5, "Truly, truly...Jesus says...I say to you, unless one is born of

water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit."

The point here is the Spirit regenerates.

So the Spirit convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment.

The Spirit produces repentance by means of that conviction.

The Spirit energizes gospel preaching.

And the Spirit then regenerates.

If there is regeneration, it is because the Spirit has done that, the Spirit gives life.

That's why we're talking about being born of the Spirit.

In Titus chapter 3 it says in verse 5, "He saved us not on the basis of deeds which we

have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy by the washing of regeneration

and the renewing by the Holy Spirit."

It's the Spirit that renews and regenerates.

Those are almost synonyms in that passage.

So the whole work of salvation then is a work of the Spirit of God.

He's the author of Scripture which is the source of truth about sin, righteousness and

judgment.

He is the author of Scripture which is the call to repentance.

He is the author of Scripture which is gospel truth.

It is He who then through the proclamation of the Scripture convicts, produces repentance,

energizes gospel preaching and witness and regenerates, gives new life.

Now that is not all that the Holy Spirit does, but that's the initial work.

And there are a lot of ways to see that in the general flow of New Testament teaching.

Let me just give you a couple of illustrations.

Look at 2 Thessalonians 2:13 and here we get a little broader look at this initial ministry

of the Holy Spirit...2 Thessalonians 2:13, "We should always give thanks to God for you,

brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation

through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth."

We're not talking about progressive sanctification here, we're talking about the sanctification

here that is synonymous with salvation.

And sanctification often is synonymous with salvation.

The word sanctification means to be set apart, it means to be cleansed, it means to be separated.

That's what salvation is, we are separated from sin, we are separated from iniquity,

we're separated from condemnation, we're separated from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom

of God's dear Son.

So initial salvation is a launch of sanctification, it is a separation.

And that's what we're talking about here because he says, "For salvation through sanctification."

It is this kind of sanctification that saves you and it is by the Spirit and faith in the

truth.

It happens in that perfect combination of believing the truth when proclaimed and experiencing

the glorious power of the Holy Spirit.

He sets us apart to God.

This is another way of saying everything I've already said, that He convicts and He causes

repentance and that He gives the gospel power and He regenerates...just another way to say

the same thing.

There are many other things that the Holy Spirit does but everything starts with His

mighty work of salvation.

So that...going back to our text in Galatians chapter 3, you don't need to turn to it, just

listen...Paul says, "Having begun in the Spirit are you now perfected by the flesh?"

We know we began in the Spirit, it all started with the work of the Spirit.

And we needed to be reminded again the fact that any evangelism that bypasses the agencies

which the Spirit uses, that is the biblical revelation about sin, righteousness, judgment,

the biblical truth about repentance, the biblical truth about the gospel and we talked a little

bit about that this morning and what's involved in a true and appropriate presentation of

the gospel, and the biblical truth about regeneration and that it's not something the sinner can

do for himself but it's something that only God can do and all the sinner can do is cry

out to God and beg God to do that on his behalf, when we preach that kind of message, then

we preach the truth which the Spirit of God applies.

Having begun in the Spirit, can we then be perfected by the activity of our flesh?

That's the question Paul is asking and while it relates to the specific issue going on

there, are you going to go off now into some fleshly form of living, some external ritualistic

ceremonial kind of living and assume that's a necessity to hang on to your salvation and

to progress with God?

If you do, then you're forsaking the Spirit with whom you began and you're now living

in the flesh.

And this is a kind of bewitching.

We need to continue in the Spirit now that we have begun in the Spirit, we need to continue

in the Spirit.

What does that mean?

Let me give you a few things to start and I probably have about...oh, I could give you

15 or 20 things the Spirit does but we'll see how many I finally kind of boil it down

to.

But there are a couple of things that we need to start with here, okay?

Number one, He brings us the knowledge of and communion with God.

He brings us the knowledge of and communion with God.

The Spirit is the one who gives us access into fellowship with God.

He is the source of all our communion, all our fellowship.

Turn to Romans 8...Romans 8, there's a couple of passages that say this and they'll be good

enough to suffice for the moment to make the point.

But in Romans chapter 8, this is the chapter on life in the Spirit and I would suggest

to you that you couldn't study anything better than this entire eighth chapter to find out

what it means to live in the Spirit.

And we looked at it a little bit earlier in our doctrinal study when we were talking about

the doctrine of sanctification.

But it's about the Spirit.

Verse 9, for example...well, we can go back to verse...you can go all the way back to

the beginning of the chapter, but let's go back to verse 6, "The mind set on the flesh

is death, the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace."

Verse 9, "You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if indeed the Spirit of God dwells

in you."

Verse 11, "If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who

raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His

Spirit who indwells you."

Verse 13, "If you're living according to the flesh, you must die.

But if by the Spirit you're putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

All who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God."

So we're talking about life in the Spirit here clearly...clearly.

We begin in the Spirit and we live in the Spirit.

We go on living in the Spirit, not according to the flesh.

But just look down to verse 14, and we'll pick out one of the elements of this that

it should be a treasure to us all. "All who are being led by the Spirit of God, these

are sons of God."

When you experience the direct leading of the Spirit of God in your life, it is an affirmation

that you belong to God as a true son. "For you have not received a spirit of slavery,

a spirit or an attitude of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit

of adoption as sons by which we cry out Abba, Father.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God."

Now this is a marvelous reality in our lives.

We literally say Abba, Father.

That's a...basically it's a diminutive for papa, daddy, signifying endearment, intimacy.

It's like the writer of Hebrews saying, "Let us draw near," or James, "Draw near to God

and He will draw near to you."

This is an immense privilege to call God daddy, papa.

And we do that by the Spirit.

The Spirit frees us from fear, frees us from dread, frees us from terror that one might

have in one's heart in approaching God an all holy, glorious God.

And we come into God's presence as children and we come eagerly and we run into His presence

and we speak to Him intimately and we unload our issues and our desires and our prayers

and our petitions and our praise and we say papa, and daddy, and that's the work of the

Spirit.

When one has been born again, the Spirit of God produces that attitude in the heart of

a believer.

We feel drawn to God, not fearful of Him.

We feel privileged to ask Him for anything and the Spirit of God gives us that internal

freedom.

The Spirit of God has revealed in the Scripture as the divine means by which the Scripture

has come to us all these things that are true about our relationship but I don't think it's

just talking about information, I think it's talking about a spirit or an attitude.

That's verse 14.

If you're led by the Spirit, these are the sons of God, you have not received a spirit

of slavery.

That's gone.

You hear people talk about being converted and the burden being lifted.

You hear people talk about never wanting to pray, having no knowledge of God, no interest

in God.

All of a sudden they're converted to Jesus Christ and they're eager to pray and they're

eager to read the Word and they love to commune and they want to sing praises.

And they sense that God is open.

There is a true joy of fellowship because access has been opened.

We can even cast all our care on Him because we know He cares for us.

We can unload every issue in our lives.

We can be honest with Him about our sins.

We don't have to hide them from Him.

We can be honest with Him about our sins, we should be honest with Him about our sins.

We should confess them all before Him without fear knowing that they are all covered by

His grace through the sacrifice of Christ.

So the Spirit then opens to us communion with God.

And as you grow as a believer, this joyous communion, this joyous prayer and praise takes

over more and more of your life and there's a wonderful freeness in that.

We sing hymns about God's holiness.

We sing hymns about God's glory.

We sing them with a smile.

We sing them with joy in our hearts.

We sing them with gladness.

We come before the Lord, as the psalmist said, with singing.

We're a truly happy people.

We're without fear because of the work of the Holy Spirit.

There's a second ministry of the Holy Spirit that I'll talk to you tonight, and I'll just

cover this one briefly, leave the rest for next time.

He illuminates the Scripture...He illuminates the Scripture.

We just wrapped up our little look at the doctrine of Scripture and the doctrine of

the inspiration of Scripture.

And you can build a little bridge in your mind to this particular function of the Holy

Spirit, He illuminates Scripture.

As I mentioned earlier, according to the words of Peter in 2 Peter 1, "No prophecy of Scripture

is a matter of one's own interpretation.

No prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from

God."

That tells us the Holy Spirit is the author of Scripture.

But He's not just the author of Scripture, He is the illuminator of Scripture...the illuminator

of Scripture.

First John 2, look at it for a minute...1 John 2.

I'll give you a couple of passages to look at.

First John chapter 2 and verse 20, "You have an anointing from the Holy One, you have an

anointing from the Holy One and you all know," or some versions say you know all.

What is this anointing?

Well it's none other than the Holy Spirit who is the source of our understanding of

Scripture.

Down to verse 27, if you will, "As for you, the anointing which you received from Him

abides in you."

Now we know we're talking about the Holy Spirit.

We've received Him from the Lord and He abides in us. "And you have no need for anyone to

teach you."

We don't need any human philosophy, human wisdom, human teachers.

It doesn't mean we don't need Spirit-filled teacher, it doesn't mean we don't need believing

teachers because the Lord has given to the church evangelists and teachers, pastor/teachers,

with teaching of Scripture.

But we don't have any need for anyone other than those who are the means by which the

Spirit teaches us the Word because as His anointing teaches you about all things and

is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

He in us and we in Him.

The Spirit lives in us and we live in the Spirit.

We live and move and have our being in the realm of the Holy Spirit.

We literally possess the life of the Spirit and the Spirit lives in us.

This is a marvelous thing.

And the ministry of the Spirit therefore, this anointing, this gift from God, this deposit

placed upon us, is our teacher, the one who opens to us an understanding of divine truth.

The Word anointing here is the word chrisma , it means ointment, something placed on us

like an anointing oil.

And it is the Spirit of Truth.

As I said, in John 14, John 15, John 16, the Spirit of Truth comes to lead us into all

truth, to guide us to see the glories of Christ.

We'll see more about that later.

All this is referring, of course, to the Holy Spirit.

But for the passage that's most critical on this, turn to 1 Corinthians 2 and we'll finish

up here...just five minutes or so.

First Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 9.

Now verse 9 borrows from a couple of passages in Isaiah, "Just as it is written, things

which eye has not seen and ear has not heard."

All right, this would be truth not available to empirical search.

It's not available to empirical search.

Secondly, "And which have not entered the heart of man."

It's not available through intuition.

You can't find it externally and you can't find it internally. "But it's truth about

all that God has prepared for those who love Him."

Everything that God has for those who are His children is unavailable in terms of understanding

to the unregenerate.

It's not available to them.

You can't find it externally by scholastic effort.

You can't find it internally by intuition.

Verse 10, "For to us God revealed them," that is these things that He's prepared for them

that love Him, "through the Spirit."

God revealed them through the Spirit. "For the Spirit searches all things even the depths

of God."

That is to say that the Spirit knows everything the mind of God knows for the Spirit is God.

To us, God revealed them through the Spirit.

The Spirit again is the agency by which all that God knows and wants to dispense to us

is provided.

And He gives a little analogy. "For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the

spirit of the man which is in him.

Even so, the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God."

If you want to know the thoughts of God, then God's going to have to determine to reveal

those thoughts to you and He has done that through His Spirit. "So we have received...verse

12...not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God that we might know

the things freely given to us by God."

All these wonderful things which you can't find by external academic search, you can't

find by internal intuition, all these things that God has prepared for those that love

Him are unavailable to anyone apart from those who are taught by the Holy Spirit. "And we,

verse 12, have received the Spirit."

So we have an internal resident truth teacher who illuminates us.

This is part of the doctrine of illumination.

Inspiration brings us the message.

Illumination is the work of the Spirit which gives us an understanding of what the message

means.

The Spirit illuminated us to understand our sinfulness.

The Spirit illuminated us to understand the gospel.

The Spirit illuminated us from the very beginning and continues this work of shining the light

of truth brightly in our minds.

So, says Paul, verse 13, "Which things we also speak.

So we speak the things which the Spirit has disclosed to us, not in words taught by human

wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual

words.

A natural man doesn't accept the things of the Spirit of God, they're foolishness to

him and he cannot understand them because they're spiritually appraised."

I received a phone call a few months ago from the History channel.

And the History channel keeps doing all of these religious documentaries about Jesus

and the New Testament and the Old Testament, and the Bible, and you've seen some of them.

And they said, "We would like for you to be one of our regular experts on the Bible.

Would you be interested?"

And my reply was, "Absolutely not...absolutely not, because there's no concord between Christ

and Belial.

There's no fellowship between light and darkness."

You can't have a whole list of people denying what the Bible says and I understand their

denial of it because they're explained right here, they are natural men who do not accept

the things of the Spirit of God.

They're foolishness to him.

He can't understand them because they're spiritually appraised.

He's spiritually dead.

So he comes up with some intellectual answer or some intuitional answer which is not anywhere

near the truth and why would I get aboard that ship of fools?

I don't need...I don't need to be just another voice in the cacophony, particularly when

it would be my tendency to say, "Well you're all wrong and I know exactly what the truth

is."

I would last about one program, I think.

They would have edited me down to nothing.

And it's not because I'm brighter than them, I'm not.

It's not because I'm more school than them, I'm not.

It is because I have the resident truth teacher in me who illuminates the Word when I diligently

apply myself to understand it.

And the marvelous thing of all is in verse 16, "Who has known the mind of the Lord that

He should instruct him?"

Who knows the mind of the Lord but the Spirit of the Lord, that's the implication.

And we have the mind of Christ.

It's an amazing thing to realize that we expect...I expect unregenerate people to botch Bible

interpretation.

I expect them to misunderstand the Old Testament and the New Testament.

I've sat down with some rabbis, some very fine gentlemen, some very bright, articulate,

far brighter than I and more articulate than I am, who don't get any of it in the Old Testament.

They don't get it at all.

And I understand that.

I have read and interacted with New Testament quote/unquote students and scholars who don't

get it at all.

And I get it not because I'm smarter, but I get it because I'm like you, I have the

teacher...I have resident in me the One who wrote the Scripture and who interprets it.

And I know that sometimes you think that I come up with things that are just...you just

can't find them.

I even have...I had somebody ask me a week ago, "Where in the world do you get this stuff?

I come every week and you come up with stuff and I never see that in the text."

I just want you to know, there's no secret.

As I told a young pastor many years ago who said to me, "What's the secret to great preaching?"

I said, "Accurate interpretation of the text."

"How do you do that?"

"Keep your rear end in the chair till you've understood what it means."

You have the promise of the truth teacher, but it's not going to happen in a vacuum of

ignorance.

You've got to apply yourself.

You know what being a pastor really is?

It's just being freed up to work hard enough to bring to you what you don't have the time

to find, or perhaps the training.

Maybe I'm justifying the necessity of my existence, but...(laughter)...what can I say?

You're here and you're listening.

That's a good thing.

But it's so wonderful to come out of hours and hours of study every week and say, "I

know what this means...I know what this means, the illuminating work of the Spirit of God

has made it clear.

It means this..."

And what Paul is saying here is, "No one know the person but the spirit of that person."

And that's true in the divine sense by analogy.

No one really knows the mind of God but the Spirit of God, and aren't we grateful that

the Spirit of God wrote the truth here so that we have the true representation of the

mind of God and the mind of Christ?"

And then the Spirit's taken up residence in us to illuminate that truth to us.

Well that's two out of ten.

We'll cover some more next week.

Father, again what a wonderful day to be together and we want to honor You, Holy Spirit.

There's no reason we can't pray to You and praise You and thank You, blessed Spirit,

for saving us, for convicting us of sin, righteousness and judgment.

We thank You, Holy Spirit for producing in us repentance.

We thank You for quickening and making the gospel live and penetrate in all its winsomeness.

We thank You for regenerating us, giving us life so we can apprehend the glorious truth

of the gospel.

We thank You for sanctifying us.

We thank You for giving us intimate knowledge of God.

And we thank You for ushering us into His presence in which we enjoy fellowship in the

sweetness of prayer and praise.

We thank You for opening the Word to us, though we're not many noble, or mighty, that we are

the weak and the lowly and the nothings and the nobodies.

We have the mind of Christ.

We thank You that that's been made known to us and understandable to us by the work that

You do, O blessed Holy Spirit.

And we regret and we are pained by the attitudes today that shut You out.

This must be of all times a time of grief for You.

We are warned in Scripture not to grieve the Holy Spirit.

We're warned not to quench the Holy Spirit.

And we're called to give honor to You, O Holy Spirit.

May You forgive the horrendous sins against You by those who claim to be the children

of God.

And may You give the church a new desire to know Your work and to know Your person, to

experience Your power, to depend upon You.

May we who are in the Spirit live by the Spirit and not by the flesh.

May we not be like those Galatians, become bewitched by human means but know always that

the work that You do is done through the Word.

Make us faithful to that and may You be honored in our lives as we walk according to Your

will and in Your power.

We pray in Christ's name.

Amen.

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Pyle Scissor Mic Stand and WindTech PopGuard 2000 Review - Duration: 3:50.

it's Christmas Day all right I already

said that in last video no I don't know

why I did it again it's not reuse jokes

how's it going guys my name is Ryan

Topher and today we are going to be

reviewing this big pile of crap not a

big pile of crap anyway I have this

crappy mic stand that i'm using right

now and right now we are going to

convert over this i also have this super

basic pop filter on right now we are

going to be putting on this curve pop

filter that fixed to the microphone so

let's get moving oh yeah oh just punch

myself in the chin a little bit

embarrassing and here's the mic stand

with the pop filter on the mic all set

up first let's talk about the ple yah

yah yep pot pie li studio recording mic

stand don't know how to pronounce it

pile just is it just piles it's simple

or is it PLA be it so first off this

scissor arm Mike stamp thing is it

awesome it was super easy to set up and

it even comes with all these little

attachments so it gives you one of these

things don't know where I would use this

but probably like hold the mic in

between there a lot of the reviews and

even the description that I read on this

mic stand say that it doesn't handle

weight very well but honestly it's

holding up very well so far it is not

moving at all it even comes with its own

XLR cable that goes through the mic

stand there is another mic stand that is

around the same price as this one this

one was just a dollar more than the

newer mic stand but I bought this one

because it's a little bit longer than

the newer max 10 but I don't know how to

pronounce these brands I apologize

honestly no cons to this so far it is

holding up wonderfully let us move on to

the wing tech pop guard number one song

I don't I don't know what's called

here's the page here's a little wind

tech pop guard 3,000 something like that

now I know what you want to hear you

want to hear test with the pop filter

and without so let's start without the

popular Peter pops Molly with popular

punks Peter pops Molly with popular

punks it's just a shame honestly Peters

just thrown away throwing away his

future wake up Peter turn yourself

around quit poppin Molly with popular

punks apparently this pop filter reduces

the plosives and such as the peas and

the s's every time is a postive I just

want to say it with big bubble that's

right and it feels very smells how's

that sound beautiful Oh what you just

saw flung in my face was the extra

elastic band that this comes with this

has elastic bands on it because it's

fixed to the microphone which is another

Pro of this pop filter now the cons of

this mike is only one really one con it

just bugs think about it at night think

about this decision that I made and I

cannot stop thinking about the price

this is a 30-dollar pop filter and I

just had to buy it I looked everywhere

else on amazon and there were no other

pop filters that looked like this that

were curved fixed to the microphone that

were less money I want to let you guys

know that there are other pop filters

that look like this on amazon that are

between ten and fifteen dollars anyway

that's all i have for you guys today

thanks for watching this video if you

liked it please subscribe now it see you

guys on Friday with new video

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Bitter Paul Ryan Tells Trump Not To Work With Democrats On Healthcare - Duration: 2:56.

Paul Ryan, during an interview with CBS this morning, said that he does not want Donald

Trump to work with Democrats in any way to come up with some kind of new healthcare plan

for the United States.

Obviously, Paul Ryan is still a little bit bitter about the fact that he has been talking

non-stop about repealing and replacing Obamacare for seven years, and when he finally gets

the opportunity to do it, he fails absolutely miserably in front of the entire country.

Yeah, no wonder Paul Ryan wouldn't want Donald Trump to work with Democrats as Donald Trump

has said that he might attempt to do.

But here's the reality of this, nobody is going to work with anybody else when it comes

to making a better healthcare bill.

The Republicans, including Donald Trump, do not want input from the Democrats because

if they get input from the Democrats, it's going to basically be the same legislation

that the Affordable Care Act is with maybe a few provisions that are going to lower insurance

premiums and lower the cost of prescription drugs.

Republicans don't want that.

Paul Ryan sure as hell doesn't want that, so of course he wouldn't want anybody working

with the Democrats.

But furthermore, the Republicans are the ones who have campaigned on this for seven years.

The Democrats have not.

They created the Affordable Care Act.

Sure, they want to make it better, but it wasn't a big issue for them.

They moved on to other important things happening in this country, but the Republicans never

did.

The Democrats do not owe the Republicans their cooperation on this piece of legislation.

They did their work.

They did it in 2009 and 2010 when this piece of legislation was signed into law.

They've done their part.

They could make it better, and they're trying to.

There's other pieces of legislation they've introduced recently to kind of further this

a little bit, but for the most part this hangs on the heads of Republicans.

If Donald Trump decides to work with Democrats on making a better bill, that's actually going

to help the Republican Party, and I think Donald Trump knows that.

If, by the end of this year, we get a new healthcare law, even if it is a bi-partisan

law, even if it's 90% written by Democrats, the Republicans are the ones who get credit

for that.

Donald Trump knows that and that's why he wants to work with them.

Paul Ryan, being the pissy little man child that he is, doesn't quite understand that,

so he is willing to take his legislation and go home because he doesn't want anybody working

with those pesky little Democrats who foiled his seven year plan.

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Game of Thrones Season 7 "Long Walk" Promo (HD) - Duration: 1:33.

♪ (RHYTHMIC DRUMMING) ♪

♪ Those who feel The breath of sadness ♪

♪ Sit down next to me ♪

♪ Those who find they're Touched by madness ♪

♪ Sit down next to me ♪

♪ In love, in fear, In hate, in tears ♪

♪ In love, in fear, In hate, in tears ♪

♪ In love, in fear, In hate, in tears ♪

♪ In love, in fear, in hate ♪

♪ Oh, sit down ♪

♪ Oh, sit down ♪

♪ Oh, sit down ♪

♪ Sit down next to me ♪

♪ Sit down, down, down, Down, down ♪

♪ In sympathy ♪

(EXHALES)

(WIND HOWLING)

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How The Nintendo Switch Handles NeoGeo Censorship - Duration: 2:42.

Hey everyone, it's Dan from Censored Gaming.

Early adopters of the Nintendo Switch may be pleased to know that the system already

has a pretty beefy library of Neo Geo titles available for purchase.

The Neo Geo, of course, being the classic arcade system from the folks at SNK, that

also later went on to have a home console version released.

The platform was famous in the 90s for its wealth of high quality titles, including many

legendary 2D fighters, such as King of Fighters, Fatal Fury and Samurai Showdown.

However, the system was also rather infamous for the strict censorship practises for its

games released outside of Japan.

For many years, the King of Fighters series, for example, would have breast physics removed

from every single game, alongside other changes such as the removal of blood.

This censorship mainly affected the home releases though, with it normally being possible to

disable it in arcades, and today we'll be taking a look at how exactly censorship works

for the new Nintendo Switch releases.

The first thing to point out is that all of the ports are based on the arcade versions,

which is great news for those worried about censorship as, as mentioned, the arcade ports

were much less strict with this.

What you may sometimes find, however, is that certain censorship will be made to the English

versions but it will also be possible to disable this via the settings.

This is exactly how it works in the Switch versions too and, when navigating through

the options in games like Metal Slug, you'll be able to find settings to enable the blood

and gore.

Shock Troopers is another game that has this feature, so make sure to flip the switch if

you want to see the violence, just like in English arcades.

Additionally, when booting up each title, you are given the option of playing in either

Japanese mode or English mode.

This means that you can also even just pick the Japanese version and be sure that you

are playing the game as originally intended.

It's worth pointing out that this is also how the PS4 and Xbox One Neo Geo games work,

so those of you without a Switch aren't out of luck.

However, not all titles are available on all platforms, with some of these currently being

Switch exclusives and vice versa.

Neo Geo titles currently released for the Switch are Metal Slug, Metal Slug 3, The King

of Fighters '94, The King of Fighters '98, Waku Waku 7, World Heroes Perfect, Neo Turf

Masters, Shock Troopers and NAM-1975.

As always, Censored Gaming is here to keep you up to date on not just modern games, but

also old school classics such as these, and we'll be sure to continue to keep you informed

of any changes made to games, both new and old.

Thank you for watching.

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Donald Trump rehashes debunked conspiracy theories, attacks Republicans in Monday night tweetstorm - Duration: 2:19.

Donald Trump rehashes debunked conspiracy theories, attacks Republicans in Monday night

tweetstorm

President Donald Trump went on a Monday night tweetstorm that covered two of the most recent

controversies plaguing his young presidency � his administration�s alleged involvement

with Russia during the 2016 presidential election and the bungled attempt to repeal the Affordable

Care Act.

Trump�s claim that there was nefarious Clinton involvement in a deal between Russia�s nuclear

power agency and a Canadian corporation was rated �mostly false� by PolitiFact when

Trump first began making it last year, a point that news outlets like ABC News quickly picked

up on.

Politico also debunked Trump�s claim, writing that �Clinton did not have the power to

approve or reject the deal.

In fact, nine federal agencies had to sign off on the deal, which was then subject to

presidential approval.�

Regarding Trump�s attempts to deflect attention away from the Russia scandal, CNN argued on

Tuesday that �the storm isn�t likely to break soon: There will be new Russia-related

headlines on Thursday, when an intelligence committee hearing offers senators their first

chance to go on the record addressing the widening controversy embroiling Trump and

Russia.�

Meanwhile, the underlying logic behind Trump�s tweet that he believes �Democrats will make

a deal with me on healthcare as soon as ObamaCare folds� has been criticized on its own terms.

It echoed an earlier comment he made on Friday, namely that �I�ve been saying for the

last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare

explode.� As Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times put it on Monday, �Trump�s

may have been the most irresponsible remarks uttered by any political leader in the long

debate over the Affordable Care Act, because it signaled to insurance companies and to

enrollees that the administration would make little or no effort to avoid an avoidable

outcome.�

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These boards will be made in a western style

The boards differ only in text

Wild Bill

and Cactus Stu

The boards will be made of maple, text of bog oak

and the bull head will be made of red padauk

I will be making two boards at once, because they are almost the same

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Bodies and Singularity in Between the World and Me & Human Acts [CC] - Duration: 6:51.

so today I want to talk about two books

that I've read recently that I can't

stop thinking about and that is Between

the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Human Acts by Han Kang translated by

Deborah Smith. Between the world in me is

the story of the black body throughout

the years and the ways in which it's

been exploited and threatened at all

times and it's told through a series of

letters that Coates has written to his

teenage son. Whereas Human Acts is a

mostly fictionalized story of the 1980

Gwangju Massacre if you like me are ignorant

as to what the Gwangju Massacre was it

was a student uprising against the government

where the army established martial law

and began murdering the protesters which

then caused the citizens to join in in

the uprising. It's undisclosed or I

don't know if it's - there's just not an

official number of how many were killed

in this uprising could have been

hundreds could have been thousands there

was so little documentation of what was

going on during the time and it was just

it's awful I really recommend you look

into it because it's such a huge

historical event that I knew nothing

about and I'm so happy to know about it

now just because I feel like I have a

better understanding of such a terrible

time in human history. Recent human

history, as well. This is a really

interesting narrative style. It's told

within different narrative styles so

first, second, third person. It's told from

different people's perspectives over the

years from the day of the event up until

present day. There are really awful

depictions of the way the bodies were

treated after after the uprising. There's

a lot of unflinching torture scenes but

it's all done in a way that is weirdly

respectful and never, like, it doesn't

reach that gore porn level that I feel

like a lot of novels, especially war or

violence related novels can become.

Kang has a way of humanizing even... Kang has

a way of humanizing even the worst people

showing that humans can be both good and

bad and that people act on both of those

but it's also a really harrowing tale of

solidarity and courage and it's just a

remarkable story and I absolutely love

it. It's going to be all my favorite

books of the year, I already know that

What's interesting about both of these

is the way in which the body is looked

at and the singularity of bodies.

Since reading this, what I've thought most

about in Coates' writing is - um, first of

all his term growing into consciousness,

which he uses throughout the novel when

talking about his son and I really love

the idea of growing into consciousness.

The way in which Coates deals with

singularity and bodies is in terms of

slavery which I'll read this passage to

you that has really stuck with me since

reading it about a month ago. "Slavery is

not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a

particular specific enslaved woman whose

mind is as active as your own, whose

range of feeling is as vast as your own,

who prefers to what the way the light

falls in one particular spot in the

woods, who enjoys fishing where the water

ebbs in a nearby stream, who loves her

mother in her own complicated way, thinks

her sister talks too loud and has a

favorite cousin, a favorite season, who

excels at dressmaking and knows inside

herself that she is an intelligent and

capable as anyone." Is AS intelligent, I

said that wrong. Coates continuously

stresses that slavery, police brutality,

all these things where there the body

count is growing and that we think of it

as a body count. It's- it's not. It's one

person. It's every individual one person

who has been treated in such a horrific

way over the years. This is actually

something that if you've read The Hate U

Give, something I thought about after

reading this. In fact, I really recommend

reading this before this, if you don't

know - so many books - The Hate U Give by

Angie Thomas is a Black Lives Matter

young adult story and it's incredible.

This is the story of a young woman whose best

friend is murdered by a cop and she's

the only witness. What I find really

interesting about this is the way which

Khalil, who is her friend that was

murdered, often starts - begins- as soon as

they find out he was unarmed, he begins

to get lumped in with all of these other

stories of people who were unarmed

getting shot by cop. Even the people who

love him or support him or are out on

the streets protesting for him begin to

kind of lump him in as another number

in this body count. And throughout this

novel, Starr begins learning more about

her old friend Khalil and begins to

humanize him a lot and make his story

unique in her own mind and it's just it

was really interesting to read this

after reading this and I

recommended. Similarly, there's a line in

Human Acts that really resonates and

that is, "I never let myself forget that

every single person I need is a member

of this human race." Through just the way

this narrative works as it's told by

individual people from different sides

of this uprising and who have been

affected by this uprising in a variety of

ways, it really humanizes each individual

person. Even the first very first story

of this is actually almost a magical

realism story and it's the story of

someone who's recently killed in the

uprising and he's laying between all of

these other dead bodies but he's his

consciousness is still lingering there.

It's just really powerful the way in which he

reflects looking at his body from the

outside almost and looking at all these

other bodies and thinking about each

individual person now and it's *sigh*

It's just really powerful. I don't really know what

point I'm trying to make. I think it's

just something I've been thinking a lot

about is that singularity of every

single person. It's something that I

think we all need to be more conscious

of. It's obviously an ongoing problem in

our society. In the country I'm from

that is currently trying to pass a

Muslim ban on all Muslims. The

inferential racism of it all. We really

just need to think more about each

individual person we meet every person

we come across as a full person, not just

a body a full consciousness. Someone who

has thoughts and feelings and opinions.

And, yeah, I don't know. It's something I'm

thinking a lot about when I meet new

people. It's something that - i'm so happy to

have read these two, three books recently

and I super recommend all of them. I'm

sorry this is a very long video, I think

but I want to know your thoughts. What's

something that you've read it just

really resonates with you? Obviously I

would like to say that I'm coming at this

term is very outsider's perspective as I

am neither Black nor Korean so take

that with a grain of salt, obviously if I've

said anything that has upset anyone

please let me know. I'm always trying to

better myself and to listen everyone and

things like that. Please read these books,

they're both very short. I got through both

of them in a day or two and they- despite

that and despite the fact that i've read

I think almost thirty books already this

year, these two I can't stop thinking

about. These three, even, this one's great,

as well. You're going to want to read this

it's going to be huge. It's going to be like a

modern classic.

You're gonna wanna - just do it!

Just do it. Thank you guys for

watching. Let me know what books have

resonated with you recently or any

thoughts you have on bodies and

singularity and ways in which that has

been really powerful to you and I'll see

you next time. Bye.

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