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now, I just want to say I've

got my computer here now and Through the gracious efforts of a member of this church.

I was also provided with a monitor down here.

So that I could see it in larger prep.

However, for reasons that we can understand, we can't you get that yet to work.

So you pray as you think about it that the Lord will enable us this next week to get that working.

If he desires to in the meantime, interesting me enough, I have copies of all the versions here, rather than my Bible and I have copies of the sermon in large print.

So that if necessary I can see the Lord willing, I'll be able to see my computer.

Okay, and Lord willing in spite of all of these infirmities, let's say the Lord will bless his Ward or Hearts.

That's what's important.

It's not important that I do a good job.

It's important to God, speaks to your heart.

And let me just say that I have started the back door of the church is my wife and I are going to do today.

Lord willing.

and I have heard people come out and say thank you and they will mention something that I said and, I will after they leave.

Look at my wife and say, I don't remember saying that and I will go back and let me listen to the tape and I didn't say it who did say, the Holy Spirit spoke to their heart.

That's what counts.

He is.

The one who's the great teacher, he is the one who speaks to our hearts, and we have to pray regularly when we go to God's word and we didn't.

And when we come to a service like this, we need a few minutes to say, Lord speak to my heart, with the truth that you have for me.

In order that I may know that true.

So we're looking today in Ephesians chapter 1 verses 13 to 14 which Mike read for us and it has to do with the church members guarantee.

What I understand of the work of the Holy Spirit.

At the time of Salvation is what we're going to be talking about today.

And the first work is regeneration, the imparting of New Life.

It's important to understand the necessity of this.

In order to be part of the Heavenly sphere, we are who are equipped for the Earthly sphere have to undergo a metamorphosis in a pack.

I changed it only going to help take place only God can do in John 3:6.

And then that the whole chapter of John work, where the Lord is speaking nicodemo, he points out the fact that we must be born again.

He says he that is born of the spirit is spirit and either born in the flesh is flesh.

It's very similar to what we see in 1st Corinthians 15.

You remember there?

It says this Mortal must put on immortality, that's important.

It's important to know that in this stage, you won't be able to survive in a different sphere but God has taken care of that.

He has imparted to us new life and there are several verses that deal with this.

The process is the washing of regeneration as it says in Titus 3:5.

You can turn and look at that verse.

If you want to it's Titus 3:5 and the interesting me enough.

I have it right here and I may be able to see it.

It says this Titus 3:5.

That is not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his Mercy, he has saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit.

That's the word of God.

When we read the word of God, we have to stop and examine the water.

It says it's it's interesting that there's a phrase in John, chapter 3.

And as you read John chapter 34 yourself, you may see that out of your may remember.

It says he, that is born of water and of the spirit.

Well, interesting Lee enough.

Some scholars believe that there's a mixed metaphor there and when it was translated should have been water in the wind sort of the metaphors, correct?

Or the ward, and the spirit.

Because the word for spirit is the word from which we get our word pneumatic, it has to do with air that blows and the Holy Spirit is the one that gives life to us.

New life were born of the spirit of the Lord is often spoken of as the water, the washing of the water as it says in feet.

First Titus 3:5, that's the picture.

Where washed with water and were cleansed by the wind or the holy spirit wear Washed by the word and cleansed by the Holy Spirit.

Fly.

I'm so if we're a 5 or 17, it says we are new creatures, new creatures.

That's important to understand that God has made us new.

Now, as we look at ourselves, we don't see any change.

And, as we experience ourselves sometimes, there's not any change either because we're still living with the power of the old man.

But God offers us power.

We'll talk about that in a few minutes.

It's important to understand that we currently have two Natures inside us the old nature, and the new nature.

I can remember a number of years ago, my mom was teaching class and she had a picture of a wrestling Arena.

And she said, there are two people in that Arena Ypsi and Newman The Old Man, and the new man, and whoever is on top is winning at that point in time, we have a requirement to yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit.

And it's interesting if you think about it on Father's Day, maybe the girls haven't experienced the ladies.

Haven't experienced it, but I know that I was a young boy.

Sometimes there was someone who was bigger than I was and they would get me in a headlock or next Locker bear, hug, or whatever and they say do you yield or when it came to the point where you couldn't do anything else you'd say?

Yes I healed.

That's the way the work of the holy spirit is God wants to help us do things but he requires that we say I yield a yield when we become helpless God becomes effective so it's important to understand that when he gives us new life, he wants to use us.

He wants the Holy Spirit to work through us but he can't do it unless we yelled.

So that's an important part of the second thing we see about the Holy Spirit, the second work but he's involved in in our lives is baptism.

The word baptism is often misunderstood there are a number of churches who say that the baptism of the holy spirit is a crisis experience.

Subsequent to the conversion and involves a number of different things.

I won't go into all those of this time because you don't need to know that necessarily you just didn't know what the word of God teaches baptism is the word which means to place into something.

Now, when I already passed her baptized you buy a mercer?

We don't leave you in the baptismal.

We raise your back up.

Because if we left you there, the authorities might be knocking on the door.

And so we have the picture that were buried by death.

Like, Bryson were raised to walk in newness of life, but when the Holy Spirit baptizes, it's just like he put us in the water and leaves us there.

He puts his in Christ and where there we are, there forever.

It is the work of the holy spirit that puts us into the body of Christ.

That is the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

It occurs when we accept the Lord, Jesus Christ as Savior and 1st Corinthians chapter 12, what you remember, it says, where for we are all by one Spirit, baptized into one body, that's the work of the Holy Spirit, the places into the body of Christ, it's important that we understand that, that's the key word.

Shall we say after regeneration.

The only spirit gives us new life and places, and then the body of Christ when I lived in Wasco, and a matter of fact, later on and an elder, would I have citrus on my property?

What are the things that happens with Citrus is that?

A new variety is graphed into the old one.

What happens when that branch is shaking and it's cut off of original tree.

It, there's no life available to it.

It may have a little life left but not much.

What one it is grafted into the Nutri, what does it get?

It immediately get nourishment and life from the new tree?

That's the picture that the Lord use.

When he said, I am the vine.

You are the branches.

He expects us to begin to bear fruit because of the life that is in us because we've played been placed into the tree.

We've been grafted in that's what's important.

And we have to realize that unless we have that new life where Dad just like the bridge, It will, we will eventually die completely.

There will be no life left but the Holy Spirit provides us with the process of being baptized into the body of Christ.

All of you were baptized were baptized into the body of Christ.