Empowered: A Guide to Experiencing the Power of the Holy Spirit: Day 24
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 20 March 2020
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Pastor Mark Turman was so encouraged by Dr. Denison's book about the Holy Spirit, titled Empowered, that he asked to record its 47 chapters as daily readings for his church.
When Dr. Denison heard about this, he suggested the great idea to release these recordings as bonus episodes of The Daily Article Podcast every day from Ash Wednesday to Easter.
We hope that you will likewise be encouraged by these short, insightful, and empowering podcast episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:07.6 | Forum. Empowered, Day 24. The Spirit is God's guaranteed. In my dealings with religious skeptics, |
| 0:16.4 | I have found suffering to be the single greatest objection to belief in an all-knowing, |
| 0:21.5 | all-loving, and all-powerful God. |
| 0:24.6 | Atheist Sam Harris says that the existence of a single suffering child anywhere in the |
| 0:29.9 | universe calls into question the existence of a loving God. |
| 0:34.9 | Atheist Christopher Hitchens lost his mother to suicide when he was a young man and never forgave God. Atheist Christopher Hitchens lost his mother to suicide when he was a young man and never |
| 0:39.8 | forgave God. My father was a Sunday school teacher before he fought in World War II and struggled |
| 0:46.5 | with his faith for the rest of his life. He could not reconcile the suffering he witnessed |
| 0:52.3 | with belief in a God of power and love. Philip |
| 0:56.2 | Yancey wrote a bestseller entitled Disappointment with God. Any of us could have |
| 1:02.4 | written that book. Where has God disappointed you lately? Here's the good news. Despite |
| 1:09.1 | all appearances, your suffering will be redeemed and your faith |
| 1:13.6 | rewarded. One day, all it costs you to follow Jesus will be repaid, and more. How do I know? |
| 1:20.6 | Because I believe the Holy Spirit's guarantee. |
| 1:24.6 | Yesterday we learned that the Holy Spirit is God's seal on believers. Today we learned that the |
| 1:30.7 | Spirit is also his guarantee of our salvation. It is God who establishes us with you in Christ |
| 1:38.4 | and has appointed us and who has put his seal on us and given his spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. |
| 1:47.0 | 2 Corinthians 1, 21 and 22. |
| 1:50.0 | God has given us the Spirit as a guarantee, 2 Corinthians 5.5. |
| 1:56.0 | In Him you also, when you heard the Word of Truth the the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, |
| 2:02.0 | were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until |
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