Empowered: A Guide to Experiencing the Power of the Holy Spirit: Day 41
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 6 April 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. |
| 0:09.1 | Empowered, Day 41, the Spirit emboldens us. |
| 0:15.8 | God helps those who help themselves is our culture's credo. |
| 0:20.3 | More than 70% of all Americans are sure it's in the |
| 0:23.6 | Bible. Actually, this statement first appeared in print in the writing of an English man named |
| 0:30.1 | Algernon, Sydney in 1698, and was made famous by Benjamin Franklin. By contrast, Scripture declares, |
| 0:39.3 | not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, |
| 0:43.3 | says the Lord of hosts, Zechariah 4.6. |
| 0:47.3 | You and I desperately need strength that only the Spirit can supply, |
| 0:52.3 | a fact illustrated by Jesus' ministry on Monday of Holy Week. |
| 0:58.1 | On this day, Jesus drove money changers from the temple, enraging the authorities and |
| 1:04.6 | imperiling himself, Matthew 21, 10 through 17. |
| 1:09.5 | Then he cursed a fig tree. On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry, |
| 1:15.6 | and seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. |
| 1:21.6 | When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs and he said to it |
| 1:29.3 | may no one ever eat fruit from you again and his disciples heard it mark 11 12 through 14 |
| 1:38.3 | cursing a fig tree for not bearing fruit when it was not the season for figs seems strangely unfair until we |
| 1:46.4 | understand this event as Jesus meant it leaves are found on Palestinian figs |
| 1:52.6 | during the spring summer and fall ripe figs appear from June to November as As this was Passover season in April, the tree had not |
| 2:05.1 | yet produced its fruit. Such a fruitless tree was a clear symbol of the fruitless nation of Israel. |
| 2:13.4 | When I would gather them, declares the Lord, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, |
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