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1 Samuel chapter 10, verse 6.

Then the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you,

and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.

Now, this verse, don't miss the picture, the correlation between the Spirit of God on someone

and prophecy, proclamation of God's word.

This is a picture we see all throughout the Old Testament at different points.

Here it's with Saul, this promise the Spirit of Lord will come upon you, and the result is you will speak.

You'll be turned into another person. You'll be able to speak in supernatural ways.

And we see this, again, all throughout the Old Testament. When you see prophets, what's a prophet empowered by the Spirit of God to do?

A prophet is empowered by the Spirit of God to proclaim the Word of God with supernatural power.

Now, what's interesting is when you get to Acts chapter 2 and you see the Holy Spirit come down at Pentecost, what happens in that scene?

All these people start to speak the Word of God in all these

different languages. And Peter stands up and preaches. He quotes from Joel chapter 2 about how

the Spirit of God will come upon men and women and they shall prophesy. It's interesting. You look in Luke and Acts. So Luke

wrote both the book of Luke and the book of Acts and every time there's eight different times

where we see the spirit of God filling someone and every time that person speaks or proclaims God's word flowing from that filling of the Spirit.

So the picture I want to encourage you with today, for everyone who is trusted in Jesus,

you have the Holy Spirit living in you.

And I want to ask you to consider what purpose is the Holy Spirit living in you for?

And based on all we've seen in the Old Testament, what we've seen in the New Testament, and specifically I would point you to Acts chapter 1, verse 8, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be, Jesus says,

my what? My witnesses. You will receive power from the Holy Spirit and you will speak. You will

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