Dr. Michael Youseth, introducing this episode of Leading the Way Audio.

Do not give way to drunkenness, which leads to debauchery.

But instead, be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit.

Why in the world is Paul contrasting being drunk

with the being filled of the Holy Spirit? I'm going to tell you why. It's vitally important.

It's an incredible contrast. You've heard the term DUI driving under the influence.

So here's a question. Under whose influence are you?

What I mean is, are you under the influence of the Holy Spirit in your life? That's something

you'll consider today as you listen to Dr. Yousef's enlightening series, Know Your Best Friend.

You will see how the influence of the Holy Spirit is often

smothered as the pressures and influences of life just push in from all sides.

Now, before he begins, this quick reminder that leading the way has monthly special offers

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message, because Dr. Youssef is ready to begin a challenging message, straight from God's word.

The first 19 years of my life was spent growing up in Egypt.

And there, the vast population, about 90 plus percent of them, they live right on that narrow strip of the River Nile,

because the rest of it is just desert.

The River Nile has been there for thousands of years.

In fact, it's mentioned in the Old Testament several times.

But what many people don't know is that for those thousands of years until the 1960s,

the Nile used to flood every year methodically, systematically. You always knew in the fall there's going to be a flood and the land is going to be

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