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The Bible says don't be drunk with wine, where it is excess, but be filled with the spirit.

Pastor Greg Laurie points out, we can choose who or what exercises control over our lives, and we need to choose well.

I don't want to be under the influence of an intoxicant.

Be it drinking, be it any other drug of any kind that is controlling me.

I don't want to be controlled by the spirits.

I want to be controlled by the Holy Spirit.

That's a precious thing.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day for a moment again.

Amazing grace, now we've lost our own.

But can you hear the Holy Spirit?

This is the day when the lost are found.

Imagine sitting in the driver's seat of your parked car and you start disassembling your steering wheel.

You'll loosen the nut that holds your steering wheel in place.

Now the steering wheel is barely connected to your front wheels.

Are you willing to hit the open highway without that control?

Well, I don't know if you like ditches.

Today on a new beginning, in one of the years most requested messages,

Pastor Greg Laurie points out some people choose to do that with their very lives

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