Podcasts about human happiness

He pioneered AI, now he's warning the world. Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton breaks his silence on the deadly dangers of AI no one is prepared for. Geoffrey Hinton is a leading computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, widely recognised as the ‘Godfather of AI' for his pioneering work on neural networks and deep learning. He received the 2018 Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing. In 2023, he left Google to warn people about the rising dangers of AI. He explains: Why there's a real 20% chance AI could lead to HUMAN EXTINCTION. How speaking out about AI got him SILENCED. The deep REGRET he feels for helping create AI. The 6 DEADLY THREATS AI poses to humanity right now. AI's potential to advance healthcare, boost productivity, and transform education. 00:00 Intro 02:28 Why Do They Call You the Godfather of AI? 04:37 Warning About the Dangers of AI 07:23 Concerns We Should Have About AI 10:50 European AI Regulations 12:29 Cyber Attack Risk 14:42 How to Protect Yourself From Cyber Attacks 16:29 Using AI to Create Viruses 17:43 AI and Corrupt Elections 19:20 How AI Creates Echo Chambers 23:05 Regulating New Technologies 24:48 Are Regulations Holding Us Back From Competing With China? 26:14 The Threat of Lethal Autonomous Weapons 28:50 Can These AI Threats Combine? 30:32 Restricting AI From Taking Over 32:18 Reflecting on Your Life's Work Amid AI Risks 34:02 Student Leaving OpenAI Over Safety Concerns 38:06 Are You Hopeful About the Future of AI? 40:08 The Threat of AI-Induced Joblessness 43:04 If Muscles and Intelligence Are Replaced, What's Left? 44:55 Ads 46:59 Difference Between Current AI and Superintelligence 52:54 Coming to Terms With AI's Capabilities 54:46 How AI May Widen the Wealth Inequality Gap 56:35 Why Is AI Superior to Humans? 59:18 AI's Potential to Know More Than Humans 1:01:06 Can AI Replicate Human Uniqueness? 1:04:14 Will Machines Have Feelings? 1:11:29 Working at Google 1:15:12 Why Did You Leave Google? 1:16:37 Ads 1:18:32 What Should People Be Doing About AI? 1:19:53 Impressive Family Background 1:21:30 Advice You'd Give Looking Back 1:22:44 Final Message on AI Safety 1:26:05 What's the Biggest Threat to Human Happiness? Follow Geoffrey: X - https://bit.ly/4n0shFf  The Diary Of A CEO: Join DOAC circle here -https://doaccircle.com/ The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Stan Store - Visit https://link.stan.store/joinstanchallenge to join the challenge! KetoneIQ - Visit https://ketone.com/STEVEN  for 30% off your subscription order #GeoffreyHinton #ArtificialIntelligence #AIDangers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paula Poundstone's incandescently brilliant wit and comedic wisdom are world renowned and she is widely celebrated as an author, radio personality, voice actor, podcaster and touring comic. Paula is carving her indelible imprint into popular culture and she shares with us her decades of show biz stories, insights and observations.One of the most recognizable voices on NPR, Paula takes us backstage with Garrison Keillor and the Wait, Wait… Don't Tell Me team, for a peek into the creation of legendary radio broadcasts. As an author, Paula taps into her courage, her curiosity and her personal experiences to amuse and inspire. Her book, There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say, features parallels Paula has discovered between her own history and that of additional legendary figures such as Joan of Arc and Beethoven. Her newest book, The totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness finds Paula seeking happiness through various means, including taekwondo, mediation, volunteering, camping and renting a Lamborghini. Fritz and Weezy find that happiness lies in hearing Paula talk about this book.Paula then discusses standup history, writing, travel, crowd work, East and West Coast clubs, comedy scenes across time zones and decades, and the rivalries between key L.A. venues which made or broke careers. Fritz and Paula dig deep into standup experiences and shared backgrounds for a a masterclass in the spirit and ethos of standup comedy!And in recommendations -Weezy: Season 1 of The Way Home, A Hallmark Channel SeriesFritz: The Netflix Movie, Emilia PerezPath Points of Interest:Paula PoundstonePaula Poundstone on IMDBPaula Poundstone on InstagramPaula Poundstone on YoutubePaula Poundstone on FacebookCurrent Tour Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone PodcastNPR's Wait, Wait… Don't Tell Me Merch StoreThere's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to SayThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human HappinessThe Way Home on HallmarkEmilia Perez - Netflix

What makes us happy? This question generates wildly different answers. I asked four Nudge listeners and got four different answers. Being the behavioural science nerd I am, I've always wondered if there is a scientific answer to this question. Is there a study that reveals the secrets behind the good life? Yes, there is. It's the longest study on human happiness ever conducted. Today, I spoke to Marc Schulz, the associate director of that study, and he shared the results. What causes a happy life? Find out on today's episode of Nudge. Marc's book The Good Life: https://tinyurl.com/3fzcwuhp Access the Bonus Episode: https://nudge.ck.page/8c8b5f6c05

A new MP3 sermon from Westminster Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Truest Human Happiness Subtitle: Single Sermons Speaker: Dr. Michael A. Rogers Broadcaster: Westminster Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/6/2010 Bible: Psalm 1 Length: 37 min.

Originally Recorded March 15th, 2024 About Professor Justin Smith-Ruiu: https://www.the-hinternet.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile Check out Professor Smith-Ruiu's essay in Liberties, titled The Happiness Industrial Complex: https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-happiness-industrial-complex/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit musicallyspeaking.substack.com

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 - 11:21)Harrison Butker, the Latest Heretic to Our Modern Secular Age: The Left in a Rage After Butker's Commencement Address to Benedictine CollegeFull Text: Harrison Butker of Kansas City Chiefs Graduation Speech by National Catholic RegisterPart II (11:21 - 17:31)‘Creation Order Leads to Human Happiness': Butker's Theological Comments to the Young Men and Women at Benedictine College — And He's RightChiefs kicker Harrison Butker's speech was ugly. He's only part of a bigger problem. by USA Today (Mike Freeman)Part III (17:31 - 26:07)A Parable of Our Secular Age: Larry Hogan Makes 180 Degree Turn on Abortion for Political ExpediencyHogan Backs Codifying Roe, Tacking Left on Abortion Ahead of a Tough Race by The New York Times (Luke Broadwater)Part IV (26:07 - 28:17)An Unstable, Dangerous Part of the World Just Got More Unstable and Dangerous: Iran's President and Other Leaders Appear to be Dead After Helicopter Crash‘No sign of life' at crash site of helicopter carrying Iran's president, others by The Associated Press (Jon Gambrell)Sign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.

Jim Ellermeyer, a behavioral health therapist, and producer Mike, discuss significant issues such as work-related stress, relationship challenges, and the essence of human happiness, referencing psychological theories and personal anecdotes. They delve into the distinctions between love and work, joy versus pleasure, and the importance of emotional expression and health, particularly in men. The discussion also covers how to manage negative people and environments, aiming to inspire listeners towards mindfulness and positivity in their lives. Are you finding benefit from this show?  We appreciate any support with our Patreon page!  Pledge as little as $1 a month for extra clips, behind the scenes and more at www.patreon.com/fishingwithoutbait ! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Today, you're in for an exciting Good Mood Boost as you join host Matt O'Neill in a captivating conversation with Kevin Burk, a trailblazer in astrology and the mastermind behind the Human Game philosophy. Prepare to embark on a transformative journey as Kevin shares his groundbreaking insights into viewing life through the lens of astrology. Through his visionary approach, you'll discover how to turn life's obstacles into thrilling quests, each one propelling you towards a brighter, more joyful existence. Tune in to hear Kevin challenge traditional ideas of problems and solutions, and learn how a shift in perspective could unlock joy even in life's most difficult moments.  Here are some power takeaways from today's conversation:  Using astrology to understand happiness is internal Reality has three story levels: plot, character, theme  Lowering stakes of life's challenges through perspective [01:23] Human Happiness vs. External Goals While we spend so much of our energy pursuing objectives outside ourselves, Kevin explains that our character's development and feelings of joy are shaped from within. True pleasure comes not from achieving aims, but from the story we tell ourselves in the process. His insight challenges traditional notions that fulfilling desires is the key to bliss. By reframing problems as quests in an epic roleplaying adventure, we can overcome obstacles with enthusiasm rather than frustration.  [02:05] The Happiness Problem While sometimes obtaining our wants brings pleasure, other times it fails to deliver lasting fulfillment. As Kevin explains, part of the "happiness problem" is this misconception that attaining external objectives will make us happy. In reality, happiness depends more on our internal state of being than on fulfilling desires, since their satisfaction is inconsistent in raising our mood in the long run.  [07:02] Viewing Life as a Game By viewing life as a fun game to play, our relationship to challenges is transformed. With a mindset of "how can I win?" rather than "how can I fix this?", difficulties shift from a burden to an opportunity for play. Life becomes a game we engage in creatively rather than an obligation. Lowering the stakes through perspective allows us to focus on enjoying the process of playing to win without anxiety.  Notable quotes: [01:23] The human game is a philosophy based on the idea that the universe is made up of stories. [01:28] [07:02] If you approach your life as a game, your entire reality transforms. [07:05] [03:38] Reality is story and story is reality. To change your reality, you only need to improve your story. [03:44] Resources Mentioned:  The Real Astrology Academy Download this week's free resource instantly when you sign up for The Good Mood Show newsletter here!  Or, reach out on our contact page at GoodMoodShow.com/Contact and we will email you a copy of any free resource you request. About the Guest  Kevin Burk is the headmaster of The Real Astrology Academy and creator of the Human Game philosophy. He believes that understanding how astrology works can help people view their life as a game and lower the stakes of challenges to increase happiness.

Dr Robert Waldinger has been studying human happiness and the secret to it for decades. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the the Harvard Study of Adult Development. That study first began in 1938 with 228 Harvard students with researchers collecting data on their medical and mental health. In the 1970s, another 450 inner-city residents joined the study. It is the world's longest-running research into happiness and suggests friendship and connections help us to live longer and be happier. Dr Robert Waldinger has co-authored a book The Good Life and How to Live It with Marc Schulz and has presented a TED Talk which has over 24 million views.

I want to talk about an 85 year long study about what makes for a long, happy, and successful life. Researchers at Harvard University began this study in 1938 and focused on 724 participants around the world, who they checked in with every two years to ask detailed questions about their lives. What they discovered was that the key to human happiness had nothing to do with career, achievements, money, exercise, fitness, or a healthy diet, but something else—something that has been proven to keep us happier, healthier, and help us live longer. If you want to learn about the key to human happiness, this is the episode for you—you will learn all about social fitness, why it is so important, the role positive relationships play in our lives, why some relationships do have expiration dates, and more!   LINKS: Brad Kearns.com Brad's Shopping page B.rad Whey Protein Isolate Superfuel (Now Available in Cocoa Bean)   Join Brad for more fun on: Instagram: @bradkearns1 Facebook: @bradkearnsjumphigh Twitter: @bradleykearns YouTube: @brad.kearns TikTok: @bradkearns   We appreciate all feedback, and questions for Q&A shows, emailed to podcast@bradventures.com. If you have a moment, please share an episode you like with a quick text message, or leave a review on your podcast app. Thank you! Check out each of these companies because they are absolutely awesome or they wouldn't occupy this revered space. Seriously, I won't promote anything that I don't absolutely love and use in daily life: Peluva: Comfortable, functional, stylish five-toe minimalist shoe to reawaken optimal foot function. Mito Red Light: Photobiomodulation light panels to enhance cellular energy production, improve recovery, and optimize circadian rhythm. Use code BRAD for 5% discount! Plunge: Sensational custom-designed home cold plunge with filtered, circulating water, custom temperature setting, and sleek design. Save $150 with code BRAD. Also enroll in my Cold Plunge online course! B.rad Whey + Creatine Superfuel: Premium quality, all-natural supplement for peak performance, recovery, and longevity. New Cocoa Bean flavor! Brad's Macadamia Masterpiece: Mind-blowing, macadamia nut butter blend Online educational courses: Numerous great offerings for an immersive home-study educational experience Primal Fitness Expert Certification: The most comprehensive online course on all aspects of traditional fitness programming and a total immersion fitness lifestyle. Save 25% on tuition with code BRAD! Male Optimization Formula with Organs (MOFO): Optimize testosterone naturally with 100% grassfed animal organ supplement Shopping Page For Discounts And Navigation To The Best Products I have a newly organized shopping experience at BradKearns.com/Shop. Visit here and you can navigate to my B.rad Nutrition products (for direct order or Amazon order), my library of online multimedia educational courses, great discounts from my affiliate favorites, and my recommended health&fitness products on Amazon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We welcome special guests J and Squidge today, both from The Waffling Taylors podcast. We drink coconut milk, 1 Only Drink apple IPA from Vandermill, Lake Effect Pomegranate Lemonade, and Candy Can Marshmallow Sparkling Zero Drink Water. RLXP includes 2 toes, 2 pinkies, and 1 runaway cat. We've played the chaotic racing game Mario Kart 8 (Switch), the slightly obscure beat-em-up Sabans Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Mega Battle (XBOne), the much lauded Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis), and the old console version of MtG that is Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 (PS3). Our reccos are the podcasts The Bugle and Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone and the books Resident Evil and The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness. Links - The Waffling Taylors - https://wafflingtaylors.rocks/ The Bugle - https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/ Paula Pondstone - https://paulapoundstone.com/about/ GRPVG links - linktr.ee/grandrapidians --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grandrapidians/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grandrapidians/support

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Human Happiness Subtitle: Virtue Ethics Speaker: David Bane Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 7/16/2023 Length: 63 min.

In this episode, New York City Councilman Joe Borelli joins Josh to discuss the pernicious "environmental justice" movement and the radical Left's attempts to ban wood-fired pizza ovens in New York City, institute "congestion pricing" in Midtown Manhattan, and other misguided ventures that deprive normal people of basic life needs and joys.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Host of “How to Build a Happy Life,” Harvard professor, The Atlantic contributing writer, and now co-author of a new book with Oprah Winfrey, Arthur Brooks has dedicated his career to cracking the code on happiness. He offers his wisdom and shares some tips for a happier life–away from screens and closer to people. Apple's first product announcement since 2014 has rocked techies, in the metaverse and IRL. Personal tech columnist for The Wall Street Journal Joanna Stern explains Apple's Vision Pro headset, as one of the first journalists to try it. Plus, the SEC is suing Binance, and venture capital giant Sequoia is splitting into three separate regional businesses.  In this episode:Arthur Brooks, @arthurbrooksJoanna Stern, @joannasternJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkBecky Quick, @BeckyQuickAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinCameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

In this episode, I am speaking with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, professor of the most popular course ever at Harvard and world-renowned expert in the science of human happiness, about how we can live our most fulfilled lives.

Dr Waldinger is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the fourth director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This is the longest every study of the same group of people over time, following 724 men for nearly 80 years. The study explores the factors that lead to healthy and happy lives. Robert is also the Founding Director of the Lifespan Research Foundation, which aims to implement the lessons learned from the Harvard Study in peoples work and personal life. His TED talk, “What makes a good life?” has been viewed over 40 million times. In this conversation Robert and Steven discuss topics, such as: What are the factors that make for a good life The impacts that money and success have on a happy life Why relationships are the most important factor for long term health and wellbeing Why we should reexamine the value we place on relationships How modern society gets in the way of connection You can purchase Robert's new book ‘The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Study on Happiness', here: https://bit.ly/3BiYSPW Follow: Twitter: https://bit.ly/44KaLfD Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb Follow:  Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors:  Bluejeans: https://g2ul0.app.link/NCgpGjVNKsb Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb

In today's message, Pastor Rick teaches us how pursuit of happiness is the way of the Lord, whereas true joy is the way of the Kingdom of God.To rewatch past messages go to PORTICO.cc/online.If you are in need of prayer, reach out to us at PORTICO.cc/prayer, and our prayer team will be praying for you. If you said YES to Jesus for the first time, let us know at PORTICO.cc/yes, so we can journey alongside you.  To learn more about PORTICO Community Church, visit porticocanada.ca. Or follow us on Facebook or Instagram @PORTICOcc

Part two of our look into the corporate cult and things get a little too real for Tony Wright.Dictionary Corner watches in disgust as the two Tonys fly off script talking about everything from Ed Sheeran to Anime, Hamsters to Cress and the fun at work with a fire alarm.Like what we do? Support us on patreon you absolute smasher.  Link is https://www.patreon.com/cultcomedypodIt contains our live episode in video and in full as we discuss Heavens Gate!Follow us on @cultcomedypod @tonybasnett and @tony_wright97 Music: Cheeky by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comSupport the show

The boys are back in town!After a short break the two Tonys and Dictionary Corner are back with part one of Happy Science.Obviously we tried our best to stick to the script but got distracted talking about jobs, Scooby Doo, Basnett is dreadful at impressions...and a return that brought some of us too much joy.Like what we do? Support us on patreon you absolute smasher.  Link is https://www.patreon.com/cultcomedypodIt contains our live episode in video and in full as we discuss Heavens Gate!Follow us on @cultcomedypod @tonybasnett and @tony_wright97 Music: Cheeky by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comSupport the show

Darshan Pindoria is a psychologist and mental health expert based in London, England who spent part of his life training to be a monk in India with a religious sect. But becoming a monk and studying to be a psychologist was not his initial career path. A career in Information Technology seemed like his destiny until deeper thoughts took root. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-aidan-byrne0/support

Benjamin Fincher, the host of the How to Rewrite Your Stars podcast, invited me on his show where we discussed the Culture Stack concept, particularly as it applies to the transition of the United States from republicanism (classic liberalism) to progressivism to Wokeism - particularly as they relate to human happiness and flourishing.

Dhairya R. is a high priestess from the Himalayas, symbolic of wisdom, spirituality, purity and clarity, and I had the good fortune and opportunity to have all my questions about the highest teachings of Kriya Yoga and spirituality in general answered by her. We talk about her normal life before experiencing her first state of enlightenment "Samadhi", which she first achieved after 10 minutes of meditation at the age of only 17, as well as her subsequent 16-year journey through India to learn from the greatest living spiritual masters of our time, and to become a spiritual master herself. After her first samadhi experience, there were only 2 relevant questions for her: - What is the source of this bliss? - How can I always stay in this bliss? She talks about the key to human happiness, the role of a guru, the definition of true happiness and true suffering, and the 5 main obstacles that every person must overcome on the spiritual path to enlightenment. You will learn how to achieve true freedom and experience what it feels like to live permanently in an enlightened state. --------------------------------------- I hope you enjoy this episode! To receive the latest episodes and updates on our upcoming psychedelic retreats by mail, feel free to sign up for the newsletter. --------------------------------------- Retreats & Newsletter: www.essentiya.com Personal: https://www.alexanderfaubel.com Instagram: @alex_faubel @psychedelische_retreats

It doesn't happen every day that a speaker begins their TedX presentation with the story of how they went to jail. But Will Samson does exactly that, using his impactful story to inspire, uplift and encourage others to create a life they're proud to live.  Will Samson is on a moonshot mission to disrupt the self-help industry and possibly alter the human operating system. He is a transformational mindset and change coach who guides tech companies, C-Suite executives, and entrepreneurs to amazing levels of growth.  Will is the brains behind the T3 ecosystem, a collection of hackers, thinkers, activists, and dreamers who are sprouting new ideas, stories, and products based on the idea of interdependence. His story of rebooting his life was told to the TEDx audience in 2021. When he is not germinating the next wave of thought, he is a master home chef and a Spartan racer. Will's T3 model creates lasting change in his clients through transitions, transformation, and thriving. By focusing on a transformation of their core identity, Will teaches his clients to evolve into new people, able to overcome complex challenges and cast aside the limitations of their past. An incredible origin story Will isn't shy about the metamorphosis he himself had to undergo. It began when he was arrested for driving under the influence and had to spend several weeks in jail. As he admits, most people become surly and search for ways to blame others - but he didn't do that. Will spent his time genuinely reflecting on the actions that got him there and came to terms with his need for change.  In the courtroom standing in front of a judge, Will looked around to see a community of people who had shown up just to support him. The judge marveled at the amount of people present for the hearing, telling him that he's a lucky man - and not to waste his second chance!  Will went into recovery from his addiction with the troubling belief that he was alone. Ashamed and unable to fully accept himself, he was surprised to discover a group of people who welcomed him with open arms. This is when Will began researching the power of community for recovery, improving mental health and becoming the best version of yourself.  Change begins with transformation Change and transformation may seem like synonyms, but they can be fundamentally different. We can change our habits and revert right back when things get difficult! Instead, Will Samson chooses to focus on transformational coaching.  By encouraging his clients to reinvent themselves, he helps them transform their lives from the inside out. In the early stages of coaching, Will helps them discover the parts of their identity that are holding them back and should be discarded - and the parts of themselves they should be leaning into. Will Samson helps people develop new identities based on the type of people and leaders they want to be.  This can serve us in our own businesses. What aspects of your identity are serving you as you build your brand? Which parts of you are not? Will is here to help you lay it out on the table and build a life you're excited to live. Build your ultimate life team Will Samson is in the business of teaching us that we can't do it alone. He likes to say that it is “his mission to make interdependence cool.” In the process of his recovery, he designed a “life team” - a support system to help him along the way.  Will now educates and inspires others to form their own life team. He recommends looking at your life as if it is a company and considering yourself the CEO of your own story. Who do you need in your corner to keep things running smoothly?  This begins with fully knowing your strengths. Will coaches his clients through an intimate process of self-discovery to help them understand their role in their life, and the roles they should effectively fill. What are you great at - and what do you struggle with? What can you outsource to make your life better? Who can you collaborate with so that you bring out the best in one another?  Will coaches his clients to create a life team, and he is also in the process of developing a Life Teams app. His mantra is simple - We're supposed to rely on one another and build each other up.  Quotes “I've been trying to practice vulnerability, honesty, courage…and nothing's going to do that like standing up in front of the audience giving a TedX talk and telling them about the time I went to jail.” “My life purpose is to make interdependence cool.” “I had burned down a lot of things around me. I had done a lot of the things that people with substance abuse disorder do. I had damaged my relationships, damaged my business, and there were dark things happening. I decided to enter the process of recovery. I always assumed that to address substance abuse, I'd have to do it on my own. What happened instead was that there were groups of people who said, ‘Let us love you until you can love yourself.' Everything I do today is to repay the grace I received!” “From the moment we wake up until we go to sleep at night, there's a group of people keeping our world going…we just don't remember to focus on them.” “We need ways of remedying this toxic independence.” “We celebrate these individual serial entrepreneurs, the Musks and the Bransons. But Richard Branson is a great example of what we're talking about here. When Richard Branson was 23 years old he went bankrupt. His mom mortgaged her home to keep Virgin Record store in east London afloat! Now we all know the story of Richard Branson, this amazing self-made billionaire…because he ‘authored his own life'. But even these great success stories have stories of interdependence.” “A lot of entrepreneurs are not the people who want to build to a massive scale to sell to Google or Facebook. They just want to solve a problem. The idea of the T3 ecosystem was born… What we're hoping to do is to launch companies that can focus on social good and share administrative services.” “Start with the question, what did I learn from that interaction? What did I miss?” “We're awash in self-help books and we're awash in depression because we're not sure how to create change in our life. Change is fleeting, but transformation means taking on a whole new identity.” Links mentioned in this episode: Visit Will Samson's website and learn more about his methodology at www.willsamson.com  Follow Will on facebook for encouragement and words of wisdom at https://www.facebook.com/willsamsonchangecoach  Connect with Will Samson on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/willsamsonchangecoach/ 

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat speaks with Jennifer Frey, associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and the host of Sacred and Profane Love. Nat and Jennifer discuss human happiness and education, what psychology doesn’t understand about happiness, why we should care about teaching virtue, the Hillbilly Elegy, the […]

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat speaks with Jennifer Frey, associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and the host of Sacred and Profane Love. Nat and Jennifer discuss human happiness and education, what psychology doesn't understand about happiness, why we should care about teaching virtue, the Hillbilly Elegy, the proper ends of education, why it's not such a great idea to let children choose what they read, Catholic education, whether it is old fashioned to teach virtue, Social and Emotional Learning, the liberal arts, and more.Show Notes:The Universe and the UniversityLiberal Education and Human FlourishingThe Jubilee CentreVirtue and Classic Children's Literature

We learn about how a reptilian's brain structure is connected to a psychopath's personality disorder. We also find out about tools we can use to not get overwhelmed by our emotions, and how AI is being developed that can identify the shortest path to human happiness. That, plus more, on this unlocked patreon episode. Support John on Patreon: Patreon.com/JFOD. Watch John's stand up special: youtu.be/OKptLDt6xKo.

Traveling is IMPORTANT for human happiness and mental health. Studies show that traveling can be great for mental health. Living in a world where individuals are constantly slammed with the stress of work, relationships, and maintaining a family, it's important that they take time to relieve all that stress, so they can continue to function normally and TRAVELING will do thats for you.  @straightupsistersthepodcast @raqcsworld @lasusie  Email: straightupsistersthepodcast@gmail.com

Die Brainwashed - Radio Edition ist eine einstündige Show mit Musik von den Künstlern und Labels auf Brainwashed.com. 1. The Legendary Pink Dots, "This is the Museum" (The Museum of Human Happiness) 2022 Metropolis 2. In The Nursery, "H43 Ektachrome (The Animator)" (Humberstone) 2022 ITN Corp 3. Heathered Pearls, "Pain Tolerance (Kyle McEvoy & wowflower Remix)" (Cast Remixes Part III) 2022 Ghostly International 4. Big Blood, "The Fox and The Rose" (Fight for Your Dinner Vol. II) 2009 Don't Rust the Ruin 5. Jeff Mills, "Hatsumi" (01) 2021 REIF 6. Tangerine Dream, "You're Always On Time (edit)" (Raum) 2022 KScope 7. Leslie Winer, "Hold on Postcards" (When I Hit You — You'll Feel It) 2021 Light in the Attic 8. Jeff Parker, "Sea Change" (The Relatives) 2005 Thrill Jockey 9. Equiknoxx, "A Very Pretty Red Light" (Basic Tools (Mixtape)) 2021 Equinoxx Music 10. Éliane Radigue & Frédéric Blondy, "Occam XXV (excerpt)" (Occam XXV) 2022 Organ Reframed # Brainwashed - Radio Edition Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening. * http://brainwashed.com

This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions. It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 10 that centers upon the classic question of what human happiness consists in. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Augustine's Confessions - https://amzn.to/3NQ7diK

Why are we so concerned that AI is going to replace us? Even when we position it as an augment to us, and that it will take on burdensome work - but what if there are humans out there who want to do that? In the far future, we will all have the ability to do whatever we want - even things that people feel are burdensome. We need AI to augment human happiness, in the end. --- http://ideateandexecute.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

Edward Ka-Spel has built an international following with his dark psychedelic folk melodies and astute lyrics. Best known as the lead singer, keyboard and electronics player, songwriter and co-founder of the band The Legendary Pink Dots. He has also released numerous solo albums and has worked in various different projects including The Tear Garden (with cEvin Keyof Skinny Puppy), and Mimir (with Phil Knight, Christoph Heemann, Jim O'Rourke and others) and has collaborated with Amanda Palmer From The Dresden Dolls  releasing the LP "I can Spin a Rainbow" and Steven Stapleton's  Nurse With Wound, just to name a few. Ka-Spel's albums range from abstract electronic noise to more traditional pop songs, incorporating diverse elements of psychedelia, industrial, avant-garde, experimental electronic, art pop, classical music, folk, sampling, noise, collage, music concrete. His lyrics have been described as intensely mystical, incorporating recurrent themes from his own personal mythos.The Legendary Pink Dots' new studio album is called "The Museum of Human Happiness" available on the band's website or Metropolis Records. His latest solo works include "Conspiracy of Pylons" and "The Concrete Diaries" and many more.  The Legendary Pink Dots' North American Tour 2022 was recently announced, followed by their European Tour in 2023.   https://legendarypinkdots.orgSubscribe to my monthly mailing list for the latest music news, updates and my next interviews and events:http://eepurl.com/gtw6PP

Jakrey is a strategic and analytical leader who thrives in challenging and changing environments with a customer-first-focused approach. He excels at identifying business needs and opportunities to create innovative, valuable and transformative products. Jakrey is also a product engineer and product manager specializing in AI and immersive technology.Jakrey has a biomedical engineering background and has worked in different biotech companies over the last ten years. He started his career as an assistant engineer focused on cellular systems and metabolic pathways analysis. He wanted to be a doctor, but he got a son at a young age which changed his plans a little bit, but he ended up graduating with a master's degree in biomedical engineering. He then joined Life Technologies company and later Thermal Fishers Scientific, which has provided systems for more than half of COVID-19 tests. They are also a major provider of vaccines and PTEs related to the treatment of COVID 19. Segmented timestamps:[02:02] - About Jakrey and what he does in the biotech space [08:20] - Jakrey shares about the time when he was faced with a nearly impossible goal and how he embraced that challenge[15:18] - About Web 3.0 technology and what Jakrey is excited about for the future [22:17] Jakrey's favorite business model that he came across recently ‘selling physical products with an additional asset.” [24:52] Using utility and consumer-based AI to train other people and increase productivity  [28:24] Humanistic AI, and its intent in enhancing inclusivity and inclusivity while avoiding detrimental consequences [30:16] - Some of the things that we should be grateful for and alarmed about when using AI  [36:42] - Happiness index creative expression and ways to optimize AI objective function toward self-reflection and empathy[39:09] - The future of micro-dosing in optimizing emotional states through external influences  [42:15] - Jakrey's practical decision-making framework that he has found very useful when approaching hard decisions Notable Quotes:“If you want to succeed, you have to do it differently.” ~ Jakrey Myers.“AI is meant to help and benefit us and not to detriment us, but some of our business objectives drive the wrong outcome.” ~ Jakrey Myers."AI doesn't necessarily know what is ‘true or false,' and what is ‘good or bad,' it's defined by objective of the function." ~ Jakrey Myers.“All big goals are built on actions, and actions are built from decisions.” Noah ScottUSEFUL LINKS: Reach Jakrey at:Website: http://jakrey.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakreymyers/Get more from The Big Possible show:Website: https://www.thebigpossible.com   RSVP for our next epic retreat here Follow us on social: @follownoah @thebigpossible

Episode 562: February 20, 2022 playlist: Gavilan Rayna Russom, "Trans Feminist Symphonic Music" (Trans Feminist Symphonic Music) 2022 Longform Editions The Plastik Beatniks, "Harwood Alley Song (feat. Angel Bat Dawid)" (All Those Streets I Must Find Cities For) 2022 Alien Transistor Heavenly, "Holding on to You Like a Glass Too Full" (Tragic Tiger's Sad Meltdown) 2022 Death Is Not the End Rat Heart Ensemble, "Sumtimes U Lose Ur Mind" (A Blues) 2022 Shotta Tapes The Exit Bags, "Coward, Deep Down" (Tower of Quiet) 2021 Drongo Tapes Wojciech Rusin, "Words into Shapes (featuring Emmy Broughton)" (Syphon) 2022 AD 93 Sirom, "Grazes, Wrinkles, Drifts into Sleep (excerpt)" (The Liquified Throne of Simplicity) 2022 Glitterbeat Vicious Pink Phenomena, "Promises" (My Private Tokyo / West View) 1982 The Mobile Suite Corporation / 2022 Minimal Wave Resina, "Manic" (Speechless) 2021 Fat-Cat Parker Sprout, "Clear" (Milk In The Sun) 2022 Moon Glyph The Legendary Pink Dots, "Hands Face Space" (The Museum of Human Happiness) 2022 Metropolis Betty Davis, "Don't Call Her No Tramp" (They Say I'm Different) 1974 Just Sunshine Coil, "On Balance" (Transparent) 1982 Nekrophile Nurse With Wound/Aranos, "untitled" (Acts Of Senseless Beauty) 1997 United Dairies Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.

Episode 556: January 9, 2022 playlist: The Legendary Pink Dots, "This is the Museum" (The Museum of Human Happiness) 2022 Metropolis In The Nursery, "H43 Ektachrome (The Animator)" (Humberstone) 2022 ITN Corp Heathered Pearls, "Pain Tolerance (Kyle McEvoy and wowflower Remix)" (Cast Remixes Part III) 2022 Ghostly International Big Blood, "The Fox and The Rose" (Fight for Your Dinner Vol. II) 2009 Don't Rust the Ruin Jeff Mills, "Hatsumi" (01) 2021 REIF Tangerine Dream, "You're Always On Time (edit)" (Raum) 2022 KScope Leslie Winer, "Hold on Postcards" (When I Hit You - You'll Feel It) 2021 Light in the Attic Jeff Parker, "Sea Change" (The Relatives) 2005 Thrill Jockey Equiknoxx, "A Very Pretty Red Light" (Basic Tools (Mixtape)) 2021 Equinoxx Music Eliane Radigue and Frederic Blondy, "Occam XXV (excerpt)" (Occam XXV) 2022 Organ Reframed Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.

Seit Jahrtausenden machen sich Menschen Gedanken darüber, was glücklich macht. Denkschulen wie die Stoa oder der Epikureismus und Religionen wie der Buddhismus: Sie alle gaben Ratschläge, wie ein glückliches Leben gelingen kann. Und manche dieser "Glücksregeln" – etwa ein bisschen weniger materialistisch sein und ein inniges Verhältnis zu Umwelt und Mitmenschen zu pflegen – klingen auch zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts ziemlich aktuell. In dieser Folge stellen wir uns die Frage: Ist das "Streben nach Glück" so etwas wie eine menschliche Konstante? Was macht uns in der Gegenwart unglücklich? Und was hielten Menschen in den letzten 2500 Jahren für das Erfolgsrezept, um glücklich zu werden? Antworten darauf geben uns der Naturphilosoph **Harald Lesch** und die Glücks-Soziologin **Hilke Brockmann**. Viele Menschen sind in der Weihnachtszeit besonders unglücklich. Falls es euch oder anderen gerade schlecht geht, hilft es, mit Menschen darüber zu sprechen - egal, ob Familie, Freund:innen oder Personen, die genau darauf spezialisiert sind. Schnelle Hilfe bieten die Telefonseelsorge (0800 111 0 111) und das Kinder- und Jugendtelefon (116 111). **Quellen & Shownotes** - Harald Lesch auf Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/terraxleschundco. - Hilke Brockmann auf den Seiten der Jacobs University: https://www.jacobs-university.de/directory/hbrockmann. - Darrin M. McMahon: Happiness: A History. New York 2006. - Dieter Thomä, Christoph Henning, Olivia Mitscherlich-Schönherr (Hrsg.): Glück. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart 2011. - M. Andrew Holowchak: The “Reluctant” Politician: Thomas Jefferson's Debt to Epicurus, in: Eighteenth-Century Studies 45, 2, 2012, S. 277-297. - “The Revival of Stoicism”, in: Vice, 29.06.2021, https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxvmw/the-revival-of-stoicism. - Robert Wright. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. New York 2017. - Harald Lesch, Karlheinz A. Geißler, Jonas Geißler: Alles eine Frage der Zeit: Warum die “Zeit ist Geld”-Logik Mensch und Natur teuer zu stehen kommt. München 2021. - „Wir steuern auf ein kollektives Burn-out zu“. Interview mit Hartmut Rosa, in: Die Welt, 04.04.2016, https://www.welt.de/gesundheit/psychologie/article153977398/Wir-steuern-auf-ein-kollektives-Burn-out-zu.html. - Karl Lauterbach über Einsamkeit: "Ich weiß, wie schädlich Einsamkeit ist", in: ZDFheute, 31.05.2019, https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/karl-lauterbach-interview-zum-thema-einsamkeit-100.html. - Hilke Brockmann, Jan Delhey (Hrsg.): Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization: Is More Always Better? Dordrecht - Heidelberg - New York - London 2013. - Hilke Brockmann zur "hedonistischen Tretmühle": https://www.spiegel.de/spiegelwissen/sehnsucht-nach-glueck-was-genau-macht-ein-glueckliches-leben-aus-a-884207.html. - Is Social Media Making Us Unhappy? in: Vice, 23.01.2018, https://www.vice.com/en/article/kzn9d3/cell-phones-linked-to-unhappiness. "Terra X Geschichte - der Podcast" findet Ihr jeden zweiten Freitag auf www.terra-x.zdf.de und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. Für **Themenvorschläge** oder **Feedback**: terrax-online@zdf.de **Mehr von Mirko** zum Thema Geschichte findet ihr hier: - www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2goGeschichte/ - www.instagram.com/mrwissen2gogeschichte/ **Team**: - Moderation: Mirko Drotschmann - Sprecherin: Aline Kinzie - Autor: Andie Rothenhäusler - Schnitt: Aline Kinzie - Musik: Dennis Menze & Jan Stegkemper - Produktion: objektiv media GmbH im Auftrag des ZDF - Redaktion ZDF: Katharina Kolvenbach

What would it be like if birds just... didn't sing as much? Step outside and find out. Also, if you haven't met many atheists out there, maybe it's because they're scared to tell you?

One of the great Lockdown success stories now has a book attached. This magnificent invention started in March last year and, at one point, Tim was hosting 10 Listening Parties a day. He looks back here at some of the ones he loved the most and how the Four Lions movie got the ball rolling. And talks about the Beach Boys, Iggy Pop, Discharge, Vashti Bunyan's horse-drawn trip to the Hebrides and (aged 13) seeing Crass in a scout hut in Winsford.   https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/ All past editions … …https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/all.html @LlSTENlNG_PARTY The Listening Party book …https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listening-Party-Artists-Reflect-Favourite/dp/0241514894 Charlatans tour dates …https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/the-charlatans-tickets/artist/1328349Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon and receive every Word Podcast before the rest of the world... alongside a whole lot more!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the great Lockdown success stories now has a book attached. This magnificent invention started in March last year and, at one point, Tim was hosting 10 Listening Parties a day. He looks back here at some of the ones he loved the most and how the Four Lions movie got the ball rolling. And talks about the Beach Boys, Iggy Pop, Discharge, Vashti Bunyan's horse-drawn trip to the Hebrides and (aged 13) seeing Crass in a scout hut in Winsford.   https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/ All past editions … …https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/all.html @LlSTENlNG_PARTY The Listening Party book …https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listening-Party-Artists-Reflect-Favourite/dp/0241514894 Charlatans tour dates …https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/the-charlatans-tickets/artist/1328349Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon and receive every Word Podcast before the rest of the world... alongside a whole lot more!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of the great Lockdown success stories now has a book attached. This magnificent invention started in March last year and, at one point, Tim was hosting 10 Listening Parties a day. He looks back here at some of the ones he loved the most and how the Four Lions movie got the ball rolling. And talks about the Beach Boys, Iggy Pop, Discharge, Vashti Bunyan's horse-drawn trip to the Hebrides and (aged 13) seeing Crass in a scout hut in Winsford.   https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/ All past editions … …https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/all.html @LlSTENlNG_PARTY The Listening Party book …https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listening-Party-Artists-Reflect-Favourite/dp/0241514894 Charlatans tour dates …https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/the-charlatans-tickets/artist/1328349Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon and receive every Word Podcast before the rest of the world... alongside a whole lot more!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kelly McGonigal, author, psychologist, and educator, is on a mission to help everyone find strength, courage and joy through moving. Kelly uses uses science and stories to explain the connection between movement and happiness. Find out what it does to your brain, your relationships, and much, much more. Kelly invites us to get up and move with her as we dance our way to joy and well being.Visit Kelly's website at www.KellyMcGonigal.comOrder Kelly's book, The Joy of Movement See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, q. 2. It focuses upon his examination in article 8, inquiring into whether any created good could really be human happiness. Aquinas argues that only God can provide human happiness in its full sense but that the human soul plays a role in this, since we enjoy happiness through the soul. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler You can find Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae online here - https://www.newadvent.org/summa/

The philosophy and practice of alchemy, in one form or another, has been around for millennia and espoused by many different cultures, the idea centering around the chemical and physical transformation of some common ore to its highest most valuable state, gold. Modern chemistry naturally discounts this view as outdated and simply not true. But what if that is to miss the point? What if the true alchemical process has little to do with base and precious metals and everything to do man's...

This week we travel back in time 430,000 years to find some of the first examples of compassion in the fossil record. This time we fuse psychology and science with history as we discuss why compassion exists, its potential health benefits, the consequences of stress, fight or flight, and what that all has to do with human happiness. This one packs a scientific punch as we turn up the nerd level to 11.

Dave interviews James about his novel on the early days of recorded sound, The Industry of Human Happiness. James tells how he chanced upon the adventures of Fred Gaisberg and Sinkler Darby in the sleeve notes of a CD that he bought outside a concert, and how they inspired him to write a fictional account of those heady days of format wars, skulduggery and breath-taking invention. James also talks about his campaign to have a commemorative plaque erected on the Maiden Lane building where the industry started (a plaque that was unveiled by Queen drummer Roger Taylor in December 2019). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introduction Waiting on the Power of God Well, after Jesus was crucified, and after He rose from the dead, He appeared to His disciples in the upper room. You think about that scene, the disciples were there in the upper room with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, and Jesus came and stood amongst them and He showed them the physical evidence of His crucifixion, his suffering for them, and He said, "Peace be with you", “and He breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit.” And then He said these incredible words, "If you forgive anyone their sins, they're forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they're not forgiven." And then a week later, they were still in the upper room, and the doors were still locked for fear of the Jews. They knew that Christ had conquered death. They knew it! But they still were fearful of the work that the Lord was laying on them, the work of the Great Commission. They were fearful of what would be asked of them to change the world as would be later said of some of the disciples, “these men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” They were afraid of what it would take to turn the world upside down, or really, right-side up. And so, they were there in the upper room, and they were there also because Jesus commanded them not to leave, that they should wait in that upper room until they were clothed with power from on high. And He gave them over that period of time many convincing proofs that He was alive, and then He ascended into Heaven with the statement that they would receive power when the Holy Spirit came on them, and they would be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria to the ends of the earth. And they went back and they waited, they waited there in the upper room and then on the day of Pentecost, the power of the Holy Spirit fell on them. The third person of the Trinity was manifested first in the sound of a violent, rushing wind, and then “tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each one of the, and all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them,” and a crowd was gathered hearing the sound of that mighty rushing wind and they poured out into the streets, fearless of any consequences that might come on them, in the very same city where their Lord had been crucified only just a short time before that, they had no fear of death, and preached boldly the Gospel. And 3000 were converted that same day. Two Patterns of Resurrection and Power Now, in all of this, two patterns, two lasting patterns were established, that it's worth it to us to study and to understand. The first is the pattern of Jesus' death and resurrection. The pattern of dying and rising again, that was not meant just for Jesus, but was meant also for his witnesses as he said, "Unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself a single seed, but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit." And so, the Church individually and collectively needed to follow that pattern; to be willing to die and have God raise them up, to be willing even to physically die that others might be saved. But of course, all of us tend to preserve our lives. We don't want to suffer and die. And so the second pattern is needful. There you have the Church, understanding all of the facts, understanding the Gospel, aware of the doctrine, aware of the truth, but still it seems powerless, captivated by fear. And then the Holy Spirit pours out and the Church is unleashed in a powerful way. Now, Martyn Lloyd-Jones in 1959, preaching about a revival that happened 100 years before that, in 1859, said that this is the lasting pattern. We see this again and again in Church history, this is what he said. He was speaking at an assembly there on the 100th anniversary of an incredible revival that swept through Great Britain, 1859. And Lloyd-Jones central point there is the Church doesn't really change and neither does the world. The basic issues are always the same, man in his sin, the Gospel is the power of God for salvation. The Church in a weak and almost helpless state unable to meet the challenges of its day, knowing the truth, doing some good ministries, but unable to make significant progress. Suddenly the power of God is poured out from on high, the Church is revived. It moves out in power and many in the world are saved, and they are transformed genuinely. He would say revivals tend to follow their course, they at some point get dissipated in their strength and effectiveness, and the Church returns to its weakened state, needing again the power of God to be poured out from on high. Now Lloyd-Jones is very clear in the distinction between the filling of the Spirit that we have in Ephesians 5:18, where we're commanded to be filled with the Spirit, and what he called the “Baptism of the Spirit.” Now, in this sermon, I'm going to argue that that nomenclature is misplaced, and be bold enough to challenge Martyn Lloyd-Jones on that, but that there's a real experience that our brothers and sisters have had over 2000 years of Church history that we should not discard, no matter what we call it, that there are real experiences of the Holy Spirit being poured out on the Church and the Church being, and this is the normal word, “revived”. Revival comes, and there's tremendous progress made in personal holiness and an evangelistic fruitfulness as a result of that. Lloyd-Jones says, “This is precisely what happens in revival, it is God pouring forth His Spirit, filling His people.” Again, it is not that which is talked of in Ephesians 5:18 which is the command to us, go on being filled with the Spirit. That is something you and I do, but this revival is something that is done to us. It is the Spirit falling upon us, being poured out upon us. These are the terms, “I will pour forth my Spirit,” God alone can do that, but it is you and I were responsible for going on being filled with the Spirit. We must not grieve the Spirit, we must not quench the Spirit, we must give obedience to the Spirit, and as long as we do that we shall go on being filled with the Spirit, but this is different. This is the Spirit being poured out upon us until we are filled to overflowing. The Spirit's Work in Filling Us Now, the Holy Spirit is responsible. The third person in the Trinity, is responsible for taking the finished work of Christ on the cross and applying it worldwide. That is the work given in the Trinity, the work given to the Holy Spirit of God, and He does it very well. For 20 centuries He has made certain that the unconverted elect in every generation are brought from death to life. That Jesus's name is the most famous on planet Earth in every generation, that's the Spirit's work, and He sees to it, but He does that in two different rhythms or patterns, I could say. And what I'm going to say in this sermon today is there are the ordinary ministries of the Spirit and the extraordinary ministries of the Spirit, and both of them are essential for the journey that the Lord has the Church on until His work is finished in this world. Some folks, including Martyn Lloyd-Jones, call the extraordinary ministries of the Spirit the Baptism of the Spirit. I think that's wrong. It's a wrong name for a true experience. Today, I want to talk about the Baptism of the Spirit happening to all Christians, every Christian, at the beginning of their Christian life. And then the filling of the Spirit, in ordinary and extraordinary measures. So I'm going to just lay my cards on the table. I believe that Baptism in the Spirit happens to every single genuinely-born again person, and it happens once and never needs to be repeated again. It happens at conversion. Pentecostals and other charismatics who say that you should seek the Baptism of the Spirit are not following a biblical pattern, for there are no such commands in the New Testament. There are no commands to seek the Baptism of the Spirit. The filling of the Spirit happens again and again in the Christian life. And it empowers Christians to make progress in the two journeys that we talk about so much in this church; the internal journey of sanctification, of holiness, and the external journey of gospel advancement, evangelism. Ephesians 5:18 is a command to us that we should seek the filling of the Spirit. We're going to talk about that. The filling of the Spirit, as I've said, comes in both ordinary and extraordinary measures. The ordinary filling of the Spirit has been, and continues to be sufficient to make overwhelming progress that the Lord wants us to make and it should not in any way be denigrated. But the extraordinary filling of the Spirit, sometimes called revival, is also awesome and wonderful and powerful and should be sought through prayer. And it should not be in any way minimized either. Neither should it be over-emphasized as though until we get a revival, nothing will happen. That is not helpful. So therefore, a healthy Christian should see both the ordinary ministries of the Spirit and the extraordinary ministries of the Spirit as beneficial for the spread of the Gospel and growth and holiness. So there's the sermon. I would advise you to continue to listen after that, but you got it in a nutshell now. And so I want to talk about these things, and we need to begin with the terminology; Baptism. Baptism of the Spirit. What is the Baptism of the Spirit? John the Baptist Now baptism itself began in the Bible with John the Baptist. You do not see baptism at all in the Old Testaments, it's not an Old Testament thing. The word from the Greek, “baptizo”, means to immerse or plunge something, to plunge an object, or a person, in a vat or a container or a large amount of liquid. Now, that's how the word is used. So, we Baptists, who believe in complete immersion, all we're saying is we believe in complete baptism. Alright? So a baptism sprinkling, those things don't make any sense. The word means to immerse or plunge. So John the Baptist came along, the habit had been n between the Old Testament and New Testament period, intertestamental period, as Jews have been scattered because of the judgments of God from Palestine to that region of the world, more and more Gentiles became what was known as God-fearers, and wanted to become Jews, they wanted to become monotheists in the Jewish patterns. And so they were accepted in after certain rituals, the men had to be circumcised and both of them had to be bathed, they had to have a bath. They were immersed in water to cleanse them of their pagan ways. This isn't commanded anywhere in the Bible, it was just something that the Jewish leaders did. Well, along comes John the Baptist, and he is preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, "Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand." And he was baptizing Jews, this was shocking, but he was effectively saying by immersing Jews in the Jordan River, he was saying, “You're no better than pagans. You're no better than the Gentiles, you are following the same idolatrous patterns, and you need the same cleansing.” He was predicted in Isaiah 40, “the voice of one calling in the desert, prepare the way for the Lord, make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.” That was John the Baptist. And Jewish people were just powerfully attracted to his bold preaching, and they came and they received this immersion, this plunging in water by John. They were confessing their sins. Now, the central work of John was to prepare the way for Jesus, to get the people ready for Jesus. And he did this by heightening expectations of this one who was going to come. Jesus said of John the Baptist, he was the greatest man who had ever lived up to that point. “Among those born of women, none had risen greater than John the Baptist.” Jesus' Baptisms: Holy Spirit or Eternal Fire But listen to what John said about Jesus, "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor, gathering up the weed into His barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire." So there John said Jesus would baptize the people in a greater baptism than he did. He will baptize them in the Holy Spirit and in fire. Now, the unquenchable fire that John the Baptist speaks of is an interpretive key to his thinking. “Unquenchable fire,” to me, must refer to Hell, it must refer to the Lake of Fire. The word baptize means to plunge. And He said that Jesus has the power, the authority to plunge people into unquenchable fire, and this He will do at the end of the world when the Son of Man comes in His glory and all the angels with Him, He will gather all the nations before Him, and He will separate them, one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And He'll put the sheep on his right, and the goats on His left. And the sheep represent those that are redeemed and lived a Godly life by the power of the Holy Spirit, but the goats represent the unregenerate. “And He will say to those on his left, ‘depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’” Jesus has the power to do that, the authority to do it, and it will happen. However, Jesus will never both plunge someone in the Holy Spirit and in unquenchable fire. It's an either/or proposition. We must understand, therefore, that John is speaking to a mixed group. Some of them he called the brood of vipers, the Pharisees and Sadducees and the religious leaders, but others were just humbly confessing their sins, so he's speaking to a mixed group. And I think we, therefore, need to understand Jesus will either baptize you in the Holy Spirit, or He will baptize you in eternal fire, that's the greatness of Jesus. John only baptizes in water, it's a symbol. Jesus does the real baptism. Baptism of the Spirit Happens at Conversion So what is this Baptism of the Spirit? Well, the Baptism of the Spirit happens by Jesus to genuinely converted persons. It happens at conversion. Look at the text that Jim just read for us, 1 Corinthians 12:13, "We were all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greek, slave or free, and we were all given the one Spirit to drink." So when does the Baptism of the Spirit happen? First of all, notice it happens to all of us. We were all baptized. There's not a group of people that are Christians, but not yet baptized in the Spirit, and so all Christians are baptized in the Spirit. When does it happen? According to the verse, it happens when we were made members of the Body of Christ. It is by the Baptism of the Spirit that you become a member of the Body of Christ, when you are converted. That's when it happens. So the immersion that we have, the spiritual immersion we have at conversion is positional language. We have been plunged into a spiritual ocean of God, of grace, and in that we live and move and have our being once we are converted. And it never needs to happen again, we are immersed in the Holy Spirit. We have been rescued from Satan's filthy, cesspool of sin, and we have been plunged into grace and into the cleansing. And we stand in that grace forever, that's true of every single Christian all over the world, Jews and Greeks, slave and free. So ethnicity doesn't matter, socio-economic doesn't matter, what matters is are you born again? Have you trusted in Jesus as your Lord and Savior? If so, you have been baptized by the Spirit into this one body, the Body of Christ. Now, but beyond this, once for all, plunging into the ocean of Christ's cleansing Spirit or grace by the Spirit. We're also given the text that says one spirit to drink. We have the freedom to drink of the Holy Spirit. This drinking, I believe, refers to an ongoing experience of refreshment that we have through the Holy Spirit in Christ. It reminds me of two magnificent texts in John's Gospel. The first is the statement He made to the Samaritan woman at the well, remember? How she was very proud of the well that Jacob, their father, their ancestor, had given to them. And Jesus said, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is who's speaking to you, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.” She's intrigued, she says, “Well who are you? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us this well and he drank from it himself, as did also his flocks and herds.” Jesus said this, “Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I give him shall never thirst, indeed the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” In other words, you can drink from that whenever you want. It's an internal heart experience of drinking the living water. John chapter 4. A few chapters later, John 7, this happened at the assembly of the Jews at the Feast of the Booths, and they were all assembled there, and in the last and greatest day of the feast Jesus stood and cried out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.” By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. Up to that time, the Spirit had not been given since Jesus had not yet been glorified. So you have that same kind of image, the image of living water. Three Observations from John Piper Now, John Piper commenting on this, John 7 text, said some very important things. First, he says, the gift of water is free. The condition you must meet is need. “Is anyone thirsty?” Well, that's the condition, and the action you must take is to drink, receive the gift. There's no thought here of earning or meriting. Anyone who knows his own thirst is invited. Are you thirsty? Come. Secondly, the human soul has thirst. We know He's not talking about physical thirst, that's clear, but what He is saying is that the soul has something like physical thirst. When you go without water, your body gets thirsty, and the soul when it goes without God, gets thirsty. Your body was made to live on water, your soul was made to live on God. That's the most important thing you need to know about yourself, you were made to live on God, you have a soul, you have a spirit, there is a you that's more than body, and that is your soul. If it does not drink from the greatness, and wisdom, and power, and goodness, and justice, and holiness, and love of God, you will die of thirst. Third, implied in the word thirst is that what Jesus offers is satisfying, it is refreshing. The aim of all theology, of all study, all Biblical learning, all preaching is to spread the satisfying banquet for you to eat with joy and to protect the kitchen from poison. The aim of cooking is eating, the aim of digging wells and clearing out Springs is drinking. Everything Jesus came to do and to teach is aimed at providing the soul with food and drink that will satisfy forever. Now to come to Jesus and drink is the same as believing in Him. John 7 says, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.” So, John Piper says, “So be done forever with the sad notion that saving faith, that believing in Jesus is a mere decision to ascent to facts. No, it is a coming to Him as to a feast, it is a recognizing of a treasure, it is a banquet, a spring in the desert when we are dying of thirst.” The Effects of the Living Water Now what will happen to you when you come? John 7:38 says, “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” Literally it says out of his belly. The point is our inner being, call it your belly, your heart, soul, spirit. What does that mean? What it means is when you come to Jesus to drink, you don't just get a single drink, you get a spring, you get a fountain, you get a well, you get Jesus. Rivers of living water will flow within you because He is a river maker. And that's inside you. That's the point, you'll never have to search again for some source of satisfaction for your soul. Every river that needs to flow for the joy of your soul is within you, if you're a Christian. And that's what I think it means in verse 13 of our text today. 1 Corinthians 12:13, “For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greek, slave or free and listen, we were all given of the one Spirit to drink.” So what that means is, your soul is going to experience a perpetual cycle of satisfaction and thirst, satisfaction and thirst. You're going to get thirsty, come to Jesus and drink again. And if you're a Christian, the spring of water is already inside you, it wells up to eternal life, and you can drink of him any time you want. Now the devil is there standing offering you poison. Sweet, addictive poison, but it will kill your soul. Well, it will seem satisfying, but it really isn't. It's addictive and it doesn't satisfy. You were meant to get thirsty, to feel your need for God again and again and to drink from Jesus. Now water baptism, which we do regularly back here, is just an outward, visible symbol of the real baptism Jesus, we hope, we trust, has already done in that person. As a Baptist church, we will not do the water baptism if we don't have signs, evidence, that Jesus has already baptized that person in the Spirit, does that make sense? So we're just looking for evidence. They'll talk a certain way, they're living a certain way, it's the beginning of the Christian life, they don't have to be mature at all. Like the Ethiopian eunuch, you can be baptized right there and then. You have to talk like a disciple, you have to talk about your past sins like a disciple, you have to speak like a converted person and then we'll baptize you, because that's the evidence that we have that Jesus has already baptized you into the Body of Christ. Alright, well, what about the other outpourings of the Spirit? The Other Outpourings of the Spirit Pentecostal and Charismatic churches have used the phrase Baptism of the Spirit to speak of a second experience of grace, or third, or fourth, or whatever, experience of grace. It happens separate from conversion. They press in on individuals and say you need to seek the Baptism of the Spirit. This needs to happen to you. The problem I have is that there are no such scriptures that give us the right to press that on other people. There are no commands like that. They also tend, some of them anyway, to link it to pursuit of holiness as though there tends to be like a silver bullet for all the sin patterns in your life, and you receive this second work of grace that then kills that sin pattern, and that's just not the way the Bible teaches sanctification. Now Martyn Lloyd-Jones uses the expression, “Baptism of the Spirit” to speak of an individual or group transformation that comes as, to some degree, Heaven is open and that person has an overwhelming, powerful experience of God that was unlike anything they've ever had before, and maybe they'll never have one like that again, and it changed their entire approach to life. And it can happen to groups, and the word generally given to that is revival. I think the only error that Lloyd-Jones had is calling it baptism. I just think that's not helpful, but other than that it's a real thing, and it's beneficial. And he would say, it's a repeat of the day of Pentecost and you have evidence for that scripturally. If you look at Acts chapter 4, don't turn there. But just, you know, how Peter and John were arrested, and then they were hauled in and they were threatened, and they were let go, and they go back to the church, and the church gathers to pray. I've talked about it I think even last week. And there in Acts 4:31, it says after they were praying, the place with their meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God boldly. That seems like a miniature second day Pentecost. Without in any way minimizing the uniqueness of the day of Pentecost that will never be repeated again. Yet there is some degree of re-enactment. So that the two cycles, the two cycles that I talked about that are essential of dying and rising again so that fruit can come, and of the Spirit poured out on people who don't do enough or much out of fear or selfishness, until the Spirit comes, both of those get re-enacted again and again. What Does it Mean to be Filled with the Spirit? The Command in Ephesians 5:18 Alright, so let's zero in on the ordinary ministry. Ordinary ministries of the Spirit. What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? Turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Ephesians 5:18. We're going to look at that, that's a key passage on this, Ephesians 5:18. As I said, there is no command anywhere that you should seek the Baptism of the Spirit, but there is most certainly a command that you should be filled with the Holy Spirit. And it's in a section of Ephesians where Paul is telling them that they should “live a life worthy of the calling they have received,” Ephesians 4:1. Live a Christian life. What does that mean? Many things. But there in Ephesians 5:18, he says this, “Do not be drunk with wine or get drunk on wine instead. Which leads to debauchery, instead be filled with the Spirit.” So once we have been baptized by the Spirit at conversion, we now begin the daily Christian life. It's a life of, as I've said, of two journeys; the internal journey of holiness, of becoming more and more like Christ, the external journey of evangelism, missions of leading lost people to saving faith in Christ. That's what we were left here on Earth do. And it's only by the power of the Spirit that we make progress in those two journeys. Now, Ephesians 5:18 is a fascinating thing grammatically. It is what's known as a passive imperative. Passive imperative. So imperative is a command; You must, something you must do. Passive is you must have something done to you, so you must have something done to you. So what is it we have to have done? You must be being filled with the Holy Spirit, that's something that has to happen to you in an ongoing sense. So since the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost as wind and fire. Think of those images. Wind, think of the old tall ships, the clipper ships, remember? With all that sail. And then the wind would come and the sails would luff and billow, and then they would be fat with wind and the ship would start to move. So you're filled with the third person of the Trinity. He is filling your mind, he's filling your soul filling your heart, your emotions, you're filled with the Spirit, that feeling like a wind, and the ship just moves. Your ship, the Church's ship just moves in a certain direction where the Spirit causes him to go. Or what about the fire, the image of fire? Comes in tongues of fire. Here, I'm not talking about something that's fake dear friends. I'm not talking about a painted fire, or one of those fake cellophane orange plastic things that blows with a fan. You know? It's like we're deceived by this, and these little tongues that dance and all that. That's not a fire. A two-year-old could say that. So we're not talking about a fire painted on a wall or fake, I'm talking about a supernatural fire that comes and fills your soul with heat and light because God is there. You think about the burning bush, the supernaturally burning bush that caused Moses to turn aside and see this wonder. Why the bush is burning, but it is not burned up. Or think about Elijah and Mount Carmel, and fire came from Heaven and burned up that sacrifice. I'm talking about a supernatural fire that fills you. The Continual Need for the Spirit's Filling Now, we need to be filled with the Spirit. It's a continual need. Baptism happens only once, but we can lose the filling of the Spirit. How does that happen? Well, there are two different kind of ways, I think, that that happens. One of them I don't necessarily even know that we have lost. The filling of the Spirit, just has to do with the wisdom of the Spirit and the way he deals with us. Imagine that you have a really phenomenally Spirit-filled Tuesday. You're just so filled with a sense of God's love for you. I'm going to talk about what the Spirit does in a spirit filled person in a moment. But you just had a spiritual day, but then you went to bed and you woke up. And maybe you're a morning person, and especially, maybe you're not, and you don't feel right now, what you felt yesterday. Does that ever happen to you? I'm not in any way saying you've sinned at all, you just don't feel what you felt last night. Doesn't mean you've done anything. What it means is the Spirit wisely steps back and says, "Follow me, come after me, pursue me." So you have that morning quiet time, you get in the word. You seek Him, you drink and drink until you are filled with the Spirit, so that's just normal. You haven't done anything wrong, it's just He is urging you to pursue Him. So many Psalms are like that. Why do you stand far off, why are you not here? Why do I not feel you close right now? He's just saying, come, come and seek me. Christ is saying through the Spirit. And so, imagine back in the days of the clipper ships and all that, the ship is off a few points from optimal direction for the wind. So the ship's captain then will turn you a few points towards the wind, and then suddenly those sails are filled again. So again, there's no sin involved in that case. Alright? But then there's the other case in which, friends, you grieve the Holy Spirit because you sinned, you violated your conscience, you violated the Word of God, and you know what you did. Or if you don't, you just know the Spirit is gone but you need to find out why. And so you go to Him and you say, "Search me, oh God, and know my heart, and show me, and show me what I've done wrong." Psalm 139:23-24. And lead me in the way of everlasting. And then He convicts you of sin, and then you are aware, and you confess your sin. And you ask to be filled again with the Holy Spirit and because it's a command from God, you can turn it around and make it a promise. “You commanded me to be be being filled with the Spirit. Now, fill me, Oh Lord, fill me.” We need to do that the rest of our lives. Now, at that point then the ordinary ministries of the Spirit kick in. They've already been at work, but let me say what they are. The Effects of the Spirit's Filling Look at Ephesians 5, what happens? When you are filled with the Spirit, you're going to speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Horizontally, you're going to be talking the scripture to other people. You're going to be encouraging other people with the scripture. You're going to be “singing in your heart, making music in your heart to the Lord.” You're just happy in Jesus, there's a song in your heart, you're filled with the spirit. It's the ordinary ministry. And the Spirit also is going to mount you up and dress you and get you ready for battle with your temptations. It says in Romans 8:13, "If you, by the Spirit, put to death the deeds of the body, you will live." He's going to get you ready for battle, He's going to cause you to fight your temptations, He's going to cause you to fight sin, that's what it means to be filled the Spirit. You're going to see the fruit of the Spirit in your life. Galatians 5 says, “fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control.” These attributes, look at each one, it's a package. You don't get some of them and not others. Like Tuesday is the first three fruits of the Spirit. You get the whole thing. When you're filled with the Spirit, these things characterize you. So it's a good diagnostic test. At any moment you just stop and say, "Are these things characterizing me right now?" And if they're not, you're not filled with the Spirit. Pursue Him, go after Him, fruit of the Spirit. Energetic service happens when you're filled with the Spirit. You just serve the Lord. You do good works that God wants you to do, as it says in Romans 7:6, "We serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code." So you serve Him, you do good works. You witness boldly. Filled with the Spirit. Spirit-filled people are fearless like Peter and John before the Sanhedrin. I love their boldness, they are unafraid. “‘He is the stone, you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven, given to men, by which we must be saved." Complete boldness there. No fear of death at all. Bold witness when you're Spirit-filled. What else? What Are the Ordinary Ministries of the Spirit? Communications of God's Love Well the Spirit will communicate God's love to you. Ordinary ministry of the Spirit, He will communicate, He will tell you that God loves you. “The Spirit will testify with your spirit that you are a child of God”, Romans 8:16. Romans 5:5 says that the Spirit pours God's love into our hearts. And that's some of these transcendent experiences that people have. It can go up, and I'm getting into the extraordinary ministry, but I don't want to do that right now. I'll get to that in a second. But you can have such a sense that God loves you and imagine just pursuing that and saying Lord, I don't really sense that you love me, I don't feel like I should that you love me. But the Spirit, ordinarily just says it. Let me say something about ordinary/extraordinary. Okay, let me just say that everything the Spirit does is supernatural. So the things that He does in the Spirit-filled life, they are supernatural, but for the Christian, they can and should be ordinary, can experience them every day. We'll get to the extraordinary in just a moment. Illumination of the Scriptures What else does the Spirit do? He illuminates the Scriptures. You sit down, have your quiet time, the Spirit moves. You say, "Open my eyes, Lord, that I may see wonderful things in your law." Psalm 119:18. Like Jesus did with His disciples. Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. The Holy Spirit illuminates the Scriptures to you and makes them clear. The Holy Spirit convicts you of sin. Like I said, Psalm 139; Search me, oh God, and know me. You just say, "God, show me, show me where there are flaws, where there are sins, things I haven't seen, things that are hurting my walk with you. Show me." He'll convict you of sin. He will also guide you and direct you which way to go. Like Isaiah 30:21 says, "Your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way, walk in it.'" We have clear examples of this in the book of Acts where Paul and Silas didn't where to go, and the Holy Spirit said, "Not there, not there." And then they got the vision from the man of Macedonia and went over to Greece. The Holy Spirit will guide you, He'll direct you in patterns of ministry. The Holy Spirit, as we've been seeing in 1 Corinthians 12, gifts you for spiritual gift ministry. So that you can do your spiritual gifts and build the Body up. And He will unite us, we are to “keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” So, in a healthy church, He makes us one in the Spirit, loving each other and delighting in each other. Conviction of Sin What does He do to non-Christians? Well, He gives them, He delivers enough information to them for them to be saved. He gets the message of the Gospel to them, and then He “convicts the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and the judgment to come.” John 16. And if they are elect and if today is the day, He'll convert them. He converts them, as it says in Ezekiel 36, “I will give you a new heart, and I'll put a new Spirit in you, and I'll remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh, and I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.” Alright, so, friends, those are the ordinary ministries of the Holy Spirit. Can you see why I'm saying that we should not denigrate them or say unless a revival comes, God's doing nothing? That is just not true. He's doing all of these things every day in countless hundreds of millions around the world. Extraordinary Ministries of the Spirit? Ecstatic Experiences in Individuals But now let's talk about the extraordinary ministries of the Spirit. I could begin with ecstatic experiences in individuals, and I could give you lots of examples of this, but let me zero in on a man named D.L. Moody. D.L. Moody was a pastor of a significant church in Chicago. He preached the Gospel clearly, people were being converted, he was satisfied with his ministry, but two women sitting right in the front pew were not satisfied. And they were fervently praying during the whole service. Finally, he was curious, and he went up, and to talk to these two women. “What are you doing?” “Well, we're praying for you.” And I wonder what was going on in inside his heart. Actually, I don't wonder too much. He said, "Why don't you pray for the people?" They said, "Because you need the power of the Spirit." He said, "I need the power. Why? I have the largest congregation in Chicago and there are many conversions week after week." But the women would not be deterred, they kept on praying for the Holy Spirit to be poured out on D.L. Moody. Soon after that encounter, the Great Chicago Fire came. Devastating. Swept away much of the city, including the building where they had been meeting. Destroyed completely by fire. Moody thought in his mind about these two women, and he went back to that, and he began to cry out in his heart for the Holy Spirit. This is actually what Moody said, "I began to cry, as never before, for a greater blessing from God. The hunger increased, I really felt that I did not want to live any longer. I kept on crying all the time, that God would fill me with His Spirit. Well, one day, in the city of New York. Oh, what a day? I cannot describe it, I seldom refer to it. It is almost too sacred an experience to name. Paul had an experience of which he never spoke for 14 years. I can only say God revealed Himself to me and I had such an experience of His love, that I had to ask Him to stay His hand." This is an overwhelming outpouring of God's presence into a man who was already fruitful and faithfully walking with him. He never had that experience again. Let me continue the quote. "I had to ask Him to stay His hand. I went back to preaching again. The sermons themselves were not different, I did not present any new truths, and yet now, hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should offer me all the world, it would be to me as the small dust on the scales." After that experience, DL Moody began his work as an itinerant evangelist in England, Ireland, Wales, and the US. From 1871 to 1899, he preached so effectively that hundreds of thousands and maybe millions were converted through his preaching ministry. He traced that level of fruitfulness back to that experience in New York. But that can also happen to groups. Revivals: The Outpouring on Groups As groups meet together to pray and they seek the face of the Lord. Just like Acts 4:31, they're all meeting to pray and the place where they're meeting is shaken. There are experiences like that as well. John Wesley right before the first grade awakening, spoke of this prayer time that he had with a man named Hall Ingham. George Whitefield was there, Hutching and Charles Wesley, his brother. He said, "We're present at our love feast in Fetter Lane with about 60 of our brethren." Listen to this. "About three in the morning, while we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us insomuch that many cried out for exulting joy and many fell to the ground. As soon as we were recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the presence of His majesty, we broke out with one voice, 'We praise Thee, O God. We acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.'" And God does this kind of thing powerfully. Now, 125 years later, Charles Spurgeon was preaching, and he prayed on a particular Tuesday evening, January 4th, 1859. He was speaking to a vast gathering that was convened at Exeter Hall. Spurgeon at that point was 24 years old, a preaching prodigy, the most famous preacher probably in the world, at that point. But that meant nothing to him, he was not in any way satisfied with his ministry. This is what he said, "We must confess that just now we have not the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that we could wish. Oh, if the Spirit of God should come upon those assembled here tonight and upon all the assemblies of the saints, what an effect would be produced? We seek not for extraordinary excitements, those spurious attendants of genuine revivals, but we do seek for the pouring out of the Spirit of God. The spirit is blowing upon our churches now with His genial breath, but it is a soft evening breeze. Oh, that there would come a rushing mighty wind that should carry everything before it. This is the lack of our times, the great want of our country." Well, Spurgeon's desire was fulfilled. That year, 1859, was the greatest, most effective year of his entire ministry. In the spring of 1859, a widespread awakening began in Northern Ireland and spread to Wales. By the end of that year, Spurgeon could write, "The times of refreshing have come at last from the presence of the Lord, they have at last dawned upon our land". Spurgeon on God's Mighty Acts In one of Spurgeon's most powerful sermons during that year of revival, a sermon entitled "The Story of God's mighty acts." Let me tell you, you can listen to someone reading that sermon on YouTube. I listened to it as I was driving in, part of it. I would recommend it. I'd rather hear Spurgeon preach it, but that would be weird at this point, but there's a guy reading it, and it's very effective. He was preaching on Psalm 44:1. The text says; “We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what you did in their days in days long ago”. Spurgeon catalogued the mighty acts of God across, at that point, 18 centuries of Church history. He traced out the spectacular advance of the gospel over the first 100 years after the death of Christ, how the Gospel spread rapidly across Europe into Asia for 100 years, and how heathens were baptized in huge numbers, sometimes even thousands in rivers. Spurgeon said this, "The first spread of the Gospel is a miracle never to be eclipsed. Whatever God may have done at the Red Sea, He did still more within 100 years after the time when Christ first came into the world. It seemed as if a fire from Heaven, ran along the ground." I picture a molten lava. Hot, red, igniting everything in its way. Hundred years after Christ ascended into heaven, it's true, there were congregations in northern Britannia, in Germania and other places in the Roman Empire. The Gospel was spreading powerfully, it's incredible. Spurgeon in that sermon traced out other examples of mighty outpourings; the Reformation, Luther's courage in facing the Medieval Roman Catholic Church, and then the first great awakening, 125 years before that, under Whitefield and Wesley. Spurgeon said this, "Within a few years from the preaching of those two men, England was permeated with Evangelical truth. The Word of God, was known in every town and there was scarcely a hamlet into which the Methodists had not penetrated. In those days of the slow coach, when Christianity seemed to have brought up the old wagons in which our fathers once traveled, where business runs along with steam." Now, you need to understand, in Spurgeon's day, steam was a new thing. So I thought about translating this into the digital age, but I'll just read what he wrote. "Where business flies along with steam, it seems the Gospel creeps along with a horse drawn cart. Yet the things that we notice what God did, the wondrous things that God did in olden times by His grace, we trust He will yet do again." Spurgeon said this, "The old stagers in our church believe that things must grow gently by degrees. We must go step-by-step onward. Concentrated action, continued labor, they say, will ultimately bring success. But the marvel is all of God's mightiest works have been sudden. When Peter stood up to preach, it did not take six weeks to convert the 3,000. They were converted at once and baptized that very day. They were that hour turned to God. So it is in all revivals. God's work has been done suddenly as with a clap of thunder, God has descended from on high, not slowly, but suddenly." Seek the Extraordinary Outpouring Today Friends, this is the extraordinary ministry of the Holy Spirit. God can still do that in our day. And Spurgeon made the point as did Lloyd-Jones, that it always starts with extraordinary thirst an extraordinary prayer. It starts with individuals, maybe you, maybe you, maybe you, maybe me, not okay with the status quo. You look at your life and you're not okay with your level of sanctification, you're not satisfied with the progress you're making. You look at the church and you're not okay with the number of people that we've baptized. You're not okay with the impact First Baptist Church has on Durham and Raleigh and Chapel Hill. You're not okay with it. The status quo is not enough. And you begin to pray. As Jeremy Lanphier did two years before the revival in Great Britain, 1857, he started a businessmen's revival in New York City that started with one man, him, praying. By the end of that hour, the last 10 minutes, there was no one paying, just him, for 50 minutes. Then at the end of the hour, five other people came and joined him to pray. Terrible economic reversals happened, a fear of Civil War, which was soon to come in the United States. Many other things. Those are human factors, but really what happened is the Holy Spirit was poured out. And within several months, a quarter of a million people in the New York area were converted, very rapidly. I think it was Spurgeon thought about that and said, "Why can't something like that happen here?" And began praying. So it could start. Start that way with some of you. Maybe two people who sit in the front pew and pray for the pastor, that he would have the Holy Spirit. I don't know if D.L. Moody felt offended at that point. I promise you, as best I can, I will not feel offended if you pray for me to have the Holy Spirit because I'm not satisfied. I've been here for 21 years. I'm not satisfied with the holiness level of my life, I'm not satisfied with the fruitfulness in our church, and I'm asking God to work a revival in our church, in our lives, that begins with extraordinary prayer. I don't know who's going to start it. I don't care. And frankly, I don't even care if it starts with our church. I just want to see God move mightily and powerfully in our area. Friends, Repent and Do Not Harden Your Hearts Let me say one last thing, and I'll be done. There may be some of you that are here today that came in here unconverted. I want to tell you something, a regret that D.L. Moody took with him to his death bed. Before the Chicago Fire came, he preached the Gospel and preached it powerfully. He made it very, very clear that Christ had died for sinners, that He had been risen from the dead, and that salvation was available. But what he didn't do, is he said, "I'm not going to tell you what you individually need to do about this. Come back next week and I'll tell you then." The Chicago fire happened the very next day. D.L. Moody said, I never saw those people again, that congregation. Maybe there were individuals he saw, but that assembly was wiped out by the fire. And he regretted not pressing on the consciences of his hearers the need to flee to Christ while there was time. Friends, you don't know if you'll be alive tomorrow. You've heard the Gospel today. You've heard that Christ died for sinners, you know that you're a sinner, you know that you're outside of Christ. Don't leave this place still outside of Christ. You don't need to get up or come forward to do anything, you just need to call on the name of the Lord and you'll be saved. God will forgive you of your sins today. “If you hear His voice, don't harden your hearts.” Prayer Close with me in prayer. Father, we thank you for the time we've had to study. Sometimes I fear that my words in my own heart and in the lives of many here are like a painted fire, that they don't have a real effectiveness. Lord, I pray that you would please overwhelm all of that by the moving of your Spirit. I pray that you would pour out the Spirit in influence and in power on me and on my brothers and sisters here and on everyone assembled here. I pray that 2020 would be the greatest year of evangelistic fruitfulness this church has ever known. I pray that you would give us a sense of the presence of the Spirit in this that we have never had before. And I pray it would begin with extraordinary prayer, that we would realize that we are weak and feeble until the Holy Spirit is poured out from on high. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Sunday, December 10, 2017 at Hillcrest, Pensacola, FL

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Celebrity Comedian Paula Poundstone. She will discuss he Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. Stand-up comic Paula Poundstone tours all over the country and is a popular panelist on NPR's weekly comedy quiz “Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!” Her long list of accomplishments includes HBO specials, an Emmy Award, two Cable ACE Awards, and an America Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up. She lives in Santa Monica, California. Visit www.paulapoundstone.com.