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Welcome to Day 2206 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nWhat Does God Want \u2013 God Pursues His Human Family \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nPutnam Church Message \u2013 02/19/2023\nWhat Does God Want? -\xa0 God Pursues His Human Family\nLast week, we continued our series with the overall theme to answer the question: What does God want? The answer we discovered over this past month was that God wants you and everyone who will ever live. In other words, God wanted a human family. God wants co-workers to take care of His creation. God wants you to know who you are and why your life has value to him. He loves you and desires that you also love Him. Last week\u2019s message showed that God joined His human family. When God joined His human family, all covenants were fulfilled, all rebellions were overcome, and all death was extinguished. Because of the Resurrection, our distance from God was bridged. Today, we will explore how God Pursues His Family. There is a lot of scripture in today\u2019s message, making me think of this beautiful basket. OT & NT weaved together to see how the kingdom of God is being weaved together.\n\nAs I noted in the last message, the coming of the Holy Spirit fulfilled the new covenant described by Jeremiah and Ezekiel (Jer 31:31-34; Ezek 36:22-28). Let me read the verses of Ezekiel 36:25-27, \u201cThen I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols.\xa0And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.\u201d The Spirit\u2019s ministry in each believer makes victory over depravity possible. Think of it as a slap in the face to the fallen sons of God. But it\u2019s an even more direct assault on another set of supernatural villains.\n\nThe Spirit\u2019s arrival launched an infiltration campaign against the sons of God to whom God assigned the nations he divorced at Babel (Deut 32:8). When the Most High assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according to the number in his heavenly court. The supernatural beings who defected from serving God and became corrupt, abusing the people under their dominion (Psalm 82). Jesus knew all that. We habitually miss this point in reading the New Testament books that come after the resurrection (i.e., Acts through Revelation).\n\nThe Beginning of the End\n\nJesus\u2019s departure put the coming of the Spirit into motion. John 14:26 says,\xa0\u201cBut when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative\u2014that is, the Holy Spirit\u2014he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything\xa0I have told you.\u201d John 15:26 says, \u201cBut I will send you the Advocate\u2014the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me.\u201d John 16:7 says, \u201cBut in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don\u2019t, the Advocate\xa0won\u2019t come. If I do go away, then I will send him to you. Luke 24:49 says, \u201cAnd now I will send the Holy Spirit,...