I remember reading it as a kid in St. Paul's letters.

No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit and thinking, okay, are you sure,

Paul?

He was saying, you can only say those three words, Jesus is Lord, and have it be true if you

have the Holy Spirit.

I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitt, and this is Essentially Presents.

We had OCI class the other, I don't know, week or something.

It's the order of Christian initiation for adults.

It's for those people who are coming into the church, maybe getting baptized.

Maybe they already are Catholic, but they're getting confirmed.

You know, people want to learn more about the Catholic Church.

And we were talking about baptism.

And one of the consequences, one of the effects of baptism is we are able to say Jesus is Lord.

I remember reading that as a kid in St. Paul's letters.

Like no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit and thinking, okay, are you sure,

Paul? Because I'm pretty sure you could train anybody. You're probably train a parrot to say the

words Jesus is Lord. Okay, obviously that's the case.

But what Paul is making the case is, is not that you can only say the three words, Jesus is Lord,

if you have the Holy Spirit. He was saying, you can only say those three words, Jesus is Lord,

and have it be true if you have the Holy Spirit. Because what are we saying? We say Jesus is Lord. What we're saying

is here is Jesus. And he has, not only does he have dominion over overall creation, not only does

he have dominion over the universe, right? Jesus Christ, king of the universe, Lord of the universe,

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