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so we were talking about throne life and
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how that it is the ultimate intention of
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God for our maturity you know the Bible
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says I remember the parable of the sower
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how many remember there was four kinds
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of ground and there's good ground and
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the good ground then brings forth fruit
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right how many of you have received the
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word of the gospel and been born again
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so I guess you'd be good ground then
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wouldn't you well here's the here's the
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additional thought about that Jesus said
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the good ground brings forth fruit some
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30 some 60 some a hundredfold so the
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very same word can bring forth
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revelation in an increasing power and
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depth how many know that when you first
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heard the gospel you receive Jesus as
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your Savior but how many know after
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walking up in for 20 or 30 years you've
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known him as your savior and a whole
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different sense okay so so it's a it's a
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one of the things that we wrestle with
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in our culture is we think more facts
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equals more knowledge but knowledge
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biblically is not the accumulation of
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good information it's the transformation
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of your inner life that's what real
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knowledge that's what biblical knowledge
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is it's when the knowledge is revealed
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by the spirit and you possess it and you
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walk in it you say that's that's that
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the transformative knowledge of
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Scripture that's where I'm stalking in
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the last session a little bit about
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Bible meditation taking just a small
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portion of Scripture and and chewing on
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it thinking about it applying it to your
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life just asking yourself the question
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how can I apply this to my life Holy
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Spirit how
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can I apply this verse to my life what
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does this mean for my walk with you
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you see and we just began to chew on of
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course Joshua said that that that was
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the key to success and dealing wisely in
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life well God told Joshua that if he
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would meditate in the word that God
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would give him good success and he would
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deal wisely in the affairs of life well
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all of us no matter what our or where we
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do our Kingdom business you know what
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many of us are called into the different
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areas of the culture but and you need
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God's wisdom there well meditation is
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the key to wisdom learning to take the
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Word of God and think through on it see
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and as I started to say the end of the
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last session that that psychologists are
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beginning to say the way you deal with
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the information overload of our culture
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is you take some time to focus on one
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thing and that helps your mind be more
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disciplined well God taught Joshua that
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and he taught the psalmist that the Old
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Covenant people learned to meditate in
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the scriptures and they would get the
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scripture really deeply within them and
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they would give the holy spirit on
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opportunity if you show them how to
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apply that to their lives it's not about
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how much knowledge we've accumulated in
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our head it's about how much unfolding
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of that knowledge has come to our hearts
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whereby were able to apply it to our
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lives and walk it out you see in the
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Hebrew concept of wisdom it has nothing
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to do with accumulated knowledge wisdom
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is what you do with your life wisdom is
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how you live you see and so Jesus has
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led the Apostle Paul to pray for us that
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God would grant us a spirit of wisdom
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and revelation in the knowledge of him
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and so if God gives you a spirit of
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wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
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of him you're going to know how to do
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life you see one of the one of the
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things as I love study and I love
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research and I
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you know all that kind of stuff but I
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realized that that that the bottom line
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for my walk with the Lord is I've ever
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known how to make it workable in my own
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life I've got to make it practical you
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see it's got to have seat you see you
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could I was listening to Randy Randy
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does a monthly broadcast and I was
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watching it last month and he had a
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theologian on a Pentecostal theologian
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that's written some great stuff Ruth
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friend or rather I came here how John
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says his name but you know he said
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thelos and run then he asked him a
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question about theology and he said well
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you know he said if you took all the
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theologians that ever were and you laid
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them end upon end you'd never come to a
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conclusion
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now that's when if the erosion I thought
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that was funny but the the the point is
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that often times theology just deals
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with intellectual knowledge of the
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Scriptures but the real knowledge the
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life transforming knowledge comes as the
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spirit teaches us you see as we start as
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we sit quietly in the presence of the
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Lord and just focus on the word and we
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say Lord I need you to show me how to
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make this real in my life and walk it
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out and he begins to unfold it to us and
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our revelation begins to grow you see
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and as our revelation grows we see Jesus
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see that the the the way the Scriptures
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are called the logos of God and service
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Jesus called the logos of God why is
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that well because if by the spirit you
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read the written logos the living logos
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emerges from the pages the Apostle Paul
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said that the mystery of the gospel was
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hidden from previous generations but now
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through the scriptures it's made known
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well what scriptures did he have just
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the old ones right the Old Testament so
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he's reading the Old Testament under the
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illumination of the living resurrected
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Christ in him and he's starting to see
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Christ in every page why because the
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spirit of revelation on this Christ you
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know what Jesus said to the to the
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feathers on the road to emmaus II it
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says he opened up the scriptures to them
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and showed them the things concerning
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himself
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well when the Spirit is your tutor he's
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going to show you Jesus from Genesis to
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Malachi and from Matthew to Revelation
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because the book is about him
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the book has been given to reveal him
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but if you just see types and shadows
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but not the reality of Christ in the Old
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Testament you're not seeing it after the
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spirit Paul started reading in the light
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of the resurrected Christ the scriptures
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he'd known all his life and had been
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trained in and he's reading Genesis 1
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and the Spirit of the Lord is hovering
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over the over the darkness and God says
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light be and lie to us Paul's reading
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that he says that's about the gospel
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that's about the preaching of Christ
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it's over in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4
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he says God who caused light to shine
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out of darkness has shown in your hearts
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to make known the glory of God in the
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face of Jesus the new creation imaged in
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the old creation Paul sees the gospel in
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Genesis 1 so he gets over to the Genesis
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3 where Eve has brought forth out of
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Adam and and Adam prophesies and says
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for this cause a man shall leave mother
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and what the mother and father and be
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joined to his bride and they shall be as
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one and then over in Ephesians 5 he
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quotes the same verses about Christ in
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the church what's he doing he's seen
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Christ in the scriptures revealed by the
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Holy Spirit
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you see it's good to read the Bible it's
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good to study the Bible it's good to
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have a daily Bible reading but we can
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interact with the Holy Spirit in a
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profound way on just a phrase of
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Scripture I was over see a minister's
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organization that was founded by John G
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Lakes son-in-law
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to further the vision of John G Lake
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John G lake was a powerful man of God
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who demonstrated a kind of Christianity
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with Dominion that you read the stories
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I tell you sometimes sometimes because
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we find more women in church than we do
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men sometimes people accuse Christianity
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of being a feminine religion but if you
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ever want to read about a manly
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Christianity read John G Lake I mean no
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macho man who read John G Lake is going
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to think this guy's a wimp it's just he
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just did amazing things confronted he
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went to Africa and and the ministers in
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Africa were afraid of the witch doctors
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lakes said bring him on in fact some of
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them would come into his meetings he'd
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know who they were he'd confront him
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cast the demons out of them I'm he was
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just an outrageous guy but but I don't
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want to get off an editor or preach on
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that because he's a fascinating
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character and a great men you know
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Healing Rooms today are based on the
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anointing that Cal Pierson and others
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asked God to restore that John G Lake
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walked in but anyway I was meditating
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one day on Ephesians 2:10 for we are his
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workmanship created in Christ Jesus for
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good works that God created us to walk
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in them and I'm meditating on that in
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the morning and then I had to go to a
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board meeting for the minister's group
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that I'm a part of and and I'm still
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driving on the freeway thinking
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I am his workmanship created in Christ
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Jesus and I all of a sudden I thought
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well the rest of the verse created for
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good works that God created us to walk
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in and all of a sudden I'm on the
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freeway but I'm having a vision of
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heaven while I'm driving down the
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freeway I don't know who was driving the
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car but well I'm seeing this vision of
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heaven and it's like there's a entryway
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and here's John G Lake and here's the W
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Canyon and they're both standing there
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with tears flooding down their faces and
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this multitude of people are coming into
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heaven and in lake in Canyon are
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thanking them for not losing the vision
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of empowered Christianity and of course
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I'm looking at this and then all of a
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sudden it it folds into the face of
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Jesus and if you've ever I've only seen
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the face of Jesus a couple of times but
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I don't last real long looking in his
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eyes just the love is just so
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overwhelming that you just start weeping
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and that's what I'm doing and so I'm
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seeing Jesus and I'm weeping and then
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all of a sudden I'm back on the freeway
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driving now I don't have encounters like
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that very often you know I have we have
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people in our church and perhaps you
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know folks like this who are seers and
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it's a daily occurrence for them to have
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visions I'm not particularly gifted or
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wired that way I do have some but but
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anyway my point was the launching pad
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for that vision was meditating in the
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scriptures I'm not suggesting that if
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you meditate in the scriptures you'll
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always have visions but what I'm
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suggesting is because that had become a
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part of my life
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it became the launching pad to move me
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into a greater revelation of the Lord
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and His purposes for my life and what I
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am saying is as we learn to feed upon
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God's Word to meditate in the scriptures
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it's all 1 tells us that we'll be like a
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tree by the waters whose which will bear
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fruit in its season and it doesn't
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wither or dry up and so what is going to
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make us consistent in the Christian life
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is it a daily promise from the promise
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box well if you meditate on that daily
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promise look but I'm not this how about
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seeing Lord where do you want me to
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meditate and whatever scripture comes to
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mind go there and focus on that for 15
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minutes in the morning just focus
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yourself on that for a few minutes and
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let that let the Holy Spirit see we're
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we're we're in a culture that wants
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everything microwave but not only will
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it benefit you spiritually but it will
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also benefit your mental stability as I
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said I read that article that said you
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know the way you deal with all this
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information overload is you focus your
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mind on some one thing for a few minutes
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a day and learn to do that well what
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about meditating on the truths the
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eternal truths of god's great Redemption
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i'll tell you I personally believe the
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reason that somebody sent me an email a
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while back and it listed how the
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percentages of the great intellects and
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the great discoverers and the great
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people of history that that our esteem
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for their intellectual attainments how
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an incredible number of them are Jewish
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my opponent when I see something like
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that I said well there's got to be a
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good reason for that well how about a
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society a culture
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that has that is seeped in the
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scriptures from a young age I wonder if
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that could affect the intellect I wonder
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if that could shape our mental
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capabilities and potentials do you think
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well the evidence is there that there's
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something unique there now now God's
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intention wasn't to have a race that was
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unique and better than everybody else
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God's race was God's intention was to
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use that one race to bring the Messiah
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so that all the races could partake of
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the glory of God and the blessings of
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the Lord so I don't say that to exalt
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the Jewish people I just I'm saying that
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to exalt the power of God's Word to
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transform and renew your mind and cause
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your intellect to blossom and for you to
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be as Daniel was said ten times better
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than the unbelievers isn't that what
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they said about him I mean he's in the
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middle of a pagan culture a pagan
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government and and and he's excelling me
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in the favor of God this is speaking
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sense I mean the you know you're
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following me on this I mean I'm just
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talking about you know we want a
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Christianity to be real and to be
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life-changing and to have an effect on
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us and other people around us Center and
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to you know you want to be the person
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that when you walk into the room God's
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peace comes you know Jesus told the
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disciples he said well if you go into a
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house and a son of peace is there let
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your peace abide there but if it's not a
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son of peace and you know you pick your
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peace and leave that might be a slight
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paraphrase but but basically he said you
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should be carrying something that
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affects the atmosphere now I can't say
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that I always have in my Christian life
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but what I can say is I want to you see
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I let's let's like God does let let's
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let God define normal for
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because it might be way beyond what we
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ask or think you see and I'm just kind
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of into this mode of Lord I want to we
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have a little saying at our church Lord
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we want it all and we keep telling God
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that Monday he told my wife he said are
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you sure and you know it kind of little
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fear and trembling you know it's like
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well we think so what are you planning
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to do
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it's like Randy was talking eyes not
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about you know when God shows up it's
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not it's the it's the lion not the lamb
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you know or the Pussycat you know and we
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think we won at all and if we find out
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different we'll let you know no it's
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it's you know renewal really stretched
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me you know I'm a teacher type and and
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and I was in my profit mode pre Toronto
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and I was preaching against sin and I
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was telling the church they needed to
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repent I didn't know there's sin in a
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church and the church needs to repent do
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you think that might be true well how
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many think maybe God has an a way to do
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that that's that's effective well let me
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just give you a hint preaching against
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sin and rebuking the sin in the church
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wasn't working real well alright because
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everybody knew they they were a sinner
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and they'd repented a hundred times I
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just couldn't change and here's why they
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didn't have enough grace see grace isn't
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just favor grace is imparted ability and
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and so so I'm preaching against sin and
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calling repentance and you know judging
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the church
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as being all our less spiritual and holy
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than myself
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and I hear about this outbreak at
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Toronto and and of course that the rumor
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was that people were getting holy
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laughter so I thought well these
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charismatic a mile wide and an inch deep
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so the guy that was my associate at the
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time said I'd like to go back there and
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check that out and I said okay so he
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goes back there and checks it out and he
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comes back and I said Jerry what was it
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like he said well you know I served God
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for 25 years as boss I just found him
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his father I said and see my my message
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really is the father heart of God so he
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said that and I said hmm and so so we
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were invited we were involved in a
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pastors meeting and prayer meeting for
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pastors and so we should we went that
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week and somebody heard that he'd been
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to Toronto and they said well what
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happened well he gave his testimony and
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they all said well pray for us so he
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says Joe stand with me as I pray for
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these brothers so I'm with him you know
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we're laying hands on them and all of a
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sudden what was on him got on me
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and I fell down and broke out in holy
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laughter what a sudden change of heart
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about Hillary laughter and after that
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Pam and I went to Toronto a couple of
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times and received ministry and we
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worked with church in our area that was
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moving in renewal and had John or not in
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various and Larry Randolph and various
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other ones Ian to minister and we really
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embrace that but after I had been
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involved in a little while we started
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having a pastor's meaning every week and
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they asked me to come and teach on the
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biblical history of revival and the
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biblical nature of revival or that the
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history of revival in the biblical
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nature rivo and so they came out with a
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publication that they were sending out
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to all the people that were involved and
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I wrote an article for it
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and in the article I wrote the five
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evidences I saw of the fruit of revival
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that the Toronto revival I said well
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people love God more they love to pray
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more they love to share their faith more
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they love to read the word more and
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study the word more and they love one
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another more and I said to myself if
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they had repented hold of what would
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have been the fruit and I realized that
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God by his Spirit brought forth the
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fruit of repentance through the
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manifestations of the Spirit without
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confronting sin but he doing it in love
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and in mercy changed my ministry forever
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because I repented of being a haughty
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prophet because you see in all sincerity
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I saw that the sin in the church I
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wanted out of my life and I wanted it
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out of the life of my church but I
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thought if I preached against evil good
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would come
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and there's a lot of people that think
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that way today
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they preach against sin and evil and
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wickedness and then repentance will come
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but Paul said it's the goodness of God
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that leads to repentance that's what we
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saw at Toronto and that's what most
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revivals see is the goodness of God is
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there a awesome presence of God that
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brings people and you know to repentance
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and sure that is but you know I have a
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conviction that's borne out by some
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number of folks who've had encounters
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with the Lord you know it when we
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encounter him in his glory you're aware
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of everything that's not holy in you and
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that can make you retreat from him but
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if you if you read the stories both
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biblically and the personal testimonies
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of people who encountered the Lord in
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that way the Lord either says fear not
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or he grabs their hand and pulls them up
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because it's not his intention to drive
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them away with his glory
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it's his intention to impart his glory
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you know that was kind of worth the
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price of admission right there it is
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good to see he's trying to give himself
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away to us not push us away because
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we're not what he wants us to be we are
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what he wants us to be and he's able to
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make us fully what he wants us to be but
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you have to have a heart that says he
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wants me I'm his Joshua and Caleb
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Earth's are perfect examples of this
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principle how many remember that 12
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spies well we we decided to start a
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little beginnings of a Bible School
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training center it's called tube 2 spies
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Bible School
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because too many people are going to ten
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spies Bible school that'll sink in in a
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minute yeah so so but think about this
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now they were part of the same company
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that went and saw the Giants in the land
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but when they came back what they said
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was I'll catch this well if God delights
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in us he will bring us in do not fear
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our enemies they're bred for us what was
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the key God delights in us I want to
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encourage you to dare to believe that
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God delights in you see I know
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everything wrong with me that would make
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him not delight in me but I have chosen
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to commit what is not sanctified yet to
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him and just believe that he does
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delight in me and he's able to fix the
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areas that I can't fix anyway you see I
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just it's like in my struggles for
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holiness back when I was a firey
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holiness feature I I was looking to the
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Lord
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I thought if I could repent deeply
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enough then I could change and you know
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repentance is good but you know after a
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while it can become another work you're
00:28:08
trying to do well if I repented enough
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well who's leading you to repent I don't
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know I thought that's how you get fixed
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it isn't repentance part of the process
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but you know that the fundamental
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principles of the word of God listed in
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Hebrews 6
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the first one is repentance but it isn't
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repentance from sin
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repentance from dead works its repenting
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of all the religious activity you do to
00:28:45
try to get God to like you that's what
00:28:49
we need to repent the second principle
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is faith towards God because once you
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trying to be stopped trying to be
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religious the only way to advance is to
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believe God that's makin sense you see
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my heart is to see the church start to
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live in the grace of God because there's
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no limit to his grace
00:29:22
your hard work what can make you look
00:29:25
pretty good but eventually you see you
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know I used to look at preachers and I
00:29:33
think well that guy the way the reason
00:29:36
he's so good is because he's just a
00:29:38
discipline guy well here I am just this
00:29:42
ex-hippie that doesn't have any
00:29:44
discipline self pity they're bad but I
00:29:50
used to think like that and that wasn't
00:29:52
wasn't all that conscious conscious but
00:29:56
but but I would compare myself with
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others and I would think about my past
00:29:59
life and I would say well I'm just not
00:30:01
like that but what I when I got
00:30:05
desperate enough for God and I called
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out to him I found out that His grace
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can teach us discipline his grace can
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bring our life into order His grace can
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adjust our priorities and His grace can
00:30:26
bring us into sharing his throne and his
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authority in this life you see he's in
00:30:33
glory and he's invited you and I into
00:30:36
his glory when when Jesus appeared on
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the road to Emmaus he said should not
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the Christ have suffered and entered
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into his glory
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that was that was the revelation you
00:30:52
know the churches majored on his
00:30:54
sufferings well we want nothing but the
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cross
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well well when Paul said I preach
00:31:00
nothing but but but Christ and him
00:31:02
crucified he wasn't saying he didn't
00:31:04
preach anything other than his death on
00:31:06
the cross he was saying that what he was
00:31:08
preaching was a messiah who was
00:31:10
crucified which was an offense to the
00:31:12
Jews they didn't think a messiah could
00:31:15
ever be crucified in fact that their own
00:31:17
scriptures said if anyone hangs on a
00:31:19
tree he's cursed of God so we know this
00:31:22
Jesus of Nazareth can't be the Messiah
00:31:24
because he hung on a tree he was cursed
00:31:27
of God therefore God showed that he
00:31:28
wasn't the Messiah what an offense to
00:31:32
the Jewish mindset of the Messiah so
00:31:36
Paul says I'm preaching a crucified
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Messiah and to the Jews it's an offense
00:31:43
into the Greeks it's foolishness well
00:31:47
what was he saying well he wasn't saying
00:31:50
that that that the resurrection wasn't
00:31:52
part of the process because he says in
00:31:54
the same the same book first Corinthians
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he says well if Christ isn't risen we're
00:32:00
still dead in our sins you see and if
00:32:04
you go through the book of Acts it'll
00:32:05
scare you if you go through the book of
00:32:07
Acts try to find anywhere where it says
00:32:10
Christ died for your sins receive him as
00:32:12
your Savior and you can be saved you
00:32:16
won't find it it's not there but what
00:32:19
you will find is he was crucified by
00:32:23
evil hands but God raised him from the
00:32:28
dead that the emphasis of the book of
00:32:33
Acts is on the preaching of the
00:32:35
resurrection why well because the
00:32:38
resurrection yes
00:32:39
it provided forgiveness for sins but it
00:32:42
provided deliverance from this present
00:32:44
evil age and the powers that run this
00:32:46
present evil age so the resurrection is
00:32:48
essential for the death to be effective
00:32:51
because until here eight was raised from
00:32:53
the dead and sat down with his father's
00:32:54
right hand there was no mediator in
00:32:57
heavenly places to mediate a new
00:32:58
covenant there was no no righteous
00:33:03
advocate with the father
00:33:04
there was no high priest whoever lives
00:33:08
to intercede for us at the Father's
00:33:10
right hand if he wasn't risen from the
00:33:12
dead
00:33:13
well resurrection power of Jesus is what
00:33:18
you manifests when you pray for the sick
00:33:19
and they get healed I had a guy come
00:33:22
into my church and we pray for the sick
00:33:24
after service most Sundays and and so he
00:33:27
came up to him and he said well hey I
00:33:28
see you I see your you've learned how to
00:33:32
use the energy and having some
00:33:37
background in the New Age stuff before I
00:33:40
was saved I said no we-we-we channel the
00:33:45
power of the resurrected Christ that's
00:33:47
all we do and he went oh walked away
00:33:52
never saw him again he was he was
00:33:55
offering to help us learn how to channel
00:33:57
better but when I told him that the only
00:34:00
thing we channeled was the resurrected
00:34:02
Christ he just that wasn't quite in his
00:34:05
paradigm but you see that's what we do
00:34:09
where were to become living channels of
00:34:12
the authority and power of the
00:34:13
resurrected Christ and and and as much
00:34:17
as we never fail to honor his
00:34:19
crucifixion and death it paid for
00:34:22
everything but were partaking of his
00:34:25
resurrection and now God is trying to
00:34:29
bring us as the church to be partakers
00:34:31
of his glory and glory I don't know if
00:34:39
you've ever studied glory but glory is
00:34:40
the character and attributes of God
00:34:44
manifested made visible you remember
00:34:51
when Jesus heard the water into wine
00:34:53
John writes about that afterwards and he
00:34:56
says and he said this first sign Jesus
00:34:59
did and began to show forth his glory so
00:35:05
so God is glorified in the son when you
00:35:07
do the works of Jesus
00:35:13
name of Jesus is glorified there's a
00:35:15
great passage in Thessalonians that the
00:35:18
Paul phrase that God would count us
00:35:19
worthy of our calling and that he would
00:35:22
satisfy every desire for goodness and
00:35:27
the work of faith with power that the
00:35:31
name of Jesus might be glorified in us
00:35:34
and we might be glorified in him
00:35:39
according to the grace of our God and
00:35:42
the Lord Jesus Christ so so when you
00:35:47
take the name and you destroy the power
00:35:52
of sickness and fear and oppression and
00:35:55
the works of darkness the name of Jesus
00:35:58
is glorified in you and you're glorified
00:36:00
in him and it's all grace for sessile
00:36:04
second Thessalonians 1:11 as well I'm
00:36:06
quoting and and so so it's just a it's
00:36:15
such an exciting time to be alive and to
00:36:18
be experiencing what God's doing because
00:36:21
we're on the threshold of seeing the
00:36:22
glory of Christ manifest in his church
00:36:24
and the glory of Christ in the church
00:36:30
will culminate in the return of Christ
00:36:35
yeah
00:36:37
how close are we I don't know I know
00:36:39
there's nations that still need to hear
00:36:41
the gospel I know the church needs to
00:36:44
come into a place of maturity I'm
00:36:50
looking for that looking for his glory
00:36:53
in the church you see a lot of people
00:36:55
are watching the Middle East and
00:36:57
everyplace else to find out what God's
00:36:58
timetable is but you know if he's going
00:37:01
to return for a glorious church all we
00:37:02
need to do is look at the church is the
00:37:05
glory there yet while we're making
00:37:09
progress but fullness isn't there yet
00:37:14
amen
00:37:16
well I have managed to chase a number of
00:37:22
rabbits today
00:37:25
well I oh I have one of the book I was
00:37:28
going to tell you about war over the
00:37:31
word this is on the parable of the sower
00:37:33
and you know a lot of times people will
00:37:36
say well you know the Lord's testing me
00:37:38
and he's trying me well you know Jesus
00:37:40
said when you hear the word of God and
00:37:43
it begins to work in you Satan comes
00:37:45
immediately to steal the word he said
00:37:49
persecution and affliction arise because
00:37:51
of the word the wars over the word
00:37:54
whether it's a prophetic word spoken to
00:37:57
you whether it's a scripture that God's
00:37:58
making alive to you whether it's
00:38:00
preaching that you're hearing as you
00:38:02
hear the word there's a war over that
00:38:03
word that you're hearing and Satan
00:38:06
doesn't want the word to progress in you
00:38:08
because because the word has the
00:38:10
potential of releasing Christ in you so
00:38:15
Satan is going to fight the word and
00:38:17
this talks about the principles that
00:38:19
that operate in that and of course that
00:38:22
you start out the good news is your good
00:38:25
ground but as you look at the other
00:38:28
soils you can find out what the devil is
00:38:30
going to try to do how he's going to try
00:38:32
to attack you to get the word out of
00:38:33
your life so that your interest in that
00:38:35
that's also back there and and on that
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note I will tell you I'm done
