Jan. 7, 2025

Afflictions: Are They Working For You or Against You? (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 20)

Afflictions: Are They Working For You or Against You? (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 20)

Send us a text What if afflictions are not just burdens to bear but catalysts for spiritual growth? We invite you to challenge the common perception of hardships as purely negative experiences. Inspired by the teachings of Paul in 2 Corinthians chapters 3 and 4, this episode encourages us to see afflictions as transformative opportunities to develop faith, patience, and perseverance. By exploring Paul's life and the profound biblical insights, we delve into how these trials can bring us close...

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What if afflictions are not just burdens to bear but catalysts for spiritual growth? We invite you to challenge the common perception of hardships as purely negative experiences. Inspired by the teachings of Paul in 2 Corinthians chapters 3 and 4, this episode encourages us to see afflictions as transformative opportunities to develop faith, patience, and perseverance. By exploring Paul's life and the profound biblical insights, we delve into how these trials can bring us closer to God and serve a greater purpose in our spiritual journey.

Imagine waiting for divine guidance in the face of a health scare and finding your fear transformed into faith. We share personal stories and biblical revelations that highlight the power of faith amidst life's challenges. With a focus on the profound teachings of Paul, we explore how faith, grace, and glory can overcome overwhelming afflictions, turning what seems like moments of defeat into triumphs of divine assurance. Discover how embracing our struggles can manifest greater glory in our lives.

Join us as we unpack the idea of being vessels of God's glory, where afflictions break away our outer shell to reveal His strength through our weaknesses. The journey invites us to understand our purpose as containers of divine glory, encouraging us to praise and glorify God in all circumstances. By embracing this path, we can become more effective vessels, allowing His power to rest upon us and shine through, even in our infirmities. Let this episode inspire you to see afflictions as opportunities for spiritual enlightenment and growth.

00:00 - Afflictions Work for Us

18:15 - The Power of Afflictions Works

32:00 - Faith Over Afflictions

43:18 - Learning to Make Afflictions Work

49:58 - Revealing the Glory Within

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Well, praise the Lord, hallelujah, Glory to God.

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I want to try to work toward finishing this series that we're doing on this name of the Lord, the spirit of ministry, the spirit of glory that we find in the third and fourth chapters of 2 Corinthians.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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I don't know about you, but I have been blessed by what the Lord has shown us in this Scripture, and I want to go to the fourth chapter today, verse 17.

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Praise God.

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Let's start in verse 16.

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Therefore, we do not lose heart, even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

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So there's this, going back to the principle of the seed and understanding that we are seed and the seed is contained in the husk of this body.

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Amen.

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This body is perishing day by day, but the inward man, the seed, is being renewed day by day, amen.

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So there's this.

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As Paul said it, this principle of death is in the work of your members and in the work of the shell, but the life of Jesus is being made manifest in your inner man, in your spirit man, and so the spirit man is being renewed every day.

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The part that you see is perishing, okay, because the Bible says, and we're going to get to this verse that the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are unseen are eternal, praise God.

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So verse 17 says this, and this is one of the great things that we learned out of this series of teachings on the spirit of glory is that afflictions work for us.

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Now see, that is a way of thinking that is totally foreign to your flesh.

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Your flesh thinks that afflictions are just part of life.

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The Old Testament revelation was that afflictions may come, but the Lord delivers him out of them all, and the New Testament revelation of it is that afflictions work for us.

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Somebody say amen.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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We've all quoted from the book of Psalms and David had a great revelation.

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This is a wonderful revelation that many are the afflictions of the righteous, because this is one of the things that people want to know.

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People want to know why do bad things happen to good people?

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If there's a God, why do bad things happen to good people?

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David said many are the afflictions of the righteous.

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Paul said they that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions.

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It's going to happen, it's part of the process, but the Lord delivers him out of all.

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Now listen, you can seek for deliverance.

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Do you not remember what happened to Paul?

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Paul said I went to the Lord three times and saw him Get rid of this thing, whatever it was I'm not going to try to guess what it was, I don't know but get rid of this thing.

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And the Lord said what my grace is sufficient for you.

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Then Paul said therefore, I will thus more gladly boast in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ might rest upon me.

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And what was Paul saying?

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I'm going to make these infirmities, I'm going to make these afflictions work for me.

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See, now listen, paul went from Old Testament revelation in Psalms to New Testament revelation by the Spirit of Jesus.

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Oh, yes, he did.

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See, listen, paul was a charismatic.

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He'd have been quoting that verse.

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Lord, your word says that many are the afflictions of the righteous.

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But the Lord, I need some deliverance here, lord, I need to get out of this and I firmly believe in deliverance.

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And I, lord, I need to get out of this and I firmly believe in deliverance, and I firmly believe the Lord gets you out of it.

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And I firmly believe that, until you're out of it, that affliction works for you.

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Do you not follow what I'm saying there are some people that will never talk to God about anything and then you slap, you know, stage four cancer on the next doctor's report.

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I mean they get real holy, real quick.

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They want to find somebody that knows how to pray.

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Well, somebody, talk to God for me.

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They haven't given God two cents worth of time their whole life and all of a sudden this thing happens to them.

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Boy, they're busy, they want to.

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You know they don't know how to pray, but they want to find somebody that does.

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May have chased you out in the parking lot.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Why is that true?

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Because afflictions work for you.

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There's a purpose, folks.

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If there wasn't, god wouldn't put you through them.

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Doesn't the Bible not say that, no matter what comes to you I'm paraphrasing God is faithful and he will not allow more to come upon you than you are able to bear.

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And, in the bearing of it, push through and make that thing work for you.

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Well, how's it going to work?

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It's going to produce more faith.

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It's going to produce more patience.

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It's going to produce more persistence, consistency.

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It's going to work for you.

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It's going to work for you like this.

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When it comes, you can say to that thing I don't know how long you intend to stay, but you are definitely coming to pass.

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I'm not having it on a permanent basis, because the Lord said he's going to deliver me and furthermore, he said the things that are seen and I'm seeing this are temporary Amen, but the things that are unseen, which is my deliverance, is eternal.

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So sooner or later I'm going to go on and you're going to die.

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Now.

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I don't know when that sooner or later might be, but by faith I'm going to speed up the process.

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Are you hearing me?

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This is real.

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This is how now faith works.

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See, I want you I'm not, I don't ever.

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I could listen folks.

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I could lecture you now until Jesus comes or the cow comes home, whichever one is, first you know and lecture you on what you need to know out of the Bible.

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Believe me, you don't know anybody else that can do this any better.

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But if I don't give you something that you can leave here with and say I can do that, I can believe God that way, I can believe Him that way, I can do that, then I'm not serving the Lord.

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I'm not serving the Lord, I'm just serving myself.

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The Lord doesn't want you to be lectured at.

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The Lord wants you to be stimulated, encouraged, pushed forward, propped up, whatever the word you want to use in your faith, because I can't believe for you.

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I can believe with you, but I'm not here to believe for you.

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Hallelujah, you understand the difference.

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Glory to God.

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So our light afflictions.

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They seem like giant, monumental things, but what can you possibly imagine?

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They seem like giant, monumental things, but what is possible, what can you possibly imagine, is so great in the affliction business that it can stand against the faith of Jesus?

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See, because you don't operate.

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See, we've been sold a bill of goods about faith.

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Faith is not what I'm trying to get done today.

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I don't know if I'll get it done today to my satisfaction or not, but I'm trying to connect faith and glory.

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I've had two weeks where this is about all I've heard from God Is the connection of faith and glory, things I've never heard Him explain to me before and it's all right here.

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Are you with me so far?

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If I come out a little excited, it's because I've not been hearing anything else for two weeks.

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You know, faith glory, faith, glory.

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How are they connected and why are they connected and why is it important that we understand how they're connected?

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Because these light and momentary afflictions, these light afflictions that last for a moment, produce an exceeding and far above heavy weight of glory.

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Do you not listen to what it says?

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We read those scriptures out of the King James and it just goes.

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You know, this light, momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory.

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And what does that mean anyway?

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What is a weight of glory?

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Amen.

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But that's not what the Scripture says.

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The Scripture says this that the afflictions are light.

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The comparison is you put two things on a scale.

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You put a brick and a feather, and the feather is not going to do anything, but the brick is going to push the scales down to the bottom of the Right.

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Well, it's far and exceeding greater than the brick.

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It's like a feather.

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And the earth, it's like the feather.

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And Jupiter you know it's like this is nothing compared to this.

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Break the scale with that one.

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But these afflictions that seem so great are nothing compared to the faith of Jesus.

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I've been crucified with Christ and the life that I now live I live by the faith of God, not in God, I live by Jesus' faith.

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The faith that I receive when Jesus speaks to me is His faith.

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Now, if I receive His faith, then what is this affliction going to do?

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It's going to get away from that faith as fast as it can.

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Now we have by.

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What we learned in Charismatic Revival is that we've got to use our faith.

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And how do you build up your faith?

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Well, you get a bunch of scriptures that pertain to that problem.

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You read those scriptures until they just get real, real, real and the size of the scriptures get bigger than the size of your problem.

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We've all heard that, we've all taught that, but that's not what's happening.

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What's happening is that you can read all the scriptures you want to, but until Jesus says this is the one that's being quickened in your spirit, man, right now, or it may be one that you haven't even read yet.

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You can pull out a book We've got several of them, got all the healing scriptures in them, or so you think.

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Until God one day decides he's going to heal you with a scripture that you've never even thought of as a healing scripture, amen.

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I've seen people get saved on scriptures that had nothing to do with salvation.

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I've seen people that did not know anything at all about God read one verse of scripture out of the book of Psalms that had nothing to do with anything, and see them just fall out under the power of God.

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I've told you this story.

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I've seen people flipped over from a sitting position all the way over backwards onto their feet and fall down A full somersault from a sitting position with one verse of Scripture.

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They were so shocked that they sat back up, took the same seat and God said say that word again.

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Same thing happened.

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Same thing happened.

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Then they sat back down and he said say it again the third time.

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They just became like warm butter on a hot day, I mean, you know, just melted all over.

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God broke through.

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I've never seen it, I've only seen that once, but I've seen it.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise God.

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Afflictions work for us.

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So find out quickly from the Lord, when afflictions come, what's their purpose.

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Why am I going through this, lord?

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See, paul didn't ask that question.

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Paul said I just want this thing to go Get rid of it.

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And what was Jesus' answer?

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Well, you just need more faith, paul.

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You need to quote more scriptures, paul.

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You need to pray more, paul.

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He didn more Paul.

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He didn't do that.

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He said my grace is sufficient.

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You're going to learn through this affliction that my grace is sufficient to deliver you, but not probably in the way that you're thinking.

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Oh yes, are you hearing what I'm saying?

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So Paul said he came out of that lesson.

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See, we think that's just one thing.

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He said I got an affliction.

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I went to the Lord three times.

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The Lord refused to heal me, but he said my grace is sufficient.

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And you'd think that all happened in five minutes.

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But that didn't happen in five minutes.

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The learning of the lesson that grace is sufficient takes a long time.

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And you've got to stare down those afflictions and let those afflictions work for you to produce this exceeding great weight of glory in your life, so that when they come you don't have to fight the afflictions.

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Glory fights the afflictions.

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See, if afflictions are working against you, I wish I could preach this If afflictions are working against you, you are always going to be oppressed.

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See, I've never taught this before.

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You know because I use that scripture in Psalms all the time many of the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord, but the Lord, but the Lord.

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I've you know and I believe it.

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But I also know there's a, there's a place where God wants to take us where.

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Those afflictions are not working against us and we need a deliverance, but they are working for us.

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And we need more glory Because I guarantee you folks, if you get a big enough charge of glory in your life, you don't have to worry about being delivered.

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You will be delivered, you will be set free and those things that come will have to go because they cannot withstand the faith of Jesus and the glory of Jesus.

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Now see, they didn't come to produce more faith, they came to produce more glory.

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And how did glory come to Paul?

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By faith, when God spoke to him.

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See, when God spoke to him and said my grace is sufficient, faith came for Paul to believe that.

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Not only for Paul to believe that, but for Paul to make that affliction work for him and not against him.

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This can change your whole life if you'll get a hold of it.

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Amen, this can change your whole life if you'll get a hold of it.

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So you know, I've learned by now.

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You know not to whip out every scripture that I know about a situation and start to quote it.

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I don't do that.

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I wait for the voice to come to me.

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So I'm sitting there with my heartbeat going 150 miles an hour and I'm waiting for a word Anytime.

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Lord, I'm like Paul, anytime you want.

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There's three, yeah, anytime.

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I've told you this story.

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And the heartbeat monitor is going like this there's little mountains where there should be a straight line.

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There's these little mountains between heartbeats.

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It's called a flutter.

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It goes, you know.

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It just means your heart's doing Between its strong heartbeat.

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It's doing this Instead of doing.

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It's going.

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I don't know where.

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It was 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning.

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I hear this voice.

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I'm asleep and I hear this voice say I will make the mountains plain, the rough places smooth, the crooked places straight.

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I said Jesus.

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I stood bolted up in the room.

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I said Jesus and I started praising the Lord, real loud.

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Nurse came in, indian lady.

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She goes what is wrong with you?

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I said the Lord just spoke to me.

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I'm going to be okay.

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Glory to God.

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And I didn't quote one other verse after that.

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But faith came.

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Everybody say faith came.

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Glory to God.

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Faith came and filled me.

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Fear left, doubt left, death left.

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Took a little while for the pain to leave, but you know it left.

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Took a little while for the pain to leave, but you know it left by the next, whenever it was the next day, I was ready to go home, it was done, it was gone.

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It came and it left, and it left when God spoke, because faith comes by the hearing.

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Now let's go to another scripture.

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You all know this scripture.

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Now, faith is the substance.

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You know what substance means.

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It means it's a done deal, it's a settled issue.

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It's like a contract was completed.

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Settled issue.

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It's like a contract was completed.

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Faith is this done deal of the things that we earnestly expect the evidence sworn to by the Holy Ghost on the blood of Jesus, the evidence of things not seen.

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So you've got some things that are seen, that are in front of your face.

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But now faith says this I'm going to hear God speak and when God speak, it's going to change that which is seen into that which is unseen.

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Not only is it going to not be seen by my eyes, but it's going to produce an eternal weight of glory that is unseen but manifests itself into the world of the seen.

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Am I making any sense whatsoever?

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This is how this works.

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I'm a spiritual mechanic.

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I'm not interested in dazzling you with revelation.

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I want you to get this Because I'm telling you the next night, in the middle of the night, when something happens to you.

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You need to remember what this guy told you that now, faith lays hold of that which is already a concrete deal, lays hold of that which is already a concrete deal and brings it into a realm where the seen thing goes away, the unseen thing becomes the real thing.

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And Jesus, this is how Jesus works, this is how he does stuff.

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See, we think that it's all this in the realm of miracles, which is kind of like Christian magic.

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You know, things are just, but it doesn't work that way.

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There has to be a faith connected to the glory, so that you hear what God says, and it produces in you an exceedingly great level of glory that is going to cause this seen thing to become unseen.

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It's going to go back into the netherworld, where it came from, and the glory of God that is unseen is going to come upon you.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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But here's how that affliction is going to work for you.

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Everybody say afflictions, afflictions, a work for me, a work for me.

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Yeah, they work for me.

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I got you know there may be many.

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What's that tell you?

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You're an employer, you got a business.

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Amen, hallelujah, I'm in the.

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You got a business.

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Amen, I'm in the affliction business.

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What, yeah, I'm in the affliction business.

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What's that mean?

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I said afflictions work for me.

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What, yeah, they work for me and they produce more glory in my life, me, and they produce more glory in my life.

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You know you're going to lose 99.9% of every religious person on the planet when you talk like that.

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But that's exactly what the Bible says, and if it only said it here, you'd have to dismiss it.

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But Paul went through it when he said thrice I besought the Lord to take this from me.

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And he said he said Thrice I besought the Lord to take this from me.

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And he said he said he said grace and faith came.

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Faith came, grace came, grace came and glory was produced.

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Now we've been all over this for so long.

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This is not a shock to you.

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The voice came and with the voice came faith, faith believed and grace came to empower.

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When that, all three of those joined together like that, a glory filled Paul's temple and it didn't matter anymore whether the thing hurt, whether it bothered him, whether it taunted him, whether it tempted him.

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Whatever that thing was, there was so much glory, it didn't even matter anymore.

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It had gone away to that realm and a new glory had come in and replaced it.

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You don't think listen folks.

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If you don't think a headsman's sword is an affliction, you've got a sick way of seeing the world, amen.

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If you don't think, when the executioner comes with an executioner's sword to chop off your head, that that's not a major league affliction, then I don't know what's wrong with you.

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Amen.

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But you know what the voice said.

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The voice said you shall not taste death.

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You shall pass from death unto life.

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You have been set free from the law of sin and death.

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You are now under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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Death can't touch you.

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The grave can't touch you.

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See, paul already got all that in his belt, amen.

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He wasn't even there when the sword came down.

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He'd already done.

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Because you can't.

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You can't look.

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You can't experience death if you're not there.

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That's right.

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He was gone.

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You can't kill Paul's spirit.

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Are you kidding me?

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If you can kill Paul's spirit, we're all in trouble.

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Jesus is one thing, but I mean Paul's another.

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You can kill Paul's spirit.

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We're in trouble, but it didn't happen that way Because what happened?

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Afflictions worked for Paul.

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He learned how to make this work.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Everybody say this.

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I'm an employer of many afflictions, and glory is my product.

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Hallelujah, amen.

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Now see if you think you'll remember that you may not remember anything, but you'll remember that that afflictions work for me and glory is my product.

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Now what's going to happen to you if you get proficient at this?

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Not only that, but it will be like Peter's shadow, only it will make Peter's shadow look like Sunday school.

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That's the word of the Lord that came to you from this pulpit that the day is coming when the people of God will be so full of glory that they will walk down the street, and it will make Peter's shadow look like Sunday school, because the glory is going to fill you so much you can't contain it.

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It isn't time for you to go home yet, so the only thing that can happen to it is it isn't time for you to go home yet, so the only thing that can happen to it is it just flows out.

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I taught you this two weeks ago.

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Let it flow out.

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Let it flow out.

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Let it flow out all over your neighborhood.

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Be responsible to heal all of your neighbors.

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You don't even have to go, you only have to go.

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Lay hands on them, you don't have to go.

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Can I pray for you?

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Do you have any felt needs?

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Do you really?

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You know?

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Can I, can I help you?

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Can I bake you a cake?

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You know, get real, you'd be better off praying and seeking God in your own house until the glory overflows you and they get healed and don't even know it.

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You know how many people got healed just by being around Jesus.

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No laying on of hands, no hankies, no prayer shawls, no, nothing.

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They just happened to be within a few miles.

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Glory.

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Nobody ever talks like this, do they see?

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We don't even know.

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See, if those kind of stories were told about Jesus, nobody would believe them.

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They can believe the one on one stuff and the woman with the issue of blood and things like that.

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But you know, glory to Jesus, hallelujah.

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Here's one of the key ingredients in how this transaction, no matter what the affliction is, don't look at it.

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Ingredients in how this transaction, no matter what the affliction is, don't look at it.

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Just say you work for me, get out there and be working, but I don't want to look at you today.

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I'm the boss here.

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Get out of here.

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I don't want to look at you.

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Today, I'm going to look at the glory that is here and is coming.

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Your job is not to torment me.

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Your job is to produce more glory.

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So get out of here and be producing glory.

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We don't look at the things that are seen.

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Now, I would not encourage you to try practicing this on the highway at 80 miles an hour, although, as your faith is so, be it done unto you.

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If you think you can handle it, you know, but I'm not.

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I don't want to go to your hospital room because your faith failed you, so try this someplace else.

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Glory to God.

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We don't look at these things that are seen, the afflictions that that are seen.

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The afflictions that come are seen, they're felt.

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They're pressures, they're sicknesses, they're diseases, they're financial misfortunes.

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There are all kinds of ways that afflictions come, but that's not what you look at.

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You just look to the Lord and say that thing's working for me and glory is the product.

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I don't care what this is.

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Glory is going to have the victory.

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Amen.

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Listen to me very carefully.

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I'm going to say this very, very carefully.

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When you get here's a principle from sports, I can teach you.

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It also works in other areas, but in sports.

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It's particularly important.

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If you are concerned with the outcome of what you are doing, you will never do it correctly because your muscles will tense up.

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Your connection between your brain and your muscles will get frozen by the anticipation of the outcome.

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Case in point If the count is three and two, it's at the bottom of the ninth of the World Series.

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There's runners on first and second.

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You're down two runs.

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If you hit a home run, you win the World Series.

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You'll be rich beyond all belief.

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If all of those thoughts are entering into your head, the next pitch is going to strike you out and you're going to lose that opportunity because you're going to be frozen by the anticipation of what's going to happen Instead of.

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There's just nothing else important right now except that I do what I'm trained to do, because my training is going to produce a victory here, but my anticipation will not.

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There'll be plenty of time to get patted on the back if I hit the ball out of the park.

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You know there'll be plenty of time for that.

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So when you think about what's going to happen rather than process, it gets in the way.

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Amen, glory to God.

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So what we do here in this process is not look at the things that have been sent to afflict us.

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And here's what we've done.

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And here's what we've done.

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We have been content with being delivered without receiving glory.

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We're just happy that we're not sick anymore.

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We're just happy that I can pay my bills with this paycheck.

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We're just happy that the car doesn't have a flat tire every day of the week.

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We're just happy that the Lord filled up the gas tank when it's been on empty for the past 200 miles.

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We're happy about the level of miracles that produces something that is seen.

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Are you hearing me?

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But we haven't pressed through to the level of receiving that which is unseen to replace it.

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Oh Jesus, I wish I could preach this.

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I should never preach things when I've been shut in for two weeks and the Lord will just not talk to me about anything else.

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I should never preach after that.

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I should give it some more time.

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This is why people keep doing the same things over and over and over again.

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You pray for them to get healed.

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They get healed.

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They get sick.

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Get healed and they get sick, get healed and they get sick.

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They pray for their prosperity.

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They get a bonus, they get a raise, and six months they're broke again, asking for you to take up a collection, special collection, pay the light bill.

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You know I mean, and you know and you think.

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Well, what we need to do is teach them how to.

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I know what we'll do we'll have a financial responsibility class and we'll teach them how to balance their checkbook and we'll teach them how to lay aside and all that.

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Listen, folks, we're not dealing with financial stupidity, we're dealing with a lack of glory.

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We haven't learned the secret of this verse, which is that as these things work for you, they produce more glory in your seed, and the more glory the seed has, the more Teflon it's like when afflictions come.

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You know, I've told you before you need to see these minor level devils as gnats, just kind of.

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You know we've got this thing.

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Video games and all this stuff teaches you Godzilla and the movies and stuff teaches you that all these bad things are just huge giants and you're just at the mercy of a nuclear arsenal to knock them out.

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If you didn't have nukes, you wouldn't have anything.

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They just take over the world.

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But that's not true.

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You are the ruling power.

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You are the only thing in the universe that can be consistently filled with more glory and handle it.

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You're it.

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There is nothing else.

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And what God seeks is a people that he can just pour His glory into.

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He's making these afflictions work for you so that you can increase your glory capacity in the seed as you increase your glory.

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This is what Paul learned.

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He learned that the grace of God, which comes by glory and fusion and faith amen is sufficient, because it is your defense.

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You're not.

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You know everybody will try to explain away.

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You know why.

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Paul neglected to pay attention to all those people that were prophesying to him on his way to Jerusalem.

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And he finally says why do you break my heart?

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He said I'm getting a free ticket to Rome out of this.

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See, you've been told one thing, but I've been told a little bit more.

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If you can't get your hands on that, then you're not going to understand much of what I teach you.

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And everybody listen, everybody that prophesied to him did not pull rank on him.

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Oh, you're not hearing one word.

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I'm saying they did not pull rank on him.

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They said Paul, we're going to make sure we're going to tie you up.

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Agabus, who was a first class prophet, just took Paul's sash, tied his wrist and said this is what the Holy Ghost says.

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But see, he didn't get the full message.

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Nobody ever gets the full message, but there is rank and order in the body.

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Paul knew why he was going to Jerusalem.

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He was going to Jerusalem so he could go to Rome.

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They did not know that.

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They thought he was going to Jerusalem.

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He was going to Jerusalem so he could go to Rome.

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They did not know that.

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They thought he was going to Jerusalem to be killed.

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That's what the Jews wanted and that's the level that they were seeing.

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But Paul had been taught something different.

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These afflictions work for me, amen.

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How did they work for Paul?

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We've already been all through this.

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When we studied those chapters I mean, he was right in the grips of them.

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And here comes his deliverance out of Rome.

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And Rome kept him and Rome transported him, and Rome brought him before Caesar and he got to testify and he went loose.

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Don't tell me that these tribulations don't work for you.

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They work such a level of glory in Paul that he could stand in the middle of a hurricane and tell these people throw the food overboard, have a dinner.

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You haven't eaten for two weeks.

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Have some dinner.

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Throw it overboard.

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We're going to come to shore.

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What we're going to die?

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No, you're not.

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The Lord has given to me.

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He has given to me such a manifestation of glory that he has put your lives into my hands.

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How many 286 people Paul had to believe God for in the middle of a hurricane I'm not playing with scriptures here, this is how it works the afflictions come.

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Paul didn't even look at the afflictions, he was just looking at the ballast problem.

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Can you not get this?

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I mean, here we are in the middle of tempest, amen.

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And Paul's just concerned with the ballast issue.

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We're going to go to shore, so we better get rid of this stuff or we're going to run aground.

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What we're going to die, paul?

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No, we're not going to die.

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Get rid of the flour, throw it overboard.

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We've got to be as light as possible.

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Not me, brother, I'm going to get over the boat.

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Centurion.

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If he escapes, I can't guarantee your life.

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Wait a minute.

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Boom.

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The centurion cuts the skiff off, said you ain't going nowhere, because this guy knows what he's doing.

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Look at him.

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You're sitting here, going, biting your fingers to the bone, and he's worried about the ballast issue.

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Paul was worried about how he was going to help in the miracle.

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Amen, because glory trumps affliction every day.

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Amen, trump's affliction every day.

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If it doesn't, we are definitely in the wrong business.

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Hallelujah.

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I've got to wrap this up, but here's the point.

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Here's one of the points anyway.

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Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen by it.

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The elders of old received a good report, amen.

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So we can't possibly be talking about a faith that comes by reading the Bible.

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Amen.

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We're not talking about that kind of faith Because the elders of old didn't have a Bible.

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Abraham didn't have one, noah didn't have one, lot didn't have one.

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Moses wrote part of it.

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He didn't have one when he started out.

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Amen, moses wrote part of it.

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He didn't have one when he started out.

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Amen, amen.

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Do you realize, folks, that not very many people could read?

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Until 100 years ago, most people, the vast majority of people on this planet, could not read.

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It didn't matter how many Bibles you had.

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If you translated the Bible into a foreign language, you would have first of all teach the people how to read, because most of them didn't.

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They just didn't, you know.

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I mean you could take, you know, like those folks that went into the central part of Africa in the late 1800s, found the upper regions of the Nile and did all that kind of stuff.

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I mean, they didn't have libraries in there.

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Those people didn't know how to read, they didn't even have a written language.

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The only way they could teach those people about Jesus was by oral transmission.

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The same way that God taught the elders of old when he spoke to them and taught them Amen, so faith comes by hearing God speak.

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When that faith comes, amen, it will produce in you a life that is worthy of a good report, because what it's going to teach you is how to fend off affliction and make it work for you to produce more glory, and more glory and more grace.

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Operating in your life is going to produce a life of victory, over and over and over again, but it will not be counted victory by anyone who does not have this revelation.

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It'll be counted as defeat, which brings us to another point that God made to me so many years ago.

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He said don't call defeat what I call success.

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Don't call defeat what I am producing in your life to make success.

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And that's where I started to learn this principle of making it work for you, making it work for you To produce something in you that God wants to produce.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Hallelujah, praise God, hallelujah.

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We've come a long way.

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20 different messages on just this one manifestation of the Spirit of God.

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20 messages Just think about that.

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20 messages on this one name the Spirit of ministry, the Spirit of Ministry, the Spirit of Glory, because that's what he ministers.

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He ministers glory and he uses afflictions to refine you and make you a better vessel of glory, paul said, and make you a better vessel of glory, paul said.

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Paul said we have this treasure.

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What treasure Glory, the knowledge of the glory.

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See, it's one thing to be just filled with glory.

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It's a whole other thing to know how it works.

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What good is it going to do you folks, if you don't know what to do?

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I'll give you the best case in point I can think about.

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This is a lottery.

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What good would it do you to win the lottery if you don't know how to manage money or you don't have the common sense to hire somebody that does?

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You know what possible?

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You're going to flitter it away and it'll be here today and gone tomorrow Because you don't know what to do.

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God's not going to waste His glory on people that don't know how to use it and don't know how to multiply it and don't know how to increase it.

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We've had a tremendous waste of glory.

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In the body of Christ, god pours out His glory, miracles happen, and the people are fixated on the results of the miracle rather than the process of the glory.

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We get totally fixated and everybody's as bad about this as others.

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We get totally fixated about the wheelchairs and the crutches and things in the corner of the sanctuary where God has done all the healing, and nobody asks how well we just prayed and God moved.

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Really, is that how it works?

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That's not what my Bible tells me.

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My Bible tells me there's process here.

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You make those afflictions work for you.

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You make that healing, you make that sickness work for you.

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See, all those people came and they wanted to get out of the affliction.

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What God wanted to do was to get them through the affliction, learning about glory.

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But see, we haven't done that.

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I firmly believe that that's one of the reasons why the healing revival died, because the people were not being taught a knowledge of the glory, they were just being taught the results.

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And that's not what God sent the revival to do.

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The result of it was that all the focus was in a handful of people that could manage and function in the glory, but the people were not taught how to operate.

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Know the glory of the Lord.

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The knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

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Right here in chapter 4, it talks about a knowledge of the glory that is in the face of Jesus Christ.

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We've got to know what this is and knowing be ones who can work in it and understand that these afflictions work for us, not against us.

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Amen, and that's a hard lesson.

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You'll think, in the middle of all that pain and anguish and everything that you've been through and everything that everybody else has been through, you're going to say I just want to get over this.

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Well, the Lord wants you to be over this, but the Lord also wants you to be aware of what he's doing in you, and he's not just healing your body.

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Do we not have a clue yet that we could say yes to Jesus and, at the baptism tank, get drowned and go to heaven?

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It would be a whole lot simpler.

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Do you believe in Jesus?

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Do you believe in Jesus?

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Do you believe in Jesus?

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Do you believe?

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Yeah, brother, I believe you're trying to drown me.

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We could just do that, and all of this trouble would just be.

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We'd already be there, we'd be no growing old, we'd just be there.

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But that wasn't what God designed us to be.

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God designed us to be a shell, and these afflictions come I wish you could see this in the Spirit.

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These afflictions come to pick away at the crust of the shell.

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Now, what's the purpose of that?

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So that the glory can get out and the glory presses against that affliction?

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Amen.

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So that there's this oozing out of glory, out of the container.

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And where is the container?

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In the earth.

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See, we all want to be glorified without going through the process of destroying the husk, by means of the glory.

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Paul said we have this treasure in earth vessels that the power of the excellency of the power of God, mightency of the power of God might be of Him and not of us.

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End of the day, amen.

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Paul could just say this when the glory came, I'm going to rejoice in my infirmities, that's all I'm going to say that the spirit of glory, this spirit of Jesus, might rest upon me.

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Amen, amen, hallelujah, amen, because it has nothing to do about me, it's all about Him.

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Praise God.

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Let's stand, praise the Lord.