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Praise God.
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Thank you, jesus.
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We are talking about the series of miracles that God did to deliver his people out from under the bondage of institutional witchcraft.
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The children of Israel co-lived.
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They lived alongside of a people whose entire life, from the top, from Pharaoh down to the lowest person, was lived in an architecture that was formed in Babylon, exported to Egypt and developed even to a higher level, if you will, because what Babylon tried to do, egypt did.
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Egypt built towers to the heavens.
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Egypt built buildings that we are still trying to understand today and try and built buildings that that we are still trying to figure out how they built them and the internal structure of them and other buildings that they have.
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We're still trying to understand that.
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So it's not like these people were not without skills and not without talents and not without abilities, but nonetheless, their whole lifestyle was built around this system of false gods and minor gods that they worshipped and all of the things that go along with that when you fall into that lifestyle.
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So we talked about last time we were there, we were studying this that Moses was taken out of Midian and brought to Egypt to basically tell Pharaoh to let God's people go.
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Pharaoh would not do this.
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God knew that he would not do this.
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He told Moses that he would not do this and so as a consequence for his disobedience and the Bible says that it was God who hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the people go, so that they went through these 10 series of plagues, or judgments on various major gods that the Egyptians worship.
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Now, the thing that we understood about that was that it's possible that a casual observer reading through the 10 plagues would not pick that up, because it's only in one small statement where it says that and God judged the gods of the Egyptians, but nonetheless, that's what he did, and it's not so important that we understand exactly which gods they were and all that.
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If you want to do that, that's fine.
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It's not going to enhance your understanding of it, but just understand this that in each plague there was a specific God or gods that were involved in that particular thing, and God judged that by showing himself to be so much more powerful, so much more infinite, much more powerful, so much more infinite.
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One of the most outstanding was the plague of the blood on the Nile.
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The Nile was the lifeblood of Egypt.
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Without the Nile, they considered it to be a living thing.
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Amen.
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And there was a God, that was a God of the Nile, and that river, if it didn't flow freely and cleanly, was a problem.
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Amen.
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And God cursed that river, touched that river so that everything in the river died.
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You can just yeah, you can just imagine the Nile River at Cairo.
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You've seen it, you know.
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The Nile River at Cairo is like the Mississippi River at New Orleans.
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It's a mile and something wide.
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It's just, you know, wide, it's deep and there, you know, you can't, you can't measure the amount of fish that's in it.
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Over to God, anyway.
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So, after the 10 judgments of the gods of the Egyptians and the judgment on by the death of the firstborn of both men and beast, god turned his attention.
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Because now Pharaoh finally said Moses, get out of here, just leave.
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Take your possessions, take your wives, take your children.
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And on the way out, the Bible says that they plundered Egypt.
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They went and got all the gold and all the silver they possibly could and they took with them Egyptians.
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They took with them other people of other countries that had had been hanging out there and they wanted to get out.
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Because, listen, what?
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What had happened was that Egypt was this tremendously powerful nation, and they had been brought to their knees.
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Their crops were all gone, their livestock was all gone, their firstborn was all gone, the river was gone.
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I mean, this all happened in a matter of days, you know, in a matter of days, this mighty nation that had built up as a false God-worshiping abomination to God all of a sudden was reduced to nothing, and people were wanting to get out.
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So let's get out of here, because the next thing's going to happen is somebody's going to invade this country.
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You know, because when you're rich and powerful, you make enemies.
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You know, there's an, there's an old, there's an old blues song that says nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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So you know when, when you, when you lose all your money and and you know, all those people that you made enemies of are now going to become your enemies and they're going to come in through your front door, amen.
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So anybody that wanted to get out was looking to get out.
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So the next phase of what we're going to talk about is is where God takes his people out, and he does this by three great miracles.
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Now, all of these, these miracles, these three in the first, the.
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The other, one of the plagues.
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These four miracles are, the are the backdrop, or how God raised up a standard against Antichrist and pushed him and forced Antichrist to take his hand off of his people for a season, amen, and ruined the nation in which the strongest presence was now in.
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Okay, we are going to listen.
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We're going to take this very slowly and very carefully, because I want you to see that whenever the spirit of Antichrist comes in and attacks the Christ at a particular place of ministry in this case, they had raised up a mighty nation that was totally given over to institutional witchcraft, institutionalized witch's based on witchcraft, but that is based on the fear and the love of God Amen.
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So you've got one, you've got the other.
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They're exactly opposite.
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So if you've got, if you've got one that is based on the fear and the love of God, amen, witchcraft will be driven out.
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If you've got one that's given over to witchcraft, the fear and love of God is going to be driven out.
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If you've got one that's given over to witchcraft, the fear and love of God is going to be driven out, amen.
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Now modern thinking would say well then, the thing is that you have to make everybody accepted so they don't drive each other out, but that never happens, because as soon as witchcraft gets a foothold, they start pushing Praise God, hallelujah.
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So God wanted to make an example of this, so that the ministry of Jesus could gain a foothold in the new Israel, in what was formerly Canaan.
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When Israel took possession and formed a country, he did not want that country to be given over to idols and to witchcraft, so he wanted to defeat that possibility in Israel by setting them free out of Egypt.
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Now, unfortunately, it didn't work real well.
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That's not God's fault.
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God did everything he needed to do by setting them free out of Egypt.
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Now, unfortunately, it didn't work real well.
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That's not God's fault.
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God did everything he needed to do, and the book of Psalms is replete in examples of bringing up the Red Sea as one of the major things that God has ever done.
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Amen.
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It's not his fault that the people didn't remember.
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It's not his fault that as soon as Moses went up the mountain, they were going back to the gods of the Egyptians.
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That's not God's fault.
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He gave them the Red Sea and they could have remembered.
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They chose to remember watermelons rather than the Red Sea, but that's not God's fault.
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Amen.
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Just because, but just because there are people all around you that don't see what you see.
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That's not God's fault, but it's your fault If you don't pursue after what God's trying to show you.
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Amen, simple as that.
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Exodus 7.3.
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Nope, I'm sorry.
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Exodus 14.19 says this the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.
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So, as the, as the children of Israel were leaving Egypt, the cloud went before them, the pillar of the cloud went before them, amen.
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And then, when they got to the sea, the cloud went past from before them to behind them.
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So here's, here's the cloud and here's the people of Israel.
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Okay, and then they got to the sea and the Egyptians were hot on their tails and so the cloud went like this Now was behind the people of Israel.
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So now the people of Israel were between the cloud and the sea and Egypt was behind the cloud and couldn't get around the cloud to get to Israel.
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So Israel was buffered or protected by the cloud and by the angel of God.
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You got that.
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So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel.
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Thus it was a cloud and darkness to one and it gave light by night to the other.
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So here here we go again.
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You know like, just like we were talking about the other the last time with Goshen, you know you can have, you can have plagues and disasters happening on the frontier line of Goshen and on the other side of Goshen there's light, there's abundance, there's no frogs, there's no gnats, there's no lice.
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None of this stuff is happening.
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It's like there was a curtain right between them.
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One thing was happening on one side, one's the other.
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Here we go again, same thing.
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On the one side we've got darkness, on the other side we've got light, praise God.
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So that one camp did not come near the other camp all that night.
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So here's the second miracle.
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It's the miracle of the cloud and the fire.
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Now, when you have clouds, you have winds, amen.
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So when you have a rushing, mighty wind and you have fire, what does that speak of?
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It speaks of Pentecost.
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It speaks of the baptism in the Holy Ghost.
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It speaks all of these things are types of the Spirit of God and the manifestation of the Spirit at Pentecost.
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At Pentecost, not only is it about the Feast of Pentecost and not only is it about the baptism with the Holy Ghost.
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But the essence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost came on Pentecost.
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He didn't come just in a form of fire or in a form of wind, but he came in to possess his people.
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Amen Now, amen Now.
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I will argue this point until the cows come home, that what has been taught us essentially is that God came to be with his people and he enabled them to speak with other tongues and because he was with them, they could do mighty signs and wonders.
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They could do mighty signs and wonders, but that is not what the Bible teaches.
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The Bible teaches that the greatest mystery is the incarnation of God.
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It is God in flesh is the greatest mystery.
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First Timothy 3.16.
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Now, the mystery of godliness, or God in flesh, is great.
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How God was made flesh, amen, and dwelt among us.
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This notion that God comes and he's with you and he gives you abilities and giftings is contrary to the whole notion of why Jesus came.
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Jesus came to create a new creation, and that creation is a new man, and that new man is a man that is indwelt by God.
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Jesus was the example.
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Amen.
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Jesus had to be baptized with the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost had to come down and dwell in him so that, as the first fruits, he could be the example for all of us.
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So if he's in Jesus and Jesus is in him, then we have to be, then the Spirit has to be in us and we have to be in him.
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It has to be that way.
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We can't, or else we are somewhere else than where Jesus is.
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See, if we're not, if Jesus' example is, I've come in the flesh.
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I may be God, but I still have to be filled with the Spirit.
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And since I have to be filled with the Spirit and the fact that I'm filled with the Spirit is what enables me to do signs and wonders, because he never could do any before he was filled with the Holy Ghost, amen.
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And if he's filled with the Holy Ghost and God is in him and he said that repeatedly then that model has to be the model that we follow after, or else we are someplace else other than where he is.
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And he said that if I go, I prepare a place for you so that where I am, you may be also.
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So there can't be any difference about that.
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But that is not what has been taught since Azusa Street, what has been taught, since Azusa Street is a watered down version of that, so that people don't really know, they don't really have this knowing that God is living in here.
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The day that god kind of taps you on the middle of the forehead with a, with a hammer, and goes I'm in here, I'm not up there, and you go look around, you wonder why did I not know this before?
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But the day that you know that changes everything.
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But not everybody knows that.
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So the cloud and the fire speak about this Pentecost and it speaks about a time.
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And here we are, the cloud is with them and they are in this cloud.
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The Bible says this, that listen, listen.
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The Bible says that Israel was baptized into Moses and the cloud.
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So this, this, this notion that God was in his people and his people were in him, goes all the way back to right here.
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On the very first day that they came out of Egypt, out of bondage to institutionalized witchcraft, god brought them into him and he filled them with himself Now, not in the same way that he would at Pentecost that's an individual filling but it was still true that he brought Israel out to be with them.
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And the proof of this pudding is that 50 days after Passover, he appeared on Mount Sinai and spoke to them and they rejected him.
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Praise God.
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So what does all this mean?
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Why is this miracle important and what does this mean for us?
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Because these are things that God is going to do with his people in this day, as Antichrist comes in and draws battle lines to attack the precious anointing of God, to attack the anointed one, jesus, and to drive his people off of this planet.
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Amen, god is going to do something with his people, and a lot of it is going to be the same things that he did in the past, because I'm going to give you a you'll have to forgive me.
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I'm one of those people that read the end of the book first and I'm sorry, but we'll give you a clue In this day, everything that we're going to talk about, from Abel forward, the devil is going to bring all of those attacks back out.
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So all of these, all of these attacks that we're talking about right now, even though they happened a long time ago, are going to re happen again at this last great attack.
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It's like.
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It's like both sides are bringing well, the devil's bringing out all of his, his equipment.
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It's impossible for God to bring out all of his, because this is infinite and he doesn't need to.
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But this is one thing that he's bringing out.
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First thing is his people are going to be separated.
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His people are going to be separated.
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His people are going to be separated.
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When the fire and the cloud of the Holy Ghost come to be in God's people, it is going to have a separating effect.
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Amen, they didn't ask to be separated, they didn't.
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They didn't.
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You know, fast and cry out To God for 30 days to get separated.
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They just got separated.
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God separated, amen.
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There is a.
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Can I talk about this?
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In the book of Titus it says there's a washing of regeneration and there's a washing of regeneration and there's a renewing of the Holy Ghost.
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There's a cleansing, there's a come out from among them and be ye separate, kind of a cleansing.
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There's a cleansing that Jesus spoke about in John, chapter 13, where he said if you do not allow me to wash you, you have no part in me.
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There's a cleansing that God has to do to his people that is going to separate them.
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You may, you know I couldn't if I sat here and just listed one after another, after another, after another, after another after another, after another, of things that God has separated me from.
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And they and they're, and, and the great majority of them, you would say, well, what's wrong with that?
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And I'd say, in and of itself, probably nothing.
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I mean, it's not, you know like.
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You know robbing banks, or you know holding people hostage or you know anything like that.
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You know, but they are things that captivated my attention.
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You know, you've had it happen.
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There were things that you know 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, oh, oh, my goodness, I was just as interested in all that as I could possibly be.
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And over the years, it's not like you got bored with it, it's just like the God just cut off your fascination with it.
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He separated you.
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Now see, he knows what he's doing, because if he came to you and said, now, now, thus saith the Lord, you shall give up that fascination with this craven image, you know, and you go, oh, you know, and you would have a reaction against it, but it wouldn't be a cooperation.
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And he knows how to separate you where it seems like it's your idea.
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And that is exactly how cooperation works.
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You know, god's going to try to get you to, is going to help you to cooperate with him by letting you figure out that this is in your best interest.
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Now, if you fight him long enough, he'll convince you in other ways, but most of the time, what God wants to do is he wants your cooperation, because in the long run you'll stick with it, hallelujah.
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So separation is one of the keys here.
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If we're going to resist the devil and he'll flee from you, you're going to have to be separated from some things that the enemy likes to use.
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Well, let me give you an example, and this won't be applicable to anybody In Costa Rica.
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They are addicted to anybody In Costa Rica.
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They are addicted to soccer.
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I've told this story a lot of times, but it's still a good story.
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They can't get away from it.
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They just love it.
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On Sunday afternoon, if we could get the people that were addicted to soccer to come to church, oh my goodness, we couldn't build enough churches.
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You know these people would drive up and down the road with their flags and banners and they've all got the jerseys on.
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And I mean, you know they're just going crazy.
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They love soccer.
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So you know, being the diplomat that I am, I just said you know I hate to tell you this, but that whole thing is controlled by international levels of witchcraft, major spells on all of that stuff so that when they have your attention captivated on the TV screen, they can cast spells into your imagination and put subliminal witchcraft things into your being so that you obey certain commands that they're trying to move the masses in.
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You have no idea how good they are.
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They are unbelievably good.
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They have got this down.
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They know what they're doing.
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You know, but you know, do you think that any of them quit watching soccer?
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No, not even the best of them.
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And I give them proof.
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I said the proof of the pudding.
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Proof of the pudding is that the entire hierarchy just got arrested for gross, gross bribery, collusion, fixing matches I mean to the highest levels of you know, on a worldwide basis.
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I mean hundreds of people were arrested.
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I said the whole thing is fixed Because it's not about who's the greatest soccer team, it's about how they can manipulate mass attention, and they use things like this I mean anytime that they can get two, three billion people watching the same thing.
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It's not about sports folks, it's about attention manipulation and that is a primary definition of what witchcraft is.
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It's manipulation.
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We have to be separated from things like that, so that we don't fall into the spell Over to God.
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If you're going to be separated, what did the fire do?
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The fire enlightened his people, but it darkened those that were separated away.
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Amen.
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So included in separation is enlightenment, amen.
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And this is.
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This is where we're at right now.
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We are, we are seeking after enlightenment.
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We're not seeking after to, you know, to polish up some things we already know, and and and and make them look nice and shiny, so they look like they're new, but they're really not, because we've already been there.
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We're trying to get enlightenment on things that we don't know, because the word of the Lord is that I call upon me and I will answer thee and I will show thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not.
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We have to be enlightened in order to reach into the unknown things and bring them forth, so that they become known.
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And then, finally, this pillar, because it's a pillar of fire, is going to be a pillar of purity.
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So we're going to be separated, we're going to be enlightened and we're going to be separated.
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We're going to be enlightened and we're going to be purified.
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Malachi, chapter 3, says that the message of the covenant has come and he will be like a purifier's fire and he will purify the sons of Levi Amen so that they may offer unto the Lord a sacrifice in righteousness.
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So he's going to.
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The sons of Levi were a people that were what.
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They were separated, they were enlightened, they were shown the ways of God, they were made pure to do the sacrifices that God required.
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This is who this is who God is dealing with in these days.
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He's going to bring us into these places where we can be separated, enlightened and purified.
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This is part of this process.
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So this was step one.
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This was miracle one.
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He put the fire between the Egyptians and Israel and he put Israel between the fire and the sea.
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Now, if you were Israel amen, you'd probably be thinking at this point well, that's nice that God gave us a fire and that's nice that we can see at night, and that's nice that we're separated from the Egyptians.
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But I don't swim In any way.
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It's a long way to the other side and that's a reasonable way to think.
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Amen, and that's a reasonable way to think Amen, glory to God.
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Verse 21 says this and we're coming up to the third miracle.
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Then Moses stretched out his hand, and this is one of the great miracles in the Bible.
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Now I have to ask you to do this.
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I have to ask you to do the reverse of what the Ten Commandments ask you to do, the Ten Commandments.
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There's a device in theater and in films that's called the willing suspension of disbelief.
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Called the willing suspension of disbelief, okay, you know.
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I mean if you watch, if you watch a movie or if you go to a play, you know, you know that the actors are not who they are, who they play they are.