Oct. 9, 2024

Embracing Anointing, Quickening, and Spiritual Awakening (First Words 04)

Embracing Anointing, Quickening, and Spiritual Awakening (First Words 04)

Send us a text Have you ever wondered about the significance of the very first words spoken by Jesus at the start of his ministry? Join us on an enlightening journey as we explore how these foundational words mirror key Christian rituals such as weddings and baptisms. We unveil the profound mystery of Jesus setting aside his divine privileges to embrace human form, a vital step for the new creation which took form at Pentecost. By paralleling Jesus’ transition from being led by the Spirit to ...

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Have you ever wondered about the significance of the very first words spoken by Jesus at the start of his ministry? Join us on an enlightening journey as we explore how these foundational words mirror key Christian rituals such as weddings and baptisms. We unveil the profound mystery of Jesus setting aside his divine privileges to embrace human form, a vital step for the new creation which took form at Pentecost. By paralleling Jesus’ transition from being led by the Spirit to embodying the Spirit's power, we offer a fresh perspective on spiritual growth and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in believers.

In an intriguing segment, we examine the anointing of Jesus Christ and draw compelling comparisons with the anointing ceremony of the British monarchy. This discussion highlights Jesus’ declaration of being anointed by the Holy Spirit upon his return to Nazareth, underscoring the true essence of the Holy Spirit’s anointing. It's not merely about speaking in tongues or joining a church but signifies a divine setting apart for holy work. Reflecting on the spiritual nourishment Jesus preached, we emphasize the importance of seeking eternal sustenance and prioritizing the Kingdom of God over temporary provisions.

We also delve into the transformative experience of being filled with the Holy Ghost, likening it to receiving new lenses through cataract surgery. Through personal anecdotes, we address the resistance faced from mainstream religious organizations and the complexity of seeking deeper spiritual truths. The episode concludes with profound reflections on anointing, resurrection, and the Holy Spirit's role in our spiritual journey. By aligning with the Spirit of the Lord, we affirm our anointed status and embrace the divine plan for a revelation of God's grace and purpose for our lives.

00:00 - The Significance of First Words

14:55 - The Anointing of Jesus

32:20 - Preaching the Kingdom for Spiritual Growth

42:54 - Quickened to Spiritual Reality

58:47 - Anointing for Spiritual Awakening

01:05:29 - Spiritual Anointing and Resurrection

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Well, jesus.

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We thank you Lord.

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Thank you, lord, for the manifestation of your power and your grace.

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When the gospel was introduced to Cornelius, in Acts, chapter 10, you spoke through your servant, peter, and said this word you know how Jesus of Nazareth Was filled with the Holy Ghost and power, anointed by God, went about doing good, healing all of those that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.

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Now Jesus is still going about doing good and healing all.

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We give you praise, god.

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Thank you, lord.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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We have been looking at first words.

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First words are important because first words establish something.

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Amen, first words establish something.

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Just think, as I was meditating on this, think about the importance of words in a wedding ceremony.

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A wedding ceremony, those are first words that are spoken, that define what is about to happen and what's about to happen in the years that follow, because it's a commitment, it's a pledge, it's a promise, it's a way of being.

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Same thing with any kind of.

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If you do a baptism, for example.

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The first words there are important because they set forth that thing that is about to happen.

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Jesus sanctified the first words of baptism.

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In his baptism he established it.

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It was important.

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He said it is important, it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness, amen.

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And so we've looked at what happened when he was baptized, when he went out into the wilderness and was tempted by the adversary, when he came back and started his ministry and preached that the kingdom of God was at hand and that the people needed to repent and believe the gospel was at hand and that the people needed to repent and believe the gospel.

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Which brings us to.

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Those things were all in the book of matthew, but in luke, luke records a different thing that happened and that that was a specific instance where he came out from the River Jordan.

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He came out from the wilderness and did what he did in Matthew telling people to repent and believe the kingdom.

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But then he ends up in his own hometown, in Nazareth, and goes into the synagogue.

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It says that where mark records that when jesus came up out of the river the, the spirit drove him into the wilderness.

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But in those 40 days and 40 nights of being in the wilderness Amen he learned something.

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He learned how to be in the Spirit.

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The Spirit drove him at first, but when he came out, luke records that he returned in the power of the Spirit.

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So he had learned in those 40 days what the difference between being led, driven and being in.

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Yeah, because he was, he was.

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He was a man just like we are.

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He had to.

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He had to lay aside the privilege of being God.

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He never quit being God, but he had to lay aside the privilege of being God.

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Philippians says it like this that he, he thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but he made himself of no reputation.

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In other words, he didn't quit being God that would be impossible but he laid aside the privileges or the rights of being God.

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In other words, when he was here on earth, he wasn't everywhere.

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He laid aside omniscience, he laid aside omnipotence, he laid aside all of those things that God is.

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He laid that aside and took upon himself the form of a man, even the form of a servant.

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Amen, this is impossible to understand.

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We can't possibly understand that God would, would lay aside his godness to put on Huh, no, yeah, yeah, yes, he was, but he parked godness.

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Listen, listen to what 1 Timothy 3.16 says.

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It says that great is the mystery of godliness, or godness that God was manifested in the flesh.

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Now, when that happened, he parked his godness in eternity and entered into the womb of Mary Amen.

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When he entered into the womb of Mary and left his godness aside amen he was going to come into a place to where to receive it back again.

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He was going to receive the Holy Ghost in flesh.

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That is the mystery of godliness.

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That is the promise that God gave to Abraham.

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That is.

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You know, this is.

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This is just runs all the way through scriptures, but the mystery is so great you can't even get your hands on it.

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Why would God ever want to do that?

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And the key to that answer to that question is it lies in the second creation.

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It was the only way that the new creation could come about, because the new creation is all about you, and the only way that God could be in you was that Jesus had to come, lay aside his godness, put on flesh and then put on the Spirit, because that's exactly how you come.

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See, it was all about you, it was always about you, but this was the only way that God could put on flesh and yet, at the same time, put on eternity in flesh, because of what Adam did, he had to condemn sin in the flesh first by Jesus' obedience, and then put on eternity in the flesh, so that this thing that we are now could live forever.

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Well, you go home and try to figure out how to do that.

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You know you couldn't in a million years.

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But the key to it?

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Jesus had one basic commandment Lay down your life and take it back up again.

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And the starting of laying down his life started with laying down his godness when he took upon flesh and then being obedient to end up at the River Jordan so that the Spirit could come upon him and the Spirit could then fill flesh with perfect godness.

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Now the stage was set.

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Like I preached last Sunday, the stage was set for Pentecost.

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The first step toward Pentecost was Jesus' baptism, and he had to go through what Adam went through and obey it, and then he was in a position to just make a steady march toward Pentecost, where the Spirit would be poured out upon all flesh.

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And all of the mainline denominations believe that.

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All the denominations that believe that essentially, that don't believe in the Holy Ghost, believe that Jesus did what he did because he was God.

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Well, if that's the case, we are out.

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We're just out of it.

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I mean the, the scriptures that jesus said these things shall you do, and greater things, that greater things than these shall you do.

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Well, I'm sorry, but if we're not god we don't get a chance.

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You know, if he said, if he said, go, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out lepers.

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Know, freely you have received, freely give.

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Well, what are we going to give?

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We're not God.

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And besides that, how did, how did?

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How did he send them out two by two?

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If they weren't God, I mean, how did that work?

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Anyway, that that whole thing doesn't hold water, it's it.

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It doesn't even do Jesusesus honor, because what he it, you don't.

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You don't need an incarnation to do that.

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He could have just come down here and been god.

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I mean, he could have.

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He, he did.

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He came as melchizedek, he came to be a friend to abraham.

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He came at different times, in different places, different ways.

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Amen.

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He could have just come like that, showed up for 30 years, preached, taught.

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He said he drove him into the wilderness.

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The Spirit drove him, but in Luke it says he returned in the power of the spirit.

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So instead of being driven, you know, like you would drive a cow or drive something you know, put a power behind it and push him.

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Now there was a cooperation, now he was in the power of the spirit.

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Cooperation, now he was in the power of the Spirit.

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It's like, for example, if somebody's chasing you in a car, there's that, there's that You're being chased in a car and you're running in front of the car and the car's chasing you, but on the return trip you get to ride the back seat.

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It's kind of like that.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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So in Luke, the fourth chapter, verse 18, jesus was standing up reading the book of the prophet Isaiah and he opened it to where it was written.

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And Luke 4 and 18 records what Jesus read.

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The first thing he read was verse 18, and he says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because there's a reason that the spirit was upon him.

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There's a reason that the spirit is upon you.

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There's a reason that you have been filled with the Holy Ghost and that reason is that you have been anointed.

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Jesus said because he has anointed me, he has, he has taken the spirit and infused me with the spirit so that the spirit fills everything and everything that I am.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me.

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Now, I've said this for as long as you've known me, I've taught you that we cannot misuse the word anointed like the the church does.

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That's not a good thing to do, because what it does is it cheapens what anointed really means.

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Anointed is a word that is actually used very infrequently in the Bible, and it is used to talk about putting oil on somebody to set them into a specific office.

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Aaron was anointed to be the high priest.

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David was anointed to be the king.

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Saul was anointed to be the king.

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Follow this they were set aside into a specific, god-created office and because they were in that God-created office, they were anointed by God.

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If you've ever watched a coronation of the British monarchy, there's this place.

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There's this place in this ceremony where they take a it's almost like a tent and they put the monarch in that tent, and it's at that point that they believe that God anoints the monarch to be the king or the queen.

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They are in that tent all by themselves.

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They have the scepter, they have the orb, they do all that stuff and they put them in that tent and it's a holy.

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Nobody else is in there.

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The archbishop is not in there.

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The wife or husband of the king or queen is not in.

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Nobody's in there.

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The kids aren't in there, nobody's in there.

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The wife or husband of the king or queen is not in, nobody's in.

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The kids aren't in there, nobody's in there but her, him and God.

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What is it is?

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It is, but but there.

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But there's a part of it.

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When they are placed in that and they go into that place and they believe that it's in that place because they are the appointed next in line, that God then anoints them as the head of the British people.

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That's what they believe.

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Amen, is that what they're saying?

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The head of the British people?

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That's what they believe.

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Amen, is that what they believe?

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The head of the British people?

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All of that?

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Yeah, wow, that's what they believe.

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What's the name of that denomination?

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Church of England, really?

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Yeah, anyway, anointed, amen.

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You couldn't possibly say that the first in line child, which is now who?

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What's his name?

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William, that he's anointed.

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He's not anointed, he's appointed as the Prince of Wales, amen.

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I don't know whether they anoint him or not, but it doesn't matter.

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He's not anointed to be king until he goes through this process and he's set apart for an office that they believe is God-created.

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I mean, they really believe that?

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Now, not everybody believes that, but they used to believe that and they used to act like it.

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Praise God, we'll leave that one alone.

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Let's get back to the text.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me.

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Now, he hasn't anointed me just for any old thing.

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You go well, what's he anointed for?

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Well, the Holy Ghost doesn't leave you out.

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There are six things here that are mentioned that are important.

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Because why is it important?

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Because these are first words.

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This is what jesus chose to read over himself as he publicly announced himself to his hometown.

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So he went.

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He went back, if you will, to the scene of the crime.

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He went back.

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He went back to where Mary was ridiculed, where Joseph was laughed at, to where Jesus was always mocked, and always.

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You know.

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Oh, there's the kid that you know is a son of God kid.

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You know, this is the one that you know.

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We all know about this one.

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Nobody believed that story.

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Hello, nobody believed that story.

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They may have all thought good things about him, because he ended up being the best kid in the neighborhood.

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He ended up being the best son in the neighborhood.

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He ended up being the best young man in the neighborhood.

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He took over his dad's business.

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He helped raise his brothers and sisters.

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As far as anybody was concerned, nobody had anything really bad to say about him, but still nobody was buying the immaculate conception business.

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Everybody was just still wondering who his dad really was, because it wasn't Joseph Joseph, was you know.

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Anyway, you can just imagine what a small town would be like with that, and he had to live with that.

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So when he came back in the power of the Holy Ghost, he didn't just pick up a scroll and say you know, all right, he was in the power of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit chose the Scripture.

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Glory to God.

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You know, it's the same Spirit that spoke those words to Isaiah 700 years ago and caused them to be written, knowing full well that this day would come in Nazareth, when Jesus would pick up the scroll and open it up and read the Spirit of the Lord.

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God is upon me because he has anointed me.

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Hallelujah.

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And he said it first.

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I think it's fascinating that he went home and made them hear it.

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Okay, this is what you thought, but this is what the Spirit thinks.

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This is what you thought, but this is what God has to say about me.

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In case you weren't there at the River Jordan when he spoke out of heaven and said this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

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This is the second part of that statement, and the second part of that statement is that the Spirit of the Lord is now upon me, for he has anointed me.

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Well, you know when you, when you say something like that to a Jewish person who know they know the history of David, they know Samuel took the horn of oil and went to anoint David.

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They know that Samuel anointed Saul.

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They know that more, moses was anointed, aaron was anointed.

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They know these things.

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And when Jesus says I am anointed by the Holy Ghost, you might have thought one thing, but God was thinking something altogether different and this is what he said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me.

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You get listen, think about this.

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You don't get the Holy Ghost so that you can speak in tongues.

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You don't get the Holy Ghost so that you can operate in the gifts.

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You don't get the Holy Ghost so that you can join a Pentecostal church and because you like the music.

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You only really receive the Holy Spirit because you are anointed.

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You are set apart for holy work and you are anointed in the same way that Jesus was anointed.

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Hello, and that's why you get the Holy Ghost Now.

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Because you get the Holy Ghost and because you're anointed, then these other things happen.

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They are the manifestations of the Spirit.

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Paul said it like this manifestations of the Spirit.

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Paul said it like this.

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Now, the manifestation of the Spirit is tongues, prophecy, interpretation, healing, faith, miracles, wisdom, knowledge, discernment.

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These are the manifestations of the Spirit once he comes upon flesh.

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Once he comes upon flesh, but he comes upon flesh because you're anointed In every way.

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We have to be exactly like Him.

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This is extremely important.

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If the Spirit of God was upon him because he was anointed.

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We don't get the Holy Ghost by any other, any other reason.

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You don't get.

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You know, people.

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I've been around this a long time and I've heard a lot of people talk about why the Spirit is given.

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But the Spirit is given by the words of Jesus, because you're anointed not to sing a song, not to preach a message, but you are anointed to do what Jesus says right here.

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These are the first steps.

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These are the first words concerning the filling of the Holy Ghost.

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Now, folks, it didn't take him long to get to this.

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You do understand what I'm talking about.

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He didn't wait until you know.

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Well, let's see, let's have a class on water baptism and then we'll have a class on discipleship, and then we'll have a class on water baptism, and then we'll have.

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We'll have a class on discipleship, and then we'll have a class on on on giving, and then we'll have a class on on how to feed the poor, and then we'll have a class on how to take care of the pastor, and then we'll have a class.

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Oh, and then, by the way, you know, somewhere down here we'll, we'll talk, we'll give a little lip service to signs, wonders and the baptism in the Holy Ghost, and if you get it, fine.

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If you don't get it, well, you're still saved.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Jesus gave you about I don't know 30 or 40 words before he warmed up to talking about the baptism in the Holy Ghost.

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And you know what?

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Most of those words were given to the devil, what he had to say to the people who could be saved.

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He said repent, the kingdom of God is at hand, believe the gospel.

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And then he got right in to the doctrine of the Holy Ghost.

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You go figure what's really important in this gospel.

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You go figure it out what really makes sense to talk about, whether we're going to talk about all the things that the denominations talk about incessantly, without power, or are we going to talk according to the one who returned in the power of the Holy Ghost and started to preach immediately, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me.

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Now, if that's, if that's so important, that he goes home to face the ridicule, he knew what was going to happen.

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He knew that they were they, they.

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He knew exactly that they were going to happen.

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He knew that they were they, they.

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He knew exactly that they were going to accept it.

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They were going to accept it with their lips, but their hearts were going to be far from him.

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They were, they were going to oh, isn't this wonderful.

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The prophets come home to Nazareth, you know, until he said you know, you're going to ask me, physician, heal thyself.

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The same things that we heard about you in other places, we want to see you do them here.

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And he said and then he said this, he said truly, the prophet said accurately that a prophet is not without honor except among his own people, in his own town, of his own kind, his own family and boy.

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I mean, as soon as he said that, they turned on him like a bad dog and wanted to throw him off the hill.

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And do you not know that?

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He knew that was going to happen, which is why he went there.

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He went there to convict them of all of the evil things they had said about him when he was a young boy growing up.

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So you can't talk about the Son of God like that and get away with it.

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So he went back there, told them exactly who the Holy Ghost thought he was, exactly who Isaiah testified that he was amen, and then he rubbed their face in.

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It was Amen, and then he rubbed their face in it.

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And when they tried to throw him off the hill, he just walked, like Moses, right through the Red Sea.

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He just parted them and just walked right through them like they weren't even there and just said okay, boys, go ahead and think whatever you want to, but the spirit of the Lord God is upon me and he's not upon you Because you are not anointed.

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You could have been, and so could have all of Israel, but they chose not to listen to what the men of God of old said, and they chose to listen to their own mouths.

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But let's go on.

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Praise God.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me.

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First thing that he has anointed to do, and we are anointed to do, is to preach the gospel to the poor.

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Talked a little bit about this the last time we were together.

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This doesn't necessarily mean that we are anointed to only preach the gospel to poor people, people that don't have money.

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That's what we think.

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So the main ministry of almost all churches, one of the main outreaches, is to help the poor.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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Amen.

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But that's not exactly what he's saying, because just because you're poor and you don't have money doesn't qualify you to receive the gospel.

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Amen, because the gospel is not preached to empty, is not preached to empty stomachs.

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If you try to preach the gospel to empty stomachs, you will never get it across.

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That's why Jesus, in the feeding of the 5,000, waited until after he preached to feed them.

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He didn't feed them before.

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He waited until after he preached to feed them, because if you feed them first, they'll never listen.

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They may not listen if you preach to them first and then feed them.

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They may be so antsy and nervous and everything else.

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If you've ever been to a food ministry where you're passing out food, like from a go-get-food-at-your-food bank, and you're going to pass it out and you're going to make them listen to a sermon before you feed them, give them the food, you almost have a riot on your hands.

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I mean, you can see those baskets of food up there and they're just you know, they can't wait to get their grubby little hands on all that free food, because I'll tell you what's going to happen they're going to hook it down to the next place that's doing the same thing in the next little city, and they don't want to be late down there or they won't get their second basket, Even though that's you know, they're not allowed to do that, but they will.

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And then they'll go to the third place, in the fourth place, and then they'll sell the stuff out of their house.

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And you think they're listening to your message, they're not listening to the rest.

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And you think jesus knew this.

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Jesus knew this.

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The next day, when they came to pull the same trick on him, he just said hey, you know, I, I was meditating on this.

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I got, I got so much stuff on on this the other, the other day, when I was meditating on it.

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I mean the whole, it was a whole rerun of israel's disobedience in the wilderness to to.

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You know, can god provide meat?

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Can god provide water?

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Provide this?

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You know it was a whole thing, you know.

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They just they just wanted that.

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They were just trying to tempt God, and Jesus looked at him and said why don't you seek after the food that pertains to eternal life instead of seeking the food that perishes?

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You're just like your fathers in the wilderness.

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They said can God provide?

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You seek after the food that you use it and eat it, and it perishes, amen.

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But there is a food that you can seek after that will never perish.

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But you don't want that food.

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You just want a free lunch.

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That costs him thousands of disciples, hallelujah.

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We're not necessarily called to preach the gospel to people that don't have money.

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The real people that need to hear the gospel are the people that are destitute and poor in spirit.

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Amen.

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You can be as fat as a walrus, you know, and still be poor in spirit.

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Amen.

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You could be as rich as Bill Gates and be poor in spirit.

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Well, he may be what?

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The perfect example?

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I don't know.

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I mean, you can be, you can, you could be.

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You can not not be poor, money wise, or you can be well-fed, or you can have all of those kinds of things but still be poor in spirit.

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Amen, the gospel is a spiritual gospel.

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The gospel has to be preached to spirits, spirits that are healthy.

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This gospel was written primarily for saved spirits, but it can be used to preach to unsaved spirits.

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But I'm not going to save your body, and neither is God Now.

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He may heal it, he may deliver it.

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He may heal it, he may deliver it, he may keep it, he may protect it.

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He may do all of those things, but at the end of the day, you're going to bury this body or burn it, or you're going to do something with it throw it off a ship, I don't know, but you're going to do something with this body.

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This body is not salvageable for eternity.

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It has to be transformed.

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We know this.

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So, having said that, it doesn't make any sense to preach the gospel to bodies.

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You may preach it, you may even preach it to human organs that are called ears, and the sounds of that gospel goes into those ears.

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But there is another ear in here, and if that ear doesn't hear, then you are not going to receive the benefit of the gospel, then you are not going to receive the benefit of the gospel.

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He that has ears to hear let him hear.

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But there are many people who don't have ears to hear, and so the only thing they get are stories.

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Jesus said this.

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I'm not making this up, this is what Jesus says.

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So these people are poor, the ones that Jesus is talking about here, that we have a responsibility to preach the gospel to the poor in spirit.

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They are destitute, they are begging, they have been reduced to begging for reality because nobody teaches them anything that's real.

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And this is true of people that are poor physically, that are lacking, that have needs.

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They lack money, they lack food, they lack housing, they lack clothing.

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They have not yet had their spirits quickened to the fact that if they seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these things will be added unto them.

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What do they have to seek first?

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The kingdom.

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What did Jesus come and preach first?

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The kingdom.

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Do you think there's a connection?

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Because if Jesus were sitting here, he would tell you that the most important thing to preach is the kingdom, because in the kingdom is everything you need, but you have to seek it first.

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If you seek it first, all these things will be added unto you.

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But if that's never preached to you, if your spirit is never quickened to that, then you'll go through your life wanting God to provide you things, without seeking the kingdom, and that's contrary to what Jesus said as one of the first principles.

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One of the first principles was believe the gospel and seek the kingdom, and the first thing about seeking the kingdom is to repent.

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Well, see, we got that down pretty good.

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We like the repentance part because we can make people feel guilty.

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It's hard to make people feel guilty about seeking the kingdom.

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Do you ever think of that?

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See, if we preached the kingdom and seeking the kingdom, we drive evangelists out of business Because they're all about repentance when instead they should be about preaching the kingdom.

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I used to have these long conversations with with, with jose, and jose was an evangelist through and through.

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He didn't have any other callings.

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Oh, he tried to be a pastor once a while, but it never did work very well.

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But he was an evangelist pure, pure and pure and pure.

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I used to have these conversations with him.

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I said, jose, if we preach repentance for sins all the time, where are you going to take them next week?

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What are you going to do next week, I said?

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But if you preach the kingdom to begin with and repentance as a key to enter, then what can you preach next week?

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Well, you can preach something about the kingdom.

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There's no end to what you can preach in the kingdom and God knows that.

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Amen, amen.

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But hey, making people feel guilty and ashamed and dirty and unworthy, that's so easy, that is pathetically easy.

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That is such low hanging fruit that it doesn't even merit what God can really do.

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But in order to know what God can really do, you have to preach the kingdom.

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Jesus did not.

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He said repent, not because you're sinners, not because you're pathetic, not because you you know you need to grovel for a while, but because the kingdom is at hand.

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You haven't been living in the kingdom.

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You need to repent about that and enter into the kingdom, because once you enter into the kingdom, then you can find out why you're anointed and why you need the Holy Ghost.

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Oh, glory to God.

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See, we have this thing so backwards and so improperly trained and taught, and I'm going to spend the rest of this year, teaching you and getting you ready for why the church is in this state right now.

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And really, what has happened to the church is it is criminal what has been done to God's people, and it has been done that way on purpose.

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And Jesus wants us to know that we are anointed and because we're anointed, the Spirit of the Lord is upon us.

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Amen, it's as simple as that.

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If I didn't read another scripture out of verses 18 and 19, you would have enough information based on that to go out and find out what this is all about.

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Well, you'd end up back here in these verses You'd have to, but I wouldn't necessarily have to go through them and teach you what you need to be taught.

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What you need to know here it is now go figure it out is that you are anointed for a holy purpose and because you're anointed, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you.

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Hallelujah.

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Now, where the Lord is, there is liberty.

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Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is what Liberty?

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Liberty to do what?

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Liberty to seek after the things that are in the kingdom.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Most people I call this being unquickened to reality See the Holy Ghost.

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When the Holy Ghost comes upon you and fills you, you start to see reality.

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Everybody in this room would testify that the day they got filled with the Holy Ghost was one of the most singular days of their life.

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Because, all of a sudden, colors looked different, trees looked different, things looked different.

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Trees look different, things look different because all of a sudden you had a different set of eyes looking through things and wanted to share how the Lord sees these things with you.

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Amen.

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All of a sudden you were quickened.

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You were quickened to reality, what reality really is.

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I think everybody in this room has been through cataract surgery or is about to go through it.

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Amen.

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I mean, when they put those new lenses in, it was like all of a sudden.

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It was like what the kids used to say to me what was it like to live in black and white?

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I said you never will believe the day they turn the color on.

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It was just unbelievable.

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You know, all of a sudden we just walked out there and the trees were green.

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They used to be gray but all of a sudden they were.

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And they believed that.

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The poor kids.

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But they asked because they saw the black and white movies and they knew they were old, so they figured that's just how things were when I was a kid.

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You know, I just let them think that, for I don't know.

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They may still think that I don't know.

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Anyway, praise God, hallelujah, it's, it's like, but this is what it's like to be quickened, because before you were unquickened to reality, it's like you lived in the black and white.

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It's like you lived in, you know, those little boxes of televisions that we used to have when we were kids.

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You know, and we didn't, we didn't know.

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But when we got the Holy Ghost, he began to show us what things really look like.

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Now, unfortunately and I thank God for this Unfortunately, a lot of people, when they got filled with the Holy Ghost, they got stuck in another denomination and so they never really got to move beyond.

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You know, just basic, real basic, being filled, they didn't get really well discipled, they didn't get really well trained, they didn't get really well.

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They just got stuck.

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Now, whatever level you came in at and you parked there for a while, you got stuck there for a while.

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You know, I thank God that.

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You know, I got kicked out of some of the best organizations in the world.

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I thank God for that, because I didn't get stuck.

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I was free to be right there and say, well, god, just me and you, what are we going to do now?

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And Neil, here I go on another 20 or 30 day fast, you know, and all kinds of worlds of possibilities get open to me that didn't get open to other people because they didn't believe in that kind of stuff.

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People, because they didn't believe in that kind of stuff they made I'm talking about I was.

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I was in flagship, flagship denominations, and they would.

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They would ridicule me for fasting.

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They would ridicule me for going on 20-day fast, 30-day fast.

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They would ridicule me for eating two meals a week for a year.

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They would ridicule who do you, do you think you are?

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What are you doing that for?

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You think you're so holy you just need to fast all the time?

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I said, well, if you heard the kind of things I hear when I'm in a fast, I said you'd be fasting too, but you don't want to hear those things.

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Well, who do you think you are that you can hear all those things?

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I said I know who I am.

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I'm nobody, but I am who God makes me to be and I'm going to hear what he wants me to hear, because I am made according to his word and I'm going to tell you this the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because he has anointed me.

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Now you can believe that or you cannot believe it, but I believe it.

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And because I believe it, god shares things with me.

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He teaches me things because I belong to him.

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I know this.

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You don't know this yet because you haven't sought him.

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You are seeking an easy way through a lot of these things that are not easy.

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You just want a quick and simple explanation, and there isn't one.

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And the more you try to make it simple, the more God's going to say wait a minute, come here a little bit.

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Let me enlighten you.

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There's a difference between the simplicity that is in Christ and the simplicity of your head.

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There's a world of difference between that.

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You think that, because you want it simple so that a third grader could understand it, that's the simplicity that is in Christ.

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No, that is not the simplicity that is in Christ.

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That is not what that means.

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You know, it's not one of those.

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It's so easy a caveman could do it.

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I mean, it's not one of those kind of simples, but that's what the church wants.

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The church wants stuff to be so easy that you can make it with mud pies out in the playground and it's just not like that.

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It is not like that, it never will be like that, because it's eternal, it's infinite, it has dimension, it has dimensionless quantities to it.

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That that beggar they just.

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You know you can't make that simple.

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I mean, just go out and look at the universe for whatever, whatever part you can see with your naked eye and then get on nasa and look at at the pictures they take and look at all that stuff that's out there and you just look at those things.

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That is not simple.

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It is to God, but it's not from us.

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Those things aren't simple, they never will be simple, they never will be simple.

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There's a complexity to all of this stuff that is off the scale.

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But yet you know, mainline Christianity wants this thing, that is, a relationship with the living and true God that made all of this wants to make this kindergarten stuff.

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It is not kindergarten stuff.

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He is not a kindergarten God, he's not like that.

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You want a cheap and easy God.

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There's plenty of those.

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There's a hundred thousand gods in the world.

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You know that men have made.

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Go find one.

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That's easy, you know, but that's not your God.

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Your God created a reality in Jesus that can't possibly be understood in anything that is carnal.

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It requires a substance called faith.

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Now, faith is a substance.

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It's a substance, it is a reality, but it is a reality of things that you can't see.

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So if you can't see them and you don't know them, then they have to be produced by this God, stuff that's called faith.

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Well, right there, you've lost most people because they think faith is something else entirely different.

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It's their definition, it's their understanding.

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It's not God's understanding.

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God's understanding is not simple.

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

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By it, the patriarchs of old were proved before God.

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So if you want a simple faith, okay, go talk to Noah about how simple it was to build an ark in a land where there was no water and where it had not rained yet.

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Are you starting to get what I'm talking about?

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I'm talking about a quickening.

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I'm talking about a quickening to a reality that you don't see with these eyes.

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The whole world can I say this Every person on the planet could see the wickedness of their generation, but only Noah could see the righteousness of God, and God called him a preacher of righteousness.

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Amen, do you get this?

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There wasn't anybody on the planet except Noah that God could trust to build an ark, because there was no one except for Noah that could see the way God saw.

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Now he learned this from his father and his father learned this from Enoch.

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Amen, praise God.

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But what am I trying to say?

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I'm trying to say this that we have been anointed and we have been quickened to know a reality that cannot be known unless the Holy Ghost teaches us Because we are anointed.

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Everybody say I am anointed, I am anointed to be quickened, I'm anointed to see like God sees, anointed to see like God sees.

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You know, you've already, you've just unplugged approximately 90% of all Christians with that simple statement that is absolutely and positively right there in the scriptures.

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And yet most of them won't believe that.

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Why?

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Because they have not yet been quickened to reality.

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They still live in unreality.

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Now the Bible teaches us that what happens to people when they do that is that they are doomed to live as lost people.

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To live as lost people.

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What does it say in Romans, the first chapter?

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It says that they chose the unreality of their created gods instead of the reality of the true and living God.

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Now the Bible uses the word truth, but the word truth really means the reality of God.

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And so they chose the unreality of their false gods instead of the reality of the true and living God.

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And because of that, god gave them over to a what?

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A debased mind.

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And the evidence of that debased mind is a whole wrath of sins of the flesh.

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And it's all because they chose not to be enlightened.

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They chose instead to be unenlightened.

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They chose to remain unenlightened instead of being enlightened.

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And as soon as you get enlightened amen, you know that you're anointed and you know you have the Holy Ghost.

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Praise God, it's as simple as that.

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Hallelujah.

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It's really that simple.

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If you want the simplicity of Christ, there it is.

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But the simplicity of Christ is not simple according to your flesh.

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It's simple according to the way that the Spirit works.

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And the Spirit works really, really, very simply.

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He just says I'm going to turn off your perception and I'm going to turn mine on.

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And the first step of walking with me and in me remember that Jesus returned in the power of God, the first thing that happens in order to be in his power and be in him is to turn off your perception and to turn on and and allow him to turn on his, and that becomes the way you see.

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It then becomes the way you choose, it becomes the way you discern.

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It becomes all those things that he calls, that the Bible calls the gifts or the charis, the graces of the Holy Ghost, but they really are, or how God is going to perceive in you and allow you to see the things he sees it in this, what in this?

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All we really want I mean all we really want here is exactly what happened to you with that lady, and I was, I was, I was, I was thankful, and and and.

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So how should I say this Lord, so appreciative of what the Lord has done?

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Because you said something that is very important.

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You said, you said the Lord quickened you and then you said the Lord prayed.

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And because you allowed the Lord to quicken you and you allowed the Lord to pray, then whether or not the person got healed was totally up to him.

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And what happened was that, because you were obedient and yielding amen, then the Lord did the miracle.

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So you know, the only thing you can do is come to Wednesday night meeting and praise the Lord.

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That's all you can do.

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You know I didn't do that.

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You didn't do that.

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That was all God.

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You know I didn't do that, you didn't do that.

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That was all God.

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You know he gets all the credit.

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All we get to do is praise God and go on to the next one, Because that's what it is all about.

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You get to see, you got to hear him.

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You got to hear him say pray for that one.

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You got to go pray for that one.

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Then you got to hear him say pray for that one.

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You got to go pray for that one.

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Then you got to hear him say what he wanted to pray.

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So you got to pray what he wanted to pray Amen.

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You got to perceive the way he perceives and speak the way he speaks.

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And isn't that, at the end of the day, that is what?

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That's all we want?

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That's all we ever really want, because we have been anointed, because we have the Holy One living in us and he is upon us.

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And he is here because he has anointed us.

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And he is upon us and he is here because he has anointed us and set us apart to do something that others will not do, because they won't live according to the quickening, they won't live according to God coming upon you and giving you his abilities that he has destined since before anything was created.

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Praise God.

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Now, that's simple, but that's simplicity from God's point of view.

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I mean he would sit here and tell you well, that's how I created things to be, so, why shouldn't it be simple?

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He would sit here and tell you well, that's how I created things to be, so, why shouldn't it be simple?

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But when you look at it from this side of the veil, I mean it's just, that's wrong.

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Into God's rest yes, the rest is.

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And doing it, the law, the perfect law of liberty that's what the perfect law of liberty is is to hear and do see, and do hear and obey, so that you're off the hook.

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Yep, I mean you know this.

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So that you're off the hook the first time that you ever preached here.

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Seriously, dude.

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Yep, I mean you know.

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The only thing I can tell you is that none of this is new, but it is.

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It's not new in the sense that I've been preaching this almost my entire ministry.

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It just keeps getting deeper and it has new.

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It has more fabric to it.

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Yeah, more, more dots are connected.

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You know that's.

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That's a good way of putting it, praise God.

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I know we didn't, we didn't cover a whole lot of new territory tonight, but that's okay.

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I mean, we, we just dug it a little deeper because the the essence of this what Jesus said to go up, to go beyond this is to get into specifics of what you're anointed to do.

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And those things are important, especially as they are right there at the front of being the first steps.

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They they're very important, but the essence of it is that you have been anointed to be one with the Spirit.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon you.

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Paul said it like this he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit with Him.

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So you have been joined to the Lord because he has anointed you.

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Well, when did that anointing happen?

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And that is the key to everything.

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The key to everything is the win, because if he anointed you at some anointing ceremony, like he did with david, or some special time when he poured the anointing oil over aaron's head and it ran down over his beard and onto his robes down to his feet psalm 133 if, if it was a specific, or when it is for the king of england when he goes into the tent, or you know if that's when it happened, you then there was.

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There is something that had to happen for you to get to that point, hey man.

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But what if you were anointed With the oil of joy above all of your fellows, a With the oil of joy above all of your fellows, a long time before any of this was ever created?

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What if you were anointed when the reality of 2 Timothy 1.9 came to be that God saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to any works of our own, but according to his grace, which he gave to us in Christ Jesus before time began?

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What if that's when you were anointed?

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And that's what it's all about.

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Is that you were anointed before time began to have the Spirit of the Lord come upon you and quicken you for godness?

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What if that's the way it reads?

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And if it does, then the gospel that we have been preached for the past 1, past 1800 years, is an aberration, not a complete aberration, but it is far from a complete truth.

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And that would make the most sense if an enemy was trying to keep enough of it to keep you interested, but not give you enough to make you free Meditate on that.

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Think about that, because that is what really happened and that is what's happening even now, and that's why it's so difficult to just jump off the edge and go.

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Yes, glory to God, praise God.

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If we think of it like this, everything that Jesus did we have to go through.

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The only thing we don't have to do is we don't have to go to the cross, because we're not qualified for that.

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No matter how much in Him we are, he was still uniquely qualified as the eternal Son of God, to lay down His life and pick it up again and begin the second creation.

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There was only one that could do that.

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We enter into the second creation because of Him and because of the Spirit of God.

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Amen.

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Just the same way that he was, he entered in by the Spirit.

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The spirit raised him from the dead.

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The bible says that spirit raised him from the dead.

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So he entered in to the second creation through his resurrection, and the spirit was the one that did that.

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Not only did he baptize him in the holy ghost at the river jordan, but he consummated the baptism with the resurrection.

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Same spirit, amen.

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At that point, then, we who were resurrected with him before time began, have entered in.

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Now the reason that we enter in or we say those things that happened before time began, because we had to come here just the same way he did.

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We had to follow him and come here and be made flesh.

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And when we were made flesh, then we have to go through the same kinds of things that he suffered in the flesh so that we can be perfected, lay down this flesh, pick it, pick another form of flesh, back up and enter in.

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That's just the way God intended for it to be.

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You know, you may not like it.

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There are certainly days when I don't.

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But hey, I didn't write the rule book.

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I was just created to the praise of the glory of His grace.

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I was created to do this thing that he had orchestrated for me.

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See, that's what most people don't understand, this and this is where most people will stop believing.

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But it's exactly at the point that you have to keep on believing and that is that the reason he did this was for you, not for any other reason.

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I mean, you know, I was sitting there out here in the driveway the other day looking up at the eclipse and I was thinking.

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You know he did that for me, but not for the reason that most of these people are thinking they think he did it for them just for the spectacular moment, but that's not why he did it.

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Glory to God, praise the Lord, amen.

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You are anointed, say I am anointed, and because I am anointed and because I am anointed, the spirit of the Lord is upon me.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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It was unavoidable you were going to run smack dab into the Holy Ghost.

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It was unavoidable.

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You could have tried to avoid it as much as you wanted to, and it was unavoidable Because you were anointed.

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You were anointed to receive.

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Glory to God.