Jan. 21, 2025

Embracing Divine Love and Transformation Through Surrender - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) - Episode 39a

Send us a text Have you ever wondered what it really means to embrace God's eternal love and transformational presence? Join us as we journey through the profound themes of divine love and the incredible power of a genuine relationship with Jesus. This episode promises insights into how God invites us to be co-creators through Christ, nurturing a personal connection that strengthens our faith and trust. By surrendering our lives to God, we receive His eternal promise, creating an unbreakable ...

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Have you ever wondered what it really means to embrace God's eternal love and transformational presence? Join us as we journey through the profound themes of divine love and the incredible power of a genuine relationship with Jesus. This episode promises insights into how God invites us to be co-creators through Christ, nurturing a personal connection that strengthens our faith and trust. By surrendering our lives to God, we receive His eternal promise, creating an unbreakable bond that shields us from shame and confusion as assured in Romans 8.

Our conversation moves into the realm of authenticity in faith, challenging societal norms and encouraging listeners to stay true to themselves. Through personal stories, we highlight the importance of allowing God to work through us rather than strategizing our spiritual impact. It's about surrender, not merely strategizing—a theme that resonates deeply as we explore how God takes full control when invited into our lives, prompting a transformation that affects every aspect of our being. This surrender teaches us to trust in God's plan, even amidst life's toughest challenges, offering a perspective that not everything is good, but it ultimately works for our good.

Finally, we uncover the mysteries of divine timing and spiritual warfare. Aligning personal schedules with God's timing not only leads to profound personal transformations but also offers divine protection. Biblical figures like Enoch and Noah serve as exemplars of living within God's timeline and experiencing miraculous interventions. We reflect on the growing public acknowledgment of Jesus as a sign of increased divine influence. Together, we explore the spiritual warfare that surrounds us, emphasizing the need for divine refuge and protection through prayer and reliance on God. Don't miss this enlightening episode that weaves personal anecdotes with timeless biblical wisdom.

00:00 - God's Eternal Love and Participation

05:33 - Embracing God's Transformational Presence

16:43 - God's Transformational Presence & Surrender

23:18 - God's Time and Divine Protection

35:41 - Spiritual Warfare and Divine Protection

44:16 - Divine Timing and Obedience

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Well, see, the thing about the thing that most people don't think about God is they think about God as being static, and he's a creator.

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He's always creating.

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So whenever you think you've reached the end, well he's already been there and he's creating way beyond that end.

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Well, he's already been there and he's creating way beyond that.

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Since Jesus came, it's been his will that we participate.

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You know, before, before Jesus came, there was no joint participation.

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You just, you just lived in his creation.

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But after Jesus came, now we are joint participators, since we are joint heirs with everything that Jesus is, we are now joint participators.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Well, glory to God.

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Let's turn to Psalm 31.

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We've got a couple of more points to talk about, because we've said that if we're going to trust our God, if we're going to trust Him in these difficult times to be our deliverer, our Savior, our Redeemer, the one who is always going to go before us as a consuming fire, that's only going to work for us.

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If he is my God, he can't be somebody else's God.

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He's got to be my God, amen.

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Can't be a God that somebody tells you about and you nod your head and you say that sounds good.

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He's got to be your God and he becomes your God when he shows himself mighty to you over and over and over again.

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So he's constantly building up your faith, constantly building up your trust levels, amen, so that you can say that he is your God and then you can make this awesome exchange of exchanging your temporal, carnal, death bound times into his hands.

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And he places eternity into your hands.

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And that's when this thing really starts to get off the charts.

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Magnified to you how great this eternal God is to you and for you, to you and for you, and you start to understand the magnitude of there is really nothing that by any means can harm us.

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That's why Paul, in the eighth chapter of Romans, said that neither life nor death, height nor width, any dimension, any created thing can separate us from the love of God which is ours in Christ Jesus.

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We can't be separated from it because he has now given us his eternity and we have been swallowed up in that eternity and brought into where he lives.

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And they, you know there's nothing that anything can do to you.

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I mean, what are they going to do?

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If you are in eternity?

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You can't be killed, you can't be, you can't be threatened.

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You know there's just nothing that you can do.

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I mean there's they can hurt.

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They can hurt this physical body, but this physical body is only marginally in eternity, but your spirit is totally in eternity.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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So last time we were talking about how God makes his face to shine and be radiant and make your face full of his light when you make him your God.

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Amen.

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This is just part of the transaction.

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When you make him your God, then this process starts of God shining his face upon you and you become enlightened.

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We talked about how David says David put it this way don't let me be ashamed.

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But we talked about how that meant not to be disappointed, not to be delayed, not to be confounded.

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We talked about that those things were the opposite of who we really are and we are appointed.

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We have been laid hold of, we have been founded on a great foundation and we have been fused with this Christ.

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Amen.

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And David says this he says that's not for us.

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Let the wicked be ashamed.

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Let all of those things happen to those that don't know him as their God.

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Amen.

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They don't know him.

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They're going to go on and continue to be wicked.

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Like it says many times, let let the wicked just go on and be wicked.

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You know it's what they're going to do anyway.

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Amen, it's just going to happen.

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But David says this.

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It's a remarkable revelation.

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He says instead of you being ashamed, instead of you being disappointed and delayed and confounded and confused, you need to be appointed, you need to lay hold of Jesus, you need to be founded on a rock, you need to be fused to his spirit.

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And let the wicked experience all that stuff about being ashamed.

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Just let them go ahead and be confused.

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They're confused anyway.

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Let them be confounded.

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They're not founded on anything.

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Let them be delayed because Christ hasn't laid hold of them yet and they certainly haven't laid hold of him.

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Amen.

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Let them be disappointed because they haven't stepped into any kind of appointment yet.

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Let the wicked let all of that come upon them.

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They deserve it and only if they turn to Christ can they take that deserving off of them.

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Amen.

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We all were like that at one time.

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We all deserved those kinds of punishments, but we don't deserve them anymore.

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David says this let's make that division.

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I think the church now, because it wants to be so inclusive, doesn't want to insult anybody or doesn't want to step on toes or doesn't want to make a division between those that are his and those that are not.

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But personally I think that's suicide.

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I think if you are, if you are redeemed, amen.

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You need to make a division, not not a division that says I've got it and you don't, but it is I, I am redeemed and you're not yet.

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And there has to be a division in that.

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And there has to be a division in that, or you won't pursue Jesus the way he needs to be pursued.

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You can never have all of what Jesus wants for you if you don't pursue him.

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You don't seek after him, you don't yearn after him, because he's just that way.

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He demands that he's not going to come and just dump it all in your lap.

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Very seldom have I ever had the Lord just tell me everything that I needed to know at one time, primarily because I'd forget 95% of it.

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I can't even remember what the grocery list looks like or where to find it.

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Glory to God, anyway.

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We don't want to live in a way where we are not available for the Lord to be used among those that he wants to touch.

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But we do have to realize that we are saved to touch.

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But we do have to realize that we are saved, we have been redeemed, we have been sanctified, we have been justified.

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We are in the process of glorification.

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Glory to God.

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He foreknew us, he predestined us.

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We need to walk in those realities and if you try to keep a firm touch on the ones that are not, it's going to slow you down.

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And this is how salvation works, because we have a very Baptist way of looking at salvation.

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Almost everybody does, because that's the common way of looking at it.

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Almost everybody does because that's the common way of looking at it, and that is that we get saved and then we walk through life and you know you just got.

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You know you got to go to work, you got to raise kids, you got to.

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You know, cut the grass, you got to do all these things and you know you just got to take care of this.

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But at the end of all that, if we're nice little children, we get to go to heaven.

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And nobody ever thinks about running the race with perseverance and looking unto Jesus on a continual basis for the purpose of transformation, radical transformation, so that in this life you are not like other people, you don't even try to be like other people.

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I'll give you an example.

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I have a lot of ties in there.

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You probably noticed I wear a lot of different kinds of ties, but most of those ties are of ancient varieties.

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There's some of those ties in there that are at least 30, 35 years old.

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Because I don't care if it's trendy, I don't care if it's the right width, I don't care if it's you know a certain pattern or they don't use those patterns anymore.

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They haven't used those patterns for five years.

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I'm going to tell you they haven't used those patterns for 35 years.

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I don't care.

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I could care less.

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I don't care if the lapels on the jackets are wide, narrow.

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If I like how it looks and feels and all of that, I'm going to wear it.

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I don't care.

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I'm the same way about shoes.

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I don't care.

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If I like them, I'm going to wear them.

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I don't care about being trendy.

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I don't care about if this is today's style or if it's next year.

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It's not today's style and I'm not going to wear it anymore because it's not stylish.

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I don't care about that.

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I don't care about any of that, because that's not why I do it.

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I don't do it to be stylish, I do it because I like it, because the Holy Ghost likes it.

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Amen.

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I'm not trying to impress anybody, I just do it because I like it.

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Said all that to say this that you're not here to touch people the way that you think they should be touched and the way you think that they can touch them, that you can touch them.

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That's not your purpose.

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Your purpose is not to wake up every day and figure out how I'm going to touch somebody with the gospel.

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That's God's job.

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Your job is to be available, because he is the one that's walking around in you.

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So the way that we've learned this is very, very much.

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I'm in charge and God gets to bless it.

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Oh well, wasn't that just wonderful.

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I had this divine appointment situation.

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I just bumped into this person, I got to tell him about Jesus and it was just so good and I just felt like God was right there in the middle of it, and isn't that just wonderful?

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But that's not how it's supposed to work.

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You don't get to drive the bus.

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Life in the Spirit is a lot more like put that down right now, walk right over there and wait.

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And you better wait, because if you don't wait, whatever God's got in plan will not happen and you go.

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Well, lord, how long do you want me to wait?

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That's not a permissible question.

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I have an appointment, lord, you know that and you made the appointment.

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If you don't think he can keep your appointment, amen, or cause them to be, you know, days late over there on their agenda.

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You know you don't know him yet he said wait.

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And then here comes the thing you're waiting for, and you don't get to wonder, I wonder what I'm going to say, because Jesus said in that hour I will give you what you have to say, and then, when it's all over, you don't get to take any credit for it, you just got to get, go, keep your appointment and you go.

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Well, that's just not.

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That's a whole lot more dangerous and not nearly as much fun, but it is much more God and it's much more.

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And we're going to talk.

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We're going to talk about this kind of reality for quite a while, because this is one of the things that God wanted to restore at Azusa Street, and because the church rejected the Holy Ghost, it was never restored and that is the reality of the indwelling presence of God.

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And because it wasn't restored, it's gotten worse.

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So now the church has such a distorted idea of what this means that we've almost lost it.

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But God is going to restore it because it is at the very heart of what the church is.

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The church is this fellowship of created spirit beings that get to be totally controlled by God.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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See, that message will not preach in Aledo.

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Glory to God.

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And I choose that because they pride themselves over there on being a real strong, the spirit people who are totally filled and controlled by God.

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Praise the Lord.

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So let's go on.

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Verse 19 says how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, not for those that are afraid of him, but those who understand how great this God is, is.

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And because of that you have this, this God, given fear.

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It's a, it's a, it's a, a, a, an appreciation of his awesomeness.

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It's that reverential attitude that you have toward him.

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You're never going to just kind of barge in and go.

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You know, hey, dad, you know, can I have the keys to the car today?

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You know, you're not.

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You're not this arrogant teenager attitude he has.

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He has developed in you a proper respect for who he is and now that he has moved in, that fear increases because, listen, just because he's moved in, he has not ceased to be God.

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Just because he lives here doesn't mean that he has diminished his godness in any way whatsoever.

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All it means is that he has augmented your godness.

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See, most people don't want to deal with this.

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Most people have this idea that if God came in and lived in my heart, it's just a little piece of God.

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Well, I'm going to tell you, a little piece of God is more than enough.

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But he never does that because he's indivisible, he can't be divided.

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So there's no such thing as a little piece of God.

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Is he going to move in?

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He's going to move in.

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Everything, whatever you are, whatever you have, has got to move aside, to give him space.

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And here's another fallacy.

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You know, well you know, god's such a gentleman that he'll only take.

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He'll only move in and take, take over what you give to him.

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Hogwash, you ask him to come in.

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That's the little, that's the little piece of God idea.

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And that thing.

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That doesn't work.

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That just doesn't work.

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If just a little piece of God got into some room in your house, it would do a major house cleaning on the whole thing.

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It's unavoidable.

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People that think that are just they don't.

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You can locate them.

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You know how I use that phrase.

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You locate people that think that are just they don't they?

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They read, they.

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You can locate them.

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You know how I use that phrase.

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You locate them immediately.

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They don't have a clue as to what they're talking about.

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They're putting they're putting God in a human box, you know, like he's a visitor and he's just come to your house and you, you know, you let him in the living room, but you won't let him into the kitchen because the kitchen sinks full of dishes.

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You think that is not going to stop God from going in the kitchen, not going to stop God from going in the bathroom, not going to stop God from going in the bedroom or your closet that hasn't been cleaned in five years, and all of that's going to be fixed if you let him.

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Glory to God.

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See, if you want to talk, it's one thing thing we can sit here all day long and talk about universes and galaxies and and physics and the motion of planets and all those things that God's put in place and how infinite it is and how far it goes out and how blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and just all that stuff and that's real and there's nothing wrong with talking about that.

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But that same God that did all that is now in here and if you think that he's not going to get a hold of your bedroom, he's not going to get a hold of your bathroom and he's not going to get a hold of your kitchen or your garage or your backyard or whatever it is that you're.

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You don't think he's going to get a hold of, because he's a gentleman you haven't invited him in yet.

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He is not a guest, he is God.

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Amen.

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And in the baptism of the Holy ghost, you invited him to come in and take control.

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That's the essential transaction that happens in the Holy Ghost in the baptism.

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Well, hey, guess what?

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You invite God to come in and take control.

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He regards that seriously.

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He doesn't regard it as an invitation.

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He regards it as a surrender.

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And if you have surrendered to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, you know you don't get to design how you're going to touch people for Jesus.

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That's too big of a job for you.

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That's why you need the Holy Ghost.

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Do you know, folks, that.

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That's why the best thing that people without the Holy Ghost, god is passing out tracts and knocking on doors, because that's all they've got.

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Passing out tracks and knocking on doors because that's all they got.

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They've got strictly human ways to touch people with the gospel instead of spirit ways.

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How great is your goodness, lord, that you've laid up for those who fear you, who you have prepared for those who trust in you.

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If you've trusted enough in God to call him your God and put your times in his hands, so that he can put his times in your life, amen, then he has prepared a place of goodness for you.

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That doesn't mean that everything that happens to you is good, but everything that happens to you is going to work together for your good, amen.

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There are a lot of days that I just wish the day would hurry up and get over.

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It's just a day full of nonsense and pressures and busyness and things that go wrong and fix one thing and two things break and you know, it's just all that.

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Those those kinds of days, you know, and you probably wouldn't put that on the top 10 of good days that you've had.

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You know, it's not like sitting on the edge of a cliff, 400 feet above the Pacific ocean and watching the sun go down.

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It's not quite that like that.

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You know I have done that.

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You know, not quite like that Doesn't quite qualify.

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But all of those days are going to work together for my good, because they're going to put, they're going.

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God is going to work in them to move me toward this place of fear and reverence.

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Every morning, every morning, when we sit down and we take communion, I pray for God to infuse us more and more with the reality of his eternity, more and more with the reality of his eternity.

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I want to be swept up in this thing so that I'm thinking a whole lot more about the place where God is than the place where I am, because if I have this dislocation of I'm doing this thing and God's somewhere else, then I don't have the reality of God in me.

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I've got to consciously be working toward trying to locate myself and put myself in that place where God is, knowing that I'm not really doing it.

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It is God that's doing it in me, knowing that I'm not really doing it.

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It is God that's doing it in me, but I still have to be the one who wakes up in the morning and instead of seeing the day as a day that I'm going to occupy with all of my desires and all my plans and all my schemes and all my stuff, what is it that God's doing today that he has so graciously invited me in to participate?

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Glory to God.

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See, my times are no longer in my hands.

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My times are in his hands, and the exchange for that is that his times now become my reality.

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So when he says, go over here and wait, I'm in his time.

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If I say, no, thank you God, I've got to keep the appointment.

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I've just snatched my times out of his hands.

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Listen to me very carefully.

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You're not going to like this.

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For that moment he is not your God, he's somebody else's God, because you have disqualified yourself, because you have taken your times back.

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Are you hearing me?

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See, just because you say you're my God, you're my God, that doesn't mean that's a forever statement.

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That's a qualified statement.

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The qualification to it is what are you doing with your times?

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Where are?

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If your times are still in your hands and you can't call him your God because he's not God over your times?

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And I'm telling you what if he, if he's not God over your times.

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You are on a fast road to death and that's just the reality of it.

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Not eternal death.

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I'm not telling you you're going to hell, I'm just saying that that you're, you're not.

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You're not on the time.

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Listen, how can I say this, lord?

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You've heard me say this before.

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Sometimes I throw things out just to jostle your thinking.

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But when Enoch walked past time and walked past death and didn't even wave, the Bible says he just didn't even see death, he just walked off.

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Enoch did something with the DNA in the bloodstream that would lead to Jesus.

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For all of those who would come into that bloodstream by the faith in Jesus, amen.

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They have a DNA change that programs them for eternity.

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Now, not everybody has that.

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Not everybody has that, but only those that have had the blood transfusion.

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We've talked about that many times, and Enoch was the one that brought that to the earth by passing by death and going straight into eternity, passed that on to Noah and Noah brought it through the flood.

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Noah lived to be 900 something years old.

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Glory to God.

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There's something to all this Hallelujah.

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That awareness of eternity and that awareness of the time transfer is how you, one of the keys to knowing that you have made him to be your God, because his times now are your times.

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You placed your times into his hands, so he changes them.

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It's not like he doesn't care about your doctor's appointment, amen.

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But it also means that he can rearrange and stretch and redeem and change times.

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He can do that.

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You've got to believe that he does Well.

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Hallelujah, praise God, hallelujah.

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Let me give you another example.

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Maybe you know how to do these things.

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I God.

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Hallelujah.

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Let me let me give you another example.

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Maybe you know how to do these things.

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I don't know.

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I'm just going to teach you stuff that God teaches me and then you can see if he's taught you the same thing.

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But I'll be in a situation where you know I've got, I've got three things to do in 45 minutes and at the, at the end of those three things, I have to be someplace.

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And the way I think about it, that's impossible.

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I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure that out.

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I just say well, lord, what's going to happen here?

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And if this has happened one time, it's happened hundreds of times, so don't forget about the second one.

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They're running late or they're going to call you in five minutes and cancel that appointment.

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Don't worry about it.

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Or somehow he stretches out the time and I end up pulling right into the parking lot with 30 seconds to spare to get out of the car and walk in the office.

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Glory to God, if you're on his time, you're never late.

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Everybody said if I'm on his time, I'm never late.

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Praise God, hallelujah, well, glory.

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David says he's going to show himself mighty in the presence of men.

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See the stuff that God is going to do for you, especially in this day.

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He is not going to.

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He is not going to do it in a corner and have people not realize that he is touching people's lives, amen.

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He's going to make himself known and he's going to show himself mighty.

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You're not going to hide what he does, he's just not going to hide it, amen.

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And if you want to be, if you want to be caught up in what God's doing, amen.

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You got to be aware of the fact that God's gonna do it publicly.

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Not that you get any credit, but he is going to do it publicly.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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I've noticed this.

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I've noticed maybe in the past five years more than ever before, but in the realm, realm of people that you see on television for whatever reason.

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They might be actors, they might be politicians, they might be sports people, they might be musicians, whatever.

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But there are more and more and more people all the time that are publicly giving glory and honor to Jesus.

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Now it may just, you know, it may just be a pose, it may just be, you know, some sort of an act, or it may be real, some sort of an act or it may be real.

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But that's not so much the issue.

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It's that God is getting glory to himself in venues and in ways that almost never happened before.

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I mean, I grew up in.

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I didn't grow up in sports where everybody kneeled down and prayed and that would have been a sign of weakness.

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Guys were tough Guys.

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I grew up in a generation if you got a gash on your leg, rub some dirt on it and get back in the game.

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We didn't get a team full of medical specialists out on the field to deal with my stubbed toe.

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This is why my fingers look the way they do.

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Every one of them has been broken.

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Every one of them has been dislocated.

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All that ever happened.

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I never had anything done with those fingers except get back in Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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I'm saying all that to say that God is upping the public, or the notice of.

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Look at what happened in Pennsylvania in July when the president got shot.

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There was more giving glory to God for the next two weeks than you've heard on television for years From the highest levels of people, from people, and they would start out by saying you know, I am NOT a religious person, but I'm not a very spiritual person, but you know, I'm not the but, but but.

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All the way up to the president, who didn't make any bones about it, he said God has a plan for me.

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And if you don't think that was instrumental in the outcome of what happened, glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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But I'll tell you who he is going to hide.

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He's going to hide you.

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He's not going to hide himself, but he's going to hide you.

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Verse 20, we'll take just a few minutes on this one Verse 20 says you shall hide them in the secret place of your presence.

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That secret place is the holy place.

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Amen.

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We've talked about that at great, at great depth.

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Praise God at great depth.

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Praise God.

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In Moses' day.

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That holy place was right here.

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It was inside the tent inside the tabernacle.

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We talked about that at length, that that is the place where you have to anchor your hope.

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It is also the place that was prophesied physically by Sarah's tent.

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It was the place where Isaac, when he first, when Rebecca first came back to him amen, and they were married.

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Isaac took Rebecca, isaac, the Christ, took Rebecca, the church into Sarah's tent and consummated their wedding.

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Okay, that same place of consummation is the holy place here, the place where the presence of God was tangible, with the fire and the cloud.

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Amen, praise God, hallelujah.

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That's what David's talking about.

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He says we're going to hide you in the secret place of your presence and in that place you're going to be hidden from the plots of men, from the noisome pestilence.

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He's going to keep them secretly in a pavilion, in the tabernacle, in Sarah's tent.

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Amen, glory to God.

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Why is that important?

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Why is that important?

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I'm going to tell you why it's important.

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I want you to see this picture here.

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You see what is going on right here with this.

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Here.

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You see what is going on right here with this.

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If you are in here and there's a heavy layer of badger skins all around that make up this tent and it essentially soundproofs you.

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It also lightproofs you.

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The only light we've talked about all these things.

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The only light that gets in there is the light of the Holy Ghost.

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The only sound you can hear is maybe the crackling of embers on the altar of incense, but around you is this incredible din of noise.

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Listen to this, listen to this.

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If God hides you in the secret place of his pavilion, he's hiding you from the noise and the din of a multitude of carnality.

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Let me give you some numbers that will make you think about this.

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The Metroplex is an area of land about 10,000 square miles, that's about 100 miles on a side.

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It's 10,000 square miles and roughly maybe we have a little bit more now, but roughly has the same population we have a population of somewhere 7 to 8 million people.

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We have a population of somewhere 7 to 8 million people.

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That's probably the population of the multitude of Israel was somewhere 5 to 6 million, so there's a lot of empty space around here.

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So let's just say that they take up a space of 5,000 square miles.

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That's still 50 miles by 100 miles.

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I'm talking a million tenths.

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That's why no picture of this stuff ever does it justice.

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This is the best one I've ever seen, because it just has this idea that it's going off forever and it would have gone off in that direction, that direction, in this direction.

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You know, it just looks like it goes on forever.

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There were probably a million tents, because they couldn't be that closely packed together, because they would have had animals and all kinds of things that we would have had to take care of.

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Amen.

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Do you know what that sounded like?

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There was never a moment of quiet.

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There was never a moment when you didn't hear babies crying, kids playing, kids screaming, parents going at it, teenagers being teenagers.

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There was never a time when that wasn't happening.

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There was never a time when that wasn't happening.

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There was never a time when you didn't hear cattle going off, camels going off.

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There was all of this stuff going on all the time, all the time.

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And that's what life is.

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It's this non-stop noise of all of these people around us, and most of these people, david calls them wicked.

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Most of these people are making accusations against you.

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They have lying lips that need to be silent.

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They speak insolent things and they're proud.

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They are contemptuous against the righteous.

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They do not in any way revere you, hold you in esteem, give you any kind of respect for how you conduct your life.

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You are an anathema to them.

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They hate you.

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If you think that you're respected just because you live in the belt bucket of the Bible, the buckle of the Bible belt, you know you got to wake up and smell the coffee.

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Most people that live around you detest you.

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But God's promise to you is that in the midst of all of this, all this noise and din, he is going to place you in this secret place.

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He's going to keep you in there and in that secret place, just as we studied a few months ago, he's going to teach you, he's going to nourish you.

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In that secret place there is a table that's called the show bread.

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It is the bread of life.

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He is going to nurture you with the bread of life.

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He's going to enlighten you with the light of the Holy Ghost.

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He's going to protect you with the prayers that have come up through the altar of incense.

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His presence on the Ark of Covenant is going to keep you and enshroud you, and there is nothing that can by any means hurt you.

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Amen.

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You're going to be kept, david said, from the striving of tongues, from the strife of tongues, the contention being contested, the controversy, the striving.

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He's going to keep you from that.

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Amen, because he has a more lofty, exalted and eternal destiny for you.

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