Oct. 8, 2024
Embracing the Anointing: From Spiritual Poverty to Divine Purpose (First Words 05)
Send us a text Ever wondered what it truly means to be anointed? Join us on a profound journey through Luke 4:18-19, where Jesus proclaims his divine mission in Nazareth. We delve into the essence of anointing, drawing parallels between Jesus, David, and Aaron, and uncovering what it means to be set apart for a God-ordained purpose. Discover how the Spirit that anointed Jesus empowers us today to preach the gospel in power and fulfill our divinely appointed destinies and purposes. Explore wit...
Ever wondered what it truly means to be anointed? Join us on a profound journey through Luke 4:18-19, where Jesus proclaims his divine mission in Nazareth. We delve into the essence of anointing, drawing parallels between Jesus, David, and Aaron, and uncovering what it means to be set apart for a God-ordained purpose. Discover how the Spirit that anointed Jesus empowers us today to preach the gospel in power and fulfill our divinely appointed destinies and purposes. Explore with us as we unravel the common misconceptions about anointing that permeate modern Christian thought.
Through insightful discussion, we confront the deep issue of spiritual poverty and the necessity of the healing of our spirits. Using vivid personal anecdotes and powerful biblical narratives, we'll illustrate the interconnectedness of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. This episode also tackles the global epidemic of religious abuse, advocating for a compassionate, gospel-centered approach to healing the brokenhearted and spiritually oppressed. Learn how addressing spiritual wounds can lead to comprehensive, transformative healing.
Finally, we unfold the liberating power of the Holy Ghost and the incredible concept of spiritual liberty and destiny. By revisiting stories of biblical heroes like Paul and Silas, we reveal how salvation transitions us from darkness to light, freeing us from spiritual bondage. Embrace your identity as "little anointed ones," sharing the same mission and anointing as Jesus, and rediscover your divine purpose and spiritual vision. This episode is not just a message; it's an invitation to recognize and live out the liberating power of the gospel in your own life.
00:41 - Anointing and Preaching for Spiritual Poverty
17:19 - Healing the Brokenhearted From Deception
25:29 - Proclaiming Liberty to Captives
42:41 - Recovery of Sight and Destiny Revealed
01:00:25 - Identity as Little Anointed Ones
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We are continuing to talk about Luke 4 and 18 as being one of the first words that Jesus spoke after he came out of the wilderness being tempted by the devil.
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He was in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights after his baptism, and looking at several places where the first words that Jesus spoke in his ministry are recorded, we end up in a synagogue in Nazareth where Jesus grew up and says as was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath and was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and he turned to the section in the scroll where it was written that the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because he has anointed me.
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You know, last couple times we have been together, we have really just been talking about that one verse that the Spirit was upon Him.
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And because it is upon Him, it is now upon us.
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And if it is upon us because it was on Him, then it is upon us for the same reasons.
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Amen was on him.
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Then it is upon us for the same reasons, amen.
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But the main thing to start our message today is to recall what we said the last time is that you are anointed, that the spirit of the Lord is upon you.
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The Spirit of the Lord has filled you and taken up residence in you, because you have already been anointed and set apart for holy work.
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Now, the anointing, as we mentioned and the word anointed is a very poorly used word in the church right now, but what it really means is to set aside for a God-ordained purpose.
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For example, david was anointed, king Saul was anointed, king Aaron was anointed as the high priest.
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You follow the logic there, amen, when Jesus says that the Spirit was on him because he was anointed.
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He wasn't anointed because the Spirit was on him.
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The Spirit came upon him and filled him because he was already anointed, he was already set apart.
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This had been done, you know, trillions of years ago, before there was even such a thing as time.
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Amen.
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And if he was, if he was set apart and anointed to receive the Holy Ghost, then we are as well.
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And the key question is when did that happen?
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And it happened at the same time that Jesus was anointed, because we were in him at that time.
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Praise God.
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Are we getting any of this?
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So let's talk about what we are anointed to do.
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What are we set apart to do, according to this scripture in Luke 4 and 18 and 19?
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And why is this important?
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Why is this important?
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Because first words are important.
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First words establish something.
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First words give it a dimension.
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First words give it a structure, if you will.
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First words will give it a shape.
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They'll put some limits on it.
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Amen.
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If you read this scripture, you'll find out what we are anointed for, but it leaves out a lot of things that people assume that we are anointed for.
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Oh, he's anointed for this.
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He's anointed for this.
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He's anointed for this.
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Oh, he's so anointed.
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You know well, he may be anointed, but it's not in this list.
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So he may be talented, he may be picked out of a crowd to sing, or he may be picked out of a crowd to do something else, you know, but is it in this list?
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See, this list was written by the prophet Isaiah, spoken to him by the Holy Ghost and then confirmed by Jesus out of his own mouth that this is what he was anointed to do.
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Okay, hallelujah.
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When Peter introduced the Holy Ghost to Cornelius the Centurion in Acts, chapter 10, he said this in verse 38, he said this word you know how?
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Jesus of Nazareth anointed with the Holy Ghost and power.
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Anointed with the Holy Ghost and power went around, went about doing good and healing all those that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.
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Another way of saying this verse right here Amen, that this Jesus was the anointed one.
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Amen.
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He wasn't one of many anointed as we are, he was the anointed one.
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And then, he wasn't one of many anointed as we are, he was the anointed one, praise God.
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So the first thing we see is that he was anointed or set apart for a holy purpose to preach the gospel to the poor.
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Now we mentioned this before when we came through here, that that this doesn't necessarily mean that we're only supposed to preach the gospel to poor people.
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I mean poor money.
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You know that are poor in money.
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That doesn't make sense because you don't the gospel to a human situation you preach.
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The gospel is a spiritual thing and has to be preached to spirits, the whole thing of you know God is a spirit.
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He understands that you're in a body, but that's not who he.
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You know he's really not.
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That body is going to be put away.
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I mean he's not unsympathetic with your sufferings.
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But by the same token, he knows that your spirit is eternal and so he's going to always be speaking to your spirit and he's always going to be more interested in your spiritual condition than in your physical condition.
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Now, that doesn't mean he won't heal your physical condition.
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It doesn't mean he's not sympathetic with it or empathetic with it or have compassion for it.
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But the end result of that, the end result of healing, is not so that you'll be healed.
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The end result of healing is so that you will give thanks to God and approach him in the Spirit.
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You will understand what healing does is.
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It tells you that God's visited you.
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Okay, that really is the main thing about healing is that God has come and visited you and healed you.
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Now you can dispense with the idea that God's mad at you.
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You can dispense with the idea that God isn't interested in you.
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You can dispense with the idea that God doesn't know everything about you.
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You can dispense with a whole lot of foolish ideas in one second.
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When God heals you, the people that don't get it are people who are so myopic.
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The only thing they can see is their bodies.
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But if you got the sense that God gave in, that if you get healed, things are going to change, because eternity has touched you and when God touches you and visits you in that way.
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There's no way that you can walk away from that situation and say God's not interested, god doesn't love me, god doesn't care, god you know.
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You can't say those things anymore, and what God hopes to do in that is to draw you toward himself so that you can have begin to have a spiritual encounter with Him.
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That's the intent of God.
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I'm just trying to explain to you how healing looks to God.
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Okay, I could say a bunch of stuff right here, but I'm not going to say that.
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Anyway, we don't have to preach, we're not going to preach the gospel to just poor people, because there are many people who are poor in spirit.
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You don't have to be poor physically to be poor in spirit.
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And then there are a lot of rich people who are obviously very poor in spirit Amen, but they have a lot of money.
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Amen, but they have a lot of money.
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Amen.
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There are also rich people or poor people in the, in the, in the physical, who are rich in the spirit.
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So it doesn't make sense that we only preach the gospel to poor people.
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That's not what Jesus is saying here.
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He's saying that we're going to preach this gospel to those that are.
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They're poor in the Spirit, they're destitute in the Spirit.
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They've been reduced to begging for reality or truth.
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Nobody's telling them the truth, amen.
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And so if you're a person in Jesus's day, and what you hear is you hear the rabbis rattling on about the various interpretations of the laws of Moses.
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You've got the Pharisees versus the Sadducees, we've got this group versus that group.
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We've got all this stuff going on.
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And then, in the backdrop of that, I mean that's just among the Jews.
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In the backdrop of that, I mean that's just among the jews.
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In the backdrop of that, you've got this whole pantheon of roman gods, of greek gods, of assyrian gods, of egyptian gods, of all of these, of babylonian gods, of all of these things that are around there.
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They're having influence on israel because everybody's been marching through there and bringing their gods, amen.
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So we've got all of this religion and what that does is that all of these idolatrous options make the spirits cry out and beg for reality.
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We don't know what's real and beg for reality.
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We don't know what's real, like the woman in John, chapter 4.
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Jesus goes to her, asks her for a drink.
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She says how is it that you, a Jewish man, ask a Samaritan woman for a drink, for the Jews have nothing to do with the Samaritans.
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Then he begins to deal with her and she finally comes down to this question.
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She says well, tell me this.
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We say that we have to worship on this mountain and the Jews say we have to worship in Jerusalem.
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What do you say?
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She says to Jesus?
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You say she says to Jesus.
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And Jesus says neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship, but the day is coming when all those who worship God will worship him in spirit and truth, for God is spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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Only in God can we find truth.
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Everything else on this mountain in Samaria, which was the site of the temple that was erected as a counter-temple to David's temple If you remember this, that Rehoboam was the son of Solomon, grandson of David, and in Rehoboam's day the kingdom divided and the ten tribes of the north separated and congregated basically around Samaria, which was the biggest territory.
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Judah and Benjamin stayed in the south and Jerusalem was their capital.
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So where Shechem was where the woman was in John, chapter 4, was where they built the other temple.
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They built a temple as a substitute for the temple in Jerusalem.
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And then they told everybody you don't have to go to Jerusalem where you can come to this temple.
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Actually, they built one temple in there and they built one in the north so it would be easier for everybody to travel.
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You remember that story?
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So Jesus was saying it's not according to the way the Samaritans worship, nor is it according to the way the Jews worship.
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And he could have pointed a finger toward Babylon and said it's not according to the way Babylon worships and it's not according to the way Egypt worships, it's not the way Assyria worships, nor Rome, nor Athens, nor any of these people, because God is not one of those gods.
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God is spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
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God is not one of those gods.
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God is spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
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But you can't find the truth in any of these other places.
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How do I know this?
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Because John said in his Bible, in his gospel, in the first chapter, he said the law came by Moses.
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Well, everybody says yeah and amen.
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We know that.
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You know it's a great thing.
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We got the Ten Commandments up on the wall and you know we love this.
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But truth didn't come by that.
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A form of reality came, which was an observation of the law by the flesh.
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There was no faith, and if there's no faith, there's no release of grace, and if there's no grace, there's no power of God working in you.
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It was only God working around you and to you, and you had to obey it in the flesh.
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Listen to what John said the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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So when Jesus came and brought a real revelation of God, he brought truth with Him and he brought grace with Him, so that not only did we have a revealed word concerning who God was really, who he really was, but we find out that he wants to work in and through us, which is something the Jews never knew, the Samaritans never knew it, the Greeks didn't know it, the Romans didn't know it, the Babylonians didn't know, nobody knew this.
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This is the great mystery of all time.
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But Jesus came and brought and truth.
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So everybody that is without the gospel is without truth, and because they're without truth, they live in a world of delusion.
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Now this is as true in our world as it is in africa or asia or someplace like this.
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Just because we we are over here and we've got Western customs and we've been under the influence of of Judea Judeo-Christian ethics for centuries, now that doesn't exclude the people here from being Completely deluded and completely under strong powers of delusion and deception and confusion and every other evil work, because they are starving to death for the truth.
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Now I'm just going to interject this brief political campaign ad.
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This is one reason why the current political climate is allowed to exist because people no longer know the truth.
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No longer know the truth, and because they know the truth, they fall for all kinds of deception and even if they think that they're patriotic, they're deceived, and I'm not going to really say any more about it.
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But that's, you know, the hunger or the lack of truth.
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Immediately it acts like a vacuum.
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Where there is no truth, deception is going to come in and fill that void, just like if you poured out a cup of water and then you put the cup of water in a swimming pool.
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What's going to happen?
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Is it going to stay empty?
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No, the water will immediately fill that empty space.
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Amen, because it's empty and it's in a place that doesn't honor emptiness.
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Okay, so it's going to fill it up.
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And that's the way deception does when you don't have the truth.
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It fills it up and the people become greatly deceived.
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Jesus said we've got to preach the gospel to them.
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We've got to preach the gospel to those that are poor in spirit.
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They're reduced to begging for reality and they are yet unquickened to the truth or to God's reality.
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They haven't been quickened by the Holy Ghost so they don't know and they never will know if they don't have the gospel preached.
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Now some of those people that are in deception, if they hear the gospel, will prefer to stay in deception and some will not.
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Some will respond and some will not.
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Some will respond and some will not.
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Praise God, we would that all men be saved, but that the reality is that some are going to reject it, hallelujah.
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Now the second thing that Jesus says that he's anointed to do is that he has been sent to heal the brokenhearted.
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Now that doesn't mean that he's been sent to heal people that have had heart attacks.
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He doesn't mean that he's been sent to have to heal people who are, you know, damaged in their coronary system.
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He's been sent to heal broken spirits, the heart, when it's talked about in the New Testament that talks about the spirit.
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So you can say this just as easily as anything else he has been sent to heal the broken in spirit.
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So not only are they poor in spirit, but because they've been deceived and abused, they are bruised and they are broken in spirit.
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They are damaged.
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They're damaged people.
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Amen, listen, I am convinced of this.
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I've been doing this for a long time and I am convinced of this I've been doing this for a long time and I am convinced of this that when we look at people in front of us and we only look at their physical condition, we're missing it by a country mile, because what really the cause of their physical condition, nine times out of ten, is a spiritual condition.
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If their spirit is damaged, their bodies are going to be damaged.
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If their spirits are broken and they're bruised, their bodies are going to be broken and be abused.
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Let me give you an example.
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I was in a doctor's office one time.
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Sarah was with me, it was the first of the month.
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The place was packed out.
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This was an orthopedic kind of a place.
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They had a therapy place.
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They did a lot of pain management.
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An orthopedic kind of a place.
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They had a therapy place and they did a lot of pain management, which basically means they pass out a lot of narcotics, and the place was packed out on the first of the month.
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And I mean, if you've ever seen a more miserable set of people, I mean barely walking, I mean barely walking just.
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I mean just a very sad group of people.
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We wondered why we were even there.
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I mean, what are we doing here, you know?
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But be that as may, we were there and we overheard this one person talking to another person.
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You know, both of them had come in in wheelchairs, both of them were just looking for a little bit of chemical assistance to get through the month and they were talking to each other and he said, well, I had to come, I had to make my appointment on the 1st, close to the 1st, because I won't have enough gas money to get here the rest of the month.
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See, that person was not only broken down in their body, but they were broken down in their mind and they were broken down in their spirit, because you can just imagine that, come about the 15th of the month, they'd done run out of money for gas.
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They're going to be stuck in their house with probably minimal amount of food for the rest of the month.
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In pain in agony, amen.
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In pain in agony, amen.
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Because whoever has preached the gospel to them in the past preached it to their body and not to their spirit.
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They didn't come to heal the broken in spirit, they came to minister physical needs.
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Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't do that, but, trust me, I probably passed out more groceries and food than you'll ever think about and that doesn't save people, amen.
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I'm not even convinced it gets them in a physical condition where they can even listen.
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A lot of people tell you well, a hungry person can't receive the gospel.
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I don't know about that.
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That young man that she was talking about, that we picked out of the back of the crowd and came forward and got delivered.
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I don't think he probably eaten for a week.
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So I'm not too sure about all that.
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I think that's just an excuse not to preach to their spirits, because if you don't know how to do that, you won't know how to do that.
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If you're not healed in spirit, how can you preach healing the brokenhearted?
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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We live in a world where the vast majority of people out of 8 billion people, I'm going to estimate that 7.5 plus billion people live in a world where they are chronically abused by religion, one kind of a religion after another.
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It doesn't matter, I'm not going to name names.
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It doesn't matter whether they got a Christian description on them or whether they got a Buddhist description on them, or whether they got, you know, a Hindu, a Muslim.
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I don't care, it doesn't matter to me what the names are.
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It doesn't matter.
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Religion is religion.
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Religion, by definition, is works, righteousness, amen, of some sort or another, of some sort or another.
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I mean, if you're in certain parts of Asia, you have to go to the temple and do something.
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You have to offer up a sacrifice, you have to offer up things like that.
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They have a name for it.
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I can't remember what it was, but it essentially is a form of confession.
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It's a name for it.
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I can't remember what it was, but it essentially, you know, is a form of confession.
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It's a form of making things right.
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It's a form of communing with your, your ancestors.
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You know, hey, you know a lot of people do it, but it is an abuse of religion.
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They're not abusing religion, religion is abusing them.
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Religion is not healing their spirits, it's keeping their spirits in bondage.
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Amen.
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And if religion doesn't do it, then at the same time, or side by side or whatever, the spirit of Antichrist is just shattering spirits with all sorts of barbarity and violence and lawlessness and hatred.
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I mean, if you think you, if you think you live in a in a world system that's governed by Jezebel, wait until you get into a world system that's just, that's governed by Antichrist.
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You can't even believe what's going on.
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These are realities.
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This is what the world is like.
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The only people that are free of that are people who have been quickened by the Holy Ghost to the reality of what Jesus really is, who God really is, that the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of you and bring you into a place of quickening where your spirit is awakened to truth, and then you live in that truth, you depart from the darkness of deception and you move into truth.
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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So Jesus goes on, and the next things that he says has to do with bringing a people out of darkness and out of captivity and into this light of the truth that God wants us to be in.
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Amen.
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The first things that God said in Genesis 1, is light that is within me be John in one in almost the same verses.
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In John 1, john says in him Jesus was light, and that light was the life in him, was life, and that life was the life in him was life, and that life was the light of men.
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Amen, hallelujah.
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That life that Jesus is is real light.
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That's what God that was, that's what God was saying.
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