Jan. 7, 2025

Faith Through Fire: Overcoming Resistance in Ministry (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 22)

Faith Through Fire: Overcoming Resistance in Ministry (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 22)

Send us a text Can fiery trials truly refine and perfect God’s strength within us? This episode unravels the profound concept of trials as a spiritual refiner’s fire, echoing the teachings from 1 Peter 4:14. Discover how these challenges, often seen as burdens, are invitations for divine transformation, allowing believers to transcend their limitations by leaning on God's strength. Through personal stories and experiences, we challenge the misconception that God only intervenes in life's sign...

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Can fiery trials truly refine and perfect God’s strength within us? This episode unravels the profound concept of trials as a spiritual refiner’s fire, echoing the teachings from 1 Peter 4:14. Discover how these challenges, often seen as burdens, are invitations for divine transformation, allowing believers to transcend their limitations by leaning on God's strength. Through personal stories and experiences, we challenge the misconception that God only intervenes in life's significant hurdles, illustrating how His involvement in every aspect of our daily struggles can elevate our spiritual journey from one level of glory to another.

Facing resistance within the church can test one's faith like no other. We share our journey through scorn and rejection, emphasizing the importance of pursuing a deeper, more authentic relationship with God even when it clashes with traditional religious practices. With anecdotes from Detroit to Mexico, you’ll hear how our unique delivery of God's message—focused on clarity and understanding—resonated with those seeking a genuine connection with faith, despite opposition from established religious circles. This conversation encourages listeners to stay true to their calling, trusting in God's guidance amidst adversity.

What happens when religious traditions overshadow the essence of scripture? Examine the clash between age-old doctrines and the original teachings of Jesus as we reflect on the necessity of embracing reproach for God’s glory. By exploring historical contexts and Jesus' trials, we highlight the integral role of suffering and ridicule in spiritual growth. This episode challenges listeners to reconsider the significance of traditional practices, urging a focus on genuine worship and divine revelation over rigid adherence to human interpretations. Embrace the purification process and discover the power of steadfast faith as we navigate these transformative waters together.

00:00 - God's Purpose in Fiery Trials

10:54 - Dealing With Religious Resistance in Ministry

20:48 - Challenging Religious Traditions and Doctrines

34:19 - Embracing Reproach for God's Glory

53:43 - God's Purification of Believers

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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Let's turn to 1 Peter, chapter 4.

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We're going to be looking at verse 14 today.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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I want us to see today what God is talking about, some of the things that God talks about when he talks about the fiery trials that we have to go through, amen.

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Peter says in verse 12, beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you.

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In other words, don't think it's strange when you're going through trials, tribulations, persecutions, infirmities, weaknesses that are designed by God to purify you.

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The fiery trial is the same thing as a refiner's fire.

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The purpose of it is to refine you like gold and to perfect, as Paul said perfect the strength of God in you, so that God's strength can be realized in you and can be made greater and can be made perfect.

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Not that it's lacking in anything, but it is His will that it finds you and strengthens you, and so, from that point of view, it's then perfected when it connects with you, but it only connects with you in your weakness.

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See the people that think well, god helps me into big things and I take care of the little things.

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A don't understand God and B don't understand this scripture that if they let him get involved in all things, they will learn that reality is I can't do any of this and the reality is I'm not doing a very good job at managing the small things.

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And the reality is I'm not doing a very good job at managing the small things and, in fact, because I've never learned to do that, I really don't call on the Lord and the big things I just go immediately into despair.

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You know I'm telling the truth.

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That's how people.

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They'll tell you one thing.

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They'll tell you some pithy little.

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Well, you know, I believe you know God helps them to help themselves.

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And you know, I believe God helps them to help themselves.

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And you just do the little things.

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God will take care of the big things.

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But the reality is they never call on the Lord for anything and they certainly don't submit themselves to the Lord to help, to glorify the Lord in their weaknesses and in their infirmities, because they would think that's being weak.

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Well, the fact of the matter is that's exactly where the Lord wants you to be, because any illusion that you are strong is an illusion, because you're not.

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Amen In all things.

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He wants to be all in all.

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What's the key word there.

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All he wants to be, all in all, all the time.

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The one scripture that will continually, continually bring you to a sense of amazement is that the wicked man has God.

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God is not in all of his thoughts.

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Now, that's what the Bible says.

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See, we don't.

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Well, we'll just turn the page on that.

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When he was talking to somebody else, not talking to me, that was written for the Jews, not for me.

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You know, you'll get right past that one, because that one hurts, that one hurts.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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God wants you to know that the fiery trials are given to you to refine you, to purify you, to get you out of you, so that he can fill you with God.

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Amen, the purpose of you and God is all about God and not about you.

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God and not about you.

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See, if you didn't live in a world that's full of amusements and entertainments and distractions, you know, if you lived a simpler life, you know where it was just about work and you went to bed at dark and you got up at dawn and you, you know, and the only thing, the only thing of real concern that day was plowing the South 40, you know, and things were just simpler.

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Amen, there wouldn't be all this distraction that competes against the knowledge of God.

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There'd just be work.

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But there's plenty of scriptures that say you know they talk about you know you can have a relationship with God in your work.

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That's what God wants.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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God is interested in transforming you from one level of glory to another.

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Most people, when this happens, they start thinking it's strange.

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They think it's unusual.

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Some Christians think that that's not something that Christians need to go through.

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We don't need to suffer, we don't need to be changed.

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We're good the way we are or we're good the way we are after we get saved.

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You know, when we get saved we get everything we need.

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We don't need anything else.

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We got our saved, we got our ticket punched to heaven.

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We're good.

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Amen.

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Growth is not really a big thing on the table.

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Change is not a big thing on the table.

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A big thing on the table.

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Change is not a big thing on the table.

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The change I went through is the change that happened at my salvation.

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Now people you know, people spend more time fellowshipping with the Lord.

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Even if they don't confess it, the Lord will change them.

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Even if they don't really believe in transformation, god will get as much of them as he possibly can.

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That's just the way God is.

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My wife's mother and father were perfect examples of this.

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They belonged to a fellowship that didn't really believe in transformation.

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They didn't believe in a whole lot of discipleship and change and things like this.

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You got saved, you got saved.

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When you got saved, you got everything.

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You know everything.

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It just got moved down to you and there might be this little bit of growth that happens over the years, but it doesn't matter much anyway, since we're all going to heaven.

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But see her parents even though they were part of that fellowship, their individual walk with the Lord was different.

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They were people given to prayer, they were people given to separation, they were people given to the word.

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They were given to ministry to other people.

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And as they walked that out in their life, god got a hold of them Amen and did things for them that their denomination would never have done, because the denomination, that wasn't the major thing that they practiced.

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But just because they loved the Lord so much and got close to the Lord, the Lord exerted his will and his authority over their lives.

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That's a wonderful thing.

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Praise God, hallelujah, glory to God.

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I want to talk about one or two words today, because this is one of the ways that the fiery trials come.

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Fiery trials come.

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They are one of the ways, not the only way, but it is a major way.

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Peter says this in verse 14.

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He says if you are reproached.

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That word reproached means to be reviled, to be belittled, to be held up for ridicule.

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What mocked, scorned, when when?

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Here's an example when Jesus was on the cross, the Bible says that the high priest and others that were with him came to the cross and they reviled him.

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They mocked him, they scorned him and they said if you be the son of God, come down off of that cross.

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Be the Son of God, come down off of that cross.

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You've done miracles for others.

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Do one for yourself.

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Come down off that cross.

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Show us that you're really the Son of God.

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The Bible says they mocked him.

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The Bible says they scorned him and then, since they were doing that, the thieves on either side of him started to do the same thing.

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They mocked him and they scorned him.

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If you are the Son of God, get yourself off of that cross and get us down.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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You don't know how many people don't like you, and a lot of it is in the church or has been in the church over the years.

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People will scorn you and mock you and ridicule you.

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I mean the second.

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You want to go a little bit further into the Lord than they want to go.

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Well, you're just too holy for your own good, you know.

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You just want to pray all the time.

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You just you think God.

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You know all kinds of stuff people will say because they want to be content where they are and they want to be content at the blessing level, and so they.

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I'm constantly amazed at what men do.

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You know, men in general, that men make up these wild denominational and and and sectarian kind of doctrines just to justify their lack of faith?

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Well, you know God don't want to heal everybody.

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Well, since when?

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Go tell Jesus that you know a few thousand people there.

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The Bible says he healed all of them.

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Go tell Jesus.

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You know that healing's not for everybody.

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Well, you know you got to get sick to die.

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Well, tell Jesus that healing's not for everybody.

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Well, you got to get sick to die.

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Well, tell Elijah that he didn't get sick to die, he just rode off in a chariot.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Go tell Adam, that Adam fell from the great place that God had brought him and yet God allowed him to live 930 years.

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The Bible didn't say anything about him getting sick.

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He just lived a long time and God took him before the first day was up.

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Oh, I wish Hallelujah.

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Praise God.

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People, wherever you are in your walk with Christ, if you start moving any direction more toward him, there will always be around you mockers, scorners, revilers, reproachers.

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Now always be, always.

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Everybody say always, always.

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When I started moving into the message of the kingdom especially concerning the message of today is the day of salvation and moving completely away from things that were religious, I mean I got myself into more trouble and uninvited to more churches than you can possibly imagine.

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I mean really.

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I mean they would they?

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You know I was, I was known by some people and you know they'd invite me to their churches and I'd start preaching the reality and the revelation of Jesus.

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They didn't want that.

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They wanted story time, Jesus.

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You know you've heard me say this.

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They wanted flannelgram, jesus.

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They just they wanted the stories repeated that they knew, so that they could go.

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Yay and amen, hallelujah.

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I went to, I went to a church one time.

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We were up there and it was in Detroit, and they this, the, the pastor, invited us up.

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We'd met at a conference and he said y'all ought to come up and preach a conference for me for a week.

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So we went up, stayed for a week and I mean those people wouldn't receive us for nothing because we were not of their tribe, we were not of their way of preaching.

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You know, I've got a way that God has given me.

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They didn't like that way.

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The pastor had to get up in the middle of the conference and say y'all are missing this just because he doesn't bring it the way you're used to, used to.

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You've just, you've just wiped, you just are ignoring him and you're ignoring this message that he's bringing Glory to God.

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They didn't have anything to do with the word of God because you know I wasn't shouting and screaming enough.

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Well, you know I don't.

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Even in my good days I didn't do a whole lot of that, because that doesn't get it done.

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Shouting and screaming, you know it feels good, looks good.

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But when I went to Mexico three years ago, we were in Cancun for a week-long service.

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We had people come up, one after another after another, and say we really want to thank you because the message you brought we could understand.

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You didn't shout at us, you didn't scream at us, you didn't yell at us, you didn't do any of that stuff.

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You just preached the word and we understood it.

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We never understand any of these other things, and they're taught, and they speak Spanish a whole lot better than I do.

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Amen, glory to God, hallelujah, listen, you're looking at.

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You're looking at somebody who has been kicked out of several major denominations.

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They invited me to be the keynote speaker at a conference in Mexico and I didn't know anything about whoever.

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I didn't know who they were.

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You know just.

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You know there's so many varieties of Pentecostalism in Mexico.

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You know, I mean, I went to this.

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One had more names on the front of the church than you could count.

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I mean the first Pentecostal church of the second coming of Jesus.

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Jesus only baptized in water, blah, blah, blah.

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You know just, I mean it just went on forever.

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What are they trying to use?

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All the letters or something Is that?

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It looked like they were going to run out of space in the side of the building.

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They'd have to build a new building just to continue the name over here.

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You know, it's one of those kind of places.

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They have bunches of them like that and it's amusing, in that particular church I'm not talking about that one, but in that particular church I was in the car riding over and God said we're not preaching what you want to preach.

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I said, well, okay, what are we preaching?

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He said I want you to open your Bible to Acts, chapter 2, and just preach what I give you.

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I said okay.

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I said but, lord, you do see this sign on the church house, right, that it's a Pentecostal church and they've heard this message.

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He said there is not anyone in that church, including the pastor and his wife.

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That's filled with the Holy Ghost.

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God knows things we don't know, doesn't he?

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So anyway, I went to this conference and they were it's like Paul in Athens.

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I could see that they were very religious.

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I mean, they were just.

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Oh my gosh.

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All the guys had long white sleeve shirts on and the women had their little buns and the dresses down to the floor and no makeup, no jewelry, no, just as, oh just, everybody was just as plain, looked half dead, you know.

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And I said I can't handle this.

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So I got up there and I start talking about husbands loving their wives, as Christ loved the church.

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And I went off.

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I said you know, brothers?

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I said I love my wife, I really love my wife.

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You know how I show my wife and show everybody around how much I love her.

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I said she's got diamonds all over her fingers and I'm not talking about little dime store stuff, I'm talking about big three, four carat deals.

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I mean just big diamonds.

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Oh my God, you thought I was telling them that Jesus was a heretic and Judas was the second coming.

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And I mean they just looked at me like do you know, I was scheduled to preach the afternoon, meeting the next day and et cetera.

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They wouldn't even let me back up on the platform, they didn't pay me nothing.

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Two brothers that were in there that had kind of got the vision, they were nice enough to take me out to lunch before I went back.

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So they don't want you to come back, brother.

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I'm sorry to tell you that, but they don't want you to come back.

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I said, well, what's wrong with that?

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You know?

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I said you've heard me tell some of these stories.

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I mean I was in one meeting one time and they had the women were all.

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They couldn't pray unless they covered their heads.

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So you know, they all had shawls and anytime anybody prayed they covered their head like that.

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So you know, I got up there and I just decided that we were going to pray about every 20 seconds.

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And you know, and it looked, yeah, it looked, it looked, it looked like that, exactly that they.

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Just because I hate that stuff, I hate religion, I hate it in any form.

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If you think that any kind of an outward observation like that is going to get you close to god, you are fooled, you are deceived and it doesn't going to get you close to God.

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You are fooled, you are deceived and it doesn't matter to me.

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You know how offended you get about it.

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You are offending me by confronting me with all this religion.

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So it's my job to confront back.

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Well, like I said, I've been kicked out of a lot of churches.

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Here comes this little pipsqueak of a youngster, probably not any more than 20 years old, 19 years old, and he wants to know why we don't have church on Saturday.

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I'm thinking, why are you here on Sunday?

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If you believe that, you know.

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But he wants to know why we don't have church on Sunday.

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I said, son, I've been preaching in this church for about three, four hours.

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I've prophesied anything that moved and preached the heart of God.

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I said you know you're really going to bother me with that.

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Well, I want to know why we don't have church on Sunday.

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I said because it's today.

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What's that got to do with it?

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I said you can have church on Wednesday, thursday, tuesday afternoon if you want to.

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It doesn't matter.

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Today is the day of salvation because today is the day of Jesus and his revelation.

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We just observe Sunday out of tradition.

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There's nothing in the Bible that says we have to observe on Sunday.

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In fact, the early church met every day.

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Well, what about the commandment to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy?

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I said that wasn't written for you.

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What I said?

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That wasn't written for you?

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God's giving you a new commandment Today is the day of salvation and you can enter into his rest today.

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Oh, we did.

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God, you don't need a day of rest, you need to enter into his rest today.

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Well, that just flew right over his head and he went to the pastor and said I was mean to him, didn't get invited back to that church anymore.

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I had to apologize to that pastor.

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The apostle of that pastor called me in and said brother, they're not happy with you.

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I said what.

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I explained the situation.

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I said you're going to bring me up for that.

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You're going to do it.

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And I never went back to that apostle's church.

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That little pipsqueak of a kid messed up my relationship with his pastor and that guy's apostle Just because I told him the truth.

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And I was not angry with him, I wasn't mean to him, but I did put him in his place.

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I said you can't, you know, you ought not come up to a man after he's been preaching and stuff like that and bother him with this kind of stuff.

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If you can't figure this out, you're not going to receive what I tell you, oh, hallelujah.

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You're not going to receive what I tell you, hallelujah.

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There's all kinds of reproaching and there's all kinds of rebukes and scornings and mockings.

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Jesus had to go through that and he went through that for you and me so that we could go through it and be victorious.

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Now it may not seem victorious.

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You know I'm a nice guy.

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I really didn't.

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You know, I really didn't want to just close the door on all those ministry opportunities, but it happened and so you know I'm thinking this isn't going well, Lord, you know, I mean everywhere I go.

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They're saying you know, don't come back, because they were all very religious.

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They didn't want to hear the message of the kingdom.

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They didn't want to hear, you know, this message.

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That is not religious, non-denominational.

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You can't go into a church of God church and preach something that's contrary in any way to their doctrine, or they won't have you back.

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They just want church of God, yes men, or four square yes men, or whatever the case may be.

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They just want people to reiterate their doctrine.

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See, god's not interested in that.

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Jesus, can you not see this?

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The Jews were looking for somebody that would come in their image, and Jesus did not come in the image of their expectations.

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They were looking for a conquering hero.

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And here comes Jesus, the son of a carpenter, not riding a horse, but riding a donkey.

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Now, if they had read the scriptures, they would know that that's the way the king has to come.

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That's the way the king has to enter Jerusalem.

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Is anybody listening to this?

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David went in and out on a donkey.

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His son came in and out on a horse.

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Solomon came in and out on horses.

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When God said not to do that, but to come in and out on donkeys and, besides that, zechariah prophesied that the Messiah would come in on a donkey Right.

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They should have known, but they were looking for the conquering hero.

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They should have known, but they were looking for the conquering hero.

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Instead, they got the hero that conquered death and hell.

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They weren't interested in that.

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They weren't interested in that.

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They weren't interested in anything that Jesus had to say, because Jesus was not just repeating what they had heard before in the way that they had heard it.

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Remember, I've taught you this that their way of transmitting the law and the prophets was by the form of rabbinical tradition.

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Well, the law says this, but rabbi such and such said this.

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And then, 300 later, somebody else wrote this and somebody else wrote this.

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There's the Torah, which is the first five books of the Bible, and then there's the Talmud, which is the rabbinical traditions concerning the law and the prophets.

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They were believing the Talmud more than the Torah.

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That's why Jesus said you have made the Word of God of no effect, because you teach the doctrines of men rather than the doctrine of God.

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So, instead of teaching the Word of God, they taught the commentaries about the Word.

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Now, this would be the same in our day.

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Instead of teaching the Word of God, you taught the side columns in Dake's Bible.

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Or you taught the study notes in the New King James Study Bible or whatever Bible you use that has notes in it.

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You teach the notes instead of teaching the Word.

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That's exactly what Jesus was saying.

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You can't do that.

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Oh, help me, lord.

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Amen.

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That's why I have a Bible.

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It has no notes.

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None.

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I have another Bible that doesn't even have cross-references in it, and I'm under instruction for several years.

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I can't make a mark in a Bible anymore.

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God doesn't want me to try to place Him in a bucket as to what I think about that scripture, because he wants he wants it to be fresh every day.

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Now I'm not saying you have to do that.

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I'm just saying that's what the Lord's been doing with me for the past few years.

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Trust me, I've got Bibles all over the house that look like this.

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I got red and marks and writing.

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I've been all over this Bible.

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This has been my Bible for 25 years, I think.

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Anyway, glory to God.

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I mean I lost people.

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I lost people for saying this.

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Can you imagine they walked out of my fellowship in Costa Rica for saying this you don't need the Old Testament to get saved.

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Matter of fact, you'd be better off if you only have a little bit of time in your day or in your week to study your Bible.

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You need to study the New Testament, not the Old Testament.

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Oh, they got mad.

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Are you saying the Old Testament's not the Word of God?

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I didn't say that.

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I just said that the Old Testament won't get you saved and the New Testament tells you that there's no life nor faith in the law.

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That's what it says.

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Besides, it wasn't written for you.

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The New Testament is written for you.

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There's more than enough in the New Testament.

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If you don't know the New Testament, you can't understand the Old.

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Most people start with Genesis and go forward.

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That's a bad way to read the Bible.

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You need to start with Matthew and keep reading the New Testament until you have a level of maturity that you can even understand what the Old Testament is trying to say.

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If you start with the types and shadows and you don't know what it's pointing to, you'll get confused.

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But if you know what the real is and then go back and see how the types and shadows pointed forward to it, then you'll have an understanding.

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Well, they just quit me on that one.

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But you know, the people that quit me were people who had little understanding.

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The one guy he was a pastor of his church but his wife really ran the church because his mind had been burned out by drugs.

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He was a guy who here he's got me for an apostle and he's reading Rick Warren's book about 40 Days of Purpose.

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He's thinking about leading his people on a 40-day of purpose kind of program and I said what are you going to do that for?

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I said that guy's not filled with the Holy Ghost.

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Why would you pay any attention to anybody that's not filled with the Holy Ghost and why would you certainly lead your congregation down a path that somebody invented in their own mind?

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Well, I think it's a good program.

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Are you daft?

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What is wrong with you?

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People don't think.

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They don't even try to get the mind of the Lord.

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They're just off in their own realm of thoughts.

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His thought was that the Old Testament carried the same weight of the Word of God that the New Testament does.

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Well then, why did we need a New Testament?

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Because we needed some more stories.

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We were out of stories.

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Really, okay, glory to God If you are reproached for the name of Christ.

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If you're reproached because you carry his name, because you are in his name, because he has given you his name, because he has given you an authority that comes with that name, if you're reproached for that kind of a reason, the Bible says you are blessed.

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Amen, you are blessed Because this is the same thing that Jesus went through.

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This is one of the things I've been trying to teach to you in this series of teachings is that whatever you're going to go through in the transformation process, jesus has gone through and he went through it for you.

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So, the very specific and individual kind of persecution that you're going through, he went through it and he went through it for you.

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Now you say, well, how could he do all that, the things that he did not go through?

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And I've told you this before.

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There's so many things we don't know about the life of Jesus, but he went through a lot of things.

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The Bible says, first of all in the book of Hebrews, that he is touched with the feeling of our infirmities and because of that he is a fitting high priest.

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He knows exactly what you're going through.

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He knows exactly Now if he went through it in the flesh and was victorious.

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That victory becomes yours because of his victory at the cross.

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There are some listen, there are some things I talked about this Wednesday.

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There are some things that are nailed to the cross and die there Sickness, disease, poverty, grief, sorrow, those kinds of things, they are all nailed to the cross.

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There are some things that were not nailed but were carried through the cross Persecutions, trials, temptations, those things were.

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You know, jesus didn't say you'll never be tempted.

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Jesus never said you wouldn't be persecuted.

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Jesus never said you wouldn't be tried.

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Jesus never said you wouldn't do.

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You know these kind of things are going to happen, but through Calvary and through the resurrection, he carried the victory for you.

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In all of these situations, the Bible says that Jesus learned obedience by the things that he suffered.

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Now religion will tell you that's, you know.

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You know the first thing they'll pull out is you.

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Pull out is Gethsemane and Pilate's basement and the cross and all this.

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But Jesus suffered his whole life.

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Bible says to take this mind, and I'm going to read it to you Second chapter of Philippians Let this mind be in you.

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Verse 5, which was also in Christ Jesus who, being in the form of God did not consider it robbery or consider it something that was not justified to be called equal with God.

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It's the way John said.

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He was in the beginning with God.

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He was God.

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He was in the beginning with God.

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There's nothing that he had to apologize for, but he made himself.

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Now watch this.

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I'm talking about a lifetime of reproach, a lifetime of scorn.

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I've tried to explain this to you before.

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It bears repeating because we forget about this.

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If you don't think that for all of his lifetime Jesus went through son of God, right Dad's God, joseph's not your real father.

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I wonder who in the village is.

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Let's see Joseph's had her God's had her.

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I wonder who in the village is.

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Let's see Joseph's had her God's had her.

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I wonder who else in the village has had her.

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You don't think that happened.

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You don't know people, especially in a small village where everybody knows everybody and Mary's excuse was an angel came and told me I was to bear the son of God.

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Oh, really, she may have been at first.

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There's been a whole bunch after that, amen that have tried that excuse.

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Well, an angel came, you know.

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Uh-huh, the angel was a boy next door probably.

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I mean, can you just imagine the tongue-wagging wives that you know.

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They never cut Mary any slack.

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They never gave her the time of day for the rest of her life.

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In Nazareth, joseph, his whole, the rest of his life was a joke.

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I bet you dollars to donuts that the stuff he made as a carpenter he had to sell in another town Because nobody was going to do business with him, nobody was going to sit next to him.

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When they went to synagogue, when they had parties, nobody was going to deal with that.

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They were ridiculed, they were scorned.

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And everywhere jesus went, the kids would make fun of him and try to pick fights with him and try to get him to.

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You know, oh yeah, let's see how much of god you got.

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And push him around and try to get him to fight, try to get him to knock everybody down.

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Say, well, I guess you don't have too much of God.

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You know, can you?

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Just, you know how kids are.

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And every day, for all of his life, even up to the time when he was doing notable miracles, his brothers were saying come on, let's go up.

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You need to go up to Jerusalem.

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Show everybody your stuff.

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You know, go up there to Jerusalem, do some miracles.

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Jesus looked at him and said you go up.

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I said you can go up anytime you want to, because you're operating in your time.

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I cannot do that, so y'all go up, do your own miracles.

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See what you got.

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I'm talking about a lifetime of suffering.

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Reproach, first of all for his virgin birth and then second of all, because the Bible says he did things that nobody else had ever done.

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I'll tell you, when you start doing things that nobody else has done, nobody's going to like it.

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You think, just because you've got an anointing and God works through you and God does things in your life, that everybody's just going to come around you like moths to a flame.

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Well, they might, but they're not going to stay.

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They're not going to stay and that's a form of reproach.

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Listen to me.

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I didn't have to be taught this.

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God taught me this that the right thing for people to do with a minister like me is, if I give you a word from God amen.

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Or if I do a miracle from God for you, god does that through me, amen.

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The proper thing for you to do is, first of all, bring an offering and, second of all, bring your body and present your body as a living sacrifice to the place of power and miracles.

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Get out from among them, get out of the dead church.

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You wouldn't have come here for a miracle If you were getting one over at the first, first dead church of Weatherford.

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You know you came over here, or wherever you came to find me or people like me, you came here because you heard God was doing something here and as soon as you got it, you left.

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How many of those people that when, when we had a visible church building, how many people like that Came by, passed by, you know?

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I mean, I remember one woman.

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I prophesied the pain off the wall around her.

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She had such a strong destiny of God with us and I just and she said I've never felt anything like this.

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I said are you coming back?

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Well, I'm in the choir over there and my family's over there, and my parents are over there and my grandparents are over there, and it would just cause a big problem.

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I said, well, what about you?

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This is the place of your miracle.

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It's not over there.

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But let me tell you something, that thing about you know.

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Well, my kids are over there.

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All that is is ancestor and family worship.

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I better leave that alone.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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If you insist on doing things God's way, people will reject you, they'll revile you.

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The Bible says right here folks, this is what I wanted to get to.

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The Bible says that they are blaspheming.

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Blessed are you for the spirit of glory and of God rest upon you.

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Paul said it like this that the power of God would rest upon him.

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Amen.

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That the glory of God would rest upon him.

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That the power of God would rest upon you, amen.

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Are you hearing this?

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That when this happens for his namesake, amen.

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Rejoice, because you're about to get a dose of glory.

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I'm telling you what when I learned to not feel sorry for myself when this happened Nobody likes me, everybody hates me and just start to rejoice that God was using me to bring truth.

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And just start to rejoice that I was getting revelation when other people were stuck in religion.

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Hallelujah, you think well, you ought not think like that.

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Well, you better think like that or you'll get caught back in the grips of religion.

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You have to actively fight all the time to stay free from religion's grasp.

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It's that strong Hallelujah.

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The Bible says right here that the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you On their part, they are blaspheming.

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They are blaspheming the work of the Holy Ghost.

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That's serious business, folks.

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They are blaspheming the work of the Holy Ghost.

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That's serious business, folks.

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That is some of the most deadly serious things.

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I have seen people touch this anointing Not only on my part but with other ministers as well With reproach, with blasphemy, with reviling, with scorning, with mocking, and they did not live out to see their days.

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I've had people scorn me and treat me shamefully and they were publicly disgraced.

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What they did to me was done in a corner.

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What happened to them was done in public and they were dragged before the public and the newspapers and everything else Life-ending sicknesses.

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I'm not saying and I didn't have nothing to do with it, because I forgave them, I didn't call down fire from heaven.

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I'm not an idiot.

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I know better than that.

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I've read my Bible.

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You don't get to make that call, but if you release them, god will make that call.

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It is a terrible thing to blaspheme the Holy Spirit of God and to blaspheme this glory.

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It is a terrible thing.

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I'm telling you, it is the worst thing that can ever happen to you.

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I mean when that high priest cried out in the courtyard of Pilate let his blood be upon us and upon our children.

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He spoke a curse on the people of Israel that exist even to this day because they haven't repented for it.

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Glory to God, even though Jesus on the cross cried out to the Father Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

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The curse that they was not broken.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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This is something.

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How can I say this?

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That as God leads you through refinement?

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I don't know how to say this.

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That as God leads you through refinement, I don't know how to say this.

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Some things about God are hard to explain.

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Do you remember how it's said of Pharaoh that God caused Pharaoh to do certain things and that he hardened Pharaoh's heart?

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You think, well, that's not very merciful.

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And that he hardened Pharaoh's heart?

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You think, well, that's not very merciful.

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And Paul said this.

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He said you can't talk to the potter about why he makes one pot this way and one pot another way and one pot another way.

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He said you don't get to have that conversation with the potter, you just get to get on the potter.

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You just get to get on the potter's wheel and be formed.

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And he said I mean, remember what he said to Peter.

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Peter was you know when Jesus prophesied to him and said you know, you're going to be bound up, you're going to be taken to places you don't want to go.

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And Peter said well, what about John?

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Want to go?

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And Peter said well, what about John?

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Jesus said what's he to you?

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Got nothing to do with you.

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The destiny I put on you is different than the destiny I put on John.

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We need to get, we need to get a hold of that revelation real quick so that we understand that other people are not living, are not to live up to our standards.

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Our deal is with God.

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We got enough problems with Him.

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We don't need to be worrying about other folks and what they're not doing.

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You need to be worrying about what you're doing.

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Amen.

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But as God leads you through this thing, god's going to bring people to you knowing you need to hear this.

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This will just knock your socks off.

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He'll bring people to your life knowing that they're going to blaspheme so that they will refine you.

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But having brought them to you because they disobeyed him, he's going to judge them.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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It's like if God said to Sarah not Sarah, but she's just somebody else.

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She said go to this person, or he draws them.

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He doesn't actually speak to them, he draws them.

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They hear the word of God and they reject it and they mock and they scorn and they do everything else.

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Now, that mocking and scorning is for my benefit, is for my benefit.

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I'm going to be molded by it, because I have to let it go.

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I can't retain it.

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I have to be like Jesus and forgive it, forbear it, overlook it, amen, and just keep on going.

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Now, that's exactly what God wanted to do in me and he used this person to do that.

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Except when I go on down the road, do you know what's going to happen?

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That person gets judged by God, even though they did exactly what God wanted them to do.

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They did exactly what God wanted them to do.

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You go, see, your little brain just can't get around that.

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How is that?

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Just Because, in their own pride, they reviled against God.

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Because when you're reproached, it's not you, it's Jesus, amen.

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You are just being refined, but they are reviling against Jesus and God's going to deal with that, whether they know it or not, whether or not he brought them or not.

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See, that's the lesson we learned from Pharaoh.

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Pharaoh was actually God's servant to get Israel out of Egypt and yet when he let Israel go and they escaped, he still judged.

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Pharaoh destroyed his whole army, probably caused him to be drowned it's not necessarily like it was where Yul Brenner was watching the whole army go into the sea.

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Pharaoh probably went in there with them.

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God judged that situation.

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That's a difficult thing to get your hands around, but this is how serious God takes this, because he says when they ridicule you, when they reproach you, when they scorn you, when they mock you, they are blaspheming and, as far as I can tell, that's the one sin that God will not forgive.

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But he will deal with it.

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Amen, hallelujah, praise God.

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On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified, and he is glorified in you.

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See, all of these things are designed to produce more glory in you.

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Glory.

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We move from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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This is the process.

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You know.

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It's not by daily confessing your glory scriptures You'll get all your glory.

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Now, children, get all your glory scriptures out.

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Let's see how you memorized all your glory scriptures.

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And if you say these glory scriptures every day, then the glory of God is going to come upon your life and you're going to be a vessel filled with glory, fit for the master's use, thoroughly prepared to do every good work.

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Hogwash, that's not how it works.

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It works by tribulations and trials and rebukes and reproaches and scornings and mockings and all of these things that God designs to happen to your life.

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You don't like it.

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Take it up with God.

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He's the one that's orchestrating it.

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You thought it was the devil.

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Now just think about Jesus.

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I can't help it.

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I just see these things and all of a sudden, here comes the high priest he was not a legitimate high priest and he comes to the foot of the cross and he scorns Jesus, mocks him.

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If you be the son of God, come down off that cross.

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Now, he wasn't the high priest, but he was sitting in the office that God created.

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God created that position, god created the whole sacrificial system.

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He created the form of the temple.

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He created the whole way that that high priest had that job.

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Are you getting what I'm about to say?

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He created that whole framework.

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And here comes this guy named Caiaphas Okay, who's an imposter?

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He's probably not even Jewish, he's a Roman puppet.

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And here comes this guy sitting in the office that God created.

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So, god, if you look at it this way, god created this office just for this man to sit in, just so that he could come to the cross and revile his son, his only begotten son, as he was in the throes of death on the cross.

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God created the high priesthood knowing that the high priest in Jesus' day, who was an imposter and a fake and an extortioner and a thief, would come to the foot of the cross and hurl insults at him.

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Because that was part of Jesus's refinement, because he took that to the cross and had the victory over it by saying Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

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There is no reviling, reproach, scorning, mocking, hatred that is thrown at you that you cannot overcome and be victorious.

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Because he took it all to the cross and it was God's doing to bring it to him.

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It got so bad God had to turn his face against it.

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So everybody thinks he had to turn his face against you know all the sin that was on Jesus.

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I think he had to turn his face against the high priest or he'd have killed him right there on the spot, and then he would.

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If that would have happened.

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He would have freed Jesus.

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He would have taken the privilege that Jesus had in carrying that victory through Calvary and through the resurrection.

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For you it's a hard thing to get your hand because religion doesn't teach us at all.

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They don't want you to know this about God.

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But God says I'm going to purge the silliness and the frivolity of how people know me.

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You're going to know him.

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It is my purpose with you.

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If nobody else hears this, it's my purpose with you that the only thing you're going to hear out of my mouth from now on is how God is dealing with the silly thinking that we have about him.

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And you can think all you want to about how far along with God you are and how you don't have any of this.

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We all have it.

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Ever since that day in my kitchen, and he told me that every day he deals with me, every day he deals with me, I have to change my thinking.

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I'm not.

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I am not.

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You think he's going to let me preach this to you without going through it myself?

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Oh, he's not going to do that.

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It would come out so bad and so hateful, and so you know it would not.

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You know you wouldn't receive it.

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Now you're receiving it Because you know I've learned some obedience by the things and I'm not new to this.

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This has been going on for a long time, but now I'm seeing things clearer because I see what God's really trying to this.

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This has been going on for a long time, but now I'm seeing things clearer because I see what God's really trying to do and he's trying to purge us like gold so that we can offer a sacrifice of righteousness back to Him.

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Hallelujah, glory to God, amen, praise the Lord.

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This isn't one of those stand up and shout messages, but you know, hallelujah, we got to grow up, get mature, get tried.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord, glory to God.

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Let's stand.