Jan. 20, 2025

He Was Sent to His Own - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 40a

Send us a text Could the story of Jesus go beyond the familiar Christmas narrative? We argue that the reason for Jesus's arrival transcends a mere response to human sinfulness, unveiling a divine plan woven into the fabric of creation itself. Our journey begins with a theological exploration of the Gospels, from Matthew's perspective through Joseph's eyes to the profound declarations in John's Gospel, highlighting the eternal nature of Jesus as the Word and the Light. We promise that by the e...

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Could the story of Jesus go beyond the familiar Christmas narrative? We argue that the reason for Jesus's arrival transcends a mere response to human sinfulness, unveiling a divine plan woven into the fabric of creation itself. Our journey begins with a theological exploration of the Gospels, from Matthew's perspective through Joseph's eyes to the profound declarations in John's Gospel, highlighting the eternal nature of Jesus as the Word and the Light. We promise that by the end of this episode, you'll understand Jesus's coming as an integral part of a divine blueprint rather than an afterthought.

Join us as we navigate the intricate themes of redemption and purpose, using key biblical texts like 1 Corinthians 15. We'll examine the profound contrast between Adam and Jesus, offering insights into the divine plan for humanity's redemption. Along the way, we confront misconceptions surrounding doctrines such as the Immaculate Conception and challenge the notion of spiritual randomness, emphasizing God's omnipotence and omniscience. Through this theological lens, we reveal the significance of Jesus as the second Adam and the embodiment of God's eternal purpose.

Completing our exploration, we delve into the transformative power of faith and the profound relationship believers can have with Jesus. Learn how to transition from mere belief to embodying faith in actions, moving from spiritual infancy to maturity. We'll encourage you to embrace your identity as co-heirs with Christ, highlighting the transformative journey from being children of God to fully realized sons and daughters. This episode promises to inspire a deeper understanding of our eternal bond with the divine and the empowering reality of receiving Jesus into our lives.

00:00 - Exploring the Gospel of John

10:36 - The Savior

10:36 - Revealing the Second Adam

26:30 - Embracing Faith and Receiving Jesus

26:30 - Discovering the Importance of Receiving Jesus

35:31 - Finding Union and Being in Him

35:31 - Seeking Unity in Christ

45:16 - Discovering the Redeemer's Power

45:16 - Embracing God's Redemption and Promise

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Well, glory to God, hallelujah, Praise the name of the Lord.

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I want you to turn to the first chapter of the book of John.

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The Bible recounts really four episodes at the beginning of each gospel Amen.

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Matthew basically recounts the gospel according to Joseph.

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It's basically Joseph's account of what happened around the events of the birth of Jesus.

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Mark, on the other hand, is really an account of the coming of Jesus through the eyes of the prophets, of the coming of Jesus through the eyes of the prophets.

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It starts with the ministry of John the Baptist.

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Amen.

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Because from the prophet's point of view, john came first as the voice crying in the wilderness, and then the one who was behold unto us, a son is born, unto us, a child is given, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, mighty God.

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That one would come later, amen.

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And so the ministry of John starts and then the ministry of Jesus comes, not so much about Jesus' birth, because by that time Matthew's gospel had been written.

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Quite possibly Luke's gospel has been written.

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Luke's gospel, obviously, is a gospel that tells the Christmas story from the point of view of Mary.

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Amen.

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Unlike any other, none of the gospel stories are the same concerning the birth of Jesus.

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Amen.

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And then we come to John.

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John's was written some 60 years after the other three, at the tail end of the life of John.

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Tradition has it that that his disciples came to him when he was an old man and asked him to write his gospel.

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And John said I'll pray about it.

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And he went off and prayed and fasted for three days and in those three days he received this.

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In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God.

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He was in the beginning with God.

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All things were made by Him and there was nothing made that was not made through Him.

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In Him was light, and that light was the life of men.

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He was sent to this world to bring this light, but the light did not receive him.

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However, there was a man sent from God whose name was John.

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He was not the light, but he came to bear witness to the light, and we pick it up in verse 10.

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He came to his own, but his own received him not.

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And even though that he was in the world amen.

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The world did not know him.

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But he came to his own and his own received him not.

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But to them that received him, he gave the right, the power to become the sons of God, even them who believe upon his name, who were born not of blood, not of the will of man, not of the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God.

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Hallelujah.

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In a few short sentences, god takes you all the way from one end of eternity to the other in a way that only God can do, because he sees all of eternity at that he is.

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By everything that he interacts with us, he is trying to infuse us with his eternity and with his infinity, so that we can have some clue as to who he really is.

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And Jesus had to come in the flesh so that that could happen.

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Amen.

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If you go to many, many churches today and you hear a Christmas message today, it's going to be, in most cases, it's going to be all about Jesus coming so that your sins could be forgiven and so that you could live a lot more decent life as a forgiven person than you would if you were not forgiven.

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Okay, I'm going to tell you quite frankly that that is way below God's pay grade to invest in coming out of eternity and into this just to do that.

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There is a lot more to the story that we have not been told.

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And if you've been listening over the past few weeks at any of the messages, you have heard me say this that the church has systematically and on purpose tried to dumb down the belief level of Christians so that they really don't believe what God came to do for them and if he came to do this for him and the Bible says this that he was crucified before the foundation of the world and he was resurrected before the foundation of the world.

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Well, I don't know how you're going to deal with that, but the fact of the matter is that God had all this worked out.

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This was Jesus did not come as a reaction to Adam's sin.

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I want you to get that in your spirit.

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I don't even care if it's in your head, I want it in your spirit.

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Amen, you need to know this that God would have done this regardless of what Adam did, because it was required of Jesus that the seed fall to the ground and die.

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Adam had the ability to die.

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Whether he died or not was dependent on whether he obeyed God's commandment.

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Amen, now we know that story and I'm not going to recount it.

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Amen, now, we know that story and I'm not going to recount it, but that's the point of it is that, had he not sinned, jesus still would have come, because there was still the propensity in man to sin, and he had to come to the earth and die so that he could be raised up out of the earth as the new creation.

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That was the only way the new creation was going to be manifest.

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The principle of the seed is almost the overriding principle of what God did in this creation, and it tells you something about God that we really need to learn, and that is that he is not in any way.

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Listen to me.

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The Bible says that there was a first Adam and there was a second Adam.

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There was always going to be a first Adam and there was going to be a second Adam.

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If the first Adam had not sinned and not a one of his seed had sinned, there would still be a Mary, there would still be an immaculate conception in her womb by the Holy Ghost, there would still be a birthing of a God-man named Jesus, who would come to of age and some way somehow be put to the cross and die for us so that we could live forever in him, in a new creation that came out of him in a way that the first creation did not come out of him.

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The first creation came out because God spoke a word of creation.

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The second creation came about because God spoke a word into the creation, called Mary, and caused her to bear a son, even though she had never known a man.

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Amen, behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear forth a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God with us.

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Not only is it God with us, but it is God in us, and it is always God's intention to come and live in this thing that came out of Adam but is going to live forever, as it comes out of Jesus.

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Now, only God could figure all that out.

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Because only God could figure all that out, man in his wisdom has said well, we're smarter than God.

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So we're going to limit all the information that God has given us about what he did and funnel that down into making it all about Adam.

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Because I'm telling you, folks, they do not want to deal with the second Adam.

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You're not hearing me today.

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They do not want to deal with the second Adam.

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They want to make it all about the first Adam, and we're going to keep him alive and we're going to keep him resurrected and we're going to keep him into eternity.

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And God's saying wait a minute.

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According to 1 Corinthians 15, which I wrote by the prophet and apostle Paul, it says that there is a first Adam, prophet and apostle Paul, it says that there is a first Adam and there is a second Adam.

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The first Adam was unto death.

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The second Adam is unto life everlasting.

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Oh, glory to God.

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By the first man came death.

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By the second man came eternal life.

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Glory to God.

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You're going to have to deal with the second Adam.

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He has nothing to do with the first Adam, except that he came out of that flesh.

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You're not hearing me.

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He came out Just like he came out of Egypt.

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He came out of the flesh of Mary and he became a son of man.

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But he was also the son of God.

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He is the God man.

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You're not hearing what God lived as spirit.

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John 5, 4, 23, 24,.

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God is spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.

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But that spirit for all eternity had a vision to come into flesh and dwell in flesh forever.

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Well, they don't teach you this in Sunday school.

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They don't teach you this in new beginner class.

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They don't even mention it in the sanctuary and they for sure don't mention it in any of the children's classes that they have sentenced the young people of these churches to go to and never hear a word from God.

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Don't get me started.

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Verse 10 said he was in the world.

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He came into the world.

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See, listen, I'm going to make a lot about the incarnation.

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We don't talk about the incarnation much At Christmas time we do, but we never talk about the rest of the year.

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Amen.

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And even in one major portion of the church they celebrate a day called the Immaculate Conception.

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But it's not about the Immaculate Conception of Jesus conception.

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But it's not about the immaculate conception of Jesus.

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It's about a false doctrine of the immaculate conception of Mary.

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In other words, mary was born not of man but of God.

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Well, that's just pure old Babylonian garbage.

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It just goes all the way back to that Babylonian garbage.

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It just goes all the way back to that Hallelujah, she's not born of man.

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We're all in trouble.

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This whole Bible's a lie.

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A virgin shall conceive, not somebody that is not even human.

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A virgin born of Adam shall conceive, so that the thing as the Holy Ghost testified by the angel to her said that holy thing that is to be born in you shall be called the son of God, not because he has some title, but because he is the living embodiment of the seed.

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He is the seed of God, hallelujah.

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The world didn't know him.

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The world still doesn't know him.

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The world does not know Jesus according to what I'm teaching you today.

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They don't know him this way.

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If they knew him this way, they would know that they were created in God before time, before they ever got here.

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The script was written before you ever got here.

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Your birth here is not an accident.

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The fact that you ran into God is not an accident.

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The fact that God found you is not an accident.

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The fact that you received him is not an accident.

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All of these things God had planned, hallelujah.

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In fact, you're going to be hard-pressed to sell me some other argument for how you got involved with God If you are just this random life.

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See, what they are trying to sell you is a Christian form of evolution.

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Only they got this one off of the books a whole lot longer before Charles Darwin thought up evolution according to the origin of the species, but they've been trying to sell you an evolution version of spirits for a long time, that there's just this amorphous collection of spirits that get assigned to newly engendered fetuses.

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What, what are you nuts?

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God, just you know, created spirits and put them in a jar, on a shelf someplace and we just and angels, just, reach up and just throw them into into um, what do you call this?

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Into uteruses at the point of conception.

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Is that how this works?

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Is that that's what they're selling you?

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That is exactly what they're selling you day after day after day, year after year, decade after century, in churches all over the world.

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You are an accident, and if God didn't stumble across you in a dark alley, you'd be going to hell.

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I'm going what?

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This is what God stayed up late nights at thinking about, when there was nothing else to think about.

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This is the best he could come up with.

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What are you crazy?

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What kind of a God do you serve that the only thing he's got is a roll of a dice that you'll show up in some dark alley next to some Pentecostal church so that you can get saved from your drunken stupor and fall through the door of the church and somebody pray you through.

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Now that probably happens, but if you think it happened by chance, then you are serving a God called faith and you are not serving this God who is the Lord of all.

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He is omnipotent.

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That means he's all-powerful, he's almighty and he is all-knowing.

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I've heard people say well, he deliberately not knows things so that you know, we can have this element of randomness and choice.

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I said you must be insane.

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How could a God that knows everything all of a sudden develop amnesia about anything, amnesia about anything.

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He by definition becomes not all-knowing If he's all-powerful and he can't do something.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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I'm going to try to stay on point here.

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The world was made through him and he was in the world, but the world didn't know him.

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The world still doesn't know him.

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The Bible says in verse 11, he came to his own.

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The title of this message is he was sent to his own.

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God wants you to know that Jesus is the sent one.

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His primary purpose, his primary mission was to reveal God to men, and Jesus came to reveal God in his fullness to man.

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The Bible says of Jesus that in him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

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What that means is that in him there was nothing of God that was not in him.

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Now, there were some things he did not choose to do.

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So that I mean because you can't kill God, amen.

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You can do whatever you want to, but you're just not going to do that, amen.

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You can ask the devil how that works for him.

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Amen.

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You can't kill God.

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And nobody killed Jesus.

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He laid down his life.

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See, the one overriding command that he got from God was to lay down his life and take it back up again, Because you know he had to tell Jesus to do that, or else it never gotten done.

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They couldn't kill him.

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They could have nailed him up there and he'd have still been hanging there.

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Every time they nailed his hands they would have healed.

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You're not getting what I'm telling you.

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Every time they whipped him, it would have closed up.

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You can't kill God.

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He had to lay down his life so that he could take it back up in a different form.

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Lay down the first creation In him was the entire, what in him.

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The world was made through him.

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The world didn't know that it was made through him, but it was still made through him, and so through him, the first creation died so that the new creation could be brought forth in him.

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Through him it was created.

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Through him it died, but in him it came up.

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You're not hearing.

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I said through him.

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You know what the difference between through him and in him is.

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Through him he is the agent, he's what's doing it, because it's in his power to do it.

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But in him is an entirely different thing, because now, what is the second creation?

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Is him.

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See, I don't care what you say, jupiter, the planet Jupiter I should not even say that word in a church that planet that's out there, amen, that huge, gaseous planet, is not God.

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Amen.

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None of the stuff that is made is God.

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It was made through him.

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It exists outside of him.

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But this new creation, this second creation, is all about him.

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But this new creation, this second creation, is all about him, and there will never be anything in this second creation that is not of him and not in him and not about him.

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Glory to God.

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And the Bible says he came to his own.

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Now, what does that mean?

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Did he come to the Jews?

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Yes, the Bible says he was sent to the Jews first.

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He had to be sent to the Jews because they were the only ones that knew anything about God.

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There was no other people on the planet that had a clue as to who God was, because their only notion of who God is is that God is something in creation, something in the first creation thunder, lightning, planets, stars, trees, rocks, mountains, whatever.

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Whatever you want to, you know, go to India, they got thousands.

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Go to China, they got hundreds.

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You know, they got gods for everything.

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Hello, and they're all about something that's in creation, but God is not of creation.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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So he came to his own.

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Did he come to Jews?

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Yes, he did.

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He had to come to them first because they were the only ones that had a clue.

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Paul said it like this that he was sent to the Jews first because they had the oracles of God, they had the written word of God, they had the testimony from God as to who he was.

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Amen, they were the only ones that had it.

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So Jesus had to come first to them.

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He was promised to them, he was the Messiah to them and he had to come to them first.

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But what they couldn't deal with was that he was not only sent to them, but he was sent to everyone, because there had to be a reconciliation, because Adam's sin did not just permeate the Jews.

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It permeated everyone, and everyone born of the flesh was affected by Adam's sin, and so they had to hear this message that God had been reconciled to man through the blood of his son, jesus.

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Not his son in the flesh, but his son in the spirit and flesh.

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Hallelujah, are we here yet.

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But not only was he sent to Jews and all men, but he was sent in particular to those that are the in him believers, not even the ones that had been born yet.

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But he was sent for those that he would what Call that?

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Those he called.

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He foreknew those he foreknew.

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He predestinated those he predestinated.

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He justified those he justified, he glorified.

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That verse describes you.

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Jesus was sent for you.

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Amen, hallelujah, praise God, hallelujah.

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Most of us in this room came to know this Jesus when we were young Not children, but young adults, some of us when we were children, amen.

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And here we are in most churches and we're spending almost all of our time trying to win people that cannot be won, trying to win people that cannot be won.

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95% of all Christians become Christians before the age of 19.

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This is a worldwide phenomenon.

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Most people get saved when they're young because they don't have this big glob of stuff to deal with.

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Amen.

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And there's another reason because God hunts down.

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Those are his and he goes after him.

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Oh, yes, he does.

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Why do you think there are people that get saved when they're young and they just keep on going with it?

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And then there's other people, when they're a lot older, they hear the same gospel message and they may make an emotional response to it, but they don't stick with it.

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I'm talking to people who have stuck with it.

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I'm talking to people who have had everything thrown in their face.

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You've had death, you've had disease, you've had sicknesses, you've had heartbreak, you've had all kinds of stuff thrown at you and you haven't said it's God's fault, you haven't blamed God, you haven't walked away.

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You haven't said God doesn't know what he's doing.

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You haven't said that he's a.

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You know, I'm not serving this God.

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I'm done with this God.

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I'm out the door with it.

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You haven't said that.

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You said give me your hand, god.

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I'm going to hang on.

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I'm going to hang on.

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I'm going to hang on to that nail, scarred hand.

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I'm going to hang on to this Jesus.

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I may not know everything about him, but I do know this that as many as received him.

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And that word received him means to lay hold of him as many as laid hold of him.

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He has made them his glory to God.

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You may tell me a lot of things, but you can't tell me.

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I am not his.

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He has bought me with a price and I'm going to honor him with my body and my spirit, which are God's Hallelujah.

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So I'm his.

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Are you hearing me?

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Today I'm his and I'm sitting on a couch and I'm still addicted to nicotine.

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Of all the scriptures in the Bible, and I'm watching a World Series game.

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Do you know anything about that crazy guy that had the curly wig and he just kept showing up at the at?

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I don't know how he got tickets, but he got tickets to every major sporting event on the planet.

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You know, and I mean he didn't just get a ticket, he got a ticket right at the most at.

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You know, mid midcourt, 50 yard line, right behind the, the goal post.

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You know, right behind the basketball thing.

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You know it didn't matter.

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And here he is right behind home plate and he's got that verse from 2 Corinthians, chapter 6, where it says you have been bought with a price.

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Therefore, honor God in your body and spirit, which are God's.

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And the Lord spoke to me and said put them down and I quit right then.

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Now you go.

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What he knows who is, who belong to him.

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I don't know who else saw that message that day, but I saw it and I knew what the scripture said and I knew he was talking to me.

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Glory to God, are you hearing me?

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The Lord knows who is his.

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He knows who are his when he sends them here.

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Glory, hallelujah.

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He was sent to his own.

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His own didn't receive him.

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The Jews didn't receive him.

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Most men don't receive him.

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Most most men don't receive him, but there are some that receive him, there are some that lay hold of him, and this is what I want to talk to you about just a few minutes.

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I want to talk about receiving him, because we've been taught that what you need to do is believe, and you quote that scripture only believe, only believe, only believe, amen.

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But you need to be a receiver, because if you're not a receiver, you're going to limit yourself to what you can be in God.

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Amen, because there's a believing.

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But if there's a believing, there needs to be a receiving, so that there can be a receiving and walk and step into what the Bible calls the obedience unto the spirit.

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Amen.

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This is what happens when you hear by faith.

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Amen.

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Listen to me very carefully.

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The Bible says that faith comes.

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How does it come?

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It comes by the hearing of faith.

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How does it come?

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It comes by the hearing of faith.

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But how does faith come?

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Faith always comes by grace.

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You have been saved by grace through faith, amen.

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So faith and grace always are like this.

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Why is that?

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Because when you believe something in God, you need the grace, you need the power to do what that word says.

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And then, if you match grace, if you match faith hearing with faith and faith with grace, all of that works together to walk in a consistent obedience to the Spirit.

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So you're going to hear that hearing is going to cause you to believe, that believing is going to cause you to receive it, that receiving is going to cause you to walk it out and that walking out is going to cause it to be an obedience unto the Spirit.

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And the Spirit's just going to loop back and tell you something else.

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And you just keep this loop going to where, if all you do is believe nine times out of ten, you're going to get stuck in the realm of head knowledge.

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You're just going to believe it up here and wonder what would I, what would Jesus do in order to figure out how to execute the obedience?

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And you end up obeying by the flesh and not by the spirit.

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Obedience in the flesh doesn't count.

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I mean it counts.

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It's kind of like horseshoes.

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You know, close counts, but it's not as good as getting a ringer, you know following or the saying is.

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You know saying is it's only close, only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

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Right, well, we'll forget the hand grenades for a second.

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You know, I mean, even a leaner doesn't count as much as a ringer does.

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Amen, you can get close and you don't get the cigar.

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Amen, you don't get the prize.

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The high prize, the high and upward calling results in a prize that you can only get by receiving this Jesus, by laying hold of him.

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He said it this way.

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He said there's one thing that I do I may not have laid hold of a whole bunch of stuff, but there's one thing that I'm going to do and I'm going to lay hold of this Jesus.

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I'm going to lay hold of Jesus for that which he laid hold of me.

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So the laying hold of Jesus comes.

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First he lays hold of you and then you've got to lay hold of him, you've got to receive him.

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You've got, literally you've got to lay hold of him.

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But you can't lay hold of him until he lays hold of you, which means he finds you, he looks for you, he searches you out and he finds you.

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And when you do, you need to lay hold of him.

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Amen, and receive everything he has.

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Whatever he has for you, you're going to have to receive it because in that receiving he gives you the right, the power, the exousia to continually bend your will to his will, so that you can become the sons and daughters of God.

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See, most Christianity is in infanthood, it's in nursery school.

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It's a bunch of little kids running around playing flannelgram Jesus games.

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You know they're just.

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You know that's where the modern church is.

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They're just, they're children.

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They profess it, they confess it and they're happy to be children of God.

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Amen, he did not lay hold of me to become a child of God.

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He laid hold of me to become a son, a prince, a co-heir, one who rules and reigns in him.

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Amen, he called, he laid hold of me to be co-located with him in him.

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Amen, oh, hallelujah.

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You're not hearing me.

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See, even if you get into junior high school and you get baptized in the Holy Ghost, it's all about God being in you.

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But that's not what it's all about.

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That just qualifies you to be in Him.

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That just gets you used to having God around all the time.

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You haven't been anywhere yet until you've been in Him and you start to see things and you start to hear things and you start to realize that you and God, there's nothing the devil's got for that.

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Hallelujah.

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See, this is what body awareness is all about.

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Body awareness is not that you're part of a big universal group of Christians and we just kind of this floating, ethereal kind of.

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You know, we're kind of half in the spirit and half here.

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Amen, that's not what that's all about.

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That's literally being in God.

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How many of you know that God has a body?

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How do I know that?

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That's a good answer.

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You know what the other part is?

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Because of Luke, chapter 2.

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In the days of Caesar Augustus, there went out a decree that all the world should be taxed and Joseph took his wife, his betrothed, who was with child amen, and went up to Bethlehem, because he was a house in lineage of David.

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You know what happened in Bethlehem.

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We sang a whole, we sang for 25 minutes about it.

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A baby was born, and it wasn't an elephant, it wasn't a camel, it wasn't a sheep, it wasn't a dog, it wasn't an ant, it was a human baby In flesh.

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This God came in flesh.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, so that you might become him and be in him for all eternity.

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So my advice to you today, the Christmas message for you today, is you know, quit setting your sights on streets of gold and set your sights on, like John did, and pressing into the heart of this God, because I'm telling you what in his heart are places that are far greater than streets of gold, than mansions on Glory Avenue, than pearly gates, all of that stuff.

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What if that's just one place in God?

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What if that stuff that is in the book of see?

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We just take all of that stuff in the book of Revelation and we just take that to the bank?

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What if that was just one place that John got to visit?

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Do you think there's just one place of God?

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What you really think that?

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So what do you think?

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I know better because I've been to the place that's called riches and glory by Christ Jesus.

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There's no way you can ever exhaust that.

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There's more stuff there than there is infinity.

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It goes on forever.

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I mean, if you're standing in the middle of it, which I did, you can just go.

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There's rows and roads and columns.

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That's one little place in God.

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When I went there I thought it was a place and many years later God said that's not a place, that's in me.

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I had to think about that, brother Mike, for about 10 years before I realized what he was really telling me and that many of the things that he's given me to see were not places, but they were in him.

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They were who he is.

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They have to be given a context when he writes it down in the Bible, or else you won't understand it.

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Amen, glory to God.

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You know you have to have a context for the flood, but you can't.

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You know you can't, you can't tell.

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You know people that were born 25, 30, 3000 years ago.

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You know about how the mid Atlantic rift split open and just gushed out water and you know they go.

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So you know they can deal with rain.

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They can't.

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They can't deal with it enough to understand that 40 days and 40 nights of rain would not cause the kind of flood that covered the earth.

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They don't need to know that, they just need to believe that something like that happened.

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Okay, now we have a better idea of the mechanics of how that worked, amen.

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But you still don't have a clue.

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You don't have a clue as what it's like to have a wall of water jet up out of the bowels of the earth hundreds of miles in the air and just go like that.

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You got no clue.

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It was over in a heartbeat, just like it is in your life when God wants to eradicate sin in your life.

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It's over in a heartbeat.

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I said it's over in a heartbeat.

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It's over in a heartbeat.

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You're not a sinner saved by grace.

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It's over in a heartbeat.

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The blood of Jesus has been applied, the word of God has been applied, the spirit of God has been applied, the power of God has been applied, the infinity of God has been applied.

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The eternity of God has been applied.

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It's over, it's over, it's over.

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The devil doesn't have a handle on you anymore.

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