Jan. 9, 2025

Hearing the Shepherd's Voice for Spiritual Transformation (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 4)

Hearing the Shepherd's Voice for Spiritual Transformation (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 4)

Send us a text What if the Spirit of Glory could truly transform your life from within - not from the outside the way that religion insists? This episode offers a deep dive into the multifaceted roles of the Holy Spirit as presented in the New Testament, with a focus on the Spirit's ministry of glory and liberty. We promise to challenge your understanding of redemption and adoption, presenting them as distinct concepts that are mutually exclusive and their misunderstanding has shaped Christia...

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What if the Spirit of Glory could truly transform your life from within - not from the outside the way that religion insists? This episode offers a deep dive into the multifaceted roles of the Holy Spirit as presented in the New Testament, with a focus on the Spirit's ministry of glory and liberty. We promise to challenge your understanding of redemption and adoption, presenting them as distinct concepts that are mutually exclusive and their misunderstanding has shaped Christianity for centuries. Our discussion invites you to consider the early church's reliance on divine inspiration rather than written texts, exploring how context and personal revelation can enhance your grasp of scripture.

Listeners will hear about the transformative power available to believers who embrace the Spirit of Glory, contrasted against religious doctrines that may stifle spiritual growth. We reflect on Moses' radiant transformation at Mount Sinai as a symbol of the glory accessible to us, urging our audience to listen closely to the shepherd's voice for spiritual maturity. Through narratives of bold faith and miraculous manifestations, including a story of miraculous healing, our episode underscores the importance of faith in action and the sacrifices it requires to witness divine interventions.

The journey of spiritual transformation is an ongoing process, and we discuss how embracing this journey can lead to profound changes in one's spiritual life. Through engaging stories and biblical references, we underscore the concept of being "in Him" and the unveiling of deeper spiritual truths. Historical context and personal anecdotes illustrate Paul's transformation on the road to Damascus, offering insights into how trials may indeed be part of God's transformative agenda. Tune in to uncover truths that could elevate your spiritual journey from one glory to another, ultimately leading to a deeper union with God.

00:00 - Names of the Holy Spirit

10:38 - The Spirit of Glory and Maturity

15:46 - Ministry of Glory and Liberty

28:42 - Unveiling the Spirit of Glory

40:14 - Transformation Through the Spirit of Glory

56:20 - Transformation by the Spirit of God

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Let's turn to the second chapter, or the third chapter of 2 Corinthians.

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We're talking about the names of the Holy Spirit.

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Many names, god has many names.

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Everybody say that God has many names and every one of His names is a revelation as to who he is, what he does, how he works.

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The Holy Spirit has literally dozens of names that are given in the New Testament and we are looking at those names by the commandment of the Lord.

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That's what the Lord told us to do.

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We are now looking at a name that is given in this section of Scripture 2 Corinthians, chapter 3, about the spirit of ministry, the spirit of ministry.

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We've already established in the first three or four messages that this ministry of the Spirit is a ministry of glory.

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It's a ministry of glory and Paul uses the comparison between the ministry of Moses and the law and the way that Moses glowed with the reflected glory of God when he came down off the mount, compared to the ministry of the Spirit.

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He said if the ministry that Moses had in the ministry of condemnation, how much more glorious will be the ministry of the Spirit.

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So the ministry of the Spirit is a ministry of glory.

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Now we've got to understand that, because where we go today see people, one of the things that religion does you've heard me tell this too many times is it takes things out of context and never allows the Holy Ghost to explain Himself.

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So you know.

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You go to verse 17, where we'll be today, says now the lord is the spirit, and where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty.

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And everybody goes yay and amen, jumps up and down and claps, you know, and does all that kind of stuff.

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But there's no context for it.

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You haven't read the verses before you.

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You don't understand what Paul is talking about, amen.

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He's talking about a ministry of liberty that comes out of a ministry of glory, amen.

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You know, if you take verse 17 out of its context, you'll just jump up and down and go yea and amen because I'm free in Jesus.

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But that's not what the context is.

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And everybody thinks that context is that you're free from sin.

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That's not what it's talking about.

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It's talking about that you're free from the law of sin.

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That is in the law, that you are free from the law of condemnation, hallelujah.

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People don't understand that the reason you sin is because the law is in your flesh.

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You don't know that Nobody knows that unless you read what the Bible says and accept it for what it says, and then allow the Lord to teach you about how that works.

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Now the Bible still says in John, chapter 6 that it is written in the prophets that they shall all be taught of God.

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That's you.

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That's not being taught by me.

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That's being taught by me.

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That's being taught by God.

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My job is to throw a flashlight on the pages of the Bible and say this is what it really says.

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Now you need to go home and seek God as to how that applies to your life.

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Amen.

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You need to be so full of the Holy Ghost, amen.

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Then he can talk to you about what these scriptures mean.

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Hallelujah, we're still going to come back to this, this gnawing fact that there actually was an old Testament before any of it was written.

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There were actually men of God who sought God in ways that you and I can never possibly understand, and they did it without one written word of God.

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Enoch went right past death and he didn't have no Bible.

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He didn't have a Strong's Concordance, he didn't have a Dakes Bible.

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He didn't have a what's that?

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One that went before that, the Schofield Bible he didn't have any of that stuff.

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He didn't have any of that stuff.

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He just went on by.

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Oh help me, jesus.

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There was a church in Jerusalem.

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There was a church in Antioch.

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There was a church in Ephesus.

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There was a church in Jerusalem.

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There was a church in Antioch.

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There was a church in Ephesus.

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There was a church in Corinth.

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There was a church in Rome Before any of the New Testament was ever written.

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By the time the pages of the New Testament were written, there were probably already hundreds of thousands of Christians scattered all over the Mediterranean bases.

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We've studied that on Wednesday nights from the book of Acts.

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How many churches did Paul found in the present-day country of Turkey, and all of them without a Bible.

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He started the Bible by writing letters to them.

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Amen.

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They didn't know it was the Bible, but they held it in high enough regard that when Paul said you know, read this letter in the meetings and then take that letter over to there, laodicea, and read that letter over there and you can read the one I wrote to them, what's that called?

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That's called carbon copy on your emails.

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Glory to God.

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Do you not understand, folks?

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I'm not making this up.

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There wasn't any churches founded in Jerusalem, antioch, ephesus, corinth, any of those places that had Bibles.

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So how did that happen?

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Because they were taught to hear from God and taught to allow God to bring them understanding concerning the apostles' doctrine that they were taught Praise God.

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This is the foundation of how spirit people work.

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They don't work because they're taught something out of some denomination or some group of thinking or something like that.

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Amen.

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There's a lot of things that are just flat wrong.

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I mean, I'm sorry, but they're just flat wrong.

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I mean, I've sat through countless sermons about how we've been adopted.

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We have no more adopted than a pig can fly.

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You cannot possibly be redeemed and adopted.

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It is impossible.

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And I'm telling you, there's no place in the Bible that says that Jesus is the adopter.

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They say there's a spirit of adoption, but that's a mistranslation because it can't possibly be that, because Jesus is a redeemer.

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That revelation was given to Job I know my redeemer.

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It didn't say I know my adopter, liveth.

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It doesn't say that.

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It says I know my redeemer, liveth.

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Now, the only way you can redeem something is if it already belongs to you.

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Now, the only way you can redeem something is if it already belongs to you.

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Otherwise, if you go in that pawn shop and take something that doesn't belong to you without paying for it, you are a thief.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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You can't redeem anything you don't own and you can't adopt something that you already do.

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But see, you can't.

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You know you're not going to get that from religion.

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You can only get that from the Holy Ghost.

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You know how that works.

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You read through that scripture and all of a sudden one day he says that's not how it is.

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He'll stop you dead in your tracks.

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You go that's not how it is.

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Listen, this isn't going to work.

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With your five minutes daily devotional You've got to devour this word.

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Chapters and chapters and chapters, until God starts to pull it and starts to leap off the page.

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And God says have you ever thought?

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And he starts to teach you Hallelujah, praise God, verse 17,.

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Now the Lord is the Spirit.

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So the Spirit of ministry that we learned about in just a few verses up the spirit of ministry that we learned about in just a few verses up, the spirit of ministry is the Lord.

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The Lord is the spirit of ministry, just as it says about Jesus in the book of Revelation that the spirit of prophecy is Jesus.

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Amen, jesus, is this ministry that's coming out of this chapter, this ministry of glory is the Lord.

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You don't believe.

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The whole context for what we've been talking about is when God came down and sat upon Mount Sinai and wanted to talk to his people and he rejected his voice.

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The whole aftermath of that is what happened when they rejected his voice Amen.

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Now it says.

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Now that Lord, that Lord of glory that came down on Mount Sinai and sat, that Lord of glory that gave the law to Moses, that law of glory that allowed his glory to fall on Moses so that Moses' face shone like the sun, amen.

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That same Lord is the Spirit, the Son.

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Amen.

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That same Lord is the Spirit.

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And the Spirit is the one who ministers this glory to us.

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This Lord, now, not when we get to heaven, not when we get, you know, all prettied up in a glorified body.

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You're glorified now.

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You just don't know it.

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You know, two meetings ago I said I'm talking to you about this so that you can shine with a light that is greater than came off of Moses' face, because you're already glorified, because the spirit of glory is the one that has filled you.

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Oh, yes, yes, yes, hallelujah.

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But religion doesn't want you to be, religion wants you to be barely saved and barely get into heaven.

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Because you start reading this word and you start getting illuminated by the Holy Ghost, amen.

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Their pat little doctrines aren't going to work.

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My wife was talking to somebody the other day and she was just I mean, she's going to the first something of something you know and I'm not going to mention because I'm not here to rail about that kind of stuff.

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I want you to be elevated above all that.

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But she's going to the first of something and blah, blah.

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And she just, I mean, and bless her heart, she's there every time the church door opens, she's in all the classes, you know, and that's the way sheep ought to be, that's the way they got to be.

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They go in, they go out, they go in, they go out, they go in, they go out.

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They have fine pasture, they're saved.

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But until they start to hear the voice of the shepherd, I'm telling you, folks, when you start to hear the voice my sheep hear my voice Everybody goes yea and amen.

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Well, not all sheep hear his voice, because if the shepherd starts to speak, you won't go in and out, because there's still that scripture in Revelation that says they go in and they don't go out anymore.

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So when the sheep start to mature and get out of baby land, you know, and start to grow, they're not going to go in and out if the Lord teaches them, but if they learn, if their experience consists of a pattern of men's way of doing it, they'll consistently go in and out, and in and out, and in and out, and in and out, and in and out, and eventually they'll just go out.

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We have a couple right here in this church that had a notable death-defying miracle done on their child.

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The child had a death sentence and God saved that child and their response to it was that on Sunday morning they would get in their car and, however much gas they had in their tank, they would drive someplace until it was half gone and then they'd come back Instead of staying in the church and being rooted and grounded where the miracle was poured out and where God saved their whole family, that family would have been devastated had that child died.

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You know being, you know this is a problem that people have.

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They get a miracle and they won't stay and sow into that miracle for its continuation.

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They just go on, they go in, they go out, they go in and they go out.

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They go in, they go out, go in and out.

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So they just went out and they kept on going and never came back.

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And that's what happens to everybody that goes in and out, in and out, in and out.

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One day you can tell, you know, they'll be on the first row and then they'll be on the third, and then it'll be on the fifth, and then they'll be on the last, and then it'll be out the door.

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They go in, they go out, they go in, they go out, they go in, they go out, and then finally they're gone.

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I remember Jeremiah telling me one day his dad taught him.

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He said all you can hope for, son, is that more come in than go out.

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And that was from a guy who went to his church member's work site and got his tithe before they had a chance to go to the bar.

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Glory to God.

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Don't you love it?

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I just love it.

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Where's that kind of boldness anymore?

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How would you like it, mike, if I came over to Lockheed and did that to you in front of everybody?

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You wouldn't care, you'd love it.

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Most people would just panic.

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Jesus, now the Lord.

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Now the Lord is the Spirit.

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What kind of faith do we have?

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Where do we get that now faith?

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We get it from the now Spirit.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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Now, what does that mean?

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The context here is we're talking about the spirit of glory, the spirit who ministers glory.

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Where that spirit, who ministers glory is, there is liberty.

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That's where the perfect law of liberty is going to work.

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Now, the perfect law of liberty you find in the book of James that says this you can't be a hearer only.

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You have to be a hearer and a doer.

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And when you hear the word of God and do it, then you enter into this perfect law of liberty, which is the operation of glory upon flesh to produce results that you are not responsible for.

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Produce results that you are not responsible for I'm going to say this again Any miracle.

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We learn this at the very beginning of Jesus' ministry, john, chapter 2.

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John chapter 2 is what?

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The miracle of the wedding at Canaan and Jesus changed the water into wine.

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But what I want to draw your attention to is at the end of that story, john writes this this was the beginning of signs that were given to his disciples that they might see his glory.

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Well, there's a distribution of glory right now in this room by the Holy Ghost for you to get that.

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That first miracle was given so that the disciples could see His glory.

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Now, folks, I'm telling you there wasn't gold dust come down from heaven, amen.

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There wasn't trumpets, there wasn't angels around there going yay and amen, hallelujah.

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You know, none of that happened.

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People just kept on getting drunk.

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Do we have a brain, folks?

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They get water and wine, and what happened?

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They just kept on drinking.

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Oh, yes, they did.

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But the disciples saw the miracle and they saw the glory manifest.

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Any miracle, any power thing of God signs, wonders, signs, wonders, mighty works.

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Anything that's done by God is a ministry of glory.

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It's glory showing up.

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You may not think of it like that because we have a poor understanding of what glory is, but the spirit this now spirit is the spirit of glory manifestation and glory ministry.

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Now, you're not going to operate in the law, perfect law, of liberty until you operate in a realm where God tells you to do something impossible and you say yes, lord, and his glory comes upon you to do it, hallelujah.

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How many doctors do I have in the house.

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How many of you can cure a hand?

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You know a split nail.

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You know we can't do any of this.

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I don't care what it is, I don't care how insignificant it is or how great it is.

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You might as well just get used to it that if God tells you to do something, it's impossible.

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Or else he'd just tell you to use your brain, figure it out.

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I've had him tell me that I've gone to the Lord and said Lord, I need some help on this.

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He said no, you don't.

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You can figure that one out.

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You have everything you need to deal with that.

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Well, I don't think so, lord, he said.

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But I think so, go do it.

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But if he tells me to do something, that's impossible, he doesn't expect me to do it, he just expects me to acquiesce to his word, to say yes, lord, to the impossible.

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Then what happens is the ministry of glory becomes manifested and glory takes over and produces results for which you are totally off the hook.

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If the glory of God shows up and people don't get healed, that's not because you haven't prayed and fasted enough, that's not because you don't know what you're doing, that's not because you know some giant devil showed up and you can't deal with it.

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Does anybody get this?

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See, pentecostal experience put so much responsibility on certain men that when it didn't show up, that was their fault.

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They were supposed to be the man of power for the hour, so they were the guy that came through the curtain.

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Really, you guys don't do stuff like I do.

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I've looked at old videos, I've studied old videos.

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Glory to God.

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They do stuff that I wouldn't be doing for a million years, but they put that burden on them for results.

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That's not your call.

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That's the spirit of glory producing a result that you're not responsible for.

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So if they get healed, they get healed.

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If they don't get healed, they don't get healed.

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But you don't go home and go oh Jesus, I'm a failure because I didn't get healed.

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It wasn't you going to do it anyway.

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You got to know this by now.

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Folks, if he wanted to heal him, he could just heal him, but it is the purpose of God in this time of grace that he used you to do it.

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So if he can't find somebody to do it, they're just not going to get healed.

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Now, you may have to answer for that because you didn't say yes.

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But if you say yes, you're off the hook, you can.

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You are now a hearer and a doer and the perfect law of liberty is in action and glory is going to flow uninhibited.

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People can get healed, people get delivered, people get saved, set free, all kinds of things happen.

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But at the same token folks you know this is true, any of you done any kind of Some days people resist and they don't receive.

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That doesn't mean that there wasn't enough glory that showed up, because I'm telling you right here don't receive.

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That doesn't mean that there wasn't enough glory that showed up, Because I'm telling you right here, right now, if God tells you to do something and you say, yes, sir, there is sufficient glory released in that obedience to do whatever God wants to do to whomever he wants to do it.

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Now, if people can resist that and they do, but that's not your fault, you can't take that upon you.

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It'll drive you nuts.

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I've told you this story.

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I tell it all the time because it's a perfect illustration of this.

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I tell it all the time because it's a perfect illustration of this.

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There was a crusade we did in 1993, one of the poorest sections of Costa Rica, and there was a span of about 20 to 30 minutes.

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I ministered for five different people in that span of time and there were notable creative miracles that were done Lungs grew, ears opened, eyes opened, mouths opened.

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I mean just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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I've never seen anything.

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I've never seen anything like it since.

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And I got home and I said, lord, now, what was that all about?

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And I got home and I said, lord, now, what was that all about?

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I said because everybody around was just going crazy.

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You know people.

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I mean you can't you.

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You just, man, you've got a 13, 14 year old daughter and she's never spoken or heard a word and God just healed her.

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You just, you know, imagine the joy that the mother would feel and the child would feel.

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I was feeling nothing, I didn't feel a thing.

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I said next what's wrong with you?

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You know, I mean it's kind of like that.

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Next, next, and God began to teach me about the responsibility in the ministry of glory.

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My only job is to be there and just not say no, I want to do this.

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Well, we can't do that today, lord.

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I didn't pray 20 hours today, so we can't do that today, lord, I didn't pray 20 hours today, so we can't do that.

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Since when is the quantity of prayer going to increase the level of glory?

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If the Lord wants to do something Now, you should be prayed up and you should be believed up, not saying that, but the minute it starts to fall on your shoulders amen.

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That's a limitation on what God can do.

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There's no place in the context about the perfect law of liberty that says anything about your level of preparation.

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It just says you've got to hear and you've got to obey.

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Who are my brothers?

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Who are my sisters?

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Who is my mother?

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Jesus said the ones who hear God's word and obey it, that's the family of God.

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Those are the ones that are in him.

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Now.

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With those folk, god can do anything.

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See, I listen folks.

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You guys are getting.

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You guys are getting something that you know, and I've taught you this before.

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But you need to have, you need to hear it again.

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But I'm going to tell you this I've been kicked out of a whole lot of churches for preaching a whole lot less than that About the fact that when God gets a hold of you and starts to work in you in His glory, amen, you can just walk in.

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I've said this.

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You've heard me say it.

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It'll freak people out.

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It just freaks I've said this, you've heard me say it It'll freak people out.

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It just freaks pastors and church people out.

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I said you know what the most important thing is for me today?

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And I'll run through a few of the common things Praying, oh, yeah, yeah, you got to pray.

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Fasting, yeah, yeah, I should fast.

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Studying the Word yeah, yeah, you got to pray.

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Fasting, yeah, yeah, I should fast Studying the Word yeah, yeah, you got to do that.

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And I said you know what he said?

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I can do all of that and if I don't do one thing, none of that matters.

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You know what that one thing is Show up, be on time, show up and then be an indispensable resource for the spirit of glory.

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If I don't do that, folks, it ain't going to happen.

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If I don't show up, he can't do it and he won't, because the perfect law of liberty, the spirit of liberty, requires a participation on our part.

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He's going to speak, we're going to do, he's going to perform glory manifestations, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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But you've got to.

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You know, listen, folks, you've got to.

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It requires a death to yourself that most of us don't want to do.

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We don't want to go out on that limb.

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Oh my God, I was in this crusade one time and they brought this AIDS-infected guy.

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He was sweating out every pore of his body.

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I mean he was so sick and I mean the Spirit of the Lord told me go over there and hug him.

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Oh Jesus, I don't want to do that.

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First of all, I got a new suit on.

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He's going to ruin it.

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Second, I mean I'm just being real with you.

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Thoughts like this go through your head.

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He's going to ruin this suit, I'm going to get AIDS.

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I mean it's just all this stuff going on.

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It just all happens in about a second.

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And then you say, well, I better obey you know.

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And so the Lord said go hug him.

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So I went over there and hugged him.

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You know what?

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The Lord healed him, certified, healed and ruined my suit.

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You know what God got me another one.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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I like that suit.

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I see that suit in pictures.

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Sometimes I go I wish I had that suit.

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That's a really nice suit.

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But anyway, praise God.

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You have to die to yourself.

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Glory to God.

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Die daily, die often.

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Glory to God.

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Like voting, vote early.

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Vote often.

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Die early.

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Die often.

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Glory to God.

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Might as well.

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Get it done at the beginning of the day.

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Now verse 18 goes on and says this, but we all with an unveiled face.

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Now what's the context?

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See, you've got to go back to where Moses was coming down off the mountain, reflecting the glory of God so much that they had to put a veil over his face.

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Now we read that story, we know what the story is.

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And Paul said right before these verses he said this.

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He said the veil is taken away in the reading of the Old Testament when you are in Christ, not when you're saved, not when you hang around church for a while, not when your participation is marginal and anything can get in the way with it.

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If it's a nice day for fishing, or sea-dew needs to be operated, or whatever the case may be.

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People show up once a month, once every two months, and they think they're faithful.

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Show up once a month, once every two months, and they think they're faithful.

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But God, amen, says that those that are in Him not in and out, not part-timers, not every once in a while, but those that are in him have the veil taken off For all of the others, the in and outers, the part-timers, the every once in a whiles, or the people that won't dig in and get it.

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They may be saved, but they're not in him, they're in and outers and they don't have the veil taken off.

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So they never understand this word.

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I could preach what I'm preaching to you, to them for a hundred years and they'd never get it, because they're in and outers, they're not in him, the veil has not been taken off.

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Glory to God, you can hand them some of the you know.

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You remember when I used to tell you this that we'd come across the hard scripture, I said you're going to have to deal with this.

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You just can't.

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You just can't skip that scripture and go on by and find one.

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You like.

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You know you're going to have to deal with that one.

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What does that mean?

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How does that work?

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You got to deal with it.

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If you don't deal with it, you're just going to be an in and outer.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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But we who are in Jesus have an unveiled face.

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Paul, when he was on the road to Damascus, came into direct contact with this Jesus, this Jesus who is the Lord of ministry and glory.

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He shows up shining like the sun at its noonday strength.

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Like the sun at its noonday.

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Strength and the result of Paul, who was knee-deep in legalism and had a veil over his eyes that was so thick amen.

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When the glory of God came in contact with that veil, that veil wasn't lifted, that veil was sealed to his eyes and he became blind for three days.

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Now see, you don't get that by reading the ninth of Acts.

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You get that by being taught that by the Lord.

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That was the process, you go.

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Well, what happened?

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Why did Paul become blind?

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Because he looked into the glory?

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No, that wasn't it.

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Because the veil was still on his eyes so thick.

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Listen, the veil on Paul was so thick that he was deceived into thinking that killing Christians was a service for God.

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You know, listen, you can stack up.

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Moses killed an Egyptian, david killed Bathsheba's husband, uriah.

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Am I right or wrong?

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Both of them murderers.

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You get life imprisonment for that.

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Paul was a serial killer.

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Paul not only killed, but Paul went out looking for victims and then, when he found them, he killed them.

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That's why Paul said of all sinners, I am chief.

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And the veil was on him so thick that when the glory came in contact with it, it just fried it right into his eyes.

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Are you hearing any of this?

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And he was blind until he received the Holy Ghost.

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Ananias came to him and said Brother Saul, I have been sent to you by the Lord, jesus Christ, whom you saw on the road, to pray for you to receive your sight and be filled with the what, with the spirit of glory, the spirit of ministry.

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And when that spirit was now not reflected upon him but entered him, the scales fell off.

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Glory to God.

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Now we with an unveiled face, just like Paul I mean Paul no longer had the veils taken off and took some nourishment.

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He was in the nearest synagogue preaching the resurrection of Jesus.

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And they said well, who is this guy?

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Isn't he the one that has letters to put us in jail and kill us?

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Why are we listening to him?

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Because he had seen the Lord.

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Have I not seen Jesus, my Lord?

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Some of them had not seen the Lord yet.

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When you run into somebody that has seen the Lord, you better pay attention, because even those that are in him, not all have seen him.

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God equips those that are special messengers to see the Lord, and deal with that.

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Oh, glory to God.

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When we have an unveiled face, we can behold, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, and this mirror is the revealed word that God gives us.

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Not the written word, but the revealed word.

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You can look at the written word all day long and it's not going to produce glory in you, you're just going to get tired eyeballs Until the ministry of glory begins to open your eyes, like it did Paul's, and then the veil comes off of your eyes.

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See, nobody teaches this, that there's a veil.

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That is the same for the Old Testament and the New, and it can only be taken away by the spirit of glory and by being in him.

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Oh, glory to God Can't be an in and outer, or else you'll be confined to the realm of reading the letter.

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And what do we say in the letter?

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The letter kills the spirit gives life.

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Praise God.

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Nobody will teach you this kind of stuff, but I'm teaching it Now.

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You can behold in this mirror this revealed word of God, and when God speaks to you, he's going to show you who you are.

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What's it say in Hebrews?

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It says the word of the Lord is quick and it is powerful, cutting asunder even down to the bone and the marrow, separating the soul and the spirit.

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It is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and it lays us completely naked before him, whom we must give an account.

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So when the word of the Lord comes to you, amen.

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It's not going to come to you and go.

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Oh thou dear son, oh thou favorite of the Lord, oh, hallelujah, you're just so, it is just so wonderful to have you in my kingdom.

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I can't tell you, my dear child, how pleased I am that you're here.

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You know, you're just so wonderful and we just love you so much and we're so glad you finally made it.

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That's not how God talks.

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When the word of the Lord comes to you, it strips you.

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It strips you of who you are.

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It strips you of who you think you are.

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It strips you of who you are.

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It strips you of who you think you are.

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It strips you of who you want to be.

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It strips you of everything that is not God and lays you open to Him, to whom you must give an account, not for being you, but for being Him.

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God's never going to hold you account for being you.

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The Bible clearly says that nobody would pass that test.

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You're going to be held account not for being you, but for being Him, allowing Him to be Him in you.

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Do you not read your Bible?

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John 17 says this Not for being you, for being him, allowing him to be him in you.

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Do you not read your Bible?

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John 17 says this he says that they may be one in us, as I am in you and you are in me.

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That we may all be one.

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That the glory that I had before the foundation of the earth may be in them and I in them, and that by that glory they may be one.

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That's what it says.

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Now you look in that mirror of the revealed word that God speaks to you, and the glory of the Lord that is in his face.

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What Paul saw on the road to Damascus, what John saw on the Isle of Patmos, what Mary saw as Jesus was raised up out of the Lord, that is in his face.

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What Paul saw on the road to Damascus, what John saw on the Isle of Patmos, what Mary saw as Jesus was raised up out of the tomb, what they saw on the road to Emmaus, that glory that is on his do and that is transform you.

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Now here's where we get to the meat of the matter.

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The spirit of ministry, the spirit of glory is given to us for one purpose, and one purpose only as it works through us, it will produce results.

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But the real result that God is looking for, as he works on you with his glory, is your transformation.

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Now, as his glory gets on other people, then the purpose of that is not for healing.

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The purpose of that is for transformation.

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If you listen to me, if you go up to somebody, you need to, and this will help you in your ministry.

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Like God, god is wants to heal people, but the end result is not healing because these bodies are going to pass away anyway.

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Soul is not healing because these bodies are going to pass away anyway.

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Hello, does anybody have a clue?

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I mean he could.

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You know he could.

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I mean he gave me new lungs.

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One day these lungs will all be dust.

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So the purpose of that healing was not to heal.

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The purpose of that healing was for transformation, so that his glory could get in me and testify to me that he had visited me and done something with me.

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But the purpose of it was not the healing, the purpose was transformation, and that's why people go in and out.

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They come in and get a healing, but they're not willing to be transformed, and so they leave.

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Well, somebody, help me preach this.

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They don't want to be touched by a living God and stay close to that God.

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They want what God can give them, and then they want to hit the door and live however they want to and forget that God healed them.

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Now there's two things that are going to and forget that God healed them.

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Now there's two things that are going to happen.

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Out of that, you're going to lose your healing or you're going to miss your opportunity for transformation.

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Listen to what the Bible says.

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As we behold in the mirror, the revealed Word of God and the glory of the Lord, as seen in his face, comes upon us.

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We are being transformed.

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We are being transformed from one form of glory to another.

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Does it not say that we are being transformed into his image, from glory to glory, just as by the spirit of the Lord?

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Now see, this is one of those verses.

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You could read it a thousand times and never understand what Jesus is talking about here.

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Because it's just a hard verse, because in order, because I've spent four weeks this time around just getting to this verse, just to set the context for it, I think the last time we were in this verse, which was several years ago.

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It took eight weeks to get to this verse because the foundation had to be laid.

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Who is the spirit of glory?

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What glory is it?

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What veil are they talking about?

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How are we beholding it?

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Who's the ones that are in cry?

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I had to lay that foundation.

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You've had all that.

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I can hit it quickly and you understand it.

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But here's the point Amen.

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Whenever this Lord of glory shows up, amen.

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He's got one idea in mind, and that is to produce his image in you and transform you from who you are into who he is Now.

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See, religion will tell you all day long that you don't get to do that until you get to heaven, and then you won't.

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You'll just, you'll just be a small, little miniature copy, which was the deception that the church fell into in the first century when they allowed themselves to be called Christians.

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The Bible says that they were first called Christians in Antioch.

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In those days, paul didn't say that he called himself a believer, he called himself a follower of the way.

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He didn't call himself a little Christ, which is what Christians mean.

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Christian is.

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Well, I don't know if you don't know this.

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In Spanish, you can have a word like café, which is coffee, but you can say we're going to have a little coffee, which is a cafecito.

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So all you do is add an ito or an ita on the end of the word and it makes it little.

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Like Sarah in Spanish would be Sarita.

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She's little Sarah, so she's Sarita.

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You understand In Greek that ending on the word meant little Christ and it was a derogatory calling by unbelievers of the believers and called them little Christ.

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You think you're just little Christ believers, and called them little Christ?

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You think you're just little Christ?

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They weren't little Christ, they were the fullness of Christ in bodily flesh, amen.

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But nobody wanted to deal with that, certainly not the detractors, amen.

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So Jesus says this when my glory comes upon you, I am going to produce my image upon you and in that image amen you are going to be transformed.

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How often?

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Daily, why?

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Because you die daily and I'm going to produce more of my image in you for the purpose of transformation into what I am making you by my spirit of glory and his ministry, and as you become.

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See, we get so fixated on results and we don't live in the perfect realm of liberty.

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We want a healing ministry, you don't want a healing ministry, you want a transformation ministry.

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I want a prophetic ministry.

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No, you don't.

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You want a transformation ministry Because if all you're interested in is prophesying, people will come and go and come and go all day long.

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It's the worst ministry to have.

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I used to think deliverance ministry was the worst, but prophetic ministry is absolutely the worst, because all people want to do is get a word and then they're gone until they have some other disaster and then they want another word.

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We had service in Haltom City for two years, I bet, on Thursday nights.

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We ministered in those two-year periods to hundreds, if not thousands, of people.

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People would come, we would have a room and it would be totally filled and all they wanted was a word from God and all they wanted was a miracle.

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They got their word.

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They got their miracle.

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They were out the door.

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I didn't see one single person in that Thursday night meeting ever show up to a Sunday meeting.

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They'd come from all over the Mexico.

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We had them coming from way out east of Dallas and down south I don't even know how they heard about it south, I don't even know how they heard about it and God was moving by His Spirit.

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But it wasn't just for them to receive their little doodad.

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God wanted to get in them and transform them, but they wouldn't stick around.

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They wouldn't stick under the anointing and the gifting that had brought them the miracle.

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Praise God Come football season.

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They were more interested in watching football on Sunday afternoons than coming to church.

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I don't want to even get into that one.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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This same image, this same Jesus, this same Jesus that you saw go up into heaven, is going to come back in the same way, and we think that's a rapture scripture Amen.

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That's not what that's about.

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It's about when Jesus comes back to you and visits you, so that you know the hour of your visitation and you can receive this spirit of glory and he causes your face to shine like the sun.

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Listen, moses ain't got nothing on you, folks.

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He didn't.

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He knew, he saw this in the future, but it never came to him.

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It was a reflected glory, jesus.

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This spirit of Jesus never came inside of him and dwelt in him.

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And now what Jesus wants to do in us is an entirely different thing than what he did with Moses, and yet we won't deal with it.

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The church won't deal with it, they won't deal with it, they'll deny it, they'll refuse it, they'll.

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You know that's for those crazy people down the streets.

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You want a miracle?

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Go see them.

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You know we do 45-minute services.

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We don't have time for miracles.

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Glory to God.

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Let me tell you something, folks the church is in a mess Because it has taken upon itself the character of the world and not the character of its king.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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But this Jesus will not be denied.

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He's going to find himself somebody that he can get into the transformation business and change them from glory, from one level of glory, to another level of glory, to another level of glory, to another level of glory, so that when your transition comes and you finally pass from this realm of glory into another realm of glory, so that when your transition comes and you finally pass from this realm of glory into another realm of glory, it'll be just like taking a next step.

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You won't even be shocked, because you've probably been there several times.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah, glory to God, amen, that's what it means, at least for this time around.

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Now.

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The next time we come through, we'll probably find some more things to say about it and we will be back, because this is a foundational scripture.

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I'm just going to say this.

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You can check it out.

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I've got business cards that go back 20, some years, back to the days when we were printing our own because we were too cheap to have somebody else do it.

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Arise, shine, ministries, beaming forth the light of the glorious gospel, 2 Corinthians 3, verse 17, to chapter 4, verse 7.

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This scripture, right here, is who we are.

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We are a ministry of glory and we won't back off on it.

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We never will.

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We never have.

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It's all we do.

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Everything I preach, every miracle that's done, is all for this single purpose, right here, for the transformation of people from glory to glory.

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Now, if they don't want it, that's not my responsibility, but if I back off of this and don't preach it, I'm a dead man.

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I've got no more usefulness.

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So I'm going to keep on preaching it, if for no other reason, just to stay alive and torment the devil.

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This is life to me, hallelujah, because in spite of how I look and how I feel, there's a transformation going on.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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I'm going to say this I'll probably have to take this out.

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I'll probably have to take this out.

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My son had this thing done of.

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You know how he's.

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It's kind of this computer generated thing about how he would look in 20 years or 30 years or something like that.

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And everybody said you know well, you can tell who you belong to.

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Because as the simulation aged him on, everybody was saying it looked like me.

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And I thought, and I just went along with it.

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I said, oh yeah, okay.

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I said it doesn't look anything like me.

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I'm a whole lot better looking than that, because I'm being transformed.

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I've never met anybody.

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I mean, you know my poor wife.

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They drag her out as a spectacle.

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They go look here at this woman.

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She's ex, up, up, you know years old.

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They go, no, yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah.

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And here they are barely hanging on, you know, dragging themselves along.

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You know, glory to.

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I've never met anybody that didn't.

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When I tell them how old I am, that's not possible, that is not possible.

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I said, well, you know, a couple years ago I looked older than I do now.

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You go figure, hallelujah, praise God.

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Why?

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Because I'm being transformed from one glory to another into the image of Jesus, as by the Spirit of the Lord, and there is nothing the devil can do about it, because I'm in him.

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He can't even find me, him, he can't even find me.

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He doesn't even know where I live.

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Well, you're not hearing anything I'm saying.

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You know, we think, oh, the devil's doing that.

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The devil's not doing nothing.

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If you're in him, there may be a whole lot of what God's doing to you as he transforms you.

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Amen, the devil is not your worst enemy.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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The devil is not your worst enemy, amen.

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I'm going to end it on this one.

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You will remember that when Joshua asked this same Jesus, are you a friend or are you a foe?

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And Jesus said neither I can be one or I can be the other.

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It all depends on where you are on the cutting edge of my transformation process.

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Now that one, I'm going to leave for you to stick back to the Lord and say teach me about that one, jesus.

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujahelujah, let's stand.