Jan. 9, 2025

Navigating Culture with Unchanging Spiritual Truth (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 3)

Navigating Culture with Unchanging Spiritual Truth (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 3)

Send us a text What if the glory that God seeks to reveal in you isn't just a reflection but something you can embody and radiate? Discover how believers can experience and manifest the eternal, transformative power of the Spirit in our exploration of 2 Corinthians chapter three. Understand the profound shift from the transient glory of the old covenant, symbolized by the ministry of death in stones, to the lasting glory of the new covenant marked by the Spirit's power. Our conversation revea...

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What if the glory that God seeks to reveal in you isn't just a reflection but something you can embody and radiate? Discover how believers can experience and manifest the eternal, transformative power of the Spirit in our exploration of 2 Corinthians chapter three. Understand the profound shift from the transient glory of the old covenant, symbolized by the ministry of death in stones, to the lasting glory of the new covenant marked by the Spirit's power. Our conversation reveals how these spiritual truths find their ultimate fulfillment in Jesus, whose resurrection gifts His followers with the fulness of His divine radiance.

In a world where trends come and go, what remains unchanging? We contrast the temporary glory of Moses with the enduring nature of the Spirit's ministry, reflecting on personal experiences that highlight the temptation for modern ministries to prioritize relevant trends over genuine spiritual encounters. This episode challenges us to maintain our connection to this timeless glory, rooted in the Spirit, to navigate the cultural tides without losing sight of what truly matters.

As we journey from law to grace, discover how early Christians transitioned from a Jewish-centric view to a grace-filled understanding of faith, transcending rigid interpretations of scripture. By listening to God's voice and embracing His glory, we unlock the potential for spiritual transformation and insight. You'll gain a deeper appreciation for the power of God's word and the transformative journey into becoming sons and daughters of God, guided by the Spirit's enduring presence and glory.

00:00 - The Spirit of Ministry's Glorious Revelation

13:52 - The Eternal Glory of Ministry

29:04 - The End of the Law

38:54 - Rejecting Glory Leads to Spiritual Blindness

56:47 - The Power of God's Word

01:10:12 - The Transformation Into Sons of God

01:20:26 - The Impact of Listening to God

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

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I continue to talk about the spirit of ministry, looking at this, starting in this third chapter, because it talks about as we've talked about the past couple of weeks.

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It says in one place, second corinthians, chapter three.

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So what didn't I say that?

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Probably okay, I've got the wrong thing here.

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Praise god, thank you jesus.

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Thank you, jesus.

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It says in verse 7, if the ministry of death, written engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

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So from that verse verse 8, we see that one of the names of the Spirit is the Spirit of ministry, his unique ministry.

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One of the names of the Spirit is the Spirit of Ministry, his unique ministry.

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There's a ministry of Jesus.

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The unique ministry of the Spirit is to minister glory, and the evidence of that is, when he raised Jesus from the dead, the glory that was released.

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Remember that the Bible says that there was a different kind of a glory that came when the new creation came out of the grave.

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That glory had never been seen on the earth before, never been manifested.

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The only time there was even a glimpse of it was on the Mount of Transfiguration, and that glory was manifested.

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And then the amazing thing about the resurrection of Jesus is that he gave to all of those that would come to Him the ability to contain that glory.

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That was never done before.

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The Spirit may have come upon men of old as they prophesied and as they brought the word of the Lord, but the glory of the Lord had not yet been revealed.

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Are you following me?

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Moses was unique in the way that he received the glory of God, manifested it upon his skin to the people of Israel.

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But as far as we can tell from the rest of the Old Testament, nobody else did that.

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Nobody else did that and we don't see Jesus doing that.

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I mean, there's nothing in the Bible that says in His earthly ministry before the cross, that there was any indication of light bulb Jesus, of glow-in-the-dark Jesus.

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There was just.

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You know, there's no account for that the only time that happened.

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And it was so remarkable that all three of the apostles that were witnesses well, not James, because he died, but Peter and John, who were the remaining apostles that went up on the mountain with him in their old age, on the end of their days, when they were about to go, they were testifying of how great that experience was.

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We received the Holy Word on the holy mountain and you would be well advised to pay attention to it.

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They still mention that, john when he was in his 90s.

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Peter was probably when he was in his 70s or 80s.

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One of the singular, most important things that ever happened to them was to see Jesus in his glorified form, because that had never happened.

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I mean, you understand what I'm saying.

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If that had been like ho-hum, you know well, yeah, we saw that yesterday.

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Oh yeah, you did that last week.

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Oh yeah, we were down by the Sea of Galilee and you know we were hungry.

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So Jesus glowed and fish jumped out of the water and we had a fish fry.

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You know, nothing like that is recorded.

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It may have happened, but I kind of doubt it, because what did happen on the Mount of Transfiguration was so singular and so dramatic that they laid hold of that as the evidence that there was a glory to be released in this thing that we call the body of Christ, because Jesus earned the right as the first fruits of the new creation, to distribute this glory among many brethren.

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So the glory that he had it says this in John 17, the glory I had before when I was with you, father, I give to them that they may be one.

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So this is the unique ministry of the Spirit.

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The ministry of the Spirit is a glorious ministry.

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It is a ministry that is full of glory, hallelujah.

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Now he has the right to do that because he was the one of the Godhead that raised Jesus from the dead.

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So when he raised Jesus from the dead, he infused this risen Christ with all of the glory, hallelujah.

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You know, you've got to read this Bible like it's not a Sunday school story.

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Read what it says that the Spirit raised Jesus from the dead Hallelujah and made Him the firstborn of many brethren.

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And what is the common link of all these many brethren?

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That they are the containers of the glory of the Lord.

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Not containers of the glory of the Lord, not reflectors.

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They're not mirrors like Moses, but they are containers and radiators.

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For example, if you stood next to the fire and you had some sort of a reflective surface something I don't know, garbage can, lid or something like that and you held it up to the fire.

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After a while, if you put your hand close to that reflective surface, you would feel heat coming off of it Because the fire is hitting it and it's reflecting off Amen.

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But if you took that same lid and took it outside, it wouldn't do that.

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It had to be around the fire to do that, amen.

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But if you took the fire outside, it would still give off heat, because the heat is within the wood and the fire.

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You understand, that's us.

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The glory is within us.

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Christ, in you, the hope of glory, the earnest expectation of the manifestation of glory in you, amen.

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You can expect it.

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You don't have to wish it, you don't have to think about well, I don't know if I've got.

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You don't know if I'm prayed up today.

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Well, you know it's good to be prayed up, but you can't let that limit you.

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If the glory needs to get out today, it needs to get out.

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If you're full of the Holy Ghost, you are full of His glory, hallelujah.

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Let me tell you this before I go on.

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You've heard it said that the angels long to look into these things.

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Let me tell you this one thing Moses, who reflected the glory of God coming down off the mountain longed to look into the day when that glory would not disappear.

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The glory of God coming down off the mountain long to look into the day when that glory would not disappear.

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Everybody else was afraid of him and everybody else wanted to put a bag over his head.

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And Moses was looking to the day when the glory would not disappear.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord, amen.

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The knowledge of it we talked about that last week is that the knowledge of the glory of the Lord is different than the glory of the Lord, and everybody misquotes that scripture and they think that the earth is going to be covered with the glory of the Lord, like this golden ball of glory and it's just going to kind of glow and do all this kind of stuff.

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But that's not what the Bible says.

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The Bible says that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

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That means it's going to be known by two classes of people one that have it and one that don't.

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The ones that have it will know of the knowledge of the glory in a way that they can use it, manifest it, reveal it, make God known by it, and the others that don't have it and don't know.

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It will know by the testimony of the signs and wonders, but the prophecy is such that it will be so manifest that the entire earth will testify to the knowledge of the glory.

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Now we're not there yet, because people are still scoffers, because there hasn't been a ramping up of a release of the glory, because so many that profess to be Christians are deniers of the glory, because so many that profess to be Christians are deniers of the glory, and so this is what we're going to talk about tonight.

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Praise God if I ever get past the introduction, verse 11.

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If what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.

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Now I'm going to talk about two or three different levels of what is going on here, because I'm going to tell you that what we're seeing in verses 11 through 16 is a super high speed revelation, transfer by the Holy Ghost to Paul, and Paul tried to get it down as quickly as he could with the revelation that he had.

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But there is a load of revelation to be understood in these handful of scriptures right here, because it focuses on a particular event in history, but then it extrapolates from that, pulls from that all the way into the ministry of Jesus, the resurrection and the ministry of the body.

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All of that in a handful of sentences Only.

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With the way that God can do these things, it would take me a lifetime to talk about all this stuff.

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God can get it done in two or three sentences.

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But I was studying this this afternoon and the Holy Ghost said Paul had to dictate over time and he had to stop and reflect on what I was giving him.

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So I pray that we just get a tidbit of this.

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The glory that came upon Moses as phenomenal as that was, as amazing as that was, as consistent as that was, it not only happened during the time that Moses was up, but it happened every time Moses went into the tabernacle and had a meeting with God.

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The law that was given to Moses was given over a period of time.

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That wasn't all given up on the mountain, because not all of that would fit on the rock.

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There was a lot of it that came down and had to be written down in the scrolls given to the Levites, and all of that had to be taken care of and guarded, and Moses had to pull it out and read it to the people periodically.

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Hello, are you remembering all this?

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That he would do this, amen.

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So this didn't happen overnight.

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Over time God gave him the things.

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But you've got to know this that just because it's in the first five books of the Bible does not mean that's the only thing that God talked to Moses about.

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I mean he told listen, there had to be this conversation.

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Moses, I do notice that when you leave here you're full of the glory of the Lord.

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It's radiating off you, it's reflecting off of you and the people wisely do not want to see it lest they die.

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But I'm telling you, Moses, that there is a glory that's coming.

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Do you remember the one I showed you?

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That one, that one will have a glory that does not fade away, does not pass away, does not disappear.

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That glory will remain.

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Your glory passes away.

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In fact, as soon as it comes upon you it begins to pass away.

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As soon as it came upon him and he began to reflect it.

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The more he reflected it, the more it went away.

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Do we have that?

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It wasn't like he is full 100 watt light bulb and all of a sudden the power went out and there's no glow.

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Wasn't like that.

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It would start at 100 and then get to 90 and then 75, and it kind of winded its way down and finally it could take off the veil and he'd just be normal Moses, until he went back into the presence and it happened all over again.

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But as soon as it happened it was starting to fade away, just like the phrase you begin to die the moment you're born.

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Death starts working in your body even though you've just started.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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So Paul uses this as a point of illustration.

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If it was glorious but it was passing away, how much more glorious is this ministry of the Spirit that does not pass away, it remains, it stays.

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It is eternal, it remains, it stays, it is eternal, it is unending, there is no limit, it is infinite, it is all-powerful, it is amazingly, amazingly powerful.

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But when you compare it to what happened to Moses, as soon as Moses received it it was leaving, but as soon as we receive it by the Holy Ghost, it stays.

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Now I've said this before and I'll say it again, that when you have ministries that their whole focus is to be trendy and cute and woo the public, and with professional musicians or whatever else they're using, they're going to change it in five years anyway.

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Do something new, depending on who on television is getting the most crowds and we're going to try to be like them.

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You know, those churches whatever glory they had started to dissipate as soon as they started to use it and by the time they wore it out.

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Then they have to go, get and borrow another temporary kind of glory so that they can pull the wool over the people's eyes and keep them entertained and think that they're doing something really spiritual, just because it's different.

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But the Bible clearly says that the glory that is by the Spirit remaineth.

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It just stays there.

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If the Spirit's not going to change, the glory's not going to change.

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If the Spirit's not going to change, the manifestation of the glory's not going to change.

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If the Spirit's going to stay the same, the way he deals with the glory in us is going to stay the same.

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That's not going to change.

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So you can choose to be trendy or you can choose to be a minister of the glory.

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In the one case you better find something else to take the place of what you're doing as soon as that wears off, because it's already wearing off.

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I was, you know, we, you, we, all three can testify this.

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We, we were all day riding around in a, in a in a ministry, van and, and we went to this meeting.

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I've told you all about this meeting.

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Two old saints and they played guitar and sang every old Christian song that anybody ever knew.

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You know, it was just.

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You know, some of the oldest going back into the 40s of the basic.

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You know, just real basic, simple gospel songs that were taught to them by the missionaries.

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Just real simple stuff.

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You know.

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And we're just.

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You know, we're just sitting there crying like babies.

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You know, it's just.

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I mean I wouldn't have traded anything for that afternoon.

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And so Martine's son was driving us around and I got, we got in the car and I was riding shotgun.

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He was driving.

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I said you probably knew all those songs, didn't you?

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Oh yeah, I've heard all those songs.

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My dad sang all those songs and he'd play all those songs.

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I heard all those songs growing up, but we're doing more relevant music now.

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I said, oh really, oh really.

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I said I hope you grow up to the maturity that you understand that what you just saw is one of the most precious things you will ever witness in your life.

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And he just scoffed and you know what?

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He was out of the ministry in a matter of months.

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Now he's back in, he's restored and all that, but that scoffing.

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That day you can set your clock to it.

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Praise God, you got.

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You know.

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You need to develop, you know, a keen, discerning ability to understand when God is moving in his glory, even though it doesn't look like it.

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It's like that old story that Brother Hagin used to tell.

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He said he was pastor and there was these two old saints, two old guys, and they couldn't sing a lick.

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And they came up and they insisted that they were going to sing a special Brother Hagin said oh God, this is going to be terrible.

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So they get up and they start singing.

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And it is terrible.

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I mean, it's just as bad as what you thought it was going to be Off key, out of tempo, forget the words.

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I mean they're just up there slinging it and Brother Hagin's over there in the corner going oh God, help me with this Lord, get these people off this platform.

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And the Holy Ghost spoke to him and said Let me tell you something.

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I shut down the angels just so I could listen to them sing.

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Now you just better get with the program.

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See, you don't know what is glorious and what's not, unless you major in this.

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That remains hallelujah.

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That's why we sing such old songs, because you know it doesn't pay to be trendy.

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That stuff's going to come and go, you know.

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I mean, I mean, if you don't have a woo-woo and an ah-ah and a couple of you know things like that, nobody wants to hear it anymore and all that stuff is just.

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You know, that's just bad songwriting.

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I'll put it that.

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Let me put it just that it's just bad songwriting.

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I mean, you couldn't even get that in a top hundred in a popular radio station.

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It's just so bad, it's pathetic.

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But you can fool Christians with it.

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Oh Jesus, I better get back to the text.

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Therefore, paul says since it's remaining, we have such hope, we have an earnest expectation and we use great boldness of speech.

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Listen to what Paul's saying.

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Because we have this glory that remains, we can be confident, we can be bold, we can have an earnest expectation that what God is saying and doing is going to bring to pass what he has promised, not like Moses who put a veil over his face.

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Like Moses who put a veil over his face.

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So here's Paul's making this comparison between him and Moses.

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Now you go.

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Well, that's a bold statement.

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Paul knew who he was.

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Paul knew who he was in God and he knew who he was in what Jesus had made him, and he wasn't going to back off of that to nobody, not even to Moses.

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And he said we minister in boldness, we minister in hope, we minister in this glory that remains, but we are not like Moses.

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Just like I tell everybody you know we are not Lazarus.

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You know your resurrection experience in Christ is nothing like Lazarus.

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Lazarus just got up and got a body restored to him and he had to die again.

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Amen.

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Your resurrection experience is entirely different than that Glory to God, exactly.

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And Paul said we are not like Moses.

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That glory that Moses had, he had to put a veil over his face.

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In other words, listen, what good does it do you if you glow like the glory of God when you come down off the mountain and you can't share it?

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The only thing you can do is put the veil on so nobody sees it.

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What good does it do you?

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It doesn't do anybody else any good and it doesn't do you any good.

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The only time it did you good is when you received it from the Lord.

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Other than that, as soon as you left the presence and it started to pass away.

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It didn't do you any good, it was actually a detriment.

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You had to go into hiding.

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You had to go into being a recluse.

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You couldn't come into anybody's presence.

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You had to go hide away and put a bag on your head, almost like you had leprosy.

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Is anybody getting this?

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It wasn't like Moses stood up and preached with this great glow and everybody was just falling out in the spirit and everything.

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That did not happen.

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He didn't have boldness of speech.

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He didn't have boldness of character.

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He didn't have the glory of the Lord.

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He had to restrain the glory of the Lord.

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Do you not remember that?

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Moses said to God I can't lead these people, I can't speak.

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He said okay, I'll give you Aaron, he'll speak for you.

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Moses never got over that.

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He never had a boldness of speech, not even when he had the glory, because it never penetrated him.

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The glory didn't penetrate him, but the Word of God did.

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And so Moses got.

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Listen, moses got the same thing that every other great man of God that heard God speak.

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He got the spirit and the gift of faith.

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He heard God speak and it produced faith in him to do certain things, but the glory did not penetrate Moses, it just reflected, just like the moon, just like we talked about last week.

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Amen, are you with me?

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So Paul says here, we're not like Moses, we're different.

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We have boldness of speech, we have glory, we have a hope.

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Moses didn't have any of that you want to ask so well, because you just made a comment.

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I'm sure you said it before, but it just hit me, like I hadn't heard it before, that every single time that Moses went back into the temple in the presence of God, that exact same glory came upon him.

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Yes, that came upon him on the mountain.

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On the mountain.

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I never I don't know where I've been.

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It says that, anyway.

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But you just answered a question that I had because you said they did not.

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I know you said you had a veil on, but I was wondering, well, how come somebody didn't notice it.

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But now I understand they couldn't have.

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It wasn't a one-time thing, it was like every time he went.

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But as soon as he came out from behind the curtain talking to God, aaron was there with the veil.

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Okay, and then you know, go thou away, thou Moses, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily and watch the phrasing here steadily, at the end of what was already passing away.

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Now here's one of these things where we've got multiple layers going on here.

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That word passing away means to be abolished, idle, inactive, inoperative, deprived of force.

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I'm going to go on to some other things, but I want to bring this point out to you so that you understand where I'm going on this.

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The children of Israel could not, could not, look steadily.

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Now watch how the Holy Ghost phrases this.

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At the end of what was being abolished, the King James says abolished, the New King James says passing away, and there's a dozen other words that have to do with that.

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The Holy Ghost was not just talking about Moses and his glory, but he was talking about the glory that was associated with the law.

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There was a glory associated with the law Because it came from God.

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However, that glory, as soon as the law was given, began to pass away, and since that passed away, there was already a predefined end for it, and that was Jesus.

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So, from God's point of view, what was happening to Moses was also happening to the law.

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Are you with me so far?

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Now, what happened to Moses would pass away sooner than the law would pass away, but it was the same principle.

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As soon as God gave the law and it had a glory on it, that glory was passing away because the end of it was to be abolished.

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Are you with me so far?

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Are you with me on all this?

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The law was never made to be permanent, the law was to be abolished.

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Now everybody would say, well, the law still remains for the Jews, only for them, who have not come to Jesus.

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Once they come to Jesus, the law is abolished to them.

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This is the great issue of the first century church.

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After the first century, this almost became a non-issue as the church became more Gentile than it became Jewish.

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They understood that it's only coming into the Lord.

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That makes a difference.

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And once you come in, the law is done away with.

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Because right here, paul says that that law, that glory, has an end and it is to be abolished.

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However, the Jews couldn't see it.

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Read what it says.

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The children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was being abolished.

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Now look, if you think for one second that when God gave the law to Israel, he did not know that he would nail it to the cross of Jesus and make it obliterated.

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If you don't think he knew that, you don't know your God.

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This was a stopgap, temporary measure only for the people of Israel, and it had a glory on it.

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But as soon as it was given, that glory was passing away, because the end was already seen by God.

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Moses saw the end, but nobody else could see the end, and so they thought it was permanent.

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Had they been able to see the end, they would have known that it was not permanent and there was something better to come.

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They thought that the Messiah was to be a fulfiller and not an abolisher.

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But had they been able to see the end as described here, they would have known better, but they could not see it.

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Why could they not see it?

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Well, we'll get to that in a moment, but let me tell you what that word means.

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You'll understand why I say that God's talking on multiple levels here.

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These words all apply to the passing away of the law.

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It became idle, it became inactive, it became inoperative, it became deprived of force, it was caused to cease, to be done away with.

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It was severed from, separated from, discharged from, terminated all involvement with, in other words, like Paul said in the book of Hebrews, that it was rendered obsolete.

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It was rendered obsolete.

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It passed away so much by the time of Jesus that it was rendered obsolete.

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And Jesus testified to that.

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He said you've made the Word of God of no effect.

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And it wasn't like they could go back and fix it.

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It wasn't like they could go back and fix it.

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It wasn't like they were going to have, they weren't going to have a revival of the first five books of the Bible without the Talmud.

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They weren't going to have a revival of the Torah without the Talmud.

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I've told you this before.

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They had the first five books of the Bible and then they had 1,500 years of commentary.

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Well, you can think that's funny, but we've had 500 years of Matthew through Revelation, with 200-something denominations, commentaries on it, and we have whole branches of people that call themselves Christians that believe more in the denominational analysis of it than they do in the literal word, and they cannot interpret the literal word without the analysis of the rabbis, not the rabbis.

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I didn't say that, did I.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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So I want you to see there was a passing away, there was a being done with, there was an obliteration, there was being obsolete.

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And God saw it, moses saw it.

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They saw Jesus as the end point.

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Jesus saw it and he began to minister it and every time he could, he hit them straight between the eyes with it.

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He said you guys are a bunch of snakes, you guys are liars, you're extortioners, you steal money from widows, you're thieves.

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I mean, he just laid it out there and he said and besides all that, he said, you don't even keep the law.

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Now, how can he say that?

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Because he was the one that wrote it, he should know, and he knew they were dealing with the thoughts of men more than the thoughts of God.

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Hallelujah.

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So this thing was passing away and the glory that came on Moses was a type and a shadow of that Amen.

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It came upon him, but it was a reflected glory.

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It did not contain the glory of God, it reflected the glory of God.

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That's why it could not bring life, but it could only bring death.

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Because it could not bring life, but it could only bring death because it was not a container, it was just a reflector and it was fading.

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Now the Jews listen, the Jews, without knowing it, knew it.

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So what did they do as it started to fade away?

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What did they do?

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They added more to it.

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So now we've got the first five books plus some commentaries.

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Oh, wait a minute, the commentaries got old, so we'll add some more commentaries, then some more commentaries, then some more commentaries, then some more, and then some more, and then some more, and then some more.

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Finally, god got so tired of it, he didn't talk to them for 500 years.

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Then he still added some more commentaries about why God was silent, like they actually knew something.

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Praise the Lord.

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Now, the reason they couldn't see it and the reason they couldn't see it and the reason they couldn't see what was really happening.

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They couldn't even look upon this reflected glory.

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They had to hide themselves from it and hide Moses away, because their minds verse 14, their minds were blinded.

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How did that happen?

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Were their minds blinded by seeing Moses?

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No, their minds were blinded because they refused the voice and they refused the glory that descended upon the mountain.

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When they refused that, when they said to Moses Moses, you go up.

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We don't want to go up.

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We don't want to hear this voice.

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We're not interested in hearing this voice.

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We certainly don't want trumpets.

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We don't hate, we hate trumpets.

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We don't like trumpets.

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We don't want thunder, we don't like lightning, we don't want smoke, we don't want earthquakes, we don't want.

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We don't like trumpets, we don't want thunder, we don't like lightning, we don't want smoke, we don't want earthquakes.

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We don't want voice, we don't want angels singing.

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No, we don't want to do that.

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We want you to do that.

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You go up.

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Never mind that he went up for 80 days and came back with this reflected glory on his skin.

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They weren't even moved by that, they didn't care.

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They were just glad that they didn't have to go up.

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That was an immediate death sentence.

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Every person that put that kind of confession on their lips died in the wilderness before they crossed over the River Jordan.

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It not only blinded their natural eyes so that they couldn't see Moses in his glory, but it blinded their spiritual eyes.

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It blinded their spiritual understanding.

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And folks listen.

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The book of Hebrews, using the context for this in chapter 12, the context of this moment I will hold on.

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There are a handful of moments in history, according to the Word of God, that changed everything, and this is one of them.

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Them, the backdrop in Hebrews, chapter 12, uses this example and the end of that little thought section by Paul in the Holy Ghost is don't refuse him who speaks.

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The bottom line of all of this don't refuse him who speaks.

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Just don't do that, because what happened to the children of Israel is they refused him who spoke and they refused the manifestation of the glory and their minds were darkened and blinded.

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Now, if you think for one second that that happened to Israel and it hasn't happened to anybody else again, you need to reconsider who your God is.

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Because if he dealt with Israel this way, because they refused his voice, then why would he repeat himself in the New Testament and the book of Hebrews, repeat the whole story and then bottom line, it was saying refuse not him who speaks.

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Why would he do that?

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Because it can happen.

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Today, everybody is still confronted with appearing before two mountains.

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You either appear before Mount Sinai, which is Hagar, which is death, which is the old covenant, or you appear before Mount Zion, which is the holy new Jerusalem, which is Sarah, which is eternal covenant.

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I'm not making this up, this is right out of the book of Galatians.

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I'm not making this up, this is right out of the book of Galatians.

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You still got that.

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Everybody, everybody that comes to Jesus, is going to present themselves before one of those two mountains.

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Remember the time for this.

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Moses stood before the two mountains.

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One of them was green and vibrant, the other one was dead and bald and he said choose for yourself this day life or death.

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What do you want?

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That choice is still in front of all of the people of God in this dispensation, in the time after Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.

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That choice is still here.

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You're going to either prostrate yourself before Mount Sinai and refuse him who speaks, or you're going to bow your knee at Mount Zion, the city of the great king, and you're going to receive every word that he speaks and be transformed by it.

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There's only those two choices.

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You don't have another choice.

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Most Christians, most Christians, try to shuttle back and forth.

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They want to go over to Mount Zion because they know that they can feel real spiritual over there.

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But the music's better over at Sinai and they have quicker services and they got nicer church buildings and pastors real friendly and they got a McDonald's in the lobby.

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I mean, listen to me If you can see this in the spirit, this same thing is being replayed over and over and over.

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The core of it is we don't want to hear this.

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God, you go up and hear for us.

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We don't want to experience this glory and we would prefer, pastor, that you don't either.

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And don't go too far up that mountain, because you'll bring down something that we can't understand.

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That doesn't fit into our conventional ways of thinking.

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So don't go too far up and don't bring too much glory.

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Matter of fact, it'd be better if you want to be one of the guys.

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Just not bring anybody any of it back, because we don't want none of that glory either.

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And refusing those two things puts you in this place of a darkened mind.

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You are literally spiritually blind.

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I don't care who they are and I don't care what they say, and I don't care what their bylaws say, and I don't care what they profess to do, and that doesn't make any difference to me.

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Fact of the matter is, when you reject the voice and you reject the glory, you put a death sentence on your life to be spiritually blind, spiritually dumb, spiritually mute, spiritually unable to do anything for God.

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You are impotent.

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Glory to God.

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You know, my favorite example of this is when we were clearing out the church house and I had two, two sets of chairs that we were we had no use for, and so um and so I had one set and and up comes the guy from the little some little church next door, he's some young guy and he's early thirties.

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Some little church next door, he's some young guy and he's early thirties.

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And uh, and I, and he said, how much do you want for those chairs?

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I said, well, I think it was about 120 of them.

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I'll sell them for, you know, $300.

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He said that's a fair price.

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I think that I might be missing the money exactly, I don't know.

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Might have been 250.

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Wasn't anything over 300.

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I'm talking about impotence.

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He said I have to go back and consult the elders of the church about this purchase.

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I said, well, you just go ahead and do that, sonny.

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You just go back and find out whether they'll let you spend $300.

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And he walked away and I said, dear God, I'd have reached in my.

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I said there's not.

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A day goes by, I don't have that much more and a lot more in my pocket.

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I whipped out $300 bills and called somebody up, let's get these moving.

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So anyway, here comes, here comes his elders and whatnot later with the money and a truck and and and we're ordering him around like he was a servant and he was loading those, those, uh, those chairs up and everything else, and I thought there is something wrong with this picture.

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I guarantee you he's not climbing up, zion, he's not going up for a dose of glory, he's going up for a paycheck.

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He's not going up for a dose of glory, he's going up for a paycheck.

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I thought you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

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You ought to be ashamed of yourself that you can't make that decision and you can't just whip out $300 bills and walk off with the chairs.

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You ought to be ashamed of yourself calling yourself a preacher.

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Walk off with the chairs.

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You ought to be ashamed of yourself calling yourself a preacher, but you got to go consult somebody on a $300.

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Now if it was $3,000 or something like that, okay, I can understand.

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You know somebody, you know what are you doing.

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You know, maybe they just bought the grand piano and you know, want $10,000.

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I can understand that I wouldn't do it, but I can understand it.

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But $300?

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Really, talking about impotence?

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Because they're not spiritually minded, they are not.

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When you reject the voice and you reject the glory, you have become impotent to do anything spiritually.

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And I don't care who you are, and neither does God Doesn't put a premium on how big your church is, how fancy your suit is, how big your entourage is, who you get to minister to, who you're on TV with it does.

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That kind of stuff Doesn't move God one bit.

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God's looking for a people who will hear His voice and be containers and distributors of His glory.

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That's what he wants.

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The more you do it, the more you'll be transformed.

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The less you do it, the more spiritually blind you'll be.

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This is why I'm trying to be real with you tonight and help you.

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This is why you run into people all the time who think they know something about the things of God, and they know absolutely nothing, but they're thoroughly convinced that they're experts.

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Why would you do that if you're spiritually blind?

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There's a whole lot better things to do on Sunday than go to church if you're spiritually blind.

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I mean, there's a whole lot better things to do on Sunday than go to church.

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When you're spiritually blind, what are you going to do?

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Go with a bunch of other blind people and lead each other around?

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Huh, and that's what you know.

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I don't need to go.

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I can get together with God out on the fishing boat I never saw.

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I've been fishing, you know.

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I've been fishing so much I quit fishing.

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How much you have to fish until you quit get tired of fishing on a permanent basis.

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I've been fishing, don't you know?

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I know something about fishing.

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I may not know everything about it, but I know something about it.

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And I've caught a pair of fish and I quit fishing.

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I just got tired of fishing.

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You know, I never saw anybody worshiping God out there.

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I saw a lot of people drinking beer and alcohol and swearing and falling off of boats.

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Same way on a golf course.

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I'm going to go out and worship God on the golf course.

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I don't see nobody doing that.

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I hear people swearing all the way across three or four holes.

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I go, dear Lord, that don't sound like church to me.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Oh, they were taking up an offering on the 18th hall.

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I missed it.

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Glory to God.

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Well, I won't go there.

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Praise God, verse 14.

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But their eyes were blinded for until this day.

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What day is that?

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What day is that?

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Well, in this context, it is the day of Israel's visitation.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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This is the first Pentecost.

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This was 50 days after they left Egypt and they came across by the mighty hand of God, crossed the Red Sea vanquished, the enemy of Egypt came out.

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Moses brought them to this mountain and for this appointed day, god commanded a three-day fast, commanded them to clean themselves, keep away from their wives.

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He did all these commandments and then they were to present themselves to receive this impartation of the Word of God and His glory.

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It was the day of their visitation.

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See, god hadn't done this before.

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They had a cloud and they had fire, but they didn't have this awesome presence.

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You need to try to get a hold of what happened.

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God brought heaven down to earth.

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An innumerable company of angels, vast powers of God, god on His throne, came down from heaven and put His throne on Mount Sinai.

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There were thunderings, there were lightnings.

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There.

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Sinai there were thunderings, there were lightnings, there was earthquakes, there was rumblings, there was the strikings of lightnings and angels by the multiplied millions sounding trumpets.

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Can you imagine what that sounded like, what that felt like?

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The earth was trembling.

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I mean, god had to put a boundary in Mountain to Mountain.

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He said don't come any closer to that, because if you come any closer than that you're going to die.

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That wasn't just God saying you can't cross that line because I'll strike you dead.

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It was.

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If you came any closer to that with all that going on, you couldn't make it.

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That was just too much.

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The Bible says even Moses trembled in his shoes.

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He said I am very afraid because nobody had ever seen anything like this.

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Listen to me, people.

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Israel had believed in a God that had spoken to Abraham and had spoken to Isaac and had spoken to Jacob and had not spoken to anybody else for several generations.

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They were believing a God that had spoken 400 years ago, that had spoken 400 years ago and had brought Jacob out of a famine and into Egypt by the hand of Joseph.

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And they knew these stories, amen.

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But they hadn't had a God that spoke to them.

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They would cry out to this God in Egypt but, as far as they could tell, nobody was listening.

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You don't think that they had started borrowing the Egyptian gods, the calves, the idols, the things like that, and started to worship them?

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Oh my God, I wish I could preach.

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Do you not know, folks, that almost every one of the plagues was directed at one of the principal deities of Egypt and that the children of Israel had gone over and started to worship them?

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And God was purging that out of his people and out of the country by his mighty right arm.

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Oh God, hallelujah, I'm starting to feel the Holy Ghost.

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And God was dealing with this and he was bringing his people out, but he's bringing them out clean.

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But in all of that God hadn't showed up.

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He sent Moses, moses raised his staff, things happened, but God hadn't showed up.

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An angel of death showed up, but God hadn't showed up.

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The Red Sea parted, but God hadn't showed up.

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There was a fire by night and a cloud by day, but God hadn't really shown up yet.

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But on the day of Pentecost, when the day of Pentecost had fully come and they were all together in one accord, there came a sound from heaven like a rushing, mighty wind.

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Happened.

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Then happened 1,500 years later, almost down to the minute.

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He had a people that would not heed His voice.

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3,000 died that day.

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How many were saved at the day of Pentecost?

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You don't think God keeps score.

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Glory to Jesus, hallelujah.

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Because he had a people that would hear his voice and be filled with his glory.

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So Israel missed the day of their visitation.

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You see, the Jews look at that first Pentecost and they say that was the day that God showed His glory to His people and he gave them the blessing and the glory of the law.

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But the fact of the matter is, from our point of view, is that on that day he assembled His people and they rejected His voice, they rejected His glory and he gave them the law as a curse for their disobedience.

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And as soon as he gave them the law, with his glory, it started to dissipate and disappear.

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So Paul said that which was glorious.

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The law doesn't exceed in any way the glory of the gospel, because that glory was going away.

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But the glory of the gospel remains.

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It's never going to go away.

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They missed the day of the visitation.

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Do you not remember Jesus In the book of Luke?

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He was sitting on the Mount of Olives and he's looking over Jerusalem.

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He said O Jerusalem, o Jerusalem, how I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers a brood, but you would not because you did not know the hour of your visitation.

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See, god came down from heaven to sit on Mount Sinai and minister His glory to His people.

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And Jesus, 1,500 years later, came down from heaven onto Mount Zion.

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Oh, I wish I could preach this and poured out His glory.

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That will never go away.

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Praise God Now, until the day of your visitation, paul wrote this the same veil that was on Moses remains unlifted on everyone who reads the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away only in Christ.

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Now here's one of these things.

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Religion teaches you this.

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Well, bless God, as soon as you get saved, you can understand that Bible, because that veil is taken away.

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That's not what it says.

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That's not at all what it says.

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It says this the veil remains unlifted in the reading of the written word.

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The only Bible that was in existence in Paul's day was the Old Testament.

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Amen.

01:00:42.380 --> 01:00:44.748
What did he say just a few verses before?

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The letter does what Kills.

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The spirit gives life.

01:00:51.173 --> 01:00:52.858
The letter does what Kills.

01:00:52.858 --> 01:00:53.961
The spirit gives life.

01:00:53.961 --> 01:00:54.443
The letter does what?

01:00:54.443 --> 01:00:55.204
The letter of what?

01:00:55.204 --> 01:01:01.092
The law, the letter of the written word of God.

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I don't care how many times you read this New Testament, if you don't have the spirit of God, if you haven't been filled with His Spirit, filled with His glory and hearkening unto the voice of the Spirit, to understand it, you're just reading written words.

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That's why people that believe that and that's their whole belief system is that it's all here and nothing else is here.

01:01:34.775 --> 01:01:56.853
People that believe that minister a ministry of condemnation because they'll take one scripture and beat people over the head with it without putting it in any context, nor putting it into the context of understanding the spirit about it.

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Amen, amen.

01:02:05.583 --> 01:02:18.237
They'll take one scripture be ye not drunk with wine into excess, and it'll build a whole about not drinking.

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I'm not a drinker and I don't believe I should drink, but you're going to have a hard time proving that from the Bible that everybody should not drink.

01:02:30.291 --> 01:02:41.407
But you're going to have a hard time proving that from the Bible that everybody should not drink, you shouldn't drink to excess, you shouldn't be drunk, and people have gone on to set an example and there's all kinds of things like that.

01:02:41.407 --> 01:02:52.217
Why would you want to participate with something that causes mass murder on a scale that's unbelievable, drunk driving and demolished families and who knows what else?

01:02:52.217 --> 01:02:56.293
I mean, I'm all for that, but you're not going to prove it by the Bible.

01:02:56.293 --> 01:03:09.356
But I'm sure people will just beat you over the head, you know, and say you know, well, bless God, you take one drink of beer, you're going to hell.

01:03:09.356 --> 01:03:13.871
You know and say well, bless God, you take one drink of beer, you're going to hell.

01:03:13.871 --> 01:03:13.960
It's hot in that hell.

01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:31.478
You better put that bud dumber down and just go on and on and on and on and on Making up stuff, heaping condemnation on people because they're just going with the letter and not the Spirit.

01:03:31.478 --> 01:03:34.472
The letter kills and I don't care where you're reading it from.

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You don't think about stuff like that until somebody brings it out.

01:03:46.094 --> 01:03:55.134
Why do you think that it's like that in the denominations and the part of the Christian experience that only does this?

01:03:55.134 --> 01:03:59.556
This is it, and they don't even do a very good job at that.

01:03:59.556 --> 01:04:13.777
They've got their people on a once-a-year reading program when they ought to just dispense with the Old Testament and read the New Testament until Jesus comes and then let Him explain the Old, you know.

01:04:13.777 --> 01:04:22.048
Or read this enough and get in the Spirit enough that he can explain the Old to you.

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Then it'll make sense to you.

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But you've got people on this once a year reading program.

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Nobody's going to do that, you know.

01:04:27.496 --> 01:04:28.842
But you got people on this once a year reading program.

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Nobody's going to do that, you know.

01:04:29.585 --> 01:04:39.677
I mean they get in there and some of that heavy stuff of the begats that goes on for three chapters in Chronicles and stuff like that.

01:04:39.677 --> 01:04:42.574
I mean that's worse than watching paint dry.

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I mean glory to God.

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You'd be three o'clock in the morning reading that.

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Oh help me.

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Jesus, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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I shouldn't make fun, but the point is, the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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And it's still true, and it will always be true, that the early church that transformed the world did not have a written Bible for three or four decades, just the way.

01:05:18.228 --> 01:05:31.474
Abraham had no written Bible, isaac, jacob, moses, until he wrote it, noah didn't have one, enoch didn't have one and he passed death and didn't even see it.

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Nobody had a written Bible, but we're the God.

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And yet they all made it.

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They made it into chapter 11 of Hebrews, hallelujah and the early church people.

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They didn't have a written Bible.

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But when it got written and when it got formalized, then the church began to lapse into the same thing that the Jews did, and they put a high premium on that which was written and a low premium on that which was written and a low premium on that which was spoken.

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And God said nope, that's not how it works.

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It is the spoken word that gives the authority to that which is written.

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If there was not listen to me if there was not John, chapter 1, there would be no authority for any of the Bible.

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But John, chapter 1, says 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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Same was in the beginning with God.

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You know.

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That establishes that before anything, there was a word that came out of the mouth of God and came out of his heart.

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That gives authority to everything that happens, including the written word, which is what he put down for everyone to know him and come to know Him.

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These things are written that you might believe and believing have life in His name.

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But that's not the only thing that comes out of God's mouth.

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This is just for that purpose.

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Amen.

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There's a whole lot of other purpose in God Destiny direction specifics, how to raise money, how to do this, all the things that's not in the Bible.

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Because we don't listen to God would somebody help me here?

01:07:49.389 --> 01:08:03.005
Because we don't listen to God, because we don't listen to God on how to finance things, we end up having chicken dinners and fish fries and weenie roasts and everything else, trying to make a nickel and a dime to get the kingdom of God going.

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You know what came out of the mouth of God.

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Take an offering from the Egyptians and take all of their.

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You know what came out of the mouth of God Take an offering from the Egyptians and take all of their jewelry.

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See, god was so smart.

01:08:18.332 --> 01:08:19.314
He didn't, you know.

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He just said hey, go take an offering from them, they're going to pay you to get out of here.

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You just watch and see Now.

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See, slaves would not normally have done that, but God spoke, moses commanded, and they received an offering that finally, moses said that's enough.

01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:50.252
When they finally brought it over and they started to build the temple and everybody brought their stuff this was after they built the calf they brought their stuff and Moses said that's enough, we got more, more to use.

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When has that happened lately?

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Just because they obeyed the Word of the Lord, the spoken Word of God, because there's no place in the Bible that tells you to do that.

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Oh hallelujah, the veil is only taken away in Christ.

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It's not taken away to those that are going in and out.

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Remember the difference Been over this more times than I can count.

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John, chapter 10, says my sheep come in, they go out, they find pasture and they are saved.

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And that is the standard vanilla Christian experience.

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They get saved, they start to get fed and they go in and they go out.

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They go in and they go out.

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One day they're more saved than another and they have all these issues.

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I have issues, I have so many issues.

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I have so many issues.

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I have issues, but Jesus is helping me with my issues.

01:10:16.140 --> 01:10:18.672
You know, that's just an in and out person.

01:10:18.672 --> 01:10:23.145
They go to in and out burgers, you know they just they eat there a lot.

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They just go in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, and hey, you know that's the way most sheep are.

01:10:30.453 --> 01:10:40.015
You know, but the destiny of every sheep is to be transformed into a son of God.

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That's your destiny.

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Your destiny is not to stay out there and eating pasture and eating at the In-N-Out Burger Place and just, you know, you know saying hallelujah and I'm just so glad that Jesus set me free, and you know and and all that.

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You know that's great.

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You know it's great to do that for a year or two years, get with the program, you know, but they don't.

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They stay in and out, in and out, because nobody is a son of God that they're in any close proximity to.

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That will teach them that he needs to transformation.

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Only sons and daughters of God can do that.

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Only mature sons and daughters who have been through the fire of process with the Lord can teach other people how to get into the oven.

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You know and you go.

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Well, get in the oven and not get burned.

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No, get in the oven and not die.

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You will get burned, you know.

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Hopefully, when you come out you won't stink.

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You know, but you'll be.

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You know, but you know you'll be.

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You know, listen folks.

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You know you've listened to too many Shadrach, meshach and Abednego songs.

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You know that was a type and a shadow, but in the sons and daughters of God that go through the affliction process, amen, listen to me.

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Malachi is your theme song.

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Malachi is your theme song.

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You're going to be purified with fire until it just comes off.

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Over to God, hallelujah, and you won't go out anymore.

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See, revelations tells me that there's a place where you come in and you stay in.

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You don't go out anymore, hallelujah.

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Now, those are the sons of God that have learned to be kept by the power of God and learned to be kept by this voice and by His glory.

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They don't want to go out.

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They don't want.

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They don't want to go out, amen.

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Because they're not that anymore.

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They're not sheep anymore.

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They've been transformed to a different level of experience and in that experience you don't go out.

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Now that doesn't mean you go to a monastery or someplace and just hide out, but your spirit stays connected.

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You don't go out unless he goes out.

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If he wants to go out, you go out.

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If he says come on, you go, hallelujah, and only in him, like that, is the veil taken away.

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And when that veil is taken away, you better look out, because the Scriptures will do things that you have never seen them do before.

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You'll hear God.

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I've heard God do this, I've heard God do this and it is just such a wonderful thing to start singing scriptures over me.

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And they're not continuous scriptures, They'll just be one thought here, another thought here, another thought here, another thought here, another thought here.

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He pulls those scriptures together into His thought.

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It doesn't matter to him that they occurred hundreds of years apart and were written by a different man.

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That matters to us when we see the Bible as a linear document.

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Amen.

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That doesn't matter to God.

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God can pull something out of Revelation as easy as he can pull out of Genesis, tie them together, put a bow on it and say have you considered that?

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And sometimes he just speaks it into you and doesn't even ask you to consider it, he just pours it into you.

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But you've got to stick around for that veil to come off and you start to experience something that will not pass away, it will not disappear, it will not lose its power, it will not lose its ability for transformation.

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I can't even begin to tell you dozens would not even be close how many times I've preached these scriptures, taught these scriptures right here in 3 and 4 of this chapter.

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I've got no idea.

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And it doesn't matter.

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I never preach the same thing twice, it just doesn't matter.

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There's no end.

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There's no end to the glory that the Spirit will put on, will minister to you in your understanding of these things, if you take off the veil One way to go.

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But even to this day what day is that?

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The day of visitation?

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Even to the day of your visitation, when the letter is read, a veil rests on your heart, unless one turns to the Lord and hears that voice and receives the ministry of glory.

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Are you following me?

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You know you can be the most devout Christian and I've known people I mean they pray you around the block.

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I mean they were, you know they'd shut themselves off and they'd seek God.

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I've known people that have prayed for revivals in places and they didn't know half of what we know, but they knew how to pray.

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They knew something.

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And I'm not saying those I'm not even going there that people are saved, unsaved, or nothing else.

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I don't know all that.

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That's way over my pay grade.

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I don't know none of that.

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God determines that.

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He works with people, he develops people.

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All I know is that you make, you make yourself spiritually blind when you will not hear his voice or receive his glory.

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I do know that because the bible says that, on the con, on the contrary, you will become spiritually sighted in the mind of Christ when you start hearing His voice and obeying it and walking and distributing His glory.

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It's as simple as that, amen.

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And when you take off the veil and come out of Moses and into Jesus, amen.

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And you can be in Moses and still be in a Christian church, because you've turned gospel into a letter of condemnation.

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Oh, I wish I you know, but we can do that on Sunday.

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I'm not going to re-preach that Letter of condemnation.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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We preach that letter of condemnation, hallelujah.

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But this day of visitation, when Jesus visits you, when the voice visits you, when the glory visits you, hallelujah, praise God.

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See, when Sarah got saved, you know, the person of Jesus didn't appear in her room.

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The glory of Jesus appeared in her room.

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When I got it, the person of Jesus appeared in my room.

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Same Jesus, different manifestation, same result.

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Here we are, 50 some years later.

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We're still here, same result.

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Here we are, 50 some years later.

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We're still here.

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We're still preaching it.

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I told somebody the other day.

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I said you know, I have to apologize, I'm preaching an old message.

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I've been preaching this thing for 30 some years because it just doesn't get old, it doesn't pass away.

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I don't have to look for something new and trendy.

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I just, you know, I'll preach second corinthians and I'll preach hebrews, and then I'll go back and forth and stop off at galatians a little bit, and it just doesn't get old, because the veil is taken away when you turn to the Lord and His voice and His glory Listen.

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History would have been totally different had the people of Israel just stood there and listened.

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Well, that's a bottom line of all of our lives and how many will be like all of our lives and how many applies to them.

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To what will it be like?

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They had listened and produced a nation of millions, and those evangelists went out and preached a gospel of hearing God's voice and ministering in his glory.

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Not just Paul, not just Silas, not just Timothy, not just an innumerable.

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What the world would be like today?

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And it all goes back 3,500 years to Zion.

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The word of the Lord still rings out.

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Do not reject him who speaks.

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You can't.

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If you do, you won't be able to stand on mount zion anymore.

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You'll have to take up your tent and move to sign.

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Hang out with hagar and the spirit of death and condemnation and no spirit.

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Amen and no spirit.

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Amen.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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Glory to God.

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Praise God, father, open our eyes that we might see wondrous things from your word, manifestation of your glory in our day.

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The day of our visitation come, oh, jesus.

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God, you are visiting this earth and you are showing us great things, and this is a day of mighty things.

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This earth is shaking, weather is unpredictable, earthquakes in various places, thunderings, lightnings.

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You are touching this earth once again, god.

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Let us see the day of your visitation and turn to the word of the Lord, that we might know that day of visitation and come to that Mount Zion, an innumerable company of angels, to the church of the firstborn and the assembly of God.

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We give you praise Lord.

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We give you praise God.

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Hallelujah, thank you, jesus.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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Amen and amen, praise God.