Jan. 9, 2025

Overcoming Guilt and Condemnation Through the Spirit's Ministry (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 5)

Overcoming Guilt and Condemnation Through the Spirit's Ministry (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 5)

Send us a text Unlock the profound teachings of the Apostle Paul as we explore the fourth chapter of 2 Corinthians in our latest episode. What if your spiritual journey could be transformed from a path of condemnation to one of glorious transformation? We investigate the historical and spiritual contrasts between the law of Sinai and the liberating ministry of the Spirit, as Paul so passionately illustrates. Discover how the early apostles managed to spread the gospel across the globe in just...

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Unlock the profound teachings of the Apostle Paul as we explore the fourth chapter of 2 Corinthians in our latest episode. What if your spiritual journey could be transformed from a path of condemnation to one of glorious transformation? We investigate the historical and spiritual contrasts between the law of Sinai and the liberating ministry of the Spirit, as Paul so passionately illustrates. Discover how the early apostles managed to spread the gospel across the globe in just one lifetime, reaching as far as India, China, and possibly even the New World, and uncover the ancient testimonies that point to this incredible achievement.

The concept of mercy stands as a cornerstone in our discussion, shedding light on its vital role in ministry. By examining the stories of David and the woman who ministered to Jesus, we delve into the boundless, transformative power of divine forgiveness. Through these narratives, listeners are invited to reflect on how God’s mercy continually draws us back to His goodness, reshaping our lives in the most profound ways. We also discuss the pressures faced by modern-day ministers and how embracing God's mercy helps them remain humble and connected to the communities they serve.

Finally, we confront the recurring feelings of condemnation and uncertainty that plague many believers, often perpetuated by certain theological teachings. How can one break free from this cycle and embrace a deeper, more transformative relationship with God?  Through prayer, reflection, meditation, and an understanding of New Testament teachings, we guide listeners towards a life of spiritual growth and divine adventure. Join us as we explore the journey from bondage to spiritual freedom, offering insights into aligning our lives with God's will and moving ever closer to the image of Jesus.

00:00 - Ministry of Glory and Transformation

15:29 - Ministry of Glory and Transformation Expounded

23:06 - Ministry of Glory, Mercy, and Pressure

37:34 - Journey From Glory to Glory

51:28 - Break Free From Condemnation

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

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We're going to continue on in this story, this study of the spirit of ministry, the spirit of ministry which is the spirit of glory, the ministry of glory.

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We've been using the context, and this passage of Scripture is extremely important and extremely revelatory in a lot of ways.

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I think it's almost impossible to get the depth of what is in these few verses here, but the one thing that you cannot do is take these verses out of context.

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The context begins back in the middle part of chapter 3, where Paul starts talking about how the great sin that Israel committed when they rejected the voice of God at Sinai and Moses began to go up because the people said we don't want to listen.

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You go up and we'll listen to you.

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And all of a sudden they put a mediator between God and man, when God didn't want that.

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Not under the law and clearly not under the New Covenant, where there is one mediator between God and man, the man, christ Jesus.

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But God wanted to speak to his people.

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His people didn't want to listen, and so we get this really dramatic picture of Moses coming down the mountain, glowing with the reflected glory of God, because he'd been up there with him for so many days and the people of Israel could not gaze upon Moses for the glory that was coming off of him.

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And Paul says this if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious will be the ministry of the Spirit, amen.

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So from that we know that there's a ministry of glory, that the Spirit of God is the minister of that.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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So the context for this is that great day, that historic day, that day that changed history, when the people of Israel rejected God and received the written law as a punishment and condemnation for their sin.

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Now, how do you know that's true?

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Because the Bible says that it is a ministry of condemnation and that the judgment written was nailed to the cross.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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So you can think about this, just think about this that one of the great sins that Jesus took to the cross was the sin that Israel committed when they rejected the voice of God, because that's where the death sentence was written.

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Up until that point, the Bible says this very clearly that up until the law was given, death was in the earth.

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Amen, men died and they just rolled off the planet.

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Amen, men died and they just rolled off the planet.

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But until the law was given, there was no consciousness of sin.

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Men in their nature had lost all consciousness of sin.

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I've been all over this with y'all before.

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If you look through history, I mean history is replete with some of the most atrocious murders and just rape, pillage and plunder scenes hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of people in one time.

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I'm not talking about World War I or World War II.

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I'm talking about way back in time, because there was just no knowledge of sin.

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People just did whatever they wanted to do and they loosely formed themselves around government with some laws to just maintain some law and order, but that did not restrain people at all.

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And until the law was given there was no knowledge of sin.

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After the law, there was knowledge of sin, but there was no power in the law to restrain sin.

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Hallelujah.

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And so the condemnation for sin, the judgment written against sin, was written at Sinai because the people of God rejected the voice of the Lord.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Now we come to.

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And then Paul starts talking about this ministry of the Spirit is a ministry of transformation.

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We talked about this last time, talking about where the Spirit now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord, there is liberty.

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And this law of liberty that James talks about is a law of hearing and doing, seeing and doing, and it leads us into a law of transformation.

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Verse 18 says but we all with an unveiled face.

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In other words, we don't put a veil over our face, over our glory, as glory containers.

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We don't do that.

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We behold, in the mirror of the revealed word, the glory of the Lord.

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And that glory, what is the spirit?

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He is the Spirit of ministry, and that ministry is a ministry of glory, the glory of the Lord.

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We are being transformed.

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So this ministry of glory is a ministry of transformation, transformed into what?

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A warmed-up Christian, a warmed-up human, somebody that just has better habits.

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That's not what this ministry is about.

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This ministry is to be transformed into the image of Jesus, and I'm not talking about when we go to heaven, I'm talking about now.

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Amen, you want to know what Jesus looks like.

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He looks like you, amen.

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You want to know what Jesus looks like.

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He looks like you, only you, as you're being transformed into His image.

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That's what Jesus looks like.

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I've seen these pictures of artist's rendition computer-generated stuff, trying to figure out what Jesus probably looked like.

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You don't have to go to all that trouble.

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Just look at somebody that's full of the Holy Ghost being transformed in him and you will see what Jesus looks like.

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That's what Jesus looks like, hello.

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If that's not true, folks, he wouldn't live in you.

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Does not the Bible say that he knows the very hairs of your head?

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When he formed you and he told Jeremiah that he called him from his mother's womb, he knew him, hallelujah.

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He's known you for a long time.

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He knew exactly how you would look and that's why he formed you that way, so he could look like that.

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You guys aren't believing this, amen.

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Now, I know that there's a God who sits on the throne, and I know that he dwells in inapproachable light, and I know that he sits on a throne that's on the emerald seat, and the elders, the four and twenty elders.

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I know all of that.

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But I also know there's a Holy Ghost, and I also know there's a Jesus that sits at his right hand, and I know that it is the purpose, the entire purpose, of the triune God to transform us into their image.

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Hallelujah, when you get your glorified body, who do you think you'll look like?

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Well, you'll look a little bit like you and you'll look a lot like him.

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Oh, yes, yes, you will.

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And what are you going to do with that glorified body?

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You're going to continue to be transformed into his image.

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Because if you think you know what Jesus looks like, you better think again.

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Because even in his glorified form, he appeared differently to different people.

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Glorified form, he appeared differently to different people.

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So when you think you've exhausted all of the transformation that you're going to do, think again.

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That's why you have eternity, because in order to be transformed into the image of Jesus, you will need eternity to finish the process.

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Amen, because that's how great he is.

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Nobody wants to teach this.

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This isn't elementary school stuff.

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Amen, this is for those that are being transformed.

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Praise the name of Jesus.

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So does that mean we'll never get to the fullness.

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No.

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Because eternity is forever.

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Yeah.

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I didn't say about fullness I just said, into His image, into the image of the fullness of Christ.

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Amen, not your fullness, his fullness.

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You're being transformed into that fullness.

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But since that fullness is infinite amen you need eternity to explore it.

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You see the logic in that If you got immediately full when you got glorified and there was nothing else to do except be glorified, what would be the purpose of eternity Except just to hang out?

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You know, but it's not like that.

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We've been conned into thinking that post-death life is just this permanent vacation, and that's not what it is.

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Our post-death life in Christ is a continual process of transformation and work.

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There are people up in heaven that are working.

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I'm not talking about angels, I'm talking about people.

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They're not up there on a vacation, they're up there working.

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They're doing things for the kingdom of God, amen.

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They're not up there on a.

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They don't look at it as a vacation, they look at it as a job, as a work, as a promotion.

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What they ran out of steam to do on this planet, they're doing in heaven.

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Hallelujah.

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Nobody talks about this kind of stuff because religion wants you to think in strictly religious or get saved, get a ticket to heaven, kind of go to church and be a better person and then you'll get promoted.

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That's foolishness.

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That's not what the Bible teaches.

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The Bible doesn't teach that at all.

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The Bible teaches that you come into this salvation experience by believing in him and upon him and that, believing in his word, that he speaks to you, that word will work in you, the ministry of glory, and transform you from one level of glory to another level of glory, so that your spirit man now becomes more like Jesus every day.

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Hallelujah, I got so much Bible on you I could cook a turkey with it.

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Amen, glory to God.

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They've told us stuff that is unreal because nobody reads their Bible.

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You read your Bible.

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You won't believe that stuff Because it's not there.

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The only way it's there is by taking Scripture out of context, and I'm going to deal with that in just a minute.

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I'm not saying that what we've been taught is entirely wrong.

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I'm just saying that nobody really teaches about what life is going to be after death.

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They just say we're going to heaven.

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Well, you know, when you die, you go to heaven.

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Well, we're all going to go to heaven.

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All God's children are going to go to heaven.

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What are you going to do when you die, we're going to go to heaven.

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I'm going to be with Jesus.

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Well, what does that mean?

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What are you going to do when you die?

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We're going to go to heaven, I'm going to be with Jesus.

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Well, what does that mean?

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See, I'm the kind of person I'm not ever satisfied with somebody's pat answer.

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Well, when we die, we're going to go to heaven.

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Why, why would we do that?

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What is the big deal about going to heaven?

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Well, we're going to be with Jesus.

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I'm with Jesus now.

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His Spirit, listen.

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If there's a difference between His Spirit and Jesus, we are in big trouble.

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And if the Spirit of Jesus fills me now, I can't get any closer to Him.

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Well, I don't need to go to heaven to be close to Jesus.

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Jesus is in me.

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Does anybody believe that?

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I mean, do you really believe that?

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If you don't believe that, that's why you need to go to heaven to be with Jesus, because you ain't got no Jesus now.

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It's real, simple, folks.

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That is a reality.

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I'm just going to preach.

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That's a reality.

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If you've got to go to heaven to be with Jesus and you ain't got Jesus now, think about it, go home and pray about that.

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Lord will tell you I'm right.

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But if you got Jesus now, you're in no hurry to get to heaven, because you're going to be doing the same thing there that you're doing now.

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Oh hallelujah, you just won't have the aches and pains and groans and moans and all that stuff.

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Listen, your calling and gifting are without repentance and they are forever.

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So you don't get to retire here and you don't get to retire there.

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There's no retirement in the Lord.

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Amen, praise God.

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You want to ask something, mike?

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Just so long as I don't have to build F-35s up there, you might build Elijah chariots.

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All right, I can dig it.

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Glory to God.

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So verse 1, chapter 4 says therefore, therefore, what?

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Therefore, going all the way back to this discussion about Moses and his veil and glory and all that stuff, all of those verses is a therefore, we haven't had a.

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Therefore, we've had a.

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Now we've had some other things, but a therefore wraps it up and it makes a transition.

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Therefore, seeing all these things about the glory and the ministry of glory, we have this ministry.

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What ministry?

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Now people will take that and start with that scripture and they'll go well, we have this ministry to preach.

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That's not what they're talking about here.

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They're talking about a ministry of glory, a ministry of preach.

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That's not what they're talking about here.

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They're talking about a ministry of glory, a ministry of transformation.

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We have watered down this gospel and we have watered down the power of preaching, so that people don't understand what this gospel is all about.

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But I'm here to tell you, folks, that within a whole lot less time than most of us have lived, this gospel was preached to the entire world.

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That is what the Bible says.

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Now you can think about, you can look at your little book of maps and you can look at Paul's journeys and you can say well, you know, bless God, that's where the gospel got carried to.

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My Bible says that Paul said this, that this gospel has been preached in the entire world in Paul's lifetime, which was less years than any of us here except for Sarah.

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Are you hearing what I'm telling you?

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That in the span of your lifetime Paul said the gospel had been preached to the entire world.

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Thomas had gone to India, others had gone into China.

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It is testified that some even went into the New World and got over here and preached to the natives.

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Just because we don't know these things doesn't mean they don't happen.

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There are testimonies back in ancient Indian tribes that testify to a race of white men in beards that came over and told them about a God who had come down from heaven and had died for their sins.

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Do you understand what I'm talking about?

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This gospel got over into Latin America and it got over into this continent.

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It got to China, it got to India.

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Now, just because the generations that followed the apostles didn't follow after it and keep it going, is not the gospel's fault.

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That happened in Europe as well as in you know.

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It happened everywhere Because people denied the Spirit and quit hearing the voice of God.

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But I'm telling you, what with the power of God that was released after the resurrection was enough to take this gospel to the entire planet.

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Now you go.

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How does that work?

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Look, if Philip could jump and fly 30 miles to make a preaching engagement in Samaria, just think what God can do if people believe Him.

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Glory to God.

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So this ministry is the ministry of glory and the ministry of transformation, and this ministry was the ministry that Paul took to Antioch and converted thousands upon tens of thousands upon tens of thousands.

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And God brought people from all over the Mediterranean to Antioch to be trained in the way to deploy house-based ministry.

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And by this ministry, paul and others conquered that part of the world inside of three, four generations.

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Hallelujah, in the time of your life, your parents' life and your grandparents' life, europe parents' life and your grandparents' life, europe, asia, minor Northern Africa and Spain were all taken for Jesus by the year 300, it was the major religion in that area, within 250 years, in that area, within 250 years, praise God, which includes your great-grandparents.

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Now we have a ministry, we have this ministry of glory, and we all have one, not just Paul, not just John, not just Peter, but we all have one, not just Paul, not just John, not just Peter, but we all have it.

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Who's the we?

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Those that are in Christ.

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Going back to verse 15 and 16, where Paul said that the veil is taken away for those that are in Christ.

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So those that are in Christ, amen, are those that have this ministry of glory.

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Are we hearing this?

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And we also have received a ministry of mercy.

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Now, I said this Sunday, I'll say it again God is rich in mercy.

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His mercies are unfailing, they are new every morning and they are infinite.

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Amen.

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David said goodness and mercy follow me.

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He couldn't get rid of them.

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He couldn't even get rid of them.

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Listen to me carefully.

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He couldn't even get rid of them.

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When he went over to Bathsheba's house, he couldn't get rid of them.

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When he sent his generals out to kill Uriah, he couldn't get rid of him.

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When he was trying to bribe Uriah to go into his wife, and he wouldn't do it because he was more honorable than David.

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He couldn't get rid of the goodness and mercy that was following him because mercy was going to come upon him and lead him back to the goodness of God.

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Oh, yes, it was Amen.

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This mercy, this ministry of mercy is so important.

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And Paul knew exactly what he was talking about because he was the one who had received the most mercy.

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You remember the story I think Sarah taught on it last Sunday when Jesus had been ministered to by the woman washing his feet Luke, chapter 7, and he asked Simon basically man, had he ended up asking him the question who loves the most, him who has been forgiven little or him who has been forgiven much?

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Simon said, well, obviously he who has been forgiven much.

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And he looked at the woman and said she has been forgiven much.

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Go and go and go in peace.

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The implication was that Simon hadn't quite made it.

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Amen, are you following any of this or I'm just rambling?

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Jesus is a minister.

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The ministry of glory, the ministry of transformation, in a lot of its essence is a ministry of mercy, because those of us who minister in the realms of glory and have experienced great things in the Lord, if we don't have mercy, we will be some of the most self-righteous prigs and prudish know-it-all just jerks.

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I mean, if you don't have mercy on God's people, amen, and God has given you a little bit of himself to minister, you will be a self-righteous Pharisee, and that's just the bottom line of it, amen.

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The thing that tempers self-righteousness and prudishness and all of those kinds of things is the mercy of God, the fact that you've been forgiven.

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Now, paul, listen.

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Paul had a lot to brag about.

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Paul was one of the most educated people in his world.

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He could speak four or five languages.

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He knew the entire Old Testament, a lot of it from memory.

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He knew Greek philosophers, he knew Greek poets.

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He was just an exceptional, exceptionally talented and gifted man.

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But he said this about himself he said of all men, I am the chief sinner.

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But he said this about himself he said of all men, I am the chief sinner.

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Why?

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Well, you go down the list, cain, how many murders is he guilty of?

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One?

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Lamech, he said he was guilty of seven.

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You know David, as far as we could tell one.

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Moses, as far as we can tell one.

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We're talking to some of the patriarchs of the Bible.

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How many people did Paul kill?

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We have no idea.

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He was a mass murderer.

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He was so full of rage that he went.

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I mean, he was going to a whole other city.

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He ran out of people to persecute in Jerusalem and he was going to Damascus Because he'd run them out of town and they'd fled to Damascus and he was chasing them.

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Let me get you know.

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Let's put it this way you know, the marshal's been set loose.

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There's some outlaws in the city and he's gone with a big posse, starts rousting the outlaws and so the outlaws flee to another town, thinking they're going to be safe there.

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But the marshal takes an even bigger posse and goes and chases them in that city.

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That's exactly what was happening in Jerusalem.

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The Christians were outlaws, they had been banned from the fellowship of the Jews, and Paul was the marshal and he's going to go round them up and if they resisted they got the sword.

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I mean, that's what was happening.

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There's no telling how many people Paul killed.

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Not only did he just kill people, but he killed God's people, and he killed them in the beginning of their destinies.

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This is an important thing to God.

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So Paul said listen, I am what I am by the grace of God.

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I have received great mercy from God and I know.

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That's why Paul can say my God is a God of comfort and I have learned to comfort others by the comfort that God has given me.

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You can say the same thing about mercy.

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God is a God of mercy and I have been able to minister mercy to others because of the mercy he's shown me.

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But if you haven't received any mercy from God, you can't minister it me.

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But if you haven't received any mercy from God, you can't minister it.

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You can only receive.

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You can only minister what God gives you.

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Amen, no, so we've received mercy, so we can minister mercy.

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And so Paul says this.

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He says we do not lose heart.

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In other words, we don't faint, we don't cave into pressure.

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What kind of pressure is that?

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See, nobody asks these questions.

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What kind of pressure is Paul talking about here?

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Well, you know the ministry, brother.

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It's hard work and it's tedious and you just got to, you know.

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But if you're going to be successful at it, you just got to keep on going.

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So we don't faint, we don't give in to pressure, we just keep on going.

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That's not what Paul's talking about here.

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That's not the context.

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Context is not about being exhausted.

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The context is about ministering in the glory.

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We understand what I'm talking about here.

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This is not we're'm talking about here.

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This is not we're not talking about.

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You know well, the ministry's hard and you just got to keep on going.

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That would have been a good sermon for the shipwreck part of Paul's life, you know but that's not where he's at now and he's not talking about that.

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He's talking about the ministry of glory.

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Since we have this ministry of glory, we don't cave into pressure, we don't faint, we don't cave into pressure.

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What kind of pressure?

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The pressure to fall back from the glory.

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Listen to what Paul's saying here.

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Paul is saying we've been given this ministry of glory.

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It is a ministry of transformation and we do not in any way cave into the pressure to back off of that assignment and do something less.

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That was Israel's sin and do something less.

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That was Israel's sin.

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The glory was manifested from heaven and what was the first thing they did?

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They caved in to the pressure of the glory.

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Listen to what they did.

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We've been through this before.

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They're standing there, god said come to the mountain, don't come any closer than this, right here.

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And then, all of a sudden, here comes thunder, here comes lightning, here comes earthquakes, here comes rumblings, here comes trumpets, here comes angels, here comes a voice, here comes a heat that seared the rocks to a temperature that's greater than the core of the sun.

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I'm talking about stuff that has never been seen on the planet before, and they caved into the pressure of that coming upon them and they backed off and they said we don't want it, we're not having it.

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Moses, you want it, you go get it.

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We're not having it.

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We are having it, moses.

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You want it, you go get it.

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We're not having it, we are rejecting it.

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We are caving in to the pressure of the glory.

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Let me tell you something, folks when you minister this gospel, some of the places and some of the ways that we have, amen, there is a pressure and there is a weight of glory.

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We're going to talk about that in another message.

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There is a pressure and there is a weight of glory.

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We're going to talk about that in another message.

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There is a pressure and a weight of glory that comes on you.

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You can feel it.

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You can feel it and you better not walk back from it, you better not reject it, but you better embrace it and go with it, amen, because it can consume you as well as those around you.

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If you move into it and don't resist it and don't reject it and don't fade under the pressure, it will sustain you, it will strengthen you.

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I've been in places you can't you probably?

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I have been so sick I couldn't walk.

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I was in a hotel room, been sick for days, been ministering, and I'd gotten to a place where I was so weak and so dehydrated I couldn't walk.

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I said you all go, leave me here, made plans for another guy to take the service and I'm laying there on the bed and the Lord said get up and go to this service.

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Lord said get up and go to this service.

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I said oh Jesus, I mean I'm really there's not, there's not a part of me that I am just so sick.

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I got myself dressed.

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I had to catch a bus, went down to the lobby.

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I said what bus do I get to go to the center of Al-Awayla?

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And they said go out and take this bus, went out, paid the bus, got on the bus.

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I am so sick.

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First thing I did when I got off the bus, I went to the first public bathroom I could find, got myself all together and went to the service.

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They go what in the world are you doing here?

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I said the Lord told me to get up and go to this service.

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I said.

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I told the man.

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I said I know you're ready to preach and I'm sorry, but the Lord has given me a word and I'm going to preach this word.

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And I mean all the time that I was preaching and praying for people, the glory of God got into me and sustained me and strengthened me.

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I didn't have any of the physical symptoms that I'd had for days.

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I felt like I was totally healed.

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I felt like I could do this for hours and I just flowed in that glory as he infused it in me, and as soon as it was over, I almost collapsed.

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They had to have people on both sides of me take me back to the public restroom, amen, and get me home.

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But for that time, from the time that the word of the Lord came to me and told me to get up and go to the service, to the time that the glory was lifted and the ministry was over, I was taken into a realm that was different than the realm that I was in when I was in the hotel room amen.

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And it was different than the realm I was in after he left, because I didn't reject the voice.

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Now, there were people healed that night that would not have been healed if I had stayed back in the hotel room.

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There were people touched by the power of God.

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That would have been touched.

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It would have been a different kind of meeting, and I don't get any of the credit for that.

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All I did was drag my poor little self out of the bed and get on with it.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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There's a pressure and a weight of this glory.

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That is awesome, literally awesome and I don't use that word very often, but it is an awesome thing.

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It is an awesome thing to be in the glory cloud working and ministering.

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But you can't resist it.

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You cannot faint and give in to pressure and back off of it.

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That is one of the most dangerous things you can ever do, because it repeats the sin that Israel did, just like at Sinai, when they caved in, backed away and didn't want to have anything to do with what God wanted them to do.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Verse 2 says but we, same people that have this ministry, the same people that are in Christ, the same people that have taken off the veil that's the we here.

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We have renounced the hidden things of shame.

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Folks, listen, you don't need a PhD to tell you that ministers ought to renounce evil things.

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Duh.

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But that's not the context here, the we here is those that are in Christ, that have taken off the veil and now see, and now radiate a glory that is unrestrained.

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Those ministers renounce the hidden things of shame that were there when they walked under the law, when they had a veil over their eyes and just like Moses' veil, do you know what Moses had to do?

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Not only did Moses have to hide his face, but he had to hide himself.

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There was a shame associated with the reflected glory that Moses had, because, I mean, if he got too close to the people with that glory, they were ashamed, they would get killed, he'd be accountable.

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Glory they were ashamed, they would get killed, he'd be accountable.

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We don't learn this in Sunday school.

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We just learn that, oh, moses came down with his face shining, but there was a shame and a guilt associated with it.

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Why?

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Because they were walking under the law of condemnation.

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Wherever there's condemnation, there is shame, there is guilt, there is this thing that gnaws at you, that you know.

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Okay, I might have done this and I might have gone and given the pigeons and sacrificed the goat and done everything I was supposed to do, but I'm still bad.

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I'm probably going to be back here with pigeons and goats tomorrow and some more pigeons and goats the week after that, because that's just who I am.

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I'm just that way.

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I'm just going to be a pigeon and goat guy, because I'm going to do it one day and bring the goat.

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There was no freedom from the bondage and there was a constant reminder of the guilt and the shame.

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Glory to God.

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Listen, folks, you can think all you want to.

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Well, they brought that goat into the temple and it was a token of their pardon and all that.

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That's foolishness.

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They brought that thing back because that's what God commanded, but it did nothing to restrain their sin.

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They were going to be back next week.

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They always were.

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If that wasn't the case, the temple would have shut down in a few weeks.

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Everybody would have got saved, healed, delivered, but that wasn't the case.

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They just kept on sinning and kept on bringing the offerings.

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And Paul says we renounce that.

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We renounce living under that kind of condemnation, we renounce that shame, we renounce that bondage.

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We renounce the bondage to the letter of the law, to the letter of a certain way of living, and we are now free in the ministry of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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There is no condemnation in that.

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There's no shame and guilt in that.

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We reject anything that is not of the Spirit of glory.

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You got to hear Paul and you got to hear it good.

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We reject anything that is not of this spirit.

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So, if it's not of this spirit, we're not going to minister it, we're not going to give in to it, we're not going to cave back to it.

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We're not doing it.

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We are going to keep pressing into this glory that is transformational and will take us from one level of glory to another.

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Hallelujah.

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Now see, you can apply this.

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If you don't think I'm talking to anybody in this room.

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You can apply this real easily to your prayer life.

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Amen.

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This would be a great place to start To go to the Lord and say Lord, I want the spirit of glory and transformation to consume my prayer life, amen, and transformation to consume my prayer life.

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And I want to go from one level of glory to another level of glory and I want my prayers to be answered.

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And not only do I want my prayers to be answered, but I want to enter into a realm of glory where I'm praying what you pray.

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I'm tired of praying what I want to pray.

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I want to pray what you want to enter into a realm of glory where I'm praying what you pray.

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I'm tired of praying what I want to pray.

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I want to pray what you want to pray.

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Not only am I going to enter into that glory, but I'm going to hear what God says and I'm going to pray that.

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Not only am I going to do that, but I'm going to go to another level of glory where God starts to talk to me and say I want you to pray with me about this.

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And then you go to another level of glory where you just hear his heartbeat and you just pray in tongues until you pray it out and he says that's good, go do whatever you need to do.

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There are levels of glory in prayer.

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I am the worst person that you ever want.

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This happens to me all the time that they want me to open the service in prayer.

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This happens to me all the time that they want me to open the service in prayer.

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I am not a public prayer.

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I'm not one of these.

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Oh Jesus, I'm just not that.

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What I'm good at is coming out and going somebody worship Jesus in this place, somebody.

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Just lift up your hands and let's praise this Jesus, my God, and I just start praying in tongues because I don't know how to pray anymore like everybody else prays.

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Because I don't know how to pray anymore like everybody else prays.

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I don't know how to do that.

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I quit doing that so many years ago.

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I just don't know how.

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I don't pray a long time.

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I don't have to pray a long time, I just get into where God's at and I start praying.

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That.

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It may not be anything they want to hear.

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You know well what we were thinking about this morning.

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Hey, you know.

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You asked the wrong guy.

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It may not be anything.

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They want to hear what we were thinking about this morning.

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Hey, you asked the wrong guy.

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I'm not a cheerleader.

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I'm not going to do that kind of stuff.

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I've paid too much of a price in learning how to pray with God to do that.

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I'm just not going to do that.

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I'm telling you you can learn about glory to glory.

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If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can learn about it in your prayers, amen.

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When you learn about it there, then you'll understand some of what I'm talking about.

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That God leads you into the realms where he lives and where he is and how he thinks and where he lives and breathes and has His being, and you can get into that realm with him and go from one glory to another level of glory.

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Praise God, you can do it.

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But you can't cave in and back off of it or else the transformational process will stop, and that's what happens to a lot of people.

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They enter in, they start to get transformed, then they get afraid, they get scared, they're afraid of being consumed by it, they're afraid of being too radical, they're afraid of being too, too, too, too, too, too.

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Nobody will relate to me, nobody will like me, nobody will understand me.

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It doesn't matter.

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The only thing that matters is if God understands you and you understand Him.

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It absolutely does not matter if anybody else does, and I don't care who they are, it does not matter.

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At the end of the day, folks, all of this and forever is going to be all about God, all about Him, nothing about you, all about Him, amen.

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We live in a realm where that's true, but we don't live in it Because there's other things that come in and crowd that out.

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Part of learning how to go from glory to glory is to crowd that stuff out and keep it away and not cave into it.

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You go well, what about?

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What about?

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What about?

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What about?

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What about?

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What about?

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What about?

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What about?

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Push it away, push it away, push it away.

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Don't cave into that Cave into the glory.

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Don't cave into that Cave into the glory.

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Don't resist the glory, resist that Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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You've got to renounce those hidden things, those things that don't look like they're bad and they're not bad, they're just there.

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But they're contrary to moving from glory to glory, to glory to glory to glory.

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Hello, I didn't even get an amen from Mike on that one.

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Hallelujah, not walking in craftiness.

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I probably ought to stop right there.

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Let's touch on this one.

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I think we'll wrap it up.

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Not walking in craftiness, if you're not, listen to me, in ministry we all have one.

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Whatever that is, you can walk in a spirit of manipulation or you can walk in a spirit of glory, but you can't do both.

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Manipulation, you can walk in that and you can be a really good crowd control person.

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You can move them.

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We've all seen this.

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I'm not going to mention any names and I'm not going to cast aspersions.

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I've seen it in multiple ministries, so I'm not talking about one particular ministry.

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But you can condition people that when you go like that, everybody in that section falls down and they'll all swear it was the Holy Ghost and it might be.

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But I've seen a whole lot of people that I know were not gifted by God start doing that kind of stuff and people just kind of fell down because it got to be trendy and that is nothing but flat-out manipulation and psychological crowd control.

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It is nothing more than that.

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You can do that and you can have crowds and people build ministries on that stuff and there are big churches all over town that major in that.

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But you've got to let that go.

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You can't walk in that kind of deceit and craftiness and manipulation and chintziness.

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I mean, look, if your shtick is to drive a motorcycle up the center aisle of the church and ride up on the platform steps and get off in your colors and you're going to preach that day, if that's your shtick, god, what are you going to do next week?

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You know, if that's your stick, good God, what are you going to do next week and the week after that and the week after that to get people manipulated?

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You remember that we went to this one thing.

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I thought, dear God.

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I said I leaned over to one guy.

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I said there's nothing left here but elephants.

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I mean they had motorcycles, they had cars, they had bands they had you know.

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I mean they had motorcycles, they had cars, they had bands they had.

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You know.

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I mean they had everything in the kitchen sink.

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Coming to bring people.

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I said the only thing we need here to complete this circus is some elephants.

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I said I'm going home.

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No, brother, you got to preach.

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I said I'm not preaching after all of this.

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I said you got to.

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I said I'm not preaching after all of this.

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I said you got to, I got up there and I let it go in the Holy Ghost.

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And there were people that came up after me and said thank God, you finally said something for Jesus, thank you know.

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There were people that came up and begged for more Because they'd been.

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You know it was just a sideshow.

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I couldn't believe it.

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Glory to God.

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Sometimes it's just the people, though not necessarily ministers.

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You think?

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Well, I went to a service one time, but we did, and who's the guy that has the Ministry of Laughter?

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Rodney Howard Brown.

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He's excellent at it, but he doesn't do it all the time.

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He doesn't do it himself.

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And so three or four weeks after he left we went to a service over there.

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The lady was speaking and different people in the congregation were trying to make something happen.

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And I'm thinking God, they're being rude to this lady.

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Because they caught on to the thing.

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And it is true, sometimes people will get caught up into something and try to reproduce it.

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You know, and it's, it's sad, it is, you know, it just tells you.

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You know it's sad, it is, you know it.

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Just.

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You know you just need to be, you need to be real in God.

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You know you need to be real in God and and just let all the the shtick stuff go.

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You know, just let it go.

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You know none of that stuff's gonna last.

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The gold dust doesn't last, the gold teeth doesn't last.

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Know none of that stuff's going to last.

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The gold dust doesn't last, the gold teeth doesn't last.

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You know none of that stuff lasts.

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Huh, oh dancers, yeah, dancers, some of them go.

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Honey, you need to go home.

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Oh, word of God, who told you you look good in that?

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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But people will.

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You know, there's so much, and obviously it was happening in Paul's day or he wouldn't have addressed it.

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But he said there was greed, people were seeking after positions of fame instead of glory.

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It's the same.

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You can seek after numbers, you can seek after music programs, you can seek after all kinds of stuff.

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But if you don't seek after the glory, you're resisting it.

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And if you're after the glory, you're resisting it.

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And if you're resisting the glory, then you're doing the same thing Israel did, and the punishment for that is to be placed under the condemnation of the law.

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You won't hear anybody else preach this, but it's so clear here in these scriptures that the punishment for resisting is the condemnation of the law.

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You say well, we're Christians, we're not under that.

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You are if you resist the glory.

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You are if you resist the glory and you're not pursuing the transformation of glory unto glory.

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There is no middle ground.

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You're either doing that or you're under condemnation.

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And that's why, folks, that's why, because people are constantly under condemnation because they're not pursuing the glory, that you can get away with churches that get the same people saved week after week after week and they got no message but that message.

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And why does it work?

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Because they're not pursuing glory and they're constantly under condemnation, so people never know whether they're saved or not.

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That's why you can get a whole many denominations and they'll just flat out tell you we don't know if we're going to heaven or not.

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It all depends on whether we do one more good thing than bad Folks.

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If that's not a ministry of condemnation, I don't know what is.

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I've heard several people say that at work.

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I hope, when it all comes out, that I've got more good things than good bad things.

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But you know, but folks that you know, they come by that honest, because a lot of those people have come out of denominations and churches.

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That's what they believe, that's what they teach, and if they don't publicly state that's what they believe, that's what they teach, and if they don't publicly state that's what they believe and teach, that's what they practice.

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Or else they preach a different message on Sundays, but they preach the same old message and the same people go down week after week after week.

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How many times are you going to get saved?

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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As many times as it takes, I guess.

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Praise the name of Jesus.

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We'll pick this up next time, father.

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We just pray in the mighty name of Jesus.

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The words that you spoke here tonight will be real words for us, of transformation, leading us into a place, god, we've never been before.

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We don't want to keep going around Sinai and keep going around the same old thing and eating the same old food and wearing the same old clothes and just doing the same old, same old same.

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Lead us into a place of newness, god, of revelation, of transformation, of unbelievable, exciting adventures in you, lord, we just praise you and give you glory in Jesus' name.

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Thank you, lord, praise God.