Jan. 7, 2025

Resilient Faith and Grace through Life's Trials (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 23)

Resilient Faith and Grace through Life's Trials (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 23)

Send us a text What if the trials you face are not simply obstacles, but the very tools molding you into a beacon of faith and resilience? Join us as we uncover the profound insights embedded in 1 Peter 4:17, challenging the conventional view of God's judgment starting with the church. By contextualizing scripture and drawing wisdom from both Peter and Paul, we illuminate how trials serve to refine believers, bringing forth glory and humility through divine sovereignty—even when adversities a...

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What if the trials you face are not simply obstacles, but the very tools molding you into a beacon of faith and resilience? Join us as we uncover the profound insights embedded in 1 Peter 4:17, challenging the conventional view of God's judgment starting with the church. By contextualizing scripture and drawing wisdom from both Peter and Paul, we illuminate how trials serve to refine believers, bringing forth glory and humility through divine sovereignty—even when adversities are spawned by Satan. With Job's journey as our guide, we examine how God crafts a fortress of faith through trials, inviting us to live a life secure in Christ, impervious to the devil's wiles.

Moving beyond mere survival in the face of adversity, explore how shifting our focus to Christ transforms us, making us spiritually evasive to the devil's schemes. Reflecting on Paul's own evolution—from resisting to embracing trials as avenues for spiritual growth—we encourage listeners to perceive challenges not as burdens but as catalysts for deeper communion with God. This episode serves as a guide to nurturing a mature spiritual mindset, transitioning from reactive faith to proactive spiritual prowess, thus turning tribulations into opportunities for producing glory and cultivating a profound spiritual maturity.

Our journey doesn’t end with trials; we venture into the realm of knowing God beyond the role of a dispenser of blessings. We challenge listeners to transcend superficial doctrines, urging a heartfelt relationship with God marked by worship in spirit and truth. A deep dive into how early Gentiles came to an understanding of sin after Christ's arrival reinforces the importance of scripture and personal experience over human interpretations. By embracing a spiritual transformation, we highlight the call for believers to reflect God's glory, abandoning carnal thinking for divine insight, and celebrating our weaknesses as channels for God's strength. This episode is an invitation to navigate life’s challenges with divine wisdom and gratitude, paving the way for a transformative spiritual journey.

00:00 - God's Testing and Growth in Faith

11:16 - Trials, Growth, and Maturity in Faith

24:57 - Knowledge of the Glory and Trials

39:42 - Knowing God

57:30 - Transformation Through Spiritual Thinking

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Praise God.

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Let's turn to 1 Peter 4, verse 17.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord, praise God.

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I want to look at a verse of Scripture that is quoted often, but again, as I've taught you many, many times, it's a dangerous thing to use a Scripture out of its context.

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Nothing wrong with quoting a Scripture, nothing wrong with looking at it, using it.

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There's nothing wrong with looking at it using it.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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But you need to put it in context, like the Oreo cookie principle Read what comes before it, read what comes after it, so that you can understand what it is that the Scripture is trying to say.

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Because you can pull a Scripture out of context and make it fit whatever you want to make it, but the context of it tells you how God introduces it and then comments on it Oftentimes.

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Anyway, it's an important thing to practice, to cultivate in your study of the word, to just not pull you know scriptures out without reading around them to see what God's talking about, because there's always some.

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There's always some verses that lead into it and there's always some verses that lead out of it.

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Right, okay, the verse we're going to look at tonight, that everybody and their brothers use this scripture.

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I must have heard it a thousand times.

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Verse 17 says for the time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God, amen.

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And people just start going off about.

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You know that God's going to judge His church and the wrath of God's going to come down, and you know it's going to start with the church and then move out from the church into the world.

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And you know blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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But if you just take the Scripture you can get that out of it.

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But that's not what the Holy Ghost is talking about here.

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But that's not what the Holy Ghost is talking about here.

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The Holy Ghost's context for this is Beloved don't think it strange?

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Concerning the fiery trials which have come upon you.

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We also understand from the other scriptures that we've looked at back in 1 Corinthians, chapter 4, back in 1 Corinthians, chapter 4, that we're talking about afflictions, persecutions, tribulations, understanding the knowledge of the glory, how it works, how trials and tribulations work to produce more glory in our lives.

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This is the context for leading up to this sentence or this verse Amen.

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So let's go back just a little bit.

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We've seen that Peter says very much the same way that Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4, amen, that these trials, these temptations, these tribulations are given to us by God to try us, to mold us, to shape us, to transform us, to put us on the potter's reel, to put us on the refiner's fire.

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All of these things, god's going to do it.

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He may use the devil, he may use the minions that belong to him.

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We saw there in Paul, in 2 Corinthians 12, that Paul said a messenger of Satan was sent to him.

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And we put some logic on it and we said it must have been God doing the sending, because the purpose of it was to make him more humble and make him more pliable to the will of God.

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Well, the devil's not going to do that.

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That's exactly contrary to his purposes.

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As a matter of fact, not only will he not do it, he couldn't do it of his own volition, because that's something that God does.

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God doesn't need an imitator doing his business.

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Oh, I wish I could preach this.

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You know, the proof positive of that is Jesus.

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He could have sent somebody born of the seed of Adam and been a good imitator of God, and in fact that was why he gave the law, so that he could produce people who were good at imitating what God wanted to do.

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But the Bible says that the law was completely empty of faith and empty of life.

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So an imitator in that sense wouldn't have got the job done.

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God Himself had to come and do the work, amen.

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That's why Jesus came, so that God Himself could come and do what no man could do.

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Praise the Lord Now, so God can use the enemy because he has had the victory over him.

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See, we don't understand.

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Religion doesn't teach us very well.

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Religion doesn't teach well what God did at Calvary and the victory that he won.

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And we went over this.

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It's been a long time.

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It's been almost 10 years.

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We studied for a number of weeks what happened when Jesus went to hell and the trial that he went under.

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When it was all done, the Father declared that Jesus was not guilty of any of the charges that the devil brought against Him.

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In fact, not only was he not guilty, he was guiltless.

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It wasn't like he was almost guilty, but kind of slid out at the last moment.

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He was totally victorious.

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Because he was totally victorious.

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The devil doesn't have anything on me.

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You need to get a hold of that scripture right there.

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The devil doesn't have anything on Jesus.

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There's no accusation he can bring against Him and there's no accusation that he can bring for those that are in Him.

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So I've been teaching the past two or three weeks that when our lives are hid with Christ in God, the devil's going to have a hard time finding you unless God pulls down the hedge, like he did for Job.

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He said have you considered my servant Job?

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The devil said I can't even see the guy.

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You've got him hid so much behind the hedge there I can't even get to him, I can't even see him.

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God said I'll tell you what I'll do.

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I said I'll take down the hedge and you can have at him, but you can't kill him.

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Now, contrary to what you want to think and what you want to believe, he does that with you.

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He takes down the hedge.

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This is the only reason we're still alive Because he takes down the hedge.

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But he says you can't kill them.

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They belong to me.

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So you can't kill them.

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But I put such faith in them that they're going to overcome whatever you throw at them.

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Just go ahead, see what you got.

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I told a guy once he got so throw at them, just go ahead, see what you got.

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I told a guy once.

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He got so mad at me.

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He got so mad at me, his house burned down and I said, I said, brother, I said you may not understand this, but God sees your faith.

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Allow this to happen, because he knows he's put enough faith in you that you'll overcome this.

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And, besides, if this is the best shot that the devil's got, you've already won, because you can rebuild a house, you've got insurance, nobody was hurt, nobody was killed.

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Oh, he was so mad at me Because, see, religion doesn't teach that way of looking at God.

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Oh, this is just all devil, this is just all bad.

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But God will try your faith.

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If he doesn't, your faith is presumption.

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It's not tried, amen.

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If you want to be the best football player, the best tennis player, you can go out in the front yard and hit tennis balls up in the air and pretend like you're Serena Williams and you're the best in the world, the best that's ever been.

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But until you go to some tournament and play somebody and find out how really bad you are, you'll just continue in that delusion.

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I've got great faith.

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Well, it hasn't been tested yet.

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Your faith may not be that great.

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That's why God tries you, so he can build up your faith.

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Think of it like it's just like Holy Ghost calisthenics You've got to.

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If you don't exercise, your muscles won't be trained right, and so the first time you go out and try to do something you know like a professional athlete would, you're going to make a fool out of yourself Because you haven't tried or trained.

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The Bible says to train yourself under godliness and righteousness.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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So Peter says.

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After Paul said this, he said that these afflictions are light in comparison to the glory that's going to be produced, and they are momentary.

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They have come to pass.

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Did you notice that the devil did not get to tempt and try Job forever?

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I don't know how long Job lived.

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I think 100 and something years old.

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His kids were all pretty well grown, so he's probably 40 or 50 years old when this happened.

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He probably lived another 100 years and the devil never touched him again because God put the hedge back up.

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I'm telling you this is something that the religion doesn't teach when your life is hid with Christ and God amen, nobody can find you unless God wants to reveal you to people.

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Now you need to think about that one for about five years, that if your life is hid with Christ in God, nobody can see you except the people that are around you.

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This is why Jesus said this in John chapter 3.

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He said they that are born of the Spirit are like the wind it blows hither and yon.

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You don't see it and you don't know where it comes from, but here it comes, it's here, it's gone.

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You don't see where it comes from and you don't see it when it's here, and so is everyone.

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Jesus said that is born of the Spirit.

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Now we make that real, spiritual, real, metaphysical.

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It is what it says.

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It is Because when your life is hid with Christ in God, you're not looking to relate outside of God.

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Your only focus is Him, and when it's like that, the devil can't find you.

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He didn't even know where to look.

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I mean you really.

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I mean just get a grip on this.

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Jesus just beat the you-know-what out of him and took the keys of death and hell and just ransacked his kingdom, took prisoners.

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Bible says he took captivity captive, ransacked his kingdom, took prisoners.

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Bible says he took captivity captive.

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Religion will tell you that that was you.

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But that was a whole bunch of folk that were already in hell and Jesus went to preach to them and they got saved.

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And he took them out.

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A good bunch of them were the ones that died in the flood and lived before the flood.

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The Bible tells you that Hallelujah, glory to God.

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So this is the point.

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First point get your life hid with Christ and God, then you'll know that whatever happens to you, god is orchestrating.

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So then you know, remember the I mentioned this, you know.

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Do you remember when Paul said I sought the Lord three times, that this thorn in the flesh, this messenger of Satan, I sought the Lord three times that he take this thing from me.

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Now, a lot of times we go through this process.

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It's a three-step process.

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The first step when something happens to us, we go oh, woe is me.

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Why is this happening to me?

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Why is God letting this happen to me?

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If God's a good God, why is this happening to me?

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If I have faith, then why is this happening to me?

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Why is my bank account empty?

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Why is there no food on my table?

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Why did I just get fired?

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Why did they come repossess my car?

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Well, that's easy.

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You didn't make your car payments.

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Why did they repossess my house?

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Because you didn't make the house payments.

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You bought off more than you could chew.

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It's not rocket science.

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Oh yeah, the devil's after me.

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No, the devil's not after you.

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You just don't know how to manage your money.

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This is not difficult, but the first reaction of baby Christians and unsaved people is why is this happening to me?

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Now you get exposed to some things and question number two or the next step is going to be well, I take authority over this and I'm just going to bind everything that moves and cast it out and everything.

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And then you wonder why it keeps coming back.

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You ever had those kind of situations.

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You just bind the daylights out of them and they don't go anywhere.

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Or they may go someplace for a while and God just says okay, we'll see what you got, I'll let this thing go away for a while.

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But here it comes again and you go.

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I thought I bound that thing.

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What's that thing coming back at me for?

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Because you're trying to bind the devil and the temptation was from God, the trial was from God.

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If you find yourself trying to bind God, you're in big trouble because you don't have the authority for that.

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You've got the authority over scorpions and serpents and all the powers of the devil, but you don't have that kind of power over God.

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What I'm trying to teach you and take you into is a level of maturity, the third level of maturity, and Paul went through these stages.

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Don't you know that when that messenger of Satan came, he goes God, what's this all about?

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Why do I have to do this?

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And then you know Paul, second stage he's going to bind that thing and cast it out and throw it out of town and stomp his feet at it and shake some dust at it.

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And you know, get mad, get glad, get everybody to praying for it.

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And you know, send letters to everybody.

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And you know, I mean, look, he was sending letters to Corinthians getting them to pray for it.

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Oh, where did that go?

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I wish I could Hallelujah.

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And again would pray for it, hallelujah.

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And then the third level, though.

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He finally got some sense that in the affliction is revelation and in the affliction is an opportunity to produce great glory.

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But you don't get that right off the bat and you don't get that without some maturity and some spending some time with the Lord and how to understand His Word.

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So here's your revelation.

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These afflictions are working for you.

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It took Paul three times of asking.

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Now see, you read that and you go.

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It was like a boom, boom, boom.

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I asked him three times.

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I asked him once, it didn't happen.

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I asked him twice, it didn't happen.

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I asked him a third time and he starts talking.

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Three days in a row, three minutes in a row.

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Might have been three years in a row, you don't know.

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Amen Takes some time to go through these levels.

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I'm telling you the truth here.

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I'm not telling you something funny.

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I've been through a stage in my life where I bound everything that moved.

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If I didn't like it, I bound it.

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If I thought it even smelled like bad stuff, I took authority and jumped all over it with both feet.

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I was that kind of I was that kind of a person.

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I mean, if it, you know, even looked at me crosswise, I've just casting the devil out of it and binding it back to hell.

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And you know, anything else that was moving around it, I threw in along with it.

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But I've come to learn that after a while some of that stuff just kept coming back and I said I don't understand this, lord.

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And the Lord started to put revelation on it Hallelujah, glory to God.

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And the revelation is that these things work for us.

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They're your employees, you're the employer and the product is glory.

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I'm just trying to give you the context for verse 17.

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Verse 17 is really the whole point of this chapter.

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I wish I could get some help.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Peter says that if you go through these things in the name of the Lord, amen, the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

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Paul said it this way that the power of Christ rests upon me.

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So if you that the power of Christ rests upon me, so if you want the power of Christ, the spirit of glory and we've been talking about the spirit of glory for 20-some weeks now If you want that to rest upon you, you've got to be willing to go through these trials and tribulations.

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It's just part of it.

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It's part of being a mature Christian.

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Now, nobody likes this.

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You know.

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I mean if you, if, if, when, on the day of your and the terms of the contract on a computer where you have to check the box, terms and conditions, check the box that you've read all of this, all of you raise your hand and say you've read the terms of condition, that there's going to be many trials by saying amen, many, many, many persecutions.

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The number of people that say amen and lower their hands is dropping.

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You know, pretty soon.

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You haven't got anybody.

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Nobody's going to sign up for that.

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Yeah, you couldn't do that.

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I mean, they'd be dropping hands all over the place.

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Let me see that hand.

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I'm not going to set that hand up for that, and that's why God's smart and we're not.

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He knows better.

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He just wants you to say yes, because he has to teach you and prepare you and lead you and guide you and show you and instruct you for all of these things.

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It's his job, it's not anybody else's.

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Everybody else is going to make it easy and everybody else is going to make it avoidance.

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I wish I could get some help.

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Most churches major in avoidance.

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They major in making this easy.

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It is not easy.

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For the most part.

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It's not pleasant.

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I'm sorry, it's just not.

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It's difficult.

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It's hard work.

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It's hard work.

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It's a lot of opposition.

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It's a lot of bumping your head against the wall, amen, amen.

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It's a lot of bumping your head against the wall, amen, amen.

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We're just a small group here.

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If you had any clue as to how much work is involved for us just to get ready for Sunday and just to get ready for Wednesday, and how much stuff goes wrong by the multiplied bucketfuls on those days that you just got to fight through.

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Some of it involves bodily injury.

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Chairs will literally leap out in front of you as you're walking through the living room so that you break your toe on it.

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I mean just crazy stuff.

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I mean yesterday we had a glass thing explode.

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I mean it's just ludicrous, crazy, insane that you don't have to go through.

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We go through it for you, we go through it for you and it's not getting any easier.

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It's getting like the Lord told us a year and a half ago or at the beginning of the year in 2018, it is going to get crazier and crazier and crazier and more crazy.

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Everywhere you go, you're going to have more insane people to deal with, more people that you can't understand a single word.

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They're saying Just you know, more insane issues.

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What is that?

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You know it's so weird.

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Anyway, these things the Lord says if you suffer these things with grace, with dignity, as becoming Jesus, then the spirit of glory and the spirit of God and God's grace rest upon you.

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If you don't, it doesn't.

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Hello, folks, this is just basic logic.

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If A equals B, then not A equals not B.

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Okay, you can say it both ways.

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If you go through these things with grace, the Spirit of glory is with you.

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If you don't go through these things with grace, the Spirit of glory is not with you.

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See, everybody wants the Spirit to be with you without going through the things.

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But the Scripture doesn't work that way.

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Now you can get listen, you can get other.

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Manifestations of the Spirit will always be with you.

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You hear what I'm saying.

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If you belong to Him, manifestations of the Spirit will be with you, like the eternal Spirit.

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You're just going to get that as you go through life.

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You'll get a better handle on it.

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But that aspect of the Spirit is always going to be with you.

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But the Spirit of glory is on you to produce glory and to give you a knowledge of the glory.

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Everybody say knowledge of the glory, not just the glory, but the knowledge of the glory, how to operate it, how to move in it, how to function in it, how to produce more, how to get in agreement with God's plan so that you can produce more glory.

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See, this is what God told me a while back.

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He said my people seek the glory, but they don't seek the knowledge of the glory.

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Let me just show you a brief, ridiculous example of that.

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You might go to a Christmas Eve service the denominations are great at this.

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Put on a great big Christmas Eve service, everybody's.

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We got choirs, we got orchestras, we got angels, we got kids in nativity outfits, we've got tuxedos.

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I mean we've got everything.

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We've got the Fort Worth symphony orchestra, we've got.

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You know, I mean we've got.

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We've got Mozart's Requiem, we've got.

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You know we're doing.

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We're pulling out all the stops.

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You know we've got, you know, two hours of not followed by a candlelight service, and by the end of it you're just one giant goose bump.

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You know you've just entered into the rapture, almost.

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I mean it's just, you know, you just.

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You got no idea.

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There's probably I'm guessing on something like that, if there's 100 voices and 75 people in the orchestra and all that kind of stuff, you're talking probably anywhere close to 2,000 years of training and preparation to get to that point.

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All those people, and all you can do is give me a goose bump.

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I just want a goose bump.

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I just want, oh, when they sing the Messiah, I just want to stand up and get a goose bump and you've got no idea what has gone on to produce this moment for you.

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You got no clue.

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You have no idea of the working of that.

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You didn't go to any of the practices.

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You didn't do any training when you were a kid.

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I guarantee you all those people up there weren't playing video games when they were kids, they were practicing.

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You know, been there, done that.

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I know.

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I've told Sarah this.

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We go to a hotel and there'll be somebody in the hotel, one of those guys that plays the piano.

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Play anything you want, any song you can imagine, he'll play it.

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And he is a beggar.

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He's working for whatever people put in the glass on the corner of the piano.

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He's hoping that somebody will put a $100 bill in there tonight, but most of them are putting in dollars asking to play their favorite song.

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This guy's been playing piano since he's five years old.

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God knows how many hours of practice he's played.

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But yet all people want is that two and a half minutes of a goose bump.

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They want the glory but they don't want to know how to produce it.

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They don't want to do that.

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Now see the people on the platform.

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They're not so moved by the goose bump, they're moved in how to produce the moment.

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If they get through the whole song and haven't made a mistake, that's what they get into.

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That's where their glory comes from.

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It's a whole different level of glory because they're into producing.

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Are you hearing me?

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They're in producing something.

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I've said this before.

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I say it again it's the same way in athletics.

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Everybody's looking for that moment when the quarterback throws a 40-yard pass, the guy's wide open, catches it out, stretches out, catches it, lands in the end zone, wins a game in the fourth quarter.

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Looking for that kind of moment that you just go crazy, throw the popcorn and the Coke up in the air and everybody's just nuts.

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You don't know.

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If you haven't done it, you've got no clue what that took, that took.

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If all it took was just 500 reps on that play, you would be severely underestimating what it took to do that.

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Only if you've done it, and done it at a high level, would you understand what it takes to do that.

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And most of the people that are sitting in the stands?

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They don't have a clue, they just want the goose bump.

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They want the moment of glory.

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They don't want to go through the trials, the tribulations, doing pushups in the mud, in the rain, in freezing cold, on ground that's so hard it cuts you when you fall on it.

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They don't want to go through that, they don't want to hear about it.

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They just want the goose bump and they'll pay money for the goose bump.

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Are you getting anything I'm talking about?

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Translate that over on the church side.

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And all the church wants is a moment.

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Oh, that really touched me.

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Oh, that song was so anointed.

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Oh, she just sings that so wonderfully.

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Oh, my goodness, that was just so moving.

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People are crying and tears are running down their face and they've got their hankies out.

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And that's church for them.

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And they've got no more clue as to how that happens than you can fly.

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They've got no clue.

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They think these people just show up on Sunday morning.

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It's not a question that they practiced, that's not the issue.

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It's what they bring to the practice.

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That's not the issue.

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It's what they bring to the practice the years of training and preparation and ability that they bring to whatever they do.

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That generates the moment.

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Now, when you talk about the glory, amen.

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God expects His people to be glory producers.

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Not only glory producers, but he expects them to be knowers of the glory, so that they can do it better and better and better and better and more and more.

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The knowledge of the glory, amen.

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Paul said it in 2 Corinthians 4, long verse 6, that it is God, the God who shined out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as to beam forth the knowledge of the glory of the Lord in the face of Jesus Christ, hallelujah.

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This is what he wants from us.

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He wants us to be knowers of the glory, not just receivers of it, and not just flowing in glory.

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But if you're going to flow in glory, he's going to teach you to know it and work it.

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You're not going to be one of the people that sit in the cheap seats and look for a goosebump moment.

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You're going to be one of the people that are producing ever-increasing we move from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord, ever-increasing levels of glory.

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This is what the Lord wants.

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Hallelujah, are we all together?

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Now comes verse 17.

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For the time has come for judgment to begin in the house of God.

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Now see, I always thought that was a little strange, you know, and I've heard ministers go off.

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Well, bless God.

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All that tells you is there's a whole bunch of sinning going on in the church.

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Oh, you know, god's going to judge this gossip and God's going to judge this adultery and God's going to judge this.

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You know, blah, blah, blah and they just go off about.

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You know, god's going to undercover things and he's going to give his people the ability to call out sin.

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Really, is that what that says?

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That's not the context of what just came before it.

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See, you want to pull that Scripture out and make that happen.

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Huh, then there has to be some context for it.

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Was God talking about judging sin?

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Was God talking about sinners in the body?

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Was God talking about people being in gross sin in the body?

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Was he talking about that?

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Was he talking about Sodom and Gomorrah being in the church house on Sunday morning?

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Was he talking about that?

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No, he wasn't talking about that.

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He was talking about mature Christians going through some significant tribulation, trial, persecution, amen, and coming out of it with a spirit of glory on them.

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Paul said it this way coming through it by producing glory.

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That's what the context of this is.

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So the judgment that is coming upon the church, and has always come upon the church, is because they are not knowers of how to produce the glory, which, if you walk that backwards I'm going from the very end of it and I'm going to walk it backwards means they don't produce much glory.

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Don't produce much glory, which means that they don't understand what God really wants out of us, which means that they have misunderstood God and don't know God, which means they have their head full of nonsense about God and haven't taken the time to get to know Him.

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Now that's what God is going to purge out of His body that nonsensical, unscriptural, totally religious doctrines about God that people learn from other men and not from the Holy Ghost.

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Now see, you've got a problem.

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If you don't believe in the Holy Ghost, then all you've got is the doctrines of men.

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God's going to judge that.

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God has to judge that.

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When your whole church body is nothing but the doctrines of men, god's going to get all over that.

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You're going to see that in your lifetime.

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You're already seeing it in huge numbers.

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These denominations that have just given over to the doctrines of men.

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They're closing doors by the multiplied hundreds every day and as total church attendance just drops and drops and drops in this country.

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Because God's closing the doors, god's shutting them down Because judgment begins in the house of the Lord and the judgment has to do for how men know God.

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How do you know Him?

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Do you know Him after the flesh?

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Do you know Him after the Spirit?

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Do you know Him according to how he works, or do you think he works the way you want Him to work?

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See, most people have this knowledge about God.

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God just gives, gives, gives, gives, gives.

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God just helps, helps, helps, helps, helps.

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They heard somebody say for God so loved the world that he gave, and so God's just the greatest giver that ever happened and he just wants to give, give, give to you.

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Give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give.

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So anytime you have a need, lord, help me, because you're a great giver.

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So give me what I need.

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Now.

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Have you ever given back to God?

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Has that notion ever crossed your mind?

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Or the next time you're in trouble, you're just going to go Lord, give me, give me, give me, give me, help me, help me, help me.

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Don't look at me like I'm shocking.

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Most people's prayer life consists of that Lord, give me, give me, give me.

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I need some help, I need some money, I need a car.

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You may not do that, but a lot of people do and a lot of people.

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That's the extent of their prayer life and it's the extent of the prayer life of their churches.

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Because they don't know Him and because they don't want to know Him, they prefer to know Him after the doctrines of men.

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Because what does that mean?

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Well, that means I don't have to search the Scripture.

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That's no better than the Catholics.

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That's exactly what the Catholics tell their people.

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You don't need to search the Scriptures.

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We'll tell you everything you need to know, because I guarantee you.

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I guarantee you that if you search the scriptures, you will find that they're lying to you.

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And if you find out that they're in big trouble because they're going to have to double down on the lying to get you to believe what they're really saying.

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Well, yes, you know, you go to some of these folks and you start talking about the Holy Ghost Amen, and they'll double down on their lying to get you to believe what they teach about the Holy Ghost.

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They dig their hole even deeper.

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Glory to God.

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God's not going to be known like that.

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God's going to be known by what he teaches you from his word and from his mouth.

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It's not all in his word.

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It has to be backed up by his written word, but some of the stuff he'll teach you comes directly out of His mouth.

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Now see, this is another thing that religion teaches.

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They teach the supremacy of the written Word, which makes it of a higher authority than the one who wrote it, because God can speak lots of words and he has spoken lots of words that have never gotten written down.

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The ones that are written down are the ones he deemed necessary for us to come to a knowledge of Him, to come to a knowledge of salvation, to come to a knowledge of sin.

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I've been all over this before.

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Before Jesus came, the only people that knew what sin was were the Jews.

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All of the Gentiles had no clue as to what sin was.

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You study their cultures and they are some of the wildest things you've ever imagined.

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They believe some of the craziest stuff you could ever come up with and talk about rape, pillage and plunder on a continental basis, with literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of soldiers just coming out and just doing whatever they wanted, and they thought that was great sport.

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They had no concept of sin before Jesus came.

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Oh, glory to God.

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And yet that kind of knowing of God or thinking you know about.

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God just permeates and it permeates the church permeates and it permeates the church.

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God says I'm going to start in my house to judge.

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I'm not going to go looking for the Gentiles.

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The Gentiles couldn't produce my glory if they had to.

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But my house can't, my people can't.

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If my people, which are called by my name, if my people, will come under and start to learn from me, amen, they can learn to be producers and learn how to function in the glory and have a knowledge of the glory, and that'll be what they really concern themselves with.

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If you know how to do this, amen, you don't have to be asking a lot of fool stuff Like Lord, help me.

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If you're a glory producer, he is actively involved in orchestrating your life.

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You don't have to worry.

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You're in one of those.

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You of those.

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Matthew 6, 33 places, seek first the kingdom, and all these things will be added.

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Amen, glory to God, hallelujah, praise God.

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The time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God.

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It has to begin with us, because we're the only ones that can produce the glory, and God is going to deal with those that don't even have an interest in doing this and those that have an interest and want to do it, but they need more refinement.

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You need to think about that right there.

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He's going to judge the ones that aren't even interested in being glory producers, those that have a completely erroneous notion of who God is.

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Let me give you an example.

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This is not an earthly example.

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This isn't a parable.

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This is actually the Word of God.

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Paul said I used to know Jesus according to the flesh, but I do not know Him like that anymore.

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I know Him according to the Spirit.

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Jesus said this in John, chapter 4,.

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He said they that God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and truth.

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For such worshipers the Father seeks.

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Him must worship him in spirit and truth.

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For such worshipers the Father seeks.

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So God is seeking for people who will know him after the spirit, not after the flesh.

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Now let me ask you this If you go to Sunday school and you hear stories about the New Testament I'm not talking about David and Goliath, I'm not talking about all that.

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They fill the books up with that kind of stuff, all the adventure stuff that turned David into a superhero just combine yourself to New Testament stuff and almost all of the New Testament stuff, except for the book of Acts, is Jesus pre-crucifixion, jesus feeding the 5,000.

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Jesus walking on the water, jesus healing the sick, jesus doing all this stuff.

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And that's all people know about Jesus.

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They know Jesus after the flesh.

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They know Jesus after the image of him as the son of Mary.

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All of the pictures, all of the images, all of the scenes have Jesus Long hair, beard, flowing robe, serene, look, halo over his head.

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It's all that.

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But that's not how Jesus is now.

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He doesn't look like that.

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He looks like you and we look like Him and we are part of His body and that's who he is.

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Glory to God.

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But most of the Christian church sees Jesus in the flesh as the Son of Mary, the Son of man.

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They don't see him as the Son of God risen from the dead, which is a whole other thing to look at and a whole other way of seeing how God has transitioned himself out from this place.

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In 2 Philippians 5, where it says that he made himself, he took upon himself the form and the image of a man and even made himself a servant and made himself obedient, even unto death.

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See, that's the image that everybody has.

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Death, see, that's the image that everybody has.

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That's why one billion people have Jesus on a cross around their neck, because they still see Jesus according to the flesh.

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They don't see Him according to the Spirit and most of the Christian people don't have Him, don't see Him according to the Spirit, and most of the Christian people don't have Him, don't see Him according to the Spirit.

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Now, I just use this as an illustration, because that realization separates Christians, and God has to judge the ones that don't see Him according to the Spirit but see Him according to the flesh.

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He has to correct that.

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He has to correct that in His church, because if His church still sees Him only according to the flesh, we will never be glory producers, because you can only be a glory producer when you see Jesus in His glory.

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If ye then be risen with Christ, see yourself seated with Christ at the right hand of God, set your mind on those things which are above and not below, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, and then, when he appears to us, when he manifests Himself to us, we will be with Him, we will be hid with Him in God, in His glory.

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That's not a rapture scripture.

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That's about when Jesus shows up to talk to us and manifest His glory to us.

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Then we are going to be recipients of that glory and he's going to cause more glory to be manifested with Him.

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Now see, if your church doesn't even believe that, then it has to be corrected, it has to be judged and it has to come into this knowledge of God, because this is where God's going.

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Let me tell you about where God's going.

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God's going to produce a body that will make Himself glorious on the earth.

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There are a hundred predictions about this Lord, god.

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That they might be one, that we would be in them and they would be in us, that the world may see your glory.

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God wants us to be glory producers and glory managers.

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Amen, because His vision for His church is to be a glorious church.

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Paul said in Ephesians, chapter 5, that husbands love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, that he might present unto himself a glorious church, not having spot nor wrinkle, nor any such thing, but that should be without blemish and holy before him.

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A glorious church.

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Now we sing that song.

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It's a glorious church without spot or wrinkle, washed in the blood of the Lamb.

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You know that song.

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But it's a glorious church because God's filling it with His glory and making us glory producers.

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Are we getting any of this?

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This is what God's got to judge.

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It's not that he's angry with the church and going to bring down hell and fire and brimstone on it if we don't repent.

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He's just trying to get the church to do what it's supposed to do and quit doing what it's not supposed to do.

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Church isn't into Sunday school picnics.

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The church is a glory producer.

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This is what's going to heal the sick.

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This is what raises the dead.

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This is what does miracles.

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If there's not any glory, none of that happens.

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This is what.

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This is what God intends for us to do.

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These signs shall follow them.

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That believe, believe what, just that?

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Believe that you get saved.

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Well, if that were the case, the whole church would be doing signs and wonders.

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But that's not the case.

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Why is it that so few signs and wonders are done?

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Because nobody believes.

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Nobody believes in the manifestation of the glory.

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I'm telling you that has to be corrected and God's going to do that.

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That's why this judgment has to begin with the house of God, because he's got to get the nonsense out of the thinking and get the individual members of his body back into a place, amen, where they understand him, understand what he wants, what he's trying to do, and if he tells you that many are the afflictions of the righteous but they work for you, then you could Listen.

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This is where, until you can get to the point where Paul Like Paul okay, god then if that's the case, bring it on, come on, come on, come on, bring it on.

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Purge everything in me, that's not you out and bring it on so that I can be the most effective glory producer you can ever make.

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See, if you can't get to that, listen, you may not like this, but if you can't get to that place, then God is going to judge you and correct you and bring more trials and tribulations into your life.

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Until you can at least get to that place of come on, god, bring it on.

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I'll take it.

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That's when that thorn inside passed from Paul's body.

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I'm confident of that when he got to that point and we could get beyond that thorn and get rid of that thorn and get into some other thorns.

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Oh, you don't know about thorns.

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I think shipwrecks are a thorn, hurricanes are thorns.

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Being in a Roman jail for two years in Israel is a thorn.

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Being beaten and taken into captivity by the Jews is a thorn.

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Amen, the deliverance came by the hands of the Romans.

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But then they put him right back in prison.

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Being in prison in Rome was a thorn.

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Getting bit by a snake is a thorn.

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You don't think he had thorns?

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Well, then put him on a catamaran on an island on a cruise of the Mediterranean, in the Aegean Sea.

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That's real nice.

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You see photographs of that all the time.

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Could have taken that way to Rome, but no, they had to go by way of a hurricane.

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And you know what?

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The devil wasn't anywhere around that.

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Oh Jesus, that'll shake up your religious framework.

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Glory to God.

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That wasn't the devil doing that.

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You said.

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Well, he was just trying to kill Paul so he couldn't go to Rome.

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Oh, really.

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Well, if there was anybody whose life was hid with Christ in God, it was Paul.

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I don't think the devil even knew he was on the boat.

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But that's a subject for another message.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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I want you to understand.

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God's not coming after the church to judge it for sin, judge it for any of that kind of stuff he wants the church to get out of man thinking and into God thinking.

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He wants the church to get out of its carnality and get into spiritual thinking, because he can't do anything with us if we're wrong thinking according to the flesh.

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Amen, hallelujah, that's just how it's going to be.

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It is going to be this way, whether you like it or not, and he's coming, he is coming.

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It's happening now.

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You may not know it, but it is happening and it's going to happen more.

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Praise God, hallelujah, and we give you praise for it, lord.

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We thank you for it.

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Jesus, lord, let your spirit of glory and of God, let that spirit of Christ, the power of Christ, the Spirit of glory, be on us, rest on us, brood over us, lead us, guide us, direct us through every victory that we need to have, and we will give you the praise.

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We will give you the praise.

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We will give you the praise.

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God, teach us what it really means to know what Paul knew.

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Therefore, I will that much more gladly boast in mine infirmities, because when you, when I am weak, you are strong.

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah, praise God, thank you, jesus.

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Praise the name of the Lord, amen.