Jan. 20, 2025

The Battle for the Church's Future - The Mystery of Godliness - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 40c

The Battle for the Church's Future - The Mystery of Godliness - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 40c

Send us a text What if the rejection of the Holy Ghost during the Azusa Street revival set the course for the church's challenges today? Dive deep into this spiritual battleground as we explore how pivotal historical moments, like the Azusa Street revival of 1906, have shaped the church's journey through the 20th century and beyond. Discover how figures like John G. Lake and Smith Wigglesworth championed a movement that few embraced, yet profoundly transformed those who did. This episode sets...

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What if the rejection of the Holy Ghost during the Azusa Street revival set the course for the church's challenges today? Dive deep into this spiritual battleground as we explore how pivotal historical moments, like the Azusa Street revival of 1906, have shaped the church's journey through the 20th century and beyond. Discover how figures like John G. Lake and Smith Wigglesworth championed a movement that few embraced, yet profoundly transformed those who did. This episode sets the stage for understanding the church's current struggles against internal forces of destruction, posing the urgent question of how we can reclaim spiritual integrity.

Unlock the secrets of spiritual wisdom as we discuss how true understanding of God's Word transcends mere interpretation, requiring a deeper connection of spiritual "dots" for divine comprehension. Embrace the necessity of worshiping God in spirit and truth, recognizing the stark contrast between worldly opinions and divine truths. Through compelling analogies, we emphasize the importance of faith in God's promises, highlighting how divine assurance supersedes human proof. This conversation challenges listeners to discern beyond the superficial and commit to genuine worship that echoes God's nature.

Witness the unveiling of divine mysteries through the lives of historical figures like Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell, whose faith-driven insights bridged spiritual understanding and scientific progress. As we explore the cost of revelation and the courage required to stand firm in one's faith, personal anecdotes illustrate the transformative journey guided by divine wisdom. This episode is not just a recount of history but a call to action, urging listeners to embrace the power of revelation and the ongoing spiritual battle for the church's integrity. Join us in this compelling exploration where faith, revelation, and the pursuit of divine truth take center stage.

00:00 - The Battle for the Church Today

17:29 - Understanding God's Word and Spirituality

33:25 - Revealing the Mystery of Godliness

48:43 - Unveiling God's Mysteries

01:00:56 - The Cost of Revelation

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Well.

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Praise God, praise God, praise God, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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We've spent several weeks talking about how God's judgment of the church, or the rejection of the Holy Ghost at the outpouring of Azusa Street in 1906 changed the course of history in the 20th century.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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We would be an entirely different kind of world had the church received the second outpouring of the Holy Ghost.

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There's just no doubt about it and it's amazing the difference.

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Just think of the difference that one-fifth of the total population of Christians has received the message of the Holy Ghost and look at a difference that it made.

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Look at a difference that men like John G Lake and Smith Wigglesworth and others made as they took that message and took it around the world, and the difference that they made on the world in that day and the difference that that has made in the world since then.

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But just think if the other four fifths had come in and would not be actively fighting, what the other fifth is doing.

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Amen, unbelievable, unbelievable.

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But that brings us to the 21st century, the century that we're in, and the battle is not over and the curse has not been lifted.

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Amen, because unbelief is still rampant in the church.

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Amen.

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What I want to talk about is what's going on now.

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What the battle is now and how it's focused now is on the destruction.

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This is from the Antichrist point of view is on the destruction of the body.

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He has been pursuing the body.

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He has been trying to crush the body.

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We saw that in the times of Genghis Khan and the Muslim invasions.

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He was trying to push the church into the Atlantic Ocean.

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When he couldn't do that this is how God sees things.

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When he couldn't do that, god pushed the church into the Atlantic Ocean Literally push them out of Europe, the real church, and push them over into America.

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Somebody say I've read my history book, I know what you're talking about.

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What do you think the pilgrims were After?

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The pilgrims got here in 1620 and wrote the Mayflower Compact, which was a covenant between God and man concerning this new world?

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Amen.

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Over 20,000 separatists left Europe because they did not agree with how the Church of England nor the Catholic Church were conducting business and they boarded these little ships were conducting business and they boarded these little ships.

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I don't know if any of you have ever been on the replica of the Mayflower up in that area of the world, but I mean it's tiny.

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I mean, these multi-billionaires wouldn't even consider it as a suitable skiff.

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And they got on these ships and came all the way across the Atlantic to settle in a place where they could worship God the way that they saw fit.

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And God moved the evangelical movement that he was going to birth in the church over to the United States because he knew that's where he was going to pour out the spirit.

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If he had poured out the spirit in Rome, nobody would have even paid attention, nobody would have got filled.

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That's how sad it was.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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What's happening now is that the Antichrist is bent on destroying the body, but instead of the way we've studied, it has been an outward push Genghis Khan, muslim forces, the Romans and all of these forces trying to push Christianity.

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Now what the Antichrist is doing is trying to destroy it from within.

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If you can't bring an army to bear on your enemy and destroy him, one of the best ways you can do it is to fight with a biological or a chemical piece of warfare.

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Amen.

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They used to do this Back in the days when they didn't know much about anything.

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They would load dead bodies that were full of bubonic plague or typhoid or something like that and put them on a catapult and just catapult them over the walls of the city.

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It would be bad enough if they were healthy dead bodies I don't know how healthy a dead body is, but I mean if they weren't full of contagion.

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But when they're full of disease, glory, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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So now Antichrist is working from within and we're going to look at about a half a dozen different aspects of this over the next few weeks.

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Amen, because this is very important and this will wind up this study about the enmity between the Spirit of God and the Antichrist Spirit that has been going on since the days of Cain and Abel.

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Hallelujah.

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The first thing we're going to look at is we're going to look at ungodliness in the church and the normal word of ungodliness, the accent or the emphasis is on the L-I ungodliness, because it's talking about how we can conduct ourselves like God.

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But what I'm going to look at is a different emphasis the ungodliness in the church because of a misunderstanding, and deliberate misunderstandings about who God is and what he's like.

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Amen.

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We talked about this at great length when we talked about the preliminaries that were going up to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost in Azusa Street.

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For 50 years the church had been veering off in a direction that denied the Word of God as the Word of God, that denied the authorship of the Bible to great men of God like Moses and Daniel and the apostles of God, like Moses and Daniel and the apostles, amen.

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There was an anti-Christ, anti-god, anti-spirit and anti-body movement in the church.

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Hallelujah, and that is almost undeniable and it is a manifestation of ungodliness, amen.

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The second thing we're going to talk about is we're going to talk about a weak and carnal church that has been produced because of that, because men have misunderstood who God is, they have misunderstood who man is and they have misunderstood who the recreated man is, and so, because of that, they have a weak and carnal church.

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The third thing is that the result of that is that, instead of elevating the men to a higher level than God, they leave them as weak and carnal and begin to minister to them at that level.

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They leave them as weak and carnal and begin to minister to them at that level, and that has resulted in the exaltation of mere men rather than the exaltation of pneumaticus men or men of the spirit.

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Amen, men of the spirit are looked down upon, you know, because the TV is full of charlatans and frauds and theatrical people and stuff like that, and real people of the spirit amen are lowly regarded because they're not known and they don't understand the power of God.

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We'll find out that.

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The fourth thing because of these things that are happening, there's a disregarding of great movements that God has done in the 20th century to identify the sons of God, the kings in the family of God, the priests in the family of God, and because those things have gone, highly disregarded by the church, there's no real manifestation, there's no real growth and most of the church is lagging behind the revelation of God to the body.

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For example, when the outpouring happened in 1906, god restored the office of the evangelists so that those evangelists would go out and evangelize concerning the Spirit Amen.

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And that did happen, no doubt about it.

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That did happen.

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But most of the church that even picked up on that got stuck in that there are only pastors, teachers and evangelists.

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And it got so bad in our day that evangelists weren't even evangelists to the lost.

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They were evangelists to the church.

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Well, you don't need an evangelist to go to your church unless the church is not saved.

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But we used evangelists as entertainers, as spiritual entertainers and brought them in to draw a crowd.

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Glory to God.

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The evangelist amen is a necessary tool in the church to teach people how to win the loss, not to entertain them.

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But since the church basically misused the evangelists, they were in no position to receive the restoration of prophets, nor were they in a position to receive the restoration of evangelists, nor were they in a position to receive a real revelation of what the body is.

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Those three things have come to the church but there are precious few that have received the revelation because they got stuck back in the evangelist level and misused that level.

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Amen, praise God.

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You think about this.

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One of the great evangelists of our day was Billy Graham.

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Concurrent with him and running at the same tents and the same capacities was Oral Roberts.

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But Oral Roberts really was not an evangelist.

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Oral Roberts was a prophet of healing Amen and because of Oral Roberts was a prophet of healing Amen and because of Oral Roberts, the restoration of the prophets came in on a very large scale basis.

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By the time Oral Roberts was hitting his stride in the 50s, there were a number of people who were operating in not only prophetic giftings but the prophetic office and were drawing large crowds in the United States because of that restoration and that set the movement, the movement of the charismatic movement in the late 50s and 60s and 70s was an outpouring or an outgrowth of the restoration of the prophetic Hallelujah.

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Now you won't read about this in a lot of books, but that's how it was, that's how it grew out of that Amen.

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But most of the mainstream churches and mainstream Pentecostal churches rejected all of that.

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So not only did they reject the Holy Ghost back at Azusa, they just kept on rejecting.

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Now here's the one when we get there, it's going to be the knife in the side.

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It's the deliberate misinterpreting of the indwelling presence of God.

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This is one that I think is the most serious and the most pernicious sin deliberately misleading people as to what it means to be filled with God.

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When the Bible is completely full of teaching concerning what that means, the organized church, for the most part, has deliberately uninterpreted that and misinterpreted it as something else.

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As far as well, that was only for the apostles.

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To this, to this, to this, and every denomination has their own flavor of it, amen.

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But nobody's willing to step up and say what the Bible says.

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Glory to God.

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We're going to look at each one of those in some detail, leading us up to this revelation that God gave me, and that is that this attack is going to involve everything that has happened in history going forward in this ongoing battle between Antichrist and the risen Christ, everything that the Antichrist has tried before.

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He's going to dust it off, he's going to polish it up and he's going to bring it to bear.

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But instead of a battle between Joshua and the Amorites, or between David and Goliath, or between Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, or Jesus and Rome, it's going to be within the body.

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That's why Peter says in 1 Peter 4, 17,.

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The judgment must begin with the house of God.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Are you ready?

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I'm just giving you the highlights of where we're going.

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Amen, we're going to cover all these points in some significant detail, because this is how listen.

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You may not, you may not ever get the chance to do that, but I've got a feeling that you're going to have the chance.

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You're going to have the chance to to say some of the stuff that we're going to have the chance.

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You're going to have the chance to say some of the stuff that we're going to be talking about over the next few weeks to people who are going to raise up points against you.

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Why do you do this?

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Why do you believe this?

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If you explain to somebody what you do, believe they go.

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Who do you think you are?

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What we're going to study is going to give you ammunition.

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Hallelujah, praise God, hallelujah.

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Well, the first thing is that there is a manifestation of ungodliness in the church.

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It is anti-Christ, it is anti-God, it is anti-spirit, it is anti-body.

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And I want you to turn first to John 4, verse 23.

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Read this one scripture, because this sets the tone for what we're going to be talking about in this section concerning ungodliness in the church.

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For what we're going to be talking about in this section concerning ungodliness in the church Amen.

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Jesus told the woman at the well that the hour is coming and now is when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship him.

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Okay, now, if you worship.

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If you worship now, I understand what the denominations would say right now, but if you worship the Father in denominational spirit and truth, amen.

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I don't care how much you raise up your hand and get you a stack of Bibles and swear that we are the truest representation of what spirit and truth are.

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None of you are.

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You are the representation of what men say about the spirit and what men say about truth.

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Amen, not about what God says, hallelujah.

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One thing I've learned about the Bible is that the Holy Ghost and we studied this at some length, the Holy Ghost speaks clearly.

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Amen.

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He speaks clearly and he doesn't make any mistakes.

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He doesn't stutter, doesn't trip over his words, doesn't say anything unnecessarily, but tells everything in its fullness and completeness.

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If you read something and you don't understand it, you read it a dozen times, you still don't understand it.

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Go read some companion verses to it and see if you'll get some understanding, because the Holy Ghost can explain himself.

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And that's kind of rule number one about the Bible Amen.

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My job really is not to explain things to you that God has already said.

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It's to connect the dots of what he has said.

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There may be a dot here and a dot there, and a dot here and a dot there, or there may be a depth to what he said that we haven't looked at yet, that the Bible doesn't really say, and that depth comes from sitting and letting God teach you what these things mean.

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There's nothing wrong with that, amen.

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I've told people lots of times, and we're going to cover this point, is that I don't study to impress you with information.

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I study to get revelation and I'm going to preach the revelation.

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I'm going to let God impress you, hallelujah.

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Anybody can study, anybody can pull up information and organize it, and that has become the standard for preaching.

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The Father is seeking such to worship him, so he's not looking for people to give him lip service about what men believe.

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He is looking for men to honor God for what God believes and then believe the same thing.

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Are you hearing me?

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So I don't care.

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I don't care two figs what you say, what you believe, amen.

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That doesn't impress me.

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If you believe what God believes and I get a witness of that, then we have something to talk about.

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Otherwise, we're just talking about your opinion.

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Well, there's no opinions in the Bible.

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God doesn't have an opinion.

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Do you realize this?

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That God does not have opinions?

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Whatever God thinks, whatever God speaks, establish what truth is.

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So you know, an opinion is.

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Well, it may be true, it may not be true, it may have some facts associated with it or I may just be pulling it out of the air.

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We live in a world like that, where people have platforms to speak their opinions and try to sell it as if it were real, when it's not even close to being real.

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Amen, but God doesn't operate in that realm.

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God operates in the realm that, when I speak, it establishes truth, not establishes facts, because God can speak truth and there have not yet been facts established to it.

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You're not hearing me.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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God could tell you something today.

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He said I'm going to create a new planet out beyond Pluto and out in that area.

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Just because it amuses me and just because they don't think I can do it, I'm going to do it anyway.

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But is it there yet?

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Well, not that we've been able to find out.

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When's that going to happen?

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Well, he didn't tell me.

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How do we know when it's going to happen?

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Because Pluto's orbit, or somebody's orbit, is going to start to wobble because it's being pulled on.

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Glory to God, I'm not saying that that's going to happen, but if God told you that, amen, you could either think you were crazy, or he's telling you something that has not happened yet, and or he's telling you something that has not happened yet, and there's all kinds of stuff like that, that God can tell you the things that are going to happen.

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The Bible says that the Holy Ghost shows you things to come.

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Have they happened yet?

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They have not happened yet.

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So there's no fact associated with that.

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He's just telling you truth.

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Now the bank would like to see facts.

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If you go to the bank and you want to open an account, they would like to see the bag of money that you're going to deposit in their account.

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And if you told them, well, it's coming next week, they would tell you, come back next week when you have that bag of money and we'll talk about a deposit.

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Otherwise, there's not a fact to back up your desire.

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You see, god doesn't work like that.

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If God says it, you can take that bag of word anywhere, not just to the bank.

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Amen, you can stake your life on it.

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Glory to God.

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You can be as sick as you want to be, amen.

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And if God tells you by this time next week you're going to be totally healed and the doctors had told you, by this time next week you're going to be legally dead, amen.

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Listen, you better believe the one who holds the universe in his hand and breeze it out and breeze it in, just like we breathe there.

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Glory to God.

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You better believe that one because he's the one who invented healing, hallelujah.

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If he hadn't invented healing, doctors would have no job.

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Doctors would all be soothsayers and witches and warlocks Amen, rather than people who minister in healing because there would not be any healing.

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You ever think about that?

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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God is now.

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Here's the reason.

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How many times have I told you that?

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You don't have to usually look too far to find the answer for what God means.

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God says he's searching for somebody to worship him in spirit and truth.

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Why?

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Because God is spirit and those that worship him must.

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That's not an option.

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That's not on.

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Only on Sundays must you worship in spirit and truth.

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The rest of the days you can worship in the flesh.

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Is that what it says?

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That's not what it says.

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The only worshipers that God is seeking after are those that worship him in spirit and truth.

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Why?

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Because he is spirit.

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Now, what does that imply?

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It implies that those that worship him must also be in the spirit, must also be spirit beings and be aware that they are spirit beings.

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So you may be in one of these denominations and they pay lip service to it.

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Oh yes, we know that we are spirit, soul and body and they can give you all the characteristics and they can give you all the definitions, because they've been to the conference and they got all the facts, or they think they've got all the facts, amen, but they are not spirit beings.

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Why are they not spirit?

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They are not quickened spirit beings.

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Why not?

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Because they have not yet been baptized in the Holy Ghost and you can't change that as the initial experience of becoming a spirit quickened being, because that's in the Bible, that's how it works.

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Amen, now you can.

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You can say that, you can change it, you can double.

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Well, that was for back then and all that kind of foolishness.

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But if that's the case, john 3.16 is meaningless.

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Amen, matthew 28,.

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Go into all the nations, you know, lo, I'm with you always, even in us, meaning us.

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Tear that one out, tear the Christmas story out, and pretty soon you've got the kind of culture that we live in, where the Bible is meaningless and anything the Bible says is meaningless and anything the Bible says is meaningless and God is meaningless, heaven forbid.

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Are you following this?

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All because we have misunderstood who God is and we have not understood what he says about himself.

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He says about himself.

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John 4, 24, 23 and 24 are keystone scriptures for where you start in your understanding of God.

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Your understanding of God is this he's not some guy up in heaven who just happens to be tinkering with the universe every once in a while because he's bored with the universe every once in a while, because he's bored, he is a spirit.

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His spirit permeates and controls and surrounds everything, and those that worship him must enter into that realm with him or you won't ever understand and know who he is.

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Amen, you'll be thinking he's something else when he is not, and that's why this is so important.

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We often think of being ungodly as being a, as being somebody who is bad, somebody who smokes, somebody who drinks, somebody who does drugs, somebody who beats up people.

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You know, they're thieves, they're robbers.

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Well, those people are really ungodly.

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We live in an ungodly world.

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No, you live in an ungodly church.

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Amen, because ungodliness is not necessarily just acting in a way that is ungodly, you know, because it's acting in a way that God wouldn't act.

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We call that acting ungodly.

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It's acting, you know, because it's acting in a way that God wouldn't act.

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We call that acting ungodly.

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But ungodliness or ungodness is knowing and presenting God in a way that he doesn't present himself.

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Now, see, you have to know the word, you have to know the word of God in order to find these things out.

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If you, if you find yourself saying that God is like this, but he's not.

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See, there was a man back in the 1600s I believe Might have been early 1700s His name was Jonathan Edwards and he wrote a famous sermon, perhaps one of the most famous sermons in American history.

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It's called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, and he used to preach that sermon and I mean he'd stir up the fear, I mean he'd have people with both feet in hell burning to a crispy, crisp Amen and then make the appeal for them to come to Christ.

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And that's how, that's how they did things back then.

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And this was this sermon got published and it got distributed all over the country.

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Amen, sinners in the hand of an angry God, amen.

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The only problem is that God is angry at Adam's sin, but he's not angry at you Because of the blood atonement of Jesus, amen.

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Now, what he wants to do is for you to accept that that's not an act of anger, that's an act of love as an act of love.

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Men respond to Christ to be saved because of his goodness, not because of his anger.

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It is the goodness of God that leaves men to repentance, not the anger of God.

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Amen.

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Now you need to know that God's angry with sin and he's not too happy when you practice it.

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Agree with sin and he's not too happy when you practice it Amen.

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But that doesn't change the love of God that has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.

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See, you need to know about this God and the revelation that Jesus brought of this God.

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What Jesus brought to this God is that no man can snatch them out of my father's hand, hallelujah.

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Now I understand where those kinds of points of view come from, and those men who preach that way were in no way filled with the Holy Ghost.

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They were in total bondage to the doctrines of men concerning sin and salvation and they were just breaking out of the rules of how the denominations handled it before.

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The before really the, the, the, uh, the breaking away of the methodists.

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The methodists under wesley were the ones that that came that really pushed this idea of personal salvation, personal relationship with Jesus, personal kinds of prayer.

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They pushed that envelope to the point that they became the largest denomination in the new world.

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Amen.

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But that doesn't make the doctrine right.

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They have to know who God is and what he's really like, amen.

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Or else they're presenting him in a way that he doesn't present himself, and that's ungodness, or presenting him in ways that he does not present himself, or not presenting himself in ways that he does present himself.

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In other words, if he presents himself as the God who fills believers with the baptism of the Holy Ghost and you say that's of the devil, then you are presenting him in a way that he doesn't present himself.

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Hallelujah.

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There's a church right down here on Fort Worth Highway.

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I don't know if it's like this anymore, but several years ago on the front page of their website, they said you know, we don't believe in this Holy Ghost stuff, we don't believe in talking in tongues, we don't believe in this, we don't believe in that, we don't believe in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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The whole first page of their was what they don't believe in.

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And they said if you want, if you believe in that kind of stuff, go someplace else.

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Praise God, that's.

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You know, people are like that, churches are like that.

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So part of being ungodly is just being wrong in your doctrine because you misunderstand the scriptures.

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And the reason you misunderstand the scriptures is because you haven't been filled with the one who wrote them.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Let's turn to 1 Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16.

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I think we're just getting kind of started with this today.

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When we talk about godliness and that there is ungodliness in the church, we almost have to go to this scripture and see what God, the Holy Ghost, is trying to tell us about this.

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Because if there is ungodliness in the church amen, then they haven't really read this scripture and understood it.

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Then they haven't really read this scripture and understood it.

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And part of the reason is for a bad translation out.

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In the King James it says 316 of 1 Timothy says, and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness.

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Everybody say this Great is the mystery of godliness.

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Everybody say this Great is the mystery of godliness.

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In the King James it says great is the mystery of piety.

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Okay, immediately, because the King James people didn't have a clue as to what godliness meant when talking about God.

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Okay, talking about God, okay.

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Okay.

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Can I help us here a little bit?

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Listen to this.

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All you have to do is read the next phrase God was manifested in the flesh.

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This has nothing to do with personal piety, but how many times a day you pray?

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How many times a week you fast?

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How many times a week you wear sackcloth and ashes?

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How many times a week you go out?

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How many times a week you wear sackcloth and ashes?

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How many times a week you go out in the backyard and flagellate yourself and whip yourself and scourge yourself and you know, all those kinds of signs of piety has nothing to do with that.

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It's talking about God, because the next thing is something that God did.

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God manifested himself in the flesh.

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That's the first mystery of godliness.

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That's the first mystery of who this God is has nothing to do with you, except that Jesus made you part of that.

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Do you realize this, folks, that the Godhead would have manifested itself in the form of Jesus and walked this planet and went through everything that he did, knowing that no one would ever accept him, just to give him a chance?

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So this isn't about people and it's not about you know, but because it was translated as piety, people think that this scripture is talking about people.

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Great is the mystery of how to live a pious life.

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Well, yeah, that's fine, you could interpret that phrase that way, but it doesn't hold water with the rest of the verse.

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And what have I said before?

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You don't have to go very far before the Holy Ghost starts to explain himself.

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Great is the mystery of godliness.

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What is that mystery?

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First and foremost, that God manifested himself in the flesh.

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Oh, hallelujah, praise God.

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Nobody, nobody, expected Jesus to come the way he came.

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The only people that had an expectation I've taught you this I don't know that you're going to hear this any other place the only people that had an expectation that Jesus was coming in the way that he came were the people that were trained by Daniel in Babylon.

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Because out of those people that were trained by Babylon, you remember, daniel was the chief of the wise men in Babylon, and so he had a group of wise men around him and he could train them.

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Listen, I've told you this.

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Daniel had the prophecy concerning Jesus.

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That is the most accurate prophecy in the Old Testament.

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A notable scientist like Isaac Newton studied that prophecy at some detail, found out it was accurate, almost to the hour, amen.

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And said on the basis of that one prophecy, you can believe the entirety of the Bible.

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Here's something else you didn't know about Isaac Newton.

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He's recognized as one of the greatest physicists that ever lived.

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He is the father of the discipline that's called physics, amen.

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He devoted most of his life to the study of scripture.

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The next guy I'm just going to preach, the next guy who's called the father of modern physics, a guy by the name of John Clark, maxwell amen, memorized almost the entire book of Psalms when he was just a boy, was a devout Christian.

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All of his life studied the scriptures studiously and God gave him the secrets of what light and magnetism were all about.

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He wrote a series of equations that form the basis of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism.

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They are still the foundation of everything we know.

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Everything about the world that we live in is because of Maxwell.

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God gave him those secrets.

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They did not know.

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Listen.

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They didn't know anything about what light was or about why magnets attracted to each other.

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They didn't know anything until he put it all together.

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Glory to God, there's a benefit in studying the scriptures, amen.

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It'll purify your mind and God can give you secrets that he won't give to other people.

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Glory to God.

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No one expected, when Jesus came, the last thing that the Romans expected.

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The last thing the Jews expected was.

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The last thing that Antichrist expected was for Jesus to raise from the dead when they killed him.

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They thank God.

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This is probably the end of this one.

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We can handle the disciples.

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They're just a bunch of fishermen, you know.

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But we got rid of the ringleader, we're not going to have any problems now.

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Jesus summed all that up by what things.

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Glory to God.

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The resurrection of Jesus from the dead was a mystery.

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It was unknown, but it was revealed.

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First of all, it was revealed to Mary Magdalene, then it was revealed to the women, then it was revealed to Peter and John.

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Then it was revealed to James later in the day.

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Amen, to the two disciples on the road to the women.

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Then it was revealed to Peter and John.

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Then it was revealed to James later in the day.

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Amen to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and finally then to all the disciples gathered together in the upper room.

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That was just day one.

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For 40 days he gathered his disciples together and taught them concerning the kingdom of God.

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Hallelujah.

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Nobody saw this coming and nobody saw Pentecost coming.

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These were all mysteries that were prophesied in the Old Testament.

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That's why Peter by the Holy Ghost didn't start out with a casual.

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You know well, you know this is just what happens when you pray and fast and you tarry.

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You know you got to tarry there's.

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You can't get baptized if you don't tarry.

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So you got to tarry, we tarry.

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Lord said tarry, and we tarry, we got, we got.

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We tarried a long time.

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I was getting real hungry, but we tarry.

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Amen.

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We showed up at the right place at the right time and we got filled.

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Glory to God, hallelujah Jesus.

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And no, that's not what Peter did.

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Peter went right to the scripture that prophesied the very thing that was happening In the last days.

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Saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, last days of what, well certainly wasn't the last days of time, because we're still here.

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It was the last days of the law.

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Folks, in the last days, saith God, the last days under this covenant, I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh.

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And then they went on to describe it An obscure passage of scripture in the book of Joel.

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I mean, it's very unlikely that Peter had that scripture memorized.

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It's very unlikely that he had ever seen a scroll of the book of Joel.

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But who in the group, besides Paul, who wasn't one of the believers yet but he was there.

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How many of them knew that scripture?

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That would be zero.

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But who knew it in the group?

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The Holy Ghost did, because he wrote it and he knew what he was writing about this moment and pulled that scripture out.

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Hallelujah, mysteries, over they come.

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Hallelujah Mysteries and this is part of the mystery of godliness is that mysteries come by revelation, not by study.

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There was, you know, like I said, I doubt very seriously, unless Jesus had taught them about the prophecy of Joel.

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Jesus had taught them about the prophecy of Joel, that Peter had ever studied that scripture and yet by the Holy ghost he quoted it word for word.

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So study is not, is not necessarily set you up for godliness, but revelation does, because you're going to learn how God does things.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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Now listen, for 1,500 years the Jews thought that the festival of first fruits, which is the first Sunday after the Passover, they thought that was just a celebration of the spring crops coming up, and so the high priest would go out and they would inspect the field and they would pull out the new shoots of barley and they would gather all those things up and they'd bring them back and they'd put them on the altar of sacrifice and burn them up.

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And that was how they celebrated first fruits Amen.

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Nobody knew that that had to do with Jesus, but God knew Amen.

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And when God revealed that to the apostles and the prophets, amen.

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Then the first, the festival of first fruits, became an important festival and it became the day that the church celebrated the resurrection, because it is the first fruits of the new creation.

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See, there's not a whole lot in the Old Testament that's going to tell you that Hallelujah.

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I'm talking about revelation.

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I'm talking about revelation.

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I'm talking about mysteries have to be revealed, and if God says that the mystery of godliness is great, then you need great revelations to understand this godliness.

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And if you don't get revelations, then you're going to be dependent on what other people say about it.

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Amen.

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And just because you've heard somebody preach a good sermon and they may have preached some of that sermon based on a revelation that they got from God, amen.

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That doesn't mean you've got the revelation yet.

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Just because you've heard the revelation from somebody else doesn't mean that you've got it yet.

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You only get the revelation in you when the Holy Ghost speaks it to you.

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That requires the baptism in the Holy Ghost, hallelujah.

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And that's part of the mystery.

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Nobody knew this.

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This is why so many churches and everything think they can just come up with whatever idea they want to.

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You know, we were talking the other day about churches that don't believe in any kind of instruments in the church.

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Well, who came up with that idea?

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You know?

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Or you got people that think that you can only go to church on Saturday.

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I'm glad we don't believe that, amen, because I'd like to go to church every day if I could.

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Amen.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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Glory to God.

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That's what the early church did.

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They went to church every day.

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Hallelujah, don't shout me down.

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We need to practice revelation.

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If you don't practice it, it won't come, amen.

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You have to practice being alone with God.

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You have to practice being quiet with God.

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You have to practice listening.

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You have to practice believing, because I'm telling you, when he starts to reveal things to you, he's going to say things to you that A don't make any sense, b seem so incredible you can't possibly believe them.

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Or C.

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You're just going to think God's flipped a switch up there in heaven someplace.

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And just what's he saying?

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Hallelujah.

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Just think about this for a second.

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Here's Peter.

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He's on the roof right.

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He's waiting for lunch.

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He's hungry.

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He's up on the roof, he's meditating.

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We don't hear him that he's doing a lot of talking.

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We don't hear that he's praying you know one of the Psalms.

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We don't hear that he's doing anything.

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He's just up there, gets into a trance, which is a way of God speaking to him.

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All of a sudden, he gets a vision of these sheets coming down from heaven, and on these sheets are every animal, both clean and unclean.

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And then he hears the voice rise up, peter, and eat.

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So Peter, being a nice Jewish boy that he is, says not so, lord, I've never touched anything that's unclean.

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Here's the revelation Do not call unclean.

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Here's the revelation.

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Do not call unclean what I have cleansed.

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And here it comes again.

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She comes down.

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Rise up, peter, and eat.

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Not so, lord, I've never touched anything unclean.

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Do not call unclean what I have cleansed.

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And it happened a third time.

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And then a sheet retracted back up into heaven.

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Meanwhile, here comes the entourage from Cornelius and they happen to show up at the house where Peter is sitting is staying amen.

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Almost immediately after the visitation, the Spirit says rise up, peter, go down and meet these men, do not fear anything, for I have sent them.

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Peter goes down, says what do you guys want?

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Cornelius the centurion in Caesarea has sent us and it would be good of you to come and visit him, his house.

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Peter says Peter, now, peter, this is, this is what I'm talking about, about getting the revelation.

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Amen, he got the revelation because God spoke to him three times amen.

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And when he got the revelation he said it is not lawful for a Jewish man to go in the house of a Gentile.

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But God has told me that I should not call anything unclean that he has cleansed.

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So I will go with you tomorrow and I will go into the house of the Gentiles.

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And it caused him a big ruckus.

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What people didn't like it.

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He got into trouble.

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I mean, they called him everything but ruckus.

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People didn't like it.

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He got into trouble.

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I mean they called him everything but an infidel.

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And the man just went and saved a whole house full of people and got them baptized in the Holy Ghost and, as far as we know, they were the first missionaries to Italy.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Now that tells you two things don't touch it, don't.

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Don't bother with the clean and the unclean, what God is going to decide for you.

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What is clean and unclean?

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Amen.

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And two amen, understand this that he is still going to send somebody that's got it to somebody that hasn't, so that the one that hasn't can get it.

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And that's just how God does business.

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Amen, you got to understand that.

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About God, he sent Moses.

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Listen to me.

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Moses knew everything about Egypt.

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He knew everything about architecture.

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He knew everything about architecture.

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He knew everything about warfare.

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He knew about their gods.

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He knew about everything.

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He was being groomed for high position.

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But you know what he didn't know?

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He didn't know the priesthood of Melchizedek.

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He had to be sent into Midian to learn about the priesthood of Melchizedek so he could come back and lead Israel as the high priest according to the order of Melchizedek, who was over his brother Aaron, who would be the high priest according to the law.

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Glory to God.

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You think God doesn't know what he's doing.

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God knows what he's doing, but here's how God does business he's going to send somebody who has it to somebody who doesn't so that the one who doesn't have it can get it, and that's just how God does business.

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That's something you need to know about God.

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See, we're waiting for people to just get it and God says I'm waiting for somebody to go, because that was the last thing.

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I told them Go, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Now here's something I think we'll close on this point.

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We'll pick up the rest of this later.

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While I'm introducing this turn to the turn in your Bible to Luke, the eighth chapter, part of the mystery and the revelation of mysteries, and the unfolding of godliness and the identity of ungodliness, what I'm teaching you all these things for is so that you can have a better discernment of ungodliness, of ungodliness.

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I used to have this conversation with pastors, especially with Brother Jose in Costa Rica, because they had this notion and it was a Baptist notion, amen that if you were in a church and it wasn't a Catholic church, then everybody else that wasn't Catholic was on your side.

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We were on one team, the Catholics were on another team and the heathen were on another team.

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Okay, so it was kind of like this three sides to the game, and if we weren't heathen and we weren't Catholic, then you were on my team.

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I said, brother, that's not real.

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I said you may think that.

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I said, but I want you to notice who has kicked us out of their radio stations, who has closed the doors on their churches, who has pulled us out of programs.

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Once they hear us preach, I said who's doing that?

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I said it's not the Catholics and it's not the heathen, it's all these denominations that you think are their brothers, just because they lead people to a confession of Christ.

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Amen, Great.

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But they don't confess the spirit of Christ.

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So what does that make them?

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Oh, hallelujah, it makes them ungodly, because they're believing something about Jesus that isn't real.

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They're not believing his Godness.

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Because if he said this, my brother, you must be filled with the spirit.

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If he says that, that's one of those things you can take to whatever bank you want to and open a deposit.

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Whether you've got money or not, You've got the Holy Ghost.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Mysteries are unveiled and revealed only to people who are in him.

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Are we in Luke, the eighth chapter?

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Yet, luke, chapter eight?

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And we're going to read in verse 10.

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And he said to his disciples to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables and you've heard me teach you this that the church is divided into those that revelation is given to and those that parables are given to.

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Given to and those that parables are given to, and the difference is where they are.

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Are they in him by the Spirit or are they out of him because they have rejected the Spirit?

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Those that are going to have mysteries revealed to them are those that are in him by the Spirit or by the filling of the Spirit.

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You see, when the Holy Ghost comes to fill you and he quickens you to the life in the Spirit.

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Consider this If the Holy Ghost is in you, and you are in the Holy Ghost because he is living in you, then how can you be out of the body?

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That's not possible, because Jesus is one with the Spirit.

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So if you're in the Spirit and the Spirit is in you, then you are in him, amen.

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However, if the Spirit is not in you and you are not in the Spirit, if the spirit is not in you and you are not in the spirit, then where are you with relation to the body?

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You are out.

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You are in that situation that Jesus said the spirit will be with you, but he will be in you.

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Well, they just stopped with the with you part.

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So Jesus is with you, amen.

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But that's a whole different thing than your being in him and he and you by his spirit.

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Amen.

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But that's a whole different thing than your being in him and he and you by his spirit, amen.

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So revelation is given to the in him ones because they are possessed by the spirit and they can be trusted with the revelation.

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Amen, hallelujah God told me a long time ago.

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He said when I give you something, amen, hallelujah.

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God told me a long time ago.

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He said when I give you something, amen.

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And he said this.

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He said the men of old would keep a revelation and they wouldn't bring it out until they felt like it had developed in them.

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Amen, he told me.

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Don't do that.

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He said if I give you something immediately, sow it, he said, because the harvest is delayed If you don't sow it.

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He said if I give you, give freely, freely, you have received, freely, give.

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So if you've received it, give it and I'll give you more.

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If you've received it, give it and I'll give you more.

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If you've received it, give it and I'll give you more.

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Receive it, give it and I'll give you more.

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I can't tell you that how many times I have preached a message, a revelation that God gave me years ago, and it just keeps getting richer and richer and richer.

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Every time I preach it, every time I give it, I'm getting more of a harvest on it.

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You understand what I'm saying, hallelujah.

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So, whatever God gives you, give it out.

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Don't hoard it.

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It's not going to do you any good.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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Well, I don't feel confident about doing that.

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Well, it's not going to be you that does it.

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So you know who cares whether you're confident or not.

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Confidence can be a stumbling block.

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Let's look at chapter 12.

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Yes, oh, hallelujah, I'm sorry.

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Chapter 10, verse 22.

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I had a two in there, but the wrong place.

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Chapter 10, verse 22.

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I had a 2 in there, but the wrong place.

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Chapter 10, verse 22.

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Yes, all things have been delivered to me by my Father.

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Now watch this.

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No one knows who the Son is except the Father.

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So if you want to know about Jesus, you're going to have to have a relation with the Father, because he's the only one that knows him, and no one.

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And who is the?

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Who the father is except the son?

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So if you want to know who the father is, you're going to have to have a relationship with the son, and how are you going to have a relationship with either the son or the?

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The father?

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By the spirit, amen.

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So what does this tell you?

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That if you're going to know anything about God, god's going to reveal it to you, and it's going to be revealed by mysteries, amen, listen, think of it like this the goodness of God leads men to repentance.

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That's the top of the list.

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Okay, now Revelation will give you bullet points.

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How does this happen?

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When does this happen?

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What's the ways that goodness penetrates the hearts of unbelievers?

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How do believers respond to goodness rather than anger or wrath?

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How does wrath play into this?

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Because we know that's a factor.

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All of those things God's going to teach you about that one thing, which is a verse of scripture that you have to deal with.

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You just can't ignore.

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Listen.

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The life of revelation does not ignore scripture.

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It drives you to study it more, and the more you study it, the more God will speak to you about the bullet points that come underneath the main point that's in the scripture.

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The Bible is not just a linear set of words that make up sentences.

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It has depth and height and width and length to it, amen.

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It has timelessness involved with it.

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It has time involved with it.

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All of these things are real about the word of God Amen.

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But you have to be in this word to be in him, because he is the word.

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So you can't just ignore this.

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I've seen a lot of people that are supposedly revelatory preachers amen, and they never bring the Bible out.

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I have problems with that, you know, because if you're going to be in him, you better be in the word, and if you're in the word, amen, he's going to teach you things that you don't know about the word, and those things are generally going to end up being revelations of who he is and what he does and the godness of him.

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What is it about God that makes him God and what is it about this God that makes him different than anything else that has tried to be God?

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See, these are important questions, not from a theological point of view, but from a revelation point of view.

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So you know him, you know I've heard, I've had, you know I've been in this situation.

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Well, let me.

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Let me do two situations.

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Why do you, why do you worship on Sunday?

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The Bible says to worship on Saturday.

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I said, where does it say that, then they'll give.

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They'll take you right back to Exodus and back in that area.

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And I said said, are you Jewish?

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I said, if you're, you're not Jewish.

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That doesn't belong to you.

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And if you want to be saved and Jewish, then it doesn't belong to you either.

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And besides, the only day that you're allowed to worship if you're a Christian is today.

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Praise God.

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People come up to you with all kinds of silliness and you know what do you think about this and what do you think about this?

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What do you think about this and what do you think about this and what do you think about this and what do you think about this?

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If you don't have a revealed word to penetrate their ignorance and their unbelief, you're going to get into an argument.

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So what revelation does is?

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It just shuts their mouth.

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They don't know what to say.

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Do you know how much trouble I got in for doing that?

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They never asked me back to that church.

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I had to make a public apology to that pastor because he said I mistreated one of his sheep.

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I said no, mistreating him would have been taking him outside and just beating the snot out of him for being, for accosting an apostle of God with ignorance and stupidity.

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After I'd been preaching and praying for the sick for two hours, I said that's where the sin was.

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One on me.

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Well, you can't do that in my church.

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I said I won't do it in your church anymore, so you don't have to uninvite me, I'll uninvite myself.

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That was.

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That was essentially the end of my ministry, and in Mexico, because of that one incident, that's how much it'll cost you.

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Revelation is not cheap.

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It is.

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It comes at a price, amen, especially if you're going to live by it.

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You know, see the easy way out of that said.

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Well, you know we might be wrong, but you know, see the easy way out of that said.

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Well, you know we might be wrong, but you know it's a custom in the church by now.

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And so if we all just broke away from, you know, given some mealy mouth, you know, I don't think I I do that very well, do you?

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But I can do revelation.

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah, I can live by the Godness of God who said today is the day of your salvation, hallelujah.

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Today is the day that we're going to enter his rest.

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Today is the see.

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It's not about a day of rest for your body, it's a day of entering into his rest.

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Hallelujah, glory to God, praise the name of Jesus.

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Glory be to God.

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How many people come up to you and say well, you know, god just led me by this job, or he led me by this, or he led me by that?

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I said that's not God.

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God does not do that.

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That God is a God called faith.

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You want to follow after that God.

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You're not going to follow after this Jesus.

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Amen, because Jesus will come and break the domination and the rules and the power of faith and completely, completely break apart.

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All of this ties to Adam's time and put you into God's time, and all kinds of things can happen.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise God forever.

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Hallelujah, let's stand.