Jan. 9, 2025

The Divine Presence Within: Exploring David's Vision and the Living Glory (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 10)

The Divine Presence Within: Exploring David's Vision and the Living Glory (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 10)

Send us a text The glory of God isn't just an abstract concept, but a tangible presence that resides within us. Tune in as we embark on a spiritual journey through the Psalms, beginning with King David's awe-inspiring vision of the "King of Glory" in Psalm 24. We discuss how David, through heartfelt meditation and worship, ascends into a prophetic vision of Zion in heaven and encounters this majestic divine figure. Despite the ancient prophecy of the Messiah, David's questioning of the King’s...

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The glory of God isn't just an abstract concept, but a tangible presence that resides within us. Tune in as we embark on a spiritual journey through the Psalms, beginning with King David's awe-inspiring vision of the "King of Glory" in Psalm 24. We discuss how David, through heartfelt meditation and worship, ascends into a prophetic vision of Zion in heaven and encounters this majestic divine figure. Despite the ancient prophecy of the Messiah, David's questioning of the King’s identity invites us to explore the continuous access to God's presence that believers have today—a spiritual privilege that transforms lives.

Journey further as we unravel the intricate tapestry of culture, spirituality, and biblical insights using the story of the prodigal son. This narrative challenges cultural norms and spotlights the boundless forgiveness of God. By examining the revelations of Paul in 2 Corinthians 4, we connect the dots back to David’s vision, highlighting the heart's true circumcision over mere ritualistic observance. Engaging discussions about Moses and Elijah bring to light their roles beyond the constraints of the law, shedding light on the profound responsibility they carried and their unique understanding of Jesus’ presence.

Feel the pulse of the gospel's transformative power through stories of miracles and divine interventions that manifest God’s glory in our everyday lives. We underscore the profound idea that God's presence within us is not just a belief but a living reality, empowering us to move beyond traditional religious perspectives. This episode is more than a reflection on past visions—it's a call to recognize the divine within, urging us to actively manifest and share this glorious treasure, proving that we are, indeed, the vessels of His power on earth.

00:41 - David's Vision of the King

13:18 - The King of Glory

24:53 - The Gospel of Life and Light

34:39 - Unveiling the Mystery of Glory

47:45 - Manifesting God's Glory in Humanity

57:07 - Miracles and Glory

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Psalm 24.

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One thing you have it's helpful to when you're reading the Psalms and not all Psalms are like this, but a good number of them are like this is that they're basically David praising and meditating before the Lord and then something happens.

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Either God speaks back to him, he's taken into a vision, something happens to him.

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We don't read it like that, but if you read the book of Psalms enough times, you'll see that that happens.

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Happens where there's a break.

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That's one of the functions of the Selah thing is to stop.

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We've been taught to stop, pause and think about it.

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But there's a reason for that is because a lot of times it just flat, shifts gears and goes into something else.

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God replies to David and David writes it down.

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In this case, david enters into a vision and if you don't see it like that, you'll kind of miss out on the majesty of what's happening.

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And David is asking the Lord who may ascend into the hill of the Lord or who may stand in his holy place, and then he offers his opinion.

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He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive blessing for the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek him and seek your face.

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And then, all of a sudden, instead of David telling the Lord what holiness is and who can ascend to his holy hill, he's at the holy hill.

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Sand to his holy hill.

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He's at the holy hill and God is showing him a vision of what this, what really is Zion in heaven.

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And all of a sudden, david looks up and he sees the gates and he said lift up your head, o ye gates, and be ye.

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Lifted up you.

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Everlasting Lord, everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

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Now I want you to just imagine this for a second.

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I don't know whether this was the first time, but David doesn't know Jesus from a doorknob.

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You know Jesus is a thousand years down the road.

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He knows Jesus is coming.

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He knows this is.

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You know what God has taught him concerning the Messiah, concerning that he would come out of his loins, concerning all of the things that God had told him.

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But it's not like he knows this Jesus, like we know this Jesus.

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This was still a thousand years yet to happen Now.

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David was a prophet and David entered into the realm that Jesus was going to come in and out of.

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But still, when he got up, when God transported him up to heaven and he started to prophesy to the gates and said lift up your head, o ye gates, and be ye, lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

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And then he sees him and he goes who is this King of glory?

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Now see, the reason I'm reading this tonight is because I want you to get what we're talking about, because that's who we're talking about back in 2 Corinthians 4.

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We're talking about the King of Glory, who has a gospel of glory and has a Holy Spirit that is a minister of glory, amen.

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And when David saw him, he saw the King of glory.

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He had enough sense to know this man's a king, because he was a king.

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He also had sense enough to know that he was a king of a realm that David was not king of.

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And he said who is this king of glory?

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The answer comes he is the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

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And then he loops back and he says lift up your heads, o ye gates, and be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in.

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Who is this king of glory?

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He is the Lord of hosts.

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He is the king of glory.

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He is the Lord of hosts.

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He is the king of glory.

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And David saw that.

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He's just not.

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You know, he just entered like a bridge in a song.

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He got through with the first chorus and the first verse and now he's going to the chorus and sings a little chorus and he's going to go back and sing the first verse again and maybe who is this king of glory?

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You know, it's not like that.

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You know he had a little lute.

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He got transported Because you wouldn't ask the question who is this king of glory, who is this?

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And he asked it twice.

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First time the answer comes back.

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It said he is the Lord, strong and mighty in battle, and then it says he's the Lord of hosts.

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We remember back in Exodus 15 that Yahweh is a man of war.

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Remember how Jesus looked when he came back to John the Revelator Amen.

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We're talking about the King of Glory.

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And David, a thousand years before Paul would write these words in 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, had a vision of this Lord of glory and saw Him high and lifted up just the way Isaiah did.

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They would be given glimpses of this glory.

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Amen, to which we now are constant participants.

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So you have the potential of experiencing things in God that David only dreamed about.

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David only got visions of.

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David got a vision of it and he didn't know what he was looking at.

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I'm talking about David here.

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I'm not talking about some rum-dumb minor league Old Testament guy that we don't even know their name of.

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I'm talking about David here.

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David didn't even know who he was looking at.

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I don't believe that David answered these questions.

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I believe there was an angelic host.

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When David said, who is this king of glory, the angelic host would answer this is the Lord, strong and mighty in battle.

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Who is this king of glory?

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He is the Lord of hosts.

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He is the king of glory.

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Oh, I feel God.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Was David around when Melchizedek was there?

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No, but Well, let me answer it by this way, because I was meditating on that very thing today.

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But I think Melchizedek had gone on by that time, because they wouldn't have made David king in Jerusalem if Melchizedek was still there, because he would have been king.

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But here's the thing about David, that is, the fact that Samuel was not a son of Aaron, but became a high priest meant that he was a high priest of a different order, because it was impossible for a priest to be out of the order of Aaron.

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But Samuel became priest.

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How did he do that?

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Because God anointed him according to the order of Melchizedek.

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He wasn't even a Levi, he was of the house of Ephraim.

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He was of the house of Ephraim and there was no.

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You know, god just pulled him out because of the cry of Hannah and sanctified him unto the Lord.

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And then God anointed him according to the order of Melchizedek.

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So when Samuel went and anointed David, he did not anoint him according to the order of Aaron, but according to the order of Melchizedek.

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So David was anointed king and prophet, both under that order.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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That's why David could go into the house of the Lord and eat the showbread of which it was only lawful for the priest to eat.

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He could do that because he wasn't under the law.

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Now, you know, you can say well, that's just crazy Folks.

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When there's a change in the tabernacle, there's a change in the format of worship, there's a change in the priesthood, there's a change in where they were meeting.

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When all of those things change and they all changed under David.

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Where there's a change in where they were meeting when all of those things changed and they all changed under David.

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Where there's a change in all those things, there's a change in the law.

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Now nobody preaches this.

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Everybody preaches the law goes from Moses to John the Baptist.

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It did, but it went under some modifications and David was the one that implemented those modifications and he could implement it because he was outside of it.

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Now, if you don't like that one, if you don't like that explanation, then just check out his genealogy.

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His great-grandmother was a prostitute and his grandmother laid at the feet of a man and embarrassed him into a mariner.

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That's not necessarily a great lineage for a Jewish king.

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Well, you check his bloodline.

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He had Jericho blood in him.

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He had moab blood in him.

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You know he wasn't a.

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He wasn't a full-blooded little jewish boy out in the pasture taking care of the sheep.

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He was a mixed breed.

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And when and when.

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That's why I told you on Sunday, when Samuel took that horn of oil and anointed him, praise God, it broke all the rules.

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See, samuel broke all the rules.

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And then Samuel turned around and broke all the rules.

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How can you?

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How can you anoint the eighth born son of somebody and bypass all of that.

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I mean whenever that happens.

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When that happened with Jacob and Joseph and Jacob and Benjamin, and all the first ten got ignored and didn't get the coat of many colors.

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Whenever God does that, he's teaching you a lesson that culture doesn't mean what you think.

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It means.

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He's teaching you a lesson that culture doesn't mean what you think.

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It means that I move in my way, regardless of what you think about it, according to your culture.

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So if the firstborn is supposed to receive the inheritance, well, tell that to the prodigal son that came home and got the ring and the fatted calf, that to the prodigal son that came home and got the ring and the fatted calf, because the one who was supposed to get the inheritance didn't like it that that happened.

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Everybody thinks that's such a wonderful story about God's forgiveness that it is, but it's more of a picture of Israel.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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That's another message.

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Praise God.

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So who is this King of Glory?

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Let's go to 2 Corinthians 4.

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Because Paul said this verse 5, he says we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the Lord, or Christ Jesus the King, king of what he is, the King of glory.

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So Paul, in his way, is answering the question David asked a thousand years ago who is this king of glory?

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His name is Jesus.

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He is the Messiah, his name is Jesus, he is salvation, his name is Lord, he is Yahweh, he is king and in the context of what we're talking about, he is the king of glory Now being saved.

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And on this side of Calvary, you read Psalm 24, you know he's talking about Jesus, you know that.

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But he didn't know that then.

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But he saw it, amen.

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And he saw that the ones that belong to him are the true generation of Jacob, not the ones according to the flesh, but the ones according to the Spirit.

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Just as Paul said this, he said that the sons of Abraham are not the sons according to the flesh, not the sons according to circumcision, but the ones who are circumcised of heart by the Spirit.

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They are the true sons of Abraham.

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The fact that Jesus manifests himself in glory changes everything, and it changes that which was according to the flesh and gives precedence to that which is according to the Spirit.

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We've been all over this the past few weeks that the letter of the flesh kills but the Spirit gives life, amen.

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And where there was an order of things according to the flesh under Moses.

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Amen, god can take somebody out of that.

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In fact, if you really really really want to tear this apart, amen.

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Moses was outside of it.

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Moses was the giver of the law.

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Aaron was the high priest of the law.

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Why wasn't Moses the high priest?

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Because, in a sense, moses was outside of it.

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He was the one who defined it to the people, brought it to the people and he could be judged by it.

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There's no doubt about that.

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But because Moses had this relationship with God, you think God's going to judge Moses according to the law.

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The law is given to lawbreakers.

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The law was given for transgressors.

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The law was given for those that could not keep God's word.

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I don't think Moses had a problem with that.

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As far as I can tell, after the burning bush, he only did one thing that kept him out of the promised land, but that didn't cause God to banish him or do anything else.

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He just you know.

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Okay, moses, you're going to have to just come up on the mountain and see it.

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That's as close as you're going to get.

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Hello, hello, who was up on the mountain with Jesus?

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And Elijah?

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Elijah Get what I'm talking about here.

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Elijah was outside the law.

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Elijah was outside the law.

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We don't see anything about Elijah being a high priest yet he's sacrificing.

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He's calling down fire from heaven.

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We don't have to have fire off the altar of incense or off the brazen of altar, we're just going to call it down from heaven directly.

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There's nothing in the law about that.

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If we don't have fire that's brought around by Levi and set in the brazen altar, we can't offer sacrifice.

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Elijah said hogwash.

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After I get done consuming the sacrifice, the said hogwash.

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After I get, you know, after I get done consuming the sacrifice the wood, the stones, the water and everything else then I'm going to turn on the prophets of Baal and deal with them.

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That's not under the law.

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Oh, I wish I could preach.

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What were you going to ask, mike?

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Well, the thing with Moses is not going to the promised land because that one mistake was that Yep.

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It was the only mistake he made.

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Right, except that one thing Yep.

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But you know, when the rock was Christ and Christ was only going to suffer once, to hit the rock twice for Moses was a major disrespect.

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I mean, it was a major disrespect.

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He knew better.

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God had showed him, god had taught him, god had preached the gospel to him.

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He knew who this Jesus was and he knew it was Jesus that was following him around in this rock.

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He knew that Listen we think these foolish things about Moses and other people like him that he just went up there and God just taught him a little bit of stuff and he came down and wrote it all down and that was all he got.

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The man spent significant years in the presence of God.

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He knew exactly what was going on when he acted up like that.

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He knew better, because he was held to a higher standard.

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He was held to the standard of God, the word that God had spoken to him.

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Praise God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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So the king of glory is this Jesus, and once you know him and you start to minister in that glory that he manifest around him, you're not going to preach yourself.

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You haven't got anything to say.

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You know, you just don't.

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There's just nothing you know.

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Now, if you don't know this king of glory, amen.

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You're going to.

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You're a teacher honing own horn all day long.

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You're going to preach your own stories.

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You're going to preach somebody else's stories.

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You're going to preach somebody else's message.

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You're going to get some book of messages and do all this kind of stuff because you don't know who you're talking about.

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You can talk about the king of glory, but you don't know him.

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David don't know him.

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David wanted to know him.

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Who is this guy?

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Who is this king of glory?

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I want to know him.

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Who is he?

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Well, if you know him and he allows you to minister with him, then you can't take any credit for that.

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Because, listen, the king of glory has not come to do normal.

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The King of Glory has not come to do boring.

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The King of Glory has not come to do anything routine or anything unsupernatural.

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The Bible says he only does wondrous things.

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That's all he does.

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He doesn't do humdrum and he certainly doesn't do things that you can do.

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He's going to do things in you that you can't do.

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That's what glory is.

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See, we're waiting for the air to turn golden and for this cloud presence.

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Those things happen.

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I've been there, done that.

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I'm not saying that they don't happen.

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But if you're waiting for that to define glory to you, you're going to miss a whole lot of stuff along the way.

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Because every time he heals, every time he delivers, every time he preaches.

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Every time he manifests revelation in your presence.

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That's glory in your midst.

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That's Jesus.

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That's what Jesus does.

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Jesus is every miracle that is done, every prophecy that is done, every prophecy that's given.

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The Bible says in the book of Revelation that the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus, amen.

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So every prophecy is Jesus, every healing is Jesus, every deliverance is Jesus.

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I mean, it's just Jesus, the King of Glory, doing something that you couldn't do.

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I mean, listen, if the King of Glory wasn't operating in you and you confronted a manifesting devil in somebody, you know you'd be shaking in your shoes, you'd just be a quivering bowl of jello, you know, and you just hope that that devil didn't come on you.

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You know you just assume not to deliver the person out of that devil because that devil might come on you.

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And then what's going to happen?

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You know you'll think all kinds of stuff like that, but when the glory is present with you, you don't think like that.

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That devil said I'm going to come on you, I'm going to kill your family.

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I said you're not going to do any such thing.

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You, lying devil, you're not going to do any such thing.

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You, lying devil, you're not going to do that.

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I said my God's not going to permit that to happen.

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It's not because I'm telling them, it's because God's with me.

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See now, that's what Luke said in the 10th chapter of the book of Acts.

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He said this word you know how Jesus of Nazareth, full of the Holy Ghost and power, went about doing good and healing those who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

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He didn't have to worry about whether this was going to work or not work, whether devils were going to announce him or not announce him.

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Whatever was going to happen, god was with him.

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He wasn't worried.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Now, we talked about this.

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I'm going slow here because I want you to understand that in these verses, right here in 2 Corinthians 4 is a summary of the gospel of glory.

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Now, it's not the gospel of boring church.

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I'm not talking about that.

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I don't care if it's not talked about anywhere else, we're talking about it.

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It's the gospel of glory.

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Now, the gospel of glory is real simple.

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There are two creations the first creation, or actually the second creation, because we were created before the first creation, but that's another story For simpler purposes.

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The first creation was when God created out of nothing, everything that exists.

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All of that is summarized in the first few verses of John, chapter 1.

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In the beginning of what?

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Not Genesis 1-1, but way before that, in the beginning, when there was nothing but God.

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Amen In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

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He was in the beginning with God.

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So there was a time when the Godhead was all there was.

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God exists totally outside of and independent of all creation.

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Your dear friends in Asia believe that there are many gods and they are all in creation.

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So there could be gods in the trees, there could be gods in the rocks, there could be gods that God is in creation.

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Our God is totally outside of and independent of creation.

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In other words, he was before anything that was created.

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He doesn't depend on creation to exist.

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Creation depends on him for its existence.

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All things were made by him and there is nothing made that was not made by him.

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That's what the Bible says by him.

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That's what the Bible says Verse 5, in him was life, and that life was the light of men.

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What light, the light of the gospel of glory.

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He is the what King of glory, and he came to give men.

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Life and light.

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Listen, you can't have one without the other.

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People want to turn the life into a warmed up, better version of Adam and they want to turn the light into a little bit less blind than I was before.

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I was blind, but now I see.

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That doesn't mean you're getting revelation.

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You follow what I'm saying.

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We want to dumb that down a lot, but the Bible says that in this creation Jesus came to give both life and light.

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Now listen to me very carefully when the Bible says that there was nothing made that was not made by him.

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All things were made by him and there was nothing made that was not made by him.

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So that's the first creation.

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So that's the first creation.

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Then in him was life, and that life was the light of men.

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We're not talking about Adam there.

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We're talking about when Jesus came and was incarnated.

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That's the second creation.

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The first Adam was among those things that were made, but when Jesus came, he was not made.

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Hello, he entered Mary and acquired a body of flesh, but that was not made according to the making of how things were made, according to Adam.

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God didn't come down and get a bunch of dirt and make Jesus.

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Jesus entered Mary.

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He was not made, never has been made.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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He was not made according to the order of things in the first creation.

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The law of seed, time and harvest, the law of procreation, all of those things are important laws in this creation.

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But the new creation started out with a whole different rule set and Jesus came down from heaven and was incarnate, was made flesh in the Virgin Mary.

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He was not made a man according to the order of Adam, but according to the order of God, hallelujah.

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He was conceived by the Holy Ghost.

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He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, not by anything that was human except for Mary.

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Are we getting this?

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Joseph didn't have anything to do with it, neither did anybody else.

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So in the second creation, jesus came to bring life.

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What kind of life?

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Eternal life.

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And light.

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What kind of light?

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The light of the gospel of glory.

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Now listen to me very carefully.

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Those things were not available until Jesus came.

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Amen.

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We have two people.

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There are two people that walked off the planet without dying.

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Other than that, everybody died and they were waiting.

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All those that didn't hear the voice of the Lord were waiting for redemption, and that redemption came when Jesus came and brought life and light.

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What was one of the first things that happened?

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When Jesus was resurrected from the dead?

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Saints got up out of their graves and started walking in the streets of Jerusalem, amen, and started preaching and teaching to the people there.

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Now, folks don't be brain dead here.

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They did not get back in the grave.

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They didn't just get up, pop up dust off the dirt off their clothes, go in and preach a little bit and say, okay, well, I'm tired.

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Now I'm going to go back to sleep.

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I'm going to wait for the rapture, I'm going to wait for the second coming.

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That was the second coming.

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Hallelujah for them.

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That was it.

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They don't have to wait for anything.

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They're the first fruits.

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Let me say, first fruits.

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Hallelujah, jesus got up.

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They got up.

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Oh, hallelujah, yes, they did.

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What's all this got to do with anything?

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The fact is that when Jesus got up, the manifestation of that was not only that he was raised from the dead, but many were raised from the dead.

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It'd be a marvelous thing if one man was raised from the dead, but that's happened.

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Is anybody listening to me?

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People have been raised from the dead.

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Look at Elijah.

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Elijah raised people from the dead.

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He raised people from the dead when he was dead.

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They threw a dead soldier on Elijah's grave and the power of God that was still on him after he was dead raised that soldier up from the dead.

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So how many people have been raised from the dead?

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But that soldier had to go back and die, just like Lazarus.

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Lazarus was raised from the dead but he had to go back and die.

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But those people that came out of the grave that day, on the resurrection day, they didn't have to go back and die.

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They lived forever because Jesus brought life and he brought light, and they entered into this gospel of glory as transformed, this gospel of glory as transformed, resurrected beings, the firstfruits among many brethren.

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See, here's the thing I'm trying to teach you today is that this gospel is about something that is unique in creation, and that is that this gospel is about the glory that Jesus had before he came to earth and that he reacquired when he left and went back to heaven when he came up out of the grave.

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And not only that, but proof positive is the fact that others came up with him means that he can transfer glory and he can move it to other people, and the proof of that is that others were raised from the dead.

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They were raised by the same spirit of glory and the glory entered them and they became glorified.

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Now here's what you need to hear you don't have to wait until you die and are resurrected.

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They had to die before they could experience the glory, because they weren't alive when Jesus was here.

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We're glory because they weren't alive when Jesus was here.

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They, they were.

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You know we're talking David, we're talking Moses, we're talking.

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You know Jeremiah, isaiah, ezekiel, malachi, you know all of the, all the great saints that went before.

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They weren't alive when, when Jesus came.

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So they died in hope, they died in expectation, they died with a promise.

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But when the promise came and the promise was raised from the dead, there was no holding them back, because the one who had promised had been faithful.

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I'm feeling God all over this place.

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When the one who had promised was faithful came, he faithfully raised them from the dead and they don't have to die anymore.

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They're the ones that Jesus talked about.

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Though they die yet, shall they live, but yet those that live and believe shall never die.

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That's you.

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You, even though you may die in the flesh, you will never die.

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You'll never experience this death.

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And if that's true, amen, then we have been freed, according to Hebrews, from the haunting fear of death all of our lives and we can live like the people we really are second generation, second creation Christians, who have been given not only the promise but the ability to be carriers and transmitters of this glory.

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Because now here's the deal.

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Verse 6 says it was God who commanded the light to shine in the darkness.

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That's the first creation.

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God spoke let there be light.

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Light was, darkness was dispelled.

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Amen.

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Second creation, same God, but now has shown in our hearts or in our spirits, the light of the gospel of glory.

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So not like Moses, who had a veil over his face and shone like the sun, this glory emanates or radiates from within us.

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This is a mystery that nobody understands and the church has completely, totally lost it in terms of preaching it.

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They don't preach this, they don't understand it and they don't preach it.

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They have no knowledge of the glory.

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There is a light of the gospel of glory and then there is a light that comes from the knowledge of the glory how to work it, how to get in there and cooperate with God.

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Church doesn't have either one of those revelations.

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Consequently, this church that doesn't understand.

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They give lip service to the second creation and all it amounts to is saying yes to Jesus and being saved.

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Now you're a new creation.

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Well, you were a new creation in Christ before Christ ever came to earth.

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That's what the Bible says.

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Actually, all they think about is you asked Jesus to come to your heart and now you've got a ticket to heaven.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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They've boiled this down into the simplest of terms.

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That's fine.

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New people have to be simple.

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But, dear God, you can't leave them like that.

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There's more to it than that.

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The more to it is that not only was Jesus resurrected from the dead, but innumerable saints that had come before him were raised from the dead, and not only that.

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No wonder they had 3,000 saved.

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At Pentecost they went into the streets and preached.

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They were probably still there In the spirit, because they would have gone with Jesus when he left.

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But you know what do you think that host?

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What do you think those clouds were?

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The Bible says he was caught up in the clouds.

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What do you think those clouds were?

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Fluffy little balls of Charmin tissue.

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They were clouds of saints.

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The Bible says he took captivity, captive and gave gifts to men.

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This is a whole lot better than I'm preaching it.

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I'll tell you that for sure.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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But we've got.

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This is the mystery.

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The Bible says that there's things that just weren't known.

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David didn't know.

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It was the answer that he could understand.

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He could understand that he was a warrior.

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But this king of glory has a unique, that is, that he can share his glory and it doesn't diminish him, not, not.

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Not only is he working on your behalf, he's working through you for somebody else.

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God was never in his creation before, but now he is.

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First creation.

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God was separate from it.

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In the second creation he's smack dab in the middle of it Because it's his body.

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He created something in Christ Jesus, when he raised him from the dead, that has never been seen before and that is a body that God has, that's made up of many members, of which you are one.

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That body is what God operates through and it's the only body he's going to operate through.

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Now, the way he does that is by this Colossians 127, he does that is by this Colossians 127, christ in you, the hope of what Glory?

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Or Christ in you, the earnest expectation of the manifestation of glory, in other words, christ being in you.

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You need to wake up every morning and just say well, turn it on, lord, engage the afterburners and let's just let all the glory out.

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We're going to get out.

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Hallelujah, fill this vessel with your glory and let's go.

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Let's see what God wants to do today, hallelujah, are you understanding this?

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Now, this is.

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You know I'm going real slow.

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You've heard this all before, doesn't matter.

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You need to have your pure mind shaken.

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Amen.

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This is the difference between what religion teaches and what the king of glory expects out of his body.

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And I'm telling you what he is going to have it.

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He is going to have a people who will manifest his glory.

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He is going to have it Because he prophesied it in John, chapter 17.

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Father, I pray that the glory that I had in you before the foundation of the earth be in them, so that they may be one.

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I in them, them and they, and me and us in you.

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That they may be one, hallelujah, and that the world know that you have sent me.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Now I'm going to finish with this one thought in verse 7.

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We have this treasure.

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What treasure?

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The glory.

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We have the treasure of this glory in earthen vessels.

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This is part of the great mystery.

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You don't look I'm sorry, but you just don't look like a dispenser of glory.

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You look like Mike that works at Lockheed.

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You look like Brenda that works at the car place.

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We don't look like dispensers of glory, but we are.

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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so does it matter?

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Listen.

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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so it doesn't matter.

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Listen.

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Do you know how difficult it is to restrain your pride when God is doing great things and he's using you to do it?

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You know, it's not a stretch, folks.

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It happens all the time.

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You know, you've seen it all the time.

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God speaks to somebody and says give this person, go tell them this.

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And you tell them a one-sentence encouragement, and now you're the next great prophet on.

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You know.

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Oh well, bless God, they're going to invite me on television.

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I'm going to prophesy to the nations, hallelujah.

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Well, god just gave you one thing to say and you said it.

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And now you're going to take all the credit and you're going to blow it into this massive prophetic revival.

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And, for all we know, this may be the last time God talks to you and with that attitude?

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It probably is.

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You know.

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I'll tell you God's merciful.

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To people like that I can testify.

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But you know you get carried away when really, you know from day one, when God starts to work in you and do mighty things, you know you haven't got anything to brag about.

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You didn't even dream it up.

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You never thought this was going to happen to you.

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You never thought God was going to do these things through you.

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You just never, it never occurred to you that God would, would choose to use you.

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So why in the world, when he does, do you just all of a sudden jump off the bridge and go well, it's all about me.

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You know, and it happens all the time.

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You know God's not.

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You know I remember God telling me one time he says you are not the first young pastor I've had to deal with.

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I said yeah.

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He said I created John the Baptist.

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I said I got the picture, lord.

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I said I got the picture, lord.

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You know I was trying to convince God.

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I was the next great thing to come along and God told me he created John the Baptist.

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And you're not.

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Praise the Lord.

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I am so thankful that God has patience with me and that he teaches me, that he doesn't leave me out there to be the fool that I am intent upon being.

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You know, and he just is gracious and kind and patient and long-suffering.

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Hallelujah.

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And we have this treasure in earthling vessels so that we will learn that the excellency of the power is not of us at all, because if it wasn't for God's grace and mercy, the glory that he wants to manifest through us and in us would kill us.

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You know, this stuff is lethal if you don't deal with it right.

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That's why you need to have a knowledge of the glory.

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Amen.

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I'm sorry, I can't.

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I can't think right now.

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Well, you could have asked somebody who would have got you some water.

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Praise the Lord.

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Hallelujah.

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Point is that we have this treasure in earthen vessels simply so that the excellency of the power is known and seen to be of God and not of us.

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I mean, that's what Paul says.

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Paul says there's a reason why God does this, and it is one of the great mysteries of the Bible.

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First of all, that God wants to live in us.

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Nobody ever saw that coming, that God wants to live in us, he wants to dwell in us, he wants a body that he inhabits and then he wants to manifest His glory in every component of that body.

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There's nobody except it.

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He wants everybody to be a glory container and a glory distributor.

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That's the whole design.

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I keep telling you this that these few verses right here are the gospel of glory in a nutshell and nobody preaches it.

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They're all over every other kind of story you can imagine.

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They're on the 55 other kind of story you can imagine.

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They're on the 55th iteration of Samson and the jawbone of the ass and the 47th iteration of David killing the lion and Goliath.

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They're just into all these Christian fairy tale stories and they're not in the heart of the gospel tale stories and they're not in the heart of the gospel.

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This is the heart of the gospel that Christ is in you and he is in his body as the king of glory and he is going to manifest his I said he is going to manifest his glory in you if you will accept the fact that he will do it in a human, frail body.

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And that is where religion gets off the bus.

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As soon as you say God is going to glorify himself in this flesh, they'll say whoops, that is not real.

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That's not true.

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You're never going to have that kind of glory in your flesh.

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That's what happens when you go to heaven.

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I said, well, just read this passage right here, deal with it, explain to me how this works.

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Paul's saying right here we have the treasure of glory in earthen vessels for a purpose.

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So people will see that it is God in us doing it.

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God wants that testimony in the earth that God's not with you, he's in you.

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God's not helping you, he's transforming your life.

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God's not around here just to get you a little dab of glory.

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He's here to do major work on people.

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah.

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I'm not going to preach myself, I'm going to preach Jesus.

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I was in a meeting one night.

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Probably 800 people in this meeting packed out and it was dark.

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You couldn't.

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You know lights were off.

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It was in Panama, in some little town, and you know electricity was off.

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I'm thinking there's something like that.

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I can't remember exactly.

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It was dark and I was off.

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I'm thinking there's something like that.

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I can't remember exactly.

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It was dark and I was preaching.

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I'm just preaching and all of a sudden I see a light from heaven shine on this one individual and I said you there.

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Everybody does this.

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One of these looks around, says who's this?

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And I called him out you in the certain shirt and everything else.

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You right there.

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By that time God had told me what to tell him and he's just standing out there with his hands raised.

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I said you have terminal cancer, you have gotten a report, you are starting to make plans to die.

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And I said but God is healing you right now.

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And I mean it was like that light of glory just exploded in every fiber of his body.

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I've only seen a couple of times of something like that happening, where the light actually got in and just exploded in his body.

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I'm talking about the glory in earthen vessels, so that when it happens, it's all about god and not about you, I.

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It's one thing to call somebody out in a crowd of 20 people.

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It's another thing to call them out in a crowd of 800.

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And the man testified that that was exactly what was happening to him.

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And I came to find out later that he testified that the cancer was gone.

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This is what God wants.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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This is what God wants to do, but he wants to do it in earthen vessels now, to testify that he is the king of glory.

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He is now, he always was, he always will be.

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You can't change that.

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That was true 3,000 years ago when David saw it.

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Amen.

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It was true 1,000 years after that, when the King of Glory showed up on the planet Hallelujah.

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It was true when the King of glory came down the hill of the mountain of olives into the city of Jerusalem and they gathered around him by the hundreds and proclaimed him to be this king of David, the king of glory.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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But the church won't allow it to be taught when it's right here, plain and black and white.

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There is no other gospel.

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This is the only one.

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This is why he came to die.

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This is why he came to live.

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This is why he came to be resurrected.

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This is why he resurrected so many with him on the day of resurrection.

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This is why he took them with Him in a glorious train into heaven when he ascended into heaven.

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This is why he sent the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of ministry, the Spirit of glory, amen.

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This is why he came, not for some weak, pathetic, poor excuse.

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Oh heavens, help me.

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Glory to God.

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But this is the gospel.

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This is the gospel of Jesus Christ the King of glory.

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Amen.

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We've got it in human vessels, but that doesn't mean we don't use it.

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That's not what that means at all.

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That's not what Paul's even implying here.

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He said the fact of the matter that we have it in human vessels.

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We just need to let it out more because everybody's going to see.

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It's God, you know, I mean you know when that, when that boy fell out of that uh, third floor window when Paul was preaching, paul just went through his body on him and God raised him from the dead.

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There wasn't, you know, you know, paul.

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Paul, be the first point you know, person to to person, to tell you well, I didn't have nothing to do with that.

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I just went and laid my body on him, but also to testify that it was God and not Paul.

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Paul just went back and started preaching, preached the rest of the night.

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It was like okay, next, what's God want to do Next?

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Next?

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Listen to me very carefully.

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The anointed, revealed, powerful, preached and taught Word of God is as much a miracle and a demonstration of glory as raising somebody from the dead.

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God doesn't see it in degrees of glory.

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How do I know that Paul raised him from the dead?

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They didn't even shout, they didn't even give glory to God, they just went back, sat down.

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Paul kept on revealing the glory, one level of glory to another, to another, to another.

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We just keep.

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Paul said we just keep on moving here.

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Testify to that.

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I'm going to preach till dawn.

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You want to go home tonight?

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We ain't going home tonight.

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More glory, more glory, more glory, more glory.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord and that, my dear brother and sister, is who you are.

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You are not anything else.

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Anything else is illusion and a terrible waste of God's time.

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This power God has put in you has got to get out, got to be released and got to get out.

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Got to be released and got to be seen, because you are the ones that are doing it.

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You're all he's got.

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Everybody else is playing church.

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Amen, hallelujah, glory to Jesus.