Jan. 20, 2025

The Exaltation of Adam - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 44

The Exaltation of Adam - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 44

Send us a text What if the spiritual battle between Christ and the antichrist is not just ancient history but an ongoing struggle within our modern churches? This episode promises an eye-opening exploration into the subtle ways this age-old conflict manifests today, leading to a weakened faith community. We take you on a journey from the historical clashes of scripture to the internal struggles of today's Pentecostal congregations, where human leaders often overshadow spiritual truths, and th...

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What if the spiritual battle between Christ and the antichrist is not just ancient history but an ongoing struggle within our modern churches? This episode promises an eye-opening exploration into the subtle ways this age-old conflict manifests today, leading to a weakened faith community. We take you on a journey from the historical clashes of scripture to the internal struggles of today's Pentecostal congregations, where human leaders often overshadow spiritual truths, and the active teaching of the Holy Spirit's gifts has waned. 

Listeners will be captivated by the profound discussions on spiritual transformation, as we explore the journey from homo sapiens to homo pneumaticus, or spirit men. By examining the spiritual gifts outlined in 1 Corinthians, we reveal how believers can transcend the physical realm, inspired by the example of Jesus and His followers. Our conversation also touches on historical milestones like Peter's miraculous escape from prison and the revival at Azusa Street, reflecting on the spiritual authority that needs reclaiming in our churches today.

We also confront the church's enduring struggle with sin consciousness and the exaltation of the 'old man', Adam, over the spiritual renewal found in Christ. By critiquing the focus on rigid traditions and sin-centered theology, we advocate for a shift towards a Christ-centered faith that prioritizes spiritual freedom and transformation. This episode challenges conventional church practices, urging believers to embrace the indwelling presence of the Holy Ghost, and to live victoriously as new creations, echoing the fervor of the early church.

00:00 - Spiritual Warfare in the Church

05:33 - The Nature of Spirituality

11:04 - Reclaiming Spiritual Authority in the Church

26:12 - The Resurrection of Christ Within

33:31 - The Exaltation of Adam in Church

41:24 - The Exaltation of Adam in Church

47:08 - Transformation and Reclaiming Church Authority

54:16 - Corruption of Early Christian Spirituality

01:10:33 - The Exaltation of Jesus Over Man

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10 years old and then still wear a football.

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They didn't know that football game, they just thought they found some soul from a good one.

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When people are going and people like all of us have some faith, well, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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We're going to continue on today with what we've been talking about, about this manifestation of the war between Antichrist and the Christ that has been going on since creation, since the days of Adam, and it's now into this century and it's taking a little different turn in that in this century, the way that the battle is being carried out.

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Because in prior centuries and prior times, before the Holy Ghost was poured out and before Jesus came, the battle was essentially between forces, armed forces, battles between men, for example, joshua and the Amorites, david and the Philistines, that sort of thing Still had that stuff even after Jesus had come.

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But in this century it's not so much like that as it is a war within what is known as the organized church, and the Antichrist 1906, is doing a stealth kind of warfare to war within the church, to destroy the body from within and destroy those who are coming into the body by faith, by the Spirit, keeping them off guard, keeping them off focus.

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Amen, and it's taken several distinct aspects.

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One of those aspects we're going to look at today.

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We've already looked at the fact that one of the main things that Antichrist has done is it has produced a spirit of ungodliness in the church.

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Now, not necessarily that the the church is rampantly sinful, although the case could be made for that.

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Um, it's more that that, in terms of what god defines as godliness and in first timothy 316, we studied this at some length it says this great is the mystery as godliness.

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In 1 Timothy 3.16, we studied this at some length it says this great is the mystery of godliness, how God was manifested in the flesh.

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And so if we take the opposite of that and say that if there is ungodliness in church, that means that there is a movement in the church to rob the church of the knowing and the living like God is manifested in this flesh, not just in the flesh of Jesus, but in the flesh of all of those who have been baptized in the Holy Ghost.

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And if you'll find one doctrine that is really significantly downplayed in the church today, it is that doctrine of God in flesh.

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Amen, because all you have to do is downplay the baptism in the Holy Ghost and you've taken it right out of the church and so you've got Pentecostal churches.

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I could name their names and you could drive down a street and you could find them all over the places.

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That really don't teach this anymore.

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They don't practice it anymore.

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They've still got it in their names and they've still got it in their doctrine, their doctrinal position, but they really don't Praise God.

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You've heard me tell the story about being sent to a Pentecostal church in Mexico and nobody in the church spoke in tongues.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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We've talked about the past couple of weeks.

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We've talked about a weak and a carnal church and we're going to continue talking about that today, but in a in a difference, in a slightly different look.

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We're going to look at what happens in the modern church when we exalt mere men rather than exalt pneumaticus.

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Now you've I've taught you this for a long time.

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I'm going to go back over this just for a moment.

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So we hit the ground running.

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First, corinthians 14, verse 1, says I would not have you be ignorant, brethren.

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And the king j James translates it of things spiritual, but the word things is italicized in there.

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It's added by the translators.

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So the literal translation says I would not have you be ignorant brethren of spiritual.

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That word spiritual is pneumaticus.

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It's taken from the greek word pneuma, which means spirit, and it means it means pertaining to the spirit or things, spirit, spiritual we have.

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You are unique in all of creation in that you are literally two species in one flesh body.

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You have are a by your birth to your parents.

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You are a homo sapiens, a person, a man who knows by his senses.

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Okay, so the reason that that phrase is given to humans is because we know this world by how our senses inform us of information either sight, hearing, taste, smelling or feeling.

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Those are our five senses.

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But when Jesus came, he came to bring a new creation.

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You are a new creation and then you're not an old creation, you're not a warmed up version of the old creation.

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You are a new creation, amen.

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You're not an old creation, you're not a warmed up version of the old creation.

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You are a new creation.

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If you're a new creation, and because you have a new father and because you have a new seed, and because you have a new bloodline, because those things are new, you are no longer homo sapiens, you are homo nematicus, you are a spirit man.

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Because you are a spirit man.

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You don't know that.

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You may know the physical world by your five senses, because the spirit man lives in this body, amen.

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But you can also know the spirit world through the graces of the spirit.

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You can know the spirit world by wisdom, knowledge, discernment, prophecy, tongues, interpretation, healing, faith, miracles.

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All of those things are the way that the spirit man interacts both with the spirit world and with the physical world.

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In other words, if I'm ministering and God gives me a word of knowledge and a word of wisdom to someone and then turns around and in that word of knowledge and word of wisdom brings a medical or a physical condition and he wants to heal it, and a miracle of healing or healings comes.

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Now look at what just happened.

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We've had four or five of the graces that are listed in 1 Corinthians 12.

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We've had wisdom, we've had knowledge, we've had discernment, we've had healings.

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We've had wisdom, we've had knowledge, we've had discernment, we've had healings, we've had faith, we've had miracles.

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We've had all of these things operating so that there's a transfer of miracles out of the realms of the spirit into the realms of the physical.

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To someone who hasn't got a clue as to how to do that?

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They've not been trained, they've not been filled with the Holy Ghost.

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They don't know.

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I mean this person could, you know, just be somebody.

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It could be a complete unbeliever.

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I mean, jesus healed unbelievers all the time.

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I mean it was not.

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You know, this isn't just.

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These miracles are not just reserved for them to believe.

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What's reserved for them, that believe, is the ability to work and flow in the miracles, to work in this realm where you can actually flow in and out of both realms.

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Now, I've said this before, and this is what we really strive to learn, is that Jesus and those that were trained by Jesus could flow in and out of the two realms.

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Like you and I walked through doors.

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It just, it was not, it was no big thing.

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I mean, you know, jesus could be in the spirit, he could be in the flesh, he could be somewhere in between.

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He could be in the flesh and get in the spirit and disappear.

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You know, there was just all kinds of, and he did it even after he was resurrected.

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He could be someplace on the other side of the universe and then just show up someplace through a door and have a body, and then all of a sudden, he just walked toward the door and didn't have a body anymore.

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He just walked out of the place and you have to ask yourself the question where did he park the body?

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And that is a really good question, because it tells you something about what your body will be like on the other side of the veil.

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Glory to God.

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There are certain things that have to obey the law of physics.

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Spirits are not one of them, but bodies are.

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But what if you have a spirit body?

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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We're not going to try to answer that question today, but this is the kind of realm that first century Christians lived in.

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Do you remember in Acts, chapter 12,?

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Peter was just let out of prison and he goes to the house of John Mark, mark, the man who wrote the book of Mark and Rhoda, the servant girl answered the door.

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She got all excited.

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She came, she slammed the door in Peter's face.

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Didn't even have the good sense to invite him in.

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You know, slams the door in Peter's face, didn't even have the good sense to invite him in.

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You know, slams the door in Peter's face, goes back, says Peter's there.

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Oh, peter can't be here.

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Peter's in jail.

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No, it's Peter, I saw him.

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Oh, peter can't be here, he's in jail.

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It must be Peter's angel.

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Now, see, they had the.

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They had the.

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They had the spiritual development at that point to believe that angels not only could appear, but they could appear and look like somebody else.

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They'd figured all that out, but they hadn't figured out how to get Peter out of jail.

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Yet they didn't know that their prayers were working.

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See, they didn't know they really could do what they were praying for.

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They didn't know they really could do what they were praying for.

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So it was a learning process of how to live in the spirit, how to live in a realm where Peter's in jail and in another realm where he's not in jail anymore.

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Okay, and Peter, you know, was just like him when the angel woke him up, you know, he just Hmm.

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I thought the next scene, the next scene I was gonna wake up to, was a sword coming down on the back of my neck and here's an angel and all of a sudden doors start opening, cell doors start opening, prison doors start opening, and he gets outside and he says now I know for a fact that God has sent an angel to deliver me.

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What a revelation.

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And you know how he knew that Because he was standing in his body, outside the prison doors.

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It wasn't a dream, it wasn't a vision, it was a reality that involved both his spirit and his body.

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I'm saying all that to say that the church for the past, really for the past 1800 years, has all but forgotten what that kind of a life is.

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They've all but forgotten the fact that Jesus died and was resurrected so that we could live in his realm of the spirit, even though we are in the flesh.

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And because, as the church became more popular and trended toward becoming legal, they started to abandon the things of the Spirit.

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And the church at large never regained that until the outpouring at Azusa Street in 1906.

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And it was God's plan to totally invade his whole church structure.

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It was the devil's plan to keep that from happening and so no sooner than the Holy Ghost had been poured out, then we would start to have division.

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We started to poured out, then we started to have division, we started to have strife, we started to have contention, we started to have people stealing mailing lists and we had you know, I just went on and on and on.

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So within a few years, what happened to the Sousa Street?

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The residual of that was unrecognizable.

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Now, did that have an impact on the church?

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Most definitely, as I've told you many times, there's about two and a half billion people that call themselves Christians, but that covers the gamut from Mormons to Catholics.

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To you know, two seed in a wool, predestinarian Baptists, to you know just.

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I mean, they're all over the place.

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Okay, of that two and a half billion, about 500 million or 20%, claim to be Pentecostal of some sort.

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Okay, but if you go, if you go, go through the list of denominations that belong to that, the list of denominations that belong to that not many are going to say yea and amen to what I'm preaching here today, because they live in a church world that is dominated by Adam and not by Jesus.

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And that's the point we're going to look at today.

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We live in a church world that has been co-opted by the enemy and deliberately kept in bondage to the kind of church world that there was before Azusa Street, which was a church world that was dominated by Adam and not by Jesus.

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And that's not their fault, because they never had an outpouring of the Holy Ghost to restore them and they just kept acquiring down through the centuries what the previous generation had believed.

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So you know, I mean by the time listen, by the time 350, 400 rolled around we had two basic primary churches on the planet.

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We had the church that had come out of the East, out of the area that Paul evangelized in Turkey and Greece, and all of that, and today we call that the Orthodox Church.

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And then we had the church that came out of Rome and the Bishop of Rome and we call that the Roman Catholic Church, and those were the only two basic churches on the planet, from about 400 going forward until the Protestant Reformation.

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So for a thousand years all we had was that.

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That doesn't look anything like what I'm talking about.

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That church is all about Adam.

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It is all about Adam.

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It's all about how we're going to use the law of the Bible, whether it's Old Testament or New Testament, to govern the behavior of Adam and make him behave better, and then, if he behaves well enough, we're going to send him to heaven.

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And if you don't belong to this church structure, you haven't got a prayer going to heaven.

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And this church structure, by the way, has got nothing to say or even comment on about the baptism in the Holy Ghost, even though the prophet John the Baptist said of Jesus.

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He said this is the Son of God.

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He will baptize you in the Holy Ghost and in fire.

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But never mind all that.

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We're not going to pay any attention to that, we're just going to go on our merry way.

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That church has been passed down through the ages.

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Now all of the Protestant Reformation churches will say that they are 100% anti that.

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But they're not.

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I can tell you how you can tell that.

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You can tell that by the continued practice of infant baptism and the continued practice of sprinkling rather than immersion.

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Now, if you've only got two drops of water and you want to do a baptism, go ahead and sprinkle.

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I mean you know.

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But if you've got a river and you're still sprinkling, you're missing the point.

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But it's not the immersion and it's not the sprinkling point.

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But it's not the immersion and it's not the sprinkling.

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It's the issue of sprinkling infants and calling them church members, which is nothing more than a religious form of circumcision, making people part of a group by something that you do.

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It's another form of works, righteousness that you do.

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It's another form of works, righteousness.

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There's no faith involved in it.

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And Peter said that baptism is the pledge of a good conscience in faith.

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Amen.

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There's no pledge of a good conscience in faith in there.

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You're just sprinkling babies and calling them Christians.

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And they kept on doing that because they got identified by state states.

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If you were in Germany, you were a Lutheran.

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If you were in Sweden, you were a Lutheran.

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If you were in France, you were a Catholic.

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If you were in England, it depended on who was king.

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It just you know.

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Listen, if you were in England, you could have one king be a Protestant, and everybody was a Protestant.

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If your next king was a Catholic, everybody became a Catholic.

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It became lethal to be otherwise.

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Praise God, this is what this—see.

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People don't understand these things because they don't take the time to trace their heritage.

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But this kind of how should I say this?

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This kind of heritage has permeated what the church is today.

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We have never really purged ourself of this, because the only way you can purge yourself of that history is to get reborn again by the Spirit of God and be filled with God to overflowing, so that that which religion has tried to form in you is totally pushed out, totally washed out.

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And so many people who have been baptized in the Holy Ghost.

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All they got was a little bit of being able to speak in tongues and they never understood that it was God coming in to live, not just visit, not just a little bit of God, not just give you a really goose, bumpy kind of a feeling that God's kind of closer around, because they still talk about, well, god's visiting me, god's coming to me, god's there.

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That's not the kind of language you use if God lives here.

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The kind of language that you use when God lives here is we.

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We do this, we do that, we do this Kind of like what James said.

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It seemed good to us and to the Holy Ghost.

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Well, as soon as James said that, I want you to hear me.

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You know what I'm talking about.

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I'm talking about Acts 15.

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I'm talking about where Paul came down from Europe and said these Jews have come up and said we must accept the law.

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We came down to get a ruling.

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James listened to everybody's testimony and then he said Paul's talk, peter's talk, this has happened.

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This has happened.

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This is what David says.

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David the prophet, this is what he says Now.

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It seemed good to us and to the Holy Ghost.

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And nobody said a word after that.

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Because once he said that James and the God that lived in him were establishing the rule and procedure for his church and his body.

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Everybody knew that James was appointed as the head by Jesus and everybody knew that God lived in him, just like he lived in them.

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And so when James, the head of the church, said it seemed good to us and to the Holy Ghost, they knew hey, we're done talking.

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This is beyond argument.

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Now, if we're going to be arguing now, we're going to be arguing against God.

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They had that kind of awareness.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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They understood that people, once baptized in the Holy Ghost, now lived in two realms.

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They lived in the realm of Adam, in the flesh, but they lived in the realm of Jesus by the Spirit.

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And since the Spirit was constantly striving in them to form them in the image of Jesus and out of the image of Adam.

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And they knew that that was a doctrine of the apostles, that was what the apostles taught from day one.

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Paul wrote to his churches I strive until Christ be formed in you.

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Amen.

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This is what.

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If you read Romans, if you read Corinthians, if you read Galatians, read Hebrews, this whole doctrine of the Holy Ghost working in you to form this Jesus in you so that you come and dwell in him.

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But the purpose of dwelling in him is so that he can be formed in you, amen.

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And this is how Adam becomes crucified.

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This is how you become increasingly justified.

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This is how you become increasingly sanctified.

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This is not by works that you do, but it is by the works that Jesus has already done and has made those works now working in you.

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See, you don't have to do the works that Jesus did.

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You need to hear this.

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You need to hear this one more time Amen.

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And then you need to hear it one more time after that.

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You are not a Christian so that you can do the works that Jesus did, because you're incapable of doing that.

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The reason that we are baptized in the Holy Ghost is so that the Spirit can do the works that Jesus won the right to do in you at the cross and at crucifixion and at resurrection at the cross and at crucifixion and at resurrection and then gave us his spirit so that the spirit could do those works that we are fully justified in doing.

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We're justified in doing them because Jesus did them and in his doing it and in his dying and in his living again.

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He has made a new creation that is fully justified in doing the things that he did, because we are born of him.

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We aren't trying to do the works of God.

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We're letting God do the works of God in us and then, once he fills us, we don't even have to try to do that, we just have to try to get out of the way.

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The only thing you need to do is let Adam die.

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You're not hearing me Listen.

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Let me tell it this way God does not need your help.

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If you've surrendered to him and you've yielded to him and you've allowed him to come in and live, he doesn't need your help to him and you've allowed him to come in and live, he doesn't need your help.

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He just needs for the person that is known as Adam to die.

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Once that death process starts in Adam, amen, the Jesus exalted process starts in you, and God does not need your help.

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He is fully able in you and God does not need your help.

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He is fully able.

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You've read this Bible.

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I know you have Amen, hallelujah.

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The Bible says that he is highly exalted.

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His name has been exalted and lifted up above all names.

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Who did that?

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Did you do that.

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Did you have anything to do with that?

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No, you did not.

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Amen.

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Now, if God wants to do it in you and that's his decision to do that, he wants to do it in you.

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You know, don't take any credit for it, you didn't have anything to do with it.

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But what you do have credit for and what you do do get to take credit for is hanging on to Adam, because Adam is not going to be involved in the exaltation of Christ.

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It's incapable of it, he cannot do it.

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No man can say that Jesus is Lord except by.

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The Holy ghost Doesn't say anything at all in that sentence about Adam.

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Amen, holy Ghost Doesn't say anything at all in that sentence about Adam.

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Amen.

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And yet the church that we live in, the church world that we live in today, amen, is a world that exalts Adam over the Christ.

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Let's go to 1 Corinthians 3.3.

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Hallelujah to God, praise the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 3.3.

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Where it says this For you are still carnal, or fleshly, or fleshy, or, if you want to say it in other words, you're behaving like Adam.

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For where there are envy, strife and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

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Now you can make yourself feel real good at this point and assume that he's talking to heathen.

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But he's not.

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He's talking to the church in Corinth.

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And he says that the church in Corinth, because of the way they're conducting themselves, they're still carnal, they're still fleshy, they're still acting like Adam, they're not acting like Jesus, they're not conducting themselves even though they have been.

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And this was a problem that Paul found in many churches.

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I can show you how it worked in Galatians.

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He called them foolish because they were trying to receive the Spirit by the acts of the flesh and not by the hearing of faith, amen.

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So he called them foolish.

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He calls these people carnal.

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It's the same thing they're trying to achieve the things of Jesus and his Spirit by the acts of Adam.

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And this, my dear brother and sister, hear me very carefully, because if you don't understand this, you'll just none of what I'm going to say over the next few weeks is going to make any sense.

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I've said this many times.

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I'm going to keep on saying it.

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This has been the state of the church for over 1,800 years.

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It is a miracle of God that we are sitting here today talking about the name of the risen God, savior Jesus.

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It is a miracle of God that the truth of the gospel has somehow got to us and been revealed to us.

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It is an unbelievable miracle, considering that everything that has been set against us for over 1800 years.

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They willfully denied the baptism in the Holy Ghost.

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They willfully denied the operation of the gifts and graces of Ghost.

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They willfully denied the operation of the gifts and graces of God.

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They willfully denied that there was any kind of a spirit life here that they could participate in.

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And they sold all that for a handful of porridge and getting tidbits from a priest and all the kind of stuff that has happened over the past 1800 years.

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Until God poured out the Spirit at Azusa Street, we would have never known.

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We would never have known the truth of the gospel.

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But when he poured out his Spirit and made it possible for us to have the indwelling presence of God in us, now we can know what God knows.

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However, most of the church I'm estimating that we're probably and I've said this before I'm estimating that we're talking about a ratio of about nine to one.

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We're outnumbered about nine to one.

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90% of the people on the planet that profess to be Christians do not believe in the indwelling presence of God.

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They believe that he's out there and they are here and if he visits us that's wonderful.

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And you know they have God up on the top of the mountain at Sinai.

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And there is this gulf of distance between them.

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Amen, and that is what most people believe.

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And they believe that only by death can we transcend that distance between where we are now and where God is there.

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We're going to cross that river, we're going to cross that Jordan, we're going to cross that darkness.

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They literally believe that the only way that we can cross that is through death.

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And what God is saying.

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You're partially right.

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The only way that you can cross that is through the death of Adam.

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But that doesn't mean the death of you.

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If you have been baptized in the Holy Ghost and the spirit of God dwells in you, adam can die but Jesus can be continually resurrection.

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And I've got Bible, the life that we live in this flesh.

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We live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Hallelujah.

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He said in another place this death that we die.

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We die daily in the flesh so that the life of Christ can be made manifested in us.

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Hallelujah, this is what the Holy Ghost is trying to do is resurrecting this Christ in us continually, crucifying this Adam continually.

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And what he really is trying he's not trying to teach you how to crucify Adam, because you can't crucify yourself.

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I don't know if you've ever, you know, just laid yourself out on a cross and then say you know, I'm going to crucify myself today.

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Well, just go ahead and grab that hammer with one hand and then now figure out how you're going to crucify that hand.

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You're going to need some help.

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Matter of fact, you need so much help that you're totally unqualified.

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The only thing that you're qualified to do is what you need to give up, and that is you need to give up clinging to this instead of releasing it.

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Right, he's gone.

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So we live in a church world where Adam is exalted rather than crucified, and where Adam is exalted, the flesh rather than the spirit is exalted.

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Where, where the flesh is exalted let's stop there for a second what does that mean?

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Where Adam is exalted?

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Or the life of Adam, or the old man?

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Where the old man is exalted, amen, the things of the flesh are going to be exalted.

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Now, this can be all kinds of things.

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This doesn't necessarily mean that if Adam is exalted, the church is just going to go to hell in a handbasket.

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Let me give you an example Amen, if Adam is exalted and the Spirit is not allowed to lift up this Jesus, amen.

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Then I'm going to tell you one aspect of that.

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In one, one river of that is going to be, you're going to have people that dress.

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You're going to have, you're going to in one river.

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You're going to have people that don't dress and you're going to have in another river.

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You're going to have people that wear the most absurd clothing because they think that's religious and everybody has to look the same.

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So in one case, if you have people not dressing, then everybody has to not dress.

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So you can go to some churches.

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You know they don't believe in, in doing and wearing anything other than what they just, you know, got up out of bed in and you know, unfortunately, because that's the way that river is going, everybody has to look like that.

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So that's the Church of the Undressed.

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Over here you've got the people that are the women are wearing ruffles down to here and all the way down to the floor, and their hair's never, you know, it's always, you know, five feet long and it's tied up in buns.

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And they you know you, that's always five feet long and it's tied up in buns.

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You know the type.

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That was a move that was characterized in this country 150, 200 years ago.

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People were expected to dress like that Not just for church all the time.

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It was a scandal if you didn't.

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But that's what happens when Adam is exalted.

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Then what Adam wears is exalted to the point that it becomes religious.

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Now, I've said this before.

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We've got one, you've got one dress code in the body of Christ.

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Whatever he tells you to do, do it.

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If he tells you to wear a red sport coat with polka dot pants, bless God.

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If you don't have them, you better go out and buy them.

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I'd be shocked if he did it.

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But if he did it, go for it.

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I know I'd be really shocked if he told me to do it.

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But I mean, I've had him tell me to do it stranger things than that.

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I've had him tell me to do it stranger things than that.

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So you know, I'm just telling you in the world of the Spirit, whatever he tells you to do, it's now his body.

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He doesn't get to dress it the way some formal code of behavior tells you to dress it.

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That is not living in the Spirit.

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And yet, in a church world that is dominated by Adam, you will find all kinds of dress codes and they can be all over the place.

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See the people who dress real strict.

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If somebody from that other river showed up at their church, they'd call them a heathen and it may be the next incarnation of John the Baptist, for all you know.

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I used to tell people in the this was 20, 30, 40 years ago.

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I'd tell people that were all dressed up like that, I said you better get ready.

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I said because there are people coming, and I was prophesying because there wasn't nobody like this.

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Then I said there are people coming, and I was prophesying because there wasn't nobody like this.

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Then I said there are people coming and they're going to have red hair, they're going to have green hair, they're going to be dressed in ways that you've never even seen before.

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Some of them will be lewd, some of them will be crazy.

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I said it's coming to a church near you and you got to figure out how you're going to deal with that, because if you judge them according to your strictness, you're judging them according to your strictness.

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You're judging them according to a letter of the law that they're not able to keep up because they've never had that.

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Anyway, where Adam is exalted, you get all kinds of exaltation of the flesh.

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It can come in your dress code, it can come in your dietary habits.

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It can come in you know whether you've got.

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You know you got to be up at four o'clock, three o'clock, two o'clock.

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You get to sleep all morning and get up at two in the afternoon.

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I don't know what it is.

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You know whatever, whatever men have decided is godly and they tell you that you have to observe that you're in trouble.

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You are an Adam's church.

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Glory to God.

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You see, you never thought of it like that.

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You always think of it as well.

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You know, when they come in in halter tops and short shorts, that's where we draw the line, bless God.

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Well, 50 years ago they drew the line at dresses.

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You know, barely below the knees.

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They had to be down to the floor.

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I mean, you know, you know what, who draws the line?

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Well, bless God, you can't have that in church.

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I wouldn't have the way you dress in my church.

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You come in, you come in and you go.

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You know, flowing black and black and black on black and black and black and a little little face peering out of all these ruffles and that's all we see.

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I said you see that picture right there and I'm going to get a picture of one of those women that are in the Muslim world, and they got their little face and their little eyes peering out of some massive black robes.

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And I said now tell me what the difference is.

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What's the difference between your little face peering out of a bunch of ruffles and black and black and black, and this lady over here peering out of her little black and black and black.

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What's the difference?

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Well, she's a heathen.

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Bless God.

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I'm not going to tell you what they're going to say about you.

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You say, well, you can't say things like that.

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I just did no-transcript will take an anointed servant of God that has a word from the Almighty and treat them like dirt because they won't honor that kind of foolishness.

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Glory to God.

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Where Adam is exalted, the flesh is exalted.

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Where flesh is exalted, you can count on it Works.

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Righteousness is going to be exalted.

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We are going to downplay faith.

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Doubt.

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We are going to downplay faith and we are going to downplay the hearing of faith.

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We're going to downplay the baptism and the Holy Ghost.

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We're going to downplay God in us, the hope of glory, we're going to that.

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All of those things are going to be minimized.

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And you're working your way to heaven is going to be the order of the day, because where Adam is exalted, the flesh is exalted.

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Where flesh is exalted, works righteousness will always be exalted.

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Those things go together.

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You can't separate it.

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And where works righteousness?

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You know what works.

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Righteousness is Works.

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Righteousness is that you're going to earn your way to heaven.

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Works.

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Righteousness is works.

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Righteousness is is that you're going to earn your way to heaven.

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If you, if you talk to somebody and you say you know you go through one of the preliminary, you know.

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You know how we all talk to people when we're trying to win them the lord, if you die tonight, where would you go to go to heaven or would you go to hell?

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Well, I hope I'm going to go to heaven.

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I hope I've done, done enough things that god will let me in.

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You're dealing with somebody that all they know is works righteousness.

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That means all they know if they've ever been to church or they've ever been around.

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Church is a church that is dominated by the flesh and dominated by Adam.

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They've been to a church that teaches the abomination that you cannot know whether you're saved or not, whereas the Bible says that the spirit bears witness with your spirit, that you are the children, the sons of God, daughters of God.

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Amen.

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You not only do you need to, not not only do you do, you know, but God knows about you.

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So if somebody tells you you're not going to heaven, that's a wait a minute now.

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That's not what God says about it.

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But see, there are a lot of people on the planet Out of that, two and a half billion people, I would guess a full 50% of them not just because they're poorly taught, but because their doctrine of their church teaches this that they don't know whether they're going to go to heaven or not.

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So listen, folks we got a lot of work to do, because if those folks don't even know if they're going to go to heaven or not, we can't possibly get them to come into this thing called pneumaticus, because they don't even know what you're talking about.

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They're still living in the realm of sin, consciousness and guilt and shame and grief and all those things that Jesus bore to the cross.

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They're still in that world.

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Glory to God and works righteousness.

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If works righteousness is still operating in somebody's life, then it is operating completely contrary to Christ's formation.

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Christ is formed in you when you embrace the freedom that there is in Christ, because you have been set free from the law of sin and death.

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The law of sin and death will keep you in bondage to not knowing whether or not you're going to heaven or not, but the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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It has set you free from the responsibility of earning your way to heaven, which nobody could do anyway.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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So exaltation of mere men results in Adam being exalted rather than being crucified In a church where Adam is exalted or it is Adam-centered.

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Let's say we live in a world where most of the churches are Adam-centered and not Christ-centered.

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Let me just give you an example.

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If you're in a church that tells you that you are a sinner saved by grace, you are in an Adam-centered church, because there is more of a focus on sin consciousness than on righteousness consciousness, or on sin consciousness rather than justification.

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If you've been justified, if you've been saved, if you've been washed by the blood.

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If you've been born again of the seed of God, amen.

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It's impossible for you to say I'm a sinner saved by grace.

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That is contrary to all of the things that, those things I just said you know of being born again, born of new seed, born of the blood of the lamb.

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If all of those things have happened to you, amen.

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Sin is not your issue.

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Formation is your issue, amen.

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You're not living to get free of sin.

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Jesus did that for you.

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Do you not understand that?

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A sinner saved by grace most, 99.9% of the people that are in those churches have no clue what that means, because the very phrase makes no sense.

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We are saved by grace, through faith, that, not of works, lest any man should boast.

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What does that mean?

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That means that if we're saved by grace, through faith, amen.

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We don't have any more works righteousness to deal with we don't have to worry about.

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You know, every time we do something that we don't like, you know we have to run and we have to get absolution and we have to get God to forgive us or we're going to go to hell.

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You know there are churches like that.

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There are churches that believe that.

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You know, if you just stub your toe, you know, in some sort of a sin, excuse me that.

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You know you've got to run and you've got to.

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You know you've got to run and you got to.

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You know you just can't let anything happen until I get that covered.

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Well, what if it's already covered?

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What if the issue is not sin forgiveness, it's Christ formation?

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The Bible says that if we confess our sins, god is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us of what All unrighteousness.

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Well, wait a minute, how does that work?

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And what is the timeframe?

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Because if you've confessed your sins and he forgave your sins see, most of the church teaches this.

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This is a hard thing to get people to see when God forgave your sins, he forgave all of them.

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And if you're going to say, well, what about the ones you haven't committed yet?

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Well, you committed them in God's time and he forgave them in God's time.

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And if you can't get free from being trapped in this routine of sin, which is where most churches keep their people, you know why?

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Because they don't want them to be free.

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They don't want free people.

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They want people who come to church because of guilt.

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Because people who come to church because of guilt, will stay around, give offerings, help out, fix the building, do all kinds of stuff that people that they need people to do, and if they're trapped by guilt they'll keep on coming.

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Well, I wish I could you get people free from that.

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And the only reason they come to church is because the Holy Ghost is telling them to.

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Now everybody's got an excuse not to be here, but it takes somebody with the courage of Jesus to be faithful to the voice of God and obey every instruction.

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And the last instruction, one of the last instructions concerning this is forsake not the assembling of yourselves together, such as the custom of some, but so much more as you see that great day approaching Glory to God, when the church is Adam-centered rather than Christ-centered, it is sin-focused rather than Christ-centered, it is sin-focused rather than justification-focused, and that defers the transformation process to the point where there is no transformation until glorification.

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So what is taught, and what has been taught as a concrete doctrine of the church, is that we don't get transformed and sanctified until we get to heaven.

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Now you can, they'll piddle-piddle, you know well.

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There's two kinds of sanctification there's positional sanctification and then there's progressive sanctification.

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Well, nobody deals with that, because and the reason is is because nobody deals with the fact that we're still in this sin consciousness and as long as we're in this sin consciousness, we are not going to get go through transformation.

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There's too much guilt, do you not see what I'm saying?

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If, if you're, if you're convinced that you're a sinner, if you're convinced that you're a sinner saved by grace, and some preacher like me comes around and said God, in you, the hope of glory is trying to transform your spirit while in the flesh, into the image of the Son of God, and immediately, immediately, somebody that's in bondage to sin consciousness will say well, I'm a sinner saved by grace, I'm not worthy.

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And so they take 50 steps backwards for every half inch.

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They go forward and they never get out of this yo-yo of trying to make a step forward into Jesus and getting slammed back by sin.

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If you want to get on with it, I said if you want to get on with it and get transformed into the image of this Jesus, amen, you got to get way past this concept that you are shaped by sin.

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You are not shaped by sin.

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You are not shaped by sin, you are shaped by his righteousness.

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I am the righteousness of Christ, of God.

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In Christ Jesus, I am a new creation.

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Old things are passed away.

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Behold, all things have become new and I have been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, hallelujah.

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I've not been made a sinner, saved by grace.

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I was a sinner and I got saved by grace, amen.

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But I am no longer a sinner and I no longer need to be saved.

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I am a saved person.

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I am a spirit being and my whole purpose now is to be transformed into the image of Christ.

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That's why God filled me.

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We're going to spend a lot of time on this, because the key thing that the Antichrist has done is to rob the church of the reason why God fills us, hallelujah.

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But this reality is coming back to the church.

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Praise God.

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Now, if you've got a church like this, like I've just described, then what's going to happen and this is what we see in church after church after church after church is that they're going to be focused on building better earthly families and lives than eternal lives.

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Be a transformation.

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See, when you get and here's what happened and this just didn't happen yesterday this happened centuries and centuries and centuries ago there was a shift in the church from living in him on earth to living in heaven after earth.

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The early church, the first century, second century church, had this reality.

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They were living in him on earth.

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And so on earth, because I'm in him, we can do the things that Jesus did.

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We can heal the sick, we can raise the dead, we can cast out devils, we can change things that are happening around us.

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We can, even though we're persecuted, we're not knocked down, we're not abandoned Amen.

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We can.

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Even though we're persecuted, we're not knocked down, we're not abandoned, amen.

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We can live with God in the flesh and do God things here in the flesh.

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But all of a sudden, after about 200 years of this, that way of living became less and less and it became more and more that we were going to defer all this godness until heaven.

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So we're just going to suffer through this life on earth.

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God's going to help us, god's going to give us grace, god's going to give us mercy, god's going to help us find some food.

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You know, we're going to suffer, suffer, suffer for Jesus, and then we're going to go to heaven.

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Instead of being more than a conqueror, we became victims.

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We became victims of the attacks of the enemy.

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We became victims of the attacks of the state, the attacks of the state became all these kind of victims because, quite honestly, because the first generation of overcomers had left.

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There was a second generation that were strong in the Lord and in the power of his might, but somehow the fervor of Paul didn't get transmitted.

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And the other thing that happened was they started making the study of what Paul wrote, what John wrote, mark Luke and the others.

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They started making that an academic study rather than a handbook on transformation, and so they started.

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And then they started arguing about you know how many angels dance on the head of a pin and you know how many?

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You know all these kinds of theological things that people can argue about, and this was rampant at about 150, going forth for another hundred years, and it just squashed the Spirit.

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So the shift happened Instead of living in Him on earth, we shifted to living in heaven after earth.

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So this gap of time between salvation and death was just really a time to go to church.

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We're going to go to church, raise our kids and hopefully the kids will turn out right and they'll stay in church, and then they'll raise some more kids and they to go to church.

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We're going to go to church, raise our kids and hopefully the kids will turn out right and they'll stay in church.

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And then they'll raise some more kids and they'll stay in church.

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Well, all the devil's got to do is just keep marching you off to, you know, death camps.

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If you think that's a new concept, it's not a new concept.

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They were marching them off and killing them by the multiplied thousands.

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Oh yes, they were.

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And killing them by the multiplied thousands.

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Oh yes, they were.

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That's all I had to do, because there was no victory here.

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Now, if I could just kill them here, amen, then they could do whatever they want to in heaven, they're not bothering me here.

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Glory to God.

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I'm telling you it is a miracle beyond all belief how we are still sitting here talking about this.

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In doing this, they overlooked two key definitions of being in him and being in the body, and I'm telling you what you still, to this day, cannot find a decent definition, or anybody that is spending any time at all talking about these two things.

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What does it mean to be in him, what does it mean to be in his body?

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And yet those things were as real as a hand at the end of your arm for the first 200 years of Christianity.

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They knew exactly what was being talked about because they knew the reality of the indwelling presence of the Holy Ghost.

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They weren't told that God came to live in you just so that you could babble a few words that you don't know.

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That was the evidence.

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That was not the reason.

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Somebody say there's a difference between evidence and a reason.

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Hallelujah, you may have the evidence that the man is robbing the bank because he has a bag full of money and a gun in his hand, but that's not.

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He doesn't rob the bank because he's got a bag and a gun.

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The reason for robbing the bank is something else, entirely different.

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These are just the evidence.

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If he doesn't have a gun, he doesn't have a bag and the money's still in the vault.

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Amen.

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You can't say that guy's robbed the bank.

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Well, no, he hasn't.

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There's no evidence.

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You got to have some evidence.

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That evidence is not the reason.

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There's no evidence.

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You got to have some evidence.

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That evidence is not the reason.

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Adam's church is not an in him church, no matter how much they want to say it is.

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It is not an in him church because it's flesh centered and not Christ centered.

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It's not an in body group of elect believers, it's just not.

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It may be a church that has membership by birth.

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It may be a church that has membership by birth.

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It may be a church that has membership by family.

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It may be a church that has membership by decision.

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I decided to follow Jesus and I looked up on the Internet and I found, oh, this church looks good, I went to that church, I went to this church, I went to that church, tried this church out, tried that and I made a decision I'm going to go to this church.

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But you know, most churches are somewhere in there.

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It may be by chance, you may have just been driving down the street and just felt like you wanted to go in that church.

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I've heard, I've heard testimonies like that by the, by the dozens of guys that were drunk.

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I've had guys that were so drunk they couldn't even see straight.

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Stumble into a church and get saved, get sobered up, glory to God, get filled with the Holy Ghost.

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I've seen it.

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But unless you're one of those people just having to come out of a drunk stupor and end up in a church amen the reason you need to be amidst a body of believers who are filled with the Holy Ghost and are in him and in his body is because God has told you and there is headship decision-making in your family, and that's how God does business.

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He tells you where to go and he tells the head of the family where the family is going to go, and that's how God does business.

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Now, people may not like that, but that's how God does business and that's how he forms his body.

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And the other thing that has to do with that we're going to talk about this probably next time is that he's going to send you to a body of believers who are organized under godly headship and not by a bunch of hirelings.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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But having said that, now we're talking about a real small percentage of churches.

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I'm going to say this just so it gets out in the air one of the reasons, one of the reasons that that that's like that, is because of the government.

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The government came up with a ability to give tax-free donation status to certain registered churches and ministry organizations.

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When they did that, they set in motion a system of organizing churches similar to businesses or similar to a non-profit business or not-for-profit business, which means that you have a board of directors.

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You've got this, you've got that, you've got this and you've got that.

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And somewhere in there is the pastor.

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Now he may wear a variety of hats, or he just may have one hat, and he may not be any of the people that are the heads of the ministry.

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He is an employee.

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He is brought in from the farm of pastors that are authorized by the denomination and they bring him in and interview him and then they negotiate a contract and he's paid, and if he doesn't perform on the contract he's fired and by any definition of John 10, that's a hireling, not a shepherd.

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Glory to God.

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Well, anyway, praise the Lord.

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One more point the Adam church has a pseudo spirituality that comes by concepts and ideas rather than relationship with the spirit.

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In this kind of a church, the doctrines of men are idolized.

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Now, if you're in a certain denomination, you will idolize the doctrines of the founders of that denomination and you will in large part think that other denominations are basically heretics.

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Now, you'll pay lip service to them.

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Well, if they all accept Jesus, then we're all, all brothers.

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But in their under their breath they're going.

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But we really doubt whether they really accept Jesus or not, because they haven't accepted him Like.

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We accept it.

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So what you know, who knows about that?

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You know there's, I mean, all like that, all, all like that.

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All of them are like that.

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They don't have they.

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They worship the founders and what they the revelation that they may have had at the expense of fellowship with others.

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You can't fellowship with others for one thing.

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That might mean you go to their churches and we can't, we're not gonna allow you to get go to their churches.

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You're a part of this church.

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That's what happens when the doctrines of men are idolized and when the church is misdefined.

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Over there, these churches have fellowship with the, with the world, with darkness.

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If you've ever, if you've gone to a lot of these, these modern churches, I mean it is dark in there.

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There's's not much light, there's smoke, there's lights, there's all this music and stuff.

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Because they formed a fellowship with worldly entertainment and with the TV and entertainment system.

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Mentality, mentality.

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Listen.

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I've been saying this for so long.

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I said as soon it was one thing to have ministry on the radio, because you didn't have visual images in front of your eyes.

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You could just listen to what was said and you could listen to the man or the woman teach and they would read sections of the Bible and they'd talk about it.

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And they, you know, tomorrow we'll do this and tomorrow we'll do that, you know.

01:03:22.817 --> 01:03:31.849
But as soon as you have somebody on television, ok, and it's not the only thing you watch.

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Now, if it was the only thing you watched, there might be a difference, but since it's never that we've all watched something else on television, ok, we all have, everybody has.

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As soon as you watch something else on television you are watching.

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Now listen to me very carefully, because you are asking your feeble little brain to do something that it's really not wired to do, because your brain is wired to believe what you see and what you hear, because you are homo sapiens, you are a person who lives by your senses.

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Okay, are you following?

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Now, watch, watch this.

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You.

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You grow up watching two hours of John Wayne being this person, and next week he's two hours of him being somebody else and two hours of him being in a totally different country, in a different.

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Now he's a soldier, oh wait, next week he's a cop.

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Now next week he's back to being a cowboy, and you've learned that what I see on that little box may not be real.

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And so now we put preachers on there and we got this preacher saying this thing and this preacher saying this thing and this preacher saying this thing and this preacher saying this thing.

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It's really hard for your brain not to jump from John Wayne to these people and say these people aren't real.

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What they're saying may be real or may not be real, but it wasn't John Wayne.

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John Wayne's not John Wayne, that's not even his name.

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That's just make believe.

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Not only that, but John Wayne is a star and as soon as you take that image and you put it over here on a church service, those people become stars.

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They can't help it.

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You can't help it, but the system fosters it.

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That wasn't the case with radio.

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It's not the case with non-visual ministry, with non non visual ministry.

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God intended visual ministry to be within the confines of his church, where he assembles his people together.

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He didn't intend for it to be like, like in this, in this framework of entertainment, because it's too hard for your brain to figure all that stuff out.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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And so who are the people?

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In a lot of ministries, the person that you have the most trouble with are the senior music people, because a lot of those people have already been through the entertainment business.

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They know what it's like to be a star.

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And pastors that don't have the good sense to take somebody that a star that gets saved and put them up and be a singer on the platform, that doesn't have enough sense to not do that.

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They're asking for a world of trouble.

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But the church now is so entertainment centered that many times just to have a decent praise and worship team you'll have to hire musicians that are on your platform on Sunday morning and they were in a bar the night before.

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Because if we don't have a better show than the church down the street, they're going to get our people, they're going to get our money, they're going to get our attendance, amen.

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So why are they going down there?

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Not because the words nobody's preaching a word that's worth two cents.

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It's the only what's going on down there.

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It's a better show Glory to God, hallelujah.

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And so that brings us to the whole thing.

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In Adam's church music is exalted and it doesn't necessarily have to be good music, because a lot of times it's not, and it doesn't have to be music that makes any spiritual sense.

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If you listen to a lot of what's being done in churches today, it's not about Jesus, it's about me, it's about my feelings, it's about my reaction.

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It's about me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, we.

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Our worship is based in music and not in relationship, and the thing that that troubles me so much about all this stuff is the lyrics.

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A lot of times are not even anywhere close to being godly.

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They're just religious like, and they can be.

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There can be conflicts of thoughts, conflicts of of of.

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There'd be conflicts with the word.

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You can say things, you can say things in a song and people will believe them, and they're not in the Bible, they're not necessarily the reality.

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I've told you this one all the time.

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I couldn't tell you how many songs there are about going to heaven that have to do with getting in a boat and going across the river.

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We're going to go across that dark Jordan.

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We're going to go across that dark Jordan.

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We're going to go across that river.

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We're going to stand on the banks of the river.

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We're going to go.

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You know all the stuff about the river.

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Well, there's no river that we're going to cross.

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You know there's a song I used to sing there's one more river to cross, one more mountain.

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There's no river to cross more river, to cross one more mountain.

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There's no river to cross.

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We're not crossing a river.

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That is in Greek mythology, that one's just stolen right out of Greek mythology.

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We're not going to cross any river.

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Nope, we're not going to ride a train either.

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It's a song that they used to sing with the drug addicts Not going to get to heaven on roller skates.

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We're not going to get to heaven If we can't get to heaven on roller skates.

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You're not going to get to heaven If you can't get to heaven on roller skates.

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We're not going to get there on a boat.

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Hallelujah, but our faith will be in man-made lyrics rather than in the word of God.

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Do you realize that we in this church, we have a command I'm going to use that word where you know the songs.

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You know, I mean the overheads will help you remember the words, but you know the songs, you know what the tunes are, you know what most of the words are.

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Okay, are you know what most of the words are Of almost 100 songs that we sing on a regular basis?

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Almost 100 songs, that's more songs than a church, say, 150 years ago, 200 years ago, out in the prairie, someplace.

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You know your little house on the prairie church, you know, with the lady pumping the organ and doing all that kind of stuff.

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You know they didn't have a hundred songs.

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I mean they sang the same songs all shall we gather at the river?

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What's that river again?

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See, they didn't have all those songs.

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They didn't have all this diversion.

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Now I work real hard in making sure that the songs that we sing are are, have a unity in the spirit.

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They have a unity and message.

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If I don't like one or two of the words, I change them.

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You know, you know what I'm saying.

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I work real hard of that a lot of guys don't.

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They just grab whatever's popular, whatever trendy.

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I don't care if it's trendy.

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We sing things that are 3,000, 4,000 years old.

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I don't care about trendy.

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I want the Holy Ghost to be honored and involved in what we do.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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But you can see what I'm getting at when this Adam, this man that's made of Adam, is exalted.

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There are a lot of things about the man that's called Jesus that will not be exalted.

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But I've got news for you.

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Adam never had and never will have control over eternity, will have control over eternity, but Jesus always has had and always will have total, masterful control of both infinity and eternity.

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Now, why in the world would we build a church system that worships one and not the other?

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But we have, and that is the curse that God came to fix with the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, and the church rejected it, and so we're left with a church that worships mere men and not the spirit man that Christ is transforming into his image.

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Amen, praise God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Well, glory, Praise the Lord.

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Praise the Lord.