Jan. 8, 2025

The Journey from Seed to Spiritual Glory (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 12)

The Journey from Seed to Spiritual Glory (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 12)

Send us a text Have you ever considered that the divine power you seek might already be within you, waiting to be recognized and unleashed? This episode takes you on a journey through the profound teachings of 2 Corinthians, exploring the transformative ministry of the Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead and fills and quickens believers who will receive Him. By rethinking the presence of God after the resurrection and Pentecost, we challenge the boundaries of the old Adamic na...

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Have you ever considered that the divine power you seek might already be within you, waiting to be recognized and unleashed? This episode takes you on a journey through the profound teachings of 2 Corinthians, exploring the transformative ministry of the Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead and fills and quickens believers who will receive Him.  By rethinking the presence of God after the resurrection and Pentecost, we challenge the boundaries of the old Adamic nature and encourage you to embrace your true identity as a vessel of divine power and purpose. This isn't just a symbolic gesture, but an awakening to the full potential of God's glory within us.

Imagine a plan so perfect that it transcends time itself. That's what we unpack as we explore God's preordained plan for humanity, with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus as timeless events that defy earthly constraints. This discussion invites you to ponder your divine purpose, one that was foreseen by God before time began. We emphasize living with an eternal perspective, relating to others through shared human experiences just as Jesus did, which enables us to empathize and bring healing to those we encounter.

Lastly, we contemplate the metaphor of a seed to illustrate how adversity can lead to spiritual growth and the manifestation of divine glory within us. Just as a seed must die to bring forth new life, so must we embrace spiritual death to the flesh to fully manifest the life of Jesus. By participating in Christ’s death and resurrection, we open ourselves to His transformative life, allowing it to shine through us and impact others. This episode encourages you to let even small cracks in your human vessel allow God's presence to flow out, bringing healing and transformation to those around you. Join us on this spiritual journey, and let the light of divine glory illuminate your path.

00:00 - Ministry of the Spirit in Believers

11:32 - The Plan of Redemption and Compassion

27:25 - The Seed and the Glory

45:26 - The Process of Dying Daily

01:01:58 - The Dying Process and Resurrection

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Well.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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Thank you, jesus.

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Glory be to God.

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Let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, in and around verse 7, talking about the ministry of the Spirit, or the Spirit of ministry.

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And in this chapter, where that name of the Holy Ghost is, is revealed.

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It is revealed that that ministry is a ministry of glory, amen.

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A ministry of power manifested, a ministry of the essence of who God is manifested among and in His people.

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Amen, praise God.

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People expect God just to manifest Himself from heaven, but the Bible says in Romans, chapter 1, that what is revealed from heaven is wrath and what is revealed to his body is faith, that the righteousness of God is revealed by faith, through faith in his body.

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Amen.

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So this glory is going to come not from falling from heaven, but it's going to come through the body, as the spirit of ministry ministers his glory and permits it to increase as the members of the body yield to it.

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Amen, praise God, hallelujah.

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So we've been talking about in verse 4 that we have a ministry of glory.

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But Paul says this he says in verse 7 that we have this treasure, this ministry of glory, in earthen vessels, and we talked about this the last time that one of the great mysteries in the New Covenant is the revelation that God has come after the resurrection, after Pentecost, that God has come to dwell in His people bodily.

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Nobody saw this coming.

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This was only hinted at at various places in the Old Testament.

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Very few people saw this coming.

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If you'd have come up to anybody in Jerusalem at Pentecost that year that had not been around Jesus and said you know, something's going to happen here at Pentecost and after that God's going to live in you, they'd have just picked you up and thrown you in the closest jailhouse they could find.

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You know.

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That was not only blasphemous, that was crazy.

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You know.

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Nobody saw this coming.

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Yeah, I mean, today is the same thing, you know.

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But just back up, 2,000 years, before any of this has ever happened.

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And nobody saw it coming, except those that were around Jesus, who saw God in the flesh and understood that that's what he was and that because he's the first fruits of many brethren, then there are going to be lots of people like him where God is dwelling in them in the flesh.

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Amen.

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Now, all Christian denominations basically believe this, but they just pay lip service to it Because they can't not believe it because it's in the Bible over and over and over again.

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But you know they give it lip service and they give it kind of, because they've already taken all the power out of the gospel.

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They've taken the power out of the Holy Ghost.

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So if he's with you and in you after all you did ask Jesus into your heart that he's in you but there's not this consciousness of God in all of His power living in you.

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That's why I've said many times you know most people think they've got, you know, like a statuette version of Jesus living in them, because you know that's about all that will fit in your heart.

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You know your heart's only about that big around, so Jesus can only be that little.

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You know that kind of silly thinking.

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Instead of thinking that this God who came down on Mount Sinai and caused the mountain to quake, angels to blow trumpets, thunders and lightnings and all this, that same God lives in you, that God who commanded light to shine out of darkness has now shown in our hearts.

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See, that's a whole different revelation than what was in the Old Testament.

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But that's the first thing that got stolen out of the church.

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Because if you can steal that out of the church, you can steal everything, because that's the most important thing, because it's not being saved from your sins.

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That's not the most important thing.

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That's why Jesus died, one of the reasons he died.

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But he was resurrected for other reasons.

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Amen, are you fine?

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Are you following me?

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You can't.

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You can't have the crucifixion without the resurrection, obviously can't have the resurrection without the crucifixion.

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In in the Lord's eyes.

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That's all one event.

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Okay, christianity has separated it into its component parts and thereby taken the mystery out of part of it.

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But if you take out the fact that Jesus raised from the dead to bring forth a whole new creation, that the purpose of it is not to be a better form of Adam but to be a new man, that God lives in bodily, even though you still have this same shell, amen.

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You're not always going to have this shell, just the way Jesus had a shell, but when he was resurrected from the dead, he got a new shell.

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Amen, glory to God.

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See, most Christianity I'm convinced of this most Christianity believes that basically what happens to us when we're resurrected is that we are like Lazarus.

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We just kind of get a glowing, better version body.

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The eye hasn't seen and the ear hasn't heard, neither has it entered into the heart and spirit of man what God has prepared for those who love Him.

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But God's trying to reveal it to us by His Spirit.

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But you haven't even imagined yet what you will be like.

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Hallelujah, praise God, because we still try to see Jesus according to the flesh on the other side of Calvary, amen.

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And God's trying to get us to see this mystery which is Christ in us, the hope of glory.

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Now Paul says this that we have this ministry in earthen vessels.

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And that is to me.

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If I were doing it, I wouldn't do it that way, I'd say it's like I've said before get them saved, get them baptized, just hold them down a little bit longer, let them come up resurrected, glorified bodies and we'll just go on with it.

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You know just this prolonged period of what Paul calls being hard-pressed on every side.

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You know, dismayed but not perplexed, or perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, all of those things, that stretch of agony that you pass through in your flesh as the seed man is trying to get out, and this section of Scripture is one of the best that really talks about what it is like to be a seed.

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And these pressures that you feel are because you're a seed trying to be something else.

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You're a seed that is trying to get out of this husk and be developed into a full form of life that God has made Amen.

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But you're not there yet, nobody's there yet.

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Now, why God did this, you'll have to ask Him, because I haven't got an answer that I can communicate yet.

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It's just this is the way that it pleased Him To bring about the rising up of the sons of God into their place as the full rights of sons, brethren, of Jesus.

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Because Jesus had to go through it, we have to go through it, amen.

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It's just really about as simple as that.

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Now, why did Jesus have to go through?

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It is a whole other question having to do with Adam's sin, which God knew all about.

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That when he created Adam, he had all of that covered.

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There was the contingency plan of Adam sending an.

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Even there was a contingency plan for Adam sending 500 years down the road.

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If Adam had lived for 2,500 years, there was a contingency plan for that.

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But there was always going to be a Calvary and there was always going to be a Calvary and there was always going to be a resurrection, because that's the only way that the human race could be perfected Into this body of God that God wanted to create by means of the resurrection of Jesus.

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Now I've said about all I could possibly say in English.

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If I said anything else, I'd have to say it in tongues.

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It's just, you know, that's just the way God decided it was going to be when he created us as the apex, the point, the tip-top of creation.

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And because he did then, whatever Jesus took out upon himself is what we have to do Now.

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You make a mistake when you think that Jesus came 4,000 years after Adam.

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That's where Jesus entered into time.

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But all of this was done out of time, before Adam was ever created, before anything was ever created.

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This was all done out of time.

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The Bible says that very plainly, but it's hard to you know your rational mind won't get a handle on that that Christ was crucified before anything.

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Now it just happens that it caught up in time 2,000 years ago and 4,000 years after Adam.

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That's when God inserted that whole thing in time, in the fullness of time.

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God inserted that which had happened before time into time.

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You go, I don't understand that.

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Well, you need to understand it, because that's exactly what happened to you.

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There was a before time version of your life that God went all through with you all the plans, all the possibilities, all of this, all of that discussed.

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It showed it to you, you rehearsed it with him, he rehearsed it with you.

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You were there when Jesus was crucified.

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You were there when he was resurrected all that before time.

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And then you, in your time, were inserted in With all of that that came with it, waiting for somebody to tell you about Jesus, so that that which had been deposited in you could come alive.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord, you are the earthen vessel containing God, because it pleased God to do that, because he knew he was going to send Jesus in that way.

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If you can just think about this, some of these things, you have to unthink a little bit.

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We all think that the Old Testament was the First Testament and it is in clock time, but it's not in timelessness.

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The New Testament, the new creation, was always first.

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That was always what God envisioned and that's always the plan that God had to move toward.

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Now, what came before that in time we have come to call the Old Testament, amen.

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But it's not really the Old Testament.

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It's a story of a series of covenants that God has made with men, usually in the form of one man being the representative, and they were all types of what was going to happen when Jesus came.

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And this new covenant, which was really not the new covenant, like John said, this commandment I give to you, it's not really a new commandment, it's the same old commandment.

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It's so old it goes back before time that we should love one another.

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See, this language is all through the fabric of the New Testament, but you have to pull it out and look at it to try to get a hold of it and take off the veil of religion which keeps you from seeing it, because religion wants you to be only interested in what's happening in the next five minutes, because, after all, you've got your ticket punched to heaven, so you might as well just live for the now.

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There's this song that somebody sings and says why worry about tomorrow?

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Just think about today.

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Well, you know that's not very kingdom-minded.

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Well, you know that's not very kingdom-minded.

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If you're building the kingdom of God, you're not only concerned about today, you're concerned about tomorrow and you're concerned about eternity.

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Glory to God.

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So we have the treasure of this glory in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.

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Now see, this is one of the reasons.

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This is a very obvious reason why God does it this way, because if you had a glorified body, nobody would pay any attention to you, because you can't possibly suffer like they suffer.

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You can't possibly be.

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You know, like what was it said of Jesus in the book of Hebrews?

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That he was thoroughly acquainted with our suffering.

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Amen, he looking for the phrase, it'll come to me in a minute that he was touched with the feeling of our infirmities.

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Well, you know, if you're in a glorified body, that's kind of hard to do.

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You know you're not.

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I mean, you might well.

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I'm sure I'm sorry you're sick, but I haven't got a clue as to what.

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That's kind of hard to do.

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You know you're not.

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I mean you might well.

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I'm sure I'm sorry you're sick, but I haven't got a clue as to what that's like anymore.

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You know, I mean you.

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Can you understand what I'm saying?

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In this flesh, in this earthly vessel, amen.

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You can still relate to people who are hurting, who are sick, who are infirmed, who are weak.

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Jesus wasn't haughty with people when he was on this earth.

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He humbled himself to be a servant to people and minister to them, and if they were sick, he healed them.

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If they were oppressed, he delivered them If they were downtrodden.

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What does the Bible say?

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The Spirit of the Lord, god, is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, the eyesight, to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised and oppressed, and all those things.

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That's what Jesus did, because he was moved several times.

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The Bible says he was moved with compassion, hallelujah.

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Now, you can't be moved with compassion.

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Angels can't be moved with compassion Because they don't know what this is like.

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They think it's marvelous, they think it's wonderful, they think it's amazing that God would want to live in you.

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All these hundreds of millions of years they've been up there with God.

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God's never come into them, not one time.

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He may speak to them, they may carry His Word, they may carry His authority, they may be the heads of armies of the Lord, like Michael.

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Amen.

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But not a one of them have been filled with God.

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And so when they look around and they see God in you, they go.

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What is he doing?

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And so when they look around and they see God in you.

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They go, what is he doing?

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And they say, like David, what is man?

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That you are mindful of him and the son of man that you visit him.

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Well, I feel the Holy Ghost on that one.

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What is going on?

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Why are you doing this, god?

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You're supposed to be up there.

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What are you doing?

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They don't get it.

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But the fact of the matter is that all of these folk out here that need to be filled with God would never talk to angels.

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They would never talk to resurrected beings that look like they just came out of the sun.

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You think that's how it would work, but that's not how it works, because what people need is they need someone that feels the feeling of their infirmities.

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No-transcript, and that's what I mean.

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You don't need to get there and wallow about it.

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I mean I've I've said this to so many people.

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I said I don't need to know what is wrong with you.

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I really don't, because if you don't say something like that, it'll take five hours to get through a prayer line of 30 people, cause I mean, oh my, they'll start to tell you everything about.

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You know their aunt and their, their dogs and their.

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You know their boss and their dogs and their boss.

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Oh, my goodness, you'll be sorry.

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You ever asked what do you want me to do for you?

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I tell them I said I don't need to know what's wrong with you.

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God knows what's wrong with you.

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You just need to know that he wants that gone.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Now, that doesn't mean I don't stop and pray for people.

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Get something from the Lord about them.

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Let them know that God's knocking on their door.

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I'm very sensitive about that, but I don't want to hear their life history.

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God already knows all that.

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I'm not there to hear their life history.

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I'm there to feel what they feel and take that, take that away from them, to remove that burden, destroy, destroy that yoke.

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That's my job.

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Amen.

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That's what God is going to do in me.

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That's what he's going to do Now.

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There's times when God will say to you you know, share this part of your testimony with them, because they need to know that you can be healed.

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They need to know that God heals shoulders.

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They need to know that God heals backs.

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They need to know God heals hearts.

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You know, I got testimony.

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I got a lot of cred on the wall.

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You know of miracles, that God's done for me, you know.

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So if God tells me to share it, I'll share it.

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But because I can share, it, shows them.

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I've been touched with that infirmity.

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But God, but God, see God's smart.

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God See God's smart.

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He's deferring the resurrection of the body for a time, just like he chose a time to insert you into this world.

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He has appointed a time when he will promote the body into its eternal status.

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That time isn't yet, amen.

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The time now is for the body to move among flesh and condemn sin in the flesh by your presence and by the power of God that's resident in you.

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Amen.

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Just think of a couple of examples that we've mentioned here over and over and over that.

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Smith Wigglesworth, who is one of the most filled of God people that have ever walked this planet, was on a railroad train.

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He wasn't doing anything, he was just minding his own business.

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And here come people from different parts of the train crawling on their knees through the things that kept the crane cars together and all that stuff, crawling on their knees to come to his car and say what must we do to be saved?

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He wasn't out there preaching.

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He didn't go down the rows and tell everybody you bunch of heathens, you bunch of sinners, you're all going to hell.

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You got to repent.

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He didn't do that.

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He's just sitting up there minding his own business and the power of God that was in him got on those people and they just fell under conviction.

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On those people and they just fell under conviction.

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Just imagine, just imagine that kind, the kind of power that happened when Peter was walking down the streets of Jerusalem.

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Hallelujah, the Bible says that even Peter was walking down the streets of Jerusalem.

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Hallelujah.

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The Bible says that even his shadow floated to God.

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But the shadow fell on him to tell him that it had nothing to do with this physical realm of existence or this sun or this power or anything else, but the shadow fell on them and a different light hit them.

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That's how powerful it was.

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Glory to God.

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You try, you try.

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Glory to God.

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You see how good your faith is and get in a prison Rats and cockroaches up to your knees.

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It's midnight, you're figuring on getting stoned or beaten with regularity tomorrow and your faith and your prayers cause an earthquake.

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Oh, that can't happen, brother, because the devil's the one that causes earthquakes.

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Oh, really, paul and Silas called one down.

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Are you going to call them devils.

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Huh, jesus, hallelujah, that's what God wants to do in flesh.

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Everybody say yes, everybody say amen.

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Everybody said we didn't hear this in Sunday school Glory to God, didn't even hear it in a regular church.

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Religion won't teach this Because they are set against it.

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Religion now, understand that I'm not talking about when I talk about religion.

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I'm talking about a spirit of religion that has much of the church world in bondage.

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The spirit of religion.

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This is the last thing it's going to permit is for this revelation to get back into the church.

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But you know what?

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The spirit of religion doesn't get the last word on this Hallelujah.

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So, paul, we studied this last time.

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We are hard-pressed on every side, we're perplexed, but not in despair.

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Persecuted, not forsaken, struck down, not destroyed.

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And we mentioned that when you think of your life as a seed and the life that is in you, god is trying to produce something in your life out of you.

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That is the image of Jesus.

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That's the point.

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That's the point.

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The point of your new creation is to form you, the seed, into the image of the seed, amen.

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But when that word of God came into you and you were born of God, that seed got planted in you.

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Now that seed is growing, but so far we have it pushed out beyond the limits of this flesh.

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Amen.

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But listen to what Paul says.

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We're hard, pressed on every side, but yet the glory that is in us is pressing back so that we are not destroyed, we're not crushed.

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This glory that is in us is working and as it's working, it's doing something.

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It's pushing the husk to the limits so that this glory can get out even little bits, just like a seed.

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Everybody's seen the side profile in a dirt thing of the bean, you know, and a little sprout comes up and it wiggles around, it pushes the dirt away and it pushes some more dirt away and pushes more dirt away and then finally finds a surface.

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You've seen grass come up through concrete.

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You go.

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Well, how in the world does that even happen?

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You know there's no sunlight down there.

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I mean, how's that even working?

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But there's so much life in things that they will push the limits of the container of their seed so that that life can get out and expand.

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That's what God's doing in us Now.

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This earth and this earthen vessel work contrary to that.

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They try to press in and keep the glory from manifesting.

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But God, but this spirit of ministry, this spirit of glory is working contrary to all those limitations.

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So we get this all.

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Since we are talking here about the seed, then we have to bring back and it fits perfectly.

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We have to bring back the principle of the seed, which is, unless the seed falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone.

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So this glory that has been placed in you by the spirit of ministry, the spirit of glory, is absolutely useless unless you fall to the ground and die and you go.

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What?

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What's the point?

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Why are we getting all this glory if we've got to die every way?

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Aha, paul answers this question and this is what the Holy Ghost wants to focus on today for just a few more minutes.

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Verse 10 says that, as all these things are happening to us, we always are carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.

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So Jesus' death and Jesus' crucifixion is in us.

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Hello, does anybody read what we're reading here?

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We carry around in us the dying of Jesus.

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Now, see, nobody preaches this.

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Everybody preaches that because Jesus died, you don't have to and that's the end of it.

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But Paul said that dying is so vital and so important that we still carry it, but it doesn't stay there.

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See, if that's all you get, we're carrying around the death of Jesus.

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You're going to flagellate yourself.

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You're going to whip yourself.

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You're going to go on pilgrimages across rocky roads on your knees.

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You're going to submit yourself to the elements.

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You're going to whip yourself.

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You're going to go on pilgrimages across rocky roads on your knees.

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You're going to submit yourself to the elements.

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You're going to crucify yourself.

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You're going to carry a cross around the world.

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You're going to do all this kind of stuff that people do to participate in the sufferings of Jesus.

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But that's not what Paul is talking about.

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Paul's talking about the death of Jesus in the flesh, which is what you have to die to In order that.

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The next part of the verse says that the life of Jesus also may be manifest in our body.

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So look, if you want life and you want glory, you've also got death.

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Now listen to me very carefully.

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I don't want you to misunderstand this.

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The seed, the purpose of the seed, is to produce life.

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Life is in the seed.

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You look at all these trees out here.

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The whole purpose of those trees is the purpose of that tree to give shade.

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Not as far as the tree is concerned, it's not.

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Is it to provide a home for birds?

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Not as far as the tree is concerned, it's not.

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Is it to have real deep roots so that the tree won't break in the storms?

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Not as far as the tree is concerned.

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All of that stuff is just window dressing For the time when spring comes and the flowers blossom on that tree and out of those flowers comes some sort of fruit that contains the seed.

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Is the fruit the purpose?

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Is the fruit the purpose of the apple tree?

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No, the seeds are the purpose, because from the seed comes more life.

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As soon as the fruit was born I wish I could preach this as soon as the fruit was born, it began to die and it generally only becomes useful to you if it's actually plucked off the tree and becomes dead.

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So you know, you think you're eating all this, this fresh fruit and fresh stuff, and and you know, and all this, you know it's, you know, fresh, and it's already dead.

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Hello, you want to eat something fresh?

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Go graze.

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I'm not kidding you.

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Everything you eat is dead, because the only thing that produces life in a plant is the seed.

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Hallelujah.

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Now, if you have a seed, let's take apple seeds, for example, you take all the seeds out of a bunch of apples and you dry them out.

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You can have those seeds for a long time.

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You know seeds are resilient.

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I've seen corn stay out in places for a long time.

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If it doesn't get wet, you can keep stuff for a long time Seen, wheat, all kinds of seed.

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If it doesn't get wet, you'll be all right.

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Amen.

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But how many plants of wheat have you gotten out of any of that seed?

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Zero, it's just seed.

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It hasn't fallen to the ground and died.

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Now does it have the potential of being a tree, a plant?

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Sure enough, it does, just like you do.

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God in you has all kinds of potential.

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But until we start to live in the way that Paul's talking about here, amen, that potential isn't going to be realized.

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You, with me, praise God, because a seed is useless unless you're going to eat it.

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But as far as producing?

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But if the seed dies in your stomach, it's not going to produce, contrary to what my dad said when he looked in my ears.

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He said there's enough dirt in there to plant a potato garden, but I never believed him on that one either.

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Glory to God.

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So the seed has to fall to the ground and die, so that it can spring forth and bear fruit.

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Otherwise it's not going to do that.

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So that it can spring forth and bear fruit.

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Otherwise it's not going to do that.

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We are seed.

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This, the outside part of our body, is a husk.

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That which is seed in us is our spirit, and God has come as spirit to cohabitate with our spirit and make our spirit His.

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Amen, are you with me?

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So once that starts, listen to me very carefully.

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Here we go.

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Once that starts, then the process of that life which is of God and that glory which is of God starts to push out of this shell.

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And what's going to happen?

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As he pushes out of the shell and starts to crack against it, your flesh and your body is going to resist that because it's been in this shape and form and fashion for as long as you can remember.

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And it's going to resist that Because it's been in this shape and form and fashion for as long as you can remember.

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And it's going to resist it Because the sin is still in your flesh.

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And Jesus has come to condemn sin in the flesh.

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He did it in His flesh.

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He's going to do it in your flesh.

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Now how did he condemn sin in the flesh?

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He put his flesh on the cross and allowed it to be crucified, but the seed didn't die.

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Somebody say the seed didn't die.

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The seed didn't die because the seed is eternal.

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It's impossible for the seed didn't die.

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The seed didn't die because the seed is eternal.

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It's impossible for the seed to die.

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He's going to do just like your spirit does it's going to pass by death and into life.

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Now he did everything, amen, that he had to do to allow his flesh to die.

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You do know this, folks, that they couldn't have killed him if they wanted to.

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They did everything they possibly could to him to try to kill him before he got to the cross, because the cross was just a lot of hard work.

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If they could kill him in the basement, whipping him or beating him or pulling his beard out or causing him to bleed to death, I mean that would have been a whole lot easier than taking him up to Calvary and doing all that stuff.

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You know, they were a bunch of lazy guys anyway.

00:41:39.793 --> 00:41:40.695
They didn't want to do that.

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I mean, they, they, they would exterminate you any way they could.

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But it was written that he had to go to Calvary, and so he went, but the Bible says he didn't die.

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He laid down his life.

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That was the commandment that he received from his father.

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This is the commandment that I've received from my father, that I lay down my life and I take it up again.

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So he laid it down on the cross, amen.

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But you can't kill the seed and you can't kill the word of God, amen.

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And it can't be killed in you, even though you die daily, as Jesus died and his death is working in you to enable you to do that, do you?

00:42:42.476 --> 00:42:45.362
You know everybody, everybody is is just.

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You know, well, you just got to kill that old man and just kill him off and just cast all those old deeds aside.

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And you know it's all about the habit changes rather than the formation change that God is trying to do in you.

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Listen to me, you go through this long enough and all those things will just I mean that'll just.

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You know you won't even be interested anymore.

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You know, as the seed starts to die, the husk of the seed dies and the life of God is just emerging out of you.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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I know this is right.

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Glory to God.

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But this has to happen.

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The dying of Jesus has to be working in you so that the life of Jesus can also be manifested.

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So listen, people will see a couple of things.

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They'll see the death.

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Well, you just don't do those things you used to do.

00:43:52.483 --> 00:43:54.561
You're just no fun anymore.

00:43:54.561 --> 00:43:56.927
You just don't like to do this anymore.

00:43:56.927 --> 00:43:58.621
You just don't like to do this anymore.

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You just, you know, you just kind of sour face, you know, and they say all kinds of nasty things about you.

00:44:05.701 --> 00:44:08.961
You know, because they don't know what's going on.

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All they can see is the death working.

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The death is working.

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Oh, yes, it is, it's working.

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Glory to God.

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I'm not talking so much about that we're steadily moving toward our casket.

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I'm talking about this.

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I'm talking about the death of Jesus, Amen.

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I'm not talking about your physical death.

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I'm talking about the death of Jesus working in you to push you to death limits.

00:44:45.983 --> 00:44:46.547
Paul said this.

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He said I have been crucified with Christ.

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In other words, the death of Christ is in me.

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I've been crucified with Christ.

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Nevertheless, I live, but it is not I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.

00:45:06.186 --> 00:45:15.202
So Paul says this several times over and over, that there's this thing happening, that Christ's death is working in me.

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But as it works in me, I no longer live.

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But Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live, whatever that is, I live by the faith of the Son of God.

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Not in the Son of God, but the faith of God, the faith that Jesus has when he was here.

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He now imparts to me, because I'm participating in his death and his resurrection, that same faith, the same faith that enabled him to lay down his life and take it up again.

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He gives to you the same faith, the same faith that he gives, that he used when he laid down his life and took it up again, is what you have to do when he said you've got to die daily.

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This is something we have to do all the time.

00:46:11.721 --> 00:46:15.168
You have to die to having the last words.

00:46:15.168 --> 00:46:18.179
You have to die to having the best opinion.

00:46:18.179 --> 00:46:20.543
You have to die to always being right.

00:46:20.543 --> 00:46:24.376
You have to die to win the argument.

00:46:24.376 --> 00:46:27.461
You have to die to being the dominant person.

00:46:27.461 --> 00:46:28.364
You have to die.

00:46:28.364 --> 00:46:31.016
You have to die, you have to, you have to, you have to.

00:46:31.016 --> 00:46:37.106
You have to Because Jesus died for all of that.

00:46:37.206 --> 00:46:39.070
So the only way listen.

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How can I possibly say this and not seem like I'm just totally out there If you don't, if seem like I'm just totally out there If you don't, if the only way you're going to change really change from who you are into who he is is to participate in his death.

00:46:58.806 --> 00:47:15.873
Not because he died for you, but because you are participating in his death on a continual basis and that death is working in you to take off those things which are not like him.

00:47:15.873 --> 00:47:23.347
Now Jesus took on a whole bunch of stuff that wasn't like him, because he never sinned.

00:47:23.347 --> 00:47:35.237
So he took upon himself all this sin and all this sickness and all this grief and all this sorrow and all of Adam's sin and all of Israel's sin.

00:47:35.237 --> 00:47:39.925
And he took all of that on him and it wasn't him.

00:47:39.925 --> 00:47:51.688
But he died to that and he died for that so that he could teach you how to die to that.

00:47:55.077 --> 00:48:00.663
Now, see, most religion teaches this that because he died for you, now you can make a better decision.

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You can decide not to do these things that he died for.

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So if he died for people not to be alcoholics, then don't be one.

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But that's not very successful and that's not going to get the job done, when really what Jesus wants to do is form himself in you.

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But there's only one way to do that and that's this way, because the seed is going to form the seed the way the seed wants to, and he's going to cause the seed to break out of its husk the way he wants to, the way he ordains it to be.

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And if that process I'm talking about process now, I'm not talking about the theory of it, I'm talking about the process of it and if the process has this key ingredient in it that you have to carry about in you the death of Jesus, so that death of Jesus can teach death in you and eventually lead you to the point where you don't see death anymore, just the way he did.

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You know it all comes back to the one command.

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Now the God of glory that is in me is trying to get out through my kneecaps, my toenails and my fingernails and my hair.

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What's left of it right now?

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My toenails and my fingernails and my hair?

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What's left of it right now?

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It's just vibrating at the skin of my, every part of my skin.

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This Jesus had one commandment from God Lay down your life, pick it up again.

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Everything he did was to get him to Calvary to lay it down and three days later pick it up.

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Everything he did was for that, so that the new creation could be born out of that.

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Now, those of us who are still seed in the flesh we have this ministry in earthen vessels who are seed in the flesh, we have this ministry in earthen vessels who are seed in the flesh have the same commandment, because we are born of God and we are born of Him, born of the same word.

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We have the same commandment Lay it down, take it up, lay it down, take it up, lay it down.

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But we get to do it every day and in doing it we condemn sin in the flesh.

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Praise God.

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Now, why is that important?

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Because it's the only way that the life of Jesus is manifested in you.

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It's the only way the glory gets out.

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It's the only way that the life of Jesus is manifested in you.

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It's the only way the glory gets out, because you've still got this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the only thing that people see is the glory of God.

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And the glory is trying to get out.

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It's trying to get out.

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There's no doubt about it.

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It wants to get out, but it can't get out.

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There's no doubt about it.

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It wants to get out, but it can't get out until there are cracks in the husk that come by the death of Jesus working in you.

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Glory, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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When those cracks start, when the Lord says, okay, I can get out this way here, I can get out this way, I can get out this way, then you'll have.

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You have a ministry, you have a ministry of glory.

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It may be limited.

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You may have an anointing to pray for people, for certain kinds of sicknesses, and that may be all God uses you for.

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Or you may have a ministry like.

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Sarah has a tremendous anointing to pray for women and minister to women.

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She also has an anointing to minister to people who are in jail or in people who are under addictions, but it's nothing like the anointing she has for ministering to women.

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The glory really gets out on that one.

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You know, I don't know.

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I don't know why that crack is.

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You know why the death of Jesus has worked in her that way to allow that crack to be opened as much as it is.

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But that's how it works.

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But I'm telling you, what God wants to do is just eliminate all the cracks and just get out.

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He wants that seed to die.

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He wants that husk to be so thin and porous that he can get out any way he wants.

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But if you think that's going to happen on day one of your salvation, you just don't understand this Jesus.

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You don't understand process.

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He was 30 years in seed form in the husk before he ever preached one message, did one miracle, called one disciple, left his family.

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He was just, you know, carpenter, jesus in Nazareth of all places.

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You know, can anything good come out of Nazareth?

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I mean, you know, the answer to that question is probably not.

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Hadn't so far, you know, placed with?

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Well, they didn't think so.

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I mean, it was just, you know, this little rum-dum, little village.

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Amen, hallelujah, glory to God.

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But something was happening and Jesus would have not known happening.

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And Jesus would have not known, would have not been touched with the kinds of feelings that he was touched with, had he not had that 30 years of experience of seeing people suffer, loved ones die, babies born, stillborn Women howling in the night because their children were taken, the things that happen in a primitive society where there's no medicine and people just die all the time.

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It's just well, they just died.

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I remember this lady we used to know that led praise and worship down in South Africa and she passed away and she was a young woman.

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I said, jeremiah, what happened to her?

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She said, well, she just died.

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You know, that happens in primity.

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We just don't accept that anymore.

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We have tons of reasons and a thousand tests and life support systems and all this stuff Over yonder.

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People just die.

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They may not even get sick, they just fall over.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Verse 11 says this for we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake.

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Now, jesus, can you see the difference?

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Jesus had no sin in his flesh, so he could die once for all, forever.

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He doesn't have to die often because there was no sin in his flesh.

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Everything, every sin that was upon him was placed upon him, Amen.

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So when he thoroughly, when he thoroughly atoned for that sin, he didn't have to do that anymore.

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So he's not going to Amen.

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But you do.

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You have to go through this dying process frequently because there's still sin here.

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You're not perfected yet, you are not perfectly formed yet.

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Now you may not be actively sinning.

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I'm not saying that y'all are just a bunch of backslidden heathens.

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I'm not saying that you may not be actively sinning.

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I'm not saying that y'all are just a bunch of backslidden heathens.

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I'm not saying that you may not be actively sinning.

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But the fact of the matter is that you're not formed yet perfectly.

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And if you're not formed perfectly yet, then between where you are now and where Jesus is, that gap is sin.

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It's the sin that is in your flesh that God is dealing with as he forms you Now.

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He'll clean that A lot of stuff.

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You wouldn't even know how to pray to get it to repent.

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That stuff is so deep in you and it goes back generations.

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We're talking about stuff that has come down your bloodlines for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

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A lot of it goes back to Adam.

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It's in your flesh.

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It has to be condemned in your flesh by the dying of Jesus.

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Romans 8.1 is still in your Bible.

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There is therefore now no condemnation for them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit, for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ.

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Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

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For what the law could not do, in that it was made weak through the flesh God did in sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and therefore condemned sin in the flesh.

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Now he could do that because there was no sin in His flesh, but what he did in His dying and in His resurrection has been transferred into the sons of light and into the sons of God, so that they can go through this process on a daily basis and know that they're going to be resurrected.

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After every time, every confidence, there's nothing that God can lead me into that.

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I know I'm not going to make it out of it.

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He can't do that.

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He's not going to lead me someplace and just leave me there.

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It may seem like it may be along there, you know, but I know he's going to bring me out, because that's the promise of laying down my life and taking it up.

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I know that.

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I know that for every time I am brought to this spiritual death, god's going to resurrect me and I'm going to be stronger and the ministry's going to be better.

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The preaching's going to be better, there's going to be more revelation, there's going to be more healings, more manifestations of glory, hallelujah.

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I know that, but I have to pass through this process, and we all do If you want to get to where God is bringing you.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God.

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I'll probably go over a lot of this again, but look at verse 12.

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So death is working in us, amen.

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That doesn't mean you're getting older and more decrepit and closer to dying.

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That's not what Paul's talking about, because the context of that is the death and the dying of Jesus, which was not this prolonged agony of growing old and getting decrepit and getting senile and losing your teeth and doing all that kind of stuff.

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That's not the death Paul was talking about.

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Jesus died at 33.

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He probably just had old enough to grow know the past seven or eight years.

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You know what I mean.

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He was a young man, he had started to get old.

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So that's what we're talking about here.

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The dying of Jesus is the process that he went through in laying down his life so that he could pick it back up again, take it back up again.

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He had that authority to lay it down, take it up.

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They couldn't kill him.

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They could have done anything they wanted to and he would not have died because there was no sin in his flesh.

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Because there was no sin in his flesh.

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Because there was no sin in his flesh.

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There was no reason for him to die, adam.

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Had he not sinned, he'd be 6,000 years old.

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You know, the wages of sin is death.

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The wages of sin and death is and Jesus.

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There was no physical reason that death could come upon him, and the spiritual reasons are obvious because he had not sinned, sin had no power on him and could not produce death.

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So this dying is not a dying in the sense of running out of time and being buried.

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This dying is about the laying down of your life so that the life of Jesus can be taken back up and replace that which has died.

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Amen, death is working.

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Everybody say death is working.

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And I'm not talking about a casket.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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And I'm not necessarily talking about the cross.

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The fact that Paul said I've been crucified with Christ only tells me that we were all crucified with Christ, but that the laying down of life that Jesus did is our example and our mandate.

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That same spirit of faith that Jesus had when he laid it down is the same spirit of faith he gives us.

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Glory to God.

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We're going to talk about that more next time.

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Amen, praise the Lord, thank you, jesus, Hallelujah.