Jan. 9, 2025

The Ministry of Glory: The Spirit's Ministry for Spiritual Liberation (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 1)

The Ministry of Glory: The Spirit's Ministry for Spiritual Liberation (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 1)

Send us a text Ever wondered how biblical figures like Enoch and Elijah navigated their spiritual journeys without the written word? Explore the timeless wisdom of transcending traditional scriptural boundaries as we reimagine the spirit of ministry in our lives. We promise you'll unlock the secrets of embracing the Holy Spirit's work and discover how this divine guidance can lead to personal revelations that are as powerful today as they were in ancient times. Our conversation challenges co...

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Ever wondered how biblical figures like Enoch and Elijah navigated their spiritual journeys without the written word? Explore the timeless wisdom of transcending traditional scriptural boundaries as we reimagine the spirit of ministry in our lives. We promise you'll unlock the secrets of embracing the Holy Spirit's work and discover how this divine guidance can lead to personal revelations that are as powerful today as they were in ancient times.

Our conversation challenges conventional interpretations, as we shine a light on the liberating ministry of the Spirit. By contrasting the life-giving nature of the Spirit with the constraints of the law, we examine how figures like Moses and the Israelites illustrate the necessity of divine instruction. Experience the freedom that comes from a spiritual journey untethered by literal, and often false or inadequate, interpretations, and learn how the transformative power of the Spirit can elevate your faith beyond traditional confines.

In our final exploration, we focus on the ministry of glory and spirit, highlighting the internal radiance that the Holy Spirit brings into our lives. The episode draws inspiration from Moses' glowing face and the eternal light within us, encouraging listeners to become vessels for God's glory. Join us in celebrating the blessings of divine provision and courageously stepping into profound spiritual transformation with the ministry of glory and spirit as your guiding force.

00:00 - Understanding the Spirit of Ministry

09:24 - The Ministry of the Spirit

26:04 - The Ministry of Glory

37:26 - The Ministry of Radiant Glory

54:54 - Releasing the Ministry of Glory

01:06:47 - Ministry of Glory and Spirit

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Glory to God.

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Let's turn to the third chapter of 2 Corinthians.

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We're going to start a new section of our study of the names of the Holy Spirit.

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This section, this series of messages, is going to concern the spirit of ministry.

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Messages is going to concern the spirit of ministry.

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We've been talking about aspects grouped under the heading of the spirit of power.

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One of these is the spirit of ministry.

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It's interesting, I think, anyway, the number of ways that the Holy Spirit is manifested to us, concerning His name, and if about His name, then concerning what he is, what he does, how he manifests Himself to us and how he manifests Himself through us, amen.

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And if we don't know these things, we won't properly discern His working in our lives.

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We will unfortunately be limited to what tradition and religion teaches us, which could be partially true and then again may be entirely wrong.

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Amen.

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So the Bible says, still says last time I checked it was still in the 6th chapter of the book of John that they shall all be taught by God, amen.

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Now does it mean that we can do away with Ephesians, chapter 4, and the part about teachers?

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Because the purpose of teachers is to illuminate.

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The purpose of teachers is to bring your attention to the illumination of Scriptures and then let God teach you what that means.

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And you may come across sections of scriptures at different times in your life, different times in your journey Amen.

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They might have meant one thing one time when you were coming through there, but there may be entirely different applications for that or understandings of that.

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What religion does to the death of their people is that they insist on one interpretation and that interpretation, bless God, is going to last till Jesus comes, because that's the only one we're going to allow, and that's the only one we're going to allow and that's the only one we're going to have.

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If you think it might happen, it might happen that next Sunday, somebody at the first something church in somewhere, just gets struck by the Holy Ghost and starts to preach something like a man from another planet.

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That may happen.

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If that does happen, what will definitely happen on Monday is that he will be fired.

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There's not going to be part two of that message.

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Do we understand what I'm talking about?

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There may be a one.

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Everybody prays, you know, for the fire to fall in these places and for these men to get on fire for God.

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Hey, that's only going to last one week Cause it ain't going to happen next Sunday.

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I guarantee you that it ain't going to happen.

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You know, because we don't.

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We know because we don't, we don't, we don't, we don't market in progressive revelation.

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We market in whatever our founders came out of the gate with.

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That's it.

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We're going to stick with it.

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We're going to ride that horse that we drug into town.

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That's going to be it and unfortunately, that's what most people get.

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You know they don't get anything new fresh.

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Praise God, hallelujah, but there is a spirit of ministry.

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I want to read verse 7.

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Let me read verse 8, and you'll see where I get this term from the ministry.

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Will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

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So that's where we get this.

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Where the Lord gave me the term, the spirit of ministry, it was from this verse.

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Okay, will not the ministry of the Spirit be more glorious?

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And I want to understand what the Lord is trying to say here and really what the purpose of the kinds of ministry that the Holy Ghost does with us is.

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That you do understand, folks, that there were only passing references to the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament.

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I mean, not very many people had anything to say about the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God.

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There were some.

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David said it a lot, but David's not normal.

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David is not a normal person in the Old Testament simply because David, by his faith, continually reached into God and tried to pull himself into the covenant that he knew was coming out of his loins.

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See, god had spoke to him and said David, I'm not going to take the kingdom away from you.

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The Messiah is going to come out of your loins, out of your body.

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This Messiah is going to come and with him I'm going to make a new covenant.

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David said I want it now, I want to get a hold of that now.

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And David kept trying to bring.

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That's why the book of Psalms and the book of Proverbs are still read today.

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They are the most widely read parts of the Bible.

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Yet today, because of David's, david was torn between what he'd heard coming out of the law, what he had been taught by Samuel, and then what he began to be taught by God.

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And God kept showing him the new covenant as being out here, and David kept reaching into it and trying to draw from it.

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And so he would say things like take not your Holy Spirit from me.

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Well, since when did David get the Holy Ghost?

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I mean, it was a thousand years before Pentecost.

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Where'd he get the Holy Ghost?

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Huh, he got it because he kept insisting on stepping over into a realm that God was showing him.

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You know, we don't talk about these things, nobody brings this stuff out, because it's really difficult to understand with traditional religious things.

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But when the Bible says that God preached the entire gospel to Abraham, that is exactly what it meant.

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He didn't preach some summarized version, he didn't preach some.

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You know well, abraham, the gospel can be summed up into you know, love your neighbor.

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You know, and, and so that clicked off the the, the.

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You know, god preached the whole gospel to Abraham.

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No, god took Abraham into a realm of the Spirit, a realm of revelation, and he revealed not only the gospel, but he revealed the secret of the seed.

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He revealed and when it came time for Isaac to be conceived, he understood this thing that the seed of God had been placed in him and in Isaac to bring forth this Jesus.

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Well, he understood that, because God taught him that and he just doesn't teach him.

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You know.

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See, we got such a small fraction of what God said to these great men of God.

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You know, you think of people like Enoch.

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Enoch didn't pass death just because he went on a walk with God one afternoon.

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There were hundreds of years of God teaching Enoch so that Enoch would have faith to pass death without seeing it.

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See now, that's not taught us in the Old Testament, but Hebrews says that Enoch did not see death.

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Religion will tell you that means that he didn't die.

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Well, he didn't die.

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But the reason he didn't die was because he didn't see death and he had to be taught for hundreds was because he didn't see death and he had to be taught for hundreds of years how not to see it.

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And there weren't any Bible schools on that, folks, he had to be taught by God.

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There weren't any Bibles around either.

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We don't ever talk about stuff like that.

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We don't think about things like this.

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We just you know religion.

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Listen to me, religion always takes the simple, easy storybook kind of application and never really asked the difficult question how did that happen?

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Like, where did Elijah come from?

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I mean, all of a sudden you've got this guy named Elijah in the 19th chapter of 1 Kings, you know, and Elijah the Tishbite, where did he come from?

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And what's a Tishbite anyway?

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What does that mean?

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And how is it that this guy had the power of God to shut up the heavens for three and a half years and also had the power of God to cause it to rain again?

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Where did he come from?

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Well, see, elijah's, just another type of Melchizedek.

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He didn't have father or mother or genealogy, and he had no end of days.

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And who knows if it's not Glory to God, praise the Lord.

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We don't know, but it's certainly not convenient.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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So the spirit of ministry is going to minister to us the reality of Scriptures and not the conventional wisdom of Scriptures, and it's definitely going to.

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The ministry of the Spirit is going to be all about New Covenant, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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It's going to be the ministry of the Spirit is going to teach us, amen, how to discern the difference between what God shows us in the New Covenant and what he led the children of Israel through in the Old.

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Because, listen, religion, no matter what they say, if you're not ministering in the power of the ministry of the Spirit, you're going to be ministering in some form of the law, because the law is in your flesh.

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See, nobody teaches this, but the law is in your flesh.

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Paul said this.

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He said this.

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He said even the Gentiles are a law unto themselves, because they have the law written in their hearts.

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The law is in the flesh of all men.

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After the fall of Adam, all God did was put it into writing and have it apply to the children of Israel.

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See, that law does not apply to anyone else.

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The only way that law would apply to you is if you gave up being a Christian and went back and became a proselyte under the instruction of the Jews and became totally transformed into a Jewish proselyte.

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You understand what I'm saying.

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A convert, you'd have to give up all your customs, you'd have to give up all your existing religion.

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You'd have to give up your form of dress, your forms of eating and have to come completely under the laws of Moses.

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That's the only way the law applies to you.

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However, it is still in your flesh.

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That's why the flesh loves law, why the flesh loves law.

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The flesh loves a religion of do not, do not, do not, do not, do not.

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It loves it.

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It loves it.

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And I'm telling you what I have been ridiculed, I have been kicked out.

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I have been uninvited, I have been anything you want to put an expression on, because I have insisted that in the Spirit we are free from the law of sin and death, because the Bible goes on to say in the 8th of Romans it says this because what the law could not do in that it was made weak.

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Where, where was it?

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Where was it In the flesh?

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Jesus did by condemning sin?

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Where In the flesh, so that we might fulfill the righteous requirements of the law, not the fleshly requirements, but the righteous requirements of the law, because we're no longer under the law of sin and death.

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Where's that law of sin and death?

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It is in your flesh.

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Where's the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus?

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Where does it rule?

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It rules in the spirit and only in the spirit.

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But religion who does not honor the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus is bound to keep people under some form of the law, and I'll teach this.

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I've never heard anybody else teach this.

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There is a law of the gospel.

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Listen to what it says here in verse 6.

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That we have been made sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the spirit, for the letter kills but the spirit gives life.

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Now the context for this.

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Paul's teaching is the letter of the law is the letter of the law.

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But Christians, since people have become literate and since the scriptures have been codified into written documents, have fallen into this I don't know what to call it.

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This, I don't know what to call it has fallen into this legalism of only dealing with the written word.

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Okay, I take you back.

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Enoch had no written word.

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Noah had no written word.

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Abraham had no written word.

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Amen Joseph had no written word.

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Abraham had no written word.

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Amen Joseph had no written word.

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Jacob had no written word.

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The sons of Jacob had no written word.

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The tribes of Israel had no written word until Moses wrote down the first five books and he got those from the mouth of God.

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Now it's the same way with the New Testament.

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In the days of the apostles, there was no written Bible.

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The first books of the Bible were not written for 30 to 40 years.

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Jesus died at 30, 31, something like that, ad.

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For 30 to 40 years there was no written word.

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Then, between 60 and 90, or 45 and 90, the New Testament came to be written.

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Up until that time it wasn't written and up until that time Paul went all over Europe.

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The disciples went all over every place and they brought the Word of God.

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They preached the gospel.

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The Bible says the Word of God was preached in every place without the use of a written document.

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Then, all of a sudden, it was written and copied, and written and copied, and written and copied, and written and copied.

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And people, as soon as that happened, within a hundred years, there was a falling away from the things of the Spirit and they began to be led by the letter and not the Spirit.

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Now we are the product of that, 1800 years later, and you'll have denominations fight you tooth and nail that the only thing you can pay attention to is the written word of God.

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But the Bible says that you shall live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

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They will tell you that means well, the word proceeded out of its mouth and then it was written down.

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And by saying that, you're going to tell me that that's the only thing that God has ever said.

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And I've got proof to you that that's not true, because he spoke to Abraham and we don't know what he said.

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He spoke to David and we don't know what he said.

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He spoke to Samuel and we don't know what he said.

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He spoke to Enoch and we don't know what he said.

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People, we do not have the complete record.

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This is written that you might believe, but there's a whole lot more that God wants to say to you that you might live, because the next phrase of that John said this these are written that you might believe and, believing, have life in his name.

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You're only going to be taught how to live if God begins to speak to you, and that is the ministry of the Spirit.

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It is the ministry of life versus the ministry of death that came out of Sinai.

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What happened at Sinai, what happened to the people of Israel, was a giant pageant play on the difference between the spirit of ministry and the spirit of death.

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Let me just give you a little history here.

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It was the intent of God, was it not, to gather His people to Him at the mountain and speak to them?

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Did he not want to do that?

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Well, he most certainly did.

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On the first Pentecost, the 50th day after the original Passover, on the first Pentecost, god assembled the people after a three-day fast, after humbling themselves, and assembled them at the foot of Mount Sinai.

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Told them okay, here's some boundaries.

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You're not going to go any further.

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You're not going to go any closer.

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Gather yourself together and I'm going to speak to the people.

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When God got ready to speak, there were trumpets, there were thunderings, there were lightnings, there was earthquakes, there was all kinds of stuff going on.

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All of heaven was relocated to the top of Mount Sinai and God was going to speak.

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God started to speak and what he spoke was the Ten Commandments.

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People said that's it.

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We don't want any more of this.

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That's way too frightening, way too much.

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God, moses, you go up and speak to this God.

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We don't want to speak to this God.

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You go up and speak to this God and then tell us what he said.

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Now, how many times has that been replayed in the history of God's people since then?

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I mean everybody.

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You would think that the whole kit and caboodle of Christianity took that episode as law and gospel for them to live by Preacher.

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You go up and hear this God and then tell us what he said, because we don't want to do it.

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We don't want the consecration, we don't want the effort, we don't want the.

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You know, we don't want it.

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We don't want to hear that voice.

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You've got people you've got.

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Listen folks, you know, let me, let me, if you haven't figured out this one already, be careful.

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Who you tell that you hear the voice of God.

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To Just be careful, because most people are not ready for that.

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They'll go what kind of a nut are you?

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And then you'll have to defend yourself or you'll be backpedaling off of your birthright.

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You don't want to do that either.

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So it's better just to leave them alone in their ignorance, because you're not going to turn them into people who hear the voice of God on a 24-hour basis with one simple statement.

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That's not going to happen.

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Listen, you can't do this.

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Look at me I talk to God.

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You don't't do this.

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Look at me, I talk to God, you don't.

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You need to be like me, that's you know.

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That's never going to win anybody.

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So just leave it alone.

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Go off and talk to God.

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Talk to God about them, for them, intercede for them.

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You know God will get a hold of them if he wants to get a hold of them.

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Praise the Lord.

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Anyway, the people of Israel rejected the voice of God.

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That's why Paul said in the 12th of Hebrews.

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He said do not reject him who speaks.

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Don't do it, don't be like those folk at Sinai.

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Don't reject him who speaks.

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Don't do it.

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Don't be like those folk at Sinai.

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Don't reject him who speaks.

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That's the essence, one of the key things of the ministry of the Spirit.

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Don't reject him who speaks.

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Listen to him and it'll transform you into a real son or daughter of God.

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But you know, if you reject him, you'll just be like everybody else and you'll fall into this thing where basically everybody just congregates together and congratulates each other for being good.

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Well, I'm glad I'm not like that heathen over there.

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Bunch of heathens, bunch of sinners, bunch of no-good.

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Well, what do you expect?

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They're not saved, they're not serving God, they're not filled with the Holy Ghost.

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What do you expect?

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Expect them to be saints.

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See, that's what this country is so phony about.

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This country is they expect non-spiritual people to act spiritual.

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This country is they expect non-spiritual people to act spiritual.

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That's just lunacy.

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Waiting for a place to happen.

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It ain't going to happen.

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Just drive yourself crazy.

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Amen, glory to God.

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Now, when the people of Israel rejected the voice of God, amen, god got upset and that essentially condemned them to death in the wilderness.

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Over the next 40 year period, everybody that was 19 years of older and appeared before God at that meaning and rejected him, had to die in the wilderness and never enter the promised land.

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That has how severe the penalty is for rejecting the voice of God.

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Are you hearing me?

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That's how severe it is when you turn the ministry of the Spirit into the letter of the law.

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So, instead of being instructed by God John 6, 61, they shall all be taught of God, instead of being a people who were taught by God.

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Now, if they'd have sat still and listened to God from the mountain, do you think that would have been the last time God would have gathered them and spoken to them?

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No, he wanted a people that he could speak to and direct In that, in that the letter does what Kills, but the spirit does what.

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And who is in the cloud and who is in the fire and who is in the rock?

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And do you not think that if they had heard the voice of the Father I'm feeling the Holy think that if they had heard the voice of the Father I'm feeling the Holy Ghost If they had heard the voice of the Father with the fire, with the cloud and with the rock, that they would have lived forever, as long as they kept the promise.

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Nobody teaches this.

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But what are you going to do?

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Hey, if you drink water from the rock, let everyone who thirsts come and drink.

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Let him drink of the water of life freely.

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Do you think they were pouring water of death out of the rock?

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Huh, but the water of life doesn't do you any good if you're not hearing the voice of God.

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Oh, help me, jesus.

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Glory to God.

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They weren't even listen.

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They weren't even following the cloud or the fire.

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They were following Moses.

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Moses was following the cloud, oh, hallelujah.

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So here comes God and Moses take this thing seriously.

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And God wants to do some more talking.

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So he invites Moses up for 40 days of fasting and 40 days of instruction.

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Moses comes down.

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He's got two tablets of stone in his hand.

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He comes down and sees Israel playing the fool Amen.

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He then throws the stones at him, at the idol of Baal, breaks the stones amen and turns right around and goes back up for another 40 days.

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So this is 80 days of fasting.

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Nobody did that.

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You don't have anybody in the Bible that is recorded to have done that.

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This is why Moses is See, Moses.

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How can I say this, moses?

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The Bible calls Moses the messenger of the law, and he was a prophet like unto Jesus.

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He was not like everybody else.

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That was under the law.

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He was a messenger of the law.

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Aaron was under the law, see, ask yourself this question why did Aaron become the high priest and not Moses?

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You know, just because he was the firstborn, he was older than Moses.

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Is that why?

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I mean?

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I don't think so.

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You know.

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The reason was that Moses was, in a sense, outside the law.

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That Moses was in a sense outside the law Because he was.

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Listen.

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As soon as you start hearing the voice of God, god transforms you into a different law, which is the law of the Spirit.

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It makes you free from the law of sin and death.

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Hearing the voice of God is a transformative process, and the children of Israel rejected that and chose death of the letter.

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Moses kept choosing life of the Spirit.

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The result of that was this strange phenomenon we read about here in chapter 3, where Moses would go up to the mountain or he would go into the tabernacle and spend time with God, either way, and he would come out with this glowing face.

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Now see, we don't have anybody else other than the one man that fasted for 80 days.

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That has a glowing face.

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We don't see that on anybody else.

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It's not even said of that of Jesus.

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It was said of him after he was resurrected, but it was not said of him in his earthly ministry, because he only fasted for 40 days.

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Now, I'm not saying Moses is greater than Jesus, but Moses did some things that no one else has done.

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You have to pay attention to that, see, you have to pay attention to Enoch and you have to pay attention to that.

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See, you have to pay attention to Enoch and you have to pay attention to Elijah, because they did something that no one else has done they walked right past death.

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They didn't even say hello, they didn't pass go, they didn't collect $200.

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They just walked right by.

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You have to pay attention to that.

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How did they do that?

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My whole ministry has been to answer the question, the one question how did Jesus do what he said he did in John chapter 5?

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I don't do anything except I see my father do it.

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I don't say anything unless I hear Him say it.

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How did he do that?

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We've been studying that for this month is now what?

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16 years?

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How did he do that?

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah, because they lived in the realm of the spirit of life and the ministry of the spirit and not in the realm of the ministry of death.

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By the letter Glory to God.

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So here you have this contrast of Moses who goes up into the mountain and comes down with this glowing face.

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And it was so strong that Aaron suggested, moses, we need to put a veil over you, not like the veil that women wear to be decorative, but more like those veils that they wear in the Middle East, where all you see is a little eye sticking out of it.

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I mean, this glory could not get on the people of Israel or they would die.

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They were already under the condemnation of the law.

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Oh, yes, they were.

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Listen, what does Deuteronomy 28 say, even though it wasn't written yet?

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You know, if you obey my words and hearken unto my commandments, these blessings shall follow you.

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La, la, la, la, la, la la.

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We all love that you know.

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But if you do not hearken and do not obey, then the next two-thirds of that chapter have to do about the bad things that are going to happen to you.

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They were already under that Because they hadn't even begun to obey God over the first part.

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So they were all under the condemnation of the law which leads to Praise God, hallelujah.

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So if they were under the condemnation of death, which the Bible clearly says that they were, then what would happen if the glory of God, which was on Moses, would have caught a hold of them?

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Listen, folks glory on flesh does not work.

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Glory on flesh will kill does not work.

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Glory on flesh will kill, but glory in the Spirit is exactly what we want.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Now watch this.

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The Bible says that this ministry of the Spirit is a ministry of glory.

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Verse 7 says If the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

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In other words, you can put an equal sign right between these two phrases the ministry of the Spirit, or the Spirit of ministry, and the ministry of glory.

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They're equal.

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They are the core of what this gospel experience is about.

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What I'm going to talk to you about tonight is just really very simple.

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We've talked about this many times, but it bears repeating because, frankly, we're not glowing, and we should be If Moses could glow on reflected glory.

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See, the glory that Moses had was a reflected glory.

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Let me give you an example.

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And listen.

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These two examples are put into our solar system just for us, just to teach this principle.

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Are you ready for this?

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Do you have any any?

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Any, you ought to do the math.

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If you did the math, you would just be amazed.

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It is so difficult to have a moon at precisely the correct point in orbit and the correct size that will totally eclipse the nearest star that is a whole bunch of more miles away and a whole lot bigger.

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But God, in His infinite wisdom, made those two lights the same size to us, did he not?

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But you know we wouldn't have total eclipses if this weren't the case.

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You'd always have partials.

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If the moon were exactly where it was and the size that it was when it passed in front of the sun, it looked like a little dot or it looked like a big ball, but it is precisely the same size in appearance.

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There's not another situation like that in the solar system and there are a whole bunch of moons and a whole bunch of planets.

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Paul said this there's a great light of the moon and there's a great light of the sun.

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There's the glory of the moon and there's the glory of the sun.

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Those two glories are not equal, paul said.

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Now, paul wasn't an astronomer, paul was an apostle.

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But he said the glory of the moon is not equal to the glory of the sun.

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Now, why is that?

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Because all of the glory of the moon is reflected.

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Sunlight is reflected sunlight.

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Okay, you go out tonight.

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I don't know what phase the moon is in, but it's not full.

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It's somewhere about half or something.

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I don't know.

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I don't pay attention to that stuff.

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I used to know but I don't know anymore.

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But you can see it, it'll be out.

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It'll look about half Half of the moon will be lit up and you can go.

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It'll be out.

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It'll look about half Half of the moon will be lit up and you can go and that looks real pretty.

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You think the moon's looking real pretty tonight?

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The moon doesn't look anything.

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The moon is incapable of producing its own light.

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It's only capable of reflecting the light that comes to it off of the sun, to us.

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Okay, if there wasn't a sun, we would never see the moon.

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It'd just be this dark, we wouldn't see it.

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We would detect it by instruments, you wouldn't be able to see it.

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The only reason it has light at all is because of the sun.

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Now, the sun doesn't give a flip about the moon in comparison to the amount of energy and light that the sun generates.

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I mean, just look at the side of the sun.

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We get to see half of that energy.

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The other side of the sun is a whole bunch of energy that's waiting for us when we come back around the other side.

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Have you ever think about things like this?

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You just think it's just orange disc with a smiley face and little sticky things coming out of it.

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No, it's this coming out of it.

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No, it's this giant ball of gas that generates an enormous amount of energy, and the amount of energy that it gives the moon to reflect to us at night is a pittance, and that's exactly what God wants.

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And God had to wait until Paul wrote these scriptures for you to understand why God did that.

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He did that because the moon is Moses and the sun is Jesus.

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The moon only reflects the glory that comes from the sun.

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The sun.

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The moon reflects glory, the sun radiates it.

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In other words, the glory that comes from the moon is received from the sun and bounced back, so that when Moses came down from being with God, they had to put a veil over his face, because his face beamed reflected glory.

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It got on his skin and because of that he just came back at him.

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But it wasn't like he had, because what happened?

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It faded away, it passed away.

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Now see, if you got the Holy Ghost, he's not going to pass away.

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What's he going to do?

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Kind of grow old and die.

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That doesn't happen.

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Moses got newly reflected glory every time he went into the presence of the Lord, every time he went into the presence of the Lord.

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Here come Aaron back and into him, you know.

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So he didn't look and slip the hood over his head.

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It's okay.

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Now, moses, you can go out among the people.

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Don't you be taking that hat off now?

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You'd be killing folks around here, me included.

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So keep it on.

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Moses had to sleep with the hat on.

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You can just imagine, can you not get a hold of this?

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Moses would have to go, take his tent and sleep off someplace, because the glory of God would just be beaming out of the tent.

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Don't buy into these little cartoon things.

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Moses got a little sparkle of light around him and stuff and everybody's going, huh.

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I mean, the glory of God was all over him but it wasn't in him and he couldn't do a single thing to pass on that glory to somebody else without killing them.

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That's why Jesus, when the cloud appeared up on the mountain of transfiguration, he took Peter, james and John with him as they entered the cloud, because if he hadn't done that, they'd have been toast.

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But he took them with him and protected them.

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Now watch this when you receive the Holy Ghost, that same glory that manifested to Moses on the mountain entered you.

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He's no longer with you.

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He is in you.

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When he is in you.

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Amen, then the ministry of the Spirit, of the Spirit of the Spirit.

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His ministry is a ministry of glory and His ministry will minister through you and into you, so that you're not reflecting His glory anymore, you're not going someplace where God is and hanging out with Him for 80 days and then coming out looking like a light bulb.

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That's not happening.

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That's not what this dispensation in this time of God is all about.

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This time of God is where God dwells in the temple that he made, not with human hands, but that he fashioned by himself, amen.

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And he wants to come and radiate out of you, and that glory will not pass, nor can it be put out, nor is it something that you can put a bag over your head and put out.

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That's why I've always told you I don't like that song, this little light of mine.

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It's not a little light, it wasn't even a little light for Moses, and that was a reflection that brought death.

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Oh, glory to God, hallelujah.

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Will not the ministry of the Spirit be more glorious?

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Well, of course it will be.

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Why?

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Because it's coming out of you and not reflected on you and not passing away.

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There was never.

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The only glory that was ever associated with the law was given to Moses Because Moses was the only one who persisted in listening to the voice, and so God kept blessing him with quantities of glory that no other man had ever received until Jesus.

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When we talked about these things before, it was right after John, chapter 12, when Jesus said this now must the Son of man be glorified, and he lifted up his voice to heaven and he says Father, glorify your name.

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And God spoke from heaven and said I have glorified it and I will glorify it again.

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Just do you not get this, folks?

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This is just like Sinai.

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This is Moses taking the place, or Jesus taking Moses' place, at the mountain of God and saying, not being humble like servant Moses, amen but being bold like Jesus, and saying it is time for the son of God to be glorified.

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Glorify your name.

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And God spoke from heaven.

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And Jesus heard it and said now is is, is a son of man, the son of God, glorified.

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Now is this ministry of glory about to begin, because now this glory that is in me is about to be made available to millions.

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Watch the numbers.

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There were millions, as many as five, six million people that followed Moses into the desert.

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Five, six million people that followed Moses into the desert.

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How many of those ended up reflecting the glory of God?

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One.

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There was one bearer of the glory and he was not able to lead many sons into the glory.

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He took a few elders up Remember that and they ate and drank in the presence of God, amen.

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But that's all he could do.

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He could not lead the millions into the glory, which was what God wanted to do, but he could not do it.

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But Jesus, but Jesus.

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But Jesus, but Jesus, who was full of the glory and the grace, amen could pass through death for all those that he had in him and then pass on that glory to them by his spirit, so that now the one could now transfer the glory to millions and billions, when that was impossible with Moses.

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Which is the whole difference between the law and the gospel.

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The law has nothing to do with the sharing of glory, it has to do with the sharing of death.

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But the gospel is all to do with the sharing of death.

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But the gospel is all to do with the sharing of life and the sharing of glory and the sharing of the ministry of the Spirit by Jesus, which has nothing to do with the letter of the law.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, all Glory to God, hallelujah.

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I am no way saying don't read your Bible, read your Bibles, read your Bible diligently and then shut it and say Lord, I am of all men most stupid.

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What does that mean?

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Teach me, lord.

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I just read it in John 6.

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I will be taught by God.

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I just read the lesson of the day.

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Now teach me what you know about it.

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There is nothing like hearing God talk about His Scriptures.

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There is nothing like God ripping the pages of dead religion out of your spirit and replacing them with the spirit of life and the revelation of the spirit and his ministry.

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You won't get any of this dead stuff from him.

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You won't get any of this stuff that fades away in a minute, in an hour, in a day, a week, you don't even know what, but it stays with you and it grows in you.

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It bears fruit and it brings life.

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It brings light, glory to God, and it brings glory.

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And the glory is what heals and is what delivers and what makes men whole.

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Praise God, hallelujah, oh, praise the name of the Lord.

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Glory to God.

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Praise God forevermore.

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Thank you Jesus.

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Praise God forevermore.

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Thank you Jesus.

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Not only is it a ministry of glory, but it's a ministry of righteousness.

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Listen to verse 9.

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For the ministry of condemnation had glory, and Moses reflected that God's glory is not going to change just because people won't obey him.

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Amen.

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You're not going to get God to quit being glorious just because people won't listen to him, and that's not going to happen.

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But there's a ministry of righteousness that exceeds much more in glory.

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So not only is this ministry a ministry of glory and a ministry of the Spirit, but it's a ministry of righteousness.

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It's a ministry of who God is.

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It's not a ministry about who God is.

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See, religion specializes in trying to teach you about who God is.

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They try to teach you about who God is.

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They try to teach you about God.

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Amen, are you following me?

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There is an infinity of difference between knowing about God and knowing God.

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There are a lot of people that know about God or think they know about God, amen.

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But do they know him?

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Are they being taught by him and are they being led into a ministry of the spirit and by the spirit?

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Are they being led by the spirit of ministry, which is a spirit of glory, which is a spirit of righteousness and which does not fade away?

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So you know, let me just say this.

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You know you could have heard me preach this message 25 years ago, because the glory doesn't fade away.

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It's not going to change.

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This message isn't going to change.

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I may get more revelation on it, I may be able to tie more parts of Scripture together with it than I did before.

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It doesn't matter, but I can remember preaching this message 30 years ago.

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I can remember it and I can remember people falling under the power of God because it was reaching their ears for the first time.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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This thing doesn't pass away.

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If the Holy Ghost gets a hold of you and gets in you and starts manifesting his glory in what he preaches through you, amen, it's going to keep on preaching, it's going to keep on bringing people in.

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It's not going to fade away.

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You don't have to go listen.

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I don't have to go looking for something trendy and cute and and and you know, uh, something new out of the internet and something you know that people you know, just to keep people entertained.

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I don't have to do that.

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I'm not going to do that.

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I got better than that.

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Now, it may not pander to many, it may not.

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You know, you may not be able to hook a lot of people that just want pure emotionalism.

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I mean, I got to get into that, but hey, you know I'm not into that.

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That's not what the name of our ministry or our ministry is not.

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You know, get up and be happy.

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Our ministry is arise and shine, for thy light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, hallelujah.

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We're not about, you know, making people happy.

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We're about making people glory containers, glory distributors.

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Yeah, I've talked about this.

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You've still got the atomizer on the piano.

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You know this isn't new, but you need your pure mind stirred up by way of remembrance.

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The spirit of ministry, amen, is the one who does this in you.

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Amen, he makes you sufficient as a minister of glory.

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Hallelujah, listen to me very carefully.

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You are never called upon to be ministers of emotional things in the realm of the soul.

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Most of what the Spirit does in that realm is to lift you out of it, to take the burdens and the weights and the cares and whatever that's on you from that realm, take them off of you and lift you up and out.

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When Jesus was ministering in the days of his flesh and he would come upon people who were sick and they were demon-possessed, and they were demon-possessed and I used to think that that was because there were so many devils loosed in Israel at that time to keep Jesus from what he was doing that all these people were attacked by.

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I don't think that anymore.

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I was corrected in my thinking, because Jesus was not sent to the Gentiles, he was sent to the Jews, and the Jews were under a different system of being treated by God and even listen, even though they were disobedient, they were not necessarily given over to the enemy, they were just given over to disobedience.

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And if they were disobedient, this is what happened they got sick, they got afflicted, they got tormented, they got harassed, they got victimized by the devil because they disobeyed the law.

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How many of them were disobedient?

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All of them?

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And what happened to them?

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He had multitudes of sick people.

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Now, what did he do when he touched them?

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How did he heal them?

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How did he heal them?

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How did that happen?

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If we can't answer that question, we're going to be in this, we're going to mystify what he does and we're just going to make it.

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Well, we can't do that.

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He did that because he was God.

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We're going to do that because we never stop to ask ourselves the question how did he do that?

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He had the glory, and the glory had the power to literally lift people out of the curse of the law and bring them into the realm of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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Now, how that?

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Just think about all the scriptures that apply.

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He translated us out of darkness into light.

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He moved us out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son.

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He translated Are you hearing any of this Now?

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We all apply that.

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I'm feeling the Holy Ghost.

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We all apply that to people who came in believing after Jesus was risen.

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But what about all those people that got healed?

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What about that woman with the issue of blood?

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What's she going to do?

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Her life is, I mean, under the law.

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She's just pathetic.

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And even if she subjected herself to the degrading tests that the priests would do just think how that must be you know of judging her.

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And even if she did that, jesus didn't tell her to go show herself to the priest.

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Jesus told her to go and be at peace.

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He told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more.

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He didn't tell her to go clear herself with the priest, pay the penalty for sin.

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Now, sometimes he did that, but most of the time he just told them to go.

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Why?

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Because he had brought them in.

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My God.

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They were not only were they healed.

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The purpose of healing is not to relieve suffering.

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The purpose of healing is to bring you into the new realm, because that's where the healing is.

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To the new realm, because that's where the healing is.

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Yes, and we don't understand that.

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That's what we do.

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We just think well, we just lay hands on people and they get well.

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Well, a lot of times they don't.

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A lot of times they get well and then they don't get well.

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What's up with that?

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Because we haven't brought them in, we haven't brought them into the kingdom, into the realm, and let the glory get all over them and start to radiate within their body.

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It's a glory of God that attacks sickness and attacks disease and attacks all of this stuff.

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There's a way that this happens, amen.

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And we know it's the way, because it is the ministry of the Spirit.

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That's how he does things.

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Praise the Spirit.

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That's how he does things.

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Praise the Lord.

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Just, you know, release the glory on them.

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Release it so that it gets out of you and into them and it starts to move and do things in them.

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And then, all of a sudden, things start to change in them.

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And then, all of a sudden, things start to change because they've been brought into a different realm under a different rule, by the glory.

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Hallelujah, yes, you just answered my question.

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Okay, can they stay in that?

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And the answer is yes, because it doesn't fade.

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It doesn't fade, but what do they have to do?

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They can't go back to where they were.

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They have to follow Jesus.

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Everyone who was healed and stayed healed followed Jesus.

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Blind Bartimaeus, mary Magdalene, the leper that came back, you know you can just one after another, after another.

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The ones that have names and the stories that are told are ones who got healed and followed him.

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They turned away from where they were and followed the glory, and so the glory that came upon them and entered them could stay and not pass away, because they did the one thing that is absolutely essential, and that is not go back.

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And so, even though they did not have the Spirit as we know, pentecost had not happened yet Right, but Jesus, but he himself.

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Look at what Jesus could do as the King of Glory.

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Who is this King of Glory?

01:03:38.731 --> 01:03:44.313
Look at what he could do as the King of Glory.

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He commanded 70, on his word, to go out and raise the dead.

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He said go on, heal the sick, cast out devils, heal lepers, raise the dead.

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Go ahead and have yourself a good time.

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It's on me.

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It makes you understand a little bit more than what religion has taught us, or even early Religion never asked the hard questions.

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How did he do that?

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How did he enable his disciples, who did not have the Holy Ghost to go out and raise the dead, because he infused them with one aspect of the Spirit's power, and that is the Spirit of ministry, the Spirit of glory.

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He gave them that Spirit and they could go do what he told them to do.

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They came back and said oh Lord, the demons were fleeing at our command.

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He said don't get the big head.

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I saw Satan fall from heaven.

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Don't sweat the small stuff.

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Rejoice that your names are already written down.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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You cannot make enough, you cannot emphasize this enough, because we have totally trashed out what salvation means.

01:05:27.717 --> 01:05:30.914
We have totally trashed out what ministry means.

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We have totally trashed out what glory is all about.

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Amen.

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Simply because we don't look at the obvious that Moses' glory passed and Jesus' did not.

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Moses could not replicate it.

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Jesus has replicated it by the millions and billions.

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Everybody that came anywhere close to Moses' glory died.

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Everybody that came close to Jesus' ministry lived.

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And if people can't, until you get free from religion, you can't see that Because you never ask the hard questions.

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You never ask how did that happen?

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How does this work?

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You don't ask the hard questions or you won't let God ask them of you without doing one of these.

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I'm not going to hear that that's heresy.

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Well, it's not heresy if God's teaching you.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Paul said this.

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He said I'm not a heretic.

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The way that I believe is not heresy, amen.

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It is the way of God and it wasn't done in a corner and you all know about it.

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So you know.

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You want to call me a heretic, go ahead and call me a heretic, but I'm not one.

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I believe in this Jesus.

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He raised from the dead and his glory is what's real and you're not.

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I've done been to heaven.

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I've done seen it all and there ain't much you can do to me that God hasn't promised a better deliverance.

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And I've seen it and I've tasted it and I've known His glory, hallelujah.

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How do you think he wrote this stuff?

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He was on a frequent flyer program to heaven, shuttle back and forth, like you and I go to Fort Worth, shuttled back and forth like you and I go to Fort Worth, had angels and Jesus and everybody else come and pay him personal visitations when he was on shipwrecks.

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I mean, you know, get with the program folks.

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This stuff doesn't happen to us on a normal basis, but it happened to him because he became a minister of this glory.

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Hallelujah, praise God forevermore.

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Father, we just give you praise tonight.

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Oh, jesus, let us be able ministers, sufficient ministers, of this glory, everywhere we turn.

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People don't have to know about it, they don't have to, you know.

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We don't have to make a big thing about it.

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We just have to let the glory loose, god, and let your power be seen.

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In Jesus' name, we give you praise, god.

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Thank you, oh hallelujah.

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Pray for Pat and Mike tonight.

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Lord, continue to minister to them during this time and, god, just show yourself mighty, reveal your glory to them, lord, oh Jesus, hallelujah.

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Shall not the ministry of life, the ministry of the Spirit, be much more glorious?

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Hallelujah, in Jesus' name, praise God, praise the Lord.

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Lord, we pray over these offerings tonight the seed that has been sown.

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God, we give you glory and praise for it.

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Thank you, jesus.

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Oh hallelujah, I believe your word, lord, I believe your word.

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I believe your word that you give seed to the sower and you provide every provision that we have need of, and you will increase our harvest of righteousness.

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And by what we learned tonight, lord, that means you're going to increase our harvest of glory and you're going to increase our harvest of the ministry of the Spirit, because those three are interchangeable.

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God, if you're going to multiply our righteousness, you're going to multiply the glory.

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You're going to multiply the spirit in our lives, god, it's going to, and that comes through this ministry of giving.

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We just give you.

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Praise, god, hallelujah, glory to God, amen.

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We are so glad you came out tonight and fought the elements and braved the crazy drivers and struck a blow for Jesus.

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Hallelujah.