Jan. 9, 2025

The Miraculous Ministry: Transformation, Glory and Spiritual Authenticity (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 6)

The Miraculous Ministry: Transformation, Glory and Spiritual Authenticity (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 6)

Send us a text Imagine witnessing a true miracle that transforms not only the moment but an entire life. We explore this extraordinary power in our latest episode, drawing from biblical insights and historical events to uncover the ministry of glory and miracles. We journey through 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, reflecting on how Jesus' miraculous works reveal His glory, emphasizing that this divine ministry is accessible to every believer. Through tales of faith from the Mount of Transfiguration ...

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Imagine witnessing a true miracle that transforms not only the moment but an entire life. We explore this extraordinary power in our latest episode, drawing from biblical insights and historical events to uncover the ministry of glory and miracles. We journey through 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, reflecting on how Jesus' miraculous works reveal His glory, emphasizing that this divine ministry is accessible to every believer. Through tales of faith from the Mount of Transfiguration to the awe-inspiring events of the 1950s at Northside Assembly in Texas, we delve into the essence of spiritual transformation and the imperative of allowing the Holy Spirit to work without constraints.

During a particularly memorable planning meeting, a disruptive presence challenged our convictions, yet faith triumphed over chaos. We recount the astonishing transformation of an intoxicated individual through spiritual authority, showcasing the undeniable power of steadfast belief. This narrative is a testament to the necessity of upholding the glory of God even when faced with adversity. Our discussion further examines the importance of resisting manipulative influences within the church, advocating for a faith grounded in authenticity and truth. Miraculous occurrences remind us of the profound impact a pure, unwavering ministry can have on the world.

Financial manipulation and doctrinal distortion often plague religious communities, undermining genuine spiritual experiences. We critique these troubling trends and champion a return to authentic teachings as inspired by the Apostle Paul. Through personal anecdotes, we highlight the importance of preaching the gospel without monetary expectations and the need for discernment in worship. Our commitment is to maintain a ministry of glory that avoids embellishments and remains true to God's message, inspiring others to seek a deeper spiritual understanding beyond popular narratives.

00:41 - Ministry of Glory and Miracles

18:25 - Unleashing the Glory

34:32 - Rejecting Manipulation in Ministry

43:28 - Guarding Against Doctrine Manipulation

01:01:26 - Maintaining Pure Ministry of Glory

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 4.

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We started this great chapter a few just last time.

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I want to continue on in the same vein that we have been given a ministry, a ministry of glory.

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We are talking about the spirit of ministry, and the ministry that the Spirit has is the spirit of glory.

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Hallelujah, it is a ministry of glory and, as I just mentioned, it is a ministry of the miraculous.

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If you want to know now I base that on this that the gospel of John says this about Jesus and there's six signs that are tested to in the ministry of Jesus in the gospel of John, and the first one is in John, chapter two, at the conversion of water into wine, and at the conclusion of that miracle, john writes this and this was the beginning of signs that the disciples might see His glory, amen.

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So what does that tell you?

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Right there, it tells you that signs and wonders, miracles, powerful deeds are given to us by the Lord to reveal His glory.

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Now just think about this that the disciples had been authorized by Jesus to go out, cast out devils, raise the dead, heal lepers, do all that kind of stuff.

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Yet when they came to the Mount of Transfiguration and Jesus, james, john and Peter went up on the mountain and His glory was revealed when he came back down.

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Does this sound like anything we've heard about Moses?

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Does this sound like anything we've heard about Moses?

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He didn't have a face that shone like the sun, but he had a glory that came out of him.

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And so when he came upon that lunatic boy, the moonstruck boy amen, it's literally a moonstruck or a spirit of the moon was upon that boy and the disciples couldn't cast it out.

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But the glory of God in Jesus, as revealed on the mountain, could cast it out.

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The glory will always produce something miraculous, something wonderful, something marvelous, amen.

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But if we don't give space to the ministry of glory and allow it to do its perfect work in us and through us and around us, it's not going to happen.

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Because you can't put this Holy Ghost in a box, you can't tell Him what to do, and so we're going to heal.

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Because you can't put this Holy Ghost in a box, you can't tell him what to do, and so we're going to have we're going to heal colds on Monday and bronchitis on Tuesday and pneumonia on Wednesday and and hangnails on Thursday.

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And don't come back if you know we don't.

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We don't ever do broken arms and legs and you know creative no, we don't do that.

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You know that's the church down the street they do.

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You're going to try to compartmentalize God like that.

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You're going to lose, not going to work.

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The glory has to have room to apply a pressure upon everything that is around it.

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I've learned that about the Lord, that the Lord himself has weight and his glory has weight.

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It is physically tangible, but if that weight is not allowed to be applied, miracles won't happen.

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And you can't make that happen in the confines of a.

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Whatever you define is going to be a service, amen.

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So let's go on.

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We have this ministry, everybody has this ministry, because we are all containers of glory.

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So you can't push this on to the preacher, because he's not the only one that has it.

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Everyone that is in him and belongs to him and are developing sons of God has this glory.

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Amen, are you with me?

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So far, it's a ministry of glory.

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It's a ministry of glory.

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It's a ministry of miraculous, mighty deeds, hallelujah.

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So therefore, we touched on this the other night.

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Therefore, we do not faint, we do not give in to pressure, we don't cave in to the pressure of not ministering in the glory to the pressure of not ministering in the glory, I'm not.

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I'm, I'm never going to not pray for the sick.

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I'm not ever going to quit doing what God's called me to do and called us to do in extending this glory onto other people so that they can be touched and dealt with by God himself.

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Amen, we can't back off of that.

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You may want to back off of it, you may.

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You know well, I'm going to give this a rest.

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No, you can't.

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There's no rest in this, amen.

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There's just more glory.

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You're going from one glory to another glory.

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You're not going from one higher level of glory backwards.

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I might as well just be real here and again.

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I'll use my dear sister for this, because this is the singularly most important thing that has ever happened to this area of Texas.

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I don't care if TBN has their headquarters on 183.

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I don't care if blah blah, blah has a mega church up in there and somebody has one over in there and somebody has one over here.

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They have conventions downtown and somebody has one over here.

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They have conventions downtown.

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They do all that.

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Nobody's doing what they did in seven years at the Northside Assembly in the early 50s, in the summer, in the winter, in the stench of the stockyards, because they were still in operation.

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You just imagine your genteel sensibilities at 95 degrees at the beginning of the evening service and the stench of the stockyards not two blocks away.

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You tell me how that's going to Tell me you.

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You got the full scent of the Holy ghost in your nose.

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You know, let's go ahead and tell me that spiritual person.

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That's not what was happening, but that place was full every night, seven years, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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They had crutches, wheelchairs stacked up in a corner.

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Miracles, by the multiplied hundreds, ambulance drivers were bringing ambulance-rung people, rescuing their jobs.

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Instead of taking them to the hospital, they take them to the church.

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Numerous times Fire department was called because it was called that the church house was on fire.

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The roof was on fire.

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I don't care how big your ministry is and how big your conventions are and how big everything else is.

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That ain't happening Because we went from one level of glory backwards.

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So we didn't have to be in the stockyards, so we didn't have to sit on hard benches, so we had air conditioning and we didn't have to deal with the stench and we could have nice soft seats and we could have.

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We exchanged the level of glory to see the lame walk and the blind see and the deaf speak and the and those that couldn't hear to hear and those that had death sentences live for decades more.

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We traded that for comfort.

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We traded that.

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How long did those services last?

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They started at 7 o'clock.

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You might not have got out there until 10, 30, 11 o'clock at night, right Almost every night.

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It was like that.

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Now we can have three services in that amount of time, get more butts in the seats.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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We exchanged glory for glory but we went backwards.

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There hasn't been anything like that around here.

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I don't know of anything even remotely like it since John G Lake was in Spokane, washington, at the healing rooms.

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Not for that long, not for that sustained at the healing rooms, not for that long, not for that sustained.

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They sure enough haven't had it in the now transition of Northside Assembly, which is up on what Beach Street?

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They ain't having it up there.

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Are you hearing me?

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Of course nobody in the assemblies is having it up there.

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Are you hearing me?

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Of course nobody in the assemblies is having it now because we've all gotten modern Hallelujah, praise God.

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We can't, yeah, we can't.

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You know, we think the Branham's ministry, aa Allen's ministry, schambach's ministry, catherine Kuhlman's ministry we look at that stuff on old grainy videos and we think those people are funny.

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But yet they were healing people by the thousands every night.

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Ain't nobody filling up any 10,000 seat tent like Oral Roberts did.

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Nobody's doing that.

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Why?

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Because people won't sit on those hard seats anymore in the heat, in the sawdust.

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They won't put up with it.

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Praise God, you can't go from glory to glory, backwards, because pretty soon you'll end up out of the glory, and that only makes sense, doesn't it?

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So we can't cave into the pressure of not pursuing the glory.

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You know what?

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There was only one person out of all the millions that came out of Egypt.

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There was only one person that pressed into the glory and that was Moses.

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All the rest of them backed off and they caved in to the pressure of trying to do it without the glory.

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What was the first thing that happened when they tried to do it without the glory?

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After 3,000 were killed, what happened?

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They went right back, right back to the gods they had in Egypt.

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I think Mike got that.

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I'm not too sure anybody else did.

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God brought them out by a mighty right hand.

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Through miracles, signs and wonders came to speak to them from Sinai.

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They rejected him.

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As soon as Moses went up on the mountain, they reverted back.

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They came out of the glory and went backwards to the glory of craven and graven images.

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See, that's what we can't do.

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We can't do.

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That Doesn't matter what it costs.

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We've got to press.

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We got to press into a level of glory that, no matter what it costs because that's how it works we go from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord, amen, amen.

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Verse 2 says this but we have renounced the hidden things of shame.

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I want you to see this for a second Again.

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You can make these scriptures do whatever you want to, but if you take them in context, they may mean a certain thing.

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We're talking about the shame of what happened at Sinai, and it was a shameful thing to God that Moses had to cover his face to withhold the manifestation of glory.

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In other words, moses came down with the glory of God reflected on him and yet, because of the sin of the people and their hard-heartedness, he had to cover himself so that the glory could not be seen.

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Now, if you don't think God saw that, you don't know God.

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And if you don't think that was a shameful thing to God, how much shame would it be to God Not that he could be shamed, but how much grief, how much sadness would that bring to God that they would have to cover up His glory because of their sin.

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And that's what I'm talking about when we back off of glory.

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It brings shame to God because it's the best he has.

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Amen.

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He didn't cover Moses.

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Would you please get this folks?

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He did not cover Moses with his holiness, even though the angels sing holy, holy, holy.

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He didn't cover him with his love.

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Even though John says God is love, he didn't cover him with his love.

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Because, even though John says God is love, he didn't cover him with his truth, even though Jesus said thy word is truth.

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He didn't cover him with righteousness, even though Jesus has become our righteousness.

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He covered him with glory and the people rejected the glory, just like they rejected the word, and it was a shameful thing for God.

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Paul says this he said we're not going to walk in that kind of a shame.

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We are not walking in that kind of a shame when we minister the glory.

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We're not walking in the shame of trying to hide it up.

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That's why I keep preaching to you, and preaching to you, and preaching to you from the book of Acts, every sermon that we have recorded, that Paul preached.

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It didn't take him but 20, 30, 50, 70 seconds to get to the resurrection.

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Because he didn't back off of the glory, it was the only thing he had to preach.

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Why?

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Because the glory of God was revealed in the resurrection of Jesus.

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And who raised him from the dead?

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The spirit of glory.

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So Paul would not back off of it.

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He didn't preach a lot of miracles, he didn't preach all that kind of stuff.

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He preached Jesus, crucified, resurrected, glorious, and then the weight of glory came into the place and did exceedingly abundantly, more than anybody could ever think.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Are you seeing where I'm coming from on this?

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The shame of rejecting the glory.

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Thank you, lord.

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There is a spirit of shame upon churches today Because they have rejected the glory and they're settling for so much less, settling for so much less.

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The Lord just said there's a spirit of shame upon them.

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Now they wouldn't admit that and they wouldn't agree with it.

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But that's how I'm talking about how the Lord sees it.

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The people of Israel didn't see it as shame from the Lord.

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They just saw it as I don't want to die looking at Moses, so they put a veil on Moses, put him aside, just like we do the glory.

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When we're done with it, when we've had our taste of it, you know, cover it up, put it on the side, because we don't want to look at it, we don't want to have to deal with it.

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I wish I could preach over to God we don't want to cave in.

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We don't want to cave in, we don't want to.

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We renounce these hidden things of shame.

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We're not going to hide this glory, not going to do it, not going to do it.

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I remember one time I was sitting, one too long ago, a few years ago, sitting in a meeting, little planning meeting I have down there with the men, and there's this guy, this drunk guy, outside the door just raising a fuss.

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Just, you know, being loud and obnoxious.

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I go what's that?

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Oh, don't pay attention.

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He comes around here all the time, drunk, just some.

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He comes around here all the time.

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Drone, I said he comes around here all the time.

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Yeah, just real obnoxious, don't pay him any attention and he's disrupting the meeting.

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I said wait just a minute, I'm going to deal with this.

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Don't don't go out there.

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Don't go out there, he'll be wild on you.

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I said what I said.

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Who are you talking to?

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This man has come up to defile this house of God and you're just going to let it go.

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You're not going to do anything about it.

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You're going to send him on his way as drunk as he was before.

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I got right in there lunch, man, I said that's not going to happen while I'm here and I walked right out the door.

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I said how dare you?

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I was talking to him in English.

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He didn't, you know, because I just wanted to get the whole enchilada in him.

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Man, I didn't want translation.

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I said how dare you insult the spirit of grace by coming into this place drunk and disorderly?

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And he leaped at me and grabbed my feet and I said don't you dare touch this.

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Prophet of God.

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Get your hands off of me.

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I said you foul devil.

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You come out of him right now.

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Boom, and he fell down and started frothing, rolling around in the mud.

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You know they go.

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Oh my God, you know, going to have to deal with it.

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Now.

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I said, yes, you are.

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Glory to God.

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Next time I went to church, next trip, I went to church and there was that man in a private discipleship class with the pastor and they were going to let him go.

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They're just going, it was just a nuisance, they're just going to let him go.

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But see, you got to let the glory go, you know, and I didn't go out there.

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I didn't go out.

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I went out there like Moses, off of the mountain, with a stone of tablets in my hand.

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I'm going.

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You know, how dare you?

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Who do you think you are?

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That devil said I'm going to get all over you.

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You just go ahead and try it.

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Better devils than you have tried it.

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You just go ahead and try it.

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I had one come up.

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I better not tell this story on tape.

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Where would it have gone?

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord, that one was good enough.

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We're not going to walk in the shame of hiding the glory.

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We're just not going to do it.

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I don't care if it's inconvenient, I don't care if it makes a mess out of your driveway, mess out of your church.

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I don't care if it's inconvenient, I don't care if it makes a mess out of your driveway, mess out of your church, I don't care.

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You don't want that kind of ministry.

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Don't invite me.

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I don't know what tone it down means.

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It's like that.

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One time they asked me in Naranjo.

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They said, brother, we just really love you, we're so glad you're coming, but the priest has been really good to help us get the permits for the property and so nice to let us have the Central Park right in front of the cathedral.

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And blah, blah, blah.

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I said but, brother, you know, do you think you could hold it down a little bit about Mary?

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I said well, you know, brother, I don't have anything against Mary.

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I love Mary.

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She's the mother of my Lord.

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I love Mary, but I don't know what the Holy Ghost is going to do in front of this church.

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I said he may just, you know, have at it Because he loves Mary too, but he hates Mary worship.

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Those are two separate things all together.

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So I don't know how many times I went on about that that time.

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But we had miracles, we had signs, we had wonders.

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We had somebody raised from the dead.

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I mean, you know, just don't back off the glory.

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Praise God, not walking in craftiness.

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There's a spirit of manipulation that has come upon the churches and really folks.

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It's a spirit of witchcraft.

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Let me help you by this In order for the glory to manifest you're talking to a guy that I cut my teeth in this in the jungles of Panama, we would minister for five and six hours at a time, one wave of glory after another, after another, deliverances, healings, just all kinds.

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You can't imagine.

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You can't imagine.

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Just imagine what it would be like if somebody just drove into the driveway.

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They didn't know where they were, they didn't know how they got there.

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They came to the door they didn't even know there was a church meeting going on and they just walked in the door and said what am I doing here?

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That would be really unusual, wouldn't it?

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Well, in order to get where we were, you couldn't even find the road.

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If you didn't know where the road was, you couldn't find it.

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It was that hidden.

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It was a little hole among 20-foot elephant grass.

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You had to slow down.

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I mean slow down.

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You had to know where the markers were and you had to slow down and just ease yourself into it.

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There wasn't any way.

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You were just going to be, because the speed limit on that road was, like you know, 60, 70 miles an hour Wasn't any way, you were just going to come in there.

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But they would do it time after time, after time after time after time after time.

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God would literally bring them to the anointing.

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You've heard me.

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I've told you all the stories Amen, hallelujah.

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But in order for that to happen, we had you know, if we'd have had an hour of service, they'd have come and we'd have been gone.

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Ask her she went, she'd be over playing with the monkeys.

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She remembers the monkeys.

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She probably doesn't remember anything about the services, but she remembers the monkeys.

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Probably doesn't remember anything about the services, but she remembers the monkeys.

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We'd all cringe at the.

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Anyway, praise God, the spirit of manipulation is coming to the church, where we manipulate people and con them into thinking that the proper church service is 45 minutes to an hour long and it has these elements.

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You can go into thousands upon hundreds of thousands of churches this morning and you'll find the same formula over and over and over and over again.

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There's no time given for the Lord to apply pressure to anybody, so everybody goes out unchanged.

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Oh, that was a nice sermon.

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Don't you ever tell me that I don't ever want to hear.

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I got a nice sermon.

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I don't give sermons, I have messages from the Lord, amen.

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Now, if it blessed you, I'm happy.

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If it makes you squirm, I'm happy.

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But I don't want you to go out of here with nothing.

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That's the worst insult you can ever do to the spirit of God is to have people assemble before him and then not give him any way at all to minister to people.

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That is manipulation of people to get them to agree that that's a good thing.

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Listen, folks, your forebearers I don't know if all your forebearers, I don't know if anybody here would go back to the Mayflower or not, but the Puritans, I mean, they would fire preachers if they didn't preach for six hours.

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They'd preach for three, four hours, have lunch, come back for three or four more and the preacher listen, and he had to have something good, he had to have something fresh.

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He couldn't preach last week's message and these people, folks, these people weren't moving in the Holy Ghost.

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So these preachers, they all hand wrote their sermons out.

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They would work all week to get a six hour written sermon.

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Do you know how long that is?

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Page after page after page and if they started going to sleep, people bop them over the head with a stick to wake them up and if they weren't any good, they'd get rid of them.

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Bring somebody in here that can preach this thing.

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We've taken that.

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That wasn't even in the spirit.

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We've taken that and melted that down to 43 and a half minutes.

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You can set your clock, by God.

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We're going to have three services, between 8, 30, and 12 o'clock and you can set your clock to them.

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That's just flat manipulation, people.

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We have conditioned people to respond to that and that is the only way you can have church.

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If you invite somebody and you say how long is your service, oh, it's usually about two hours, two and a half hours.

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You've done eliminated 999 out of a thousand people.

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They won't put up with it.

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They've been conditioned, and conditioning is manipulation and manipulation is a spirit of witchcraft.

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Yes, it is.

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You can't cut it any other way.

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There's been a spell put on the North American church Amen, the church is this and God doesn't move.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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But we're not going to walk in craftiness, manipulation.

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We're not going to do things for greed, for position, for fame, for comfort.

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You know that's not the point.

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A couple years ago we went to Cancun.

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You want to be hot?

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Go to Cancun.

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Listen, folks, maybe some of you have never done this.

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If you want to be hot, I mean really hot.

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You guys lived in Houston.

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It gets hot, but I mean really hot, hotter than that, if that's possible, but it's hotter than that Go a little bit further south.

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Go to Jamaica, go to Cancun, go another 500 miles or so further south in July, in August, and your skin will literally melt off your bones.

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You think you're going to sweat your hair out.

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It is so hot.

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Listen, it was so hot.

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We were in Jamaica.

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It was so hot we had to turn off every light in the house and have one little candle and have that far away from us, so it didn't produce any heat.

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Have one little candle and have that far away from us, so it didn't produce any heat.

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I'm talking hot.

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It was hot in Cancun.

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By the time I got finished preaching, I had sweat in my shoes.

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They were squishing my socks were soaked.

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Pants, guavaabera, everything you could take guayabera and just wring water out of it.

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Not a cushioned seat in the house, everything was benches.

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I'm not talking about 50 years ago I'm talking about two years ago and God moved Because we had time.

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We had time for God to get into the place.

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I saw God come into that place in a glory cloud a physical, tangible cloud of glory and settle upon the place.

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When that cloud came in, I laid hands on the pastor and he went backwards in the air.

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This little roly-poly guy about five foot tall went backwards in the air about three feet in the air and just went horizontal and boom on the ground.

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I mean no glory of God got in that place, but you've got to let it go.

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You can't be manipulating people, controlling them, trying to manipulate them for bigger offerings or conning them into accepting comfort levels for glory levels.

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I got a pastor in Costa Rica that if we have a meeting on Saturday morning, he has to leave his house at five o'clock in the morning on Friday and it takes him all day by bus to get to the church house and then he sleeps in the church house overnight and then he's there the next morning.

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The whole thing for him.

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He'll leave Friday morning and he will get home sometime in the afternoon on Tuesday.

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I don't know how many buses he has to take.

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Glory to God.

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Praise the name of the Lord, remind me, and I'll bring the picture next week.

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Yes, we're helping him to build a church in the middle of nowhere in the mountains, and I had a picture.

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I was going to bring it today, but it's on my phone.

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I'll get it loaded for this.

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Praise God, but we're going to help him do that Because, you know, when somebody shows you that kind of honor, that kind of sacrifice, I mean I've got people that live within a half hour of the conference place and they won't come.

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And here's this guy, leaves his family Sometimes he's bringing his family and they're not too proud to sleep on pallets on the church house floor.

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And I'm just going to give you a clue it's not comfortable, it's not air conditioned, they don't have carpet.

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Glory to God.

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I'm tired of this manipulation, tired of manipulating God's people for things that are here today, gone tomorrow, while preachers get rich and the people just are suffering.

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I don't like that.

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I don't have any problem.

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I don't have a problem with anybody being rich.

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I think God wants us to be, to enjoy things and be prosperous.

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I believe that, but I don't believe in manipulation.

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See, it was happening in Paul's day, if it?

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You know I wanted to make this point.

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You know I'm talking about today, but it was happening in Paul's day.

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Paul said I'm talking about today, but it was happening in Paul's day.

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Paul said I'm not going to peddle the word of God for money.

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I said I'm not going to do it.

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I'm just not going to do it.

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He said I would rather starve than have it be known that I charged money for the gospel.

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I preach this gospel free of charge.

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Amen, boy.

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I have listen, I've gone in so many places my wife is my testimony of how many places I've gone into and the pastors have been generous at their level of generosity.

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You know, give me $5, $10, $15, whatever they could afford, and I'll look at them.

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And the Lord told me what to do about this.

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He said take it, receive it, bless it and sow it back into them.

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They need it more than you do, but you need to receive it.

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Don't you be telling them, no, don't be.

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Oh no, brother, that's okay, that's okay.

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Don't be doing that.

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If they're going to honor you, honor them, amen.

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Receive it, bless it and say the Lord wants me to give this back, sow this back into you.

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How many times have we done that?

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More times than we can count.

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I made my reputation in Costa Rica by doing that.

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People couldn't believe I did it.

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I remember one time sitting in a restaurant and they brought me this big sack of money and they said this is what was left over after the crusade.

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All the expenses are paid.

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So I promised I wasn't going to leave Costa Rica and leave them with any bills.

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None of my all of my crusades were paid, absolute down to the penny.

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I didn't leave anybody with any bills.

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They brought me this big bag of money.

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What did I do with it?

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I said thank you very much.

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I received that in the name of Jesus.

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I bless you.

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I praise the Lord for it, and now I'm putting it back into your hands and this is the seed for your next crusade.

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They couldn't believe it, but I'm telling you what I'm going to tell you, as God is my witness.

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That got around real quick and the next time we organize something like that, they go oh yeah, you're the guy that won't take any money out of the country.

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We heard about you.

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We didn't believe it, but we heard about you.

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You're that guy.

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Yeah, I'm that guy.

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Is that really what you do.

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That's really what I do.

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I got witnesses over here.

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Yeah, we heard about that.

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That is just nobody does that.

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Everybody comes down here, takes up the big offerings, leaves us with the tab and runs out to the airport.

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I said I'm not going to do that.

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I've never done that and I still haven't done that.

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I'm not going to manipulate people around.

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Listen, I tell people, with all due respect, you know you can put 500 people in here and you ain't going to make me rich.

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I said God's done made me rich.

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I said I'm already well taken care of.

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God takes care of me.

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I said you can't make me rich and I'm not going to manipulate you to try to make me rich.

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I'm not going to do that.

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I don't need a plane ticket.

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My plane ticket is already paid for, Thank you.

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The hotel is already paid for.

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I can pay for my meals.

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I you know you're not going.

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I'm said you know I'll talk to a real plane like that, because I'm not going to manipulate them to try to get you know to.

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I'm not working craftiness.

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You know I don't sell product.

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I've given more product away than you can imagine.

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They finally listen.

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It was like Moses.

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They finally had to tell me don't bring any more of this stuff down.

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People's got so many CDs they don't know what to do with them.

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He said don't bring any more Bibles down.

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We don't have anywhere else to use them.

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We've saturated every place that we can.

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I go into places and I still see stacks of those little Bibles.

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That's okay, there's nothing wrong with that.

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I'm just saying I didn't charge one nickel for that.

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You folks bought a lot of the Bibles.

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You folks helped to finance the audio ministry.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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I'm not going to try to manipulate them into that.

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I'm going to bless them, praise God.

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But people pass off.

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They will pass off all kinds of stuff for glory.

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They'll pass off talented professional musicians.

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They'll go oh, isn't that anointed?

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No, it's not anointed.

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God wasn't in that.

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It was a nice song, but God wasn't in it.

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Well, how do you know?

00:39:38.302 --> 00:39:44.237
Because I know the Lord, I know the difference between emotions and a move of the Spirit.

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Now, somebody may not be, but they may not know that.

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They may have never been in the realm of the Spirit.

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That's okay.

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But don't try to make me feel bad because I'm not agreeing with you that that was anointed.

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It wasn't anointed, trust me, it was not.

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But see, we are.

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So listen.

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We have been manipulated.

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Everybody say manipulated.

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We have been manipulated.

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Everybody say manipulated.

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We have been manipulated into liking praise and worship music more than we like the Word.

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We've been manipulated into believing the words of songs more than we do believing the Word of God.

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We spend more time listening to Christian music than we do reading the Bible.

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We spend more time listening to ungodly people sing ungodly songs than we do reading the Bible.

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We spend more time listening to ungodly people sing ungodly songs than we do in prayer.

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We've been manipulated into thinking that that substitutes.

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Now watch this.

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We've been manipulating into thinking you can't worship God without it.

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You know my favorite story on that one.

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I was getting fixing to go someplace.

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I had about two hours to get there.

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I had a couple of CDs I was going to play and you know I was all ready to go.

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And I get one, put one in, about to press the button and God says we're not listening to that.

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I said but, but, but, but, but, but.

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He said we're not listening to that.

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I'm going to teach you something that you don't need music to worship me Because you don't know what I know about that music.

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David and I were talking about that last week.

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That there's.

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You know there is such a business to Christian music and Christian entertainment.

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You don't even want to know what's going on.

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I don't care how good it is, I don't listen anymore.

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I've turned it off.

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I've separated myself even from that Because I don't want to start believing songs rather than the Word.

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You know.

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I mean, there's a thousand songs out there about all kinds of wrong things and everybody just goes ooh and ah, you know, about passes out in the Spirit.

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Listening to them, well, all they did was fall down because the Spirit wasn't in them.

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Listening to them, well, all they did was fall down because the Spirit wasn't in them.

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They had a little woo-woo and a wah-wah and a head bump and, hey, you know, the Holy Ghost showed up.

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No, he didn't Praise God.

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I better get off of this one.

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Go on.

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We're not going to handle the Word deceitfully.

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In other words, we're not going to handle the word deceitfully.

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In other words, we're not going to handle it in an untruth.

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We're not going to handle it according to men's doctrines.

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This is the one that just sticks in my craw.

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Amen.

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So many churches, so much of the around anywhere.

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They can't get out of their own denominational you know tubes.

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They can't see anything else but what their denomination tells them to see.

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They don't believe anything else.

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It doesn't matter if God hit them over the head with a two-by-four and said wake up, this isn't real.

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They still would say that's not God, that's the devil.

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Yes, they would.

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And it doesn't matter which one.

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There's 200 and some different ones, maybe 300 of them.

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You know, they all think they're absolutely right and they all think they can trace the roots back to the apostle Peter.

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Well, so can the Catholics.

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What did that get them?

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I mean, at least they got a church over his tomb.

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You know, you don't.

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And not a one of them could back any of that up with substantial Scripture.

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It's all been secondhand information by somebody who got it secondhand from somebody else who got it secondhand, and nobody's dealing with a revelation.

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But if we're after the glory, we can't do that.

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We can't handle the Word of God deceitfully in any way.

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Man, we can't preach untruth.

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In other words, we can't substitute men's ideas or worldly ideas for the Word of God.

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Do you know how many times today, this morning, this morning somebody.

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They will preach their 10-minute sermon out of something they read off the Internet or some Internet video that went viral and they'll comment on that.

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Then they'll try somehow to use the name of Jesus, maybe, and peddle that off for the Word of God.

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That is deceitfully using the Word of God.

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You preach, basically preach, stuff that is unreal and untrue.

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You know like how many times do we have these?

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You know, on Mother's Day, m is for and O is for and T is for and H is for and E is for and R is for.

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By the time Sarah's running out the door, you know, trying to find the nearest restroom, amen, and you should Sitting there listening to that dribble.

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You think God woke up that morning and spoke to that pastor and said M is for, o is for T, o, t T.

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In all my years of ministry I've never had God give me one of those.

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You know what I get a lot of Forget it and preach this.

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I've even ignored Christmas.

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That's almost heresy.

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But I mean people will do it all day long because they're manipulating people into thinking that's God.

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That's not God.

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They're preaching a totally untrue and unreal God, like that's what God sits up in heaven thinking about Acrostics.

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You know, really, he's so bored that he's sitting there with these little word puzzles.

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M is, o is.

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Really I don't think so, just because it's the second Sunday in May.

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That's what God's thinking about.

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First of all, you wouldn't even get him to say the word May.

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He would say it's the second Sunday of the fifth month.

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Oh, help me, jesus.

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People are preaching the doctrines of men like they were the doctrines of God.

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Did Jesus not get all over this in his day?

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Did he not get all over this in His day, did he not?

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I mean, did he not?

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Just?

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I mean, if there was one thing he just got the Pharisees out for, it was you have made the Word of God of no effect.

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Amen.

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They had taken the Word of God.

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They had taken the Word that was given to Moses and made it totally ineffective by a whole bunch of add-ons.

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Amen, amen.

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The only reason you need to add on to the Word of God is because you haven't studied enough and read it enough that you got revelation of it in the first place.

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Or you just want to make yourself look good, like you think you know something more than Moses did, mm.

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Hmm, or you know something more than Paul did.

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I love this stuff.

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You know people think people feel like they got to have you know, write commentaries.

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You know about what Paul said, because they got a better answer than Paul did.

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They're going to explain to you what Paul said.

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Listen, folks, I got somebody that can explain things at levels you've never even heard of before, and it's nobody that writes books.

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Amen, I mean, he wrote the books and he can explain them better than anybody else.

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You don't need a bunch of comments.

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You may need to do some research.

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I'm not saying you don't.

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You don't need a bunch of comments.

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You may need to do some research.

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I'm not saying you don't.

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Amen, but we're not going to preach this word according to what men think about God.

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We're going to preach this word according to what God thinks about men and how he wants to deal with them, and he is plain as the letters on the page.

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God thinks about men and how he wants to deal with them, and he is playing as the letters on the page.

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You just have to read them.

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If you won't read it, you won't know.

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You ain't going to find it in a song.

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I don't care what song it is.

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You're not going to find it in a song, you're not going to find it in a poem.

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You know nice little cards.

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Everybody gets them.

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They got these nice little things that they say and everybody likes to get them and read them.

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But that's not Scripture.

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Hello, praise God, we're going to teach.

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We're going to preach this thing according to the doctrines of God.

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God said He're going to teach.

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We're going to preach this thing according to the doctrines of God.

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God said he's going to teach us.

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I'm going to be taught by God Every major point that I'm bringing to you.

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This morning.

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God spoke to me and said hit this one, hit this thought, hit this thought.

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Now I don't have to have detailed notes, I just have to have the thought of God that he wanted me to communicate and not forget, so that when I come here he can speak that thought in fullness.

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I guarantee you, folks, I don't pull this stuff out of a hat and I certainly you can't find any place where it's in a book, because this is July 28th 2019, god's state of the church message, hallelujah.

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And the other thing that just gnaws at me is when people twist Scripture.

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Peter said this of Paul that Paul writes hard things to understand which some men twist.

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In other words, they took what Paul taught about grace and turned it into licentiousness.

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They took what Paul taught about forgiveness and turned it into loose.

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They took what he said about many things and they did that with all the apostles.

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They took the scriptures and they twisted them.

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Amen, to mean something that they didn't mean.

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But it sounds good.

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And I'm telling you, this is where most denominations start.

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They start with somebody you know about halfway back in the congregation decides they're going to take a scripture and twist it a little bit and because Pastor so-and-so doesn't believe in that scripture, well, I'm going to take half your church that does believe in that scripture twisted.

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I'm going to start me another church and I'm going to be the first church of twisted scriptures and I'm going to give birth to a whole lot more, and every one of them is birthed out of division.

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Just imagine what kind of success would you have building a family on division and twisted interpretation of things that you believe.

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In other words, one day we say we believe this and the next day, whoops, we're not going to believe that.

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It really means this twist, and then it really means twist, and then it really means twist, you wouldn't get anywhere, which is exactly where this church has gotten.

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We've taken grace, which is the power of God working in you, to do those things which you cannot do and God will not do without you.

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We've taken that grace and turned it into.

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You can come as you are, you can be as you are.

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We just you know God's grace is sufficient.

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He's going, you know.

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He's made you accepted in the beloved.

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But when he accepts you in the beloved, there's a whitewashing, there's a blood washing, there's a, there's a spirit cleansing, there's a cleansing of the word.

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There's a washing of the word by regeneration of the Holy ghost.

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Am I talking to anybody in here?

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Glory to God when he gets a, when he brings you in, translate you out of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son.

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I mean there's a washing, there's a regeneration, there's a renewal.

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Oh, my Lord, hallelujah.

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Somebody get clean, somebody get refreshed, somebody get renewed.

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Don't stay where you are.

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That's not what the purpose of translation is about.

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Don't twist the scripture.

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Don't twist the scripture out of the context of glory.

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Now people take that scripture out in 1 Corinthians 13, where it says prophecies will cease, tongues will cease, tongues will cease and they'll take that and say that means that the gifts of the Holy Ghost are not in operation today.

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What?

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How do you get that?

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They'll take other scriptures and say those things were for the times of the apostles.

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Where does it say that?

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I mean, are we seriously saying that the Holy Ghost, the gifts of the Holy Ghost, the graces of the Holy Ghost, the fruit of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit hasn't been taken away?

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Why did we take away the gifts and the fruit of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit hasn't been taken away?

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Why did we take away the gifts and not the fruit?

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Hmm, nobody ever asks that question, do they?

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They just blindly accept that some idiot made that decision and put a whole movement of God into captivity for his bad interpretation of the Bible.

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He twisted the Scriptures and took the glory out of it.

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You twist the Scripture and you take the glory out of it.

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Amen.

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You're going to take God out of it, you're going to take his miraculous power out of it and you're going to take the Spirit of God out of it.

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You're going to take his miraculous power out of it and you're going to take the spirit of God out of it, and it's just that simple.

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And what you get left with is a bunch of men talking about God when they don't know him, and you're going to get a bunch of people praying to a God that is not hearing them, and you're going to get a lot of people believing that God is moving by circumstances and events, when God does not do that at all.

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That's a different God.

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That God is called fate, and you've got major movements of God that believe that's how God moves.

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They're worshiping a different God.

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I hate to be this, but, man, when you manipulate people, when you twist them, when you manipulate them and you're trying to do something with them and it's not God you preach this word in untruth.

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You preach it according to the doctrines of men, you preach it with a twisted bent amen.

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You're going to end up in a place where you're worshiping a God that is not this God.

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He is not the God that wrote the Bible, because you're not reading the Bible and when you read it, you can't read it without the filter of the denomination that you belong in.

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You can't read it without somebody else whispering in your ear.

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This is what this means, and it's not the Holy Ghost.

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Hallelujah, we got to be a different folk.

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We got to be a people that open up this Bible.

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That's why I told you a few years ago God told me to put down every Bible that I own, and here's one of them.

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I've preached out of this Bible for so long.

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Pages start to fall out of it.

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Look how much red is in this Bible, just line after line after line.

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Notes links everything else I had to put this Bible down.

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Notes links everything else I had to put this Bible down.

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He said I don't want you reading anything that's got anything in it.

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I don't want paragraph headings, I don't want headings across the top.

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I don't want anything in this Bible except chapter and verse and I don't want you to ever write anything in it because the next time through I'm going to tell you something different.

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So now I've got Bibles like this, they have absolutely nothing in them except God talking to me and not according to how he talked to me 10 years ago, five years ago.

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I treasure this Bible.

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This Bible has been with me all over the world.

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I wouldn't give you you can pay me enough money for that Bible, but I'm not going to study yesterday's revelation.

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I'm just not going to do it.

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I am not going to do it.

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I'm not going to teach the doctrines of men that came to me, amen.

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Or I'm not even going to teach yesterday's revelation that God gave me.

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It's going to have to be something fresher than that.

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Are we getting any of this?

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You want the glory.

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I'm talking about how to get there.

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We're going to manifest the truth.

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I don't care whether you like it, don't like it, whether it makes you comfortable or not comfortable, whether your whole family's in one of those churches and I know they are I don't care.

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Don't be deceived.

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Can you imagine standing before the throne of heaven and hearing God say how many cattle did you rope at your Sunday morning service?

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Oh, wait, a minute.

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That was about.

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How many songs did we sing?

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How many?

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How much scripture did we read?

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How many?

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How many?

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How many people got saved?

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How many people got baptized?

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No, our major focus is how many cattle can we rope in the roping arena that's next to the church, because we want to reach them, while they're still dipping and chewing and running with them that are doing?

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I better leave that alone.

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Paul said this.

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He said if I preach like this, if I preach into ever-increasing levels of glory.

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I don't cave in.

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I don't back off of the glory.

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I don't walk in any shame of rejecting the glory or keeping it hidden.

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I don't try to manipulate people.

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I'm not walking in craftiness.

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I'm not walking in witchcraft.

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I'm not manipulating people for money or greed or fame.

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I'm not preaching untruths.

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I'm not preaching the doctrines of men.

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I'm not twisting scripture.

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If I preach like that, I can commend myself to every man's conscience in the sight of God, and that was Paul's boast.

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Paul's boast is I'm not going to manipulate you, I'm not going to try you, I'm not going to do any of this stuff, but I am going to commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

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Not only will God testify that I'm preaching the truth, but they will too, even if they don't like it.

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Not only will God testify that I'm preaching the truth, but they will too, even if they don't like it.

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Hallelujah.

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That's what this ministry of glory is all about.

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It's pure, it's simple, it's straight, it doesn't back off.

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Glory to God.

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And it has brought you thus far and it's going to keep on bringing you.

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Amen, let's stand to your feet, please.