Jan. 7, 2025

The Path to Glory: Walking IN Christ in Times of Suffering (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 21)

The Path to Glory: Walking IN Christ in Times of Suffering (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 21)

Send us a text Have you ever wondered why seeking God sometimes seems to lead to more trials rather than fewer? Join us as we challenge the misconception that a deeper pursuit of spirituality should shield us from hardships. Drawing from 1 Peter, chapter 4, we explore how fiery trials are an essential part of God's design to refine and sanctify believers. By arming ourselves with the mindset of Christ, we learn to embrace these challenges as vital steps in our spiritual journey, rather than o...

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Have you ever wondered why seeking God sometimes seems to lead to more trials rather than fewer? Join us as we challenge the misconception that a deeper pursuit of spirituality should shield us from hardships. Drawing from 1 Peter, chapter 4, we explore how fiery trials are an essential part of God's design to refine and sanctify believers. By arming ourselves with the mindset of Christ, we learn to embrace these challenges as vital steps in our spiritual journey, rather than obstacles to be questioned or feared.

We invite you to explore the profound concept of sharing in Christ's sufferings and understand the transformative power it holds. Through engaging stories and scripture, we delve into the biblical call to live as joint heirs and joint sufferers with Jesus, emphasizing the distinction between trials meant to refine us and ailments Christ has given us dominion over. By participating in Christ's sufferings, we learn valuable lessons in obedience, humility, and spiritual growth, aligning ourselves more closely with divine principles and becoming resilient in our faith.

In our conversation, we also reflect on the process of spiritual refinement, using the metaphor of God as a potter shaping believers as clay. With insights from both Peter and Paul, we discuss how embracing forgiveness and enduring trials can lead to personal transformation and divine wisdom. We encourage listeners to rejoice in their struggles, seeing them as opportunities to become vessels of glory, and urge them to actively pray and release God's glory over their communities. Together, let's embrace the journey of spiritual refinement and walk boldly in faith, embodying the aroma of Christ in our daily lives.

00:44 - Trials and Refinement in Christian Faith

12:00 - Embracing Suffering for Spiritual Growth

23:58 - The Process of Spiritual Refinement

37:19 - Participating in Christ's Sufferings

51:57 - Experiencing Glory Through Suffering

58:16 - Dispensing the Aroma of Glory

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Praise God.

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Let's turn to 1 Peter, chapter 4.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Wonderful Lord, praise God.

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I want to read the first three verses that we are studying verses 12, 13, and 14.

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Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing has happened to you, but rejoice to the extent that you partake as though some strange thing has happened to you, but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings that when His glory is revealed, you may be glad with exceeding joy.

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If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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The fiery trial we've talked about this the fiery trial, amen, is a refining fire.

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That's what the word means.

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A fiery trial or a refining fire which is to try you or prove you or refine you or transform you.

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Amen.

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Remember that we've talked about a long time ago that two baptisms were coming to the church.

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One was a baptism of sacrifice and the other was a baptism of fire.

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And that baptism of fire, that fiery trial that comes, is a trial designed by God to refine you and to purify you.

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Amen.

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Peter says this.

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He says since these things are going to come, and they're going to come from God to try, you don't think it's strange that it happens to you.

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Don't be concerned or don't think that you first of all don't think it shouldn't happen, but it's happening, and, second of all, don't think that you first of all don't think it shouldn't happen, but it's happening and, second of all, don't think that it's happening to you and not happening to other people.

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Amen.

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Anyone who is Paul said, anyone who wants to live godly in Christ Jesus, is going to suffer persecution.

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These things are going to happen because it is part of the design.

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Now, we don't want to hear this because we want to think that our life in God is one happy Sunday school picnic.

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But the fact of the matter is that the more we seek God, the more we have to be refined.

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Do you understand how that works?

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You would think it's the other way around, that the more you seek God and live for God, the less you'd have to go through.

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But in fact it's the opposite, because those that are far away from the Lord can live there without a lot of refinement.

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They just need to get saved.

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They just need to get saved, have their sins forgiven and begin to live for God a little bit and they'll make it.

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There's tons of people like that.

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That's as far as they get.

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They don't really go any further than that.

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And there's a whole bunch of folk like that.

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They are the ones that John talks about in John 10, the ones that are saved.

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They go in, they go out.

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They go in, they go out.

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They find pasture and they are saved.

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You don't know where they're finding the pasture.

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Are they finding the pasture in, or are they finding the pasture out?

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Or maybe they're eating on both sides of the fence.

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And that describes a whole lot of Christians.

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Amen, and God knows this.

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You know, like I said on Sunday, you know it's 1,500 miles from the pearly gates to the throne.

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There's a whole lot of room there for people to be distributed about.

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As far away from God as you can get.

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Hello and still be in.

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1,500 miles is like from here to LA.

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That's a long way.

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How many people can you get in a square box?

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Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, amen.

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Just because you're in doesn't mean you're close and doesn't mean that you need more refinement.

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But as soon as you start turning toward the Lord and seeking Him more and wanting more of Him, then His anointing comes upon you to begin to sanctify you, cleanse you, purify you and try you like gold.

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But that doesn't happen until you begin to seek after him.

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As soon as you start seeking you, better watch out, because tribulations, trials and fiery trials are coming, and they've all been prepared for you beforehand, from the foundation of the world, for this very purpose.

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God knows exactly what he made you for and he knows exactly the trials that he's prepared for you in order to bring you into this place where he wants you to be.

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Now.

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Most people don't like to hear this and because they don't like to hear it, they won't go through these trials.

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They'll just refuse.

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They will refuse and they'll stay about as far away from God as they can and still count themselves as a Christian.

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I'm just speaking plain and straight here.

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There are a lot of people who are just that way.

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That's okay.

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If that's what they want to do, that's fine.

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If they want to reject the offer of the trials and the tribulations, then that's what they're going to get.

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They may not be too happy about it in eternity, but that's just the way it goes.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Now for those of us who have chosen to seek after God, be faithful to Him, walk after Him.

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Amen.

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We've got a different kind of agenda going on.

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Peter says don't think it's strange that it's happening.

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Apparently, in his day, people had already started to think it was strange.

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They had started to think that, a they didn't have to or B they didn't want to, and Peter's trying to keep.

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This is part of.

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If you go back to verse 1, it says arm yourself with the same mind that Jesus had.

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He's talking about this mind of Christ, this Christ way of thinking.

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Amen, and part of the Christ way of thinking is to think that it's not strange that we're going through fiery trials.

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Okay, so you know.

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My suggestion to you would be take the words why is this happening to me out of your vocabulary.

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Why does it always have to be like this?

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Well, it just has to be like this because it's orchestrated by God for you to be refined, and you can't be refined on your terms because you didn't be refined on your terms, because you didn't make you.

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It says in 2 Corinthians 6, it says that you are not your own.

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You have been bought with a price and that buying happened long before Calvary, because Calvary is an eternal thing that happens in eternity, outside of time, and that blood of Calvary was applied to you and to your destiny before you ever came forth.

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You are not your own, you've been bought with the price Amen.

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Everybody say this I am not my own, I don't get to make the decisions.

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God gets to make the decisions and he has some a plan for you that if he would have told you this on day one, you'd have bailed.

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You say I'm not going to sign up for this, I'm not going to have any part of this.

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This is craziness.

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I'm not going to do this.

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Why would I want to live life like this?

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Because you can't even comprehend at that point in your salvation, you can't even comprehend what a close relationship with God and what an eternal relationship with God is.

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Your little mind can't comprehend that.

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Your mind has to be renewed and transformed in order for you to learn to be the living sacrifice that God wants you to be.

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So when the trials come, and they will come, peter's advice to you, and speaking out of the context of the mind of Christ, I'm going to read that scripture to you.

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Out of the context of the mind of Christ.

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I'm going to read that scripture to you out of the context of thinking like Jesus, or thinking with Jesus' thoughts, in fact.

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Therefore, verse 1, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.

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In other words, you're not being punished for sin, you're participating in the sufferings of Jesus, and because you are willing to do that, he is going to put His mind upon you.

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Listen to what it says Since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, is he suffering in the flesh anymore?

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Well, yes, in fact he is, when you do, because you are one with Him.

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But since he has already had victory over the flesh in every aspect, he gives you that victory.

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If he didn't, this is pointless.

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See, how can he give you His salvation if he hasn't gone through the process?

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He died to sin so that he could live for God, amen.

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He died to your sin so that he could live, so he could teach you how to live for God.

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This is how it works.

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He takes a point he suffered for you and then the things that he suffers.

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He teaches you how to have the victory in them, but you have to be willing to go through the suffering.

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In fact you have to.

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As Paul said, I will rejoice all the more in mine infirmities.

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You have to learn to rejoice in the sufferings, because in that way, and only in that way, will you put on the mind of Christ, which is a form of armament.

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Okay, peter says arm yourself.

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If I told you to arm yourself, you know you'd go get yourself a weapon.

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Amen, that's what that word doesn't mean to grow another arm.

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It means to go get a weapon and be ready to use it.

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And this weapon, in this case, is what it's the mind of Christ.

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Philippians 2.5 says let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

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Amen.

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So this mind of Christ is for you and it's for you to think like God.

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And part of the thought process of God is simply that when the trials come, when God-designed trials come to you, don't think that it's strange, don't think you're being singled out, because everyone who lives godly in Christ Jesus is going to go through this.

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It's just how it is.

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I have a friend, an elderly preacher, and the Lord just blessed him with a large sum of money, and I mean he had hardly got it in the bank to deposit it when the Lord required it of him and told him to sow it.

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Now you think that's no big thing.

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He's probably been doing that all of his life.

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It's a big thing if you don't have any money.

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It's a big thing if you don't have any money.

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It's a big thing if you don't have steady income.

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And it's going to be a bigger thing when God gives you something better in return, and I know He'll do that.

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Praise God, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings.

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So we don't think very much of that either, because we've been taught that whatever Christ took to the cross, we don't have to go through.

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And we have put on the cross a whole bunch of things that he didn't carry to the cross, a whole bunch of things that he didn't carry to the cross.

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See, some things he carried to the cross and defeated.

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Other things he won the victory over.

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Let me put it another way Some things he carried to the cross, covered in his blood and destroyed.

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The devil's power to use that thing in our lives.

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Sickness is one of them.

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Amen.

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By his stripes we were healed.

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Amen.

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There's no doubt that healing is a provision in covenant.

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It's a provision of the blood Amen.

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That healing is a provision in covenant.

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It's a provision of the blood Amen.

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It is something that we don't have to put up with.

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Not only has he given us the victory over it, but he has given us dominion over it.

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He has given us the capacity to curse it out of our existence, it out of our existence, to stand on the legal right of the blood of Jesus and say this thing has no right in my body.

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That's different than something that has a right, because the Bible says these things will happen to them which are in Christ Jesus.

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The Bible says these things will happen to them which are in Christ Jesus.

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See, when God says that, then you can bind that thing all you want to, and it's not going to budge Because it's not there because of the evil one.

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It's there because God placed it there or caused it to be placed there.

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Are you following what I'm saying?

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Fiery trials are different than diseases, different than poverty, different than grief, different than sorrow.

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He bore our griefs, he carried our sorrows, he took our sins, amen.

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That's why Peter said that he who suffers in the flesh, suffering the same things that Jesus suffered, is done with sin, you don't have to worry about.

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You know you don't have to go to one of those churches where you've got to get saved every week.

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You know you don't have to do that.

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That may be all they've got and that may be all that people can do, but you don't have to do that.

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You're done with that.

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That issue is done.

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Now the issue before you is to live godly in Christ Jesus, amen, hallelujah.

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So not only do we not get off the hook for some things, but we've got to partake them.

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We've got to be a joint.

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If we are a joint heir with Jesus, then we are also a joint sufferer in some of the things that he suffered.

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One of the strangest verses in the Bible is a verse where Paul said that I have to fulfill the sufferings of Christ.

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In other words, christ suffered some things, but since I am one with him and I'm going to continue to suffer these things, I have to suffer more things for His sake and I'm suffering what he didn't suffer.

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That's difficult to get your hands around, but that's what Paul said.

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Paul said these things.

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I'm suffering that I might fulfill the sufferings of Christ.

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I'm thinking how does that work?

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How is that even possible?

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How can?

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Is there something that Christ left undone Because he didn't leave when he got off, when he was finished on the cross, he said it was finished.

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And what was finished on these things that he has to suffer?

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He had to suffer.

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And what was finished on these things that he has to suffer, he had to suffer.

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The Bible says in the book of Hebrews that he learned obedience by the things that he suffered.

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So how are you going to do any different?

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Oh, you're just going to lay hold of that scripture and say since he suffered, I don't have to suffer.

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So since he obeyed, I don't have to, because the two parts of that thing go together.

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If he suffered, you don't have to.

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He obeyed does that mean you don't have to do that either?

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How's that going to work?

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You're going to learn obedience by the things you suffer, and God knows that, because the things that you suffer are given to you by God.

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Do you think that all the things that Jesus had came against him were all orchestrated by the devil?

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No, there was a whole set of things that came against Jesus, all throughout his life and ministry, that were orchestrated by God to refine him so that he would be a worthy high priest.

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Amen.

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He was a worthy high priest because he was the Son of God, but he was also a worthy high priest because he was the perfect Son of man and he was made perfect by the things that he suffered.

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Hallelujah, that's what the Bible says.

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Now, if the Bible says that, then where does that leave you?

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You're going to go through the same things and as you go through them, you're going to partake in them.

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Peter's advice to you is rejoice.

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Rejoice about it, instead of thinking it's strange and thinking it's a bother, and thinking it's inconvenient and thinking that you know where's God in all this.

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Peter says rejoice.

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Now, I'm not talking about stuff that's easy here.

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This is not piece of cake stuff, and it gets worse the further you go, because in the presence of the Lord, there is none of this.

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None of this can come close to him.

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Let me tell you something.

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Let me explain that just a little bit.

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The Bible tells us a lot of things about the anointing.

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The anointing is true.

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The anointing is real, the anointing.

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You have an anointing from the Holy One and he teaches you all things and he shows you things to come and all of those things that the anointing does.

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But it says that the anointing is real and not a lie.

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But the main thing that the anointing does is not to prepare you for God's service or enable you for God's service.

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That's what grace is about.

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The anointing is basically to clean you up for the presence of God, to cover the stench of this flesh Amen and make it possible for you to ascend into higher realms of God.

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All the while, the closer you get, the more the anointing is covering up your stench, Because you're still in the flesh Until you throw this off, amen.

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This thing is going to come to before the Lord, and especially the part of you that you're a mind, because you are.

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Most of these trials you're going to find out are not so much about this body of flesh but this mind of flesh.

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Let this mind be in you.

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Arm yourself with the same mind, amen.

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It's the mind that God's after the way you think.

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Everybody's heard stinking thinking, but that's some thinking that in front of God.

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You may think it's good thinking, but that's some thinking that in front of God.

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You may think it's good thinking, but God thinks it's not so much.

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And so what does God do?

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I can give you any number of illustrations.

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He'll take your vessel and break it and refire it.

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Mix it with some more mud, put it on the potter's wheel, spin it out again.

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Amen.

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Look at it, fire it up, put it through its test, make it strong until it's time to what?

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Try it again.

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He can refine you like gold.

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How many times does gold have to be refined?

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Seven times Amen.

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What would Jesus tell you?

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How many times gold has to be refined?

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Seven times seventy.

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Anybody getting this?

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And Peter says rejoice, because he was the one who asked Jesus how many times should I forgive my brother?

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See, every act of forgiveness is a trial, because can I say this Every act of forgiveness is a step of putting Christ's mind on, because you can't forgive people in your own mind, you'll want revenge.

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Let me tell you something In the flesh, forgiveness is forgetfulness.

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I'm going to forgive and I'm going to forget up to a point, but back there in the back of my mind, I'm going to hold on to that thing that you know, you did that to me and all that.

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But forgiveness, if God did that to you, you'd be in big trouble.

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And so God will lead you in this trip of forgiveness and as you forgive, he'll put His mind on you so that you start to think like that.

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You don't even take offense, you don't even take umbrage, you don't even let it bother you.

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But it takes a lot of 7 times 70 experiences of putting on this mind.

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Every one of those is putting on.

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Do you know how many people Jesus had to forgive?

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All of them.

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Do you know how many he had to forgive in his personal presence, starting with the high priest and working his way down?

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He had to forgive their unbelief.

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He had to forgive their scowls.

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He had to forgive their unbelief.

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He had to forgive their scowls.

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He had to forgive their dirty looks.

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He had to forgive their not being there.

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He had to forgive their shallow faith.

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He had to forgive their chasing after the bread that perishes.

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I mean all of those things.

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You look at Jesus and you look at a few people that responded and you think, oh, glory to God, wasn't that wonderful.

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But Jesus had to forgive all those ones who didn't respond.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Jesus did a whole lot more than seven, times seventy.

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And in every step of this development into godliness, remember what Peter said in the first chapter of the second book.

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He said that God has given us everything that is necessary for godliness, everything we need to live godly in Christ Jesus, everything he's given us everything.

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If he's given us everything, then how do we acquire it?

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Through sufferings, through partaking of Christ's sufferings so that His mind can rest on us.

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If His mind rests on us, we'll think like Him.

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Then we'll forgive 70 times 70, we'll forbear 77 times 70, we'll put up with, we'll overlook, we won't take offense All the things that Jesus did.

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We'll learn how to do that.

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Amen, praise God.

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Amen, praise God.

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Now remember what I taught you a few weeks ago that one of the aspects of these afflictions and these trials is that they work for us.

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They are working for us to produce a product.

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So you, in these situations, have to see yourself not as the victim but as the boss, and that these things are working for you and the product is glory.

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Look at how Peter talks about it.

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He almost says the exact same things that Paul did For rejoice, to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed.

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Why is His glory revealed?

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Because you're partaking in the sufferings.

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If you're partaking in the sufferings with the mind of Christ, then you're partaking in the sufferings, if you're partaking in the sufferings with the mind of Christ, then you're going to have the victory that Christ had over these sufferings.

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Then His sufferings in that area for you will be complete.

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You understand, this is what Paul's talking about.

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I needed to fulfill Christ's sufferings, or marks in me.

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I'm thinking how does that work?

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Well, did Jesus die for Paul?

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Absolutely?

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Did he die for Paul just alone?

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If that's what it would have taken, yes, amen.

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Salvation is entirely selfish in the sense that he did what he did for you.

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I mean, the Baptists teach us this is one of the things they get right that having a personal relationship with Jesus takes upon you the responsibility that he died for you, not for the world, but he died for you, for God so loved you that he gave His only begotten Son that if you believe on Him, you shall have eternal life.

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It makes a difference.

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Him, you shall have eternal life.

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It makes a difference If God died.

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Well, he died for everybody.

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You can be a forgotten one over here and he doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to you.

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No, he died for you, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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And when you partake of the sufferings that he went through for you, then you are going to fulfill those sufferings in Him.

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Do you understand that?

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It's not like he was lacking, it's not like he left anything behind.

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It's just that the part that was for you you've got to go through so that you can have his victory, and then it'll be fulfilled, and then it'll be finished, and then it'll be complete, and then it'll be done, and then it'll be time for something else.

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Don't think of this like he went through the sufferings for everybody.

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There are some things he suffered that were for you.

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They're not for somebody else.

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You won't get this, you won't understand what I'm saying until you get your grip on the Scripture in John that says if all the things that Jesus said and did were written in a book, there wouldn't be enough room in the world for all the books that would be written.

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We only have a smidgen, just a.

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I mean, you know how you take a.

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You can look at a big old barrel of salt and if the recipe calls for a pinch, you just get between these two fingers, you know, and you put that into the mixing bowl.

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Now is that salt?

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Absolutely, that's salt.

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How much salt is it?

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Well, mom would say that's a smidgen.

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You know, I got a set of real tiny spoons in there.

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It's got a pinch, a smidgen, you know stuff like that.

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But if you, you know stuff like that.

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But if you took that little pinch out of there and the pinch was enough to get all men saved, the pinch was enough to testify to the glory of God, the pinch was enough to let everybody know that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father.

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But the whole barrel of salt is still out there.

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All the things that he did, all the things that he said, all the miracles he did that we haven't heard of yet, are still out there and they're still working.

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The whole Roman Empire was turned on its head because of all the things that he did and said.

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The Son of God was made manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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And he didn't destroy the works of the devil just by what the New Testament recorded.

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There's a whole lot more out there that he did and said that nobody knows about.

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Just think of all the things that Jesus prayed and nobody even heard.

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Have you ever thought about that?

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Have you even ever thought about that?

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That for 30 years Jesus prayed and nobody heard him.

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How much of that do you think was valuable?

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How many words from God did he receive?

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Everybody wants to get a word from God.

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How many words did Jesus get?

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And then obeyed perfectly, and every one of those was a suffering.

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Just think about I'm just I'm feeling God right now.

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Just think about those in John chapter 5.

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All of those people were at the pool of Bethesda.

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They all needed healing.

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I mean, there were sick people, there were diseased people, there were lame people.

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There was all kinds of people there.

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All of them needed to be healed and only one could get into the water when the angel stirred the waters.

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All the rest of them are going to go home, sick Probably.

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Some of them have been coming every day for a long time.

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Amen, this blind man had come.

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I've been all through this story with you.

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I'm not going to recount all the mechanics of it, but here's the point.

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Let's just say there were a thousand people there, probably a conservative number, but let's just say that.

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A thousand people.

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And God told him to heal this one.

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Do you not think that Jesus had compassion on the 999?

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Well, of course he did.

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He was moved by the feeling of our infirmities.

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He was feeling all of that coming upon him and he could feel it.

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He could see it in his spirit.

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It was tangible to him.

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You can't even understand what I'm saying until you start to see the way he sees.

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He didn't see things the way we saw them.

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He was seeing all that suffering and all that hurt and all that pain and God had told him just to heal the one guy that was blinded.

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Now that was a great suffering for Jesus to obey the word perfectly, because everything in him wanted to use his holy power to heal them all, because other places he had been, he had healed them all Other places he had been.

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The word was heal every one of them and he healed them all.

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Now the Lord was testing him.

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Somebody say test, somebody say test, somebody say trial, somebody say fiery trial.

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This is like going to the hospital folks and healing one person and you know you've got it in you to empty the hospital out, but you are under orders not to do it.

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Jesus could have demolished the illicit trade of selling choice spots and hiring people to block people while he was trying to get to the waters.

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I mean, there was just a corruption there.

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He could have wiped that all out in a heartbeat.

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God gave him a trial.

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Everybody say trial, Gave him a test, gave him a fiery trial.

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And because he came through that trial and suffered those things, he learned a level of obedience.

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Amen, that now he can carry that on to you.

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So here I am in a meeting and there's this person in the back of the meeting and they're manifesting, demon possessed, and they're just manifesting.

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They're growling and snarling and doing all this stuff.

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In my meeting I hear the Lord say go back there and cast the devil out of that man, or woman, I guess it was.

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I said excuse me to the people that were there and I walked down the center aisle to go back and do what the Lord had told me to do.

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On my way back to the back row, three other people one over here and two over here started manifesting.

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They started snarling and growling and doing all the kind of stuff that that person was doing, but I didn't pay them any mind.

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Now, if I'd have been, if I'd have been after it for, you know, to draw glory to myself, I'd have stopped, I'd have made a big theater out of it.

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You know, I'd have tried to impress everybody.

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And on, you know, on the way back to doing, you know, the original person back in the back row, you know, everybody would have fallen out, you know, and everybody would say we had church.

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And everybody would say we, you know this, that and the other.

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And I would have not obeyed the boys, you know, because the voice didn't tell me to do that.

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The voice told me to go to the back.

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I'm just telling you I'm partaking of Christ's sufferings.

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See, I'm doing something that he did.

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Are you anybody following here?

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I'm not saying I'm Jesus.

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I'm not saying the crowd was as big as the one he did.

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I'm not saying there'm Jesus.

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I'm not saying the crowd was as big as the one he did.

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I'm not saying there was many people suffering.

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I'm just telling you that when he did that, he did that for me, for this situation, and now I can participate and I have to totally ignore these three right here.

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I don't know if God's going to tell me to do anything with them or not.

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They may just act up the rest of the service.

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I don't know.

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I done stirred them up, so I don't know what's going to happen next.

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But I, sure enough, went back there under the power of obedience and cast the devil out of that person, turned around, started to walk back up the front.

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The voice came now.

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Cast the devil out of that person, turned around, started to walk back up to the front.

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The voice came now cast the devil out of the rest.

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I said, oh, glory to God, I can do that, praise the Lord, because I had participated, with rejoicing and obedience, in Christ's sufferings.

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The sufferings are always going to be about obedience, because you don't learn by being going.

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You learn obedience by the things you suffer.

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So the sufferings that you go through have to produce an obedience that is learned.

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What does that do for you?

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It puts more of the mind on you.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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You have to actually be walking in the mind of Christ in that situation to just and the obedience, to know that you didn't know he was going to tell you to do that.

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No, I didn't.

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I didn't know what he was going to do.

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So you were just because you could have just had to go back to that pulpit and not even touch him.

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They may have just you know barked the whole rest of the service.

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I don't know, because I didn't know they were going to act up when I went back there.

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You didn't know what his mind was at that time.

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No, I had a pretty good idea, but you know, but it might not have worked that way.

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Because it didn't work that way for Jesus, he just healed that one guy.

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I'm just talking about in generalities and ministries.

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Our mind would say, why wouldn't that be a good thing to do?

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Exactly, and the reality of our carnality would have said this is going to look really good on my resume with these people.

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I mean, that's how your flesh mind thinks.

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It thinks about pride, it thinks about arrogance, it thinks about position, it thinks about notice, it thinks about all that stuff that when you want to minister in power, you've got to put all that stuff behind you.

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But again, you can't do that Because these are sufferings that Christ did.

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So you have to participate, the way he participates and the way that he leads you to participate.

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See, I didn't understand.

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I just thought that was a good story about deliverance and about the authority.

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I didn't understand that I was participating in a particular suffering that Christ went through while he was in the flesh, and he did it for me.

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Now he did it for other people too, but my obedience in that one circumstance was included in that suffering that he went through.

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And because he went through it and won the victory, I could share the victory as I participated in the sufferings.

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Are you seeing this?

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This is not something he took to the cross.

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This is something that he won.

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This is not something that is nailed to the cross.

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This is something that was released by the cross Because he had already won it when he died.

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It was released and it became mine as part of the new creation.

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So this is something that he won, not something he died for.

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Are we clear on the difference?

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I don't have to win over sickness Sickness was nailed to the cross but I get to win in the things that Christ suffered for, and it didn't kill Him.

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Are you hearing me?

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And we don't even have a clue how many things there are, because there are so many they can't be counted.

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That's why I keep telling you that there's a place called the riches in glory by Christ Jesus, and every one of them is a victory.

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Every one of them is a conquest.

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Every one of them is something that he won for us.

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Glory to God.

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So the purpose of this is to produce glory.

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So here's how God looks at this thing, and this is part of putting on the mind of Christ is to look at it the way God sees it.

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God sees it, jesus.

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Through this Now you belong to Jesus and you are in Jesus and Jesus is in you.

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So why can't I lead you through the same thing?

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Only this time you're going to have the advantage that Jesus has already done it and you can have his victory.

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That's what a co-heir gets to do.

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You get to share, you get to share.

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We get so confused because we're intellectually lazy, we don't understand words and we don't study correctly.

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We think we won the battle over sickness.

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You don't have to fight a battle over sickness.

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You declare the battle over sickness.

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Now, you don't see it that way because you don't see it the way God sees it.

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But just think for a second.

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Can sickness exist in the body of Christ?

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The answer to that is no.

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Then in your body it has to die, because he's already nailed it to the cross and paid the penalty for it.

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Now, the things that he learned by his sufferings were things that he had victory over and he won.

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He doesn't have to take those to the cross.

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He already won that.

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They weren't going to be purchased by death, they were going to be purchased by life.

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Oh, I wish I could preach this.

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I wish you could feel what I'm feeling right now.

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They are not purchased by death, they are purchased by life, and those things are what we're talking about.

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Those things.

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As you acquire these things through sufferings, you can produce glory, and that glory is going to be revealed in you.

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This is the purpose of God for you, not that you can be sick and be healed those things that Christ died for.

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We need to just be done with them.

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We've been indoctrinated to other ways of thinking, but we need to change our way of thinking about that kind of stuff and put on his mind the way he thinks about stuff.

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He doesn't look at stuff that was nailed to the cross as finished, stuff that was won is for distribution.

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But we're to God.

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Hallelujah.

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See, we believe the songs and not the Bible.

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Praise God.

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So when this glory is revealed, you're going to be glad, you're going to be joyful, you're going to be overjoyed, you're going to be in a place where you're not looking at what you went through, you're looking at the glory that was produced.

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Again, going back to Sunday's message of Paul, where Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12, he said there was this messenger from Satan, an angel from Satan that was sent to buffet him.

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We said in this message, we said this Now, who would send that messenger?

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We think that, since the messenger was from Satan, that Satan sent him.

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But why would Satan send something that was going to produce a transformational revelation in Paul.

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Paul starts out this whole statement by saying that, in order to temper or to reduce my temptation to gloat and be big-headed about the revelations that I had received one revelation upon another, in order that I might not think of myself more than I should concerning these revelations, a messenger from Satan was sent to buffet me or to fight me or to resist me.

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And the question is who would send such a messenger?

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Would the devil, whose chief sin was pride, send you something to reduce your pride?

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Absolutely not.

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He would send you something to increase your pride.

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He would send you something to tell Paul those revelations are awesome, they are great, they're just wonderful.

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I can't wait to hear another one.

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Would you just seek the Lord some more and get some great revelations for me?

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That's the kind of messenger that the enemy would send.

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He's not going to send something that's going to make Paul fall to his face and realize how weak of a vessel he is, so that he wouldn't think of himself more highly than he ought.

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And he goes to the Lord.

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Amen, and sought the Lord three times, it said, for this revelation.

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So here's what happens God sends a messenger from Satan to force Paul to his knees In the midst of all these revelations he's getting.

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Now let me tell you something.

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Paul was going into the third level of heaven and he was hearing things that were not lawful for him to repeat.

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And here's Paul with all these revelations that he can't even share with anybody, and this enemy comes and starts to buffet him so that he will not forget the revelations, but he will learn not to gloat about them, and he'll get this revelation that trumped them all.

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My grace is sufficient for you.

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My strength is made perfect in weakness.

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Now, paul, this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

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When you go through the suffering and you come out the other side, glory is produced.

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One of the forms of glory is for additional revelation to be poured out.

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And what happened when God spoke and told him this?

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All of a sudden, paul got this revelation which goes right with.

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My grace is sufficient.

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Therefore, I will more gladly rejoice in my sufferings and in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

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Peter says the same thing.

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When the trials come and you have pressed through and you have won that which Christ suffered for you, you have partaken of His sufferings and you have the victory.

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Be glad because glory is about to be revealed, and the glory that will be revealed will be more revelation.

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Why?

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Because the mind of Christ is resting upon you.

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Peter called it the spirit of glory.

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We've been talking about that spirit of glory for weeks.

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We also call it the spirit of ministry, amen, because it's ministering glory to us.

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Paul called it the power of Christ Because to have his mind, it means to have a mind of power and control.

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Have his mind, it means to have a mind of power and control.

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Man, you've not been given a spirit of fear, but a power of love and a sound mind.

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Hallelujah.

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All these things work together to produce a new thing.

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Everybody say a new thing.

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What comes out of refinement is a new thing.

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Now you can.

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You know why all this is necessary is a whole other series of study.

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That's not the point tonight.

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The point is for you to rejoice and learn to rejoice.

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And if you're not rejoicing but you're resisting, you know, go to the Lord and have a real, simple discussion.

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Lord, teach me to rejoice Now.

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You've just asked for more suffering, but that's okay.

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You're going to learn to obey Him by the things that you suffer, because you're going to participate with Christ in His victory.

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Amen.

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Are we seeing this?

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And the whole purpose of this is for you to be a better vessel of glory, more glory, more glory, more glory, more glory, more glory, more glory than you can contain.

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And it spills out of you, the glory of God, on people around you.

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Now I want you to start doing this.

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I want you to start doing this.

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I want you to start regularly praying and releasing the glory of God over your neighborhood.

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Just close your eyes, get into the spirit, start seeing yourself going around in the spirit to all of these houses.

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Speak a word of deliverance.

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Speak a word of deliverance, speak a word of healing.

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Whatever God leads you to do, just get in the spirit and start to be a glory distributor around your neighborhood, because if you can't do it for your neighborhood, you're not going to do it for your city or your county or your state.

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You're not going to do it for your city or your county or your state.

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You're not going to be that kind of an influence for God.

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You may never preach to people in the jungles like I have.

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You may never preach to people in barrios and in slums and hell holes that we've been in.

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You may never do that, but I'm not going to preach in your neighborhood either.

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God's placed you there.

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You are still the ranking spiritual authority.

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There's nobody else getting these revelations.

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There's nobody else being taught this.

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Not anywhere close in Parker County is anybody getting this stuff.

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Nobody's getting it.

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But you, you're getting it and you can be the light of the gospel of glory around your people.

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Amen.

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Pray for them to be healed.

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Do they deserve it?

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Well, you didn't either.

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Doesn't matter, amen.

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Doesn't matter where they deserve it Well, you didn't either.

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Doesn't matter, amen.

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Doesn't matter.

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Whether they deserve it Doesn't matter.

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Whether they're saved Doesn't matter.

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If they're heathens Doesn't matter.

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What matters is that you're here.

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You're there, you're the influence, and if you've been through the trial that Jesus suffered for you and called you to participate in, you've been through it, you've been victorious.

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Amen.

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You've got some glory that you can share.

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Now, if you go, at it with purpose.

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You can share it with purpose, instead of just letting it fall out all over the place and nobody knows what to do with it.

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You can actually go back and dispense it.

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You are the aroma of Christ Life unto life, death unto death.

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You might as well deal with it.

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You are the aroma of glory.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord, rejoice, be exceedingly glad, because everything you're going to go through that God designs for you.

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Jesus already went through it for you In the days of His flesh.

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He went through that for you.

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You already have the victory.

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You just don't know it.

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And that's what I'm trying to teach you in these lessons is learn to know it, learn to go to God, learn to say why is this happening?

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What do you want me to learn here?

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What is the way of my obedience in this?

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Father, increase our understanding, increase our wisdom and our knowledge of these things that you are teaching us.

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Lord, give us insight and revelation into these scriptures.

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That the glory of God may rest upon us and overflow in mighty ways, and we give you praise in Jesus' name.

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Amen, praise God, amen, praise God, hallelujah.

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Well, I like that one.

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Glory to Jesus, hallelujah.