Sept. 27, 2024

The Transforming Power of Faith: From David's Anointing to Jesus' Priesthood (First Words 15)

The Transforming Power of Faith: From David's Anointing to Jesus' Priesthood (First Words 15)

Send us a text Could a single individual’s faith truly surpass the collective might of an entire army? Our latest podcast episode delves into this intriguing question as we explore "The Spiritual Battle for Faith." We examine how God, through the anointing of Samuel, revolutionized Israel's priesthood and leadership, setting the stage for David's kingship. Samuel’s journey, from his divine appointment to anointing a faith-driven leader, contrasts sharply with Saul's works-based leadership, pr...

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Could a single individual’s faith truly surpass the collective might of an entire army? Our latest podcast episode delves into this intriguing question as we explore "The Spiritual Battle for Faith." We examine how God, through the anointing of Samuel, revolutionized Israel's priesthood and leadership, setting the stage for David's kingship. Samuel’s journey, from his divine appointment to anointing a faith-driven leader, contrasts sharply with Saul's works-based leadership, providing profound lessons for today.

The episode begins with an in-depth look at the spiritual battle for faith. God intervenes when the existing spiritual leadership is inadequate for an impending decisive battle. The narrative begins with Eli's corrupted priesthood and how God raised up Samuel, a young boy from the tribe of Ephraim, to serve as a high priest despite not being a Levite. Samuel's unique anointing under the order of Melchizedek marked a departure from the law-bound priesthood, setting the stage for David’s anointing. This faith-driven priest and king equipped Israel to face its challenges, a stark contrast to Saul's works-based leadership.

One of the most compelling parts of the episode is the "Power of One Man in Faith." Here, we spotlight incredible stories like David versus Goliath and the modern miracles experienced by Brother Seymour at Azusa Street. These narratives highlight the importance of hearing and following God's guidance, contrasting the limitations of relying solely on the law. David’s confrontation with Goliath is a testament to the miraculous capabilities of operating in faith. Through these powerful examples, listeners are inspired to recognize the divine potential within themselves to achieve monumental feats.

00:00 - The Spiritual Battle for Faith

16:07 - Power of One Man in Faith

24:15 - God's Outrageous Faith Through David

43:44 - Transfer of Messiah's Bloodline Through Disobedience

52:27 - God's Plan for Jesus and James

01:06:26 - Faith, Obedience, and Biblical Lineage

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Well, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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We need to talk about what happens when a decisive spiritual battle approaches and the ministry that is in place is not up to the challenge.

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What does God do?

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Does he just throw up His hands and just go, oh well, we tried.

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Or does he do something else?

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Or does he do something else?

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We looked at what happened when God knew that there was a battle on the horizon with the Philistines and with the race of giants that would be headed by Goliath, and he looked around and he said the priesthood that is currently under Eli is not up to that challenge.

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They are corrupted, they are compromised, they are fat, they're lazy, they're thieves, they're philanderers, and the list goes on and on.

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And so what did he do?

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Now most people would think well, you just have to wait for another wait for Eli to die and maybe his sons to die, and maybe somebody will come up in that line, because they didn't think that it was possible for anything else to happen.

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You understand what I'm saying, when they had the law, and that's all they knew, because it was all they knew you could only have priests that were of the family of aaron.

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They had to be sons.

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They had to be direct firstborn sons or you know in that line, and they couldn't imagine that anything else could happen.

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They didn't even know that it was lawful for anything else to happen.

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You know, to suggest that somebody else come in and be a priest under that order was just not thinkable.

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But what God did?

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We studied this last time.

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What God did was he raised up this boy named Samuel from a young age, so that by the time Samuel was 19, 20, 21 years old, he was serving, he was functioning as the high priest of Israel.

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The only thing is that we talked about last time is that Samuel was not a Levi.

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He was of the tribe of Ephraim, which meant that he was actually of the tribe of Joseph.

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Joseph had two tribes as his inheritance Ephraim and Manasseh, and Samuel was of the larger tribe, ephraim, and there was nothing written into the law about anyone from Ephraim serving as a priest, but Samuel did, which meant that Samuel had to be a priest of a different order.

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Well, since there's only one other order that we can talk about, and that's the order of Melchizedek, that's what happened and that's the order of Melchizedek.

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That's what happened.

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God anointed Samuel according to the order of Melchizedek, according to the order of faith and according to the order of hearing the voice of God.

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And what's distinguished Samuel from the family of Eli is the family of Eli couldn't hear the voice of God if a club had hit him over the head.

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But Samuel, at a young age, was hearing the voice of God and it was proved over and over and over that he heard the voice of God, amen, and what, by definition, the hearing of God's voice produces faith.

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So Samuel was raised up out of the law and placed into a priesthood order that was of faith and not of the law, and that order is the order of Melchizedek.

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Praise God, hallelujah Now.

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Why is that important?

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Hallelujah Now.

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Why is that important?

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Because Samuel operated in that order and he anointed David in that order and David was.

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There's no way and we're going to talk about this at some length, there's no way that David should have been selected above his brothers.

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It's kind of like the same situation when Joseph got the coat of many colors.

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The coat of many colors belonged to Reuben.

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The coat of many colors was the designation of the son of the inheritance, the firstborn, the one who had the power, the one who was going to get everything and in all tradition, that would have gone to Reuben.

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He was the firstborn.

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It didn't go to Reuben, it didn't go to any of the others that were in that line before Joseph.

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But Joseph got the coat.

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That's why the brothers were so angry at him.

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It's because Jacob had bypassed all of them to get to Joseph.

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Well, here we have seven or eight brothers that go before David and he looks over all of them.

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Samuel looks over all of them and just says he's not that one, he's not that one, he's not that one, he's not that one.

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Not on the basis of how they look, but on the basis of what God says.

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And so when he got to, he said okay, there must be somebody else, because God sent me here, so there must be another one.

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Where's another son?

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He said well, he's out in the field, he's just a kid, you know, he's tending the flock.

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Bring him.

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And so when they brought him, then Samuel anointed David, not according to the way things looked or according to the bloodline Now, this is important, we're going to talk about this at some length but he anointed him because God said so.

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Now here's the problem and why this is absolutely so important Because he had a priest who heard his voice and now he had an anointed king who could hear his voice.

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Okay, we have a priest who is of faith and we have a king who is of faith.

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Forget Saul.

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Saul was not of faith, he was of works.

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Amen.

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He wasn't even of the law, he was just.

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You know, he was just a popular choice.

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He had no no standing it and and can tell, you can know this by what happened.

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As soon as David was popular because he had killed Goliath, saul was hot.

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After killing him, I mean, he was trying to set him up through, you know.

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So send him out to fight.

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You know, he told.

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He said you can have my daughter if you give me the four skins of a hundred Philistines.

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He said surely you know, I'll just eat his lunch and kill him first, then I don't have to worry about him anymore.

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You know, because he knew.

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He knew that Samuel, what Samuel had done, amen.

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And anointing him, david goes out, doesn't bring back 100, he brings back 200.

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And Saul didn't have any choice but to give him the daughter.

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He tried to promise him one daughter and he gave that daughter to somebody else, hoping he would make him mad and get him into some kind of compromising situation.

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Instead he got the second daughter, who proved to be a real disaster.

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But anyway, the point is that he told he tried to put David in a bad situation and he was always doing that, amen.

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And God kept delivering him.

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That just tells you.

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That tells you what spirit Saul was of and what spirit that David was of.

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But the problem, the thing is that now he had a priest and a king who were both of faith, because they were both anointed into the order of Melchizedek and not into into the law.

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Okay, are you hearing this?

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Now there's a reason that this is important Because the armies of Israel, the entirety of the military force of Israel, was under the law, amen.

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And because they were under the law, they had no faith and no and no, they had no ability to hear the hear the voice of the lord or his instructions, because in order to do that, they had to go through eli and his and his sons, and they were worthless.

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They could have listen, they could have thrown the ummen and the thumb in all day long, and God would not have been in it, because he did not respect their priesthood.

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So there was no faith in this army.

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Let me give you an example of how this works.

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When Joshua was going against the Amorites, he took the armies of the Lord against the giant armies of the Amorites and they were slaughtering Amorites left and right, but they weren't slaughtering enough of them.

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So two things happened God sent hailstones from heaven, and the Bible says that with those hailstones God killed more of the Amorites than Israel did with the sword.

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And then God stopped the sun and gave Joshua another day.

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All of those people that got killed that day, including the kings, add up on God's side of the equation, because they never would have happened, had not stopped the sun.

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Amen.

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So at the end of the day, god kills many more in the battle than the armies did.

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And why is that important?

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Because without faith, amen.

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Israel would not have been able to win that battle.

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But they had no faith, except for Joshua.

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One man, one voice, amen.

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But God got all of the credit.

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The armies of Israel were incapable of winning that battle, so God won it for them.

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Okay, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Israel, under the law, was not killing enough Amorites to get the job done, all right.

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So now he anoints David Okay, and he takes David out of the law.

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He takes David out of the law by being anointed by Samuel.

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Amen.

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Samuel is literally an outlaw priest.

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He is out of the law.

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He still operates in it to conduct services and stuff, but his anointing is not of Aaron, it is of God, it is of Melchizedek.

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And because Samuel is anointed into Melchizedek, david is anointed into Melchizedek.

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David is anointed into Melchizedek.

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He is anointed into faith.

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He stood, david stood in the faith of Abraham.

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Okay, are you with me?

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Hello, just the way Joshua stood in the faith of Moses, amen.

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David stood in the faith of Abraham through Melchizedek.

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One man, one.

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Here we go again.

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One man in faith.

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One man in faith is more in the hands of God than one army under the law.

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Now the Lord wants me to make a point here, the reason this is important one man in faith is more in the hands of God than an entire army under the law.

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This is important because we're believing.

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If you went into any church and said what has to happen to save this country?

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We have to have a revival.

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What do we have to do to save this country?

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We have to have a revival.

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What do we have to do to save this country, we have to have a revival.

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What kind of revival?

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We have to get them saved by the multiplied hundreds of millions.

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You're going to wait a long time.

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That kind of revival would take decades.

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Based on what's happened in the past and how revivals move and how they migrate from place to place and how that kind of thing happens, the church does not move quickly and it is very reactionary and it is very cautious about stuff like that because basically, the, the, the army of the church, for the most part, is under the law.

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They're not under the spirit because they don't have the spirit.

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I'm just being real here.

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So if you're expecting, you know, major denominations to get saved overnight, it can happen, but it hasn't.

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It hasn't been the pattern in the past.

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And besides that, the pattern in the past is that that's not what God needs.

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God needs one man with faith.

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He needs one man in faith, amen.

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And this is the pattern that we see all throughout the Bible where we're studying these battles with the Antichrist.

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He didn't have a great army, he had a man, amen.

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Now, what we need now are more men in Christ, amen, more men in faith, more men operating in this order of Melchizedek, because through them God can do great things.

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Now these are some things that God told me today.

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He said one man in faith is more virtuous than an army under the law.

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That means it has more of God's intrinsic power.

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It has more of God's virtue.

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It has more of God's virtue.

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It has more of who God is.

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An army under the law can do certain things.

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I mean, the army under the law was able to kill a considerable number of Amorites, but not to the degree that God wanted.

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What God needed was somebody praying an outrageous prayer Stop the sun, hallelujah.

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That one man, one David in faith, is more virtuous than a Saul and his army under the law.

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In fact, as soon as David got some popularity, saul under the law wanted to kill David.

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Hello, I could preach on this all day long.

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That as soon as, as soon as the man under in faith becomes, the man under the law gets jealous and seeks to destroy the man under faith Happens time and time and time again.

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When Brother Seymour in Azusa Street started to get a little of a reputation and build a mailing list through which he had contacts all over the United States and people were sending him money and that was his source of funding for the ministry and that sort of thing.

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When it was announced that he was going to marry this woman, some other woman that got that thought that she was the one that he was going to marry got upset because he was marrying some other woman, stole the mailing list and moved off to another city way up the coast of the west coast of the United States.

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They couldn't find her for the longest time she had the mailing list and it ruined his ministry Over jealousy, over to God.

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One man in faith is more virtuous than an army under the law.

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One man in faith is more powerful than an army under the law Because it can operate in Holy Ghost miracle power.

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It can operate in true dunamis.

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You know how we have not been in denominations for so long we forget about how this stuff works.

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But you know if you tried to move an army under interdenominational kind of stuff, I mean they'd have more conferences and board meetings and I mean you'd never get anything done.

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You know that day that Goliath was out challenging the armies of the, I mean you'd never get anything done.

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You know that day that Goliath was out challenging the armies of the Lord, I mean they were busy in their tents having, you know, officers' meetings about how we can retreat with honor.

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I'm serious.

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One man in faith is more powerful than an army under the law.

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One man in faith is more dangerous than an army under the law.

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Look at what Joshua did.

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Look at what David did.

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Look at what David did.

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The whole army was just useless until somebody exercised faith.

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Until somebody stood up, like David, and said who is this uncircumcised Philistine that would bring railing accusations and taunts against the armies of the Lord, doesn't matter whether they're under the law or wherever they are.

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You know the way David saw it.

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You know this isn't going to happen, not as long as I'm here, because one man in faith is more dangerous.

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The last thing the Philistines thought was that some ruddy, red haired, you know pimply facefaced 15-year-old kid with a slingshot was going to end their rule of terror.

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But he did.

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Lord said one man in faith is more overwhelming than an entire army under the law.

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Listen, you could have preached until the cows came home and that army never would have come over to David's way of thinking because they were bound by their faithlessness.

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One man under the law is more strategic than an army under the law.

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That means that they can get the mind of the Lord.

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They can get.

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What does God want to do here?

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The example in this story is when Saul tried to give David his armor.

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You know now, if it was you and me, we'd want all the armor, we could get going up Goliath.

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But David said this armor doesn't fit, this doesn't fit, and if I go out in this armor, which is not my armor, it hasn't been proved.

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I don't know how.

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You know, I'm not knowing.

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He was making a strategy.

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He wasn't being boastful like saying I don't need this armor.

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Bless God, I got God.

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You know it wasn't that kind of an attitude.

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It was for this battle.

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This is going to be a hindrance to me rather than a help.

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He's making a strategic decision.

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A man in the faith of God can make better strategic decisions than a whole army of people under the law.

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Because they don't operate in faith, they can't hear God.

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Because they don't operate in faith, they can't hear God.

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Amen.

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The basic definition of being under the law is that you don't hear God.

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Do you realize that if it had not been for prophets that God sent to Israel, they never would have heard from God, except by the Ammon and the Thummon, when they had a question.

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They asked.

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But you had to ask the right question.

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If you didn't ask the right question, you weren't going to get the right answer Because nobody could interpret it.

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How are you going to interpret stones?

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You know it's either yes or no, so you better ask the right question.

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They are more someone under the law or under the under in faith, is more bold than someone under the law.

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Peter prayed Lord, give us great boldness, amen.

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And they are more courageous, they are more just, full of faith.

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It's hard to discourage somebody who has heard the voice of the Lord when they know they have.

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So you can say whatever you want to, but I heard God say this.

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Well, you say that if you want to, but I heard God and I'm going to do what he says.

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And then, finally, the Lord said this one man in me, in God, is more outrageous than an entire army under the law, because the entire army under the law would have fought like an army under the law.

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They would have, you know, marched here and marched there, and sent some here and sent some there, and attacked here and defended here and done all those kinds of things.

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And here comes David with a slingshot and a stone to take on arguably the most ferocious man in these parts of the world.

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Amen, and he just takes.

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He takes him on outrageous faith, because one man in the faith of God is more outrageous.

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And there's just something we have to learn about God he loves outrageous faith.

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He doesn't necessarily have to be reckless.

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David knew what he was doing.

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Whereas he hadn't proved Saul's armor, he had proved his sling and his ability to use it.

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He had used it for years defending the flock.

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He knew what he was doing.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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So Recklessness, recklessness, so recklessness.

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So in Samuel 17, verse 51 you don't have to go there, I'll read it to you after David killed or threw his, his rock with his sling and it embedded into the forehead of the giant, verse 51 says Therefore, david ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword the Philistine's sword drew it out of its sheath, killed him and cut off the head with it.

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So, contrary to what everybody thinks, the stone did not kill the giant.

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That would have been too easy.

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Okay, it embedded in his forehead and rendered probably a fatal blow, but he wasn't dead when David came up on him.

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Now I want you to see how bold David is.

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This giant he's got a giant that stretches out 10 feet on the ground.

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His sword is probably as tall as David is.

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David takes that sword out of his, out of its sheath, and kills the giant.

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I don't know what he does with him.

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He stabs him through the heart or what but he kills the giant.

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I don't know what he does with him.

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He stabs him through the heart or what, but he kills the giant.

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And then cuts the giant's head off, right there in front of Now.

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Listen, he could have fully expected the armies of the Philistines just to charge him at this point.

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He's the only one out on the field, but he is their champion.

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That means he's fighting for all of us.

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Glory to God.

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And David cut the giant's head off.

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And then verse 54 says and David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem.

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Now you've heard me preach about this a lot, but I'm going to preach on it one more time because it has to be mentioned.

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David took this head and he went to the gates of Jerusalem, stood outside the gates and taunted the Jebusites who were in that city, because David had learned somehow.

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He had learned that that city was his city, and it was his city because it had been Melchizedek's city, and it was his city because it had been Melchizedek's city and it was his city because that's where Abraham had offered up Isaac.

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All of a sudden, david understood some things about his destiny and he held the head, taunted the Jebusites with him, basically telling them they were trespassers, intruders, not belonging here.

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This place, this city, belongs to God.

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He appointed a high priest named Melchizedek over this city and he has delivered this city into my hand.

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I am coming for you, and if you think that I can't do it, here's the proof.

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See, faith has to have proof.

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Not proof so that you'll believe God, but proof, proof.

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See, faith has to have proof.

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Not proof so that you'll believe God, but proof that you have believed Him, because the proof that you have believed Him will set you up to be more outrageous the next time.

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Once you've seen somebody healed of cancer, you'll get more bold.

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The next time, once you see somebody healed of AIDS, amen, god will bring you somebody.

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Isn't that true?

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The first times that we pray for people to be healed of AIDS and all of a sudden, here comes another, and here comes another, and here comes another, and here comes another.

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Because God knew that we would believe him for it.

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He wasn't intimidated, but he knew that we had the proof.

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Amen.

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When devils start obeying you and coming out when you command it, amen.

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You better get ready because more devils are going to come your way, because God is in the devil casting out business.

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Glory to God.

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Just look at what happened when Jesus started to preach.

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The very first things that happened when Jesus started to preach were people got healed and got the devil cast out of them.

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Glory to God.

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The stronghold of David, which is what Jerusalem was called, had to be possessed.

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The stronghold of Melchizedek had to be repossessed and Isaac's place of sacrifice had to be repossessed so that Calvary could be preserved.

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You see, listen, I'm going to just shock you here that God has known since the floodwaters receded in Genesis 1, 1, you know, and water was over the face of the deep and the Spirit of God brooded over the face of the waters, and then the waters receded and brought forth dry land.

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Amen.

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God has known since before that, where Calvary was.

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You know.

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You didn't have, you didn't have to get, you didn't have to give God a GPS system for him to find Calvary.

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He has already.

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He has always known where Calvary is, amen, and he wasn't going to allow a bunch of a bunch of people that were not destined to possess that land to possess it, so that the plan for Jesus was interrupted.

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He had a plan, he knew what that plan was, and David was an integral piece of that plan.

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And so David had to be the one who took possession of the city so that that temple could be built, so that the temple mount could be built, so that the way that Israel worshiped God was changed from the way of Moses to the way of David.

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And not only that, but that in a place a little bit outside the gate, amen, there was a place called Golgotha, called Calvary, where the sacrifice would be made.

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God do all those things, and he put it in David's hands and into his destiny to do that for him.

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So Goliath's head, in the way we talk about all these things, became the standard that the Spirit lifted up.

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When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord raises up a standard.

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In this case, the head of Goliath was the standard and is still the standard.

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I wish somebody would preach this, that we are still in the middle of David raising up that standard.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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We totally misunderstand what's going on when we make it about nation states instead of making it about God's people and about faith.

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Amen, hallelujah, it's not going to matter one fig what nation states are involved or anything else when Jesus comes through that Eastern gate.

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Glory to God.

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All questions about where is Israel and where is David and where is the head and where is all of this?

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Amen, that head is finally going to be vanquished and David's victory is going to be vindicated.

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And if it takes 3000 years or 4000 years for that all to transpire, it is going to happen, because that's what God says Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.

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One man, one faith, one God.

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And here's this boy, david, raising up the standard.

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I love it.

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Now watch this.

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Here's where it gets good.

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This one act of faith and obedience of David to go out, fight Goliath, kill him, cut off his head and go challenge Jerusalem.

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All of that fulfilled the call of his destiny.

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All things work together for the good of them that love the Lord and who are the called according to his purpose.

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If they're called, they are foreknown.

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If they're foreknown, they are predestined.

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If they're predestined, they are called.

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If they're called, they are sanctified.

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If they're sanctified, they're justified.

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If they're called, they are sanctified.

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If they're sanctified, they're justified.

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If they're justified, they're glorified.

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That progression of things cannot be as irrevocable.

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You can't get away from it.

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David was called and predestined.

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His spirit was set apart in God since the beginning to be the perpetual and forever king of Israel.

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There wasn't any way he was going to get away from it.

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He was set in place and a man of faith named Samuel was raised up in the middle of the night by the voice of God and taught how to hear the voice of God at a tender age, so that he could identify David just the way John the Baptist identified Jesus.

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Glory to God, amen.

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And brought him into the fullness of his destiny.

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Praise God, are we getting this, david?

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Samuel was sent to the house of who David?

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No, he was sent to the house of Jesse.

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He didn't know which son it was, which teaches us something very important David had to be born of Jesse because he had to be born of Obed, because he had to be born of Boaz and Ruth, because he had to be born of Rahab, because he had to be born of Judah and Tamar those that string was absolutely unbreakable.

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It had to happen that way.

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So he had to be born of Jesse, but so were his other brothers.

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They were all born of Jesse and had just as much bloodline right to be chosen as David, except they didn't have the destiny to be a seed bearer.

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Except they didn't have the destiny to be a seed bearer.

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Are you hearing what I'm talking about?

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Just because and this is where a lot of ministries make big mistakes because they pass destiny on to Adam's bloodline instead of the bloodline defined by God.

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I'm thinking of one ministry I'm not going to mention names because I don't want to get in trouble and I don't want to offend people but a well-known ministry that we know, and it's not one you're thinking of, Amen.

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But I could name you at least a half a dozen people that came up under that ministry that are probably better, probably had an anointing defined by God to take over that ministry, but they were bypassed because they weren't of the blood.

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Destiny requires somebody to hear by faith what, what this destiny is, and not just bloodline relationships.

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Those seven brothers or eight brothers, however many there were were all qualified because they were sons of Obed, but they were not qualified by God to bear the seed that would become Jesus.

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Only one and he had to be identified by faith.

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Remember, samuel heard and he went and picked the one out.

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John the Baptist heard.

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He said the one upon whom the spirit remains, that's the one.

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Anoint him.

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Glory to God.

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Seed bearers, the receivers of promise, like Abraham, like David, they have to be of a destined bloodline.

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Okay, david had to be born of Obed, but they are qualified to bear the promise of the seed only by faith and obedience.

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So here's what you need to know about this you may be destined to do a certain thing in God Amen.

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But what qualifies you to do that is faith and obedience.

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Not just because you've been destined, just because somebody prophesies to you that this is this and this and this, that may be real and it may be as real in God as you can possibly get, but there's a whole lot of faith and obedience between the hearing of that word and the accomplishing of this thing over here, because faith and obedience is what's going to trigger the release of God's power in you.

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Destiny requires power.

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Amen.

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So far, all you did was hear the word.

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Until you apply faith and obedience to that word that you've heard, power isn't going to be released.

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God's not going to give an atomic bomb to a baby.

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You know, you've got to start believing, you've got to start obeying Amen.

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When you just sit there and wait.

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Well, I'm just waiting for God to do what he said.

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You know, I got a word 25 years ago and I'm just waiting for God to accomplish it.

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Well, what have you done?

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Have you been walking toward that word?

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Have you been moving toward that word, praying over it, believing it, exercising your faith?

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Glory to God.

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The seed bearers, the receivers of a promise, have to activate that promise by faith and obedience.

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Let me give you an example.

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Hallelujah this is something that doesn't get preached.

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Amen.

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He was the son of Bathsheba and David, and he was appointed and anointed as the king.

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He wasn't a pretender, he wasn't a usurper, he was the one designated Amen and had he obeyed God.

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See, this is what God said.

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We don't believe what God says too often, but this is what he said.

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He told David.

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He said as long as your sons obey me, I will continue your covenant with them.

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I will continue your covenant with them, but if they don't obey me, I will never take my covenant away from David.

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In other words, your sons may disobey me and in that case they're going to be disqualified, but you will never be disqualified, I'll never take my covenant away from you.

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So what does that mean?

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If one son disobeys, he's going to find another one to take his place.

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Well see, nobody believed that, and so Solomon did whatever he wanted to do.

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It was commanded of kings not to build great stables of horses.

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What did Solomon do?

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He built one of the greatest stables of horses in the known world.

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You know he had what 700 and some wives and concubines, and many of those wives led him astray, into apostasy by worshiping and providing places of worship for other gods.

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In fact, they were setting up places to worship these gods right outside the gates of the temple.

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Solomon disqualified himself.

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He was of the bloodline and he was made king, but he was eventually disqualified as the seed bearer.

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In other words, the Messiah was not going to be born of Solomon.

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That's what I mean by seed bearer.

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The seed bearer is the one who is going to bring the Messiah into flesh form, and that was taken away from Solomon, amen.

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Because of his disobedience and because of the disobedience of his sons, he set into motion an apostasy that lasted for 500 years and went all the way to the Babylonian captivity, where God spoke to Jeconiah and said no one from your bloodline will ever sit on the throne of Israel again.

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And right there there's a break in the bloodline and there was never really a king of Israel after that.

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I mean, there were people that sat kind of in that way as governors and things like that.

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But Israel was a possessed nation.

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They were a captive nation.

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They were never in control of their own thing and whoever was going to be king was going to be whoever the controlling people said was going to be king.

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In the days of Jesus they had the name of Herod, but they weren't even Jewish, and it had been that way for a long time.

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Amen.

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But the bloodline for the to who who was who was the next one to get that passed to them was Nathan.

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And in the genealogy of Jesus in the book of Luke, which goes through Mary, her line back to David is through Nathan.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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It was taken, the bloodline was, even though Nathan and Solomon were brothers.

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They had the same mother, they had the same father, they had the same bloodline, but the destiny to produce the Messiah was taken away from Solomon and passed to Nathan.

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How?

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By Mary.

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The Solomon bloodline ran right through to Joseph and the Nathan bloodline ran right through to Mary.

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But Jesus was not born of Joseph, he was not born of Solomon.

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He was not born of Solomon.

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He was born of Nathan because the promise, the promise bearer, the seed bearer, was taken away from Solomon and given to the next one, to Nathan, and it passed that way until it got to Mary.

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What am I saying?

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Solomon, because of his disobedience, was cursed from ever occupying the throne again and was cursed to being the promised seed bearer.

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However, nathan to Nathan, it was given the promise of bearing the seed, even though none of his offspring ever sat on the throne.

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So Solomon and his offspring got to sit on the throne, but eventually the throne was taken away from them and none of Nathan's offspring really were ever known as a king except one.

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And Pilate asked him are you a king?

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And he said yes.

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For that reason am I come and for that reason was I sent.

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Yes, I am a king.

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I am a king.

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Let me give you one more example before we stop.

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You understand this about David.

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David, because David was anointed by Samuel, who could hear the voice of God, and then Samuel became one who heard.

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If you don't believe that's David heard the voice of God, I would encourage you to start in Psalm 1 and just keep reading and then, if you're not convinced, start in proverbs 1 and keep reading, because right in the beginning of proverbs 1, solomon gives David all the credit.

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These are the sayings that I learned from my father.

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So the wit you know.

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Everybody calls Solomon the wisest man that ever lived, and that may be because he asked God for wisdom, but the wisdom that he wrote down in the book of Proverbs is the wisdom of David, amen.

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If you don't think that David heard from God, you, you know, you just are not reading your Bible.

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That's all you can say about that.

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Because the man heard.

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I told Sarah the other day we were talking about modern music and I said if you know people want you, if you wonder whether a song's anointed or it's inspired or it's, you know, got God in it, or something like that, I said, just go to the book of Psalms.

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That's the song book that God wrote.

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Okay, and David was his writer.

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And if you want to sing some anointed songs, just pick one and put some music to it and you don't have to worry about if it's got an anointing on.

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I guarantee you that if you get some people filled with the Holy Ghost and they start singing, come, bless you, the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, and they just get caught up in the Spirit and start, something in the Spirit will happen.

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He says you don't have to worry about that.

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I'm feeling that all over me.

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You don't have to worry about that being anointed.

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It was so anointed, god insisted that it would be written down and here we are talking about it 3,000 years later.

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That's anointed.

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This stuff that we're hearing on today, you won't even be able to find it in a church.

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I mean, you know, glory to God.

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At least some of these dead churches got songs that they've been singing for a few hundred years.

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But the Bible's got songs that we've been singing for 3,000 years and you can go back and get some of the songs of Moses and they're 4,000 years old.

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Hallelujah, you want to sing an old song Hallelujah.

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Glory to God.

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Praise the name of the Lord.

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Praise the name of the Lord David, because he believed God.

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He believed God to such a level that God said I don't care if your sons do disobey me, I'll never take it away from you.

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That's a powerful promise.

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Glory to God.

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Now here's another instance of this.

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I'm going to make this quick and finish it up.

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We know this that Jesus was born of the incarnation of God into the womb of Mary.

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The very seed of God was implanted in the womb of Mary.

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The very seed of God was implanted in the womb of Mary and that holy thing that was born in her was called the Son of God.

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Amen.

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That's what we call the incarnation.

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That's what the Bible says in 1 Timothy 3.16, that great is the mystery of godliness.

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How God was made flesh, amen.

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This is a great mystery.

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It is the mystery of all mysteries.

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Because of that, he was called the Son of God and he was called the Son of man.

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He had both titles.

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He always will have both titles, because he is now the God man, jesus.

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And then he hasn't given up being man, he hasn't given up being God, he's both of those.

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This was the plan of God forever, that he would come out of his spirit and inhabit flesh in the spirit, and by that habitation he would transform himself from being pure spirit into being God-man.

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Nobody talks about this very much, but this is reality.

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This is who God is.

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This is what he did.

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Now, not only was he the son of God and the son of man, but he was also the promise that was given to Abraham.

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In other words, he is the Holy Ghost of God.

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But this Holy Ghost of God is now no longer just pure spirit, but he is a spirit that inhabits flesh bodies, that inhabits flesh bodies, and eventually he will be a spirit that inhabits bodies that are of a different kind of flesh.

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They are of spirit-created flesh Amen.

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Not of man-made flesh, but of flesh that a body that God has prepared for us, amen.

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They are not bodies that your mother and father prepared for you, but they are bodies that God has prepared for us, amen.

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They are not bodies that your mother and father prepared for you, but they are bodies that God has prepared for you, amen.

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And the spirit is going to live in those bodies forever.

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So not only is Jesus the son of God living in a flesh body, but the spirit is of Jesus, is also living in flesh bodies.

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And so what do you think about?

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Since the spirit and Jesus and the father are one, where do you think the father is?

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Well, the father Jesus said it is the father in me that does the work.

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So God has literally moved into these flesh bodies in a way that we don't ever talk about, because we've got God and Jesus up in heaven, when the Bible is telling us that they have moved here and, instead of separating from us so that they can go back to heaven, they're going to bring heaven here.

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No, you don't.

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He was promised.

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He was the promise of the seed that was given to Abraham.

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He was the promise of the king that was given to Abraham.

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He was the promise of the king that was given to David.

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And he was promised.

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He was the promise of the high priest that was given to Samuel and to Zadok.

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Amen, we got this.

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This is Jesus.

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He came in the form of the word, made flesh and was impregnated into the womb of Mary, not by procreation, but by the Spirit of the living God.

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Amen.

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Jesus was born of Mary, the Son of man, but he was also born of God, the Son of God, amen.

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And he inhabited both worlds.

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He inhabited the world of man and the world of the Spirit.

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He came to fulfill the promise made to Abraham concerning seed, the promise made to David concerning kingship and the promise made to Samuel and Zadok concerning the high priest.

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All those things came to pass in Jesus.

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Now, his older brother, james, or his next brother, the oldest after Jesus, james, was not the seed, even though he had the same bloodline.

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Apparently, if you were just some guy in Nazareth and you went over to Joseph's carpenter shop and you wanted a new table and they would have, and Joseph wasn't there that day and Jesus was tending the shop, they would have called him Yeshua bar Yosef, jesus' son of Joseph.

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That was his name.

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That's how he was known.

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Everybody except for Mary and Joseph knew Jesus by that name.

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Everybody thought he was Joseph's son.

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If they ever, if they, if anybody ever, if Mary or Joseph ever said well, you know, that's really not true.

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You know there was an angel named Gabriel and he came in, and then there was Bethlehem and there was more angels, and there was angels over here and there was angels.

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You know, the New Testament hadn't been written yet.

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The only the only stories of the New Testament were in them, and the Bible said that Mary pondered these things and kept them in her heart.

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So it wasn't like she went back to Jerusalem and told everybody you know, this isn't the way it looks.

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And told everybody you know, this isn't the way it looks.

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They went down to take the census and came back with a third member of the family.

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You know it isn't quite.

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah According to everybody.

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Hallelujah According to everybody.

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Jesus was the older brother and when Jesus died, james should have gotten everything, except that James was not destined to be the seed, because God did not impregnate Mary and produce James.

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He only produced Jesus.

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Joseph impregnated Mary and he became Jesus' half-brother.

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Nobody knew that, but that's the reality of it Now.

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But here's something that's very important From the time of Jesus's birth until his ascension, he was the rightful king of Israel, because no one can sit on the throne of Israel that was born of Solomon, but only of Nathan, and he was a firstborn son of a direct firstborn descendant of Nathan.

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He was the rightful king, but when he left and became, no more, guess who came next in line?

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No more, guess who came next in line.

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James was the rightful king of Israel after Jesus left, because he was also born of Nathan, which trumped the curse.

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However, he was not destined to be the king.

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That wasn't his because, listen, there's not ever going to be another king of Israel.

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We've got two.

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We've got David and we we got Jesus, and Jesus has a different title.

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David will always be David king of Israel.

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Jesus will always be Jesus king of kings and Lord of lords.

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And David has already addressed him, as the Lord said to my Lord, because he's already the king of kings and the Lord of lords, he doesn't need to be the king of Israel.

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That's already established by the fact that he is king of kings.

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He's.

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He's the king of England, but Charles doesn't know that.

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He's the king of Thailand and whoever the king of Thailand is doesn't know that yet.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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James was the rightful king of Israel, but there's not going to be any more kings of Israel and besides, that wasn't his destiny.

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He had a higher destiny he became.

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Watch this you think God's not in these things.

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You think God doesn't set these things up and then moves events and nations and things to bring his will and his destiny to pass?

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It wasn't James' destiny to be the king of Israel that would have been a demotion.

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It was his destiny to be the apostle of the church that his brother, jesus, had placed in his hands.

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I'm telling you, he had a meeting with James, the brother of John.

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He had a meeting with John.

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He had a meeting with Jesus.

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He had a meeting with Mary.

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He had a meeting with John.

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He had a meeting with Jesus.

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He had a meeting with Mary.

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He had a meeting with all of the critical people.

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But he had a meeting with James, and James was never, ever the same after that meeting Because the anointing and the responsibility he put on James.

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He just went down the list.

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Peter's called to do this.

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John's called to do this.

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Mary's called to do this.

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Thaddeus is called to do this.

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Thomas is going to India.

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There's coming one you don't know him yet, his name is Paul.

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He's going to go to Europe, but you're going to stay right here and I'm going to talk to you.

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I'm going to visit you, I'm going to anoint you, I'm going to give you a wisdom that Solomon wished he had, and I am placing my church in your hands, because there's nobody on this planet that knows me like you do, and now you know who I really am.

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And James was created for that.

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He was destined for that and by his faith and his obedience he stepped into it and you ought to be thanking God that he did, because if he hadn't, we would not be here, because what he did in Acts 15 made it possible for you and for me, 2,000 years later, to hear this gospel and come to this.

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Jesusesus, hallelujah, praise god.

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Destiny requires faith and obedience to be activated, but because we have that faith and we have that obedience, we have this thing that destiny sets in motion.

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Amen.

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This man of faith and this man of obedience, one man in faith and obedience, can change the world.

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Look at what they said about the apostles.

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He said these men are turning the world upside down.

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One man now Paul, had many people working with him and for him and helping him and everything, but it was his faith and his obedience that turned Europe upside down.

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Amen.

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Peter and John and James turned the Middle East upside down.

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They turned Jerusalem upside down.

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They redefined how church was done.

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They didn't, you know, it was important to go to the temple, but it was more important to go to the house, church.

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They took that house church model, moved it to Antioch and didn't miss a beat.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Are we getting this?

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This is why, when the Bible says that Jesus is the son of Abraham and the son of David, the son of Abraham and the son of David, you can't possibly preach that enough, because it, it, it, it just filters through the entirety of the New Testament.

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It ties.

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It is the most important verse in tying the Old Testament to the New.

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That's why it's the first words of your New Testament, the first thing that you read after you turn the page from Malachi, where it says that the Son of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.

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You get past that fourth chapter and you turn the page.

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500 years go by, jesus, the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of Abraham and the son of David, that is the 500 year thread that ties the Old Testament and the New Testament together.

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And it just takes that and goes all the way to the book of Revelation where it says he has made us to be kings and priests unto God, hallelujah.

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First words are absolutely important Amen, amen, amen, praise God, praise the Lord, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus.