Jan. 6, 2025

Unleashing the Spirit of Early Christianity (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 24)

Unleashing the Spirit of Early Christianity (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 24)

Send us a text Discover the spiritual insights that can revolutionize your faith journey as we unpack the profound teachings of Colossians 3. This episode promises to transform your understanding of the resurrection and how setting our minds on heavenly things can redefine our identity in Christ. We break down the difference between immediate salvation and the ongoing process of spiritual growth, emphasizing the role of the resurrection in empowering believers to become sons of God. You'll ga...

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Discover the spiritual insights that can revolutionize your faith journey as we unpack the profound teachings of Colossians 3. This episode promises to transform your understanding of the resurrection and how setting our minds on heavenly things can redefine our identity in Christ. We break down the difference between immediate salvation and the ongoing process of spiritual growth, emphasizing the role of the resurrection in empowering believers to become sons of God. You'll gain a deeper understanding of how early Christians embraced this foundation of faith and how it can guide you to a more purposeful spiritual life today.

Have you ever wondered how biblical figures tapped into divine wisdom and intervention? We explore the spiritual parallels that connect their experiences to our modern walk with God. By focusing on heavenly matters and aligning with divine purpose, we uncover the mystery of being spiritually united with Christ and the empowerment that follows. This discussion highlights the importance of a Spirit-led life, moving away from earthly distractions to make conscious decisions that position us as forces for good in a challenging world.

Challenge your perceptions of religious beliefs with us as we critique the limitations imposed by human-made doctrines. By examining the lives of early Christians and questioning denominational constraints, we invite you to embrace a personal revelation of God's grace and manifest the power of the Spirit in your life. Reflecting on the vibrant faith of figures like Paul and John, we encourage a return to the miracle-filled essence of the New Testament church. Let this episode guide you to walk in the glory of Jesus, accessing the riches of divine power that can transform not only your life but also leave a lasting impact on communities and nations.

00:00 - The Resurrection and Seeking Heaven

17:34 - Revealing Spiritual Wisdom and Revelation

26:47 - Revolutionizing Religious Beliefs Through Revelation

39:18 - Manifesting the Power of God

58:21 - Walking in the Glory of Jesus

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Well, thank you, jesus, praise Lord.

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Let's turn to Colossians, the third chapter.

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Praise God forever.

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Hallelujah.

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I believe we're going to close this study that we've been on for over six months concerning the spirit of glory, the spirit of ministry, the spirit of glory, the spirit of ministry, and I thought this scripture would help us close this up and somewhat summarize the main point of what we're saying.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Praise the Lord.

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We have learned some things that will be revolutionary in our lives.

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I believe it's true.

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Third chapter of the book of Colossians, verse 1, says if, then, you are raised with Christ.

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In King James it says if you then be risen with Christ, but if you are raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

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Set your mind on the things above, or set your mind on Jesus, the things that he sets his mind on, not on the things of earth.

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For you died.

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Now watch this and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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Where are you?

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You're at the right hand of the Father, because your life is hid with Christ in God.

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When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him where In glory.

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Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, glory to God.

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The main thing that the gospel of Jesus Christ teaches is that there was a man sent from heaven whose name was Jesus, who lived perfectly under the law and lived perfectly before God in his obedience to the Father, and that, because of his perfection, even though he was God, he did not think that he was going to lose his Godhood by becoming a man.

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And he became a man.

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The Bible says he even became a servant and became obedient, even unto death, the hideous death of a cross.

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By that death, and only by that death, could the seed of God fall to the ground and die so that it might bear much fruit.

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Three days after his death, that seed rose from the dead and began to give eternal life to whomever he would.

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This is just pure scripture.

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You know Nothing fancy here.

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Now, he gave his eternal life to those who would follow after him.

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He said as many as received him.

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He gave the power to enter into a process to become the sons of God, just like he was the son of God, because we have been made to be joint heirs with him.

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Amen, hallelujah Now.

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But we don't believe.

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Amen, hallelujah, but we don't believe, like some do that, you get the whole enchilada on day one, because the whole enchilada is a lot more than you can get on day one.

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If you could get all of it on day one, there would be no need for heaven, there'd be no need for a resurrection, there'd be no need for any of that.

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You just get it.

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You'd get it in this flesh body.

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Hallelujah.

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If you got it on day one, there'd be no death for your flesh body.

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I wish I could preach.

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You know, people don't think when they come up with these crazy doctrines.

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You don't get it on day one.

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You get the power to become, and the becoming depends on you.

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What do you want to do?

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How much of God do you want to be?

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Not how much of God do you want to be like, but how much of God do you want to be?

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Because he gave himself to and for you so that you could be who he is, as he is.

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So we are Glory to God.

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Now, the great thing about this gospel is that not only did Jesus raise up from the dead, but we raised up from the dead with him.

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Not only did he die, but we died with him.

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Not only was he raised, but we were raised with him.

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These are clearly things that Paul teaches in the book of Romans Amen.

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If we died with him, we're going to be raised with him, amen.

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Hello.

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Now, if you don't believe that, read the book of Matthew that when Jesus was raised from the dead, many other saints were raised up out of their graves and appeared to many in the streets of Jerusalem.

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Oh, what a day that would be.

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Glory to God, I mean, they're coming out of the graves.

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You know David's up, elijah's up, jeremiah's up.

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You know John the Baptist is up with a head.

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You know, and I mean Isaiah's up, and he's not sawn in two.

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You know, glory to God.

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I mean, they were perfectly formed back together.

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Oh, jesus, hallelujah.

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Some of them had to introduce themselves because they weren't recognizable.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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And you know what they preached he is risen.

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He is risen, indeed, hallelujah.

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Death cannot hold him and it can't hold me anymore, Because he lives.

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I live.

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Are you getting any of this?

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This was the repeated message over and over the New Testament church didn't know anything else to preach.

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Let me tell you something, folks.

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If you can read the gospel, you can read the gospel according to Paul, which is Luke and Acts, amen.

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You can read the book of Acts, and every time Paul opened his mouth, amen.

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It didn't take him but a minute or two to get to the resurrection and he totally skipped the crucifixion.

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I could preach the details of that, but I'm not going to because I don't think we're ready for that yet.

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But the crucifixion, amen.

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He did not preach greatly to the Gentile world, but what he did preach as soon as he could get there was the resurrection, because without a resurrection a crucifixion is almost meaningless.

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Amen, praise God.

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You're going to have to deal with that, because so many churches just focus on the cross but they don't focus on the empty tomb.

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They really don't focus on the empty, solid linen sarcophagus that Peter and John found that was perfectly formed like a man but was hollow inside.

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Nobody preaches that.

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Glory to God.

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What are you going to do with that?

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I mean most of the pictures you got.

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You know, listen, oh God.

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They got him.

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You know, listen, oh God.

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They got him coming out of the grave fully clothed with the clothes that they wrapped him up with.

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And how can he do that if the clothes were still in the tomb?

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If you then are raised with Christ.

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See, this is the point.

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Everybody in the New Testament church knew that they were raised with Christ.

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They knew that they didn't have to be convinced.

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It was part and parcel of their salvation.

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They knew that to be saved was to be raised with Christ.

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What's the whole purpose of water baptism?

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You go down into the water as a symbol of being buried with him in baptism and you are raised up, which is a symbol of being raised up into his resurrection, amen.

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And in that process, paul says, there is a forgiveness of sins.

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Coming up out of the grave and into the resurrection, hallelujah.

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I don't know what they do when they just sprinkle them.

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I don't know what they do when they just sprinkle them.

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I don't know how you're going to get all that into a couple of drops of water on the head, but if it works for you, go for it.

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Hallelujah.

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If you are raised with Christ or were raised with Christ, here's a commandment for you.

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Everybody ready for some commandments.

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We're not going to talk about the Ten Commandments this morning.

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We're not going to talk about the 600 and some commandments that were given to Israel, amen.

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We're not even going to talk about the several hundreds of commandments that are given in the New Testament.

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We're going to talk about one.

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If you're raised with Christ, this commandment applies to you.

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I'm going to say this One of the great things that you can figure out about the Bible is who's talking and who's talking to whom, because not everything's written for you.

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Amen, it's certainly not written for you until the Holy Ghost enlightens it, but some things just you know.

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I mean the account of Judas being hung and falling out with all of his entrails.

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That's not written for you, that's just a historical piece of information.

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Glory to God.

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This scripture is written for those who are raised with Christ, not written for anybody else.

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Written for those who are raised in Christ.

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If you haven't been raised in Christ, this scripture will make no sense.

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But if you've been raised with Christ, this scripture is a commandment for you.

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And here it is Seek those things which are above.

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What does Matthew say about this?

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He says seek the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God, first.

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First, seek the kingdom and all of these other things that are earthbound.

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Things will come to you, but you've got to seek the heaven-bound things, the things that are bound to heaven and are part of heaven.

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Seek those first.

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Paul said it this way seek the things which are above and not the things which are below.

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The things which are above and not the things which are below.

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Seek the things where Christ is Now.

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I've told you about a place that's in Christ.

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It's called the riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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If you need something, it's there, but you have to seek it from above and not from below.

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In fact, the only way you can get it is to seek it from the right hand of God.

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I'm going to tell you something that somebody told me a long time ago.

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Long time ago, they said this.

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They said if you seek from God from here on earth, you will never get anything.

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And if you pray from here on earth, like you're praying from earth, you'll never get your prayers answered.

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The only way that you can get something from God is to understand who you are and where you are actually seated.

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Because if you pray from here on earth, it's going to be one of those help me Jesus prayers and you're shouting up to heaven, and the more you want him to hear you, the more you're going to shout Amen and you're going to get louder, and you're going to do more theatrics because you think that's going to get louder and you're going to do more theatrics because you think that's going to impress God.

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The only thing that's going to move God is if you don't have to shout.

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Now, I know there's places where it tells you to shout and I do understand that.

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But I'm telling you what.

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If you're seated I said, if you're seated at the right hand, where Christ is, then you can seek those things which are above and not below, because that's all there is to seek.

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I'm going to tell you, if you're at the right hand of the Father, you know communicating you're not going to be talking about.

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You know, give me some money to help fix up my car and give me some money to.

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You know, fix the front door swing.

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And you know help me, jesus, get a can of chicken noodle soup in the pantry.

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And you know you're not going to be praying like that.

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You're going to be praying door B, soup B, because everything that is in glory for you is there and it's waiting for you to command it into your life.

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To command it into your life.

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What's the purpose of sitting at the right hand of the Father if you can't do that?

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Well, I just want to get as close to him as I can.

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You don't get that close to him unless he has put his godness upon you.

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And what is one of the things that God does?

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Just like Abraham did, just like he did to Abraham, he called forth those things that were not as though they were, and he spoke over Abraham and he spoke over Sarah, and they were not able to conceive.

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Neither one of them had the power, the Bible said, to conceive seed.

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Abraham was 100 years old, Sarah was 90.

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I don't care how you count years and I don't care how you count.

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You know I don't care how you count years and I don't care how you count.

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You know people lived longer and everything that's old for having kids.

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That's why, when God gave Abraham that word, the Bible says he gave glory to God.

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Some of you just missed that one.

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Amen, Amen, one Amen.

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The Bible says that the Word of God gave strength and faith to Sarah to conceive the seed, and that seed, the Bible says was Christ.

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I don't know if you're ready for this yet.

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Are you ready for this?

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If you follow that train of thought, amen.

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Sarah was Mary and Isaac was Jesus in the day of their sojourn.

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It was all done for you so that you could see what was going to happen.

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The difference between Sarah and Mary Sarah wasn't a virgin.

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The difference between Isaac and Jesus is that Jesus came straight from heaven, isaac did not.

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But the parallel is there, the example is there, because they were unable to conceive.

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Is a virgin able to conceive?

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Absolutely not, not without somebody who's about to make her an un-virgin.

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Amen.

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But that didn't happen to Mary.

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Oh God, hallelujah, praise God.

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There's a scripture in the Old Testament that says God opens the womb.

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Now it's a prophecy that concerns women.

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God's given me that word to speak over barren women, amen.

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But it was literally God who broke the womb of Mary and opened her for the very first time, only from the inside out.

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I mean, there's something there you could preach for about two or three months God opens you from the inside out.

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I mean, there's something there you could preach for about two or three months God opens you from the inside out.

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Yes, if you are raised with Christ, then set your mind, see your mind, what you think about and what you fixate on and what you allow yourself to see.

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I'm not talking about what you allow yourself not to see.

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Well, I can't look at that, oh, that's terrible, oh, that's evil.

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I can't look at that.

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I mean, when you're sanctified and your mind is set on the things above, you're not going to measure your sanctification by what you don't do.

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Religion does that.

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Religion tells you what not to do and so that if you don't do that, you're good.

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God, on the other hand, is not concerned with that.

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He's concerned with what you set your mind and your focus and your attention on.

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If that is fixed on him, you don't have to worry about the other stuff.

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In fact, you can look at it all day long and it's not going to bother you or even afflict you.

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The only thing it's going to do is provoke you, probably to curse it off the planet, because you're seated at the right hand of God.

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So, whatever God wants to do, he's going to turn to you and say why don't you get involved in this?

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See, he doesn't have to shout from heaven, he doesn't have to send a prophet, he didn't have to say thus saith the Lord, curse this thing.

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Well, I don't know if I've been praying and fasting Lord.

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I don't know if I can do that.

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You know well, when he's up there and you're down here, you can get away with that kind of response.

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When he's up there and you're tied to his right side and your life is hid with Christ in God, amen, do you think he's going to have to do it?

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Thus saith the Lord.

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You know, give me a break.

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He just gives you a nudge and says you want to get involved in this.

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I'm counting on you.

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I want to do something, but I need you to do it.

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You want to get involved, you want to partner up on this.

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You want to co-labor on this.

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You want to be a co-labor with God.

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You want to be a joiner with Jesus.

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Can I go on All these things?

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Tell you about some relationship with a God that most of us don't experience because we live down here.

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We've got our minds set on earthly things and help from God rather than our minds set on God to be a help to things down here.

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Anybody with me so far.

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Glory to God.

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Now, where Christ is, amen, amen.

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Where he is is where you want to be, wherever, that is, wherever he's manifesting Himself, that's where you want to be.

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Your life needs to be hid in Him and His life is going to be hid in God, and I've said this before many times in the past few weeks since we've talked about this.

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What in the world is the devil going to do with that?

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Huh, what is the devil?

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I mean, do you not know how many layers of God has to be taken off for the devil even to know where you're at?

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So one of the things about setting your mind on the things which are above and not below is to get your thinking off of what the enemy is doing to you.

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Because I'm telling you what, if you're in this scripture right here, if your life is hid with God in Christ, the only way the devil's going to touch you is if God gives him permission, and if he gives him permission, God has every confidence in the faith that he has placed in you and in your position at the right hand of God to see you through anything.

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Now see, job didn't have that.

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Job just knew that God was faithful, that he was real, that he wasn't going to abandon him and even if he did, he was still going to worship him.

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Job had that level of revelation, but he didn't have the revelation of sitting at the right hand of the Father in his Redeemer.

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All he could say, he could see it afar off and he could say I know that my Redeemer liveth and at the last days, even though I die and worms eat me up, even though I die and worms eat me up.

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I am going to see him face to face because I know he lives.

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Amen.

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Now.

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He had that revelation but he didn't have't see that his life was to be hid.

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When the hedge goes back around Job, what he did not see and did not know was that his life was hid with Christ in God, because that revelation was a mystery until Jesus was revealed.

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Are you with me?

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So far, set your mind.

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This is a conscious decision.

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You have to set yourself to seek the things that God is seeking.

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Now let me give you an example.

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A year and a half ago, I'm standing right out there in front of the kitchen sink and God tells me in a very strong voice that I am going to purge the carnal knowledge of me out of my body.

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I mean, I was standing there like this and when the voice came to me and said that, I just kind of shook and the voice literally moved me like this and I went really, and when he, when he told me it had such a depth to it.

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You understand what I mean by depth.

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I could see in the Spirit the contamination that the carnal knowledge of God had made into his body.

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It was like a cancer, it was like a disease.

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Have any of you ever seen a picture of a lung that people are taking out of a person that smokes, and how black it is and how contaminated with years of that poison and what it looks like?

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You've seen those pictures?

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And what it looks like?

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You've seen those pictures?

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That was what the body was like, because it was contaminated with false knowledge of God, with carnal knowledge of God, one of those, well, you know.

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They say well, you know.

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They say you never know what God's going to do.

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Really, that's not what the Bible says.

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The Bible says that we are to be filled with the knowledge of his will.

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So what are you going to do with?

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They say?

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They say well, you never know what God's going to do.

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Like God wakes up in a new day every day, you know.

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Like a goose, you know.

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Just, I wonder what I'm going to do today.

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See, I think I'll just nuke Sodom and Gomorrah today.

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I just woke up and found out I could do that, so I'm going to just try them out with this new superpower, like, come on, man, that's not what the Bible says.

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That's not what the Bible says about God.

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He has to do this because he's trying to elevate the body into a greater knowledge of him, a deeper knowledge of him, a more sanctified knowledge of him, a knowledge of him that permits trials and tribulations, that permits trials and tribulations, permits proving and testing, a knowledge of him that has such confidence in his mighty power.

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Amen, that we allow God to mold us and shape us.

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See, most people, the carnal knowledge that they have of God, doesn't permit God to do that.

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Oh, they'll permit songs to be written about it.

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I put my life in the potter's hand and they'll sing all those wonderful songs, but they're no more on a potter's wheel than a pig can fly, starting with the person that wrote the song.

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Because they didn't write that song to worship God.

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They wrote that song to sell records.

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You just find out how much they're sold out for God.

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If God came and appeared to them and told them in an audible voice, I want you to quit this and never sing again.

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And they're making millions of dollars a year selling Christian records.

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Hello, Anybody here, everybody's looking to the floor going.

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I just bought that record.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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

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The Lord is going to change our minds.

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He's going to he's going to A Scrub everything out.

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He's going to.

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He's going to a scrub everything out that doesn't belong and pertain to him, and then he's going to fill it with new revelation from what you get out of your word.

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So here's a hundred scriptures that religion has taught you one way.

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But God is going to do this.

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All of the stuff that is not of Him, he's going to erase out of your mind, if you give Him permission, and then he's going to replace it with things that he teaches you by His Spirit.

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Amen.

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Now, in order to go through that process, you have to be willing.

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You have to be willing to turn your mind from the things that are below, where everybody thinks and everybody has a common opinion.

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Let me give you an example has a common opinion.

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Let me give you an example Amen.

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You can't be a Baptist unless you think like a Baptist, and the Baptist way of thinking will not allow any other kind of thinking, or else you're not a Baptist.

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Being a Baptist is not about being born a Baptist.

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It's not about joining as a Baptist.

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It's not about you know, the Baptist church is the closest church on the street.

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It's about thinking like a Baptist.

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You want to be church of God, amen.

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You're going to have to believe that sanctification makes it impossible for you to sin, because that's what they believe and they major on that.

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You've got to think like that Because they're going to preach it.

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Every week they're going to have an altar call where you can get sanctified, and they're going to be shocked that that person went down to the altar and got sanctified and started sinning again.

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Well, how's that work?

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Oh, they just fell out of grace.

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Brother, would you help me?

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Jesus, you know the silliness of doctrine we come up with to conform to our way of thinking.

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I'm just not talking about any old thinking.

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I'm talking about the kinds of thoughts that people have about God.

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There are a lot of people around that call themselves Christian but they're not Christians because they don't know God.

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I can give you a number of denominations To be part of their denomination.

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You've got to think like they do and they think that you're not saved by grace, but you're saved by works.

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Paul would say if any angel comes to you, or if I came to you and preach a different gospel than a salvation by grace, through faith, amen, and faith through grace, those two working together.

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Any other salvation, it should be accursed.

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It's not of works, lest any man should boast Are you with me?

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You've got nothing to boast about with your dead works.

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God's not up there weighing, you know.

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Let's say, oh, my goodness, he's got 49,520 bad things, but he has 49,521 good things.

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Enter in my good and faithful servant.

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Meet St Peter right here at the gate.

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Glory to God, let's have a feast.

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Really, is that God?

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Where do you find that in the Bible?

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Oh, probably at the great judgment seat or some other thing that you're not going to be at If your life is hid with Christ and God.

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I don't see you being at any of the seats.

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I see you sitting on the throne with Jesus doing the judging.

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I wish somebody would help me preach.

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See, we're just in the wrong places at the wrong times in all these scriptures, because religion teaches us a carnal knowledge of God.

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It's stuff that man came up with, that dreamed, that they dreamed up in their division, in their racism, in their Lord.

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Just any way you can cut it.

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And today's church has got to deal with all of that, because if you're not, if you don't believe in that, you can't come.

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Let me just help you out here.

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If you ever get invited to a Baptist church and you end up going for some reason amen, you better hear the audible voice of God.

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If you want to stand up and speak in tongues, I mean, you better hear the voice.

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You better hear an audible voice from the Father saying I want this right now, because otherwise those six-foot-four ushers that are standing at the back are ready to bounce you out of there and never mind that you pass the deacons smoking outside in the front door, but they'll bounce you out of there for speaking in tongues.

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Mama, don't allow no tongues speaking here.

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We ain't having it.

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Glory to God.

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So unless you can restrain yourself, don't go.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Set your mind on the way God thinks.

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How am I going to find out how God thinks?

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That's where studying and reading your Bible comes in.

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That's where spending a lot of time alone listening to God and that's where you set as a purpose with God.

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I want to hear your voice.

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That's why it was so important.

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We sang that song this morning.

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Open my eyes, lord, that I can see Jesus.

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Open my ears and cause me to listen.

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Make a deal with God I'm not budging off of this chair until I hear from you.

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I'm going to be here every morning, god.

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I'm going to wait for you to speak.

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This is the only way I know that it works.

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You need to pray, you need to fast.

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All of those things are important.

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But if you pray and fast, read your Bible, do all those things and you don't spend quality time alone, it won't happen.

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You'll never come into a place where God just talks to you all the time.

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The only way I know for that to happen is to spend hours.

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Listening, is to spend hours listening, because I've done all the other stuff and I continue to do all the other stuff.

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You have to do that stuff.

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It's good for you to do that stuff.

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It's especially good for you at the beginning to do that stuff.

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But what is important on a continual basis is to be quiet.

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You know I find that God speaks to me when I'm quiet.

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You know I find that God speaks to me when I'm quiet A lot of times when I'm shaving.

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You know you don't want to be talking while you're shaving.

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You especially don't want to be shaving your upper lip and talk.

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That's almost a guaranteed disaster.

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You don't want to do that.

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You know there's somebody in this house that loves to come up and talk to me while I'm shaving, and I've learned in my life that the best thing to do is put that razor down.

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Sir, drop that razor right now.

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Sir, don't touch that razor.

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I'm just going to listen.

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When that person is done, then I can go back to doing that, because that's one thing.

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You don't want to be distracted at.

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Amen Now.

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But God's, you know God's different.

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He feels like he can distract me anytime he wants to Isn't that amazing?

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And immediately when he starts talking, let me tell you.

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Let me tell you, when he starts talking to you and he causes you to listen, there's nothing I can do.

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That's going to make him talk and there's nothing I can do to make these ears, my spiritual ears, open for his voice.

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I cannot do anything.

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I can make it.

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I can put myself into a position, but there's nothing I can do.

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It's going to be God that speaks and he's going to cause me to hear His voice.

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And when I hear His voice and he causes me to hear it.

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He's going to fill me with a knowledge of the glory of God and he's going to talk to me about things at his level, how he sees them, how he's controlling them, how he's entering in, how he's moving on these people here and these people here, how I'm doing this.

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And he's going to talk to me from the right hand position and what he's trying to do is elevate my way of thinking to that right, right hand position so that I can begin to function from there and not from down here, from there and not from down here.

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Hello, hallelujah.

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Now.

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Your body's still here, your soul's still here.

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Your spirit may be here or it may not be here.

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That's what Paul said, no-transcript.

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Whether in the body or out of the body, it doesn't matter, I was still there.

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So you read that a hundred times and you never get that particular revelation right there.

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What Paul was saying was not that he didn't know.

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He was saying it didn't matter Whether in the body, out of the body who cares?

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I was there and I was in the third realm of heaven and heard things that was not lawful for a man to repeat, whether I was in the body or out of the body, that's not a big deal.

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You want to take the body there, that's entirely up to the Lord.

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You don't get that kind of question.

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Nobody raises that kind of question about John.

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You know, when John in the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation, he said I heard the Spirit say come up hither, and I was in the Spirit and all of a sudden I saw the sea of glass, the throne, the emerald, you know, and all that.

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Nobody asked John if he had a body or didn't have a body.

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He did things like he was in a body.

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But whether he was in the body or out of the body, who knows?

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All I know is that unless he wrote that book of Revelation from heaven and arrow mailed it down, he came back.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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If you think God can't do that, write the letter and arrow, mail it back from heaven.

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You don't know him.

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He could put it right on John's writing table and he said I'll see you in a few years.

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Just leave it there.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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This is what God wants to do.

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He wants not.

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You know everybody, everybody uses.

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And it is true because, because Paul goes on to talk about putting to death these, the members that are here on earth.

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They're.

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You know, god wants to change our way of thinking about many things, but if he doesn't change our way of thinking about God, the other things don't matter.

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You know well, god doesn't want the other things don't matter.

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Well, god doesn't want me to do that anymore.

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Okay, that's fine, but is that the extent of how you know Him?

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Is that the extent of what you know about Him?

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That he just doesn't want you to do certain things anymore?

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Is there not anything that you can get more from God, not only to change what you don't do, but to make a great change in what you do and how you see and how you look at Him and how you relate to Him and how you allow Him to pull you into this place that's called the right hand of God, amen.

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Now he wants you to sit there.

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Make no mistake about it.

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He wants you to be there.

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He wants everyone who is risen with Christ to sit in this same place.

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It is religion's number one job to get you to sit here and see God up there.

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That is religion's number one job.

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That is what was stolen out of the church at the very earliest.

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They saw themselves as Jesus walking on the earth.

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They saw themselves empowered, at the right hand of God.

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They saw themselves as the power of God walking upon the earth and these signs were following them, that believed them, that followed after Jesus.

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Amen.

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We're healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out devils speaking in other tongues.

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They were seeing angels, they were communicating, they were talking with angels.

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They were doing all of the you know, just read.

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These were New Testament first-generation believers that were doing all kinds of stuff that we don't do.

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Why don't we do it?

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Because we've been in religion for 1,900 years.

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We have been in a systematic denial of the godness of Jesus upon us.

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The Bible says in the first book of Timothy, chapter 4,.

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It says that God was manifested in the flesh and justified in the spirit seen by angels preached on among the Gentiles believed in the world.

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God was manifested where?

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Where was God manifested?

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In the flesh?

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Whose flesh?

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Well, first Jesus, and then those that were raised with Jesus.

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See, we sing about it all the time.

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If that same spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwells in us, it will.

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What Quicken?

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It'll make alive, it will resurrect your mortal body and the Spirit of God will be on you.

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What spirit is this?

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The Spirit of glory, the Spirit of ministry, the Spirit of truth, the eternal Spirit.

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This will be on you and you will have godness just flowing all out of your life.

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The New Testament church knew that the first thing the devil did was steal the baptism, stole miracles, stole the reality that Jesus was in you and you were in him and your life was hid with Christ in God.

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See, it's a totally different reality.

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If you see yourself hid in Christ and hid in God, then being down here and going, oh help me Jesus.

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You know great Catholic prayer, oh help me Jesus in this, my most desperate hour of need, you know, I mean good grief.

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I mean, is that why he died and was resurrected?

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Is that why there was a seed?

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Is that why Abraham carried that seed and produced an Isaac?

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Oh, glory to God.

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And in the year of the famine, isaac sowed and received a hundredfold and he opened up the wells I wish I could preach Glory to God and walked this earth, amen, and produced a nation called Israel.

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Oh, jesus, we're talking about men who walked with God.

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I'm not talking about some guy that had a good idea about God.

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This man fixed dinner for God and God stopped and ate with him.

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When was the last time you had that happen?

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I mean, god in a human form sat down and ate with Abraham and then told him that Isaac was going to be born before the end of the year and then went to Sodom and Gomorrah.

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And if Abraham had asked one more question, if he'd have pushed one more, because God wasn't there to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, he was there to test Abraham.

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And if Abraham had pushed one more step into God and said if it be, and put this precise number of Lot's family, precise number of Lot's family, oh, you're not getting any of this.

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Abraham didn't push it and God still saved him.

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Why?

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Because Abraham was his friend and he knew Abraham and Abraham knew him.

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And even though Abraham was cautious and didn't press, god considered it righteousness that he had extended him his hospitality and had suckered him, pleaded with him over a city of such evil.

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God counted that as righteousness and did what was in Abraham's heart.

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Anyway.

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That's the kind of God you want to serve and that's the kind of God you want to serve and that's the kind of servant you want to be.

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That, even though you shudder at approaching him at that level of intimacy and that level of pushing, but he sees your heart and he does for you what is in your heart.

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Anyway, I keep telling you that there's a place, you know I've said this so many times the tithe rebukes the devourer.

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The seed given to a pastor after he has taught the word rebukes corruption, the devourer.

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Freedom from the devourer moves you into a place from not enough to barely enough.

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The seed to a pastor moves you from the place of barely enough to more than enough.

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But there's a place that God wants you to get to, where you give everything and he gives you the desire of your heart.

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Hallelujah.

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Then, when Christ I need to finish this when Christ, who is our life?

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When he appears, when he manifests Himself, when he shows up, when he epiphanizes there is such a word Amen.

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When he manifests himself Suddenly, malachi says suddenly, the messenger of the covenant will come to his temple.

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Amen.

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Who is the temple of God?

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And when is he coming?

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Not in a sweep by and by.

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He's coming suddenly.

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When is suddenly?

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Suddenly better?

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Be right now or it's not suddenly.

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When is Jesus coming?

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He's coming now.

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Now is faith.

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Now, faith is the substance of things earnestly expected, the evidence of things not seen.

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Because what are we going to do with those things not seen?

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We're going to bring them into the scene by now.

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Faith who does that?

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Does anybody do that?

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No, nobody does that, except the sons of God, who have been proven by God and moved from a place of lambship and childship into a place of appointed mature sonship, of appointed mature sonship.

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And in that place, where they are at the right hand of God, they have been given the power to bring forth those things that are not, as though they are.

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Oh, glory to God.

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When he appears, he brings with him that power and he delegates it to his children and to his brothers and to his sons, and he gives them this promise when I show up, I'm bringing all my glory and you're going to enter into that glory.

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Do you remember what happened to Peter, james and John on the mountain?

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This is the day of Pentecost, part two.

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He came down to the mountain on Sinai looking for somebody to talk to.

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They rejected his voice Amen.

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He came back down on a mountain not the same mountain, but he came back down on a mountain to meet with Jesus and the ones that Jesus had chosen.

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Now the Bible says that Jesus so pleased the Father that he spoke out of the glory cloud and said this is my beloved son, hear him, listen to him.

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So it wasn't he delegated oh, would somebody help me?

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When he was on Sinai, he didn't delegate anything, he just spoke with a loud voice, and it frightened the people to such a degree they didn't want to hear from him anymore.

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This time, in various times and in diverse manners, god spoke to us of old by his prophets, but in this day he has spoken to us by his son.

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He delegated the word of God into the Word of God, and the Word of God was so pleasing to the Father, he said listen to him, hear him, pay attention to what he's telling you.

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And then, because Peter, james and John had done that to a measure that was the best they could do in the flesh without the Spirit of God, he invited them into his glory.

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And so they entered into his glory and said nothing, but then were ministered to by whom?

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By Moses and Elijah.

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Can you get a grip of what's going on here?

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Moses and Elijah came out of God's glory.

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They were in his glory.

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They came out of his glory and manifested themselves to James, john, peter and Jesus, and then, in the glory and out of the glory, they ministered to Jesus concerning his crucifixion and resurrection.

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Is anybody here?

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And Peter, james and John were the earthbound testimony that this happened, amen, and that it was such a singular event in the life of Jesus.

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I'm going to tell you, folks.

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Let me just be honest with you.

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There are four events, five upon which the whole gospel hinges First, the transfiguration.

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Second, the crucifixion.

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Third, the resurrection.

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Fourth, the ascension.

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Fifth, the Holy Ghost coming at Pentecost.

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Everything hinges on that.

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Every scripture up here practically has to do with the transfiguration.

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Some have to do with the resurrection, but it was at the transfiguration that we learned who Jesus really was and that he had come out of glory and was going to return to glory, and that anybody that was in God was in glory and anybody who wanted to be like God was going to enter into that glory.

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Are you hearing anything?

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I'm saying Hallelujah Just because it's a flannelgram story doesn't take the mystery out of it and doesn't take the glory out of it.

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When this Jesus appears, you will appear with him in glory, just the way that Moses did, just the way Elijah did, just the way John did, just the way Peter did, just the way James did.

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You're going to appear with him in glory and nobody's going to know what to do with you.

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Let me tell you something.

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Jesus said listen, you guys, when we go down here, there's somebody waiting for us.

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You know, don't pay that any mind, but you know, don't talk about this until after the resurrection from the dead.

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They said what's that mean?

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They still couldn't understand the resurrection, because you can't understand the resurrection on the foreside of it, unless you're in the glory.

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Everybody that prophesied concerning the resurrection of Jesus entered into his glory.

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I saw the Lord high and lifted up and his train filled the temple.

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In the year that King Uzziah died.

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I saw the Lord and the glory train filled the temple and the Lord said who shall I send?

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And Isaiah said In the glory, here I am, send me.

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And so he called Elijah into the glory and infused him with glory and sent him out.

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This is the same Elijah that said that a virgin shall conceive.

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This is the same Isaiah that said his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor.

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Mighty God, everlasting Father, prince of Peace, of his government and of his power, there shall be no end.

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Where do you think he got all this stuff?

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Every time somebody David, speaking of Jesus on the cross in Psalm 22, had entered into his glory.

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Because in Psalm 24, he asked this question who is this king of glory?

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I want to know who this is, because I just saw him being held, being nailed to the cross, but getting up off of that cross.

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Who is this king of glory?

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I'm going to tell you that whenever Jesus appears, whenever he appears to you and brings you revelation, brings you insight, brings you wisdom, brings you miracles, brings you gifts, whenever he shows up, it's a glory manifestation and you have just walked into the glory cloud.

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Amen.

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Don't expect gold to fall out of the air.

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Don't expect teeth to be filled with gold.

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Don't expect all that foolishness, that charismatic craziness goes after Amen.

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Just expect that the dead will rise, the deaf shall hear, the blind shall see, the lepers shall be cleansed.

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Hallelujah.

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The sick, oh, hallelujah.

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This is what the gospel is all about.

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It's not about him helping you in your pitiful existence, it's about you being glorified.

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And I'm not talking about way out yonder, I'm talking about now, hallelujah, because he is and always will be the spirit of glory.

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So I thought that was the Holy Ghost.

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That spirit is the spirit of Jesus, and if he's the spirit of Jesus, he comes out of, jesus, proceeds from the Father and from the Son, with the Father, and the Son is worshiped and glorified.

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Who spake by the prophets?

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Even the early church had a revelation of that Wonderful God.

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Hallelujah, this spirit, this spirit of glory, is going to be the one who takes you and places you in that seat of authority, in that right hand position.

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From whence, amen?

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From that position, you're going to have access to the full capacity of the riches in glory by Christ Jesus, for you, for your family, for your neighbors, for your state, for your nation, for people you've never seen.

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Let me tell you something you get a hold of this and you'll find out what kind of power God wants to extend through you.

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And you can speak to nations, you can speak to continents, you can speak to people, groups.

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Hallelujah, yes, you can.

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And every time it happens, you will enter into a new realm of glory, because this is the promise to those who have been raised with him.

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Amen, amen, let's stand.