Jan. 6, 2025
Unlocking Divine Purpose Through Perseverance (Spirit of Ministry - Part 2, Episode 25)
Send us a text What if life's toughest challenges were actually the keys to unlocking your most profound spiritual growth? Join us on a journey inspired by Romans chapter 5 and 2 Corinthians chapter 4, where we explore the idea that tribulations aren't just obstacles but are essential employees in the production of an "eternal weight of glory." Much like the refining of oil and gold, these trials act as catalysts, helping us cultivate patience, perseverance, and ultimately, a deeper connectio...
What if life's toughest challenges were actually the keys to unlocking your most profound spiritual growth? Join us on a journey inspired by Romans chapter 5 and 2 Corinthians chapter 4, where we explore the idea that tribulations aren't just obstacles but are essential employees in the production of an "eternal weight of glory." Much like the refining of oil and gold, these trials act as catalysts, helping us cultivate patience, perseverance, and ultimately, a deeper connection with God's glory within us.
Throughout this episode, we draw powerful parallels between the refinement process of natural elements and our personal growth through adversity. By embracing life's afflictions, much like heat and pressure purify crude oil into valuable products, we can transform our character. We also dive into the importance of respecting authority and how enduring trials leads to a trustworthy, Christ-like nature. Through personal anecdotes and biblical references, we emphasize the journey from spiritual infancy to leadership, illustrating how proven character is foundational to standing firm in faith and mission.
As we look to figures like Jesus, Abraham, and Elijah, this discussion unfolds the transformative power of faith and character in building hope and embodying God's glory. True faith transcends personal gain, focusing on outcomes that lead others to believe in God's miracles. By aligning ourselves with His will and trusting in His love, we become vessels for His divine purpose. Through perseverance and unwavering faith, we discover how to act as co-laborers with God, building His kingdom and living a life intertwined with and indwelt by Christ. Join us in uncovering how these principles guide us toward spiritual maturity and a life of divine purpose.
00:00 - The Refining Process of Glory
10:47 - Understanding the Refining Process With Afflictions
26:24 - Building Character Through Trials
35:01 - Building Hope Through Character and Faith
50:42 - Empowered by God's Glory and Love
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Well, praise God, hallelujah.
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Let's turn to Romans, the fifth chapter I want to talk about today.
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We've been talking about how tribulations and afflictions work for us and the purpose of that work.
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According to 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, the purpose of that working is to produce a product.
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We have said that we are the employers, tribulations are our employees.
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But we need to make a product, or else you're just working to work.
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You make a product and that product the Bible says is an eternal weight of glory, amen.
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But if in many companies, okay, when you're making a product you have something, you have some other things that get made.
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An example that came to mind was in the refining of oil.
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When oil comes to a refinery, it comes in its crude form and as it goes through the refining process, as it moves up the refracting and refining tower at various levels, what are called byproducts are taken out, because the ultimate products that are going to be made out of oil are gasoline, and the higher octane gasolines are the ones that come even higher in the stack.
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So airplane fuel and that sort of stuff is the most volatile and purest product.
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Okay, as you go down the stack, you know you get kerosene, you get the tar that makes up asphalt you get.
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You know all the stuff that comes out of the oil, because the oil is broken into different kinds of hydrocarbons.
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You understand what I'm saying.
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They could just go in and make airplane fuel and throw everything away, hello.
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But most of the oil that gets refined you know what it produces?
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Shingles for roofs, because that's the crudest form of oil Down at the bottom.
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It's the heaviest, it's the most dense, it's the thickest, it's the gooeyest.
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What do you need for a roof?
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You need thick, gooey, heavy.
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Is anybody listening to me?
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I'm sorry, praise the Lord, amen.
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So in this process of producing glory, there are byproducts.
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Amen, there are byproducts.
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Amen, there are byproducts Today.
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We're going to study about that.
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We're going to study what those byproducts are.
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Praise God.
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So here we are.
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Do you need?
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I just had my glasses and now I can almost go.
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I'm sorry, I'm real sorry for disturbing.
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Well, just go ahead and get them, praise the Lord.
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Let's go to the fifth chapter of the book of Romans, hallelujah.
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It says in the second verse that we stand in a faith and a grace and we rejoice in the glory of God, now, in the hope of the glory of God.
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Now is not the glory, the product?
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Okay.
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So we are standing in the product.
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We are standing among the product.
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We are standing among the product as the producers of the product.
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We're right there.
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We're not a remote operator or remote employer.
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We're right there in the middle of the product.
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We are standing in the glory.
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Everybody say standing in the glory.
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Everybody say standing in the glory.
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Now, when you come into this relationship with the Lord of grace by faith, amen, the purpose of it, let me I just want to be real upfront.
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The purpose of it is not to go to heaven.
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The purpose of it is to produce glory.
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It never says in your Bible that the purpose of grace by faith is so that you can go to heaven.
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It never says that.
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But it clearly says right here that the purpose of the operation of grace by faith in your life is so that you can produce glory and stand in it.
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Just think of yourself as a fountain of glory.
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You're just standing there and the glory is just flowing out of you and you're standing in the middle of it.
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That's exactly the image right here.
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You can say, well, that's just too fanciful.
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Well, that's what it says.
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You can make out of it, whatever you want to make out of it, but it says that that faith and grace work together, amen, what you believe, and the power of God that's working in you, those things work together to produce glory and you are standing in it.
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So if you're standing in it and afflictions come, what are they going to do to you?
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They have to just, you know, kind of come and go.
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Come and go, which is exactly what Paul said.
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These light and momentary afflictions are not to be compared with the eternal weight of glory that is working for us, hallelujah.
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Now here goes.
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What Paul says is the refining stack of glory.
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You take glory and look at it, and you can do that because you're standing right in the middle of it.
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You can examine it.
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I'm trying to teach you something that is deeper than what most people want to teach you, and it's deep only because you have never heard it again before.
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Amen.
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We are commanded in 2 Corinthians 4, verse 6,.
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It says that for God, who caused the light to shine into darkness, has now shown in our hearts so as to beam forth the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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We are to be vessels that not only flow out the glory.
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But we know what it is.
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It's a knowledge of the glory.
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It's not the knowledge that God has glory.
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You can read that.
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I mean, just read the Christmas story, and you'll figure that one out.
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Amen, that the angel showed up in all of this glory, amen.
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Well, what's glory?
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Well, it has shine, it has substance, it has weight, and no wonder the shepherds fell down on their faces.
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Amen, it just is amazing.
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So it's not.
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You know, when God appeared on Sinai, all kinds of glory showed up.
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So this isn't, it's not about a knowledge that God has glory.
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It's a knowledge of the glory that God has emanating out of you.
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How does it work?
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What is it made up of?
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What does it do?
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How do we use it?
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Amen, glory to God.
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Because if we're standing in it and we don't know what to do with it, you know what God's going to do He'll turn off the spigot, or at least turn it down some.
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I mean, he's still committed to His Word that if you have faith and let grace work through you, that your life will produce glory.
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But the quantity of glory that God's going to permit you to have is going to be dependent on how well, you know how to operate in it.
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I am convinced that this is one of the first things that the enemy stole out of the first century church was the knowledge of how to operate in the glory, because as long as they knew how to operate in the glory, there wasn't anything.
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They couldn't do Nothing.
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Even if they killed them, even if they took their physical life away, they couldn't kill them and they knew that.
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I mean, there's just testimony after testimony after testimony after testimony of people being martyred and not even crying out.
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You know, as they were being fried to death, they weren't even crying out or making a sound Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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So by the time we get to verse 3, it says that not only are we standing in the glory, but we're also glorying or rejoicing in the fact that tribulations are coming, because what are they going to do If tribulations come?
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They work for us.
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Just look at it this way If the oil refinery is working, there's going to be a heat applied to the oil to cause it to rise.
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As it rises because of its weight, it will begin to separate.
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As it rises because of its weight, it will begin to separate.
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Okay, are we?
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Does anybody understand this stuff about oil.
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I mean, oil is made up of various kinds of hydrocarbons come out of the earth and as its heat is applied to it, it starts to bubble up and the heavy stuff falls.
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That's what makes shingles.
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And then it you know kerosene and all the you know stuff, that, and finally it's gasoline at the top.
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Okay, the the higher rises, the more expensive the product.
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Oh, that's a good, that's a good one right there, hallelujah.
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But there's something that if you just put the oil in down at the bottom, nothing's going to happen.
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It's just sit there like a gooey mess until something happens.
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What's to happen?
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Electricity is going to come in and fire up those burners.
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Can you imagine what the electric bill is for a refinery?
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My goodness, they're going to come in and fire up those burners, amen, and cause that stuff to start rising.
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Well, in this case, afflictions are the same as electricity.
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They have to come in and get the refining process jump-started and continue to apply heat and cause the product to rise in its purity.
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The same thing happens when you purify gold Amen.
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You can have gold in a lump and it looks real nice, it's shiny, it's golden color, it feels real good when you pick it up.
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If you pick up a hump of gold, you go.
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I've never had that much, it's fun.
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But if it's impure and you want to make it pure, there's no amount of holding it that's going to do that.
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There's no amount of hanging on to it that's going to make it more pure.
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I mean, there's only one thing that's going to purify it and that's heat.
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And the heat has to come from the outside to raise the temperature so that the impurities float up to the top and that which remains is more pure.
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That has to be done several times.
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Let it cool, heat it up again, more impurities so that finally, as the goldsmith says.
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Somebody asked him how do you know when it's pure?
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He said when the gold begins to glow, hallelujah.
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But what is the?
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If we're using this example for tribulations and glory?
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What is the heat?
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Those are the tribulations, those are the afflictions.
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If you don't apply the heat, what's going to happen?
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What's going to happen?
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If you don't apply the heat, nothing, nothing's going to happen.
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If you don't apply the heat, nothing, nothing's going to happen.
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That's why afflictions are necessary and that's why they're your employees, because they are actually working for you, because there's something about all of this that God has designed, that he has designed this life as a purification process.
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Are you with me?
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You may not like that.
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You may wish that as soon as you got saved you just went from zero to a hundred and skipped the purification process.
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I guarantee you that the gasoline probably wishes it didn't have to go from, you know, asbestos or whatever that asphalt and roof material, and through kerosene and through all the other stuff up to the top of the tower, probably just wishes it could jump out of the barrel and be gasoline.
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Save all that heat, save all that rising, save all that friction, save all that you know.
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But that's not how it works.
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You know we all wish it was easier, but it's not, because this is how God has designed it to be.
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And the vision of a diamond.
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And it has to tumble.
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Yeah, it has to tumble to start shining.
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That's right.
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I mean you take a diamond out of the ground.
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It doesn't look too great.
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You know all that stuff has to be.
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You know it doesn't start to look like much of anything until it's begun to be cut.
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And I mean you know how much wasted diamond there is to cut.
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Well, they just don't throw that stuff away.
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They make byproducts.
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All that little shiny stuff that you got in watches, it's all byproduct.
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Somebody help me here.
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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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So we're going to glory, we're going to rejoice that these tribulations come, even though if they're not fun and they're not pleasant and it's the worst thing you've ever had to go through.
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You need to learn this about God that there's nothing he's going to bring your way that's going to defeat you.
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If you're standing in the glory, then whatever comes is going to cause your product to rise.
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Then whatever comes is going to cause your product to rise.
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Amen, that's just how God's designed it to be, but without the exterior effect of tribulations and trials and those kinds of things.
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Amen, it's just not going to happen, no matter how hard you wish it to happen.
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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Now here in verse 3, we start to understand some of the things that are byproducts of glory.
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Amen.
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If God's going to produce glory in us, then some of these things are also going to be produced.
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The first thing that gets produced is what the King James calls patience and the New King James calls perseverance Amen.
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In the Greek it is from the word endurance, constancy, patience, patient continuation or patient continuance.
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I like that Patient enduring.
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It has the sense of not just being sitting there being bored and patient and there's nothing happening to you.
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And that's why the New King James uses the word perseverance, because it's in the face of stuff that's coming against you, you are still patiently in a place of your faith and in place of God's grace and in a place of God's glory, amen.
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It doesn't matter what comes at you.
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You are patiently enduring, amen.
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You are persevering, praise God.
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In the New Testament it's a characteristic of a man who is not swerved from his deliberate purpose, amen, and his loyalty to the faith and piety, even the greatest of trials and sufferings.
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So you know, like I've said before, this isn't going to get easier.
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The higher you go up the refining thing, the more heat has to be applied.
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The more pure the product amen the more care has to be taken to preserve it because it's more volatile.
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You try setting, you know, try setting.
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Taking a match to.
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You know tar, you know, and it'll just kind of, you know, it'll probably put the match out before it ever catches on fire.
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You put enough heat to it, it'll catch fire, but most of the time it just goes.
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You put a match anywhere around 97 octane gasoline and you better back off.
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Amen, because it's getting more pure and it has more energy.
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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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So what I'm trying to say is to get to that kind of purity and that kind of energy level in God requires much processing.
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Everybody wants it to happen today.
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It doesn't happen like that.
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Patience is one of the most misunderstood words in the New Testament.
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Patience does not mean sitting around waiting and everybody just goes.
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Well, you know, I'm just waiting on God, like they're saying God's late.
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I mean, that's what people sound like when they say that I'm just waiting on God.
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And you're supposed because that sounds real holy you're supposed to equate that with patience.
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Oh, he's such a patient person.
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No, he's an ignorant person.
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You know, because God's not late.
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It's impossible for God to be late.
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God's outside of time, so it's.
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You know, if he can't insert himself precisely in the right place of time which he created, then what kind of God do we have?
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It's impossible for God to be late, and I've noticed about God that he doesn't show up very early sometimes Because he doesn't like to wait, because that would make him part of time.
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See, this is something that your little mind doesn't get a hold of.
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But when you start to ponder on the eternity of God and the fact that he's totally outside of time because time is something that he created he's totally outside of time.
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He mentioned some of these things that we attribute to him, that are really human characteristics, don't work.
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You know, it's impossible for God to be late, it's impossible for God to be early, it's impossible for God to wait.
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It's impossible for for you know, if you're just kind of waiting and like I'm waiting on God, like I'm waiting on a bus, you know I'm just kind of sitting at the bus stop and you know fiddling around reading my magazine, you know picking my ears, doing whatever people do at the bus stop, you know, but I'm just waiting on God, you know, to do what you know and people say well, you know, what's really happening is God's waiting on you.
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But that's not true either, because God doesn't wait Now.
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He may earnestly expect, he may have a faith about you that has not translated into action on your part, but he's certainly not waiting.
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He might be marveling at your lack of faith and your lack of perseverance, but he's not waiting.
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Glory to God, hallelujah, tribulation produces perseverance If you don't have perseverance, you're not going to make it.
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Perseverance requires prayer, requires the laying down of things, it requires the laying down of life, it requires servanthood, it requires a way of looking at life that doesn't get you flustered all the time.
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You know, I mean, you just can't.
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You know a patient, a person that is patiently enduring, just can't.
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Oh no, not again.
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Oh, it happened again.
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Oh God, help me, jesus.
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Oh, you know, that kind of attitude isn't what God's trying to produce.
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God's trying to produce this attitude.
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You know, here comes a 40-foot wave, you know, and you go hmm, what things, what waves?
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And if he can't stop that wave, then all the stories that are in your Bible are just nonsense.
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Where's your faith?
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I'm telling you where my faith was.
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I'd be gone a long time before that wave got there, because I'd be listening to the voice of the Lord and he's saying get thou up and get thee out, and I'd say, okay, praise the Lord.
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But when you know I'm not saying okay, praise the lord, but when tribulations come, you know they're working for you and there's going to be a whole bunch of byproducts that are good for your life, but you're not going to develop a whole lot of patience and patient enduring and perseverance, unless things are happening to you that you don't like, because it's learning to put up forbear.
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This is a good definition of patience.
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Patience is forbearance of things that you don't like, of things that you don't like.
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It's like I've said before you've never submitted to anybody until that person asks you to do something you don't want to do, as long as they're asking you to do.
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This is what's wrong with this generation that's coming up because they've never been asked to do anything they don't want to do.
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And so when anybody I mean as soon as they run into a you know, type A alpha male they just go ballistic.
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Because, you know, type A alpha males don't talk in that kind of language.
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You know well, please, you know if you, if you, we just really admire your.
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You know the way you're struggling with this and trying real hard and you know we, just you know they're going to.
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You know we don't talk like that.
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It's like the difference between working for B-type males or for women no offense as opposed to type A males.
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Type A males will say move those chairs over in that room.
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Other people will go.
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