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Let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 4.
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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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2 Corinthians, chapter 4.
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I want to continue just this little bit of review that we've been doing on this great series concerning the spirit of ministry, the spirit of glory, hallelujah, and I've just been trying to hit a few high points of the main things that we learned in this, and I want to turn your attention to verse 6 of chapter 4, where it says this for it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Hallelujah, praise God.
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Thank you, jesus, glory to God.
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One of the great and perhaps the central truth of the manifestation of the name of the Spirit, the Spirit of ministry, the Spirit of glory, is that what he ministers is this reality.
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Everything that the Spirit of God ministers out of us and reveals out of us flows out of this one central truth, and that is that the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness Genesis 1, john 1, that God has now, by Jesus Christ, moved inside and is now shining in our hearts.
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Before he was shining from without, but now he's shining from within.
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Amen, glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord Shining from within.
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He is radiating from within instead of reflecting from without.
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Now, he was the one who radiated the light in the darkness Amen.
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But that same light now is in us.
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He was the one who radiated the light in the darkness Amen.
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But that same light now is in us and it is producing glory.
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Paul said it this way and goes on and say in verse seven amen, but we have this treasure, this glory in us, in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power might be of God and not of us.
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Okay, this is, folks.
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You can't underestimate this revelation.
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You cannot underestimate this mystery.
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This was not known until Jesus came.
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I want to tell you something I want to just go slowly here, we don't have to be in a hurry that the early church understood this.
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The early church understood that when the Holy Ghost came in and indwelt them, amen.
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Things were radically different.
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Angels started popping up all over the city and they expected them.
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Miracles were happening.
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Peter was getting out of the innermost prison of the most secured fortress in Jerusalem, and he got out like they didn't even have doors on the place.
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Amen.
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Peter would walk down the street and people would get healed.
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People would cross the Holy Ghost and they'd fall over dead.
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I mean just, you know, the Bible says that unusual miracles were being done and this was spreading all over the city.
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And if it happened with the main apostles, it was happening with the 120 as well and some of the others that were coming in, such as Stephen.
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Praise God, praise God.
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So we see in the early church that they knew something that has been lost.
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Now I'm here to tell you that every church movement always feels like they are the authentic apostolic church, but yet none of them move into house churches and none of them believe in miracles where you can walk down the street and heal the sick.
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You know why?
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I know that?
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Because all the churches want you to come to the church and get your healing, because maybe we might get your offering.
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They don't want you to come to the church and get your healing because maybe we might get your offering.
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They don't want you.
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How many times have you been in charismatic churches and Pentecostal churches and all kinds of churches?
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How many times were you trained to go out and let the glory radiate out of you to the point that people were getting healed in the marketplace just because you were there.
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How many times you got trained for that?
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That would be zero.
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Because they don't want it.
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They want to control the situation.
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God has no interest in controlling the situation.
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God wants to let it go.
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Amen has no interest in controlling the situation, god wants to let it go, amen.
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You know I mean I'm as guilty about it as the next person You've heard me say this that if God responded to needs, every person in the hospital would not be there.
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So why didn't God heal everybody and we always say well, because God heals by faith.
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I'm here to tell you those folks that got healed in Peter's shadow.
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They had no faith, but Peter had a lot of faith, and not only that, he had the indwelling presence of God in his life and so all he had to do is walk and God did the healing.
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But he had such a revelation of God in me, amen, that he knew, as he walked down the street, things were going to happen.
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Most of the time.
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When he walked down the street, he got arrested Because they were doing the same thing with him that they were trying to do with Jesus, because God was in him.
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They wanted to lock him up.
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Because God was in him.
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They wanted to kill him.
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Because God was in him, they wanted to shut him up.
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Peter said this.
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He said you all decide whether it's good for you to obey God or not obey God, but we cannot help but do and testify to what we have seen.
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You know why he couldn't help it?
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Because Jesus was on the inside.
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The one that they said was crucified was right there in the person of Peter going.
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You just go ahead and think whatever you want, but we got a witness.
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Oh, hallelujah, glory to God.
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This Jesus, everybody say this Jesus is now shining in your heart.
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Amen To give you a knowledge of the glory.
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Yes, yes, yes, praise God.
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This is wonderful stuff.
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This is the core revelation.
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I can prove this to you.
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In 1st Colossians 127, it says that this mystery was hidden by God for ages and generations, but in these days has been revealed to the saints.
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Amen, and not only that, but it is the mystery of the riches and glory by Christ Jesus.
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If you will just bear with me for just a second not to go through all the study on that, but just to put it together, there's a place in God called the riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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It's a place.
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It's a place where these things are kept.
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Amen, it's not.
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It's not in heaven, it's in him, hallelujah.
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And that place in him is this remarkable place of countless aisles, and it's like an infinite number of spokes coming out of a wheel, except the wheel is a sphere and not a two-dimensional wheel, but it is a three-dimensional sphere, and the rows and the aisles and everything go off away from the center, and there's an infinite number of them, and in each one of those is an infinite number of doors, and each door has a rich in glory by Christ Jesus.
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Yes, it is, that's how it is.
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In glory by Christ Jesus.
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Yes, it is, that's how it is.
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Amen.
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Now, at the center, everything like this, every geometrical thing like this, has a center, and at the center of this place called the riches in glory by Christ Jesus is one mystery, and that is Christ in you, the hope of glory, the earnest expectation of the manifestation of glory.
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Read it this way Christ is in me and because he is in me, I have an earnest expectation that the glory is going to be manifested.
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I'm not hoping, I'm not wishing, I'm not.
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You know, confessing I'm not.
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You know I'm not doing any of that stuff.
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I have an earnest expectation.
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In other words, I fully expect God to show up and manifest His glory.
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Why?
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Because he has decided.
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The key revelation, the key mystery that everything hinges on is that, if you want to take that a little bit further and go back in time with me, back beyond when God commanded light to come out of darkness, back beyond that, beyond Genesis 1 and 1, where John wrote this, before Genesis 1 and 1, there's this in the beginning was God what beginning?
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Well, the beginning that God decided, but God was already there.
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And before that, when there was only God, there was timelessness.
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There was no beginning.
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There was no beginning, there was no end.
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There was just God.
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God doesn't need anything to exist and he doesn't need time.
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He had created time.
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If he created it, he can uncreate it.
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For you, somebody say amen, amen, hallelujah.
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Now, that was free.
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I just threw that one out there.
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Now, when, in the beginning, god decided he made it a purposed will, an expression of his purpose and his determined purpose that he was going to create a thing called creation and he was going to enter into this creation, but not all of it.
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Into this creation, but not all of it.
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Now, if you study after a lot of other religions Eastern religion, hinduism, buddhism they all believe that God is in everything.
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So you don't want to cut a tree down because God's in that tree.
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You don't want to kill a cow because God's in the cow, never mind that we're all starving to death, but we don't want to kill that monkey because God's in the monkey.
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Follow what I'm saying.
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Same thing among primitive tribes that worship a plethora of nature manifestation there's a god of thunder, there's a god of lightning, there's a god of wind, there's a god of fire, and they worship those gods because they think that god or godness is in these things.
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This is the essence of where progressivism and evolution teaching has taken us that we regard man as no different.
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And so if God can be in a monkey, god can be in a man, but no more of God than a monkey has.
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But see, that's not what God did.
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God purposed from the beginning that he would make a man, a man called Adam In Hebrew Adam means man and he would make this man and he would come and live in him.
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But there was a process that had to happen, two processes.
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He had to form the place in him that's called the riches in glory by Christ Jesus, and he had to form the place in him that's called the riches in glory by Christ Jesus, and he had to form the seed.
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Now the seed contains all of the possibilities that this human race can take.
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You know, when we look at things, first there was Adam, then there was Cain, then there was Seth, then there was, you know, blah, blah, blah, and you think of all the lineage, the ancestors, the begats.
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But don't you know, folks, that there was an infinite number of possibilities in all that?
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The Bible says that Cain went and got his wife from the women that were east of Nod.
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Well, there's two questions about that.
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Where is that at and where did they come from?
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And what if Cain had gone west of Nod?
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Would the whole thing have been different?
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And God entertained that possibility?
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There's a whole way of life that flows out of Cain going west of Nod or north of Nod, or south of Nod or southwest of Nod or not even Nod at all.
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He went over to this place that had nothing to do with Nod, and every possibility that you could form in your life has consequences.
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I mean, if you decide to be five minutes late going to Walmart, it has consequences because you're going to run into a whole different set of people than you would have if you'd have been five minutes earlier.
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All of those interactions, whether they're actually there or not.
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Your spirit is in proximity with a whole bunch of people and when you got there and when you didn't get there, or if you didn't go at all, god covered all of that.
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You can't imagine how many of those there are.
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I mean, there's just zeros and zeros and zeros of how many possibilities, zeros and zeros and zeros of how many possibilities.
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It's a good thing that God was out of time, because he needed all of that out of time stuff to do that.
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He formed the seed and he formed all the riches and glory to go with it, and the center of both of them is the same mystery that is above all mysteries, that was hidden from the people in times past but has been brought to the revelation of the saints in this time, and that is Christ in you, the hope of glory, god in you beaming forth the light of the gospel of glory and the knowledge of how to manage the glory.
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And when God saw that he had done this and it was all good.
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He said, let it be.
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And it was Praise the Lord, hallelujah.
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And in the fullness of time, god brought forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law.
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And what did he place?
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What did the Holy Spirit place in Mary?
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The seed.
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And that seed had everything in it that was predestined to bring Jesus as God-man into the earth and changed forever how God is.
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You're going to say what?
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God had never been a God-man before.
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He had been God, but when he came to earth and took on the form of Jesus, he took on a different form.
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God is now God man.
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If you get it, listen, if you get into, well, there's God the father, and he's not.
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And there's Jesus, the son, and he is.
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And there's God the spirit, and he's not either, because he's all Spirit.
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You're going to get into dividing God into three separate gods and you're going to get into big theological trouble.
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Hear O Israel, this, the Lord, thy God, is one God, hallelujah.
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Not many gods, not even three gods, but one God.
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And that God has taken up a new form called God-man.
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Not many gods, not even three gods, but one God.
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And that God has taken up a new form called God-man, and that form has a body that can contain all of those that come into him by faith.
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By receiving him, he was sent to his own and his own received him not, but to them who received him he gave the power to become the sons of God, because we are brothers to the elder brother Jesus.
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If we are brothers to Jesus, amen.
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We have to be born the same way he is.
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Our spirits have to enter Somebody help me here.
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Our spirits have to enter into a womb, because God didn't make covenant with angels.
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God made covenant with flesh.
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He told Abraham this.
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He said when he taught Abraham the covenant of circumcision, he said these words and these words are remarkable words.
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He said the covenant must be in the flesh.
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Why?
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Because God is going to be a God who dwells in a body that once was flesh, and because he wants to do that, he is going to produce in you something that is unlike anything that has ever been.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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They don't teach you this in the Baptist Sunday school.
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You've never heard.
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You've never even heard.
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You don't even hear this on television.
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Nobody's going to talk like this.
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Why?
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Because funerals are big business.
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Baptizing babies are big business.
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We get into.
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You know it starts here and it ends here, and the church is right there for you, brother, all the days in between.
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Well, where were you before and where are you going to be after?
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Because the place I'm going in Jesus has no Baptists, has no Methodists, has no Presbyterians, has no Charismatics, doesn't even have any Pentecostals.
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And they, sure enough, weren't there before.
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Or Adam would have started the first church of in the garden.
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I wish I could preach Hallelujah, hallelujah, wish I could preach Hallelujah.
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See, when we were created in God, we were undivided from God.
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We were in Him.
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The Bible says we were in Christ Jesus before the foundations of the earth.
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But the knowledge of the glory has to come to you by means of the Holy Ghost, by means of this ministry, this spirit of ministry, this spirit of glory.
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His responsibility is to quicken you and make you become a son of glory, make you become a person who knows the glory, who has a knowledge of how it works and a knowledge of what God has done and is doing to manifest his glory.
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We have an earnest expectation that God is going to show up, not the still quiet voice, but the glory of God is going to manifest, you go?
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Well, that could be very inconvenient, most certainly.
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Ask Peter.
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I mean, he's walking down the.
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He's walking down.
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Just imagine this.
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I'm going someplace with this.
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You can just imagine it.
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Peter's going down the street and people are just falling out into the power of God.
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They're shrieking as demons are coming out.
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They're you know they're.
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They're getting healed and shouting and dancing.
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Lame people are are standing up and walking.
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People that can't speak are speaking and praising God.
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People that can't hear are all of a sudden going.
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I'm hearing God, I'm hearing the voice.
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What is this?
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Peter's just walking down the street.
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Chaos, holy Ghost, chaos.
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It's just.
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You know.
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People are just all over the place.
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They're scrambling to get under the shadow.
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But I've told you what God told me.
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He said that what I'm going to do with my people in these days will make Peter's shadow look like a Sunday school picnic.
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You won't have to get under the shadow.
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All you need to do is get in some proximity.
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You need to start listen.
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You need to start believing this that not only are you going to be healed, but all of your neighbors are going to be healed just because you're there.
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You don't have to go.
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I mean, we've been taught this, I've participated, I've led people doing it.
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You don't have to go knock on doors.
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Do you have anything we can pray for?
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Do you have any felt needs?
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I never did understand what a felt need was.
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Is that like a piece of felt that you put on a table or something?
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Boy, I'm stepping all over her toes right now.
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Do you have any felt needs?
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Boy, I'm stepping all over her toes right now.
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Do you have any felt needs?
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Or, if we have any unfelt needs today, we're going to unspoken request.
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Do we have any unfelt needs today?
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Oh Jesus, would somebody help me?
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I could, just I could, just I could.
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I'm going to do that the next time I'm in somebody's church.
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Do we have any unfelt needs today?
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How would you know?
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There you go.
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That's good, praise, god.
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Well, we just blew off that train of thought altogether, hallelujah.