Jan. 20, 2025

Who Is This King of Glory: Jacob and His Transformation - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 39c

Who Is This King of Glory: Jacob and His Transformation - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 39c

Send us a text What if our modern lives are filled with idols we don't even recognize? Join us in this enlightening episode as we unravel the profound insights of Psalm 24, emphasizing the critical need to consider the context and speaker in our biblical studies. We draw parallels with relatable analogies like the Oreo cookie, focusing on the context ofscripture rather than isolating select verses. By examining the historical significance of King David's era and the temple mount, we aim to un...

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What if our modern lives are filled with idols we don't even recognize? Join us in this enlightening episode as we unravel the profound insights of Psalm 24, emphasizing the critical need to consider the context and speaker in our biblical studies. We draw parallels with relatable analogies like the Oreo cookie, focusing on the context ofscripture rather than isolating select verses. By examining the historical significance of King David's era and the temple mount, we aim to uncover deeper meanings within this prophecy. This episode challenges traditional interpretations and highlights how understanding the full context can transform our spiritual journeys.

As we progress, we delve into the thought-provoking questions David poses, such as "Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?" This exploration reveals the unique nature of David's anointing and the spiritual law that transcends the Mosaic Law, hinting at the priesthood of the order of Melchizedek. We also share a compelling narrative about a powerful storm that threatened Florida, emphasizing the impact of prayer and the significance of maintaining spiritual purity in a world riddled with distractions. Our discussion critiques modern idolatry, particularly through social media, and the importance of letting the Holy Spirit guide us away from these modern-day pitfalls.

Our journey doesn't end there. We dive into the spiritual odyssey of biblical figures like Jacob, urging listeners to seek genuine connections with God rather than mere material blessings. Through personal stories and biblical examples, we highlight the transformative power of intercessory prayer and the authority believers carry in aligning with divine purpose. From Jacob's transformative vow at Bethel to the concept of the "generation of Jacob," we explore visions of heavenly ladders and the spiritual strength needed to overcome darkness. Tune in for a captivating exploration of faith, spirituality, and the divine power that lies within us all.

00:00 - Understanding Psalm 24 Context

04:19 - The Qualifications for God's Presence

21:28 - Protecting Florida From Catastrophe

38:47 - Seeking God's Face Over His Hand

51:28 - Jacob's Journey to Understanding Destiny

01:07:24 - The Generation of Jacob and Gates

01:22:15 - Heavenly Vision and Intercessory Prayer

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Well.

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Praise the Lord.

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Hallelujah, Glory to God.

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Thank you, jesus, thank you, lord.

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I want you to turn in your Bibles, please, to Psalm the 24th chapter.

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Psalms the 24th chapter.

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Praise God.

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One of the most important things that you can learn about studying your Bible is to pay attention to who is speaking and to whom the word is going is directed.

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In other words, you have to know what the conversation is and you have to know the context of it all.

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You just can't I've said this many times, you'll you'll no doubt hear it again many times and that is, you can't cherry pick verses.

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You just can't go to a verse because you like it and it sounds good, and you go.

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I'm just going to put my whole life into that one verse without knowing the context around that verse, because you may be completely misunderstanding what the verse is trying to say Amen.

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Now, I'm not saying that one verse.

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God can't say one verse to you because he has and he does.

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I know that's true, but I also know that he doesn't take verses out of context when he does that.

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Amen.

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I've taught you this.

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It's the Oreo cookie principle.

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Amen.

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You just can't take an Oreo cookie and rip it apart and lick the cream out of the middle.

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Don't look at me like.

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You never did that.

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We all have done that, amen.

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That's one of the great things about being kids.

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You take it apart and you just lick the thing and then you know, if you want to eat the chocolate part, dunk them in milk, you can do that, but you haven't messed it up with the cream, you know.

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You know, if you want to eat the chocolate part, dunk them in milk, you can do that, but you haven't messed it up with the cream.

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You know.

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You know the drill.

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I mean, they've been around for a long time, praise God.

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But you can't do that.

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You can't do that with the Bible.

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If you want to get to the cream, you have to eat what came before it and you have to eat what comes after it Hallelujah, hallelujah came before it, and you have to eat what comes after it, hallelujah.

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We're going to pay real close attention today as we go through this precious, precious prophecy of the prophet David, amen.

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Who's speaking?

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What's going on?

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And you're going to be surprised at what the Bible says is going on.

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You don't have to take my word for it.

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So let's start in verse 3 of chapter 24, where it starts with a question who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?

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Now, this would be the temple mount.

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This is where the temple was constructed or would be constructed.

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At the time of David, that David was alive, the tabernacle was still erected on the threshing floor of Obed-Edom, in the general vicinity of where the temple would be erected.

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Amen, and David was asking this question who may ascend up into the holy mountain or into the hill of the Lord, or who may stand in his holy place?

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Now the question sounds like a legitimate question.

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Is there a requirement?

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Is there a prerequisite?

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Is there something that I need to know if I want to go up into this place, that I need to be aware of so that I don't make the mistake of Aaron's children, aaron's sons, who took the strange fire from the altar of from somewhere else because it was convenient, and lit the altar of incense when the commandment was that that fire had to come from the altar of sacrifice or the brazen altar and nowhere else.

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When they took the strange fires the Bible calls it or a fire from some other place, and they tried to light the coals on the altar of incense, a flame came out from behind the curtain from the presence of the Lord and consumed them.

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You don't want that to happen, right?

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So the question came to me why does David by the Holy Ghost?

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Because we know that when David speaks in the book of Psalms he speaks by the Holy Ghost, because Jesus said so.

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Jesus, talking about Psalm 110, he said David, speaking by the Spirit, said this.

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And so we know that Jesus said that when David spoke in the book of Psalms he was speaking by the spirit.

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So we know this that David was speaking by the spirit.

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He asked this question who may ascend into the hill of the Lord or who may stand in his holy place?

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Actually, two questions.

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My question, the question that the Lord asked me, is why did David, speaking by the Spirit, ask this question?

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Because at the time, the people of Israel were still under the law of Moses and the law of Moses was real specific about this.

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Amen, there's no doubt as to what the answer is.

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So if David by the Spirit is asking a question to which everybody should already know the answer is so.

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If David by the Spirit is asking a question to which everybody should already know the answer, then what's the point?

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Why would God go to all this trouble to ask a question to which everybody already knows the answer, and God does not do that.

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You might as well write this down as a note to remember.

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When God asks you a question, he's not looking for information, he's looking to get you a revelation.

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Amen, I'm going to say that again, so you get it.

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When God asks you a question, he's not asking for information.

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Case in point he asked Cain, where is your brother?

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Cain gives him an answer like you know?

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How should I know?

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Am I my brother's keeper?

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And then God lets him know that he knows exactly what happened.

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The earth is crying out with the blood of your brother's Abel.

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So you know, when God asks you a question, don't be trying to be the smart guy and come up with the answer.

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Best thing to say is I don't know, lord, obviously, or you wouldn't be asking me this, so you're going to tell me what I need to know, or we're going to play 20 questions here.

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Glory to God.

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So when God asks this question, who can ascend unto the hill of the Lord or who can stand in the holy place?

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Amen.

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He's not asking for the answer that comes from the law, because that was already stated, only Aaron, only the sons of Aaron, only the offspring of Aaron, only the highest levels of the Levitical priesthood could go into this place, and the high priest was the only one that could actually go into the most holy place.

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Are you hearing?

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In the days of the father of Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, the Bible says that he was ministering before the altar of incense.

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Hey, that was a very high position, which tells you that John the Baptist was a Levite of a high position, most likely even the rightful high priest.

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That would be just like God.

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But anyway, you know that his father was, and that meant that John the Baptist would be, because he was ministering at the altar of incense.

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Not everybody got to do that under the law of Moses.

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Praise God, are you with me so far?

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So only the priesthood of Aaron could enter the holy place and only a high priest could enter the most holy place.

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So why is God asking this question?

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That's a good that.

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Why is God asking this question?

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That's a good question.

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Now, what follows is how David and the Holy Ghost answer that question.

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And it tells you right away that they're not talking about the law of Moses, they're talking about a different law.

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They're talking about the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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I can't, I'm not going to go through all of this again.

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I've been, we've been through this numerous times.

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But David, even though he was the king of Israel and even though he was under the law of Moses, he was not anointed king by the priest of the Aaron priesthood.

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You've heard all this, but I'm going to refresh your memory because it's important.

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David was anointed king by Samuel.

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Samuel was the high priest over Israel in the days of David's kingship, or at least the early parts of it, was he not?

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However, samuel was not of Aaron.

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Samuel was not a Levite.

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Samuel was of Ephraim, of Joseph.

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He was not of Aaron.

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He had literally, he had no right to be the high priest.

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However, eli and his sons were corrupt.

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They were not up to what was about to happen in Israel, and God needed somebody to step up into the kingship that Saul was going to abandon because of his various disobediences and that Eli was incapable of mustering up enough attention to get it done.

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So God brought another high priest in, not according to a bloodline of Aaron, but according to the bloodline of God through Melchizedek.

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You're not hearing me, if God bypasses Aaron, he's only got one other priest.

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Somebody help me here.

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You know God doesn't have this bushel basket of priesthoods running around.

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Okay, there was a priesthood, according to Melchizedek, that was on the earth in the days of Abraham, in the days of Isaac, in the days of Jacob, amen, who had a priesthood centered in Jerusalem, and somebody needed to go and redeem Jerusalem from the possession of the Jebusites and restore the stronghold of Melchizedek.

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Aaron had never been the priest in Jerusalem.

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He would never be the priest in Jerusalem, amen.

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Now, when, when Samuel was anointed as high priest, he was.

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He could not be the high priest According to Aaron.

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He had to be the high priest According to a different priesthood.

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There's only one other priesthood and that's the priesthood of Melchizedek.

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So when, now, what?

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How do I know?

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This happened Because Samuel was called to be a priest not according to the bloodline of Adam through Aaron, but according to the bloodline of Melchizedek, which is by the spirit of life.

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And he called Samuel by his word.

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And listen, here's the key.

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Samuel responded to the word of God by saying here am I, lord.

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So what happened?

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The word came and the word was obeyed.

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What does that equal Faith.

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This is a priesthood of faith, not of bloodline obedience.

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That means it's of Melchizedek and not of Aaron.

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It is of Melchizedek and not of the law.

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Melchizedek only ministered under one law, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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Because he was Jesus.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Just get on and listen to the messages.

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This is preached continually through almost every message, because there has to be a revolution of how we see the things of God, going all the way back into Abraham and beyond.

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We have to see it differently than what we've been taught.

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We have been taught Sunday school version of what has been going on since Abraham, amen.

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And so we don't know anything.

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You would be shocked.

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I mean, you look at me like you've never heard this stuff and you've heard this stuff.

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Some people have never heard these things.

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Some people have never read the book of Hebrews, and yet Paul regarded it as the bookends of his most important works.

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Romans on one end, hebrews on the other, corinthians, galatians in the middle.

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Glory to God, somebody help me preach.

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So this is what the Holy Ghost says is the answer to that question.

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The one who can go into the holy place is the one who has clean hands and a pure heart, has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully.

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He shall receive the blessing of the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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So see, this has nothing to do with Aaron, has nothing to do with Moses, has nothing to do with the law Amen.

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It has to do with how the Holy Spirit measures your life in terms of the law, of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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How do you measure up?

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So we don't measure ourselves according to the law, but most Christians do.

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We don't measure ourselves up against what the Old Testament says, what the law of Moses says, but most Christians do, because that's what they're taught.

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I'm going to tell you this Most Christians live a double standard of being measured up against the law of Moses in the Old Testament and the law of the gospel in the New.

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I'm not talking about the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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I'm talking about taking the written word of the New Testament and turning it into a law written on stone and not written on hearts.

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See, you can be as much under the law in the gospel as you can under the law of Moses if you look at the gospel without the spirit of life.

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I mean, you know, there are people that before the Holy Ghost was poured out at Azusa Street, I mean they were just all over the New Testament and turned it into a new law of Moses.

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It's real easy to do because the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life, amen.

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If you take anything in this Bible and you don't put the Spirit in it and you just read the letter, you don't have life.

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Spirit in it, amen.

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And you just read the letter, you don't have life.

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The Spirit gives life.

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Everybody say the Spirit giveth life.

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The words that I speak to you, jesus said they are Spirit and they are life.

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They're just not letter.

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See, everybody's got.

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Everybody in this room has a Bible with the sayings of Jesus written in red, amen.

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Just because they're in red, they're not going to jump off the page full of the Holy Ghost on you, amen.

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That doesn't happen unless the Holy Ghost is in what you read and is in you.

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Glory to God.

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I didn't even know what this Bible said until the Holy Ghost got a hold of me and I'd read it several times, but I hadn't read it yet.

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I hadn't read it with his eyes.

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I mean, I couldn't tell you, if I said 100, it would be short.

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If I a hundred, it would be short.

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If I said 900, it'd be short.

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If I said 9,000, it'd probably be short.

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How many times the Lord says you haven't read that yet, read it again?

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I'd read it.

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He go, you haven't read it yet, read it again.

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What he was trying to get me to know is I hadn't read it with his eyes yet.

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I was reading it with the eyes of Adam and not the eyes of Jesus.

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Well, somebody, help me preach and just say amen every once in a while, just to know you're awake, wave at me or do something.

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You're not going to sleep through this.

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I'm going to tell you that.

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I'll come back here and shout at you Hallelujah.

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But if you live in the realm of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, by definition you're going to have clean hands and you're going to have a pure heart, because Jesus is going to see to it.

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Tell me how you're going to have defiled hands and a defiled heart if the Spirit of Jesus lives in you.

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See, that goes back to that point we made several long time ago.

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You know, you're not a sinner, saved by grace.

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You might have been a sinner as you approached your salvation, I got no doubt about that.

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Amen.

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I'm like Paul.

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I can, I can testify I was pretty chief in that regard, amen.

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But when Jesus came in and filled me with his spirit amen, and took control of this.

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Amen, he took control of those things that would defile me.

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He took control of those things that would defile me.

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He took control of those things that would cause my hands to be dirty in sin and my heart to be impure.

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He took control of that.

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Amen.

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I don't have to worry about being a sinner and being saved by grace.

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What I have to be concerned about is how holy can I get, how righteous can I get in this God?

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How much of this Jesus can I put on?

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How much of me can he put on?

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See, these are the legitimate questions that a really saved, really spirit-filled person asks.

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They don't ask how much can I sin and get away with.

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They don't ask those kind of questions.

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They don't ask those questions of you know, like I'm a sinner, saved by grace, and I've got to be repenting all the time, you are a justified saint of the living God.

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Amen.

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Saint of the living God.

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And justified doesn't only mean just as I've if I had not done it.

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It's a whole different way of life.

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It is living in the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

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And you don't ask the question you know how much can I, how much you know?

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Here's the question everybody wants to know how much can I sin and still slide into heaven?

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That's not the question to ask.

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The question to ask is how much of heaven can get into me now and how much can the kingdom of God that is in me now dominate this world of sin that God has placed me in.

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But expecting me to dominate and not put up with it?

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Hallelujah, you had a choice front row seat this week.

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You had a choice front row seat.

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This week there was a storm sent from hell about to break Tampa and Tampa Bay clear apart If it had hit Tampa at cat-five winds at 190 miles an hour.

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We've seen that at Andrew.

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You know what happened at Andrew.

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Two by fours were impaled into brick walls.

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That's what happens to sustained 190 force winds.

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It'll take two by fours, two by sixes out of the frames of houses that are blown out, catch them in the wind and drive them right through cement.

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That's about what was going to happen with all the debris that was on the streets from the previous hurricane.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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That was on the books.

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Everybody was saying it.

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The mayor of Tampa said if you don't get out, you're going to die.

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The storm was a few I don't know 50, 100 miles offshore, a few I don't know 50, 100 miles offshore.

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And because it was so big this is what science would tell you the far-reaching bands were already across the state of Florida and caused it to weaken.

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It went from Cat 5 to Cat 3.

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I'm not buying that, really.

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I say somebody was praying.

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I know people in that area.

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I preached in a brother's church in that area.

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I know that brother.

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I know others that lived there.

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I know others that got kin there.

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People were praying.

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I said people were praying.

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Not only did that storm diminish in its strength, but it veered.

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It veered off and in doing so it just broke the strength of that storm.

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Now do they have tremendous damage and all that?

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Yes, sure they do, but it's not like it was going to be Because somebody was praying.

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There were people in Florida amen that were not praying like this.

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Oh Lord, if it be your will just send this storm over on my neighbors so that we'll be safe.

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But they might be perished.

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But, glory to God, I'm going to believe that you get them into heaven at the last minute.

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Hallelujah, they didn't pray like that.

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They said peace.

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I said it from back here.

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I said storm, peace, peace, peace.

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People, they were doing it, peace.

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Knock that thing right off its course.

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Glory to God.

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You know what happened at the devil's headquarters.

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Why does that always happen?

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We had it straight, we had it right on track.

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There wasn't anything they could do about it and all of a sudden it just veered off.

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See, they can never factor in the Holy Ghost.

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Even after it happens, they can't factor in the Holy Ghost.

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Even after it happens, they can't factor in the Holy Ghost.

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Why does it always happen like that?

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Well, I can tell you about it, but you wouldn't believe it Because you have to believe it by faith.

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Glory to God.

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There's a whole bunch of us around.

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I said there's a whole bunch of us around, glory to God.

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People with clean hands and pure hearts who don't back off from this kind of stuff.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Hallelujah, not lifted up his soul to an idol.

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We ministered just a few weeks ago about that, how important it is to keep idols out of your life and how important it is to let God be the one who cleanses you from idols, because you're not qualified.

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You will always listen.

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There's always going to be when Jacob we're going to talk about Jacob here in a minute when Jacob left Laban's house, took Rachel with him.

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What did Rachel have with him?

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Uh-huh, she's kept some idols.

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And then she pulled a big con on her uncle and stashed him in the saddle of her donkey, you know and said I can't get up right now, but later, when Jacob was about to confront Esau, he said we got to get these idols out of here.

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Cleanse these idols out, out, out out.

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You can't be the judge of this.

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You've got to let the Holy Ghost judge what is an idol in your life and be open to his correction.

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He's not trying to kick you out of heaven or anything.

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He's trying to get more of heaven in you.

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And he knows.

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John knew this and he said Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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And then he knew this.

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And he said little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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And then he knew this.

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Praise God, but see, god's not too concerned If you've got, if you had idols and you got rid of them.

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He just wants you to keep yourself from them.

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Not lift up your head or your heart to them, but keep them away.

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Keep them, but keep them away.

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Keep them away.

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Keep them away.

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Let the Holy Ghost keep them away.

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You've not lifted up your soul to an idol, amen.

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So by that, your spirit stays uncontaminated.

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Are you listening to what this preacher is saying?

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Amen.

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Idols are serious business and God made it real simple for the people of Israel.

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You don't get to have any.

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You shall have no other gods before me, not one.

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So they couldn't make.

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They couldn't even make it, they couldn't listen.

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There would be no internet.

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Be no Internet.

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If everybody followed the Ten Commandments, there'd be no Internet.

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What's the Internet all about?

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It's about selfies of you, selfies of you with your dog, selfies of you with your cat, selfies of you.

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You wouldn't be allowed to do that.

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Those would all be graven images, hello, the photography business would just go kaput.

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You wouldn't need cameras on your cell phones.

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You know, glory to God, it's anybody paying attention to me, because the Lord listen.

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You got people out there that can't walk four feet without taking a picture of themselves and put it on.

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You know, for everybody to see.

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Nobody cares.

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Do we not know that by now?

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Nobody cares.

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You know, they go all over the world just to go to some of the most beautiful places that they possibly can and they can't take a picture of that beautiful place without their face in it.

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And I'm thinking nobody wants to see your face.

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Glory to God.

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I went.

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I went to.

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Where was that place?

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We went to Lake Louise Lake.

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Lake Louise, one of the most beautiful places you've ever been, oh my goodness.

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Nestled in the middle of the Canadian Rockies.

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It's a glacier lake.

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It's this beautiful color, turquoise, you know, and all.

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It's just a just.

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I mean, we can't.

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We walked down all those parking lot, we came around this corner like that, and there it is.

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And I said to Sarah, I said I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.

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It was just unbelievable.

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We found out we spent I don't know how long.

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We spent a couple hours, something like that.

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We found out that the average stay is less than 15 minutes, that they get off the tour bus, go down to the edge of the water, get three or four people around, click Okay, that's done, I'm going.

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What's wrong with these people?

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That place was so beautiful.

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We took a ski lift you know ski lift thing in the rain just to get up at an elevation and be able to look down on it.

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It was so cold, oh my goodness.

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Praise God.

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But all that stuff, you know, all those pictures and stuff are all graven images.

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First Commandment says you can't have any of that, so you don't need the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus to keep you away from idols, you just need the Ten Commandments.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, that's how serious God thinks about it.

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But he's after stuff that's a whole lot more subtle than that.

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See, that's the low-hanging fruit.

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He's after the motivation in your heart that would make you want to take a picture of yourself every time you turn around.

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If he took the camera out of your hand and he took the means of broadcasting that stuff out, he still hasn't dealt with the issue that's in your spirit and your soul as to why you would even want to do that.

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Praise God, you want to go to the holy place.

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You know what?

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The holy place is right.

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The holy place is the tent of Sarah, the place where Isaac and Rachel consummated their wedding, where the Christ and his bride consummated their relationship.

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This is what we're talking about here.

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You want to go to the holy place.

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The holy place is where Christ and you consummate their union.

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This is where Jesus becomes one with you and you become one with him and because of that you're going to have your hands clean and you're going to have your heart pure and you're going to be free from idols, because he's going to see to it.

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He is not going to be one with anything that is not pure.

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Now he's not going to let you, he's not going to rely on you to do the purification.

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Amen.

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His name is the purifying fire.

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Amen.

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In Malachi, the third chapter Purifying fire, amen.

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In Malachi, the third chapter, it says this that he is a.

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In Spanish it's just beautiful fuego purificador.

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He is a purifying fire, amen.

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He is going to purify the sons of Levi so that they may offer an offering in righteousness under the law.

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He's not talking about the sons of Levi.

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He's talking about the ones who have transcended that ministry and ended into a whole other ministry, where Jesus is the purifying fire and the righteousness of God is manifesting out of them.

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That never happened to the sons of Levi.

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That never happened to the sons of Aaron.

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They were never purified.

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They were purified by water.

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They were purified by oils.

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They were purified by anointing oils.

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They were purified by all kinds of ceremonial washings, but that didn't make them pure in spirit.

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Hallelujah, it is the Holy Ghost of God, it is the spirit of Jesus that dwells in you.

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Amen.

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That is going to make you pure from the inside out, not from the outside in, that never works but from the inside out.

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He's going to make you a pure vessel that he can be one with.

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Oh Jesus, hallelujah.

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Glory to God.

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Praise the name of the Lord, praise God.

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He said this Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

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Don't be a deceitful.

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Don't be deceitful, don't be deceitful, don't be dishonest.

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Let Jesus purify your speech so that whatever you speak, it's going to be what he wants to speak, hallelujah.

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So you see here that what Jesus is talking about, what the spirit of Jesus is saying through the prophet David, is this If you want to go into this holy place that is on the holy hill, that is the place where Isaac the Christ consummated his relationship with the bride, the church, whose name is Rachel, amen, and made them one.

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You want to do that, then you're going to have to let the spirit of God purify you.

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You're going to have to let the purifying fire that is called Jesus get in your life and produce a radical level of sanctification and living for God.

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Are you hearing me?

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God is so done with playing church.

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I mean, it's getting to be an everyday occurrence that some big somebody thought they were somebody, but they're no more.

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Somebody thought they were somebody, but they're no more.

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Somebody thought they were somebody, but they're no more.

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Somebody thought they were somebody, but they're no more.

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Now it is extremely painful what happens to the sheep, but I'm also going to tell you that all of those voices that are no more had plenty of voices speaking to them in the days and the years before they were no more.

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Had plenty of voices speaking to them in the days and the years before they were no more.

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They could have made adjustments.

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If you think that God just kind of walks in and just that's not how God does business, not with these, not with his chosen vessels, hallelujah.

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But God is tired of playing church.

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He wants a people who hunger and thirst after righteousness, that they may be filled, and their righteousness only comes from God, not from themselves.

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They're not looking to establish their own righteousness, they only want the righteousness that comes from God.

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Amen.

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This psalm is so New Testament.

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Their own righteousness, they only want the righteousness that comes from God, amen.

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This Psalm is so New Testament, amen.

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It is just has nothing to do with the law of Moses.

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But just because it's in the book of Psalms, people want to put it, put it in the law.

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But Jesus didn't even put the book of Psalms in the law when he was explaining the Old Testament to his uncle and the other disciple that was on the road to Emmaus.

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They said the law, the prophets, the Psalms, those are all subdivisions that have their own unique kind of characteristic in the Old Testament.

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Praise God, the righteousness that comes from the God of His salvation.

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Now here's the central point of Psalm 24.

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The main revelation and I almost can guarantee that you've never really thought of this or even heard about it.

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Psalm 24 tells you something that is an absolute necessity for you to learn, by revelation from the Lord this is Jacob, the generation of those who seek him, who seek his face, this is Jacob.

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I said this is Jacob.

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What's Jacob?

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Jacob is the one who meets the qualifications we've just read Clean hands, pure heart, not lifted his soul to an idol, not sworn deceitfully, receives blessings from the Lord and a righteousness from his God.

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Amen, that's Jacob and that's not the man.

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Jacob, that's a generation called Jacob.

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There's a generation called Jacob.

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That is the generation that is going to dwell in the secret place of the Almighty.

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It's the generation that's going to go into the tent of Sarah and live in continual consummation with her king and her bridegroom.

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Amen, there's not one.

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I'll tell you what once you go into the tent of meeting between God and Israel.

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It was the tent of meeting between Isaac and Rachel.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Jacob, who came out of Isaac, who came out of Rachel.

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Would somebody help me preach this?

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Jacob came out of Isaac and out of Rachel.

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He came out of the consummation, came out of the union, came out of what happened in the tent.

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Well, somebody help me preach.

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Glory to God.

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Who seek the Lord, but only seek Him face to face.

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Now here's another characteristic of the modern church they don't seek the Lord face to face, they seek the Lord hand to need.

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Help me, lord, bless me.

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Lord.

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Pay my light bill, lord, pay.

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Help me, lord, bless me.

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Lord, pay my light bill, lord, pay my car note.

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Lord.

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Lord, keep the repo guy away from my door.

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Help me, jesus, heal me, lord, I'm sick.

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Help me buy the groceries.

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We've turned God into a government service program.

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All we ever do is we seek His hand.

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Well, you're in bad trouble, folks, if you live in a country and all you ever do is seek the hand of God.

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Amen, because the day is going to come when God just does this, and when he does that, you can seek His hand all day long and you're going to be turned away.

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Amen, because he wants a people who will seek him face to face, long way away from his hand.

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They have learned that if they seek him and seek his face, everything that is promised by his hand is already delivered.

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Oh yeah, see, they learned that.

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Oh yeah, see, they learned that.

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They learned that, and all that made them do is just draw in closer Glory to God.

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When are we going to learn this, folks, that you're going to receive much more from God if you don't bring it up and you just love Him.

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You just adore Him.

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You just adore Him.

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You just honor Him.

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You do what Rachel did to Isaac, what Christ does and what the church does to Christ.

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I mean you honor Him, you respect Him, you love Him.

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This is what he wants from you.

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He doesn't want you.

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You know, help me, help me, help me, and then run out and do whatever you want once you get blessed.

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He's not after that, he's after a whole deeper relationship that he calls seeking his face.

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The generation of Jacob is that generation.

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They are marked by seeking his face and not his hand.

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Glory to God.

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So this all leads us to a second question.

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I've got a feeling I'm not going to get done.

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Anyway, praise the Lord.

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The second question is this why did the Lord say this is the generation, this is Jacob, the generation of those that seek the Lord, who seek his face?

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Why did he not say this is Israel?

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Because he had changed Jacob's name to Israel.

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So why did he not use the name of Israel?

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If you read slowly enough and let the Lord just minister to you, as you read, you'll hear him asking these questions.

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He'll ask you these kinds of questions and when he asks you those kinds of questions, there is an opportunity for revelation.

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So I'd been invited to come with my apostle to a prayer conference in Buenos Aires, argentina.

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For those of you that know how much I dislike flying airplanes, you know Buenos Aires is not a convenient puddle jump.

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It's 11 hours out of Miami.

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It takes three hours to get to Miami.

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It's 11 hours nonstop.

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It's one of those kind of flights.

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I don't know if you've ever been on these flights, but you get on these flights and they've got the little picture of the plane flying.

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You know, and you wonder.

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You know I think I'm going to take a nap because this little plane's not moving.

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So I'm going to take a nap.

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Maybe it'll move a little bit after when I wake up.

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You know you're out somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean or someplace out there and you go the Atlantic Ocean or someplace out there and you go.

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There's no land anywhere.

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It doesn't help if there's land.

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It takes 11 hours to fly from London to Joburg in South Africa.

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That is a really long flight.

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Glory to God.

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Buenos Aires is a long way away, amen.

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But we went down there and I broke one rule.

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I brushed my teeth by passing my toothbrush under the tap water.

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One time I had the worst case of strep throat.

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I've ever had.

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Just one infraction, Just one.

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So I'm on the airplane coming home.

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I can hardly swallow my throat's raw, I feel terrible.

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And I'm reading and I come across Psalm 24.

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And I felt like the Ethiopian eunuch in the chariot with Philip.

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I get to this point about the generation of Jacob and the Lord says do you understand what you just read?

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I felt like the Ethiopian eunuch when Philip ran up and said do you understand what you're reading?

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I said well, lord, I probably don't, or you wouldn't have asked me that question.

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I was going to come home, spend a couple of days and then where was I going after that?

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Mexico, I think.

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I was going to Mexico and I was doing a conference down there.

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He said I want you to preach this message.

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I said I don't have the revelation of it yet, lord, I just got here.

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He said I'm going to give it to you.

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I'm sitting there in this airplane with strep throat, can't swallow.

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I'm at 35,000 feet.

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I would really just rather be almost anywhere.

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I'm at 35,000 feet, I would really just rather be almost anywhere.

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And God wants to give me the revelation that I need to preach.

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The next, the next conference, which I was going to try to get out of, but obviously the Lord had a different plan.

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You couldn't possibly believe the the opposition I got in bringing forth that word or whenever I preached it Hallelujah, you want, you, try, you, try you.

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You ought to.

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You ought to see the look on pastor's faces when I try, when I start taking big sections of the old Testament out of the old Testament and putting into the new Testament.

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They were they.

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This guy was operating under a completely different revelation.

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He was not under the revelation of Moses, he was under the revelation of Jesus, 700 years before.

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I don't care when he lived, he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, amen, hallelujah.

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He was in a different place.

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Isaiah was like that.

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I mean Isaiah, you know, david, david, david.

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I don't think David spent one day under the law.

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I mean he was just 15, 16 years old when Samuel got a hold of him.

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He didn't have enough.

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He was out killing bears and lions.

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He didn't care anything about Moses.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Why Jacob and not Israel?

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A lot of that has to do with when Jacob became Israel and he became Israel after his 20-year sojourn with his uncle Laban.

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You remember the story and the name Jacob in Hebrew means supplanter or deceiver, amen, and it kind of describes the way Jacob lived for the first.

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However many years it was that he lived in Isaac's house until he went to Laban to get away from Esau, because Esau wanted to kill him because not only had he stolen his birthright but now he had stolen his father's blessing.

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You know how the story goes.

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With all that stuff, he got Esau to sell the birthright for a bowl of porridge and then he put on the furry arm things and the fake smell and all that kind of stuff.

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He couldn't disguise his voice, but you know, isaac was old, he was really frantic to give away the blessing.

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You remember the story.

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So once Esau came in, found out he'd been cheated Now two times.

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He was hot, he was hot under the collar, he was going to get his brother, he was going to cut him into pieces and he was going to get the birthright back and the blessing back.

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Rachel goes out and says Jacob, get out of here, don't marry any of the Canaanite women.

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Don't stop, don't play, don't do anything, don't even look at them.

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They're the wrong bloodstream, wrong bloodline.

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Get out of here, go back to Syria, go back to your uncle Laban, marry somebody in his house.

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So here goes Jacob.

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He went into Syria as a deceiver, amen, but he came back into Canaan 20 years later, highly blessed, prosperous but humble.

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But, most importantly, he picked up a wife named Rachel, and by Rachel and Leah his bloodline was protected from Canaanite perversion, the way Esau's had been corrupted.

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And we know what happened with the Amorites they were full of giants, full of demonic influence, full of the seed of Satan.

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Amen and Jacob had to go to Syria and, even if it cost him 20 years to have Leah and Rachel as his wives, he had to pay the price.

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He did that, and so what Jacob is is a name of a man who is in process, a man of God who is in the process of transformation.

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See, when he left the house of Isaac, he was not prepared, nor had he qualified, to receive the name of Israel.

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Israel means prince of nations.

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He was no more prince of nations than a pig could fly.

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He was a liar, he was a cheat.

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He was a liar.

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He was a cheat.

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Let's be real.

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He didn't even know the God of Isaac who he called the fear of Isaac.

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He didn't even know him, the way he was about to learn to know him.

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Let me read you something here in I believe it's the 25th chapter of the book of Genesis, hallelujah In the 28th chapter.

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I'm sorry, you know the story.

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When Jacob, the first night that Jacob pulled out away from the tents of Isaac, he stayed in a place called Luz, and you know the story.

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He fell asleep and he had a dream of this ladder it's called Jacob's ladder of this ladder that went up from where he was.

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He had laid his head on a stone and he went up the ladder, went up from that stone up into heaven.

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Angels were ascending and descending and God was at the top of the ladder and he made himself known.

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He said I am the Lord of Lord, god of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac.

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And then he promised him essentially the same promise that he'd given to Abraham and to Isaac concerning the possession of the land that would become called Israel Amen.

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And Jacob awoke verse 16, from his sleep.

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He said Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.

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He was afraid and said now, notice that I, the Lord, was in this place.

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The Lord is in this place and I didn't know it.

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So he didn't know the Lord yet Surely the Lord is in this place, the Lord is in this place and I didn't know it.

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So he didn't know the Lord yet.

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Surely the Lord is in this place.

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And he was afraid and said how awesome is this place?

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There is none other.

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This is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven.

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So Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone that he had put his head, set it up as a pillar, so early in the morning, took the stone that he had put his head, set it up as a pillar, poiled oil on top of it and called the place Bethel or the house of God.

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Then Jacob made a vow.

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Now, this vow is very important because it tells you that Jacob, at this point, did not know this God, but made a vow to get to know him.

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If God will be with me and keep me in this way that I am going, give me bread to eat and clothing to put on so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God and the stone that I have set up as a pillar shall be God's house.

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And of all that you give me, I will surely give a tenth to you.

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Now this sounds real religious, but when you tear this thing apart, there's a lot of ifs If God will do this, if God will do this, if God will do this, then I'll do this and I'll do this and I'll do this.

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Amen.

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Because he didn't know him yet.

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But that's all right.

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The journey had started.

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It was important for God that once he got out of Abraham's covering, that God became his covering and he revealed himself to Jacob and he showed himself to Jacob and Jacob began to see how this God worked and God began to speak to him.

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And the next 20 years was a journey.

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Jacob is the name of a man who saw the heavens open, the angels descending and ascending, and he was at a point where he had to walk away from the deception that he'd used.

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See, he knew Rachel had told him that he was the chosen one, but instead of waiting on God to manifest it, he decided he would take matters into his own hands and cheated his brother, lied to him, deceived his father, amen.

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And I don't know how he expected to get anything out of this, but that's what he was expecting.

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He was fortunate, blessed in the sense that God was merciful to him, but he didn't yet know God and he did not yet know that using deception and stealth to obtain destiny was not the way of God, amen.

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I've known a lot of preachers in my day that they've had words of God spoken on them that would literally thrust them forth into a mighty destiny in God.

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But they did not rely on God all the days of their life.

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They relied on their trickery, they relied on their scheming, on their business, on their whatever, and God will put up with it for a while.

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He did it with Jacob.

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But it would be best if you learn quickly that that's not the way of destiny.

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Destiny has its own way of working out, amen, which is why it is so important to know what you are called to do and plow into it with everything you've got and just stay there.

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If it's not part of your calling, don't mess with it.

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You know, if it's not, my wife will tell you this.

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You know, if we have this rule, if it's inside the house, it's her calling, if it's outside the house, it's my calling.

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And if we start to mess with each other's calling, bad things happen.

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You know, I'll sit there and listen to her describe how I should build this thing, one thing or another, and I'm sitting there.

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That wouldn't work in a thousand years, you know.

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But you know, I just let her go on.

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I said, do you remember the rule?

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And I'll start to tell her how to organize her closet.

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And you know, don't do that, ruben.

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You know you need to know what you're called to do, so that you know what to do.

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And you know what, not what to do.

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Amen, praise God, hallelujah.

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But even though Jacob knew what he was going to, what the calling of God was on his life, he figured he's going to help God along a little bit Wrong, wrong and double wrong, amen, hallelujah.

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But in his desperation he decided he was going to trust him, place his life in his hands.

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Amen.

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And most importantly, somebody needs to hear this he promised to give a tithe of all Of all.

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Jacob had a son somewhere down the generations by the name of David.

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David taught this to his son, solomon.

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Honor the Lord with the first fruitsruits of all your increase.

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Most people only tithe on what they earn.

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A lot of people will only tithe on what they receive.

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They don't even tithe on what they earn.

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They just tithe on what the net is after taxes and all that other stuff.

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Amen.

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That's not what the Lord says.

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He says he wants a tithe off of all of your increase, and that's what Jacob promised.

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You don't know how far that will carry you with the Lord.

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You have no idea.

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When you make that kind of promise to God to give him a tithe off of all your increase, amen, amen, hallelujah, you don't know Well.

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Praise the Lord.

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Israel, on the other hand, is the name of a destiny that has been activated and stepped into 20 years later, when Jacob is going back to his homeland.

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He's got his wives, he's got his concubines, he's got his children, he's got grandchildren, he's got cattle, he's got oxen, he's got camels, he's got goats, he's got sheep, he's got this multitude of people.

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And he's going back over to where he came from, amen.

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And he's going back over to where he came from Amen, after spending 20 years of almost constant disappointment and being jerked around by his uncle Laban.

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You know the story said work for me for seven years and I'll give you Rachel.

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Jacob said that was just like an afternoon in the spring.

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It just went by so fast, except that night, on his wedding night.

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He woke up and it wasn't Rachel that was in his bed.

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It was Leah.

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He went into Laban and he said what's this?

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I didn't bargain for Leah.

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I don't love her, I love Rachel.

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Well, you know that probably wasn't the best thing that Leah wanted to hear, amen.

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But anyway.

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Laban says well, give me seven more years and I'll give you Leah and her maid.

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So Jacob bargains for seven more years and at the end of 14 years he wants to go and Laban won't let him go.

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By this time he's got this huge household and all these kids and everything going on and Laban puts this.

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So Jacob says okay, I know how to fix this situation.

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You know the story.

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He made arrangement with Laban that they would divide the sheep and the goats according to color and if all the white ones go to you, uncle, and I'll keep all the speckled ones and colored ones.

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Except that Jacob knew something about raising livestock that Laban didn't know, and he knew how to make them conceive and he was under the blessing of the Lord and he knew how to separate the weak ones from the strong ones and only let the strong ones reproduce.

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So at the end of the seven years he had this huge multitude of stuff and Laban didn't have hardly anything.

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Laban wasn't happy, so Jacob had to sneak out in the middle of the night, sent his boys after him.

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You know the story, anyway.

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Jacob goes back and the night before he's about to meet Esau, he has this other visitation and God speaks to him and then they start to wrestle.

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And Jacob wrestles with God until God at the break of dawn says you got to let me go.

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He says I'll not let you go until you bless me.

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And he blessed him and he gave him a new name.

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He said your name will be Israel, not Jacob.

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Israel is the name of a destiny that has been activated and is now in process of being completed.

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For 20 years Jacob worked toward his destiny but never stepped into it.

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Really, he was working for somebody else.

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Now he's about to start working for himself.

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Almost as soon as he gets back, isaac dies, jacob's going to be the head of the family.

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Esau's got his own nation that will be named after him Edom.

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This is about to take a dramatic change, because over those 20 years Jacob had learned a thing or two about God.

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He had come to know his God.

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The Bible says in the book of Daniel that they that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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More than that, jacob had learned to be humble.

01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:50.019
He was proud, spiteful, deceitful when he was a young boy, but he had learned to be humble, and he humbled himself before his brother, esau.

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He had not only learned to tithe in those years, but he had learned to bring a peace offering, which again illustrated his humility.

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And he had learned that, even though he would be willing to give Esau a substantial part of his wealth, god was able to restore it.

01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:10.871
He had learned some things about God.

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Israel was the name of a man who had the audacity to wrestle with God, and yet that wasn't the name that God gave this generation.

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He called it the generation of Jacob, not the generation of Israel, because this is a generation in process.

01:01:32.398 --> 01:01:58.240
It's a generation that is learning to seek only the face of God and forget about all the stuff, because one of the heart key scriptures in the Gospels is seek ye first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

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So seeking the face of God has an automatic byproduct you just get all the stuff because he can trust you to manage it.

01:02:08.778 --> 01:02:14.101
Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah.

01:02:17.152 --> 01:02:26.518
Jacob is a generation independent of time, dependent on divine relationship.

01:02:26.518 --> 01:02:38.762
Jacob is a generation outside of time that is constantly being defied by its relationship with the Christ.

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Amen, they're con.

01:02:40.813 --> 01:02:43.579
You know, jacob came out of the tent of Sarah.

01:02:43.579 --> 01:02:46.996
He's always trying to get back into the tent of Sarah.

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He's always trying to get back into that place of relationship with Isaac, the Christ.

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Do you follow this?

01:02:54.137 --> 01:02:58.711
In the Old Testament, jesus was in the body.

01:02:58.711 --> 01:03:01.253
He embodied Melchizedek.

01:03:01.253 --> 01:03:13.052
But in terms of type and shadow, isaac is Jesus, amen, the best example of Jesus in the Old Testament.

01:03:13.052 --> 01:03:17.449
And Rachel is the perfect type of the church.

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It was designed by God to be that way.

01:03:20.547 --> 01:03:22.012
Hallelujah.

01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:26.429
Israel is a people, not a person.

01:03:26.429 --> 01:03:27.746
Israel is a people.

01:03:27.746 --> 01:03:31.659
Israel, by definition, means prince of many nations.

01:03:31.659 --> 01:03:37.748
So when God spoke to Jacob about being Israel, he was talking about the destiny of his people.

01:03:37.748 --> 01:03:41.500
That destiny had been activated.

01:03:41.500 --> 01:03:42.963
That destiny had been.

01:03:42.963 --> 01:03:50.050
It was an appointed prophetic destiny and it was placed into time when it was activated.

01:03:50.050 --> 01:03:51.072
Amen.

01:03:51.072 --> 01:03:58.505
There is always a generation of Jacob, because that generation of Jacob now lives in the church.

01:03:58.505 --> 01:04:03.768
Amen, but Israel is a people.

01:04:03.768 --> 01:04:05.925
Now, how do I know that's true?

01:04:05.925 --> 01:04:08.588
And why does that make any difference to you?

01:04:08.588 --> 01:04:12.646
Because at the very beginning, somebody say first words.

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First words are important words.

01:04:16.340 --> 01:04:35.644
At the very beginning of the ministry of Jesus, recorded in the Gospel of John, nathanael is found to be under a tree, under a fig tree, and they bring him, said come, there's a man from Nazareth, he's the Messiah.

01:04:35.644 --> 01:04:38.829
Nathaniel says can anything good come out of Nazareth?

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His brother says come and see.

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So they came and see, and so Jesus, when he saw Nathaniel, started to prophesy, and he was prophesying about the generation of Jacob.

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Listen to this.

01:04:53.711 --> 01:05:01.289
Nathanael answered and said to him after Jesus said I saw you under the fig tree.

01:05:01.289 --> 01:05:10.925
Nathanael answered him and said to him Rabbi, you are the son of God, you are the king of Israel, and there's the name of Israel right there.

01:05:10.925 --> 01:05:12.451
Watch this now.

01:05:12.451 --> 01:05:18.853
Jesus said to him, because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree.

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Do you believe?

01:05:20.525 --> 01:05:25.090
You shall see greater things than these?

01:05:25.090 --> 01:05:30.329
He wasn't just talking to Daniel, he was starting to prophesy Amen.

01:05:30.329 --> 01:05:43.559
He was starting to prophesy to the generation of Jacob, not the generation of Israel, because as soon as Nathanael started talking about the king of Israel, jesus turned it.

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He turned it on a dime.

01:05:44.943 --> 01:05:48.661
He said you're going to start, you're going to see greater things than these.

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Watch Most assuredly, I say to you hereafter you shall see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man, not upon a stone, not upon a place where Jacob had laid his head, but a place where Jacob had buried his life.

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He had buried his life in the son of man that was called Jesus.

01:06:15.525 --> 01:06:19.306
He was the one he wrestled with, he was the one he talked to.

01:06:19.306 --> 01:06:23.385
He was the one that led him into Syria and led him back out.

01:06:23.385 --> 01:06:32.528
He was the one who went before him in the nighttime, went before him in the daytime, brought him to the well where Rachel was.

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Amen, took up a wife and brought him, brought her all the way back to the tent of Isaac and the tent of Sarah.

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Glory to God.

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Is anybody hearing me preach Hallelujah?

01:06:44.826 --> 01:06:49.353
This Jesus started talking about the generation of Jacob.

01:06:49.353 --> 01:06:55.583
How do I know it's the generation of Jacob, because that was the vision that Jacob had and not Israel.

01:06:55.583 --> 01:07:03.003
He didn't mention one thing one time in the entire New Testament about Israel wrestling with God.

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But right at the beginning of his ministry, he pulled out the one thing that identified Jacob apart from anyone else.

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It was this ladder, the stairway to heaven that was rising up and going down, full of angels and God speaking from the top of that ladder.

01:07:21.409 --> 01:07:24.608
That is the generation of Jacob.

01:07:24.608 --> 01:07:33.347
My God, 500 years later, david picked it up and said this is the generation of Jacob.

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They are the ones that are there at the ladder communicating with their God, accompanied by multitudes of angels.

01:07:42.385 --> 01:07:43.731
Where do you think I get?

01:07:45.143 --> 01:08:00.945
I don't get away with just telling you that there are thousands upon thousands, if not millions, of angels around here right now, not because of the standard line that they always say well, you brought them with you.

01:08:00.945 --> 01:08:03.327
They brought you with them.

01:08:03.327 --> 01:08:14.255
They had a reservation from the Holy Ghost to be here to hear this word.

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Glory to God.

01:08:15.579 --> 01:08:16.864
You never thought of that, did you?

01:08:16.864 --> 01:08:23.568
You're just in your car driving here, going oh God, put that angel on my bumper.

01:08:23.568 --> 01:08:27.208
Never mind, I'm driving 95 miles an hour.

01:08:27.208 --> 01:08:35.386
Angel probably got off at 65, but you know I'm going to press in and believe God that he's still on the bumper.

01:08:35.386 --> 01:08:38.148
Folks, you can't get rid of them if you wanted to.

01:08:38.148 --> 01:08:47.350
I'm talking multiplied millions, tens of hundreds of thousands, glory to God.

01:08:47.350 --> 01:08:47.971
Why?

01:08:47.971 --> 01:08:50.849
Because the ladder follows you around.

01:08:50.849 --> 01:08:53.387
You're not hearing what I'm talking about.

01:08:53.387 --> 01:08:56.715
You are the generation of Jacob and that ladder just follows you around.

01:08:56.715 --> 01:08:56.912
You're not hearing what I'm talking about.

01:08:56.912 --> 01:08:57.751
You are the generation of Jacob and that ladder just follows you.

01:08:58.055 --> 01:09:02.146
Anytime you want to talk to God, the steps of the ladder are illuminated.

01:09:02.146 --> 01:09:05.645
The angels of God are descending and ascending.

01:09:05.645 --> 01:09:06.748
Glory to God.

01:09:06.748 --> 01:09:07.992
Heaven is open.

01:09:07.992 --> 01:09:09.918
I said heaven is open.

01:09:09.918 --> 01:09:11.787
I said heaven is open.

01:09:11.787 --> 01:09:14.466
The Father is at the top of the staircase.

01:09:14.466 --> 01:09:15.631
Glory to God.

01:09:15.631 --> 01:09:20.112
Perfect intercession is going on by the Holy Ghost and by Jesus.

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Every prayer is being answered.

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Oh my, are you hearing any of this?

01:09:25.109 --> 01:09:33.689
We're not talking about some story tucked away in the book of Genesis and to be forgotten as some fairy tale.

01:09:33.689 --> 01:09:37.369
I've heard some idiots say that this describes Stargate.

01:09:37.369 --> 01:09:38.880
This isn't a Stargate.

01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:41.708
This is the door into the heart of God.

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My Lord, my Lord, my Lord, hallelujah.

01:09:50.963 --> 01:09:52.300
Lord, my Lord, my Lord, hallelujah.

01:09:54.101 --> 01:10:04.250
So you continue to read on in verse in chapter 24, and you get into another part of this scripture and it seems like it doesn't have anything to do with anything.

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First part of it had to do with the generation of Jacob.

01:10:07.292 --> 01:10:12.777
And then you get into this lift up your heads, o ye gates, you go, huh.

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Except you missed one word, and that is the word silah, silah.

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You'll find right at the end of verse 6.

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Whenever you see that word, you need to pay attention, because a lot of time in the book of Psalms it means that there's a break in who's speaking.

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We have been taught that it means to be quiet and reflect on this, and that's good.

01:10:43.492 --> 01:10:44.434
There's nothing wrong with that.

01:10:44.434 --> 01:10:48.310
But a lot of times that's because there's something else coming.

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In the first part, david and the Holy Ghost were asking a question and stating an answer, and then there's a Selah and David quits talking and the Holy Ghost just takes over.

01:11:02.872 --> 01:11:09.909
And he's not talking about buildings, he's not talking about cities.

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He's not talking about gates into the temple mount.

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The temple mount hadn't been built yet.

01:11:16.582 --> 01:11:24.703
He wasn't talking about gates that surrounded the city of Jerusalem, because many of those hadn't been built yet.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

01:11:26.988 --> 01:11:30.161
Lift up your heads, o ye, gates and be ye.

01:11:30.161 --> 01:11:34.932
Lifted up you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

01:11:35.943 --> 01:11:37.930
Now, what was the last thing we saw?

01:11:37.930 --> 01:11:42.671
We saw God standing at the top of the steps.

01:11:42.671 --> 01:11:54.489
Where is the bottom of the step connected to, not to a pillar of stone, it's connected to the gate of your heart.

01:11:54.489 --> 01:12:09.551
Lift up your head, o ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

01:12:09.551 --> 01:12:13.029
Who is this King of glory?

01:12:13.029 --> 01:12:17.868
He is the Lord mighty in battle.

01:12:17.868 --> 01:12:20.807
He is the King of glory.

01:12:20.807 --> 01:12:31.130
Then the King of glory announces again Lift up your heads, o ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors.

01:12:31.130 --> 01:12:32.786
He's talking to the heart.

01:12:32.786 --> 01:12:35.689
He's talking to the place where the Holy Ghost dwells.

01:12:35.689 --> 01:12:43.846
He's talking to the place, your spirit, where God has conquered, where the Holy Ghost is reigning, where Jesus is King.

01:12:43.846 --> 01:12:44.770
Glory to God.

01:12:44.770 --> 01:12:54.226
And he said lift up your heads, o ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, so that the King of glory shall come in.

01:12:56.391 --> 01:13:07.351
Listen to me, you don't want anything else in your life more than you want the King of glory to come in and reign and rule in your spirit.

01:13:07.351 --> 01:13:11.909
The devil has no antidote for that.

01:13:11.909 --> 01:13:14.408
The devil has no cure for that.

01:13:14.408 --> 01:13:17.207
You are the devil's worst nightmare.

01:13:17.207 --> 01:13:18.490
Glory to God.

01:13:18.490 --> 01:13:25.769
You are a walking wrecking crew on the kingdom of darkness and a walking marshal.

01:13:25.769 --> 01:13:29.448
You are the Matt Dillon of the kingdom of God.

01:13:29.448 --> 01:13:37.725
Hallelujah, because the king of glory dwells in you, I don't have to worry.

01:13:37.725 --> 01:13:42.287
If devils are going to listen to me, I don't care if they do listen to me.

01:13:42.287 --> 01:13:44.127
They better listen to Jesus.

01:13:44.127 --> 01:13:53.327
And when he starts talking, when the King of glory starts talking, the King of darkness hits it.

01:13:54.140 --> 01:14:02.747
My son, who grew up after being that 13-year-old boy on the golf course to being this kind of a guy.

01:14:02.747 --> 01:14:14.194
He said Dad, it's a really strange feeling to know that I can walk into any place and clear the room.

01:14:14.194 --> 01:14:22.351
I don't know how many levels of black belts he's got Before he got fat and permanently disabled and all of that.

01:14:22.351 --> 01:14:28.448
You wouldn't have wanted to mess with him Up until the day he enlisted in the Marines.

01:14:28.448 --> 01:14:31.729
I could still take him on the living room floor.

01:14:31.729 --> 01:14:34.969
We might trash out the living room in doing it, but I could still take him on the living room floor.

01:14:34.969 --> 01:14:36.676
We might trash out the living room in doing it, but I could still take him.

01:14:36.676 --> 01:14:41.230
We had one attempt after he went to boot camp.

01:14:41.230 --> 01:14:43.908
I said that's it, we're done.

01:14:43.908 --> 01:14:45.484
No more of this.

01:14:45.484 --> 01:14:48.426
We'll play chess or we'll play golf.

01:14:48.426 --> 01:14:50.707
We're not wrestling anymore.

01:14:50.707 --> 01:14:55.470
I don't know what they taught you there, but I'm not anywhere close to that.

01:14:56.881 --> 01:14:59.369
Praise God, hallelujah.

01:14:59.369 --> 01:15:03.010
Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

01:15:03.010 --> 01:15:12.287
You want to belong to a generation that is known by a man that wrestles with God and prevailed, who learned something about his God.

01:15:12.287 --> 01:15:18.162
Amen, oh, hallelujah.

01:15:18.162 --> 01:15:19.427
You want to learn something from this Jacob?

01:15:19.427 --> 01:15:30.694
You want to learn if the generation of Jacob is a generation of people that know their God and know that they're known by him, coming down and dwelling right here.

01:15:30.694 --> 01:15:32.355
Down and dwelling right here.

01:15:32.355 --> 01:15:42.247
Listen, we have lived too long in the deception of what organized religion did to the baptism of the Holy Ghost after Azusa Street.

01:15:42.247 --> 01:15:50.145
We have lived too long away from the reality of what it means to have the Lord of Glory living in here.

01:15:50.145 --> 01:15:53.882
Lift up your heads, o you gates.

01:15:53.882 --> 01:15:54.686
That's you.

01:15:54.686 --> 01:15:58.021
He's talking to the generation of Jacob.

01:15:58.021 --> 01:16:00.971
There's no break in context here.

01:16:00.971 --> 01:16:05.184
You can't read about the generation of Jacob without reading about the gates.

01:16:05.184 --> 01:16:07.006
You are the gates.

01:16:07.006 --> 01:16:08.711
He's talking to the gates.

01:16:08.711 --> 01:16:13.126
He's not just sliding down the banisters of the stairway for kicks.

01:16:13.126 --> 01:16:22.171
He's coming down into the gates of glory, into the gates that he will inhabit as His temple.

01:16:22.171 --> 01:16:27.032
My God, he's going to come down the staircase into you.

01:16:27.032 --> 01:16:30.703
That doesn't sound like a little.

01:16:30.703 --> 01:16:32.248
Then, then, then, then, then.

01:16:32.248 --> 01:16:38.230
To me that sounds like a transformation of reality like we haven't seen yet.

01:16:38.230 --> 01:16:39.554
Hallelujah.

01:16:39.600 --> 01:16:44.006
I was making a point about my son, about the ability to clear a room.

01:16:44.006 --> 01:16:45.069
Amen.

01:16:45.069 --> 01:16:51.585
You ought to have that ability in the realm of the Spirit when you walk in.

01:16:51.585 --> 01:16:55.207
Amen, they don't try to oppose you.

01:16:55.207 --> 01:16:55.813
They don't try to oppose you.

01:16:55.813 --> 01:16:59.786
They don't try to oppress you, they don't try to mess with you, they're just looking for a door.

01:16:59.786 --> 01:17:07.529
You know, if you say the devil's just doing this, he's doing that, doing that, oh, he's just terrible.

01:17:07.529 --> 01:17:12.046
You haven't even got a beginning of a revelation of what I'm talking about.

01:17:12.046 --> 01:17:14.711
The King of Glory lives in you.

01:17:14.711 --> 01:17:25.743
I said the King of Glory lives in you, the King of Glory, the one who ascended and descended with the angelic host.

01:17:25.743 --> 01:17:28.331
He is the King of Glory.

01:17:28.331 --> 01:17:30.043
Who is this King of Glory?

01:17:30.043 --> 01:17:35.920
The Lord of hosts, he is the King that pinpoints exactly where he's talking about.

01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:46.188
He's talking about the ladder, he's talking about the angels, he's talking about ascending, he's talking about descending, he's talking about being at the top and he's talking about Jacob being at the bottom.

01:17:46.188 --> 01:17:49.927
You are Jacob, you are the offspring of the Christ.

01:17:49.927 --> 01:17:55.470
Oh, glory to God, hallelujah, you are this generation of Jacob.

01:17:55.470 --> 01:17:59.048
Who is this generation of Jacob?

01:17:59.048 --> 01:18:01.389
They are filled with the Lord of glory.

01:18:01.389 --> 01:18:07.326
They know who they are and when they walk into the room they clear the place.

01:18:08.261 --> 01:18:12.550
I couldn't tell you how many times I used to be one of those guys.

01:18:12.550 --> 01:18:13.765
I had to know their names.

01:18:13.765 --> 01:18:17.925
If you didn't know their names you couldn't cast them out.

01:18:17.925 --> 01:18:18.648
You didn't grow up.

01:18:18.648 --> 01:18:26.145
When I grew up I was trained in the 80s when you couldn't have church unless you cast out about 100 devils.

01:18:26.145 --> 01:18:26.525
We were.

01:18:26.525 --> 01:18:31.945
If we thought they were in the woodwork boy, we were over there with a crowbar hitting them.

01:18:31.945 --> 01:18:37.939
Glory to God.

01:18:37.939 --> 01:18:41.104
I finally learned this that Jesus cast them out with a word.

01:18:41.104 --> 01:18:44.248
So I said what is the point in learning their names?

01:18:44.248 --> 01:18:53.851
Who's going to tell you what their names are If the Holy Ghost doesn't tell you?

01:18:53.851 --> 01:18:56.038
You don't want to know because they're lying.

01:18:56.038 --> 01:18:57.881
So I just started to do this.

01:18:57.900 --> 01:18:58.662
I bind devils in the name of Jesus.

01:18:58.662 --> 01:19:00.868
I walk into a place like I bind devils.

01:19:00.868 --> 01:19:03.332
I did that one day in a nursing home.

01:19:03.332 --> 01:19:08.208
This old fool was molesting a nurse right there, in front of everybody.

01:19:08.208 --> 01:19:11.724
I said how dare you do that in front of a prophet of God?

01:19:11.724 --> 01:19:15.032
I said I bind devils in the name of Jesus.

01:19:15.032 --> 01:19:16.824
The administrator came over.

01:19:16.824 --> 01:19:17.747
You can't do that, sir.

01:19:17.747 --> 01:19:18.409
I said watch.

01:19:18.409 --> 01:19:20.145
I bind devils in Jesus.

01:19:20.145 --> 01:19:24.050
I'm going to call the police, call them, I'll bind them too.

01:19:24.050 --> 01:19:28.086
I bind devils, man, that man, let go of that woman.

01:19:28.086 --> 01:19:29.730
Oh, yes, he did.

01:19:30.500 --> 01:19:31.421
Glory to God.

01:19:31.421 --> 01:19:35.430
You are a one person wrecking crew.

01:19:35.430 --> 01:19:50.224
You are on a mission from God to do great damage to the kingdom of darkness and be the one that God says to lift up your head, o ye gates, and be ye.

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Lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in.

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Who is this King of glory?

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He is the Lord mighty in battle and he is the Lord of hosts and he is in you, and the worst sin you will ever commit is to minimize that, and it needs to be quiet in here.

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You need to think about that.

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The worst sin you can ever commit is to minimize and limit the power of God.

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Who is this King of glory?

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He is Jesus, the Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, the son of the most high God and the Lord of glory.

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I want you to go home tonight, I want you to meditate about this and then I want you to pray a really dangerous prayer.

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Lord, give me a 24-7 realization and revelation that the ladder of glory is following me around.

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I don't have to go to Bethel.

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Bethel is here.

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Look at where I'm pointing.

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This is the house of God.

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Bethel is here.

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I don't have to go to Israel to find Bethel and wonder if the ladder is still connected there.

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Go over to God.

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But I want you to have a revelation when you're driving down the road.

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The ladder is connected to your car by your heart.

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You don't go anywhere without the ladder.

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You don't go anywhere without the Lord of glory.

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You don't go anywhere without the host.

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Are you getting any of this?

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And then ask him for a vision of how this works?

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And you'll see.

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Listen, you'll see tens of thousands of people who have this revelation, and all of them have ladders that are reaching up into heaven.

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And you go.

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What?

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Yeah, if they're not careful, they'll wreck all the satellites on them.

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Where would they go If they weren't in another dimension?

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It would be all over for GPS and all that stuff.

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Where would they go?

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Hallelujah, I'm talking about the kind of stuff that God sees.

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Forget about whether you see it.

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Forget about whether the devil sees it.

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Forget about what they know.

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Forget what your eyes can see.

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Just focus in on what devil sees it.

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Forget about what they know, forget what your eyes can see.

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Just focus in on what God sees.

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And that's what God sees Millions upon millions of angels going up and down.

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And now you'll understand that when you call for thousands of intercessors, those are the people you're calling for.

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Those are the people you're calling for, the ones that have ladders connected and know it, and they know their prayers will get answered and they know that millions upon millions of angels will be sent forth like that.

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Glory to God.

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Are you getting any of this?

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Wrecking crews?

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You got a ball on the end of your arm.

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Just go to the kingdom of darkness.

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Who is this king of glory?

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He is the Lord of hosts.

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He is the king of glory.

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Let's stand, praise God.