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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: A Zion People
Publishing Date: 2009-06-21T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/a-zion-people/

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So, guys one of the things we don't want to do, which is what I think most of the world does with this whole concept of Zion,

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is they reminisce about Zion sitting by the rivers of Babylon.

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Remember that Bonium song, all those guys here who are above 35,

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by the rivers of Babylon.

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I mean I thought that was a really cool godly song, but basically it's a very sad song, man.

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They're sitting by the river Babylon and reminiscing of the good times and the songs of Zion.

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We're not called to reminisce about Zion, we're supposed to live in Zion.

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Psalm 137, one talks about the rivers of Babylon.

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We don't want to sit by the rivers of Babylon to reminisce about Zion.

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So, eyes to see, let's start there.

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See, a growing child needs to grasp what his or her parents see about the child.

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So, what I mean is, let's take James and Sapna as an example.

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Right now Sarah can come up and do her little boogie-boo dance here and shout and stuff like that.

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But there are dreams and there are ways that James and Sapna see her.

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And when Sarah begins to grasp what James sees for her in the future,

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when Sarah begins to grasp what Sapna sees for her in the future,

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and we are praying that Sapna and James will grasp what God sees about her so that they can transfer it,

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once a child begins to grasp what the parent sees, the child can then begin to shape and become that.

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It's the same way, God is fine with us understanding that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

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God is happy that we understand that we are a community that is built by the Holy Spirit.

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God is glad that we've understood that Christ lives in us.

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But now God wants us to go to a place where we move from adolescence to maturity

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to see ourselves as a Zion people because Zion was something that God has been talking about from the beginning, man.

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Before anything called born again, before anything called Israel happened, Zion happened.

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Zion actually existed even before the world was created.

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The concept of Zion, we'll talk about it, you can switch it off now, man.

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So, it's only if we as children begin to grasp what the father wants us to see

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that we'll be able to be shaped into that mold.

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For example, if you look at Israel, Israel saw themselves as the chosen ones, right?

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But guess what? Israel never saw themselves as a son.

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Israel never saw themselves as a kingdom of priests.

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What a sad thing, eh?

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They got stuck at seeing themselves as the chosen ones.

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In fact, today the Jewish nation still sees itself as the chosen ones

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and have forgotten that there's a destiny greater than just being chosen.

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They're supposed to see themselves as son.

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God said that about them, Israel my son, Israel my son.

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But they never saw themselves as sons, man.

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They only saw themselves as chosen.

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They never saw themselves as a kingdom of priests.

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In Exodus 19 or so, God says, you are a kingdom of priests.

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You're my model nation to show the nations of the world what it is to belong to a nation of whom God is president.

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But they missed out, man.

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They went and told Samuel, we want a king like the other nations.

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You see, that can happen to us.

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Where we see ourselves as chosen, we see ourselves as heaven bound,

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we see ourselves as the temple of the Holy Spirit,

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but we forget that there is another phase that God wants us to see ourselves as,

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which is, he wants us to see ourselves as Zion.

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We'll talk about what Zion is, but you understand why we need to see with eyes that will begin to move us from adolescence to maturity.

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Because still the church here on earth does not see herself as Zion.

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She's missing out.

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She is missing out.

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So Zion is a theme that runs throughout the Bible like a thread that just goes continuously, man.

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You'll see it from Deuteronomy 4.48.

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That's when Zion is mentioned first.

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Deuteronomy 4.48 is when Zion is mentioned first.

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And then you see Zion mentioned in Revelation 14.1.

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And in Revelation 14.1 says that along with the lamb, 144,000 people stood on Mount Zion.

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That's how Revelation 14.1 talks about Zion.

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And in Deuteronomy 4.48 it says that near this place called Aror was a mountain called Zion.

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So Zion has been a theme that has been running consistently through the Bible.

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And it's called many different names, guys.

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Sometimes it's called the Holy Mountain.

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Sometimes it's called the City of God.

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Sometimes it's called the Mount of the Congregation.

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Sometimes it's called Jerusalem.

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Sometimes it's called the City of David.

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There are many different names for it.

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But these are just some of them.

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They're used interchangeably in the Bible.

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Some of the references you can find it in is Psalm 76, Psalm 48, Hebrews 12.

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You'll find these different terms used for it.

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Sometimes it's called God's Holy Mountain.

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Sometimes it's called City of God.

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Sometimes City of David.

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Sometimes the Mount of the Congregation or the Mount of Assembly.

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Sometimes Jerusalem and sometimes City of David.

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In Hebrews 12.22 it says,

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You have already come to Mount Zion, the City of the Living God, the New Jerusalem.

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And we talked about this ages ago.

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The concept of Zion was in the mind of God.

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Okay, we talked about this last week.

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What was Zion initially?

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Anyone remembers what Zion was initially?

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It was a fortress on a small hill.

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And it was a Jebusite stronghold.

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David comes, defeats the Jebusites, and suddenly this fortress on a small hill becomes his city.

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He calls it the City of David.

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And then he brings the Ark to this small hill.

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And now it becomes the mountain where the Ark of God or the presence of God dwells.

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And then David built his own palace and began to rule from there.

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And he began to call it the City of David.

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All these are names of the small hill.

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It's not a big majestic hill, which is why it's compared to a whole lot of bigger, more majestic hills.

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But it's a small hill.

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But guess what? Before God even created the topography of the small hill on this planet Earth,

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Satan knew about it.

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Satan knew about it.

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In fact, when Satan was being cast out of heaven, you know what he said?

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I want to sit on the mount of the congregation.

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You see it. Go to Isaiah, let me see where it is.

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Go to Isaiah 14, 13.

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Isaiah 14, 13.

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Isaiah 14, 13.

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Isaiah 14, verse 13.

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Verse 13.

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These words are attributed to Lucifer speaking.

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It says that in Isaiah 14, 13,

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You said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven.

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I will raise my throne above the stars of God.

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I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.

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So Satan knew of this concept called Zion even before the Earth was as such created,

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because Satan's fall happened before Adam and Eve entered Eden.

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So he was aware of this concept even before.

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Please remember that.

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That is how potent a thing Zion is.

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I don't want to call it a thing. We'll call it what it is a little later.

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That's how potent Zion is.

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That it was something that Satan wanted to take over right from the beginning,

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because he knew that it is out of there that ruling and dwelling will happen.

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Which is why as long as it stays hidden,

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he is in a sense getting indirectly what he always desired.

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God's concept of Zion never changed,

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but Israel and the church came to represent the very opposite of God's ideal.

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In fact, Zion became a place of desolation.

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And I would suggest to you that today either Zion is hidden,

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or the church which should become this thing called Zion is in desolation.

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If you go to Lamentations 2.6, Lamentations 2.6,

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Lamentations is after, what's it after? Lamentations is after Jeremiah.

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Just showing off, huh? Jeremiah. Lamentations 2.6.

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And it says there in Lamentations 2.6,

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But then there's this marvelous verse in Psalm 102.16.

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If you turn to Psalm 102.16, then we'll break for questions.

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Psalm 102.16 says,

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And here's what it says in Psalm 102.16.

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It says,

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See, God knows how it was made desolate,

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but God says, I will come and rebuild Zion,

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and when I rebuild Zion, my glory will be evident.

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My glory will be evident.

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So please understand that Zion today, I mean, we all know this.

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What is Zion today?

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Zion is a people, guys. We'll talk about it next.

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God is basically saying, I'm going to come and rebuild Zion, a people,

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so that I may manifest my glory through them.

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And guys, it's vital that we get with God's rebuilding program,

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because God so wants to rebuild Zion.

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I said Zion was a fortress, then it became David City,

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then it became a place where the Ark of God dwells.

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Today, where does God dwell?

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In a people.

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Previously, where the Ark was, was where Zion was.

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The Ark was placed in Zion.

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Zion was called the City of God,

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because God dwelt on this small mountain

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in what was symbolically represented as a box

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called the Ark which the priest would carry.

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Today, we're not any more symbolic.

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We have become that people.

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We are Zion, guys.

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We are the Ark.

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We are Zion.

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We are people have become Zion.

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It's us.

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And he's saying now that I want to rebuild Zion,

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meaning I want to put it back together

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the way it should be so that my glory can be manifested,

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so that it can appear.

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Wayne, I'm going to take a break for questions

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if you want to do whatever you want to do.

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So, questions.

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So, let me write it down.

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Zion is a people, not individuals.

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I am not Zion,

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but I am one who belongs to a people

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in whose midst God dwells.

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God dwells.

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So, let me say that again.

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Zion is a people, it's not individuals.

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Zion is a people and not individuals.

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I am not Zion,

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but I am one who belongs to a people in whose midst God dwells.

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It's an important distinction to make.

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You cannot be a maverick in Zion.

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Yeah, you cannot have a solitary living stone

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because that stone, regardless of how strong it is,

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is not living, it is dead.

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Zion is a people, not individuals.

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I am not Zion, but I am one who belongs to a people

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in whose midst God dwells.

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So, please understand that.

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So, please understand that.

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That if you want to be a Zion person,

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you have to belong to a Zion people.

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It's just like I cannot go and stand and say,

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I am Canada.

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No, no, no, no.

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I can only say I am Canadian

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because I belong to a nation called Canada.

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But if I go and say, I am Canada, they'll laugh.

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So, it's the same principle.

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And these people are marked by a unique culture,

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unique perspectives, unique benefits.

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Man, you have no idea of the benefits.

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Unique characteristics.

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These people are marked by a unique culture,

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unique perspectives,

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unique characteristics,

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and unique goals.

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Unique characteristics and unique benefits, man.

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When you check the benefits out, you'll say,

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this is the best place to live in.

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Just like they say Canada is the best country to live in,

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this Mount Zion is the best people to live on.

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And the strange thing is,

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when you go anywhere because you belong to this people,

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that culture, that perspective, those benefits

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follow you wherever you go.

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Just like if I were to go to Timbuktu or to Haiti,

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I would still have the benefits of my Canadian citizenship.

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It's the same way.

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But am I Canada? No.

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But do I belong to a people called Canada? Yes.

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And therefore the benefits that are given to the people of Canada

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are now mine wherever I go.

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It's the same principle.

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Can we break for questions?

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Am I good?

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Am I good?

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Okay, we're going to look at benefits in Zion, man.

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This will blow your mind.

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Benefits in Zion.

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The first thing we look at is protection.

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What kind of protection do these people of Zion have

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because God has made them

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his favorite, favorite, favorite dwelling place

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and is jealous over them

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and thinks that they are the best place to dwell in

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and he thinks that they are the place that he wants to rest.

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He feels most comfortable resting in their presence.

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You know, when I go and travel to India, for example,

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you can put me up in a really nice hotel

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or you can put me up in my friend Christy's place.

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Guess what?

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I'd really enjoy the hotel,

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but you know where I find real rest?

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At Christy's place.

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It's like that.

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God is saying you can be all you want to be,

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but you know what?

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Zion is my favorite resting place, Jacob.

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So be Zion so that I can really rest.

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It's that kind of a thing.

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So because God rests here,

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over Zion, I love this,

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over Zion, we're talking about protection now,

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God spreads a covering.

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Over Zion, God spreads a covering for defense,

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for defense,

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and it becomes a perpetual stronghold.

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It becomes a perpetual stronghold.

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Let's go to Isaiah 4.5.

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Isaiah 4.5.

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I had no idea we'd be talking about this

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when we chose Isaiah 4.5 as our theme for the year in January.

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Isaiah 4.5.

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This is delicious.

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Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion.

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Let me replace the word Mount Zion with people,

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the Zion people.

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Then the Lord will create over all of Zion people

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and over those who assemble there,

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a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night.

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Over all the glory will be a canopy.

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It'll be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day

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and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

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This is what is being given to us as a people.

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You suddenly realize that so many people

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you suddenly realize that so when you

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wherever you go this is over you because you are a Zion people.

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Suddenly you don't have to necessarily pray

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that the plane will stay in the air

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or that your car won't be broken into

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or that your house be safe

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or that you be pleaded over with the blood of Christ

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so that no demons attack you

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because the Zion people who understand, align, grasp

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and live out of that knowledge

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that God dwells amongst them

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always walk under this cloud

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of fire and smoke

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which is a shade over them

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come heat, rain, storm, whatever.

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It's a continuous place of existence guys.

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This is why I say if God actually turned up and said

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I want to live in your house

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trust me man you'll go to sleep with the door left open.

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You'll have your laptop sitting at your door

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you'll work on your laptop at the door.

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You'll put your 42 inch TV out in the corridor.

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Why? Because God lives in your house.

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Who the heck is going to touch that now?

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It's the same kind of principle.

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It's like the Knight Rider thing.

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Please step away from the car.

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Okay.

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I love this next one.

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It's from Isaiah 33.

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Dianak and I guess recited blind

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but Isaiah 33 and verse 20.

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Isaiah 33

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verse 20

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Guys the picture is of

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Zion being a people

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So Zion being a people and

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God's putting a huge river

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like a broad river like a moat around it.

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And so what happens is

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no pirate ship, no mighty battleship

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no destroyer can come anywhere near Zion

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because God will not allow them to ply

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in that defensive moat

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called this broad river that he's put around Zion.

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No one shall come that way.

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No pirate shall take it.

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That's what it's meant.

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This is the kind of people we are.

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We've got to align ourselves with this understanding

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because somehow

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both the spirit world

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humans and God knows when we believe in something

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and when we don't.

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I love the next thing I want to say.

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You know if you go to Exodus 19 13

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someone can turn to Exodus 19 13.

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Exodus 19 13.

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Let's start at verse 10.

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Exodus 19 10.

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19 10 yeah.

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This was with reference to Mount Sinai

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which as I was saying to James

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is not Mount Zion but

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is sometimes used as

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a model because God came and

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dwelt on Mount Sinai when he spoke to Moses.

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And so the Bible says

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that the people of Mount Sinai

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dwelt on Mount Sinai when he spoke to Moses.

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And the Lord said to Moses

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go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow.

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Have them wash their clothes and be ready by the third day

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because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai

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in the sight of all the people.

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Put limits for the people around the mountain

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and tell them be careful that you do not go up to the mountain

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or touch the foot of it.

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Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

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Verse 13 is what I want us to look at.

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He shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows.

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Not a hand is to be laid on him.

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Where the man or animal he shall not be permitted to live.

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Only when the ram's horn sounds a long blast

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may they go up to the mountain.

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Guys the point I want to make is this.

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Because God resides in this people

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they become the mountain of God

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and no beast can touch it

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except at the penalty of death.

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Let me say that again.

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Because we are the mountain of God.

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Because God now resides or dwells in this people.

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Now nobody can touch it.

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Because we are the mountain of God.

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Because God now resides or dwells in this people.

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Now no beast can come and touch it.

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And by beast I mean to represent the enemy.

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No beast can touch it except at the penalty of death.

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Because any beast that touches it will immediately be shot or stoned.

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And so we suddenly need to understand our privilege

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that even if a beast should dare to touch it

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as David says

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when the lion or the bear used to come

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and take away a sheep

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I used to go and get the sheep back.

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If the lion turned around again

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I would catch it by its neck

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and smash it in the face.

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And if the lion turned around again

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I would catch it by its neck and smite it.

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It's the same kind of thing.

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When we become a

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Zion people and begin to live

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by the standards of Zion

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when a beast comes and touches it, when the enemy comes and touches it

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we have the ability now to stone and shoot it

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in a sense of speaking.

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It's the same principle.

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That is the protection we have

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in a people called Zion.

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Do you realize why we need to become this guys?

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Understand, keep exploring

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and understanding its fullness

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and not just understand it but become it.

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Become it.

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Yep.

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If you turn to the next page

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you're doing so good for time today.

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Provision in Zion.

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Provision in Zion.

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Psalm 132, verse 15.

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Psalm 132, verse 15.

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Psalm 132, verse 15.

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Starting at verse 13.

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Psalm 132, verse 13 onwards.

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And then we get to verse 15.

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For the Lord has chosen

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Zion

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He has desired it for his dwelling

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This is my resting place

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forever and ever. Here I will sit and throne

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for I have desired it. Verse 15.

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I will bless her

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with abundant provisions.

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Her poor will I satisfy

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with food.

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Once we become a

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Zion people you will find that in

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all your households

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not once you become a Zion people, once we begin

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to grow into all that

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Zion is, it has already started guys

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you will find that in all

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your households there

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will be provision.

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I am not a

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prosperity preacher and stuff like that

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but I'm telling you the truth

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a Zion people in each of

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their households there

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will be provision. You know why? Because

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remember in 2 Samuel 6, 11

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there was a time when David

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was bringing an ark into Zion

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and he had to put it temporarily

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in the house of Obed

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Eidon the Gittite. Why? Because

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he carried it the wrong way. And

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2 Samuel 6, 11 says so they

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brought the ark and put it in

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Obed Eidon's house for 3

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months and the Bible says

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all the time that the ark was

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there that guy prospered

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man. It's called

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the Obed Eidon principle of prosperity

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if you want to call it that. When God

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begins to dwell in the midst

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of a people, households

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begin to have their supply

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of provision period.

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Doesn't matter what

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the economy is like, doesn't matter

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whether you have a job

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or not have a job

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I am telling you the God-honest truth

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why do I need even to say that

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I'm just telling you the truth that

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when God dwells

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when the ark dwells amongst

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the people, the households of

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that people are provided for.

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I am saying please connect

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into this. Connect into this

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Zion people. If you don't want to connect into this

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Zion people go connect somewhere else

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into a Zion people

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into a Zion people

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someone who aligns themselves with this

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concept because if you don't you

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will still do extremely well but

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why settle on the other side of the Jordan?

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Simple, two tribes did

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they got into a lot of problems

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Joel 2.20

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I mean we quote this, I've quoted

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it all my life but Joel 2.20

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comes with new meaning now

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Heidi do you want to tell us where Joel is now?

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In the Old Testament

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before Amos

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after Hosea

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Joel chapter 2

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Joel 2.20

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started verse 15

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you know did you know that

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that scripture is actually talking about a

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Zion people? I didn't know that

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started verse 15

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blow the trumpet in

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Zion declare a holy fast

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call a sacred assembly

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gather the people, consecrate the assembly

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bring together the elders, gather the children

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those nursing at the breast, let the bridegroom

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leave his room and the bride at the church

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and the bride at the church will be

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the bridegroom of the church

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let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride at chamber

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let the priest who minister before the Lord

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weep between the temple porch and the altar

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let them say spare your people O Lord

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do not make your inheritance an object of scorn

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a byword among the nations, why should they say

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among the peoples where is their God

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then the Lord will be jealous for his land

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and take pity on his people, the Lord will reply

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to them, I'm sending you grain

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new wine and oil, enough to satisfy you

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fully, never again will I make you

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an object of scorn to the nations, I will drive

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away the northern army or the devourer

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far from you, pushing it into

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a parched land and barren land

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with its front columns going into the eastern sea

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and those in the rear into the western sea

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and its stench will go up, its smell will rise

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surely he has done great things

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be not afraid O land, be glad and rejoice

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surely the Lord has done great things

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be not afraid O wild animals

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for the open pastures are becoming green

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the trees are bearing their fruit, the fig tree and the wine

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yield their riches, be glad O people

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of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God

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for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness

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he sends you abundant showers

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both autumn and spring as before

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the threshing floors will be filled with grain

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your vats will overflow with new wine and oil

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I will repay you for the years, the locusts have eaten

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the great locust and the young locust

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the other locust and the locust swarm, my great army

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that I sent among you, you will have plenty

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to eat until you are full and you will praise

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the name of the Lord your God who has worked wonders for you

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never again will my people be ashamed

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then you will know that I am in Israel

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I am the Lord your God and that there is no other

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never again will my people be shamed

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even that whole thing about

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the locust and all is talking to

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people in Zion saying, guys

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this is what I will do for you

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I am restoring the desolate heights of

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Zion, I am rebuilding a people

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and because I am rebuilding a people

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because I will dwell in them, look what I will do for you

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that's what it's saying

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honk honk

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God will pour upon this people

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God will pour upon this people

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rain required to sow things early

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bring them into maturity because the

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autumn rains or the former and the

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latter rains, the former rains were supposed to

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help you in sowing, the latter rains was to

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help you in bringing your crops to maturity

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and God is saying people of Zion

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I live in you, it is natural

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for you to have the Obed-Eidon principle

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happen in your midst because

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I, your glory dwell in you

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you shall be provided for

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you will have rain sent upon

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you on your crops in due season

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you will have that because I dwell amongst

00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:20.400
you as a people, didn't I tell you

00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:22.400
you are my favorite home, didn't I tell

00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:24.400
you that you are my rest, didn't I

00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:26.400
tell you that this is what I have desired

00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.400
from the beginning, didn't I tell you that

00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.400
how will I not do for you what I have

00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:32.400
said so many times to you

00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.400
this is what it

00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:36.400
means to connect to a people called

00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.400
Zion and to become a people called Zion, we

00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:40.400
are already that

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but we shall grow in it

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we shall grow in it

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just because a child reaches the age of 18

00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.400
maturity or puberty

00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:50.400
doesn't mean the child stops growing

00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:52.400
the child keeps growing

00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:54.400
we shall become that

00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:58.400
all this applies to us

00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:00.400
spiritually and physically guys

00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:04.400
you have to be a part of this people to benefit

00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:06.400
personally

00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.400
this is why Peter

00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:10.400
quotes it in

00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:12.400
Acts chapter 2 where he stands up

00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.400
after the people think they are

00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:16.400
all drunk, he stands up and says

00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:18.400
no no no we are not drunk, this is what Joel

00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.400
prophesied, that your men shall

00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.400
see visions, where do you think

00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:24.400
that happens, it happens in a people

00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:26.400
called Zion, keep reading Joel

00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:28.400
chapter 2, it says

00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:30.400
in verse 28

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and afterward

00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.400
afterward, after I have done this

00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.400
for you Zion, and afterward I will pour

00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.400
out my spirit on all people, your sons

00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.400
and daughters will prophesy, your old

00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:42.400
men will dream dreams, your young men

00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.400
will see visions, even on my servants both men

00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.400
and women, I will pour out my spirit

00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:48.400
in those days, I will show wonders

00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:50.400
in the heavens and on the earth

00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.400
blood and fire and billows of smoke, the sun

00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.400
will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood

00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:56.400
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord

00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:58.400
and everyone who calls on the name of the Lord

00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.400
will be saved, far on mount

00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.400
Zion and in Jerusalem, there will be

00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:04.400
deliverance as the Lord has said among the

00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:06.400
survivors that the Lord calls, it was all

00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:08.400
in the context of Zion, like Elmer

00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:10.400
is saying, the church is supposed to be

00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:12.400
Zion, to settle for

00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.400
anything less is to be

00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:16.400
stunted in our growth and reach the age of 16

00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:18.400
like Benjamin Button

00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:20.400
keep growing younger instead of growing older

00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.400
oh, that's just a movie that I

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.400
heard about

00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:28.400
the curious case of Benjamin Button

00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.400
I haven't seen the whole

00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.400
movie so I wouldn't recommend it

00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:34.400
I don't know, enough to recommend it

00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:38.400
gotta be so careful when you say it

00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:40.400
talk about movies

00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:42.400
because they think I'm recommending it

00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.400
haven't seen it, don't know about it

00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.400
heard about it

00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:48.400
now, go to the other scripture, where was that?

00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.400
Isaiah 33

00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.400
and 24

00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:54.400
33?

00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:56.400
24, look at another provision that

00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.400
people in Zion have, this blows my mind

00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:00.400
I didn't see it, I stopped short of it

00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.400
Isaiah 33

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:04.400
Isaiah 33 verse 34

00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:06.400
Isaiah 33 verse 24

00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:08.400
Isaiah 33 verse 24

00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:20.400
No one living in Zion will say

00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.400
I am ill, and the sins of those

00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:24.400
who dwell there will be

00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:26.400
forgiven

00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:28.400
No one living in Zion will say

00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.400
I am ill

00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.400
and their sins will be

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:34.400
forgiven

00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:36.400
what it's saying there is, not only that

00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.400
Zion or a people of God amongst whom

00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.400
he dwells will live in health

00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:42.400
but even if their sin

00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:44.400
and sin be the reason for

00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:46.400
their sickness, even that will

00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:48.400
be forgiven so that they may continue

00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:50.400
to walk in health

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.400
imagine a people like that on the face of the earth

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.400
imagine walking like that

00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:56.400
this is what God wanted Israel to be

00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:58.400
He said, I walked in your midst

00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.400
did any one of you fall sick?

00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:02.400
No, not one feeble person for 40 years

00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:04.400
the bible says that

00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:06.400
whoever fell dead or sick

00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.400
happened because of sin

00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:10.400
and the plague consuming them

00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:12.400
but otherwise, neither did their feet

00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:14.400
neither did their sandals wear out

00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.400
nor did their clothes get old

00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:18.400
and not one feeble

00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.400
Israelite was found among them

00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:22.400
all the days of the wilderness

00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:24.400
roaming around in 40 degree

00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:26.400
heat for

00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:28.400
16,000 days

00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.400
and none of them was feeble

00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.400
why? Because through the pillar of cloud

00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:34.400
he dwelt among them

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.400
you think it was real in the Old Testament

00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:40.400
and it cannot be real in a better covenant?

00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:42.400
the Old Testament had a covenant that was fading

00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:44.400
in its glory, we have a covenant that is

00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:46.400
richer guys

00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:50.400
right on

00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.400
right on

00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:54.400
gosh man, isn't this just ridiculous

00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.400
Isaiah 34 verse 24

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:04.400
33 verse 24

00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:10.400
yeah

00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:12.400
it's just nuts

00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:14.400
Elva was saying we are super beings because we have

00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.400
a super god dwelling in our midst

00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.400
and we are super beings

00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:20.400
and we are super beings

00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.400
super god dwelling in our midst

00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:24.400
suddenly normal beings get transformed into

00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:26.400
a people who live in the very shadow

00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:28.400
of the Almighty

00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:30.400
this is why Moses could make outrageous

00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:32.400
statements like he that dwelleth in the secret

00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:34.400
place of the most high, no evil shall befall

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:36.400
the tent, no pestilence

00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.400
we can't become a people like that

00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:40.400
it's not pie in the sky guys

00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:44.400
Zion, a sought after people

00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:46.400
Zion, a sought after people

00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:48.400
guys because

00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.400
of how

00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.400
a people called

00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.400
Zion will be

00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:56.400
will display very obviously

00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:58.400
the presence of god amongst them

00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.400
they become sought after by those

00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.400
who are hungry

00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:04.400
and those people come and start asking

00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:06.400
the way to Zion

00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:08.400
I'm telling you, I told you that we have a 6 month

00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:10.400
period before

00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.400
we begin to

00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:14.400
speak as Zion

00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:16.400
I said that 2 weeks ago

00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:20.400
a people, a Zion people

00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:22.400
will begin to display the

00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.400
presence of god in them

00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.400
it will be obvious in our characteristics, it will be obvious in our

00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:28.400
holiness, it will be obvious in our

00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.400
ability to

00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.400
walk in health, it will be obvious in

00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:34.400
our protection, it will be obvious in all these

00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:36.400
characteristics and perspectives we've been talking about

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:38.400
and people who are hungry now

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:40.400
will begin to seek saying, show me the way to Zion

00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:42.400
show me the way to Zion

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:44.400
I'm not doing this, you know in the last

00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.400
4 days I've had 2 pastors

00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:48.400
come to me and say

00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:50.400
could you come and teach us

00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.400
about Zion and father and sons

00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.400
just out of the blue

00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:56.400
I just met them

00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.400
and they

00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:00.400
we started talking and they told

00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.400
me what they were doing and I said

00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.400
this is what we're doing and they said

00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:06.400
one pastor wants me to come for 3 Sundays

00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:08.400
and teach on Zion and fathers

00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:10.400
and sons, another pastor wants me to take 2 Sundays

00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:12.400
and teach on fathers and sons and Zion

00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:14.400
because suddenly those that are hungry will say

00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.400
show us the way to Zion

00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:20.400
so in, because I may be going away in July

00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.400
I'll be doing this in August otherwise I would

00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.400
start on July 5th

00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:28.400
that's the way it works

00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:32.400
even tribes that may be

00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:34.400
you know there's a place in Isaiah

00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:36.400
Jeremiah 31 6

00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:38.400
just try Jeremiah 31 6

00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:40.400
I think it's there

00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:42.400
Jeremiah 31 6

00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:48.400
yeah

00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:50.400
Jeremiah 31 6

00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:52.400
come

00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:54.400
there will be a day when the watchmen cry out

00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:56.400
on the hills of Ephraim

00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:58.400
come let us go up to Zion

00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:00.400
to the Lord our God

00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:02.400
and the background of that is

00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:04.400
the word Ephraim means double fruit

00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:06.400
Ephraim means double

00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.400
fruit and yet

00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:10.400
what had happened with Ephraim was

00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:12.400
some of the kings

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:14.400
in Ephraim had set up golden

00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:16.400
calves at Dan and Beersheba

00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:18.400
and so people were there

00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:20.400
worshipping the golden calves

00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:22.400
instead of worshipping God and here

00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.400
the scripture is saying a day is coming

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.400
when even those of the

00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:28.400
tribe of Ephraim which means the tribe of

00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.400
double fruit will leave their

00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.400
golden calves and will come and say

00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:34.400
let's go to Zion because

00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:36.400
that's where God dwells and I'm saying to you

00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:38.400
the time is coming when people

00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:40.400
of Zion will be sought after people

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:42.400
and tribes that are

00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:44.400
bearing double fruit have

00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.400
tremendous success will still come

00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:48.400
leaving their golden calves

00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:50.400
golden calves are man made

00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.400
man chiseled traditions and ways

00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:54.400
they will leave it and say let's go find out

00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:56.400
what a Zion people are

00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:00.400
this church is six months I told you that

00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:02.400
before we become a people

00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:04.400
I'll have to stand and make these things known

00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:06.400
but it's already happening because whatever

00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.400
is going to happen to the house will happen

00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.400
in my life a little before

00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:12.400
that happens

00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:14.400
this is the way it works

00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:20.400
Zion births

00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:22.400
a people from every tribe and nation guys

00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:24.400
and you get forged into one new

00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:26.400
man

00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:28.400
that's how it works if you go to

00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.400
Psalm 87 verses 5 to 7

00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.400
you see that Psalm 87

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:34.400
Wayne can I trouble you

00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:36.400
one last time to switch off

00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:38.400
the thing now because some people

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:40.400
are frozen I haven't seen them move for the last

00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:42.400
two minutes

00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.400
I'm talking about the air conditioning

00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.400
Psalm 87 verses 5 to 7

00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:48.400
and it says

00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:50.400
that

00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:52.400
indeed of Zion it will be said

00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:54.400
this one and that one were born in her

00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:56.400
and the most high himself will

00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:58.400
establish her the Lord will write in his

00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:00.400
register of people this one was born in

00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:02.400
Zion as they make music

00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.400
they will sing all of my fountains

00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:06.400
are in you

00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:08.400
this is supposed to be

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.400
something that God is doing on the earth now

00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:12.400
we read in Psalm 102 verse 16

00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:14.400
that God is rebuilding Zion

00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:16.400
so it is natural that once we get to

00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:18.400
know this we need to God will use us

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:20.400
once we begin to not just know it but live it

00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:22.400
God will begin to use us to now

00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:24.400
let it be birthed

00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:26.400
everywhere now once it's birthed

00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.400
it will come forth

00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.400
in other places too and we should all

00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.400
become one new man if you turn to Isaiah

00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:34.400
66 verse 7

00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:36.400
Isaiah

00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.400
66 verse 7

00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:58.400
before she goes into labor she gives birth

00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.400
before the

00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:02.400
pains come upon her

00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:04.400
she delivers a son who has ever

00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:06.400
heard of such a thing?

00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:08.400
before she goes into labor she gives birth

00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.400
before the pains come upon her she delivers

00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:12.400
a son the point there

00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:14.400
is to say that

00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.400
a time is coming when

00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:18.400
people begin to

00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:20.400
catch on to the fact that God is rebuilding

00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:22.400
Zion and it will be so

00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:24.400
easy for others to grasp it

00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:26.400
that the whole idea of a people

00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:28.400
called Zion will begin to spread like

00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.400
crazy here on earth there won't even be

00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:32.400
time for gestation and

00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:34.400
pain of labor it will be

00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:36.400
because at the end of the day

00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:38.400
what God wants to bring here on earth is something

00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:40.400
called a man child or the new man

00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:42.400
if you turn to Revelation then we'll just touch on it briefly

00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:44.400
and then not go into it further because

00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.400
I don't know enough about it

00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:48.400
but I'll just show you where it says so

00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.400
Revelations

00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.400
12 maybe let me just see

00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:04.400
yes

00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:06.400
Revelations 12 5

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:08.400
when we do it in the Bible study it will explain

00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:10.400
it more but

00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:12.400
just so we understand

00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:14.400
what God is going to birth on earth

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Revelations 12 5 she will give birth to a son

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a male child who will rule all the

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nations with an iron

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she will give birth to a child

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a male child or a man child

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who will rule the nations with a

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scepter and we will talk about how ruling

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is part of Zion's destiny

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I just want to leave that verse with you

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we won't explore it now if it has peaked

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your curiosity keep coming to the Bible study

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every Tuesday

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every alternate Tuesday and we'll talk about that

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moving on

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let's take a break any questions

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other than the scripture on Revelations

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if you have any questions when can we

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break

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go ahead Miriam

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okay Zion is a city

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of priest kings

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how do we know that because

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to begin with Christ

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our capstone is a priest and

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a king

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so it's natural that if the

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capstone or the cornerstone is where

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the rest of the building takes its shape

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from that the rest of the

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building also operates in the mode

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of priest kings

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also

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if you look at Zion in the

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Old Testament, Zion at one

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point was the city of David I'll show you

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from scripture actually if you turn to

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2 Samuel 5,9

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2 Samuel 5,9

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2 Samuel after 1 Samuel

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before

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kings

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2 Samuel 5,9

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okay and here's what 2 Samuel

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5,9 says

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2 Samuel 5,9 says

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David then took up residence in the fortress

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and called it the city of

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David, he built up the area around it

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from the supporting terraces inward

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and he became more and more powerful because

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the Lord God Almighty was with him

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2 Samuel 6,12

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2 Samuel 6,12

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Now king David was told

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the Lord has blessed the household of

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Obaididum and everything he has

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because of the Ark of God so David

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went down and brought up

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the Ark of God from the house of

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Obaididum to the city of David

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with rejoicing. Why am I giving you those

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two scriptures? To show you

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that Zion from

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the Old Testament times

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was both the seat of the throne

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and the seat of the Ark

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it was both

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a place of

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ruling and a place of

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religion, it was both political and

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religious, it was both priest and

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king. David

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ruled as a king from Zion

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David also was a priest out of

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Zion. So the whole

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idea of priest-kings is very

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intrinsic to Zion, it's

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in Zion's DNA, anyone

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who belongs to a people

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called Zion are by birth

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priest-kings

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Christ was the ultimate

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high priest and the ultimate king of kings

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he is a capstone, it is

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a natural birth

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DNA

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to be priest-kings. We've talked

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about priest-kings at length but we need to understand

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this. In fact if you

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look at Genesis

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chapter 14, Genesis 14

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Genesis is just where the Bible

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begins and before the second book

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Genesis 14

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on the tape they'll

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think I'm preaching to people who don't know that

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Genesis 14

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verse

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verse 17

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Then Melchizedek

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sorry, after Abraham returned

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from the defeat of Kedr-Laumer

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and the kings allied with him

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verse 18

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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine

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he was the priest of God most high

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and blessed Abraham

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So we know that Melchizedek was

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the king of Salem. Salem stands for

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Salem stands for

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Let's go to Hebrews chapter 7

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Hebrews 7

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When we go to Hebrews 7 we'll see it there

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I think

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Hebrews 7

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verse 1

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Hebrews 7 verse 1

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Then Melchizedek

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was the king of Salem

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and the priest of God most high

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He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings

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and blessed him and Abraham gave him a tent

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of everything. First his name means

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king of righteousness, then also

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king of Salem, meaning king of peace

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Salem is another word for Jerusalem

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without father or mother, without

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genealogy, without beginning of days

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or the end of life like the son of God

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he remains a priest forever. Guys what I'm trying to say

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is that the first

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mention of Jerusalem or Zion even before

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Zion is mentioned first

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in Deuteronomy 4.48

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but Jerusalem is first mentioned in Genesis chapter

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14 verse 18 to 20

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and we talked about how Jerusalem is another

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name sometimes used for Zion

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and we see that the first person introduced

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from Jerusalem was a priest

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king. He was the

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king of Salem

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he was the king of righteousness

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and he was a priest

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so it's natural for us as

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people of Zion to be priest-kings

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So let's quickly talk about priestcraft

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in Zion and

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kingcraft in Zion and then we'll stop

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Psalm 132 verse 16

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Psalm 132

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verse 16

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You'll have to go home and go over this

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pour over this

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understand it, live it, come back next week

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and we'll talk more about it

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Psalm 132 verse 16

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Psalm 132 verse 16

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Look at what it says about

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the priest in Zion

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I will clothe her priests

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with salvation

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I will clothe

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her priests

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with

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I want you to

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look at the Hebrew word

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Yesha is salvation

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and Yesha means

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prosperity

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deliverance

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and

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liberty

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and so one of the things that

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God says about the priests of

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Zion is I will clothe them

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with Yesha

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which means I will clothe the priests

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of Zion with liberty

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deliverance, prosperity

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and the oil of joy

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I will clothe her

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priests

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I'll do the Wanda White thing

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I'll clothe her priests with liberty

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prosperity and deliverance

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and the oil of joy

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Really

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Okay so that's one of the things he clothes

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priests with

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Psalm 132 verse 17

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Here I will make a horn grow

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for David and set up a lamp for my anointed one

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meaning God will cause

00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.400
the priests to increase

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in their display of power and glory

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He'll cause the priests to

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increase in their display of power and glory

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Guys this is what we need to be clothed

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with

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We've talked about priests in the past so I'm not

00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:12.400
talking much about it but please

00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:14.400
understand that as a priest in Zion

00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:16.400
I need to begin to reflect

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what I'm clothed

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and I'm clothed in liberty

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so there should be this amazing

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freedom

00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:26.400
that you smell, taste

00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.400
see displayed

00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.400
in me

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not legalism but liberty

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The other thing you need to see

00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.400
in a priest of

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Zion or priest who belongs

00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:42.400
to a people called Zion is

00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:44.400
that he walks

00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:46.400
delivered

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from both the things

00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:50.400
of the world and the things of the flesh and the things of the

00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:52.400
enemy because how can

00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.400
I minister

00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:56.400
deliverance if I am in bondage

00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:58.400
It's difficult

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It's not impossible but it is difficult

00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:04.400
So priests walk in liberty

00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:06.400
in deliverance and in prosperity

00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.400
By prosperity it doesn't mean

00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:10.400
how much money is in my

00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.400
wallet, by prosperity I mean

00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:14.400
shallow welfare

00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:16.400
not as in welfare

00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:18.400
welfare as in

00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:20.400
overall

00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:22.400
well-being is what

00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.400
is meant by prosperity here

00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:26.400
It includes abundance

00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:28.400
and it includes

00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:30.400
resources

00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.400
but it's not talking about the amount of money you have

00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:34.400
That's the kind of

00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:36.400
priest who walk out of Zion because if

00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.400
you are obedidum

00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:40.400
and God's ark dwells in your house

00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:42.400
it should be natural

00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:44.400
If God actually dwells in your house

00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:46.400
wouldn't you walk healed?

00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:48.400
If God actually

00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:50.400
dwells in your house, wouldn't your provisions

00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:52.400
be supplied?

00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:54.400
And so either God does not

00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:56.400
walk with us or God is speaking lies

00:52:56.400 --> 00:52:58.400
or I'm not walking with him, God

00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:00.400
can't lie so

00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:02.400
the equation gets pretty simple but that's the

00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:04.400
people we are called to become

00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:06.400
Priests of Zion walk

00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:08.400
in righteousness

00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:10.400
Priests of Zion walk in righteousness

00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:12.400
vital

00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:14.400
if as priests

00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:16.400
of a people

00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:18.400
called Zion allies don't

00:53:18.400 --> 00:53:20.400
display holiness then

00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:22.400
really your priesthood is

00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:24.400
taken away from you because

00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:26.400
in the Old Testament if you had a defect

00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:28.400
you were not allowed into the sanctuary

00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:30.400
Go ahead Matt, do ask

00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:32.400
Liberty, freedom like deliverance and stuff

00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:34.400
that's like freedom from sin

00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:36.400
No, by liberty and freedom

00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:38.400
I meant free of legalism

00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:40.400
a freedom both this way

00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:42.400
and in the ways of God

00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:44.400
It's that kind of liberty I'm talking about

00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:46.400
If you're not a righteousness

00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:48.400
as a plumb line peculiar holy people

00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:50.400
you gotta be holy to get into

00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:52.400
only comes Zion to you

00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:54.400
and you're not a

00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:56.400
religious person

00:53:56.400 --> 00:53:58.400
You need to get into only comes Zion

00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.400
in the first place, you don't even receive

00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:02.400
that freedom from legalism

00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:04.400
I agree, you're right

00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:06.400
So then you're right

00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:08.400
I understand

00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:10.400
Jesus perfect, how do you become Zion

00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:12.400
I am Jesus perfect, that's the thing

00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:14.400
The beautiful thing about

00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.400
the people of Zion is they suddenly realize

00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:18.400
that they are as perfect

00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:20.400
as Christ, that they are as

00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:22.400
righteous as Christ and now the

00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:24.400
part that they have to work on

00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:26.400
is beginning to live out the righteousness

00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:28.400
and the perfection of Christ that is already within you

00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:30.400
outward

00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:32.400
and that is where I have to

00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:34.400
choose to conform to God

00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:36.400
and not to the world and it's not a struggle

00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:38.400
nor is it a choice

00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:40.400
it's a preference

00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:42.400
Once we move

00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:44.400
from looking at sin as

00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:46.400
and righteousness as a struggle

00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:48.400
once we move from looking at sin as

00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:50.400
a choice between sin and righteousness

00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:52.400
and we decide that righteousness

00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:54.400
is going to be a preference because I like God

00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:56.400
suddenly it becomes

00:54:56.400 --> 00:54:58.400
very simplified

00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:00.400
Well, when's the question period

00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:02.400
asked? Yeah, yeah, sure thing

00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:04.400
Thanks man

00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:08.400
Once we do this

00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:10.400
we can with power and accuracy

00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:12.400
we can have the word

00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:14.400
and salvation go forth from us

00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:18.400
Please stay with me for another 10 minutes

00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:20.400
and then we are done

00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:22.400
Yeah, so don't

00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:24.400
phase off

00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:26.400
right now because this next part is important

00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:28.400
As priests, when we begin

00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.400
to walk in deliverance, when we begin

00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.400
to walk in freedom, when we begin

00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:34.400
to walk in liberty and

00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:36.400
in well-being

00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.400
as priests, when we begin to walk in righteousness

00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:40.400
then it is easy

00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:42.400
for salvation and the word of God

00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:44.400
to go out of a Zion people

00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:46.400
because they are living it, it goes

00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:48.400
out of them easily because at the end of the day

00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:50.400
Folks, it's not tracts, it's not

00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:52.400
crusades, it's not tent

00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:54.400
meetings, it's not witnessing

00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:56.400
that is the greatest tool of evangelism

00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:58.400
the greatest tool of evangelism

00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.400
is the glory of God that resides

00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:02.400
in you

00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:04.400
Never forget that

00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:06.400
It is impossible

00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:08.400
to come against that

00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:10.400
and not be

00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:12.400
provoked, touched

00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:14.400
taken aback

00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:16.400
or go forward

00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:18.400
Always remember that

00:56:18.400 --> 00:56:20.400
the greatest tool of evangelism

00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.400
is the glory of God

00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:24.400
Everything else is a method

00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:28.400
to facilitate evangelism

00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:30.400
but the greatest tool of evangelism

00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:32.400
is when a people realize

00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:34.400
that the glory of God dwells

00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:36.400
in them. This is why

00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:38.400
when they continued in the Apostles doctrine

00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:40.400
when they continued in the breaking of bread

00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:42.400
when they continued in fellowship and in prayers

00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:46.400
Thousands upon thousands began to get added to the church

00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:48.400
Acts chapter 2 verses 42 to 44

00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:50.400
Why? Because suddenly people realized

00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:52.400
Oh shucks, the presence of God

00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.400
dwells in these

00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:56.400
no name fishermen

00:56:56.400 --> 00:56:58.400
They suddenly realized it

00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:00.400
The glory of God if we want to

00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:02.400
recap is the splendor

00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:04.400
the weight

00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:06.400
the reputation, the character

00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:08.400
the nature, the power

00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:10.400
of the Lord

00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:12.400
The character, the nature, the power of God

00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:14.400
all wrapped into one

00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:16.400
is the word glory or kabod

00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:18.400
and who is the glory of God?

00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:20.400
The Christ is the visible glory

00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:22.400
of the invisible God

00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:24.400
and where does he reside now?

00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:26.400
The Christ resides in us as a people

00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:28.400
and in us as individuals

00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:30.400
So when this Christ

00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:32.400
who is veiled in flesh

00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:34.400
begins to display himself

00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:36.400
because the flesh is no longer

00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:38.400
what is working in us but it is the power of God

00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.400
working in us, the world will see

00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:42.400
It is impossible to escape it guys

00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:44.400
It is impossible to escape it

00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:46.400
It is the greatest tool of

00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:48.400
evangelism

00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:54.400
Hallelujah, right on

00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:56.400
Right on

00:57:56.400 --> 00:57:58.400
So that is why

00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:00.400
when we become priests

00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:02.400
who live by the standards of Zion

00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:04.400
it is natural for salvation and the word of God

00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:06.400
to go forth from Zion

00:58:06.400 --> 00:58:08.400
It is very natural, this is why God wanted

00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:10.400
a people to become a people of Zion

00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:12.400
so that it wouldn't be an effort anymore

00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:14.400
it would go out like waves rolling out

00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:16.400
it would go

00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:18.400
it would go

00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:20.400
and finally we come to

00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.400
Kings

00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:24.400
King, Craft and Zion

00:58:24.400 --> 00:58:26.400
The last bit, King, Craft and Zion

00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:30.400
Hey today is the longest day

00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:32.400
in the year

00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:34.400
So we could go on for another two hours and it still wouldn't be dark

00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:38.400
Just kidding

00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:40.400
Not completely, but

00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:42.400
King, Craft and Zion

00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:46.400
Because the people of Zion take their lead

00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:48.400
from the resident king in their midst

00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:50.400
I'll repeat it again, Zion people

00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:52.400
are from the root of Jesse and the tribe of

00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:54.400
Judah, I love this

00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:56.400
Because a Zion people

00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:58.400
take their lead

00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:00.400
from

00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:02.400
the resident king in their midst

00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:04.400
I mean we

00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:06.400
take our lead, we are shaped by

00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:08.400
we connect as

00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:10.400
we become as our capstone

00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:12.400
our cornerstone is

00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:14.400
Because a people of Zion

00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:16.400
take their lead from the resident

00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:18.400
king in their midst

00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:20.400
A people of Zion are from the

00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:22.400
stock or the root of Jesse

00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:26.400
And a people of Zion are from the tribe of Judah

00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:30.400
So if someone asks you

00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:32.400
your genealogy

00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:34.400
After you tell them you are from

00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:36.400
the Patamukil family in Matakatu,

00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.400
Kerala and India

00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:40.400
Always remember to also tell them

00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:42.400
that you are

00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:44.400
from the stock of Jesse

00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:46.400
the root of Jesse and you are

00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:48.400
from the tribe of Judah

00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:50.400
Because that's who you are man

00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:52.400
That's your genealogy

00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:00.400
We got to understand

01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:02.400
We got to understand this

01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:04.400
Yeah, we got to grasp it

01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:06.400
We got to grasp it

01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:10.400
We got to grasp it

01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:14.400
And if we, why do we need to grasp this guys?

01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:16.400
Because

01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:18.400
if you are from the

01:00:18.400 --> 01:00:20.400
root of Jesse, that's your stock

01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:22.400
And if you are from the tribe of Judah

01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:24.400
Then the scepter is your

01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:26.400
rightful possession

01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:28.400
Then the scepter is

01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:30.400
your rightful possession

01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:32.400
Because if you go

01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:34.400
to Psalm 2

01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:42.400
Your rightful possession

01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:44.400
Because just like King Arthur

01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:46.400
if I may use myth

01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:48.400
Just like one

01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:50.400
had to go and pull

01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:52.400
Excalibur out of the rock or get handed

01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:54.400
Excalibur from the river

01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:56.400
So the only

01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:58.400
one who can rightfully possess the scepter

01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:00.400
are the ones who belong

01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:02.400
to the tribe of Judah and who come

01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:04.400
from the stock of Jesse

01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:06.400
Otherwise, unless you begin to understand

01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.400
that that's your natural

01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:10.400
Deen and the Zion people

01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:12.400
know that, they begin to actually

01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:14.400
believe it and then begin to live it out

01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:16.400
That's when the scepter comes into your hands

01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:18.400
and now you have the right to rule

01:01:18.400 --> 01:01:20.400
And we'll talk about ruling

01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.400
just a bit today and more as we

01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:24.400
begin to explore it, but if you go to Psalm

01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:26.400
What did I say?

01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:28.400
Psalm 2

01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:34.400
Psalm 2

01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:36.400
Verse?

01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:38.400
Verse 9

01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:42.400
Yeah, yeah, start at 7

01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:44.400
I will proclaim

01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:46.400
the decree of the Lord

01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:48.400
He said to me, this is Jesus's coronation

01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:50.400
in a sense of speaking

01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.400
I will proclaim the decree of the Lord

01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:54.400
Today I have become your son, today I have become your father

01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:56.400
These were the words I heard over when he was baptized

01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:58.400
Ask of me

01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:00.400
and I will make the nations your inheritance

01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.400
and the ends of the earth your possession

01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:04.400
You will rule them with an

01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:06.400
iron scepter

01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:08.400
and will dash them to pieces like pottery

01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:10.400
Go to Genesis 49, 10

01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:12.400
Genesis 49

01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:14.400
I think it's 10, Genesis 49

01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:18.400
Yeah, I didn't check actually

01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:20.400
Genesis 49, yeah it is

01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:24.400
8 onwards

01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:26.400
Genesis 49, 8

01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:32.400
Genesis 49, 8

01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:34.400
Judah, your brothers will praise you

01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:36.400
Your hands will be on the neck of your enemies

01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:38.400
Your father's son will bow down to you

01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:40.400
You are like a lion's cub, oh Judah

01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:42.400
You return from the prey, my son

01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:44.400
Like a lion who crouches and lies down

01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:46.400
Like a lion as who dares rouse him

01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:48.400
The scepter will not

01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:50.400
depart from Judah

01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:52.400
nor the ruler's staff

01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:54.400
from between his feet

01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:56.400
until he comes to whom

01:02:56.400 --> 01:02:58.400
it belongs and the obedience of the nations

01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:00.400
is his

01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:02.400
Go to Isaiah 11, 2

01:03:04.400 --> 01:03:06.400
It's not in your scriptures but I think

01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:08.400
there's another reference there, Isaiah 11, 2

01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:12.400
Yep

01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:16.400
Isaiah 11, 2

01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.400
I'll just read 11, 1

01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:24.400
and then go to 11, 4

01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:26.400
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse

01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:28.400
or the stalk of Jesse

01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:30.400
From his roots a branch will bear fruit

01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:32.400
Verse 4 or verse 3 and a half

01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:34.400
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes

01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:36.400
or decide by what he hears with his ears

01:03:36.400 --> 01:03:38.400
but with righteousness he will judge the needy

01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:40.400
with justice he will give decisions for the poor

01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.400
of the earth

01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:44.400
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth

01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:46.400
with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked

01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:48.400
Righteousness will be his belt

01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:50.400
and faithfulness the sash around his

01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:52.400
waist

01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.400
Guys, this is the stalk you belong to

01:03:54.400 --> 01:03:56.400
This is the tribe that you belong to

01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:58.400
And once you begin to

01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:00.400
grasp, once you begin to grasp it

01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:02.400
you begin to actually believe it

01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:04.400
And then God says, son, you've come to a place

01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:06.400
where you actually believe it, I can give it to you now

01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:08.400
It's like your kids

01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:10.400
It comes to an age where

01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:12.400
the mother says, okay, this is the dress

01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:14.400
that I got married in

01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:16.400
I think you're ready to have it now

01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:18.400
Part of the reason they're giving it is because they don't fit it into it anymore

01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:20.400
but that's different

01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:22.400
But they still give it to the daughter and they say, this is the dress I got married in

01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:26.400
So, thank God men don't have to do that

01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:32.400
Therefore

01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:34.400
the law will go out of Zion

01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:36.400
and the Zion people, okay

01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:38.400
Go to Isaiah 2-3

01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:40.400
We're almost done guys

01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:42.400
Isaiah 2-3

01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:44.400
Isaiah 2-3

01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:48.400
I love the scripture

01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:52.400
I love the scripture

01:04:54.400 --> 01:04:56.400
Let's start at verse 1

01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:58.400
Isaiah 2

01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:00.400
This is what Isaiah son of Amos

01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:02.400
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem

01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:04.400
In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established

01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:06.400
Who is the mountain of the Lord's temple?

01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:08.400
Mouah

01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:10.400
Us, what's us in French?

01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:12.400
Mouah

01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:14.400
Mouah is me

01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:16.400
N-O-U-S

01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:18.400
Who is the mountain of the temple of the Lord?

01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:20.400
Everybody together?

01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:22.400
Nouah

01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:24.400
Okay

01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:26.400
As chief among the mountains

01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:28.400
It will be raised above the hills

01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:30.400
It will be raised above the hills and all nations will stream to it

01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:32.400
Many people will come and say

01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:34.400
and listen to this

01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:36.400
Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord

01:05:36.400 --> 01:05:38.400
to the house of the God of Jacob

01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:40.400
so that we may walk in his paths

01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:42.400
The law will go out from

01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:44.400
Zion, the word of the Lord

01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:46.400
from Jerusalem

01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:48.400
He will judge between nations and settle

01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:50.400
disputes for many peoples

01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:52.400
They will beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into

01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:54.400
pruning hooks. Nation will not take up

01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:56.400
sword against nation, nor will they train for war

01:05:56.400 --> 01:05:58.400
anymore. Come, O house of Jacob

01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.400
let us walk in the light of the Lord

01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:02.400
Some of it is already happening

01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:04.400
Some of it is for a time not yet

01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:06.400
But the point is this guys

01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:08.400
The law or the decree or the declarations

01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:10.400
go out of a people called

01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:12.400
Zion

01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:16.400
Unless we become

01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:18.400
these people

01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:20.400
we will never understand

01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:22.400
the God who is resident among us

01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:24.400
who has all the possessions of the earth

01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:26.400
and who will whisper into our ears saying

01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:28.400
Here son, this is what I want you to decree

01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:30.400
because the law will go out of Zion

01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.400
Zion is a people

01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:34.400
God always uses people here on earth

01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:36.400
to bring to pass, decrease and his will

01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:38.400
Why did Jesus ask us to pray

01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:40.400
Let your will be done here on earth as it is in

01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:42.400
heaven? Because he wanted us to make

01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:44.400
declarations and decrease

01:06:44.400 --> 01:06:46.400
because the law was always supposed to

01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:48.400
go out of a people

01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:50.400
Israel was supposed to be

01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:52.400
that nation

01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:54.400
that would show the world how God works

01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:56.400
which is why God said to Israel, Israel

01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:58.400
don't worry, I'm taking you out

01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:00.400
of Egypt and through you

01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:02.400
I will show Pharaoh

01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:04.400
who is God and through you

01:07:04.400 --> 01:07:06.400
I will show all the nations around

01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:08.400
that you are a

01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:10.400
people that I carry

01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:12.400
in my arms like a father

01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:14.400
bears his children, like an eagle

01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:16.400
bears its young and they shall know

01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:18.400
that God dwells among them

01:07:18.400 --> 01:07:20.400
It is always his intent

01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:22.400
to use a people to display his power

01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:26.400
Always his intent

01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:28.400
So when we become that people

01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:30.400
suddenly decrease, start going out

01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:32.400
from us because God dwells in our midst

01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:34.400
and we hear him and we speak it

01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:36.400
and it happens, not because we suddenly have

01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:38.400
more clout but behind us

01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.400
is someone with absolute clout

01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:42.400
The word C-L-O-U-T begins and ends

01:07:42.400 --> 01:07:44.400
in him

01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:48.400
So we need to explore that further

01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:50.400
and we will

01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:52.400
A Zion people will rule in the midst

01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:54.400
of hostility and

01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:56.400
enemies

01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:58.400
and both are characteristics of kings

01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:00.400
I am going to show you Psalm 110 verse 2

01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:02.400
Guys we are just

01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:04.400
scratching the surface of

01:08:04.400 --> 01:08:06.400
Kingcraft in Zion

01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:08.400
In the weeks ahead we may expand on it

01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:14.400
I'm just giving you a taste of it

01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:16.400
Psalm 110 verse 2

01:08:16.400 --> 01:08:18.400
Psalm 110 verse 2

01:08:20.400 --> 01:08:22.400
Hehehehehehe

01:08:22.400 --> 01:08:24.400
Hehehehehe is like delightful laughter

01:08:24.400 --> 01:08:26.400
It's a slight element of glee to it

01:08:26.400 --> 01:08:28.400
The Lord will extend

01:08:28.400 --> 01:08:30.400
your mighty scepter

01:08:30.400 --> 01:08:32.400
from Zion

01:08:32.400 --> 01:08:34.400
You will rule in the midst of your

01:08:34.400 --> 01:08:36.400
enemies

01:08:36.400 --> 01:08:38.400
Your troops will be willing on your day of battle

01:08:38.400 --> 01:08:40.400
Arrayed in holy majesty

01:08:40.400 --> 01:08:42.400
from the womb of the dawn

01:08:42.400 --> 01:08:44.400
you will receive the due of your youth

01:08:44.400 --> 01:08:46.400
and then he goes on to say what else will happen

01:08:46.400 --> 01:08:48.400
to the enemy

01:08:48.400 --> 01:08:50.400
The Lord has sworn and he will not change his mind

01:08:50.400 --> 01:08:52.400
You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek

01:08:52.400 --> 01:08:54.400
The Lord is at your right hand

01:08:54.400 --> 01:08:56.400
He will crush kings on the day of his wrath

01:08:56.400 --> 01:08:58.400
He will judge the nations heaping up the dead

01:08:58.400 --> 01:09:00.400
and crushing the rulers of the whole earth

01:09:00.400 --> 01:09:02.400
He will drink from a brook beside the way

01:09:02.400 --> 01:09:04.400
and therefore he will lift up his head

01:09:04.400 --> 01:09:06.400
It's talking about Christ but who is the body of Christ

01:09:06.400 --> 01:09:08.400
Who is Christ dwelling among

01:09:08.400 --> 01:09:10.400
Us

01:09:10.400 --> 01:09:12.400
New

01:09:12.400 --> 01:09:14.400
These are characteristics of kings

01:09:14.400 --> 01:09:16.400
These are characteristics of kings

01:09:16.400 --> 01:09:18.400
To be honest

01:09:18.400 --> 01:09:20.400
I don't know if you guys have heard

01:09:20.400 --> 01:09:22.400
of the word king

01:09:22.400 --> 01:09:24.400
These are characteristics of kings

01:09:24.400 --> 01:09:26.400
To rule in the midst of their enemies

01:09:26.400 --> 01:09:28.400
and rule in the midst of hostility

01:09:28.400 --> 01:09:30.400
It's the characteristics of kings

01:09:30.400 --> 01:09:32.400
But I want to say something to you

01:09:32.400 --> 01:09:34.400
Kings are not born out of confession

01:09:36.400 --> 01:09:38.400
Meaning

01:09:38.400 --> 01:09:40.400
To go around for the next whole week saying

01:09:40.400 --> 01:09:42.400
I'm a king, I'm a king, I'm the son of the king

01:09:42.400 --> 01:09:44.400
I'm the son of the king, hallelujah, I'm a king, I'm a king

01:09:44.400 --> 01:09:46.400
Kings, yeah

01:09:46.400 --> 01:09:48.400
Affirming that doesn't help

01:09:48.400 --> 01:09:50.400
Kings do not grow out of confession

01:09:50.400 --> 01:09:52.400
Kings grow out of a culture

01:09:52.400 --> 01:09:54.400
Kings grow out of a culture

01:09:54.400 --> 01:09:56.400
Kings don't grow out of a confession

01:09:56.400 --> 01:09:58.400
Because one of the things that

01:09:58.400 --> 01:10:00.400
Unfortunately the church got stuck with

01:10:00.400 --> 01:10:02.400
Is claiming

01:10:02.400 --> 01:10:04.400
I'm a king, I'm a king, I'm a king

01:10:04.400 --> 01:10:06.400
First of all

01:10:06.400 --> 01:10:08.400
For kingship to be established

01:10:08.400 --> 01:10:10.400
It is based on your priesthood guys

01:10:10.400 --> 01:10:12.400
We've talked about this

01:10:12.400 --> 01:10:14.400
To be a king you first have to be a priest

01:10:14.400 --> 01:10:16.400
Which means if you are not a priest

01:10:16.400 --> 01:10:18.400
If you are not living a life that is holy

01:10:18.400 --> 01:10:20.400
Your right to rule is taken away

01:10:22.400 --> 01:10:24.400
But being a king doesn't come

01:10:24.400 --> 01:10:26.400
Through confessing it a hundred times

01:10:26.400 --> 01:10:28.400
Being a king comes through growing up in a culture

01:10:28.400 --> 01:10:30.400
That will begin to spawn kings

01:10:30.400 --> 01:10:32.400
Growing up in a culture

01:10:34.400 --> 01:10:36.400
And it's natural that if we

01:10:36.400 --> 01:10:38.400
Begin to actually understand and grasp

01:10:38.400 --> 01:10:40.400
The principles of living

01:10:40.400 --> 01:10:42.400
In the city of the great king, Psalm 48 2

01:10:42.400 --> 01:10:44.400
Says that and you know that song

01:10:44.400 --> 01:10:46.400
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised

01:10:46.400 --> 01:10:48.400
In the city of our God, in the mountain of his

01:10:48.400 --> 01:10:50.400
Holiness, beautiful for situation

01:10:50.400 --> 01:10:52.400
The joy of the whole earth

01:10:52.400 --> 01:10:54.400
Is Mount Zion on the side of the north

01:10:54.400 --> 01:10:56.400
The city of the great king

01:10:58.400 --> 01:11:00.400
If you want to begin to develop

01:11:00.400 --> 01:11:02.400
Into the king that you are called to be

01:11:02.400 --> 01:11:04.400
Then you have to grow up in a culture

01:11:04.400 --> 01:11:06.400
That spawns or births kings

01:11:06.400 --> 01:11:08.400
And that culture is only found

01:11:08.400 --> 01:11:10.400
In the city of the great king

01:11:10.400 --> 01:11:12.400
And who is the city of the great king?

01:11:12.400 --> 01:11:14.400
Noo

01:11:14.400 --> 01:11:16.400
Us

01:11:20.400 --> 01:11:22.400
Sorry?

01:11:22.400 --> 01:11:24.400
We

01:11:24.400 --> 01:11:26.400
Yes

01:11:26.400 --> 01:11:28.400
That's where people are taught

01:11:28.400 --> 01:11:30.400
By the king of kings to wield the scepter of authority

01:11:30.400 --> 01:11:32.400
Over Babylon

01:11:32.400 --> 01:11:34.400
That is where people are taught

01:11:34.400 --> 01:11:36.400
By the king of kings to wield

01:11:36.400 --> 01:11:38.400
The scepter of authority

01:11:38.400 --> 01:11:40.400
Let me put it this way

01:11:40.400 --> 01:11:42.400
Let's pick on someone

01:11:44.400 --> 01:11:46.400
If you want to construct houses

01:11:46.400 --> 01:11:48.400
I would suggest

01:11:48.400 --> 01:11:50.400
That you don't come and spend time with me

01:11:50.400 --> 01:11:52.400
Because I couldn't put together

01:11:52.400 --> 01:11:54.400
Simple stuff that Ikea and brick sends

01:11:54.400 --> 01:11:56.400
You leave alone, construct stuff

01:11:56.400 --> 01:11:58.400
If you want to become a builder

01:11:58.400 --> 01:12:00.400
Or someone who is involved in construction

01:12:00.400 --> 01:12:02.400
Go

01:12:02.400 --> 01:12:04.400
To Wayne, Matt

01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:06.400
Or Elmer

01:12:06.400 --> 01:12:08.400
Spend time with them

01:12:08.400 --> 01:12:10.400
He's not here

01:12:10.400 --> 01:12:12.400
He's not here today

01:12:12.400 --> 01:12:14.400
Spend time with them

01:12:14.400 --> 01:12:16.400
If you spend enough time with Wayne

01:12:16.400 --> 01:12:18.400
Matt and Elmer

01:12:18.400 --> 01:12:20.400
Over a period of time

01:12:20.400 --> 01:12:22.400
You will begin to apprentice with them

01:12:22.400 --> 01:12:24.400
And you will grow up in a culture where they don't talk about

01:12:24.400 --> 01:12:26.400
Guitar strings

01:12:26.400 --> 01:12:28.400
They talk about spanners and hammers

01:12:28.400 --> 01:12:30.400
And nails and your language will change

01:12:30.400 --> 01:12:32.400
Your hands will get rough

01:12:32.400 --> 01:12:34.400
Your clothes will look awkward

01:12:34.400 --> 01:12:36.400
You'll walk around

01:12:36.400 --> 01:12:38.400
Not with a briefcase

01:12:38.400 --> 01:12:40.400
But big hunking tool boxes

01:12:40.400 --> 01:12:42.400
You will not wake up at an early hour

01:12:42.400 --> 01:12:44.400
But go to work at 5 o'clock

01:12:44.400 --> 01:12:46.400
And come back at 10

01:12:46.400 --> 01:12:48.400
You will come back with splinters

01:12:48.400 --> 01:12:50.400
In your hand

01:12:50.400 --> 01:12:52.400
Why? Because that's the culture that

01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:54.400
You're suddenly living in

01:12:54.400 --> 01:12:56.400
But at the end of the day, two years from now

01:12:56.400 --> 01:12:58.400
You will actually construct your own house

01:13:00.400 --> 01:13:02.400
That's exactly how Zion works

01:13:02.400 --> 01:13:04.400
Zion is a place where

01:13:04.400 --> 01:13:06.400
Kings are birthed

01:13:06.400 --> 01:13:08.400
But they first have to understand

01:13:08.400 --> 01:13:10.400
What Zion is

01:13:10.400 --> 01:13:12.400
And suddenly this culture

01:13:12.400 --> 01:13:14.400
Begins to produce kings

01:13:14.400 --> 01:13:16.400
The culture begins to produce kings

01:13:16.400 --> 01:13:18.400
And then once the culture

01:13:18.400 --> 01:13:20.400
Produces kings, these kings begin to know how to

01:13:20.400 --> 01:13:22.400
Decree in the midst of

01:13:22.400 --> 01:13:24.400
Hostility, in the midst of the enemies

01:13:24.400 --> 01:13:26.400
And they'll see things happening

01:13:28.400 --> 01:13:30.400
They'll see things happening

01:13:32.400 --> 01:13:34.400
The culture of the tribe then begins to affect

01:13:34.400 --> 01:13:36.400
Households and individuals

01:13:36.400 --> 01:13:38.400
So you have to understand, this is not something

01:13:38.400 --> 01:13:40.400
You can attempt on your own as an individual

01:13:40.400 --> 01:13:42.400
Guys

01:13:42.400 --> 01:13:44.400
It's the culture of a tribe that affects

01:13:44.400 --> 01:13:46.400
The household and then the individual

01:13:46.400 --> 01:13:48.400
So if we learn it here

01:13:48.400 --> 01:13:50.400
You will start doing it at home

01:13:50.400 --> 01:13:52.400
If you learn it at home, you will start

01:13:52.400 --> 01:13:54.400
Doing it as individuals

01:13:54.400 --> 01:13:56.400
It'll first begin with

01:13:56.400 --> 01:13:58.400
Situations in church that we deal with

01:13:58.400 --> 01:14:00.400
As kings

01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:02.400
Like two weeks ago when we had a prayer time here

01:14:02.400 --> 01:14:04.400
And we had to deal with

01:14:04.400 --> 01:14:06.400
A giant that was coming against us

01:14:06.400 --> 01:14:08.400
Remember?

01:14:08.400 --> 01:14:10.400
We talked about, we prayed against

01:14:10.400 --> 01:14:12.400
That particular thing that was coming against us

01:14:12.400 --> 01:14:14.400
And how did we pray? We prayed with

01:14:14.400 --> 01:14:16.400
God given decrees

01:14:16.400 --> 01:14:18.400
You saw that, we learned it first as a church

01:14:18.400 --> 01:14:20.400
Once you learn it as a church

01:14:20.400 --> 01:14:22.400
Now in your home

01:14:22.400 --> 01:14:24.400
You begin to practice it in your household

01:14:24.400 --> 01:14:26.400
And once you begin to practice it in your household

01:14:26.400 --> 01:14:28.400
You begin to practice it as individuals

01:14:30.400 --> 01:14:32.400
And once God sees that they have

01:14:32.400 --> 01:14:34.400
Gotten the hang of

01:14:34.400 --> 01:14:36.400
Behaving like kings and

01:14:36.400 --> 01:14:38.400
Ruling in the midst of hostility and enemies

01:14:38.400 --> 01:14:40.400
With decrees that I give them

01:14:40.400 --> 01:14:42.400
And they're seeing their enemies defeated

01:14:42.400 --> 01:14:44.400
Now God will say, okay, I want to give you a little more

01:14:44.400 --> 01:14:46.400
A little more, and I promise you

01:14:46.400 --> 01:14:48.400
This, if you stay here long enough

01:14:48.400 --> 01:14:50.400
And if you stay on course

01:14:50.400 --> 01:14:52.400
I say to you very humbly

01:14:52.400 --> 01:14:54.400
Then you will see how nations

01:14:54.400 --> 01:14:56.400
And events in nations

01:14:56.400 --> 01:14:58.400
Both here in Canada and outside

01:14:58.400 --> 01:15:00.400
Will begin to turn

01:15:00.400 --> 01:15:02.400
I am not kidding you

01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:04.400
You know I'm not into histrionics and drama

01:15:06.400 --> 01:15:08.400
When we get this right on this level

01:15:08.400 --> 01:15:10.400
Now God will say, now I can

01:15:10.400 --> 01:15:12.400
Trust you with nations, this will not be some kind

01:15:12.400 --> 01:15:14.400
Of a gathering where we see eagles

01:15:14.400 --> 01:15:16.400
Flying and cannons blazing

01:15:16.400 --> 01:15:18.400
And oh I take this nation for God, no no no

01:15:18.400 --> 01:15:20.400
Not just heighty

01:15:20.400 --> 01:15:22.400
Flutie stuff out there

01:15:22.400 --> 01:15:24.400
No, it will be

01:15:24.400 --> 01:15:26.400
So simple, it will be a simple

01:15:26.400 --> 01:15:28.400
Decree and you will see events

01:15:28.400 --> 01:15:30.400
Turning in nations

01:15:30.400 --> 01:15:32.400
I've seen it guys

01:15:32.400 --> 01:15:34.400
But I saw it only as an individual

01:15:34.400 --> 01:15:36.400
And really I'm not

01:15:36.400 --> 01:15:38.400
Interested in seeing it as an individual

01:15:38.400 --> 01:15:40.400
I want to see it as a

01:15:40.400 --> 01:15:42.400
People

01:15:42.400 --> 01:15:44.400
It's odd

01:15:44.400 --> 01:15:46.400
But I'm not interested anymore

01:15:46.400 --> 01:15:48.400
In just seeing it as an individual

01:15:48.400 --> 01:15:50.400
I don't want to say something in a nation

01:15:50.400 --> 01:15:52.400
And it happens, oh Jacob said it, no

01:15:52.400 --> 01:15:54.400
A people said it, a people said it

01:15:54.400 --> 01:15:56.400
A people said it

01:15:56.400 --> 01:15:58.400
Because it is out of this people

01:15:58.400 --> 01:16:00.400
That I get my benefits, my perspectives

01:16:00.400 --> 01:16:02.400
My characteristics

01:16:04.400 --> 01:16:06.400
It's the people that have to learn this

01:16:08.400 --> 01:16:10.400
Nations will then

01:16:12.400 --> 01:16:14.400
Once we learn that, no

01:16:14.400 --> 01:16:16.400
When we see it work in church, then our homes

01:16:16.400 --> 01:16:18.400
Then our lives, then

01:16:18.400 --> 01:16:20.400
Zion people will have the capacity to bring

01:16:20.400 --> 01:16:22.400
Nations and events in different

01:16:22.400 --> 01:16:24.400
Nations into subjection

01:16:24.400 --> 01:16:26.400
I've seen it through some churches, I've seen it

01:16:26.400 --> 01:16:28.400
Individually, but I want to see it

01:16:28.400 --> 01:16:30.400
Here in this house as a people

01:16:30.400 --> 01:16:32.400
And if you stay long enough here

01:16:32.400 --> 01:16:34.400
And if you stay the course, you will see it

01:16:34.400 --> 01:16:36.400
The nations will acknowledge the glory of

01:16:36.400 --> 01:16:38.400
God, and tributes and wealth

01:16:38.400 --> 01:16:40.400
And peoples will be transferred

01:16:40.400 --> 01:16:42.400
Out of the dominion into the kingdom of the sun

01:16:42.400 --> 01:16:44.400
So let me end with Micah 4.13 and we are done

01:16:44.400 --> 01:16:46.400
At least in terms of the teaching

01:16:46.400 --> 01:16:48.400
Micah 4.13

01:16:48.400 --> 01:16:50.400
Micah 4.13

01:16:54.400 --> 01:16:56.400
I don't know where Micah is

01:16:58.400 --> 01:17:00.400
After Amos

01:17:04.400 --> 01:17:06.400
I don't know where those two are

01:17:06.400 --> 01:17:08.400
Micah 4.13

01:17:08.400 --> 01:17:10.400
Okay, I got it

01:17:10.400 --> 01:17:12.400
Micah 4.13

01:17:14.400 --> 01:17:16.400
Rise and thresh

01:17:16.400 --> 01:17:18.400
O daughter of Zion

01:17:18.400 --> 01:17:20.400
For I will give you horns of iron

01:17:20.400 --> 01:17:22.400
I will give you hoofs of bronze

01:17:22.400 --> 01:17:24.400
And you will break into pieces many

01:17:24.400 --> 01:17:26.400
Nations, you will devote

01:17:26.400 --> 01:17:28.400
Their ill-gotten gains to the Lord

01:17:28.400 --> 01:17:30.400
Their wealth to the Lord

01:17:30.400 --> 01:17:32.400
Of all the earth

01:17:32.400 --> 01:17:34.400
That's what will eventually happen

01:17:34.400 --> 01:17:36.400
That's what will eventually happen

01:17:38.400 --> 01:17:40.400
Wayne, I'm done in terms of the teaching

01:17:42.400 --> 01:17:44.400
Guys