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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Glory – Kingdom Life in a Fallen World – Part I
Publishing Date: 2012-02-19T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/glory-kingdom-life-in-a-fallen-world-part-i/

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Now we shift our focus in our study of glory to something that's a new way of approaching

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it and so here's how we go about it.

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Guys all the attributes of glory center in Jesus Christ.

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We said that before.

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Exodus 33, 18 I repeated every Sunday.

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Moses said show me your glory and God begins to define glory for him and as he begins to

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define it you find that he's defining his attributes.

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So all the attributes of glory center in Jesus Christ.

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Why do we say Jesus Christ?

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Because he's a visible expression of the glory of God.

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In Exodus 33 God starts talking about glory and he begins to explain his attributes and

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we see these attributes in Christ.

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Therefore the glory, all the attributes of glory center in Christ Jesus who is a visible

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expression of God's glory and so here's the clincher.

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When the church centers on Jesus Christ and when the church centers on Christ and establishes

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the reputation of Jesus Christ in our own lives then the world will begin to see God's

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glory.

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Let me say that again.

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If Christ is the glory of God and the church begins to center on Jesus Christ and begins

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to establish the reputation of the son in our lives, you establish his reputation in

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your lives then the world will begin to see the glory of God.

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That's how this works.

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Especially given what is peddled as glory nowadays where physical manifestations are

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peddled as glory, when I would go as far as to say that some of these physical manifestations

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are actually the doctrines of demons and the signs of seducing spirits in established charismatic

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churches in North America.

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That's what they are.

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So what we are going to see over the next maybe three months is Jesus unveiling the

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foundations of his glory through Matthew 5-3-10.

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I mean he'll unveil the character of, what Jesus is going to do in Matthew 5-3-10 and

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listen to this guys because it's important to understand this.

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Jesus is going to unveil the character of a glory ascribing life in Matthew 5-3-10.

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We've never looked at Matthew 5-3-10 that way.

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But what Jesus is going to do is he's going to unveil the character or the characteristics

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of a glory ascribing life in Matthew 5-3-10.

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Most of us know Matthew 5-3-10 as the Sermon on the Mount and I want to say to you that

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it's the best known, least understood, least obeyed verses in the Bible.

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The best known, least understood and least obeyed verses in the Bible.

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We usually dismiss them as, oh those were the starting years that Jesus just started.

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He put together a lot of nice words and they sound good every now and then.

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Say them occasionally preach a sermon on them.

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Blessed are the distinct, blessed are the that thing.

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Really doesn't relate to us.

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Blessed are the poor in spirit.

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That's the last thing we want to be.

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For the kingdom of heaven is ours anyways, so why look after the blessed?

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And yet in those verses you will see that what is happening is Jesus is revealing the

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character of a glorious ascribing life.

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So if you want to turn to Matthew 5-3-10.

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In other words guys, if you want to spot a Christ glorifier in a crowd, look for these

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supernatural character attributes in them.

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If you want to spot in this church, not a worshipper, not a pastor, not a good Christian,

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not a healing ministry like say Anne and Elmer's.

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If you want to spot a Christ glorifier, then look for these eight supernatural characteristics

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in them and if they display it, I want to say to you that they are walking displays

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of the glory of God.

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So Matthew 5-3-10.

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It says that now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down and

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his disciples came to him and he began to teach them saying, blessed are the poor in

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spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.

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Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth.

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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled.

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Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy.

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Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.

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Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the sons of God.

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Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom

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of heaven.

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Go to Isaiah 61.

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Verses 1-3.

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You will see echoes of the beatitudes in the character of the Christ who came to the earth.

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Isaiah 61, verses 1-3.

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The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to preach

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the good news to the poor.

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He has sent me to brighten up the broken hearted and proclaim freedom for the captives, release

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from darkness for the prisoners, proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, the day of the

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vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn and to provide for those who grieve in Zion,

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to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning,

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a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.

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They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of

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the splendor of God.

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So again here we see echoes of Matthew 5-3-10.

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We see in Isaiah 61 when he's describing Christ.

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By the way, if you want to see some things that God hates, you will find that the beatitudes

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are an antithesis of Proverbs 6.

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Proverbs 6, 16-19.

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Proverbs 6, 16-19.

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There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him.

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So Matthew 5 says, blessed are the poor in spirit.

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Here it says God hates haughty eyes.

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He hates a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes.

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There it says pure in heart, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who

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pours out lies.

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There it says peacemaker.

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Here it says a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

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You'll see that the things that you're going to read in Matthew 5 are things that actually

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are attributes of God that God is now saying, hey, you guys want to begin to see what it

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is to live a life full of my attributes?

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Practice these and you will see what will happen to you.

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Guys, these are supernatural spiritual torpedoes, man.

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I mean, the more I read it, the more I think to myself, what took you 20 years?

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These are supernaturally charged spiritual torpedoes that arm you for a God life on earth.

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What it's basically doing is it's saying, Jesus is saying, Wayne, if you begin to practice

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this, do you realize, Wayne, that you will be partaking in my divine nature?

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That whole thing in 2nd Peter where it says we have precious promises in the written word

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to partake in the divine nature.

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Hello, these are the precious promises.

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And then it goes on to say to goodness add faith, to faith add loving kindness, to loving

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kindness add love, all that is encompassed in these 8 things that you will see.

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And by the way, even though it's called the Sermon on the Mount and there was a huge multitude,

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have you noticed how in the beginning of the chapter, he begins to speak and what does

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he do?

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He calls his disciples to himself first.

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He's speaking to his disciples.

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We assume that the multitude heard it.

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Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.

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But he was addressing his disciples.

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If you want to spot a Christ glorifier in a crowd, look for these 8 supernatural character

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attributes because they are a reflection of God's nature, splendor and character.

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Guys, don't make the mistake of being selective about these character attributes.

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Don't say, I'll be merciful but I don't want to be a peacemaker.

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I want to be pure in heart but I don't want to be meek.

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Can't do that.

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You cannot be selective with this because we can't apportion God.

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Any questions before we go on?

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So over the next, I think, three months or so, or probably four with Eddie coming in

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between and me going out in between, probably four months.

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In the next four months, what we'll do is we'll begin to study these character attributes

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that Jesus wants us to develop.

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And I would suggest to you that if these become permanent in our lives, turn to 2nd Peter,

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2nd Peter 1, 2nd Peter 1 verse 3 onwards, 2nd Peter 1, 3 onwards.

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That time is right.

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We've got a lot of time today.

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2nd Peter 1, verse 3 onwards.

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His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our

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knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

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Through these, he has given us these very great and precious promises so that through

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them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused

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by evil desires.

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That's why I call them spiritual torpedoes.

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You both are armed for a life with God and you're also able to undo that which is the

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corruption of the world.

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Then verse 5, for this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness and to

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goodness knowledge and to knowledge self-control and to self-control perseverance and to perseverance

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godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness love.

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Now those things we will see are part of the Beatitudes, but look at verse 8, for if you

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possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective

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and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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But if anyone does not have them, he is near sighted and blind and has forgotten that he

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has been cleansed from his past sins.

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Therefore brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure.

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For if you do these things, you will never fall and you will receive a rich welcome into

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the internal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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That is how potent these principles are going to be.

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I might call them Beatitudes occasionally, but it's not a word that you see in the Bible

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anyways.

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Any questions before we go on?

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Guys, if we are, please, one of the things I desire of you and I desire and I'm doing

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it anyways myself is that you go and practice the Beatitude that you're taught every week.

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Practice it.

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Remember on what we're going to learn next week, but practice what you're taught this

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week, because you'll have ample opportunity to practice this.

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These are so real and practical that it's fascinating that they are the least understood

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things in the Bible and least obeyed even if you understand them.

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So questions before we go on?

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Happy Attitudes.

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Yeah, some call them Happy, Be Happy Attitudes.

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Attitudes to be.

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Yeah.

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I don't know, Diana, I thought I can get away with that one.

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If it was Greek, I used to get away with it, but now because of certain extenuating circumstances,

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even that is not possible.

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The only language I can get away with nowadays is Punjabi and Hebrew.

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And Malayalam.

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And Malayalam.

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Okay.

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So Beatitudes is a Hebrew word, which means be happy in your attitude.

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Okay, so let's take the word, the first Beatitude.

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And basically, as the title of your page says, this is Kingdom Life in a Fallen World.

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How in a fallen world can we begin to display Kingdom Life, which is basically the life

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of the king?

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We're living according to the values, the norms of a kingdom that has come in a world

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that is fading away or passing away.

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And the reason we can live Kingdom Life is because the king took up residence in us.

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I'm always fascinated by that.

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That when it comes to kingdom, the king lives no longer in a palace that we have to visit,

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but we have become his palace.

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And that everyone is a citizen, yes, but everyone is his younger brother.

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That fascinates me.

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There's no other king like that.

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So the first word that we need to look at in blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs

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is a kingdom of heaven.

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That's the first one.

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That's the first one.

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Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is a kingdom of heaven.

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Blessed, the word blessed, the root idea is approval, guys.

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The root idea is approval.

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Blessed is to say approval, as in God is saying, listen, I want to say to you that if you are

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able to adapt this principle into your life, then know this, that I unreservedly, exuberantly

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endorse or approve you.

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Endorse or approve you.

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Now you can go and find the meaning of blessed in Greek and Hebrew and all this stuff and

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they'll say to be envied.

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Yeah.

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Unreservedly.

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And you'll find that it says to be envied and all that stuff.

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All that is true.

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But we are not looking at the meaning of the word to explain this.

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What we are looking at is what's the sense of God saying this?

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And what God is saying is, listen, approved are you, exuberantly unreservedly endorsed

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are you.

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That is a sense of it.

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Crave it, guys.

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See, I knew there was happiness somewhere in there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So the root is really approval.

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So those who live out what Jesus is spelling out in these eight, nine verses, those who

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live it out will have the unreserved exuberant endorsement of God.

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That's what it's saying.

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And by the way, for fishermen and tax collectors who were continuously used to the verbal assaults

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of Pharisees and Sadducees telling them how lousy they were, this was like music to their

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ears, man.

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There they would be told, you are proud, you are lousy, the kingdom of heaven ain't going

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to be yours and you blessed know you're cursed.

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And suddenly here is this man who's coming and telling them, endorsed are you unreservedly

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and exuberantly and I'm fully approving of you as you begin to walk in the poverty of

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your spirit.

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So it must have been music to their ears, regardless of whether the multitude heard

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it or whether the disciples heard it.

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So the root idea again is approval.

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Whenever you, as we go through this, whenever we come across this word blessed, remember,

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it is God exuberantly unreservedly endorsing you and saying, approved are you when you

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begin to operate in these things that I'm spelling out to you or super blessed are you

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because of my endorsement.

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It's the craving.

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What else should you crave for but the pleasure of the acknowledgement of the father?

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What else does a dog crave for?

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Am I calling you dogs?

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Kind of.

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But the whole idea of worship by the way is this picture of a dog wagging its tail coming

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and licking its master.

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That's the whole idea of worship.

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That's the, that's the literal picture of worship.

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And yet, be your sons, be your sons.

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So now let's talk about poor.

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Had a late night what?

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Last night?

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Late night, right?

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Yeah.

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No, late night.

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I didn't mention your name so they don't know who I'm talking about, Ryan.

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Sorry Matt.

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I haven't done this for two years.

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Yeah, just making it famous.

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Blessed are the poor.

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Poor now comes from a Greek word that Jason's going to pronounce loudly.

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P-T-O-C-H-O-S.

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That wasn't very effective but moving on.

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So P-T-O-C-H-O-S, something like tocos.

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But basically poor, the picture of blessed are the poor.

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The poor here is a beggar who's crouched in a corner with one arm stretched out asking

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for arms and the other arm literally hiding his face in shame.

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That's the literal picture of the poor.

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That word.

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A person crouched in a corner begging, one hand held out for arms, the other hiding his

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face ashamed of being recognized.

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That's the picture.

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One of the things we need to recognize or realize right off the bat is that, let there

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be no mistake, the poverty being described here is about a man's spirit, not about his

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pocket.

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When Jesus says blessed are the poor, he's not talking about a man's pocket, he's talking

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about a man's spirit.

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Otherwise every rich man is not blessed, which means none of you are blessed.

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Because where's the line for poverty?

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Who do you compare it to?

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Maybe one day I'm richer than you, another day you're richer than me, but we're all

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richer than more than two-thirds of the world.

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So where does it end?

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No.

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Matt, tell him how long it will take before we get there.

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Yeah.

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Bless it.

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No, it's not mindset.

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Yeah, we'll come to that.

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That's what we'll be talking about.

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So let there be no mistake, the poverty being described here is a man's spirit and not his

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pocket rephrased.

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How would you rephrase this?

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Blessed are those who are spiritually bankrupt.

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Blessed are those who are spiritually bankrupt.

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Or blessed are the spiritually bankrupt ones.

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Blessed are those who are spiritually bankrupt who cringe and cower because of their helplessness.

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OK.

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because of their helplessness and for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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And like Wayne is saying, everyone is spiritually bankrupt,

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some realize it, some think about it, some recognize it,

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most don't realize it, most don't think about it, most don't recognize it.

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And we are only talking about Christians now.

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Jesus called aside his disciples and began to tell this to them.

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So let's just leave the rest of the world alone.

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For now.

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Go ahead, An.

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Kamal, go ahead.

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I just didn't understand spiritually bankrupt.

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I thought being financially bankrupt was spiritually...

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Yeah.

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Just as you would think of one who is financially bankrupt,

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having nothing.

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So now God is saying, blessed are those that are spiritually bankrupt,

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who are absolutely helpless, who are literally willing to recognize,

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think and acknowledge that they got nothing to offer,

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but come absolutely helpless to the king.

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That is one of the conditions for blessedness.

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And as we talk about it, you'll find out what we mean by spiritually bankrupt.

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Because to come to God with any semblance of money in your spiritual account

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is going to result in you not being as productive as you can be.

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And we'll talk about that as we continue.

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So is that a presumption of what is spiritually rich?

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Because if you're coming to God with something, you hold it spiritually rich.

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Then it's a presumption that as we'll find out, quite dangerous.

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Quite dangerous.

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This is total dependence on God.

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Totally depending on His spirit.

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Yeah, yeah.

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As we go, we'll flesh that out.

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Spiritually banked out as money.

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Yeah, not money. Not money.

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Spiritually banked out as the word.

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Yeah. And a whole lot of other things as we'll see.

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You're saying it's not the prophet.

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Yeah, it's not the prophet. Put pocket.

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So let's define spiritual bankruptcy then.

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Guys, spiritual bankruptcy may be defined as a continuous state of inadequacy.

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Spiritual bankruptcy is a continual state of inadequacy.

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Continual state of inadequacy.

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Where you come to the King as absolutely helpless.

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Where you come to the King as absolutely helpless.

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And you shed, we'll go over that slowly.

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Spiritual bankruptcy is defined as a continuous state of inadequacy before God.

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Where you come to the King as helpless, regardless of how long you've been a Christian.

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Because you don't come with any spiritual assets.

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You're always coming to Him in a state, or living out of a state of inadequacy, of helplessness before the King.

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And you begin to shed all self-sufficiency.

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And any confidence that you have in your human skills or abilities.

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And you might say, no, no, no, that's going too extreme.

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Well, Jesus is the standard and we'll get there.

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We'll talk about that today.

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So it's defined as a continual state of inadequacy.

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It's defined as a continual state of inadequacy.

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Where you come to the King as helpless, shedding all forms of self-sufficiency.

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And shedding confidence in your own human abilities and skills.

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But isn't that God given?

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Yes it is, but you shed your confidence in your human abilities and skills.

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And we'll talk about that some more.

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I'll have to say that a few times because there's quite a lot to say.

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Guys, if you and I think, and sometimes there is a tendency for us to think,

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but that's how we are, we are not self-sufficient, we are dependent on God.

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Then if you think you are that already, show me how transparent you are.

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And how free from pretensions you are.

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If you think that you are already living in that state of inadequacy.

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That you've shed all your self-sufficiency.

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That you've shed all your confidence in your own human skills and abilities.

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Then show me how transparent you are.

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And show me how free of pretensions and masks you are.

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Because a beggar has nothing to hide and has nothing to hide behind.

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Except his inadequacy.

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And even that he doesn't hide because he stretches out his hand asking.

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If you, let me say that again, if you say that this is how you are, or if Jacob says,

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but I'm already living out of inadequacy, I don't have any self-sufficiency.

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I'm not confident of my human abilities and skills.

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And I'm completely poor in spirit.

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Then you need to ask, okay Jacob, show me your transparency.

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How transparent are you?

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And you'll find that Jacob isn't as transparent as he should be.

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Far from it.

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Do you wear any masks or do you have any pretensions?

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Absolutely I do.

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Well then Jacob, you're not a beggar yet.

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Because a beggar has nothing to hide.

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A beggar does not pretend because there's nothing to hide and there's nothing to hide behind.

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Except the shame of his inadequacy.

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And he shamelessly expresses his need.

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Right on. Right on.

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The Pharisees couldn't get there.

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Why? Because they came with spiritual assets.

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They came from a pedigree. They came from a line. They came from knowledge.

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They came from a place of information. They had skills.

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They had abilities. They had confidence in these abilities.

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You may say, but isn't it God-given abilities?

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Absolutely. But where's your confidence in?

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We'll come to that.

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This is a continual state of living.

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And you will see that Jesus lived this way.

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Oh, when we get there, it'll fascinate you.

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When Dano in Bahrain was going through this turmoil of people questioning him and saying,

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This church is not right.

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And Eddie had said,

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Jacob, can you bring Dano with you to South Africa in March?

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And I asked Dano, hey, you want to come to South Africa?

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And he said, Jacob, what will I contribute?

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I just realized how little I know.

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They asked me questions and I couldn't answer.

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I don't even know what awaits this church six months down the line.

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I got nothing that I can contribute.

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And I said, absolutely true, man. You got nothing.

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You are one of the most unqualified people I have met to lead a church.

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All you have is this thing called the grace of God inside you.

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Other than that, you got nothing.

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So if you think I'm taking you to South Africa so that you can show them something you got,

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I want to tell you, you got nothing.

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And that helped him.

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Because what else do you have, man?

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You got nothing.

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Jason, you got nothing.

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Do you think that any of the shayans that you've mentioned,

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they're not backing off the picture of the French mentality of the people that you've met?

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You kind of, like, you know, you're not giving them anything.

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Yeah, so he's an imperfect beggar.

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He's really a good example of that.

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Yeah. It was just a comparison of two things.

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Guys, as long as, and this sentence may again rub us a little wrong,

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as long as we have this conceited self-righteous idea that we can do a thing if God helps us,

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I would say that's still not where you need to be.

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We Christians are like that, man.

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We think we can do this thing if God helps us.

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And, you know, when we sing that song,

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I can do nothing for him. He does everything in me.

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That's where we are heading towards.

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For me to even think I can do this thing with a little bit of help from God

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is an exalting of certain abilities that I have.

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I've got to come to a place, and you'll see that with Jesus,

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where even when I have an ability, I'm choosing to say, I can do nothing for you.

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I'm not able to start this.

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This has to be offered and finished by you.

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That is poverty.

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Because sometimes we have a conceited self-righteous idea

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that we can do a thing with a little bit of help from God,

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and when we think like that, God allows us to go on

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until we break the neck of our ignorance on some obstacle.

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He did this with, what do you think he was doing with Gideon?

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Brought him to a place where there was a poverty of spirit, of people, of resources, of weapons.

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How much do you reduce an army by?

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Be reasonable, be logical, use your common sense.

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Don't whittle it down to 300 to face an army of 20,000 or 200,000.

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Guys, understand this. We have this stinking confidence in our human abilities,

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experience, common sense and goodness.

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Let me say it again.

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We have this stinking confidence,

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let me speak for myself,

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I have this stinking confidence

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that we can do a thing with a little bit of help from God.

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I have this stinking confidence

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that we can do a thing with a little bit of help from God.

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I have this stinking confidence in my human ability,

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in my experience, in my common sense and in my goodness.

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I was telling someone, I don't remember who it was,

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I was telling someone,

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I don't know, I feel very inadequate when I have to sit across someone and counsel.

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That was great, that was a good comment that was coming in the right place.

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But then I said, but hey, I love teaching,

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just put me anywhere to teach and I can teach like crazy.

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And I'm thinking to myself as I'm writing these notes, wow Jacob,

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sure you express your inadequacy in one area,

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but in the other area you've got this stinking confidence

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in your own abilities, in your own experience,

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in your own common sense and goodness.

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Guys, even the most devout of us are sometimes atheistic in this regard,

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where we take common sense and we put it on the throne.

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Or we take our ability and put it on the throne.

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All these are given by God. Common sense is given by God,

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ability is given by God, experience is given by God,

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goodness that we have is given by God.

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But don't put it on the throne.

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An atheist puts something else on the throne before God,

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above God or in place of God.

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We put our common sense on the throne and then attach God's name to it.

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We try to guard ourselves, I said this last time,

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we try to guard ourselves and in the process of guarding ourselves,

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we attach God's name to us from his deliverance.

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Jacob, where does God's wisdom fit in there?

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We'll come to that. I'm not trying to delay things.

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It just has to be built step by step.

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Because these things are God given, man.

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The thing is Psalm 147, verse 10, it says in the message

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that God is not very impressed with your horse power,

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nor your little muscle.

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Basically what God is saying is that,

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it's one of those few verses if you really look at it

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where God doesn't think much of men's legs.

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It says, I have no pleasure in the strength of a horse

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or the legs of a man.

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But what it basically means is that he doesn't have,

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he's not impressed with horse power,

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he doesn't have the size of our muscles,

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which means little to him.

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That is the bedrock of Jesus Christ's kingdom.

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The bedrock of Jesus Christ's kingdom is poverty, not possession.

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It's poverty, not possession.

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In a sense again, I'm not talking about the pocket,

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it's talking about the poorness of your spirit,

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the poverty of your spirit, your bankruptcy in your own strengths.

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It's the bedrock of the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

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It's not decisions for Christ that matter to him,

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it's your sense of absolute futility that he really enjoys.

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It's not decisions you make,

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but it's the futility of your condition that he's able to work with.

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Paul got it, huh? Paul got it.

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When I am weak, then I am strong.

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Therefore I will rejoice and enthrall myself in my infirmities and weaknesses,

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because that is when the power of God moves into my abject weakness.

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He got it.

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You know, at the end of the day, have you noticed how

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people can make decisions for Jesus Christ in a crusade?

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Raise up their arms. What is God looking for? Decisions? No.

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He's looking for the bankruptcy of a person,

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because if you don't need a savior, what is the point of lifting up your hands?

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And you won't need a savior till you know you are completely bankrupt.

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Why would you need saving for anything else?

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Sure, you want your pain to go away, you may need a, like I said before, you may need a healer.

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If you want a sense of destiny, you may need God.

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But what God is saying, I didn't come to give you destiny and take away your pain.

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I came to completely bring you out of a place of spiritual bankruptcy into sonship,

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from the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of light.

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We've got to change our way of presenting the gospel.

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I know I've said this before, but Acts 29, understand this.

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We present a savior who comes to help those that know they are spiritually bankrupt.

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If you do not know that and see Christ as one of immeasurable words,

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then we are peddling a different Jesus Christ.

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I've done that. Don't want to do that anymore.

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And so basically, here's what Jesus is saying.

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Jacob, when you begin to say, I can do nothing of myself,

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when you begin to say, I cannot even begin to do it,

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that's when I'll turn around to you and say, blessed are you.

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That is nuts.

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But these are such radical statements he's making

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that we don't even want to touch them because it would mean too much of a change.

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When you, Jacob, say that I can do nothing by myself,

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when you say I can't even begin to do it,

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that's when I will come and say, blessed are you.

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I endorse you fully.

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I am unreservedly and jubilantly, exuberantly approving you.

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Because guys, every time I usurp or assume responsibility for my own affairs,

00:36:54.300 --> 00:36:57.300
I abdicate my dependence on God.

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Every time I usurp the responsibility for my own life,

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usurp is to take or to forcibly take.

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Every time I usurp the responsibility for my own affairs and my life,

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I abdicate my dependence on God or I cancel my dependence on God.

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Now let's just look at Jesus.

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Look at what Jesus is saying in John 5.19.

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He's saying that the son, now who are we talking about?

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We're talking about God, the son.

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And John 5.19 says this, the son can do nothing by himself.

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We are talking about Jesus Christ and he's saying the son can do nothing in himself or by himself.

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And then just in case we didn't get the point,

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look at what he says in John 15.5.

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In John 15.5 he says, apart from me, you can do nothing.

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So let's break the word nothing into no thing so that it's even clearer.

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First he's saying the son can do no thing by himself.

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And then in John 15.5 he repeats it and says, apart from me, you can do no thing either.

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Separate it from me.

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We'll come back to that.

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We'll just keep that in mind.

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One of the questions I have to ask myself from here on is,

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in everything I do, who's my source?

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Where am I?

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Jacob, you've come up with an idea.

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Who's the source?

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Jacob, you've come up with an idea.

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Who's the source?

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Or Jacob, you've come up with a way of doing it.

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Who's your source?

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Is your source your experience?

00:38:42.300 --> 00:38:43.300
Is your source your skill?

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Is your source your ability?

00:38:45.300 --> 00:38:48.300
Is your source your spiritual gifts?

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Because even spiritual gifts can be exerted separate from God.

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You know that?

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And you see thousands of people doing it.

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Did you hear that?

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You can use your spiritual gifts separate from God.

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They are active in you.

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They express themselves.

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People are benefiting.

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And yet you can separate yourself from God and do it.

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Many will come casting out demons.

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And I will say to them, I did not even.

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Guys, where's the source?

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Who's the source?

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What's the source?

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This is a question I have to keep asking.

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This plan, this idea, this thought, where is it coming from?

00:39:29.300 --> 00:39:31.300
Where am I drawing this from?

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Is it from my experience?

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Is it from my ability?

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Is it from my skills?

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Is it from my goodness?

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Is it from my spiritual gifting?

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Where is it coming from?

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That's one question.

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The second question is, and this is important, Axwainian, you will understand this.

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So it's not un-understandable.

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You've got to ask yourself, not who am I living for, but who am I living from?

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Important, guys.

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Not who am I living for, but who am I living from?

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Who am I living from when I do this thing?

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Who am I living from?

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When I was irritated at the beginning of the service, the reason I needed to say it was

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one, because it could be out there and so it loses its power.

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But two, who was I living from?

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Who am I living for?

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Jesus.

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But who was I living from?

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Jacob.

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Got to ask myself this.

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Who am I living from?

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Guys, Galatians 2.20, this church knows it well because we've talked about Christ's

00:40:29.300 --> 00:40:30.300
life.

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What does it say?

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It says, I have been crucified with Christ.

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I no longer live, but Christ lives in me and the life I now live, I live by the faith.

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Yeah, Jason and I were talking about this or he was talking to me and we were talking

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about how you go to the New King James Version and the versions that were the earlier ones,

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at least in print, you will see that it says, I live by the faith of the Son of God, not

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in the Son of God, but of the Son of God.

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Agree or disagree?

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I know that one of the things I have to live out of is the faith of the Son of God.

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Not faith.

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There, I'm talking about the ability to live out of the faith of the Son of God.

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Who am I living from?

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I have been crucified with Christ.

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I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.

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I can understand that.

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And the life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.

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Not faith in Jesus, but faith like Jesus.

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Because I possess Christ, now I live out of the faith that Christ had.

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Just a caution before we go on with this.

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Guys, the poverty of spirit can be artificially induced by debasing ourselves or by self-debasement

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or self-pity.

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Let me say that again.

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The poverty of spirit can be self-induced by self-debasement or self-pity or beating

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oneself up.

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This is why, this is the error of every monastic order that ever existed or that exists even

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today.

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Any monastic order that begins to say, I must leave society, I must punish my flesh, I must

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suffer hardship.

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That is a debasement that has nothing to do with God.

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That is not poverty of spirit.

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That is such an intense focus on oneself that your focus is completely off God.

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The more conscious you are of yourself, guys, the more conscious I am of my successes and

00:43:05.300 --> 00:43:11.300
my failures, the more conscious I am of my distinctions and my distortions, the less

00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:12.300
conscious I am of my failures.

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I will be poor in spirit.

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Is it necessary to starve the flesh?

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To what?

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If you mean starve the flesh as a not indulgent sinful thing, yes.

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But starve the flesh to become spiritually greater, no.

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Oh, yeah.

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There the principle used to be flee from youthful lusts or flee from things that feed your flesh

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and not your spirit.

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But one of the things that happens with these orders that begin to punish the flesh and

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suffer hardship is they're doing it thinking there's some kind of merit that comes from

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it.

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The more I concentrate on my failures and successes, which the church has done very

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well, the more I concentrate on my distortions or my distinction, the less poor I am in spirit

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because now the focus is me and not God.

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In Matthew 4, Jesus was led by the spirit because there's a three-tiered desire to

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be under the firstborn.

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Quite easily, the Spirit of God was testing, was the one who led Jesus into the desert

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and he fasted 40 days one day for every year that Israel spent in the desert.

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He was the true son of Israel doing exactly what happened with Israel.

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Every temptation that was thrown his way was temptations that were thrown in the desert

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to the other Israel.

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And every temptation here comes Christ who is a victor in them.

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Yeah, yeah, and we'll come to that.

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Actually, there's a line I talk about that too.

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Guys, when it comes to fasting, you'll have to ask me separately what I think about it

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because we don't have time for that.

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But you'd have to come and ask me separately about that.

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Guys, the more conscious you are of yourself in terms of your successes and failures,

00:45:27.300 --> 00:45:33.300
distinctions and distortions, the more you look at yourself and the more you look at yourself,

00:45:33.300 --> 00:45:35.300
the less poor you are in the spirit.

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The less poor in spirit you are.

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Do you know the way to become poor in the spirit?

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The way to become poor in the spirit.

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I'll phrase it another way.

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The way to become poor in the spirit is to look at God.

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And we'll have to explain that too.

00:45:59.300 --> 00:46:01.300
The way to become poor in the spirit.

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How do I become poor in the spirit?

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Look at Him. Look at God.

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Now, there's a way to look at Him too.

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Because if you notice, the Laodicean church in Revelation 3.17 looked at Jesus Christ.

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And what did they say?

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Guys, guys, listen to this.

00:46:14.300 --> 00:46:15.300
What did they say?

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It was not that the Laodicean church wasn't looking at Christ.

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They looked at Christ and this is what they said.

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I am rich. I am wealthy.

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I have no need for anything.

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And what did Jesus say to them?

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You are naked, wretched, poor, blind and...

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He said five things.

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He said, you are wretched.

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Oh, I list out miserable.

00:46:40.300 --> 00:46:43.300
And Jesus said to them, you're wretched.

00:46:43.300 --> 00:46:45.300
Talk about being straight with your words.

00:46:45.300 --> 00:46:47.300
I mean, no mercy there, man.

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So the Laodicean church of Revelation 3.17 looks at Christ and yet thinks to herself,

00:46:53.300 --> 00:46:56.300
I'm rich, I have become wealthy and I have need of nothing.

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And here's what Jesus says to them.

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You are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked.

00:47:01.300 --> 00:47:04.300
So it's not just looking at God that makes you poor in spirit.

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There's a way to look at God.

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And we'll talk about that.

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By the way, if you do not recognize how poor you are in spirit,

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you run the risk of being vomited out of the mouth of God.

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Spiritual bankruptcy.

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Where you...

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We're not talking about the spirit of God in you.

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We're talking about your condition of coming to God saying,

00:47:49.300 --> 00:47:53.300
I'm helpless, I can do nothing by myself.

00:47:53.300 --> 00:47:56.300
So my mind's safe, right?

00:47:56.300 --> 00:47:58.300
Somewhat.

00:47:58.300 --> 00:47:59.300
Somewhat.

00:47:59.300 --> 00:48:00.300
Yeah, it's not just your thinking.

00:48:00.300 --> 00:48:02.300
It's a whole attitude and approach.

00:48:02.300 --> 00:48:04.300
The condition of your heart.

00:48:04.300 --> 00:48:06.300
It's more than just my thinking.

00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:08.300
The Holy Spirit doesn't seem safe there.

00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:09.300
Oh, no, no, no, no.

00:48:09.300 --> 00:48:10.300
No.

00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:11.300
Yeah, it's not...

00:48:11.300 --> 00:48:12.300
Yeah, yeah.

00:48:12.300 --> 00:48:16.300
So I'm not saying you're...

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Yeah, so I'm not talking about the Holy Spirit or your spirit.

00:48:20.300 --> 00:48:23.300
Yeah, it's your thinking.

00:48:23.300 --> 00:48:26.300
It's the way you approach things.

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Yeah.

00:48:27.300 --> 00:48:29.300
I mean, I don't want to define it as one thing.

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It's all these things put together where sometimes we say,

00:48:32.300 --> 00:48:34.300
hey, that guy's so humble in his ways.

00:48:34.300 --> 00:48:35.300
What do we mean by that?

00:48:35.300 --> 00:48:36.300
Is it in his thinking?

00:48:36.300 --> 00:48:38.300
Not just his thinking in his heart.

00:48:38.300 --> 00:48:39.300
Not just his heart.

00:48:39.300 --> 00:48:40.300
In his approach.

00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:41.300
Not just his approach.

00:48:41.300 --> 00:48:43.300
It's everything put together.

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Yeah, because his appearance could deceive you too.

00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:46.300
Yeah.

00:48:46.300 --> 00:48:47.300
Like, there are...

00:48:47.300 --> 00:48:48.300
It's not...

00:48:48.300 --> 00:48:49.300
I'm not even talking about...

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Everybody would have a meek heart because we've got Christ in you.

00:48:53.300 --> 00:48:56.300
But why do we go and say, hey, that guy's got such a humble spirit?

00:48:56.300 --> 00:48:58.300
Why do we say that about certain Christians?

00:48:58.300 --> 00:49:00.300
Because there's something about them.

00:49:00.300 --> 00:49:02.300
Their approach, their way of thinking, their heart,

00:49:02.300 --> 00:49:04.300
everything combined together.

00:49:04.300 --> 00:49:05.300
I mean, you always say that about me.

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Such a humble guy.

00:49:07.300 --> 00:49:08.300
It does.

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It should.

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Yeah.

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So I'm not talking about the spirit of God or your renewed spirit.

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Guys, a failure to recognize your spiritual poverty

00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:20.300
can put you in danger of being vomited out of the mouth of God.

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Hot and cold.

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How do you think lukewarmness happens?

00:49:24.300 --> 00:49:27.300
Lukewarmness happens when you don't recognize your true condition,

00:49:27.300 --> 00:49:30.300
but worse, you assume a condition that you are at

00:49:30.300 --> 00:49:32.300
that is better than what you really have.

00:49:32.300 --> 00:49:36.300
So, you're not in a situation where you're not in a situation

00:49:36.300 --> 00:49:38.300
that is better than what you really are at.

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That's when you lukewarm.

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When God comes and says, Jacob, you are this, this, and this.

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No, not me.

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I'm here.

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I'm better than vain and David.

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Therefore, I'm okay.

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Lukewarmness comes out of...

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But if you are in poverty, then you would think,

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oh, where can I correct this?

00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:05.300
Yeah, you would be like a beggar.

00:50:05.300 --> 00:50:08.300
But I would challenge Marcus on this.

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I think it's not where would I correct this, it's not the body.

00:50:12.300 --> 00:50:14.300
No, that's what I meant.

00:50:14.300 --> 00:50:17.300
How can you go into the world and see where you can correct yourself?

00:50:17.300 --> 00:50:19.300
But we're not correcting ourselves.

00:50:19.300 --> 00:50:20.300
Absolutely.

00:50:20.300 --> 00:50:24.300
How can you be in poverty if you're also in poverty?

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At some point, feel free to let me interject.

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No, the reason I agreed with Marcus was because I...

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Because I assumed that's what he meant, and the reason I don't disagree with Dionysus

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because I assumed that's not what she heard.

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So it's good.

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No, meaning your question is legitimate,

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but his answer meant that it would be God who would do it,

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not him correcting it himself.

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Yeah.

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So, guys, it's not sufficient to look at God.

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There's a way we need to look at God.

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What is it that will allow me to develop spiritual poverty?

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It's my looking at God.

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How do I need to look at God?

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The way I need to look at God is in Mark 10.15.

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Mark 10.15 says that the way I need to look at God is like a child looks at his father.

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It has to be a look that has at once in it awe and wonder,

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and at the same time has in it helplessness and dependence.

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If I were to be someone who is to develop the poverty of spirit,

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if I'm to be spiritually bankrupt, then I have to approach God as a child would.

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It goes back to what Jesus says in Mark 10.15.

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Unless you be like a child, you will not enter the kingdom of God.

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And what is this unless you be like a child?

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It is awe and wonder, continuously.

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Awe and wonder.

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And the second part of it is helplessness and dependence.

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And you will see this in Jesus.

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Helplessness and dependence and awe and wonder mixed into one.

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I spent some time yesterday at Jason and Marianna's house,

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and you should see how Evelyn and Tavis go about.

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Evelyn, your Bruno is down here.

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Or Bruno is the bear she has. It's a Christian bear.

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And you could see little pieces of Lego that Tavis was enjoying.

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Right, Tavis?

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Things that are jaded now for you and I,

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but awe and wonder and helplessness and dependence.

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That is the way I need to look at God.

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And if I'm aging, I need to look at God.

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That is the way I need to look at God.

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And if I'm able to cultivate that as the only way I see God,

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it is impossible for me to be anything but walk in the poverty of my spirit

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as in a child that is continuously helpless and dependent upon the parents.

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And yet a child that is not helpless from a point of you can't help me,

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but helpless from a point of awe and wonder where I know you can help me.

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When this is cultivated,

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now you begin to step into that thing called poor in spirit.

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Most equations in the Bible are simple.

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I mean, look at what God is saying as a reward.

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And now you will see how Jesus exemplified this.

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And it will suddenly make it even clearer, hopefully.

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He says, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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What is he saying?

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And by the way, this is the first principle of the kingdom that,

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hey, you want the kingdom of heaven to be yours?

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Blessed are those that are spiritually bankrupt

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and are poverty stricken in their spirit

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as in having absolutely no self-sufficiency,

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no confidence in one's own skills, abilities, wisdom, common sense, goodness, experience.

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But coming before God as a child,

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knowing that every time I come, I'll be filled with awe and wonder with you

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and I'll be helpless and dependent upon you.

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And every time I see you, this is what comes up in my heart, Father.

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So I'll constantly ask myself, what's my source in this?

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Where's this thought coming from?

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Where's this plan from?

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Who am I living from, not who am I living for?

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I'll be living for you for the rest of my life,

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but I want to know how I'm living from, what I'm living from.

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Different way of operating.

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Marvelous way of operating.

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First principle of the kingdom.

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And look at what God is saying.

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If you live this way, Jacob, I will give you the kingdom.

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And what does the kingdom mean?

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Royal rule and reign and riches.

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I'm not talking about money, I'm just talking about everything.

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Money is just a mode of transaction.

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It's a medium of transaction.

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What is God saying?

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Look at the paradox of it.

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Blessed are those that are spiritually bankrupt,

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for theirs will be the royal reign and rule and riches of God.

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What an upside down kingdom is this?

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That my access, my power, my power, my power,

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that my access, my freedom, my liberty in the kingdom of God

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in terms of royal access, in terms of rule and reign,

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in terms of royal power and riches is based on what?

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On being spiritually bankrupt before him.

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Kingdom riches when you're poor.

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How do you obtain kingdom riches?

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By being spiritually bankrupt.

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Kamala, I'm not sure if that's a hand raised.

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No.

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I was trying to figure it out for the last 40 seconds.

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It was going up and down and I wasn't sure.

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You know, Salome, John and James' mother didn't get this.

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So she goes up to Jesus and says,

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when you come into your kingdom, I've got a small favor to ask you.

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And Jesus says what?

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And she says, could one of my sons sit on your right hand

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and the other son on the left hand?

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And if you notice, listen to what Jesus said.

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I just want you to know that that's not mine to give.

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My father decides those places.

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What does the father decide it based on?

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He decides it based on the poverty of your spirit,

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the bankruptcy of your spirit.

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Salome didn't know it, otherwise she wouldn't have.

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But kudos to the woman's audacity to go up to Jesus and say,

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hey, I've got a small favor to ask you.

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Yeah, probably brought him cookies before that.

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Could be.

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Could be.

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Is it based upon the cup that the person has to drink?

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Because you will notice that blessed are the poor

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and spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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What else is said as a reward for the kingdom of heaven?

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Do you know?

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It says blessed are those that are persecuted for theirs

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is the kingdom of heaven.

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So there are two, the kingdom of heaven rewards us for?

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Two things there.

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So drinking the cup could, we'll talk about that

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when we get there about four months from now.

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I would say if you were a Jew, it would be kingdom of heaven.

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If you weren't a Jew, it would be kingdom of God.

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Well, you know what?

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You might be preaching when I'm away.

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Guys, how does it work?

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Why is it that the poor and spirit possess the kingdom?

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Let's look at that.

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And here are some equations.

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And then we look at whether Jesus lived this way.

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And then we'll see if we can now practice it this week

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and for the rest of our lives.

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Why is it that the poor and spirit possess the kingdom?

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Guys, to be poor and spirit then, to be poor and spirit,

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one, you have to be emptied of self-reliance.

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To be poor and spirit, the first thing is you have to be emptied

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of self-reliance or self or self-importance or self-ability.

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You have to be emptied of self-reliance too.

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You have to be conscious of absolute insufficiency.

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You have to be conscious of absolute insufficiency.

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The first part is you've got to be emptied of self-reliance

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on all those things that we talked about.

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Second, you have to be conscious of absolute,

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you've got to be conscious of your absolute insufficiency.

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And thirdly, you've got to be joyfully dependent,

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on the life of God in you.

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You've got to be joyfully dependent on the life of God in you.

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So let me say that again.

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To be poor and spirit, you have to be emptied of self-reliance

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of all those things we talked about.

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So let's look at Jesus.

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The crazy thing is, this was his lifestyle on Earth, man.

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To begin with, Philippians 2, though he was rich,

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he became poor and he emptied himself.

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So, he was poor and he emptied himself.

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So, that's the first thing.

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If you look at the first thing,

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To begin with, Philippians 2, though he was rich, he became poor and he emptied himself.

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Though he was rich, he becomes poor and empties himself to the point of being a bond servant.

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Philippians 2 verses 4 to 9.

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Philippians 2.

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Who being in the very nature of God, did not consider equality with God something to be held onto or grasped, but made himself nothing.

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Taking on the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross.

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The point being, here is someone who could have relied on who he was, and it wouldn't be seen as wrong or seen as holding on to power.

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Because he was God, and yet he empties himself and becomes poor.

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Then, here is the thing that really got me, I can handle Jesus emptying himself because he had to come down to the earth.

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But this is the bit I really cannot grasp or understand or fathom.

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That this son of God, son of man who walked the earth, now consciously chooses to be absolutely insufficient.

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It's not like he didn't have the might to do mighty works.

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He did.

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And yet, he walks in the consciousness of his inability to do anything apart from the Father.

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He is so determined not to speak his own words, follow his own plans or work his mighty works.

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He is so determined not to speak his own words, follow his own plans or do his mighty works.

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He had the ability to turn stones into bread.

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He was conscious of his inability to do anything apart from the Father.

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He was conscious of his inability to do anything apart from the Father.

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I mean, he made this amazing statement.

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The son can do no thing of himself.

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But he only does what he sees his father doing.

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He only does it after he or once he sees his father doing it.

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The son can do nothing by himself.

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It's a conscious choice he makes in being absolutely insufficient or choosing to be unable to do anything apart from his father.

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He determines not to speak his own words.

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He determines not to follow his own plans.

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He determines not to work his mighty works in his own might.

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Not that he wasn't able, he was able.

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But he chooses not to.

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Hey, how many did he heal, man?

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Hundreds upon hundreds he heals.

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Yet, every time he heals a blind man, he's waiting for his father to show him stuff.

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Was there any lack of wisdom with him?

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Why does he have to depend on women in the Jewish culture to supply his needs?

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Why does he have to wait 30 years, waste 30 years doing nothing?

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Why can't he call down a legion of angels?

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At least that one I can understand.

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He thought of me.

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Why can't he always provide food for himself by causing the same victory that could be cursed and that disappears, causing it to rise up again the next morning?

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Why can't he feed himself with ravens bringing him bread?

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Why can't he provide manna for himself?

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Why can't he have quail come during the noonday sun so he can eat some good fish or multiply bread every time he wants?

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Why isn't he doing all this, man?

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Because he's operating out of this place of absolute insufficiency.

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Because only a place of absolute insufficiency can bring him to the next step.

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It is not possible to live here if I don't live here.

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Now you begin to get this thing of spiritual bankruptcy.

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It boggles my mind, man.

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It doesn't depend on his own experience even.

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If I had the experience of healing that Jesus had, I'd be full of myself, man.

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Every time I touch something, I feel like I'm being touched.

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I'd be full of myself, man.

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Every time I touch something, I'd begin to do it.

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I'd write a book on it.

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By now you would have had two or three books that you would have been forced to buy.

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He didn't depend upon his experience.

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He didn't depend upon his common sense.

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And by the way, he was a normal human being.

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Probably not good looking but had common sense.

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Good looking or not, you still have common sense.

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He did not depend on his skills or ability.

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Didn't do tent making like Paul.

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Didn't start a small carpenter shop.

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Didn't even depend on his experience.

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Didn't depend on his power to do mighty work.

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Didn't speak out of his own mouth.

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Didn't plan things himself.

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What kind of person is this?

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A person who emptied himself of self-reliance and then was conscious of his absolute insufficiency.

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Why? Because he knew without these he cannot go on to the third one.

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Instead, now he moves on to the next one.

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He becomes completely dependent on his father.

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And once he's dependent on his father, he becomes a channel or an instrument through which the father spoke, the father did, and the father reconciled the world unto himself.

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And therefore now we see the glory of God evident in Christ. Why?

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Because here is a man who has chosen to be joyfully dependent upon the father and in being joyfully dependent upon the father, he becomes a channel or an instrument through which the father speaks, the father does, and the father reconciles the world to himself.

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And therefore the world beholds a channel or an instrument that has become an instrument of the glory of God.

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It's this process of poverty, guys, that unlocks the treasures of the Kingdom of Heaven.

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And then God says, blessed are you.

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Or like Marvin Weinand said yesterday, I got you.

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I got you safe.

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Blessed are you. I endorse you. I approve you.

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Guys, descend to this level of abject poverty of spirit so you can ascend to living out of his life.

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And then the world will see that you are an epistle written by Christ.

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This week, practice spiritual helplessness, spiritual dependence, spiritual childlikeness.

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And you'll suddenly see that, oh shucks, the presence of his rule and reign through my life is working even without me being necessarily conscious of it.

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Questions before we close.

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Niggling questions.

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The new category that we have in, new category that's been added.

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Questions, comments, challenges, disagreements, and niggling questions.

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Is this, which one of this is this? Niggling? Okay.

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At what point did we do this?

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Like, did we just start knowing what's going on in the morning, or did we just start knowing what's going on in the morning?

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Did this cover everything?

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There are some things that I use common sense for, but I refuse to put common sense on the throne.

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There are some things I'll use my ability for, but I refuse to put my ability on the throne.

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There are some things that I'll use experience for, but I will fight my experience from being on the throne.

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So I'll use my common sense to wake up later because I don't have anything to do until 11.

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But I will not let it sit on the throne and have me wake up later when inside me is this thing saying,

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get up because you need to call this person now, now, now.

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Then my common sense will not sit on the throne. My experience will not sit on the throne.

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I'm experienced in leading worship and teaching.

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And I was telling the Lord, I will not let it sit on the throne ever again, Father.

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Because the flourish with which I said, just give me something to teach, man.

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And I can just stand there and teach for as long as you want.

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It came out of gifting and ability and experience.

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And I thought to myself, gosh, you definitely are not poor in spirit there.

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But with awe and wonder, with childlike awe and wonder, with helplessness and dependence,

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every time, I was really enjoying worship today because I was trying to approach it with that point of view.

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Not out of experience, not out of, I can handle it. Nah, no more.

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No more.

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And there is no area that this doesn't touch.

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Where does this not touch?

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Empty myself of self-reliance, conscious of absolute insufficiency that I walk in,

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then I become joyfully dependent on the life of God.

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And the more this becomes a part of me, the more transparent I become and the lesser pretension.

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Any other questions?

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It seems to me that it's easy to do the first two, but the third one is to be joyful.

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Yeah, joyfully dependent.

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Self-debasement and self-pity are just deceptive ways of becoming poor in spirit.

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Joyfully dependent.

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You have to be cautious of God.

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Yeah.

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Where do I come from? What's my source?

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Yeah. What did you attempt to murder this week?

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The only thing I attempted to murder is this sense.

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Pardon?

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Maple leaves, no. That was harakiri.

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It was, they just jumped off a cliff every time they come and play the kanax.

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Yeah.

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But guys, get with this program because it has the ability.

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I'm so excited about this teaching because it's new.

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Eddie has already done it and I'm calling up Eddie.

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And I don't want Eddie's notes yet.

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I want us to discover this ourselves.

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And then after we're all done, I'll ask for Eddie's notes to add to this.

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So all I do is ask him and say, this is the track I'm taking.

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What do you think of it?

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But I don't want what he has yet because we've got to discover this and begin to practice this ourselves before we,

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and once we do that, we can add that, but not right now.

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And the reason I'm excited about this is because I believe in this lies the keys to some of our lives beginning to operate on a Christ level

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that will begin to display his nature, man, his attributes.

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And at the end of the day, his attributes are his glory, man.

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So being a practices, keep asking, what's the source of the sabah?

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This approach of mine to get some money, what's the source of it?

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Is it fear? What's the source of it?

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This approach of mine to take care of the situation, what's the source of it, Abba?

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Where's it coming from? Whose life am I living from at this point?

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Is it Jacob's life? Is it Jacob's sanctified life?

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Is it Jacob's fleshly life? Is it Jacob's fear?

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What life am I living from?

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And in each situation begin to combat it because I can only combat it by emptying myself of it,

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being conscious of my absolute insufficiency.

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I can do nothing for him. He does everything in me.

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Where I will stop being conceited about my confidence and my own abilities, my common sense, my wisdom, my skills and my experience.

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Because somehow there's this thing that with a little bit of help from God, I can pull this off.

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No. Jesus could have pulled everything he did on earth off.

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And the Bible would have sounded exactly the same way.

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We would still be in awe of Jesus.

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He didn't have to pull it off. He'd have performed it well.

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After all, we know who he is.

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What a model man. What a model he served.

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Isn't this... This is when I'm in awe of him.

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What a model. Why he should live like this and set up such a perfect example for us to follow.

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This is something else man. This is God.

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So Father, we give you praise, Abba.

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We bless you. We marvel at your son, Father.

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Gosh Lord, what a master plan. What a master plan.

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Everything that you ask of us will be something that you have already done.

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There is nothing that the Godhead will demand of us that you have not already done.

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So we marvel at your son.

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We marvel at your son.

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And we say, Jesus, it's amazing how you lived like this.

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When you were the last person who needed to live like this.

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You emptied yourself. That should have been sufficient.

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No.

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Father, only your spirit can take what has been taught and make it part of my life.

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Only your spirit can remind me of situations I can practice this in this way.

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Only your spirit can give me the ability to live this way.

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Only your spirit.

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We have no assumptions that now that we have learnt it, we can do it.

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No, no, no, no, God. Only your spirit can bring this to pass in our lives.

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I want us to remember these three things, Abba.

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One, I can do nothing by myself as Jesus Himself said.

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Two, that apart from you, I can do no thing.

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Three, I'll be like a child unless I be like a child with awe and wonder, with helplessness and dependence.

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I won't be able to swim in the kingdom of God the way I need to.

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I'll be someone who is standing by the side of the pool.

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These are the things we ask for ourselves, granted, Abba.

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Spirit of God, unfold what has been taught in our minds.

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Our spirits have understood. Our minds need to learn now.

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So we thank you. We look forward to how this is going to work out.

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The next one, Jesus, the next thing you said was, blessed are they who mourn.

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And you really didn't mean ones who are attending a funeral.

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But we'll ponder on that next week.

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Just like you didn't mean blessed are the poor in spirit as being no money in the pocket.

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But we'll talk about that next week. Thank you.

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I mean, these are just eight or nine things, Jesus, and yet we're going to spend at least four months and yet not understand half of it.

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It is amazing. You are amazing.

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In a way, I'm glad. It would be terrible if we got to the end of you.

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Thank you.