WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Present God _Hidden Publishing Date: 2019-10-13T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/present-god-_hidden/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.880 Yeah, so when it comes to the presence of God and having an awareness of His presence, 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:18.840 knowing His presence in our midst, presence is always learned first in the unseen. 00:00:18.840 --> 00:00:23.680 And this is not normal because we as humans want something tangible, something we can 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:26.440 experience. 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:30.960 What's happening in the church is that the church is beginning to lose its ability to 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:34.960 engage the presence of God as spirit. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.000 As in, John 4.24 says, God is spirit. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.480 John 4.24 says, God is spirit. 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:50.640 And if we as Christians don't learn to engage God who is spirit in the unseen, then what 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:57.440 happen is we will begin to pursue God for tangible rewards. 00:00:57.440 --> 00:01:03.200 The church will have to offer people incentives that we can touch and feel before we will 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:05.400 learn how to engage with God. 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.960 So you'll have to say, if you follow Jesus, these are the rewards. 00:01:09.960 --> 00:01:14.320 If you follow Jesus and you want to pursue Him, these are the tangible things you will 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:15.320 get. 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:16.320 Those are good. 00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:19.520 God does do things physically. 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:25.160 But you first have to learn to connect with this God first in the unseen. 00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:28.040 And that is something you have to cultivate. 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:30.360 You might be sitting here thinking, but I know how to do this. 00:01:30.360 --> 00:01:36.320 I'm saying to you, you and I haven't even plumbed the depths of how far we can go into 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:40.360 God. 00:01:40.360 --> 00:01:49.760 So as much as you may have gotten accustomed to hearing Him, make it a strong desire of 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:58.560 yours to engage, negotiate with God's presence first in the unseen. 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:00.920 Because how do we normally look for God's answers? 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.600 We try to see if there's a scripture that will pop out. 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:06.060 We try to see if a billboard will say something. 00:02:06.060 --> 00:02:12.380 We try to see if a bus has something on the side that will perhaps bring a message. 00:02:12.380 --> 00:02:13.900 There's nothing wrong with all this. 00:02:13.900 --> 00:02:15.500 God has His own methods. 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:19.820 But first I have to engage Him spirit to spirit. 00:02:19.820 --> 00:02:23.480 This should be a desire, spirit to spirit. 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:30.760 One of the things that makes it very difficult for us to learn Him in the unseen is the desire 00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:34.960 to have instant answers. 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.960 You must learn. 00:02:36.860 --> 00:02:41.100 I must learn to ask God for something, know that He has heard it, and then take the pressure 00:02:41.100 --> 00:02:42.100 off Him. 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:46.340 And in taking the pressure off Him, I'm actually taking the pressure off me. 00:02:46.340 --> 00:02:48.620 Because He can handle all kinds of pressure. 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:53.540 But when I ask Him for something and I know He knows the urgency, and then I walk away 00:02:53.540 --> 00:02:59.420 not caring too hoots about the timing of the answer, I am free to hear in ways that only 00:02:59.420 --> 00:03:02.220 He can speak. 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:07.680 But this must be engaged in the unseen. 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:12.000 Otherwise what will happen is we won't know Him as God is spirit. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:16.080 We will know Him as the Old Testament God who has to come up with a rainbow or with 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.880 a writing on the wall or fleas or drawing lots. 00:03:21.880 --> 00:03:24.800 All those methods ended in Acts chapter 2. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:29.760 When the Holy Spirit came, everything like that ended because God said, I want you to 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:31.560 know me spirit to spirit. 00:03:31.900 --> 00:03:38.020 Spirit to spirit is an invisible unseen realm where you get to know someone called God. 00:03:38.020 --> 00:03:41.020 Desire this, eh? 00:03:45.020 --> 00:03:52.500 Because if you want tangibles, then you will have to look for visible signs as an incentive 00:03:52.500 --> 00:03:54.820 for pursuing an invisible God. 00:03:54.820 --> 00:04:00.100 You will have to look for visible signs as incentive for pursuing a visible God. 00:04:00.100 --> 00:04:01.100 Isn't this true? 00:04:01.640 --> 00:04:04.520 When you pray and you don't see an answer, what do you say? 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:05.520 What do most people say? 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.240 Well, I pray nothing happened. 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:12.760 This nothing happened is what determines so much with God. 00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:18.760 Well, what if I knew that because He is my Father and because I prayed according to His 00:04:18.760 --> 00:04:24.000 will and because He has heard me that I have the absolute confidence at this present moment 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.520 that I have what I asked of Him even though I do not see it. 00:04:29.940 --> 00:04:32.940 I'm quoting scripture, Romans chapter 4, 17 to 20. 00:04:37.940 --> 00:04:45.780 You know as soon as Moses who connected Israel to an invisible God disappeared on Mount Sinai, 00:04:45.780 --> 00:04:52.740 in Exodus 32.1 it says the Israelites turned to a beautiful but lifeless golden calf. 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:58.180 Exodus 32.1 puts it this way, and Israel went up to Aaron and said, this Moses is taking 00:04:58.400 --> 00:04:59.840 too long to come down. 00:04:59.840 --> 00:05:05.240 The message version says, Moses is taking forever, so why don't you make us some gods 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:06.980 to lead us? 00:05:06.980 --> 00:05:09.680 And so they decided to make a golden calf. 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:17.980 This is Israel who's known Yahweh for ages and they now want something tangible to worship. 00:05:17.980 --> 00:05:23.920 Even when it comes to worship in song, man let your heart flow free regardless of whether 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.680 the worship leader is up to squat or not. 00:05:28.180 --> 00:05:35.380 It's really not the drumming or the, you know a worship leader or a drummer can never make 00:05:35.380 --> 00:05:38.540 worship worse. 00:05:38.540 --> 00:05:39.940 Worship is something you can do. 00:05:39.940 --> 00:05:43.740 They can make it better but they can never make it worse. 00:05:43.740 --> 00:05:49.340 They can make it better by creating an ability for you to sing, to dance, to connect with 00:05:49.340 --> 00:05:50.760 God with the words they speak. 00:05:50.760 --> 00:05:55.640 They cannot make it worse because are you saying that a deaf, dumb and blind person 00:05:55.640 --> 00:06:01.140 cannot worship? 00:06:01.140 --> 00:06:05.620 A deaf person can worship, a blind person can worship, a person who cannot speak can 00:06:05.620 --> 00:06:07.460 worship. 00:06:07.460 --> 00:06:14.460 Worship has nothing to do with the actual stuff that is happening here. 00:06:14.460 --> 00:06:26.400 Remember this guys, I've said this before I think five months ago. 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:33.160 Once you begin to thirst after tangibles the thing is we do not see with our eyes, we see 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:34.920 with our minds. 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:39.360 We do not see with our eyes, we see with our minds. 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:47.100 In 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3 Paul puts it this way, the God of this world as in Satan 00:06:47.100 --> 00:06:49.180 has blinded the minds of people. 00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:56.000 Satan knows, the devil knows that humans have a tendency to see with their minds not with 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:05.540 their eyes and therefore the world will always try to govern your minds with ideas and images 00:07:05.780 --> 00:07:11.580 so that your pathways can be determined. 00:07:11.580 --> 00:07:14.380 It's false to sing that we see with our eyes. 00:07:14.380 --> 00:07:19.540 If you saw with your eyes you'd be in a much better place but it's our minds that begin 00:07:19.540 --> 00:07:24.540 to spin situations. 00:07:24.540 --> 00:07:28.620 This could happen, that could happen, if I did this, this would be what results. 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:31.500 This happened to that person, this did not happen to that person. 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:32.540 What if this happens? 00:07:32.540 --> 00:07:35.980 It's not what you're seeing, it's what you're imagining. 00:07:35.980 --> 00:07:46.620 We see with our minds, not with our eyes. 00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:50.860 This is why in Proverbs 4.28 it says guard the pathways of your mind, guard the pathways 00:07:50.860 --> 00:07:51.860 of your heart. 00:07:51.860 --> 00:07:57.780 If you want to have either purity or the potency of your life to stay intact, guard the pathways 00:07:57.780 --> 00:08:12.060 of your mind and your heart. 00:08:12.060 --> 00:08:17.460 The more habituated I am to the sensory and the visible, the more difficult it will be 00:08:17.460 --> 00:08:20.400 to connect to an invisible God and his systems. 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:26.220 The more habituated I am to the sensory and the visible, the more difficult it becomes 00:08:26.980 --> 00:08:29.580 to connect to an invisible God and his systems. 00:08:29.580 --> 00:08:31.260 Let me say that again. 00:08:31.260 --> 00:08:37.480 The more habituated I am to that which is sensory and that which is visible, the harder 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:50.060 it becomes for me to connect to an invisible God and his systems. 00:08:50.060 --> 00:08:52.260 Any questions? 00:08:52.260 --> 00:08:58.280 The more habituated I am to that which is sensory and that which is visible, the harder 00:08:58.280 --> 00:09:04.900 it is for me to connect to an invisible God and his systems. 00:09:04.900 --> 00:09:18.780 Systems as in the way he thus thinks. 00:09:18.780 --> 00:09:25.260 What a beautiful thing it is when all of us can begin to sense, one, that God is present. 00:09:25.260 --> 00:09:26.500 You're not trying to imagine him. 00:09:26.500 --> 00:09:30.240 You're not trying to create a white beard and flowing robes for him. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.440 You just know he's present. 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:38.740 Just think what a weird and wonderful thing it is that a people who are born again have 00:09:38.740 --> 00:09:43.940 the ability to know that God is present and then have the ability to know what he wants 00:09:43.940 --> 00:09:45.860 to do. 00:09:45.860 --> 00:09:52.580 What if a people like this began to live like this not occasionally but 24-7? 00:09:52.580 --> 00:09:56.100 What if in your relationship with your wife, relationship with your children, relationships 00:09:56.100 --> 00:10:00.900 at work, relationships at worship, relationships through difficult situations, you're constantly 00:10:00.900 --> 00:10:07.340 aware of a God who is invisible, inaudible, but you know he is present and you know what 00:10:07.340 --> 00:10:11.540 his presence wants to do. 00:10:11.540 --> 00:10:14.180 Do you know how it incapacitates the enemy? 00:10:14.180 --> 00:10:16.900 Do you know how it increases your capacity? 00:10:16.900 --> 00:10:22.380 It's just ridiculous. 00:10:22.380 --> 00:10:25.700 Men and women in the Old Testament knew how to do that even though they didn't have the 00:10:25.700 --> 00:10:30.500 advantage that you and I have, which is that the Holy Spirit is completely in us. 00:10:30.500 --> 00:10:36.620 Much more so than men in the New Testament who were absolutely aware of this. 00:10:36.620 --> 00:10:37.620 What a way to live. 00:10:37.620 --> 00:10:38.620 And here's the good news. 00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:43.760 It is possible for every man, woman, child under this roof right now. 00:10:43.760 --> 00:10:44.760 It is possible. 00:10:44.760 --> 00:10:47.000 It is possible for everyone equally. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.820 It is not being held back at all. 00:10:51.820 --> 00:10:52.820 Any questions? 00:10:52.820 --> 00:10:54.600 Any thoughts you want to add? 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:06.440 Hey, wherever you're going will require a keen awareness of this kind of living. 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:16.280 Sometimes even though your body is tired, my God, your spirit is awake. 00:11:16.280 --> 00:11:22.380 And through your physical ears, even though you may not hear much, your spirit just leaps 00:11:22.380 --> 00:11:25.140 towards you think that's not possible. 00:11:25.140 --> 00:11:28.440 Look at what happened to Elizabeth when Mary walked in. 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:30.960 Here was a woman who was six months pregnant. 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.160 She sees her cousin walking in and what happens? 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:36.160 The baby in her womb leaps. 00:11:36.160 --> 00:11:37.360 At what? 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:45.760 Not at some fancy holy word, but all she said was greetings. 00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:50.900 All we need guys is to become aware of this and want to become aware of this to consciously 00:11:50.900 --> 00:11:53.760 practice what we've become aware of. 00:11:53.760 --> 00:11:59.840 And it'll increase, it'll increase, it'll increase. 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:01.160 Any questions? 00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:02.160 Any disagreements? 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:03.160 Disagreements? 00:12:03.160 --> 00:12:08.440 Go ahead, Nick. 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:09.920 Is it a question or a disagreement? 00:12:09.920 --> 00:12:10.920 Okay. 00:12:10.920 --> 00:12:19.740 Is it possible for like, robotic people to kind of hinder this hearing, this view of 00:12:19.740 --> 00:12:20.740 the head? 00:12:20.740 --> 00:12:21.740 Yes, yes. 00:12:21.740 --> 00:12:26.620 But why even bother about that when we've got a bigger father? 00:12:26.620 --> 00:12:30.180 When you go and ask him for an egg, will he give you a stone? 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:32.780 When you go ask him for fish, will he give you a snake? 00:12:32.780 --> 00:12:36.600 When you go ask him for... 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:37.600 I got it wrong. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:39.280 Bread, will he give you a scorpion? 00:12:39.280 --> 00:12:42.220 The point is he won't give you any of those things. 00:12:42.220 --> 00:12:46.180 Sure, there's an active enemy who is called the deceiver. 00:12:46.180 --> 00:12:54.960 Well, man, I would rather focus on the father and then later on focus on the deceiver. 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:59.420 This is amazing thing that happens between a man and a woman when they are close to each 00:12:59.420 --> 00:13:00.420 other. 00:13:00.420 --> 00:13:03.900 Nobody else can get in between. 00:13:03.900 --> 00:13:06.780 It's the same amazing thing that happens with father and child. 00:13:06.780 --> 00:13:10.100 When a father and child are close, no third party can come and say, I want to be your 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:17.540 father. 00:13:17.540 --> 00:13:21.100 Was Nick deeply affected by that answer? 00:13:21.100 --> 00:13:24.020 He walked out immediately. 00:13:24.020 --> 00:13:27.780 Okay. 00:13:27.780 --> 00:13:31.900 Any other questions? 00:13:31.900 --> 00:13:33.900 Any other questions? 00:13:33.900 --> 00:13:34.900 Okay. 00:13:34.900 --> 00:13:38.980 Guys, so learn to engage his presence in the unseen. 00:13:38.980 --> 00:13:39.980 Just think of this. 00:13:39.980 --> 00:13:45.940 God's invisible rule by his invisible spirit in your invisible inner man. 00:13:45.940 --> 00:13:53.940 God's invisible rule by his invisible spirit in your invisible inner man. 00:13:53.940 --> 00:13:54.940 Yeah. 00:13:54.940 --> 00:14:01.940 So the things of the spirit, they're saying the spirit of the mind. 00:14:01.940 --> 00:14:02.940 Yeah, man. 00:14:02.940 --> 00:14:05.940 It's not the invisible spirit. 00:14:05.940 --> 00:14:10.940 It's not the invisible spirit. 00:14:10.940 --> 00:14:15.940 It's not the invisible spirit. 00:14:15.940 --> 00:14:16.940 Yeah. 00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:17.940 Yeah. 00:14:17.940 --> 00:14:33.020 The sensory and the physical may follow, but first Corinthians 2, 10 puts it this way. 00:14:33.020 --> 00:14:38.100 It is the spirit filled that can discern things spiritually. 00:14:38.100 --> 00:14:42.620 Spiritual things can only be discerned spiritually. 00:14:42.980 --> 00:14:49.620 Because we've gotten so used to having God speak to us physically through some sign or 00:14:49.620 --> 00:14:57.020 the other, God in his mercy continues. 00:14:57.020 --> 00:15:04.780 And if he had a choice, he would stick to Proverbs 27, 20 or 20, 27, which says, the 00:15:04.780 --> 00:15:08.580 spirit of the Lord, the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord. 00:15:08.580 --> 00:15:10.420 The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord. 00:15:10.620 --> 00:15:16.260 I would prefer Jacob, if you began to sense and discern things from your spirit so that 00:15:16.260 --> 00:15:22.380 I can use your spirit as a lamp to light your path. 00:15:22.380 --> 00:15:29.460 But Jacob, because you're so immature and you love these little signs and bus billboards, 00:15:29.460 --> 00:15:30.580 I am stuck. 00:15:30.580 --> 00:15:33.100 I just have to continue doing that. 00:15:33.100 --> 00:15:38.660 But I cannot explain rocket science to you through a bus billboard. 00:15:38.660 --> 00:15:43.500 And some things are rocket science. 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:48.340 So we've got to learn this, guys. 00:15:48.340 --> 00:15:52.460 Any questions, any thoughts that you want to add to this? 00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:55.180 It'll be solid fun, man. 00:15:55.180 --> 00:15:55.860 Just think of it. 00:15:55.860 --> 00:16:01.340 An invisible God operating in this world through his invisible spirit, where preferably in 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:02.700 your invisible inner man. 00:16:03.700 --> 00:16:09.700 Now, do you understand why Paul in Ephesians and in Colossians, what does he pray for? 00:16:09.700 --> 00:16:11.380 For the strengthening of your muscles, Jacob? 00:16:11.380 --> 00:16:12.780 No, you've got plenty of them. 00:16:12.780 --> 00:16:15.740 For the strengthening of your soul and your feelings? 00:16:15.740 --> 00:16:17.460 No, they keep flux. 00:16:17.460 --> 00:16:19.100 What do I pray the strengthening of? 00:16:19.100 --> 00:16:26.260 I pray the strengthening of the inner man that by the spirit of God, your inner man might 00:16:26.260 --> 00:16:27.380 be strengthened. 00:16:32.700 --> 00:16:39.340 If you learn to engage his presence in the unseen, this is what you're doing. 00:16:39.340 --> 00:16:42.860 God's invisible rule by the invisible spirit in the invisible inner man. 00:16:42.860 --> 00:16:45.300 Hey, think of these things. 00:16:45.300 --> 00:16:47.260 Think of where this is birthed. 00:16:47.260 --> 00:16:48.260 Righteousness. 00:16:48.260 --> 00:16:49.740 Where is it birthed? 00:16:49.740 --> 00:16:55.980 Every other religion in the world will birth righteousness externally. 00:16:55.980 --> 00:16:57.900 Here is a set of rules. 00:16:57.900 --> 00:16:59.580 Go dip in this river. 00:16:59.580 --> 00:17:01.700 Go to this particular mosque. 00:17:01.700 --> 00:17:03.940 Go to this particular temple. 00:17:03.940 --> 00:17:07.180 Follow these particular rituals and now you're righteous. 00:17:07.180 --> 00:17:13.620 Everything in every other religion is external, including Judaism. 00:17:13.620 --> 00:17:19.580 And then where does righteousness start for Christians? 00:17:19.580 --> 00:17:20.580 In the inner man. 00:17:20.580 --> 00:17:21.580 Peace. 00:17:21.580 --> 00:17:24.460 Where does it start? 00:17:24.460 --> 00:17:29.300 How is it that you observe some guys who are going through really bad situations, but a 00:17:29.300 --> 00:17:31.300 tremendous peace? 00:17:31.300 --> 00:17:32.300 Joy. 00:17:32.300 --> 00:17:33.300 Where does it start? 00:17:33.300 --> 00:17:35.780 How do people sing in prison? 00:17:35.780 --> 00:17:43.300 How does Graham Stain's wife forgive her, forgive the ones who burnt her husband and 00:17:43.300 --> 00:17:51.620 children alive and then joyfully continue with God and with the people who burnt? 00:17:51.620 --> 00:17:52.860 I remember this guy called P.G. 00:17:52.860 --> 00:17:53.860 Varghese. 00:17:53.860 --> 00:17:54.860 Some of us have met him. 00:17:54.860 --> 00:17:59.380 P.G. Varghese, I was listening to a simple sermon by him just day before yesterday and 00:17:59.380 --> 00:18:06.860 he said a few months ago, he went to where Graham Stain's was slain and he stood there 00:18:06.860 --> 00:18:10.380 and he decided to preach there and set up a church there that had been washed away by 00:18:10.380 --> 00:18:17.700 the rain and he goes there and he preaches and he said there were people, priests who 00:18:17.700 --> 00:18:21.380 were speaking and listening and when he had finished preaching, one of the priests came 00:18:21.380 --> 00:18:27.000 down and he said, we dishonored the man that was sent here and I was there when that man 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:30.640 was burnt to death and we dishonored him. 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.880 Would you now ask your God to pray and ask him to forgive me and help me start all over 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:35.880 again? 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:36.880 How does this thing happen? 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:40.760 How does righteousness, peace and joy and power happen? 00:18:40.760 --> 00:18:41.760 Where does it happen? 00:18:41.760 --> 00:18:44.520 It happens in the inner man. 00:18:44.520 --> 00:18:45.680 This is the rule of God. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:49.120 The rule of God is not some kind of I shall now rule the world. 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:53.440 The rule of God is righteousness, peace, joy and power in the Holy Ghost. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.840 Romans 14 13 or 13 14 and 1 Corinthians 4 20. 00:18:57.840 --> 00:19:00.440 Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.960 Righteousness, peace, power and joy. 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.840 Where does it happen in the inner man? 00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:09.480 My God man, begin to live like this. 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:13.160 Ask God the Ephesians 1 18 and Colossians 2 prayer. 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.600 Oh God, strengthen my inner man because that's where you want to work. 00:19:16.600 --> 00:19:18.360 That's how you want me to know you. 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:20.600 That's where you want me to discern you. 00:19:20.600 --> 00:19:22.640 That's where things first begin. 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.960 These things are birthed in the unseen. 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:31.040 Then they begin to increasingly blaze in your life. 00:19:31.040 --> 00:19:39.840 When that happens guys, when that happens then, be it one life at a time or one nation 00:19:39.840 --> 00:19:44.120 at a time, you begin to affect things. 00:19:44.560 --> 00:19:55.880 Deadly scared of people who have begun to discern things spiritually. 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:58.880 Any questions? 00:19:58.880 --> 00:19:59.880 Yep. 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:07.600 How do we further develop the spiritual senses? 00:20:07.600 --> 00:20:10.440 How do we develop it? 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:15.120 I'll get there in about 9 minutes and 23 seconds. 00:20:15.120 --> 00:20:16.120 Yeah. 00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:22.040 How do we develop it? 00:20:22.040 --> 00:20:26.520 One of the ways guys is always begin to use faith as an accelerant. 00:20:26.520 --> 00:20:34.000 Like when you want to cause a fire to really start burning, you pour something in it that 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.840 begins to make it really flame up. 00:20:36.840 --> 00:20:39.880 Use faith as an accelerant. 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:46.640 Faith is the only thing that can deal with the invisible. 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:47.640 Just remember that guys. 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:51.480 My God, some of the things we are saying right now are precious. 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:58.400 Faith is the only thing that we can exert from this visible world that works, touches 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:01.280 and gives evidence of the invisible. 00:21:01.280 --> 00:21:09.960 Faith is the only thing that we can use in this visible world to enter, to shape things 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:11.480 in the invisible and make them happen. 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.160 There's no other instrument on earth that can do that. 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:16.400 Faith is the only thing. 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:19.680 A.W. Tozer put it this way. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:25.000 He said, where faith is present, we touch and handle things unseen. 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:29.960 Where faith is present, we touch and handle things unseen. 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:34.560 Where faith is present, we touch and handle things unseen. 00:21:34.560 --> 00:21:38.480 What a contradiction, eh? 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:47.440 Where faith is present, we touch and handle things unseen. 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:50.760 You know when this church started, my God, we spent so much time on faith, you would 00:21:50.760 --> 00:21:53.720 think to yourself, is this all they know? 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:55.640 Thank God, eh? 00:21:56.600 --> 00:21:59.160 Because it's the only thing that works in the unseen. 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:17.880 So if you want to be, if you want to engage his presence effectively, 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:30.680 to answer what's his name's question. 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.880 Oh, by the way, I forgot the other announcement. 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:37.800 Charlene and, what's your name? 00:22:37.800 --> 00:22:38.800 Josh. 00:22:38.800 --> 00:22:44.040 Charlene and Josh are starting their, what's it called? 00:22:44.040 --> 00:22:45.040 House Church. 00:22:45.040 --> 00:22:50.800 Charlene and Josh are starting their house church in Burnaby, I got that city right, 00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:51.800 on the 18th. 00:22:51.800 --> 00:22:54.840 So if you remember, pray for them. 00:22:55.640 --> 00:23:03.160 How do you engage his presence effectively? 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:09.480 Given all that we know, we already know how to go about it, we are aware of it, we always 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:13.720 talk about it, so how do we engage his presence effectively? 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:17.520 This is where the whole idea of hidden comes in. 00:23:17.520 --> 00:23:25.880 To engage his presence effectively, you must be hidden. 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:28.840 The most important word here is you. 00:23:28.840 --> 00:23:33.520 You must be hidden. 00:23:33.520 --> 00:23:38.160 And so what does hidden look like? 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:52.320 First, self-determination must end. 00:23:52.320 --> 00:23:53.320 Self-determination must end. 00:23:53.320 --> 00:23:58.080 You want to engage his presence effectively, self-determination must end. 00:23:58.080 --> 00:24:07.280 John 21, 18, when you were young, someone would take you by the hand and walk with you 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:08.520 as you went. 00:24:08.520 --> 00:24:13.500 But now that you've grown older, I'm going to tie your hands and take you where you don't 00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:14.500 want to go. 00:24:14.500 --> 00:24:17.400 What does it mean when we say self-determination must end? 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:20.120 I must want what my will does not want. 00:24:20.120 --> 00:24:25.960 I must want what my will does not want, simply because I love the one who's taking me more 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:27.280 than my will itself. 00:24:27.280 --> 00:24:32.840 I must want what my will does not want, simply because I love the one who's leading me more 00:24:32.840 --> 00:24:33.840 than my will itself. 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:35.400 I'll say it again. 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:42.640 I must want what my will does not want, simply because I love the one who is leading me. 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.320 That's the end of self-determination. 00:24:45.320 --> 00:24:50.920 You want to engage his presence at a level that you've never engaged in? 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:55.480 If we get time, I want to sing that song New Wine, where you're saying, oh God, no longer 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.960 do I want what I want. 00:24:56.960 --> 00:24:58.600 I want what I don't want. 00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:04.160 And I want what I don't want, because I like you more than my will itself. 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:07.440 Therefore I'm putting self-determination to an end. 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:09.360 I do not determine my paths. 00:25:09.360 --> 00:25:11.240 I do not determine my success. 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:13.520 I do not determine the roads I will travel. 00:25:13.520 --> 00:25:16.160 I cease to determine these things. 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:19.520 And as you begin to do it, you will find presence increasing. 00:25:19.520 --> 00:25:22.680 And you're engaging presence at a level you've never engaged in. 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:23.680 I guarantee this. 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:24.680 I guarantee this. 00:25:28.600 --> 00:25:33.280 We started with the hardest thing first. 00:25:33.280 --> 00:25:35.800 It gets a little easier after this. 00:25:35.800 --> 00:25:50.800 Second, if you want presence to increase, be OK with being misunderstood. 00:25:50.800 --> 00:25:56.520 If you want presence to increase, be all right with being misunderstood or accused without 00:25:56.520 --> 00:25:57.520 cause. 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.160 If there are accusations, they must be without cause. 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:04.120 Be OK with being misunderstood. 00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:12.640 We place such high value on being understood that it gets in the way of doing what God 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:14.000 wants to do. 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:16.560 It gets in the way of the presence of God. 00:26:16.560 --> 00:26:19.120 What do we mean when we say we want to be understood? 00:26:19.120 --> 00:26:20.640 I want you to know. 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:22.600 Let him misunderstand me. 00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:27.120 If I'm willing to have a misunderstanding to do what God wants me to do, then you will 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:28.480 know the presence of God. 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:31.440 It's always been that way. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:37.480 I don't know of a person in the Bible who did well, whose family and friends did not 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:38.880 misunderstand him. 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:47.720 Not one. 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:53.440 Not one. 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:56.240 Those things are so sacrosanct in this culture of ours. 00:26:56.560 --> 00:26:58.480 My God, we will not let it go. 00:27:02.320 --> 00:27:03.840 And not one person. 00:27:03.840 --> 00:27:05.840 You take those heroes in the Bible. 00:27:05.840 --> 00:27:12.000 Show me one person whose family or friends did not misunderstand him, starting from Jesus. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:13.280 Go all the way to Abraham. 00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:23.400 If you're trying to come up with a person, there might be one. 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:24.400 No, OK. 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.880 If you're trying to hurt them, you need to go to the Father. 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:35.520 If your misunderstanding hurts them, then you try not to be God and try not to be comforter. 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:36.640 God can comfort them. 00:27:39.600 --> 00:27:41.360 I don't understand the question. 00:27:41.360 --> 00:27:43.920 The question is... 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:46.240 She has a question to your question. 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:54.240 So he's saying, if my taking a stance causes misunderstanding that causes you hurt, am 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:55.760 I supposed to do anything with it? 00:27:55.760 --> 00:28:00.800 There might be exceptions, but sometimes when my stance causes you hurt and it is the 00:28:00.800 --> 00:28:06.080 correct stance, then I need to let God be God in your life than trying to fix it. 00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:07.360 You know why I try to fix it? 00:28:07.360 --> 00:28:11.520 Half the time I'm trying to fix it because I want you to understand why I am being misunderstood. 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:21.920 You might think, Jacob, this is going to increase presence. 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:22.560 Guaranteed. 00:28:22.560 --> 00:28:28.880 Each of these men or women who were misunderstood by family and friends were men and women who 00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:34.480 immediately after that had the presence of God come upon them in such power because they 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:36.480 had chosen their priority and their allegiance. 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.200 Presence is expensive. 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.000 Presence is costly. 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.440 Presence is costly. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:53.440 Presence is costly. 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:56.240 Presence, the presence of God dwells in you. 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:57.600 That is taken care of. 00:28:57.600 --> 00:29:00.160 That, the cost was paid by someone else. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:05.360 Now if you want to be aware and walk in that presence, the cost has to be paid by you. 00:29:07.360 --> 00:29:10.720 The cost of dwelling has been paid by Christ. 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:15.360 The cost of walking in the dwelling has to be paid by you. 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:23.440 Presence is costly. 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:45.440 Third, the less I strive to be dominant, the more, the less I strive to be dominant, the 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.040 more. 00:29:47.040 --> 00:29:52.560 The less I strive to be dominant, the more his life emerges, the more his presence emerges, 00:29:53.280 --> 00:29:56.160 the more his presence emerges. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:03.040 The less I strive to be dominant, Jacob, what do you mean by less I strive to be dominant? 00:30:03.040 --> 00:30:12.400 The less I want my life to matter in a situation that I have worked in, the less I want my life 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:19.280 to matter in a relationship where I have been a benefactor, the less I want to be dominant 00:30:19.280 --> 00:30:27.520 in any situation where I am owed gratitude, the less I want to be dominant in a situation for which 00:30:27.520 --> 00:30:34.880 I have sweat, blood and tears, the less I want to be dominant in a situation where I have been given 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:41.360 the right to be dominant, the less I want to be dominant in situations, the more his life emerges. 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:48.080 The less I am dominant at Acts 29, the more the presence of God will emerge through my life. 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.080 The less controlling I am here in this church, the more the presence of God will control. 00:31:00.080 --> 00:31:05.840 Dominance always happens in terms of relationships. You can't be dominant in a vacuum. 00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:12.800 Dominance always happens in relationship. The less dominant I am in a relationship where I might have 00:31:12.800 --> 00:31:19.760 the right to be dominant, the less dominant I am, the more the presence of God begins to flow. 00:31:19.760 --> 00:31:24.560 The more I am dominant in a relationship where I might have the right to be dominant, the less 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:29.360 dominant I am, the more the presence of God begins to flow. 00:31:37.840 --> 00:31:42.000 Jonathan Shilpa should have warned you this will go on for a while. If she didn't, it's her fault. 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:52.720 Any questions on that? I won't be able to finish, 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:57.680 but I'll finish three more and then we'll stop. Any questions on that? 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:11.840 Hey, I'm telling you this really works. So in a relationship as a husband, if you learn how 00:32:11.840 --> 00:32:16.480 not to be dominant, you will find the presence of God working through your life affecting your 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:25.200 child and your wife or your children and your wife. In your business, when you realize that you have 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:30.080 the right to be dominant and you're choosing not to be dominant, you will find the presence of God 00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:35.040 hit your business or your life or your workplace like you never know before. 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.880 Christ had every right yet he chose not to be dominant. He chose not just to be dominant, 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:46.880 he chose the other route of being dominated and yet presence was powerful. 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:51.680 It's an upside down kingdom. It's never top down. 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:10.640 The next one is beautiful. The less I am my own, the more I am the bread of his presence. 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:12.640 Beautiful. 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:14.240 Beautiful. 00:33:21.360 --> 00:33:35.440 The less I am my own, the more I am the bread of his presence. 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.360 The less I am my own, the more I am the bread of his presence. 00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:45.760 Broken before and for many. 00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:57.280 It's a beautiful line. The less I am my own, the more I am the bread of his presence. You know, 00:33:57.280 --> 00:34:01.760 there used to be this thing called bread of presence. It used to be 12 loaves of bread 00:34:01.760 --> 00:34:08.880 arranged in a row of three, four each rows of three. It was placed in the holy of holies. 00:34:10.640 --> 00:34:14.640 It was called the bread of his presence. It would be renewed every week. It would be broken and the 00:34:14.640 --> 00:34:23.920 priest could eat it. The less I am my own, as in the more you are willing to cancel your independent 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:34.160 private life and put yourself out into the world as Christ your master did. The less I am my own, 00:34:34.720 --> 00:34:40.880 the more I become the bread of his presence. Broken before people and for people. It is not 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:46.800 sufficient that I break pieces of bread at home and then go distribute. No, no, no. It should be 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:53.120 broken before people and for people because that is what my master Christ did and that is what is 00:34:53.120 --> 00:35:01.840 expected of me. Some of you do that so well and I'm not counting myself among those. Some of you do 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:13.600 that so well and the presence of God will just fill every piece of you that is broken becomes 00:35:13.600 --> 00:35:19.600 life to another. There are all these principles that are drawn from the life of Christ guys. 00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:27.280 The more I am my own, 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:32.880 the more I will know my presence. 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.600 The more I am my own, the more I will know my presence. 00:35:43.600 --> 00:35:49.920 I'll do one more. 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:55.040 Any questions guys? 00:35:58.160 --> 00:36:02.160 Broken before others, broken for others so that they may eat and be strengthened. 00:36:03.200 --> 00:36:07.360 I look at a guy like Jeevan. I always think of Jeevan when I think of this line. 00:36:08.080 --> 00:36:12.240 I think of others too but let me just take one guy. I think Jeevan does this. 00:36:14.080 --> 00:36:23.920 His day has 29 hours. Mine only has 22. 00:36:28.640 --> 00:36:29.440 Well done Jeevan. 00:36:33.200 --> 00:36:39.040 I can think of a few others but then you might get left out so let's just stop with one safe. 00:36:39.040 --> 00:36:44.160 Any questions? Okay one more. 00:36:49.040 --> 00:36:50.560 It's one of my favorite things to do. 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:06.640 If you want to increase in presence, ah that's an ugly word. 00:37:09.040 --> 00:37:19.040 I said this once before. 00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:38.480 Humility is unafraid. You know why? Humility is unafraid. You know why? Because it does not 00:37:39.680 --> 00:37:59.040 seek to protect dignity, reputation, rights, standing, worth. 00:38:00.640 --> 00:38:07.040 Humility is unafraid because it refuses or does not seek to protect reputation. 00:38:07.680 --> 00:38:12.800 It does not seek to protect pride, dignity, words, rights, deservedness. It doesn't seek 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:18.560 to protect it. It is unafraid. You cannot do something to a person who begins to walk like this. 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.960 You can't rob him. You can't exploit him. You cannot offend him. 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:31.200 Someone was telling me it was Michael W. Smith's 40th anniversary coming up next week or something 00:38:31.200 --> 00:38:35.520 and there's this huge concert being done for him. I remember one interview that stayed with me 00:38:35.520 --> 00:38:41.680 where Michael W. Smith said was asked what do you want to become in the near future and he said I 00:38:41.680 --> 00:38:48.480 want to become a man who is not offended. I heard that and I thought to myself gosh man what a thing 00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:53.920 to desire. I want to become a man who's not offended. How do you not be offended? 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:02.880 This is one way you choose you. You become someone who's not offended. Humility is unafraid. 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.600 Humility is unafraid because it seeks not to protect. Seeks not to protect what? Doesn't 00:39:07.600 --> 00:39:12.240 seek to protect dignity, words, deservedness, rights, pride. Doesn't protect any of these. 00:39:12.240 --> 00:39:15.680 Now what can you take from me? How can you offend me? How can you exploit me? 00:39:18.640 --> 00:39:25.600 And when this happens Philippians 2 9 kicks in and so he though he was equal with God chose not 00:39:25.600 --> 00:39:31.040 to hold on to his advantages as God or to his position but instead laid them down and took on 00:39:31.040 --> 00:39:36.960 the form of a servant and that too a bond servant and because he has therefore God has now exalted 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:41.360 him to the highest place and given him the name that is above every name that at his name every 00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:46.000 knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Christ alone is Lord. Put your name in there and 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:52.880 try it out. You will find both the known world the seen world and the unseen world beginning to be 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:58.880 afraid of the presence of God in you because the one thing your God always has been. He has been a 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:06.000 servant, he has been meek, he has been lowly from the beginning. It is one characteristic that is 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:11.440 hardest for humans to share and it is one characteristic that humans if they get will get God. 00:40:17.600 --> 00:40:20.800 These sorry Philippians 2 9. 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.640 I'll stop here guys but the thing is these are such simple methods to increase presence. 00:40:28.640 --> 00:40:34.240 I wish it were more complicated, I wish it were more profound but I guarantee you go over this. 00:40:34.240 --> 00:40:41.280 You will find it working, you will find it working like Lydie was saying guys it is not enough to 00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:47.120 hear a teaching, it is important to practice a teaching, it is not enough to preach a teaching, 00:40:47.120 --> 00:40:50.320 it must be practiced before it can be preached even. 00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.320 You must be on this road before you can 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:03.040 begin to talk about it. Show people man because at the end of the day the invisible rule of God 00:41:03.040 --> 00:41:08.320 through an invisible Holy Spirit in your invisible inner man must be made visible. Righteousness, 00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:15.120 peace, joy and power if they remain invisible do you know good and does the world know good it must 00:41:15.600 --> 00:41:19.840 be made visible. Make visible your righteousness, make visible your peace and joy, 00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:23.360 make visible the power of God that dwells in you in his fullness. 00:41:24.720 --> 00:41:31.840 We'll talk about the rest next week. Hey I want to show you a picture. Ryan I love this picture. 00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:38.560 Not this one, this one. 00:41:38.560 --> 00:41:44.960 Not this one. I love this picture because every time I look at this I think of exactly what we've 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:51.920 spoken about. Not because I have a fascination with vegetables, not do I know the lady but it's just 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:58.880 this idea of hiddenness where you just disappear into the background. 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:03.120 See you in the background. 00:42:08.560 --> 00:42:16.960 See the guy? He does this so often. He just he has this ability to his name is Lou Bolin 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:25.360 B-O-L-I-N and he he does this for a living. He just he just he just disappears into the background. 00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:33.040 This lady got a shock when he suddenly said hello because she couldn't see him. 00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:38.720 I carry a few pictures like this to talk about this idea of being hidden where on one hand 00:42:38.720 --> 00:42:44.480 his presence becomes so powerful that even though you might be the most brilliant guy in the room 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:47.280 your light still doesn't compare to what is happening. 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:58.320 L-I-U-B-O-L-I-N. Do L-I-U say a last name Bolin B-O-L-I-N. Don't google him right now let me finish. 00:43:03.600 --> 00:43:16.160 Yeah so guys never be never don't play down your brilliance. 00:43:18.080 --> 00:43:25.680 You are brilliant because God either gave you some unique talents and abilities or gifted you 00:43:25.680 --> 00:43:32.320 with certain amazing spiritual gifts or natural gifts. Do not play down your brilliance. It's a 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:41.200 shame when you play down your brilliance. But when we begin to follow these principles that 00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:47.360 I've just laid down and his presence begins to increase even your brilliance is like a candle 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:56.880 against a blazing fire. It will be noticed but it is not important. I love it when I have done an 00:43:56.880 --> 00:44:04.320 extremely good job and I know it myself and yet somehow I'm not receiving the attention that I 00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:11.600 would normally receive. Why? Because something else transpired there where people are just surprised 00:44:11.600 --> 00:44:19.600 by God. Get there. This this humility stuff where you say oh praise the Lord. 00:44:19.600 --> 00:44:27.680 That is ugly huh. God likes it when you do well. Is your business prospering? Well done. 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:34.800 Are you being rewarded at work? Well done. When you sang did you become America's idol? 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:39.120 Even though it's called American Idol and you're the idol well done. 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:41.440 And you're the idol well done. 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:50.720 Was this preaching really good? Well done Jacob. Was the worship led well? Well done. 00:44:52.640 --> 00:44:56.240 And then after all that is over you have this ability 00:44:56.240 --> 00:45:00.080 where people forget you and just remember what transpired. 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:03.840 That is hiddenness. 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:12.480 Learn presence first in the unseen. God is hidden. He loves speaking spirit to spirit, deep to deep. 00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:16.480 Try to meet him there in his favorite environment. 00:45:18.240 --> 00:45:22.000 In his favorite environment. You know there's a word called anthropomorphism. 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:27.680 It's a word that is used a lot in the world. It's a word that is used a lot in the world. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:34.560 In his favorite environment. In his favorite environment. You know there's a word called anthropomorphic. 00:45:34.560 --> 00:45:40.160 All it means is God who is spirit had to say I will show you my face. I will lift you up with 00:45:40.160 --> 00:45:47.120 my right hand. I will show you my back. I will put my finger upon you. I will write with my finger. 00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:50.480 It's not like God suddenly developed fingers and a face and a back. 00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:54.240 It's this idea of God trying to convey to us humans. 00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:58.400 Let me put this off before I say the next thing. 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:03.840 Now they'll wonder what the next thing is. I would suggest to you.