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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Quality Control
Publishing Date: 2009-12-06T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/quality-control/

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Let's go.

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Thanks, man.

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Guys, we've been talking about people being forged at Gilgal.

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We started five weeks ago or six weeks ago.

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And the whole idea is we are approaching this theme called

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authentic sun's open heaven.

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What does it take to walk the earth as an authentic sun

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so that the heavens, or the favor of God,

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and the scepter of God that is outstretched,

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may be something that we walk under continuously?

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And we said that one of the stages

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that we have to go through is to become a people forged

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at Gilgal, readied at Gilgal.

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And we've talked about reconciliation.

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We've talked about different things

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that we have to work into and through our lives

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so that we be ready.

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So that just as Jesus stepped out of the Jordan

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as an authentic sun, and the heavens were torn open,

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and the Father said, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased.

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Listen to him.

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In the same way, us as an authentic son called Acts 29

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has to step out of the Jordan so that God can say,

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this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.

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Listen to Acts 29 because they've become an oracle of God

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here on earth.

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That's the place we are heading towards.

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And so today, I just want to say that it's

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the privilege of every Christian to partake in God's grace.

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But we want to pick on a passage today in the Old Testament

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where we hear God saying, listen, as priests,

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you can partake in my grace anytime.

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But if you want to be a dispenser of grace,

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if you want to be someone who ministers grace to others,

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then you have to be readied into a certain type of people.

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And that's what you're going to talk about today.

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So if you want to turn to Leviticus 21.

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Leviticus 21.

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Leviticus 21.

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And I think once we are done with this,

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we can move on from Gilgal to other things.

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And if possible, I was telling Wayne

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that he should put all the five CDs of the last five weeks

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together because it will form what

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is something that you can listen to during the rest of December

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so that you enter into this new season starting

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Jain as a person fully formed at Gilgal,

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having taken the trouble to deal with what needs

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to be dealt with in our lives.

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Leviticus 21.

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Leviticus 21.

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And I'm reading from verse 17 to 23.

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Here it goes.

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Leviticus 21, 17 to 23.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, starting at verse 16,

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the Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron,

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for the generations to come, none of your descendants

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who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

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No man who has any defect may come near me.

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No man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed,

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no man with a crippled foot or hand

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or who is handicapped or dwarfed or who has an eye effect

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or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

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No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect

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is to come near to present the offerings made to the Lord

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by fire.

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He has a defect.

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He must not come near to offer the food of his God.

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He may eat the most holy food of his God

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as well as the holy food, yet because of his defect,

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he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar

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and so desecrate my sanctuary.

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I am the Lord who makes them holy.

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Obviously, these are physical defects

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that were used in the Old Testament

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as banning the sons of Aaron from entering the sanctuary.

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These physical defects obviously don't transfer

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into the New Testament.

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We have to stand in the New Testament

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and look at the Old Testament and then interpret

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what the Old Testament is trying to say.

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So I said before, on one hand, we are, we are,

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yeah, don't worry about that.

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So these physical defects exclude no one today

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but must be viewed from the New Testament

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and it should be interpreted.

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So let's go through these different defects

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that are to prevent a person from being a minister

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or dispenser of grace.

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If you notice in Leviticus 21, it

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says, if you have these defects, you are not excluded

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from eating of the bread.

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You are not excluded from partaking in grace.

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But if you want to offer the bread before God,

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if you want to offer things before God,

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if you want to minister before God,

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if you want to be a dispenser of grace for God,

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then you have to be defect less, blemish less, fault less,

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flaw less.

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That's why I've titled it Quality Control

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because here is a chance for us to look at our lives

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and see if things need to be arranged.

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And I've had so much fun going over each of these

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and trying to make adjustments.

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The first one that's mentioned, then,

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depending on the kind of Bible you're reading,

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the words differ.

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In some Bibles, they say eunuch.

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In other Bibles, they say damaged testicles.

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In some Bibles, they say dwarf.

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In other Bibles, they say handicapped.

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In some Bibles, they say eczema.

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In other Bibles, they say scurvy.

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In other Bibles, they say festering sores.

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So we'll take all those words together

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and see what God is trying to say.

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So the first one is blindness.

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Blindness here, how do we interpret it

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in the New Testament?

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It is a lack of vision or no vision

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for the purposes of God.

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No vision for the purposes of God.

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No vision or lack of vision for the purposes of God.

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A lack of vision for the purposes of God.

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And I so strongly encourage you to go home

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and check if this is true of me, true of you.

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Do I have an idea of the vision or the purpose of God

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for me in general for life, or specifically for life,

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or specifically for the year ahead,

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or specifically for today?

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Do I have a vision of the purpose of God for me?

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And if I don't, why don't I?

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And if I don't, is it important that I have one?

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Why is it that I don't have one?

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So that's something I'd so strongly encourage you

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to look at each one of them.

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Because Proverbs 29, verse 18 says

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that my people perish for the lack of vision.

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In another place it says,

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because my people don't have vision,

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they have cast off their restraint.

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Which is to say that now that I am purposeless,

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I can go any which way because purposelessness allows me

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to be blown like the wind any which way I want.

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But once there's the vision,

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once you understand the purpose of your life,

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understand the purpose your family has here on earth.

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I mean, you know families of destiny?

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You know that Marcus, Ryan, and Laurie,

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I called you Rosalyn once.

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Marcus, Ryan, and Laurie have a destiny as a family?

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That this family is meant to leave a legacy here on earth?

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That Elmer, Anne, and their children and grandchildren

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have a destiny appointed to them here on earth?

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God always operated in clan, stripes, families.

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What is it?

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What is your purpose?

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Let me assure you that when a people continue

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for a period of time without vision or purpose,

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they cast off restraint.

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It becomes, what's the point?

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I can be anything I want to be because what's the point?

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I'm going to heaven, my ticket is secure.

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So be what you want to be.

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That's what happens.

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So check on that.

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And so what would be, I mean,

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one of the things I have often done,

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and I've told you about this,

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is whenever I feel even a little purposeless

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in terms of what the next step is,

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where is Acts 29 going, where is Jacob going,

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where is life supposed to go next year or tomorrow,

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I always go back and listen to what has been spoken over me.

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And our tendency is to think,

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but I've heard that three times, what can be new?

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I cannot tell you how much there is

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in what has been spoken over you by different people.

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Each time I listen to it, each time I read it,

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it's like digging out new treasure.

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Because if prophecy is genuine and is unadulterated,

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it is the counsel of God,

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and there is no fathoming the counsel of God.

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So if you think you've reached the end of it,

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you're wrong.

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Be proactive about this.

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I cannot emphasize it enough.

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So what I do is I'll go and listen.

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I'll listen to it again and again and again.

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This morning I was listening to what Eddie said.

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I was listening to it and I found something in it

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that I hadn't seen before.

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I found something in it that I should have heard

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before I went to Indonesia.

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Thank God it came to pass,

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but he had said something about Indonesia

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that I'm finding two months after I've come from Indonesia.

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Sometimes it's the grace of God.

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So do that.

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And the other thing we need to understand is that,

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guys, how do you know if you have vision?

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I'd say one of the litmus test is communicated.

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Let me hear you communicate the purpose

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you have here on earth.

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If I were to ask you right now,

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okay, you say you have vision, you have purpose,

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communicate it.

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And if you can communicate it with clarity,

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I would then say, yes, you do have a grasp of it.

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But if you cannot communicate it with clarity,

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if it is generic, if it is,

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yeah, God loves me and I'm his son,

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that's absolutely true, okay?

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I'm not saying no to that at all.

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But if it is in that area,

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then I'd say something needs to be studied even more.

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I mean, if I were to go up to Ryan and ask him,

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so what are you gonna do after grade 10?

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If he says, oh, I'm gonna study more, something is wrong.

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But guess what?

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If I ask him now, he's gonna tell me

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what he's gonna major in.

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Because he already knows.

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There is a clarity there.

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And if you read Habakkuk chapter two,

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you'll see that there's a,

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I mean, for every handicap here, we will have a solution.

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So the solution then for lack of purpose

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is one, obviously, to find it out

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because I really think that there is nobody in this house

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who does not already have some kind of an inkling

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as to where you're heading.

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If you've been in this house for more than six months,

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you have an idea of where you're going.

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Because God has touched your life prophetically.

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That's the nature of this house.

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So if you go to Habakkuk two,

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it's one of those books that plays hide and seek.

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Habakkuk two after Nahum, it doesn't help at all,

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and before Zephaniah.

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Habakkuk two, verses one and two.

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You'll see that it says there,

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I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts.

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I will look to see what he will say to me

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and what answer I am to give to his complaint.

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Then the Lord replied.

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First, what does he say?

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What's the first word?

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Write down the revelation.

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So first thing you do if you want to crystallize

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or filter your vision,

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so you're going to write down the revelation.

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He says write down the revelation and make it what?

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Plain.

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Write it with clarity.

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There should be a clarity to it.

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And then he goes on to say write it,

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make it plain so that

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you can get it.

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So what is the first thing you do?

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Write down the revelation.

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So first thing you do is write down the revelation.

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At the appointed time,

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a herald may run with it

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for the revelation waits an appointed time,

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it will speak in the end.

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So guys, first you see it.

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So obviously purpose has to be seen

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and like I said in this house,

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you have begun to see what it is for you.

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Because really the destiny of this house

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is your destiny too,

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besides what God speaks to you individually.

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So you see it, you write it,

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there's clarity

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and then the herald cannot see it

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unless you communicate it.

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And once you communicate it,

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it's taken and then you act on it

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or initiate action on it.

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This is how vision is actually developed

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or crystallized or filtered

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so that it becomes something tangible.

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You see it or you hear it,

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you write it.

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I cannot tell you how to write it.

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I cannot tell you how important writing it is.

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You write it.

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After you write it,

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you go over it and you begin to see clarity in it.

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After clarity in it,

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now you have sufficient clarity

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in your spirit and in your mind

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to be able to communicate it.

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And once you've been communicated,

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now you're in a position

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where you can begin to act on it.

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This is how blindness

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in terms of a lack of vision

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for the purpose of God

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can be destroyed.

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Any questions?

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When does time play?

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Time plays in terms of

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once you begin to initiate action,

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then time has to unfold it

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because you can't push it,

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you can't hurry it,

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but you've initiated the action.

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Now God begins to cooperate

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because God does say,

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James, war with the prophetic word.

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Take it and war with it.

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Begin with it.

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I'll bring it to pass,

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but begin with it.

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If you do not initiate it,

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if you do not act on it,

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then Isaiah 7 applies,

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where because you did not believe,

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it was not established.

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There's that too.

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A prophetic word does not come to pass

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because it was not believed in,

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therefore it shall not be established.

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You know why I said my guitaring will improve?

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Because many years ago,

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a prophet came and said that

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I would be a very good instrumentalist.

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And I found that so not up my alley

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because I was a worship leader,

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not a guitarist,

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that I decided that I was going to put it

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on my prophetic shelf and not use it.

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And I have used as an example,

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many times to say,

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some people prophesy

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things that are not true.

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And I was talking to someone about how

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we need to take things that have been spoken

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and have to begin to apply it.

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And I felt the Lord saying,

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but you have things in your life

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that you haven't applied yet.

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And I had to go and examine it

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and this was one of them.

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So I remember walking in front of the Lord

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after I spoke to this person.

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I was saying to the Lord,

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your father,

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there was no reason to suspect

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what the guy said.

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It's just because it was not something

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I'm interested in

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or has been something that I'm fond of.

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And so today I undo what I've said

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and I want to become this asset

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or aspect that you wanted to bring into my life.

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And so I'm not surprised

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when my guitaring will begin to improve.

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And you guys will say,

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well, Jacob, your singing needs improvement now

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and stuff like that.

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So moving on.

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That's how it works.

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So time works that way.

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It happens when I agree.

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If I do not believe,

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I will not be established.

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That's what Isaiah 7 says.

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I think it's Isaiah 7.

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I don't remember it.

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I think it's an Isaiah 7.

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Yeah.

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Let's go on to lameness then.

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Lameness is...

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This is so sad, guys.

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What happens?

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Lameness...

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Lameness is when those who...

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Lameness happens to those who can see

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what God is saying,

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but don't have the ability to walk in it.

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But don't have the ability to walk in it.

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Can.

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Lameness...

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Lameness is when...

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It's a people or an individual

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who is aware of it.

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It's a people or an individual

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who is aware of it.

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And he can see.

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He can see what God is saying.

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He can see it.

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But he does not know or she does not know

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or does not have the ability to walk in it.

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I mean, one of the classic examples

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is the man at the beautiful gate

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in Acts chapter 3.

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In Acts chapter 3, verse 2,

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it says,

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There was a man who was lame from his mother's womb

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who was brought to the gate.

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What was the name of the gate?

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The beautiful gate at the temple.

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And he was left at the beautiful gate.

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And he would be there always at the right time.

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When the temple worship would start,

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he would be there.

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He could probably hear the worship.

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He knew what was happening inside,

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but he could not enter into it.

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It's someone who knows what is required,

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but does not know how to step into it.

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Some of us here know what is required of us.

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We know. We already know.

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But we have no idea.

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How the heck do I move from knowing

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to stepping into it?

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Mephi-Bosheith was like that.

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Mephi-Bosheith was Saul's grandson,

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Jonathan's son.

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David's friend Jonathan, his son.

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Mephi-Bosheith was meant to be king.

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But when he hears that David has defeated his dad,

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his granddad,

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his nurse picks him up

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and starts running,

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the boy drops out of her arm,

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falls on the ground,

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and he becomes lame.

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And so here is a king

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who is now lame,

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does not attain the throne,

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until David calls him into the palace.

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And he had everything that was required to be a king,

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but he ran and he could not even run at that

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because he was lame.

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So what's the solution?

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Another way of looking at it,

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to pick on a word that Anne had used,

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guys, these are people who get touched at every meeting.

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They go for different meetings all over the place.

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They get touched at all the meetings,

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but they don't know how to launch into orbit.

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The launching is missing.

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How was the meeting?

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Oh, brother, I was deeply touched.

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What's going to happen out of it?

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Nothing.

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Why? Because I have to go for another meeting

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and I have to go to another meeting

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and I have to go to another meeting

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and I have to go for another meeting to get deeply touched again.

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You guys are laughing.

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There's a place where after being touched,

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you have to be launched.

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And I'd suggest to you

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that the solution,

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what people normally resort to

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in terms of solutions is

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they resort to methods,

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they resort to church growth,

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they resort to formulas,

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they resort to fire conferences,

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they resort to somehow trying to activate what's in them.

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But I'd like to tell you that it is impossible

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to move from lameness

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unless you are somehow

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charged by the apostolic and the prophetic guys.

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Here was this lame man

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sitting at the beautiful gate.

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And what does he ask for?

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He asks for some arms.

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And who comes along?

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Peter and John.

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And what do they say to him?

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They say, look at us.

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There needs to be a penetration of that

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which is prophetic and apostolic

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to begin to push you into orbit, guys.

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You've seen that activated

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in lives here through

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Eddie,

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through different people

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who have come here, through me

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laying hands on people.

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You've seen it activated.

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You've seen what Eddie has done in my life

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where there's a sudden launching.

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It needs an apostolic

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and prophetic knife-feds to cut

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cleave open and say, look at me

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and then silver and gold I have none

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but what I have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ.

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Rise up and walk.

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And suddenly your lameness is gone.

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So may I tell you

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you can sit at Acts 29 and miss out

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on it.

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Because

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you have chosen

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not to understand

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the apostolic and the prophetic.

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Guys, there's nothing anybody can do about it.

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There are people

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in Eddie's church,

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in Eddie's friends churches

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who have sat there for years and years and years.

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And have not been

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affected by it.

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Why? Because they like what

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they like and are selective in their

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hearing and the rest of it

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does not apply to me

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because that is not my thing.

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I beg of you, we give the whole

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council of God, take it all.

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Guys, these messages

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may be a little

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nasty in terms of how

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it's being presented but we are

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at Gilgal.

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Circumcision was not a walk in the park.

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It was painful.

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Questions?

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Comments? Disagreements?

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Not physical, spiritual lameness.

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Yeah.

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I think it's impossible to move from lameness

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to a place where you can get

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launched into who you know

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God is asking you to be.

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It's impossible to be launched into it

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unless you say, okay

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I, guys, if

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but yeah

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position yourself to

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receive, guys, if you have missed out

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on understanding what the apostolic is

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I might use

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this word again and again. I beg of you

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ask Wayne for the CDs

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and grasp an understanding because otherwise

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you are losing out.

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I don't care how friendly you are

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with each other or with me.

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It won't benefit you unless

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truth is taught. Friendship

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does not set you free.

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The knowledge of the

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truth does.

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Go ahead, Valentina.

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At the appointed time, which will happen?

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At the appointed time, which will happen?

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Yes, in Habakkuk,

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which we dealt with in terms

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of blindness. I'm talking about

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lameness where people have

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seen it

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but they do not know how to take what they've

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seen and launch.

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Because prophetic words

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can be received by many.

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Israel received tons of prophetic words

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but it didn't do them any good.

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So that's the problem.

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The lame guy didn't launch himself though.

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The other two. Exactly.

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The apostolic and the prophetic have the ability

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to remove lameness

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and launch you into

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that which God is already

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showing you. It's like being

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impotent. I know what it takes

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but I don't know how to do it.

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How does that tie into when people in any church

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have just sit there? Like if it's not the lame

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person's act of doing that

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launches them, can they

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do the same as the lame person sitting at church

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for 20 years waiting to get launched?

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Absolutely. When we come to dwarfs, we'll talk about that.

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Dwarfs are people who have

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aged without growing.

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Dwarfs are people who have aged without growing

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in the spiritual.

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What can the lame guy do to

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expedite his launch?

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There is a point where the analogy of the lame

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when you use it in the spiritual has to be disconnected

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from actual physical lameness.

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Here is a lame person who now

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has the, when it comes to

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spiritual understanding of things

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I have to open up my

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spirit to receive from the apostolic

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and the prophetic.

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David was a spiritual giant.

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Yep.

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So let's use some real words

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to get facts here. So what is the lame people

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that are waiting to get...

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Okay, I'll give you an example. I could have

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gone for many apostolic summits

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and conferences all over the world

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listened to Eddie and all his friends

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and have come back without

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any change.

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I listened to it

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I'd have tons of notes, I'd probably preach a sermon

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but I'd never leave it. Why? Because I

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did not open up my spirit to receive it

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I did not want anything to do with it.

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I've gone to places

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and sat with elders in churches

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and taught them

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how to do things and they have said

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no.

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The church won't collapse, they'll still

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do wonderful things, people will still get saved

00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:04.920
some will get healed but they will

00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:06.920
never enter into the orbit that

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was meant for them. Instead of going to

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Mars, they'll keep going around the moon.

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Are you still in space?

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Yes. But you were supposed

00:26:17.080 --> 00:26:19.080
to hit the red planet, not the

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little white piece of cheese in the sky.

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It'll be nice but not the abundant life

00:26:25.080 --> 00:26:27.080
that you're going to get. There you go.

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We got orbits man

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that we have to enter into.

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I asked Valentine already.

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Guys, it's the apostolic and the prophetic

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that has the ability to penetrate.

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I've always shown you that picture

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of the spear with

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this is the shaft

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but a shaft without

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a spear has no penetration.

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A spear without the shaft

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has no direction.

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Goes together.

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That's a good example.

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If this is the apostolic

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and the prophetic, this is

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the evangelistic

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the teaching

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and the pasturing.

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It has to go hand in hand.

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Who does all this? The saints are involved in this.

00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:23.240
These are not some kind of aliens

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that fell out of the sky. These are normal

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people. These are you

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and me.

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Then it applies that a whole lot of people

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can see the prophetic. This is

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sometimes what happens to the charismatic and the

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Pentecostal where

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they operate in the prophetic but are never

00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:45.400
able to launch fully into orbit

00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:47.400
just because there is no

00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:49.400
there is nothing to

00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:51.400
that input is missing

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because there is a resistance

00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:55.400
or a lack of acknowledgement of the apostolic

00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:57.400
and the prophetic.

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If you want to know what it is as I use

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the words apostolic and prophetic, if you do

00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.400
not know it, let me very gently

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:05.400
say to you, it is not because it hasn't

00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:07.400
been spoken of or taught. It is

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because you have forgotten or chosen not

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to listen.

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I am going to be very, very plain and gentle today.

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And if you have listened and you do not

00:28:17.560 --> 00:28:19.560
remember, then go back and revisit it.

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Because we are ending Gilgal today.

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We are moving on to other things.

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I pray God that we examine this.

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I am always surprised at how much

00:28:33.560 --> 00:28:35.560
you remember because when I ask questions

00:28:35.560 --> 00:28:37.560
there is expectation in my mind that

00:28:37.560 --> 00:28:39.560
oh you won't know the definition because it was

00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:41.720
so long ago and then when you come up with it

00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:43.720
I am always surprised. But if you don't

00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:45.720
remember all the nitty gritties

00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:47.720
just go re-examine it.

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I have to do that guys.

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Deformed and marred faces.

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The third one is deformed and marred faces

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in the King James that says

00:28:57.720 --> 00:28:59.720
people with flat noses.

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So, yeah, people with flat noses

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are deformed or marred

00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:05.720
faces.

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Guys, a deformed or marred face

00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:09.880
is someone

00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:11.880
I mean I am drawing

00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:13.880
this interpretation from James

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chapter 1 verses 23 to 25

00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:17.880
where

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the Bible says that

00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:21.880
do not be like a man who goes

00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:23.880
and looks in the mirror and forgets what he

00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:25.880
looks like. Instead be like

00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:27.880
the man who looks into the mirror

00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:29.880
of the perfect law of liberty

00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:31.880
and sees who he really is.

00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:33.880
So a deformed or marred face

00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:35.880
is someone, is one

00:29:36.040 --> 00:29:40.040
who has no idea

00:29:40.040 --> 00:29:44.040
of who they are

00:29:44.040 --> 00:29:46.040
and what they look like

00:29:54.040 --> 00:29:58.040
because they have stopped

00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:02.200
catching glimpses

00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.200
of themselves

00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:16.200
in the word of God.

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Instead

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:24.200
they see the world

00:30:24.360 --> 00:30:26.360
they see themselves

00:30:32.360 --> 00:30:34.360
through the looking glass

00:30:38.360 --> 00:30:40.360
of someone else's eyes

00:30:46.360 --> 00:30:48.360
or their own eyes.

00:30:54.360 --> 00:30:56.360
One who has no idea

00:30:58.360 --> 00:31:00.360
of who they are

00:31:00.360 --> 00:31:02.360
and what they look like

00:31:04.360 --> 00:31:06.360
because they have stopped catching glimpses

00:31:06.360 --> 00:31:08.360
of themselves in the word of God.

00:31:08.360 --> 00:31:10.360
Eddie talked about this.

00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:14.360
And so where do they get

00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:16.360
the information about themselves?

00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:18.360
They get it through the

00:31:18.360 --> 00:31:20.360
eyes of somebody else

00:31:20.360 --> 00:31:22.360
or they get it through their own eyes and we have

00:31:22.520 --> 00:31:24.520
a tendency to beat ourselves up

00:31:24.520 --> 00:31:26.520
or to see ourselves less than

00:31:26.520 --> 00:31:28.520
who we are.

00:31:28.520 --> 00:31:30.520
Therefore what we see

00:31:30.520 --> 00:31:32.520
are marred and deformed faces.

00:31:32.520 --> 00:31:34.520
Instead

00:31:34.520 --> 00:31:36.520
go back to

00:31:36.520 --> 00:31:38.520
what this says about you.

00:31:40.520 --> 00:31:42.520
Someone pointed out an area

00:31:42.520 --> 00:31:44.520
of pride in my life a few days ago.

00:31:44.520 --> 00:31:46.520
I acknowledge that there was pride

00:31:46.520 --> 00:31:48.520
and I talked to God about it

00:31:48.520 --> 00:31:50.520
and after that I went quickly to this.

00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:52.680
Because I wanted to see my real self.

00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:54.680
I started looking for scriptures

00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:56.680
on humility.

00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:58.680
I started looking for the

00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:00.680
humble life of Christ.

00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:02.680
I started looking for the life of another

00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:04.680
that I have in me that I can live by.

00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:06.680
So that I could return

00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:08.680
not to I have to lose my pride

00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:09.680
I have to lose my pride.

00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:11.680
No, so that I could return to walking

00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:13.680
in the life of another which is humble.

00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:15.680
But I had to go to this.

00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:17.680
I found about six or seven different places

00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:19.680
that I could go to.

00:32:19.840 --> 00:32:21.840
I spent about 20-25 minutes

00:32:21.840 --> 00:32:23.840
reading through them.

00:32:23.840 --> 00:32:25.840
Because I have to

00:32:25.840 --> 00:32:27.840
have an idea of myself

00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:29.840
through this.

00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:31.840
Because this is life.

00:32:31.840 --> 00:32:33.840
This goes into me.

00:32:33.840 --> 00:32:35.840
It makes sense.

00:32:35.840 --> 00:32:37.840
Your platitudes help.

00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:39.840
But they never go into my spirit.

00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:41.840
Unless they come from God.

00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:51.840
Important.

00:32:51.840 --> 00:32:53.840
Otherwise you see a deformed face guys.

00:32:53.840 --> 00:32:55.840
You see marred faces.

00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:02.840
I thought I wrote better than I wrote last week.

00:33:02.840 --> 00:33:04.840
One who has

00:33:04.840 --> 00:33:06.840
one who has no idea of who they are

00:33:06.840 --> 00:33:08.840
and what they look like.

00:33:08.840 --> 00:33:12.840
Because they have stopped catching glimpses

00:33:12.840 --> 00:33:14.840
of themselves in the life of another.

00:33:14.840 --> 00:33:16.840
Because they have stopped catching glimpses

00:33:16.840 --> 00:33:18.840
of themselves in the life of another.

00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.000
They have stopped catching themselves in the word of God.

00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:23.000
Instead they see themselves

00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:25.000
through the looking glass of someone else's eyes.

00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.000
Which then brings another important point up.

00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:33.000
We have to make sure that we don't

00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.000
when we talk

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.000
to others about themselves

00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:39.000
that we try not to look at them

00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.000
through our own eyes.

00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.000
Because otherwise we will hoist on them

00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.000
a marred deformed face

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.000
that they begin to live with for the rest of their lives.

00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:49.160
Which is why suddenly in the middle of the worship

00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.160
that Amy Grandsong came back.

00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:53.160
Do you have your father's eyes?

00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:57.160
People who live under dominion

00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:59.160
or under control end up having

00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:01.160
a mask put on their face.

00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.160
That is marred and deformed.

00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:05.160
Because it has been

00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.160
once you keep hearing it for a while

00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:09.160
it becomes your mask guys.

00:34:09.160 --> 00:34:11.160
So I have to be

00:34:11.160 --> 00:34:13.160
careful of how I speak to somebody

00:34:13.160 --> 00:34:15.160
about themselves.

00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.320
Jacob, how do you deal

00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:19.320
with other people who try to deceive you?

00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:21.320
I have to keep going back to this.

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.320
And I have to do it

00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:25.320
because trust me guys

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.320
there are times when people

00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:29.320
say things about me as wonderful a guy as I am.

00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:31.320
They still say things about me

00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:33.320
that are sometimes not so wonderful.

00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:35.320
And sometimes they are true

00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:37.320
and sometimes they are not.

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:39.320
I cannot give it time guys.

00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:41.320
I find that

00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:43.320
I have to be careful.

00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.480
I find that

00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:47.480
the way the mind works

00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:49.480
if there is a gap between what I hear

00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:51.480
and

00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:53.480
the time that I take action

00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:55.480
I begin to

00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.480
have a mindset that begins to take

00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:59.480
bits and forms its own little puzzle

00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:01.480
that is grotesque.

00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:03.480
Because now a person has said

00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:05.480
you are this and then I remember another

00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:07.480
person who said something like that

00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:09.480
and that piece comes and all the

00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:11.480
pieces that have this evil

00:35:11.640 --> 00:35:13.640
affinity for each other from all the

00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:15.640
parts of my mind that have

00:35:15.640 --> 00:35:17.640
gone over the last 20 years come and say

00:35:17.640 --> 00:35:19.640
aha so they must all be right.

00:35:19.640 --> 00:35:21.640
And now there is a grotesque little mask

00:35:21.640 --> 00:35:23.640
that is created inside my mind that I begin to wear.

00:35:23.640 --> 00:35:25.640
So there has to be very little gap

00:35:25.640 --> 00:35:27.640
between hearing something

00:35:27.640 --> 00:35:29.640
and seeing myself

00:35:29.640 --> 00:35:31.640
in the mirror of God.

00:35:31.640 --> 00:35:33.640
This does not mean that every time someone says something

00:35:33.640 --> 00:35:35.640
it is negative.

00:35:35.640 --> 00:35:37.640
Because there are times when people have said something and it is true.

00:35:37.640 --> 00:35:39.640
But after I realize it is true I still have to go

00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:41.800
back to the word to see who Christ is

00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:43.800
because I have to live the life of another

00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:45.800
I cannot become it by my own strength guys.

00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:47.800
You have got to go back to this.

00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:49.800
So when pride was pointed out

00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:51.800
and it was genuine

00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:53.800
I had to go back and see the life of another

00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:55.800
who is humble.

00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:57.800
And then come to the realization that it is he who lives within

00:35:57.800 --> 00:35:59.800
now that I have told the Lord that

00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.800
yeah you were right in pointing it out

00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:03.800
I can let that live out.

00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.800
It is a different way of dealing with it guys.

00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:07.800
Keep the gap between what you hear

00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:09.960
and what you do in terms of looking in the mirror

00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:11.960
very short.

00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:13.960
The shorter it is the better it is for you.

00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:15.960
Yeah.

00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:23.960
So go to the word.

00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.960
When there is ugliness in your life

00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:27.960
when there is confusion

00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:29.960
when there is failure, when there is past

00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:31.960
when there is fears, when there is accusations

00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:33.960
go to the word and close the gap between

00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:35.960
when it happens and when you have to deal with it.

00:36:36.120 --> 00:36:38.120
Become what you are like we said last week.

00:36:38.120 --> 00:36:40.120
Become what you are.

00:36:40.120 --> 00:36:42.120
The next deformity

00:36:42.120 --> 00:36:44.120
or handicap

00:36:44.120 --> 00:36:46.120
was

00:36:46.120 --> 00:36:48.120
some Bible say a limb too long.

00:36:48.120 --> 00:36:50.120
Meaning either it was

00:36:50.120 --> 00:36:52.120
a few extra fingers and toes

00:36:52.120 --> 00:36:54.120
or it was

00:36:54.120 --> 00:36:56.120
one foot was longer than the other or one hand was longer than the other.

00:36:56.120 --> 00:36:58.120
That was another deformity that forbade

00:36:58.120 --> 00:37:00.120
people from entering

00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:02.120
into God's presence. That is the deformity.

00:37:02.120 --> 00:37:04.120
So that is the deformity.

00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:06.280
Limbs too long.

00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:08.280
And what happens if

00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:10.280
one leg is shorter and one leg is longer?

00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:12.280
There is an imbalance guys.

00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:14.280
Or even if you are doing push ups

00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.280
there will be an imbalance.

00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:18.280
I mean not that I would use my hands ever

00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:20.280
for things like push ups.

00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:22.280
But the point is that

00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:24.280
there is an imbalance.

00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:26.280
And

00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:28.280
imbalance or additions

00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.280
that become useless baggage

00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:32.280
that become useless baggage.

00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:34.440
Slowing spiritual progress.

00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:36.440
I mean if you have six or seven toes

00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:38.440
it slows your walk man.

00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:40.440
Plus you got to get one shoe

00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.440
that looks really funny.

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:44.440
So the point is

00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:46.440
it becomes a useless appendage

00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:48.440
or excess baggage

00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:50.440
that now slows your spiritual

00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:52.440
progress.

00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:54.440
Or if one limb is shorter than the other

00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:56.440
one limb is longer.

00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:58.440
Now you have an imbalance in your gait

00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:00.440
and it slows your spiritual progress.

00:38:00.600 --> 00:38:02.600
So

00:38:02.600 --> 00:38:04.600
how does it translate

00:38:04.600 --> 00:38:06.600
into the spiritual?

00:38:06.600 --> 00:38:08.600
Guys make sure that

00:38:08.600 --> 00:38:10.600
you always

00:38:10.600 --> 00:38:12.600
embrace and that Acts 29

00:38:12.600 --> 00:38:14.600
always embraces the whole

00:38:14.600 --> 00:38:16.600
gospel as in Acts 20

00:38:16.600 --> 00:38:18.600
verse 27.

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May we never specialize in the apostolic

00:38:20.600 --> 00:38:22.600
or the demonic or in

00:38:22.600 --> 00:38:24.600
healing or in church planting.

00:38:24.600 --> 00:38:26.600
No, no, no, no.

00:38:26.600 --> 00:38:28.600
How we do this is we got to

00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:30.760
enter and exit seasons of God

00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:32.760
with God.

00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:34.760
When God takes us through a season of

00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:36.760
healing enter into it.

00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:38.760
But please exit as soon as he exits.

00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:40.760
When God

00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:42.760
takes you through the season of the apostolic

00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:44.760
enter into it. But exit as soon

00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:46.760
as he exits. When he takes you

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:48.760
through Gilgal as he is taking us right now

00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:50.760
enter. But exit as soon as he exits.

00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:52.760
Don't spend a moment more in Gilgal.

00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:54.760
If it takes three days to heal

00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:56.760
a circumcision wound, wound get

00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:58.920
over it after three days. Don't sit there

00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:00.920
saying oh need another week for this wound

00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:02.920
to heal. No.

00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:04.920
Done.

00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:08.920
Because God's glory is

00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:10.920
there's no end to it. But on

00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:12.920
one hand I have to behold his glory.

00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:14.920
On the other hand I have to see what does he want me

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:16.920
to be? What does he want

00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:18.920
to be to me right now in

00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:20.920
his glory? Does he want to be Lord Sabaoth?

00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:22.920
Does he want to be Jehovah

00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:24.920
Jaira? Does he want to be Jehovah Rafa?

00:39:25.080 --> 00:39:27.080
Because you can't take one aspect and say

00:39:27.080 --> 00:39:29.080
this is what we will be. Guys in the Bible

00:39:29.080 --> 00:39:31.080
there were gifts. In the Bible

00:39:31.080 --> 00:39:33.080
there were services. Meaning apostle, prophet, evangelist,

00:39:33.080 --> 00:39:35.080
teacher. But the Bible

00:39:35.080 --> 00:39:37.080
rarely says and so

00:39:37.080 --> 00:39:39.080
they said come forth

00:39:39.080 --> 00:39:41.080
for thy ministry is casting

00:39:41.080 --> 00:39:43.080
out demons.

00:39:43.080 --> 00:39:45.080
There's no mention such as such of

00:39:45.080 --> 00:39:47.080
Yeah.

00:39:47.080 --> 00:39:49.080
I mean today we see

00:39:49.080 --> 00:39:51.080
a ministry of this, a ministry of that.

00:39:51.080 --> 00:39:53.080
That's not the way it should be.

00:39:53.240 --> 00:39:55.240
That's not the way it should be.

00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:57.240
I pray God that one of my dreams

00:39:57.240 --> 00:39:59.240
for us as a church, I was talking to the Lord

00:39:59.240 --> 00:40:01.240
this morning about this, that Acts 29

00:40:01.240 --> 00:40:03.240
sends out teams. Teams.

00:40:03.240 --> 00:40:05.240
So that a team is whole.

00:40:05.240 --> 00:40:07.240
There'll be people in the team

00:40:07.240 --> 00:40:09.240
that have the ability to teach.

00:40:09.240 --> 00:40:11.240
There'll be those with the gift of healing.

00:40:11.240 --> 00:40:13.240
There'll be those with the gift of miracles.

00:40:13.240 --> 00:40:15.240
And they go as a team. And when they go as a team

00:40:15.240 --> 00:40:17.240
and stand you'll see

00:40:17.240 --> 00:40:19.240
the whole council of God being modeled

00:40:19.240 --> 00:40:21.240
and worked out.

00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:23.400
Yeah.

00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:25.400
That's the way it should be guys.

00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:29.400
That's the way it should be.

00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:31.400
That'll be so crazy man.

00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:35.400
There'll never be one limb that is too long.

00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:39.400
It'll be whole.

00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:43.400
That is why I so

00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.400
encourage you, come and stand here

00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:47.400
if you have things to share.

00:40:47.560 --> 00:40:49.560
He's writing a rap song.

00:40:49.560 --> 00:40:51.560
I encourage him in it.

00:40:52.560 --> 00:40:54.560
There's nothing rap about me.

00:40:54.560 --> 00:40:56.560
But I encourage him in it.

00:40:57.560 --> 00:40:59.560
Because you should listen to the lyrics.

00:41:11.560 --> 00:41:13.560
Just remember that guys. I mean

00:41:13.560 --> 00:41:15.560
we've become too old to listen to the lyrics.

00:41:15.720 --> 00:41:17.720
I mean we've become too specialized.

00:41:17.720 --> 00:41:19.720
We should become

00:41:19.720 --> 00:41:21.720
people.

00:41:21.720 --> 00:41:23.720
I'm not saying ministry should not exist.

00:41:23.720 --> 00:41:25.720
I believe ministry should exist.

00:41:25.720 --> 00:41:27.720
But the whole council of God

00:41:27.720 --> 00:41:29.720
is better. Sometimes the Lord says, okay guys

00:41:29.720 --> 00:41:31.720
I want you to concentrate on healing.

00:41:31.720 --> 00:41:33.720
Then do that. But please remember

00:41:33.720 --> 00:41:35.720
when ministries begin to concentrate on healing

00:41:35.720 --> 00:41:37.720
what went 10 years down the road God says

00:41:37.720 --> 00:41:39.720
move to something else. But now you've established

00:41:39.720 --> 00:41:41.720
yourself as a healing ministry.

00:41:41.720 --> 00:41:43.720
It's very hard now to hear God say

00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:45.880
move in another direction.

00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:53.880
Fractured foot.

00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:57.880
Hey that thing stopped or is it working?

00:41:57.880 --> 00:41:59.880
Okay I'll try to finish in about 25 minutes guys.

00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:01.880
If not we'll have to continue in the next time.

00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:03.880
Fractured foot.

00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:05.880
Fractured foot.

00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:07.880
Guys fractured foot is different from

00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:09.880
lameness. Fractured foot is a

00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:11.880
breaking away of the foot.

00:42:12.040 --> 00:42:14.040
Resulting in an inability to

00:42:14.040 --> 00:42:16.040
keep pace with others.

00:42:16.040 --> 00:42:18.040
So it's not lameness.

00:42:18.040 --> 00:42:20.040
It's not something that a person was born

00:42:20.040 --> 00:42:22.040
in. It was not a congenital

00:42:22.040 --> 00:42:24.040
condition. It was something that happened in the process.

00:42:24.040 --> 00:42:26.040
A person was born fine

00:42:26.040 --> 00:42:28.040
and then he breaks his foot.

00:42:28.040 --> 00:42:30.040
It's a breaking away of the foot.

00:42:30.040 --> 00:42:32.040
And this allows you to continue to keep in

00:42:32.040 --> 00:42:34.040
pace with others. And I suggest

00:42:34.040 --> 00:42:36.040
to you that again this can be absolutely

00:42:36.040 --> 00:42:38.040
prevalent in Acts 29.

00:42:38.040 --> 00:42:40.040
Where the breaking of a limb, if you go to Proverbs

00:42:40.200 --> 00:42:42.200
25.19 it says unfaithfulness

00:42:42.200 --> 00:42:44.200
is like a broken foot.

00:42:44.200 --> 00:42:46.200
Unfaithfulness or a lack

00:42:46.200 --> 00:42:48.200
of faithfulness

00:42:48.200 --> 00:42:50.200
or a degree of steadfastness

00:42:50.200 --> 00:42:52.200
is like a broken foot

00:42:52.200 --> 00:42:54.200
it says in Proverbs 25 verse 19.

00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:56.200
And it is possible

00:42:56.200 --> 00:42:58.200
to be

00:42:58.200 --> 00:43:00.200
in a house and yet operate

00:43:00.200 --> 00:43:02.200
in isolation. And it's very disabling.

00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:04.200
Spiritually very disabling.

00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:06.360
Can you explain that for me?

00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:08.360
Yeah.

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:10.360
A fractured foot is when

00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.360
a foot breaks away.

00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:14.360
It breaks away.

00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:16.360
And I would suggest to you

00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:18.360
that the spiritual

00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:20.360
interpretation of this

00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.360
breaking away of the foot is how

00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:24.360
you can be part of the body and yet you can be

00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:26.360
broken away.

00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:28.360
You can be part of a body and yet be

00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:30.360
separate. You can disconnect from the

00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.360
ankle onwards. So you start

00:43:32.520 --> 00:43:34.520
from the ankle onwards. So you are still part of the body.

00:43:34.520 --> 00:43:36.520
There was nothing wrong with you to begin with.

00:43:36.520 --> 00:43:38.520
It is something that can be restored.

00:43:38.520 --> 00:43:40.520
It's broken away.

00:43:40.520 --> 00:43:42.520
So now you have a foot that

00:43:42.520 --> 00:43:44.520
is part of the body and yet is not connected to the body.

00:43:44.520 --> 00:43:46.520
It's when

00:43:46.520 --> 00:43:48.520
people begin to be part of something

00:43:48.520 --> 00:43:50.520
and yet are isolated.

00:43:50.520 --> 00:43:52.520
Yeah, not wanting to be part of it.

00:43:58.520 --> 00:44:00.520
Let's assume I was part of this body.

00:44:00.680 --> 00:44:02.680
I come for these meetings.

00:44:02.680 --> 00:44:04.680
Listen to it. Listen to the messages.

00:44:04.680 --> 00:44:06.680
Pick up the CD and I disappear.

00:44:06.680 --> 00:44:08.680
I've got nothing to do with you.

00:44:08.680 --> 00:44:10.680
I've got nothing to do with anyone here.

00:44:10.680 --> 00:44:12.680
I come to receive.

00:44:12.680 --> 00:44:14.680
I may make offerings.

00:44:14.680 --> 00:44:16.680
But I do not want to connect one on one.

00:44:18.680 --> 00:44:20.680
Connect for partnership, fellowship,

00:44:20.680 --> 00:44:22.680
body ministry,

00:44:22.680 --> 00:44:24.680
friendship.

00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:26.680
Opening my life to you. You opening your life to me.

00:44:26.680 --> 00:44:28.680
Becoming transparent. Becoming part of each other.

00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:30.840
I love this verse in Romans 12.

00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.840
It says, you are corporately

00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:34.840
together one body, but you are

00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:36.840
individual members to each other.

00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:38.840
Off one another. Off one another.

00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:40.840
Can you imagine that?

00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:42.840
You are members of one body

00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:44.840
and members of each other individually.

00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:46.840
Such a strange verse.

00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:48.840
Members of each other individually.

00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:52.840
This is one family

00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.840
but they are members

00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:56.840
of each other individually.

00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:59.000
And yet when you look at them from outside

00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:01.000
you call them the Dekruses.

00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:03.000
One family.

00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:05.000
But each of them is an individual and yet

00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:07.000
is an individual one to another.

00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:11.000
So when a person chooses to break away

00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:13.000
and this is why in Deuteronomy 25

00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.000
we've talked about this.

00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.000
What happens to the man who does not build

00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:19.000
up his brother's house?

00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.000
His wife, his

00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.000
brother's wife comes and spits on

00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.000
him and then he has to put his head

00:45:25.160 --> 00:45:27.160
on his head and shoe on his head and

00:45:27.160 --> 00:45:29.160
walk.

00:45:29.160 --> 00:45:31.160
And he walks with the same gait as that of a

00:45:31.160 --> 00:45:33.160
man with a broken foot.

00:45:33.160 --> 00:45:35.160
There's a limp.

00:45:39.160 --> 00:45:41.160
You cannot live together alone.

00:45:45.160 --> 00:45:47.160
Like the Trinity.

00:45:47.160 --> 00:45:49.160
God is relational even in the

00:45:49.160 --> 00:45:51.160
Godhead.

00:45:55.160 --> 00:45:57.160
Guys, look around you right now.

00:45:57.160 --> 00:45:59.160
I mean actually look, okay?

00:45:59.160 --> 00:46:01.160
Look at the people around you right now.

00:46:01.160 --> 00:46:03.160
And I asked myself this question this morning.

00:46:03.160 --> 00:46:05.160
How many here do you know superficially?

00:46:05.160 --> 00:46:07.160
It's a very genuine question.

00:46:07.160 --> 00:46:09.160
As you look around at different people

00:46:09.160 --> 00:46:11.160
here, how many of them do you know superficially?

00:46:11.160 --> 00:46:13.160
Meaning there has been no cultivation of real depth and relationship.

00:46:17.160 --> 00:46:19.160
Here's another question.

00:46:19.160 --> 00:46:21.160
How many of them do you know superficially?

00:46:21.160 --> 00:46:23.160
Meaning there has been no cultivation of real depth and relationship.

00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:25.320
Here's another question.

00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:27.320
How many, about how many of these

00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:29.320
people sitting here, do you have

00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:31.320
preconceived notions about?

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:35.320
How many here

00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:37.320
do you have preconceived notions about?

00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.320
When you look at them you'd say,

00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:41.320
I know her, she is like this.

00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:43.320
I know him, he is like this. How many do you have preconceived notions about?

00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:47.320
I'm not going to make a small guess.

00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:49.320
No, no, no.

00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:51.320
But it's surprising.

00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:53.480
One of the things I have to continuously work on

00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:55.480
at Acts 29 is not to have preconceived notions about you.

00:46:57.480 --> 00:46:59.480
I was talking to James about that

00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:01.480
some days ago.

00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.480
Ah, beautiful words.

00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:09.480
2 Corinthians 5,

00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:11.480
Henceforth I shall know no man after the

00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:13.480
flesh.

00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.480
Because every man is a new creation.

00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:17.480
I shall know them after the

00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:19.480
five somewhere.

00:47:19.640 --> 00:47:21.640
I shall know them after the spirit.

00:47:21.640 --> 00:47:23.640
Just as I know Christ now.

00:47:23.640 --> 00:47:25.640
Not after the flesh. Go ahead.

00:47:25.640 --> 00:47:27.640
I have learned that every time I've had

00:47:27.640 --> 00:47:29.640
preconceived ideas about someone I have been wrong.

00:47:29.640 --> 00:47:31.640
Thank God.

00:47:31.640 --> 00:47:33.640
Yeah.

00:47:39.640 --> 00:47:41.640
Gosh, Matt, I have no

00:47:41.640 --> 00:47:43.640
preconceived notions about you.

00:47:43.640 --> 00:47:45.640
I just so like you.

00:47:45.640 --> 00:47:47.640
And appreciate you.

00:47:49.640 --> 00:47:51.640
Fractured hand.

00:47:51.640 --> 00:47:53.640
Fractured hand.

00:47:53.640 --> 00:47:55.640
The hand is always a symbol of strength.

00:47:55.640 --> 00:47:57.640
The hand is always a symbol of strength.

00:47:57.640 --> 00:47:59.640
Panja larega?

00:47:59.640 --> 00:48:01.640
What is that?

00:48:01.640 --> 00:48:03.640
Panja larega means do you want to arm wrestle.

00:48:03.640 --> 00:48:05.640
So that's Greek for arm wrestling.

00:48:09.640 --> 00:48:11.640
So the hand is always a symbol of strength.

00:48:11.640 --> 00:48:13.640
Diana, you're a great wrestler.

00:48:13.640 --> 00:48:15.640
Diana, you're a great wrestler.

00:48:15.640 --> 00:48:17.640
Diana, you're a great wrestler.

00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:19.800
A symbol of strength. Diana, you may enter.

00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.800
The hand is always a symbol of strength.

00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:29.800
So a broken hand

00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:31.800
is strength broken.

00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:33.800
But in what areas in regard to

00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:35.800
a spiritual house?

00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:37.800
It's with my hands that I bless.

00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:39.800
It's with my hands that I minister.

00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:41.800
The Bible talks about the laying on of hands.

00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:43.800
The Bible talks about blessing with your hands.

00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:45.800
The Bible talks about giving with your hands.

00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:47.960
The Bible talks about in Galatians 2.9

00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:49.960
stretching out the hand of

00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:51.960
you can shake it at some point

00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:53.960
stretching out your hand in

00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:55.960
fellowship in Galatians 2.9

00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:57.960
and so again the broken hand

00:48:57.960 --> 00:48:59.960
goes with the broken foot because

00:48:59.960 --> 00:49:01.960
a broken hand is a lack of strength

00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:03.960
in serving.

00:49:03.960 --> 00:49:05.960
And in serving it includes ministering,

00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:07.960
it includes giving, it includes fellowship.

00:49:08.120 --> 00:49:10.120
So if I were to gently ask

00:49:10.120 --> 00:49:12.120
is your hand fractured?

00:49:12.120 --> 00:49:14.120
And you ask me that and I say no

00:49:14.120 --> 00:49:16.120
then your next question should be

00:49:16.120 --> 00:49:18.120
so how is your giving Jacob?

00:49:20.120 --> 00:49:22.120
How is your ministering?

00:49:24.120 --> 00:49:26.120
How is your serving?

00:49:26.120 --> 00:49:28.120
How is your reaching out in fellowship?

00:49:28.120 --> 00:49:30.120
And if your answer is great

00:49:30.120 --> 00:49:32.120
then how is your giving Jacob?

00:49:32.120 --> 00:49:34.120
How is your giving Jacob?

00:49:34.120 --> 00:49:36.120
How is your giving Jacob?

00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:38.280
And if your answer is great

00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:40.280
then praise God your hand is doing well.

00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:42.280
If the answer is eh, it means you have a hairline fracture.

00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.280
And if the answer is no

00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:48.280
then the hand is broken and needs to be fixed.

00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:50.280
The beautiful thing about broken hand and broken feet

00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:52.280
is they can both be fixed.

00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:54.280
I asked Heidi yesterday

00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:56.280
to give me an idea of the months

00:49:56.280 --> 00:49:58.280
that I did not

00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:00.280
the three or four months last year

00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:02.280
where my giving to the church was low

00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:04.280
compared to what I know

00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:06.440
compared to what I normally give

00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:08.440
I wanted to ask her that

00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:10.440
and she is going to give it to me.

00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:12.440
I have different reasons for it

00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:14.440
but one of the reasons is in 2010

00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.440
I don't want to be the giver I was in 2009.

00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:18.440
I want to be a better giver in 2010 guys.

00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:20.440
It has nothing to do with

00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:22.440
whether my income increases or not

00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:24.440
it has everything to do with giving

00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:26.440
because I am not the best giver I know.

00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:32.440
So

00:50:32.600 --> 00:50:34.600
maybe increase in the solution

00:50:34.600 --> 00:50:36.600
step up, upgrade

00:50:38.600 --> 00:50:40.600
upgrade in these areas.

00:50:42.600 --> 00:50:44.600
I mean

00:50:44.600 --> 00:50:46.600
have the guts to come and say

00:50:46.600 --> 00:50:48.600
let's minister, let's do this.

00:50:48.600 --> 00:50:50.600
One of the things that really blessed my heart

00:50:50.600 --> 00:50:52.600
on Leah's dedication

00:50:52.600 --> 00:50:54.600
was when Matt came up

00:50:54.600 --> 00:50:56.600
and he was kind of hobbling

00:50:56.600 --> 00:50:58.600
because his leg was hurting

00:50:58.600 --> 00:51:00.600
and he said Jacob

00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:02.760
my leg has been hurting, do not know why

00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:04.760
so I just thought I would let you know

00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:06.760
and I said yeah Matt I will remember to pray

00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:08.760
and then went about eating and drinking

00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:10.760
and suddenly

00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:12.760
this guy, Ryan comes up behind me

00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:14.760
and he says

00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:16.760
I feel

00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:18.760
the spirit of God saying that we need to pray

00:51:18.760 --> 00:51:20.760
for Matt right now and God will want to do something.

00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:22.760
And then he says

00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:24.760
but I don't know what to say

00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:26.760
but this is what I know I need to say.

00:51:26.760 --> 00:51:28.760
So I said okay

00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:30.920
and he and I called Matt up

00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:32.920
and I told Matt and then I did the talking

00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:34.920
but he initiated it

00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:36.920
and we agreed and prayed for him

00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:38.920
and his feet seemed okay or at least he didn't tell me about it

00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:40.920
later on.

00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:42.920
But the point is here is someone who is the

00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:44.920
youngest among us who

00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:46.920
decided that I will step up

00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:48.920
to stretch out my hands to minister.

00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:50.920
I'm sorry I'm picking on him

00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:52.920
as a good example today but

00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:54.920
this boy tights

00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:56.920
or gives

00:51:57.080 --> 00:51:59.080
he doesn't have a regular job yet

00:51:59.080 --> 00:52:01.080
but he gives

00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:03.080
his hands are not fractured guys

00:52:03.080 --> 00:52:05.080
he serves

00:52:07.080 --> 00:52:09.080
without asking

00:52:09.080 --> 00:52:11.080
he has hands that are strong

00:52:13.080 --> 00:52:15.080
I won't embarrass you again

00:52:15.080 --> 00:52:17.080
not today

00:52:19.080 --> 00:52:21.080
let's change

00:52:21.080 --> 00:52:23.080
turn the page

00:52:23.080 --> 00:52:25.080
hunchbacked

00:52:25.240 --> 00:52:27.240
a man who was a hunchback

00:52:27.240 --> 00:52:29.240
was a man who

00:52:29.240 --> 00:52:31.240
had a curvature of the spine

00:52:31.240 --> 00:52:33.240
and

00:52:33.240 --> 00:52:35.240
some were born that way

00:52:35.240 --> 00:52:37.240
others had muscles of their shoulders

00:52:37.240 --> 00:52:39.240
and back forced

00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:41.240
either by trauma

00:52:41.240 --> 00:52:43.240
or accident or

00:52:43.240 --> 00:52:45.240
some kind of problem

00:52:45.240 --> 00:52:47.240
where the muscles would then

00:52:47.240 --> 00:52:49.240
begin to clench and you would have a curvature of the back

00:52:49.240 --> 00:52:51.240
and so

00:52:51.240 --> 00:52:53.240
hunchbacks were not allowed into the presence of God

00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:55.400
and a hunchback

00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:57.400
who had a curvature of the spine

00:52:57.400 --> 00:52:59.400
was unable to stand for long periods

00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:01.400
he was unable to stand

00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:03.400
for long periods

00:53:03.400 --> 00:53:05.400
and Hebrews 10

00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:07.400
35 to 39 talks about it

00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:09.400
Hebrews 10 35 to 39

00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:11.400
it says that listen

00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:13.400
don't cast away your confidence

00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:15.400
don't cast away your confidence

00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:17.400
and the just

00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:19.400
shall live by faith

00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:21.400
and my pleasure is in him

00:53:21.560 --> 00:53:23.560
who is able to stand in times of trouble

00:53:23.560 --> 00:53:25.560
and does not shrink back

00:53:29.560 --> 00:53:31.560
check and see

00:53:31.560 --> 00:53:33.560
when you look back at this year

00:53:33.560 --> 00:53:35.560
how many times

00:53:35.560 --> 00:53:37.560
another word for hunchback in english is compromise

00:53:37.560 --> 00:53:39.560
how many times

00:53:39.560 --> 00:53:41.560
did

00:53:41.560 --> 00:53:43.560
did you and I compromise

00:53:43.560 --> 00:53:45.560
and

00:53:45.560 --> 00:53:47.560
choose to take the easy route

00:53:47.560 --> 00:53:49.560
because we

00:53:49.720 --> 00:53:51.720
did not have the ability to stand

00:53:51.720 --> 00:53:53.720
and the pressures of life

00:53:53.720 --> 00:53:55.720
forced the muscles of our back

00:53:55.720 --> 00:53:57.720
to curve our spine

00:54:01.720 --> 00:54:03.720
how many times this year

00:54:03.720 --> 00:54:05.720
when we should have stood

00:54:05.720 --> 00:54:07.720
we had a compromise

00:54:07.720 --> 00:54:09.720
because the demands of life

00:54:09.720 --> 00:54:11.720
forced

00:54:11.720 --> 00:54:13.720
untried faith muscles

00:54:13.720 --> 00:54:15.720
in my body into submission

00:54:15.720 --> 00:54:17.720
because the demands of life

00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:19.880
forced untried

00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:21.880
unexercised faith muscles

00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:23.880
into submission

00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:25.880
the demands of life

00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:27.880
forced untried faith muscles

00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:29.880
into submission

00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:33.880
you know who

00:54:33.880 --> 00:54:35.880
you know three guys who were not hunchbacked

00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:37.880
or four guys who were not hunchbacked

00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:39.880
Daniel

00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:41.880
Shadrach, Mesha Kabednego

00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:43.880
another

00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:45.880
another

00:54:46.040 --> 00:54:48.040
another

00:54:48.040 --> 00:54:50.040
person who is going through times

00:54:50.040 --> 00:54:52.040
and is not hunchbacked

00:54:52.040 --> 00:54:54.040
people who don't have hunchbacks

00:54:54.040 --> 00:54:56.040
gotta stand

00:54:56.040 --> 00:54:58.040
as I look back at the year

00:54:58.040 --> 00:55:00.040
I was driving up and down yesterday

00:55:00.040 --> 00:55:02.040
and thinking of the hunchback situation

00:55:02.040 --> 00:55:04.040
I can remember one place where

00:55:04.040 --> 00:55:06.040
I developed a hunchback

00:55:06.040 --> 00:55:08.040
I compromised

00:55:08.040 --> 00:55:10.040
I didn't have the strength to stand in faith

00:55:10.040 --> 00:55:12.040
and I

00:55:12.040 --> 00:55:14.040
chose the easy way

00:55:14.200 --> 00:55:16.200
Gail has stood

00:55:18.200 --> 00:55:20.200
Ruth has stood

00:55:20.200 --> 00:55:22.200
many others of you have stood

00:55:22.200 --> 00:55:24.200
many others of you are standing even right now

00:55:31.080 --> 00:55:33.080
so what's the solution?

00:55:33.080 --> 00:55:35.080
the solution initially guys is to have others stand and hold you up

00:55:37.080 --> 00:55:39.080
initially if

00:55:39.080 --> 00:55:41.080
hunchbacking is a regular hobby

00:55:41.080 --> 00:55:43.080
you have to stand

00:55:43.080 --> 00:55:45.080
what's your hobby?

00:55:45.080 --> 00:55:47.080
hunchbacking

00:55:47.080 --> 00:55:49.080
they'll think it's something like horse riding

00:55:49.080 --> 00:55:51.080
but if hunchbacking is a regular hobby where I'm not able to stand

00:55:51.080 --> 00:55:53.080
then the first thing I need to do is

00:55:53.080 --> 00:55:55.080
get a couple of people

00:55:55.080 --> 00:55:57.080
who will be firm with me

00:55:57.080 --> 00:55:59.080
and yet hold me up when my back begins to hunch

00:55:59.080 --> 00:56:01.080
and so once I have that

00:56:01.080 --> 00:56:03.080
why?

00:56:03.080 --> 00:56:05.080
because you got to exercise those faith muscles

00:56:05.080 --> 00:56:07.080
before they can be active

00:56:09.080 --> 00:56:11.080
there have been occasions this year when

00:56:11.080 --> 00:56:13.080
Lauren has stood

00:56:13.080 --> 00:56:15.080
Rosalind has stood

00:56:15.080 --> 00:56:17.080
Chris has stood

00:56:19.080 --> 00:56:21.080
James has stood in his cab a couple of times

00:56:25.080 --> 00:56:27.080
you have to have others help you stand

00:56:27.080 --> 00:56:29.080
for the first little while

00:56:29.080 --> 00:56:31.080
now that those muscles are beginning to grow strong

00:56:31.080 --> 00:56:33.080
now you begin to stand

00:56:33.080 --> 00:56:35.080
on your own for things

00:56:35.080 --> 00:56:37.080
and as you stand and the pressure increases

00:56:37.080 --> 00:56:39.080
you find that your muscles are not buckling

00:56:39.080 --> 00:56:41.080
you begin to take on one Goliath who is 5 feet

00:56:41.080 --> 00:56:43.080
so that you can take on the next

00:56:43.080 --> 00:56:45.080
Goliath who is 6 feet next time

00:56:45.080 --> 00:56:47.080
suddenly your muscles keep getting stronger

00:56:47.080 --> 00:56:49.080
one of the things David would do often

00:56:49.080 --> 00:56:51.080
is he would go back and remember the last

00:56:51.080 --> 00:56:53.080
victory so that he could fight the next battle

00:56:53.080 --> 00:56:55.080
he would say I have fought the lion and the bear

00:56:55.080 --> 00:56:57.080
they came and they tried to take a sheep

00:56:57.080 --> 00:56:59.080
and I beat them hollow

00:56:59.080 --> 00:57:01.080
so if I have fought the lion and the bear why can't I take on Goliath

00:57:03.080 --> 00:57:05.080
he would always remember the last episode

00:57:05.080 --> 00:57:07.080
you have stood

00:57:07.080 --> 00:57:09.080
Banees and Vane have stood for different things

00:57:09.080 --> 00:57:11.080
I mean there is nobody I can look at right now

00:57:11.080 --> 00:57:13.080
who hasn't stood

00:57:15.080 --> 00:57:17.080
nobody

00:57:17.080 --> 00:57:19.080
I am not trying to be inclusive

00:57:19.080 --> 00:57:21.080
I am just looking at you right now

00:57:21.080 --> 00:57:23.080
and I know of situations where you have stood this year

00:57:25.080 --> 00:57:27.080
yeah everybody

00:57:27.080 --> 00:57:29.080
but this is how you develop

00:57:29.080 --> 00:57:31.080
spiritual muscles

00:57:31.080 --> 00:57:33.080
John has stood through a jaunt

00:57:33.080 --> 00:57:35.080
moving on then to the dwarf

00:57:39.080 --> 00:57:41.080
guys remember truth is

00:57:41.080 --> 00:57:43.080
learned through repeated application

00:57:43.080 --> 00:57:45.080
there is no other way

00:57:45.080 --> 00:57:47.080
truth is learned

00:57:47.080 --> 00:57:49.080
through repeated application

00:57:51.080 --> 00:57:53.080
you do have to understand the truth first

00:57:53.080 --> 00:57:55.080
truth the knowledge of the truth is important

00:57:55.080 --> 00:57:57.080
but the knowledge of the truth now has to be

00:57:57.080 --> 00:57:59.080
applied truth is

00:57:59.080 --> 00:58:01.080
learned through repeated application

00:58:01.080 --> 00:58:03.080
any man or woman of faith that you see

00:58:03.080 --> 00:58:05.080
has become that

00:58:05.080 --> 00:58:07.080
through repeated application

00:58:07.080 --> 00:58:09.080
of the truth

00:58:09.080 --> 00:58:11.080
no other way

00:58:15.080 --> 00:58:17.080
dwarf

00:58:17.080 --> 00:58:19.080
a dwarf is a person

00:58:19.080 --> 00:58:21.080
who ages but does not grow

00:58:21.080 --> 00:58:23.080
aging without growth

00:58:25.080 --> 00:58:27.080
I mean the only people who are growing right now

00:58:27.080 --> 00:58:29.080
are the people who are growing

00:58:29.080 --> 00:58:31.080
the little kids and Marcus and Matt and Ryan

00:58:31.080 --> 00:58:33.080
the rest of us have stopped growing

00:58:35.080 --> 00:58:37.080
parents

00:58:37.080 --> 00:58:39.080
parents

00:58:39.080 --> 00:58:41.080
who thought it was me

00:58:43.080 --> 00:58:45.080
so the dwarfs are those who age

00:58:45.080 --> 00:58:47.080
without growing

00:58:47.080 --> 00:58:49.080
that's because they have attained

00:58:49.080 --> 00:58:51.080
they have

00:58:51.080 --> 00:58:53.080
what happens is you set

00:58:53.080 --> 00:58:55.080
self set spiritual

00:58:55.080 --> 00:58:57.080
statutes that you want to attain

00:58:57.080 --> 00:58:59.080
and you don't aim for attaining the stature of

00:58:59.080 --> 00:59:01.080
Christ

00:59:01.080 --> 00:59:03.080
and this is common

00:59:03.080 --> 00:59:05.080
among millions and millions of Christians

00:59:05.080 --> 00:59:07.080
who have

00:59:07.080 --> 00:59:09.080
grown to be 60 and 70

00:59:09.080 --> 00:59:11.080
but have the

00:59:11.080 --> 00:59:13.080
spiritual IQ of a five year old

00:59:13.080 --> 00:59:15.080
and I mean that

00:59:15.080 --> 00:59:17.080
in all earnestness without exaggeration

00:59:19.080 --> 00:59:21.080
dwarfs

00:59:21.080 --> 00:59:23.080
stunted growth

00:59:23.080 --> 00:59:25.080
what causes stunted growth?

00:59:25.080 --> 00:59:27.080
a feast of infant food

00:59:27.080 --> 00:59:29.080
try living on what Leah lives on

00:59:29.080 --> 00:59:31.080
those little bottles

00:59:31.080 --> 00:59:33.080
with very untasty food

00:59:33.080 --> 00:59:35.080
I know I once tasted a bit of it

00:59:35.080 --> 00:59:37.080
in my sister's place

00:59:37.080 --> 00:59:39.080
I don't know how these kids survive

00:59:39.080 --> 00:59:41.080
I wanted to feed the little child Pepsi

00:59:41.080 --> 00:59:43.080
after that

00:59:43.080 --> 00:59:45.080
just to take away the taste

00:59:45.080 --> 00:59:47.080
but I don't know how

00:59:47.080 --> 00:59:49.080
these kids survive

00:59:49.080 --> 00:59:51.080
I wanted to take away the taste

00:59:51.080 --> 00:59:53.080
but stunted growth is because

00:59:53.080 --> 00:59:55.080
of feeding on

00:59:55.080 --> 00:59:57.080
infant food

00:59:59.080 --> 01:00:01.080
you just dropped the world Marcus

01:00:03.080 --> 01:00:05.080
which country

01:00:05.080 --> 01:00:07.080
don't worry about it

01:00:07.080 --> 01:00:09.080
I'm just kidding

01:00:09.080 --> 01:00:11.080
you're feeding on

01:00:11.080 --> 01:00:13.080
lies yeah

01:00:13.080 --> 01:00:15.080
it could be

01:00:15.080 --> 01:00:17.080
stunted growth is a result of

01:00:17.080 --> 01:00:19.080
feeding on infant food

01:00:19.080 --> 01:00:21.080
it dulls your ability to discern between right and wrong

01:00:21.080 --> 01:00:23.080
so that every wind of doctrine

01:00:23.080 --> 01:00:25.080
holds you captive which is what

01:00:25.080 --> 01:00:27.080
lies are

01:00:27.080 --> 01:00:29.080
stunted growth read Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

01:00:29.080 --> 01:00:31.080
you'll see it there

01:00:31.080 --> 01:00:33.080
Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

01:00:33.080 --> 01:00:35.080
I'll repeat what I said after that

01:00:35.080 --> 01:00:37.080
Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

01:00:39.080 --> 01:00:41.080
I'll repeat it again

01:00:41.080 --> 01:00:43.080
Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

01:00:43.080 --> 01:00:45.080
it's in your notes here

01:00:45.080 --> 01:00:47.080
and it says in Hebrews 5

01:00:49.080 --> 01:00:51.080
anyone who lives on milk

01:00:51.080 --> 01:00:53.080
being still an infant is not

01:00:53.080 --> 01:00:55.080
acquainted with the teaching about righteousness

01:00:55.080 --> 01:00:57.080
but solid food is for the mature

01:00:57.080 --> 01:00:59.080
who by constant use have

01:00:59.080 --> 01:01:01.080
trained themselves to distinguish

01:01:01.080 --> 01:01:03.080
good from evil

01:01:03.080 --> 01:01:05.080
guys stunted growth is

01:01:05.080 --> 01:01:07.080
a result of feeding on infant food

01:01:07.080 --> 01:01:09.080
it dulls your ability to discern

01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:11.080
between right and wrong

01:01:11.080 --> 01:01:13.080
and when that happens every wind

01:01:13.080 --> 01:01:15.080
of doctrine holds you captive

01:01:15.080 --> 01:01:17.080
every wind of doctrine holds you captive

01:01:17.080 --> 01:01:19.080
oh no

01:01:19.080 --> 01:01:21.080
I have to say it gently and plainly

01:01:23.080 --> 01:01:25.080
if you have a tendency

01:01:25.080 --> 01:01:27.080
to pick up CDs, books

01:01:27.080 --> 01:01:29.080
and believe every

01:01:29.080 --> 01:01:31.080
TV program on channel 10

01:01:31.080 --> 01:01:33.080
and channel 118

01:01:33.080 --> 01:01:35.080
then you are feeding

01:01:35.080 --> 01:01:37.080
on infant food

01:01:37.080 --> 01:01:39.080
and I've lost

01:01:39.080 --> 01:01:41.080
your discernment between right and wrong

01:01:41.080 --> 01:01:43.080
I'm not saying don't watch TV

01:01:43.080 --> 01:01:45.080
I'm saying may that not become your

01:01:45.080 --> 01:01:47.080
diet

01:01:47.080 --> 01:01:49.080
may that not become your diet

01:01:55.080 --> 01:01:57.080
I used to receive a lot of CDs from

01:01:59.080 --> 01:02:01.080
the person in

01:02:03.080 --> 01:02:05.080
Abbotsford

01:02:05.080 --> 01:02:07.080
Todd Bentley

01:02:07.080 --> 01:02:09.080
knew right away when I began hearing

01:02:09.080 --> 01:02:11.080
listening to Open Heaven

01:02:11.080 --> 01:02:13.080
that it was faulty

01:02:13.080 --> 01:02:15.080
right away

01:02:15.080 --> 01:02:17.080
you should know that there

01:02:17.080 --> 01:02:19.080
is a distinction between right and wrong

01:02:23.080 --> 01:02:25.080
this is not to prove whether I have

01:02:25.080 --> 01:02:27.080
sense of discernment or not

01:02:27.080 --> 01:02:29.080
this is to show that we have to feast

01:02:29.080 --> 01:02:31.080
on solid food so that we

01:02:31.080 --> 01:02:33.080
know when they give you bonvita

01:02:33.080 --> 01:02:35.080
or Horlicks

01:02:35.080 --> 01:02:37.080
you suddenly realize that he did not brew it

01:02:37.080 --> 01:02:39.080
it's not real coffee

01:02:45.080 --> 01:02:47.080
what's the solution guys?

01:02:47.080 --> 01:02:49.080
the solution

01:02:49.080 --> 01:02:51.080
is in Ephesians 4

01:02:51.080 --> 01:02:53.080
guys

01:02:53.080 --> 01:02:55.080
we said that

01:02:55.080 --> 01:02:57.080
it is age without

01:02:57.080 --> 01:02:59.080
growth because people have decided

01:02:59.080 --> 01:03:01.080
that this is the spiritual stature

01:03:01.080 --> 01:03:03.080
they want to attain and they do not want

01:03:03.080 --> 01:03:05.080
to attain the spiritual stature of Christ

01:03:05.080 --> 01:03:07.080
remember that verse

01:03:07.080 --> 01:03:09.080
which talks about attaining the spiritual

01:03:09.080 --> 01:03:11.080
stature of Christ

01:03:11.080 --> 01:03:13.080
what is required for that?

01:03:13.080 --> 01:03:15.080
do you remember?

01:03:15.080 --> 01:03:17.080
and God has appointed to the body

01:03:17.080 --> 01:03:19.080
apostles, prophets, evangelists

01:03:19.080 --> 01:03:21.080
teachers and pastors

01:03:21.080 --> 01:03:23.080
why?

01:03:23.080 --> 01:03:25.080
to equip the saints

01:03:25.080 --> 01:03:27.080
for

01:03:27.080 --> 01:03:29.080
ministry

01:03:29.080 --> 01:03:31.080
towards what? so that every part of the body

01:03:31.080 --> 01:03:33.080
will join, will grow ligament to ligament

01:03:33.080 --> 01:03:35.080
to attain what? to attain the

01:03:35.080 --> 01:03:37.080
full

01:03:37.080 --> 01:03:39.080
full stature of

01:03:39.080 --> 01:03:41.080
Christ. Guys it is

01:03:41.080 --> 01:03:43.080
vital that we be connected to a

01:03:43.080 --> 01:03:45.080
place, I'm not talking about Acts 29

01:03:45.080 --> 01:03:47.080
right now, to a place where

01:03:47.080 --> 01:03:49.080
we are equipped

01:03:49.080 --> 01:03:51.080
a people who are not equipped

01:03:51.080 --> 01:03:53.080
will never be able to

01:03:53.080 --> 01:03:55.080
feed on solid food

01:03:55.080 --> 01:03:57.080
it will always be food

01:03:57.080 --> 01:03:59.080
that is infant

01:03:59.080 --> 01:04:01.080
connected doesn't necessarily mean

01:04:01.080 --> 01:04:03.080
attending every week

01:04:03.080 --> 01:04:05.080
take Tino, Suhani for instance

01:04:05.080 --> 01:04:07.080
they are not able to come every week

01:04:07.080 --> 01:04:09.080
it's not possible, given our timings

01:04:09.080 --> 01:04:11.080
it's not possible for them to come

01:04:11.080 --> 01:04:13.080
but are they connected to the house?

01:04:13.080 --> 01:04:15.080
yes. Will they benefit from it?

01:04:15.080 --> 01:04:17.080
yes

01:04:21.080 --> 01:04:23.080
press on to the high calling

01:04:23.080 --> 01:04:25.080
press on to the high calling

01:04:25.080 --> 01:04:27.080
what's the rest of the words?

01:04:27.080 --> 01:04:29.080
crisis, as for us

01:04:31.080 --> 01:04:33.080
solution, be equipped through the

01:04:33.080 --> 01:04:35.080
five fold servants by being

01:04:35.080 --> 01:04:37.080
part of a body, solution

01:04:37.080 --> 01:04:39.080
eat at one table

01:04:41.080 --> 01:04:43.080
solution

01:04:43.080 --> 01:04:45.080
this is an important one

01:04:45.080 --> 01:04:47.080
solution, end selective

01:04:47.080 --> 01:04:49.080
listening and growth

01:04:49.080 --> 01:04:51.080
end, guys I pray

01:04:51.080 --> 01:04:53.080
that the whole church listens to me right now

01:04:53.080 --> 01:04:55.080
not because I'm looking at anybody

01:04:55.080 --> 01:04:57.080
but because this is important

01:04:57.080 --> 01:04:59.080
end selective listening

01:04:59.080 --> 01:05:01.080
and selective growth

01:05:01.080 --> 01:05:03.080
I'm saying that it is prevalent

01:05:03.080 --> 01:05:05.080
at Acts 29

01:05:05.080 --> 01:05:07.080
where we

01:05:07.080 --> 01:05:09.080
decide that this is

01:05:09.080 --> 01:05:11.080
not important or this is not for me

01:05:11.080 --> 01:05:13.080
right now

01:05:13.080 --> 01:05:15.080
so I will not listen to it

01:05:15.080 --> 01:05:17.080
there are other things that are more pertinent to my life

01:05:17.080 --> 01:05:19.080
I'm saying to you

01:05:19.080 --> 01:05:21.080
that there is not a single

01:05:21.080 --> 01:05:23.080
teaching that has been taught in this

01:05:23.080 --> 01:05:25.080
church that wasn't in the exact

01:05:25.080 --> 01:05:27.080
timing of God and I know

01:05:27.080 --> 01:05:29.080
that for a fact

01:05:29.080 --> 01:05:31.080
I know that is a big

01:05:31.080 --> 01:05:33.080
thing to say but not once

01:05:33.080 --> 01:05:35.080
has anything been taught in this church

01:05:35.080 --> 01:05:37.080
that was not

01:05:37.080 --> 01:05:39.080
in God's time, I promise you

01:05:39.080 --> 01:05:41.080
that

01:05:45.080 --> 01:05:47.080
challenge me, questions, disagreements

01:05:49.080 --> 01:05:51.080
even when I'm preparing a

01:05:51.080 --> 01:05:53.080
sermon in the plane

01:05:53.080 --> 01:05:55.080
on a 10 hour flight back

01:05:55.080 --> 01:05:57.080
I plead with God saying

01:05:57.080 --> 01:05:59.080
only what you want, I know I got only

01:05:59.080 --> 01:06:01.080
6 hours left, I got only 5 hours left

01:06:01.080 --> 01:06:03.080
I don't have a sermon yet, please please please give me something

01:06:03.080 --> 01:06:05.080
I'm landing at 3.30, I have a service at 6

01:06:05.080 --> 01:06:07.080
but it's always what he wants

01:06:07.080 --> 01:06:09.080
it's never been any hand me

01:06:09.080 --> 01:06:11.080
downs guys, never once

01:06:11.080 --> 01:06:13.080
in the last 3 and a half years

01:06:13.080 --> 01:06:15.080
that's why it's so easy

01:06:17.080 --> 01:06:19.080
end to selective listening guys

01:06:21.080 --> 01:06:22.600
Jeep

01:06:24.600 --> 01:06:26.600
defect in the eyes

01:06:26.600 --> 01:06:28.600
defect in the eye is not blindness

01:06:28.600 --> 01:06:30.600
its something that impedes your vision

01:06:30.600 --> 01:06:32.600
defect in the eye is not blindness

01:06:32.600 --> 01:06:34.600
it's something that impedes you vision

01:06:34.600 --> 01:06:36.600
it doesn't... it's not blindness it's something that comes into your eye

01:06:36.600 --> 01:06:38.600
and impedes your vision

01:06:39.080 --> 01:06:41.080
and once it impedes your vision it becomes

01:06:41.080 --> 01:06:43.080
a plank in your eye

01:06:43.080 --> 01:06:45.080
and distorts your perception of issues

01:06:45.080 --> 01:06:47.080
distorts your perception of people

01:06:47.080 --> 01:06:53.800
There's error then in your perception of issues and people because a plank has come in.

01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:57.240
Can I ask you what these impediments can you be?

01:06:57.240 --> 01:06:59.920
What do you think these impediments can be?

01:06:59.920 --> 01:07:04.080
Give me a few impediments that can bring in error in your perception, become a plank in

01:07:04.080 --> 01:07:05.080
your eye.

01:07:05.080 --> 01:07:07.720
What are some of those impediments?

01:07:07.720 --> 01:07:10.360
Taking offense?

01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:14.160
Anything else that becomes a plank in your eye?

01:07:14.160 --> 01:07:17.960
Listening to rumour?

01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:20.880
Judging other people?

01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:22.920
Not forgiving?

01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:24.440
Jealousy?

01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:26.400
You see how many impediments?

01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:30.720
This is not blindness guys, it's impediments.

01:07:30.720 --> 01:07:35.000
The depth perception changes on issues and people.

01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:36.800
Pride?

01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:40.480
Pride is a major vision impediment.

01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:47.040
Be it jealousy, be it taking offense, behind all of it the underlying thing is pride.

01:07:47.040 --> 01:07:50.040
Greed?

01:07:50.040 --> 01:07:51.040
There you go.

01:07:51.040 --> 01:07:52.280
It just changes it.

01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:58.400
You develop conjunctivitis, critical conjunctivitis is one of the things that develops.

01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:02.360
Anger?

01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:04.080
Control?

01:08:04.080 --> 01:08:07.440
Depending on what this impediment is in your life, no?

01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:08.440
Fear?

01:08:08.440 --> 01:08:10.280
Begin to work on it guys, begin to work on it.

01:08:11.080 --> 01:08:18.680
I mean for me, what I've written down is a lot of underlying factors in many of the things

01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:19.920
you've spoken is pride.

01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:22.720
So I've written here foremost vision impediment is pride.

01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:25.480
It leads to critical conjunctivitis.

01:08:25.480 --> 01:08:29.560
There can be a whole lot of other things too.

01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:30.560
Solution?

01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:36.000
For each of the things you said there's different solutions but one of the things that can form

01:08:36.200 --> 01:08:44.520
a really good basis for you is be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:50.240
Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

01:08:50.240 --> 01:08:55.720
Eugene Peterson puts it this way, let your hearing lead you.

01:08:55.720 --> 01:09:03.040
Let your speaking follow slowly and let your anger not be there at all.

01:09:03.080 --> 01:09:13.080
I'll have to get it on my phone.

01:09:13.080 --> 01:09:27.280
James 1, James 1 verse 19.

01:09:27.280 --> 01:09:28.280
James 1 19.

01:09:33.280 --> 01:09:42.280
Yeah, and now from the message.

01:09:42.280 --> 01:09:53.120
I don't like these dead times on the CD.

01:09:53.120 --> 01:09:57.280
I don't know what to do when I'm driving in the car and you have these quiet times.

01:09:57.280 --> 01:09:58.280
James 1.

01:09:58.280 --> 01:10:01.400
Yeah, I love the way it's written here.

01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:06.200
It's worth waiting for.

01:10:06.200 --> 01:10:11.120
Post this at all intersections, dear friends.

01:10:11.120 --> 01:10:14.160
Post this at all the intersections, dear friends.

01:10:14.160 --> 01:10:21.000
Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue and let anger straggle along in the rear.

01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:27.640
Yeah, lead with your ears, meaning next time we at Act 1A and walk we have to walk like

01:10:27.640 --> 01:10:29.000
this.

01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:43.600
Lead with your ears, follow with your tongues and let anger straggle along in the rear.

01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:50.440
In simple humility, let our gardener God landscape you with the word, making a salvation garden

01:10:50.440 --> 01:10:52.000
of your life.

01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:53.000
Beautiful.

01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:54.000
Yeah.

01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:55.000
Yeah.

01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:56.000
Yeah.

01:10:56.000 --> 01:11:04.600
Moving on to scurvy, eczema and sores.

01:11:04.600 --> 01:11:08.200
Moving on to scurvy, eczema and sores.

01:11:08.200 --> 01:11:12.200
Sounds like a medical school and not a Bible.

01:11:12.200 --> 01:11:15.400
Moving on to scurvy, eczema and sores.

01:11:15.400 --> 01:11:21.840
Regardless of which Bible you use, at the end of the day, scurvy, eczema and sores have

01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:28.480
much to do with stale food, stale environment, stale condition, a lack of freshness.

01:11:28.480 --> 01:11:33.320
Scurvy was caused when sailors would travel on ships for more than six months and the

01:11:33.320 --> 01:11:41.000
fruit and the vegetable would become stale and they would develop scurvy.

01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:48.800
Stale food, stale environment, stale condition, lack of freshness resulting in scurvy, festering

01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:58.000
sores, no vitamin C, lack of sunlight, lack of freshness or lack of sunlight was rickets,

01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:03.520
vitamin D. Sorry, take that out.

01:12:03.520 --> 01:12:05.600
It's very easy to connect this to what we've already learned.

01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:11.920
Exodus 16 verses 16 to 21 said that manna was sent once a week, once every two weeks,

01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:13.440
every day.

01:12:13.440 --> 01:12:17.920
If it was held for more than one day and it would go stale and it would rot and you'd

01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:22.520
have not manna but another word starting with M, maggots.

01:12:22.520 --> 01:12:23.920
Big difference though.

01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:33.160
So the whole idea is guys to be free of scurvy, eczema and festering sores, we've got to walk

01:12:33.160 --> 01:12:39.160
in the preceding word and in present truth.

01:12:39.160 --> 01:12:44.920
Now if both those phrases do not ring a bell, I'd suggest again that you go and listen to

01:12:44.920 --> 01:12:47.300
the CD from the preceding word.

01:12:47.300 --> 01:12:52.140
The preceding word is what God speaks now.

01:12:52.140 --> 01:12:54.700
What God is saying now, manna was fresh every day.

01:12:54.700 --> 01:12:58.340
We live by the preceding word not by the preceding word.

01:12:58.340 --> 01:13:00.020
And what is present truth?

01:13:00.020 --> 01:13:08.740
Present truth is how we see God speaking through this that he has written, what he reveals

01:13:08.740 --> 01:13:12.160
it in this present season.

01:13:12.160 --> 01:13:13.540
That is present truth.

01:13:13.540 --> 01:13:15.460
This is truth and it is present.

01:13:15.460 --> 01:13:25.180
It is not how Josephus or Barnes or Alfred Noble or whoever wrote it 80 years ago.

01:13:25.180 --> 01:13:27.580
That's not the commentary we follow.

01:13:27.580 --> 01:13:32.180
We like Matthew Henry but we don't follow him.

01:13:32.180 --> 01:13:37.380
We live by present truth, the truth as it is presently revealed by the spirit of God

01:13:37.380 --> 01:13:46.060
because if this is all God is, he's a very finite, limited God.

01:13:46.060 --> 01:13:50.300
This is just the launch pad, guys.

01:13:50.300 --> 01:13:52.420
It is not the beginning and the end of God.

01:13:52.420 --> 01:13:55.020
The Lord said, I am Alpha and Omega.

01:13:55.020 --> 01:14:04.260
He didn't say the Bible was Alpha and Omega.

01:14:04.260 --> 01:14:11.580
The canned word, the preceding word can cause eczema, scurvy and sores and render you useless

01:14:11.580 --> 01:14:14.620
to minister grace.

01:14:14.620 --> 01:14:21.140
The canned word as in C-A-N-N-E-D or the preceding word, the word from last season.

01:14:21.140 --> 01:14:27.940
We cannot operate by last season's word to us.

01:14:27.940 --> 01:14:30.180
Proceeding word is authentic suns, open heavens.

01:14:30.180 --> 01:14:35.180
We cannot operate by that, not by the preceding word.

01:14:35.180 --> 01:14:40.780
Guys, and it's not the sole responsibility of the teacher to do that.

01:14:40.780 --> 01:14:46.180
I would ask you, do you in your daily life live by a present truth?

01:14:46.180 --> 01:14:49.660
And so you would ask me, how would you go about seeking present truth?

01:14:49.660 --> 01:14:54.500
I'd ask you, so do you study this or do you read this?

01:14:54.500 --> 01:14:55.500
Do you chew it?

01:14:55.500 --> 01:15:05.380
Do you meditate on it or do you glance through it?

01:15:05.380 --> 01:15:06.380
But how can I study?

01:15:06.380 --> 01:15:13.020
Oh, once the internet came, there are no more excuses left.

01:15:13.020 --> 01:15:16.020
Every resource available to anybody is available to everybody.

01:15:16.020 --> 01:15:26.980
I'm not talking about using commentaries.

01:15:26.980 --> 01:15:29.860
I'm talking about using study tools.

01:15:29.860 --> 01:15:37.460
History, customs, Greek meanings, Hebrew meanings.

01:15:37.460 --> 01:15:39.900
Why what was said was said.

01:15:39.900 --> 01:15:41.060
What do people say about it?

01:15:41.060 --> 01:15:44.260
How does it strike with what I'm learning in the house?

01:15:44.260 --> 01:15:47.580
Is the house wrong or does the house have an accurate plumb line?

01:15:47.580 --> 01:15:49.980
How does this reflect?

01:15:49.980 --> 01:15:50.980
You bring it all together.

01:15:50.980 --> 01:15:51.980
Nothing is in isolation, right?

01:15:51.980 --> 01:15:58.220
Like I said, I deliberately read opposing views to what I hold just so I can understand

01:15:58.220 --> 01:16:01.700
why they're saying it and correct if I'm wrong.

01:16:01.700 --> 01:16:05.740
Not just relying on others' opinions.

01:16:05.740 --> 01:16:06.740
No.

01:16:06.740 --> 01:16:08.660
But allowing God to have that.

01:16:08.660 --> 01:16:13.460
It's like taking a bit from Anne, from Elmer, from Bernice and Chris and drawing it all

01:16:13.660 --> 01:16:18.940
and putting it and seeing, huh, so I see what she's saying makes sense.

01:16:18.940 --> 01:16:23.020
And then taking it all together, piecing it together, knowing what I already know and

01:16:23.020 --> 01:16:30.540
developing something that is chewing, meditating, studying.

01:16:30.540 --> 01:16:37.500
This is present truth, guys, because God does reveal himself fully to the bride, fully in

01:16:37.500 --> 01:16:39.620
the presence of us as a people.

01:16:39.620 --> 01:16:40.620
Agreed.

01:16:40.780 --> 01:16:44.740
Is there a discovery of truth in your own private times, right?

01:16:44.740 --> 01:16:45.740
There is.

01:16:45.740 --> 01:16:50.740
It can be very, very specific for you.

01:16:50.740 --> 01:16:51.740
Yes.

01:16:51.740 --> 01:16:52.740
So you need that.

01:16:52.740 --> 01:16:53.740
Yes.

01:16:53.740 --> 01:16:54.740
Your inheritance.

01:16:54.740 --> 01:17:00.620
Our inheritance as a house, yes, but what about your personal inheritance for your family?

01:17:00.620 --> 01:17:01.620
What about that?

01:17:11.620 --> 01:17:16.620
I wish I could turn that clock around.

01:17:16.620 --> 01:17:19.540
I'm well past what I said.

01:17:19.540 --> 01:17:21.060
Five minutes past what I said.

01:17:21.060 --> 01:17:27.860
Guys, I find many times my life getting jaded or stale, or like it could be perhaps once

01:17:27.860 --> 01:17:32.620
every month, once every three months, I find that there's a staleness entering and I immediately

01:17:32.620 --> 01:17:35.180
have to go and recalibrate.

01:17:35.740 --> 01:17:42.220
I'll spend miles walking up and down my two rooms saying, Father, I'm kind of feeling

01:17:42.220 --> 01:17:43.220
jaded.

01:17:43.220 --> 01:17:44.220
I just don't know what I'm doing.

01:17:44.220 --> 01:17:45.900
I'm just doing it because I'm doing it.

01:17:45.900 --> 01:17:50.180
So you want to talk about it, any agenda, and then just keep walking and talking because

01:17:50.180 --> 01:17:54.780
you've got to recalibrate because there's a jadedness or a staleness entering life.

01:17:54.780 --> 01:17:56.500
And you always know it.

01:17:56.500 --> 01:17:57.500
There's a freshness going on.

01:17:57.500 --> 01:18:01.260
Your childlikeness disappears.

01:18:01.260 --> 01:18:02.260
Love turns to duty.

01:18:05.260 --> 01:18:12.180
Moving on, because I see some of you are beginning to fall asleep.

01:18:12.180 --> 01:18:14.860
We've got only three more left.

01:18:14.860 --> 01:18:16.140
You can sleep the whole evening, guys.

01:18:16.140 --> 01:18:19.580
You don't have to come back at night.

01:18:19.580 --> 01:18:21.580
Scabs.

01:18:21.580 --> 01:18:24.940
Scabs.

01:18:24.940 --> 01:18:30.580
Mike Scantleberry talks about scabs and I like some of the points he makes.

01:18:30.580 --> 01:18:33.900
A scab is a wound that is not healed.

01:18:33.900 --> 01:18:37.020
When pressure is applied, the scab breaks open and it hurts.

01:18:37.020 --> 01:18:40.660
A scab is a wound that is not healed.

01:18:40.660 --> 01:18:47.980
So when pressure is applied, the scab breaks open and pain returns.

01:18:47.980 --> 01:18:53.300
And sometimes it breaks open and pus is released if it's not healed.

01:18:53.300 --> 01:18:55.540
A scab is a wound that is not healed.

01:18:55.540 --> 01:18:59.660
When pressure is applied, the scab breaks open and pains.

01:18:59.660 --> 01:19:00.660
But he makes another point.

01:19:00.660 --> 01:19:05.860
He says there's something other than scabs called scars.

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Scars are marks left after a wound is healed.

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Scars are marks left after a wound is healed and it may remind you of something, but it

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does not hurt anymore because it's not a scab, it's a scar.

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And then I love this point that he brings up.

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He says that it may remind you of something, but it does not hurt anymore because it's

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not a scab, it's a scar.

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And then I love this point that he brings up.

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He says that Jesus showed Thomas not scabs.

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He didn't say, Thomas, here are my scabs.

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He said, here are my scars, my wounds.

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Scars were there.

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The scar of the wound was there, not a running scab.

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So Thomas said, till I put my hand in the imprints of the nails, I will not believe.

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He showed him the scars, man.

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And guess what?

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Christ bears those scars, but the scars remind him of what he did for us and the scars remind

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us of what he did.

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Those are not scabs, those are scars.

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And I'd say to you that it is vital that we have scars but no scabs.

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Scabs are always a result of unforgiveness or an inability to let go of the hurt.

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And we've talked about unforgiveness.

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If you want the CD, let Wayne know.

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Wayne's going to have a full-time job at this rate.

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Not that he already doesn't have one or two.

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Scabs hurt, signifying a continuing bondage to events and to offenders.

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Still unforgiven.

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Scars hurt, signifying a continuing bondage to events or to offenders.

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Still unforgiven.

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Wounds turn to scars when there is forgiveness.

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Wounds turn to scars when there is forgiveness.

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Guys, it is impossible to minister out of an unforgiving, hurting, critical heart.

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We cannot minister life of God to others from a wounded, critical or unforgiving spirit.

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Let me repeat the line before that first.

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Scabs hurt, signifying bondage to events and to offenders.

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Still unforgiven.

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But wounds turn to scars when forgiveness is complete.

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Wounds turn to scars when forgiveness is complete.

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And I just want us to know that we cannot minister the life of God to another from a

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wounded, critical or unforgiving spirit.

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It is impossible.

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I cannot minister life to him if I have a wounded, unforgiving or critical heart.

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It is impossible.

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I cannot.

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Because it will come up.

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The solution?

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Listen to the reconciliation CD.

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Turn scabs that you rake into scars that will tell a story of grace.

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That sounds very nice.

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But basically he has to turn scabs into scars.

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Guys, if you have had a scab for more than five years, then you want to know the real

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solution?

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Let me put it very gently.

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Get over it.

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I know that sounds cruel.

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You don't know my pain.

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True, I do not know your pain.

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But I know someone whose love is greater than your pain and the brutality he suffered is

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greater than your pain.

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Listen to the reconciliation CD.

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Last one.

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The reason I wrote eunuch on the pages, I thought if these pages are lying around and

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someone sees the word damaged testicles on it, they'll wonder what we are teaching here.

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So the actual word that the Bible uses is damaged testicles.

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Damaged testicles means that a person is unable to reproduce.

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Unable to reproduce.

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Leviticus 21 ends with that.

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A person who has damaged testicles will not be able to offer bread before God or minister

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grace.

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Damaged testicles mean someone who is unable to reproduce.

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And guys, we do not reproduce messages.

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We do not reproduce ministries.

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We do not reproduce mantles.

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We reproduce life on life.

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Please understand that.

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In Acts 29, we are not going to reproduce ministries.

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We are not going to reproduce mantles.

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Oh brother, take this mantle and run.

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No.

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We are not going to reproduce messages.

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We are going to reproduce life, guys.

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The life that is within us that Christ is creating as a people.

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When we go to Montreal, if Montreal should work out, we will not reproduce going to Indonesia

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or to Bahrain or to India.

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We will not reproduce this worship.

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We will not reproduce having this furniture for church.

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We will not reproduce breakfast on Sunday mornings.

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But we'll reproduce the DNA that Christ has put within us so that the other person can

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take it and run as they please with their own personality.

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Life on life.

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That's what we reproduce.

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You don't want clones.

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That's why we don't want an Acts 29 chapter.

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We don't want anything to look like this.

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We want to reproduce life on life.

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You can be a husband and yet not be a father.

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A husband is not a father till he reproduces.

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So you can have loyal husbands that can still be input in fathers.

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And check your lives, guys.

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I remember the resistance I had to the whole idea of father-son when Eddie first brought

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it up.

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And I've talked to you about it.

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There was a resistance in my heart towards the whole idea because I thought it was too

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intense.

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I found it a little too intense and I didn't know what it meant.

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And I thought, how will this translate and what does this connectedness mean?

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And so I knew there was a resistance that's coming up.

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And I'd like to say to you again, gently and plainly, there are people right now in this

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room in Acts 29 and you are an intrinsic person in this house, but you still have a resistance

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towards coming into a father-son relationship.

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And while I understand that resistance, I say to you, you are going to lose out.

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I'm putting it very plainly and gently.

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You are not identifying with Jacob.

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But like Eddie said before you, when he called me up for prayer on October 5th, he said,

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this is not Jacob identifying with Eddie.

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It's the spirit within Jacob identifying with the spirit in Eddie.

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And therefore having downloaded into my life all the grace that is in his life.

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And is there grace in my life?

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Absolutely.

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This was what I was born for.

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And you will download the grace in my life into your life and increase in intensity and

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produce children that are much greater than you or I.

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But till you connect as sons in this house to a father, you will not receive that.

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And it has nothing to do with this person.

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I have a very decent estimate estimation of myself and yet I know my faults.

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There are plenty every day.

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You are not connecting to this person.

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I welcome you, invite you to connect on that level so that you can be fathers because you

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can be a husband in this house and never be a father because you never were a son.

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This is not my advantage guys.

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This is your advantage and the advantage of the house.

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And I am glad that I modeled it first so that I can stand here confidently and speak to

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you knowing that I have the street creds for it.

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We reproduce life on life.

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We reproduce grace on grace.

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And we reproduce and release destiny.

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That's what we do guys.

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We reproduce life on life.

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We reproduce grace on grace.

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Meaning the graces in our lives we will reproduce in other people's lives.

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And we reproduce and release destiny.

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Meaning we bring up sons who are born with a sense of destiny.

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At the age of 12, Jesus knew.

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He knew.

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This house knew from its inception what it was called to be.

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This house was not born in a vacuum, in a spiritual vacuum.

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From the day it was conceived, this house knew what it was called to be.

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We reproduce sons who have a sense of the destiny and then we release and thrust them

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into it.

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We have to use Anne's word, launch them into the orbit they're supposed to.

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I'm done.

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Feel free to ask questions.

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If you think you need to ask questions with regard to what I just said about fathers and

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sons, feel free to ask about that too.

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Guys, if you think you need to come and talk about any of these handicaps in your life

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with me, feel free to.

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I pray God that as you step into 2010 you'll have dealt with circumcision at Gilgal in

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every area of your life.

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Any questions?

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I know it's 1.45.

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Any questions?

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This is for-

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This is for?

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How do you deal with it as a couple?

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I'd say first you deal with it individually and then you deal with it as a couple.

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Because these defects have to be first dealt with individually and then you deal with it together.