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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: The Good Shepherd
Publishing Date: 2013-02-10T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/the-good-shepherd/

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We talked about how do we resist and repel Delilah.

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How do we resist and repel Delilah?

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And we said that Delilah was someone who lulls you into sleep,

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who devalues your anointing,

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who weakens your strength, and all this was said last time,

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who distorts your image,

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who robs you of hope and holiness, truth and joy,

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and it results in a total loss of dominion.

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So let me repeat that again. Delilah, if you remember from last week,

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is someone who lulls you into sleep so that you lose vigilance and are taken,

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devalues your anointing even though you are so set apart by God and anointed,

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it devalues your anointing,

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weakens your strength,

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distorts your image, takes you down when you're doing really well,

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robs you of hope and holiness,

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of truth and joy, and in the end it results in a loss of dominion or a loss of the ability

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to live out the kingdom here on earth.

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That's what we said Delilah does. And last week we said we'll talk

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about how do we resist and repel her. And this may take two, three weeks to talk about it in

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entirety. Today we'll start with just one bit.

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So the steps that we'll be studying today

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are disciplines that you can apply and I'd suggest that you practice them over

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the next 14 days. The next two weeks, Sunday to Sunday,

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if you are able to take these steps and practice them on a daily basis,

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and I'm asking you to do it for two weeks because you will be so

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encouraged by the results you will see that

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it'll be natural for you to press on. And they are so basic that it's like

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going back to the basics. And we'll use Psalm 23 as our backdrop

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as we study it today. So this is just the

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beginning of how do we resist and repel, I almost said Diana,

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resist and repel Delilah.

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For the other study on Diana, it'll be on Wednesday evening.

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So resist and repel Delilah. And guys, I got quite a few comments from a few

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people during the week of you either understanding what's

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happening, examining your life. Some of you were

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a little overwhelmed, some of you not. But the point being

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it is very real on what we talked about last week and if you

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need to hear it again, go and listen to it again. And I was so glad that

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Jawad asked that question at the end saying, okay so how do we go about it? And

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I recapped it at the end. And in recapping it there was greater

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clarity to it. And I hope you've done homework this

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week and if you haven't, there's nothing anybody can do about it.

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So let's go look at Psalm 23.

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I just sang it but let's just read it. Hey Maurice. Hey, is Vera

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Stobart any relative of yours? Vera Stobart. She won the million

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dollar VGH lottery and I thought, I heard Stobart and I thought, okay is

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Maurice's other name Vera Stobart?

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Maybe you should find out if this is the one.

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Isn't that usually when relatives come up with weird things?

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Psalm 23.

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I was thinking man if I win how do I explain the fact that I bought the ticket?

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So Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in

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green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He

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restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for

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his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of

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the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For you are with me and your rod and

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staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the

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presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, my cup

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overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life

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and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Guys,

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I love Psalm 23 verse 3. It says he restores my soul but the second part he

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says he leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. He

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leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

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What I wanted us to do today is to look at not the sheep but the shepherd to see

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how well poised we are to be able to undo what Delilah wants to do.

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Just by looking at the shepherd and looking at the kind of person

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he is and that he belonged to. So notice that when the shepherd bought me,

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he took a knife, put my ear on a wooden block and notched it.

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So that there would be no doubt as to whom I belong to. When the shepherd bought me

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and all of you have been bought. When the shepherd bought you, he took your ear,

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put it on a wooden block and notched it. Don't know what he wrote, maybe J.C.

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or whatever he wrote. He notched your ear so that there'll never be any doubt as to who you belong to.

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I was reading Acts 19 yesterday and it says there that the demons looked at the sons of Skiwa

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and they said, Jesus I know, Paul I recognize. Your ears are notched,

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you're recognizable. But here's the thing, in doing so, this shepherd has placed his reputation,

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his design, his character and his management of you on the line.

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In owning you and putting his mark on you forever now, this shepherd

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has placed his reputation, his character, his management of your life

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and his design for you on display. He's placed it on the lines for all to see.

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Look at Ezekiel and this is why God often gets really upset after waiting for a people or a person

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to change. He gets really upset and then he'll even say stuff like, man I'm going to start a new line

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through you and then he'll back off because he's put his reputation on the line for you.

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The management of your life he's put on the line for you. He's put it for all to see and Moses knew

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this. Look at some of these scriptures. Look at Ezekiel 20, 14.

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Ezekiel 20, 14

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and it says there,

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started verse 13, then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness to make a full

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end of them but I acted for them and I did not do it. I did not do it. I did not do it. I did not

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act for the sake of my name that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose

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sight I had brought them out. He puts, because you and I have become his people, he puts his reputation

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and the management of your life on the line for all to see and he's jealous about his reputation.

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And part of the reason mercy flows is because of the jealousy of his reputation and because of his

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reputation. I know some of us have never thought of it. I have never thought of it too but part of

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the reason mercy flows is because of the jealousy he has over you as a people and his jealousy about

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his reputation. What I'm trying to say here is guys, you have no idea how invested he is in us.

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This is not a create, turn the clock on, let them run and help them when they need help. This is not

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clockwork orange. This is something very different where here is someone who is deeply invested in

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you. He's invested design in you. What do I mean by invested design in you? Guys, we have a tendency

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to think that this is my life and God entered my life. I want you to think differently about that.

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Think like this that at some point in the wisdom and the great pleasure and laughter and joy of God,

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he decided that there would be a life called Jacob. He decided that there would be a life called Jacob

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and he designed it, crafted it, set it in time, set it with days that are numbered, set it in paths that

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are numbered, set it in paths that were good. He crafted and designed a life called Jacob and in this

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life called Jacob he also put something called free will but he's invested a lot in this.

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He's invested design.

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I've stopped saying oh God I give you my life.

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I've started saying to him of late that oh God I am grateful that at some point you taught me into

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existence, that you wanted me to exist, that not only did you want me to exist, that having wanted

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me to exist I am wonderfully made, you wonderfully made me. I don't know why but you decided that

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there must be on earth a person called Jacob and I'm glad that you borned me.

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And I'm glad that you borned me. B-O-R-N-E-D, that you borned me. You decided I want this person called Jacob

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and then you wonderfully made me. This life is not even mine to give. This life is yours and I am so glad

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that I am made.

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He's invested design but before we go there look at Isaiah 48-9. Isaiah 48-9.

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Isaiah 48-9. You'll see why it's very hard for God to undo some undo stuff when he's poured so much

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into it. Isaiah 48-9 which is why what he does is usually take people to heaven. Isaiah 48-9.

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Isaiah 48-9.

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For my name's sake I defer my anger. For the sake of praise I restrain it for you that I may not cut it off.

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For my name's sake I defer my anger. For the sake of my praise I restrain myself from being angry that I may not cut you off.

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This is his nature. Look at another one. Exodus 32-11-14. Exodus 32-11-14.

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Exodus 32-11-14.

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Exodus 32-11-14. It says there but Moses, you know Moses knew this character of God

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that he has a jealousy over a people that he's formed. It's a double whammy, a double whopper.

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On one hand he's jealous over me. On the other hand is jealous about his reputation as the one who

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manages my life and when both combine you have someone who is intensely protective and he talked

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about it two weeks ago or three weeks ago and so Moses knows it and look at what Moses does.

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He uses that to now appeal for the people and he says this is what fascinates me about people

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like Moses and David who did not have what we have and yet were far ahead of their times

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in their understanding of God and knowing this nature of God. Look at how he prays. He says but

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Moses implored the Lord his God and said, Oh Lord why does your wrath burn hot against your people

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whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

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Why should the Egyptians say? What evil intent did he bring them out to kill them in the mountains

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and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this

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disaster against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel your servants to whom you swore

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by your own self and said to them, I will multiply your offsprings as the stars of the heaven and

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all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring and they shall inherit it forever and

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the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people. Moses knew it

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that here is a jealous God who is jealous over his people and here is a jealous God who is jealous

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over his reputation. I can implore him based on that. This is why I often emphasize on knowing the

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nature of God because your prayer can be very effective. It's taking advantage of the weakness of God.

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Look at Samuel. You know this is the first time I've read this chapter before but this is the first time I saw

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this little thing in Samuel, 1 Samuel. I didn't know he did what he did. 1 Samuel 22, 1 Samuel 12, sorry,

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1 Samuel 12, 22. I didn't know he brought thunder and lightning. I've never read that before even though I have.

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So the people have asked for a king and they've rejected God as king starting at verse 19.

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And all the people said to Samuel, pray for your servants to the Lord your God that we may not die

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for we have added to all our sins this evil and we have asked for ourselves a king.

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And Samuel said to the people, do not be afraid. Look at this. They've done evil, they're scared

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and he says do not be afraid. They've just rejected God as king. Do not be afraid. You have done all

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this evil yet do not turn aside from following the Lord but serve the Lord with all your heart

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and do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver for they are empty. For

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the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake because it has pleased the Lord to

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make you a people for himself. Moreover, see again two things. Why is he not going to undo them? For

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two reasons. One, for his own name's sake and two, because you are a people he's made for himself.

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Guys, all I'm saying is begin to know who backs you. Begin to know who is in your corner. Begin to see

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him as someone who is so for you. Important.

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Know who's backing you up and see when he puts his management of us, his

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design for us on display for all to see. There is a distinct possibility that the father's

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reputation, the father's character, the father's management of my life may never get a second look

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in the world. Worse, it may even be something that is soiled. I mean in Philippians 3, 18,

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Paul says this. Paul says I'm sorry to say that some of you

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are enemies of the cross and have brought shame to the name of your God. That's what Paul says in

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Philippians 3, 18 and 19. That your stomach has become your glory and your sensual apetite is

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what drives you and you have become enemies of the cross and he's talking to the church. So it is

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possible once we are owned by this shepherd to bring dishonor to his name. But that's okay for

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him. Meaning he can handle it. All I'm saying is I've got to become aware of who is in my corner.

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That whose reputation is now on me. That who are people... Guys, my life will reflect the way God

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manages it. Why is it that people want to work for Google? Why is it that people want to work

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for Microsoft? Why is it that people want to work for certain companies more than others? Why?

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Because it seems as if if you work for that company the management has a personal stake in

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your life. In the city of Bangalore in India there is this amazing Microsoft and IT corridor.

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It's like stepping out of India into a brand new world. You step out of there into this

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walled compound and you've got childcare, you've got gyms, you've got cafes, you've got

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you've got air conditioning, you've got power that will not be interrupted regardless of whether all

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of the rest of India doesn't have power. It's like a separate city. And people why with each other to

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go and work there? Because the management there takes good care of them. Anyone who works there

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has a reputation of being taken care of. The working environment, the those scooter like

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thingies, the Segway thingies, everything. Fabulous atmosphere to work in.

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We need to realize that the way our lives look, the way our nature, the lives we live looks

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is a reflection on the management that we are under.

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Know who is in your corner, know who's backing you.

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He can take it if people look at my life and say, what kind of god does he serve?

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So he can take it. He's taken accusations for years and years and years.

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It's not like he can't handle it. His shoulders are so broad, my god, he can take accusation after

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accusation. But know that the management, that the reflection of my life here on earth is the

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that my life here on earth is a reflection on the management that I'm under.

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And the thing here is, this manager is just wonderful. I want you to do something, guys.

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This week, I want you to search your heart and discover the identity. Search your heart

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and identify your perception of God's attitude to you.

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And identify your perception of God's attitude towards you. Search your heart

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and identify your perception of God's

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attitude towards you.

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Search your heart and identify your perception of God's attitude towards you.

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Because it shapes

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and determines

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your response

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in life and to God.

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We'll come back to that later.

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Guys, there is no answer to this question.

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I'm going to give you a little bit of a summary of what I'm going to talk about.

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I'm going to give you a little bit of a summary of what I'm going to talk about.

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We'll come back to that later.

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Guys, there is no anger or abuse against us as sheep from this shepherd.

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There is no anger or abuse against us sheep, regardless of whether we are standing or whether

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we fall, regardless of whether we are with him or when we go astray, regardless of whether we are

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trapped or we are attacked, regardless of whether we've fallen into a pit and are unable to rise.

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Understand that there is no abuse or anger from this shepherd towards you.

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Very important guys.

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You know, in Ezekiel 34, God is talking about

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shepherds and he says, I am not like one of those shepherds who doesn't bind up the wounded,

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who doesn't gather the ones that are weak, who doesn't release the ones that are trapped,

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who doesn't take care of the ones that are not able to go on.

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I am a shepherd who binds up wounds, who takes sheep out of snares, who helps them.

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I'm one who carries the lambs in my arms.

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This is the kind of shepherd he is.

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And so regardless of where you are at, slothful, lazy, fat, trapped.

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I mean, I was reading this book by Philip Keller long ago and in that book he says how some sheep

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grow so fat that they settle in a small little depression in the ground and the center of gravity

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shifts and suddenly they find themselves unable to get up. And so they start struggling and the

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more they struggle, the more they lose the center of gravity and now they can literally

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suffocate to death if they're not brought back to their feet.

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Regardless of the situation you and I may be trapped in at present,

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know that there is no anger or abuse from this shepherd.

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Philip Keller also wrote of his neighboring ranch which was run by a hireling,

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by someone who was employed to take care of the sheep and he writes of how cruelly the sheep were

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treated because they did not belong to the man. He was there to take care of the sheep.

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He was there to take care of them on behalf of the owner.

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I am so relieved that this shepherd does not abuse or get angry when sheep are trapped and snared.

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Caught in depression, losing the center of gravity, not able to rise up, still does not get angry or abuse.

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This is not the kind of shepherd he is. Take any description of a shepherd in the Bible,

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you will see that he's not like that. I want you to know who is in your corner.

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He's outstandingly fond of me guys, outstandingly fond of me.

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He is outstandingly fond of me

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and his fondness does not go up and down. He's outstandingly fond of me.

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And he loves me as I said earlier simply because I am this life called Jacob that he wonderfully

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crafted and now takes personal pleasure in. He loves me simply because I am this life

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called Jacob, a name that he probably thought of before the foundations of the earth.

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He loves me simply because I am this life that he spoke into existence called Jacob,

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wonderfully and fearfully crafted by him that he takes personal pleasure in.

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This is who I have in my corner.

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Here's another thing you need to know about him who is in your corner.

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He has no greater reward or deeper satisfaction than seeing you flourish under his care.

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He has no greater reward or deeper satisfaction. This is order.

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God is not, his great reward is not taking us to heaven. His great reward is not

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all that. His greatest reward and deepest satisfaction is to see Wayne and me flourish under his care.

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Flourish under his care. That is his greatest reward. How do we know that? Because very often

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he turns to Israel and says don't you know that you are my portion? You are my portion.

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Greatest reward and deepest satisfaction is to see me flourish under his care so that he can

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hear one day me say the Lord is my shepherd I lack nothing.

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You know we have epitaphs on our graves that need to say something about us. One of the things you

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can say to God that really blesses his heart is the Lord is my shepherd I really lack nothing.

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And I would suggest to you that Jesus walked that way and lived that way and it was not because he

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was poor or rich because he was troubled or not troubled because he was suffering or not suffering.

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It has nothing to do with quantity or wealth or anything else. It has nothing to do with

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quantity but to operate from this place where I can say the Lord is my shepherd I lack nothing.

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Not by measuring what I may or may not have in my wallet

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but by seeing all the resources that are locked up in my shepherd.

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Now let's go back to this. Search your heart and identify your perception of God's attitude towards you.

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Very important guys very very important.

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Search your heart to identify your perception of God's attitude towards you because it determines

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and shapes your response it affects all issues of life. For instance

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I find that there are many times after all that I've taught and after all that I believe in there

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are many many times when I feel that God is neutral. It is very hard for me to imagine God

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being against me it's almost impossible. I feel that God is neutral. I feel that God is neutral.

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It is very hard for me to imagine God being against me it's almost impossible.

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But I catch myself so many times during the day when I think God is neutral about me.

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There are times when I'm not doing well that I have this perception of God as a tit for tat God

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meaning you're not pleasing me now so do not expect much from me. You are pleasing me now

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so do not expect much from me. You are pleasing me now you can have the world.

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Some of us have a perception of God that I got to work work work work work in terms of

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getting things right and finally if I get it right he'll be good to me.

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Some of us have a perception of God of a cruel task master unfortunately.

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Some of us have a perception of God as one who is so sovereign that there is absolutely no surety to him.

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I hate that particularly because it has a degree of holiness to it. Oh God is sovereign.

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That kind of sovereignty isn't a godly divine sovereignty it is a man-made sovereignty and

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remember this every time you and I buy into a human perception we aid the enemy.

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Every time we buy into a human way of thinking we energize or give strength to the enemy.

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You don't have to go and do anything evil. You give strength to the enemy simply by buying into

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a human way of thinking. It goes back to what we said or what Eddie taught us about the two gateways

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which I won't go into right now.

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Guys depending on how you identify your perception of God's attitude towards you

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so the issues of life are responses to life and the responses to God are determined.

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But after you do this once you have done this do a DNA match.

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I mean you've taken DNA out of your perception of God's attitude. Now take that DNA and match it to

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God's DNA from the word. For example match it to Exodus 34 6.

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A God who is short on patience who is a hard task master Exodus 34.

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Match it to see if it matches up with his DNA.

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Exodus 34 6 the Lord passed before him and proclaimed

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a God merciful and I say amen and gracious and I say amen to that.

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Slow to anger and I know that for a fact.

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Abounding as in a surplus overflowing surplus in steadfast love and faithfulness.

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Keeping steadfast love and faithfulness in mind.

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Abounding as in a surplus overflowing surplus in steadfast love and faithfulness.

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Keeping steadfast love for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.

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But who will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers and

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the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation.

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And this is from the old covenant before Christ came in.

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Let's look at another one Psalm 91.

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Got a match DNA Psalm 91 you all know it.

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Just a few verses here and there.

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For he will deliver you from the snare of the fallow from the deadly pestilence.

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He will cover you with his pinions and under his wings you will find refuge.

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His faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

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You will not fear the terror of night nor the arrow that flies by day.

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Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place the most high who is my refuge.

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No evil shall be allowed to befall you.

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No plague shall come near your tent.

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For he'll command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

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On their hands they'll bear you up.

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Because he holds fast to me in love.

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Because Jacob holds fast to me in love.

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I will deliver him.

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I will protect Jacob because he knows my name.

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When he calls to me I will answer him.

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I will be with him in trouble.

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I will rescue him and honor him.

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With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.

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Let's look at Romans 8 31.

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Romans 8 31.

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I love this.

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I love this bit Romans 8 31.

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Oh it's beautiful.

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What then shall we say to these things?

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If God is for us who can be against us?

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If God is for me who can be against me?

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He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for me or me.

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How will he not also with him graciously give me all things?

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Who dare bring a charge against God's elect Jacob?

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It is God who justifies.

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Who dare condemn?

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Christ Jesus is the one who died.

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More than that who was raised who is at the right hand of God.

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Who indeed is now praying and interceding for Jacob.

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Who can separate Jacob from the love of Christ?

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Can tribulation or distress, persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

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Verse 37.

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No in all things Jacob is more than a conqueror through him who loved me.

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For I'm sure that neither death nor life

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nor angels nor rulers nor demons nor present things nor things to come tomorrow nor powers

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nor height not death nor anything else in all creation will ever be able to separate me

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from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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This is DNA.

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This is a DNA match and if it doesn't match then know that my perception

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of God's attitude towards me is flawed.

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When I have an attitude that God is neutral during my day it is flawed.

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She is a flawed woman and yet as a mother finds it very difficult to be neutral towards a newborn.

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Then what about a magnificent God?

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I am sorry when I think God is neutral.

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God is for me and for me passionately actively not passively.

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There is no tit for tat with God because tit for tat God is not a God of love.

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It's a God who needs to be appeased before he acts.

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This is an important question you need to ask yourself because I would suggest to you

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that most of our views of God will have certain distortions when it comes to identifying the

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perception of God's attitude towards you.

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I'm not talking about your attitude towards God.

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Check in your heart how you think God is towards you and that is what is now causing you to

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respond a certain way.

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The next thing guys is humble yourselves to receive grace.

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These are ways to repel after we're talking about repelling Delilah the one who unseats us,

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the one who saps our strength, the one who robs us of hope and holiness.

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Practice this every day.

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Start by knowing who is in your corner.

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The next thing to do is humble yourself to receive grace and the word humble I use there

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is to be dependent.

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Guys Samson was separated to God before he was born.

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From the womb he was separated to God.

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Samson had tremendous strength.

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Samson was so anointed but he had no dependence on the God who separated him, strengthened

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him and anointed him.

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To humble myself is to come every morning if it works for you in the morning.

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I found out that Bill Gates is a night guy too so I've got good company.

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Come every, wake up every morning and guys word your dependence on him in your hearing.

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Word your dependence on him.

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It is insufficient to know in your heart that you're undependent.

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Word your dependence on him in your hearing because God can hear you even when you don't

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speak but you can't.

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Word your dependence on him in your hearing in areas that you excel in and in areas that

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you languish in.

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Word your dependence saying father I'm going this morning I usually enjoy worship but I

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and I'm pretty good at it father I lead worship well but I come now to be dependent on you

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so that I'll be able to lead a people where you want them to go.

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Father I got to minister to someone after church today and I'm not sure how to go about

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it but I am coming dependent on you.

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I humble myself regardless of how many I may have ministered to in the past.

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I humble myself and declare my dependence on you.

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I word it in my hearing.

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Independence and pride are ruts independence and pride are ruts that Leviathan runs on.

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Leviathan is a spirit.

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Leviathan is mentioned in Job 41 verse 34 and it says Leviathan is one who rules as

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king over the children of pride.

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Leviathan is a spirit that rules as king over the children of pride.

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Guys when it comes to dependence and walking humbly make sure that you hallow God before

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you walk.

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Guys when it comes to dependence and walking humbly make sure that you hallow God before

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people.

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It doesn't matter how your heart is word it.

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It's important to word it.

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It's important to word it.

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Not false humility but word it.

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Word it it's important.

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Sometimes I may know that I am humble in my heart but when I am before a people who do

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not know me then I still have to make sure that in what I say I acknowledge God.

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It may not be important or necessary sometimes to do it in your midst because you know me.

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Sometimes I may know that I am humble in my heart but when I am before a people who do

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not know me then I still have to make sure that in what I say I acknowledge God.

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It may not be important or necessary sometimes to do it in your midst because you know me.

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But I can be somewhere else and I cannot assume that just because I walk like that in my heart

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that I am not supposed to open my mouth and give or ascribe strength to the one it comes

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from.

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I am not supposed to be aware of hallowing him.

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Moses was one of the meekest men on the face of the earth but in that flash where he does

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what he does and strikes the rock three times.

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God wasn't doubting his meekness.

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God wasn't even doubting his obedience.

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What God checked him on was that he did not hallow God before the people.

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Guys there is so much to outward expression in terms of your action and your words and

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the sooner we as Canadians get over our Canadian-er when it comes to this area the sooner you

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will be able to function as ones that thrive under the management of a good shepherd.

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Vocal and bodily expression is vital.

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It is vital to us, to each other.

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It is encouraging when I see you listening, when I see you writing and not sleeping.

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It is encouraging, trust me.

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It is vital that we express ourselves.

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Do not hold back.

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Behave like your God.

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Behave like your God.

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If your God is a silent type, then great.

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Be the deep meditative silent type.

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But if he ain't the silent type, then let's imitate him.

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Humble yourself to receive grace.

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Remember that I only am able to receive grace when I walk in dependence.

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God resists those that are proud and gives grace to those that are humble.

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Guys, over the next two weeks, go and word dependence.

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Go and word dependence.

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Father, I've got four kids, don't have any idea how to take care of them.

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I am dependent on you.

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Father, I've got to deal with situations at work today that I've never done.

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It scares the heck out of me.

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I'm dependent on you, Father.

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Father, I've taken care of goats all my life.

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I'm very good at it, but I'm dependent on you today.

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Word it.

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For the next two weeks, word it.

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You need to hear it.

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Continue with that attitude.

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Guys, do it for two weeks and you'll see change.

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Continue with the attitude that I can do nothing myself.

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Jesus fascinates me in John 15, 4 where he says,

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He's saying it to the rest of the world for the rest of eternity, that apart from my father,

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John 5, 30, apart from my father, I can do nothing.

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Apart from my father, I can do nothing.

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Word it.

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He worded it.

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It wasn't some kind of hidden expression in his art.

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He worded it.

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Spoke it out.

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Come now, imitate your master.

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By myself, I can do nothing.

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So that's one area of dependence.

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That we are parts of each other.

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That it is not possible for me as apart to exist in isolation.

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That every part needs the other part.

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Every part dependent on every other part.

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It's in 1 Corinthians 12.

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The next bit is quite interesting.

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Rejoice or dance with him.

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What are we talking about?

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Ways to repel and resist Delilah.

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Rejoice and dance with him.

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Guys, here's a question that you need to ask yourself.

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Can you say today, or can you say on any given day,

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The Lord is my shepherd and I'm completely satisfied with the management of my life.

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Can you say this 9 out of 10 days in your life?

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That the Lord is my shepherd and I'm completely satisfied with his management of my life.

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The Lord is my shepherd and I'm completely satisfied with his management of my life.

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Is it something that you and I can say 9 out of 10 days?

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It should be 10 out of 10 days but let's take 9 out of 10 days.

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The Lord is my shepherd and I'm completely satisfied with his management of my life.

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If you can say that, then I would suggest to you that your cup is overflowing anyways.

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My cup runs over with joy?

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If you can say that.

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I would suggest to you on the days you say that,

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your cup doesn't need any filling because it's running over.

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However, on any given day, if you can't say that,

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and I would suggest to you that most of us have many days like that,

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I would admit to days where I cannot say that I'm completely satisfied with your management of my life.

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But on the days you cannot say that,

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I would suggest to you that on the days you say that,

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your cup doesn't need any filling because it's running over.

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I would suggest to you on the days you say that,

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your cup doesn't need any filling because it's running over.

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However, on any given day,

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on the days you cannot say that,

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first you need to fix and fasten Psalm 92.15 in the depths of your heart.

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You need to fix and fasten Psalm 92.15 in the depths of your heart.

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One of the things said in Psalm 92.15 is,

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He is God and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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He is God and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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Because you will find that on the days when you think He is not doing a good job managing your life,

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inside you begins to brew this fault-finding, accusative, finger-pointing,

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can't you do better, you are God, but I won't say that to you.

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Fix and fasten in your heart Psalm 92.15 that there is no unrighteousness found in Him.

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When I was in Chennai this last time in India,

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I visited the washroom I think 25 times in 14 hours.

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That's how bad my stomach was.

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And each time I'd go to the washroom or come back from the washroom,

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the first thing I'd say would be,

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Father, there is no unrighteousness in you.

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I do not understand this, but I will declare that you are good.

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And it became something that I so wanted to do because everything in me is saying,

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God sent you, you're a sent one, you're this, you're that, you're that.

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I found out why things went wrong, but that's another story for another day.

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And really it had nothing to do with the devil.

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And so, and nor was it because I was doing something godly there,

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and so the devil attacked me, nothing like that.

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It was much more basic.

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And nor was it food poisoning.

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The point being, I remember, doesn't matter whether it was 24 or 25 times,

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each time I remember saying,

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Oh God, there is no unrighteousness in you.

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You're perfect in all your ways.

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Hail Jesus, you're my king.

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My heart chooses to sing.

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You're perfect in all your ways.

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It is something that you know in your heart,

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and it's something that you train yourself to do, guys.

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Got to do this.

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Got to do this.

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And like it or not, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak.

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And you will recognize eventually in your speaking

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whether Psalm 92, 15 is fixed or fastened or whether it's not.

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The truth is, the Lord is my chosen portion and my cup,

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Psalm 16, verses 5-6.

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The Lord is my portion and my cup.

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He holds my lot.

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Psalm 16, verse 5-6.

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The Lord is my portion, meaning He is my allotment.

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Who is?

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Not a piece of land, not some money, not Acts 29.

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The Lord is my portion, meaning He is my allotment.

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How big is the Lord?

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They haven't found out yet.

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The Lord is my portion and my cup.

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The Lord is my portion and my cup.

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And then the second part is, He holds my lot.

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I mean, James was a man of God.

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I mean, James was going to move into a property of his own in a few months.

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Someone is holding his lot.

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And they'll be giving it to him.

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Who holds my lot?

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The same God we spoke about earlier.

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Know who is in your corner.

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That God holds my lot.

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And then David goes on to say,

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Surely the lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.

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Meaning, the way God marks my boundaries and the things for every day

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have fallen for me in pleasant places.

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And as if that wasn't enough, he now goes a step further and says,

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I have a beautiful inheritance.

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So rejoice in Him.

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Rejoice and dance with Him.

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How?

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Rejoice in going every morning or evening or whatever works for you and in between.

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And rejoice over the fact that,

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Oh God, your goodness.

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Oh God, your kindness.

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Oh God, your voice.

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What would I do if you stopped speaking?

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Oh God, your provision.

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Oh God, your faithfulness.

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Sing it sometimes.

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Shout it sometimes.

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Say it sometimes.

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Pray it sometimes.

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But voice it.

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Voice it.

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Practice these disciplines for two weeks and see how radically the inside of your life is going to be changed.

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You'll be changed inside.

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Oprah does the outside.

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We are talking about something much deeper.

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Sorry.

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For all you guys who were offended by that comment, I don't withdraw it.

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Bless you.

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Yeah.

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The next bit is guys, seek provision from Him.

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This is your shepherd.

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Seek provision from Him.

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Seek provision from Him.

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Do not hold back in terms of seeking provision from Him.

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Here is someone who is not a shepherd.

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You know, someone should invent some kind of a tool that moms can use to pick stuff.

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Like if it's a...

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Something like that.

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The number of times people have to bend to pick up things for kids and the more you encourage them, the more they keep throwing it further and further away.

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Everything should have an elastic attached to it.

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So it bounces back.

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But moving on.

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Guys, seek provision from Him.

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He is the shepherd who loves to supply you with finest grazing.

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This is not a hireling.

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Imagine for a second that he is actually a shepherd and you are actually a sheep.

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Hey, where is your wife?

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Today.

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Okay.

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Suddenly she is missing.

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Think of yourself as a sheep.

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Do you realize that as a shepherd he has said that he loves to supply you with the finest grazing?

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Guys, the finest grazing.

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Do you realize that he has the richest pastures for you?

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The richest pastures.

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Do you realize that he has ample winter feed for the times when things will be cold?

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Do you realize that he does not expect you to survive on contaminated water but has clean water for you?

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Do you realize that he has already prepared shelter from the storms?

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Protection from enemies.

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From cougars, from lions.

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From diseases, from parasites.

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That he has already gone ahead and taken care of this and that the deepest satisfaction and the greatest longing in his heart

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is to see you come to a place where you flourish under his care

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so that one of the things you can turn back to him and say is

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the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

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The Lord is my shepherd and I am completely satisfied with His management of my life.

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That's one of the greatest tributes you can give him.

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So ask him for provision.

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And when I talk about provision I am not talking about resources only.

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I am talking about provision of wisdom.

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How badly I need it some days.

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Provision of protection.

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Yes, provision of supply. Yes.

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Provision of fresh eyes and understanding of the word.

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Some days when I am trying to prepare a sermon, I am thinking to myself,

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my God, what can I teach because I don't have fresh eyes.

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Provision in conflict.

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Do we have enough of that?

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Provision in conflict.

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Some of us are scared of conflict.

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Some of us are aggressive in conflict.

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Some of us are passive defensive in conflict.

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Some of us are aggressive in conflict.

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Some of us are aggressive in conflict.

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Some of us are passive defensive in conflict.

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Provision in conflict.

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Provision in fear.

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Provision in want.

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Provision in the presence of enemies.

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Both spiritual and physical.

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Ask him for provision.

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Because only he knows the gates to open where you will find pastor that can help you thrive.

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And guys, seek provision with an expectation.

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Seek provision with an expectation.

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Expectation based on what?

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Based on his nature and word.

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Not on your nature and experience.

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Order, we seek God's provision based on our nature and experience.

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Just think of that for a second.

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We seek God's provision based on our nature and experience.

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So if I am a miser, my expectation of God is okay so he will be a little better than me.

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So sure, we can ask a little more.

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Making him smaller than he is.

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Making him smaller than he is.

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Provision based not on your nature and experience but provision based on his nature and word.

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Listen to his promises.

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Listen to his promises guys.

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He makes me lie down in green pastures.

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And you think a shepherd doesn't know that it's difficult to get sheep to lie down unless they are free of fear and fed?

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He makes me, who makes me he?

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He chooses, he fashions, he is able to make me lie down in green pastures.

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But know this, to lie down in green pastures a sheep will not lie down as long as it's fearful.

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And a sheep will not lie down unless he is fed or she is fed.

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He makes me lie down.

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Meaning he has the ability to take care of fear.

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He has the ability to feed when I am hungry.

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I am not talking about another sermon.

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Feed whatever is required to take care of that hunger.

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He makes me lie down in green pastures.

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This is a promise.

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Imagine waking up and knowing this promise and operating out of it on a day when you have fear and you are deprived.

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So what is my response?

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Father, this morning relieve my fear and conflict.

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Relieve my fear and conflict to God.

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This is a promise from the shepherd who we talked about.

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Or do you need to listen to this tape a couple of times?

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Here's another promise.

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He leads me beside still waters.

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Rushing snow and cold water.

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He leads me beside still waters.

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Rushing streams are cordoned off by the shepherd with a few stones placed so the water comes off.

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Guys, some days I sowed so badly worn fresh streams in my life.

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Because there are days when my life is so 2012 that deep desire for fresh streams.

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He brings me beside still waters.

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How many of us today are sitting here and there are so many areas of our lives that are in ruts?

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Not your entire life, but different areas of your life in ruts.

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That's to wake people up.

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So many areas of our lives in ruts.

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You know there's one church.

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We should have Wayne do that.

00:56:02.600 --> 00:56:10.600
There's one church in Dubai in a place called Sharjah where the elders, once you come to the church,

00:56:10.600 --> 00:56:15.600
there are elders who walk up and down the church.

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Waiting to wake up people who are asleep.

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And once they wake up, you have to go and stand in the front.

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I know.

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No, Wayne would just shoot them.

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He would only shoot them in the leg or something.

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With a paintball.

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With a paintball, yeah.

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Just in case.

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There's a message on tape.

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So if anyone here wants to be an elder, let me know.

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I'll take it from there.

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So, yeah, that's the thing about God.

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He doesn't embarrass.

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He's the enemy who then causes embarrassment by exposing things.

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But it's not God.

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He leads me beside still waters.

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Drink from clear mountain streams.

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They're not stagnant pools, not muddy river beds, both in the physical and spiritual.

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How many of our lives are stuck in ratse?

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Not able to get out of it.

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He leads me beside still waters.

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Still waters are not stagnant waters.

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Still waters are waters that come from clear mountain streams or springs that are cordoned off by the shepherd

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so a sheep can go and drink water that are not rushing because sheep are scared.

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Clear, clear mountain streams.

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What does that look like, Jacob?

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That is to wake up in the morning and catch a glimpse of God you've never caught before.

00:57:45.520 --> 00:57:52.520
That is to have a sudden sense of either history or purpose that God brings.

00:57:52.520 --> 00:57:56.520
That is suddenly listening to even a teaching like this and something clicking.

00:57:56.520 --> 00:58:02.520
That is suddenly realizing that even though I'm in a rut, God is suddenly lifting me out of the rut and setting me.

00:58:02.520 --> 00:58:05.520
That is catching a glimpse of what God has for me in the future.

00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:13.000
That is suddenly discovering that there is a certain deposit or a grace in your life that God has put that is now coming to fruition.

00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:20.000
That is seeing something magical happen to your husband, to your wife, to your child, to your brother, to your sister.

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:25.000
That is something that suddenly sweeps over the church without warning because the Spirit of God is moving

00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:29.000
because we did something without knowing that made it possible.

00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:33.000
That is to catch something in the Word that you've never seen before

00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:37.480
that makes you either laugh or weep or change.

00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:44.480
That is to be transformed in a second by a sudden move of God

00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:49.480
where years of bitterness, of rivalry, of contention, of conflict suddenly goes away

00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:56.480
because it is so minuscule and non-important in the sudden sight of what you have

00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:59.480
of who God is and what he has for you.

00:58:59.960 --> 00:59:06.960
These are these Eureka moments that happen not once in every two centuries but once every week or more.

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To drink from clear streams.

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He leads me beside still waters.

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Here's another one guys.

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Provision, your rod and staff, they comfort me.

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We'll talk about the rod later.

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But the staff was a simple long stick with a crook.

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Now what was it used for?

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When the sheep is about to eat something poisonous or drink contaminated water

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the shepherd takes the crook of the staff and pulls the sheep back.

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What is this nature of God?

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It is his nature that has come from ancient times.

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It is the nature of a keeper.

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Which is why when Cain says,

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Am I my brother's keeper?

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That was the very nature that he had put in man.

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And he was denying that once and for all.

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It is the nature of a keeper.

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It is what Psalm 121 verses 4 and 5 calls out and says,

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The Lord is my keeper.

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I mean go to Psalm 121 verses 4 and 5.

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Psalm 121, 4 and 5.

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If you're wondering why Psalm 119 is not getting over, it's because it's long.

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Keep going.

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Psalm 121, 4 and 5.

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Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

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The Lord is your keeper.

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The Lord is your shade on your right hand.

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This keeping nature of God is a wonderful thing.

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This is why the Old Testament is full of that word keeper.

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I will keep you.

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I will keep you as a covenant, as a token to the nations.

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I will keep, I will keep.

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It's often used.

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It's a keeping nature of God.

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You know, Feb 12th of 15, 2009, we had done this teaching on keeping.

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And I think Heidi had spoken on it later once.

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James did too.

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James did too?

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So what is this whole idea of the Lord my keeper?

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It's like a hedge.

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The whole idea of a keeper is a hedge.

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A hedge around you.

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Never shrink from asking him for provision.

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You know, how many things I asked for provision this morning before I came.

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And these are only the things that I know I have to deal with today and deal with during the week.

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How many things I asked him for.

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Never shrink away from asking for provision.

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These two children in particular, the two younger ones will never shrink from asking for provision.

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The older ones are getting to become like us.

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But the younger ones, no.

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Shameless boldness.

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Shameless boldness.

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Tomorrow morning when you engage this shepherd, know that he is intent on refreshing your soul.

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And one of the ways he does that guys, is, you know, there's that word that say,

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he anoints my head with oil.

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We think of it as some kind of great anointing falling from the Holy Spirit.

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I understand oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit.

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But when it comes to the shepherd and the sheep, guys, I was surprised to find out that

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sheep have their heads plagued with scabs and nasal flies.

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And it can get to a point where these flies burrow, breed, sometimes even eat.

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Sometimes blind or drive berserk sheep.

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And so what the shepherd does is he takes oil, which is a mixture usually in those days of olive oil and sulfur or whatever,

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and they massage it on the head of the sheep just to keep away these nasal flies and these scabs.

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And it is fascinating how radical a difference it makes when you do that.

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He anoints my head with oil.

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One of the ways God gets rid of these nasal flies that burrow blind, drive berserk

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is by the ointment of his truth.

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So that this thinking that is covered with scabs,

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this thinking that has had things go into it that burrow blind drive berserk

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are changed by the ointment of truth.

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And we'll talk about that next.

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But that's provision two.

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Father, guys, the next thing we're talking about is attuning my heart to God.

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Attune your heart to God.

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Next two weeks, do this at some point during the day.

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Father, I want to tune my heart to you.

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I believe the guy who wrote that song,

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Tune my heart to sing your praise.

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What's that song?

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Tune my heart to sing your praise.

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Thank you.

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Come thou fount of every blessing.

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The guy who wrote that was a guy called Robert Robinson or something.

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He wrote it and then went away from the Lord years.

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Like completely fell away from God.

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And then one day this old lady comes up to him and she says that,

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you know, you need to listen to a song and it'll really change your life.

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It'll touch your life.

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And this old lady gives him the words and sings the song to him.

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And as she's singing or giving the words, he just begins to weep.

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Because years ago he had written this song.

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Come thou fount of every blessing.

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Something, something, something, something.

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Tune my heart to sing your praise.

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Some melodious song or something.

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I was reading and I was thinking, man, for a guy to listen to another person

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sing the very song he had written.

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And that's what brings him back to God.

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Listening to someone else sing the song he had written.

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Strange the way God works in different people's lives.

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But guys, attune your heart.

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I want to take off from this place where you anoint my head with oil.

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It keeps these things that burrow their way in, that breed inside my head,

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that sometimes cause blindness, that sometimes drives me berserk

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because of the Hannibal Lectern kind of a helmet that begins to eat away at my mind.

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I don't know why I'm stuck with Hannibal Lectern for the last two days.

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He is not a Bible hero, by the way, just in case you thought.

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So...

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Why do I get myself into trouble unnecessarily?

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So it begins to eat away at your brain that what is it that is required to change it?

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The ointment of truth.

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The ointment of truth.

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The ointment of truth which comes from the word.

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We'll talk about that too.

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But attune your heart, that's the next thing.

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Decide over the next few weeks, I will find time somehow to attune my heart.

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If it means that I wake up before that sacred hour of 8am, so be it in my case.

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But I will attune my heart.

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I'll attune my heart to hear you.

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Guys, nothing quiets a sheep like the presence of the shepherd.

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Nothing quiets a sheep like the presence of a shepherd.

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As long as they hear his voice, they can be at rest.

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Nothing quiets a sheep like the presence of the shepherd.

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As long as they hear his voice, they can be at rest.

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What's the promise?

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Jesus said in John 10, 4,

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My sheep hear my voice.

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May not necessarily understand what he's saying.

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But it's not so much trying to figure out what the shepherd is saying about tomorrow.

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But knowing his presence through a recognition of his voice.

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Is sufficient to bring the sheep to a place of rest.

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It's the tone of the voice.

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I was sitting with somebody two, three days ago and he told me something that God said to him.

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And when he was telling me that, he said, and then God sarcastically replied.

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And as soon as he said God sarcastically replied, I let him finish and then I said,

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You know, I'm not too sure if that's God.

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Because he never said I'm compassionate, gracious and sarcastic.

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That's not his nature.

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And so when Paul may speak with sarcasm,

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but God usually doesn't speak to his children with sarcasm.

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Jacob may, but God doesn't.

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He has a really right sense of humor that sometimes comes through lately.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's the thing.

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I think that's the thing.

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Yeah.

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But it's not, he's not dripping with sarcasm.

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You can't scrape sarcasm out of 1 Corinthians 13.

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Oh, that's another place you want to go to if you want to check the DNA of God.

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God is loving and patient.

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God is not rude.

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God is kind.

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It is not, guys, here is an important thing when it comes to hearing in.

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This church is not a church that is not a church that is not a church that is not a church.

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And again, this church has gotten trapped in a funk that we've got to break out of.

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It is not necessary for the sheep to know the terrain.

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Sheep don't have to know the map of Judea to decide whether they want to follow the shepherd.

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They do not know, they do not have to know where they'll be grazing tomorrow.

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One of the problems with churches like Acts 29 is we are so into hearing the voice of God

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that now there is an expectation to know what tomorrow holds.

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And it is a minor form of sorcery.

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It is a variation of sorcery to want to know tomorrow, to want to know what's going to happen tomorrow.

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A sheep does not have to know the terrain or the map of Judea to know whether the shepherd

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can be followed.

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They do not have to know where they'll be grazing tomorrow.

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Their responsibility is to stay close to the shepherd today.

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And so, guys, we have this tendency to want to know the future to walk in assurance.

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This is a tendency we have as Christians, particularly in churches like this.

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We want to know the future so that we can walk in assurance.

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While I want to say to you that God guides presently.

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God guides presently.

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Presently, He may tell me something about tomorrow, but I don't have to know my tomorrow

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to walk in assurance today.

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God guides presently.

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If He says something about tomorrow, so be it.

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Where we are getting to a point in charismatic or Pentecostal or whatever circles where we

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always want to know the future.

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Tell me about what God wants me to do tomorrow.

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It's a form of sorcery.

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It's a corruption that's been brought in by Babylon.

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God guides presently.

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My responsibility is to stay within the range of the voice of the shepherd.

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And out of that comes a calmness because there is nothing that quiets a sheep like the voice

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of the shepherd.

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Over the next two weeks, Ryan, find time to say, Father, I attune my heart to you.

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That's not what I meant.

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But if you have to take it, take it.

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Oh, it's not your...

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I'm saying attune your heart to hear the voice of God and there's a phone ringing and He

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pulls it out.

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Don't worry about it if you have to take it.

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Guys, attune your heart to hear God this week.

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Ryan, find time.

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Find time during your day to say, Father, I come to bring my heart and sing to you.

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Like a sheep who wants to know the presence of the shepherd, who wants to know the voice.

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I may not understand.

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I'm not even necessarily seeking anything, but I come to know.

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I will read this over the next two weeks and you will find that there will be times where

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you will find Him in a whisper, you will find Him in the storm, you will find Him in the

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fire and you may find Him in the earthquake or the still small voice, but there will be

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a calmness knowing the presence and the pleasure of God upon you.

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Attune your heart.

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Attune your heart to this.

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In the process, if God tells you about next month, great.

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But let your assurance not come out of, tell me about tomorrow so I may walk well with

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you today.

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That is in a sense wicked.

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Guys, all scripture is God-breathed, so begin there.

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Another tendency in churches like ours is we want to operate by the Rhema word without

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the trouble of dividing the Logos.

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We want to operate by the Rhema word, meaning give me a Rhema word, give me a word that

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is specific to my situation, prophesy on me.

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No, prophesy on me right now.

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No, no, go read the word.

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Word takes forever and Leviticus is full of names.

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Give me a word right now.

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We want a Rhema word breathed onto us without dividing the Logos or the written word that

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we already possess.

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I confess to this.

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I mean, the amount of reading that I can do and I actually do, there's a huge gap, guys,

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huge gap.

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This is where the ointment of truth is brought out and has to be applied to my thinking.

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Guys, only God-breathed scripture broken to you by the Spirit or through sent ones can

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wean you as a sheep from feeding on clumps of unbelief.

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I mean, I once, I don't know whether I told you this, but oh.

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I went with some friends and we decided to go horseback riding and I had this nutty horse

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called Silk and the guy who owned it insisted on calling it Silk.

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So he keeps saying, Silk, Silk.

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And this, and there were four of us and it was like a race and this, it's this kind of

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road where only horses and people walk.

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So as long as you avoid people, there's nothing else you need to avoid.

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And so we all start off and Silk has this terrible habit of, it'll run a few paces,

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then it'll see a clump on the side of the hill.

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So it'll stop there.

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And it doesn't matter how many times you call it Silk, doesn't matter how many times you

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kick it, stab it, it won't move till it has eaten that clump.

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And by now my friends will be fired and then I'll start galloping.

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There's this little fat guy on top of us going.

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And all you can hear him is going, Silk, Silk, Silk.

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So what happens is, guys, so many times we end up feeding on clumps of unbelief, stumps

01:14:25.980 --> 01:14:30.180
of bitterness and bushes of self-will.

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Clumps of unbelief, stumps of bitterness, bushes of self-will.

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We start stopping by the wayside to eat these things, consume by these things.

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Guys, go listen to this again.

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It is so true of us.

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Some of us are consumed in bitterness.

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Some of us are stopping by every clump we see to eat of self-will or self-pity.

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It's been years and years and years.

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Got to have the word applied to our thinking so that the ointment of the truth will change

01:15:03.620 --> 01:15:05.980
the way I think.

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You cannot survive on Rema.

01:15:08.060 --> 01:15:15.900
Rema is given to you packed with grace for a particular situation and it can explore

01:15:15.900 --> 01:15:17.340
and change your situation.

01:15:17.340 --> 01:15:25.780
But surely without this there's no question of surviving on Rema.

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Try surviving on vitamin tablets for the rest of your life.

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Finally, guys, we talked about God being, the shepherd being someone who has a rod and

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a staff.

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The rod was actually this huge club, man.

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I mean, remember God is a jealous protector of the sheep.

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The shepherd had a rod which was basically a huge club that he used against wild bee

01:15:56.340 --> 01:16:01.460
or he'd throw it at them.

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Massive club.

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Boing, and the sheep and the wolf would get a knock on its head.

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Or he'd throw it at a wolf.

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So remember that God is a jealous protector of the sheep.

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The shepherd has a rod which was a huge club used against wild bees and the club was basically

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a symbol of his power and authority.

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And what does Psalm 23 says?

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It says that he prepares a banquet or as the message says, a six course dinner for me

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in the presence of my enemies to the point that I'm unafraid.

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Unafraid.

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One of the refreshing things that Eddie brought into my life was the absolute need, the absolute

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unnecessary, if that's a word.

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No, that's not the word.

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There's absolutely no need to be frightened of the devil just because you're a Christian

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walking with God.

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To be unafraid was something that he taught me.

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To be unafraid.

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Because it is in the presence of the enemy that God now sets a banquet or a six course

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dinner before me.

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I mean, I don't know if you realize this, but these shepherds would go ahead of the

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sheep and they would check out places where mountain lions would dwell.

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They would check out valleys or the valley of shadows where the enemy would dwell.

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They would check it out beforehand.

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And then without fear they would take the sheep through it because they knew that they

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could take care of the sheep.

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Be unafraid of the enemy.

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This church should know when the enemy is doing something and combat it, but to live

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in any kind of fear of the enemy, unless you're walking in his territory, is unnecessary.

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We do not live by the precept that if you walk closer to God, the enemy will do you

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more harm.

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Not true.

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In Exodus 17, there is a story which you're very familiar with.

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Moses calls Joshua and says to Joshua, here's what I want you to do Joshua.

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I want you to go out and attack the Amalekites.

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Joshua goes out and Moses says, I'll go up on top of this mountain.

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And he goes and sits there and he has the staff which the rest of Israel knew about.

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This was the same staff used to open the Red Sea.

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This was the same staff that turned into a serpent and ate up all the serpents of the

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Egyptian magicians.

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He holds that staff up and as long as he holds that staff up, Israel prevails.

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When he puts his staff down, the Amalekites prevail.

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And so Aaron and Her hold his hands up while he sits on a rock.

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The point is this guys, he after the victory is done, he builds an altar and he calls that

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altar.

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He names that altar.

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He names that altar Jehovah-Nissi.

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And the simple translation is the Lord is my banner.

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But as he names that altar, here's what it says in the Bible.

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He named the altar Jehovah-Nissi for his hand was upon the throne.

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For his hand was upon what it says in the Bible.

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He named the altar Jehovah-Nissi for his hand was upon the throne.

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For his hand was upon the throne.

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And it operates on two levels guys.

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On one hand, the Amalekites dared touch Israel amongst whom the throne of God dwelt or the

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presence of God dwelt.

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So on one hand, there is that part of it.

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That don't dare touch a people in whose midst the throne of God exists.

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That's one.

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Another one which commentaries will not tell you is that one of the reasons Moses had his

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hands lifted up was again because of what he says, the hand upon the throne of God.

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When you have yourself connected to the throne of God, it is impossible for the enemy to

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prevail.

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Learn to do that.

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being.

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Where two things we got to cultivate.

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Learn this guys.

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Guys, there is no exception.

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Let me put it this way.

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There is nobody in this room sitting right now who does not have the potential to do

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it.

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But there are people in this room who will not do it.

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But it's got nothing to do with your potential.

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Two things that everybody in this room can cultivate is the art of double listening and

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the art of dual existence.

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These are not fancy terms.

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The art of double listening is very simple.

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As I'm talking to Jason, I should also be hearing what God is trying to say.

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That's the art of double listening.

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And the art of double walking is to be able to walk here on earth and yet have my hand

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upon the throne of God.

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Where now I operate and prevail over the enemy just because I'm intricately connected with

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the throne of God.

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Where all decrees come from.

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Where all things can be said from.

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Jacob, is there proof for this?

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Yes.

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I'm seated with whom in heavenly places?

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With Christ in heavenly places.

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Where?

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Far above all principalities and powers.

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Far above all thrones.

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Seated in places.

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Where?

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Where?

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Where is Christ seated?

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Is Christ seated at the right hand of the Father?

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I'm seated with him in heavenly places.

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I'm not trying to rile you up.

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I don't stir you up at all when it comes to stuff like this.

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But I suggest to you that we need to open our minds to understand that when I have my

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hand on the throne of God and when God, yeah, when I have my hand on the throne of God, I

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always prevail.

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And it is impossible to live an unholy life and keep your hand on the throne of God.

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Can't.

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We'll talk about this part more next week.

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I just wanted to touch on it.

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So next two weeks, guys, every day.

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The next two weeks, every day.

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Guys, do you realize that if you were Mount Sinai or if we were Mount Sinai, imagine us

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as Mount Sinai.

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Your little rocks that make up this mountain called Mount Sinai.

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Imagine us as Mount Sinai.

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Now, imagine God descending on Mount Sinai.

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He suddenly has come on Mount Sinai.

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People were scared out of their wits because the whole mountain was blazing.

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There was thunder, lightning, flashes of light, and they're scared.

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But here's the thing about Mount Sinai.

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When God descended on Mount Sinai, no one could touch it.

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No beast could touch it.

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No animal could touch it.

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If an animal or a beast touched it, they would be shot or stoned.

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When your life becomes Mount Sinai or when your life becomes a place where God begins

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to descend and live quite happily, then you become someone who the beast cannot touch

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because he touches you at the peril of being shot with an arrow.

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This is possible, guys.

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This is possible for a people, and this is possible for individuals.

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We are only talking about things that are absolutely possible here.

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So this week and next week, every day, at some point find time and write this down

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because you'll forget it.

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Not now.

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I'm saying write down these points at home so you can go over it almost as a list.

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Acknowledge his management.

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Begin by acknowledging his management.

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At the end of the day, if you can, in any degree of honesty, go and say to him, hey,

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you are my shepherd and I am very satisfied with your management of my life today.

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I mean, David didn't know these words, otherwise he'd have written it in his psalm.

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He said, I go and declare before God that his loving kindness is great every morning

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and his faithfulness every night.

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This is just another way of saying it.

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Acknowledge his management, his design of you, his fondness for you.

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Acknowledge it.

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Word your dependence on him at some point during the day.

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If you can't do it in the morning, great.

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Word your dependence on him.

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So the first one is acknowledge his management, his design of you, his fondness for you.

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Check on this, eh?

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This is separate from this.

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This you can do at another time.

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Search your heart, identify your perception of God's attitude towards you.

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Word your dependence on him.

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Thirdly, rejoice in your inheritance.

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Rejoice and dance with him about your inheritance.

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Fourthly, seek provision from him.

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He is a shepherd who is willing to restore your soul, refresh your soul.

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Seek provision from him.

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Provision of wisdom, provision of want, provision for fear and conflict, provision of supply.

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Seek provision from him.

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Not based on your experience or your nature, but based on his nature and word.

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This week and next week, attune your heart and renew pleasure in the word.

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Attune your heart, attune your heart and renew pleasure in the word.

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Attune your heart and renew pleasure in the word.

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Finally, walk in the knowledge or in the awareness of a God who easily clubs the enemy who comes

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prowling like a lion.

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Walk in the awareness that, I don't know how to keep looking back, walk in the awareness

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of a God who easily clubs the enemy who comes prowling like a lion.

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Sorry, second one.

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Second one is a word your dependence on him.

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Word your dependence on him.

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Chris could you just put this there?

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Thanks.

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Word your dependence on him.

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Turn it on.

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Word your dependence on him.

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Anything else?

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The last one is walk in the awareness of a God who easily clubs the enemy that prowls

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like a lion.

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Who easily clubs the enemy that prowls like a lion.

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Six.

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Got your sticks?