WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: The Nature of Christ Publishing Date: 2026-05-31T03:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/the-nature-of-christ/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:25.640 Okay, guys, so we're going to talk about glory, but we're going to talk about it in terms of the nature of Christ. 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:38.640 And this is one of those teachings that if we get right, it becomes the new baseline for thinking about how God works in terms of His glory. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:49.140 And I'm sure He'll upgrade it six months from now or a year from now or whatever, but this is our new baseline in terms of how we think of the glory of God. 00:00:49.140 --> 00:01:02.140 And it's important because on one hand, this church is heading that way in terms of discovering what it is to walk in, dwell in, abide in, practice the glory of God, but we still need to have a baseline that we operate from. 00:01:02.140 --> 00:01:08.140 So that's why this teaching becomes a little critical for what lies ahead for us. 00:01:08.140 --> 00:01:14.140 So I've asked this question before. 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:26.140 If you love someone, what would be the best that you would give to them? If you love somebody, what's the best thing you would give to them? Of all the things you have, what would you give them? 00:01:26.140 --> 00:01:28.140 Time. 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:30.140 Time. 00:01:30.140 --> 00:01:34.140 Affection. 00:01:34.140 --> 00:01:36.140 Love. 00:01:36.140 --> 00:01:37.140 Sorry? 00:01:37.140 --> 00:01:51.140 Everything. So one of the things God does, and your answers are kind of the same, because He loves us the way He does, the best thing He can give us is Himself. 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:53.140 All of Himself. 00:01:53.140 --> 00:01:58.140 When He gives Himself, then He gives us His time, He gives us His affection, He gives us His love. 00:01:58.140 --> 00:02:07.140 The reason presence is such an easy thing for God to establish in our midst is because in presence, He gives all of Himself. 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:10.140 There's nothing left that He holds back. 00:02:10.140 --> 00:02:28.140 So some of the words that we've played around with and churches have been playing around with is presence, shekinah, glory. 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:40.140 But at the end of the day, it all boils down to God making Himself available to people. 00:02:40.140 --> 00:02:59.140 And so one of the questions we need to ask then, if these are the words that we have used and people have used in the past to describe who God is in our midst, one has to ask the question, what then is glory? 00:02:59.140 --> 00:03:14.140 And the thing is, the moment you ask this question, you have to say, it is the glory of Christ, because what often happens is we separate this word from Him. 00:03:14.140 --> 00:03:20.140 And the moment you separate glory from Christ, it becomes an it or a what. 00:03:20.140 --> 00:03:27.140 And this is something that we have to establish. Whenever we utter the word glory, you have to think of it. 00:03:27.140 --> 00:03:31.140 And sometimes the only way to think of things is to say it. 00:03:31.140 --> 00:03:37.140 Try not to in the next many months separate the word glory from the person of Christ. 00:03:37.140 --> 00:03:45.140 Every time we talk about glory, we'll have to use the words, the glory of Christ. 00:03:45.140 --> 00:03:52.140 Don't separate it. We have to get used to the idea that it is not an it, it is not a what. 00:03:52.140 --> 00:03:59.140 It is a who and it is a Him. It is the glory of a person. 00:03:59.140 --> 00:04:07.140 The moment you separate it, we'll begin to think of glory as a separate thing. It's not a separate thing. 00:04:07.140 --> 00:04:16.140 So for the next few months in this church, every time you use the word glory, you have to phrase it as it is the glory of Christ. 00:04:16.140 --> 00:04:23.140 Don't separate it, because to separate it makes it an it or a what. 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:30.140 So during times of worship, if you sense the glory of God in a space, you say it is the glory of Christ. 00:04:30.140 --> 00:04:36.140 You don't just say glory, because the moment you connect it to a person, everything changes. 00:04:36.140 --> 00:04:42.140 And the moment you disconnect it from a person, it can take on any form, which is just an outward expression of something. 00:04:42.140 --> 00:04:49.140 I can't be a something because it's a someone. 00:04:49.140 --> 00:04:53.140 Phrasing things is important. We think like we talk. 00:04:53.140 --> 00:04:57.140 So it is the glory of Christ. Don't separate it. Don't separate it. 00:04:57.140 --> 00:05:04.140 So let's look at Hebrews 1, verse 3, and the first part of verse 3. 00:05:04.140 --> 00:05:14.140 It says that he is the radiance of God's splendor. 00:05:14.140 --> 00:05:22.140 So we're talking about Christ here. He, as in Christ, is the radiance of God's splendor. 00:05:22.140 --> 00:05:31.140 Or the radiance of the glory of God. The radiance of the glory of God. 00:05:31.140 --> 00:05:35.140 He is the radiance of the glory of God. That's the first part. 00:05:35.140 --> 00:05:46.140 And then it says, and the exact imprint, the exact imprint, the exact imprint of his nature. 00:05:46.140 --> 00:05:56.140 Crazy, eh? So Christ is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. 00:05:56.140 --> 00:06:06.140 Some of the other versions use words like, he is the dazzling radiance of God's splendor. 00:06:06.140 --> 00:06:12.140 Doesn't matter which version you take. It all seems to say, 00:06:12.140 --> 00:06:27.140 Sometimes it says the exact expression of God's true nature. 00:06:27.140 --> 00:06:37.140 Sometimes it says the exact representation of God's essence. 00:06:37.140 --> 00:06:55.140 Or the express image of his person. I don't know why it went gold on that. 00:06:55.140 --> 00:07:01.140 So here's the thing guys. When you look at all this, the conclusion is very simple. 00:07:01.140 --> 00:07:04.140 The radiance of the glory of God is because of his nature. 00:07:04.140 --> 00:07:13.140 The radiance of the glory of God is because of his nature. You separate his nature, there is no glory. 00:07:13.140 --> 00:07:20.140 In a church and all across the world, there's this trend now to pursue glory. 00:07:20.140 --> 00:07:39.140 And that pursuing of glory can be anything from muscular spasms to brilliant lights to feathers falling to gold dust to people falling to sound and light. 00:07:39.140 --> 00:07:43.140 And all those may or may not be expressions. We can figure that out later. 00:07:43.140 --> 00:07:53.140 But at its very core, the glory of God is the nature of Christ. 00:07:53.140 --> 00:07:59.140 The glory of God is the nature of Christ. Every scripture that you read in the Bible keeps going back to this. 00:07:59.140 --> 00:08:04.140 He's the dazzling radiance of God's splendor. He's the exact expression of God's true nature. 00:08:04.140 --> 00:08:07.140 He's the representation of God's essence. 00:08:07.140 --> 00:08:16.140 At the end of the day, you take away the nature of God and Christ has nothing to offer. 00:08:16.140 --> 00:08:23.140 And if you don't get that right, then we'll keep chasing the shadow and we'll forget the substance. 00:08:23.140 --> 00:08:30.140 Any questions on that before we go on? 00:08:31.140 --> 00:08:39.140 Guys, everything else is created. Everything else has radiance of glory bestowed on it. 00:08:39.140 --> 00:08:46.140 From planets to stars to angels to Adam to natural beauty to Solomon's wisdom to kings and kingdoms. 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:49.140 Everything is bestowed. Everything is borrowed. 00:08:49.140 --> 00:08:58.140 There's only one who has such, such excellence in his nature that it is radiant. 00:08:58.140 --> 00:09:02.140 Doesn't matter the best king that ever lived, the best kingdoms established. 00:09:02.140 --> 00:09:07.140 Doesn't matter the beauty of celestial planets like it says in 1 Corinthians 15. 00:09:07.140 --> 00:09:15.140 It doesn't matter. They're all bestowed. None of them have any glory of their own. 00:09:15.140 --> 00:09:20.140 All glory that exists, exists in just one person. 00:09:20.140 --> 00:09:23.140 And it exists because of his nature. And we'll talk about his nature. 00:09:23.140 --> 00:09:28.140 You'll be stunned at his nature. 00:09:31.140 --> 00:09:36.140 Everything else lives in borrowed glory. You think Adam had glory? Yes, he did. 00:09:36.140 --> 00:09:41.140 But it was the glory that was bestowed on him. You think Eve had glory? Yes, she did. 00:09:41.140 --> 00:09:46.140 It was bestowed on her. Do the planets and the stars and the sun and the moon have glory? 00:09:46.140 --> 00:09:52.140 1 Corinthians 15 talks about it. As the celestial planets and creation has its own glory. 00:09:52.140 --> 00:09:58.140 Again, it's given by God. Did Solomon have a glorious reign? Yes, given by God. 00:09:58.140 --> 00:10:04.140 Were the flowers in the fields more glorious than Solomon? Yes, given by God. 00:10:04.140 --> 00:10:08.140 There's only one in whom the word doxa or kabod or glory exists. 00:10:08.140 --> 00:10:13.140 And it is in the person of Christ. And it is because of the essence of his nature. 00:10:13.140 --> 00:10:18.140 He's not surrounded by gases that are aflame that makes him radiant and brilliant. 00:10:18.140 --> 00:10:26.140 It's because of the essence of his nature. We can't even imagine this because of how corrupted both we are and the Earth is. 00:10:26.140 --> 00:10:30.140 We can't even imagine this. 00:10:34.140 --> 00:10:38.140 That's where it comes from, eh? 00:10:38.140 --> 00:10:42.140 Yes? 00:10:42.140 --> 00:10:46.140 Sorry? 00:10:46.140 --> 00:10:51.140 Would that have been evident pre-resurrection? Good question. 00:10:51.140 --> 00:10:58.140 In John 17, Jesus puts it this way. Jesus says, Oh God, I have glorified you now. 00:10:58.140 --> 00:11:01.140 Could you give me the glory that I used to have before I came? 00:11:01.140 --> 00:11:05.140 Could I be glorified again the way I used to be? 00:11:05.140 --> 00:11:10.140 And then he goes on to say, Father, I've got another request. 00:11:10.140 --> 00:11:17.140 That Diana be where I am so that she can see the glory that I used to have. 00:11:17.140 --> 00:11:26.140 It's a desire. One of his great desires is that those that believe in him see who he really is. 00:11:26.140 --> 00:11:30.140 He tries to convey it by his spirit to us right now. 00:11:31.140 --> 00:11:37.140 But his desire is, I so badly want you to see who I really am. 00:11:37.140 --> 00:11:44.140 And he's not talking about light and sound. He's talking about the essence of who he is, the visible representation of the Father. 00:11:44.140 --> 00:11:50.140 The essence or the express image or the representation of the nature of God. He wants it. 00:11:50.140 --> 00:11:55.140 So when he walked the Earth, yes, people would see his glory occasionally. 00:11:55.140 --> 00:12:01.140 You would see John chapter two, verse 11, it says, And Jesus turned water into wine, and it was the first of his miracles. 00:12:01.140 --> 00:12:04.140 And he revealed his glory to people. 00:12:04.140 --> 00:12:13.140 But those were these vignettes of his nature expressing itself in real time in the physical world. 00:12:18.140 --> 00:12:22.140 Everything is because of his nature. Hey, I need more volume. 00:12:25.140 --> 00:12:39.140 You mentioned the glory of God, the nature of God. When someone says I felt the glory of God, is it the love of God that I feel, the kindness, the compassion, and those adjectives? 00:12:39.140 --> 00:12:42.140 Yeah. So that's one of our struggles in Christianity. 00:12:42.140 --> 00:12:47.140 And even in this church, when one says I felt the glory of God, we don't know what they mean. 00:12:47.140 --> 00:12:55.140 Which is why this must be a baseline that establishes the definition of what we mean when we say we felt the glory of God. 00:12:55.140 --> 00:13:00.140 Because she, Yasuri may say I felt the glory of God. You may say I felt the glory of God. 00:13:00.140 --> 00:13:04.140 It could be two separate things. You maybe saw something that blew your mind. 00:13:04.140 --> 00:13:10.140 She was just touched by the forgiving love of God. Now, which one is which one is which? 00:13:10.140 --> 00:13:15.140 Which one is which? Or how do you describe it? So it can't be everything. 00:13:15.140 --> 00:13:23.140 So we got to define a baseline and then build on it, which is what we're trying to do. 00:13:23.140 --> 00:13:31.140 Because if you go around the world, glory can be strange things, really strange things. 00:13:31.140 --> 00:13:41.140 During the Toronto Vineyard Movement, people would come out of the church with muscle spasms and reporters would stand and say, what is this? 00:13:41.140 --> 00:13:50.140 And they would say, this is the glory of God. So what do you reduce it to? 00:13:50.140 --> 00:14:00.140 Is it my emotional or physical reaction to presence? Is that glory? We've got to have a baseline. 00:14:00.140 --> 00:14:12.140 And never separate the word glory from Christ. It is the glory of Christ, which is the essence of his nature. 00:14:12.140 --> 00:14:27.140 In all circumstances, this is again important. 00:14:27.140 --> 00:14:37.140 We connect glory to worship in all circumstances. In all circumstances. 00:14:37.140 --> 00:14:47.140 In prison. In a worship service. 00:14:47.140 --> 00:14:54.140 In plenty. In poverty. 00:14:54.140 --> 00:15:02.140 In places and situations that are corrupt and in places that are perfect. 00:15:02.140 --> 00:15:09.140 His glory is unchanging. 00:15:09.140 --> 00:15:15.140 You've got to realize this. In the corruptest of places, deep darkness. 00:15:15.140 --> 00:15:25.140 I'm not even talking about deep darkness as in dungeons, in places of corruption and sin. His glory is still unchanging. 00:15:25.140 --> 00:15:36.140 Evidence? Isaiah 60. Deep darkness covers the earth. But what? But the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. 00:15:36.140 --> 00:15:43.140 It doesn't matter how dark it gets. It doesn't matter how poor you are, how rich you are, whether you are plenty or whether you're in poverty, 00:15:43.140 --> 00:15:48.140 whether things are corrupt or things are perfect, whether you're in prison or in a worship service. 00:15:48.140 --> 00:15:56.140 One unchanging thing about God, because glory is the essence of his nature, is that it is unchanging. 00:15:56.140 --> 00:16:02.140 Unchanging. Which means then that you can experience it everywhere. 00:16:02.140 --> 00:16:17.140 A people that only experience glory during times of worship are a poor people. 00:16:17.140 --> 00:16:21.140 His glory is unchanging. 00:16:21.140 --> 00:16:28.140 In fact, he has a tendency to show up in brilliant glory in dark places. 00:16:28.140 --> 00:16:45.140 Arise and shine for your light has come. Deep darkness covers the earth. But in the darkness, behold, God has risen with his glory. 00:16:45.140 --> 00:16:49.140 If you understand this and if I understand this, we'll stop chasing shadows. 00:16:49.140 --> 00:16:55.140 We'll stop chasing external manifestations of glory. And boy, do we hunger. 00:16:55.140 --> 00:17:03.140 A hunger is not wrong. We want to see, feel, taste, believe, touch the glory of God. 00:17:03.140 --> 00:17:11.140 And it is not a wrong desire. But you can't touch a shadow. You have to touch the substance. 00:17:11.140 --> 00:17:25.140 So as much as glory has its manifestation and expression, it is easy for a church and a people to begin to desire the manifestation. 00:17:25.140 --> 00:17:37.140 That would be like Jane coming home after two weeks from a long trip and Sheldon waiting at the airport and he sees Jane coming and he rushes and lies down on the ground hugging her shadow. 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:46.140 And she's wondering why. You hug the substance, not the shadow. If you hug the substance, you get the shadow also. 00:17:46.140 --> 00:17:54.140 If you hug the shadow, you do not get the substance. And churches are always close to making that mistake. 00:17:54.140 --> 00:18:04.140 And once that mistake starts, it's very hard to put the genie back in the bottle. 00:18:04.140 --> 00:18:06.140 Any questions? 00:18:06.140 --> 00:18:11.140 So can you see the glory of God without emotion? 00:18:11.140 --> 00:18:20.140 Can you see the glory of God without emotion? Let me put this question back at you. 00:18:20.140 --> 00:18:28.140 Would you be able to love your wife without emotion? It's an act of the will, but emotions are always involved. 00:18:28.140 --> 00:18:33.140 If it was just emotions and not an act of the will, then we are in trouble. So it's both. 00:18:59.140 --> 00:19:13.140 Yeah. See, so again, we go back to the who, not the what. If I am in love with him, if I'm experiencing him, then it is natural for the emotions to flow towards him. 00:19:13.140 --> 00:19:22.140 Everything else that happens is like you're in love with your wife and in the middle of the service she leans over and kisses you on your cheek and you feel the kiss on your cheek. 00:19:22.140 --> 00:19:27.140 That doesn't define her. That is in the only expression of her love. You know she loves you. 00:19:27.140 --> 00:19:37.140 You love her back. Sometimes it's just a look. But sometimes the external manifestations are present. 00:19:37.140 --> 00:19:41.140 They have to match up with president and scripture and we'll talk about that. 00:19:41.140 --> 00:19:48.140 But at the end of the day, glory is about a person and it is not the external manifestations first. 00:19:48.140 --> 00:19:59.140 Guys, we must desire that God show up. Yeah. However he is felt by different people and people who come in who do not know the Lord, let them know. 00:19:59.140 --> 00:20:04.140 But this is the baseline we established. It is the glory of Christ. It is not just glory. 00:20:07.140 --> 00:20:17.140 So let's look at what glory is. That's why I asked you to stop because I want us to be able to worship with a greater awareness today than we've ever had. 00:20:17.140 --> 00:20:29.140 Than we've ever had of a person. And if it is a person, then how we worship changes because we know that the person desires certain things at certain times. 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:41.140 We have a spy in heaven, the Holy Spirit. He's our inside man in the triune Godhead. He knows what the father wants. He knows what the son wants. 00:20:41.140 --> 00:20:52.140 He can tell us. So what is the glory of Christ? You know, on long flights you have a lot of time. 00:20:52.140 --> 00:21:00.140 So I went over every scripture that talks about glory. There are 328 verses in the Old Testament and the New Testament. 00:21:00.140 --> 00:21:08.140 And based on that, here is what glory looks like. One, it is triumph or victory. What are we talking about? 00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:25.140 What is the glory of Christ? Here's what it is. One, it's triumph or victory or conquest. 00:21:25.140 --> 00:21:36.140 Where does this come from? You hear God saying in Exodus, God says, listen, I'm going to establish my glory over Egypt and over Pharaoh. 00:21:36.140 --> 00:21:44.140 My glory will end Egypt's fame. Triumph and victory. Next one. 00:21:44.140 --> 00:22:09.140 Signs, works of wonder, miracles, his acts that give life and ends death or decay. 00:22:09.140 --> 00:22:19.140 These are all from scriptures in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Next, Majesty. He is royal. He's a king. 00:22:19.140 --> 00:22:30.140 Majesty, splendor, brilliance. These are the words we normally use, but we forget that there is so much more to the essence of his nature. 00:22:30.140 --> 00:22:47.140 Magnificence, weight, copiousness, as in he just flows, he's profuse. It's like an unending inexhaustible volcano that just spews his nature. 00:22:47.140 --> 00:23:03.140 It's just continuous. It's never ending. It doesn't stop. Sovereignty. Next. I love this next one. Mystery. 00:23:03.140 --> 00:23:22.140 Perfection. Excellence. His mystery itself is his glory. It says in Proverbs 25, verse 2 or 3, it is the glory of God to conceal a matter. 00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:33.140 It is the glory of Kings to reveal it. One of the things we are doing through our teaching, through worship, through thinking, is to reveal what God is trying to conceal. 00:23:33.140 --> 00:23:39.140 Why is God trying to conceal it? Because there's no end to it, and if you want it, come seek it. 00:23:39.140 --> 00:23:48.140 There's no end to any of the essences of the nature of God. There's no end to his kindness. There's no end to his majesty. There's no end to his brilliance. 00:23:48.140 --> 00:24:01.140 When you reduce that to an event or a physical feeling, it's absurd. 00:24:01.140 --> 00:24:10.140 It's his prerogative to conceal his glory and ours to search it out. 00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:28.140 Mystery. Perfection. Excellence. Part of his nature. And guess what? As I'm talking, as we are talking, this very person that we are talking about is here, listening to this. 00:24:28.140 --> 00:24:39.140 And so then when we begin to worship, we're worshipping the glory of a person, the nature, the fullness of this person who's in our midst. 00:24:39.140 --> 00:24:49.140 Who needs worship leaders then, right? We need musicians. We don't need worship leaders. 00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:58.140 That's Tunis' desire. That's James' desire. That's my desire. 00:24:58.140 --> 00:25:12.140 He's holy. Part of his glory is his holy. He is holy. He is true. He is forgiving love. 00:25:12.140 --> 00:25:18.140 He is mercy. He is wholeness. 00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:24.140 From which comes the word shalom. He is kindness. 00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:33.140 He is passion. Man, in the purest, most perfect, most unending type, he is holy. 00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:38.140 As in, you know, when he made man in his image, the one thing he didn't give man was holy. 00:25:38.140 --> 00:25:46.140 Because holy means set apart, transcendent, separate from creation. 00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:53.140 Adam was innocent. We have been made holy because Christ has come into us. 00:25:53.140 --> 00:26:01.140 But holy is something that God is essentially. What does holy mean? Everything about him is so true, so straight. 00:26:01.140 --> 00:26:09.140 When he creates anything, when he does anything, when he says anything, everything is so straight, so true that it is unimaginable. 00:26:09.140 --> 00:26:16.140 In a corrupt, fallen world, true and straight are not words we use. So true. 00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:24.140 This is why I like that song, Amen. It says, holiness is... 00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:29.140 Holiness has a name, and it is Jesus. That's how we should look at this. 00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:35.140 Forgiving love has a name, and it is Jesus. Mercy has a name, and it is Jesus. 00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:40.140 Wholeness has a name, and it is Jesus. Kindness has a name, and it is Jesus. 00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:44.140 Passion has a name. Yearning passion has a name, and it is Jesus. 00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:50.140 Now when we begin to worship this Christ, you understand why glory can heal people. 00:26:50.140 --> 00:26:54.140 Because we are talking about the nature of someone who is present here. 00:26:54.140 --> 00:27:02.140 When we recognize that there is wholeness in him, then because of the glory of God, things begin to happen. 00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:13.140 We keep coming back to the one thing that we keep forgetting. A person and the essence of his nature. 00:27:14.140 --> 00:27:16.140 There's more. 00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:24.140 What happened, Bria? 00:27:26.140 --> 00:27:28.140 Oi! 00:27:31.140 --> 00:27:33.140 There's beauty. 00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:36.140 There's beauty. 00:27:38.140 --> 00:27:42.140 There's creativity. 00:27:45.140 --> 00:27:47.140 There's greatness. 00:27:49.140 --> 00:27:51.140 There's praise. 00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:53.140 There's fame. 00:27:53.140 --> 00:28:01.140 There's reputation. He often says, I will not give my fame or reputation or glory to some pagan god. I will not. 00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:06.140 There's beauty. Everything he makes comes out of his nature. 00:28:06.140 --> 00:28:12.140 Guys, when you look at this list, you realize that anything he creates comes out of this, eh? 00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:20.140 Every one of you is made because of who he is. You were created out of his majesty and splendor. 00:28:20.140 --> 00:28:25.140 You were created out of his holy and true. You were created out of beauty and creativity. 00:28:25.140 --> 00:28:30.140 You were created out of kindness and passion. It just surrounds you. 00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:36.140 We sing the song, The Splendor of the King Robed in Majesty. He robs you in his nature. 00:28:36.140 --> 00:28:42.140 It's out of his nature that you are created, formed, wonderfully made, put together. 00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:47.140 And this is who is here right now and this is who we worship. 00:28:47.140 --> 00:28:50.140 And when we worship him, whatever he wants to do can begin to happen. 00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:54.140 Who is that inside man in the triune godhead? The Holy Spirit. 00:28:54.140 --> 00:28:57.140 Follow him and you get to know things that he wants to do. 00:28:57.140 --> 00:29:01.140 Where a people of God become conductors of glory. 00:29:01.140 --> 00:29:06.140 Don't worry, there are not 238 such things, but 328 verses, sorry. 00:29:06.140 --> 00:29:08.140 But I still have a ways to go. 00:29:08.140 --> 00:29:13.140 Glorious riches. Glorious riches. 00:29:14.140 --> 00:29:26.140 Dominion. Power. Honor. Wisdom. 00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:29.140 It's the essence of his nature. Guys, what kind of a being is he? 00:29:31.140 --> 00:29:34.140 Who is this? Who could have all this? 00:29:40.140 --> 00:29:47.140 Who is this? Who is this who has all this in perfection, in excellence? 00:29:47.140 --> 00:29:49.140 He's the same one who's here right now. 00:29:51.140 --> 00:29:53.140 You think it's difficult to worship him? 00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:57.140 You have to hold back. 00:30:01.140 --> 00:30:05.140 This is why when you see him in his brilliance in heaven face to face, 00:30:07.140 --> 00:30:08.140 you have to hold back. 00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:11.140 This is why when you see him in his brilliance in heaven face to face, 00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:15.140 you won't need instruments. 00:30:18.140 --> 00:30:23.140 It'll be endless. It'll be endless because there's nothing else you can do, 00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:30.140 but burst forth at perfect magnificence. 00:30:30.140 --> 00:30:35.140 His nature is goodness. Show me your glory. I'll show you my goodness. 00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.140 Oneness. He longs for this. 00:30:37.140 --> 00:30:42.140 Oh God, make them one as you and I are one and please make sure that they are 00:30:42.140 --> 00:30:45.140 with me so that they can see the glory of God. 00:30:45.140 --> 00:30:46.140 I want to be with you. 00:30:47.140 --> 00:30:48.140 I want to be with you. 00:30:49.140 --> 00:30:50.140 I want to be with you. 00:30:51.140 --> 00:30:52.140 I want to be with you. 00:30:53.140 --> 00:30:54.140 I want to be with you. 00:30:55.140 --> 00:30:56.140 I want to be with you. 00:30:56.140 --> 00:31:00.140 Oh God, please make sure that they are with me so that they can see the glory 00:31:00.140 --> 00:31:05.140 that I used to have before I was sent, that they may see it and restore it to me 00:31:05.140 --> 00:31:10.140 so that they can be part of what I actually always have had. 00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:18.140 Goodness, oneness, unchangingly faithful. 00:31:19.140 --> 00:31:27.140 Unchangingly faithful and one of the words I really like, joyous. Joyous. 00:31:28.140 --> 00:31:31.140 I mean, can someone like this be anything but joyous? 00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:40.140 It's not always ha ha ha joyous, but it is like a fountain, man. 00:31:41.140 --> 00:31:44.140 This Christ, anyone will follow. 00:31:44.140 --> 00:31:45.140 Anyone will follow. 00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:50.140 Presented to any human being on earth, this Christ, anyone will follow. 00:31:50.140 --> 00:31:52.140 But this is not the Christ we present. 00:31:53.140 --> 00:32:00.140 Which is why in Galatians, it says, can you pursue Christ who is of unsurpassing worth? 00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:04.140 Worth that cannot be surpassed, priceless. 00:32:07.140 --> 00:32:09.140 We don't follow him because he's a sin remover. 00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:11.140 We don't follow him because he's a pain remover. 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:14.140 We don't follow him because he's a history maker. 00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:16.140 We don't follow him because he's a purpose giver. 00:32:16.140 --> 00:32:19.140 We follow him just because he is this. 00:32:21.140 --> 00:32:23.140 Everything else is gravy. 00:32:29.140 --> 00:32:31.140 When people pursue this, they get everything. 00:32:41.140 --> 00:32:44.140 He's without deceit. He's without deceit. 00:32:47.140 --> 00:32:49.140 He's free of corruption. 00:32:51.140 --> 00:32:53.140 He's free of corruption. 00:32:53.140 --> 00:32:57.140 He's straight. He is separate, straight as an arrow. 00:32:58.140 --> 00:33:00.140 Yeah, arrows aren't as straight as him. 00:33:01.140 --> 00:33:03.140 He is separate. 00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:09.140 Our God is not a God like every other God in the world that finds his way into nature, 00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:11.140 becomes stone, tree, frog. 00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:13.140 No, this God is separate. 00:33:14.140 --> 00:33:19.140 He makes himself a part of creation, but he has always been transcendent and separate. 00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:26.140 He is strong. 00:33:27.140 --> 00:33:29.140 He is mighty. 00:33:30.140 --> 00:33:32.140 He is undefeated. 00:33:33.140 --> 00:33:35.140 He is protective. 00:33:36.140 --> 00:33:38.140 He is dread. 00:33:39.140 --> 00:33:42.140 And he will also be revered. 00:33:49.140 --> 00:33:52.140 Strong, mighty, undefeated, protective. 00:33:52.140 --> 00:33:57.140 Isaiah chapter 2, verse 4, or Isaiah 2, verses 4 and 5. 00:33:57.140 --> 00:34:03.140 It says, I'll build a canopy around you, and that canopy will be a canopy of glory. 00:34:03.140 --> 00:34:08.140 I'll cover you with the canopy of glory, and the sun shall not smite you by day, the storm shall not strike you. 00:34:10.140 --> 00:34:11.140 This is who he is. 00:34:11.140 --> 00:34:12.140 One more. 00:34:15.140 --> 00:34:16.140 Dread. 00:34:17.140 --> 00:34:25.140 It's strange how the dread of God is something that can happen both to believers and to unbelievers. 00:34:25.140 --> 00:34:29.140 To the unbeliever, dread becomes almost like a death knell, 00:34:29.140 --> 00:34:37.140 while to the believer, he suddenly realizes that as much as you're friends with this God, this God is God. 00:34:38.140 --> 00:34:45.140 Abraham has cut his sacrifices, he's put them in two rows, and he's expecting God to turn up. 00:34:45.140 --> 00:34:48.140 And God is going to turn up in a blazing torch and give Abraham a promise. 00:34:48.140 --> 00:34:54.140 But as he waits, he's chasing the birds of prey away, and it says a great dread came over Abraham. 00:34:55.140 --> 00:34:56.140 Darkness. 00:34:56.140 --> 00:34:57.140 Psalm 18. 00:34:57.140 --> 00:34:58.140 He covers himself with clouds. 00:34:58.140 --> 00:35:01.140 What do you think was happening on Mount Sinai? 00:35:01.140 --> 00:35:04.140 God tells Moses, listen, gather the people. 00:35:04.140 --> 00:35:05.140 I want to talk to them. 00:35:05.140 --> 00:35:08.140 I want to show them that I am God and I'm making a covenant with them. 00:35:08.140 --> 00:35:13.140 The people come near the mountain, and it's covered with fire, but it's also covered with dark cloud. 00:35:13.140 --> 00:35:16.140 And they say, you go speak to him, not us. 00:35:16.140 --> 00:35:26.140 There is this dread that becomes to the enemy a very scary place where they subdue and they bow and they cower and they slide back into the holes they came from. 00:35:26.140 --> 00:35:29.140 And for the people of God, it fills you with awe and reverence. 00:35:29.140 --> 00:35:31.140 Glory can do that. 00:35:38.140 --> 00:35:39.140 The last one for now. 00:35:39.140 --> 00:35:41.140 Glory has a voice often. 00:35:41.140 --> 00:35:55.140 Peter talks about it when he remembers in 2 Peter what happened in Matthew 17 on the Mount of Transfiguration, and he calls it the voice of majestic glory, the voice of majestic glory. 00:35:55.140 --> 00:35:58.140 And it's the kind of voice that splits the earth. 00:36:01.140 --> 00:36:03.140 And you can read it in the Bible. 00:36:03.140 --> 00:36:05.140 The voice that splits the earth. 00:36:08.140 --> 00:36:11.140 And you can read about that in Psalm 19 and 29. 00:36:11.140 --> 00:36:16.140 And at the same time, it forms things and it sustains things. 00:36:16.140 --> 00:36:19.140 Hebrews 1, 3, the second part of it talks about it. 00:36:19.140 --> 00:36:23.140 He sustains things by the power of his word. 00:36:23.140 --> 00:36:26.140 This is who is in our midst. 00:36:26.140 --> 00:36:29.140 This is what real glory looks like. 00:36:29.140 --> 00:36:31.140 Not the trappings, the person. 00:36:33.140 --> 00:36:38.140 This is the risen Christ we know. 00:36:38.140 --> 00:36:41.140 This is the risen Christ. 00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:44.140 We do not, we're not looking for the diesels of Nazareth, eh? 00:36:44.140 --> 00:36:47.140 2 Corinthians 5, 18 talks about it. 00:36:47.140 --> 00:36:50.140 No longer are we looking for diesels of Nazareth. 00:36:50.140 --> 00:36:56.140 We're looking for the risen Christ because we do not look for things after the flesh but after the spirit. 00:36:56.140 --> 00:37:00.140 This is the risen Christ we know. 00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:04.140 You read about him in Matthew 17, where for a moment in Matthew 17, too, 00:37:04.140 --> 00:37:09.140 he strips off his earthly suit and you see his brilliance. 00:37:09.140 --> 00:37:11.140 You read about him in Revelations 1. 00:37:11.140 --> 00:37:17.140 Eyes blazing fire, feet burning brass, voice like mighty waterfall, a sword coming out of his mouth. 00:37:17.140 --> 00:37:20.140 You can't even describe him when you see him. 00:37:20.140 --> 00:37:24.140 You have to describe him symbolically and you have to personify him 00:37:24.140 --> 00:37:28.140 because how do you describe someone like this to a human? 00:37:28.140 --> 00:37:35.140 And yet when you reduce him to a person with a beard who smiles at you, 00:37:35.140 --> 00:37:42.140 it's nice but it ain't really the glorious one who is in our midst. 00:37:42.140 --> 00:37:49.140 Revelations 1, you go to Revelations 4, you hear his description again. 00:37:49.140 --> 00:37:54.140 You go to Revelations 5, you see him as the lamb of God with seven horns and seven eyes. 00:37:54.140 --> 00:37:59.140 You see him as the lamb of God with seven horns and seven eyes, the sevenfold spirit. 00:37:59.140 --> 00:38:04.140 You go to Revelations 19, he's riding a white horse and he has the name King of Kings and Lord of Lords 00:38:04.140 --> 00:38:06.140 and a robe dipped in blood. 00:38:06.140 --> 00:38:13.140 You go to Ezekiel 1 and you see someone whose torso is brighter than anything you've seen, 00:38:13.140 --> 00:38:17.140 seated on a chariot-like throne. 00:38:17.140 --> 00:38:22.140 You go to Isaiah and you see the whole place shake as cherubim can't even look at him. 00:38:22.140 --> 00:38:28.140 And they say, holy, holy, holy, this is the one in our midst. 00:38:28.140 --> 00:38:32.140 How do you deal with someone like this? 00:38:32.140 --> 00:38:44.140 This is why if he ever turns up, you lie flat on your face and he has to say those magic words, fear not. 00:38:44.140 --> 00:38:51.140 This is someone else, man. 00:38:51.140 --> 00:39:03.140 And it's not like he just comes into a room and you know how you have those rooms scent thingies that dispel 00:39:03.140 --> 00:39:05.140 and the room smells good. 00:39:05.140 --> 00:39:07.140 He's not like that. 00:39:07.140 --> 00:39:12.140 He doesn't turn up into a room and go, some glory here, some glory there. 00:39:12.140 --> 00:39:16.140 And you say, oh, glory. 00:39:16.140 --> 00:39:19.140 That's not how his glory deals with the universe. 00:39:19.140 --> 00:39:24.140 Guys, Colossians 1.17 says, the entire universe is contained in him. 00:39:24.140 --> 00:39:31.140 Christ is not some nucleus that is present in a service so that he can emanate what he wants to. 00:39:31.140 --> 00:39:34.140 The entire universe is contained in him. 00:39:34.140 --> 00:39:39.140 In him, the universe consists. 00:39:39.140 --> 00:39:40.140 It's not the other way around. 00:39:40.140 --> 00:39:43.140 We're not spraying Christ. 00:39:43.140 --> 00:39:47.140 That's not what glory is. 00:39:47.140 --> 00:39:53.140 Everything is contained in him, for him, through him, contained in him. 00:39:53.140 --> 00:39:56.140 Daniel 7 talks about the same thing. 00:39:56.140 --> 00:40:11.140 Guys, all this emanates, all these different things we've mentioned, all this emanates from him. 00:40:11.140 --> 00:40:16.140 It bursts forth from him. 00:40:16.140 --> 00:40:23.140 It pours out from him. 00:40:23.140 --> 00:40:30.140 And none of these things, basically what we've written here is the essence of his nature that fills the universe. 00:40:30.140 --> 00:40:38.140 This is why it says, and the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. 00:40:38.140 --> 00:40:41.140 It bursts forth from him, pours out from him. 00:40:41.140 --> 00:40:44.140 It does not exist separate from him. 00:40:44.140 --> 00:40:51.140 None of these things are owned by anybody, deserved by anybody, earned by anybody. 00:40:51.140 --> 00:40:56.140 It emanates, bursts forth, pours out from him and fills the universe, touches the heart of man. 00:40:56.140 --> 00:40:58.140 It cannot exist by itself. 00:40:58.140 --> 00:41:00.140 Kindness does not exist by itself. 00:41:00.140 --> 00:41:08.140 You go for these Oscar ceremonies, oh, he's a good person. 00:41:08.140 --> 00:41:10.140 There is no goodness apart from God. 00:41:10.140 --> 00:41:13.140 Everything here comes from him. 00:41:13.140 --> 00:41:15.140 It cannot exist separate from him. 00:41:15.140 --> 00:41:23.140 Every kind act, every loving act, every word you speak that has some weight of value comes because of one person, 00:41:23.140 --> 00:41:29.140 and he alone has it, nobody else. 00:41:29.140 --> 00:41:44.140 The glory is given to us. 00:41:44.140 --> 00:41:49.140 You know, the word shekinah does not exist, really. 00:41:49.140 --> 00:42:07.140 It's actually a word called shekinah in Hebrew, which is basically the visible manifest presence dwelling among mankind. 00:42:07.140 --> 00:42:09.140 That's what it really is. 00:42:09.140 --> 00:42:18.140 And it was coined by rabbis, ancient rabbis, who probably heard about it and didn't even see it. 00:42:18.140 --> 00:42:28.140 It was used to describe God's glorious light that they probably heard about in the tent of meeting 00:42:28.140 --> 00:42:32.140 or heard about over the ark, and they probably didn't see it. 00:42:32.140 --> 00:42:38.140 But they coined a term for it called shekinah, and we borrowed from that term, and it's heard of in the Old Testament. 00:42:38.140 --> 00:42:44.140 When you look at dwelling presence, just so we know, from a biblical point in precedent, 00:42:44.140 --> 00:42:51.140 dwelling presence or shekinah, how did it show itself in the Bible? 00:42:51.140 --> 00:43:05.140 It was either a devouring fire, or it was a thick cloud, or it was a brilliant rainbow, 00:43:05.140 --> 00:43:16.140 or as it says in Revelation, it was radiant jewel-like. 00:43:16.140 --> 00:43:23.140 These are the different expressions that keep repeating themselves in the Old and the New Testament. 00:43:23.140 --> 00:43:30.140 You see it in Exodus 13, 21 and 22. You see it in Exodus 40, verse 34 and 35. 00:43:30.140 --> 00:43:38.140 You see it in 2 Chronicles 7, verse 1 to 3. You see it in Revelation 21, verse 11. 00:43:38.140 --> 00:43:49.140 So if you want precedent in the Bible, then you have to go with this. 00:43:49.140 --> 00:43:54.140 Because there'll be a tendency for people to now begin to describe anything that happens in a church 00:43:54.140 --> 00:43:56.140 as representative of the glory of God. 00:43:56.140 --> 00:44:00.140 But if you went by biblical precedent, then these are the ways God expresses himself. 00:44:00.140 --> 00:44:06.140 Through fire, through cloud, through brilliance, through jewel-like radiance. 00:44:06.140 --> 00:44:16.140 And the great thing is in 1 Peter 4, 14, the Spirit of God is called the Spirit of Glory. 00:44:16.140 --> 00:44:21.140 I love that name for him. Spirit of God is called the Spirit of Glory. 00:44:22.140 --> 00:44:26.140 At the end of the day, the Shekinah, the Christ, is brought to us by the Spirit of God. 00:44:26.140 --> 00:44:29.140 And the Spirit of God is also called the God of Glory. 00:44:29.140 --> 00:44:37.140 It's also called the Spirit of Glory. Sorry. 00:44:37.140 --> 00:44:47.140 So let's try and stick to biblical precedent, unless otherwise shown through Scripture. 00:44:47.140 --> 00:44:52.140 If not, there'll be no end to what can be swept under the glory carpet. 00:44:56.140 --> 00:45:04.140 Remember, it's a person, eh? Does it matter to Anile what Thuney wears, whether he's wearing a suit or a t-shirt? 00:45:04.140 --> 00:45:16.140 She likes him. If he wears a good suit and sprays some perfume, yeah, she may hug him, but that's about it. 00:45:17.140 --> 00:45:19.140 Right, Thuney? 00:45:23.140 --> 00:45:40.140 Here's the thing, guys. This Christ we are talking about, the glory of Christ exists in four dimensions. 00:45:41.140 --> 00:45:45.140 I know the word dimensions is used so often. I'm scared to use the word nowadays. 00:45:45.140 --> 00:45:49.140 But let's just go with the word dimension because it's a good word. 00:45:49.140 --> 00:45:52.140 It is in me. 00:45:52.140 --> 00:45:56.140 Just, just, Silla. 00:45:57.140 --> 00:46:03.140 Colossians 1.27. The glory of Christ. This, this person we were just describing. 00:46:03.140 --> 00:46:10.140 All those things we said he was is in me right now. 00:46:10.140 --> 00:46:20.140 Christ in me, the hope of glory in me right now. 00:46:20.140 --> 00:46:25.140 That splendid person we are talking about is that present in me. 00:46:25.140 --> 00:46:30.140 Next week we'll talk about if he is in me, then what am I supposed to do with that? 00:46:30.140 --> 00:46:37.140 This person is right now in me. 00:46:37.140 --> 00:46:45.140 There's a reason that the Father says, be ye holy, because I am holy. 00:46:45.140 --> 00:46:48.140 There's a reason he says, be ye perfect, for I am perfect. 00:46:48.140 --> 00:46:54.140 Because this person we are talking about that is so, so excellent, so perfect as in me. 00:46:54.140 --> 00:46:57.140 And he was the exact imprint of the nature of God. 00:46:57.140 --> 00:47:01.140 So what am I supposed to be? 00:47:01.140 --> 00:47:09.140 In my interactions with you, in the way I see the world, in every step action I take, 00:47:09.140 --> 00:47:16.140 the reality exists that I can be the exact imprint of the nature of God. 00:47:16.140 --> 00:47:22.140 All I had to go, poosh. 00:47:22.140 --> 00:47:26.140 That's one dimension. The next one. 00:47:26.140 --> 00:47:29.140 He is in me. Second one. 00:47:29.140 --> 00:47:34.140 He is in our midst right now. 00:47:34.140 --> 00:47:37.140 This glorious one is in our midst right now. 00:47:37.140 --> 00:47:40.140 Which one? 00:47:40.140 --> 00:47:47.140 This one. 00:47:47.140 --> 00:47:50.140 The one who is triumphant and victorious. 00:47:50.140 --> 00:47:53.140 The one who does signs and works of wonder. It's his nature. 00:47:53.140 --> 00:47:56.140 The one who holds the majestic splendor, brilliant, magnificent weight. 00:47:56.140 --> 00:47:59.140 You know, it's my favorite thing to do now. 00:47:59.140 --> 00:48:05.140 I go to sleep going over this list, because at some point by the time I get to six I knock off. 00:48:05.140 --> 00:48:07.140 And then in the morning I get up where I left off. 00:48:07.140 --> 00:48:09.140 Because I want to learn this. 00:48:09.140 --> 00:48:13.140 You learn things through repetition. 00:48:13.140 --> 00:48:18.140 Last night I got as far as mystery, perfection and excellence and I was out. 00:48:18.140 --> 00:48:21.140 But this morning you start again and you complete it. 00:48:21.140 --> 00:48:28.140 You realize that you can't define the nature of your God yet because you haven't thought about it. 00:48:28.140 --> 00:48:32.140 You inhabit what you think. 00:48:32.140 --> 00:48:40.140 You inhabit what you think. 00:48:40.140 --> 00:48:43.140 He is in me. Second. 00:48:43.140 --> 00:48:56.140 This amazing person is in our midst. 00:48:56.140 --> 00:49:03.140 So, 00:49:03.140 --> 00:49:11.140 he is in heaven 00:49:11.140 --> 00:49:16.140 and he is in the whole earth. 00:49:16.140 --> 00:49:19.140 Four places he exists at the same time. 00:49:19.140 --> 00:49:30.140 In me, Colossians 1.27, 1 Corinthians 3.16, 00:49:30.140 --> 00:49:35.140 in our midst, 1 Corinthians 6.19, 00:49:35.140 --> 00:49:39.140 Revelations 1.12 and 13, 00:49:39.140 --> 00:49:44.140 in heaven, Revelations 4, 5, 00:49:44.140 --> 00:49:49.140 whole earth, you just have to read Job chapter 40 to 42, 00:49:49.140 --> 00:49:52.140 Romans 1, 00:49:52.140 --> 00:49:55.140 Habakkuk 2.14, 00:49:55.140 --> 00:49:59.140 Numbers 14.21. 00:49:59.140 --> 00:50:03.140 You read these and you realize that this is an old story, it's not a new thing. 00:50:03.140 --> 00:50:08.140 He's been this way forever. 00:50:08.140 --> 00:50:10.140 Now do you understand why David says, 00:50:10.140 --> 00:50:12.140 where can I go from your presence? 00:50:12.140 --> 00:50:14.140 If I take the wings of the morning and I fly away, you're there. 00:50:14.140 --> 00:50:18.140 If I go hide myself in the deepest of darkness, in Sheol, you're there. 00:50:18.140 --> 00:50:21.140 Everywhere I go, you are. 00:50:21.140 --> 00:50:26.140 How did this man from the Old Testament even know this? 00:50:26.140 --> 00:50:29.140 You know, there's a thing that has to happen for us. 00:50:29.140 --> 00:50:31.140 It's called awareness. 00:50:31.140 --> 00:50:34.140 Awareness. Awareness of him in me. 00:50:34.140 --> 00:50:37.140 And awareness of him in our midst. 00:50:37.140 --> 00:50:38.140 Awareness of him in heaven. 00:50:38.140 --> 00:50:44.140 And awareness of him in every dark and light place on the earth. 00:50:44.140 --> 00:50:46.140 Everywhere. 00:50:46.140 --> 00:50:48.140 Like I said, it's contained in him. 00:50:48.140 --> 00:50:50.140 He's not spraying things with his goodness. 00:50:50.140 --> 00:50:53.140 Everything is contained in him. 00:50:53.140 --> 00:50:54.140 It's everywhere. 00:50:54.140 --> 00:51:00.140 There's nowhere you can go that the glory or the essence of the nature of God is absent. 00:51:00.140 --> 00:51:02.140 There's no place. 00:51:08.140 --> 00:51:11.140 How do you cultivate awareness? 00:51:11.140 --> 00:51:16.140 By the way, awareness always leads to interactive access. 00:51:16.140 --> 00:51:21.140 Every time you become aware of something, you begin to have interactive access. 00:51:21.140 --> 00:51:24.140 It doesn't matter with God. It matters with everything. 00:51:24.140 --> 00:51:31.140 I mean, simple thing like you buy a VW EV, Volkswagen electric vehicle, 00:51:31.140 --> 00:51:35.140 and suddenly you notice every other Volkswagen on the road. 00:51:35.140 --> 00:51:38.140 Till then you didn't know Volkswagen existed. 00:51:38.140 --> 00:51:41.140 You bought an ID40, and now you see it everywhere. 00:51:41.140 --> 00:51:45.140 Everywhere you look, there are ID40s. 00:51:45.140 --> 00:51:49.140 If it exists on the scale of non-animate things, 00:51:49.140 --> 00:51:54.140 imagine what happens when you become aware of someone. 00:51:54.140 --> 00:52:01.140 The moment you become aware of someone, interactive access starts. 00:52:01.140 --> 00:52:02.140 And what is awareness? 00:52:02.140 --> 00:52:05.140 Awareness is three things put together. 00:52:05.140 --> 00:52:09.140 I mean, the awareness that we need for this is three things to put together. 00:52:09.140 --> 00:52:11.140 The first, love. 00:52:11.140 --> 00:52:15.140 You are always aware of the things you love and the people you love. 00:52:20.140 --> 00:52:23.140 Two, practice. 00:52:23.140 --> 00:52:26.140 Awareness must be practiced. 00:52:26.140 --> 00:52:27.140 What is practice? 00:52:27.140 --> 00:52:29.140 Practice is an act of the will. 00:52:29.140 --> 00:52:32.140 Awareness is disciplining yourself to become aware. 00:52:32.140 --> 00:52:33.140 Practice. 00:52:36.140 --> 00:52:38.140 Three, knowledge. 00:52:38.140 --> 00:52:42.140 The greater your knowledge about something, the more aware you are of it. 00:52:44.140 --> 00:52:46.140 Awareness requires these three things. 00:52:46.140 --> 00:52:50.140 If I want to be aware of the things that we are talking about, 00:52:50.140 --> 00:52:58.140 then it is only possible when awareness is the result. 00:52:58.140 --> 00:53:04.140 Awareness is the result of love or pursuit, 00:53:04.140 --> 00:53:11.140 plus practice or disciplining oneself, 00:53:16.140 --> 00:53:18.140 plus knowledge. 00:53:18.140 --> 00:53:24.140 I mean, it is one thing to get married to someone you love. 00:53:24.140 --> 00:53:25.140 That is where you start. 00:53:25.140 --> 00:53:28.140 So you become aware of her because you love her. 00:53:28.140 --> 00:53:31.140 But now begins the hard process of disciplining yourself 00:53:31.140 --> 00:53:34.140 so that your love becomes an act of the will, 00:53:34.140 --> 00:53:37.140 so that you behave a certain way, change the way you are, 00:53:37.140 --> 00:53:39.140 so that you become highly aware of what she wants, 00:53:39.140 --> 00:53:42.140 when she wants it, what she does not want, what she does not like. 00:53:42.140 --> 00:53:44.140 And then there is the second thing, 00:53:44.140 --> 00:53:47.140 when she wants it, what she does not want, what she does not like. 00:53:47.140 --> 00:53:49.140 And then there is the knowledge. 00:53:49.140 --> 00:53:53.140 As one gets to know his spouse better, 00:53:53.140 --> 00:53:58.140 he becomes more aware of her needs even when they are not expressed. 00:53:59.140 --> 00:54:00.140 This is why it says, 00:54:00.140 --> 00:54:04.140 the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas. 00:54:08.140 --> 00:54:12.140 Join these together and you and I can begin to live a very different life. 00:54:14.140 --> 00:54:16.140 Any questions, guys? 00:54:23.140 --> 00:54:26.140 The great thing about practice is you have the rest of your life. 00:54:32.140 --> 00:54:33.140 Pardon? 00:54:33.140 --> 00:54:34.140 Yes. 00:54:34.140 --> 00:54:35.140 Yes. 00:54:35.140 --> 00:54:36.140 Yes. 00:54:36.140 --> 00:54:37.140 Yes. 00:54:37.140 --> 00:54:38.140 Yes. 00:54:38.140 --> 00:54:39.140 Yes. 00:54:39.140 --> 00:54:40.140 Yes. 00:54:40.140 --> 00:54:41.140 Yes. 00:54:41.140 --> 00:54:42.140 Yes. 00:54:42.140 --> 00:54:43.140 Yes. 00:54:43.140 --> 00:54:44.140 Pardon? 00:54:44.140 --> 00:54:46.140 Some shorter than the others. 00:54:46.140 --> 00:54:48.140 Some shorter than the others, true. 00:54:50.140 --> 00:54:53.140 You can only this life to make these choices, eh? 00:54:56.140 --> 00:55:02.140 Sometimes, sometimes heaven breaks into earthly realm. 00:55:02.140 --> 00:55:12.140 Sometimes heaven breaks into the earthly realm. 00:55:12.140 --> 00:55:24.140 Sometimes heaven breaks into the earthly realm within a space, a room, an event. 00:55:26.140 --> 00:55:32.140 And that's when some of the scenes from heaven, 00:55:32.140 --> 00:55:40.140 that's when some of the scenes from heaven that personify Christ, 00:55:43.140 --> 00:55:59.140 that personify Christ or His Majesty, His nature begins to burst forth in vignettes in a room. 00:56:00.140 --> 00:56:10.140 But may it have, my caution is may it have biblical precedent. 00:56:13.140 --> 00:56:23.140 And may it be followed by the voice of the Word of God. 00:56:23.140 --> 00:56:28.140 Because there is no manifestation anywhere in the Bible that wasn't followed by the voice of the Word of God. 00:56:28.140 --> 00:56:34.140 Not the voice of the Word of the person, not the voice of the imagination of the person, but the voice and the Word of God. 00:56:36.140 --> 00:56:49.140 And so if in our midst suddenly there is light, there are sounds, there is healing, there is cloud, there is fire, there is voice. 00:56:50.140 --> 00:56:51.140 Yeah. 00:56:51.140 --> 00:56:53.140 There is precedent for this in the Bible. 00:56:53.140 --> 00:56:57.140 You read Revelation 4 and 5 and you have an idea of what happens in heaven. 00:56:57.140 --> 00:57:01.140 Occasionally, scenes from heaven can burst into the earthly realm. 00:57:01.140 --> 00:57:04.140 It's not something that you try to create. 00:57:04.140 --> 00:57:06.140 It is something that God may choose to do. 00:57:06.140 --> 00:57:10.140 And if it happens then we must measure it by two things. 00:57:10.140 --> 00:57:12.140 One, is there biblical precedent? 00:57:12.140 --> 00:57:16.140 Two, is there a voice of the Word of God that explains what is happening? 00:57:16.140 --> 00:57:20.140 When those two are not there, I'd be sufficiently suspicious. 00:57:20.140 --> 00:57:23.140 Or at least that's the stance of this church. 00:57:23.140 --> 00:57:28.140 Which two things? 00:57:28.140 --> 00:57:31.140 Yeah. 00:57:31.140 --> 00:57:35.140 We should check for biblical precedent. 00:57:35.140 --> 00:57:44.140 And two, we should check for, actually three, check for biblical precedent, check for the nature of the Father. 00:57:44.140 --> 00:57:54.140 And then finally, check to see if there is the voice of the Word of God that comes after the manifestation that reveals something about God. 00:57:54.140 --> 00:58:02.140 Not through imaginations, but through the Word. 00:58:02.140 --> 00:58:05.140 I mean when, let me take an incident. 00:58:05.140 --> 00:58:12.140 If someone, if I take my coat and wave it over you and you fall and I begin to say, 00:58:12.140 --> 00:58:16.140 Elijah dropped his mantle from the chariot and Elijah picked it up. 00:58:16.140 --> 00:58:18.140 This is my mantle and this is what I do. 00:58:18.140 --> 00:58:19.140 That ain't biblical connection. 00:58:19.140 --> 00:58:22.140 That's 2 plus 2 is equal to 5. 00:58:22.140 --> 00:58:26.140 The Father doesn't go around waving his robe over people so they fall. 00:58:26.140 --> 00:58:32.140 Stuff like this should be called out. 00:58:32.140 --> 00:58:37.140 Go with glimpses of heaven that may break forth in a congregation, that's different. 00:58:37.140 --> 00:58:44.140 Because you can't accommodate glory, you can only surrender to it, but the glory must match the person and the nature of Christ. 00:58:44.140 --> 00:58:52.140 And if it doesn't, it should be questioned. 00:58:52.140 --> 00:58:53.140 Three things. 00:58:53.140 --> 00:59:05.140 The nature of God, the voice and the Word of God after the manifestation and a biblical precedent for what is happening. 00:59:05.140 --> 00:59:09.140 When these things happen, guys, it's God who grants access. 00:59:09.140 --> 00:59:15.140 God is the one who grants access. 00:59:15.140 --> 00:59:18.140 God is the one who grants access. 00:59:18.140 --> 00:59:24.140 Be it Enoch, be it Jacob's ladder. 00:59:24.140 --> 00:59:28.140 Hey, hey, at the end of the day, guys, please, this is common sense. 00:59:28.140 --> 00:59:29.140 This is common sense. 00:59:29.140 --> 00:59:30.140 Hold me to it. 00:59:30.140 --> 00:59:32.140 Hold this church to it. 00:59:32.140 --> 00:59:40.140 If anything is brought forth, presented to you, and it does not find its precedent in the scriptures, 00:59:40.140 --> 00:59:44.140 sixty books that cover a whole lot of stories, 00:59:44.140 --> 00:59:52.140 if it doesn't find precedent in the scriptures, you must at least question it. 00:59:52.140 --> 01:00:00.140 We're not that gullible, especially when it comes from pastors or preachers that you trust. 01:00:00.140 --> 01:00:02.140 It's even more dangerous. 01:00:02.140 --> 01:00:04.140 You guys trust me. 01:00:04.140 --> 01:00:11.140 It'd be so easy for me to bring in something into the church and let it slide for a while because you trust me. 01:00:11.140 --> 01:00:19.140 But even though you trust me, will you have the courage to say, quietly, Jacob, what about this? 01:00:19.140 --> 01:00:22.140 Why are you saying this is okay? 01:00:22.140 --> 01:00:25.140 Can you show me from scriptures where this happens? 01:00:25.140 --> 01:00:29.140 Is there precedent for it? 01:00:29.140 --> 01:00:30.140 Because always remember this. 01:00:30.140 --> 01:00:36.140 Any church in any organization that is kingdom-oriented, deception will always come 01:00:36.140 --> 01:00:40.140 because the people who lead you get deceived first. 01:00:40.140 --> 01:00:42.140 It never comes from the grassroots. 01:00:42.140 --> 01:00:46.140 In a kingdom, nothing starts from ground up. 01:00:46.140 --> 01:00:53.140 It's always from top down. 01:00:53.140 --> 01:00:58.140 So Jesus is rebuking the elders in the church in the book of Revelation, saying, 01:00:58.140 --> 01:01:02.140 why are you tolerating that woman Jezebel who has suddenly come into your midst? 01:01:02.140 --> 01:01:04.140 Why are you tolerating her? 01:01:04.140 --> 01:01:06.140 He's not criticizing the people in the church. 01:01:06.140 --> 01:01:18.140 He's asking the elders, why do you do this? 01:01:18.140 --> 01:01:20.140 Be it Enoch, be it Jacob's ladder. 01:01:20.140 --> 01:01:23.140 The reason I'm giving you this is you'll see a pattern. 01:01:23.140 --> 01:01:29.140 God is not predictable, but he has patterns that he has established in scripture. 01:01:29.140 --> 01:01:35.140 Be it Enoch, be it Jacob's ladder, be it Zechariah, be it Ezekiel. 01:01:35.140 --> 01:01:39.140 Be it Paul, be it John the Revelator. 01:01:39.140 --> 01:01:42.140 Doesn't matter which guy you pick. 01:01:42.140 --> 01:01:50.140 You'll always find that God is the one who grants access, and it is by his permission. 01:01:50.140 --> 01:01:58.140 What often happens now is we think it is by his permission and the Spirit. 01:01:58.140 --> 01:02:03.140 You'll find in the New Testament and in the Old Testament a word that's commonly used. 01:02:03.140 --> 01:02:08.140 And it says, on the day of the Lord, I was in the Spirit. 01:02:08.140 --> 01:02:16.140 It's by the Spirit or by God's invitation, not by manipulation, not by bottling it, 01:02:16.140 --> 01:02:18.140 which happens a lot, eh? 01:02:18.140 --> 01:02:20.140 Here's the odd thing about religion. 01:02:20.140 --> 01:02:25.140 Religion always ascends to access. 01:02:25.140 --> 01:02:31.140 Religion always ascends to access. 01:02:31.140 --> 01:02:38.140 Christianity always has God descending. 01:02:38.140 --> 01:02:44.140 Every religion you'll find will do things so that they can ascend to access. 01:02:44.140 --> 01:02:46.140 Take any religion in the world. 01:02:46.140 --> 01:02:51.140 Doesn't matter whether it's Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, Jainism, Islam. 01:02:51.140 --> 01:02:54.140 It's always ascending to access. 01:02:54.140 --> 01:02:56.140 And it was the case in the Old Testament. 01:02:56.140 --> 01:03:03.140 On the first Pentecost, 50 days after Israel left Egypt, what happened? 01:03:03.140 --> 01:03:11.140 Moses ascended Mount Sinai, and 3,000 people died that day. 01:03:11.140 --> 01:03:17.140 Fifty days after resurrection, what happens? 01:03:17.140 --> 01:03:23.140 The Holy Spirit descends, and 3,000 people get saved. 01:03:23.140 --> 01:03:26.140 One of the ways you can know the false from the true, 01:03:26.140 --> 01:03:30.140 or that which is manipulative and bottled and formulated from the true, 01:03:30.140 --> 01:03:49.140 is it will always try to ascend and access where you may or may not have been invited. 01:03:49.140 --> 01:03:57.140 It won't fly in this church, eh? 01:03:57.140 --> 01:03:59.140 God refers to this in Deuteronomy 30. 01:03:59.140 --> 01:04:00.140 I was very surprised. 01:04:00.140 --> 01:04:06.140 As far back as Deuteronomy 30, verse 11, and later on Paul quotes it in Romans. 01:04:06.140 --> 01:04:18.140 If you go to Deuteronomy 30, verse 11. 01:04:18.140 --> 01:04:21.140 I love the way he puts it. 01:04:21.140 --> 01:04:22.140 God is speaking, and he says, 01:04:22.140 --> 01:04:26.140 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 01:04:26.140 --> 01:04:29.140 It is not up in heaven so that you have to ask, 01:04:29.140 --> 01:04:33.140 Who will ascend into the heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may obey it? 01:04:33.140 --> 01:04:36.140 Nor is it beyond the sea so that you have to ask, 01:04:36.140 --> 01:04:40.140 Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may obey it? 01:04:40.140 --> 01:04:41.140 No, the word is very near you. 01:04:41.140 --> 01:04:45.140 It is in your mouth and in your heart so that you may obey it. 01:04:45.140 --> 01:04:50.140 Let's go to Romans 10. 01:04:50.140 --> 01:04:53.140 Romans 10. 01:04:53.140 --> 01:04:59.140 Guys, if you need a medium to get you to access glory or access God, 01:04:59.140 --> 01:05:04.140 again it's back to religion. 01:05:04.140 --> 01:05:12.140 If you need a Tooney or a Jacob or a Jane or a Derek or a Don or a May to access God and his glory and his goodness, 01:05:12.140 --> 01:05:14.140 again we are back to religion. 01:05:14.140 --> 01:05:23.140 There's a common priesthood of believers that is so established that I should not need you to help me to access God. 01:05:23.140 --> 01:05:30.140 That's immature living. 01:05:30.140 --> 01:05:36.140 Romans 10. 01:05:36.140 --> 01:05:40.140 Verse 6. 01:05:40.140 --> 01:05:43.140 But the righteousness that is by faith says, 01:05:43.140 --> 01:05:45.140 Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into the heaven? 01:05:45.140 --> 01:05:47.140 That is to bring Christ down. 01:05:47.140 --> 01:05:48.140 Or who will descend into the deep? 01:05:48.140 --> 01:05:50.140 He's quoting from Deuteronomy 30. 01:05:50.140 --> 01:05:51.140 That is to bring Christ up from the dead. 01:05:51.140 --> 01:05:52.140 But what does it say? 01:05:52.140 --> 01:05:53.140 The word is near you. 01:05:53.140 --> 01:05:54.140 It's in your mouth and in your heart. 01:05:54.140 --> 01:05:59.140 That is the message containing the faith, concerning the faith we proclaim. 01:05:59.140 --> 01:06:00.140 He is here. 01:06:00.140 --> 01:06:01.140 He is in our midst. 01:06:01.140 --> 01:06:02.140 He is in heaven. 01:06:02.140 --> 01:06:09.140 And his glory fills the earth. 01:06:09.140 --> 01:06:11.140 You cannot formulate. 01:06:11.140 --> 01:06:13.140 You cannot manipulate. 01:06:13.140 --> 01:06:16.140 You cannot bottle glory. 01:06:16.140 --> 01:06:19.140 Like Peter tried to do in Matthew 17. 01:06:19.140 --> 01:06:24.140 God has always been one that descends to be with his people. 01:06:24.140 --> 01:06:26.140 You know when he started it? 01:06:26.140 --> 01:06:29.140 Genesis chapter 3 verse 8. 01:06:29.140 --> 01:06:32.140 That's when he started it. 01:06:32.140 --> 01:06:38.140 In the cool of the evening, he would come walking in the garden. 01:06:38.140 --> 01:06:42.140 That is first principles. 01:06:42.140 --> 01:06:46.140 The same God who used to do it then, is the same God who walks amongst us now. 01:06:46.140 --> 01:06:48.140 What's the first scene that John sees in Revelation 1? 01:06:48.140 --> 01:07:01.140 I see one like the son of man walking amongst the lampstands. 01:07:01.140 --> 01:07:07.140 If we don't follow this pattern that God advises, 01:07:07.140 --> 01:07:12.140 how we try to formulate glory, manipulate glory, bottle glory, 01:07:12.140 --> 01:07:16.140 know this, that you open the door to spirit forces. 01:07:16.140 --> 01:07:30.140 The odd thing is, guys, 01:07:30.140 --> 01:07:35.140 if you try to manipulate, formulate, and do stuff like that, 01:07:35.140 --> 01:07:38.140 that does not have biblical precedent. 01:07:38.140 --> 01:07:40.140 Even when Elisha asked Elijah, Elijah said, 01:07:40.140 --> 01:07:43.140 it's not up to me, it's up to God. 01:07:43.140 --> 01:07:46.140 When you begin to do that, know that most of the time, 01:07:46.140 --> 01:07:53.140 you will be deceived by satanic spirits 01:07:53.140 --> 01:07:58.140 that will pretend to offer you everything that you're hungering for 01:07:58.140 --> 01:08:01.140 in terms of an experience and manifestation, 01:08:01.140 --> 01:08:10.140 but not in terms of Christ who is present in you, in our midst, in heaven and on earth. 01:08:10.140 --> 01:08:16.140 Any questions? 01:08:16.140 --> 01:08:24.140 Can you give me an example of where we can call praise as bottling glory? 01:08:24.140 --> 01:08:29.140 Bottling glory will look like, Tuni doesn't do this, but let me just pick on him. 01:08:29.140 --> 01:08:31.140 Bottling glory looks like Tuni begins to sing a song. 01:08:31.140 --> 01:08:35.140 He realizes that every time he sings that song, people really get caught up. 01:08:35.140 --> 01:08:37.140 People begin to praise like crazy. 01:08:37.140 --> 01:08:42.140 It's loud, it doesn't end, and Tuni thinks, what two Sundays? 01:08:42.140 --> 01:08:45.140 Let's make that the starting song of every service. 01:08:45.140 --> 01:08:47.140 Now you have created a formula. 01:08:47.140 --> 01:08:52.140 A Christ is in our presence, and today he doesn't want the shout of a king. 01:08:52.140 --> 01:08:55.140 He just wants Mary-like adoration. 01:08:55.140 --> 01:08:58.140 But now we are a people caught up in the shout of the king 01:08:58.140 --> 01:09:05.140 when all he is looking for is people that sit at his feet and listen to his words. 01:09:05.140 --> 01:09:07.140 That's bottling up. 01:09:07.140 --> 01:09:10.140 Or you go for some crusades and you'll see it. 01:09:10.140 --> 01:09:12.140 It's almost like a script. 01:09:12.140 --> 01:09:16.140 I once went for two crusades and the guy forgot the city he's in. 01:09:16.140 --> 01:09:19.140 I had heard him in Geneva and then I heard him in Vancouver. 01:09:19.140 --> 01:09:21.140 I'm thinking to myself, this is the same script. 01:09:21.140 --> 01:09:24.140 And then he forgot the city he's in and he named another city. 01:09:24.140 --> 01:09:26.140 And someone had to come and tell him, wrong city. 01:09:26.140 --> 01:09:28.140 And he said, Vancouver. 01:09:31.140 --> 01:09:33.140 Formulas. 01:09:33.140 --> 01:09:39.140 Like I said, God is not predictable, but his nature is consistent. 01:09:39.140 --> 01:09:41.140 That's bottling. 01:09:41.140 --> 01:09:44.140 Manipulating, formulating is the same thing. 01:09:48.140 --> 01:09:50.140 Any other questions? 01:09:51.140 --> 01:09:53.140 Any other questions? 01:10:03.140 --> 01:10:07.140 I've been to too many places where people astral travel. 01:10:07.140 --> 01:10:14.140 People go back into places in Joshua's war on Jericho and see that by the Spirit. 01:10:14.140 --> 01:10:24.140 People go and see Jesus face to face and he looks like the Jesus of Nazareth. 01:10:24.140 --> 01:10:26.140 It is unending. 01:10:26.140 --> 01:10:28.140 It's like churning. 01:10:28.140 --> 01:10:30.140 You begin to churn a ministry out of that. 01:10:33.140 --> 01:10:35.140 We have him in our midst. 01:10:35.140 --> 01:10:37.140 He is glorious. 01:10:37.140 --> 01:10:42.140 Even the scriptures and John the Revelator and people like that could not describe him. 01:10:42.140 --> 01:10:44.140 That should be sufficient for me. 01:10:44.140 --> 01:10:51.140 Jesus himself said this, I do not need the testimony of man to prove what I know is true of the Father. 01:10:51.140 --> 01:10:55.140 We do not need now George coming and telling us what he saw. 01:10:55.140 --> 01:10:57.140 Maybe he saw it and maybe he didn't. 01:10:57.140 --> 01:10:58.140 Maybe he's traumatized. 01:10:58.140 --> 01:10:59.140 Maybe he imagines it. 01:10:59.140 --> 01:11:00.140 Maybe it is real. 01:11:00.140 --> 01:11:01.140 Maybe it is not. 01:11:01.140 --> 01:11:04.140 There's no way to judge that, but I know what the word says. 01:11:04.140 --> 01:11:11.140 Hey, hunger after the glory of the Christ in our midst. 01:11:11.140 --> 01:11:20.140 If things manifest in terms of glimpses of heaven here in this congregation, embrace it. 01:11:20.140 --> 01:11:24.140 Let there be president for it and let the word of God establish it. 01:11:24.140 --> 01:11:32.140 The reason I'm saying this is we are at the brink of this, but this must be our baseline. 01:11:32.140 --> 01:11:34.140 This must be our baseline. 01:11:34.140 --> 01:11:42.140 Otherwise, error will come in like before you know it. 01:11:42.140 --> 01:11:48.140 That would be a shame, eh? 01:11:48.140 --> 01:11:55.140 Any questions? 01:11:55.140 --> 01:11:57.140 Cool. 01:11:57.140 --> 01:11:58.140 Let's play. 01:11:58.140 --> 01:12:01.140 Then we'll take a break and then Tuni and the boys will be back. 01:12:01.140 --> 01:12:09.140 Tuni and the boys and the girls will be back. 01:12:09.140 --> 01:12:19.140 Jesus, we want to establish a baseline in terms of the glory that you possess because of your nature and because of your presence in our midst. 01:12:19.140 --> 01:12:23.140 We will not separate it. 01:12:23.140 --> 01:12:35.140 We also want to establish a baseline of biblical president, not going with everything and saying it's the glory of God because it must match president in the Bible. 01:12:35.140 --> 01:12:37.140 It must match the word of God. 01:12:37.140 --> 01:12:42.140 It must match the nature of the father. 01:12:42.140 --> 01:12:49.140 But more than anything else, I want to return to what we started off with instead of getting sidetracked by these last statements. 01:12:50.140 --> 01:12:52.140 I want to return to what we started off with. 01:12:52.140 --> 01:12:57.140 And here's what we said, that you are in our midst and we wrote down those characteristics of yours. 01:12:57.140 --> 01:13:01.140 That is what we want to focus on, oh God. 01:13:01.140 --> 01:13:06.140 That is a substance. 01:13:06.140 --> 01:13:09.140 So we open our eyes, Father, and we look at it one more time. 01:13:09.140 --> 01:13:10.140 I won't even read it. 01:13:10.140 --> 01:13:13.140 We'll just look at it before we take a break. 01:13:13.140 --> 01:13:19.140 Because even when we take a break and are having coffee out there, this about you is still true. 01:13:19.140 --> 01:13:22.140 So we just look at it, Abba. 01:13:22.140 --> 01:13:23.140 We go over it. 01:13:23.140 --> 01:13:31.140 It will take a couple of minutes to go over it. 01:13:31.140 --> 01:13:35.140 He is triumphant, victorious, all-conquering. 01:13:35.140 --> 01:13:40.140 Word it however you want to. 01:13:40.140 --> 01:13:41.140 This is his nature. 01:13:41.140 --> 01:13:45.140 This is why he radiates with glory. 01:13:45.140 --> 01:13:47.140 This is the glory of Christ. 01:13:47.140 --> 01:13:53.140 The visible image of the invisible God, the exact imprint of God's nature. 01:13:53.140 --> 01:13:56.140 The radiance of his glory is because of his nature. 01:14:04.140 --> 01:14:05.140 He is in me. 01:14:05.140 --> 01:14:06.140 He is in our midst. 01:14:06.140 --> 01:14:08.140 It's crazy, eh? 01:14:08.140 --> 01:14:09.140 Can you imagine? 01:14:09.140 --> 01:14:15.140 You're in a room and they're talking about you and they're talking about all your good characteristics, 01:14:15.140 --> 01:14:16.140 and you're in the room. 01:14:38.140 --> 01:14:39.140 So, what is it? 01:14:39.140 --> 01:14:40.140 What is it? 01:14:40.140 --> 01:14:41.140 What is it? 01:14:41.140 --> 01:14:42.140 What is it? 01:14:42.140 --> 01:14:43.140 What is it? 01:14:43.140 --> 01:14:44.140 What is it? 01:14:44.140 --> 01:14:45.140 What is it? 01:14:45.140 --> 01:14:46.140 What is it? 01:14:46.140 --> 01:14:47.140 What is it? 01:14:47.140 --> 01:14:48.140 What is it? 01:14:48.140 --> 01:14:49.140 What is it? 01:14:49.140 --> 01:14:50.140 What is it? 01:14:50.140 --> 01:14:51.140 What is it? 01:14:51.140 --> 01:14:52.140 What is it? 01:14:52.140 --> 01:14:53.140 What is it? 01:14:53.140 --> 01:14:54.140 What is it? 01:14:54.140 --> 01:14:55.140 What is it? 01:14:55.140 --> 01:14:56.140 What is it? 01:14:56.140 --> 01:14:57.140 What is it? 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01:15:22.140 --> 01:15:23.140 What is it? 01:15:23.140 --> 01:15:24.140 What is it? 01:15:24.140 --> 01:15:25.140 What is it? 01:15:25.140 --> 01:15:26.140 What is it? 01:15:26.140 --> 01:15:27.140 What is it? 01:15:27.140 --> 01:15:28.140 What is it? 01:15:28.140 --> 01:15:29.140 What is it? 01:15:29.140 --> 01:15:30.140 What is it? 01:15:30.140 --> 01:15:31.140 What is it? 01:15:31.140 --> 01:15:32.140 What is it? 01:15:32.140 --> 01:15:33.140 What is it? 01:15:33.140 --> 01:15:34.140 What is it? 01:15:34.140 --> 01:15:35.140 What is it? 01:15:35.140 --> 01:15:36.140 What is it? 01:15:36.300 --> 01:15:40.340 What is it? 01:15:40.340 --> 01:15:44.260 What is it? 01:15:47.420 --> 01:15:52.060 Can someone just start worshipping? 01:15:52.060 --> 01:15:53.060 Anyone? 01:15:53.060 --> 01:16:06.060 Someone who is not on the music team. 01:16:06.140 --> 01:16:10.140 You will be our King. 01:16:13.140 --> 01:16:17.140 You will be our King. 01:16:20.140 --> 01:16:27.140 From you our God, to you our God, 01:16:28.140 --> 01:16:32.140 You will be our King. 01:16:34.140 --> 01:16:38.140 You will be our King. 01:16:40.140 --> 01:16:44.140 You will be our King. 01:16:46.140 --> 01:16:53.140 From you our God, to you our God, 01:16:54.140 --> 01:16:58.140 You will be our King. 01:17:00.140 --> 01:17:04.140 You will be our God. 01:17:23.140 --> 01:17:27.140 Open your mouth and let your words begin to speak. 01:17:27.140 --> 01:17:33.140 Anybody, for certain the leaders in this church need to open their mouth and start this. 01:17:40.140 --> 01:17:43.140 Can you turn my mic off? 01:17:53.140 --> 01:17:55.140 You