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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Working the Land
Publishing Date: 2010-01-10T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/working-the-land/

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Are we ready, James? Okay. Guys, we've been talking about Gilgal and we are moving on

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from Gilgal now. Once you were past Gilgal, you would enter into your inheritance or the

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land that was rightfully yours. So just pay careful attention to this introduction because

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it's usually introductions are just lead-ins and not all that important, but this one is

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a little important. As you enter into your inheritance and if you want to find out what

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your inheritance is, you'll have to get CD number 3482 from... No, I'm just kidding. You'll have to

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just get that CD. It's vein acid. He's going to set up a library, by the way, so you can borrow

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these CDs whenever you want and return them. So as we enter into our inheritance, I want us to know

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that it is possible to labor in the wrong land. As you enter into your inheritance, it is possible

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for you to labor in the wrong land. And what do I mean by land here? Your land is your business,

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your land is perhaps your vocation, your family, your ministry, your mandate, your mantle, your

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church. All this is your land, everything that concerns your life. If you're married, it's your

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family, your ministry, your church, your vocation or your occupation, your mantle or mandate, and

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your business or whatever you're doing right now. All this is part of the land and as you enter into

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your inheritance, it is possible to work or labor in the wrong land. See, Jesus could have been

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working as a carpenter. He could have been employed as a rabbi, perhaps as one of the political leaders

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bringing down Rome. He could have tried doing things by being part of the religious order,

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but he knew what was his and so he went towards it. It is possible to work in the wrong land and you

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must discern the land that is yours. So remember this guys, you must discern the land that is yours.

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Discern the land that is yours. Once you discern the land that is yours, you must buy that land,

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not lease it. You don't lease the land that is yours. Meaning once you find out, aha, this is

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what God has at present or God for the rest of my life has begun to allot to me. Once you see that,

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don't visit it occasionally. We have that in India. I don't know whether you have it here,

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where you buy plots and plots of land and every once in a year you'll go have a look at the land

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and come back. No, no, no, no. Once you discern that the land is yours, you buy it. You don't

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lease it. You buy it. Meaning you take whatever treasure you have and you pour it into this one

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piece of land. Everything that you have. I was listening to this pastor talk about a man who

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wanted a piece of land and had to give up his, forget the story, it's too long. So buy the land,

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sorry, whatever you have, pour everything into the land. Remember the man who bought the piece

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of land in the Bible. He saw a land with treasure in it. He wanted it. He took everything that was

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his and sold it so that he could buy this one land that belonged, that he wanted. Everything will be

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worth it. And thirdly, once you buy the land, the process is not over. Once you buy the land,

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you have to possess the land. Once you buy the land, you have to possess the land. I read somewhere

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that people have bought land in Dubai, parcels of land in the middle of the ocean, artificially

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created islands for 10 to 45 million. They have bought the land but because the market has collapsed,

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they don't possess the land. They've got a piece of sand in the middle of the ocean with nothing on

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it. I mean you can do Castaway Part 2 on that island. That's about it. So you discern the land,

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you buy the land and then you possess the land. This is why I said this introduction is important

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because we may be talking about this for the next few weeks and I'll always refer you to this

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introduction. You can ask after the intro and we'll talk about that. The other thing we need to

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understand about land is it is not the size of the land that matters. Is it your piece of land? Is

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it your allotted piece of land? That's what matters because your land will bring a produce

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that is abundant. If it is your land, it will bring abundance. It's not the piece of land you

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cultivate. It's the piece of land you cultivate, not the size of the land. It's the piece of land

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that you cultivate that brings an abundance, not the size of the land. Not the size of the land.

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Each one of us... Guys, let me put it this way. You want a real-life example. I have absolutely no

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ambition to run a church of more than 500 or a thousand people even though that would mean a

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greater number of souls to touch, a greater number of people to teach, a greater salary,

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perhaps a laptop computer and SUV and stuff like that. It doesn't matter. It's not the size of the

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land. It's a piece of the land that you cultivate. If this were to remain this way for the rest of

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my life and it is not going to because of the prophetic word that we heard over this house

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through Eddie just day before yesterday. But should it remain this way? You know, this would

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be the land that would bring abundance to me and I don't mean abundance in money. I mean abundance

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as in satisfy abundance. I've spoken to Eddie so I just repeated that. So and I'd suggest that you

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get to it quickly. Otherwise, by the time you possess the land, you'll have very little time

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to cultivate it. Get to it quickly, meaning do everything you can to discern the land, to buy it.

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Do everything you can because if you do not get to it, if you do not actively and we'll talk about

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how to seek it, actively seek it then what will happen is by the time you actually buy it, you'll

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be 85 which in Gisela's case gives another 30 years but not necessarily in all your cases. So

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you'll be 85 and you wouldn't know what to do. You're not 85 yet. Okay. Not by far. I know you

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were younger than Gisela. I just had to take an age that no one was here. So get to it otherwise

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by the time you possess it, you'll have very little time to cultivate it and today what we're

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going to talk about is time sharing in the wrong land. Time sharing in the wrong land. Do you know

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what time sharing is? Time sharing is when a certain property is allotted to you for one week

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or two weeks a year. It doesn't belong to you but you can go vacation there. Now unfortunately,

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time sharing in the wrong land can be so detrimental to your physical and spiritual life here on earth.

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And that's what we're going to talk about. Any questions? Yeah, that's why I said get to it. We

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have to discern the land allotted to us. I mean as soon as Israel entered into the promised land,

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they were told, hey, tribe of Dan, this is your portion. Hey, tribe of Judah, this is your portion.

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Hey, Levites, you have no portion. I'm your portion. Everything was allotted. Now if God does that in

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the old covenant, how much more in the new covenant where we are covenant children directly

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from Abraham? There's no gap. This is yours. I mean like I have so encouraged us to figure out

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your inheritance for 2010. What has God got for you in 2010? And to just visit it for a second,

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how do we find out? We go over everything that has been spoken over us over the last two years. We

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go over scriptures that have leapt out of us. We go over themes that have persisted and we develop

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on written form so that it's not in here. Your here is not as bright as you think it is here.

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So it's better to have it written and then look at it and then you have an inheritance. You have

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an idea of, I cannot tell you how marvellously it works and it is not a specific example. It's a

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generic thing that works wonderfully. God said it to Habakkuk. Put your vision on a billboard.

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Set it up so that people can see it. I saw it today. I went over it again today. I hadn't done

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it for the last 10 or 12 days. I went over it to see what's happening because other portions are

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being added to it. If you haven't done it yet, I encourage you to.

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Hey, by the way, she is officially been booted out of Emmanuel.

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That's the usual booting thing. They give you flowers when they boot you. Go ahead.

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I'm just kidding.

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Yeah. You can't be in the wrong family. What I meant is your land is your family.

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So if you, okay, you should have taken another week at Emmanuel.

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So, okay, how does it, how does it apply to families? How can families be working in the

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wrong land? I don't know. We'll have to come back to that. I hadn't thought of that.

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I don't know. I hadn't thought of how it works. Yeah.

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Yeah, I'll come back. I'll try to figure out an answer either towards. Yeah, go ahead.

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Yeah.

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Be part of that would apply to the church as such. But when I wrote family, I actually meant

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like physical family. So let me see if there is a rational to that.

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There is. There is. I just don't remember it. So what we're going to do is we're going to read

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First Kings 13.

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First Kings 13.

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You can see that you're dying to read. So live and read the whole thing. Yes.

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Any time today. Page 296.

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First Kings 13. By the word of the Lord, a man of God came from Judah to Bethel,

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as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering. He cried out against the altar by the

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word of the Lord. Oh, altar, altar. This is what the Lord says. A son named Josiah will be born to

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the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who now make offerings

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here and human bones will be burned on you. That same day, the man of God gave a sign.

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And this is the sign that the Lord has declared. The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it

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will be poured out. When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at

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Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and he said, these him. But the hand he stretched

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out toward the man shriveled up so that he could not pull it back. Also, the altar was split apart

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and its ashes poured out according to the sign given by the man of God by the word of the Lord.

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Then the king said to the man of God, intercede with the Lord your God and pray for me that

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my hand may be restored. So the man of God interceded with the Lord and the king's hand

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was restored and it became as it was before. The king said to the man of God, come home with me

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and have something to eat and I will give you a gift. But the man of God answered the king,

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even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you nor would I eat bread or

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drink water here. For I was commanded by the word of the Lord, you must not eat bread or drink water

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or return by the way you came. So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to

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Bethel. Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel whose sons came and told him that the

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man of God had done there that day. They also told their father that he had said to the king,

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what he had said to the king. Their father asked them, which way did he go? And his sons showed him

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which road the man of God from Judah had taken. So he said to his sons, saddle up the donkey for me.

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And when they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it and rode after the man of God. He found

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him sitting under an oak tree and he asked, are you the man of God who came from Judah?

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I am, he replied. So the prophet said to him, come home with me and eat.

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The man of God said, I cannot turn back and go with you nor can I eat bread or drink water with

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you in this place. I have been told by the word of the Lord, you must not eat bread or drink water

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there or return by the way you came. The old prophet answered, I too am a prophet as you are.

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And an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, bring him back with you to your house

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so that he may eat bread and drink water. But he was lying to him.

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And so the man of God returned with him and ate, drank and drank in his house.

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While they were sitting at the table, the word of the Lord came to the old prophet who had brought

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him back. He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah. This is what the Lord said,

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you have defied the word of the Lord and have not kept command that the Lord your God gave you.

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You came back and you ate bread and you drank water in the place where he told you not to eat

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or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your fathers.

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When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back

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saddled his donkey for him. As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him.

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And his body was thrown down on the road with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

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Some people who passed by saw the body thrown down there with the lion standing beside the

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body and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.

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When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said,

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it is the man of God who defied the word of the Lord. The Lord has given him over to the lion

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which has mauled him and killed him as the word of the Lord had warned him.

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The prophet said to his sons, saddle the donkey for me and they did so. And then he went out and he

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found the body thrown down on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

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The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey. So the prophet picked up the body

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of the man of God, laid it on the donkey and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him

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and to bury him. Then he laid the body in his own tomb and they mourned over him and said,

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oh my brother. After burying him, he said to his sons, when I die, bury me in the grave where the

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man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones for the message he declared by the word of the

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Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of

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Samaria will certainly come true. Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways,

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but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. And anyone who

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wanted to become a priest, he consecrated for the high places. This was the sin of the house of

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Jeroboam that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face of the earth.

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Quite a story. Can I have the mic back?

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We will talk about that. Guys, before we talk about that, some families that labored in the

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wrong land, Lot lost two sons-in-law and his wife because he chose to labor in the wrong land.

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Another family that labored in the wrong land, Eli's family. Eli and his sons,

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Hophni and Phinehas, ended up dying. Eli died too because when they were allotted a portion and were

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asked to take care of it properly, they did not buy and pour everything into it, but began to

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play the fool with the piece of land. Lot's family is one such family. Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,

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another family. I could name a few more, but those are two families that labored in the wrong land.

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The family then becomes a unit where they go and labor in the wrong land and not the family being

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the land. When it comes to the family, it's not so much the family being the wrong land because

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once you're married to your wife, she's not the wrong land, but it's them being in the wrong

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situation because the family has chosen to work in a certain way. That's how you would see it.

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This story is quite a story and I was surprised that God wanted to deal with this story because

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I've always avoided it with great skill. To begin with, on your sheet of paper, we see

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different titles so we'll deal with each of them. First, we need to understand the story. We need

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to understand who Jeroboam was. Jeroboam was the king of the northern tribes of Israel. Israel by

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now had been divided into two. There was Judah and there was Israel. Judah was one tribe. The rest of

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the 11 tribes were called the northern kingdom of Israel. Jeroboam was the king of the northern

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tribes of Israel and he was not a nice guy. His mother's name was Zerua. Zerua means leperous.

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His mother was a leper. His mother's name was Zerua. It's in 1 Kings 11, 26. You find that his

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mother was leperous. Now we take the Old Testament and examine it from the eyes of the New Testament

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and Jeroboam is a system. Jeroboam is a system. Here is a king who represents a system and the

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first thing we know about the system is that it is leperous. It is born out of leprosy. It is

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leperous meaning it is isolated. It is isolated. It is cast out.

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It is a loner. It's that kind of a system. So the first thing we understand about Jeroboam,

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the system that Jeroboam represents, is that this system is isolated. It is cast out and

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it usually works on its own. It's a loner. No, Jeroboam actually means I will content for the

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people or I will plead the cause of the people. That's what the word Jeroboam means. Jeroboam has

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nothing to do with I will contend for God or I will contend for the cause of God. Jeroboam means

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I will contend for the cause of the people. That's the second part of the system where it's a system

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that contends for the cause of the people. Guys, pay attention to this because you have to figure

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out if areas of your life are absorbed in a system like this because if it is, it's a wrong land.

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It is leprous meaning what spawns this land is something that is cast out, something that has

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come because it's been splintered, because it's been divided, because it's been isolated from

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normalcy. I would say to you that you will spawn Jeroboam if you choose to be isolated. I guarantee

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you that. Let me say that again. You will spawn Jeroboam if you choose to be isolated.

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I always say this, you cannot live together alone.

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This is the system. It can apply to a church, it can apply to your life, it can apply to most

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anything. For instance, if you are part of a church that contends for the cause of the people,

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then it is a system that is typical of Jeroboam. If you are from a group or a group of people or

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a church or a family that is isolated or you are part of a church and choose to be isolated,

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you will spawn Jeroboam. It's just natural.

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Lepers were always outcasts and so I would say very often churches that come out of splits or

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that have removed themselves or are cast out or that have broken off and decided to build themselves

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without being sent will spawn a Jeroboam-like system.

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Content for the cause of people, it's when the aims are not God's. The aims are how can I make

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Anne happy and how can I still make Matt happy while making Anne happy and making sure that she

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doesn't know that I have made them both happy because now if she finds out I'll have to make

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her happy and he may not be happy about it. And then there's James. So Jeroboam contends for the

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cause of people and he did things for the cause of the people guys. He did amazing things. He

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decided that now that I've become king I'll set up an altar at Bethel and I'll set up an altar at

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Dan. Why? Because then people won't have to travel all the way to Jerusalem which wasn't really very

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far. They will stay at Dan and Bethel and then he thought they have a real altar at

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Jerusalem so I'll build a golden calf and I'll say children of Israel come worship this golden

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calf. Remember Aaron created this in the desert? I now legitimize it as king and then he built

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another golden calf at Dan and he said come worship this and so he made objects of worship

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that were both palatable to the Israelites and the Canaanites.

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A Jeroboam system will make everything attractive, engaging, appetizing to your needs or the soul.

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People pleases.

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Another thing that Jeroboam did is he decided that the Levites don't have to be priests.

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He said you know what don't want an order called Levites who are set apart and sanctified for God's

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worship. Anybody can be a priest. So he decided anyone who wants to be a priest come come you

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want to be priest come everybody. Oh you don't need to be separated no need of holiness no need of

00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:09.280
being sanctified before God everyone come. Made it an open friendly non it was there was no need of

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separation there was no need of a lifestyle of that was separate to be a priest.

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That's another thing Jeroboam does. Then he went a step further he decided that the feast of the

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tabernacles is a feast that celebrates rest dependence on God and the harvest. Let's put

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away that feast let's come up with a new feast that will celebrate just the harvest the work of your

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hands. So he reinstituted another feast in the place of the feast of tabernacles.

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Began to elevate the work of your hands as opposed to rest independence.

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This applies tremendously the the the system of Jeroboam applies tremendously to churches guys

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tremendously to churches. A little less to our individual lives. You have to find out with regard

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to your individual lives do you prefer going to easy places to receive easy food regardless of

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what area of your life it is. Would you rather be challenged would you rather be in your face by

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God and by people or would you like some soft place to go to you know the best way to go to

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soft places don't get engaged with people stay isolated no one will check you.

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The less engaged a people are the more the lack of restraint.

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When a vision begins to unite people restraint comes in

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which is why as long as we can have church loosey goosey it's fine it'll be okay you can't step into

00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:57.680
my space I can't step into your space your sin is your private matter what you do with your life is

00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:02.400
your own. I got a news flash for you that was never how church was meant to be it was not meant to be

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controlling but it was never meant to be the way we have made it.

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This system dilutes beliefs so that they can be more palatable more engaging more appetizing.

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This system builds golden carbs we talked about what golden carbs are months ago a golden calf is

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anything that we create here on earth with our own hands that's what Aaron did in the desert he took

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gold and with his hands he brought out a golden calf and he said to Israel here is your God while

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Moses was faced to foist with the living God so much so that the mountain shook while that's

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happening on the mountain here is a man creating a golden calf it's ridiculous but a golden calf is

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that which is created with human wisdom and human hands so here's my question to you is there a

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geroboamic system in your life where you and I still create things with our hands and our human

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wisdom when you have financial troubles when I have an issue with my family and my friends

00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:11.520
when I have an issue to deal with when I am struggling with something or when there is a

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sickness what is your first resort is it human wisdom and human strength or is it the God of

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Abraham who met you on Mount Sinai? Let me throw another one which will make us uncomfortable at

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times how many streams do you drink out of? Do you drink out of Jerusalem, Dan and Bethel or have you

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decided that Jerusalem is the primary altar that I will go and drink from?

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You cannot drink out of multiple streams and expect the water to be less than muddy

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your source

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spiritual source what is your spiritual source is it Benny Hinn plus

00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:04.640
Morris Cerullo plus Jacob plus Eddie plus four other prophets visiting plus

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everyone who appears on it's a new day what is it what is your primary stream what have you decided

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is going to be your plumb line what is it going to be?

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No that's not wrong what I'm saying is I wish it was a plumb line like that where we have a primary

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stream it's usually not the case we've got multiple streams I had multiple streams in my life for most

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of my life oh by the way if you thought this was a nice message it's not

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when you find that water is salty at one stage sweet at another stage

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taste of almonds at some other place and then has coffee mixes in another place

00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:14.800
where there's absolutely no sinking now I mean I know the taste of water from my tap every morning

00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:18.400
there's a constancy to it

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So when you have to just start getting mixed with that kind of thing when you're teaching some

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foreign students?

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Yeah yeah and none of the people I mentioned do I have a bone to pick with okay

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so these were not deliberately chosen names these are names that rolled off my tongue because they

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are names that are well known you heard of Jacob right? Jacob who? Okay Jacob who okay

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any questions on Jeroboam before we go on if you want to find out more about Jeroboam you can

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read first kings 12 the last few verses and you'll see that all I was saying all I'm saying is true

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guys this is not about attendance okay it is not about attendance I mean why are Tino and Suhani

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not here why can't Amrit come every week because they have kids that cannot come and stay here

00:32:09.120 --> 00:32:15.120
through the night this is not about attendance it is about figuring out where your primary source is

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a lot of this applies to church and again I say to you very very very very emphatically but very

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gently that your life is affected by the corporate body that you have sewn yourself into so you have

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only one or two choices either sew rightly so that you benefit or don't sew yourself so that you are

00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:48.640
like a wind sock that turns whichever way the wind blows that's just the way it is

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questions

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don't be there's not a bowling alley okay if you feel like nine pins stand up and say no I don't

00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:09.120
agree just because I say it a little strongly does not necessarily mean that it's correct

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so if you don't think it's correct challenge me on it

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how does it apply because I know what you're saying but I don't sort of see in my life

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how I would be taking from multiple streams or if you're not somebody sort of like at this church

00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:28.480
sort of church hops and goes all around the different churches looking and looking most

00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:35.040
people here are sort of stable in acts 29 so good math so now when the next group of people come

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and we increase in size you have principles to teach them yeah this is not about finding fault

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with your life if you are feeling that you are at fault either deal with it or come and talk to me

00:33:56.400 --> 00:34:04.320
then come and challenge it but sort it out sort it out I mean there are times when I've watched

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stuff that people talk about on the demonic and we were sitting at white spot and we're talking

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about it and it contradicts the bible but if you're famous and you say it it's good

00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:19.360
many truths are created by repeating them over and over again they're still false but they are

00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:25.440
passed off a truth because if you repeat a truth 20 times on on a channel it becomes a truth

00:34:26.720 --> 00:34:31.120
what if iguanas really didn't fall off the tree and I told you a lie and you tell it to 20 other

00:34:31.120 --> 00:34:38.480
people but they did fall off the tree let's move on to the prophet from juda

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guys I'm I'm passionate about this gerobo multiple stream thing because it is important

00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:56.720
for us in this house to recognize this guys your lives will be affected by what you are

00:34:57.680 --> 00:35:03.280
what you are choosing to be a part of yeah yeah

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no I think it's be aware of the systems that are around that can dilute and adulterate what

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god is trying to do in your life right now do not be a drinker from many streams

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it's not the way it works never the way god wanted it

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I would take geroboam's life as an example other places where paul talks about you have 10,000

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guardians but you have only one father why is it that when you accepted what we taught you

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why is it that you're now opening your doors and letting anybody come and teach you things

00:35:50.080 --> 00:35:54.960
that are completely contrary to what you were taught don't you know that even if an angel comes

00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:59.040
and teaches you a message other than that was first preached with you and that you recognize

00:35:59.040 --> 00:36:06.960
this truth that you should not even listen to the angels I don't know where it is but it's I'll get

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:13.680
it it's yeah came and said this to me yeah

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yeah let's talk about the prophet from juda now this guy from juda we call him the judian prophet

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the guy who came riding on a donkey man he was perhaps as courageous as Elijah Elijah went on

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mount caramel and he challenged the prophets of Baal and Jezebel this guy who is from juda

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rides 10 miles into enemy territory if you want to call it that because they were kind of at

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kind of at they were not friendly with each other and he goes up to the king who has assumed

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the role of a priest and is now burning incense on an altar to the golden calf and he goes up to

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the king and he begins to tell the king that you are doing this is I mean just imagine that guys

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it's like going up to one of the kings in the middle east and in the middle of a service and

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:14.560
telling him he's doing wrong and the king gets hopping mad he takes up his hand and he's going

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to strike the guy when his hand begins to wither so this was a man of not this was not a he may

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just be called the judian prophet but he was a guy of courage almost on par with Elijah he confronted

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the king for his idolatry and then he stands firm against flattery he stands firm against the king's

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wrath he stands firm against the lure of money that was offered to him by the king he stands

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firm against it this guy was like what do you call that no like he had substance he had he had

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he had substance man he was not some kind of a wishy-washy prophet who just turned up from nowhere

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what else does he do guys look at his prophetic word look at the accuracy he tells the king that

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300 years from now on this very altar the bones of false priests will be burned and then he says

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there will be a king who arises and that the name of the king will be joseiah you know how much later

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it happens 300 years later but he was so accurate in his prophecy that he names one of the six

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people named in the bible ishmael was named jesus was named joseiah was named and a few others were

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named a john was named and there are two more there are only six people that have been named

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in the bible and this prophet was in charge of naming one of them he says 300 years from now

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there'll be a king called joseiah and on this altar that you have built there will be bodies

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that will be burnt it happens 300 years later he doesn't use the word 300 but he prophesies it

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he doesn't use the word 300 but he prophesies it and it's for a time in the future

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it was an accurate prophecy he was an accurate prophet

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he seemed to know the ways of god you know the the word used in this chapter is the word of the lord

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came to me and the hebrew usage of the word of the lord has been used seven times in this chapter

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it's only used 12 times in the old testament out of it seven times it's used in this book

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but that's just a thing on the side he seemed to be intimately acquainted with the ways

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the heart and the character and the words of yave

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and he seemed to have government governmental authority man when he said

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when the king raised his hand to strike and the man said whatever he said the guy's hand withered

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that's like peter when he said for a time now you will be blind and in act chapter nine or ten the

00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:59.120
guy who was a sorcerer he goes blind it's like that he had that kind of power so it's quite

00:39:59.120 --> 00:40:04.560
something that this man had this kind of power power and that at the king's displeasure without

00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:11.040
saying a word his hand withered off and then at the prophet's pleasure he the hand was restored

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so this was no ordinary man so when we think of this man being deceived please understand that

00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:24.640
this was not an easy thing to happen this was a powerful man of god who ended up the way he ended

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up it's strange such a strange story any questions

00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:46.080
how what happened i mean how come a man who knows the voice of god who knows his ways and character

00:40:46.080 --> 00:40:52.640
who has this kind of power in a matter of less than an hour and a half or two or three hours is

00:40:52.640 --> 00:41:08.560
completely undone why how okay true true and that's yeah yeah so let's talk about the old

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prophet from bethel we'll call him the old prophet from bethel now the old prophet from bethel was

00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:24.240
perhaps from samuel's school of prophets samuel used to have samuel used to do this

00:41:26.080 --> 00:41:31.680
journey where he would go from misbah to bethel to gilgal and he used to have this

00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:39.520
journey that he used to do while he was the judge in israel and it is supposed that he established

00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:45.360
schools there elijah also had schools in bethel later on so this man could have been trained he

00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.680
was a resident of bethel he could have been trained by samuel it is possible

00:41:54.880 --> 00:42:01.840
let's put it this way he had an idea of what it was to be the prophet of god he did have that idea

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he perhaps was trained in one of samuel's schools in bethel but he had lived the strange thing is

00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:14.880
if he had those abilities as a prophet he was living under geroboam yet he hadn't spoken a

00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:21.520
word against geroboam so much so that god had to send a prophet from juda to speak to geroboam

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here is a man who has an ability who is prophetic who has learned what it is to prophesy perhaps

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under samuel he is called the old prophet right away he's not referred to as a diviner as in the

00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:45.040
case of belim he's called a prophet and so here is a man who had the ability and yet lives in a

00:42:45.040 --> 00:42:51.360
system that has the capacity to dilute anything and he lives in that system and he doesn't say

00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:58.160
a word against it so much so that god now has to send a prophet from juda to bethel because this

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man had now become part of the system he was part of a defective system and in being part of the

00:43:03.200 --> 00:43:07.760
defective system he had taken on the standards of apostate israel

00:43:13.040 --> 00:43:22.080
it happens easily guys this is why again gosh you know that i'm not after you in this church i do

00:43:22.080 --> 00:43:28.000
not want membership you know that i say i do not want and i say axe 29 does not want membership

00:43:28.640 --> 00:43:34.160
that is not the point so do not worry about membership here but guys it is important that

00:43:34.160 --> 00:43:40.800
we lock into a place where you know without a shadow of a doubt that your inheritance will

00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:48.480
prosper because if you don't then that which is within you can lie dormant in a system

00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:52.640
that will change it to look like itself

00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:03.360
so connect to the right places guys

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this man was cocooned in a climate of defiance i mean jeroboam defied god openly he didn't have

00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:24.080
any problems defying god in every which way he was defying the god of israel and surprisingly

00:44:24.080 --> 00:44:32.080
does god who put him in that position to be king actually it's how it happens is samuel goes and

00:44:32.080 --> 00:44:39.920
tears off a piece from this man's robe and says here this piece is juda and it will stay as separate

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and these 11 pieces will be the northern kingdoms so cocooned in a climate of defiance in having

00:44:48.640 --> 00:44:54.720
multiple places of worship in a system that manipulates in a system of soulish religion

00:44:54.720 --> 00:45:00.080
in a system that profanes the precious precious this prophet absorbed the values and the nature

00:45:00.080 --> 00:45:06.560
of the kingdom he was living in guys there are many men and women of god

00:45:07.520 --> 00:45:14.960
uh who have half finished lives and go to their graves because

00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:25.280
they never entered into the proper land but tried to thrive in a land that was not allotted to them

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i'm telling you the truth

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it is the saddest saddest thing

00:45:51.120 --> 00:45:52.160
any questions

00:45:55.120 --> 00:45:59.600
i could i can never understand i could never in the past understand sadness like this

00:45:59.680 --> 00:46:03.920
i could i can never understand i could never in the past understand sadness like this

00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:07.200
but it is so sad when this happens

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we'll figure out in 20 minutes we'll figure out

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what if they think they are in the proper land i would say to you that anyone who is

00:46:27.040 --> 00:46:34.640
has a heart that's pursuing god will always have sufficient speed bumps warning signs

00:46:35.040 --> 00:46:42.080
invitations to step out of the boat that is the hardest part the reason people see this

00:46:42.560 --> 00:46:50.400
invitations to step out of the boat that is the hardest part the reason people stay in the land

00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:55.760
they are in is because to step into the land they are supposed to it requires a stepping out of the

00:46:55.760 --> 00:47:05.280
boat that is why people don't do it i delayed stepping out of the boat because i was afraid

00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:10.960
i could have come into the land i was supposed to sow in that was in that was my inheritance

00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:14.480
perhaps earlier and i did not because i was scared

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there are many i told you this there were 33 pastors who came to attend

00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:33.040
the teaching we did when sue heidi and i went 33 men came and out of that 33 three have

00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:43.760
have expressed a genuine desire to step out 30 went back saying it is not possible and before

00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:50.240
we started the training i told them with all seriousness i said please leave now because if

00:47:50.240 --> 00:47:55.360
you hear what i'm going to say from here on you will be responsible for what you hear so leave now

00:47:55.360 --> 00:48:00.880
and they laughed said no no we can handle it and i said i'm not kidding you leave now because you

00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:04.880
will be held responsible for what you're going to hear and they said no it's okay and they stayed

00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:12.160
there and when it was done when we asked 30 of them will not go will not step out of the boat

00:48:12.160 --> 00:48:16.720
because if they step out of the boat they will anger their physical fathers they will anger

00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:27.680
their congregation they will lose their source of secure income they will lose their congregations

00:48:28.640 --> 00:48:35.760
there's too much of a cost to pay so they will not so to answer your question there will be

00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:43.520
opportunities for those who are gang ho or not gang ho those who are have decided i want to pursue

00:48:43.520 --> 00:48:49.600
all the inheritance god has for me these people will have opportunities invitations speed blocks

00:48:49.600 --> 00:48:56.880
warnings to help them step out of the boat into the land what seems like water becomes terra firma

00:48:56.880 --> 00:49:04.720
under your feet when you step out of the boat so with that group what is some examples of them

00:49:04.720 --> 00:49:09.840
stepping out of the boat that they refused to do all these things i told you they would lose all this

00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:15.120
no but what what what was what was the actual thing that they had to do like they would have

00:49:15.120 --> 00:49:19.680
if they began to live by the teachings that were taught they would have to change everything

00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:25.920
everything was set according to this system pleasing man having multiple options so that

00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:32.560
everyone is happy diluting things yeah but so what do they stop doing that or they start like

00:49:32.560 --> 00:49:36.800
what is that you would have to change it man like it's like it's like if you told someone how to

00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:40.960
paint and they've been painting wrong all their lives and you say paint the other way if you want

00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:46.080
to work here and they say no there's nothing you can do it's teaching a new way of doing things

00:49:46.240 --> 00:49:51.440
doing things i had to learn it i'm still learning it we had to learn it with regard to the money

00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:56.960
thing that happened but i could have said no no no that's too dangerous a thing if we want to

00:49:56.960 --> 00:50:01.200
give eddie or if we want to give anyone we'll keep raising because if we touch the money that

00:50:01.200 --> 00:50:06.240
comes into the church that will upset our budget and if it upsets our budget i may not get paid

00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:15.440
i cannot afford that so let's not do that it's a fair thought remember budgets only pay off your

00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:20.320
debts we don't live by budgets or savings we live by

00:50:25.120 --> 00:50:26.400
selfless right on girl

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now let's look at the intent of each of these men let's look at the intent of each of these men

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what was jero bohme's intent in inviting the priest inviting the prophet to dinner he says

00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:46.720
come come come to my home and eat with me what is his intent

00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:54.800
after the man's hand was healed he says come home have dinner with me what was jero bohme's intent

00:50:54.800 --> 00:51:05.840
what is the king's intent to bring him on his side why the word that was spoken was harsh so

00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:12.880
the hand is restored now and he says come home for dinner so why would jero bohme what is his intent

00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:20.320
he wants to get into that system jero bohme wanted the prophet to enter into his system

00:51:21.520 --> 00:51:25.840
table fellowship or dining was the ultimate expression of friendship guys

00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:34.960
in that culture and even in many other cultures today to enter into table fellowship was ah you're

00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:42.240
my brother now and what the king was trying to do he had just heard this tough prophecy that he saw

00:51:42.240 --> 00:51:48.880
the altar split which was like the desecration of an altar that he had promoted amongst the people

00:51:49.600 --> 00:51:55.680
now he had a black face among in front of the people i mean imagine he's erected an altar he's

00:51:55.680 --> 00:52:00.400
got a golden calf in the background he's worshiping it and in the middle of that by the hand of god

00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:06.000
the altar splits and the ashes fall it's like you've lost any ground to stand on

00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:11.200
the hand is healed he says come because he knew the moment the man came and ate with him he would

00:52:11.200 --> 00:52:15.680
now have saved his face in front of the people because the people would have said aha the prophet

00:52:15.680 --> 00:52:19.760
went and dined with the king so things are okay too he was trying to draw the man into his system

00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:24.320
that's what jero bohme's intent was

00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:32.400
what is the judi and prophets intent in not eating it's kind of obvious

00:52:33.200 --> 00:52:34.160
it's kind of obvious

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yeah god told him not to and the prophet refuses to dine with the king knowing that one it would

00:52:43.200 --> 00:52:48.240
violate god's explicit directions and two if he ate with the king it would

00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:54.640
indicate approval for the king's method and behavior so on one hand he wouldn't eat with

00:52:54.640 --> 00:53:00.960
the king because he god specifically told him go finish your work do not eat or drink go back and

00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:05.600
not by the same way very clear instructions so one it would be a violation of the instructions

00:53:05.600 --> 00:53:10.000
two the moment he ate with the king he would be indicating his approval of the king

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this is why paul later on in the new testament says with some people do not even eat with them

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because your very association with them would be a sign of your approval on them

00:53:24.560 --> 00:53:35.040
what is the old prophet's intent why did he call this man over for dinner we're not talking about

00:53:35.040 --> 00:53:39.600
whether he lied or told the truth but what do you think was the old prophet's intent why did he call

00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:41.600
the man for dinner

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by lying

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to see what the outcome was

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right on see the old prophet was part of the defective system of jeroboam

00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:14.160
what he was doing or his intent because he knew everything his sons came and told him what had

00:54:14.160 --> 00:54:21.040
happened and what the judian prophet had spoken that he is not to eat he's to go by a different

00:54:21.040 --> 00:54:26.640
way he knew everything there was nothing hidden from him he goes and invites the judian prophet

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home because he knew that if this invitation worked and the man came and ate with him then

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immediately the land would know that this prophet did not obey explicit word of god given to him

00:54:42.560 --> 00:54:46.160
therefore it would question everything else he said on behalf of god to the king

00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:52.960
disqualify him it would question the validity of anything the man said by having him come and eat

00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:58.080
it would be a violation of god's word and if this prophet can throw aside god's word and eat that

00:54:58.080 --> 00:55:05.200
means even the other stuff that he said to jeroboam at the altar could be suspect the whole idea was

00:55:05.200 --> 00:55:07.200
to invalidate

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but what about the prophetic word the word would be rendered useless it would bring question

00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.800
it would it would bring question on the word of god it would

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but that's only part of it it's literally like moses striking the rock three times

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and being stuck away from the

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inheritance we we cannot satisfy bits we are very selective in our obedience

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here is a place where a man spoke two things he said let's read those two things go to first king 13

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the first thing he said was this oh alter alter

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oh sorry guys the the yeah sorry verse three he cried out against the altar by the word of the lord

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oh alter alter this is what the lord says a son named joseiah will be born to the house of david

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on you he will sacrifice the priest of the high places who now make offerings here and human bones

00:56:15.520 --> 00:56:22.640
will be burnt on you that is quite the fact that the lord said that he will sacrifice the priest of

00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:27.760
the high places who now make offerings here and human bones will be burnt on you that is

00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:36.880
quite an indictment of what jero-bom was building jero-bom was offering israel an altar to the golden

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calf saying this is your god and here comes a man saying this altar is pathetic it is useless it's

00:56:43.120 --> 00:56:52.400
abominable and then he goes on to say later on in verse eight but the man of god answered the king

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he said I will not eat bread or drink water here nor would I eat bread or drink water here

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for I was commanded by the word of the lord you must not eat bread or drink water or return by

00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:08.080
the way you came so there are two sets of words delivered by god to this man he decides the old

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prophet's whole intent was if i can get this guy to come and eat at my table then he has completely

00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:20.720
disregarded what he said was a word of god if that is the case then now the other part can also be

00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:27.120
jero-bom can be questioned that was the intent of this old prophet where now a man who once

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used to speak for god goes to undermine those that speak for god the whole intent was to disqualify

00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:41.360
the judian prophet and what he said that was why he went about doing this because he knew what had

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happened you live under a defective system you live under a manipulative soulish system regardless

00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:53.920
of whether it's a house or whether it is our lives I guarantee you it will cocoon you and

00:57:53.920 --> 00:58:00.560
you will become part of it it's just natural it's impossible to live in a cesspool and not

00:58:00.560 --> 00:58:08.320
become part of it you begin to smell of it you begin to smell of it

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the intent of the old prophet was to compromise the word of god by compromising the judian prophet

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let me say that again the intent of the old prophet was to compromise the word of god by

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compromising the judian prophet the moment the judian prophet disobeyed god's words the rest of

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what he said was also suspect especially in the eyes of jero-bom guys here is a king who's just

00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:41.600
received a word and he's thinking to himself okay so the guy said this and that he breaks that so

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this isn't as serious as it looks because he just broke what he said god told him specifically so

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what kind of prophet is this who disregarded that so easily so why should it happen to me and these

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were spokesmen of god guys this was the only way god spoke in those days so that was the intent of

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the old prophet

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old prophet

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no but word would spread there like crazy i mean before this man could even cross the boundary his

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sons had come and told him so guys if you turn your page here's a question what was the

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under the title trap here's my question how did the man of god end up in this terrible predicament

00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:30.960
why how or why i didn't even know how to frame the question what is that one thing that set the trap

00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:39.440
going the lord said the message from the angel but what is the one thing before that that initiates

00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:46.080
this whole trap what is it that springs this trap the question i use in that is going to

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what is it before that

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what is the one thing that could have completely caused this not to happen

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a man was told and this was a common thing in the old testament guys god would give these

01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:12.800
directions and this man knew the distance between bethel and juda is 10 miles that's all 10 miles

01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:20.240
this man was told to go give a word finish the word not eat or drink and go home by a different

01:00:20.240 --> 01:00:24.560
way there were other prophets that were told this elijah tells a young prophet go to jahoo

01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:29.200
prophesy on him as soon as you finish prophesying flee

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lord's wife was told come out but as you come out do not for a second look back this man knew how

01:00:40.080 --> 01:00:48.160
this works embedded in this command of god is a simple there was a simple understanding that you

01:00:48.160 --> 01:00:54.160
go finish you leave this man on a 10 mile journey decides to sit under the shade of the orc of

01:00:54.160 --> 01:01:01.040
gerobo you know this orc was one of the few orcs on that way they say that this orc was so specific

01:01:01.040 --> 01:01:06.960
that it was they could have almost called it the orc it's like hey let's meet at let's meet at

01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:13.280
gm place everybody knows gm place so let's meet at the hollow tree everybody knows the hollow tree

01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:20.320
in sandy park it's not hollow anymore but it used to be that way before it's like that he was found

01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:29.360
sitting under the shaker shade of the orc in the land of gerobo had he had left early the sons come

01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:36.320
and tell the old prophet the old prophet saddles a donkey and goes chasing after him hoping that he

01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:43.600
will catch him there was no need to be caught in deception or caught by the deceiver but he made

01:01:43.600 --> 01:01:52.480
the mistake of sitting of sitting under an orc in the kingdom of gerobo which he knew was a kingdom

01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:56.640
that was abominable and was waiting the wrath of god if it was a long journey it is understandable

01:01:56.640 --> 01:02:06.240
it was a 10 mile journey had he not camped the old prophet would never have caught up

01:02:13.600 --> 01:02:16.240
with the devil

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no i would i would not even look at the world or at the devil immediately i would just look at our

01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:42.960
lives and because this is pertaining to our lives not the world and i would say that any

01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:50.880
thing that begins to compromise me because i have now sought to sit under the shade of the orcs in

01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:53.600
gerobo's territory is something that i have to deal with

01:02:58.560 --> 01:03:06.080
yeah the old prophet could be i could come as an old prophet to you and i could lure you into sitting

01:03:06.080 --> 01:03:09.760
in a land time sharing in the wrong land i could do that

01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:19.040
because at that moment i am living under a system that is so deceptive that deception has become

01:03:19.040 --> 01:03:24.080
part of me so i would love to deceive you i think i'm doing the right thing in fact god uses me later

01:03:24.080 --> 01:03:28.400
to correct you but deception has become part of my life because i live under a deceptive system

01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:33.040
it's the same principle we we are not to look at the world in this guys we have to look at

01:03:33.600 --> 01:03:40.640
ourselves when you begin to time share in a land that is wrong let me assure you that deception

01:03:40.640 --> 01:03:46.960
will catch up with you and we'll talk about that some more we'll talk about the principles that

01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:51.280
we can draw from this any questions before we go on let me finish the line and then you can ask

01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:59.200
questions guys the reason the lion was brought in was simply this one the lion was merely to guard

01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:03.440
the body of the prophet so that it would not return to the land that he came from and get

01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:10.400
buried there because the old prophet after he lies speaks the truth and he says because you have not

01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:16.560
listened to god your body will not return back to the land that you came from so when a lion usually

01:04:16.560 --> 01:04:21.440
stands next to a body it's highly unlikely that someone will have the guts to go take it for a

01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:27.680
burial so part of the reason why the lion was there is so that this body is not taken to the land it

01:04:27.680 --> 01:04:33.200
came from secondly the reason god sent the lion to attack this man and he's lying on the floor

01:04:33.200 --> 01:04:37.600
he's not ripped apart and the donkey donkey is standing there is because god wanted to show

01:04:38.320 --> 01:04:45.600
jero-bombs kingdom that what this man spoke was actually true the the way this man died made it

01:04:45.600 --> 01:04:53.680
very obvious that this man was sent his his death was a miracle his death was a sign

01:04:53.680 --> 01:05:01.200
let me let me put it this way the the prophet was killed in this fashion so that it would make it

01:05:01.200 --> 01:05:06.800
obvious that it was not an accident but the hand of god in both disciplining him and in the validity

01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:12.160
of the word spoken let me say that again the prophet was killed in the fashion that he was

01:05:12.160 --> 01:05:19.200
killed in to make it obvious that it was not an accident no one who saw that scene would go back

01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:27.040
and say poor guy got attacked by a lion anybody who would look at it would say man and that lion

01:05:27.040 --> 01:05:31.840
was there and he was just standing there next to the prophet's body and there was a donkey and the

01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.360
lion and the donkey were happy and the lion and the dead prophet were happy and no one was eating

01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:44.080
up anybody and it was a sign that this prophet was punished because he disobeyed god's word and if

01:05:44.080 --> 01:05:48.640
this is how god dealt with this prophet then we know that this prophet was sent from god and

01:05:48.640 --> 01:05:54.880
therefore it validates everything else he spoke to so in that one death in that one miraculous sign

01:05:54.880 --> 01:06:03.520
of death god was achieving two ends one he was bringing forth discipline to show that this man

01:06:03.520 --> 01:06:09.520
did break the word and therefore he has died a death and two he was saying this was no accident

01:06:09.520 --> 01:06:12.800
i did it to him to show you that what he was spoken before was also true

01:06:13.040 --> 01:06:18.640
and his grave 300 years later his grave was still there it reminded people of what happened when you

01:06:18.640 --> 01:06:23.520
go to second kings 23 you'll find it joseph looks at the grave and he says whose grave is this and

01:06:23.520 --> 01:06:28.320
they said this was the grave of the prophet who was killed by a lion 300 years later he was still

01:06:28.320 --> 01:06:34.560
remembered for what he did in splitting the altar and for prophesying that on this altar the bones

01:06:34.560 --> 01:06:41.360
of priests will be burnt and you know who burnt it joseph and he was still there and he was still

01:06:41.680 --> 01:06:49.520
alive so in his death he became a prophetic voice i plead with you may your deaths not be a prophetic

01:06:49.520 --> 01:07:00.240
voice i have seen far no not far too many i've seen few too many whose death has been a lesson

01:07:00.240 --> 01:07:07.520
to learn from i do not want my death to be a prophetic voice to axe 29 and i pray god that

01:07:07.760 --> 01:07:14.720
you do not canonize me and what i mean by that is don't just talk about how wonderful i was

01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:26.800
i'm telling you man i'm so tired of of the of the whitewash that happens with people when they die

01:07:27.200 --> 01:07:30.240
is god taking you home or something

01:07:32.240 --> 01:07:37.520
may my debt never amount to a prophetic warning to my children if it does may you not canonize me

01:07:37.520 --> 01:07:43.040
but learn lessons from it let me put that again and i really put this down as one of the principles

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we can draw may my debt never amount to a prophetic warning to you and if it does may you not canonize

01:07:51.600 --> 01:08:00.320
me but learn from learn lessons from it if for whatever reason i mess around and squander my

01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:06.400
inheritance and i die early before my time and god will make it obvious to you then may you not

01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:11.600
say what a wonderful guy he was but may you learn from the lessons of the mistakes i made that cost

01:08:11.600 --> 01:08:15.040
my death

01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:20.000
when we canonize people after they die know we make them what they are not and we do not learn

01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:22.000
from what happened to them

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any questions guys i want to live and i want to live right and i plan to be around as long as he

01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:37.520
wants me to and i expect to know when he's going to take me home

01:08:38.320 --> 01:08:42.160
and i want to live and i want to live right and i plan to be around as long as he

01:08:42.160 --> 01:08:45.920
wants me when i expect to know when he's going to take me home

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yep

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i don't know i just know that 10 miles was

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And if it's hot, then it's quite natural to take a break under a tree on the way back.

01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:14.520
That's a law.

01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:15.520
True.

01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:16.680
But I would look at it this way.

01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:21.520
He comes from a prophetic tradition where prophets knew what it was to walk naked for

01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:28.320
a year without bearing their loincloths and mud walls, sleeping on one side, shaving their

01:09:28.320 --> 01:09:30.380
heads and burning one third of it.

01:09:30.380 --> 01:09:33.100
They knew what it was to serve God.

01:09:33.100 --> 01:09:35.160
This man was a man of courage.

01:09:35.160 --> 01:09:36.820
He had the metal for it.

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Let me just finish.

01:09:37.820 --> 01:09:39.420
I'm just trying to prove a point.

01:09:39.420 --> 01:09:46.340
And he also knew what was inbuilt when God said, go, do what I have told you to, do not

01:09:46.340 --> 01:09:48.300
eat or drink, take a different route and come back.

01:09:48.300 --> 01:09:50.640
He knew that it did not involve stopping.

01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:55.020
It was something most prophets knew.

01:09:55.020 --> 01:09:57.620
I would say I was making allowance for him if it was longer.

01:09:57.620 --> 01:10:02.780
I could understand a guy if he had to travel miles like Joseph and Mary did or something.

01:10:02.780 --> 01:10:04.580
But for a 10-mile journey, no.

01:10:04.580 --> 01:10:07.500
I was riding on a donkey.

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But let's assume the sun was hot and he ran out of water.

01:10:12.740 --> 01:10:20.060
But the reason I offered the 10 miles was out of my sympathy for him.

01:10:20.060 --> 01:10:22.240
Maybe he was getting the donkey.

01:10:22.240 --> 01:10:23.240
This is a strange church.

01:10:23.240 --> 01:10:25.940
We begin to sympathize with the donkey now.

01:10:25.940 --> 01:10:31.820
At one point when Chris was reading it, she said, and then the donkey said, yeah, it's

01:10:31.820 --> 01:10:32.820
on the tape.

01:10:32.820 --> 01:10:33.820
Yeah.

01:10:33.820 --> 01:10:36.340
So I was making allowances for him.

01:10:36.340 --> 01:10:40.100
Why would he stop at a just utter defiance of God?

01:10:40.100 --> 01:10:41.220
He made a mistake.

01:10:41.220 --> 01:10:42.220
He made a big mistake.

01:10:42.220 --> 01:10:43.580
And it's a mistake we make.

01:10:43.580 --> 01:10:50.060
We seek the shade of oak trees in a land that is wrong.

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And I can tell you, I've done it.

01:10:51.980 --> 01:10:53.340
I can tell you, you've done it.

01:10:53.340 --> 01:10:55.500
So what are real life examples?

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We are coming to that in 15 minutes.

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Hey, Elijah did the same thing.

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Finished this big thing with Jezebel and then was frightened by a whisper.

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Peter, the ultimate apostle, stood and spoke to 3000, had the keys of the kingdom of heaven,

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opened the keys, opened the kingdom of heaven for the rest of the world.

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And then because of the fear of people, Jerobo, they plead, Jerobo means to plead the cause

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of the people.

01:11:37.300 --> 01:11:42.580
Because of the fear of people in Galatians 2, 11 to 13, Peter, when the Jews come, moves

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away from Paul and Barnabas and goes and sits with the Jews so he can eat with them and

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pretend that circumcision is the ultimate goal.

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Fortunately in that case, Paul stood up and said, what the heck are you doing?

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And Peter later said, he says hard things.

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So it happens on a regular basis, man, to sit under the shade of the oak because the

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shade of the oak is pleasant.

01:12:09.820 --> 01:12:15.340
It must have been a hot day.

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Principles.

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Guys, Jeroboam is a human system.

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We've talked about that.

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It is effective in churches.

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It is effective in our lives.

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Check and see the things that you and I do because we plead the cause of people.

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I just want to share something that happened on Friday night.

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Anne and Elmer and I were meeting with a group of people and because the conversation was

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very jovial and fluffy and nice, I told Anne and Elmer, let's break bread with these people

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and see what God wants to do with them.

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As I saw the conversation going and the Lord had said break bread with them, I thought

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to myself, I'll sound like a real holy guy if I bring up this whole breaking of bread

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thing.

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So Anne came with the bread and the grape juice and I said to Anne, don't worry about

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it.

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I went home and I'm driving home and I knew what I had done.

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I pleaded the cause of the people.

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I saw how they were.

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I had heard what God had said, but I went with what the people wanted.

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I'm driving home, the Lord said, you know, you did miss out on an opportunity because

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I wanted to have these people speak into your life and then I wanted you three to speak

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into their lives and now the opportunity is gone.

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And there was such hurt in my heart for not because of just missing what I did, but the

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reason I missed out on it for.

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It was because I pleaded the cause of the people.

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And so I called them up, I apologized to them and told them I repented what I had done.

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Then fortunately I was able to call those people up and finish what God wanted to do

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with them.

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I would have been far more effective if the three of us had done it together.

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Check in your lives how much of your life is shaped by the cause of the people in your

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lives in opposition to what God wants to do.

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Guys, regardless of how gifted you are, if chunks of your life are spent in Jeroboam

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like territory, then your life and mission will be undermined.

01:14:19.700 --> 01:14:24.380
Regardless of how gifted you and I are, if chunks of our life are lived around Jeroboam's

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table, if that's where we spend most of our time, and by Jeroboam what do I mean?

01:14:30.500 --> 01:14:35.620
All those things I told you in the beginning, that kind of a system that is manipulative,

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that is soulish, that pleads the cause of people, that exalts the work of your hands,

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and that brings to nothing rest and dependence on God.

01:14:51.120 --> 01:14:54.700
Are you a self-made man or woman?

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I have great pity for people like that.

01:14:57.460 --> 01:14:59.260
Am I a self-made man?

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Then I am the worst off from this lot here.

01:15:04.700 --> 01:15:10.220
Anyone who is self-made works by the power of his hands when God is calling us to rest

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and dependence.

01:15:11.260 --> 01:15:16.420
The feast of tabernacles is not a part of my life if I am a self-made man.

01:15:16.420 --> 01:15:17.740
And so on it goes.

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Moving on, what Jeroboam didn't achieve directly, the old prophet did through deception.

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Hey guy, you know when to change the tape, right?

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Okay.

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What Jeroboam didn't achieve directly, the old prophet did through deception.

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It's like Balaam guys.

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I suggest to you that whenever there is a frontal attack on your life and you repulse

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it, do not get comfortable because there is always a subtle second or third attempt that

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is coming.

01:15:43.460 --> 01:15:44.460
Let me say that again.

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Whenever there is a frontal attack on your life, be it your marriage, be it your finances,

01:15:48.060 --> 01:15:52.860
be it your children, be it your body, whatever it be, whenever there is a frontal attack,

01:15:52.860 --> 01:15:59.360
know that after you have overcome it, do not sit easy like Elijah did because there will

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be a second or third subtle attempt.

01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:07.860
Balaam could not achieve what he wanted through cursing Israel, so he brought Moabite women

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to seduce Israel and got the same results.

01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:18.060
Jeroboam could not get the Judean prophet to come for dinner, but he did achieve that

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through another pawn in his kingdom who did exactly what the man had avoided the first

01:16:24.360 --> 01:16:25.360
time.

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There is a subtler second or third attempt that will be made.

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That is when you have to stand up.

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The other thing I want to say is be careful, and this is an important one, be careful when

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you minister to structures that are defective or old.

01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:48.220
Be careful when you interact with structures that are defective or old or when you minister

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to structures that are defective or old because after you have tried tearing down those structures,

01:16:55.560 --> 01:16:59.760
they will turn around and will try to fit you in through money, fame, flattery, dilution

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or fellowship.

01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:02.240
Let me say it again.

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When you minister to old structures that are defective, and now I am talking about ministering

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as in terms of your spiritual mandate or the church's ministering to old structures, whenever

01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:23.760
you minister to old or defective structures, be aware that once you have tried tearing

01:17:24.200 --> 01:17:34.200
things down in that old structure, it will turn around and try to make you a part of

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it through money, fame, flattery, and through fellowship.

01:17:41.200 --> 01:17:53.480
They will have a tendency to fit you in after you have tried to tear it down, and it will

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happen through money, fame, flattery, or fellowship.

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May I also say to you that there are many great women and men of God who were trailblazers

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and were supposed to have gone miles and miles by now who initially came to destroy structures

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and now have become a part of that structure through fame, through money, through fellowship

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in a land that was wrong.

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Many many many many many.

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And God forbid that that should happen to me or you.

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It was very easy guys.

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The other thing we got, we might actually finish in 15 minutes.

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The other thing, the Judean prophet was sent, the old prophet went.

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In verse 1, we see that the Judean prophet was sent.

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In verse 14, we see that the old prophet went.

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Unfortunately, the sent one failed to discern the went one.

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It's very sad.

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The sent one failed to discern the went one.

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Why?

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Because the sent one disconnected from the mandate of the sender.

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Let me write that down.

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It's not just a play on words.

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The Judean prophet JP was sent.

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The old prophet OP was went.

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The Judean prophet JP was sent.

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The old prophet OP was went.

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The sent one failed to discern the went one.

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Because the sent one disconnected from the mandate of the sender.

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A sent one should always be aware of went ones.

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A sent one can discern it.

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There have been people who have come to Acts 29 who were not sent who were went.

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And we have denied them a platform.

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A went one is one who comes on his own, not in the name.

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We sang that song sent.

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We come not in our name, but in the name of the Lord.

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We represent not our fame, but the fame of our God.

01:21:06.240 --> 01:21:10.420
We are not here to grow in riches or to seek the things of the world.

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But we are here to grow in the stature of the one who rules the world.

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The point is there are some people that are sent and you know when God is sending someone

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and you know others who go because they have abilities, talents, giftings.

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But they have never been sent to you at that time.

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And when that happens, be very aware.

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Do not accept what went ones have to give you.

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Or if you accept it, accept it with great discerning because even donkeys can be used.

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That is why when people say they will, you may not hear of it because I don't tell you

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about it, but when people say they want to come to Acts 29 and perhaps they can share

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something, very often I'll come up with a reason why they, why it won't work out.

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Because we need to recognize those that are sent to us.

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And it is possible to discern it.

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You just know it.

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Usually God will tell you ahead of time or God will tell you when the guy is speaking

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or there will be something in what he's saying that resonates with what is inside you.

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Like when you went to the church of Bristol with Pastor Jerry and he said that you were

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to teach that day and it surprised him and it surprised his wife.

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That was the case where this man did not know me.

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Jerry, Pastor Jerry did not know me.

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I came off the streets and yet in his heart he heard God saying, you are not to speak

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today.

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You're going to go up to that man and ask him to speak.

01:22:44.100 --> 01:22:49.300
And he took a risk that I would be, I perhaps would not have taken.

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I would have liked to take him, but it would have been difficult.

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Yeah literally.

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And that's how that whole relationship began.

01:22:58.180 --> 01:23:03.380
But he was a man who discerned that Jacob was not coming in his name.

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I knew the night before that I would be preaching there.

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So while I'm flying into Bristol, I'm writing my notes for the next morning sermon.

01:23:11.140 --> 01:23:13.740
And yet I didn't go and say, God has given me a word for your church.

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I need to preach because if you're sent, then God who is the sender will open a door.

01:23:19.360 --> 01:23:21.860
If you're went, you will have to open a door.

01:23:21.860 --> 01:23:23.940
The went one came and said, no, no, no, it's okay.

01:23:23.940 --> 01:23:28.020
Come for dinner because an angel came and told me that that that that that that that

01:23:28.020 --> 01:23:31.460
you'll have to force open the door.

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Sent ones need to discern went ones.

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Recognize the ones who are went to you.

01:23:41.260 --> 01:23:43.380
So you're discerning with what they offer you.

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They will prophesy truth.

01:23:45.460 --> 01:23:46.600
Then they will prophesy lies.

01:23:46.600 --> 01:23:51.860
They will mourn and bury you and claim you as their own.

01:23:51.860 --> 01:23:55.500
Went ones will prophesy the truth to you.

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That's why I'm I'm wary of vent prophets and there are many of them around.

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Went ones will prophesy to you after prophesying to you.

01:24:05.180 --> 01:24:08.060
They will prophesy some truth and then there will be some lies.

01:24:08.060 --> 01:24:12.460
Then they will mourn for you and then bury you and claim you as their own.

01:24:12.460 --> 01:24:19.660
Guess who this Judean prophet was buried next to the whole prophet.

01:24:19.660 --> 01:24:22.060
What's the reason for his death?

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We understand why a wrong land is so, so dangerous to us.

01:24:27.300 --> 01:24:32.700
Why it is important to know the field you are to cultivate and why you need a filter

01:24:32.700 --> 01:24:40.260
around it to know who to let in and who not to let in.

01:24:40.260 --> 01:24:45.260
Over the next week or perhaps two weeks, it'll become clearer in terms of how to keep our

01:24:45.260 --> 01:24:50.540
land intact or keep what this land means in terms of inheritance.

01:24:50.540 --> 01:24:51.540
It gets clearer.

01:24:51.540 --> 01:24:55.500
It'll get clearer in the next three weeks and then if you keep listening to it, it'll

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get clearer and clearer and clearer.

01:24:59.460 --> 01:25:03.460
Like I said to you, I have to go and listen to these CDs because many of the things that

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I'm saying are not in my notes, guys.

01:25:05.940 --> 01:25:09.260
So I'll have to listen to it and in my car I'm sitting as if I'm listening to someone

01:25:09.260 --> 01:25:14.460
else and I'm saying, oh shucks, that is an amazing point because I know that it has nothing

01:25:14.460 --> 01:25:16.460
to do with me.

01:25:16.460 --> 01:25:21.300
I'm being straight with you right now.

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Guys, in Acts 29, if you want to speak God's word, then you've got to speak it publicly.

01:25:28.980 --> 01:25:34.100
Please don't side up to someone and say I have a word for you when you have an opportunity

01:25:34.100 --> 01:25:36.540
to speak it publicly.

01:25:36.540 --> 01:25:42.220
If God says something to you and you do not have an opportunity to come and speak it here,

01:25:42.220 --> 01:25:49.580
do come and either tell me about it later or tell me about it four days later or it

01:25:49.620 --> 01:25:53.100
doesn't matter, but do make it known.

01:25:53.100 --> 01:25:55.380
This is not because we want to control what is said.

01:25:55.380 --> 01:25:58.900
It is because there is safety and order in it.

01:25:58.900 --> 01:26:03.380
There are times when James has had a word or Ryan has had a word for someone and the

01:26:03.380 --> 01:26:08.660
first thing James and Ryan did was to come to me after the service before the person

01:26:08.660 --> 01:26:12.460
left and they came and said, do you know, this is what I think God is saying, can I

01:26:12.460 --> 01:26:14.180
go and say it?

01:26:14.180 --> 01:26:19.020
There are other times where Heidi has had a word or Anne has had a word and they go

01:26:19.020 --> 01:26:23.620
and speak to the person, but they will come back and say, hey Jacob, I felt the Lord saying

01:26:23.620 --> 01:26:26.500
this and this is what I said to the person.

01:26:26.500 --> 01:26:28.020
It's not because they need to.

01:26:28.020 --> 01:26:30.980
It's not a control thing or a monitoring thing.

01:26:30.980 --> 01:26:36.140
And anyone who has come and done that, I've said, great, awesome man and I encourage.

01:26:36.140 --> 01:26:40.060
But the point is there is safety and order in it and that's how it needs to be worked.

01:26:40.060 --> 01:26:47.820
If I say something to a woman here in private or if I minister in a certain way, you know

01:26:47.820 --> 01:26:56.780
what, I go and tell either Anne or Heidi or Chris or Wayne about it because I need to

01:26:56.780 --> 01:27:00.340
be responsible too.

01:27:00.340 --> 01:27:05.620
So in this house, either speak it publicly or if it comes later, do come and talk about

01:27:05.620 --> 01:27:11.140
it because you are went if you do it on the side.

01:27:11.140 --> 01:27:14.740
We don't want parking lot profits here, right?

01:27:14.740 --> 01:27:17.500
We don't go up to people just before they're going to get into their car to give them a

01:27:17.500 --> 01:27:19.740
word.

01:27:19.740 --> 01:27:21.700
We have a house here.

01:27:21.700 --> 01:27:24.300
Speak it out in the house.

01:27:24.300 --> 01:27:31.140
If it is a rebuke, then you definitely need to come and talk about it before you rebuke.

01:27:35.860 --> 01:27:37.860
Questions on that?

01:27:37.860 --> 01:27:43.860
Disagreements, challenges, inability to understand that, feel free to ask right now.

01:27:43.860 --> 01:27:54.860
There's no difference.

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Okay, I get your question.

01:28:10.700 --> 01:28:16.460
If it's directional, if it is something that you think is prophetic, then it should be

01:28:16.460 --> 01:28:21.980
If you don't, it doesn't have to run through me.

01:28:21.980 --> 01:28:29.900
You can go to Chris or Heidi or Wayne or Anne or Elmer and speak to them, tell them.

01:28:29.900 --> 01:28:34.420
You don't have to necessarily tell me, but someone else needs to know.

01:28:34.420 --> 01:28:39.500
A word of God that is given in a body, unless it's a rebuke or unless it's something that

01:28:39.500 --> 01:28:44.820
has to do with something private, has to be shared in the house.

01:28:44.820 --> 01:28:50.940
This is not a private tete-a-tete.

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Doesn't have to necessarily come to me because I could be talking to somebody and the person

01:28:53.980 --> 01:28:54.980
may be leaving.

01:28:54.980 --> 01:28:55.980
So take someone else with you.

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Guys, the other thing is, I don't think there are very rare opportunities when I have prophesied

01:29:00.340 --> 01:29:04.740
on someone without someone else standing next to me because there has to be someone else

01:29:04.740 --> 01:29:10.100
who can hear what you're saying so that it can be weighed.

01:29:10.100 --> 01:29:15.580
It is a biblical precedent.

01:29:15.580 --> 01:29:26.100
Has to be someone else who can weigh it.

01:29:26.100 --> 01:29:28.340
So take someone with you.

01:29:28.340 --> 01:29:29.420
Everybody's busy.

01:29:29.420 --> 01:29:30.420
Take Chris.

01:29:30.420 --> 01:29:31.420
You want to prophesy with Ryan?

01:29:31.420 --> 01:29:32.900
Say, Chris, I have a word for Ryan.

01:29:32.900 --> 01:29:33.900
Could you come with me?

01:29:33.900 --> 01:29:36.240
Let's just pray for him and speak over him.

01:29:37.240 --> 01:29:41.800
Ryan cannot turn around and say, that's not what you said because there's another witness

01:29:41.800 --> 01:29:46.440
and you cannot turn around and say, but that's not what I said because there's another witness.

01:29:46.440 --> 01:29:50.680
Everything has to be verified and weighed by two or three.

01:29:50.680 --> 01:29:55.800
It's a biblical model.

01:29:55.800 --> 01:29:58.320
Any other questions on that?

01:29:58.320 --> 01:30:04.640
Guys, if you think this is not right or if it's chaffing, if it's chaffing for the right

01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:06.200
reasons, apply powder.

01:30:06.200 --> 01:30:15.200
But otherwise, tell me if you do not agree.

01:30:15.200 --> 01:30:17.520
Please understand the same applies to me, guys.

01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:21.440
I will practice it by the same method.

01:30:21.440 --> 01:30:25.360
I do this, so I'm not saying something that I don't do.

01:30:25.360 --> 01:30:27.480
I'll come and tell you.

01:30:27.480 --> 01:30:34.560
I'll tell someone in the house.

01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:37.880
Okay, moving on then.

01:30:37.880 --> 01:30:38.880
I got three more points.

01:30:38.880 --> 01:30:40.960
Oh no, two more points.

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Guys, don't let the deception or deceiver catch up with you.

01:30:46.200 --> 01:30:53.560
It only happens when you decide to sit under the shade of the oaks of Samaria or Jeroboam.

01:30:53.560 --> 01:30:58.240
Don't let deception or the deceiver catch up with you.

01:30:59.240 --> 01:31:07.000
It only happens when you sit under the shade of the oak of Jeroboam.

01:31:07.000 --> 01:31:11.560
You know the word sit there that is used in the story actually is a Hebrew word called

01:31:11.560 --> 01:31:16.360
yashab, which means to settle or to marry.

01:31:16.360 --> 01:31:23.400
The word sit used in the story is the word yashab, which means to settle or to marry.

01:31:23.400 --> 01:31:31.440
So do not settle down under the oak of Jeroboam in an area that you know is wrong, in a territory

01:31:31.440 --> 01:31:35.800
that you know is wrong, in a system that you know is wrong, in a lifestyle that you know

01:31:35.800 --> 01:31:36.800
is wrong.

01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:38.000
Do not time share there.

01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:43.800
Do not vacation there because I assure you in that short vacation, the old prophet will

01:31:43.800 --> 01:31:44.800
catch up.

01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:49.400
He will spin a yarn, deceive and your death will be the prophetic sign for the rest of

01:31:49.400 --> 01:31:50.400
the people.

01:31:50.400 --> 01:31:51.400
What a shame.

01:31:54.400 --> 01:32:03.400
Don't let deception or the deceiver catch up with you.

01:32:03.400 --> 01:32:09.400
Only happens when you decide to sit under the shade of the oaks of Jeroboam.

01:32:09.400 --> 01:32:13.400
Catch up with you.

01:32:13.400 --> 01:32:18.400
Catch up with you.

01:32:18.400 --> 01:32:21.400
So what is your oak guys?

01:32:21.400 --> 01:32:23.400
What is your oak?

01:32:23.400 --> 01:32:25.400
How do you find out?

01:32:25.400 --> 01:32:31.400
Where is it that you sit most under that you know is a vacation spot you shouldn't be sitting under?

01:32:31.400 --> 01:32:32.400
What is it?

01:32:36.400 --> 01:32:41.400
May I tell you that one spot you may not think of is no man's land.

01:32:41.400 --> 01:32:47.400
It is where when we decide not to commit to something, that's one favorite vacation spot

01:32:47.400 --> 01:32:49.400
for most Christians.

01:32:49.400 --> 01:32:51.400
You don't have to commit to it.

01:32:51.400 --> 01:32:52.400
You don't have to.

01:32:52.400 --> 01:32:53.400
It's neither here or there.

01:32:53.400 --> 01:32:55.400
It's like no man's land.

01:32:55.400 --> 01:33:00.400
Is there a no man's land in your life when it comes to different areas of your life where

01:33:00.400 --> 01:33:03.400
you're not committed to God but you're not running away from him too.

01:33:03.400 --> 01:33:05.400
You're in the middle somewhere.

01:33:07.400 --> 01:33:10.400
Surprisingly the Bible says reckon yourself dead to sin.

01:33:10.400 --> 01:33:13.400
Consider yourself a slave to righteousness.

01:33:13.400 --> 01:33:16.400
There is nothing between dead and righteousness.

01:33:16.400 --> 01:33:19.400
Either you're dead or you're a slave.

01:33:21.400 --> 01:33:28.400
I'm surprised that the no man's land that I vacation in in some areas of my life.

01:33:28.400 --> 01:33:30.400
I mean I'm doing pretty decent as a Christian.

01:33:30.400 --> 01:33:37.400
No man's land is an area where Lord I love you Lord but I love you from the spot.

01:33:37.400 --> 01:33:39.400
Does that mean hockey?

01:33:39.400 --> 01:33:44.400
Well is that the example you're thinking of?

01:33:44.400 --> 01:33:45.400
No.

01:33:45.400 --> 01:33:47.400
You and I need to talk.

01:33:49.400 --> 01:33:52.400
Oh but the game with Phoenix was so cool man.

01:33:56.400 --> 01:33:58.400
Burroughs had a hat trick, his second hat trick.

01:33:58.400 --> 01:34:03.400
So it's no man's land for you hockey and lane watching?

01:34:03.400 --> 01:34:04.400
No.

01:34:07.400 --> 01:34:08.400
Moving on.

01:34:08.400 --> 01:34:09.400
What is your no man's land?

01:34:09.400 --> 01:34:12.400
Where do you find yourself most often sitting?

01:34:12.400 --> 01:34:14.400
Which oak tree do you most often sit under?

01:34:14.400 --> 01:34:20.400
Is it uncontrolled imagination?

01:34:20.400 --> 01:34:23.400
Is it suspicion?

01:34:23.400 --> 01:34:25.400
That's a surprising one.

01:34:25.400 --> 01:34:27.400
I was surprised that God wanted that to be brought out.

01:34:27.400 --> 01:34:28.400
Is it suspicion?

01:34:28.400 --> 01:34:33.400
Do you spend a lot of time under this oak tree called suspicion?

01:34:33.400 --> 01:34:39.400
Where you're suspicious of your friends, your boss, your wife, your child, your father, your mother, your church.

01:34:39.400 --> 01:34:40.400
Continuous suspicion.

01:34:40.400 --> 01:34:49.400
Is it an oak tree of isolation where you spend all your life living together alone?

01:34:49.400 --> 01:34:54.400
Which is an oxymoron if you didn't realize it by now.

01:34:54.400 --> 01:34:56.400
Is it lust?

01:34:56.400 --> 01:35:01.400
Is that a favorite oak tree to sit under?

01:35:01.400 --> 01:35:03.400
Is it self pity?

01:35:03.400 --> 01:35:08.400
Is it control?

01:35:08.400 --> 01:35:11.400
Is it bitterness?

01:35:11.400 --> 01:35:12.400
Or here's another one.

01:35:12.400 --> 01:35:16.400
Is it always looking for the speck or the plank in someone else's eye?

01:35:16.400 --> 01:35:24.400
Completely oblivious to both of them in your eye.

01:35:24.400 --> 01:35:35.400
That'd be a whole forest of oak trees, man.

01:35:35.400 --> 01:35:40.400
So which oak tree do you most often sit under?

01:35:40.400 --> 01:35:45.400
Guys, the strange thing with things that are holy and things that are unholy is this.

01:35:45.400 --> 01:35:47.400
And it's in Haggai 2.12.

01:35:47.400 --> 01:35:54.400
Let's assume that this napkin is holy because this bottle is holy.

01:35:54.400 --> 01:35:57.400
Now, Haggai 2.12 says this.

01:35:57.400 --> 01:36:00.400
If something unholy touches you, are you unholy?

01:36:00.400 --> 01:36:04.400
Yes. But if something holy touches you, do you become holy?

01:36:04.400 --> 01:36:05.400
No.

01:36:05.400 --> 01:36:08.400
It's just the way it works, guys.

01:36:08.400 --> 01:36:13.400
When you live in an environment that is polluted, you will be affected by it.

01:36:13.400 --> 01:36:17.400
But just because you're not polluted, if you go and touch an environment that is polluted,

01:36:17.400 --> 01:36:19.400
doesn't mean the whole thing changes.

01:36:19.400 --> 01:36:22.400
Meaning it doesn't work both ways.

01:36:22.400 --> 01:36:27.400
God asks Israel, does meat, meat, and meat have a different nature?

01:36:27.400 --> 01:36:31.400
God asks Israel, this meat is holy.

01:36:31.400 --> 01:36:33.400
If it touches you, do you become holy?

01:36:33.400 --> 01:36:36.400
No. But if you touch a dead body, do you become unholy?

01:36:36.400 --> 01:36:39.400
Yes.

01:36:39.400 --> 01:36:40.400
I think I'm confused you good enough.

01:36:40.400 --> 01:36:43.400
Turn to Haggai 2.12.

01:36:43.400 --> 01:36:47.400
So glad God knows how to put these words properly.

01:36:47.400 --> 01:36:51.400
Man, that should be confusing on the tape too.

01:36:51.400 --> 01:36:56.400
Haggai, Haggai 2.12.

01:36:56.400 --> 01:36:59.400
It's just in any age.

01:36:59.400 --> 01:37:03.400
Yeah.

01:37:03.400 --> 01:37:06.400
Okay, starting. Here goes.

01:37:06.400 --> 01:37:08.400
Ask the priest what the law says.

01:37:08.400 --> 01:37:13.400
If a person carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment,

01:37:13.400 --> 01:37:18.400
and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, oil, or other food,

01:37:18.400 --> 01:37:20.400
does it become consecrated?

01:37:20.400 --> 01:37:21.400
The priest answered, no.

01:37:21.400 --> 01:37:25.400
Then Haggai said, if a person defiled by the contact with a dead body

01:37:25.400 --> 01:37:28.400
touches one of those things, does it become defiled?

01:37:28.400 --> 01:37:30.400
Yes, it becomes defiled.

01:37:30.400 --> 01:37:32.400
So it is with these people and the nation in my sight.

01:37:32.400 --> 01:37:33.400
And then it goes on.

01:37:33.400 --> 01:37:36.400
The principle I'm trying to get at from Haggai 2.12

01:37:36.400 --> 01:37:39.400
is that it is impossible to live in a defective system.

01:37:39.400 --> 01:37:42.400
It is impossible to live in a vacation spot in the wrong land.

01:37:42.400 --> 01:37:47.400
It is impossible to time share a property that you know is not in the land allotted to you,

01:37:47.400 --> 01:37:50.400
and come out of there without problems.

01:37:50.400 --> 01:37:51.400
Let's turn to Proverbs 4.

01:37:51.400 --> 01:37:59.400
I just remembered a beautiful scripture that God will put as a nail in this coffin.

01:37:59.400 --> 01:38:01.400
Jacob, in the Amplified it says,

01:38:01.400 --> 01:38:06.400
holiness is not infectious, but unholiness is infectious.

01:38:06.400 --> 01:38:12.400
Nice. Holiness is not infectious, but unholiness is infectious.

01:38:12.400 --> 01:38:15.400
Now turn to Proverbs 4 or 5.

01:38:15.400 --> 01:38:18.400
I'm not sure.

01:38:18.400 --> 01:38:21.400
Let me see.

01:38:21.400 --> 01:38:25.400
It talks about taking fire in your pants.

01:38:25.400 --> 01:38:30.400
Yeah.

01:38:30.400 --> 01:38:34.400
You know, that's exactly what I thought of when I read it, Joan.

01:38:34.400 --> 01:38:40.400
Where is it?

01:38:40.400 --> 01:38:46.400
It says, can you take coal in your lap and not get burnt?

01:38:46.400 --> 01:38:48.400
Shucks.

01:38:48.400 --> 01:38:51.400
I just saw it the day before yesterday morning.

01:38:51.400 --> 01:38:55.400
Yeah.

01:38:55.400 --> 01:38:57.400
Okay, too bad.

01:38:57.400 --> 01:39:04.400
Father, please find it, Lord.

01:39:04.400 --> 01:39:08.400
Okay. While someone looks for it, we'll move on.

01:39:08.400 --> 01:39:12.400
When I say someone, it usually means one person, not all of you.

01:39:12.400 --> 01:39:18.400
So, Joan, if you can just look for it.

01:39:18.400 --> 01:39:20.400
Yeah, it takes too much time.

01:39:20.400 --> 01:39:25.400
Next they'll be accusing me of hockey, planes, and iPods.

01:39:25.400 --> 01:39:27.400
Sorry?

01:39:27.400 --> 01:39:30.400
Proverbs 4.14.

01:39:30.400 --> 01:39:32.400
No.

01:39:32.400 --> 01:39:37.400
6.28. Okay, now the game begins.

01:39:37.400 --> 01:39:39.400
Yeah, 6.27.

01:39:39.400 --> 01:39:44.400
Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burnt?

01:39:44.400 --> 01:39:48.400
The obvious answer from December 25th's bomber is no.

01:39:48.400 --> 01:39:53.400
Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?

01:39:53.400 --> 01:39:56.400
So it is who sleeps with another man's wife.

01:39:56.400 --> 01:39:58.400
So let's rephrase that.

01:39:58.400 --> 01:40:01.400
Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burnt? No.

01:40:01.400 --> 01:40:04.400
Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? No.

01:40:04.400 --> 01:40:12.400
Can someone who vacations or time shares in a wrong land come away untouched or unfunished? No.

01:40:12.400 --> 01:40:22.400
Finally, guys, if you're unable to leave the shade of the oak that you are presently under, please call for help.

01:40:22.400 --> 01:40:27.400
We meet here every Thursday for ministry from 9 to 9 anytime you want to.

01:40:27.400 --> 01:40:33.400
So if there is an oak that you have been sitting under and you've gotten so attached to that oak tree and you're a tree hugger now,

01:40:33.400 --> 01:40:40.400
I'd suggest that you call for help. Do not wallow in your vomit.

01:40:40.400 --> 01:40:48.400
I've had people pull me out of my vomit so I know that it works when others stand next to you.

01:40:48.400 --> 01:40:50.400
Finally, the last point.

01:40:50.400 --> 01:40:57.400
Guys, Psalm 37.23 says, God orders our steps.

01:40:57.400 --> 01:41:01.400
The steps of righteous man are ordered of God.

01:41:01.400 --> 01:41:09.400
So I want us to know this, that when it comes to living in the right land and not laboring in the wrong land,

01:41:09.400 --> 01:41:16.400
on one hand, God orders your steps.

01:41:16.400 --> 01:41:20.400
Tell me something. How do you order somebody's steps?

01:41:20.400 --> 01:41:25.400
Let's get real. This God is not someone who speaks vaguely.

01:41:25.400 --> 01:41:29.400
He says, I do not speak in obtuse riddles. I say things clearly.

01:41:29.400 --> 01:41:32.400
So when God says, I order your steps, how does he do it?

01:41:32.400 --> 01:41:36.400
How do you order your child's steps? How do you, Mr. James, order your child's steps?

01:41:36.400 --> 01:41:38.400
What do you do?

01:41:38.400 --> 01:41:48.400
Teach. How? Direct. With voice, with help, with hand, with gestures, every which way you will order the steps of your children.

01:41:48.400 --> 01:41:55.400
God is saying, Jacob, you have been made righteous. You're a righteous man. I will order your steps.

01:41:55.400 --> 01:41:59.400
God orders our steps. We should be confident of this in 2010.

01:41:59.400 --> 01:42:03.400
It is a great confidence to know that God orders my steps in 2010.

01:42:03.400 --> 01:42:10.400
But here's where the other part comes in. God orders our steps, but we establish them.

01:42:16.400 --> 01:42:20.400
God orders our steps, but we establish them.

01:42:25.400 --> 01:42:31.400
For instance, last Sunday, Sarah was running after Travis.

01:42:31.400 --> 01:42:35.400
Travis was ordering her steps, but Sarah was not established enough in them,

01:42:35.400 --> 01:42:39.400
and I think she knocked herself against the wall and came crying.

01:42:39.400 --> 01:42:43.400
Big deal. Nothing happened. I hope you didn't make much of a fuss about that.

01:42:43.400 --> 01:42:49.400
But the point is, oh, you did. Okay.

01:42:49.400 --> 01:42:56.400
The point is, Travis ordered Sarah's steps. Sarah did not establish her steps and crashed into the wall.

01:42:56.400 --> 01:43:01.400
It's the same way, guys. Every day of the rest of your life, God will order your steps, but you have to establish them.

01:43:01.400 --> 01:43:07.400
How do you establish them? You establish them by examining them, pondering on them, looking at them, saying,

01:43:07.400 --> 01:43:12.400
okay, I have seen what you have said. I will walk in it even though I see two or three steps at a time.

01:43:12.400 --> 01:43:14.400
That's how you do it. Every time.

01:43:14.400 --> 01:43:18.400
You know, this $10,000 that we got yesterday,

01:43:21.400 --> 01:43:27.400
I know what God wants to do. I have an idea of what God wants to do with a portion of it already.

01:43:27.400 --> 01:43:31.400
I haven't told anybody yet. When we sit together to talk about it, we will.

01:43:31.400 --> 01:43:35.400
I have an idea because God has already ordered part of what we need to do.

01:43:35.400 --> 01:43:37.400
Now, will we do it or not? That is completely up to us.

01:43:37.400 --> 01:43:41.400
We have to ponder what God has said, and it will depend on whether we establish that.

01:43:41.400 --> 01:43:46.400
Isaiah 7, 9 says the same thing. Isaiah 7, 9 says, have you received a prophetic word?

01:43:46.400 --> 01:43:50.400
A prophetic word is spoken by God, but it is established when you believe it.

01:43:52.400 --> 01:43:53.400
Isaiah 7, 9.

01:43:55.400 --> 01:43:59.400
A prophetic word that is spoken is not established till you believe it.

01:44:00.400 --> 01:44:04.400
So do not blame a prophet if the word doesn't come true.

01:44:04.400 --> 01:44:06.400
First ask, did you believe it?

01:44:11.400 --> 01:44:13.400
God orders the steps, but we need to establish them.

01:44:19.400 --> 01:44:21.400
You know, let me read you something from the message.

01:44:23.400 --> 01:44:26.400
Here's a father talking to his son in Proverbs.

01:44:26.400 --> 01:44:28.400
Dear friend, or a friend talking to a friend.

01:44:28.400 --> 01:44:31.400
Dear friend, pay close attention to this.

01:44:31.400 --> 01:44:34.400
My li... and then he goes on.

01:44:34.400 --> 01:44:36.400
Let me tell you something.

01:44:36.400 --> 01:44:39.400
Let me tell you how to have good sense so that you'll keep out of trouble.

01:44:39.400 --> 01:44:42.400
The lips of a seductive woman are oh so sweet.

01:44:42.400 --> 01:44:44.400
Her soft words are oh so smooth.

01:44:44.400 --> 01:44:47.400
But it won't be long before she's gravel in your mouth,

01:44:47.400 --> 01:44:50.400
a pain in your gut, a wound in your heart.

01:44:50.400 --> 01:44:53.400
She's dancing down the primrose path to death.

01:44:53.400 --> 01:44:56.400
She's headed straight for hell and taking you with her.

01:44:56.400 --> 01:45:00.400
She hasn't a clue about real life, about who she is or where she's going.

01:45:00.400 --> 01:45:02.400
So my friend, listen closely.

01:45:02.400 --> 01:45:04.400
Don't treat my words casually.

01:45:04.400 --> 01:45:06.400
Keep your distance from such a woman.

01:45:06.400 --> 01:45:08.400
Absolutely stay out of her neighborhood.

01:45:08.400 --> 01:45:10.400
You don't want to squander your wonderful life

01:45:10.400 --> 01:45:13.400
to waste your precious life among the hard-hearted.

01:45:13.400 --> 01:45:15.400
Why should you allow strangers to take advantage of you?

01:45:15.400 --> 01:45:17.400
Why be exploited by those who care nothing for you?

01:45:17.400 --> 01:45:19.400
You don't want to end your life full of regrets,

01:45:19.400 --> 01:45:21.400
nothing but sin and bones, saying,

01:45:21.400 --> 01:45:23.400
oh, why didn't I do what they told me to?

01:45:23.400 --> 01:45:25.400
Why did I reject a disciplined life?

01:45:25.400 --> 01:45:27.400
Why didn't I listen to my mentors?

01:45:27.400 --> 01:45:29.400
Why didn't I listen to my friends?

01:45:29.400 --> 01:45:31.400
Why didn't I listen to my family?

01:45:31.400 --> 01:45:33.400
Why didn't I listen to my mentors?

01:45:33.400 --> 01:45:35.400
Or take my teachers seriously?

01:45:35.400 --> 01:45:36.400
My life is ruined.

01:45:36.400 --> 01:45:39.400
I haven't one blessed thing to show for my life.

01:45:39.400 --> 01:45:40.400
Why am I reading that?

01:45:40.400 --> 01:45:43.400
Because guys, it's one thing to have our steps ordered.

01:45:43.400 --> 01:45:45.400
It's another thing to establish them.

01:45:45.400 --> 01:45:49.400
Here is a father telling his son, listen, don't go down that path.

01:45:49.400 --> 01:45:53.400
Ponder your path, Proverbs 5 says, before you take them.

01:45:53.400 --> 01:45:57.400
Our steps are already ordained by God, but decide to walk in them.

01:45:57.400 --> 01:46:00.400
Establish what God has ordained for you by walking in them.

01:46:00.400 --> 01:46:03.400
God has established it by believing it and walking in it.

01:46:03.400 --> 01:46:07.400
This is why you need an inheritance that is legible for you to look at

01:46:07.400 --> 01:46:09.400
so that you can begin to do this, guys.

01:46:09.400 --> 01:46:11.400
So that I can begin to do this.

01:46:11.400 --> 01:46:15.400
Every time I say you, you understand that I'm saying me too.

01:46:18.400 --> 01:46:21.400
Life is plotted in the gap between ordering and establishing.

01:46:21.400 --> 01:46:25.400
God orders, we establish.

01:46:25.400 --> 01:46:29.400
Life happens between these in this gap.

01:46:29.400 --> 01:46:33.400
This is where life happens.

01:46:33.400 --> 01:46:35.400
Fascinating.

01:46:35.400 --> 01:46:38.400
Everything in your life for 2010.

01:46:38.400 --> 01:46:40.400
God orders.

01:46:40.400 --> 01:46:45.400
And just as you do with your little children, you can hear his instruction.

01:46:45.400 --> 01:46:47.400
I guarantee you.

01:46:47.400 --> 01:46:52.400
I only say to you, do not be like the horse or the mule who needs bit and bridle.

01:46:52.400 --> 01:46:55.400
No, no, no and go, man.

01:46:57.400 --> 01:47:00.400
But between him ordering and between you establishing,

01:47:00.400 --> 01:47:02.400
that's where everything happens.

01:47:02.400 --> 01:47:06.400
That's where faith happens or does not happen.

01:47:06.400 --> 01:47:10.400
That's where obedience happens or does not happen.

01:47:10.400 --> 01:47:15.400
That's where discernment happens or does not happen.

01:47:15.400 --> 01:47:19.400
And that's where patience happens or does not happen.

01:47:19.400 --> 01:47:20.400
Good for you.

01:47:20.400 --> 01:47:24.400
Because I know you're sensitive about Sarah.

01:47:24.400 --> 01:47:28.400
So that's why I said what I said.

01:47:28.400 --> 01:47:32.400
Well, that means that there's no life after established.

01:47:32.400 --> 01:47:35.400
If you say everything happens between the orders and established,

01:47:35.400 --> 01:47:38.400
then you've got a whole bunch of happen after the establishment.

01:47:38.400 --> 01:47:40.400
After you establish, you walk in the steps.

01:47:40.400 --> 01:47:42.400
But I'm saying, you walk in the steps.

01:47:42.400 --> 01:47:44.400
You walk in the steps.

01:47:44.400 --> 01:47:46.400
You walk in the steps.

01:47:46.400 --> 01:47:48.400
After you establish, you walk in the steps.

01:47:48.400 --> 01:47:51.400
But I'm saying your life is determined.

01:47:51.400 --> 01:47:52.400
Let me change the words.

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Life is determined between ordering and establishing.

01:47:56.400 --> 01:47:58.400
Life is determined there.

01:47:58.400 --> 01:48:02.400
You guys who failed at this Abraham, guys who failed at this Jacob,

01:48:02.400 --> 01:48:05.400
guys who failed at this Peter, guys who failed at this David,

01:48:05.400 --> 01:48:08.400
guys who failed at this, tell me when to stop, Moses.

01:48:08.400 --> 01:48:11.400
Well, that means everybody failed at it.

01:48:11.400 --> 01:48:13.400
So that's...

01:48:13.400 --> 01:48:14.400
Not Jesus.

01:48:14.400 --> 01:48:16.400
Yeah, Jesus championed this.

01:48:16.400 --> 01:48:20.400
Yeah, and he had the same advantage as you, Diana.

01:48:20.400 --> 01:48:22.400
I'm not arguing that.

01:48:22.400 --> 01:48:24.400
No, I know. I'm just making a statement.

01:48:24.400 --> 01:48:25.400
I really don't understand this.

01:48:25.400 --> 01:48:27.400
I mean, I understand it to a point.

01:48:27.400 --> 01:48:32.400
But the whole point of the establishing is the abundant life that God has given.

01:48:32.400 --> 01:48:38.400
Yeah, so let's say life is determined between your steps being ordered

01:48:38.400 --> 01:48:40.400
and your steps being established.

01:48:40.400 --> 01:48:45.400
So if I'm given an order, will I have the faith to believe it so that it be established?

01:48:45.400 --> 01:48:49.400
If I'm given an order, I might have the faith to believe it, but will I obey it?

01:48:49.400 --> 01:48:51.400
Faith without words is dead.

01:48:51.400 --> 01:48:55.400
If I'm ordered something, will I have the discernment to know when the false...

01:48:55.400 --> 01:48:59.400
or when the old prophet comes my way and tells me something else?

01:48:59.400 --> 01:49:04.400
When I have been...when my steps have been ordered, will I have the patience to see it complete?

01:49:04.400 --> 01:49:08.400
Or will I, like Abraham, go after Hagar?

01:49:10.400 --> 01:49:16.400
Because according to how I determine life between ordering and establishing,

01:49:16.400 --> 01:49:25.400
either I have Ishmael or I enter the...or I am denied entry into the promised land

01:49:25.400 --> 01:49:26.400
and so on.

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It's endless.

01:49:28.400 --> 01:49:30.400
So it is determined here.

01:49:31.400 --> 01:49:37.400
So God orders our steps, but after ordering, what do you do with faith, obedience, discernment and patience?

01:49:37.400 --> 01:49:40.400
Depending on that, your steps will either...

01:49:40.400 --> 01:49:45.400
Depending on that, you will establish what God has ordered or you will leave it unestablished.

01:49:45.400 --> 01:49:47.400
That's how it works.

01:49:47.400 --> 01:49:49.400
What's discernment?

01:49:49.400 --> 01:49:51.400
Discernment.

01:49:51.400 --> 01:49:52.400
Discernment?

01:49:52.400 --> 01:49:53.400
Yeah.

01:49:53.400 --> 01:49:56.400
I have discernment before...

01:49:56.400 --> 01:49:57.400
Could be.

01:49:57.400 --> 01:49:59.400
I haven't put it in any order.

01:49:59.400 --> 01:50:01.400
It could be shuffled around.

01:50:01.400 --> 01:50:02.400
Yeah.

01:50:02.400 --> 01:50:04.400
Go ahead.

01:50:04.400 --> 01:50:09.400
So instead of saying life happens between orders and establishments, life is determined.

01:50:09.400 --> 01:50:10.400
Yeah.

01:50:10.400 --> 01:50:11.400
Yeah.

01:50:11.400 --> 01:50:12.400
Life is determined.

01:50:12.400 --> 01:50:15.400
And that's how things are established, guys.

01:50:15.400 --> 01:50:17.400
That's how things are established.

01:50:17.400 --> 01:50:22.400
Did you do the same thing with the time and the season?

01:50:22.400 --> 01:50:24.400
Who did it right?

01:50:24.400 --> 01:50:25.400
Abraham.

01:50:25.400 --> 01:50:26.400
Joseph.

01:50:26.400 --> 01:50:29.400
All the guys I said failed also succeeded.

01:50:29.400 --> 01:50:31.400
Abraham, Joseph.

01:50:31.400 --> 01:50:35.400
Abraham succeeded when he was said, you will be the father of many nations.

01:50:35.400 --> 01:50:36.400
He had the faith for it.

01:50:36.400 --> 01:50:39.400
He was fully persuaded, so he was obedient.

01:50:39.400 --> 01:50:49.400
When he looked at the stars at times and thought his son would come through Eliezer, he reminded himself that that's not the way it would be.

01:50:49.400 --> 01:50:53.400
When the vultures came to eat up his sacrifice, he thought he would be the father of many nations.

01:50:53.400 --> 01:51:03.400
When the vultures came to eat up his sacrifice, he went and chased the vultures away, which was a way of signifying that what God had told him was still alive and the vultures that would try to deaden his vision would not get their way.

01:51:03.400 --> 01:51:04.400
He was patient.

01:51:04.400 --> 01:51:06.400
At 99, he bore a child.

01:51:06.400 --> 01:51:08.400
Let's take David.

01:51:08.400 --> 01:51:12.400
David had sufficient faith to know that he would be a king.

01:51:12.400 --> 01:51:17.400
He went through years of running as a refugee but was patient and still stuck with it.

01:51:17.400 --> 01:51:26.400
He was discerning enough to know that even though he had saw it as his mercy and could have killed him in a second, that he chose not to and let him go because he would become king authentically.

01:51:26.400 --> 01:51:27.400
And David was obedient at the same time.

01:51:27.400 --> 01:51:30.400
He was very disobedient to it.

01:51:30.400 --> 01:51:32.400
It can go on and on and on with everyone who failed.

01:51:32.400 --> 01:51:35.400
There are stories of success too.

01:51:35.400 --> 01:51:42.400
So God orders the steps and we establish it.

01:51:42.400 --> 01:51:47.400
Psalm 37 23.

01:51:47.400 --> 01:52:00.400
Yeah, Psalm 37 23.

01:52:00.400 --> 01:52:08.400
The only two guys who really get a good mention from God are Daniel and

01:52:08.400 --> 01:52:09.400
Daniel doesn't.

01:52:09.400 --> 01:52:17.400
There's one more guy who God actually even goes to the extent of saying even if they prayed for this, I wouldn't listen.

01:52:17.400 --> 01:52:19.400
What God is trying to say was these two guys are really neat.

01:52:19.400 --> 01:52:22.400
But even if they prayed, I wouldn't listen.

01:52:22.400 --> 01:52:23.400
No, it was someone else.

01:52:23.400 --> 01:52:25.400
I forgot.

01:52:25.400 --> 01:52:32.400
Yeah.

01:52:32.400 --> 01:52:39.400
Maybe it's I mean, Job Job really messed up, which is why we have three additional chapters in Job.

01:52:39.400 --> 01:52:45.400
Otherwise, Job story would have ended up ended up in Job 38.

01:52:45.400 --> 01:52:50.400
He was pretty upset with God.

01:52:50.400 --> 01:52:51.400
Daniel and somebody else.

01:52:51.400 --> 01:52:53.400
I don't remember who the other guy was.

01:52:53.400 --> 01:52:57.400
They are supposed to be pretty decent.

01:52:57.400 --> 01:53:14.400
What about?

01:53:14.400 --> 01:53:20.400
He'd be an example of a man who definitely vacationed in the wrong land.

01:53:20.400 --> 01:53:33.400
Yeah, poor guy.

01:53:33.400 --> 01:53:38.400
Yeah, there are many different historical takes on what Judas, why Judas did what he did.

01:53:38.400 --> 01:53:47.400
But as long as we stick with the scriptures, we can just assume things from that.

01:53:47.400 --> 01:53:53.400
We know.

01:53:53.400 --> 01:53:56.400
Guys, as usual, don't know how to conclude.

01:53:56.400 --> 01:54:07.400
So feel free to go if you have any need for prayer.

01:54:07.400 --> 01:54:10.400
Matt wants to say something.

01:54:10.400 --> 01:54:16.400
I'm sort of been making progress on finding a computer and recorder to record the worship.

01:54:16.400 --> 01:54:33.400
So something I presented the church to think about the vision I've been seeing is like when Jacob worships and he's got a set set list of songs, but then Holy Spirit comes in, maybe a piano part comes or a drum part and they start making it up and people speak in tongues and pray out in the audience.

01:54:33.400 --> 01:54:53.400
So I've seen like handing around a microphone and then when people have words like in the middle, sometimes he stops and they'll have a word like God smart enough to use the computer that he can layer the speaking and people's words and their prayers and their stories and their testimonies with the music and the piano.

01:54:53.400 --> 01:54:56.400
And like people could have it as a CD in their car.

01:54:56.400 --> 01:55:04.400
If we record the whole thing over like a whole year, we can have like just a prayer CD or there's a healing seminar or people that you know how to do it.

01:55:04.400 --> 01:55:05.400
Oh, yeah, I know how to.

01:55:05.400 --> 01:55:06.400
Well, God is he knows.

01:55:06.400 --> 01:55:13.400
Yeah, but I need so I need a laptop and to figure out all the most equipment to buy like microphones and stuff.

01:55:13.400 --> 01:55:23.400
And for the people to start thinking about even when it's worship to if you're doing prayers in your own language, just speaking or the different people that sing.

01:55:23.400 --> 01:55:27.400
And yeah, so I think it'll be awesome, but I need the equipment.

01:55:27.400 --> 01:55:30.400
I need the laptop and need to know what to buy.

01:55:30.400 --> 01:55:37.400
And then I need everybody's cooperation to like take the mic and like it's some people who are like Jacob.

01:55:37.400 --> 01:55:38.400
He's the leader.

01:55:38.400 --> 01:55:46.400
It's hard for other people saying to maybe be recorded, but it's good to know that with the computers you can edit out mistakes like Wayne.

01:55:46.400 --> 01:55:47.400
Yeah.

01:55:47.400 --> 01:55:54.400
And so like people that sometimes in the audience or the audience, the congregation, people, you'll hear them.

01:55:54.400 --> 01:55:59.400
They're singing but not very loud because they don't really want everybody to hear because it's kind of hard.

01:55:59.400 --> 01:56:06.400
But if we can get lots of people praising and worshiping out loud and then all record it and then people can have it in their cars or whatever.

01:56:07.400 --> 01:56:09.400
OK, so Father, you heard it.

01:56:09.400 --> 01:56:16.400
And if this is I don't think this is something that we can't do.

01:56:16.400 --> 01:56:19.400
I just want us to know when to do it.

01:56:19.400 --> 01:56:26.400
So let it come together in terms of equipment and in terms of time.

01:56:26.400 --> 01:56:31.400
And if the church needs to do anything about it, do let us know.

01:56:31.400 --> 01:56:36.400
Or if laptops have to appear for Matt out of the blue, so be it.

01:56:36.400 --> 01:56:40.400
But we just acknowledge this idea before you right now.

01:56:40.400 --> 01:56:45.400
We don't sense any thing that doesn't fit of us.

01:56:45.400 --> 01:56:52.400
So made now evolve in your time and may Matt have the enthusiasm and the ability and the skills required for it.

01:56:54.400 --> 01:56:55.400
Yeah.

01:56:55.400 --> 01:57:00.400
Yep.

01:57:00.400 --> 01:57:03.400
His rap.

01:57:03.400 --> 01:57:04.400
His rap.

01:57:04.400 --> 01:57:05.400
Start producing that stuff.

01:57:05.400 --> 01:57:06.400
Yep.

01:57:06.400 --> 01:57:07.400
Yep.

01:57:07.400 --> 01:57:08.400
Yep.