(276) “Who Is Greater?”

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It's not by might. And it's not by power. But

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it's by my spirit. So it's not the greatness

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of your army. It's not the greatness of your

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politics. It's not the greatness of your economy.

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It's the greatness of your God. God promises

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in Joel 2 .28 to pour His Spirit out on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promise outpouring, we equip for that

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outpouring, so that we may engage in that very

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outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today. I think you're

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going to really enjoy this one. This is a wonderful

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subject that we have today. Jesus dealt with

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it, and it's all through the scripture. Who is

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greater? Here's a hint. Go low. We're so glad

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way to build community. So today we're going

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to talk about this dispute that the disciples

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had. And the Lord has just downloaded an amazing

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multi -level look at what it means to be greater.

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How do you know who's greater? What are the qualifications

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for being greater? Well, it might surprise you.

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It's not about the most smart. It's not about

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the most qualified. I mean, the qualifications

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are not what you might think. So let's just go

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through this dispute that the disciples were

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having. And it started in Mark 9, verses 33 to

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37. The Passion Translation puts it well. Then

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they came to Capernaum, and as soon as Jesus

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was inside the house, he asked his disciples,

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What were you arguing about on the way here?

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Uh -oh. He was listening. No one said a word

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because they had been arguing about which one

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of them was the greatest. Jesus sat down, called

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the twelve disciples to come around him and said

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to them, If anyone wants to be first, he must

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be content to be last and become a servant to

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all. Then he had a child come and stand among

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them. He wrapped the child in his arms and said

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to them, Whosoever welcomes a little child in

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my name welcomes me, and whosoever welcomes me

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welcomes not only me, but the one who sent me.

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So then the dispute continues in the next chapter.

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You think that would have took the wind out of

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their sails? You would think so, but apparently

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they didn't get the message. Mark 10, 35 to 45.

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And it's interesting that the Passion Translation

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gives James his proper Hebrew name. Yaakov. Yeah,

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Jacob. Jacob and John, sons of Zebedee, approached

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Jesus and said, Teacher, will you do a favor

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for us? What is it you're wanting me to do? I

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mean, Jesus already knew. Of course. We want

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to sit next to you when you come into your glory,

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they said. One at your right hand and the other

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on your left. Jesus said to them, You don't have

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a clue what you're asking for. Are you prepared

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to drink from the cup of suffering that I am

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about to drink? And are you able to endure the

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baptism into death that I am about to experience?

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They replied, Yes, we are able. Jesus said to

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them, You will certainly drink from the cup of

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my sufferings and be immersed into my death,

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but to have you sit in the position of highest

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honor is not mine to decide. It is reserved for

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those whom grace has prepared them to have it.

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Now, the other ten disciples overheard this.

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Oh, boy. And they became angry and began to criticize

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Jacob and John. I can imagine Peter jumping in,

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too, you know. Jesus gathered them all together

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and said to them, Those recognized as rulers

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of the people and those who are in top leadership

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positions rule oppressively over their subjects.

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But this is not the example you are to follow.

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You are to lead by a different model. If you

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want to be the greatest one, then live as one

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called to serve others. The path of promotion

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and prominence comes by having the heart of a

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bond slave who serves everyone. For even the

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Son of Man did not come expecting to be served

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by everyone, but to serve everyone and to give

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his life as the ransom price in exchange for

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the salvation of many. Amen. Argument ended.

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Yeah. For sure. And I think they were probably

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still scratching their heads. And in another

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gospel, it talks about Zebedee's wife, James

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and John's or Jacob. It would really be Yaakov

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and Yohanan. That would be their real Hebrew

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names. It was their mother that would approach

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Jesus. Ambitious mom. Yeah, good Jewish mom.

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Good Jewish mama. This is my boys. She's holding

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out her baby. This is my son, the doctor. She

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has plans. And I just think it's really interesting

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that Jesus brings it home to them that he came

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to serve. And if you remember, I think there's

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been more than one. podcast, more than one episode

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that we have done with Dean Braxton. And after

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we had this message from Dean Braxton about serving

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in heaven, that serving is the number one thing,

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that when you meet one another in heaven, you

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don't say, hi, how are you? You say, how can

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I serve you? And I don't know if you can hear

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that, but we just had a clap of thunder. God

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was just saying, yep, yep, that's it. You got

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it. Service is the number one thing. That is

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the qualifier for prominence. It's the qualifier

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for who is the greatest. It's the opposite of

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the business world. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the business

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world you have to sell yourself. I mean, well,

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you kind of do both ways, however you might think

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of that. But, you know, the people who are looking

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for people to put in high positions are looking

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for people who know how to tell that they can

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do it. And here's all my qualifications. And

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I've done this and I've done that. And I'm educated

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in this and I'm educated in that. And they overlook

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the guy that probably has all of those same qualifications.

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But doesn't boast. And I'm going to interject

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something here. Sure. This is kind of funny.

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This is a book that someone gave me. And it's

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a comic strip that I never enjoyed. Not that

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I enjoy comic strips. But it's called Dogbert's

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Management Handbook. And it's Dilbert. You know,

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it's an office. And, you know, who knows, maybe

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the British thing, the office. was an offshoot

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of something like that. That wasn't British.

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No, that's not, but the original Office was British.

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And then they did a remake in the U .S. Oh, really?

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I didn't know that. Yeah, that's what I found

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out. So anyway, in this book, and it's very well

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detailed in all kinds of things, and it does

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the total opposite of what you're really supposed

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to do according to the kingdom of God. Right.

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I mean, this is how you get ahead. This is how

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you treat your employees. This is the world way

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of... I'm not recommending you go buy out there,

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but The Dilbert Principle is another book. It's

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the same author that wrote the title of this

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one is Dogbert's Management Handbook. Yeah, it's

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by Scott Adams. If you want to look at something

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that this is not the way the kingdom of God operates.

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Right. And I just had to throw that in because

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this is the way the world thinks. Right. I've

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got to get ahead. And even though everybody talks

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to themselves, they're very nice. You know, and

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then this and that. But they secretly, if you're

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in a higher position, somebody wants your job.

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Yeah. It reminds me of how your dad kept getting

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bumped. Yeah. The way his job was set up that

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you could put in for somebody else's job and

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bump somebody. Seniority. Yeah. They could bid

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for your job and get it. Then you had to knock

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somebody else off. It's terrible. Very poor management.

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Terrible. It's really sad. So anyway, Jesus was

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trying to get his disciples to understand the

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idea of service because that's the heavenly principle.

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And he came to serve and not to be served, but

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he came to give his life as a ransom. He came

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to be our redeemer. Then he was going to pay

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the price for us. That's service. Yes. Greater

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love has no man than this, that he lays down

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his life for his friends. Yeah. So fast forward

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to the Last Supper. By this time, Jesus has really

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kind of given Peter a lot of clues that he really

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is going to be the one that is going to be spokesman

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for the move after he leaves. Jesus probably

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didn't outwardly say that. No. But it wasn't

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until the day of Pentecost when it actually happened.

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Right. But he had given Peter some clues. You

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know, Jesus said, who do men say that I am? And

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Peter had the answer. Yeah. Thou art the Christ,

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the Son of God. And Jesus said, on this, I'm

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going to build my church. And so, you know, there

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were clues along the way that Peter was going

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to be designated as the guy that was going to

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stand up and preach on that day when the Holy

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Spirit was poured out. Peter the Rock. Peter

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the Rock. But if you remember, that's a long

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time ago now, but episode 139. It was called

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Whatever Your Blunder, It's Forgivable, There's

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Hope. And we went through all of Peter's blunders

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that he did right there at the last. All the

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known blunders. The known blunders, the ones

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that are written in the book where he, you know,

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he just keeps doing everything wrong. He's making

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the wrong choices. So there's hope for all of

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us when we've made a wrong choice. God says,

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do it this way and we do it that way. And so

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Jesus gives Peter an opportunity. at the Last

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Supper by where he posted him. You know, he probably

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came in and said, you sit here, you sit here,

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you sit here, you sit here, you sit here. And

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the last of all was Peter. Peter, you sit over

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there. And that over there place, I won't go

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into the details like I did on that podcast on

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episode 139. If you want to hear more, go back

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to that one. But the place that Peter was put

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was the place of the servant. And if you didn't

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have servants to wash your feet when you came

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in for the dinner, then the guy in that last

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seat is supposed to wash everybody's feet. And

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Peter didn't do it. You know, he was thinking,

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I'm not going to do that. That's beneath me.

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No, no, no, no. Especially when you've been getting

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these keys along the way. Right, right, right.

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So it's like Jesus never exactly said I was going

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to be the greatest. But didn't they remember

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what he just said? The servant is the greatest

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of all. Now, apparently that wasn't in their

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minds. They hadn't developed the mindset. And

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that's what we want to get into here is the mindset

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of you go low if you want to be great. If you

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want to be first, you've got to be last. First,

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you got to be last. That's the first thing. You

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got to be last. The last shall be first. Yes,

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the last shall be first and the first shall be

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last. So Jesus was putting Peter, who had been

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first along the way, he puts him in the last

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place. And Peter was put out. Probably not happy.

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And that's why he put up such a fuss when Jesus

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came to wash his feet, because he knew he was

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supposed to be the one to wash everybody's feet,

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and he didn't do it. You know, that's why he

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put up a fuss and said, no, no, you can't wash

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my feet. And Jesus said, yeah, I got to wash

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your feet. Or you have no part of me. You have

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no part of me. Oh, well, then wash my head and

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my hands too. No, no, Peter, just your feet.

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That's all we need to do. So Peter, in the end,

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after he made all those blunders and, you know,

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cuts off the ear of the high priest's servant

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and he denies Jesus and he's not there at the

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cross like John is. And he's mortified with his

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own behavior. But in the end, he is the one that

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comes under the anointing to step up on the day

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of Pentecost and preach this sermon that results

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in 3 ,000 believers. So, you know, you have this

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thing that Jesus was trying to teach, but he

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was also expressing who he really is. So in Matthew

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12, 39 to 42, It says, But he answered and said

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to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks

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after a sign, and no sign will be given to it

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except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as

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Jonah was three days and three nights in the

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belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man

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be three days and three nights in the heart of

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the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up in

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the judgment with this generation and condemn

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it because they repented at the preaching of

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Jonah, and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

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The queen of the south will rise up in judgment

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with this generation and condemn it, for she

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came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom

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of Solomon. And indeed, a greater than Solomon

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is here. So Jesus was actually showing that he

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is greater than Jonah and Solomon, you know,

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greater than a king and greater than a prophet.

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Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. Interesting. So you have this

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statement that Jesus makes that, okay. you've

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got these people in your history, but I'm actually

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greater than they are. So he makes the statement

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that he is. So let's move on. What does Exodus

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18, 11 say? Now I know that the Lord is greater

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than all the gods, for in the very thing in which

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they behaved proudly, he was above them. Uh -huh.

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So this is Exodus 18. So this is referring back

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to all the gods of Egypt. That the people of

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Egypt were placing their expectations on. And

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in the Middle East in those days, in biblical

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times in particular, it was understood that there

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were certain gods over each region. And that's

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why our father refers to himself and his people

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refer to him as the God of Israel. The only one.

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There's only one God of Israel. All the others

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have multiple gods to get their job done. And,

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for instance, as travelers would go from one

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place to another, like the merchants, as these

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merchants would be going on the trade routes,

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as they would pass from one region to another,

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they might actually invoke the gods of that area.

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And they would recognize that the God of Israel

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was different than everybody else. And his name

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is... Yehovah. So it's clear from Exodus 18,

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11, that he is greater than all the gods. It

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just says Lord in most of our translations, but

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his name is Yehovah. And then you have the scripture

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in Isaiah 14, 12 to 15, talking, some of the

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translations use the word Lucifer, but the Passion

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uses a different translation. So would you read

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Isaiah 14, 12 through 15 from the Passion Translation,

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please? Look how you have fallen from your heavenly

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place, O shining one, son of the dawn. You have

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been cut down to the ground, you who conquered

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nations. You said in your heart, I will ascend

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into heaven and exalt my throne above the stars

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of God. I will rule on the mountain of the congregation,

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on the highest place of the sacred mountain.

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I will rise past the tops of the clouds and rival

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the Most High God. Yet down to the underworld

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you go, into the depths of the pit. Amen. That's

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where he belongs, and he's on his way there already.

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From the moment God said, let there be light,

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he was on his way there. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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But I think it's fascinating and very eye -opening.

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When you look at who is operating on the Temple

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Mount now, There is some other entity that is

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being worshipped besides Yehovah. That was his

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temple place. And, you know, the sides of the

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north indicates that this is the location that's

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north of the city of David. That's very clear

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from every time that is used in the scripture,

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the expression, the sides of the north. It was

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the Temple Mount. Yeah. The temple was built

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there in Solomon's day, and it was taken down

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in the Babylonian conquering, and then it was

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rebuilt. And we'll talk about that in a minute.

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But to see that there's somebody else being worshipped

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there. And the people who are worshipping there,

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I call them the Psalm 2 people. You need to read

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Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage? Imagine a vain

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thing. Right. And they're all against the Lord's

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anointed, right? It's a very anti -Christ religion.

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So they're the ones that are worshiping there.

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And when they do a terrorist action, they make

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a statement in Arabic that declares that their

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deity that they worship is greater. That thing

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that they say means their deity is greater. So

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they're trying to make a point that their guy

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is higher, he's greater. He's the one who said,

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I will exalt myself above the most high. Exalt

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myself. And there he is. That's who's operating

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there on the Temple Mount right now and exercising

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all kinds of activity from Indonesia all the

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way to West Africa. There's an amazing swath

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of land that is under that oppression. It's an

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oppression. Yeah. And they need deliverance.

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And listen, we are not against Muslims. We're

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not against Muslims. We love Muslims. But we

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hate the chains of bondage that keep them. Of

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the one they serve. Yeah, the one that they're

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serving is the wrong one. I could go into more

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details, but I won't take time now. That's probably

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a subject for another podcast. In fact, we probably

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covered it in another episode, and we'll put

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that in the show notes too. So this other character

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thinks that he's greater, and he's trying to

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make all of his followers say that he's greater,

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but he's not. But he's occupying a place that

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belongs to our Father. Our God, Yehovah, our

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Father, is not like the gods of the other nations

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because they all want to occupy the high places.

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And we know that our God is the highest. He is

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the greatest. His word says he is, and we know

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that he is because he keeps showing himself to

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be greater and stronger than all these other

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entities. But he chooses a place that's lower.

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than the high places. If you haven't been to

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Jerusalem, we encourage you to go, but you will

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see that the Temple Mount is lower than the mountains

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that are around Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives

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is higher. What they call the Mount of Evil Counsel

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is higher. There's another one called the Central

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Mount, and it's kind of part of modern Jerusalem

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now, but I don't think it was at the time. Whether

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it's actually higher than the Temple Mount, I

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don't know for sure. But the point is that the

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place where he chose to put his name is lower.

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And when the pilgrims would come from the north,

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they would come up the other side of the Mount

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of Olives and they'd get to the top and they'd

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look down. on this beautiful view of the beautiful

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temple of God, and they're looking down on it.

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So it's another picture of how our Father and

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Jesus, who is his expressed image, came as an

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example of go low. If you want to be greatest,

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you got to go low. Even our God goes low. And

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the same thing is true at Shiloh. The platform

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where the tabernacle was all those years, 360

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some years, it is lower than the mountains round

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about it. In fact, that's how they determined

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what I'm calling proof positive. That's how the

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archaeologists decided that this is truly Shiloh,

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because the traditions that are written about

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it is that when the people would come there to

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sacrifice. that they would do their sacrifice

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and then they would take their portion of meat

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and they would eat it within view of the tabernacle.

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They had to eat the sacrifice within view of

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the tabernacle. That's really interesting. So

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they've got these mountains around about it and

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the archaeologists discovered that there was

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all kinds of pottery shards all over everywhere

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where you could see that platform. where the

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tabernacle would have stood. Yeah. That was their

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archaeological findings. A lot of times where

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battles took place, they could tell by the bones

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that remained of what they were eating. Right.

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Because if it wasn't a kosher animal, it wasn't

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an Israeli camp. Exactly. Exactly. And so any

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bones that were there would have been kosher

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animals. Yeah. Right? So the point is that our

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Father goes low. He wants to be seen from above.

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How amazing is that? How amazing is that? And

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Dean Braxton was mentioning to us about what

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it's like in heaven, that it's not how we would

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think. It was something about how you can see

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him from every viewpoint in heaven. Whether you're

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above him or beneath him or beside him, you can

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see him from every place because he's the center

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of it all. But he's actually also the servant

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of all. It's amazing. It's amazing. But, you

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know, the evil spirits, they want the high places.

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Think about Mount Olympus. Most of us have been

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trained in Greek mythology. Well, Mount Olympus

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is way up there above us, and that's the abode

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of the gods. And today, you go into India and

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Nepal and Tibet, and the Himalayas are considered

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the abode of the gods. That's where the gods

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hang out. And I had a revelation here recently.

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You may have heard me say this on another episode,

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but I had this experience where I felt like the

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Lord was showing me that his presence was like

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oxygen, that it's all around you and you can't

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sense it with your five senses, but you can't

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live without it. And that's what his presence

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is like. So I asked Ivan Tuttle, is that true?

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Have I got that? And he said, well, oxygen is

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the presence of God. I said, really? And then

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I asked Dean about it. He said, well, I guess

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you could say that oxygen is the presence of

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God, but I think it would be more accurate to

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say that oxygen is the love of God. So if oxygen

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is the presence or the love of God, and because

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God is love, so his presence would be love. Yes.

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When you go up into the high places, oxygen is

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decreased. So his presence would be decreased.

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That's really interesting. So they're more comfortable

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there. Not so bothered by the presence of God.

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Interesting thought. Yeah, it's amazing. So,

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you know, Israel is also, because the God of

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Israel is the greatest, what does that say about

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Israel? Let's look at Deuteronomy 7, 17 through

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21. Do you want to read that, Philip? If you

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should say in your heart, these nations are greater

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than I, how can I dispossess them? Yes. You shall

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not be terrified of them, for the Lord your God,

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the great and awesome God, is among you. So even

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though the nations round about them are greater,

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especially greater in their eyes. Yeah. You remember

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what it was like when they sent the 12 spies.

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And they came back and said, oh, it's a wonderful

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land, but we can't go there because they have

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giants. We're like grasshoppers to them. Yeah,

00:27:42.730 --> 00:27:47.130
we are too small. They are great. And we are

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small. We can't do this. And, you know, that

00:27:49.869 --> 00:27:54.009
didn't go well for them. No. Didn't go well at

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all for them. They had to march around in the

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wilderness another 40 years. They lost their

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opportunity to go into the promised land. From

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one bad decision. Yep, yep. Because they were

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looking at the greatness of the enemies with

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their natural eyes instead of remembering the

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greatness of their God. And he's the God of Israel,

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so that makes Israel a great nation because they

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have a great God, not because they're so superior,

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and they are. Obviously, we've just seen that

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recently about their superiority and what they

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cleaned up in Iran recently. But even Prime Minister

00:28:37.980 --> 00:28:42.700
Netanyahu said he commended all of the military

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that were involved and all of the spies that

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were involved. And the coordination was incredible

00:28:48.779 --> 00:28:52.339
between them all. But he said that it was God

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that helped them and gave them the victory. So

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the God of Israel is still the God of Israel,

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and thank God for a prime minister that's willing

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to say so. But if you look at Deuteronomy 11,

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22 and 23, what does that say? For if you carefully

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keep all these commandments which I command you

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to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in

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all his ways, and to hold fast to him, then the

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Lord will drive out all these nations from before

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you, and you will dispossess greater. And mightier

00:29:25.769 --> 00:29:30.410
nations than yourselves. Precisely. So it doesn't

00:29:30.410 --> 00:29:34.210
matter if we are smaller. It doesn't matter if

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we are weaker. It doesn't matter what it looks

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like. The idea is go low, take that lower place,

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and magnify God rather than your enemy. That's

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for sure. And David did that. So I don't know

00:29:50.630 --> 00:29:52.750
that everybody on the planet knows the story

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of David and Goliath, but a whole lot of people

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do. And remember that he was the youngest among

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his brothers. When Samuel went to anoint a king

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out of Jesse's house, he looked at all these

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good -looking boys, and he looked at the eldest,

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and he said, surely this is God's anointed, and

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God said, nope. Nope, not him. And he went down

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the line, and God said no to all of them. And

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so Samuel said to Jesse, well, are these all

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your sons? Because God had told him, you'll find

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the one I want to anoint among Jesse's sons.

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Well, there's the youngest. The runt. Yeah, the

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runt of the litter. That means the smallest of

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the puppies or whatever litter of little animals

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that has just been born. The runt is the little

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one. And it's possible, it's not real clear,

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but it's possible that David might have had a

00:30:46.089 --> 00:30:48.759
different mother. than the rest of his brothers.

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And so he really was a reject. He really wasn't

00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:56.079
like everybody else. And, you know, he was a

00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:58.960
redhead, I think. At least it says that he was

00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:01.240
ruddy. And I'm pretty sure that that means he

00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:04.420
was a redhead. And so he didn't look the same

00:31:04.420 --> 00:31:07.539
as his brothers. He didn't sound the same. But

00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:10.559
he had been hanging out there among the sheep

00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:17.059
and worshiping God. Worshiping. Worshiping. The

00:31:17.059 --> 00:31:20.259
shepherd, you know, he's out there among the

00:31:20.259 --> 00:31:22.819
sheep and he recognizes that he's just like a

00:31:22.819 --> 00:31:26.380
little lamb himself. And he's leaning on the

00:31:26.380 --> 00:31:28.700
shepherd and trusting the shepherd to take care

00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:32.619
of him and to do for him what he was doing for

00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:35.519
his sheep. He had a relationship with God. So

00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.660
now he's anointed. Yeah. I remember that time

00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:42.279
we were at our house that we used to rent up

00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.380
in the Galilee. Oh, yeah. And all of a sudden,

00:31:45.380 --> 00:31:48.880
here's this. There's these flocks of sheep. Going

00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:50.579
through the streets. Going through the streets.

00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:53.140
And the guy blows his little whistle, you know,

00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:57.220
and they just follow him. They know the shepherd.

00:31:57.339 --> 00:31:59.799
They trust the shepherd. Yep. I mean, they could

00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:01.559
all outnumber him and beat him up, you know.

00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:03.740
If that were their nature. If that was their

00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:06.240
nature. But the sheep don't have a nature like

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:10.259
that. No. They're dependent. Again, it's another

00:32:10.259 --> 00:32:13.380
picture of go low. Yeah. You're a sheep. You're

00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:17.240
not a lion. You're not a wolf. You're a sheep.

00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:21.819
Yeah. I remember the story of the house we were

00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:25.599
at up in Vancouver, and the sheep crossed this

00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:28.420
little bridge to go to their area. Before he

00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:31.299
came back, he had painted it red. And the sheep

00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:33.220
came, and they look at that bridge. It was the

00:32:33.220 --> 00:32:35.759
same bridge, but it was different. It was painted

00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:38.880
red. So instead of crossing the bridge, they

00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:42.339
went through the water to get to the other side

00:32:42.339 --> 00:32:45.000
instead of crossing the bridge. Yeah. Because

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:47.420
it was not familiar. They're not so bright. Not

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:51.759
so bright. Just not so bright. Yeah. So David

00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:55.059
had this relationship with God and he was a worshiper.

00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:59.740
Yeah. And he trusted his shepherd like the sheep

00:32:59.740 --> 00:33:02.880
were trusting him. And then he had this experience

00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:06.099
with dealing with a lion and a bear. So, you

00:33:06.099 --> 00:33:11.140
know, he knew that God's going to take care of

00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:13.740
him in the same way he's taking care of his sheep.

00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:16.720
So he has this experience of dealing with the

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.859
lion and the bear, and now he's got the anointing.

00:33:20.339 --> 00:33:24.640
Samuel has anointed him. So as he went to visit

00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:28.079
his brothers on the battlefield and discovers

00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:32.740
that there's no battle going on because there's

00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:36.480
this challenge from Goliath, one of the giants,

00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:40.700
you know. David had everything in him from all

00:33:40.700 --> 00:33:43.339
those things I just described. He had everything

00:33:43.339 --> 00:33:46.200
in him to be fearless because he could already

00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.779
deal with a lion and a bear. That's pretty strong

00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:51.940
stuff. Yeah, and this is probably, I would think

00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:54.920
this would be more like a mountain lion. We think

00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.559
of a lion like an African lion. Of course, it's

00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:00.539
part of Africa. Yeah, I'm thinking it's probably

00:34:00.539 --> 00:34:01.859
an African lion. Yeah, it very well could. It's

00:34:01.859 --> 00:34:04.400
just the terrain was, there were forests and

00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.549
woods back then. Right. So it'd be a regular

00:34:07.549 --> 00:34:11.610
lion that has the big mane. It's true. Good question.

00:34:11.909 --> 00:34:16.389
Yeah. So he wasn't only fearless because of his

00:34:16.389 --> 00:34:22.269
experiences, but he was also incensed at this

00:34:22.269 --> 00:34:28.150
giant who was taunting the armies of his God,

00:34:28.409 --> 00:34:32.769
the armies of the God of Israel. Who are you?

00:34:32.769 --> 00:34:36.880
Who do you think you are? Yeah. And he was probably

00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:42.179
not even such a big guy compared to others. Now,

00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:44.440
we know that Saul was head and shoulders above

00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:47.039
everybody else. So we know that David was smaller

00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:49.400
than him because he couldn't wear his armor and

00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:52.400
he hadn't tried it anyway. So, you know, he's

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.139
a smaller guy. So you're looking at the small

00:34:55.139 --> 00:34:58.039
guy. You're looking at the youngest guy. He was

00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:02.219
just a youth in the eyes of Goliath. And Goliath

00:35:02.219 --> 00:35:06.469
is cursing him by his gods. Oh, well, that just

00:35:06.469 --> 00:35:10.929
incensed David, because David knows how great

00:35:10.929 --> 00:35:14.409
his God is. He knows the stories of what happened

00:35:14.409 --> 00:35:17.610
in Egypt. He knows the stories of what happened

00:35:17.610 --> 00:35:20.210
when Joshua and the children of Israel were taking

00:35:20.210 --> 00:35:24.389
over the land and possessing it. He knows these

00:35:24.389 --> 00:35:28.469
things, and he knows how great God is, and that

00:35:28.469 --> 00:35:31.710
the gods of the Philistines are nothing. Absolutely

00:35:31.710 --> 00:35:34.650
nothing. Absolutely nothing. So here's the small

00:35:34.650 --> 00:35:38.420
guy. going after the big guy. He's not even concerned

00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:42.219
that he's the small guy. He is fully aware of

00:35:42.219 --> 00:35:45.619
how great his God is. And that's what gave him

00:35:45.619 --> 00:35:48.900
the victory. He didn't see a greater foe. He

00:35:48.900 --> 00:35:52.260
saw a target he couldn't miss. Hallelujah. Yeah.

00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:56.800
So here's another picture of something small

00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:01.679
becoming great. And that is in Mark 4, 30 to

00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:06.269
32. Then he said, To what shall we liken the

00:36:06.269 --> 00:36:09.090
kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we

00:36:09.090 --> 00:36:12.030
picture it? It is like a mustard seed, which

00:36:12.030 --> 00:36:14.849
when it is sown on the ground is smaller than

00:36:14.849 --> 00:36:17.630
all the seeds of the earth. But when it is sown,

00:36:17.630 --> 00:36:19.969
it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs

00:36:19.969 --> 00:36:23.269
and shoots out large branches so that the birds

00:36:23.269 --> 00:36:26.829
of the air may nest under its shade. Yeah. So

00:36:26.829 --> 00:36:31.599
we have seen this plant. It's not the mustard

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:34.780
seed like you see in all the little necklaces

00:36:34.780 --> 00:36:38.139
that have a mustard seed like you get when you

00:36:38.139 --> 00:36:40.900
buy a package of mustard seed in the grocery

00:36:40.900 --> 00:36:44.260
store. No, these are tiny. Tiny, tiny, tiny.

00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:47.619
And I think we'll put a picture of that on the

00:36:47.619 --> 00:36:51.260
graphic for this episode. Because I've got a

00:36:51.260 --> 00:36:55.480
picture that we took in Israel of this tiny,

00:36:55.579 --> 00:36:59.000
tiny... tiny bunch of little seeds that come

00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:02.539
from a pod that comes from something that well

00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:05.400
the one that we saw was quite small in comparison

00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:08.440
but it was taller than you yeah and i've seen

00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:14.059
pictures of this enormous bushy like plant i'm

00:37:14.059 --> 00:37:16.860
not sure i would call it a tree but i would call

00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:20.309
it at least An enormous bush. Yeah. Enormous.

00:37:20.309 --> 00:37:22.730
Like, you see a picture of somebody standing

00:37:22.730 --> 00:37:26.050
in front of it, and maybe we'll find a link to

00:37:26.050 --> 00:37:28.269
one of those pictures and put that in the show

00:37:28.269 --> 00:37:30.949
notes. A man standing underneath it, and the

00:37:30.949 --> 00:37:32.690
thing is three or four times higher than him.

00:37:32.829 --> 00:37:38.269
Wow. Enormous. But it starts small. So you go

00:37:38.269 --> 00:37:42.889
low, and you see yourself as the smallest. Maybe

00:37:42.889 --> 00:37:45.849
you already see yourself as the smallest. And

00:37:45.849 --> 00:37:48.860
you think, how can God use me? Well, if you see

00:37:48.860 --> 00:37:51.099
yourself as the smallest, you are way ahead of

00:37:51.099 --> 00:37:54.500
everybody else who thinks they're great. So I'm

00:37:54.500 --> 00:37:57.320
thinking about the episode that we did a few

00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:00.400
weeks ago with James Watini. You know, he started

00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.599
out as this youngster that the only thing that

00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:09.000
his mother called him was boy. And all his life

00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:12.699
he's been called James or Jim. And when he turns

00:38:12.699 --> 00:38:15.500
80, he discovers that that's not even his name,

00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:18.239
that his name is different. But in the meantime,

00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:21.860
God has done something with this young man that

00:38:21.860 --> 00:38:25.780
was a child that was rejected. He was just rejected,

00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:28.219
rejected, rejected, went through the foster care

00:38:28.219 --> 00:38:32.239
system. Oh, it was terrible. And he found Jesus.

00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:37.239
And Jesus turned him into this amazing, compassionate

00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:41.989
man who sees himself low. He knows how to go

00:38:41.989 --> 00:38:45.050
low because his God is so big. His relationship

00:38:45.050 --> 00:38:49.969
with his father is so big. Awesome. Awesome.

00:38:51.130 --> 00:38:55.929
So the whole point of this is go low. And don't

00:38:55.929 --> 00:38:58.530
despise the day of small things. You may see

00:38:58.530 --> 00:39:01.130
yourself as small. It's good if you see yourself

00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:03.409
as small. And if you see yourself as big, it's

00:39:03.409 --> 00:39:07.550
time to go low. Because pride will only take

00:39:07.550 --> 00:39:11.769
you where you do not want to go. Humility will

00:39:11.769 --> 00:39:14.190
take you where you want to go. You go low. I

00:39:14.190 --> 00:39:15.750
mean, that's how you keep your head from being

00:39:15.750 --> 00:39:18.510
shot off in a battle. You go low, right? You

00:39:18.510 --> 00:39:20.710
crawl along the ground and you keep your head

00:39:20.710 --> 00:39:23.849
down so you don't get shot. If you stand up,

00:39:23.889 --> 00:39:27.329
boom, you're a casualty. This is where God wants

00:39:27.329 --> 00:39:32.170
us to learn to go low and see ourselves as servants

00:39:32.170 --> 00:39:37.590
of all. So in Zechariah 4 .10, it says, who has

00:39:37.590 --> 00:39:41.019
despised the day of small things? And this is

00:39:41.019 --> 00:39:44.039
right in that area of the scripture where it

00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:48.139
says, it's not by might and it's not by power,

00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:53.440
but it's by my spirit. So it's not the greatness

00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:57.480
of your army. It's not the greatness of your

00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.739
politics. It's not the greatness of your economy.

00:40:01.139 --> 00:40:05.820
It's the greatness of your God. So you can start

00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:08.500
small. The context of this is when they were

00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:11.039
rebuilding the temple after they came back from

00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:14.400
Babylon. And they're looking at this small thing.

00:40:14.539 --> 00:40:16.780
The temple was much smaller that they built.

00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:20.019
And then Herod embellished it and made it the

00:40:20.019 --> 00:40:23.199
second temple that we see as being wonderful

00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:26.320
and beautiful and great like Solomon's. But this

00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:30.320
day of small things. Would you read that, the

00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:33.550
New Living Translation? Do not despise these

00:40:33.550 --> 00:40:36.449
small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see

00:40:36.449 --> 00:40:39.570
the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's

00:40:39.570 --> 00:40:43.969
hand. Yeah. So Zerubbabel was the governor at

00:40:43.969 --> 00:40:48.110
the time, and he was given the charge to rebuild

00:40:48.110 --> 00:40:51.070
the temple. And he started it and got stopped

00:40:51.070 --> 00:40:55.570
for 16 years. So there's that day of small things.

00:40:55.769 --> 00:40:58.510
All we've got here is a foundation. We didn't

00:40:58.510 --> 00:41:02.230
get very far. And get mocked. Yeah. And there's

00:41:02.230 --> 00:41:04.750
this discouragement. Yeah. Terrible discouragement.

00:41:04.949 --> 00:41:10.570
Maybe you have been given words of greatness

00:41:10.570 --> 00:41:14.550
of what you're going to be in God. And you haven't

00:41:14.550 --> 00:41:17.710
seen it happen yet. You've had visions. You've

00:41:17.710 --> 00:41:19.809
had dreams of what God's going to do with your

00:41:19.809 --> 00:41:23.550
life. And it hasn't happened yet. But I'm telling

00:41:23.550 --> 00:41:26.469
you, we are on the verge of an outpouring of

00:41:26.469 --> 00:41:29.860
the Holy Spirit. Like it's never been seen on

00:41:29.860 --> 00:41:32.219
the planet before. Every other outpouring we've

00:41:32.219 --> 00:41:36.460
ever seen is an outpouring that is a picture

00:41:36.460 --> 00:41:41.679
of what's coming. Bigger, greater, greater than

00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:44.159
anything ever before because our God is so great.

00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:49.860
Yes, amen. And so we are standing in this place

00:41:49.860 --> 00:41:54.969
waiting for what's coming. And in the meantime,

00:41:55.130 --> 00:42:00.050
we're learning, we're equipping with the mindset

00:42:00.050 --> 00:42:04.469
of going low, of taking that place of humility,

00:42:04.789 --> 00:42:07.969
of taking that place of servanthood, of taking

00:42:07.969 --> 00:42:11.429
that place of keeping our eyes on the greatness

00:42:11.429 --> 00:42:16.070
of our God. The task seems daunting. You know,

00:42:16.110 --> 00:42:18.090
you look at the condition of the world and all

00:42:18.090 --> 00:42:19.849
the things that are going on, the condition of

00:42:19.849 --> 00:42:23.130
whatever nation you're in, and it's like, I can't

00:42:23.130 --> 00:42:27.269
see how this could be. And yet our God is so

00:42:27.269 --> 00:42:31.469
great. Yes. And he's just challenging us to look

00:42:31.469 --> 00:42:37.059
at his greatness. see ourselves in the shadow

00:42:37.059 --> 00:42:40.519
of his greatness and how he just really wants

00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:46.079
to co -operate with us and use us in the days

00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:48.739
to come. But he wants us to understand the importance

00:42:48.739 --> 00:42:51.579
of going low, the importance of being humble.

00:42:51.659 --> 00:42:55.340
So Father, we just thank you for this word reminding

00:42:55.340 --> 00:43:00.280
us of the importance of your greatness, your

00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:04.929
glory, your power. Your awesome miracles that

00:43:04.929 --> 00:43:07.570
you've done over and over and the things that

00:43:07.570 --> 00:43:11.429
you're about to do are even greater. Who's greater?

00:43:11.829 --> 00:43:16.429
You are. And because we are your people, even

00:43:16.429 --> 00:43:19.949
though we are small, you can use us to do great

00:43:19.949 --> 00:43:23.949
things. Like you promised us, Jesus, that those

00:43:23.949 --> 00:43:27.250
who believe in you would do your works and greater

00:43:27.250 --> 00:43:31.190
works. We thank you for empowering us to do this

00:43:31.190 --> 00:43:35.429
as we keep our eyes on you. In Jesus' name, amen.

00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.280
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