(289) “When Our Love for God Ebbs, Revival Ebbs”

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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy

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heart, with all thy soul, all thy mind. This

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is the first and great commandment. And the second

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is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor

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as thyself. On these two commandments hang all

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the law and the prophets. On these two commandments

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hang all the gifts. Oh, that too. Yeah. That's

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well put. So we hang everything. on love. God

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promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring. so that we may

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engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so glad that you're with us. We're going

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to talk today about revival and outpouring and

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how important it is that we have to maintain

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the love of God in our lives, because when the

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love of God ebbs, revival ebbs. Thanks so much

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for joining us today. We're so delighted that

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we can do this thing together with you. And before

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we get started, let me just encourage you, if

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you haven't already done so, that you go to our

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website, globaloutpouring .net, and that you

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make sure that you are on our mailing list so

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that we can stay in touch with you. It's just

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really important to be able to stay connected.

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And if you're enjoying this content, we would

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love to hear back from you. We are delighted

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when we receive some email or from the feedback

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form. It just really means a tremendous amount

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to us. like to read one of the emails that we

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got recently from someone who writes from time

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to time. And we're just delighted to hear from

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Cheryl. And she says, I'm still really enjoying

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your podcasts as well as Friday night live worship.

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Now, in case you're listening to our podcast,

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we never think to mention that we do on YouTube

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and Facebook on the Global Outpouring channel

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and Global Outpouring Facebook page, every Friday

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night at 7 p .m. Central Time, we do a... I hate

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to call it a program. We do a service. Let's

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call it a service. We do a service called Friday

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Night Live Worship. And most of the time it's

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live. Once in a great while, we have to pre -record

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it. But it's live and it's worship time and the

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word and testimonies and whatever. So she said,

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I'm still really enjoying your podcast as well

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as Friday Night Live. They are all so good. I

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especially like the Friday night live worship

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from October 3rd, 2025. The new song that you

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sang was over the top. I like to start my day

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by praying in the spirit about 30 minutes before

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I do anything else. Since that night, I've listened

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to your worship almost every morning just to

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keep my mind on track while I pray in tongues.

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It has helped me so much. There was one part

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where Sharon said, I totally blew that. Let's

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start over. Then she responded to Philip, you

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can't, because you said, right? I said, we'll

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take it out of the mix. Yeah, or we'll edit that

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out. Live recording. Yeah. I said, you can't

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edit this. We're live. Let's try again. One morning,

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now this is her going on. One morning, the Lord

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responded, life is live and you can't edit, but

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you can repent and start again and get it right.

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Repenting is like editing. Your sins are made

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white as snow by the blood of Jesus, giving us

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a chance to get it right. And then she says,

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you always ask for suggestions for podcasts.

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For a long time, I've been thinking about how

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much I enjoy when you share tidbits of what the

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Lord has brought you through. I would enjoy a

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podcast of y 'all telling more about yourselves

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and your experiences in the Lord. Testimonies

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are always good. Love and appreciate you so much.

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Thanks for all the spiritual food that you freely

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give. Blessings to you both. After that, I was

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thinking about something that Philip actually

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brought last week on our Friday Night Live worship.

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It would have been, I guess it might be two weeks

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from the time that you hear this. He shared an

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experience that I want him to share again. And

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I think that it will be like a foundation for

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a springboard, shall we say, for this podcast,

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for this episode. We'll tell the background to

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it. Yes, go ahead. We talk about Sukkot. Well,

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now, just to retrace our steps, we did an episode

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about how to celebrate Sukkot. Yeah. And I think

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we told the story about how we got to start celebrating

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Sukkot. Yeah. God gave you this love to go camping.

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Yes, exactly. Wow. And if you didn't hear that,

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you can go back to episode, I think it was 285,

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where we talked about that. Go ahead. Yeah, I

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got it. Actually, here's the notes right here.

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Yes. So anyway. So we are going to celebrate

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Sukkot in a couple of days. And we have a favorite

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spot we go to. We book it six months out. And

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you have to book it, you know, because other

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people do the same thing. And we have a spot

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that we like. And it's right next to a wonderful

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fishing river. We catch trout and freeze them,

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bring them home. And so anyway, I'm looking at

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our spot. And we're like a month out. And I realized

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that they're letting water out of the dam for

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over like a month. They're draining the lake

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down because there's too much water, getting

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ready for the fall season. And so that makes

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fishing not very good if you're on the shore,

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which is how we fish. But if you have a boat,

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you know, you can go with the current and fish

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that way. So anyway, I'm watching that. I thought,

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oh, well, there's other stuff I'm geared up to

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fish for, you know, in the rapids. And we get

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this. Think from the Army Corps of Engineers

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campground we're going. Two more days, you know,

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just two more days. Hey, we were excited. Yeah,

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and so that night at about 8 o 'clock at night,

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we get another email from them saying that our

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reservation, the second day of our reservation

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on, they're closing the campground so they can

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repave it. And they're stating it's not anything

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to do with the government shutdown. And our experience

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from a year or so before, we set up our tent

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in faith, you know, and we had one day till the

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shutdown and the campground is empty. And then

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all of a sudden, two hours before the shutdown.

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They got it resolved. Yeah, that was the previous

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time. And we had a nice, quiet campground. I

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had the river to myself. It was great. And we

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just enjoyed that. I think we caught a lot of

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fish that time, too. We did. It was a great time.

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So that's how the mindset has kind of been along

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that way. It's all about fishing. Yeah, catching

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fish and trout. And so now we find out we have

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to go somewhere else. I thought, where can we

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go? For eight days straight, there's a lot of

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spots available in different campgrounds, but

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not for that long of a stretch. And then we find

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one all the way down south of us by Hot Springs

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on a lake called Lake Ouachita. And it's like,

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okay, it seems to be our only choice. So we book

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our reservation there, and we get to this campground,

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and we come to the little thing you enter in,

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you know, where you sign in. There's nobody in

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it. Just take this tag and put it on a little

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post by your campsite. And we have a reservation

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and we get to it. And we are in the woods. It's

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a national forest, actually. And there's a lot

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of... Woods, it's all woods behind us and next

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to us to the next camp spot. And just before

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we left, we had bear attacked by our place. Yeah,

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I mean, it was within our county. Within our

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county, someone got killed by a bear attack.

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And 30 days before that, there'd been another

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bear attack in Arkansas. Yeah. And so one of

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our friends texted me and said, you don't want

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to go camping because of the bears, you know.

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And, you know, that's pretty discouraging to

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hear that because we're in a tent. We're not

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in a camper. I'm not concerned about a bear if

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you're in a camper, you know. But a tent's another

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story. Right. So anyway, we get to this spot

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and I'm looking, you know, and the only signs

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of life is across from us. trailer there. It's

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the camp host and he's a volunteer. He just got

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there and, and I thought, well, and I'm kind

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of, I'm not happy. Yeah. You know, because I

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was geared on catching fish, different, different

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kinds of fish, walleye, striped bass, hybrid

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bass, hopefully. And all of a sudden here we

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are at this campground and a few spots down and

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away, there's the shower and all that. And it's

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closed because Because of the shutdown, there's

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not enough government people. You know, the contracts

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are not there for those that come in and take

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care of it. So the park rangers have to, so they

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closed that one. And we had to have to go with

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this for another one. So everything is not looking

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good in my eyes. It was kind of falling apart.

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Yeah. And so a few days later, you know, we thought,

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okay, let's go fishing at the lake here. It's

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dusk. That's when the fish come to shore. I use

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every strategy that I can think of for bait,

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for walleye, for anything that would come to

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the shore at night. I got one bluegill about

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the size of my hand, you know, and, you know,

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it's just really. And so we're walking back,

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and the next day we're going by, and there's

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a guy that caught some catfish on a trout line

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that he put out there. And we look up and here's

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the sign up there saying warning. And it has

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a fish with a line through it, you know, the

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warning signs thing with a slash. The fish in

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this lake have higher contents of mercury because

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of mining and other natural stuff in the lake.

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Yeah, it's just natural. It's natural. So, you

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know, we don't want to, you know, keep any fish.

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And it's just like it took the wind out of my

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sail to even try to catch anything to turn it

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loose. And so every morning and every night we

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had a campfire. And normally my normal routine

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in the morning on the other river, I'd get up

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about 6 .30, 7 o 'clock, and you hear a lot of

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ruckus out there because guys are getting in

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their boats or whatever. Everybody's going fishing.

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Everybody's going fishing. And I'd just cross

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the road in front of us, go about 70 feet, and

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walk down the bank to the river and just fish

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from the shore and do very well. You know, probably

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as good as the guys in the boats, you know. And

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so we can't do any of this. And so I'm just kind

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of a little bit of a pity party, you know, and

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all that. So I'm reading the Bible, and I got

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a book, and I was reading this book called There

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Shall Be No M. That was by Arthur Burt, who has,

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you know, he's over 100 years old, and he has

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lived through revivals, and he's from Wales.

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You know, so he knows all about the Welsh revival.

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All the marvelous moves of God they've had. So

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I'm reading that and what it takes and how the

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downfall of revival is pride. Pride gets in the

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way. And when man thinks, I can do this myself.

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I've got this now, God. I see how you're doing

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it. I'll do it that way. And we've read all kinds

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of books on the Welsh revival. And other revivals.

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And other revivals. And I never understood what

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happened in the Welsh revival. And I read there

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was Evan Roberts. He made this statement that

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God is never going to move at all in this particular

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denomination. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He said God's not

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going to move. Some of the church people were,

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because he's saying this publicly, and said,

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can you please change your mindset on that? You

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know, the way you're saying this. He said, no,

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God's not going to use this organization for

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revival at all. And what Arthur Burt says after

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he said that, the Welsh revival started to ebb.

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Wow. I thought, wow. And I never knew why. Yeah.

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You know, we've heard all the different moves

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like Pensacola. The elders, church people got

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together. We want our church back. And they didn't

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want to have the schedule of revival. I think

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similar things may have happened in Toronto,

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and that move went on a long time. It was powerful.

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But every revival that we have seen. Move of

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God has ebbed, you know. So, you know, I'm reading

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this book, reading what it takes to be an instrument

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for revival. You know, how you've got to get

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rid of pride, and he dealt with his own circumstances.

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And he talked about his own downfalls when he

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would get proud. Yeah, he mentioned things, and

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I thought... He humbled himself. And I remember

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our founder, Sister Gwen, said, don't ever put

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me on a pedestal because I'll have to get knocked

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off. And we understand that very, very much.

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So anyway, I'm reading one morning and I just

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hear this thing, glowworm. I thought, are you

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a glowworm? A glow worm, you know, okay. So what's

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a glow worm? So it's a worm that glows. So anyway,

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my first thought that comes to my head is Isaiah

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chapter 41. And, you know, Israel has had its

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wars. It has its good kings, has its bad kings.

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And when they have a good king, everything prospers.

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And when they have a bad king and he lets in

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idolatry or doesn't do anything about it, you

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know, things start going downhill. And it might

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take 30 years or so. And then things get just

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really bad. And all of a sudden, nations are

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coming in. They're robbing the harvest. And all

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kinds of things are going into captivity. And

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that happened after four bad kings in a row.

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I think Zedekiah was the last bad king. And I

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think they put his eyes out and then marched

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him to Babylon. It's sad endings when you read

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that. It's about what happens. But Israel is

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God's chosen people. Right. From way back when,

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thou art mine, I've called you by my name, you

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are mine. That's out of Isaiah also. So God,

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even talking judgments, has great mercy. Absolutely.

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Long suffering. I mean, he lets stuff go a long

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time. I've been looking at that. There seems

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to be something like a 400 -year cycle where

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God makes promises, and he tells the people to

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obey him, and there'll be a generation or two

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that'll obey, and then they go into idolatry

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and the sins that bring the curse on the land.

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God is very patient. I mean, I think 400 years

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is very patient. That's very, that's very, very

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patient. So it's, you know, it's 430, 400 this,

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400 that, you know, almost 400. But there's this

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kind of cycle that, you know, people that read

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the Old Testament and think that God is just

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mean and just judgmental, they don't realize

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the amount of time that goes by in between these

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things before God actually brings the hammer

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down. Yeah. So I went to the book of Isaiah.

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I just love the book of Isaiah. Oh, yes. How

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many people have, you know, kings and government

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officials, you know, they quote from this a lot

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of times not even knowing, you know, where Scripture

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comes from. So anyway, Isaiah 41, and in verse

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10, so this is the Lord speaking through Isaiah,

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Fear thou not. This is King James. Fear thou

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not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for

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I am thy God. I will strengthen thee, yea, I

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will help thee, yea, I will uphold you with the

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right hand of my righteousness. You know, because

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God is all about righteousness. Behold, all they

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that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed

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and confounded. They shall be as nothing, and

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they that strive with thee shall perish. Sounds

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like what's happening in... Gaza. Yeah. Thou

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shalt seek them and shall not find them. Even

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then that content with thee, they that war against

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thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught.

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We have seen that through Israel. Yeah. Modern

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day. For I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right

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hand. Hallelujah. Saying unto thee, Fear not,

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I will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob,

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and ye men of Israel. I will help thee, saith

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the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

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Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing

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instrument, having teeth. Thou shalt thresh the

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mountains and beat them small, and thou shalt

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make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them,

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and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind

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shall scatter them, and thou shalt rejoice in

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the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of

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Israel. And so you have the Jewish nation, which

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has survived over 3 ,000 years. No other people

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grew past. This is just God's Word. He's fulfilling

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His Word. So you go back to verse 13. Fear not,

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thou worm, Jacob. Now, when you think of a worm,

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I think of worm fishing. Oh, sure. You know,

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let's put this worm on a hook, you know, we're

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gonna... It's going to get something, you know.

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And so what are worms? What are they? They crawl

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under the ground and they eat dirt, you know.

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And it's good. They fertilize the soil, you know.

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So God is calling Jacob a worm. But he's taking

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this worm and he's thrashing a mountain. Right.

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And that's what we have seen Israel do. You know,

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though all the nations are warring against it

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politically. And militarily, I mean, you got

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arms from Russia, arms from Iran, you know, and

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all that. They're fighting against Israel. And

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usually the fights between Israel and their neighbors

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are testing grounds for manufacturers of new

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weapons, like from the U .S. and from Russia

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and China. Very interesting. But we're seeing

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many of these nations get thrashed by Israel.

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You know, it's very powerful. But so he's taken

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this worm and thrashing a mountain. So I go back

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to my glow worm. Yeah. So I just, you know, looked

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at Wikipedia, you know, and what it says, it's

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any member of various groups of insect larva

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that glow through the chemical thing while it's

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a larva. You know, that's the crawly stage. Yeah,

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it's the next stage after the egg. Yeah. The

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egg hatches into a larva, and the larva eats

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and eats, and then it becomes an adult. Yeah,

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and, you know, a caterpillar wraps himself in

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a cocoon of green goo and turns out this magnificent

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butterfly, you know. So anyway, so you have the

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glow worm. But this worm is not an adult stage.

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Right. It's in its infancy. Or maybe teenage

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years. Or maybe teenage years, but, you know.

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But it glows, you know. Wow. You know, so if

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you actually go to Isaiah chapter 60. Yeah. And

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it's, Arise, shine, for the light has come, and

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the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Behold,

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the darkness shall cover the earth and gross

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darkness the people, which we are seeing on all

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fronts. But the Lord shall rise upon thee, and

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his glory shall be seen upon thee. So arise,

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shine. Yeah, be a glow worm. Let your light shine.

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Be a glow worm for Jesus. When our light touches

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God's light, there's an explosion. Yeah, that's

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true. You know, kind of like when conception

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takes place. They've seen under a microscope

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when the egg and the sperm connect, there's an

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explosion of light, just a flash of light. Yes.

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And boom, life has started. Yes. You know, so

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even though sometimes we might feel like we're

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worms, you know, we felt, man, I just really

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blew that. Real good. I remember one of the first

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times I ever preached, we were in Taiwan, and

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I'd been saved. you know, like four or five years,

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four years, maybe, you know, and so all of a

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sudden I'm preaching in this church in Taiwan

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and I'm kind of struggling through it. And I

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see Sister Gwen kind of got her head down and

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thought maybe repenting for having me, you know,

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I felt like a worm trying to glow. I'm really

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trying to glow, you know, you know, but I'd been

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a backslider for years. I knew the lot of things

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in the Bible, but I didn't know a lot of scriptures.

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But you have to start somewhere. Exactly. I mean,

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we all start like a glowworm. Right. You know,

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no matter where you come from, how high your

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education, you can have all these degrees and

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all that, but all of a sudden you're put in front

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of a bunch of people and your notes just get

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blurry and you get stage fright, you know, or

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maybe something along those lines. But, you know,

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as we grow in the Lord. That's how we get our

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wings. Amen. You know, sometimes you have to

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go through a cocoon different times, you know,

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in order to get... Can I add something about

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the worm? Yeah, go ahead. So I looked up the

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word from Isaiah 41 and verse 14, where it's

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talking about the word worm, and it's the Hebrew

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word tola, and it is referring to a certain worm,

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a certain... one in particular. It can also mean

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maggots and things like that. But it is referring

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to this certain female, and I'm going to try

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to say the Latin name of it, Coccus illicis.

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And it is a worm that, it's called the scarlet

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worm. And when she's ready to give birth, you

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know, to lay her eggs, she attaches herself to

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the trunk of a tree. And it's a permanent detachment,

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like, this is it. I'm going to die here. And

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she lays her eggs and covers them with her body,

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and then she dies. And as she dies, this crimson

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fluid comes out of her, and it stains the tree.

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And that was what the ancient people would use

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in antiquity for a scarlet dye. They would collect

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these little bodies of these female worms. And

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that was the crimson stain. So any place where

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you see in the scripture where it's talking about

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scarlet and making the tent of meeting the tabernacle

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in the wilderness, they're looking for scarlet

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thread. It comes from this worm. So there's something

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about the idea that she lays down her life and

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it's like she's covering with the blood. So it's

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kind of a picture of Jesus that came to give

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us life. And gave his life for us and the power

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of his blood covering us. I just think that's

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such a beautiful picture. So that's one way that

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the Lord can use this worm to thresh a mountain

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by the blood of Jesus. Yes, amen. So back to

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where you were going. I'm sorry for the bunny

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trail, but I thought you'd enjoyed that little

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piece. So that's kind of a nice thing. You're

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sitting by this nice campfire, you know. I feel

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like a glowworm, you know. And what I realized

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through this, you know, it's like it's a time

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of celebration, Sukkot, you know. And actually

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when they put the tent up or they put their sukkah

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up and they always have a spare place sitting

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there. Yeah. And that's for Elijah. Right. And

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I remember when earlier years on a Friday night.

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at our devotions around the table at Ingletal

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here. You know, we would have dinner and Sister

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Gwen would have her basket of letters. And we

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would have this book, Tales of Elijah. You know,

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this is from Jewish folklore. Yeah, that's a

00:24:36.099 --> 00:24:40.220
good way to put it. And some very, very interesting

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things. That is just... Really major thing. So

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they would always have a place for Elijah to

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sit if he just happened to show up. Because everyone's

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expecting that in the last days, Elijah's going

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to show up and lead the hearts of the fathers

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to the children and the hearts of the children

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to the fathers. Some of the last scriptures in

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the Tanakh, it's Malachi. So I had to kind of

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get my perspective right. When you start thinking

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of fishing, more than I do than getting away

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with God, something has to change to kind of

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get you on course. So this was kind of God's

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way of doing it. Close the campground, water

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levels are high, no fish, and then to put the

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icing on the cake. After we get back, I thought,

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well, we'll get up there soon, maybe again, or

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maybe for a day. I get this notice sent from

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my nephew. that two of the hatcheries that we

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have that provide all the trout for the rivers

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here, one got flooded bad and another had real

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bad water in it. And all fishing, all the way

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from the last dam down the river to where we

00:25:48.650 --> 00:25:52.170
go, you cannot keep any trout. You have to turn

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them all loose. That hatchery, all the fish were

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poisoned and they died. Yeah, that's the one

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right where we camp. It's just magnificent. hatchery,

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and they got some nice -sized trout in there.

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Oh, it's beautiful. And the river they release

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them in, it's not very wide, and they'll let

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people like under 16 or handicapped with a barbless

00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:13.880
hook catch and release these magnificent trout.

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I mean big trout. I wonder if those were killed

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too. Possibly, unless they're all just in the

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river. They might just stay in the river, but

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they tend to go up in there. And it's just like

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there's no new trout, and they provide trout

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for the lakes all and the rivers nearby. Could

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be years before there's good fishing again. So

00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:37.000
we may end up going back to that same campsite.

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Who knows? Because even this campsite where we

00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:43.859
always go, it's noisy. And people are right here

00:26:43.859 --> 00:26:46.880
next to each other, and it's a noisy campground.

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So I kind of enjoyed where we were. The quiet.

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And I thought, well, maybe if fishing's lousy,

00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.500
maybe we'll just go back there again. But God

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had to change my whole perspective on that. Yeah.

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But one thing I was really studying in this book

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about revival, too, is God gives us gifts, all

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the gifts of the Spirit and that. And there's

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an emphasis on the gifts. You're very strong.

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Yeah. Many churches, a lot of them, they're in

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the prophetic, and you have the word church,

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and you have the apostolic church, you have the

00:27:23.829 --> 00:27:27.210
bishops, you have all these titles and all these

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things. And many of them, they strive in that

00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.240
stream. But there is one thing that has to happen

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to make those actually flow to what they're designed

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for, and that's to have the love of God. Very

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true. And the Lord quickened me to 1 Corinthians

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12. And I'm going to start in verse 6 here. This

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is in the Passion Translation. Oh, okay. Yeah.

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The same God distributes different kinds of miracles

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that accomplish different results through each

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believer's gift and ministry as he energizes

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and activates them. Make a note of that as he

00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:08.660
energizes and activates them. With a capital

00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:11.460
H. Yeah. They don't have a capital H here. It

00:28:11.460 --> 00:28:14.490
should be, though. Yeah. In our opinion. In our

00:28:14.490 --> 00:28:19.890
opinion. We're backseat translators. So every

00:28:19.890 --> 00:28:22.950
believer is given continuous revelation by the

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Holy Spirit to benefit not just himself, but

00:28:26.009 --> 00:28:30.150
all. And verse 8, for example, the Spirit gives

00:28:30.150 --> 00:28:33.509
to one the gift of the word of wisdom, and to

00:28:33.509 --> 00:28:35.650
another the Spirit gives the gift of the word

00:28:35.650 --> 00:28:38.490
of revelation knowledge. And to another, the

00:28:38.490 --> 00:28:41.670
same Spirit gives the gift of faith. And to another,

00:28:41.849 --> 00:28:45.450
the same Spirit gives gifts of healing. And to

00:28:45.450 --> 00:28:48.789
another, the power to work miracles. And to another,

00:28:48.950 --> 00:28:51.970
the gift of prophecy. And to another, the gift

00:28:51.970 --> 00:28:55.109
to discern what the Spirit is speaking. And to

00:28:55.109 --> 00:28:57.329
another, the gift of speaking different kinds

00:28:57.329 --> 00:29:00.630
of tongues. And to another, the gift of interpretation

00:29:00.630 --> 00:29:04.630
of tongues. And we see these being activated

00:29:04.630 --> 00:29:08.849
and used today. Remember, this is verse 11, it

00:29:08.849 --> 00:29:12.450
is the same Holy Spirit who distributes, activates,

00:29:12.710 --> 00:29:15.950
and operates these different gifts as he chooses

00:29:15.950 --> 00:29:19.470
for each believer. You know, and then it goes

00:29:19.470 --> 00:29:22.009
on, just as the human body is one, though it

00:29:22.009 --> 00:29:25.410
has many parts that together form one body, so

00:29:25.410 --> 00:29:28.589
too is Christ. For by one Spirit we all were

00:29:28.589 --> 00:29:31.809
immersed and mingled into one single body. And

00:29:31.809 --> 00:29:34.130
no matter our status, whether we are Jews or

00:29:34.130 --> 00:29:37.569
non -Jews, oppressed or free, we are all privileged

00:29:37.569 --> 00:29:41.069
to drink deeply of the same Holy Spirit. Amen.

00:29:41.109 --> 00:29:44.250
All the different denominations. It's one Holy

00:29:44.250 --> 00:29:47.769
Spirit. There's only one. And it goes on saying,

00:29:47.950 --> 00:29:50.509
if I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body.

00:29:50.670 --> 00:29:53.529
Or if I'm an ear to say, since I'm not an eye,

00:29:53.569 --> 00:29:56.259
I'm not really part of the body. You know, that

00:29:56.259 --> 00:29:58.640
goes on all the, you know, speaking in different

00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:02.000
ways. But we need the whole body. Your whole

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.619
body has to function to function perfect. You

00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:07.160
know, what it's designed for. Exactly. You know,

00:30:07.180 --> 00:30:10.700
like you better have two eyeballs than one. You

00:30:10.700 --> 00:30:13.500
know, because you get focus. Right. Depth perception

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:15.599
with two eyeballs where you don't get with one.

00:30:16.329 --> 00:30:19.230
And every part of our body, you know, is designed

00:30:19.230 --> 00:30:22.130
to do something. And the same it is in the body

00:30:22.130 --> 00:30:24.069
of Christ with all the gifts, you know, and when

00:30:24.069 --> 00:30:26.569
they all flow together, you're going somewhere.

00:30:26.769 --> 00:30:30.569
Right. But too many times, just like we read

00:30:30.569 --> 00:30:34.150
in the moves of God, flesh gets in the way. Pride

00:30:34.150 --> 00:30:36.970
gets in the way. Yeah. So things are not going

00:30:36.970 --> 00:30:41.029
to really work as well as they could. So let's

00:30:41.029 --> 00:30:44.430
go down to verse 27. and the title here is One

00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:47.890
Body with Different Gifts. You are the body of

00:30:47.890 --> 00:30:50.450
the anointed one, and each of you is a unique

00:30:50.450 --> 00:30:53.410
and vital part of it. God has placed in the church

00:30:53.410 --> 00:30:57.089
the following, first apostles, second prophets,

00:30:57.369 --> 00:31:00.630
third teachers, then those with gifts of miracles,

00:31:00.930 --> 00:31:04.029
gifts of divine healing, gifts of revelation

00:31:04.029 --> 00:31:07.309
knowledge, gifts of leadership, and gifts of

00:31:07.309 --> 00:31:10.529
different kind of tongues. Now, we know people

00:31:10.529 --> 00:31:13.470
that operate in all of these. To a certain extent,

00:31:13.690 --> 00:31:16.269
you know. For others, it's just their focus.

00:31:17.250 --> 00:31:21.369
Verse 29, not everyone is an apostle or a prophet

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or a teacher. Not everyone performs miracles

00:31:24.490 --> 00:31:27.710
or has gifts of healing or speaks in tongues

00:31:27.710 --> 00:31:31.349
or interprets tongues. But you should all consistently

00:31:31.349 --> 00:31:35.049
boil over with passion in seeking the higher

00:31:35.049 --> 00:31:38.410
gifts. And these are good. You know, this describes

00:31:38.410 --> 00:31:40.589
all this in this whole chapter. It talks about

00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:44.289
the gifts. But really what caught my eye was

00:31:44.289 --> 00:31:48.390
this last verse. And now I will show you a superior

00:31:48.390 --> 00:31:52.630
way to live that is beyond comparison. And that

00:31:52.630 --> 00:31:57.049
goes immediately into chapter 13. And many times

00:31:57.049 --> 00:32:00.049
when we're reading the Bible, we'll read a chapter

00:32:00.049 --> 00:32:02.670
a day or two chapters, and they'll get to that

00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:07.160
point and they will stop. And they'll start a

00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.920
next chapter the next day not realizing this

00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:12.680
is a continuous letter. Right. I just want to

00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:17.799
point out that when I was young and, you know,

00:32:17.819 --> 00:32:20.279
I was raised in the church. When I was a child

00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:22.220
and thought as a child. Yeah, that's part of

00:32:22.220 --> 00:32:26.900
that chapter. But I learned chapter 12. I learned

00:32:26.900 --> 00:32:30.720
about the gifts. And I think probably even before

00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.059
I heard about the gifts, maybe back in my Baptist

00:32:34.059 --> 00:32:38.680
days. I learned about the love chapter. It's

00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:41.900
the love chapter. Chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians,

00:32:42.059 --> 00:32:44.059
it's the love chapter. And you just talk about

00:32:44.059 --> 00:32:46.059
love, and it's about love, and it's about love,

00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:48.359
and love, and love. I mean, if you do this, but

00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:50.880
you don't have love, da -da -da -da -da. All

00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:53.859
you need is love. Well, that was another story.

00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:59.460
Anyway, I never saw until, and please excuse

00:32:59.460 --> 00:33:02.589
me, maybe you always saw it. Maybe, listener,

00:33:02.670 --> 00:33:06.269
you always saw it, but I was absolutely dumb

00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:10.329
about this, that I didn't really see it until

00:33:10.329 --> 00:33:12.849
Philip brought it out. I understood that last

00:33:12.849 --> 00:33:15.450
verse, yet I show you a more excellent way, and

00:33:15.450 --> 00:33:18.069
you just move into love. And love is the more

00:33:18.069 --> 00:33:21.150
excellent way, but I never saw it before that

00:33:21.150 --> 00:33:25.029
it's referring to those gifts of the previous

00:33:25.029 --> 00:33:29.349
chapter. I hadn't seen it, and it just became

00:33:29.349 --> 00:33:33.430
profound to me. that you can go on with where

00:33:33.430 --> 00:33:35.890
you're going, but it was profound to me to realize

00:33:35.890 --> 00:33:38.670
that it's talking specifically about those gifts

00:33:38.670 --> 00:33:42.490
and operating them without love. Yeah. So when

00:33:42.490 --> 00:33:45.710
we continue with the chapter 13, so it goes right

00:33:45.710 --> 00:33:49.890
from what we were reading in chapter 12 on to

00:33:49.890 --> 00:33:53.130
13, and it says, I show you a more excellent

00:33:53.130 --> 00:33:58.049
way. And so then it goes, if I were to speak

00:33:58.049 --> 00:34:01.410
with eloquence in earth's many languages and

00:34:01.410 --> 00:34:04.029
in the heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn't

00:34:04.029 --> 00:34:07.569
express myself with love, my words would be reduced

00:34:07.569 --> 00:34:10.289
to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging

00:34:10.289 --> 00:34:13.659
cymbal. And if I were to have the gift of prophecy

00:34:13.659 --> 00:34:16.039
with a profound understanding of God's hidden

00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:19.340
secrets, if I possessed unending supernatural

00:34:19.340 --> 00:34:22.639
knowledge, if I had the greatest gift of faith

00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:24.800
that could move mountains but have never learned

00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.280
to love, I am nothing. If I were to be so generous

00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.179
to give away everything I own to feed the poor

00:34:32.179 --> 00:34:34.739
and to offer my body to be burned as a martyr,

00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:38.159
without the pure motive of love, I would gain

00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.460
nothing in value. It goes on speaking, you know,

00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:45.639
all these marvelous things of love. And in verse

00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:49.559
8, love never stops loving. That's good. We'll

00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:51.900
pause right here a minute. In the Greek, there's

00:34:51.900 --> 00:34:55.780
three words for love. And the love, this is agape.

00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:59.320
You know, it's more like the God love. Would

00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.519
you want to, you have it right there. Yeah, I

00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:04.960
have it right here. The word agape. What's nice

00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.659
about the Hebrew Greek key study Bible. Yes.

00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.119
So the word agape, agapau is to love. That's

00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.099
the verb. So this is the, this is the noun. It

00:35:15.099 --> 00:35:19.039
is translated charity, meaning benevolent love.

00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.019
It's benevolence, however, is not shown by doing

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:26.849
what the person love desires. but what the one

00:35:26.849 --> 00:35:32.349
who loves deems as needed by the one loved. For

00:35:32.349 --> 00:35:35.530
instance, God so loved the world that he gave.

00:35:36.130 --> 00:35:39.409
He gave not what man wanted, but what man needed

00:35:39.409 --> 00:35:43.090
as God perceived his need, namely his Son, who

00:35:43.090 --> 00:35:45.409
brought forgiveness to man. God's love for man

00:35:45.409 --> 00:35:48.309
is doing what he thinks best for man and not

00:35:48.309 --> 00:35:51.230
what man desires. It is God's willful direction

00:35:51.230 --> 00:35:54.539
toward man. But for man to show love to God,

00:35:54.699 --> 00:35:58.280
he must first appropriate God's agape, for only

00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:02.340
God has such an unselfish love. Isn't that beautiful?

00:36:02.579 --> 00:36:04.800
Beautiful. So that's agape love, which is what

00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.659
we press into. But it comes from him. You have

00:36:07.659 --> 00:36:11.320
to get it from him. And then there's the filial

00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:14.320
love, and that's the love like you have to each

00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:16.929
other. That's a brotherly love. It's where the

00:36:16.929 --> 00:36:19.050
Church of Philadelphia, that's where that comes

00:36:19.050 --> 00:36:22.190
from, Filio, the Church of Brotherly Love. Yes.

00:36:22.389 --> 00:36:25.289
One of the seven churches of Revelation. Right.

00:36:25.369 --> 00:36:30.030
And even Philip is a lover of horses. Yeah. I

00:36:30.030 --> 00:36:33.010
love the white horse that Jesus is coming on.

00:36:33.030 --> 00:36:36.250
There you go. That's the one I love. And I remember

00:36:36.250 --> 00:36:39.190
there was even a church in Chicago that was part

00:36:39.190 --> 00:36:42.809
of our chain, if you want to call it. That was

00:36:42.809 --> 00:36:47.369
the Philadelphia Church. And then there's another

00:36:47.369 --> 00:36:51.469
word, eros, which is the love like a husband

00:36:51.469 --> 00:36:54.909
to a wife. But in our English word, all that

00:36:54.909 --> 00:36:58.739
is combined in one. And what are, and we don't

00:36:58.739 --> 00:37:02.079
listen to it, but what are 90 % of all the songs

00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.179
you hear on country and western stations? Love

00:37:05.179 --> 00:37:08.500
or lack of it or lost it. A lot of stations.

00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:11.420
A lot of the music is all about love because

00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:13.139
it's really important to people. It's important.

00:37:13.219 --> 00:37:16.079
And it strikes people when they're going through

00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:19.659
something because music is emotionally very strong.

00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.780
It works on your emotions. And especially when

00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:26.349
you use the title love. And there's so much music

00:37:26.349 --> 00:37:29.369
is based about it or what happened when I had

00:37:29.369 --> 00:37:32.170
it and lost it and said goodbye to it and getting

00:37:32.170 --> 00:37:34.909
it back again. You know, play your LP record

00:37:34.909 --> 00:37:37.570
backwards. You know, in country western, you

00:37:37.570 --> 00:37:39.929
get your car back, your dog back, you get your

00:37:39.929 --> 00:37:41.869
house back. Get your wife back. Get your wife

00:37:41.869 --> 00:37:46.449
back. Yeah. That's a joke. That's a joke. So

00:37:46.449 --> 00:37:50.329
moving right along, we're back in verse 8 here.

00:37:51.150 --> 00:37:54.469
So love never stops loving. It extends beyond

00:37:54.469 --> 00:37:57.429
the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades

00:37:57.429 --> 00:38:00.130
away. You know, I have a thought about that.

00:38:00.289 --> 00:38:03.449
It eventually fades away because eventually all

00:38:03.449 --> 00:38:06.650
prophecy will be fulfilled. Fulfilled, uh -huh.

00:38:06.889 --> 00:38:08.429
And then there's no more need for prophecy. And

00:38:08.429 --> 00:38:10.469
if it's of God, it will be fulfilled. Exactly.

00:38:10.469 --> 00:38:13.389
And if the vision will tarry, wait for it. Exactly.

00:38:13.389 --> 00:38:20.320
Some visions take a long time. Okay. So it is

00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:23.719
more enduring than tongues, which will one day

00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:26.880
fall silent. Yeah. You know why? Because when

00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:28.920
we get to heaven, we'll speak thought to thought.

00:38:29.059 --> 00:38:33.579
Yeah. Yeah. So love remains long after words

00:38:33.579 --> 00:38:37.099
of knowledge are forgotten. And, you know, it's

00:38:37.099 --> 00:38:39.300
kind of like that theme song that came out of

00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:43.300
the Titanic, My Heart Will Go On. You know, and

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:46.599
when a loved one dies, sometimes, you know, people

00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:48.420
have been married for a long time. Oh, yeah.

00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:50.880
The spouse will not survive. That's true. And

00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.380
they die very quickly because, you know, even

00:38:54.380 --> 00:38:57.840
an animal sometime, if the dog's master passes

00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:00.719
away, the dog a lot of times just goes in the

00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.900
morning. Sometimes they die of a broken heart.

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.119
And some people will never recover it all their

00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:12.300
life from the loss of love of a loved one. So

00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:14.699
love is powerful. Can I stick something in here?

00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.780
Yes. Well, I think it's important to share this

00:39:17.780 --> 00:39:20.820
little testimony that Pastor Tony Kemp shared

00:39:20.820 --> 00:39:24.059
of a couple that he knew, and the husband passed

00:39:24.059 --> 00:39:28.820
away, and the wife was mourning, and then she

00:39:28.820 --> 00:39:31.940
had a dream. And in her dream, she saw her husband.

00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:34.940
Might have been a vision. But she saw her husband

00:39:34.940 --> 00:39:37.400
in heaven worshiping the Lord. And she walked

00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:39.880
up behind him. He became aware that she was there.

00:39:40.059 --> 00:39:43.579
He turned around and hugged her. But it was a

00:39:43.579 --> 00:39:45.760
hug more like a brother -sister hug. It wasn't

00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:48.119
a husband -wife. It was a filial hug. Yeah, it

00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.800
was a filial hug. And then he turned back around

00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:53.260
and he went back to worshiping again. And the

00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:56.260
Lord spoke to her and said, whatever his name

00:39:56.260 --> 00:39:59.380
is, let's call him Charlie. Charlie has... a

00:39:59.380 --> 00:40:04.119
new life. You need to get one too. And she came

00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:06.760
back and she woke up from that dream or the vision

00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.420
or whatever it was. And her heart was really

00:40:10.420 --> 00:40:13.840
healed from the loss of her husband because she

00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:17.219
realized that God had given her something that

00:40:17.219 --> 00:40:20.019
she could work with. You need to get one too.

00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.599
So in this little moment when we're talking about

00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:26.579
lost love, if you have had that experience where

00:40:26.579 --> 00:40:29.480
you're mourning the loss of someone, that person

00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:32.340
has a new life, and you need to get one too.

00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.059
That's very good. Wow. So I'll go on in verse

00:40:37.059 --> 00:40:41.780
9 here. Our present knowledge and our prophecies

00:40:41.780 --> 00:40:45.420
are but partial, but when love's perfection arrives,

00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.880
the partial will fade away. When I was a child,

00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:51.840
I spoke about childless things, for I saw things

00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.880
like a child and reasoned like a child. But the

00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:58.519
day came when I matured, and I set aside my childish

00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:02.480
ways. For now we see but a faint reflection of

00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:05.579
riddles and mysteries as though reflected in

00:41:05.579 --> 00:41:08.719
a mirror, but one day we will see face to face.

00:41:08.820 --> 00:41:12.840
My understanding is incomplete now, but one day

00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.980
I will understand everything, just as everything

00:41:15.980 --> 00:41:19.460
about me has been fully understood. Until then,

00:41:19.460 --> 00:41:23.440
there are three things that remain, faith, hope,

00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:28.800
and love. yet love surpasses them all. So above

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.739
all else, you know, and this is above all the

00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:35.260
other gifts. Yes. Let love be the beautiful price

00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:38.500
for which you run. And when we get the love of

00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:41.400
God, the love of Jesus in your heart, it will

00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:45.039
help to perfect the gift that you are walking

00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.340
in. It says like, be ye perfect as I am perfect.

00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:51.500
You know, Jesus spoke those words and it really

00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:55.150
is be complete. Like I am complete because we

00:41:55.150 --> 00:41:57.769
are complete in him. Exactly. Paul says that.

00:41:58.010 --> 00:42:02.230
So every gift we have must come through complete

00:42:02.230 --> 00:42:05.989
in Jesus for it to be accurate because you don't

00:42:05.989 --> 00:42:09.090
want to give a prophecy to something that's tainted.

00:42:09.269 --> 00:42:13.000
Right. And if you're not walking right. and you're

00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.739
prophesying, you know, you could be given tainted

00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:18.960
prophecies because if there's other voices speaking

00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:21.920
to you, that can go into your prophetic word.

00:42:22.099 --> 00:42:24.300
It's true. You know, so the greatest of these

00:42:24.300 --> 00:42:27.840
is love. And if we go over to Matthew chapter

00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.940
22 real quick, you know, so, you know, Jesus

00:42:31.940 --> 00:42:35.119
has the last word. Yes. That's what I would say.

00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:40.800
And in Matthew chapter 22 and verses 36 to 40.

00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:43.940
Of course, you know, Jesus always gets confronted

00:42:43.940 --> 00:42:47.840
by the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and they're

00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:50.699
always trying to catch him to say something that

00:42:50.699 --> 00:42:53.659
they can take back to put fuel in the fire of

00:42:53.659 --> 00:42:56.460
the chief priests and all that. So one of them,

00:42:56.500 --> 00:42:59.400
a lawyer, asks a question, tempting him, saying,

00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:02.400
Master, which is the great commandment in the

00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.420
law? And of course, they know what the great

00:43:05.420 --> 00:43:07.500
commandment is, but they want to hear his interpretation.

00:43:08.659 --> 00:43:12.150
Jesus said unto them, Thou shalt love the Lord

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thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul,

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all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.

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And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love

00:43:24.289 --> 00:43:28.409
thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments

00:43:28.409 --> 00:43:32.710
hang all the law and the prophets. On these two

00:43:32.710 --> 00:43:35.670
commandments hang all the gifts. Oh, that too.

00:43:35.789 --> 00:43:39.349
Yeah. That's well put. So we hang everything.

00:43:41.340 --> 00:43:44.980
Amen. Amen. And if you don't have the love of

00:43:44.980 --> 00:43:47.340
God and you're operating in the gift without

00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:50.159
the love of God, you're going to hurt people,

00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.980
you know, and you're going to do things and say

00:43:52.980 --> 00:43:55.820
things that you shouldn't say. You know, there's

00:43:55.820 --> 00:43:59.039
this thing about some people that have a gift

00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:04.719
of prophecy that have used it unlawfully, I would

00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:08.989
say. by saying, okay, if you'll give such and

00:44:08.989 --> 00:44:11.170
such an offering, I'll give you a prophecy. I

00:44:11.170 --> 00:44:15.469
mean, that's just totally wrong motives. That's

00:44:15.469 --> 00:44:18.849
not how you do it. But if you have a gift, you

00:44:18.849 --> 00:44:22.210
can operate in the gift, but don't operate in

00:44:22.210 --> 00:44:25.150
the gift without the love of the giver who gave

00:44:25.150 --> 00:44:29.349
you the gift. You have to operate in that love

00:44:29.349 --> 00:44:34.409
of God because that is his nature. I mean, the

00:44:34.409 --> 00:44:37.739
book of 1 John says that, verse John 4, 7 and

00:44:37.739 --> 00:44:41.719
8 says that God is love. In verse 8, I think

00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:45.800
it is. And so it's his nature. If you look at

00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:48.760
the fruit of the Spirit at the same time that

00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:50.440
you're looking at the gifts of the Spirit, the

00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:53.880
very first one from Galatians chapter 5, the

00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:58.539
very first one is love. So it's the first, most

00:44:58.539 --> 00:45:01.460
important thing. And if you go all the way back

00:45:01.460 --> 00:45:05.170
to Sinai, where Moses is up on the mountain with

00:45:05.170 --> 00:45:07.590
God. And, you know, he said, show me your glory.

00:45:07.949 --> 00:45:11.329
And the Lord comes to him and covers him in the

00:45:11.329 --> 00:45:14.949
cleft of the rock. And he roars his name. And

00:45:14.949 --> 00:45:17.429
his name means the one who was and who is and

00:45:17.429 --> 00:45:21.050
who is to come. Yehovah! And so he roars it twice.

00:45:21.110 --> 00:45:23.670
And when you have something twice in Scripture,

00:45:23.869 --> 00:45:28.500
in the Hebrew, it's like multiplied. Like, for

00:45:28.500 --> 00:45:32.019
instance, when you say perfect peace in English,

00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.920
it's really shalom, shalom in Hebrew. So when

00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:41.139
he roars his name, he's saying, I was, I am,

00:45:41.300 --> 00:45:44.699
I always will be what I am. I was, I am, I always

00:45:44.699 --> 00:45:47.619
will be what I am. It's like more than doubling.

00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:50.820
It's like multiplication, exponential multiplication.

00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:56.320
And so he roars his name and then he says. The

00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:59.539
first thing he says about him is from the word

00:45:59.539 --> 00:46:03.519
racham or rachum, and that comes from the same

00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:08.960
root word as the word womb, a woman's womb. So

00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:13.079
God's womb, it's like womb love. It's like the

00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:16.480
love that a mother has for her baby. You know,

00:46:16.539 --> 00:46:18.780
I've only had one pregnancy. We just have one

00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:22.260
child. But there's something that goes on in

00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:25.929
a mother. During this pregnancy where you're

00:46:25.929 --> 00:46:30.030
just being knit to that baby. And in reality,

00:46:30.030 --> 00:46:33.349
they have found that the mother's DNA remains

00:46:33.349 --> 00:46:36.630
in the child and not just the DNA that makes

00:46:36.630 --> 00:46:41.989
them. But the mother's actual DNA is still floating

00:46:41.989 --> 00:46:44.570
around in the child and the child's DNA is in

00:46:44.570 --> 00:46:48.349
the mother. So there's a connection there that

00:46:48.349 --> 00:46:53.260
is so strong. A mother's love for her child,

00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:56.739
no matter what the child does wrong, mom can

00:46:56.739 --> 00:47:00.820
see the good. Like the mother saying to the judge,

00:47:00.980 --> 00:47:03.340
oh, no, no, he didn't mean to hurt that guy.

00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:08.619
Grant that my two sons will sit with you on your

00:47:08.619 --> 00:47:10.760
throne, one on the left, one on the right. So

00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:13.440
the first thing that God says about himself on

00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:16.719
Mount Sinai is that he loves, that he loves like

00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:19.199
a mother. You know, we think of him as father,

00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:22.739
but first thing he says about himself, more so

00:47:22.739 --> 00:47:25.059
than a father love. Father love is wonderful,

00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:29.019
and father love is powerful and important, but

00:47:29.019 --> 00:47:32.059
there's something about mother love that, you

00:47:32.059 --> 00:47:35.619
know, you hear these stories about men, soldiers

00:47:35.619 --> 00:47:37.820
dying on the field, and they're crying out for

00:47:37.820 --> 00:47:42.079
mom. Crying out for mom, yeah. Yeah. Mommy! You

00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.219
know, there's something about that. connection.

00:47:45.460 --> 00:47:47.980
And that's why it's so important when we're learning

00:47:47.980 --> 00:47:51.059
about the gifts. And, you know, we came up into

00:47:51.059 --> 00:47:53.900
the charismatic mover. I did. And you kind of

00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:56.320
joined a little bit later. But you were there.

00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:59.559
You saw it happening. And your parents were full

00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.840
on in it. But there's something about the charismatic

00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:07.039
move that we were focusing on the gifts. Really

00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.980
focused. I can't tell you how many sermons I

00:48:09.980 --> 00:48:13.460
heard about the gifts from chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians.

00:48:14.510 --> 00:48:17.190
Over and over and over, we were focusing on the

00:48:17.190 --> 00:48:21.449
gifts. And in chapter 14, you read it. It says,

00:48:21.630 --> 00:48:24.769
you know, covets to my prophesy. Prophecy, just

00:48:24.769 --> 00:48:26.849
go for prophecy. Prophecy is so important. You

00:48:26.849 --> 00:48:30.070
need to learn how to prophesy. But this place

00:48:30.070 --> 00:48:34.670
of love that you read about in chapter 13, I

00:48:34.670 --> 00:48:38.849
was stunned to realize that as I kind of dug

00:48:38.849 --> 00:48:42.090
into this after you started bringing this message.

00:48:42.730 --> 00:48:45.889
this idea of speaking with tongues. You know,

00:48:45.909 --> 00:48:48.389
speaking in tongues is the first thing that we

00:48:48.389 --> 00:48:52.550
focus on. You know, the baptism in the Holy Spirit

00:48:52.550 --> 00:48:54.909
with the evidence of speaking in tongues. I'm

00:48:54.909 --> 00:48:58.469
not against that. I'm for that. But you have

00:48:58.469 --> 00:49:04.309
to get it from the lover of your soul and connect

00:49:04.309 --> 00:49:07.550
with the lover of your soul as you speak in tongues.

00:49:07.730 --> 00:49:10.449
One of the things that I've been doing recently

00:49:10.449 --> 00:49:14.400
is really focusing, because it's easy to speak

00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.199
in tongues mindlessly without your mind being

00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:19.719
on it. And there's a time and place for that,

00:49:19.739 --> 00:49:23.699
to just be continuously praying in tongues. But

00:49:23.699 --> 00:49:26.780
when I really want to connect, I say, Holy Spirit,

00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:30.260
pray through me. Holy Spirit, pray through me.

00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:33.360
That Romans 8 prayer, because we don't know how

00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:36.920
to pray as we ought to. And that love that comes

00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:39.280
with it, it's a different experience praying

00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:42.820
in tongues with the Holy Spirit. But if we just

00:49:42.820 --> 00:49:46.340
pray in tongues without the love of God, what

00:49:46.340 --> 00:49:49.739
are we accomplishing? It's just noise. And then

00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:53.400
having the gift of prophecy. But this little

00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:55.579
line here, it says, understand all mysteries.

00:49:56.679 --> 00:50:01.059
As I was looking up the gift of the word of wisdom.

00:50:03.279 --> 00:50:06.679
The word wisdom there is Sophia in the Greek,

00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:13.059
and it also indicates wisdom, and it's well translated

00:50:13.059 --> 00:50:15.179
as wisdom, but it also indicates understanding

00:50:15.179 --> 00:50:18.260
mysteries. So I didn't know that understanding

00:50:18.260 --> 00:50:20.360
mysteries actually goes with the word of wisdom.

00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:23.699
Great. Okay. And having knowledge. Well, that's

00:50:23.699 --> 00:50:25.500
the word of knowledge. That's the gift of the

00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:27.719
word of knowledge. But if you don't have love

00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:31.809
and having faith, it's a gift of faith. so that

00:50:31.809 --> 00:50:33.949
you can move mountains. I mean, there's a real

00:50:33.949 --> 00:50:36.929
story about that. But if you don't have love,

00:50:37.110 --> 00:50:40.510
when it says, it profits me nothing, it means

00:50:40.510 --> 00:50:44.650
that there's no eternal value. And the eternal

00:50:44.650 --> 00:50:49.530
value comes from receiving the love of God so

00:50:49.530 --> 00:50:52.469
that you can operate in the love of God. And

00:50:52.469 --> 00:50:55.809
that's where maturity comes. You're going to

00:50:55.809 --> 00:50:59.550
step into that place of maturity where your gift

00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:05.440
is actually introducing the one who loves. That

00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:07.739
it's not about the pride, like that's what you

00:51:07.739 --> 00:51:09.960
were talking about at the very beginning. The

00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:14.699
pride that stops a move of God. It causes the

00:51:14.699 --> 00:51:18.320
move of God to ebb. It's the love of God that

00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:21.239
keeps it going. When you're filled with the love

00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:24.059
of God, you're not going to be standing up in

00:51:24.059 --> 00:51:27.840
pride because the love of God recognizes his

00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:32.320
greatness. And it causes us to humble ourselves

00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:36.360
in his sight and walk in that awe and reverence

00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.860
of him that will cause his name to be known.

00:51:39.980 --> 00:51:41.880
When we don't take any of the credit ourselves,

00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:44.260
when we don't take any of the glory ourselves

00:51:44.260 --> 00:51:47.639
and we give him all the glory, that's what keeps

00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:50.719
revival going. That's what brings this revival

00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:54.380
where there will be no ebb. Let's just close

00:51:54.380 --> 00:51:57.679
with that prophecy that Arthur Burt wrote the

00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:01.099
whole book about. It was a prophecy that he heard

00:52:01.099 --> 00:52:05.559
given in Manchester, England in the 1930s. No

00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:08.840
one's exactly sure of whether it was 34 or 35

00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:12.519
or 39 or whatever it was. But this is the quote

00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:16.820
from his book. It shall come as a breath. And

00:52:16.820 --> 00:52:19.940
the breath shall bring the wind. And the wind

00:52:19.940 --> 00:52:23.340
shall bring the rain. And there shall be floods

00:52:23.340 --> 00:52:28.539
and floods and floods and torrents. And torrents

00:52:28.539 --> 00:52:32.500
and torrents. Souls shall be saved like falling

00:52:32.500 --> 00:52:35.780
leaves from mighty oaks swept by a hurricane.

00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:39.639
Arms and legs shall come down from heaven, and

00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:42.659
there shall be no ebb. And he remembered later

00:52:42.659 --> 00:52:45.639
that there was also a part about where the rich

00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:48.960
and the poor will embrace each other on the streets

00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:52.420
of New York City. Wow. Wow, wow. You know, that's

00:52:52.420 --> 00:52:56.650
love poured out. That is love poured out. You

00:52:56.650 --> 00:52:58.150
want to close with prayer? Yeah. Well, Father,

00:52:58.210 --> 00:53:01.250
we thank you for these words, Lord, and the words

00:53:01.250 --> 00:53:04.230
that you give. And, Lord, that the greatest of

00:53:04.230 --> 00:53:08.530
these is love. That, Father, that in our quest,

00:53:08.769 --> 00:53:11.889
O God, for more of you, that, Lord, you would

00:53:11.889 --> 00:53:14.809
be the focus of it all. You would be the center

00:53:14.809 --> 00:53:18.829
of it all. And that, Father, we can fulfill our

00:53:18.829 --> 00:53:22.289
plan that you have for us in earth, O God. Yes.

00:53:22.289 --> 00:53:24.449
And, Lord, by loving you, because when we love

00:53:24.449 --> 00:53:27.449
you, Lord, with everything that we have, with

00:53:27.449 --> 00:53:30.210
all our heart, mind, and soul, we will be walking

00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:33.369
out our destiny. So we just pray, Lord, I pray

00:53:33.369 --> 00:53:35.869
for all our listeners that, Lord, they would

00:53:35.869 --> 00:53:38.989
find their destiny, Lord, that only comes from

00:53:38.989 --> 00:53:42.550
knowing you intimately, oh God. Lord, many things

00:53:42.550 --> 00:53:46.130
are handed down, but Lord, to truly know you

00:53:46.130 --> 00:53:49.210
will be the fulfillment of it all. So we thank

00:53:49.210 --> 00:53:52.369
you, Father, and we just bless each one listening

00:53:52.369 --> 00:53:55.170
and give you all the glory. In your name, Lord

00:53:55.170 --> 00:54:21.289
Jesus, amen. Amen. Check out our website at globaloutpouring

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