(294) “What Can I Do?”

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So we're created for good works, unto good works,

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but it's not the works that define us, it's the

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relationship that defines us. God promises in

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

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promised 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. We're delighted

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that you're with us. We're going to talk about

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what can I do? Or what can I do? Or what can

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I do? Thanks so much for joining us today. We're

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just delighted that you're with us, and we look

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Spirit to accomplish what God has put us on this

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planet to accomplish. So I was meditating about

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this idea of what can I do? And I was reminded

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of this incident with our granddaughter when

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we were playing a game that It was kind of a

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hide and seek kind of game. And she was really

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little. And I could tell that she had seen something

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on TV or in a video or something that, you know,

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while we're making this big deal about this mystery

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and, you know, looking for something and looking

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for the treasure and that kind of thing. And

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she says, what can I do? And it was so cute.

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What can I do? This little tiny voice. And so.

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I was thinking about, you know, what is it that

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we can do? What is it that God put us on this

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planet to do? You know, it seems like we want

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to be doing something. But he didn't make us

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human doings. He made us human beings. Right,

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human beings. And our humanness and our beingness

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is because our God, our Father, is our creator.

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He created us to be in relationship with him.

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And the doing comes out of the being. It comes

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out of cooperating with him and doing things

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with him. Because we get so busy thinking about,

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oh, what can I do? I want to please God. I want

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to do something for him. And we get some grandiose

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ideas sometimes. I love that word. And it reminds

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me of this story that I heard or read about a

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young person that, you know, dad was going away

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for the day and it was a Saturday and he says,

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son, I want you to sweep the garage. So the son

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gets out there and he's thinking, I really want

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to please dad. Clean the garage and rearrange

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everything. And dad comes back and the son is

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working really hard. Well, if you're going to

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rearrange, you're going to pull everything out

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and you're going to make a big mess. And of course,

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a young person sometimes gets into a job and

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doesn't necessarily finish. And dad comes home

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and he says, son, I asked you to sweep the garage.

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I didn't ask you to rearrange it. But the kid's

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heart was in the right place. I want to do something

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to please you, Dad. And sometimes we get into

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this thing where we want to just do something.

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Make it better. Yeah, we're going to make it

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better. What can I do? Or what can I do? Or what

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can I do? You know, sometimes we look at ourselves

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and we think, eh. What can I do? I'm nobody.

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I'm nothing. And sometimes we also get grandiose

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ideas about, I can do something. I have a gift.

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I can do this. And we get all worked up in pride

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and arrogance and fall on our face. Because that's

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not what God asked us to do. So Ephesians chapter

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2 and verse 8 says, For by grace. You are saved

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through faith, and that not of yourselves. It

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is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man

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should boast. Pride. Pride, like, I did this.

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I got myself out of that hole. No, not really.

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ

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Jesus unto good works. which God has before ordained

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that we should walk in them. In other words,

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he created us for good works as his workmanship

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to cooperate with him out of being, being in

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relationship with him. So Jesus said that of

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myself, I can do nothing. So if the Son of God

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could do nothing by himself, what are we trying

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to do? What were the disciples thinking when

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he said that? I don't know. Because here he is,

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and their mind's going to be the next king eventually.

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Right, right. And soon. And soon, yeah. They

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were expecting any minute he's going to just

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overrule the Romans, right? Yeah, because you

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can do miracles. And there's probably things

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that happened, like with regards to Roman soldiers.

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I remember on a, it wasn't the chosen, it was

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something else, where this, you know, someone

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was carrying something for a Roman soldier, and

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they're just being rough on him and all that,

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you know. And then all of a sudden, Jesus kind

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of is standing there, and the Roman soldier comes

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up to him, and he stops, and he just turns and

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backs away out of fear, you know. I thought,

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oh, that's kind of neat. How many things? like

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that happen with Roman soldiers that we don't

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know anything about. That's true. What does it

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say that the earth would not be able to hold

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the volumes of what Jesus did when he was on

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earth? Very true. That's what John said. So if

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he was on earth for a very short time, he did

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a lot of stuff. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. And the

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thing about carrying something for a Roman soldier,

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Jesus said, if you're compelled to walk a mile,

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to carry something for a soldier, basically,

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if you're compelled to do that, and they were

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required to. They were required to carry whatever

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the Roman soldier said for a mile. And Jesus

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said, carry it two. Two miles, yeah. In other

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words, Jesus was trying to give the idea on earth.

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Remember what Dean Braxton said about in heaven.

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How can I serve you? Yeah, the greeting is, how

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can I serve you? So Jesus is trying to give us

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this instruction that we're here to serve. So

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if your enemy, the Romans were the enemies of

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Israel, if your enemy compels you to do something,

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do it twice as much for him. Yeah, and we don't

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have an understanding of how brutal. It was.

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Things really were with Rome. That's true. There's

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a lot of movies out there and stuff of the Nazi

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regime and how brutal they were to everybody.

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Yeah. And so when you put yourself, there's something

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you're looking at because you don't see movies

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out there of the Jewish nation. Rome is in control

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and they're just being brutal in a lot of ways.

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We don't see that. With all the stuff that's

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out there, what the Nazis did, we see all that.

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And so when you compare that to that, that's

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what it would kind of be like. Yeah. You know,

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no mercy, really. Yeah. It wasn't any mercy.

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So Jesus was trying to teach us about what works

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we're expected to do. We're expected to do things

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out of service. And to do things, Jesus said,

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love your enemies. Do good to them that hate

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you. Be kind to those that despitefully use you

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and abuse you. He's trying to teach kingdom living,

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the kingdom of God, the way it is in heaven.

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That's how we're supposed to be doing it on earth.

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But Jesus had this relationship with his father

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where he said, I can't do anything by myself.

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I only do what I see the father doing. Let's

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look at John 5. So this is the story of the man

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by the pool of Bethesda that Jesus healed on

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the Sabbath day. This is the story where, you

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know, these people are gathered around the pool

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and they're waiting for the waters to be stirred.

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And the first one who gets in gets healed. Yeah.

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At least that was the legend. That was the legend.

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Yeah. It could be that it was happening, but

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there's lots of opinions about what that is.

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That's not what we're doing here. Yeah, that's

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not the purpose of this discussion. But in verse

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19 of John 5, do you want to read that, Philip?

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So Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to

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you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord,

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but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever

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the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

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For the Father loves the Son and shows him all

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that he himself is doing. And greater works than

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these will he show him so that you may marvel.

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Truly, truly, I say unto you, the hour is coming

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and is now here when the dead will hear the voice

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of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

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For as the Father has life in himself, so he

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has granted the Son also to have life in himself.

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And he has given him authority to execute judgment,

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because he is the Son of Man. I can do nothing

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on my own. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment

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is just, because I seek not my own will, but

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the will of him who sent me. So if Jesus was

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seeking the will of him who sent him, that is

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a clue for us. What can I do? I can seek what

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is the will of the Father. Why did Father put

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us here on this planet? Every single one of us

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has a purpose. Every single one of us has unique

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giftings. Every one of us thinks a little differently

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than others. Every one of us speaks a little

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differently. We use different words. We're not

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going to say things exactly the same because

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we don't think exactly the same. We don't see

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things exactly the same. For instance, I'm just

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going back. Oh, 44 years or so. Uh -oh. When

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we went on our extended honeymoon trip to Israel,

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okay, this wasn't my first trip to Israel. I

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had been going a few years already, but this

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was Philip's first trip. Oh, boy, I think I know

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what's coming. I'm busy looking at all this biblical

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stuff, and I'm looking at... and listening to

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the guide, and he's talking about archaeology,

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and he's talking about the Bible, and he's talking

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about, and Philip is saying, wow, look at that

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car. Remember what kind of cars they were? It

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was older. Older American cars, GMs, Fords. Yeah,

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you won't even see those now. No, not now. But

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44 years ago, they were there. Yeah. And I was

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like. What's the matter, you? No, I wasn't quite

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like that. But I was like, is that what you're

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seeing? My point is, we see things differently.

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And I was immature at this point. I hardly had

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been saved for how long? Yeah, just months. Not

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a real, real long time. Yeah, yeah. To be fair,

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to be fair. It takes a while to get your focus

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on things right. But those were the things that

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were impressing you in the moment. That's all

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I'm saying. I'm not down on you for that. But

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my point is, we see things differently because

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of where we are in our walk. You were early in

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your walk at that point. But the idea here is

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that as we grow and become more mature, more...

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inclined to be communicating with our Father,

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we're going to get more out of what He has for

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us. It's like, think about your destiny. You

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know, we hear a lot about destiny. But destiny

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is not a destination. Because a destination is

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like an end point. It's the end of a trip. But

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we're designed for eternity. Our destiny goes

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beyond, you know, beyond the grave. It goes beyond,

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what is it, three score years and 10 or four

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score years or 90 years or 120 years, however

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long you live. Your destiny is eternal. And the

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things that you learn in your walk on the planet

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here are significant. in your relationship with

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Father. So we're not trying to rearrange the

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garage when he asks us to sweep it. You know,

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your first trip to Israel was an introduction.

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My first trip to Israel was an introduction.

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You know, you weren't with me when I was on my

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first trip, but I was gawking at things too.

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And, you know, I heard the word diaspora and

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I had no idea what that meant. What do you mean

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diaspora? I've never heard that word. And, you

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know, for those of you who don't know what that

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word is, it means dispersion. It's where people

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have been dispersed around the world. So the

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Jews had been dispersed and I'd never heard that

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before. I learned so much. You just continue

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to learn. You don't quit learning. You never

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stop learning. Yeah. If you stop learning, you

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start going into not good things in your brain.

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You know, you start becoming a couch potato or,

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you know, you can even go into dementia if you

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stop learning. You got to keep your mind sharp.

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Keep your brain active. Keep your brain active.

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So Jesus said that he doesn't do anything. except

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what he sees the Father doing. And so I'm under

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the impression that when he got up while it was

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yet dark, he was getting a download from his

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father and seeing what was coming for the day.

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For the day, yeah. And when we spend time with

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the Lord in the morning, we're taking an opportunity

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to learn something and get something in relationship

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with him, in being. And out of the being, out

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of those works, I love this, we are his workmanship,

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created in Christ Jesus, created in the Anointed

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One, our Savior, for good works, unto good works.

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When you think of that word workmanship, you

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think like how something is built, like a car,

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how complex, like computers. How complex things

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are. Yeah. Humans, how complex we are. Oh, yes.

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How complex. It's a good thing we only have 10

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% of our brain in use. You know, what would have

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happened if we had the other 90 after the fall?

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Right. Yeah. So we're created for good works,

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unto good works. But it's not the works that

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define us. It's the relationship that defines

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us. So Jesus went on in John 15. talking about

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being the true vine and we're the branches. Do

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you want to read that? John 15, 1 through 17.

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I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

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Every branch in me that does not bear fruit,

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he takes away, and every branch that does bear

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fruit, he prunes. Can I just interject something

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here? Remember when Marilyn Hargis taught us

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on the vine? The vine, uh -huh. She and her co

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-worker, Judith Moore. went to a vineyard and

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watched this whole process so that she could

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teach from John 15 to really understand. And

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this first thing about every branch in me that

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does not bear fruit, he takes away, in the Greek,

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it really means he lifts it up. And in this real

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vineyard that they went to. Sometimes they just

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have to lift it up and attach it to something

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in order to help it to bear fruit. It's already

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talking about pruning in another place. So lifting

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it up can help it to bear fruit. So I just thought

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I'd throw that in. Don't expect that everything

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in your life is going to get cut away. There

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is a pruning process, and it's good. It's good

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for us. Verse 3. Already you are clean because

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of the word that I have spoken to you. That's

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the word. Nothing. Without me, you can do nothing.

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If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown

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away like a branch and withers, and the branches

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are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

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If you abide in me and my words abide in you,

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ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for

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you. By this my Father is glorified, that you

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bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.

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See, there's the works. There's the works. Bearing

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fruit. Bearing fruit. Yeah, that's the works.

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Go ahead. As the Father has loved me, so have

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I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my

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commandments, you will abide in my love, just

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as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide

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in his love. These things I have spoken to you,

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that my joy may be in you, and that your joy

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may be full. Amen. In the Message Bible, it says,

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live in me. Instead of abide, it says, live in

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me. That kind of gives a better description of

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that. Yes, absolutely. This is my commandment

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that you love one another as I have loved you.

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That's big. Greater love has no one than this,

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that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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You are my friends if you do what I command you.

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There's the works. No longer do I call you servants,

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for the servant does not know what his master

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is doing. But I have called you friends, for

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all that I have heard from my Father I made known

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to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you

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and appointed you that you should go and bear

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fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that

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whatsoever you ask the Father in my name, he

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may give it to you. These things I command you,

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so that you will love one another. So loving

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one another is really the works of God. Because

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he is love. And greater love has no man than

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this, than that he lay down his life for his

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friends. Which Jesus did for us. Exactly. God

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so loved the world that he gave his only begotten

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son, that whosoever believes in him should not

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perish, but have everlasting life. So this abiding

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and abiding in his love and living, I like what

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you brought about that, living in his love. living

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in his presence. His presence is love. When we

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work from that standpoint, when he says, sweep

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the garage, that we just sweep the garage. And

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that obedience is what he's looking for, that

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he gives us things to do. There are works that

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we do, but some of it is going to be The Bible

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says do this. So we should do these things because

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that's what the word of God says. And we rightly

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divide the word of truth. Let the Bible interpret

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the Bible. Let the scriptures explain to us what

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the scriptures mean. Don't just pick out one

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verse and say, oh, this verse means this. It's

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out of context or outside of the way that God

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works. We learn his ways by walking with him.

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We learn his ways by learning his word, by learning

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history of how he operates. Not that he does

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the same thing twice. Lots of times, you know,

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he brings fresh new miracles all the time out

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of his love, out of his love for us. Learning

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to walk with him in love, it's about learning

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that walk of the Spirit so that we don't do things

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in the flesh. That the works that we do come

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out of our relationship. So I love what 1 Corinthians

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3 says about... us being God's fellow workers.

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Paul is talking in context here about the contentions

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that are going on in the church in Corinth. Which

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is what most of the letters to the churches were.

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Yeah, yeah. He's dealing with, you know, some

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people are saying, well, I'm of Apollos, and

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others are saying, well, I'm of Paul. And, you

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know, so there's divisions. And again, we're

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talking about people who are young in their faith.

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They're young in their walk. They're immature.

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And Paul says, I'm feeding you milk when you

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should be ready for some meat. Like a baby, you

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don't give a newborn baby meat. You just don't.

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Milk is for babies. So Paul is saying, I want

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you to grow up. Let's grow up here. Let's get

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rid of this contention. One is planting, so verse

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6 says, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave

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the growth. So in other words, we're working

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together with God. Take it from verse 7. So neither

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he who plants nor he who waters is anything,

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but only God who gives the growth. Amen. He who

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plants and he who waters are one, and each will

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receive his wages according to his labor. For

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we are God's fellow workers. Amen. You are God's

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field, God's building. According to the grace

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of God given to me, like a skilled master builder,

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I laid a foundation and someone else is building

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upon it. Let each one take care of how he builds

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upon it. Okay, so that's you and that's me and

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that's everybody that's listening. Every one

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of us needs to take care how we build on this

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foundation. Go on. According to the grace of

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God given to me, Like a skilled master builder,

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I laid a foundation and someone else is building

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upon it. Let each one take care how he builds

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upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other

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than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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Okay, Jesus is the foundation. Cornerstone. If

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we make him our cornerstone. Absolutely. Now,

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if anyone builds on the foundation with gold,

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silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each

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one's work will become manifest. for the day

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will disclose it because it will be revealed

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by fire, and the fire will test what sort of

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work each one has done. If the work that anyone

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has built on the foundation survives, he will

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receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned

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up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will

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be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not

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know that you are God's temple and that God's

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Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's

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temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple

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is holy, and you are that temple. Oh, you are

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that temple. Okay, so there's another picture

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of the relationship. You are the temple of God.

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Yeah, and you had the tabernacle in the wilderness,

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Moses' tabernacle. And David had it, and he put

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it out where people can see it, which was amazing.

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David's tabernacle. And then you had the temple.

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And when you read in the book of Revelation,

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you will find the temple. The temple of God was

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opened in heaven. So it's on earth as it is in

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heaven. That was a pattern given Moses. And when

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you read those scriptures about the temple in

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heaven, it's just like, oh, wow. There's some

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incredible stuff being released. So the temple

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on earth was kind of like, Not the replica, but

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it was the representation of God's glory on earth

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as it was in heaven. Yes. But things kind of

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went sour. Well, they did. But God gave instructions

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to do it in a way that would be on earth as it

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is in heaven. And I'm excited to learn more about.

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what Dean saw when we were in Israel with him.

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Yeah, he's going to tell us some more. He's going

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to tell us more. In a little bit here. Yes. A

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few more episodes coming. Yes. So stay tuned,

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everybody. But, you know, back to this idea of

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we are God's workmanship. We are his temple.

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Jesus is the foundation. So he's the foundation

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of the temple. And it's up to us what we... build

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with? So are we, I'm reminded of the three little

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pigs story, you know, where you have the one

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little pig that built his house out of straw,

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another one out of his sticks, and the other

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one out of bricks. What are you going to build

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with? What's going to be enduring? Bricks are

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going to endure. And when the big bad wolf comes,

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I'm going to huff and puff and blow your house

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down. Exactly. Exactly. So what are we building

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with? Because on the day of judgment, our works

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are going to be tried. And our works are what

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we built with. So if we built with something

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of our own making, if we built with something

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that was, you know, rearranging the garage instead

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of just sweeping it, you know, that's going to

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burn up. I remember the visions that, I think

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it was Anna Roundtree had, and she was in heaven.

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And she was talking to this little... A being.

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It was a being. Yeah, looked like a child. It

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looked like a child, but she could tell it was

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old. It was an ancient being. And it's talking

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to... And the little being, you know, talks about

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people, you know, many people make sandcastles.

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You know, we just let them make sandcastles.

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Yes. You know, and she said, I had the taste

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of a copper penny in my mouth, you know. Yes,

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I think that that being's name was called Crystal

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Clear. Crystal Clear. Yeah, Crystal Clear. And

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she was, yeah. And really, Crystal Clear was

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pointing out to Anna that she had been building

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with sand. Yeah. You know, and many times we

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don't know until we have an experience that something

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we're doing wasn't right. I mean, how many, you

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know, we know numerous ones that have had visits

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to heaven, but a lot of times things were correction.

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You know, you're not doing this right. It was

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Howard Pittman. He was a Baptist minister doing

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all the right things. He took in people. Yeah,

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standing on street corners, handing out tracts.

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Handing out tracts and that. And when he got

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to heaven, Jesus wouldn't let him in the gate.

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He had a massive heart attack and died instantly.

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He says, everything you did was for yourself.

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It wasn't for me. I'm giving you another chance

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to go back. Oh, wow. See, many never have a second

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chance. Very true. Very true. And if he had been

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allowed to go in, his works would have been burnt

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up. So he would have been saved, yet so as by

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fire, as the scripture says, but he would have

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had no reward. One of our teachers, that was

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June Lewis, always taught with illustrations.

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Yes, she was an artist. And she had this picture

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of this man before the throne, and with an angel

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with a bolt, and had all his works, and all his

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works burnt up. Yep. They were all on fire because

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they, that was for him. What are we doing? What

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can I do? And it's real easy to get busy doing

00:30:49.849 --> 00:30:53.890
the work of the ministry, doing the business

00:30:53.890 --> 00:30:57.890
of the ministry. I remember a story Jeff Johns

00:30:57.890 --> 00:31:01.529
told once. A young lady came up and says, can

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I sing? It was a solo or something like that.

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He says, well, first, and he had her cleaning

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toilets, had her sweeping, having to do all these

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things, teaching her to be a servant. Right.

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And after she had learned obedience in many ways

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and different things, he let her sing. And it

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was so anointed. Yes. Yeah. It has to do with

00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:28.460
getting our attitude right. Yeah. And a similar

00:31:28.460 --> 00:31:31.539
story I'm reminded of is one that Walter Buechler

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told. And Walter Buechler was a man who really

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walked with God and really practiced the presence

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of God. He taught in a Bible school in Pennsylvania

00:31:41.579 --> 00:31:46.400
at Camp Hill. There was a young woman, one of

00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:50.759
the students, that had a beautiful voice, and

00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:56.019
she would sing for their chapel time. And the

00:31:56.019 --> 00:32:01.880
Lord told him to tell her that her voice, I don't

00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:03.619
remember the exact words, but it was something

00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:06.519
along the lines of, your voice is obnoxious to

00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:11.720
me. Sit down. Oh, my. And she was horribly embarrassed.

00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:15.009
He didn't want to tell her. I mean, who would

00:32:15.009 --> 00:32:17.150
want to give that kind of a message from God

00:32:17.150 --> 00:32:20.589
to anybody? But he obeyed God and he told her

00:32:20.589 --> 00:32:24.849
and she wept and she cried and she sat down.

00:32:24.970 --> 00:32:27.650
And I don't think he rebuked her publicly. I

00:32:27.650 --> 00:32:31.329
think he gave her the word privately. So she

00:32:31.329 --> 00:32:34.369
didn't sing for, I don't know if it was weeks

00:32:34.369 --> 00:32:38.309
or months. And then the Lord told him to tell

00:32:38.309 --> 00:32:41.700
her it was time for her to sing again. And she

00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:44.160
had been humbled in that time because she realized

00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.960
that the reason why she was singing was out of

00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:50.180
her own pride. And that she thought her voice

00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:54.000
was so beautiful to God and to everyone else

00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.720
that there was a pride issue. And so she sat

00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.259
down humbly for that time and really humbled

00:33:02.259 --> 00:33:05.720
herself before God. When he did tell her to sing

00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.619
again, she said, I was afraid I would never sing

00:33:08.619 --> 00:33:12.039
again. Remember, your brother laid down his violin

00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:14.640
for a season. Yeah, that was The Eye of the Needle,

00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.380
the prophetic parable by Charlotte Baker. Yes,

00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:20.460
and I think we did a whole podcast on that, so

00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:24.380
we'll include the link to that. Because even

00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:27.299
at convention, I would help on the sound table,

00:33:27.380 --> 00:33:31.460
and there would be this stack of... Of soundtracks.

00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:34.500
Oh, yeah. If Sister Gwen asked me to sing, you

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:37.599
know, we got all these stack of cassettes and

00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:42.160
CDs, you know. I'm prepared to sing. I'm ready

00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.640
to sing, yeah. It's always good to be prepared.

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:48.740
Yes. But how did the Lord deal with you? Oh,

00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:52.619
wow. Yeah, I had a stack of soundtracks, you

00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:55.660
know. And I'd ask Sister Gwen because we were

00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:58.670
her road crew. Right. We traveled with her. And

00:33:58.670 --> 00:34:01.049
I'd say, do you want me to sing anything tonight,

00:34:01.230 --> 00:34:03.910
you know? And she would always, you know, have

00:34:03.910 --> 00:34:06.390
something. There would be something, you know,

00:34:06.390 --> 00:34:08.510
she's preaching on. I could, you know, do a song

00:34:08.510 --> 00:34:11.230
or something. Yeah. And often she did ask you

00:34:11.230 --> 00:34:13.349
to do things. Yeah, she did. But there came a

00:34:13.349 --> 00:34:16.090
time. When there came a time when things just

00:34:16.090 --> 00:34:18.889
started going wrong. Oh, yeah, I remember. I

00:34:18.889 --> 00:34:21.389
mean, all of a sudden the soundtrack wasn't,

00:34:21.389 --> 00:34:24.329
you know, it would do something. Or the monitors

00:34:24.329 --> 00:34:27.960
didn't work. Or maybe the microphone. It was

00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:32.340
constant. So I got to realize, and I thought

00:34:32.340 --> 00:34:35.559
of this eye of the needle thing. I went back

00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.780
to that, and I thought, you know, self -examination

00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:41.320
is what it was. When a thing like that happens,

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:45.599
what's the purpose for this? So I wouldn't ask

00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:49.440
her anymore, only if she asked me to sing. And

00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:51.500
then we went through it, and I said, Lord, take

00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:55.840
the desire out to lead worship. Because as a

00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:00.199
worship leader, you want to get on a stage. And

00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:03.860
there can be a lot of pride in that. You see

00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:07.019
that all the time. There's something about getting

00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:10.340
on the stage in somebody's convention or something.

00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:15.980
And if your attitude's not right. And so we went

00:35:15.980 --> 00:35:19.929
through a season of time. And I felt like we're

00:35:19.929 --> 00:35:21.889
coming out of this. And then we're on our way

00:35:21.889 --> 00:35:25.230
to Israel. And it was Sadhu Salvage invited us

00:35:25.230 --> 00:35:28.429
to be one of the worship teams on his first conference

00:35:28.429 --> 00:35:32.570
on the Mount of Olives. I thought, that's tremendous.

00:35:32.730 --> 00:35:35.730
We're coming out full barrel. Thank you, Jesus.

00:35:36.030 --> 00:35:39.389
And we're on our way to New York, the long way,

00:35:39.469 --> 00:35:42.190
have meetings driving along the way. And that's

00:35:42.190 --> 00:35:46.360
when we had our big wreck, which messed. My hands

00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:51.599
up, my arms messed a lot of things up. And when

00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:53.960
we got home after five weeks, it took about five

00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.420
weeks before I was able to fly. I told everybody,

00:35:57.619 --> 00:36:00.739
you know, the eye of the needle has a long tunnel.

00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:06.659
Sometimes when you think you're at the end of

00:36:06.659 --> 00:36:10.559
something, there can be a final testing that

00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.650
will really... You know, it's like almost the

00:36:13.650 --> 00:36:15.909
dark night of the soul. Oh, it was. It really

00:36:15.909 --> 00:36:18.110
was for us. It absolutely was. We never dreamed

00:36:18.110 --> 00:36:20.510
that could ever happen to us. God, how could

00:36:20.510 --> 00:36:23.989
you let this happen? You know. Right. But it

00:36:23.989 --> 00:36:27.389
happened. Yeah. And there were things that God

00:36:27.389 --> 00:36:30.150
was dealing with. Yeah. You know, in my life,

00:36:30.170 --> 00:36:34.130
I know. And so. Sometimes we think, Lord, isn't

00:36:34.130 --> 00:36:35.849
there an easier way this could have happened?

00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:39.570
But wouldn't, isn't it better that we go through

00:36:39.570 --> 00:36:44.710
the fire now? on this side rather than having

00:36:44.710 --> 00:36:46.769
all of our works burned up on the other side

00:36:46.769 --> 00:36:50.150
the scripture what is the profit a man if he

00:36:50.150 --> 00:36:52.590
gains the world or whatever he does in the world

00:36:52.590 --> 00:36:57.570
and loses his own soul yeah yeah you know even

00:36:57.570 --> 00:37:01.150
a particular worship leader in a church we went

00:37:01.150 --> 00:37:04.469
to he was asked to leave and we kind of wondered

00:37:04.469 --> 00:37:07.789
i wonder what happened you know and and some

00:37:07.789 --> 00:37:11.079
years later He got into an accident, and it turns

00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:15.159
out he had a mistress. He was into all kinds

00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:18.039
of wrong things, and he ended up in a bad car

00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:21.659
crash, and he ended up going to jail. But on

00:37:21.659 --> 00:37:24.739
the surface, he looked so anointed, but sometimes

00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:27.980
you could just kind of tell things that, you

00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:31.239
know, okay, because eventually things will come

00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:33.980
out. Remember the old saying, you can fool some

00:37:33.980 --> 00:37:35.920
of the people all the time, but you can't fool

00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.000
all the people. You know, how does that work?

00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:41.360
You can fool some of the people all the time.

00:37:41.420 --> 00:37:44.079
But you can't fool all the people. All the time,

00:37:44.219 --> 00:37:47.320
yeah. Some of the people, some of the time. Yeah.

00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:50.039
And all the people, some of the time. Well, you

00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:52.719
get the idea anyway. Eventually, it's going to

00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:55.400
catch you. Yes. You know, like the con man gets

00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.940
caught usually eventually. Yes. And ultimately,

00:37:59.219 --> 00:38:02.599
God is going to see to it that judgment happens.

00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:07.090
So if you're a con man in ministry. Ooh. I've

00:38:07.090 --> 00:38:09.429
never thought of that before. Oh, and there are

00:38:09.429 --> 00:38:11.050
some. And there's a lot of them. Yes. Have you

00:38:11.050 --> 00:38:13.869
ever heard that before? The con man in ministry?

00:38:14.389 --> 00:38:19.630
Yeah. Wow. And God deals with them. Yeah. God

00:38:19.630 --> 00:38:22.409
has the final say. Even though things start out

00:38:22.409 --> 00:38:25.630
right. Or maybe they look right. Look right.

00:38:26.309 --> 00:38:30.369
But ultimately, God is looking for us to walk

00:38:30.369 --> 00:38:33.409
in relationship with him. Yeah. And I love the

00:38:33.409 --> 00:38:37.780
fact that he... is the one that initiates the

00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:41.420
stuff and he's busy helping us by his Holy Spirit

00:38:41.420 --> 00:38:45.039
to get into a place where we're walking with

00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.619
him and doing stuff out of obedience and doing

00:38:49.619 --> 00:38:53.219
stuff out of love for him and just sweeping the

00:38:53.219 --> 00:38:55.400
garage when he says sweep the garage. Yeah, and

00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:58.340
the scriptures, humble thyself in the sight of

00:38:58.340 --> 00:39:01.940
the Lord and he will exalt thee. In due time.

00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:04.599
In Kairos time. That's right. I'm sure that would

00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:08.139
be more like a Kairos time. Yeah. Yeah. So I

00:39:08.139 --> 00:39:11.840
love the fact that it's really God that's busy

00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:15.420
doing the whole thing. He's looking for us to

00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:19.960
work with him. Yeah. We are. God's fellow workers.

00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:23.980
We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus

00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:28.079
unto good works. And he has ordained that we

00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:32.460
should walk in them. So walking with him is what

00:39:32.460 --> 00:39:36.619
makes it work. It makes the works work. Makes

00:39:36.619 --> 00:39:40.139
the works work. That's pretty good. So what I

00:39:40.139 --> 00:39:43.500
love also is that God, there's a few places in

00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:47.039
the scripture where God says the words by myself.

00:39:48.650 --> 00:39:51.449
So in the Old Testament, there are several places

00:39:51.449 --> 00:39:56.090
where it says, as the Lord lives or as Yehovah

00:39:56.090 --> 00:40:01.309
lives. And it's a statement of kind of like making

00:40:01.309 --> 00:40:05.650
a declaration about as truly as God lives, this

00:40:05.650 --> 00:40:09.469
is the truth. Okay, so God is in a few places,

00:40:09.489 --> 00:40:13.010
he's swearing by himself because there's nobody

00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:17.639
greater to swear by, right? And he says, as truly

00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.619
as I live, all the earth shall be filled with

00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:23.880
the glory of the Lord. As truly as I live. So

00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:28.820
he swears by himself. And in Genesis 22, verses

00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:32.619
15 through 18, just read that if you would. And

00:40:32.619 --> 00:40:35.139
the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second

00:40:35.139 --> 00:40:39.440
time from heaven and said, by myself I have sworn,

00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:42.420
declares the Lord, because you have done this

00:40:42.420 --> 00:40:45.380
and have not withheld your son. your only son,

00:40:45.420 --> 00:40:47.320
so this was Isaac when he was going to offer

00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.500
him, I will surely bless you and I will surely

00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:53.099
multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven

00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:56.519
and as the sand that is on the seashore. And

00:40:56.519 --> 00:40:58.880
your offspring shall possess the gate of his

00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:02.000
enemies. And in your offspring shall all the

00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.840
nations of the earth be blessed because you have

00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.900
obeyed my voice. So he's swearing by himself.

00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:11.639
So he's saying, as truly as I live, basically,

00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:16.590
I have sworn by myself. Because you did this.

00:41:16.809 --> 00:41:21.969
See, Abraham did a work. It was a work for him

00:41:21.969 --> 00:41:26.909
to obey God when God said, sacrifice your son.

00:41:27.469 --> 00:41:29.769
And the point of that, and we've talked about

00:41:29.769 --> 00:41:33.309
this before, but the point of that was that on

00:41:33.309 --> 00:41:37.349
earth as it is in heaven, Abraham sacrificed

00:41:37.349 --> 00:41:40.030
or was willing to sacrifice. It was as though

00:41:40.030 --> 00:41:44.139
he had done it. Before he did it. It was in his

00:41:44.139 --> 00:41:46.840
heart he had done it. He had sacrificed his son

00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:51.639
because God said to. And that was doing on earth

00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:55.119
as it is in heaven because our Father in heaven

00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:57.800
was going to sacrifice his son on the very same

00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:03.579
place. On Mount Moriah, right? So God was declaring.

00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:08.070
Because you did this. I'm going to do this. And

00:42:08.070 --> 00:42:11.010
I'm going to do it for sure because I'm swearing

00:42:11.010 --> 00:42:14.690
by myself. Nobody else. There's nobody else to

00:42:14.690 --> 00:42:19.010
swear by. And then in Isaiah 45, 22 and 23, he

00:42:19.010 --> 00:42:21.070
says, turn to me and be saved all the ends of

00:42:21.070 --> 00:42:24.230
the earth for I am God and there is no other

00:42:24.230 --> 00:42:28.230
by myself. I have sworn from my mouth has gone

00:42:28.230 --> 00:42:30.969
out in righteousness, a word that shall not return

00:42:30.969 --> 00:42:34.409
to me. Every knee shall bow. Every tongue shall

00:42:34.409 --> 00:42:36.510
swear allegiance or every tongue shall confess.

00:42:36.570 --> 00:42:39.769
Right. So see, there's things that he does by

00:42:39.769 --> 00:42:44.380
himself. He wants us to cooperate with him in

00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:48.780
the things that he does. We're working together

00:42:48.780 --> 00:42:52.380
with him. We are his fellow laborers, his fellow

00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:57.739
workers. In Isaiah 44, 23 to 28, he says, Sing,

00:42:57.739 --> 00:43:01.039
O heavens, for the Lord, Yehovah, has done it.

00:43:01.369 --> 00:43:04.730
Shout, O depths of the earth. Break forth into

00:43:04.730 --> 00:43:06.989
singing, O mountains, O forests, and every tree

00:43:06.989 --> 00:43:11.429
in it. For Yehovah the Lord has redeemed Jacob

00:43:11.429 --> 00:43:16.030
and will be glorified in Israel. Thus says Yehovah

00:43:16.030 --> 00:43:19.730
your Redeemer who formed you from the womb. I

00:43:19.730 --> 00:43:24.769
am Yehovah who made all things, who alone stretched

00:43:24.769 --> 00:43:27.769
out the heavens, who spread out the earth by

00:43:27.769 --> 00:43:32.199
myself. So he's the creator. He did it all by

00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.039
himself. But he's looking for us to be his fellow

00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:39.739
workers. Yeah. Isn't that beautiful? Wow. That

00:43:39.739 --> 00:43:44.659
is just amazing. Just amazing. So let's wrap

00:43:44.659 --> 00:43:50.960
this up by going to Psalm 46. Psalm 46 is one

00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:54.840
of those places that just brings you so much

00:43:54.840 --> 00:44:00.019
comfort. I just love Psalm 46. So Psalm 46 from

00:44:00.019 --> 00:44:04.480
the Amplified Classic, God is our refuge and

00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.579
strength, mighty and impenetrable to temptation,

00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:13.159
a very present and well -proved help in trouble.

00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:17.539
Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth

00:44:17.539 --> 00:44:20.679
should change, and though the mountains be shaken

00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:23.539
into the midst of the seas, though its waters

00:44:23.539 --> 00:44:26.980
roar and foam. Though the mountains tremble at

00:44:26.980 --> 00:44:31.000
its swelling and tumult, silah, pause and calmly

00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:34.480
think of that. There's a river whose streams

00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.280
shall make glad the city of God, the holy place

00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.320
of the tabernacles of the Most High. Remember,

00:44:39.539 --> 00:44:44.519
we are his temple. So he's busy building his

00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:47.280
temple on earth the same way that it is in heaven.

00:44:48.099 --> 00:44:50.500
God is in the midst of her. God is in the midst

00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:55.809
of you. God is in the midst of me. is in the

00:44:55.809 --> 00:44:58.070
midst of us. God is in the midst of her. She

00:44:58.070 --> 00:45:01.570
shall not be moved. God will help her right early

00:45:01.570 --> 00:45:05.070
at the dawn of the morning. The nations raged.

00:45:05.090 --> 00:45:08.150
The kingdoms tottered and were moved. He uttered

00:45:08.150 --> 00:45:12.070
his voice. The earth melted. The Lord of hosts

00:45:12.070 --> 00:45:14.929
is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge, our

00:45:14.929 --> 00:45:18.829
fortress and high tower. Selah. Pause and think

00:45:18.829 --> 00:45:23.969
calmly of that. Come, behold the works of the

00:45:23.969 --> 00:45:27.280
Lord. He's done all these things by himself,

00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:32.139
and yet he wants to partner with us. Come behold

00:45:32.139 --> 00:45:35.079
the works of the Lord, who has wrought desolations

00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:38.679
and wonders in the earth. He makes wars to cease

00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:41.760
to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow into

00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:46.059
pieces and snaps the spear in two. He burns the

00:45:46.059 --> 00:45:50.860
chariots in the fire. Let be and be still. and

00:45:50.860 --> 00:45:55.079
know, recognize, and understand that I am God.

00:45:55.340 --> 00:45:58.559
I will be exalted among the nations. I will be

00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:02.639
exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with

00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:05.719
us. The God of Jacob is our refuge, our high

00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:09.900
tower and stronghold. Selah. Pause and calmly

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:16.659
think of that. Beautiful. How amazing that the

00:46:16.659 --> 00:46:20.980
one who has done it all wants to work with us,

00:46:21.179 --> 00:46:25.460
come behold the works of the Lord. He's working

00:46:25.460 --> 00:46:29.960
in us. He's working in us by His Spirit. We are

00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:35.599
in Him, and He is in us. And when you have that

00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:39.739
life going back and forth through our flesh,

00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:45.380
He's designed us so that the life is in us and

00:46:45.380 --> 00:46:48.719
around us. His love, His life, His presence.

00:46:49.530 --> 00:46:53.269
It kind of like arcs through our flesh to bring

00:46:53.269 --> 00:46:56.389
us into subjection, to bring us into that place

00:46:56.389 --> 00:47:00.590
where we just sweep the garage. When he says

00:47:00.590 --> 00:47:04.690
sweep the garage. This is in verse 8, 9. Everyone

00:47:04.690 --> 00:47:08.090
look. This is the Passion Translation. Come and

00:47:08.090 --> 00:47:10.969
see the breathtaking wonders of our God. Yes.

00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:14.389
For he brings both ruin and revival. Oh, that's

00:47:14.389 --> 00:47:17.190
good. He's the one who makes conflicts end throughout

00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:20.130
the earth. Breaking and burning every weapon

00:47:20.130 --> 00:47:24.849
of war. He's going to do that completely. Yeah,

00:47:24.889 --> 00:47:28.809
there's great hope. When we look at everything

00:47:28.809 --> 00:47:33.750
accelerating around us, the agendas of things

00:47:33.750 --> 00:47:36.929
that are going on, it's just like, you know,

00:47:37.010 --> 00:47:39.510
this cannot be fixed in the natural. There's

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just no way. Only God can do this. And so when

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we look our eyes to him, that's where our hope

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lies. Right. Our hope lies in His promise to

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pour out His Spirit on all flesh. So we contend

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for it, we quit for it, and we engage in it.

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