(300) “Strategies for Defeating Your Enemy” (Part 3)

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So when you're in a court of law, so you're either

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going to plead guilty or not guilty. But in God's

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court, you can plead the blood. You plead the

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blood. Because, you know, the blood of Jesus

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is your covering. You know, it's your protection.

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Right. And it's your salvation. Right. And the

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blood of Jesus is your passport to heaven. 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 promised 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. This is our

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third episode on strategies for defeating your

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enemy. This is our first time to try video, and

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we're not sure whether we're going to actually

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publish the video or not, but we're experimenting.

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So today we're going to talk about the power

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that we have for defeating our enemy in the blood

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of Jesus and with the Holy Spirit. Thanks so

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much for joining us today. We are really excited

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about this opportunity to be with you and to

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try video for the first time. And we're a little

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nervous, so be nice to us. Be patient with us.

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in this together. We are one body in Jesus Christ.

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So we want to encourage you to get close to us.

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One of the ways to get close to us is to come

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to our convention. Convention 2026 is coming

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up May 21st through the 24th. It's going to be

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amazing. We're holding it in the Hilton Hotel

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at the airport in St. Louis, Missouri. And it's

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easy to get to. It's very close to the airport.

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So it's just minutes on a shuttle to get there

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from if you're flying in. And it's right next

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to the interstate if you're coming by driving.

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Please plan to be with us. Tony Kemp will be

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with us and Dean Braxton. You've been hearing

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about Dean Braxton, hearing from Dean Braxton

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on these podcasts. And, you know, he's just so

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personable and really approachable, too. And

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we're going to be having him for some Q &A times.

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And we also have Anna Werner, who is a dynamic.

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prophetic voice in these days. And I'm going

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to speak too. And also we have Claren McQueen,

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who will be leading in praise and worship for

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us, with us, leading us into dynamic worship.

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And he's also going to bring the message for

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our Israel night. We have a special service every

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time to celebrate Israel and what God is doing

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in his land and in his people. So plan to be

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with us. It's going to be a glorious time. You

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can go to our website and there's a whole page,

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a whole event page. Just click on events and

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you'll see the information there and how to make

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reservations. And pretty soon we'll have a registration

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form up there as well. So today we are going

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to also go into some of the... Bible studies

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that our founder, Gwen Shaw, has written. She's

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just such a dynamic teacher. You know, I love

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the fact that we are in this together. We're

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lifted up in heavenly places. We're seated in

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heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And those that

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have gone before us are already there. And, you

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know, the relationships continue. This isn't

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necromancy. I'm not talking about necromancy

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where we reach out and try to talk to somebody.

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No, no, no, no, no. That's not from God. That's

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not legal in God's ways. But the things that

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she wrote, her legacy continues. And the books

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that she wrote continue to carry that same anointing.

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And we can enter into that same anointing that

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she carried by reading her books and by studying

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the things that God gave her so that we can.

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As one of our teachers at our International School

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of Ministry years ago said, we want you to stand

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on our shoulders and go higher. And I know that

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that was Sister Gwen's heart. And of course,

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that's our heart as well. We want to help the

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next generation go higher because. you know,

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this thing just keeps getting bigger and bigger

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because God keeps creating and he keeps getting

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greater and keeps becoming more glorious. So

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today we're going to talk about Gwen Shaw's book,

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The Power of the Precious Blood, and we have

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it on our website. It's a wonderful book. It's

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a book that you can use for your personal study.

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It's a book that you can use if you want to start

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having Bible studies in your home because there's

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a need. for training people. There's a need for

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equipping people. So we're trying to help equip

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you, and you can help equip others. So, you know,

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it's going to be all hands on deck as the Holy

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Spirit is poured out in a greater and greater,

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greater way all the time. So I just want to bring

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some information from this book, and we're going

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to also hit her other book, Ye Shall Receive

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Power From On High, about the baptism in the

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Holy Spirit. But we'll start with the power of

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the precious blood, because that is... is key.

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It's absolutely key to overcoming and getting

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into that place where we're able to defeat our

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enemies. It's our foundation. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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So Sister Gwen had this experience when she was

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a missionary in Hong Kong that gave her a greater

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understanding of the blood of Jesus and the power

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of the blood of Jesus. She had a dream one night.

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And in her dream, she saw Satan appear to her.

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And he said to her with this cunning sneer, I

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have power to harm you. And of course, she sensed

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that he was challenging her to go to war with

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him. And she knew that she didn't want to do

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it. And then she answered him, I know you have

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power to do me much harm, but you are afraid

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of the blood. And immediately he answered, I'm

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not afraid of the blood of bulls and goats. And

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she said, you know, she was stopped for just

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a moment. And then the Holy Spirit prompted her.

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No, but you are afraid of the blood of Jesus

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Christ. And immediately he began to shake and

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tremble. And he said, yes, of that I am afraid.

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And right in front of her eyes, he began to shrivel

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up and get smaller and smaller and smaller. But

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she. was awakened with fear. You know, she was

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kind of frozen from that because that's one of

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the devil's tactics. He works with fear. He's

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busy trying to keep us afraid of him because

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he can overrule us if we have fear. God did not

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design us to work with fear. He designed us for

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love. So anytime we're experiencing fear, we're

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being attacked. by the enemy of our souls. I

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mean, there is a godly fear of God. You know,

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there's a righteous reverence of God, but that's

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the only fear that we should have. And it's not

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the same kind of a fear. So she understood that

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she was about to be attacked and that the blood

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of Jesus was going to be the key to the deliverance

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that she needed in the situation. And so she

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got out of her bed and got on her knees and began

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to pray. And a couple of hours later, one of

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the missionary sisters that she knew came to

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visit her and she told her the dream. And this

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sister said, Sister Gwen, you will be attacked

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by Satan in a very powerful way. But when it

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happens, remember God has given you the key.

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Plead the blood of Jesus and God will give you

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the victory. And she knew this was a confirmation.

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So a couple of hours later, she left the kids

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in charge of a Chinese sister that was there.

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And she went out into the country to preach.

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And she had two meetings that she had to do.

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When she came back, she found out that almost

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immediately when she left, that the youngest

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boy, Tommy, was attacked with a fever. He was

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in bed and groaning with the fever. And she went

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to him and she began to plead the blood, plead

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the blood, asking Jesus to cover Tommy with his

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precious blood. And then she let him. sleep with

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her and and all night long he's groaning with

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the fever and so that the next day there was

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no improvement and the next day there was no

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improvement and then on the next day his temperature

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was down but he got out of bed and he was all

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crooked and he couldn't straighten up and so

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sister gwen was was concerned about this and

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she heard in her head this Nasty voice saying,

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meningitis, meningitis. I've given him meningitis.

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And all of your pleading with the blood, pleading

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of the blood couldn't help anything. And then

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the next day, a Chinese sister came and saw this

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situation and got down and prayed. She said,

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Lord, I'm a mother and I have children. I know

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how this mother's heart is broken to see her

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son sick. I beseech you, heal Tommy. When he

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wakes up tomorrow morning, let him be well. And

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in that moment, Sister Gwen knew that the prayer

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had gotten through. It had gotten through. She

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knew that the answer was on the way. When he

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woke up the next morning, he was completely well.

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So, you know, this was her first real strong

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lesson in what it means to use the blood of Jesus

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Christ. We call it pleading the blood. So what

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does pleading the blood really mean? Well, in

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a court of law, they're going to bring evidence

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against you, but they say you're innocent unless

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you're proven guilty. Right. And so, but you

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have the legal right to present your case, and

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that's usually with an attorney. Right. Yeah.

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And how do you plead? It says, well, you either

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plead guilty or non -guilty. Right. So when you're

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in a court of law, so you're either going to

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plead guilty or not guilty. But in God's court.

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You can plead the blood. You plead the blood.

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Like you can plead the Fifth Amendment, right?

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Like the Fifth Amendment lets you not incriminate

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yourself. You don't have to give evidence out

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of your own mouth that incriminates you. So you

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can plead the Fifth Amendment. So this is another

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way of bringing something to the court that will

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be different than a plea of guilty or not guilty.

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And with the blood of Jesus, there's no jury.

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Yeah, that's true. There's no jury that's going

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to decide. Once you receive Jesus and you have

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the blood of Jesus Christ, so what have you been

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forgiven of? You know, you have all your sins.

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Yeah. Because, you know, the blood of Jesus is

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your covering. You know, it's your protection.

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Right. And it's your salvation. Right. And the

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blood of Jesus is your passport to heaven. Absolutely.

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You know, you can't go into another nation. You

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know, well, it used to be you could go to Canada,

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we could cross the bridge, Niagara Falls, pay

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10 cents, show your ID, and you're in. But because

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of what happened. That was back in the day. Back

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ways back. But now you have to have, you know.

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passport and everything and and has your picture

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and all your and it can expire you know and you

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if you're overseas you have you know you can't

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travel into another nation if your passport's

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going to expire within so many months right so

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you have to have it but the blood of jesus never

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expires right it's always there for you And even

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when the devil just comes at you like he did

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to Job, you know, he didn't have the blood of

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Jesus because that sacrifice had not happened

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yet. Right. But he found that he was innocent.

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He cried out to God, you know, and, you know,

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woe is me. Why is this? You know, curse it be

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the day I was born. Right. Because he's in so

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much agony and pain. But he loved God and he

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never lost his faith in God. And he was vindicated

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and given back more than double of what he had.

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It's true. But what he went through. Yeah. And

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we have to go through stuff a lot of times, sicknesses,

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things like that. But it's the blood of Jesus

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that gets you through. Right. You have to stand

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on it. You stand on the blood. It's a place to

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stand. And we do that. And we've mentioned this

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before. When we get on an airplane, any vehicle

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we get into, I don't care who's driving. I put

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my hand somewhere and I'll just pray over this

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car. Lord, I thank you for your precious blood.

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And I just speak full covering. Full assurance

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over this car. Keep us from any accidents, incidents,

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close calls. Amen. And we do that. We get on

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an airplane, any mode of transportation. We speak

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the blood of Jesus over that. Amen. We speak

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the blood of Jesus over our luggage. All right.

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Now, we've been traveling overseas for 40...

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Something about 40 some years plus. And we've

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never lost our suitcases. I mean, they came back

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after a few days. You know, we've had our traveled

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with our guitars. We just speak the blood of

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Jesus because this is for the kingdom of God.

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And our guitars would be there on the other end.

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We've never had one damaged. And so God has been

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so good. But we don't travel with guitars anymore.

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Yeah. You know, things have changed now. Yeah.

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But the power of the blood, it's the strongest

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force of the universe. Amen. It's because it's

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life -giving. Yes. Life -giving. And one of the

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things, it has the power to deliver us from the

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sentence of death. True. Because there's life

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in the blood. That's right. And your own body,

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when you read that in Genesis, I think it is,

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isn't it? The life is in the blood. Because when

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Cain killed Abel, And the Lord came and spoke

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to him. He says, where's your brother? He says,

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well, I don't know. I'm not my brother's keeper.

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And he says, your brother's blood cries unto

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me from the ground. That's right. Your blood

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has a voice. Your blood has a voice. And Henry

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Groover, many of you have heard of him, and he's

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a real seer, and he hears from God. And he could

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go down the street and he can tell where there's

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an abortion clinic. Yeah. Because he could hear

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the blood crying out in the sewer system. It's

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true. There's, you know, the spirit is in the

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blood. Your life is in the blood. Absolutely.

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Wow. And so the blood of Jesus speaks better

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things than that of Abel. And so Abel's blood

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is crying out for. retribution. It's crying out,

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I've been murdered. Do something. I'm dead. But

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Jesus' blood is crying out for mercy because

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he said from the cross, Father, forgive them.

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They know not what they do. So when he shed his

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blood, his blood was crying for mercy rather

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than crying for retribution. Yeah. And even in

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the Scriptures, when God was giving the law,

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he forbid the children of Israel to drink blood.

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Right. Because, you know, the life is in the

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blood. Exactly. Exactly. So if you go through

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the Scriptures, you'll find that there are many

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covenants that God made with his children. And,

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you know, with Adam, God... covered them with

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skins. There's different ways of looking at it,

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but one of the ways is that he would have shed

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the blood of some animal to give skins for them

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to wear. So that would be the first covenant

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that was with blood. And then, of course, Abel's

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sacrifice was a sacrifice of blood, and Cain's

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wasn't. But there's also the idea that Abel offered

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it with faith. where Cain didn't. I think that's

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very clear in the book of Hebrews. Anyway, moving

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on, we have Noah, you know, when God promised

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that there would be no more flooding and he put

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the rainbow in the clouds, there was a blood

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sacrifice to make that covenant. So that's why

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they took seven of all of the clean animals so

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that they'd have something to sacrifice. Sacrifice

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on the other end. Yeah. And then Abraham's covenant,

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you know, that there was that. time when Abraham's

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saying, you know, how am I going to know that

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you're actually going to give me a son? Because

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it looks like my servant is going to be my heir.

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And so God had him cut up these animals, and

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he passed through them. He caused a deep sleep

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to come on Abraham. He was making it clear that

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I'm going to see to this covenant, and you don't

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even have to. I'm making this covenant with you.

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This is your sign. And he came through it like

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a smoking, flaming furnace and made that covenant

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with Abraham to give him and his descendants

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the land that Israel has come back to. So then

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we have the Mosaic covenant. And that's where

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God instructed them to make sacrifices in a tabernacle.

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So that was picturing for us. The requirement

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that when we have sin, it requires blood to bring

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forgiveness. So it was a picture of what we should

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expect. to happen in the new covenant where Jesus

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laid down his life and shed his blood. Once for

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all. Once for all. Once for all. Hallelujah.

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The final sacrifice. Yeah. And even prior to

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that, in order for them to get out of Egypt,

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remember there were 10 plagues, and the last

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plague was the worst. The death of the firstborn.

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And in order for the children of Israel to not

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lose their firstborn, they had to kill a Passover

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lamb. And it could be either a lamb from the

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sheep or a kid from the goats. And that was a

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blood sacrifice where they put the blood on the

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doorpost. And that is absolutely a picture of

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what Jesus did for us to cause the death angel

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to pass over us. And there's different ways to

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look at that. You can look at it that the death

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angel had to pass over the house and not strike.

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And you can also look at it that God passed over

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that house to overshadow them. and protect them

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from the destroyer. Yeah. Maybe you're in a dangerous

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place in another country and you just speak the

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blood over your hotel room. Yes. You know, over

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the car you're in. Yes. You know, over the doors,

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the windows, that there's nothing demonic is

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going to come in. And if there's something in

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there, you need to go out. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. And, you know, we're not going through

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the entire book that Sister Gwen wrote. So you

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may want to go and order this. Yeah, we're just

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taking some pieces. Yeah, we're taking some highlights.

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So this is just to whet your appetite for more.

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And one of the things that I love in chapter

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seven is talking about the sprinkled blood. And

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in Leviticus 5 .9, Moses is given the instructions

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to sprinkle the blood of the sin offering on

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the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood

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shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar.

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It's a sin offering. And talking about in Leviticus

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5 .10, about the priest shall make an atonement

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for him for his sin, which he sinned and forgiven

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him. And the blood on the altar of the sacrifice

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was for the forgiveness of the sinner. So there's

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this point in time where even when they're dedicating

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the whole tabernacle, there is this the sprinkling

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of the blood that is done to dedicate, to dedicate

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everything to God, to make it so that he is the

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owner, okay? It's dedicating it to him. So I

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was really excited to learn when we interviewed

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Dean Braxton some time ago, and he described

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for us what he saw. When he was in heaven, he

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was transported to see Jesus on the cross, and

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he saw that Jesus had been shredded, just so

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mangled that you could hardly recognize that

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he was a man and that he was even human. And

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it reminded me of what is written in Isaiah 52,

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just prior to Isaiah 53, where, in case you don't

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know, Isaiah 53 describes Jesus as the suffering

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servant, as the one who would redeem us and set

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us free from sickness and grief and sorrow and

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iniquity and all those things. But it says in

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Isaiah 52, verse 14, it says, as many were astonished

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at you, his visage was so marred, so beaten up,

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so pulped. I don't know that that's a word, but

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pulpy. Anyway, he was beaten to a pulp is what

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I'm trying to say. He was so marred more than

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any man in his form, more than the sons of men.

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So what Dean described reminded me of this scripture,

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but the next scripture is very important too.

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We've shared this before, but it absolutely bears

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repeating. Verse 15 says, so shall he sprinkle

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many nations. The kings shall shut their mouths

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at him, for that which had not been told them

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shall they see, and that which they had not heard

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shall they consider. And this word in The word

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kings in the Hebrew can mean kings like, you

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know, kings of nations, but it can also mean

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demonic kings. Oh, and the other thing that Dean

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said about what he saw was that every time Jesus'

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heart would beat, he had been so lacerated that

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the arteries had been pierced just enough that

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whenever his heart would beat, there would be

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the spray of the blood sprinkling. It was like

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a spray. Every time his heart would pump, it

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was spraying out. And so it was literally sprinkling

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for our transgressions, for our iniquities. And

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what I see here is that. The kings, the demonic

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kings, had shut their mouths. Up to that point,

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they thought they had won, that they had defeated

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this so -called king of glory, their enemy. And

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they thought they were just rejoicing with glee

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at how they had mutilated him, not realizing

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that that was for their demise. Had they not

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known, they would not have crucified the Lord

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of glory. Had they realized it, they would not

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have crucified him. So it's like they shut their

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mouths. It was like, uh -oh, we're in trouble

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now. Because it hadn't been told them what was

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going to happen. That was one of God's secrets.

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You've got to know how to keep God's secrets.

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And it was one of those things that was hidden

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from the foundation of time. that this would

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be their demise. And it was even prophesied in

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Genesis chapter 3, I think it is, where it was

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talking about the seed of the woman would crush

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the head of the serpent, but the serpent would

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bruise his heel. And that was exactly what happened

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on the cross. So this sprinkling is something

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that is so clear that is for our deliverance

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from iniquity. So that's one more way of defeating

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our enemy with the power of the blood of Jesus.

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And then we have the cup. When we take communion.

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Yes. And taking communion with the body and the

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blood, it's reminding what Jesus did, the Passover

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lamb. You know, as Jesus is called the Passover

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lamb. Yes. And the blood of forgiveness of sins.

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And many churches, you know, they will maybe

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take communion once a month. Yeah. Some don't,

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you know. But, you know, we try to every day

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if we can. Yeah. You know, just the cleansing

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of the blood of Jesus Christ, taking his body,

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just when he's in the upper room, he said, this

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is my body which is broken for you. You know,

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they were actually doing the Passover Seder,

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and they were on the third cup. It's the cup

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of redemption. Yes. And that's when, if you've

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ever done a Seder or you studied it, That's the

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cup of redemption. And he was speaking of himself.

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Yes. That, you know, I am the redemption. I am

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the word of life. And this do in remembrance

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of me. Yes. So this wasn't something he did just

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then. He was a sacrifice once and for all. But

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as a reminder that we take communion. And many,

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they just, they don't know the power of it. Right.

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They don't understand how holy it is. It's just

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like you have to be holy and pure. Otherwise,

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you can, as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11, 29,

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he that eats and drinks unworthily means if you're

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not pure when you take communion, you're eating

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and drinking damnation or condemnation or judgment

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to yourself. You know, it seems there is no excuse

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for ignorance. Right. So when we take communion,

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it's a holy thing. It has to be treated as such.

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It's not something that you just do because it's

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a habit. Right. Which happens, you know. Yeah.

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Do you have to be pure and holy taking communion?

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In order for you to use the power and authority

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of the blood of Jesus Christ, you have to be

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clean yourself. Absolutely. You have to be clean

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in order to, or it will not work for you. It

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will not go good for you. Yeah. And I remember

00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:52.480
when we interviewed Shirley Smith, when she was

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giving her testimony of how she fought cancer.

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Yeah. And when she came here, Sister Gwen set

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her up so that she could have communion every

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day. And having communion every day was something

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she was afraid of. Because she knew that this

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was really a critical thing, and she was afraid

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to have communion because she didn't think she

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was pure enough. And the Lord made it clear to

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her that the communion is also for helping you

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to overcome. Yeah. So we'll put a link in the

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show notes to that. interview, because it was

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so powerful, and God used the communion to bring

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healing to her. And one of the things, too, about

00:27:38.849 --> 00:27:42.789
that cup is that Jesus said, this cup is the

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new covenant in my blood. Okay? Remember, we

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said earlier that covenant is done by the shedding

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of blood. You have shedding of blood. in most

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covenants, not all, but most covenants. There's

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a shedding of blood. So Jesus is saying, this

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cup is the new covenant in my blood. And so if

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you go back to Jeremiah, where Jeremiah 31, where

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it's describing the new covenant. And verse 31

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says, I will make a new covenant with the house

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of Israel, with the house of Judah. And there's

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four things that come with this new covenant.

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The first one is I will put my law in their inward

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parts and write it in their hearts. And I will

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be there. That's the second thing. I will be

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their God and they shall be my people. They shall

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teach no more every man his neighbor. saying,

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know the Lord, for they shall all know me from

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the least of them to the greatest of them. They're

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going to know him. Everybody in the hold of Israel

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and Judah, it's promised that they're going to

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know him. Okay. And then the fourth thing is

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because I will forgive their iniquity and remember

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their sin no more. So if he's saying this cup

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is the new covenant, the reason why he won't

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remember their iniquity against them is because

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of the blood of Jesus. Okay? So it's important

00:29:05.369 --> 00:29:09.049
that, especially when we have sinned, to come

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to the communion table and say, Lord, I'm so

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sorry. Cover me with your blood. Cover me. Forgive

00:29:14.849 --> 00:29:20.769
me. See this blood. Hear this cry for mercy from

00:29:20.769 --> 00:29:24.710
this cup. for my sins, Lord, to forgive me of

00:29:24.710 --> 00:29:28.930
my sins and cleanse me and set me free and destroy

00:29:28.930 --> 00:29:32.230
this power of the enemy that's in my life. So

00:29:32.230 --> 00:29:37.029
it's huge. The Holy Communion is huge. And I

00:29:37.029 --> 00:29:39.670
just want to kind of wrap up this particular

00:29:39.670 --> 00:29:42.910
study here. Did you want to cover those review

00:29:42.910 --> 00:29:46.230
things? Yeah. And I've taken this out of the

00:29:46.230 --> 00:29:51.250
book. You know, in Hebrews 13, 20, 21, the blood

00:29:51.250 --> 00:29:53.930
of Jesus makes us perfect in every good work

00:29:53.930 --> 00:29:58.349
to do his will. Amen. In 1 John 1 .7, the blood

00:29:58.349 --> 00:30:01.869
of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Ephesians

00:30:01.869 --> 00:30:04.670
2 .13, we are made night of God by the blood

00:30:04.670 --> 00:30:06.990
of Jesus Christ. Amen. We can approach him because

00:30:06.990 --> 00:30:11.269
of the blood. Yes. 1 Peter 1 .18, we are redeemed

00:30:11.269 --> 00:30:13.750
with the precious blood of Jesus. Yes. Romans

00:30:13.750 --> 00:30:16.730
5 .9, we are justified by the blood of Jesus.

00:30:17.170 --> 00:30:19.950
See all the legal terms we can use in here? Yeah.

00:30:20.170 --> 00:30:23.210
Hebrews 13 .12, we are sanctified by the blood

00:30:23.210 --> 00:30:26.890
of Jesus. Yes. Ephesians 1 .7, we have redemption

00:30:26.890 --> 00:30:29.650
through the blood of Jesus. Yes. Colossians 1

00:30:29.650 --> 00:30:32.890
.20, we are reconciled through the blood of Jesus.

00:30:33.509 --> 00:30:36.890
Revelation 1 .5, we are washed from our sins

00:30:36.890 --> 00:30:40.009
by the blood of Jesus. Amen. So we can understand

00:30:40.009 --> 00:30:43.849
why Satan hates the blood of Jesus, because it's

00:30:43.849 --> 00:30:46.819
what defeats him. Absolutely. And that wraps

00:30:46.819 --> 00:30:51.099
us up by taking us to Revelation chapter 12 and

00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:55.900
verses 10 and 11. It says, the accuser of the

00:30:55.900 --> 00:30:59.369
brethren is cast down. which accused them before

00:30:59.369 --> 00:31:01.970
our God day and night. And they overcame him

00:31:01.970 --> 00:31:04.710
by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their

00:31:04.710 --> 00:31:07.430
testimony. And they loved not their lives unto

00:31:07.430 --> 00:31:11.150
the death. So our overcoming and the verse right

00:31:11.150 --> 00:31:14.549
before that spells out who is the accuser of

00:31:14.549 --> 00:31:16.230
the brethren. Let's just look at that for a second

00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:20.089
so that nobody has any question as to who we're

00:31:20.089 --> 00:31:24.779
dealing with, because our enemy is Satan. Right.

00:31:25.059 --> 00:31:30.420
But in Revelation chapter 12, you know, if you

00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:32.079
start with verse seven, it says there was war

00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.339
in heaven and Michael and his angels fought with

00:31:34.339 --> 00:31:36.259
the devil and his angels, the dragon and his

00:31:36.259 --> 00:31:39.759
angels. And they prevailed not. The dragon prevailed

00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:42.519
not. Neither was their place found anymore in

00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:46.200
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out. So

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:49.099
here's his names. The great dragon, that old

00:31:49.099 --> 00:31:53.339
serpent called the devil. and Satan, which deceives

00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:58.180
the whole world. Okay, there's five clear descriptions

00:31:58.180 --> 00:32:01.400
of who our enemy is, because he's really God's

00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:04.430
enemy. And because he's God's enemy, he's our

00:32:04.430 --> 00:32:07.509
enemy, because we're made in the image of God.

00:32:07.630 --> 00:32:11.210
And he's made us to work with him. God made us

00:32:11.210 --> 00:32:14.549
to work with him, to function with him, to overcome

00:32:14.549 --> 00:32:18.769
and defeat this enemy. So we defeat him by the

00:32:18.769 --> 00:32:21.450
blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony.

00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.079
We love not our lives unto death because we're

00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:28.039
already dead in him. We're dead in him and our

00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:31.539
life is hid with Christ in God. So it's because

00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:34.940
of the blood of Jesus. You know, he allowed himself

00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:39.099
to be opened up to make room for us to come in

00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:42.799
and to be a part of him, to be a part of his

00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:46.519
body. So it's the blood that makes us close to

00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:50.579
him. And we just want to encourage you to press

00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:56.799
in and receive the grace that comes by working

00:32:56.799 --> 00:33:00.059
with the blood of Jesus Christ as a weapon, a

00:33:00.059 --> 00:33:02.819
powerful weapon of warfare. It's not just a tool.

00:33:02.900 --> 00:33:06.119
It's a weapon. It's a weapon. Hallelujah. So

00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:10.369
we also want to. talk about the mighty power

00:33:10.369 --> 00:33:13.289
that we have in the power of the Holy Spirit.

00:33:13.690 --> 00:33:18.049
So we've talked other times about receiving the

00:33:18.049 --> 00:33:20.230
power of the Holy Spirit, but we've talked about

00:33:20.230 --> 00:33:25.509
Pentecost several times. But this book that Sister

00:33:25.509 --> 00:33:28.190
Gwen Shaw wrote is A Bible Study in the Baptism

00:33:28.190 --> 00:33:30.390
in the Holy Spirit. If you've been listening

00:33:30.390 --> 00:33:33.599
and you're still not filled with the Holy Spirit,

00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:36.619
it would be good for you to get this book and

00:33:36.619 --> 00:33:40.359
help to understand it, and also to give you a

00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:44.819
tool to teach it, because we desperately need

00:33:44.819 --> 00:33:47.559
to be filled with the Holy Spirit in these days,

00:33:47.579 --> 00:33:49.960
because it's all about the outpouring of the

00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.799
Holy Spirit, this global outpouring that we're

00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.700
talking about. We want to see God pour out His

00:33:55.700 --> 00:34:00.660
Spirit. All flesh. And this title, this is when

00:34:00.660 --> 00:34:04.519
Jesus is with his disciples. He was crucified,

00:34:04.779 --> 00:34:08.599
rose from the dead, resurrected. And he said,

00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:11.659
but tarry ye in Jerusalem. I mean, they wanted

00:34:11.659 --> 00:34:14.300
to get out of Jerusalem, I think, you know, the

00:34:14.300 --> 00:34:17.400
quickest way you can. But he says, tarry in Jerusalem

00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:21.739
until you be endued with power. from on high.

00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:24.239
Yes. And this is what he's referring to. And

00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:26.860
that's what this book is about for you to experience

00:34:26.860 --> 00:34:30.039
the Holy Spirit, where you can be endued with

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:33.099
this power. Because Jesus says, when I leave,

00:34:33.179 --> 00:34:36.000
I will not leave you comfortless. I will send

00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:39.130
the comforter, which is the Holy Spirit. That's

00:34:39.130 --> 00:34:41.809
right. And it's part of the Trinity, Father,

00:34:41.969 --> 00:34:45.489
Son, Holy Spirit. Right. The Spirit of God, the

00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:49.309
Ruach of God, the breath of God. Yes. Which becomes

00:34:49.309 --> 00:34:52.809
in us. It's there and it's available to us, but

00:34:52.809 --> 00:34:55.949
you have to let it take control because we have

00:34:55.949 --> 00:34:59.510
this fleshly nature, our carnal mind, you know,

00:34:59.510 --> 00:35:02.409
because it works through our spirit. We have

00:35:02.409 --> 00:35:04.829
to let our spirit, because our spirit is in total

00:35:04.829 --> 00:35:07.530
obedience with what God wants to do because your

00:35:07.530 --> 00:35:10.489
spirit came from God. But it's this flesh nature

00:35:10.489 --> 00:35:13.409
that we have, our mind, our intellect, that gets

00:35:13.409 --> 00:35:15.409
in the way of everything God wants to do through

00:35:15.409 --> 00:35:18.510
us. Very true. And it's learning how to put that

00:35:18.510 --> 00:35:21.750
under your feet and let the spirit man arise

00:35:21.750 --> 00:35:24.670
in you. And believe me, that's one of the hardest

00:35:24.670 --> 00:35:28.110
things you'll ever do. But it's worth it. But

00:35:28.110 --> 00:35:30.349
it's worth it, yes. Absolutely. Because the more

00:35:30.349 --> 00:35:32.380
you do. that, the more you can hear from God,

00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:35.519
the more He'll orchestrate your day. That's true.

00:35:35.699 --> 00:35:37.800
That's true. And the more He'll use you. Yeah.

00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:39.820
And that's what this is all about. We're trying

00:35:39.820 --> 00:35:43.400
to help you get equipped. Yeah. And when you

00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:46.179
let the Holy Spirit use you, it's like in the

00:35:46.179 --> 00:35:50.159
morning, we have our prayer time. And I can just

00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.039
tell when I've had that, you know, just good

00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:55.489
time, Holy Spirit. I have to go to town. Things

00:35:55.489 --> 00:35:58.429
just fall into place. Yes. And even just the

00:35:58.429 --> 00:36:00.909
other day, we have a crew down here cutting wood.

00:36:01.010 --> 00:36:03.190
They're the power line people. They're clearing

00:36:03.190 --> 00:36:06.190
everything out 20 feet either side of a power

00:36:06.190 --> 00:36:09.690
line, any trees and their stuff down. And there's

00:36:09.690 --> 00:36:12.170
some stuff that had to have attention. I thought,

00:36:12.210 --> 00:36:14.510
how am I going to find the right guy just to

00:36:14.510 --> 00:36:16.449
do that? And all of a sudden, here comes the

00:36:16.449 --> 00:36:19.159
truck. down the hill, just the person I need

00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:21.679
to talk to. Thank you, Holy Spirit. You know,

00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:24.900
he's just so good, saving me a lot of step trying

00:36:24.900 --> 00:36:27.579
to find. And that's what he'll do. He'll orchestrate

00:36:27.579 --> 00:36:30.099
your day for you and make things just flow a

00:36:30.099 --> 00:36:33.400
whole lot better. Absolutely. If we keep connecting

00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:36.559
with him. That's true. That's true. And there's

00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:40.690
continuous depths. of of relationship with the

00:36:40.690 --> 00:36:43.730
holy spirit and continuous i like to think of

00:36:43.730 --> 00:36:47.170
it in in terms of continuous surrenders where

00:36:47.170 --> 00:36:51.429
the more we surrender the more we sink down from

00:36:51.429 --> 00:36:56.070
our fleshly stand yeah and let let the holy spirit

00:36:56.070 --> 00:36:58.670
stand up on the inside of us instead of our flesh

00:36:58.670 --> 00:37:02.170
you know and and that makes such a difference

00:37:02.170 --> 00:37:06.820
because just think back about I keep referring

00:37:06.820 --> 00:37:09.719
to Dean Braxton, but, you know, the experiences

00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:13.139
that he has had have really helped me to develop

00:37:13.139 --> 00:37:17.920
in the Spirit. And when he talks about how looking

00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:20.719
at the Father or looking at Jesus and just being

00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:24.159
overwhelmed with the glory of looking at him

00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:27.659
or them, you know, that the glory is just so

00:37:27.659 --> 00:37:30.900
amazing and the majesty and the love and all

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:32.599
of these things. And then he'd look again and

00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:35.210
it was more so. And then he'd get overwhelmed

00:37:35.210 --> 00:37:37.750
and he'd look again and it was more so. So God

00:37:37.750 --> 00:37:43.190
is continuously growing, shall I say. There's

00:37:43.190 --> 00:37:48.550
just continuous, continuous creation of love,

00:37:48.769 --> 00:37:52.329
continuous creation of light and life. And so

00:37:52.329 --> 00:37:54.610
the Holy Spirit wants to do that inside of us.

00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:59.380
and draw us deeper and draw us closer and help

00:37:59.380 --> 00:38:02.900
us to grow up and leave behind the childish things.

00:38:03.139 --> 00:38:06.079
You know, there's so many things that... that

00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:09.360
happen to us as children that can stunt our growth

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.840
emotionally or stunt our growth mentally, that

00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:16.059
we just get stuck. And when we get under pressure,

00:38:16.300 --> 00:38:19.159
you know, whatever happened at the age of 7 or

00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:24.079
2 or 8 or 10, it causes your maturing process

00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:27.420
to get stuck at that age so that if you get under

00:38:27.420 --> 00:38:30.420
pressure, you start behaving like that 7 -year

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:32.320
-old or that 2 -year -old or that 10 -year -old

00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:35.230
or whatever. And so the Holy Spirit is here to

00:38:35.230 --> 00:38:38.989
help us grow. And in the Old Testament, it says

00:38:38.989 --> 00:38:42.369
the Spirit of God came upon people. Oh, yes.

00:38:42.510 --> 00:38:44.650
We talked about that recently. Yeah, in the book

00:38:44.650 --> 00:38:47.750
of Judges. It came upon Samson. It came upon

00:38:47.750 --> 00:38:52.090
Gideon. And he blew a trumpet and gathered the

00:38:52.090 --> 00:38:57.489
army. Midianites. Midianites. Yeah, it was the

00:38:57.489 --> 00:39:00.309
Midianites because the Holy Spirit came upon

00:39:00.309 --> 00:39:04.550
them, came upon Samson. Samson was not what you

00:39:04.550 --> 00:39:06.949
call a righteous man, you know. Yeah. And in

00:39:06.949 --> 00:39:09.369
the end, it got him. But the Holy Spirit would

00:39:09.369 --> 00:39:12.210
come on him, this normal looking guy, supernatural

00:39:12.210 --> 00:39:15.250
power that could rip the gates off a city, which

00:39:15.250 --> 00:39:17.570
who knows how heavy that was, and carry it to

00:39:17.570 --> 00:39:20.030
the next town. Wow. You know, that's supernatural.

00:39:21.139 --> 00:39:25.460
But now we have the Holy Spirit within us. And

00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:28.519
when it was poured out on the Temple Mount and

00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.280
the Book of Acts, they're in the synagogue all

00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:34.199
that night. They're celebrating the giving of

00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.039
the law. That's what it is. What happened on

00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:41.360
Mount Sinai with Moses and the mountain shook

00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.480
and the fire and flames. And so that's what they're

00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:47.239
celebrating, the giving of the law, the fire

00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:49.800
of God. And that's what happened in the book

00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:52.860
of Acts. You know, when they were all night and

00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:55.780
in the morning, they go to the temple. Yeah.

00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:58.119
And it was up on that temple mount because when

00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:00.840
you study the scriptures. when it talks about

00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:03.840
upper room and the house, it's not the same place.

00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:07.579
So it wasn't like the Holy Ghost came down in

00:40:07.579 --> 00:40:09.920
the upper room, they all run out and 3 ,000 people

00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:13.119
got saved. How does that happen? But when they're

00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.739
on the Temple Mount and everybody sees the fire

00:40:15.739 --> 00:40:18.860
come down and not a little flame on their head,

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:20.840
I mean, they was probably a couple feet tall.

00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:24.179
And people just, and then everything happened.

00:40:24.300 --> 00:40:28.360
And so the Holy Spirit came in. And you have

00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:32.559
Peter who denied the Lord 50 days earlier. Yeah.

00:40:34.389 --> 00:40:37.730
totally just thought he totally messed everything

00:40:37.730 --> 00:40:40.489
up. And all of a sudden he preaches his first

00:40:40.489 --> 00:40:43.909
sermon because the Holy Spirit kind of had quickened

00:40:43.909 --> 00:40:46.449
him to scriptures because they didn't go to,

00:40:46.570 --> 00:40:49.670
he was a fisherman. He didn't go to Torah school

00:40:49.670 --> 00:40:52.670
and the Holy Ghost just gave him everything he

00:40:52.670 --> 00:40:56.210
needed. And 3000 people got converted. I mean,

00:40:56.269 --> 00:40:59.469
that's the power of the Holy Spirit. That's right.

00:40:59.469 --> 00:41:01.530
And that's how he wants to move in you. That's

00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:04.260
true. And you had mentioned before we were. speaking

00:41:04.260 --> 00:41:07.219
about the Holy Spirit. And a brother from Indonesia

00:41:07.219 --> 00:41:11.900
was listening to our podcast, writing his cycle

00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:15.059
on the way to work at an attorney's office. And

00:41:15.059 --> 00:41:17.739
he starts speaking in tongues on the way. Holy

00:41:17.739 --> 00:41:21.079
Ghost filled him on his motorcycle on the way

00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:25.079
to work. And Sharon's dad, you know, he was praying

00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:26.699
for the Holy Spirit. And in the middle of the

00:41:26.699 --> 00:41:29.039
night, Holy Spirit comes on and he just starts

00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.639
speaking in tongues. Yeah, he woke himself up.

00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:34.059
Because he sought it for months and months and

00:41:34.059 --> 00:41:37.079
didn't get it, didn't get it. All of a sudden,

00:41:37.099 --> 00:41:40.639
one night, it happened in a dream. Can I just

00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.280
share this? Before Jesus was crucified, he's

00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:48.739
in the upper room with the disciples, and they've

00:41:48.739 --> 00:41:51.619
probably already had their communion. And he's

00:41:51.619 --> 00:41:55.039
given them this little sermon, this kind of last

00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:58.320
words of encouragement. And he talks to them

00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:01.710
about what the Holy Spirit is going to do. The

00:42:01.710 --> 00:42:04.190
book of John really gives a lot of information

00:42:04.190 --> 00:42:08.130
about that. In John 14, 16 and 17, it says, I

00:42:08.130 --> 00:42:10.510
will pray the Father and he shall give you another

00:42:10.510 --> 00:42:12.570
comforter that he may abide with you forever,

00:42:12.769 --> 00:42:16.309
even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot

00:42:16.309 --> 00:42:18.610
receive because it sees him not, neither knows

00:42:18.610 --> 00:42:21.210
him. But you know him for he dwells with you

00:42:21.210 --> 00:42:25.389
and shall be in you. So this is the first promise

00:42:25.389 --> 00:42:29.360
that they get, this first inkling that. the Holy

00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.179
Spirit's going to come into them. I don't think

00:42:31.179 --> 00:42:34.239
they knew how to process that. But when it happened,

00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.260
they got it. Yeah, they understood. And then

00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:40.139
then in verse 26, it says, but the comforter,

00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:41.920
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will

00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:45.199
send in my name, he shall teach you all things

00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:48.460
and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever

00:42:48.460 --> 00:42:50.980
I've said unto you. And that is so important.

00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:55.019
As we study the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Spirit

00:42:55.019 --> 00:42:58.900
who breathed them, inspiring the writers in the

00:42:58.900 --> 00:43:05.239
first place, will bring them back to us. you're

00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:07.599
in a situation where you need to have a word

00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:11.159
from the Lord. Many, many times for me, it comes

00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:14.380
up in my spirit as a scripture. Like I get a

00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:17.480
phrase from a scripture and I go back to my Bible

00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:20.059
to find out what's the rest of the verse or what's

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:24.320
the context. And it always... turns out to be

00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:26.980
something that I needed. So he's going to do

00:43:26.980 --> 00:43:30.360
that for us. And then in John 15, 26, it says,

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:32.699
but when the Comforter has come, whom I will

00:43:32.699 --> 00:43:35.039
send to you from the Father, even the Spirit

00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:37.320
of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he

00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.739
shall testify of me. So this is a promise that

00:43:42.739 --> 00:43:46.420
the Holy Spirit is going to help us to understand

00:43:46.420 --> 00:43:50.260
more about the ministry of Jesus. and what he

00:43:50.260 --> 00:43:52.659
did and how he wants to do that in our lives

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:56.639
and use us the same. And then in John 16, 7 and

00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.460
8, nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is

00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:03.219
expedient for you that I go away. For if I go

00:44:03.219 --> 00:44:05.739
not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.

00:44:05.780 --> 00:44:08.679
But if I depart, I will send him unto you. And

00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:11.579
when he has come, he will reprove the world of

00:44:11.579 --> 00:44:15.460
sin and of righteousness and of judgment. So

00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:20.750
this idea of of reproving the world of sin is,

00:44:20.989 --> 00:44:24.769
I think this is so key. And I think this is part

00:44:24.769 --> 00:44:30.090
of what we need to be considering as we are looking

00:44:30.090 --> 00:44:35.670
for the weapons of warfare to deal with our enemy.

00:44:36.250 --> 00:44:39.489
that we understand the importance of flowing

00:44:39.489 --> 00:44:42.929
with the Holy Spirit and not just trying to do

00:44:42.929 --> 00:44:45.090
things on our own, but letting the Holy Spirit

00:44:45.090 --> 00:44:48.030
use us instead of us using him. You understand

00:44:48.030 --> 00:44:51.469
the difference? You know, it's important that

00:44:51.469 --> 00:44:55.349
we get in sync with him, that we get flowing

00:44:55.349 --> 00:44:58.989
with him so that whatever he's trying to get

00:44:58.989 --> 00:45:03.010
us to do, that we'll do it. And when we do what

00:45:03.010 --> 00:45:06.389
he says to do, we're going to see. results. So

00:45:06.389 --> 00:45:09.610
this idea of convicting the world of sin, when

00:45:09.610 --> 00:45:13.309
we're in intercession, we're asking the Holy

00:45:13.309 --> 00:45:17.750
Spirit to bring conviction on people. And we

00:45:17.750 --> 00:45:20.570
talked to... few episodes back about remitting

00:45:20.570 --> 00:45:23.670
sins or forgiving sins, that we can pray prayers

00:45:23.670 --> 00:45:26.630
where we're asking our Father to see the blood

00:45:26.630 --> 00:45:30.849
of Jesus and hear his cry for mercy over people

00:45:30.849 --> 00:45:33.710
who need intercession, the people who need to

00:45:33.710 --> 00:45:36.869
get saved. So we can remit their sins. We can

00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:40.699
pray for the blood of Jesus to cover their minds

00:45:40.699 --> 00:45:44.119
and cleanse their minds and deliver them from

00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:46.699
the things that are keeping them from flowing

00:45:46.699 --> 00:45:49.480
with the Holy Spirit and bring the conviction

00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.820
of sin so that they'll repent. You know, if we

00:45:52.820 --> 00:45:55.800
ask God to forgive, we're not saying that that

00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:58.519
takes the place of them repenting, but it removes

00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:01.340
the judgment over them so that they can repent.

00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:04.559
And I just think that's such an important part

00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:08.579
of our intercession, which we talked about, I

00:46:08.579 --> 00:46:11.800
think, in our last episode about intercession.

00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.320
Yeah, because the title of this book, Ye Shall

00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.320
Receive Power From On High, that comes from Acts

00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:22.039
1 .8, but ye shall receive power after that the

00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.110
Holy Ghost has come upon you. And ye shall be

00:46:25.110 --> 00:46:28.530
witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all

00:46:28.530 --> 00:46:32.130
Judea and Samaria, into the outermost part of

00:46:32.130 --> 00:46:35.889
the earth. Amen. You know, that is our blast

00:46:35.889 --> 00:46:39.030
-off point. Exactly, exactly. And he spoke to

00:46:39.030 --> 00:46:42.530
them in Luke 24 -49 and said, Behold, I send

00:46:42.530 --> 00:46:45.230
the promise of the Father upon you, but tarry

00:46:45.230 --> 00:46:47.949
in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued

00:46:47.949 --> 00:46:50.559
with power from on high. So it just goes together

00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:54.780
with that. So it's a promise. And the other thing

00:46:54.780 --> 00:46:57.280
that he said in John 16 that I forgot to mention

00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:00.960
was that verse 13 and 14, it says, How be it

00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:04.280
when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will

00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:08.119
guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak

00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:11.599
of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that

00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:14.059
shall he speak, and he will show you things to

00:47:14.059 --> 00:47:17.219
come. He shall glorify me for he shall receive

00:47:17.219 --> 00:47:21.639
of mine and shall show it to you. And so we need

00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:25.019
that in all of our walk, everything that we do

00:47:25.019 --> 00:47:29.800
every day, all day long, we need him to guide

00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:34.199
us and help us to be in the right place at the

00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:37.929
right time with the right words. And there was

00:47:37.929 --> 00:47:42.090
four instances in the New Testament of the outpouring

00:47:42.090 --> 00:47:45.030
of the Holy Spirit. Yes. The first was, you know,

00:47:45.030 --> 00:47:47.650
in the book of Acts, chapter 2, we're all familiar

00:47:47.650 --> 00:47:50.789
with. And there was a second outpouring. This

00:47:50.789 --> 00:47:53.389
is after the crippled man was healed at the gate

00:47:53.389 --> 00:47:56.210
of the temple. And Peter, John, they're being

00:47:56.210 --> 00:48:00.670
arrested, you know, interrogated. And they were

00:48:00.670 --> 00:48:03.070
commanded, don't you preach anymore in this name.

00:48:03.190 --> 00:48:06.539
Yeah. They were released. And they went back

00:48:06.539 --> 00:48:09.920
to their own company, and this really inspired

00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:13.360
a prayer meeting. And so they're in this meeting

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:18.440
in Acts 4 .31. And when they prayed, the place

00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:20.420
was shaken where they were assembled together,

00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.000
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,

00:48:23.179 --> 00:48:25.659
and they spake the word of God with boldness.

00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.719
See, they were filled with the Holy Ghost before,

00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.780
but this is a continual thing. Right. It keeps

00:48:30.780 --> 00:48:33.380
getting bigger. Yeah, you keep getting filled,

00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:39.289
and God just gave them a new boldness. The third

00:48:39.289 --> 00:48:41.849
time that is mentioned is in the book of Acts,

00:48:41.969 --> 00:48:46.630
chapter 8, starts in 17. And this is Peter when

00:48:46.630 --> 00:48:49.570
he's up on the rooftop, and he's just praying,

00:48:49.670 --> 00:48:52.590
and he has a vision of the sheep coming down

00:48:52.590 --> 00:48:56.230
and all these unclean animals. And the Lord says,

00:48:56.349 --> 00:48:58.690
arise, Peter. You need to kill these and learn

00:48:58.690 --> 00:49:02.070
how to eat these. Lord, they're unclean. But

00:49:02.070 --> 00:49:05.070
three times he had this vision, and then all

00:49:05.070 --> 00:49:07.750
of a sudden somebody comes to the door and says,

00:49:08.989 --> 00:49:12.630
your appearance is requested to come in the house

00:49:12.630 --> 00:49:15.969
of Cornelius. Yes. Now, Cornelius being a centurion,

00:49:16.050 --> 00:49:20.050
a Roman centurion. A Gentile. A Gentile, which

00:49:20.050 --> 00:49:24.230
means you better come because he's a Roman centurion.

00:49:24.489 --> 00:49:26.769
And if you don't come, he can maybe take your

00:49:26.769 --> 00:49:31.570
head off because you did not obey him. Not that

00:49:31.570 --> 00:49:33.889
he would have, but. Not that he would. So Peter's

00:49:33.889 --> 00:49:36.489
scratching his head. And he said, there's people

00:49:36.489 --> 00:49:38.909
coming to the door. You go with them, doubting

00:49:38.909 --> 00:49:42.070
nothing. Yes. So he goes to the house of Cornelius.

00:49:42.090 --> 00:49:44.530
And you know the story. We've told this before.

00:49:44.849 --> 00:49:48.469
And while he's talking to them about Jesus, all

00:49:48.469 --> 00:49:51.670
of a sudden, all the household there, you know,

00:49:51.670 --> 00:49:53.730
and there's those that probably didn't want to

00:49:53.730 --> 00:49:56.590
be there because this is part of family, mom

00:49:56.590 --> 00:49:59.679
and dad. boss says okay you gotta be here for

00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:02.280
this they all get filled with the holy spirit

00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:04.820
yeah they did they don't know what it is right

00:50:04.820 --> 00:50:06.579
and all of a sudden they're all speaking in the

00:50:06.579 --> 00:50:09.820
holy ghost yeah and and it was a good thing it

00:50:09.820 --> 00:50:12.699
wasn't just peter yeah he had his company there

00:50:12.699 --> 00:50:15.460
and so so they're witnesses of all this going

00:50:15.460 --> 00:50:18.780
on and presented it to the council when they

00:50:18.780 --> 00:50:21.780
went to damascus and you know to jerusalem to

00:50:21.780 --> 00:50:23.599
jerusalem rather and they got together with a

00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:26.260
council and that's where I says, well, that means

00:50:26.260 --> 00:50:29.019
the Holy Spirit is for the Gentiles, too. Yeah.

00:50:29.099 --> 00:50:31.559
The salvation is them, too. It's just not for

00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:34.940
us. Yes. Because Jesus said, you go to Judea,

00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:38.920
Samaria. Now, the Samaritans, you know, they're

00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:41.880
like half and half. There's Jewish blood there,

00:50:41.940 --> 00:50:45.280
but it's intermingled. And they don't go up to

00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.460
the Jerusalem to worship. They have their own

00:50:47.460 --> 00:50:51.179
place. Right. And they're despised by the Jews,

00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:54.119
the Samaritans are. But he says, you go to Samaria.

00:50:54.699 --> 00:50:56.780
The uttermost parts of the earth. Right. I mean,

00:50:56.780 --> 00:50:58.780
there's Jews to the uttermost parts of the earth.

00:50:58.820 --> 00:51:01.400
There are now. But even when Paul went first,

00:51:01.619 --> 00:51:04.260
he would go to the Jew first. Then he would go

00:51:04.260 --> 00:51:06.679
to the Greek or to the Gentile. Right. And that

00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:09.480
was his pattern. And the Holy Spirit used him

00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.179
wherever he went. And the Holy Spirit will use

00:51:12.179 --> 00:51:15.599
you wherever you go. Amen. Wherever you go, just

00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:18.599
to speak a word, it might be just a couple words,

00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:22.079
an encouragement to somebody. You might have

00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:24.539
a little window of time. God gives you a Kairos

00:51:24.539 --> 00:51:27.380
moment where you can just speak into their lives

00:51:27.380 --> 00:51:30.480
and change their life around, give them direction.

00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:34.079
It's just be obedient to him, and he'll just

00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.130
kind of set your course. Absolutely. Absolutely.

00:51:37.309 --> 00:51:40.289
And I love this, the scripture that Peter used

00:51:40.289 --> 00:51:43.889
when he was in Cornelius's house. And he talks

00:51:43.889 --> 00:51:48.050
about in Acts 10, verse 36, the word which God

00:51:48.050 --> 00:51:50.190
sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace

00:51:50.190 --> 00:51:53.010
by Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all. He says this

00:51:53.010 --> 00:51:57.829
to these Gentiles. That word, I say, you know.

00:51:58.489 --> 00:52:01.070
which was published throughout all Judea and

00:52:01.070 --> 00:52:04.250
began from Galilee after the baptism which John

00:52:04.250 --> 00:52:06.409
preached. So Cornelius must have been there for

00:52:06.409 --> 00:52:10.829
a while. He knew what was going on. He had been

00:52:10.829 --> 00:52:13.389
there through the ministry of Jesus. He had heard

00:52:13.389 --> 00:52:16.849
about it, I'm sure. And in verse 38, how God

00:52:16.849 --> 00:52:20.210
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost

00:52:20.210 --> 00:52:23.250
and with power, who went about doing good and

00:52:23.250 --> 00:52:25.510
healing all that were oppressed of the devil,

00:52:25.590 --> 00:52:29.500
for God was with him. Yes. And I love the fact

00:52:29.500 --> 00:52:33.260
that he talks about how Jesus was anointed with

00:52:33.260 --> 00:52:37.920
the Holy Spirit. And we need to catch that, that

00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:41.539
that was the thing. The word Christ means the

00:52:41.539 --> 00:52:44.719
anointed one. So he wasn't anointed with oil.

00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:49.699
He was anointed with the Holy Spirit. And what

00:52:49.699 --> 00:52:53.739
are we called? We're called Christians. Christ.

00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:59.369
Yeah. little, little versions of Christ, okay?

00:52:59.630 --> 00:53:04.010
We're like, could we say the descendants of Christ?

00:53:04.210 --> 00:53:06.690
We're part of his body, okay? We're part of the

00:53:06.690 --> 00:53:10.510
body of Christ. So this anointing of the Holy

00:53:10.510 --> 00:53:16.599
Spirit is what makes us living. stones, okay,

00:53:16.699 --> 00:53:20.699
the stones in the temple and living cells in

00:53:20.699 --> 00:53:25.920
the body of Jesus. So we are also anointed with

00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:28.360
the Holy Spirit. Now remember when Jesus was

00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:32.860
baptized by John, he was not only baptized in

00:53:32.860 --> 00:53:37.440
water, but the Holy Spirit came down on him and

00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:42.559
remained on him like a dove. And we've talked

00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:46.800
about this recently, but as the Holy Spirit came

00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:52.659
upon him, I'm picturing it like a dove fluttering

00:53:52.659 --> 00:53:56.880
over her babies. And that's one of the words

00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:59.599
that's used where it talks about how the Holy

00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:04.579
Spirit was fluttering over, brooding over the

00:54:04.579 --> 00:54:07.980
waters at the very beginning when the earth was

00:54:07.980 --> 00:54:12.460
without form and void. And God just hovered over

00:54:12.460 --> 00:54:18.219
it and imparted life to it. So when we are baptized

00:54:18.219 --> 00:54:21.960
in the Holy Spirit, there's a hovering of the

00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:26.099
Holy Spirit over us. And he comes into us. And

00:54:26.099 --> 00:54:30.179
he comes into us to... empower us, to empower

00:54:30.179 --> 00:54:33.159
us, to give us the grace to obey him, to give

00:54:33.159 --> 00:54:36.920
us the grace to let his character be formed in

00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:40.199
us. Okay. That's what the fruit of the Holy Spirit

00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:44.699
is about. And so many times, especially in the

00:54:44.699 --> 00:54:48.360
Pentecostal move and the charismatic move, we've

00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:52.599
had such a focus on the power gifts and the gifts.

00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:56.380
And the gifts are amazing. The gifts are meant

00:54:56.380 --> 00:55:01.480
to help us get the point across and bring in

00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:04.139
the kingdom, right? So there's this gifting,

00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:10.139
but it's to be balanced with the anointing of

00:55:10.139 --> 00:55:15.320
the... maturity of the character of Christ, where

00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:19.300
we're walking not only in his power to do things,

00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:23.239
but in his power to be, to be like him. We are

00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:26.019
human beings, not human doings. We talked about

00:55:26.019 --> 00:55:29.059
that fairly recently as well, that we are to

00:55:29.059 --> 00:55:34.769
be like him, that his fruit. of love and joy

00:55:34.769 --> 00:55:37.789
and peace and patience is being manifested in

00:55:37.789 --> 00:55:41.909
us and his faith, the faith to do the things

00:55:41.909 --> 00:55:45.670
that he's called us to do so that we will walk

00:55:45.670 --> 00:55:52.670
in his ways and as he's using us. See, so one

00:55:52.670 --> 00:55:54.489
of the problems that we're having in the body

00:55:54.489 --> 00:55:58.530
of Christ these days is people who are operating

00:55:58.530 --> 00:56:02.219
in the gifts without the character. And that's

00:56:02.219 --> 00:56:05.760
what's turned people off. So God is calling us

00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:11.619
to let that Holy Spirit anointing bring us into

00:56:11.619 --> 00:56:17.480
a likeness that it can be seen on us, that his

00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:20.679
anointing is flowing in us, his anointing is

00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:23.860
working in us. And that when we bring a word,

00:56:24.269 --> 00:56:27.530
that it'll be a word of power when we lay hands

00:56:27.530 --> 00:56:30.429
on the sick, that they shall recover. He promises

00:56:30.429 --> 00:56:33.630
that. But it's from the Holy Spirit. It's that

00:56:33.630 --> 00:56:36.170
anointing of the Holy Spirit that came on Jesus.

00:56:36.289 --> 00:56:38.769
He didn't heal anybody until he was anointed

00:56:38.769 --> 00:56:42.230
with the Holy Spirit. And every believer, every

00:56:42.230 --> 00:56:45.150
believer, every believer, to become a believer,

00:56:45.230 --> 00:56:47.250
it has to have the Holy Spirit working in them.

00:56:47.369 --> 00:56:50.150
But there's that baptism in the Holy Spirit that

00:56:50.150 --> 00:56:52.829
gives you the more so, where you can continue

00:56:52.829 --> 00:56:55.539
to grow. And you can continue to be anointed

00:56:55.539 --> 00:56:59.139
and you can continue to receive power from on

00:56:59.139 --> 00:57:03.460
high on a regular daily basis. Amen. So this

00:57:03.460 --> 00:57:07.460
book, we recommend you getting this because in

00:57:07.460 --> 00:57:10.219
Sister Gwen's Bible studies, after each chapter,

00:57:10.380 --> 00:57:13.659
she has questions. Yes. So it makes you go back

00:57:13.659 --> 00:57:17.739
and you get that. It helps to get that in you

00:57:17.739 --> 00:57:20.019
so you're not just reading something and forgetting

00:57:20.019 --> 00:57:24.409
it. Be endued with power from on high. Receive

00:57:24.409 --> 00:57:27.110
it today. Let's just pray. Father, in the name

00:57:27.110 --> 00:57:30.110
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we pray for our listeners,

00:57:30.250 --> 00:57:32.929
Lord, that each and every one of them will have

00:57:32.929 --> 00:57:37.170
a new, fresh baptism in your Holy Spirit, that

00:57:37.170 --> 00:57:40.050
they will have a new, fresh revelation of the

00:57:40.050 --> 00:57:42.989
power of the blood of Jesus Christ that comes

00:57:42.989 --> 00:57:47.369
into them to... Cause them to overcome, to bring

00:57:47.369 --> 00:57:51.429
them into that place of rising up in the anointing

00:57:51.429 --> 00:57:55.429
and being used by you in obedience to you, walking

00:57:55.429 --> 00:57:58.849
with you as you are pouring out your spirit in

00:57:58.849 --> 00:58:01.670
a brand new, fresh way in their lives. And that

00:58:01.670 --> 00:58:04.670
that will impact the people around them in Jesus

00:58:04.670 --> 00:58:16.039
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