(312) “Just Look!”

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So you have to look at him. You have to look

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at him. And once you look and you're convinced

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that he's really true, you can trust him. Yes.

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Because it's all about trusting him. It's all

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about being who you are in him, letting him make

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in you, make out of you the thing that he designed

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you to be. He designed you to be like him. 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 have been pressing into God ever since we

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heard the message that Pastor Tony Kemp gave

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us in episode 306. And we've been pressing into

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God since we've had the interview with Anna Werner

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and with Dean Braxton. We're just pressing into

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God to get ready for what he's about to pour

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out. But there's something about... Wanting to

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go deeper in seeing, in seeing the things of

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the Spirit, in getting revelations and seeing

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the unseen realm. But in order to see, you really

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just have to look. Thanks so much for joining

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changes your life. So let's talk about just look.

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Let's just talk about getting into a place where

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we're going to look. into the things of God and

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looking at God and keeping our focus. One of

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the things that Pastor Tony was talking about

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in the capacity code in episode 306 had to do

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with increasing your capacity so that he can

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give you the things that you're asking God for.

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If you haven't heard that, if you haven't watched

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that, please go back to episode 306 and... and

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grasp it. I feel like it's going to make a difference,

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especially in this convention, that we prepare

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ourselves and expand our capacity so that God

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can do greater things for us. Don't you agree,

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Philip? Yeah, I agree. And if this quite fits

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or not, it's like we use the expression capacity.

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Oh, yeah. Papa Jim used to say that. Yeah, capacity.

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I've arrived at capacity. I've arrived at capacity.

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He would say that when he was at the table and

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he had finished his meal and he was fully tanked

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up. And he would say, I've arrived at capacity,

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meaning he couldn't eat anymore. He was full.

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So, sorry. It's great when God does that if he

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makes you so full. Yes, but I want to get to

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the point where I just want him to flow through

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me without any, it's like a pipe rather than

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a vessel. I just want to be connected to him

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like a pipe so that it can just keep flowing

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and flowing and flowing and flowing. And I don't

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get full. If you're a pipe, you're not going

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to get full. You're just going to keep flowing.

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So that's really my heart. We're talking about

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the idea of seeing in the Spirit and getting

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revelation. And you have to look in order to

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see. That was what I was hearing in my spirit

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when we were getting ready to prepare this podcast.

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And so the word that came into my mind as I'm

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considering this is the word behold, because,

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you know, we grew up on the King James. And so

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it's kind of a familiar thing, but we don't really

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say behold in the 21st century. Most of our vernacular,

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unless we're just King Jamesers or, you know,

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some of the earlier versions. Doesn't it say

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like on the spine, the authorized King James

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version? Right, it's authorized. But there's

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lots of translations, and you almost need all

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of them in order to get all the nuances of what's

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in the original languages. So don't feel like

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you can only read just one translation. It's

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good to read various translations, and I like

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listening to them. You can get Bible apps that

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do that, but I like listening to get other...

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nuances, other pictures. So the idea of behold,

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I looked it up in my Blue Letter Bible app. I

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use that all the time. I highly recommend it.

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And it says that in the King James Version, the

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word behold is in there 1 ,275 times. So it must

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be kind of important. And in many cases, the

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word behold means look. You know, that's one

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thing that we do say in our vernacular, in our

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modern language. You know, you're talking along

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and you just say, look, and you go on to say

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something else, you know, especially if you're

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having a discussion back and forth. And in Spanish,

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they'll say, mira. And it means look, look, look

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at my point of view. It's a view. We're saying

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something, but it's something that we see. And

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seeing and saying really go together. You know,

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I remember years ago at our little Methodist

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church in Jasper. we would have a Heritage Sunday.

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And there was a man there that had a Civil War

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cannon. Civil War cannon, yeah. And on Heritage

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Day, he would bring his cannon and blow it off.

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It was just part of the heritage. Yeah, he'd

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just put the explosive packet in there, and when

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he lit that thing off, you'd see the flash, then

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you'd hear the sound. Yes, and that's my point.

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You've got seeing and hearing. as it's one event.

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And there's a little bit of gap between them

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because sound doesn't travel as fast as light

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does. So what you're seeing, the sound comes

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a little bit later. So seeing and hearing go

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together so, so much. And there's that scripture

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in Habakkuk that talks about, I will stand upon

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the ramparts and see what the Lord will say.

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So seeing and hearing go together. So if we want

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to have more, capacity for what God wants to

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do, we need to stop to see and hear and listen.

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You're not so likely to hear if you don't listen.

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I mean, some things you can't help but hear,

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even if you're not really listening for them.

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And there's some things you can't help but see

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that you didn't intend to see, but it just jumped

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up in front of your eyes. But my point is, when

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we're trying to look at something, God says,

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behold. Okay, so what does that look like now?

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What does that look like in Scripture? What does

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that really mean? And so I started looking at,

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okay, so where do we get the word behold anyway?

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So I looked in etimonline .com. Okay, I have

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an etymology online app, so I used that, but

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preparing the notes, I went to their website.

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which is edimonline .com. And it comes from the

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old English. I won't bother trying to say it,

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but it means to give regard to, to hold in view

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and keep hold of or belong to. So something that

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you're beholding, you want to look at it and

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pay attention to it, hold it in your view. So

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when like the angel of the Lord appears to someone

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and says, behold, in the old. the vernacular,

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in the older translations. He's trying to say,

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look at this. Yeah, I think it was in the garden

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tomb. When he was in the tomb, the angels said,

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behold, the place where he lay. Yeah. In other

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words, take a look. Take a look. Take a look.

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Just look at it. So much of the time, we're so

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distracted. And there's lots of things around

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to distract us, sounds and visual things. These

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smartphones complicate things even more. Oh,

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yes. Because it gives you more to look at. Oh,

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yes. Oh, yes. And it's listening to you and it

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starts feeding you ads based on what it's hearing

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you say. It's kind of scary. Remember back when

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we had World Book Encyclopedia? Oh, sure. Or

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you had to go to the library when you did your

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research paper. Yeah. Now we can research with

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what's in our pocket. Without even driving to

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the library. Yep, that's true. So one of the

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translations of this word in Hebrew, one of the

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words that's translated behold is hine. And this

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particular word is used 855 times. So it's another

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one of these really important words. And it's

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translated behold or see or lo. Well, there's

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another word we don't use these days. And so

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I looked that one up. And, you know, unless we're

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reading scripture or Shakespeare, you just don't

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generally hear lo. But it also means look. It's

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an exclamation of surprise or grief or joy or

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mere greeting, probably merged or influenced

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in Middle English by lo, which is perhaps short

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for look or look. So when it says lo, it's meaning

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look. So just look. You have to look. Pay attention.

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Focus. Focus. Get your focus in here. You know,

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cut off all of these other distractions so that

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you can look at what you're looking at, so that

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you can see what you're looking at. And we'll

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get it, you know. So if you look at Matthew 2

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.9, for instance. In the King James, it says,

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this is where the wise men had come to visit

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King Herod, right? And they said, where is he

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that is born King of the Jews? So he's convincing

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them about, you know, you go and you visit and

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worship this little baby king, and you bring

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me word again, and I will come and worship him

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too, right? And it was a fake. So he's saying,

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In Matthew 2 .9, when they had heard the king,

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they departed, and lo, the star, which they saw

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in the east, went before them till it came and

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stood over where the young child was. Now, what

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does it say in the ESV, Philip? After listening

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to the king, they went on their way, and behold,

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the star that they had seen when it rose went

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before them until it came to rest over the place

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where the child was. Okay, so you've got the

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same word being translated in one place as low

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and in another place as behold. But now the Christian

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Standard Bible says this. After hearing the king,

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they went on their way. And there it was, the

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star they had seen at its rising. It led them

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until it came and stopped above the place where

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the child was. So it's another way of saying,

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there it was. It's kind of an excitement. There's

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an excitement about, look, there's the star.

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So one of the words that is being translated

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as behold is ra 'ah in the Hebrew. And it means

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to see, look at, inspect, perceive. consider.

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Okay. So we're perceiving, we're considering.

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It can mean to have a vision and it can mean

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to regard or look at or see after, learn about,

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observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out,

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see, observe, consider, look at, give attention,

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give attention to something, discern it, distinguish

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it, gaze at it. You know, sometimes when you

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have an encounter with God, And everything else

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just kind of melts away. Yeah. You're just gazing

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at him. And all of a sudden, nothing is distracting

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you. Nothing. I remember an incident where I

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came under this tremendous anointing. Oh, it

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was back in the 90s when the move was going on

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in Toronto and with Rodney Howard Brown and in

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Pensacola. And I got a huge dose of the Holy

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Ghost. You got blasted. I really got blasted.

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I really, really got blasted. And one of the

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things that happened to me, I think I've told

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this story before, but it bears repeating in

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this situation where we had Mary Audrey Raycroft

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come to our convention to speak, and she had

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an assistant with her. And we were just visiting

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before the convention started, and I think we

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were in her place there that she was staying.

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And I'm just chattering on about something. And

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I don't remember what it was. It must not have

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been very important. And the lady that was traveling

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with Mary Audrey reached over and put her hand

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on my head. And it was like the anointing just

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began to pour in. And the words I was thinking

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and speaking just began to drain out. And I had

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nothing more to say. Because all of a sudden

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it was the Holy Spirit. was impacting my life

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and moving the distractions away. And that's

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what we need. And that's what we need before

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we come to this convention, for sure. But we

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need it moment by moment. We need to learn to

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walk in the spirit and not in the flesh. Because

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that's definitely a fleshly thing where the things

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are trying to attract our flesh. They can't get

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a hold of our spirit, but they're certainly trying

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to attract our flesh. That's what's going on

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in life. It's just happening in life all the

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time. So, Philip, would you read Numbers 21,

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4 through 9 for us? From Mount Hor, they set

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out by the way to the Red Sea to go around the

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land of Edom. And the people became impatient

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on the way. And the people spoke against God

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and against Moses. Why have you brought us up

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out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there

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is no food, no water, and we loathe this worthless

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food. Complaining. So then what happened? How

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did God react to their complaining? Then the

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Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and

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they bit the people, so that many people of Israel

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died. And the people came to Moses and said,

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We have sinned, for we have spoken against the

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Lord Jehovah and against you. Pray to the Lord

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that he take away the serpents from us. So Moses

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prayed for the people, and the Lord said to Moses,

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Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and

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everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall

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live. So Moses met a bronze serpent and set it

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on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would

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look at the bronze serpent and live. Okay. Yeah.

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So I remember there's an old hymn that has a

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line in it. There's life for a look at the Savior.

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Hmm. So the bronze serpent was, it's kind of

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odd that God would say that. I really don't understand

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why he would have them make that. But he did.

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You know, I think really there is a thing that

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is used for the name Yeshua in Hebrew. In modern

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Hebrew, they call him Yeshu. And it's an acronym.

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And I think somehow it means snake or serpent

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or something like that. And so he actually, God

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used that picture of a serpent to get people

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used to calling Jesus that. Then when they find

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out who he really is. Here it is in John 3, 14

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to 21. If you'd read that. And as Moses lifted

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up the serpent in the wilderness. Even so must

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the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believes

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in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only

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begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him

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should not perish but have everlasting life.

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For God did not send his Son into the world to

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condemn the world, but that the world through

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him might be saved. He who believes in him is

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not condemned, but he that does not believe is

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condemned already, because he has not believed

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in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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And this is the condemnation, that the light

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has come into the world, and men love darkness

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rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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For everyone practicing evil hates the light

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and does not come to the light, lest his deeds

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should be exposed. So there's something about

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this serpent that was lifted up in the wilderness

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that was a picture. So much of what was done

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in the Old Testament was pictures to help everyone

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recognize who Jesus is. You know, it's just like

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Dean. Every piece that he saw in... in heaven

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that is represented on earth, he says, it's Jesus.

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It's Jesus. It's Jesus. The bread is Jesus, and

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the cup is Jesus. And we haven't gotten very

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far with all of the things that he saw, but it's

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all about Jesus. It's all about helping us to

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see God's plan to bring a Savior to the earth.

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All you have to do is look and believe. Look

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and believe. Now, I just want to go back to the

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Hebrew in the story of what happened in the wilderness

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when if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at

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the bronze servant and live. And that word look,

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it's the word nevat in Hebrew, and it means to

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look and regard, to look, to show regard to,

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to pay attention to, to consider, to look upon,

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regard, to show regard to. So you're not just

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a casual glance at the snake on the pole. Well,

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actually, this came as a result of our complaining.

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We're loathing the thing that God has provided

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for us. You know, this worthless food that you're

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giving us is blech. And they became impatient

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and they're speaking against God and against

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Moses. So sometimes the things, the trials that

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come into our lives. are to help us to recognize

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that we've done something wrong that we need

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to repent of. They recognized it. And some of

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them died before they even put two and two together.

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And the ones that would look at the remedy that

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God gave were the ones that were healed. So God

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always has a remedy. And it's always Jesus. Jesus

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is the remedy for everything. He is the Savior.

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That's what his name is. means. And one of the

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things that Dean Braxton also says is in heaven,

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there's no arguing about whether to pronounce

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his name Jesus or Yeshua or any other pronunciation

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that people have come up with in their various

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languages, because everybody, remember, it's

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thought to thought all the time, and everybody

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calls him Savior. Because that's what his name

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means. And that's how Hebrew names work, that

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the names mean something. And so you don't even

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really get it, that it's not a big issue. Demons

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will go out, whether you use the name of Jesus

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or Yeshua. What is it in Arabic? It's Isa. Isa,

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yeah. Isa. Right, exactly. So anyway, the idea

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is we have to pay attention. We have to look,

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pay attention, give regard to, like, what is

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that? And, you know, really examine it and really

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look, what is it that God is saying? Because,

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you know, going back to what Philip just read

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from John 3, you know, that's a really familiar

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verse. A lot of people who don't know any other

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Bible verses know John 3 .16. And it's about

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he who believes. So you're looking to him to

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believe in him. There is some truth to seeing

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is believing, okay? And in this case, it's about

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seeing Jesus. It's about seeing him for who he

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is. And this idea of this is the condemnation,

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that the light has come into the world and men

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love darkness rather than light because their

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deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil

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hates the light and does not come to the light,

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lest his deeds should be exposed. In other words,

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lest they should be seen. So you have to be looking

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to the light to see the truth. Looking out there

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in the darkness, don't go looking for stuff in

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darkness because darkness is going to lead you

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astray. Yeah, it'll find you. That's true. And

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it'll get into you if you give it half a chance.

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But he who does the truth comes to the light,

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that his deeds may be clearly seen that they've

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been done of God. So God is really trying to

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help us by giving us illustrations of things

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that we can see so that we will believe. Now,

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it's not so very long ago that we had the celebration

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of Good Friday and the Resurrection Day, and

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it's been several months, maybe a couple of years,

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that I've taken an interest in the evidence that's

00:24:02.210 --> 00:24:04.869
been coming out about the Shroud of Turin. If

00:24:04.869 --> 00:24:08.069
you don't know what that is, it is a linen cloth

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about 14 feet long that was wrapped around the

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body of a crucified man. It has his blood on

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it. It has this image that's in the fabric. The

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thing that... Let me see if I can... not go into

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too many details. There's so much. There's so

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much detail. It's one of the most studied artifacts

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in the world, in history. Over 100 different

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kinds of science have been applied to it to examine

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what it is and what it's not. And what they've

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determined is it's not a forgery because there's

00:24:47.869 --> 00:24:50.529
no paint on it. There's no pigment of any kind.

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There's just this faint, almost like a scorch

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mark that is in just, you know, like a thread

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of linen has hundreds of fibers. And the image

00:25:05.450 --> 00:25:09.069
is only in the first one or two fibers of each

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one. The blood has soaked through the whole thing.

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And it's got, you can tell that it has. pre -mortem

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blood, in other words, blood that was shed before

00:25:19.829 --> 00:25:23.009
he died, and post -mortem blood. And it has all

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the markings of the man that was crucified for

00:25:26.730 --> 00:25:31.049
our sins. It has the nails in his wrists and

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in his feet, and it has the piercing mark on

00:25:33.950 --> 00:25:38.650
his side. And what really got me, especially

00:25:38.650 --> 00:25:43.650
recently, is that the crown of thorns that the

00:25:43.650 --> 00:25:47.150
Bible talks about It wasn't just like a circlet

00:25:47.150 --> 00:25:50.609
or a ring of thorns around his head. It was like

00:25:50.609 --> 00:25:54.309
a cap. It was like a helmet. And when it was

00:25:54.309 --> 00:25:59.170
pushed down on his head, there are at least 50

00:25:59.170 --> 00:26:04.630
notable blood marks on the head of this image,

00:26:04.809 --> 00:26:10.750
right? That gives me the idea of he was crucified

00:26:10.750 --> 00:26:15.210
for us to set us at liberty. Okay, jubilee is

00:26:15.210 --> 00:26:19.309
50, right? 50 is jubilee. So we have this beautiful

00:26:19.309 --> 00:26:24.339
picture of jubilee for our minds. all of those

00:26:24.339 --> 00:26:28.019
things that are after our minds to try and keep

00:26:28.019 --> 00:26:32.440
us distracted. Jesus bore that horrific, horrific

00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:36.420
cap of thorns on his head. And I think we talked

00:26:36.420 --> 00:26:40.319
about this a few episodes back, but he suffered

00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:44.539
so much with that. And it's to set our minds

00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:48.160
free. Our minds can be set free from all of the

00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:50.680
whatever kind of things are bothering your mind,

00:26:50.740 --> 00:26:55.400
memories of things, traumas, traumatic situations

00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:58.859
that you've had in your life, that you've got

00:26:58.859 --> 00:27:01.720
memories that are embedded in your brain. And

00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.960
Jesus bore those thorns in order to set you free

00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:11.019
and to set me free. So all of these things, the

00:27:11.019 --> 00:27:15.950
more you look at this shroud, the more you can

00:27:15.950 --> 00:27:19.150
become convinced and the more you can believe

00:27:19.150 --> 00:27:22.970
this is the real thing. There was one mathematician

00:27:22.970 --> 00:27:27.049
that, you know how mathematicians will do probabilities,

00:27:27.289 --> 00:27:31.450
right? If I recall the numbers correctly, he

00:27:31.450 --> 00:27:37.130
said that there is a one in two billion chance

00:27:37.130 --> 00:27:41.049
probability that it's not the burial shroud of

00:27:41.049 --> 00:27:45.589
Jesus. In other words, you can be pretty sure,

00:27:45.630 --> 00:27:50.210
you can be very sure that it is the burial shroud

00:27:50.210 --> 00:27:53.450
of Jesus. But the fact that it has this image

00:27:53.450 --> 00:27:56.869
marked on it, some scientists are speculating

00:27:56.869 --> 00:28:03.789
that it would take 34 trillion watts of vacuum

00:28:03.789 --> 00:28:10.390
UV light for like 40 billionths of a second.

00:28:11.849 --> 00:28:13.990
If it went for longer, it would make the cloth

00:28:13.990 --> 00:28:17.109
disappear. And because there's been many shrouds

00:28:17.109 --> 00:28:20.109
wrapped, but there was no images in them. Oh,

00:28:20.109 --> 00:28:24.410
absolutely. No images. No images. And, you know,

00:28:24.410 --> 00:28:26.450
there are many shrouds from 2 ,000 years ago

00:28:26.450 --> 00:28:30.490
that have been found. And there are shrouds that

00:28:30.490 --> 00:28:34.549
have been around crucified people, but there's

00:28:34.549 --> 00:28:37.650
no image. You can maybe tell by the location

00:28:37.650 --> 00:28:40.349
of blood on them. And the thing about the blood.

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:46.200
The thing about the blood, this is type AB blood.

00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:54.039
Type AB, there's A and B and O and AB. Those

00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:57.240
are the kinds of blood that people have. This

00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:02.400
blood is type AB, and type AB means that they

00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:05.650
are the universal recipient. That means if you

00:29:05.650 --> 00:29:09.950
give AB blood to someone who is a type O or just

00:29:09.950 --> 00:29:13.950
a type A or a type B, you can kill them because

00:29:13.950 --> 00:29:18.269
they can't receive the other parts. But a type

00:29:18.269 --> 00:29:21.369
AB person can receive blood from everybody. So

00:29:21.369 --> 00:29:24.309
Jesus could be the universal recipient of all

00:29:24.309 --> 00:29:28.089
of our sins. And when he shed his blood for us,

00:29:28.210 --> 00:29:31.329
it was so that we could be set free from all

00:29:31.329 --> 00:29:36.119
of our sins, right? And it's typical for Semitic

00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.339
people, in other words, Jewish people in particular,

00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:41.880
but Semitic people, and they have found other

00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:47.440
remains from 2 ,000 years ago in Israel that

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:52.160
they are able to test from the DNA, that 50 %

00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.299
of them had type AB blood. And in the whole world,

00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:59.500
I've heard different numbers. I've heard 1 %

00:29:59.500 --> 00:30:03.900
or 6%. or 4%. So it's a small number of people

00:30:03.900 --> 00:30:07.259
currently that have type AB blood, and most of

00:30:07.259 --> 00:30:12.380
them are probably Semitic. So it's so very clear

00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:15.640
that this is Jesus' shroud. And also, there was

00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:18.700
another man that, I think it was a criminologist,

00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.680
and he took sticky tape, and he put the tape

00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:28.140
on all over this shroud, and he took that back

00:30:28.140 --> 00:30:32.299
and examined the pollens. that were in the Shroud.

00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:36.160
And I think he found 58 different pollens. And

00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:39.599
if I recall the numbers correctly, 30 or 38 of

00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:45.779
them are only found in Jerusalem in springtime.

00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:49.640
So Passover was when he was sacrificed. So it

00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:53.660
would have been at springtime. And the other

00:30:53.660 --> 00:30:56.900
pollens that were found there. you can trace

00:30:56.900 --> 00:31:00.200
the trail that the thing went. And some people

00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.059
say that it only just showed up in the Middle

00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:06.059
Ages. And that's not true. There is actually

00:31:06.059 --> 00:31:10.079
history of it going from Jerusalem to Edessa,

00:31:10.140 --> 00:31:12.200
and it was there for quite some time. And then

00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:16.799
it went, I think, to... Constantinople, and then

00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:18.720
there was two or three other places before it

00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:21.740
ended up in Turin, which is where it is now.

00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.940
And so you can see the pollens along the way

00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:30.119
from those places. So it's just, it's so remarkable,

00:31:30.339 --> 00:31:35.160
so amazing. And I've seen so much of this information

00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:39.880
coming across at this season. from YouTube in

00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:42.579
particular. And maybe it's just because I'm fascinated

00:31:42.579 --> 00:31:45.140
with it that it's feeding me more of that because

00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:48.940
I ask for it. But you're seeing it on Facebook.

00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.539
You were seeing it in this season because it's

00:31:52.539 --> 00:31:57.759
the time for people to see and believe. So just

00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:01.619
pray for people to see and believe because it's

00:32:01.619 --> 00:32:04.839
important that we get the idea of believing.

00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.480
And I'll just want to make one more statement

00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.519
about the Shroud, that the people who went there

00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:15.119
in 1978 to study it was the first time they opened

00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:18.180
it up for scientists to really study it. So that's

00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:20.880
why all of these scientists, you know, they just

00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:23.460
showed up. I think they had like 100 hours and

00:32:23.460 --> 00:32:25.720
they worked straight through and they just took

00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:28.440
naps because they had all these experiments to

00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.740
take, to try. Because most of them, most of them

00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:35.410
went in as skeptics. They thought, eh. In 15

00:32:35.410 --> 00:32:39.230
minutes, we'll prove that it's a fake. It's not

00:32:39.230 --> 00:32:43.210
a fake. And in 1988, there was another experiment

00:32:43.210 --> 00:32:46.910
done where they decided to use carbon -14 dating.

00:32:47.150 --> 00:32:50.250
And they took a little piece off of the edge

00:32:50.250 --> 00:32:52.750
of the shroud, and in three different places,

00:32:52.910 --> 00:32:57.230
notable places, they were given permission to

00:32:57.230 --> 00:33:01.130
do carbon -14 dating. Well, you know, they dated

00:33:01.130 --> 00:33:03.829
it. They said, oh, this is back from the 1200s.

00:33:03.829 --> 00:33:07.410
This is a medieval forgery. Couldn't be anything

00:33:07.410 --> 00:33:10.430
but that. And so that went all over the news

00:33:10.430 --> 00:33:16.230
in 1988. And so the skeptics shut the door. And

00:33:16.230 --> 00:33:20.230
the people who believed didn't have much of a

00:33:20.230 --> 00:33:22.809
leg to stand on, even though they believed. Turns

00:33:22.809 --> 00:33:27.440
out, in more recent years, Someone took those

00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:32.920
fibers and found that they were indeed from medieval

00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.240
times. It was a repair job that had been done.

00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:38.680
The shroud had been through fires, several fires.

00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:42.579
And they had this way of doing an invisible weave

00:33:42.579 --> 00:33:46.019
and they found there was cotton in it and just

00:33:46.019 --> 00:33:49.259
all kinds of things that disproved the disproving.

00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:54.599
So, you know, the skeptics that came in 1978,

00:33:55.420 --> 00:33:58.519
Maybe there was one that left as a skeptic and

00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:01.140
everybody else says, there's no other explanation.

00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:06.480
And nobody has been able to recreate it. To get

00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:11.119
that 34 trillion watts of UV power, there's not

00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:15.239
enough power in our ability to generate that

00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:18.159
much power. It's just not possible. They did

00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:20.940
manage to get a little bit of a scorch mark in

00:34:20.940 --> 00:34:24.050
a small area. blasting it with a whole bunch

00:34:24.050 --> 00:34:28.949
of UV, and they couldn't generate enough to do

00:34:28.949 --> 00:34:34.010
an entire body in a 14 -foot thing. But it shows

00:34:34.010 --> 00:34:38.030
what Jesus suffered for us and how he was beaten.

00:34:38.329 --> 00:34:42.489
The lashing that he took was so violent and so

00:34:42.489 --> 00:34:45.829
evil. You could see on the marks on the body

00:34:45.829 --> 00:34:48.809
that two different men were whipping him and

00:34:48.809 --> 00:34:51.170
taking turns whipping him. One would come from

00:34:51.170 --> 00:34:52.829
this side, the other would come from that side.

00:34:52.969 --> 00:34:56.949
And it was all over his body. The history of

00:34:56.949 --> 00:35:01.309
this cruel flogging is that they would flog them

00:35:01.309 --> 00:35:05.190
before crucifixion to help hasten the death.

00:35:05.849 --> 00:35:09.190
the cross, and 60 % of them never even made it

00:35:09.190 --> 00:35:11.570
past the flogging. They would die in the flogging.

00:35:12.230 --> 00:35:16.610
And we know that Jesus survived it. And I just

00:35:16.610 --> 00:35:19.210
heard another talk about it, somebody talking

00:35:19.210 --> 00:35:22.349
about it, that because Jesus hadn't slept, remember

00:35:22.349 --> 00:35:25.989
he was up in the night praying, and then he went

00:35:25.989 --> 00:35:29.150
from one place to the next to be tried, and so

00:35:29.150 --> 00:35:31.949
he didn't get any sleep. And sleep deprivation

00:35:31.949 --> 00:35:37.369
increases the pain. So you have at least 15,

00:35:37.570 --> 00:35:42.409
I think he said 15 to 30 % more pain will be

00:35:42.409 --> 00:35:45.869
involved if you're deprived of sleep. So he suffered

00:35:45.869 --> 00:35:50.170
for us so that we would believe that he paid

00:35:50.170 --> 00:35:55.590
for us because God so loved the world that he

00:35:55.590 --> 00:35:58.889
did this. He did this because he so loves us.

00:35:58.989 --> 00:36:04.500
And if we can just look. Look at what he suffered

00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:08.000
for me. Look at what he suffered for you. He

00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:11.199
suffered this for you. He suffered this for you

00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:18.079
so that you can experience freedom, just like

00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:22.239
the crown of thorns is for our minds. All of

00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.719
these beatings that he took, and it was all over

00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.119
his body. They'd lash him on his back, and then

00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:32.320
he'd turn him around. And they had already stripped

00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:35.300
his clothes off of him. So everything was exposed

00:36:35.300 --> 00:36:37.760
and everything was hit. I don't want to go into

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.179
too much detail. But it was horrific. Absolutely

00:36:43.179 --> 00:36:47.659
horrific. Why? Because he didn't want you to

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:51.840
suffer more than he did. There was nothing that

00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.519
you suffer that he didn't suffer. And he suffered

00:36:55.519 --> 00:37:00.539
more so to show you how much he loves you. to

00:37:00.539 --> 00:37:03.300
deliver you from what happened to you, the things

00:37:03.300 --> 00:37:05.400
that happened to you, the things that were painful

00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:10.099
in your life. He suffered to deliver you and

00:37:10.099 --> 00:37:15.800
to love you and to let you know that He was there

00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:20.599
with you when you went through it. He was there

00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:23.579
for you. That's why you didn't die from what

00:37:23.579 --> 00:37:27.139
it was you went through. And He's there to heal

00:37:27.139 --> 00:37:31.880
you now. So just take a look. Take a look at

00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:36.099
Jesus. Look at him. Look at how he's looking

00:37:36.099 --> 00:37:41.599
at you with love. He is beholding you. He is

00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:47.320
looking at you to bring you into a new place

00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:51.639
of a closer walk with him, a closer walk. It

00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:56.639
says in Micah 7 .7, it says, as for me, I will

00:37:56.639 --> 00:38:00.730
look. I will wait for the God of my salvation,

00:38:00.929 --> 00:38:05.369
the God of my Yeshua. My God will hear me. He

00:38:05.369 --> 00:38:08.210
does hear you. He hears everything you breathe.

00:38:08.590 --> 00:38:11.389
He hears every thought that goes through your

00:38:11.389 --> 00:38:16.610
mind. And he's there for you. He's there to help

00:38:16.610 --> 00:38:20.230
deliver you from whatever it is that's tormenting

00:38:20.230 --> 00:38:26.900
you. He's there for you. And Hebrews 12. 2 and

00:38:26.900 --> 00:38:29.880
3. Philip, would you read that? Looking to Jesus,

00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:33.500
the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for

00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:36.219
the joy that was set before him endured the cross,

00:38:36.460 --> 00:38:40.099
despising the shame, and is seated at the right

00:38:40.099 --> 00:38:44.340
hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured

00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:47.199
from sinners such hostility against himself,

00:38:47.500 --> 00:38:51.400
so that you may not grow weary or faint -hearted.

00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:53.760
See, he challenges us to take up our cross and

00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:56.750
follow him. Our cross will never be as hard as

00:38:56.750 --> 00:39:01.050
the cross he bore. So that we don't become weary

00:39:01.050 --> 00:39:04.530
or faint -hearted. Oh, life is so bad. You don't

00:39:04.530 --> 00:39:06.710
want the snakes to bite you. Don't complain.

00:39:06.989 --> 00:39:10.590
Just stop complaining. One thing that the Lord

00:39:10.590 --> 00:39:12.750
has been doing for me, and I'm so, so grateful.

00:39:12.869 --> 00:39:16.150
Father, thank you for doing this. That as I'm

00:39:16.150 --> 00:39:20.510
formulating ideas in my mind, looking at situations,

00:39:20.610 --> 00:39:22.769
about ready to pronounce some kind of a judgment.

00:39:24.170 --> 00:39:27.530
to speak some kind of complaint, to speak some

00:39:27.530 --> 00:39:32.570
kind of thing that I shouldn't be speaking. I

00:39:32.570 --> 00:39:36.849
find myself praying in tongues instead. And when

00:39:36.849 --> 00:39:39.469
I find myself praying in tongues, it's like that

00:39:39.469 --> 00:39:42.730
whole thing kind of melts and goes away and it's

00:39:42.730 --> 00:39:45.449
not there anymore. It loses, you know, you shine

00:39:45.449 --> 00:39:48.710
the light on it and darkness flees. So God is

00:39:48.710 --> 00:39:51.829
doing that for us. Let me just look at John 6.

00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:55.619
40. What does that one say, Philip? For this

00:39:55.619 --> 00:39:58.659
is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks

00:39:58.659 --> 00:40:01.800
on the Son and believes in him should have eternal

00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:05.139
life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.559
So that burial shroud of Jesus wasn't really

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:11.099
just his burial shroud. It was his resurrection

00:40:11.099 --> 00:40:14.920
shroud. And I've heard somebody said that it

00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:17.659
was the original selfie. It was the very first

00:40:17.659 --> 00:40:22.769
selfie ever. The very first. image of a person.

00:40:22.869 --> 00:40:25.690
Wow. Isn't that amazing? And, you know, the really

00:40:25.690 --> 00:40:29.130
amazing thing is it was like a photographic negative.

00:40:29.309 --> 00:40:32.070
The first actual photograph that was taken of

00:40:32.070 --> 00:40:34.489
it in the 1800s when they didn't have electricity

00:40:34.489 --> 00:40:38.050
in the building, you know, it was done on huge

00:40:38.050 --> 00:40:41.849
glass plates when the man took it into the dark

00:40:41.849 --> 00:40:45.090
room and began to develop it. What he thought

00:40:45.090 --> 00:40:48.010
was going to be a negative turned out to be a

00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:51.090
positive. And so that's why we have the picture

00:40:51.090 --> 00:40:55.949
that we have of the shroud that you can see what

00:40:55.949 --> 00:40:58.309
he's like. And, you know, AI is creating all

00:40:58.309 --> 00:41:01.409
kinds of possibilities of what did Jesus look

00:41:01.409 --> 00:41:04.070
like. That's really not the important part. But

00:41:04.070 --> 00:41:06.789
the important part is that he is and that he

00:41:06.789 --> 00:41:09.230
is the son of God and that he did rise from the

00:41:09.230 --> 00:41:12.190
grave and that he is there for us if we'll just

00:41:12.190 --> 00:41:16.480
look at him. Just look at him and believe. Psalm

00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:21.039
119 .18 says, open my eyes that I may see. And

00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:24.820
that's that same word that was used in where

00:41:24.820 --> 00:41:27.739
they're supposed to look at the snake. on the

00:41:27.739 --> 00:41:30.980
pole, that to look attentively, that word navat,

00:41:31.059 --> 00:41:34.380
that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

00:41:34.659 --> 00:41:40.480
Open my eyes that I may behold attentively wondrous

00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.800
things out of your law. Open, unveil, uncover

00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:49.760
my eyes. I need help. I need help. My eyes need

00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.719
help. Now, I remember when we had Michael Van

00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:56.880
Vlijmen here. He told us a story, and I think

00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:59.019
he's got it in one of his books, and I'm pretty

00:41:59.019 --> 00:42:01.820
sure we've got it in one of the podcasts we did

00:42:01.820 --> 00:42:04.539
with him, but I'm not sure which one. So Michael

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:08.599
tells the story of how he was wanting to see

00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:11.340
more. You know, he just wanted to go deeper in

00:42:11.340 --> 00:42:14.579
his seeing gift because he had pressed into God

00:42:14.579 --> 00:42:18.139
and began seeing, right? So he wanted more. And

00:42:18.139 --> 00:42:22.719
so this angel appears to him. I don't remember

00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.000
exactly what the conversation was between them,

00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:28.760
but it goes something like this. The angel gets

00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:32.460
up in his face, up in Michael's face, and the

00:42:32.460 --> 00:42:36.239
angel's eyes turn blood red. And Michael goes,

00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.760
what? What is that? What's going on? And if I

00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:42.440
recall what the angel said correctly, it was

00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:46.980
something like, your eyes have been injured by

00:42:46.980 --> 00:42:48.719
some of the things that you have been looking

00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:56.119
at. And that made Michael kind of pull back and

00:42:56.119 --> 00:43:00.840
take a look at, like, what kind of television

00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:04.559
programs are you watching? What is that doing

00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:08.400
to your eyes? Are you unable to see the way that

00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:11.139
you want to see in the spirit because you're

00:43:11.139 --> 00:43:13.579
putting things in front of your eyes that are

00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:16.940
not building you up in the spirit? And, you know,

00:43:16.940 --> 00:43:20.059
so that's a challenge to us. I've dialed way

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:24.840
back on my YouTube consumption. God really, especially

00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:28.019
after Pastor, the Holy Spirit had already been

00:43:28.019 --> 00:43:30.380
dealing with me. But after Pastor Tony's message

00:43:30.380 --> 00:43:34.139
in 306, boy, I really dialed it back, way, way

00:43:34.139 --> 00:43:36.840
back. And I'm hardly watching anything on YouTube.

00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.519
I mean, we're here to help you grow. So if you

00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:43.059
want to watch us, that's... That's between you

00:43:43.059 --> 00:43:44.900
and the Holy Spirit. Okay, just do what the Holy

00:43:44.900 --> 00:43:47.840
Spirit tells you to do. But, you know, dialing

00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:51.500
back on things that are superfluous, they're

00:43:51.500 --> 00:43:56.840
not helping you in eternal things. You know,

00:43:56.840 --> 00:44:00.900
some of those silly things, especially these

00:44:00.900 --> 00:44:03.679
days, so these silly things that are being created

00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:08.000
by AI. Give me a break. So just to go back to

00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.889
Hebrews 12, 2 and 3. In fact, I'm just going

00:44:12.889 --> 00:44:15.909
to read verse 1. Wherefore seeing we are all

00:44:15.909 --> 00:44:19.070
seeing, okay, seeing, we're seeing, we're all

00:44:19.070 --> 00:44:22.010
so compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.

00:44:22.409 --> 00:44:24.750
So what great cloud of witnesses are we talking

00:44:24.750 --> 00:44:29.769
about? Well, the whole of Hebrews 11 is the Hall

00:44:29.769 --> 00:44:32.570
of Fame. That is the Hall of Fame of the faith

00:44:32.570 --> 00:44:36.679
people that have lived before. the writer of

00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:40.199
Hebrews wrote Hebrews. So this whole hall of

00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:44.670
fame of people who... lived by faith and walked

00:44:44.670 --> 00:44:50.110
in faith. And so that is the great cloud of witnesses.

00:44:50.250 --> 00:44:53.510
So let's lay aside every weight. Let's lay aside

00:44:53.510 --> 00:44:57.329
everything that is trying to easily set us aside

00:44:57.329 --> 00:45:01.030
and easily trip us up. Let's run with patience

00:45:01.030 --> 00:45:04.289
the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus,

00:45:04.469 --> 00:45:08.670
okay? Seeing that we're surrounded by a cloud

00:45:08.670 --> 00:45:13.369
of witnesses. Let's look. to Jesus, the founder

00:45:13.369 --> 00:45:15.809
and perfecter of our faith or the author and

00:45:15.809 --> 00:45:18.469
finisher. That's how it's put in the King James.

00:45:18.610 --> 00:45:21.010
The founder and perfecter or the author and finisher

00:45:21.010 --> 00:45:24.409
of our faith, who for the joy that was set before

00:45:24.409 --> 00:45:29.329
him endured the cross, despising the shame and

00:45:29.329 --> 00:45:31.429
is seated at the right hand of the throne of

00:45:31.429 --> 00:45:34.730
God. Consider him. Okay. Remember how this word

00:45:34.730 --> 00:45:39.289
look. And behold, includes the idea of thinking

00:45:39.289 --> 00:45:43.289
about it and considering and discerning. Consider

00:45:43.289 --> 00:45:46.969
him who endured from sinners such hostility against

00:45:46.969 --> 00:45:49.929
himself that you may not grow weary or faint

00:45:49.929 --> 00:45:54.449
hearted. We are being challenged that no matter

00:45:54.449 --> 00:45:57.989
what's going on around us, that we keep our eyes

00:45:57.989 --> 00:46:01.090
focused on Jesus. And look what he did for us.

00:46:01.269 --> 00:46:04.880
If he can do that for us. We can do just about

00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:07.699
anything for him, right? We can do anything for

00:46:07.699 --> 00:46:10.199
him because he's the author and the finisher.

00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:13.400
What he starts, he's going to finish. He's faithful.

00:46:14.059 --> 00:46:18.380
You can expect him to be faithful. What he authors,

00:46:18.559 --> 00:46:20.519
he's going to complete. What he starts, he's

00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.820
going to finish. So we're all on a journey to

00:46:22.820 --> 00:46:25.780
become like him. That's what this journey of

00:46:25.780 --> 00:46:29.059
the Spirit is all about. He does the work in

00:46:29.059 --> 00:46:33.099
us when we yield to him. So when we surrender,

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:36.300
we've talked a lot about surrender. So you have

00:46:36.300 --> 00:46:38.980
to look at him. You have to look at him. And

00:46:38.980 --> 00:46:42.079
once you look and you're convinced that he's

00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:45.699
really true, you can trust him. Yes. Because

00:46:45.699 --> 00:46:48.219
it's all about trusting him. It's all about being

00:46:48.219 --> 00:46:53.840
who you are in him, letting him make in you,

00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.300
make out of you the thing that he designed you

00:46:57.300 --> 00:47:02.099
to be. He designed you to be like him. And all

00:47:02.099 --> 00:47:04.360
of these trip ups that we have when we have a

00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:08.179
flash flash. He designed us to be able to come

00:47:08.179 --> 00:47:10.519
back to him and say, I'm sorry, and go back to

00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:13.579
the people that we flashed on and apologize to

00:47:13.579 --> 00:47:15.440
them and say, I'm sorry, that wasn't like Jesus.

00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:17.800
I'm trying to be like Jesus. Please forgive me.

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Okay. And Jesus in them will say, just like Jesus

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said from the cross, Father, forgive them. They

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know not what they do. So Father, we're asking

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you now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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that you will continue this wonderful work that

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you're working in us, this work that you're doing

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by the blood that you shed on the cross. Thank

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you, Jesus, for shedding your blood, for going

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through all that agony, that trauma. You went

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through more trauma than anybody else on the

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planet and everybody on the planet. put together.

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You suffered it for us so that we could be delivered

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and be delivered into a life of seeing you and

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walking with you and talking with you and hearing

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you and obeying you because that's how we show

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our love for you. That just like you said to

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your disciples the night that you were betrayed,

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you said, if you love me. Keep my commandments.

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So, Lord, we're asking you to let us see your

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love in a deeper way so that we will love you

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the way you deserve to be loved. In Jesus' name,

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amen. Amen. If you enjoyed today's podcast, please

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