(317) “Send the Fire!”

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God, send the fire. Transform your church. We

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need your fire. We need a brand new baptism of

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fire, a brand new baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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We need that now. We need that tonight. We need

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that in our lives moving forward from today to

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tomorrow. We need more fire tomorrow, and we

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need more fire the next day, and we need to continue

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to increase in the fire. God promises in Joel

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

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promise outpouring. We equip for that

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outpouring so that we may engage in that very

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

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Welcome to the podcast today. We have a different

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kind of a podcast for you this time. We're busy

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getting ready for Convention 2026, and we hope

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that you're coming. And if you're not, we hope

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that you're going to tune in on YouTube or Facebook

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to watch it with us. It's going to be an amazing

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time. And so while we're busy making preparations,

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we're going to bring to you today a message that

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I preached a little over a year ago that is really

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what we're asking for for this convention. It's

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called Send the Fire. Thanks so much for joining

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us today. And Facebook is Go Global Outpouring

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to help you find it. And there's all kinds of

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content out there. So we just encourage you to

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tune in. It's going to be a glorious time. And

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we really are looking forward to what God is

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going to do in this convention as it's coming

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up. You'll be able to watch it there on either

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one of those places. It'll still be there in

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YouTube. long, long, long time from now where

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Facebook just drops it after 30 days when it's

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put up there live because it's going to be streamed

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live. And if you can make it, please come to

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the Hilton St. Louis Airport Hotel. It's a lovely

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place. And if you haven't already registered

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or if you haven't already made your reservation,

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want to come, maybe this is a suddenly for you,

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go to our website and click on the event tab,

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and you'll be able to find our convention there

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and just scroll down and look at all the details

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and see the registration link and the reservation

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link so that you can join us. It's going to be

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an amazing time with an outpouring that's unprecedented.

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We're asking God to send the fire. He wants to

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send the fire. Linda asked me, what's the theme?

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And just out of my mouth tumbled on the threshold

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of outpouring. We're beginning to see things.

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All the wonderful things that we're seeing are

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wonderful, but they're just the beginning because

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God wants to send the fire. He gave us this new

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name, Global Outpouring, based on Joel 2 .28.

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He gave Rona Spiropoulos a vision of a shield

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with a ribbon across it that said Joel 2 .28

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and underneath it said mandate. Beloved, we have

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a mandate for the outpouring. It's a mandate.

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It's, it's, what's another word for mandate?

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An order. It's a command. Thank you. It's a command.

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We have a command. God wants to pour out his

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spirit. And he's looking for people who will

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say, yes, you can use me. But he wants to work

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on our character first. But he'll work on our

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character in the meantime if we'll just let him.

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Don't stop. Just keep putting one foot in front

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of the other. Keep on walking, keep on walking,

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keep on walking, and keep on walking in the Spirit.

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He wants to grow us up, but he wants to grow

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us up into flaming torches, flaming torches of

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his love, flaming torches of his power, flaming

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torches of his fire. Now, you might remember

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that when they first, in the wilderness, when

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they first set up the tabernacle, two of the

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sons of Aaron, when they were dedicated, they

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were anointed, everything and all the furniture

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was anointed and dedicated to the Lord, and they

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got it in their heads that they could take some

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other kind of fire. and put the incense on it

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and offer it to the Lord. But the Lord didn't

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give them that order. Nadab and Abihu, they got

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out there to do their own thing. They offered

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strange fire. In other words, it's fire that

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doesn't originate with God. And God only wants

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his kind of fire. And I think part of our problem

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these days that is part of our problems, plural,

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where we're seeing all of these ministers that

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have fallen and they're being exposed now. Part

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of the problem is that we didn't do things God's

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way. We didn't do things the way he prescribed.

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He gave us instructions. rules to live by, but

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not rules in such a way that it's bondage. But

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if you follow the instructions, it produces life.

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Life. You know, when at the very, very beginning,

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Genesis 1, 1 and 2, God created the heavens and

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the earth, and the earth was without form and

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void. and darkness. Come on, let's just look

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at it for just a moment. Genesis 1. The earth

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was without form and void, and darkness was upon

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the face of the deep. And the Spirit, the Ruach

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of God, moved or brooded upon the face of the

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waters. The Holy Spirit was just hovering. over

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the lifeless waters. The Ruach. Ruach. The word

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in Hebrew for Ruach means wind and breath and

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spirit. All three of those words are translations

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of the word Ruach. And while the Holy Spirit

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is hovering, God said, let there be light. You

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could even say, light be! Now, light, I'm not

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too sure. In Hebrew, it's the word or. And when

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they translated it into the Greek, into the Septuagint,

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the Greek translation of the Old Testament Hebrew

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scriptures into Greek, they used the word false.

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The word false in Greek for light, it means light,

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but it means unkindled light. In other words,

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it's light that has no beginning. Unquenchable.

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Thank you, Bob. Unquenchable light. Unkindled

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and unquenchable. That's a fire. That's the first

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place where we see a fire in the scripture. His

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light produces fire. Now, I studied up a little

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bit about what is fire. Fire is the visible effect

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of the process of combustion, a special type

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of chemical reaction. It occurs between oxygen

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in the air and some sort of fuel. The products

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from the chemical reaction are completely different

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from the starting material. Now ponder that for

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just a moment in the sense of God wanting to

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send his fire. When his fire comes upon us, when

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his fire comes upon, well, his fire came out

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on Nadab and Abihu and they were toast, literally.

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I mean, they were consumed. Think about the fire

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that came down when the atomic bombs were dropped

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in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. There was such a flash

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of light and burning. that consumed the people,

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vaporized the people that were there, and all

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that was left of them was their shadow. Vaporized.

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Our Father wants to vaporize things in us that

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aren't according to His ways. And all we have

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to do is say yes. And the more we cooperate,

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the easier it'll be. It's not ever easy. It's

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not ever pleasant. But it's worth it. I promise

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you it's worth it. Now, this fuel must be heated

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to its ignition temperature for the combustion

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to occur. The reaction will keep going as long

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as there's enough heat, fuel, and oxygen. This

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is known as the fire triangle, and I'm taking

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this from sciencelearn .org .nz. It's from New

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Zealand. My point here is that light, like, you

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know that a laser can burn right through something,

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right? Laser is light and it is fire. It's a

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very sharp, pointed light that will burn, okay?

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It's a source of combustion. And our Father wants

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to help us get this picture of what he wants

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to do in us, what he wants to do in his people

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because of what he wants to do in the earth,

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what he wants to do in the harvest that is upon

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us. He wants an outpouring of his Spirit. Remember,

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it's his Spirit that hovered over the lifeless

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waters before God told the waters to produce

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life. In John chapter 1, we learn a little bit

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more about this life and this light. In the beginning

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was the Word, and the Word was with God, and

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the Word was God. Now, I've got this wonderful

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Bible that gives us another way that this could

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have been translated. Before there was any beginning,

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the Word had been. And the word has been toward

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the God, and God had been the word. Isn't that

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interesting? Our friend Dean Braxton, who went

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to heaven, he's one of the speakers at the convention,

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died for an hour and 45 minutes. When he was

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in heaven, he learned and he told us that all

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the redeemed call God Father, and every other

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creature calls him the word. Ponder that one.

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The Word was God, and the Word became flesh.

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The same was in the beginning with God. All things

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were made by Him. Without Him was not anything

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made that was made. In Him was life, and the

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life was the light, the false of men. So the

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light and the life are one. In Him was life.

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That's that zoe life. And the life, the zoe life,

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was the light of men. I'm sure you know that

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when conception takes place, there's a flash

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of light when life comes. Life begins with a

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flash of light. It's the source. It's the fire

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that makes us alive. And he's looking to make

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us more alive. When Adam and Eve were driven

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out of the Garden of Eden because they sinned,

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there was a cherub put there in front of the

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gate to the garden to guard the way of the tree

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of life so that they wouldn't live in their sin

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forever because they were condemned to die. It

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was the wages of sin, okay? The wages of sin

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is death. It's the reward. It's our reward for

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sinning. It's our paycheck. Here's what you did.

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Here's your payment. And this cherub standing

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at the gate had a flaming sword that turned every

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which way. I think of those ninja type guys with

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their things that they spin around. Here's a

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flaming sword that's going all around. You see

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things in the scripture all along. We don't have

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time to go into all the details of where all

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you see things that are burning, that are fire,

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that are like, for instance, in Genesis 15, when

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our father is making a covenant with Abraham.

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He tells Abraham to take all of these animals

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and offer them to him and cut them in pieces.

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And that was a way of making covenant that you

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would. cut these animals apart and walk together

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through in between them. That was a way that

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they made covenant in those days. But God caused

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a deep sleep to fall on Abraham. And he came

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through in between these pieces like a smoking

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pot, a fiery pot. God did because Abraham's asleep,

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right? Because he wanted to make it clear, this

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is a covenant I'm going to keep. I'm going to

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keep it. You're not responsible to keep it. I'm

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going to keep it. But he came through. The ESV

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says that he was like a smoking fire pot. The

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King James says he was like a furnace, a burning

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furnace. Fire was a part of the covenant. And

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then when the children of Israel came through

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the Red Sea, this pillar of fire came down in

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between the children of Israel and the Egyptians

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to hold the Egyptians back while the children

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of Israel are making their escape. By night,

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it was a fire, and by day, it was a pillar of

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cloud, or you might say smoke. Where there's

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smoke, there's fire, right? pillar of fire accompanied

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them on their whole journey for 40 years. Fire.

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The presence of God was there in the fire on

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Mount Sinai. In Exodus 19, I love how the King

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James puts it. It says, and Mount Sinai was altogether

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on a smoke because the Lord descended upon it

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in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended as the

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smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked

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greatly. Now the ESV on that verse says, Now

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Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke. It gives you

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a little better picture. I just think it's so

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cute how all together on a smoke. I just like

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it. But Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because

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the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke

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of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the

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whole mountain trembled greatly. Anybody been

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around a kiln? There's different kinds of kilns,

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right? But every one of them is very, very hot

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and full of fire. Okay? Fire. And in Exodus 24,

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17, it says, Now the appearance of the glory

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of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the

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top of the mountain in the sight of the people

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of Israel. Fire. Moses went up into the fire

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to get the covenant. He got those two tablets

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of stone from God that he wrote with his fiery

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finger. Fire. It's about covenant. Fire is a

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part of God's covenant. All of his covenants.

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Remember when Noah, I'll just digress a little

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bit. Noah came out of the ark and he offered

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some of the clean animals, one each of the clean

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animals to the Lord. And it was an offering made

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by fire. And the Lord smelled the sweet savor

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of it. Don't you like the smell of barbecue?

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I mean, really. Most people like the smell of

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barbecue. You know, I remember growing up and

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somebody in the neighborhood would be barbecuing.

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It's like, I wish I could be there tonight. It

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was a sweet smelling savor. And that's when our

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father put the rainbow up and said, this is my

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covenant with you. It was because of the sweet

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smell that came because of the offering made

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by fire. Okay. So in Leviticus chapter six, verse

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12, the fire on the altar shall be kept burning

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on it. It shall not go out. You must not let

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the fire go out. So how are you going to keep

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the fire going? The fire comes from God. The

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fire came from God first. Okay? It came supernaturally

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and consumed the very first offering in the tabernacle.

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It was a supernatural fire that came from our

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Father. So what do you have to do? You have to

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keep feeding the fire. And you know what, beloved?

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Just in case you feel dry sometimes, nothing

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burns better than dry wood. Okay? If you're feeling

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dry, Okay, Father, here I am. Send the fire.

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Send the fire today. Send the fire. Send the

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fire. Send the fire. I'm feeling a little dry.

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Come on, I'll be your fuel. And one of the other

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things that Dean Braxton told us, let me tell

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you this one, that'll help with this picture

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of combustion. Well, I have to back up first

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and tell you this. One time we were lost in God.

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We had a tremendous move of God going on in the

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valley. And I was just lost in the presence of

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God. And I felt like he showed me a couple of

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things. The first thing was that when he created

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Adam, he breathed into him the breath of life.

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And he designed him in such a way that he was

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designed to breathe in the presence of God and

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breathe out worship. breathe in the presence

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of God and breathe out worship. And I promise

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you, whenever I'm having a hard time going to

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sleep, that just causes all the stress to leave,

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and I go right to sleep when I remember to breathe

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in the presence of God and breathe out worship.

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Worship, worship. And not even saying anything

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or singing anything, but just my spirit just

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reaching out to Him in love and worship. I felt

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like, the Lord was showing me that his presence

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was like oxygen. That you can't sense oxygen

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around you. You can't sense it with your five

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senses, but it's all around you and you can't

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live without it. Okay? Because, you know, we've

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got chemical reactions going on in our bodies

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that require oxygen. It's like electricity. It's

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kind of like fire. Electricity, come on, is electricity

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fire? Sort of? Yeah, it's a kind of look at lightning.

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Lightning starts fire. And Benjamin Franklin

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taught us about electricity by flying his kite

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in the rain, in the storm. Got struck by lightning.

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Anyway, what I felt was that the presence of

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God was like oxygen. So then I asked Dean Braxton

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about it. I told him what I just told you. I

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said, is that really true? He said, well, I guess

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you could say that the presence of God is oxygen,

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but I think it would be more accurate to say

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that the love of God is oxygen, that oxygen is

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the love of God. Now think about combustion.

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If oxygen is the love of God and combustion requires

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oxygen, I'm thinking that when the Holy Spirit

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hovered over the abyss, he was bringing oxygen.

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He was bringing oxygen into the atmosphere. His

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presence was bringing oxygen. He was putting

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oxygen into the water. He was putting whatever

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it takes for life, he was putting it into the

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water. And one of these, I read several things

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about what is fire. And one of them, also indicated

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that there is a vaporization. In other words,

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there's water vapor released in fire. Fire, it's

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part of the chemical reaction. But I love what

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that said about the fuel, when it's consumed,

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changes into something else. And that's what

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God wants to do in us. He wants to send the fire.

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He wants to bring on earth as it is in heaven.

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And he is a consuming fire. It's in the scripture

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multiple times that our God is a consuming fire.

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And what happened on the altar is that it was

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required that there would be fire kept going,

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kept going, kept going, that somebody always

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had to be putting fuel on the fire to keep it

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going. You couldn't let that fire go out. And

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our Father wants it not to go out in us. We have

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to keep giving it fuel. We have to keep giving

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it fuel. You know, I remember hearing stories

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of people having to having to survive when the

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electricity went off and they had a fireplace,

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but they didn't have any fuel and they had to

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break up their furniture to have something to

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burn. It's in order to stay alive because it

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was so cold. You got to be willing to let anything

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burn. Got to be willing to let everything burn.

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everything that isn't. Remember what it says?

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I'm not sure where the scripture is, but it's

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every plant that my father has not planted, he's

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going to pull up by the roots. I was thinking

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it was Matthew, but I wasn't just sure where.

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10 and 13, okay? Something like that. Every plant

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that my father's not planted. You see, he's trying

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to get us to do things his way. Nadab and Abihu

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tried to do things their way, and it did not

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go well for them. When David wanted to bring

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the Ark of the Covenant up to Jerusalem, it had

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been sitting in the house of Amenadab. But before

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that, it was in somebody else's house. Oh, but

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Edom, thank you. Thank you. I wasn't planning

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to say that one, so I didn't have it fresh. The

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Ark had come. had gone away from Israel. The

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Philistines had captured it when somebody else

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who, two other priestly sons weren't doing what

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they were supposed to do. They were doing stuff

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their way. Eli's sons, they weren't supposed

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to do what they did. And they also faced judgment.

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And the ark was captured by the Philistines.

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Now, how they got away with carrying it away,

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I don't know. Except that God was angry with

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the sons of Eli, and he allowed it. He allowed

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himself to be carried away. He allowed his ark

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to be carried away and put into the house of

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Dagon, the Philistine's god, who, by the way,

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was probably like a merman. Okay, you know, mermaids,

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merman. That's probably what Dagon was, because

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it talks about when it fell on its face in front

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of the Ark, that all that was left was the fishy

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part. So, you know, the lower part was probably,

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you know, just like a mermaid or a merman. Anyway,

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the point is that they all had troubles. They

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got hemorrhoids out of all of that, and nobody

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wanted to keep that ark, and they finally decided

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to send it back to Israel, and they put it on

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a cart. And God allowed them to put it on a cart.

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But when David tried putting it on a cart, it

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didn't go so well. Well, it came to us on a cart.

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Maybe this is a new way for us to move it. We

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can always do things new, right? We should try.

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You don't want to do stuff old school, right?

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We want the new thing. But the old school thing

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that God gave is the good thing. Technology can

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change. How we do the thing that God says to

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do, just do the thing God says to do, and he

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will show up in fire. But the fire zapped Uzzah,

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is that his name, that touched the ark? And he

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was just trying to steady it. He didn't want

00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:43.900
it to fall off the cart. Zap! The electricity

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that was in that thing, the power that was in

00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:51.759
that thing, zapped him. Smoked. So the point

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is that we need to do things the way he says

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to do things. And that's why it's important for

00:27:58.740 --> 00:28:04.660
us to draw back and say, how can I serve you?

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We did a podcast several weeks ago with... with

00:28:10.809 --> 00:28:14.029
Dean Braxton. And he talked about in heaven,

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you communicate thought to thought, and you ask,

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how can I help you? And the other person will

00:28:25.829 --> 00:28:27.890
ask you, how can I help you? How can I serve

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you? How can I serve you? Then we did another.

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podcast more recently with him. It just came

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out this week, I think, where he's answering

00:28:36.390 --> 00:28:38.970
the question about what does it look like in

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heaven to serve, to serve one another. And he

00:28:45.109 --> 00:28:50.089
said that everything is serving each other. Like

00:28:50.089 --> 00:28:53.920
when he got there, the welcome. that he received

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from everything that he encountered. Everything's

00:28:56.180 --> 00:28:59.200
alive. There's no such thing as an inanimate

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object. Everything's alive. Everything can communicate

00:29:01.579 --> 00:29:06.319
with you. And everything is serving you in some

00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:11.420
way. Serving you by welcoming you. That's serving.

00:29:11.579 --> 00:29:16.140
And our Father wants us to serve him like that.

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:20.359
How can I serve you? And he wants us to serve

00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:25.309
him his way. And his way is in the fire because

00:29:25.309 --> 00:29:30.490
our God is a consuming fire. Now, on the day

00:29:30.490 --> 00:29:34.369
of Pentecost, they were celebrating the recognition,

00:29:34.450 --> 00:29:41.349
the remembrance of what had happened on Mount

00:29:41.349 --> 00:29:45.589
Sinai with the fire coming down and writing in

00:29:45.589 --> 00:29:49.069
the stone tablets. Now, remember on the night

00:29:49.069 --> 00:29:52.549
that Jesus was betrayed, He gave them the Holy

00:29:52.549 --> 00:29:55.869
Communion and he said, this cup is the new covenant

00:29:55.869 --> 00:30:00.049
in my blood. And the new covenant, according

00:30:00.049 --> 00:30:06.970
to Jeremiah 31, verses 31 to 34, includes having

00:30:06.970 --> 00:30:10.829
your sins forgiven, that God will be your God

00:30:10.829 --> 00:30:15.450
and you'll be his people, that you can know him

00:30:15.450 --> 00:30:18.609
and that he will write his word in your hearts

00:30:18.609 --> 00:30:22.750
and in your minds. So on the day of Pentecost,

00:30:22.970 --> 00:30:25.430
when everyone was in one accord, they're in one

00:30:25.430 --> 00:30:27.069
accord because they stay up all night praying

00:30:27.069 --> 00:30:30.250
together. That's what they do on the night of

00:30:30.250 --> 00:30:32.130
Pentecost. And when the day of Pentecost was

00:30:32.130 --> 00:30:35.730
fully come means the sun was coming up. And typically

00:30:35.730 --> 00:30:40.990
they go today, they go to the Western Wall. So

00:30:40.990 --> 00:30:43.509
they probably in those days would have gone to

00:30:43.509 --> 00:30:48.799
the temple in that early morning hour. So when

00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:51.880
the Holy Spirit fell, they were probably either

00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:55.380
on the steps leading up to the temple or within

00:30:55.380 --> 00:30:57.759
the confines of the temple. And that's why there

00:30:57.759 --> 00:30:59.980
were so many thousands that were saved at that

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:03.839
point. But the point is, here comes this rushing

00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:09.140
mighty wind. Here comes the Ruach. The wind,

00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:13.160
that same wind, that same spirit that hovered

00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:16.500
over the waters to give them life, to give them

00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:20.640
oxygen. And here comes the fire, just like it

00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:23.980
happened on Mount Sinai. Only this time, instead

00:31:23.980 --> 00:31:28.279
of writing on tables of stone, it's writing his

00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:31.740
word in their hearts and in their minds, in fleshy

00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:35.279
tablets of the heart. And that's what he wants

00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:41.900
to do in us, new, fresh, more so. That's when

00:31:41.900 --> 00:31:47.130
Peter stood up and said, this is that. These

00:31:47.130 --> 00:31:50.289
men are not drunk, as you suppose. This is that

00:31:50.289 --> 00:31:53.210
that was spoken of by the prophet Joel, the same

00:31:53.210 --> 00:31:58.630
scripture he gave us as a mandate. We need another

00:31:58.630 --> 00:32:04.769
Pentecost. Send the fire today. This is what

00:32:04.769 --> 00:32:08.150
we need, and this is what we must press in for,

00:32:08.430 --> 00:32:14.980
personally and corporately. to press in for that

00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:19.519
fire. Now, this song that we sang earlier, O

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:22.079
God of burning, cleansing flames, send the fire.

00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:24.900
Your blood -bought gift today we claim. Send

00:32:24.900 --> 00:32:27.440
the fire today. Look down and see this waiting

00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.380
host and send the promised Holy Ghost. We need

00:32:30.380 --> 00:32:35.140
another Pentecost. Send the fire today. We need

00:32:35.140 --> 00:32:38.269
it. God of Elijah. We didn't even talk about

00:32:38.269 --> 00:32:41.450
Elijah tonight. But the same thing happened on

00:32:41.450 --> 00:32:45.910
that mountain where God was showing who he is.

00:32:46.109 --> 00:32:49.470
The same thing happened when Samson's parents

00:32:49.470 --> 00:32:53.670
were asking the angel, you promised us this child,

00:32:53.829 --> 00:32:57.230
how are we going to raise him? And they offered

00:32:57.230 --> 00:33:01.849
a sacrifice and the angel puts his rod down in

00:33:01.849 --> 00:33:06.460
it and fire comes down and consumes it. Fire,

00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.799
fire. When Solomon dedicated the temple, just

00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:13.440
same thing happened that happened in the tabernacle.

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:17.059
The fire came down and then they had to keep

00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:19.420
the fire going. And it was that fire that they

00:33:19.420 --> 00:33:26.900
used on the incense. Esh, yes? Esh is fire in

00:33:26.900 --> 00:33:30.220
Hebrew. the brazen altar where the fire fell

00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:32.279
in the first place, the coals from that were

00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:34.519
taken into the incense altar, and the incense

00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:38.279
of that fire was put, the incense was put on

00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:43.680
it. And even on the Day of Atonement, the high

00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:47.019
priest would take those coals from off of that

00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:49.640
brazen altar where all of the burnt offerings

00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:53.180
were made, brought them in on like a shovel,

00:33:53.339 --> 00:33:56.799
and he put some of the incense on it, and he

00:33:56.799 --> 00:34:00.119
pushed it underneath that curtain, that veil

00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:04.359
to the Holy of Holies to fill the place with

00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:07.559
incense so he wouldn't die when he went in there.

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:11.980
Fire requires fire. Everything requires fire.

00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:20.000
We are fiery beings. We're designed by our Father

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.760
in his image, and he is a consuming fire. He

00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:28.760
just wants us to get rightly related to him to

00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:33.119
do things his way and to seek his face about

00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:36.960
how he wants things done. Now, this song, I started

00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.980
talking about this song. This song was written

00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:44.519
by William Booth. And I was reading up on him

00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:48.860
earlier today, and he had an experience where

00:34:48.860 --> 00:34:56.409
he was in some kind of a coach And he was seeing

00:34:56.409 --> 00:35:01.949
these people that were unsaved people, drunkards,

00:35:01.949 --> 00:35:07.769
and, you know, just in the degradation of poverty.

00:35:09.489 --> 00:35:13.570
And he began to just reach out to God to pray

00:35:13.570 --> 00:35:17.469
for them. And the Lord gave him a vision. And

00:35:17.469 --> 00:35:22.570
in his vision, he saw this horrible stormy sea.

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:26.559
And all these people are in this stormy, stormy

00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:30.579
sea, and they're in desperate situations, and

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:34.559
they're drowning, and they're crying, and they're

00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:39.619
howling, and just in terrible, terrible desperation.

00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:46.059
And this mountain comes up out of the deep, and

00:35:46.059 --> 00:35:49.659
some of these people climb up out of the deep

00:35:49.659 --> 00:35:54.480
onto this mountain. And they get all dried off,

00:35:54.619 --> 00:35:57.739
and then they begin to fellowship together, and

00:35:57.739 --> 00:36:00.599
they're so grateful that they've gotten out of

00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:03.659
this terrible place, and they're having a wonderful

00:36:03.659 --> 00:36:07.840
time, and they're crying out to God for more

00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:16.679
of him. And Jesus jumps into this stormy ocean,

00:36:16.900 --> 00:36:21.980
trying to save all of these people. and get them

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:25.559
to the mountain. And the people on the mountain

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are busy trying to get Jesus to come to them.

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And he's saying, would you please just come to

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me and help these people? Would you please just

00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:38.639
come to me and help? Please come and help me.

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Oh, Jesus, please come. Please come. Please come.

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We want your presence. We love you. We love you.

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We praise you. We just want your presence. And

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Jesus is out there among the lost, and he's saying,

00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:56.880
please come and help me. Please come help me.

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It requires the fire to be able to do that. It

00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.500
requires the baptism of fire. I'm thinking about

00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:10.320
these great revivalists through history, and

00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:14.940
I'm remembering Charles Finney. Charles Finney.

00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:19.019
Charles Finney was a firebrand. If you see a

00:37:19.019 --> 00:37:23.980
picture of him, Ooh, what fire in his eyes. And

00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:28.880
he had a fiery conversion experience. And God,

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I won't tell you his whole story. You can find

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it. It's a tremendous, tremendous story of how

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God turned him into a firebrand. And he was visiting

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in someone's home, someone who was just hosting

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.219
him while he was having meetings in that town.

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And he got up in the night. couldn't sleep, and

00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:53.480
he came down into the lounge and the den, wherever

00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:56.599
he was, and he finds the man of the house is

00:37:56.599 --> 00:37:59.079
there. And they have this little conversation,

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and the man of the house says, yeah, I usually

00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:05.219
just kind of take a nap, and then I get up and

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spend hours in communion with the Lord and prayer.

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And his name was Nash. They called him Father

00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:20.730
Nash. And Father Nash came on to Charles Finney's

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team. And Father Nash would go out as an intercessor.

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And he would go ahead of Charles Finney for days

00:38:32.050 --> 00:38:34.530
or weeks. I'm not sure how long he would go ahead

00:38:34.530 --> 00:38:40.250
to pray through for the revival that was to come

00:38:40.250 --> 00:38:43.070
into every town where Charles Finney was to go.

00:38:45.190 --> 00:38:47.469
Charles Finney would be over at some other place

00:38:47.469 --> 00:38:52.010
having revival, and when Father Nash said, I've

00:38:52.010 --> 00:38:56.250
prayed through, they're ready. So Charles Finney

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would leave the other place, and he would head

00:38:58.869 --> 00:39:02.610
for this place where Father Nash had prayed through.

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He prayed in the fire. He prayed the fire in.

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Lord, send the fire. Send the fire. Send the

00:39:10.510 --> 00:39:14.599
fire. And as soon as Finney got even miles away,

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the atmosphere would begin to change in that

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town and people would begin to come under conviction.

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And they were moved by God because of the fire

00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:33.139
that Father Nash had prayed through. So whether

00:39:33.139 --> 00:39:36.360
you are called to be an intercessor or whether

00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:39.380
you are called to be an evangelist or you're

00:39:39.380 --> 00:39:41.639
called to be a teacher or you're called to be

00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:45.079
a prophet or all of the five -fold ministry,

00:39:45.340 --> 00:39:48.500
whatever you're called to be, you're called to

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be a carrier of the fire. You're called to be

00:39:51.500 --> 00:39:54.260
a carrier of the Holy Spirit. One of the pictures

00:39:54.260 --> 00:39:57.539
in Scripture for the Holy Spirit is fire. When

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the fire came down on Pentecost and Peter all

00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:05.760
of a sudden became an evangelist. And, you know,

00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:09.920
he preached a message unlike Jesus did. Jesus

00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:15.400
preached in parables. Peter says, you crucified

00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:19.980
Jesus. You crucified the son of glory. Boy, the

00:40:19.980 --> 00:40:24.780
fire had already come. The fire had come on him

00:40:24.780 --> 00:40:27.949
and the conviction came. And there were thousands

00:40:27.949 --> 00:40:31.090
that came into the kingdom that day because the

00:40:31.090 --> 00:40:34.780
fire came. The fire transformed. transformed.

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The disciples transformed the ones that were

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.079
there. The fire came on them, and they were speaking

00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:46.679
the wonderful works of God in the languages of

00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:49.179
the people who had come there from the nations

00:40:49.179 --> 00:40:51.340
where they'd been dispersed. They're supposed

00:40:51.340 --> 00:40:54.400
to come for Passover. They're supposed to come

00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:57.179
for Pentecost. They're supposed to come for Feast

00:40:57.179 --> 00:40:59.639
of Tabernacles, the ones that were there from

00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:02.230
all these different nations. They'd grown up

00:41:02.230 --> 00:41:04.469
in those nations, but they're Jewish. And they

00:41:04.469 --> 00:41:10.889
came home for this event. And God saw them. And

00:41:10.889 --> 00:41:16.190
God anointed them. They became believers in Jesus

00:41:16.190 --> 00:41:20.909
because of the fire. Because of the fire. God,

00:41:20.909 --> 00:41:26.429
send the fire. Send the fire. Transform your...

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church. We need your fire. We need a brand new

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:34.840
baptism of fire, a brand new baptism in the Holy

00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:39.000
Spirit. We need that now. We need that tonight.

00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:42.840
We need that in our lives moving forward from

00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.840
today to tomorrow. We need more fire tomorrow,

00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:48.519
and we need more fire the next day, and we need

00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:54.280
to continue to increase in the fire. Now, our

00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.519
brother Dean tells us that when he was in heaven,

00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:01.780
that he would just take in just as much as he

00:42:01.780 --> 00:42:04.539
could of the glory of the Lord and how wonderful

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:09.360
his love is and how wonderful it just all the

00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:12.599
adjectives that you can think of. And he'd look

00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:15.880
again, and it was more so. Our father was more

00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:20.340
so. Everything was increasing constantly more,

00:42:20.539 --> 00:42:24.440
constantly more, constantly more. And that is

00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:27.900
what our Father wants to do in us tonight. He

00:42:27.900 --> 00:42:32.800
wants to do something new in us. Remember, the

00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:37.460
Word says that He will not put out a smoking

00:42:37.460 --> 00:42:40.900
wick. A smoking flax shall He not quench, it

00:42:40.900 --> 00:42:44.280
says in the King James. But it's a wick. The

00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:49.679
flame has gone out, but he won't quench it. It's

00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:53.079
still smoking. It's got a little bit of a spark.

00:42:54.219 --> 00:42:56.800
There's just a little bit of a spark, a little

00:42:56.800 --> 00:43:01.300
bit of a coal. Remember, Paul told Timothy, stir

00:43:01.300 --> 00:43:06.019
up. Fan into flame that which was given to you

00:43:06.019 --> 00:43:09.760
when the hands were laid on you. Fan it into

00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:14.409
flame. Fan it into flame. Set it into flame.

00:43:15.230 --> 00:43:20.309
I remember hearing a story of a man that was

00:43:20.309 --> 00:43:24.510
a regular churchgoer. And then he quit going

00:43:24.510 --> 00:43:27.329
to church. He didn't show up for weeks and weeks.

00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:32.010
And the pastor came over to visit. And the man's

00:43:32.010 --> 00:43:33.809
sitting in front of his fire. He says, come on,

00:43:33.869 --> 00:43:36.929
sit by the fire with me, pastor. The pastor just

00:43:36.929 --> 00:43:39.530
sits there, just sitting there enjoying the fire

00:43:39.530 --> 00:43:43.969
with this man. The pastor gets up and he picks

00:43:43.969 --> 00:43:49.269
up the poker and he takes one coal that's real

00:43:49.269 --> 00:43:53.449
close to the fire, this burning hot and bright,

00:43:53.650 --> 00:43:58.389
and he pulls it away from the fire. And the coal

00:43:58.389 --> 00:44:03.630
begins to get dimmer and dimmer and dimmer while

00:44:03.630 --> 00:44:06.090
they watch. And then the pastor gets up again

00:44:06.090 --> 00:44:07.849
with the poker and he kind of pushes it back

00:44:07.849 --> 00:44:10.610
into the fire and he gets bright again. After

00:44:10.610 --> 00:44:12.949
a while, just watching the fire, the pastor says,

00:44:13.030 --> 00:44:17.269
well, I guess it's time to go. And shakes the

00:44:17.269 --> 00:44:19.190
man's hand and the man says, thank you so much

00:44:19.190 --> 00:44:22.010
for that fiery sermon. I'll see you in church

00:44:22.010 --> 00:44:33.590
on Sunday. We need the fire. We need it in us

00:44:33.590 --> 00:44:38.289
personally. We need it in us corporately. We

00:44:38.289 --> 00:44:41.230
need it in our prayer life. We need it in our

00:44:41.230 --> 00:44:43.909
study of the Word. You got to have the Word.

00:44:44.030 --> 00:44:45.369
You got to have the Word. You got to have the

00:44:45.369 --> 00:44:48.449
fire in the Word. You got to have that fire of

00:44:48.449 --> 00:44:51.690
the Holy Ghost bringing the Word off of the page

00:44:51.690 --> 00:44:56.190
and into your spirit. Fire. We've got to have

00:44:56.190 --> 00:45:00.710
the fire of the Word. In Him was life, and the

00:45:00.710 --> 00:45:05.030
life was the light of men. This will give you

00:45:05.030 --> 00:45:09.969
life. This will give you light. Light and life

00:45:09.969 --> 00:45:12.710
go together. The light of life, the life of light.

00:45:13.630 --> 00:45:20.750
It's all fire. It's all from him. One more thing

00:45:20.750 --> 00:45:23.369
that Dean taught us, and we did a podcast with

00:45:23.369 --> 00:45:27.269
him about it. He said when he saw Jesus, he had

00:45:27.269 --> 00:45:30.110
something on his head that was sort of crown

00:45:30.110 --> 00:45:36.690
-like, but it was like this glowing. I don't

00:45:36.690 --> 00:45:38.949
even remember what words he used, but it had

00:45:38.949 --> 00:45:44.190
rays of light that were going out from it. Millions

00:45:44.190 --> 00:45:47.190
and millions and millions of rays of light. And

00:45:47.190 --> 00:45:49.889
he said that every single one of us had one of

00:45:49.889 --> 00:45:53.389
those. It was like his hair. It was like his

00:45:53.389 --> 00:45:57.170
hair was light. And every single one of us had

00:45:57.170 --> 00:46:01.909
an attachment to his light that came from his

00:46:01.909 --> 00:46:03.829
head. Remember, he's the head and we're the body.

00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:07.820
And it was also for healing. So, Father, we're

00:46:07.820 --> 00:46:11.559
asking you tonight to bring that connection with

00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:15.420
us, to us. Bring that connection of your life

00:46:15.420 --> 00:46:21.039
light, your fire light, your combustion light,

00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:26.019
your fire that writes in our hearts and in our

00:46:26.019 --> 00:46:30.500
minds, writing your word into us and causing

00:46:30.500 --> 00:46:35.679
us to bring you glory. that we will shine as

00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:40.739
lights in a dark place, that your light and your

00:46:40.739 --> 00:46:46.719
life in us will permeate the darkness and transform

00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:51.239
the atmosphere around us, Lord. We're asking

00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:56.039
you for your fire. Send the fire. Send the fire

00:46:56.039 --> 00:47:00.159
tonight, Lord. Send the fire into our very being,

00:47:00.300 --> 00:47:04.719
Lord, that the things of earth will grow strangely

00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:09.380
dim, that the things of our flesh will grow unimportant,

00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:13.820
unimportant, that we'll forget what it was that

00:47:13.820 --> 00:47:16.139
we thought was so important when we get into

00:47:16.139 --> 00:47:19.320
your presence and get into your love and get

00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:24.739
where you are ministering to us and through us.

00:47:25.449 --> 00:47:29.409
and transforming us more and more into your image,

00:47:29.590 --> 00:47:33.969
that people will look upon us and glorify you

00:47:33.969 --> 00:47:37.610
because of the work that you're doing in us and

00:47:37.610 --> 00:47:40.309
through us. We give ourselves to you tonight,

00:47:40.469 --> 00:47:44.989
Lord. Burn us up. Burn up everything that doesn't

00:47:44.989 --> 00:47:48.929
look like you so that you will be glorified.

00:47:49.449 --> 00:47:52.289
Send the outpouring of your fire, Lord. Give

00:47:52.289 --> 00:47:53.969
us your heart for the outpouring. Give us your

00:47:53.969 --> 00:47:57.239
heart for the lost. Give us your heart to intercede.

00:47:57.780 --> 00:48:01.739
Transform our prayer life, Lord, with your fire.

00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:04.639
Transform our devotional life with your fire.

00:48:04.940 --> 00:48:09.139
We need you to send the fire today. Baptize us

00:48:09.139 --> 00:48:12.920
new and fresh in your Holy Spirit tonight. In

00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:16.980
Jesus' name, amen. Amen. We want to bless you.

00:48:17.739 --> 00:48:22.780
The Lord Yehovah bless you and keep you in the

00:48:22.780 --> 00:48:27.679
fire. The Lord Yehovah make his shining, shining,

00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:32.699
fiery face to shine upon you and be gracious

00:48:32.699 --> 00:48:37.460
to you. He's looking at you through Jesus. The

00:48:37.460 --> 00:48:40.760
Lord make his face to shine upon you, be gracious

00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:43.820
to you. The Lord Yehovah lift up his countenance,

00:48:43.820 --> 00:48:48.079
his fiery countenance upon you and give you his

00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:54.119
shalom, his peace. You can just rest. Rest in

00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:58.260
that fiery peace, peace that passes all understanding.

00:48:59.340 --> 00:49:02.099
Everything that was ever broken is put back together.

00:49:02.619 --> 00:49:06.059
Everything that was lost has been restored because

00:49:06.059 --> 00:49:09.539
of his fire, because of his fiery love for you.

00:49:10.139 --> 00:49:14.860
Receive his shalom tonight. He paid it all. Thank

00:49:14.860 --> 00:49:18.679
you, Father. Thank you. We bless you, Father.

00:49:20.940 --> 00:49:23.969
Fill us with your fire tonight. In Jesus' name.

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anointed books. Until next time, this is Sharon

00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.460
Buss. And I'm Philip Buss. God bless you with

00:50:02.460 --> 00:50:04.380
His overwhelming, loving presence.