“The Foundational Prayer to Our Father” (334)

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The point is, thy kingdom come. Because when

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we pray this prayer, we're praying for this.

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We're praying for this to come. And we're asking

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God to do it. And what we're doing is getting

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into agreement with what he has promised. Get

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into agreement with his promises, and that's

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when the promises will come to pass. God promises

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in Joel 2 .28 to pour out his spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring. Are we content

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for that promised outpouring? Are we equipped

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for that outpouring so that we may engage in

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that very outpouring? I'm Philip Buss. And I'm

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Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. We

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are really excited to bring to you something

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that's been on my heart for years, even before

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we started podcasting. This is a foundational

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teaching, a foundational understanding that every

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one of us needs to get. We're going to talk about

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what some people call the Our Father. Some people

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call it the Lord's Prayer. This is the prayer

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that Jesus taught his disciples to pray, and

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we're going to open it up and dig deep. I think

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Thanks so much. So we're getting ready to open

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up the scriptures. Open them up and dig into

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the delicious Word of God, because it's bread

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for us. The Word of God is bread. And so we want

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to talk about this wonderful, wonderful prayer

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that Jesus taught his disciples to pray. It's

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found in Matthew 6, and it starts with verse

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9. It's a part of the Sermon on the Mount. So

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I'm going to read it in the New King James. We

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learned it in the King James Version, and that's

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just how it is in our heads. But maybe you are

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younger and you're not so accustomed to some

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of the older English words. So what Jesus said

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in verse 9, he's telling the disciples in this

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manner, pray, Our Father in heaven, hallowed

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be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be

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done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this

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day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts

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as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us

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into temptation, but deliver us from the evil

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one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and

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the glory forever. Amen. Amen. So we're going

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to break this up in little pieces that are chewable

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so that we can really digest what Jesus is saying

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to his disciples. So the first thing that he

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says, he says, our father. Now, when he's talking

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to his father, he says, father. So when you're

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talking to him directly, you can just call him

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father or you can call him Abba. You know, that's

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the modern Hebrew or even, you know, it's not

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just modern Hebrew. But when I think of that

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word, I'm picturing the little children in the

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airport that are tired and, you know, the flight

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leaves at 11 p .m. and they should be sleeping.

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And we're going to Israel and they're, you know.

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tired and cranky, and you see the little one

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going, Abba! And, you know, like, pick me up

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and hold me. And so that's what I think of when

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I think of Abba. And, you know, you find that

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in the New Testament where Paul is talking about

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the spirit of adoption, whereby we call him Abba,

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Father. Yeah, and you hear that when you're walking

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in the streets and there's a little kid here.

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Abba, Abba, Abba, Abba. What is mother? Ima.

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Ima. Yeah. It's Abba and Ima. Abba, Ima. Yeah.

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So I was fascinated to discover that the first

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word in the Hebrew dictionary is Av, which is

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the root word for Abba. And it's spelled Aleph.

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You could look at it and say Bet, but it's really

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Vet because, well, there's a dot in the Bet and

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there's no dot in the Vet. It's the same letter.

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The first word in the biblical Hebrew dictionary

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is of. So you have to understand that it's the

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most important thing that we understand that

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God is our Father. We are His children. It's

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said of Jesus in John chapter 1, In Him was life,

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and the life was the light of men. And, you know,

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it's only in recent years that we have discovered,

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because of people doing in vitro fertilization,

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that when the egg and the sperm come together,

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there's a flash of light. It comes from our Father.

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Life comes from our Heavenly Father. And He does

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everything well. So it doesn't matter who your

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parents are or under what circumstances you were

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conceived. Your Father... the one that counts,

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is your heavenly father, right? So just a few

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scriptures about our father. I really wanted

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to look into the Hebrew scriptures, the Old Testament,

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as we call it, to talk about our father, because

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I don't know why, but most of the Jewish people

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don't think of God as their father, but he is.

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And it's very clear from the scriptures. Philip,

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would you read 1 Chronicles 29 .10, please? Therefore

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David blessed the Lord before all the assembly.

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And David said, Blessed are you, Lord God of

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Israel, our Father, forever and ever. Amen. Our

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Abba. Our Father. And then Isaiah 63, 16. Doubtless

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you are our Father. Though Abraham was ignorant

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of us and Israel does not acknowledge us, you,

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O Lord, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting

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is your name. Hallelujah. And, you know, remember

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that Abraham was promised to be the father of

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many nations, right? Yeah. But this scripture

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in Isaiah was given hundreds and hundreds of

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years later. So Abraham didn't know this generation,

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and neither did Israel, who is Jacob. Jacob's

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name was changed to Israel. So Israel doesn't

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acknowledge us, but you, Lord. You are present

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tense. You're the I am. You are here now. You

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always were. You are now. And you always will

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be what you always have been. And you are our

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Father. You are the one who created us as Father.

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And if you look in the genealogy of Jesus, I

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think it's the one in Matthew, but it could be

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the one in Luke. I wasn't planning to say this.

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But it talks about who was the father of who

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was the father of who was the father. And you

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get back to Adam. Adam was the son of God. Yeah.

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He's our father. He's been the father of all

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of us. So let's read also Isaiah 64, 8. But now,

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O Lord, you are our father. We are the clay,

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and you are our potter, and all we are the work

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of your hand. Amen. So all we have to do is yield.

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Yield under pressure. Under pressure. The potter

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applies pressure to the clay, and it's the clay's

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job to yield. Yeah. So that's us. Meanwhile,

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while you're spinning through the whole thing.

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Yeah, spinning. He puts you on there. Have you

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ever felt like you're spinning? It's because

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God is fixing to do some... adjustments. Yeah.

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When you feel like you're in a whirlwind, when

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you feel like you're spinning, it's time to yield

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to God because he's doing something and it's

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good. It's for your good and it's for the good

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of the kingdom. So I went back to look at the

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name Avraham. Okay. We say Abraham. Remember

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I said that the B, the bet. When it's got a dot

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in it, it's a B sound. When it's got no dot,

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it's a V sound, but it's the same letter. And

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depending on where it is in the word and what

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kind of conjugation, if it's a verb, it might

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have a B sound or a V sound. So Abraham in Hebrew

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is really pronounced Avraham. Avraham. And remember,

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his name was changed. So first his name was Avram.

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And that means exalted father. or father of elevation.

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So he was a very wealthy man, but he was named

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that to begin with. And I love how the names

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in the Bible picture what the person's going

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to be, or what they are, or what the circumstances

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of their birth are. And so he's already being

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pronounced as an exalted father, even though

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actually he had an older brother. But he's the

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one that his father called exalted father. He's

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the one God chose. Yeah. And so his father must

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have had some revelation from God. Then when

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his name was changed, when God added that. When

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he added that H sound, it's like he added his

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own breath to Abraham's name and to Sarah's name

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to give them life because they were really old.

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They were old, old, old and unable to have children,

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but God had promised them children. So he changed

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their name. He added that breath. into their

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name. And that changed the meaning of his name

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to father of a multitude or the chief of a multitude.

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And so it's interesting that the latter part,

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you know, we know Av. We have already learned

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that Av means father. And then Hamon. is the

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root word that is the latter part of his name,

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meaning a crowd or a multitude. So he's the father

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of a multitude. And then just go ahead and read

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Genesis 17 .5 if you would. No longer shall your

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name be called Abram, but your name shall be

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called Abraham, for I have made you a father

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of many nations. Yes. A father of many nations.

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A father of a multitude. So, you know, a father

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of a great number or an abundance. And then he

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goes on to say, I love how the word of God gives

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a name that is from the circumstances. So he

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says, you're going to be called Avraham or father

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of a multitude because I'm going to make you

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the father of many nations. And that word nations

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is actually goyim. It could be the Gentiles.

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Sometimes he uses the word for the people group

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called Israel. So he's saying, I have raised

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you up to father many nations. And so we as Goyim,

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as Gentiles, we've been grafted into the root

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of Israel. take our faith from Father Abraham.

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He was faithful and he became this father. So

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I don't want to spend too much time on Abraham

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because I really want to get back to God as our

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father, but I just wanted you to get this picture

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of this fatherhood that's so, so, so important.

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So, you know, we are shaped in a way by our fathers,

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our earthly fathers, and God designed the family

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so that The father figure in the household is

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to model God the Father to the children. So I

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don't know of any perfect fathers. Do you? No.

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No. I know some good fathers. My father was a

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good father. A good father. But your father was

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a good father. He was a disciplinarian. Yeah.

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He was harsh sometimes. I'm glad he wasn't an

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alcoholic. Oh, yeah. I would have been a whole

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lot more. So there are absentee fathers. So a

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child who grows up completely fatherless needs

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to get acquainted with God or Father. And then

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there are abusive fathers. And you need to have

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those wounds healed. And then you have passive

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fathers. My father was a bit passive. And there

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were times when I was looking to him to stand

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up for me, and he didn't. And so, you know, there's

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hurts and traumas that come from fathers that...

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Only our Heavenly Father can heal, and our Heavenly

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Father will heal. That's His whole design. He

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wants you to know Him so that you can be healed,

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so that He can fill that place where your earthly

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father blew it. And He wants to heal you. We

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heard a sermon recently by Apostle Brian Vallee.

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at Apostle Tony Kemp's conference. And he was

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talking about his book, Fatherless. We're looking

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forward to having him on this podcast soon, I

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hope. And he has written a book called Fatherless.

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And in that, he talks about one of the strong,

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strong weapons of the enemy of God against people

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is a weapon that he calls fatherless. And it

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really is very, very truly a weapon that is causing

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great trauma and pain and hurt. But he preached

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this sermon, and I'm just going to give you a

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little piece of it, about how Gideon... was called

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by God. He's threshing in the winepress, which

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is not where you thresh. But the enemy was trying

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to steal everything, so he's trying to hide from

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the enemy. And God calls him a mighty man of

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valor. Well, he doesn't think of himself that

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way. And he doesn't know what to do with that.

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But he goes on to use his father's oxen. to pull

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down his father's altar to Baal and cut down

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all of the trees that are part of the grove that's

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part of the idol worship. That was Holy Ghost.

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Oh, man. Yeah, well, he had chutzpah enough to

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do it, but he did it at night so that nobody

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would see him. So he wasn't totally full of,

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he wasn't totally gutsy. His dad wouldn't see

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him either. Right, exactly. He did that. Exactly.

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But here's the lesson. God begins to speak into

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your life from his word or from the Holy Spirit.

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He's trying to tell you that you are a mighty

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man or a mighty woman of valor. And he's trying

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to help you to step up into who you really are

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from God's perspective. And that's the perspective

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that counts. So then you take the thing that

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your father did wrong. You know, it was his father's

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oxen. And it was his father's altar. And he used

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his father's oxen to pull down his father's altar.

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And we need to get to that place where we are

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willing to pull down that altar that has become

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an idol in our lives. When we are holding on

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to that hurt, when we're holding on to the wounds

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and the trauma, and it's affecting everything

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in our lives. It's affecting our self. awareness,

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it's affecting what we think of ourselves. And,

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you know, all those voices that are accusing

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us and saying, oh, you're nothing, oh, you're

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blah, blah, blah, whatever it is that is saying

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to you. You've got to use that hurt and use that

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trauma, harness it to our Heavenly Father. and

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pull down that stronghold in your life so that

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it doesn't affect you anymore and you rise up

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to be that mighty man or woman of valor. Amen?

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Amen. So I was so moved by that. I felt like

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we needed to add that to it, although we'll probably

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talk about it with Brian Vallee. But I just wanted

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to bring that. Let's look at 2 Corinthians 1,

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2 -4. Grace to you and peace from God our Father

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and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God

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and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father

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of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts

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us in all our tribulation, that we may be able

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to comfort those who are in any trouble with

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the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted

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by God. Amen. God is our Father, and He's the

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Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He's the

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Father of mercies. Anybody need mercy? Yes, we

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do. So he's the father of mercies and the God

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of all comfort. So all of those wounds that you've

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had from your father, he wants to be there and

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hold you in his everlasting arms and comfort

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you and bring you into a place of healing so

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that you don't have to carry around all those

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wounds. You weren't designed to carry wounds.

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You were designed to be. A vessel of love, filled

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with love, covered with love, filled and overflowing

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so that you're just a vessel of love. Yeah. Amen?

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Amen. So, would you read Micah 7, 18? Who is

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a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing

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over the transgression of the remnant of his

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heritage? He does not retain his anger forever,

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hallelujah, because he delights in mercy. He

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delights in mercy. God is not mad at you. God

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is not mad at you. He is angry at the devil for

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having taken you down the wrong path, and he

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wants you back. He wants you in his fold, so

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to speak, as a little lamb. He wants to hold

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you, pick you up as a little lamb. And this word

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mercy here in Micah 7 .18 is the word chesed.

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in Hebrew. And it means desire, ardor, zeal toward

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anyone, love, kindness, benevolence. The best

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word in English is loving kindness. And it's

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shown in mutual benefits, mercy, pity, grace,

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favor. All of these things are wrapped up in

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chesed. And it's also, it's a covenantal word

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that he is bound by his covenant to pour out.

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chesed to you. So he's just there. Chesed is

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one of the words that God uses to describe himself.

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When Moses is up in Mount Sinai with God, and

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Moses has said, show me your glory. And God reveals

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himself to Moses. And the first thing that he

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says about himself is that he is merciful with

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the kind of mercy that a mother has. And then

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he goes on to talk twice. He mentions the word

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chesed, that this mercy, this loving kindness,

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that's what he's all about. He's about being

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kind and loving in everything. And all we have

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to do is just obey him. It's when we disobey

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him that we... Get the corrections, right? He's

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a parent. You've got to understand he is a parent.

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He is your father. And he is going to help you

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get where you can keep the rules. Because the

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rules are there to help you have a good life.

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Yes. You break the rules and you're not going

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to have a good life. It's a protection for you.

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He's not trying to hurt you. He's not trying

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to harm you. He's not trying to make life difficult

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for you. He's trying to give you a safe place

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to live. Yes. And he's the father of us all,

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right? Yeah. So the next part is hallowed be

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your name. Now, we don't use that word just a

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whole lot in the 21st century, hallowed. Yeah.

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We kind of don't understand it. So I've pulled

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some scriptures from more recent translations,

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simpler translations. So God's Word translation

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says, Our Father in heaven, let your name be

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kept holy. Contemporary English version says,

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Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name.

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Good News translation says, Our Father in heaven,

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may your holy name be honored. Yes. Christian

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Standard Bible says, Our Father in heaven, your

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name be honored as holy. The NET Bible says,

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Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored.

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So this word hallowed, it's related to what we

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might call sanctified or set apart. It's set

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apart from everything else. It's holy. It's holy.

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Holy is related to the word hallowed. And it

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really means just set apart. Like when you say

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God is holy, you're saying God is in a field

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all by himself. He's in a league all by himself.

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He's in a league all by himself. There isn't

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anybody that is like him in that way. He is God

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all by himself. No other gods compare to him.

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And so his name, his name is holy also. His name

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is Yehovah. In English, we say Jehovah. That's

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his name. And it means he who was, he who is,

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and he who is to come. And so this idea of his

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eternalness, his unchangingness. is a holy thing.

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It's a set apart thing. There's nobody else.

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Nobody else always was. And nobody else always

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will be what he always was. That's who he is.

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And that's what his name means. And his name

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is holy. And I won't take time to talk about

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why some people refuse to use his name. And in

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the scripture, we've got it spelled out. L -O

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-R -D in all caps. And it's substituting for

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his actual name. And I just won't take time to

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get into that. I think we've got that in some

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other episode. Yeah, we do. But his name is holy.

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Yeah. And so when Jesus teaches his disciples

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to say this, he is enjoining us, he is encouraging

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us to pray for his name to be... actually to

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be known, to be known for what it is, to be known

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that he's holy. So that's hallowed be your name.

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And now let's talk about your kingdom come, because

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that's also an important foundational principle.

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So why is there a kingdom? Because there's a

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king. Exactly. There's a kingdom because there's

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a king. So Psalm 1016. What does that say? Yehovah

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is king forever and ever. The nations are perished

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out of his land. So already back in the Psalms,

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it was probably David that wrote this, but I

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didn't make a note of it. He's king. He is the

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king. The reason why we have kings on the earth

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is because we have a king in heaven. You know,

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he set the example for us that there should be

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kings. That's good. And Psalm 24, 7 through 10.

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What does that say? I love this one. Yeah, it's

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one of my favorites. Lift up your heads, O ye

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gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors,

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and the King of glory will come in. Who is the

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King of glory? Yehovah, strong and mighty. Yehovah,

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mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates.

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Hey, lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and

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the King of glory will come in. Who is this king

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of glory? Yehovah of hosts. He is the king of

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glory. Silah. Oh, pause and think about that.

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He's the king of glory. Yes. And when Jesus came,

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he came as Yehovah in the flesh. We'll do another

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podcast on that. Psalm 47 too. What does that

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say? This is the Young's literal translation.

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For Jehovah Most High is fearful, a great king

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over all the earth. He's the great king. Great

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king. And then Psalm 95, 3. For Jehovah is a

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great God and a great king above all gods. So

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we have a real picture of the kingdom of God.

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Remember, we're talking about your kingdom come.

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So we have a picture of that in Revelation chapter

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5. 21. And it talks about John sees a new heaven

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and a new earth. For the first heaven and the

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first earth had passed away, and there was no

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more sea. Can you imagine an earth with no sea?

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No Pacific Ocean, no Atlantic Ocean. No Mediterranean.

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No Mediterranean. They're all gone. It's all

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land. And I suppose you'll need that. For all

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the people who are coming back to dwell in the

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land. I don't know. But then it says, then I,

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John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming

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down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride

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adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice

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from heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of

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God is with men. So we're praying your kingdom

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come. This is what it looks like. Yes. Okay.

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He will dwell with them. Don't you just want

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God to come and dwell with us? I mean, that's

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what Emmanuel means. The God with us. Jesus came

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and dwelt on the earth for a very short time.

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But he's coming back to dwell for a thousand

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years. And then, I'm not sure exactly what's

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going to happen, but that new heaven and new

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earth, I think, is even beyond to the millennium.

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I don't know the timeline. That's not our field.

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We'll let God be God, and whenever it happens,

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it's going to happen. We've seen hundreds of

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timelines through the last so many years. Oh,

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yes, and some of them are right. It's going to

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be this, it's going to be that, and some of them

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are partial. But we'll get the full picture when

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it's time to get the full picture. Exactly, exactly.

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That's why it doesn't say everything in the Word,

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because... Everybody will party to the last hour

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and then repent. Yeah. It says, Behold, the tabernacle

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of God is with men, and he will dwell with them,

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and they shall be his people. God himself will

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be with them and be their God. Now, that's one

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of the promises of both the Old and the New Covenant,

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that I'll be your God and you'll be my people.

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That's foundational. Absolutely foundational.

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He is our God. We are his people. We are the

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sheep of his pasture. And that's foundational,

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right? God will wipe away all the tears from

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their eyes. There shall be no more death, sorrow,

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nor crying. There shall be no more pain. I'm

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looking forward to that. For the former things

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have passed away. Then he who sat on the throne

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said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said

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to me, write for these words are true and faithful.

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And he said to me, it is done. I love how even

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in Hebrew, there's only two tenses. We don't

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have past and present and future. It's completed

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or it's continuing. And so when God says it,

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it's done. It's finished. It's perfect. It's

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done. And he said to me, it is done. I am the

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Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.

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I will give of the fountain of the water of life

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freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall

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inherit all things, and I will be his God, and

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he shall be my son. That's you. That's me. All

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of us. Verse 9. Then one of the seven angels

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who had the seven bowls filled with the seven

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last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying,

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Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.

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And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great

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and high mountain and showed me the great city,

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the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven

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from God. Thy kingdom come. Okay, so here comes

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Jerusalem, the heavenly Jerusalem. descending

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out of heaven, having the glory of God. Her light

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was like a most precious stone, like a jasper

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stone clears crystal. Also, she had a great and

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high wall with 12 gates and 12 angels at the

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gates and the names written on them, which are

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the names of the 12 tribes of the children of

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Israel, three gates on the east, three gates

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on the north, three gates on the south, three

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gates on the west. Now the wall of the city had

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12 foundations, and on them were the names of

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the 12 apostles of the Lamb. And he who talked

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with me had a gold reed to measure the city and

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its gates and its wall, and it talks about how

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it's laid out four square. It's as high as it

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is wide, and he measured the wall and the construction

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and talks about all of these different kinds

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of layers, okay? I don't want to get into all

00:32:25.329 --> 00:32:28.500
of that, but the point is, Thy kingdom come.

00:32:28.660 --> 00:32:33.759
Here it is. It's written in Revelation 21. You

00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:36.579
can read it for yourself and study it and let

00:32:36.579 --> 00:32:39.700
it get into you. Because when we pray this prayer,

00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:42.900
we're praying for this. We're praying for this

00:32:42.900 --> 00:32:46.119
to come. And we're asking God to do it. And what

00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:49.619
we're doing is getting into agreement with what

00:32:49.619 --> 00:32:52.660
he has promised. Get into agreement with his

00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:55.039
promises, and that's when the promises will come

00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.759
to pass. Amen? Amen. So your kingdom come, your

00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:03.240
will be done. Okay, so let's look at Psalm 40,

00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:07.420
verse 8. I delight to do your will, O my God,

00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:11.140
and your law is within my heart. I love that.

00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:13.799
Your law is within my heart. He has his law in

00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:17.200
our heart. We will walk in his ways. Yes, yes.

00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:22.779
And when Jesus was in a place and he's in a crowd

00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:25.539
in the house, And somebody comes to say, and

00:33:25.539 --> 00:33:27.279
your mother and brothers are here to see you.

00:33:27.700 --> 00:33:31.480
And then he says in Mark 3 .35, whoever does

00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:34.180
the will of God is my brother and my sister and

00:33:34.180 --> 00:33:38.380
my mother. So if you want to be Jesus' brother

00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:42.759
or sister, do the will of God, right? Yeah. So

00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:45.880
what does John 6 .40 say? And this is the will

00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:48.859
of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the

00:33:48.859 --> 00:33:51.140
Son and believes in him may have everlasting

00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:55.180
life. and I will raise him up on the last day.

00:33:55.779 --> 00:33:59.119
Amen. Amen. This is the will of him that sent

00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:03.220
me. So let's look at a few other places where

00:34:03.220 --> 00:34:07.099
it talks about his will. Let's look at Romans

00:34:07.099 --> 00:34:11.179
12 too. And do not be conformed to this world,

00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:14.320
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:18.500
that you may prove what is that good and acceptable

00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:23.400
and perfect will of God. Yes. What is that perfect

00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:26.599
will of God is that we be conformed to his kingdom

00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:29.940
and not to the world. Yes, amen. We're supposed

00:34:29.940 --> 00:34:31.579
to be conformed to something. We're supposed

00:34:31.579 --> 00:34:34.239
to be conformed to the image of Christ. Yes,

00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:38.659
amen. Hallelujah. It says that in Romans 8. Then

00:34:38.659 --> 00:34:41.639
1 Thessalonians 4, 3 through 5. Would you read

00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:45.039
that, please? For this is the will of God, your

00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:49.480
sanctification. Wait, your sanctification. It's

00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:53.760
the making. of you to be holy. It's the setting

00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:59.260
of you apart to God. That's what holiness is.

00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:02.719
It's not about how long your sleeves are. It's

00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:05.679
not about how long your hair is. Or if you have

00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.960
any makeup. Or if you have makeup or not. Holiness

00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.059
is being set apart to God. It's being dedicated

00:35:13.059 --> 00:35:15.800
to God. That's what holiness is. I'm sorry for

00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:20.760
interrupting. Go ahead and read that again. that

00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:24.099
you should abstain from sexual immorality, that

00:35:24.099 --> 00:35:26.460
each of you should know how to possess his own

00:35:26.460 --> 00:35:30.579
vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:33.980
of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

00:35:34.260 --> 00:35:38.539
Yep. So the will of God is that we should be

00:35:38.539 --> 00:35:42.619
sanctified, that we should be holy to him, that

00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:46.460
we should leave behind all of those worldly passions

00:35:46.460 --> 00:35:52.059
that are temptations. If you try to be holy and

00:35:52.059 --> 00:35:54.420
all things are dragging you down, you're not

00:35:54.420 --> 00:35:56.760
going to get there. It's true. You'll get to

00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:59.480
areas and it may look like on the outside, you

00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:01.900
know, wow, what a holy guy he is, you know, but

00:36:01.900 --> 00:36:04.099
they don't know what's going on in your mind.

00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:09.199
Exactly. The more you are sanctified, the more

00:36:09.199 --> 00:36:11.099
that you're going to be able to connect with

00:36:11.099 --> 00:36:14.099
the Holy Spirit. Exactly. And the more you connect

00:36:14.099 --> 00:36:16.340
with the Holy Spirit, the more sanctified you'll

00:36:16.340 --> 00:36:18.780
get. And more you'll know about on earth as it

00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:23.159
is in heaven. Exactly. Exactly. So let's take

00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:25.519
the next phrase, on earth as it is in heaven.

00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.900
Daniel 4 .35, what does that say? All the inhabitants

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:32.960
of the earth are reputed as nothing. He does

00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:36.860
according to his will in the army of heaven and

00:36:36.860 --> 00:36:40.199
among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can

00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:43.280
restrain his hand or say to him, what have you

00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:48.179
done? So he's coming with this kingdom on earth.

00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:53.480
And I believe, this is my heart, that we are

00:36:53.480 --> 00:37:00.679
being trained and being formed and being conformed

00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:06.000
to him. so that we can do on earth as it is in

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.820
heaven and be on earth as it is in heaven. Yeah,

00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:12.599
this earth is our boot camp. Yes, yes. Boot camp

00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:15.340
is where you learn how to shoot and you learn

00:37:15.340 --> 00:37:18.320
warfare. Yes, that's true. That's true. And you

00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:21.960
learn how to survive. Very true. And the thing

00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:27.900
that amazes me is in these last days, God has

00:37:27.900 --> 00:37:33.090
given so many people. that have died the assignment

00:37:33.090 --> 00:37:36.230
to go back and tell the truth about heaven and

00:37:36.230 --> 00:37:41.650
hell. So many now. We were just in a conference

00:37:41.650 --> 00:37:44.590
with four people that we're looking forward to

00:37:44.590 --> 00:37:48.210
having on our podcast soon. And one of them is

00:37:48.210 --> 00:37:52.389
Randy Kay. And his experience when he died, he

00:37:52.389 --> 00:37:55.349
was an agnostic. And he didn't know his Bible.

00:37:55.869 --> 00:37:58.369
But he saw all of these things, and when he came

00:37:58.369 --> 00:38:02.590
back and became a believer, he was amazed to

00:38:02.590 --> 00:38:05.349
find that these things that he saw were in the

00:38:05.349 --> 00:38:07.650
Bible. All in the Bible, yeah. Yeah. But ever

00:38:07.650 --> 00:38:10.289
since then, he has been interviewing people who

00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:13.150
have had these near -death experiences. Just

00:38:13.150 --> 00:38:16.070
so many people, so, so, so, so, so many, hundreds

00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:18.690
and hundreds of people he's interviewed. And

00:38:18.690 --> 00:38:22.800
because of these people, Because God has sent

00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:26.380
them back to tell the truth about the afterlife,

00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:29.559
that there is a heaven and that there is a hell,

00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:33.719
that they are real places. The Lord is trying

00:38:33.719 --> 00:38:37.820
to show us. And give us a glimpse, like we've

00:38:37.820 --> 00:38:40.960
had Dean Braxton on our podcast many, many times.

00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:46.159
And he helps us see how it is in heaven so that

00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:49.260
we can start doing on the earth as it is in heaven.

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:53.679
So we're participating in the answer to this

00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:57.699
prayer. We're participating in this. on earth

00:38:57.699 --> 00:39:00.679
as it is in heaven. So I get really excited about

00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:03.440
it. So he's coming with his kingdom to make earth

00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:07.159
like heaven. And we're laying the groundwork

00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.920
as we participate with his Holy Spirit. You can't

00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:14.639
do it in the flesh. You won't succeed in what

00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:16.880
he's trying to get us to do. But if you'll do

00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:19.440
it by the spirit, if you'll walk in the spirit

00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.019
and not in the flesh, you will help to answer

00:39:22.019 --> 00:39:25.659
this prayer. Isn't that exciting? It's foundational.

00:39:26.300 --> 00:39:29.639
Foundation. Amen. Amen. So give us this day our

00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:33.219
daily bread. So you remember how the Lord supplied

00:39:33.219 --> 00:39:36.920
the needs of the children of Israel when they

00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:40.539
came out of Egypt and all they had was the bread

00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:44.800
that they made that night before they went. And

00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.280
it didn't even have a chance to leaven. It didn't

00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.739
even have a chance to rise. Yeah, and they made

00:39:49.739 --> 00:39:56.230
manakani, banana bread. Not exactly, but it's

00:39:56.230 --> 00:40:00.530
a great joke. But he's a faithful father. He

00:40:00.530 --> 00:40:04.510
was wanting to teach them about his greatness,

00:40:04.809 --> 00:40:08.090
about his faithfulness, about his fatherhood.

00:40:08.250 --> 00:40:13.369
And they were so wounded from their time in slavery

00:40:13.369 --> 00:40:16.670
in Egypt that they just couldn't get it. They

00:40:16.670 --> 00:40:19.670
saw miracle after miracle after miracle after

00:40:19.670 --> 00:40:24.699
miracle. And if we'll be honest, we're probably

00:40:24.699 --> 00:40:28.679
the same way. They're an example to us of how

00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:33.719
life really is, that it's only the very few who

00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:39.059
really get it. Most of the folks that are looking

00:40:39.059 --> 00:40:42.639
around are listening to the voices around them

00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:46.599
that are complaining and moaning. But our Father

00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:48.760
was faithful to give them bread every single

00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:51.820
day. Every day. Well, on Friday, he gave them

00:40:51.820 --> 00:40:53.739
twice as much so that they wouldn't have to work

00:40:53.739 --> 00:40:58.400
on Saturday to get it. On Shabbat, rather. So

00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:02.400
when we talk about give us this day our daily

00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:05.820
bread, there is a physical version of it and

00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:09.119
there's a spiritual version of it. And we're

00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:12.440
asking that we're not going to starve. Okay.

00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.150
But he's faithful. He always provides when we

00:41:15.150 --> 00:41:17.969
put our trust in him. He always, always, always

00:41:17.969 --> 00:41:21.349
provides. So then we have the spiritual side,

00:41:21.530 --> 00:41:26.250
and Jesus said, I am the bread of life. And he

00:41:26.250 --> 00:41:30.989
was born in Bethlehem, which means the house

00:41:30.989 --> 00:41:35.250
of bread. So all these little details are there

00:41:35.250 --> 00:41:39.409
for us, all these little things. So he's showing

00:41:39.409 --> 00:41:43.869
himself to be the bread. And then he goes on,

00:41:43.869 --> 00:41:46.489
when a whole bunch of people are following him,

00:41:46.650 --> 00:41:50.489
he says, unless you eat my flesh and drink my

00:41:50.489 --> 00:41:56.489
blood, you have no part of me. What? What? Eat

00:41:56.489 --> 00:42:00.500
your flesh? What? Drink your blood? What? And

00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:03.400
he spoke in mysteries, obviously. He spoke in

00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:06.280
parables, but that was something he spoke kind

00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:09.860
of blatantly that folks just did not understand.

00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:12.059
He lost a bunch of his disciples. He lost a bunch

00:42:12.059 --> 00:42:15.380
at that point. But then his 12 disciples understood

00:42:15.380 --> 00:42:19.119
it on the night of the Passover, just before

00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:21.280
he was betrayed, just before he laid down his

00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:25.340
life. He gave them this bread, and he said, this

00:42:25.340 --> 00:42:29.980
is my body. Broken for you. Broken for you. Do

00:42:29.980 --> 00:42:32.420
this in remembrance of me. Exactly. Which we

00:42:32.420 --> 00:42:36.360
do today. So it's a good thing to have communion

00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:40.300
every day. And we covered communion very well

00:42:40.300 --> 00:42:43.559
in our last episode. And so you can go back and

00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:50.000
listen to that. His body, His bread, this bread

00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:55.059
is a touch point. It's a place that we can...

00:42:55.210 --> 00:42:58.050
And I think I probably said it in that episode

00:42:58.050 --> 00:43:01.769
that, you know, all of the trouble started because

00:43:01.769 --> 00:43:04.210
Adam and Eve put something in their mouths that

00:43:04.210 --> 00:43:07.449
didn't belong there. So he redeems it by giving

00:43:07.449 --> 00:43:11.510
us something to put in our mouths to help us

00:43:11.510 --> 00:43:16.150
to connect with him in a physical way that is

00:43:16.150 --> 00:43:20.750
also spiritual. So he did that for our bodies.

00:43:20.849 --> 00:43:24.260
He did that so we could be healed. Then in Luke

00:43:24.260 --> 00:43:28.280
4, verse 4, would you read that? But Jesus answered

00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:31.199
him, saying, It is written, Man shall not live

00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:35.500
by bread alone, but by every word of God. So

00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:39.800
we see that the word of God is something that

00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:43.159
we live by. So when we're asking him to give

00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:48.300
us our daily bread, we're asking for the physical

00:43:48.300 --> 00:43:52.340
provision, and we're asking for... A spiritual

00:43:52.340 --> 00:43:54.880
provision. Yes, his bread of life. That he's

00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:57.360
the bread of life. So we're asking for him as

00:43:57.360 --> 00:43:59.139
the bread of life, but he's also the word of

00:43:59.139 --> 00:44:03.840
God. Yes. And we live by the word of God, every

00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:08.019
word of God. Every time I open my Bible, I get

00:44:08.019 --> 00:44:10.940
something new. And I've been setting in a long

00:44:10.940 --> 00:44:14.760
time. But there's so much new and there's so,

00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:18.440
so, so much. So when you go digging in the scriptures

00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:21.909
every day. It's establishing something. It's

00:44:21.909 --> 00:44:25.969
building something in you that you need every

00:44:25.969 --> 00:44:29.469
single day. So give us this day our daily bread

00:44:29.469 --> 00:44:34.190
has to do with physical and spiritual. So make

00:44:34.190 --> 00:44:38.530
sure that you are digging for something and ask

00:44:38.530 --> 00:44:44.210
the Holy Spirit to bring to life in you something

00:44:44.210 --> 00:44:47.190
from the Word of God every day. Because, you

00:44:47.190 --> 00:44:50.289
know, people... sometimes get into the idea that,

00:44:50.309 --> 00:44:52.889
okay, I'm going to read my three chapters or

00:44:52.889 --> 00:44:55.289
I'm going to read my five chapters or however

00:44:55.289 --> 00:44:57.489
much it is. And they just go zooming through

00:44:57.489 --> 00:45:02.070
it and never get a thing. But even if you just.

00:45:02.619 --> 00:45:06.880
Grab one verse and meditate on it and chew on

00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:11.460
it and let it digest into your spiritual being.

00:45:11.619 --> 00:45:15.039
It will help you to grow because that's why we

00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:18.000
eat, right? We eat so that we have nutrition,

00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:21.820
so that our bodies will be sustained. And if

00:45:21.820 --> 00:45:24.519
you don't eat, you get weak. Yeah, that's for

00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:28.699
sure. We sure know about that. So God is trying

00:45:28.699 --> 00:45:32.079
to strengthen you through his word. And I just

00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:35.579
want to mention that episode 308 with Dean Braxton,

00:45:35.699 --> 00:45:38.619
Jesus is the Bread of Life, will also be a blessing

00:45:38.619 --> 00:45:41.619
to you. So let's talk about forgive us our debts

00:45:41.619 --> 00:45:43.980
or our trespasses as we forgive our debtors or

00:45:43.980 --> 00:45:46.980
those who trespass against us. I learned forgive

00:45:46.980 --> 00:45:49.139
us our debts as we forgive our debtors. That's

00:45:49.139 --> 00:45:52.139
how my daddy taught me. And when I got to kindergarten,

00:45:52.460 --> 00:45:57.010
we were saying the Lord's Prayer every day. It

00:45:57.010 --> 00:46:00.289
was with trespasses. And I didn't even understand

00:46:00.289 --> 00:46:02.329
that. I had to talk to my parents about it because

00:46:02.329 --> 00:46:06.329
it was totally new to me. And don't tell anybody,

00:46:06.570 --> 00:46:10.510
but Mrs. Withey, my kindergarten teacher, was

00:46:10.510 --> 00:46:13.809
leading us in prayer, teaching us this prayer

00:46:13.809 --> 00:46:16.949
after the Supreme Court had already said no prayer

00:46:16.949 --> 00:46:19.570
in school. Yeah, good for her. Yeah, good for

00:46:19.570 --> 00:46:22.050
her. I'm glad she did it. I don't know that my

00:46:22.050 --> 00:46:24.389
classmates would have gotten it otherwise. So

00:46:24.389 --> 00:46:26.730
it doesn't matter which way you pray it. The

00:46:26.730 --> 00:46:31.510
principle is the same. Luke 11 .4 is the Luke

00:46:31.510 --> 00:46:33.550
version of the Lord's Prayer. What does that

00:46:33.550 --> 00:46:37.230
say? And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive

00:46:37.230 --> 00:46:40.809
everyone who is indebted to us. Forgiveness is

00:46:40.809 --> 00:46:44.969
an enormous issue that lots of people struggle

00:46:44.969 --> 00:46:49.599
with. Shirley Smith. gave a testimony of how

00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:54.800
unforgiveness gave her cancer. And she overcame

00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:57.800
it, thankfully, by using the Holy Communion,

00:46:57.820 --> 00:47:00.079
actually. So we'll put a link to that in the

00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.239
show notes. But unforgiveness is an enormous

00:47:03.239 --> 00:47:06.320
thing. And you just have to go to the two verses

00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:10.460
after the Lord's Prayer is over to understand

00:47:10.460 --> 00:47:13.760
how significant and how foundational forgiveness

00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.719
is. Would you read that for us? Matthew 6, 14

00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:20.059
and 15. For if you forgive men their trespasses,

00:47:20.260 --> 00:47:23.780
your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But

00:47:23.780 --> 00:47:26.880
if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither

00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:30.079
will your Father forgive your trespasses. It's

00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:34.099
true. It's absolutely true. So we did a whole

00:47:34.099 --> 00:47:37.320
podcast on that subject, and we called it One

00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.659
of Hell's Best Kept Secrets, and that's unforgiveness.

00:47:40.780 --> 00:47:43.900
So that was episode 72. That's a long time ago.

00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:48.019
But we felt it was such a significant, important,

00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:52.619
foundational subject that people need to know.

00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:54.960
If you want to be forgiven, you better forgive.

00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:59.039
I do. And I think that's where the word trespasses

00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:03.039
came in. of the translations that if you forgive

00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:05.119
men their trespasses, your Father will forgive

00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:09.539
you. None of the other clauses of this prayer

00:48:09.539 --> 00:48:13.159
were brought up after the prayer was over. After

00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:16.559
the amen was said, this is the only one about

00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:22.300
forgiving. So it's obviously very, very foundational.

00:48:22.699 --> 00:48:27.219
It has a real important significance. So lead

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us not into temptation. Now, this word temptation

00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.179
from the Blue Letter Bible, I went to look at

00:48:35.179 --> 00:48:38.699
that, and the word temptation is an experiment,

00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:42.340
an attempt, a trial, approving. It's a trial

00:48:42.340 --> 00:48:45.619
of a man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy.

00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:48.860
It's an enticement to sin, temptation, whether

00:48:48.860 --> 00:48:51.280
arising from the desires or from the outward

00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.420
circumstances. It's an internal temptation to

00:48:54.420 --> 00:48:58.440
sin. It can be adversity, affliction, trouble.

00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:02.840
It can be sent by God and serving to test or

00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:06.119
prove one's character, faith, and holiness. So

00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:10.699
when you're going through something, God is sending

00:49:10.699 --> 00:49:15.699
you an opportunity to get an upgrade, depending

00:49:15.699 --> 00:49:20.219
on how you handle it. And it's kind of like a

00:49:20.219 --> 00:49:23.840
test in school. If you pass the test, you go

00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:26.579
on to the next grade. You go on to the next thing.

00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:29.539
If you don't pass the test, you get to go back

00:49:29.539 --> 00:49:31.579
and do it again. You know, it's like if you're

00:49:31.579 --> 00:49:33.840
a believer, you believe in Jesus, you get to

00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:37.079
heaven. It's like the rewards are greater. Yeah.

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And we've seen that from many people that have

00:49:40.260 --> 00:49:43.500
had heaven experiences, you know, when the rewards

00:49:43.500 --> 00:49:46.000
are given out. It's true. You know, you get a

00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.320
reward, but we seek for heavenly treasures, not

00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:53.389
earthly. Amen. Amen. One of my favorite verses,

00:49:53.590 --> 00:49:56.550
and I learned it as a child, and it's helped

00:49:56.550 --> 00:50:01.230
me through many things over the years, is 1 Corinthians

00:50:01.230 --> 00:50:05.389
10 .13. No temptation has overtaken you except

00:50:05.389 --> 00:50:09.630
such as is common to man, but God is faithful.

00:50:10.510 --> 00:50:15.070
God is faithful. God is faithful. Who will not

00:50:15.070 --> 00:50:18.090
allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able?

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He knows your abilities. He knows your heart.

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But with the temptation will also make the way

00:50:25.170 --> 00:50:28.849
of escape that you may be able to bear it. So

00:50:28.849 --> 00:50:32.269
any kind of temptation that comes your way, God

00:50:32.269 --> 00:50:36.090
will help you. He's faithful. And Matthew 26,

00:50:36.269 --> 00:50:39.590
41, what does that say? Watch and pray lest you

00:50:39.590 --> 00:50:43.230
enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing,

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but the flesh is weak. It's true. Jeremiah 15,

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21. I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked,

00:50:52.409 --> 00:50:55.250
and I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible.

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And that goes really along with the next part,

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deliver us from evil or deliver us from the evil

00:51:01.409 --> 00:51:05.630
one. You see it in both ways in various translations.

00:51:06.210 --> 00:51:10.710
Or deliver us from the evil, the evil. Psalm

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121, 7 and 8. The Lord shall preserve you from

00:51:14.769 --> 00:51:18.320
all evil. He shall preserve your soul. The Lord

00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:20.559
shall preserve your going out and your coming

00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:24.039
in from this time forth and even forevermore.

00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:26.940
It's because he's faithful. Yes. He is going

00:51:26.940 --> 00:51:29.920
to preserve you from all evil. Yes. And you overcome

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:34.360
evil with good. Yeah. And just, you know, sink

00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.719
down into the presence of God and he'll carry

00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:41.630
you through. Yeah. Jeremiah 15, 21. I will deliver

00:51:41.630 --> 00:51:44.349
you from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem

00:51:44.349 --> 00:51:47.690
you from the grip of the terrible. Amen. John

00:51:47.690 --> 00:51:51.170
17, 15. I do not pray that you should take them

00:51:51.170 --> 00:51:53.650
out of the world, but that you should keep them

00:51:53.650 --> 00:51:57.889
from the evil one. Amen. Galatians 1, 4. Who

00:51:57.889 --> 00:52:00.269
gave himself for our sins that he might deliver

00:52:00.269 --> 00:52:03.489
us from this present evil age, according to the

00:52:03.489 --> 00:52:06.889
will of our God and Father. So we're asking him

00:52:06.889 --> 00:52:09.110
to deliver us from evil. And here's all these

00:52:09.110 --> 00:52:12.090
scriptures that say he delivers us from evil.

00:52:12.150 --> 00:52:17.730
You know, sometimes evil things happen and he's

00:52:17.730 --> 00:52:20.809
faithful to help us. He's faithful to deliver

00:52:20.809 --> 00:52:23.349
us. Even though you go through something, the

00:52:23.349 --> 00:52:26.010
point is you go all the way through. And it's

00:52:26.010 --> 00:52:28.889
over. And you eventually get the rewards on the

00:52:28.889 --> 00:52:32.650
other side. For yours is the kingdom. Exodus

00:52:32.650 --> 00:52:36.920
15, 18. The Lord shall reign forever and ever.

00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:40.239
Yes, he's the king. We talked about that already.

00:52:40.460 --> 00:52:44.460
And he shall reign forever and ever. Amen. I

00:52:44.460 --> 00:52:48.440
won't try to hit the high notes part. 1 Chronicles

00:52:48.440 --> 00:52:52.840
29, 11. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the

00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:56.079
power, and the glory, the victory, and the majesty.

00:52:56.480 --> 00:52:59.559
For all that is in heaven and in earth is yours.

00:52:59.980 --> 00:53:03.849
Yours is the kingdom. O Lord, and you are exalted

00:53:03.849 --> 00:53:07.809
as head over all. It's his kingdom. Yes, amen.

00:53:07.809 --> 00:53:11.829
He is the king. Ain't no other king. All these

00:53:11.829 --> 00:53:14.989
earthly kings and presidents and prime ministers.

00:53:16.670 --> 00:53:22.150
We got no king but Jesus. Amen, amen, amen. Psalm

00:53:22.150 --> 00:53:25.949
1016. The Lord is king forever and ever. The

00:53:25.949 --> 00:53:29.570
nations have perished out of his hand. Amen.

00:53:29.829 --> 00:53:34.230
One more. Psalm 47, 2 and 7. For the Lord Most

00:53:34.230 --> 00:53:37.510
High is awesome. He is a great king over all

00:53:37.510 --> 00:53:40.489
the earth. For God is the king of all the earth.

00:53:40.650 --> 00:53:44.369
Sing praises with understanding. Yours is the

00:53:44.369 --> 00:53:47.329
kingdom. Yes, Lord. Yours is the kingdom. You

00:53:47.329 --> 00:53:49.889
are awesome, Lord. You are the great king over

00:53:49.889 --> 00:53:52.650
all the earth. You are the king of the earth,

00:53:52.710 --> 00:53:55.050
and we sing praises with understanding to you.

00:53:55.150 --> 00:53:59.519
Amen. Yes, amen. power. Yours is the kingdom

00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:04.420
and the power. So this word power is one that

00:54:04.420 --> 00:54:07.860
you may have heard before. It's Greek. Some people

00:54:07.860 --> 00:54:10.119
pronounce it dunamis and others pronounce it

00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:13.739
dynamis. Dynamite. It's the same root word where

00:54:13.739 --> 00:54:18.219
we get dynamite and dynamo. So dynamite is one

00:54:18.219 --> 00:54:21.000
big explosion of power. And you know what a dynamo

00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:23.880
does in the automotive world? It measures horsepower.

00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:31.219
also produce electricity. And it's a continuous

00:54:31.219 --> 00:54:34.840
thing. It's not just one big boom. It's the power

00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.159
behind the power. So when we get the dunamis

00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:42.380
power of God in us, it's dynamite. Amen. We can

00:54:42.380 --> 00:54:45.559
do things. Amen. And so the Strong's definition

00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:51.219
of this word is miraculous power or ability,

00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:57.119
abundance, might. And miracles or workers, a

00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:59.760
worker of miracles, power, strength, violence,

00:55:00.099 --> 00:55:03.219
mighty, a mighty wonderful work. A lot of these

00:55:03.219 --> 00:55:06.260
places, I was surprised at all the places where

00:55:06.260 --> 00:55:10.420
this word shows up that is not translated power.

00:55:10.659 --> 00:55:14.159
It might be a work. The works that Jesus did

00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:17.619
were called dynamis. So, you know, it's these

00:55:17.619 --> 00:55:22.059
power miracles that he does, and he still does,

00:55:22.219 --> 00:55:24.739
and he always has done, and he always will do,

00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:28.400
because that's who he is. The outline of biblical

00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.960
usage from the Blue Letter Bible. It means strength,

00:55:33.239 --> 00:55:36.559
power, ability, inherent power, power residing

00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:39.719
in a thing by virtue of its nature or which a

00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:43.139
person or thing exerts and put forth, power for

00:55:43.139 --> 00:55:45.980
performing miracles, moral power and excellence

00:55:45.980 --> 00:55:48.780
of soul, the power and influence which belongs

00:55:48.780 --> 00:55:51.679
to riches and wealth, power and resources arriving

00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:55.809
from numbers. In other words, a multitude. Power

00:55:55.809 --> 00:55:58.429
consisting in or resting upon armies, forces,

00:55:58.510 --> 00:56:01.349
or hosts. Here it is in the Old Testament. It

00:56:01.349 --> 00:56:03.909
would be a different word in Hebrew, but it's

00:56:03.909 --> 00:56:06.550
translated using this in the Greek translation

00:56:06.550 --> 00:56:09.329
from the Hebrew, which is the Septuagint. Psalm

00:56:09.329 --> 00:56:13.289
21, 13. Be exalted, O Lord, in your own strength.

00:56:13.329 --> 00:56:16.510
We will sing and praise your power. Yes, God

00:56:16.510 --> 00:56:18.630
has spoken once. Twice have I heard this. The

00:56:18.630 --> 00:56:21.630
power belongs to God. That's Psalm 62, 11. What's

00:56:21.630 --> 00:56:25.030
Psalm 63, 2? So I have looked for you in the

00:56:25.030 --> 00:56:28.369
sanctuary to see your power and your glory. Your

00:56:28.369 --> 00:56:31.090
power and your glory. Thine is the kingdom and

00:56:31.090 --> 00:56:35.809
the power and the glory. Psalm 145, 11. They

00:56:35.809 --> 00:56:38.050
shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and

00:56:38.050 --> 00:56:42.429
talk of your power. Amen. Amen. Great is the

00:56:42.429 --> 00:56:45.150
Lord and mighty in power. His understanding is

00:56:45.150 --> 00:56:49.030
infinite. Yes. Absolutely infinite. And this

00:56:49.030 --> 00:56:51.949
last part, and the glory forever. 1 Timothy 1

00:56:51.949 --> 00:56:56.110
.7. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible,

00:56:56.489 --> 00:57:00.329
to God who alone is wise, the honor and glory

00:57:00.329 --> 00:57:03.730
forever and ever. Amen. Amen. Honor and glory

00:57:03.730 --> 00:57:07.690
to him. It belongs to him. Yes. Revelation 5

00:57:07.690 --> 00:57:10.690
.13. And every creature which is in heaven and

00:57:10.690 --> 00:57:13.369
on the earth and under the earth and such as

00:57:13.369 --> 00:57:16.909
are in the sea and all that are in them, I heard

00:57:16.909 --> 00:57:20.230
saying, Blessing and honor and glory and power

00:57:20.230 --> 00:57:23.869
be to him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb

00:57:23.869 --> 00:57:28.090
forever and ever. And Revelation 19 .1 After

00:57:28.090 --> 00:57:30.269
these things, I heard a loud voice of a great

00:57:30.269 --> 00:57:33.750
multitude in heaven saying, Alleluia, salvation

00:57:33.750 --> 00:57:37.050
and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord

00:57:37.050 --> 00:57:41.570
our God, our Yehovah. Amen. Amen. And so the

00:57:41.570 --> 00:57:44.469
last word is amen. So what does amen mean? Amen,

00:57:44.550 --> 00:57:48.630
I read someplace that amen is the most known

00:57:48.630 --> 00:57:52.949
word in the world because they took it straight

00:57:52.949 --> 00:57:57.340
from Hebrew and transliterated it. And it's everywhere

00:57:57.340 --> 00:57:59.500
you go. Every language. Every language. Like

00:57:59.500 --> 00:58:01.800
hallelujah. Yeah, hallelujah is another one.

00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:04.079
There's not a Spanish translation. Yeah, it's

00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:09.639
just hallelujah. But amen means it's the truth.

00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:14.940
And when you say amen, you're saying like somebody

00:58:14.940 --> 00:58:18.059
says something or somebody prays something and

00:58:18.059 --> 00:58:23.159
you agree with it, you could say so be it. But

00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:27.510
it's also saying. I'm saying amen as though I

00:58:27.510 --> 00:58:32.530
said exactly those words. I get my spirit in

00:58:32.530 --> 00:58:36.809
agreement with you. I agree with you. And so

00:58:36.809 --> 00:58:41.250
when we pray this prayer, and also, I found this

00:58:41.250 --> 00:58:45.010
out, I didn't know, that it means verily or truly,

00:58:45.130 --> 00:58:47.530
like where you see in, you're seeing it more

00:58:47.530 --> 00:58:50.369
in the King James, where it says verily, verily.

00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:53.760
It's saying, amen, amen. So it's saying, this

00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:56.179
is the truth. This is the truth. Pay attention.

00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:59.880
This is the truth. Get it in your head. This

00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:03.019
is the truth. I'm saying something that's true.

00:59:03.300 --> 00:59:06.340
So you're also saying, like if you were saying

00:59:06.340 --> 00:59:09.900
amen to somebody's words or their prayer or whatever,

00:59:10.099 --> 00:59:13.300
you're saying, that's true. That's true. I agree

00:59:13.300 --> 00:59:17.769
with that. So you're agreeing. with what God

00:59:17.769 --> 00:59:22.050
has said. And so I just want to close this by,

00:59:22.150 --> 00:59:24.809
we're going to pray that prayer together. If

00:59:24.809 --> 00:59:27.909
you would join us, please do. Whatever version

00:59:27.909 --> 00:59:31.469
you say, just say your version, but this is the

00:59:31.469 --> 00:59:35.090
version that we learned. And I just want to pray

00:59:35.090 --> 00:59:39.510
it with these understandings that have come in

00:59:39.510 --> 00:59:43.769
this podcast, that you are going deeper. in your

00:59:43.769 --> 00:59:47.130
prayer, in your understanding, in the meaning

00:59:47.130 --> 00:59:51.750
of this word. Our Father, who art in heaven,

00:59:52.010 --> 00:59:57.550
hallowed be your name. Thy kingdom come, thy

00:59:57.550 --> 01:00:02.710
will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give

01:00:02.710 --> 01:00:07.170
us this day our daily bread and forgive us our

01:00:07.170 --> 01:00:11.489
debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us

01:00:11.489 --> 01:00:15.730
not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

01:00:15.929 --> 01:00:21.130
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the

01:00:21.130 --> 01:00:40.429
glory forever. Amen. God bless you. Your review

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