(264) “Crushed!”

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As we get more and more acquainted with his love,

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we're going to become more and more used by him

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to crush the devil under our feet. 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, 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're so glad that

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

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the word crushed. There are all kinds of crushings

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in life. We all go through crushings. But there's

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also a crushing that is taking place even now

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as the Lord is crushing Satan under your feet.

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So today we're talking about a very important

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subject and it has to do with crushing. Have

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you ever been crushed? Oh, yes. Stuff happens,

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doesn't it? Yeah. But the thing that I started

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out with and I was meditating on this morning

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came from Romans 16, 20. And it says, and the

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God of peace, that would be Jehovah Shalom or

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Yehovah Shalom. The God of peace will crush Satan

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under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord

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Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. So that's the

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ending of the book of Romans. Paul is signing

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off there. But what a sign -off. Yeah, that tremendous

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sign -off. A tremendous takeaway. Yeah, that's

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a takeaway for sure. And I love the fact that

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this crushing of Satan under your feet is...

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going with the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

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be with you. Because in that crushing gives you,

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oh my, what grace we even get from the Lord to

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do crushings. And so as I was meditating on that

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scripture, I was reminded of the Garden of Eden

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and what happened in the Garden of Eden with

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the woman and the snake. I remember how the serpent

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was tempting her and getting her to doubt. And

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this, according to Dean Braxton, who went to

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heaven, this wasn't a one -time thing. Right.

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He says this is what had been going on for a

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while. Yeah. So every now and then he'd be putting

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this thought into her head, you know, wouldn't

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you like to be as wise as God? You eat that fruit,

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it'll make you wise. You'll be just like God.

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Knowing good and evil. So what happened, you

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know, after they ate the fruit and, you know,

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there was this blame shifting where Adam said,

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well, the woman you gave me, she gave it to me

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to eat. And the woman says, well, it was the

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snake. It was the serpent. He beguiled me and

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I ate it. And it's interesting what God says

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to the snake. And I'm just going to look at it.

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In the Amplified. Amplified, yeah. In the Amplified

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Classic. In Genesis 3, 14 and 15, God is speaking

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to the serpent. And the Lord God said to the

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serpent, because you have done this, you are

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cursed above all. Now, the Amplified Classic

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puts in the word domestic. Above all domestic

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animals and above every wild living thing in

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the field. Upon your belly you shall go, and

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you shall eat dust and what it contains all the

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days of your life. And I will put enmity between

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you and the woman, and between your offspring

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and her offspring. He will bruise and tread your

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head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and

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bruise his heel. Now, that is obviously a prophecy

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about Jesus. When Jesus would come, he would

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be born of a virgin. So there's no man's seed

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involved. It's only the woman's seed. It was

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just her egg. There's no sperm. The Holy Spirit

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just overshadowed her and provided what needed

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to be provided. You know, there had to be a Y

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chromosome to make him a male because she could

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only give an X chromosome. And somehow or other,

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there had to be the blood. connection. So you

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can tell from the Shroud of Turin, which I'm

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becoming more and more convinced is really Jesus'

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burial shroud, that the man who was buried in

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that shroud had AB positive blood, which means

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an AB positive person can take a blood transfusion

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from anybody on the planet. That's amazing. He's

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the universal recipient. Wow. And that means

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he would be able to take the blood curses from

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everybody on the planet. Whether you have O negative

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blood or A blood or negative or positive, any

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of the combinations, he was able to handle it.

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Interesting. Very interesting. Yeah. But it says

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here that he would tread the serpent's head underfoot.

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Well, that's crushing. Yeah. absolute crushing,

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and you will lie in wait and bruise his heel.

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Well, it's also interesting to note from the

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Shroud of Turin, I think this is true. I'll qualify

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this that I think it's true. I know that it's

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true that they have found remains of people who

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have been crucified, and the spike, the nail,

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was driven through the heel. You know, some years

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ago already they had, in biblical archaeology

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review, they were showing a heel bone with a

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Roman spike through it. Wow. And so I'm presuming

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that this was also the case with Jesus. I don't

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remember whether the shroud shows that or not

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for sure, but, you know, we know that the Romans

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did that. They were brutal. Oh, absolutely brutal.

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Totally brutal and totally, totally moved by

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the devil. So the serpent was told that he would

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go on his belly. Imagine a dragon with no legs.

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And what do you have? What would a dragon with

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no legs look like? It would go on its belly,

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wouldn't it? So I think we have a connection

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there. Because in Revelation chapter 12, you

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have this description of what goes on or what

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went on. I think it must be a look backwards

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in Revelation. this great sign in heaven with

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the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under

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her feet. And she was pregnant and cried out

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in her birth pangs. And then there was this fiery

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red dragon with seven heads and 10 horns and

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his tail swept across the sky, dragged a third

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of the stars. Well, you know, we know that that

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is the only scripture that we have that talks

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about how the devil took away one third of the

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beings of heaven with him when he fell. So that's

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the scripture where we have this. And then it

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says that the dragon stationed himself in front

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of the woman who was about to be delivered so

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that he might devour her child as soon as she

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brought it forth. So what happened when Jesus

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was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of

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Herod the king? What happened when the wise men

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came, the magi, and they came and said, where

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is he that is born king of the Jews? Well, Herod

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was wicked. Yeah. And very jealous. He was so

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jealous that he had his own offspring killed

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because he was afraid they were going to try

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and take over the throne. Wow. I mean, he was

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wicked. Yeah. So somebody comes along and says,

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King of the Jews, I'm the King of the Jews. And

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so he pretends, oh, you just go and find him

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and let me know and I'll come and worship him

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too. Yeah. Just like a snake. So what happened?

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He killed from two years old and under. Exactly.

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In Bethlehem. Exactly. And so he's absolutely

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ready to devour babies anytime he gets an opportunity,

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because really it's the seed that's the offspring.

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Adam named Eve, in Hebrew I think it's Chava,

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and it comes from the word that means to live.

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Adam was saying, you're the mother of all living.

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So every living person is descended from Eve.

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And everybody but Jesus was descended from Adam

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too. But Jesus had a different father. So anyway,

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you know, the point is that he's after babies.

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And he did the same thing in Pharaoh's. court

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in Egypt when the children of Israel were slaves,

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and he saw that they were becoming a great nation.

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And what if they turn against us? Let's kill

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all the babies, all the boy babies. You can save

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the girl babies alive, and we'll make them wives

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and slaves and so on. But let's kill the boy

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babies. So the same thing happened just before

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the Exodus when God released Israel from captivity.

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So, you know, these slaughters of babies and

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what we've got even currently with the abortion

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issue, it really hasn't been fully dealt with

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yet. We've had some tremendous victories lately

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with the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, but, you know,

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there's still stuff going on the state level.

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And, you know, we need to contend. We need to

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continue to contend with this abortion issue

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because the enemy is getting strength by... killing

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babies. He likes to devour that kind of thing.

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Yeah, I remember Henry Gruber, when he said he

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would walk down the street, he would hear the

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blood of aborted babies crying out in the sewer.

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He could hear that in the spirit. Yes. Because

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in Genesis, it says the life is in the blood.

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The spirit life is nephesh, the Hebrew. The spirit

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is in the blood. Yes. I thought, oh, my. That's

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true. So he knew there was an abortion clinic

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there. Yeah. Yeah, he could tell it was nearby.

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It's life. Mm -hmm. And so we still need to be

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dealing with these things and overcoming and

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binding these strong men. I'm reminded, too,

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of 1 John 3, 8, that it says, He that commits

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sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from

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the beginning. The beginning. Remember, in the

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beginning? Mm -hmm. Well, there was eternity

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before the beginning. So we have a different

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idea of beginning than what God's idea of the

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beginning is. It's from the beginning of time.

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There was eternity before time. We have to get

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that clear in our heads that he always has been

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God before the devil ever fell. But the beginning

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of time was when the devil fell. And that's why

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you wound up with this chaos and darkness. There

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was no darkness before the devil fell. All the

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light was yanked out of him and everybody that

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fell with him. That's why we have a dark universe,

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because there's no darkness in heaven, because

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there's no darkness in God. He's the father of

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lights. Father of lights, yeah. So it says that

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the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose

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was the Son of God manifested, that he might

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destroy. The works of the devil. Evil, the devil.

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Yeah, the devil, our adversary. The one who hates

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us because he hates God. He hates the offspring

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of the woman. And that's why he's trying to kill

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us all the time. He's really after us. But the

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beautiful thing is God is going to crush Satan

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shortly under our feet. He crushed the head of

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the devil on the cross. And remember what it

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says in, we've talked about this before, but

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it bears repeating. In Isaiah 52, the very last

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few verses, right before Isaiah 53, that really

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shows us who Jesus is and what he came for to

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deliver us from our sins and our griefs and our

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weaknesses and our sicknesses. It says, I don't

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know that I've ever read it out of the Amplified

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before. So you're hearing this firsthand. Yeah.

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So verse 13 says, behold, my servant shall deal

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wisely and shall prosper. He shall be exalted

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and extolled and shall stand very high. The servant

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of God became an object of horror. Many were

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astonished at him. His face and his whole appearance

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were marred more than any man's and his form

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beyond that. of the Son of Man. But just as many

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were astonished at him, so shall he startle and

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sprinkle many nations. And kings shall shut their

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mouths because of him. For that which has not

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been told them shall they see, and that which

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they have not heard shall they consider and understand.

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And I believe that when Jesus was being crucified,

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all of the demons and the devils and fallen creation

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were rejoicing with glee that they have beat

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the system. They've beat out the king. They're

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killing the king so they get to take over and

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be in charge. But what they didn't realize until

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they're looking at him, they're looking at him,

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and it says that they were astonished at him.

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And it says, so shall he startle and sprinkle

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many nations. And that word sprinkle is the same

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in Hebrew as the word where it talks about sprinkling

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when Moses would sprinkle the blood on the tabernacle,

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all the furnishings. And he sprinkled it on the

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people and he sprinkled it on the book. On the

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ark. On the ark. And everything had the sprinkling

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of blood on it. And Dean Braxton says that when

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he was in heaven, he saw Jesus on the cross.

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And every time his heart would beat, because

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he'd been so lacerated, there were places on

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his body that the arteries had been pierced just

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enough that every time his heart would beat,

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it would send out a mist. And he was sprinkling

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the nations. Ba -boom, ba -boom, ba -boom. Sprinkling,

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sprinkling, sprinkling. Spraying a mist. that

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we could all come under and be forgiven of our

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sins. And it was like, uh -oh, all of a sudden

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they could see, what does it say? Is it 1 Corinthians

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or 2 Corinthians where it says, if they had known,

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they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

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Because they didn't know. They didn't know. And

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here it is, what they've not heard, shall they

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consider and understand. They knew they were

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in trouble. You know, it's amazing because the

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devil knows the scripture. Right. Yeah. But he

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doesn't understand everything. But he doesn't

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have the wisdom. Yeah. You know, because that's

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there. Yeah. That is all in there. Yeah. You

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know, because even when Satan appeared to Jesus

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before his ministry, remember, he took him to

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the pinnacle of the temple. All this I will give

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you if you will fall down and worship me. Yeah.

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You know, get thee behind me, Satan. Yeah. Yeah.

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So he knew the scripture, you know, like. The

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angels will pick you up if you cast your foot

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against the stone. So the devil knows scripture,

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but he did not have the understanding of this.

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That was hidden from him. Yeah, there are things

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that are still hidden from him that God's going

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to roll out, and he's just in trouble. And I

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think the same thing really happened in the garden.

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I think when God said to him that I'll put...

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enmity or hostility or make you actively opposed

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to this woman and her seed and your seed, your

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offspring and her offspring, that God took the

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devil's plan. The devil was really trying to

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just ruin things. Everything was perfect then.

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The garden was perfect. The people were perfect.

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Everybody's perfect. And he wanted to sow a seed

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of imperfection. He wanted to throw the whole

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thing into chaos again. God took the devil's

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plan and turned it on him then, because it would

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be the offspring of the one he deceived who would

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bring his demise. That's Romans 8, 28. You know,

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all things work together for good. God knows

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how to take all the bad stuff and turn it into

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good. The crushings, right? There are crushings

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that we go through that God is going to turn

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to good. Going on, I think we can look at Hebrews

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2, 14 and 15. It says, for as much then as the

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children are partakers of flesh and blood, he

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also himself, this is Jesus, likewise took part

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of the same. Jesus was the seed of the woman.

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He was fully human, but he was also fully God.

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that through death he might destroy him that

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had the power of death, that is the devil, and

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deliver them who through fear of death were all

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their lifetime subject to bondage. I mean, that's

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the main bondage in life is a fear of death.

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Fear of death. You know, people, even godly people.

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I've known some godly people who were afraid

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to die. And how does that keep us from taking

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a risk to obey God when it looks like it's dangerous?

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Especially going on a mission field. Yeah. We've

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gone to some dangerous places. And you have to

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deal with your own mortality and say, I am already

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dead. And my life is hid with Christ in God.

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The nearest road by you can... Your fear of dying

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by going out on a road. Yeah. Some people stay

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home because they're afraid to go out. I had

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an aunt that she had varicose veins taken out.

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Oh, I remember. And she was I don't know, a shower

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or something. And all of a sudden it popped open

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and she started, you know, just blood started

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bleeding. And that scared her so much she made

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herself bedridden. That was the last time she

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walked. Yeah. And she went to the grave that

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way. Yeah. You know, fear of death over something

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like that. Yep. And what a wasted life. Yeah,

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what a waste of life. Yeah. You can't let a circumstance

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stop you from serving God. Right. Or the fear

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of it. Right. Yeah, it's like stuff I deal, I've

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had to deal with since the wreck, you know, balance

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issues and getting sick easy and things like

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that. You know, and I've had my challenges. Yes,

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you have. I have. And you have overcome. I've

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watched you overcome again and again. I'm so

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proud of you. Yeah, it's kind of like our...

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Our pastor's son, when he was sick, you know,

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he says, oh, thank you, Jesus. You know, he was

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just overcoming. Praise God in all things. You

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know, I had a hard time doing that on that road

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in India. I littered the highway for miles. I

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wasn't rejoicing. No, but you did overcome in

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the end. In the end, but I felt like I was going

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to die, you know. But I'm still here. I've been

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many places since. That's right. That's right.

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So, isn't it wonderful that Jesus came to destroy

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the works of the devil? Oh, yes. And I love what

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it says in Isaiah 25, 7 to 12. It says, he will

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destroy on this mountain. And this is the temple

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mount he's talking about. The temple mount. He

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will destroy on this mountain the surface of

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the covering cast over all people. And the veil

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that is spread over all nations, he will swallow

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up death forever. Yes. And the Lord God will

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wipe away tears from all faces. Now, just to

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give you. a little clarity about this mountain.

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It's not only talking about where the temple

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was. It's also talking about the entire mount.

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Mount Moriah. Mount Moriah. Okay. Mount Moriah

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is the place where Abraham took his son, bound

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him, and was ready to plunge in the knife when

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God said, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

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that's enough. You've gone, you've passed the

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test. You don't have to kill him. Yeah. And that's

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where the dome of the rock is. on the Temple

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Mount, that golden dome, which is actually a

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shrine. It's not a mosque. It's a shrine. Right.

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And I remember the days we would go underneath

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there, and they had the rock where they say he

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was going to sacrifice Isaac. Yeah, that's where

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they think that it was. That's where they think

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it was. I don't know that that's true. But it's

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a big mountain, though, Moriah. Right. And so

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the southern slope of Mount Moriah is the city

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of David. So that was an important location.

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And the top of it, it was Arunah's threshing

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floor. And when David numbered the people and

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he chose pestilence, you know, I'll just take

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the short one because God might be merciful and

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we'll get it over with. And so the angel stopped

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there before he hit Jerusalem, I think. Maybe

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he hit Jerusalem first, but he stopped there

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on that mount. And the Lord said, that's enough.

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And he told David. To buy the threshing floor.

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To buy the threshing floor. And he bought it

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for full price. And he bought the animals and

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used the wooden parts, you know, to make the

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sacrifice. And it stopped the pestilence. It

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stopped the plague. It stopped the angel that

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was standing by with the sword because he saw

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it. So that was then the location that David

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understood this is the place where the temple's

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to be built. Yeah. Okay. But if you go on down

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the northern slope. When you get to the northern

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end, well, it's all quarries where they dug out

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the rock to build the temple. And that is the

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area where Jesus was crucified and rose from

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the dead. So put this in the context of the scripture.

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He will destroy on this mountain. The surface

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of the covering cast over all people and the

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veil that is spread over all nations. He will

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swallow up death forever. He was resurrected

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from that very mountain. Yes, amen. Isn't that

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amazing? And what's amazing, what is the veil

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today present that is over the people? That is

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on that mount. That is on the people of that

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mount. Right, right. The women all have to wear

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a veil. The women all have to wear a veil. And

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it says that he will destroy. The veil that is

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over all nations. That's right. Now, how many

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nations are Muslims not in? Right. They're everywhere.

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They're everywhere. And there's a circulatory

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thing going around on Facebook of all these different

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nations of the women, the beautiful women, what

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they look like, the prince, the queens, or even

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everyday dress, what they look like then, what

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they look like now. Yeah. Persia. Before and

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after veils. Before and after veils. Right. And

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it's astounding. But this is a natural veil that

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is over all the Muslim women. It's true. He says

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he's going to take this away. This will be this

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because the veil, when this mighty outpouring

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comes, the veils are going to go flying. Amen.

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Hallelujah. Kind of like graduation. The hat

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comes off and it flies. I mean, there's going

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to be, I mean, the power of God's going to come

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down in such a way in nations that it's just

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the leaders are going to repent, you know, and

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there's going to be a freedom and a liberty.

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So this is like a two -sided thing. It's a spiritual

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and a natural veil that is in place here. Yes.

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Okay, well, maybe we better get back on track

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again. Well, actually, we're on track. We're

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on track. We're not off track at all. Going on

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in verse 10, it says, For on this mountain the

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hand of the Lord will rest, and Moab shall be

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trampled down under him. Well, who's in control

00:26:52.529 --> 00:26:55.730
of Moab right now? Islam. Islam, yeah. It's the

00:26:55.730 --> 00:26:58.589
same thing. So it's going to be trampled as straw

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is trampled down for the refuse heap. And he

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will spread out his hands in their midst as a

00:27:03.569 --> 00:27:06.009
swimmer reaches out to swim, and he will bring

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down their pride together with the trickery of

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their hands. Now, who's the king of pride? The

00:27:12.089 --> 00:27:15.049
devil. Well, yeah, yeah. And there's a creature

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that might... be described like a massive dinosaur.

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Yeah, exactly. Leviathan is the king of pride,

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and I think he's a dragon too. And the fortress

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of the high fort of your walls he will bring

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down low and bring to the ground down to the

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dust. There's a crushing going on here. There's

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a crushing that Jesus initiated. But remember,

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he's going to crush Satan under our feet. Shortly.

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And the word shortly there, as I understand it

00:27:47.589 --> 00:27:51.670
in the Greek, can also mean suddenly. Okay. Because

00:27:51.670 --> 00:27:56.009
we think of shortly meaning in a reasonably soon

00:27:56.009 --> 00:27:58.950
period of time. Well, it's been a long time.

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Behold, I come quickly. But it's suddenly. It's

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suddenly. Yes. More than quickly. I mean, the

00:28:06.190 --> 00:28:11.109
actual action is quick. And we don't think that

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way in English currently. So anyway, it goes

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on to, like, this is dust. So it's crushed, crushed

00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:23.079
down into the dust, trampled in the dust. So

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looking at Romans 8 and 35 to 39, do you want

00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.019
to read that, Philip? Who shall separate us from

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the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress

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or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril

00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.440
or sword? As it is written, for your sake we

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are killed all day long. We are accounted as

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sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things

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we are more than conquerors through him who loved

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us. Oh, and I love the 38. For I am persuaded

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that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities,

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nor powers, nor things present nor things to

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come, nor height or depth, or any other created

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thing, shall be able to separate us from the

00:29:12.190 --> 00:29:15.690
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Oh, that's such a magnificent scripture. I mean,

00:29:19.829 --> 00:29:25.809
Paul just said that so well. Yeah. And so what

00:29:25.809 --> 00:29:29.930
Jesus did in his love for us, God so loved the

00:29:29.930 --> 00:29:33.430
world that he gave his only begotten Son, that

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whosoever believes in him should not perish.

00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:39.019
but have everlasting life. He did all of this

00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:41.660
so that we could have life. He destroyed the

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death. He crushed it. And he's still in the process.

00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:50.519
And we get to participate. Hallelujah. Yes. So

00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:53.460
as we get more and more acquainted with his love,

00:29:53.700 --> 00:29:58.319
we're going to become more and more used by him.

00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.779
to crush the devil under our feet. Amen? Amen.

00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:06.059
So in 2 Corinthians 2, 14 -17, it says, But thanks

00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:10.079
be to God, who always leads us in Christ's triumphal

00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:13.519
procession. I think there's another in King James

00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:15.380
that says, who always causes us to triumph. I

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like that too. And through us spreads the aroma

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:23.210
of the knowledge of him in every place. For to

00:30:23.210 --> 00:30:25.630
God we are the fragrance of Christ among those

00:30:25.630 --> 00:30:28.750
who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

00:30:29.049 --> 00:30:32.650
To some we are an aroma of death leading to death,

00:30:32.829 --> 00:30:36.289
but to others an aroma of life leading to life.

00:30:36.670 --> 00:30:39.829
Who is adequate for these things? For we do not

00:30:39.829 --> 00:30:42.410
market the word of God for profit like so many.

00:30:42.490 --> 00:30:45.089
I like putting that into a modern way of saying

00:30:45.089 --> 00:30:47.450
it. We're not marketing the word of God for profit.

00:30:48.009 --> 00:30:51.619
On the contrary. We speak with sincerity in Christ

00:30:51.619 --> 00:30:55.619
as from God and before God. So there's an aroma

00:30:55.619 --> 00:31:01.339
that comes when we pass from death unto life.

00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:04.660
Now, you know that there is a smell of death,

00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.720
right? We were going down the highway yesterday.

00:31:07.900 --> 00:31:11.720
Was it yesterday? Recently. Anyway, and, you

00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.319
know, something had died and was decomposing

00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.740
near the highway, and it was terrible smell.

00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:23.200
Okay? So there's a smell of death, and there's

00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:27.180
a smell of life. Yeah. I remember Dean, when

00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:30.039
he was in heaven and came back to earth, he said,

00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.579
the whole earth smells of death because everything

00:31:33.579 --> 00:31:37.420
that is alive is going to die. Yeah, it's true.

00:31:37.619 --> 00:31:41.079
And it just had that smell. Yeah, we already

00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:43.579
have death working in us. Yeah. Because of sin.

00:31:43.579 --> 00:31:46.519
What happens when you die, worms eat you up.

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:49.549
Yes, but the thing is, That the worms are already

00:31:49.549 --> 00:31:51.710
there in your body. They're microbes in your

00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:54.390
body. They are microbes, and they morph into

00:31:54.390 --> 00:31:56.910
this decomposition. Yeah, as soon as your body

00:31:56.910 --> 00:32:00.670
hits a point of acidity, then they go to work.

00:32:00.970 --> 00:32:04.710
Yep, yep. And that's why a lot of the sickness

00:32:04.710 --> 00:32:08.589
that comes, that leads to death, is a result

00:32:08.589 --> 00:32:12.309
of our bodies getting out of balance in the pH.

00:32:12.750 --> 00:32:14.710
Yeah, this is a freebie. When your body starts

00:32:14.710 --> 00:32:20.079
going real acidic, These things, microbes in

00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.700
your blood that help you are now trying to morph

00:32:22.700 --> 00:32:26.940
to take you out. Yeah. They think it's their

00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:29.000
job to decompose you. You won't hear that in

00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.799
your textbooks. No, not really. But this idea

00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.160
of the smell of death and the smell of life,

00:32:35.339 --> 00:32:41.559
I found here that it takes 60 whole roses to

00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:44.539
produce just one drop of essential oil. Ooh.

00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:48.450
Wow. And if you want to have a teaspoon of rose

00:32:48.450 --> 00:32:53.410
oil, it takes 10 ,000 freshly picked roses. Wow.

00:32:53.630 --> 00:32:57.210
Okay. So I think, I guess it's an old movie or

00:32:57.210 --> 00:32:59.230
something that I'm thinking of where, you know,

00:32:59.230 --> 00:33:02.690
there's some kind of a death smell. And the lady

00:33:02.690 --> 00:33:05.309
takes her handkerchief and puts a drop of perfume

00:33:05.309 --> 00:33:07.529
into it. So she's breathing her handkerchief

00:33:07.529 --> 00:33:11.839
so that she doesn't smell the death. We can smell

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.500
life instead of death. We just need to get ourselves

00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:18.579
where we're receiving life from the Lord. But

00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:22.720
these smells come from a crushing, okay? You

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.319
have to crush those roses to produce that smell.

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:29.339
And that's where we have to get God's perspective

00:33:29.339 --> 00:33:32.039
of the crushings that we go through. Because

00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:35.299
the crushings that we go through, if we learn

00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:38.980
our lessons well, we're going to have something

00:33:38.980 --> 00:33:41.880
of the character of Christ being built into us

00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:44.900
as a result. Remember that picture that I had

00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:47.200
in my, I guess you could call it a vision or

00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.140
a mental picture of, and again, this is probably

00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:54.160
an old movie or different movies or TV programs

00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.880
where the woman is put into this place where

00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.950
she's... in a small, confined place, and this

00:34:00.950 --> 00:34:02.670
one wall is moving towards her. The wall is moving,

00:34:02.890 --> 00:34:05.230
yeah. Getting closer and closer, and it's going

00:34:05.230 --> 00:34:08.469
to crush her, right? So I have this vision that

00:34:08.469 --> 00:34:12.389
when we're in those crushing times, what is really

00:34:12.389 --> 00:34:15.349
happening, we think we're dying. And actually,

00:34:15.449 --> 00:34:18.869
there's part of us that is. Because our fleshly

00:34:18.869 --> 00:34:23.869
nature needs to die in order for the spirit life

00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:27.070
to have... the preeminence, right? We have to

00:34:27.070 --> 00:34:30.190
continually submit ourselves to the Lord, continually

00:34:30.190 --> 00:34:34.730
go down in humility and die to our pride, right?

00:34:34.889 --> 00:34:37.710
Kill that pride. We have to kill the pride because

00:34:37.710 --> 00:34:39.929
that's what's killing us, really. It's easy to

00:34:39.929 --> 00:34:43.170
let us to kill it ourselves because if we don't,

00:34:43.170 --> 00:34:46.570
then God kills us. He has ways of making it.

00:34:46.690 --> 00:34:49.489
Yes, yes. If we don't humble ourselves, He has

00:34:49.489 --> 00:34:52.900
ways of crushing. In another way. Yeah, it's

00:34:52.900 --> 00:34:56.559
true. So in this picture that I had, the wall

00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:58.400
is getting closer and closer and it's smushing

00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.920
me and smushing me and smushing me into, but

00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.460
the wall that's steady and not moving is God.

00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:09.059
And so when the pressure lets up, we come off

00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:14.559
with the image of God on us instead of us. That's

00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.599
beautiful. Yeah, that's what he's trying to do.

00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:19.340
That's what he's working in us. It's really a

00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:22.909
love thing. And we squirm and we howl and we

00:35:22.909 --> 00:35:27.190
whine and we cry. This hurts. I don't like this.

00:35:27.369 --> 00:35:29.889
I'm being crushed. It's like Jesus is trying

00:35:29.889 --> 00:35:32.030
to get us ready for the marriage supper of the

00:35:32.030 --> 00:35:35.010
Lamb. Right. But we don't want to get married.

00:35:35.829 --> 00:35:38.889
Yeah, we're trying to run. Yeah, the bride has

00:35:38.889 --> 00:35:41.489
to look like him. Yeah. The bride is meant to

00:35:41.489 --> 00:35:44.769
look like him. Adam looked at Eve and said, bone

00:35:44.769 --> 00:35:47.809
of my bone and flesh of my flesh. Yeah. She was

00:35:47.809 --> 00:35:51.769
made out of him. And so we are being made out

00:35:51.769 --> 00:35:54.769
of Jesus. So we should be looking like him. We

00:35:54.769 --> 00:35:57.030
should be sounding like him. We should be smelling

00:35:57.030 --> 00:36:00.829
like him. All of the fleshly things, he's working

00:36:00.829 --> 00:36:04.289
the process in us. It's a process. It doesn't

00:36:04.289 --> 00:36:06.570
happen overnight. It doesn't happen in a few

00:36:06.570 --> 00:36:10.650
days. It takes a lifetime. It takes a lifetime.

00:36:10.929 --> 00:36:14.750
But the more we let him work, the farther we'll

00:36:14.750 --> 00:36:18.210
go faster, and by the end of the lifetime, we

00:36:18.210 --> 00:36:21.030
will be beyond what we would have been if we

00:36:21.030 --> 00:36:24.590
were fighting against him all the time. So the

00:36:24.590 --> 00:36:26.869
crushing is good. The crushing is for a good

00:36:26.869 --> 00:36:30.699
thing. So Ephesians... 5, 1 and 2 says, therefore

00:36:30.699 --> 00:36:33.940
be imitators of God as dearly loved children

00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:37.139
and walk in love as Christ also loved us and

00:36:37.139 --> 00:36:40.619
gave himself for us a sacrificial and fragrant

00:36:40.619 --> 00:36:44.519
offering to God. So every time we humble ourselves,

00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:49.119
there's a release of a fragrance that is pleasing

00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.400
to the Lord. I mean, think about it. You think

00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.840
about all these sacrifices that are going on

00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.820
in the temple. Who doesn't like the smell of

00:36:57.820 --> 00:37:02.150
barbecue? I mean, really. Somebody in the neighborhood

00:37:02.150 --> 00:37:04.670
is barbecuing and it's like... Especially if

00:37:04.670 --> 00:37:08.250
you're fasting. Well, yeah, that's true. And

00:37:08.250 --> 00:37:10.550
sometimes you can actually just get happy just

00:37:10.550 --> 00:37:12.409
by smelling it. Yeah, that's true. I've done

00:37:12.409 --> 00:37:15.510
that many times on a fast when people are eating

00:37:15.510 --> 00:37:18.289
around you. Oh, just let me smell it. Just go

00:37:18.289 --> 00:37:21.610
up and just take a deep... Yeah, it helps. Oh,

00:37:21.630 --> 00:37:26.769
that's so good. It helps somehow. So here's another

00:37:26.769 --> 00:37:29.679
crushing. And crushing for fragrance. We've got

00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:33.780
Exodus chapter 30, verses 34 to 38. Philip, would

00:37:33.780 --> 00:37:37.340
you read that? The Lord said to Moses, take fragrant

00:37:37.340 --> 00:37:44.780
spices, stacte, onycha, pardon? Maybe I should

00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:48.880
let you read these three. Onycha and gabonim.

00:37:49.099 --> 00:37:52.420
The spices and pure frankincense are to be in

00:37:52.420 --> 00:37:55.699
equal measures. Prepare expertly blended incense

00:37:55.699 --> 00:37:59.460
from these. It is to be seasoned with salt, pure

00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:02.800
and holy. Grind some of it into a fine powder

00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:05.260
and put some in front of the testimony in the

00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:07.519
tent of meeting, where I will meet with you.

00:38:08.340 --> 00:38:12.460
It must be especially holy to you. As for the

00:38:12.460 --> 00:38:15.260
incense you are making, you must not make any

00:38:15.260 --> 00:38:18.739
for yourselves using its formula. It is to be

00:38:18.739 --> 00:38:22.760
regarded by you as holy, belonging to the Lord.

00:38:23.150 --> 00:38:25.949
Anyone who makes something like it to smell its

00:38:25.949 --> 00:38:29.449
fragrance must be cut off from his people. No

00:38:29.449 --> 00:38:33.730
counterfeits. Exactly. And you can't copy it

00:38:33.730 --> 00:38:36.969
to use it on yourself. This is God's fragrance.

00:38:37.730 --> 00:38:40.889
And I won't take time to teach about what each

00:38:40.889 --> 00:38:44.829
of those different spices means or elements means,

00:38:44.989 --> 00:38:48.929
but the point is that it has to be crushed. It

00:38:48.929 --> 00:38:52.050
has to be crushed. It has to be ground into powder.

00:38:52.090 --> 00:38:55.110
And it has to be all mixed up. All these different

00:38:55.110 --> 00:38:58.670
things have to be mixed together. And sometimes

00:38:58.670 --> 00:39:01.809
we're going through those crushings and mixings.

00:39:01.969 --> 00:39:05.329
But in order for it to produce the fragrance

00:39:05.329 --> 00:39:07.610
that it's meant to produce, it also has to be

00:39:07.610 --> 00:39:11.489
put on the fire. So think about the things you're

00:39:11.489 --> 00:39:15.150
going through. They are for your perfecting.

00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:20.079
They are for making you into a fragrance of the

00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:24.400
Lord, a beautiful fragrance that brings him glory

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.760
and it makes him smile and it makes him happy.

00:39:26.820 --> 00:39:29.820
When in the midst of our trial and trouble, we

00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:33.539
say, thank you, Jesus. I trust you. I trust you.

00:39:33.780 --> 00:39:37.840
That's the beauty of it. And this idea of this

00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:42.679
word in the Hebrew that is for crushing is the

00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:46.590
word shakak. And it means to wear down or to

00:39:46.590 --> 00:39:49.429
wear away or to wear out like the erosion of

00:39:49.429 --> 00:39:54.010
stones by water. Okay. It's amazing to me how

00:39:54.010 --> 00:39:57.389
something as hard as a stone, you go into a creek

00:39:57.389 --> 00:40:00.670
bed or a river bed and you find these beautifully

00:40:00.670 --> 00:40:04.139
smooth stones. And that's why David went down

00:40:04.139 --> 00:40:06.139
to the creek to find a smooth stone, because

00:40:06.139 --> 00:40:09.480
it's been eroded by water. It's been smoothed

00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:11.880
out by water. And they fly real good, too. Oh,

00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.699
yeah. Try to skip them across water. Yeah, you

00:40:14.699 --> 00:40:18.300
do really well with that. I can only get a couple

00:40:18.300 --> 00:40:20.400
of skips, but you can make them go flying across

00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:25.079
the river. Anyway, that smoothness, it's amazing

00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:28.599
something as hard as a rock can be smoothed by

00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:33.610
something as... Soft as water. Yeah. And the

00:40:33.610 --> 00:40:36.050
more we submit to the water of the word in our

00:40:36.050 --> 00:40:39.170
lives, the more he can smooth us out with that

00:40:39.170 --> 00:40:41.309
rather than having to put us in the fire and

00:40:41.309 --> 00:40:43.949
crush us. You know, growing up in Chicago, we'd

00:40:43.949 --> 00:40:47.010
go along the beaches. And there's one they called

00:40:47.010 --> 00:40:49.690
the Rock Street Beach. Oh, really? And it had

00:40:49.690 --> 00:40:52.170
these big rocks. Oh, yeah. And we would climb

00:40:52.170 --> 00:40:54.510
down into the rocks, you know, and the water

00:40:54.510 --> 00:40:58.559
would go and wash in there. And you could find

00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.780
like broken 7 -Up bottles, you know, because

00:41:01.780 --> 00:41:04.420
of that color. It would take the broken glass

00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:08.099
and it would shine it. It would be a dull, kind

00:41:08.099 --> 00:41:10.699
of like a diamond, you know. The diamond, it's

00:41:10.699 --> 00:41:14.019
not shiny when you look at it. It has to be polished.

00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:17.260
Yeah. But it took the sand. Yeah. It took all

00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:19.300
the sharp edges off of it. That's right. And

00:41:19.300 --> 00:41:22.460
you had these beautiful pieces of glass that

00:41:22.460 --> 00:41:25.400
the water. It's the water what did it. Water

00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:28.380
used in the sand, it just made it smooth where

00:41:28.380 --> 00:41:30.400
it wouldn't cut or anything like that. Yeah,

00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:32.440
yeah. And that's what God is doing in our lives

00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:35.519
when he's putting us in the floods, when he's

00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.159
putting us through things. It's for our perfecting.

00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.019
It is a good thing. It's making it smooth for

00:41:41.019 --> 00:41:44.679
you. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So these ingredients

00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:46.900
were crushed into fine powder, mixed together.

00:41:47.949 --> 00:41:50.130
And the fragrance was released with the fire.

00:41:50.230 --> 00:41:53.150
So all of these crushings, we just have to trust

00:41:53.150 --> 00:41:56.789
that it's our Father at work in making us beautiful.

00:41:57.510 --> 00:41:59.909
We wouldn't think that this is a beautifying

00:41:59.909 --> 00:42:02.349
process, but it is. And, you know, think back

00:42:02.349 --> 00:42:06.969
about Esther. She had to spend six months being

00:42:06.969 --> 00:42:10.989
soaked in myrrh. Myrrh is one of the things she

00:42:10.989 --> 00:42:14.340
was soaked in. And myrrh means bitterness. So

00:42:14.340 --> 00:42:16.219
there are bitter things that we go through that

00:42:16.219 --> 00:42:19.500
are for our beautification. We have to receive

00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:21.920
it from the Lord. And when we receive it from

00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.579
the Lord, that's when the fragrance begins to

00:42:24.579 --> 00:42:27.659
go forward. And I think the sooner we get to

00:42:27.659 --> 00:42:30.059
that point, the sooner we'll get out of the crushing.

00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:33.320
So here's another thing. Olives are crushed,

00:42:33.500 --> 00:42:37.880
right? You want olive oil. And you use it for

00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:41.559
food. And like the third or fourth crushing is

00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:44.949
used for light. And probably the temple oil was

00:42:44.949 --> 00:42:47.409
probably an earlier crushing, I think. That would

00:42:47.409 --> 00:42:51.150
be the first squeeze. So, you know, that's just

00:42:51.150 --> 00:42:53.309
another thing that's crushed. And then you have

00:42:53.309 --> 00:42:57.530
when you harvest grain. You get the wheat, and

00:42:57.530 --> 00:43:01.449
it's all in the heads on the wheat stalk. And

00:43:01.449 --> 00:43:05.750
you have to crush that in order to get the husk

00:43:05.750 --> 00:43:08.960
off of it, the chaff. So there's a crushing that

00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.980
has to happen in order for food. In order to

00:43:11.980 --> 00:43:14.059
get your food, you have to do this crushing.

00:43:14.300 --> 00:43:18.280
In order for us to become food for the nations.

00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:21.840
Will you be poured out as wine for the Lord?

00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.780
Will you be beaten into flour to make bread to

00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:27.099
feed the hungry? Are you willing to do this?

00:43:27.300 --> 00:43:29.340
Are you willing to go through this crushing?

00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:33.099
You know, if you don't get the husk off. I mean,

00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:37.119
have you had bread that has a piece of husk in

00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.099
it? Yeah. Every now and then. It caught in your

00:43:39.099 --> 00:43:42.219
teeth. Yeah. It's not pleasant. It's not meant

00:43:42.219 --> 00:43:45.400
to be in your bread. So there's also an offering

00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:48.260
in Leviticus 2 .14. It says, if you present a

00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:51.139
grain offering of first fruits to the Lord, you

00:43:51.139 --> 00:43:54.300
are to present fresh heads of grain, crushed

00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:57.639
kernels, roasted on the fire for your grain offering

00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:00.920
of first fruits. Roasted. Crushed and roasted.

00:44:01.139 --> 00:44:03.900
It was like the song Sister Gwen wrote years

00:44:03.900 --> 00:44:06.179
ago. It was called, When He Has Tried Me, I'll

00:44:06.179 --> 00:44:09.000
Come Forth as Golden. Yes. And when we had our

00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.980
wreck and it's like the dark night of the soul.

00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:15.559
Yeah. I kind of changed the words for a while.

00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.800
When He Has Fried Me, you know, because that's

00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:20.440
what it felt like, you know, just like it had

00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:24.219
been really roasted because it's just like. Sometimes

00:44:24.219 --> 00:44:26.820
all your dreams and things seemed like they were

00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:29.380
so far away and how can that ever happen now?

00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:32.260
Yeah. But God used it for his glory. Yeah. And

00:44:32.260 --> 00:44:35.699
we got there. We did get out of that trial. We

00:44:35.699 --> 00:44:38.340
survived and we didn't get bitter over it. Yeah,

00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:41.480
that's right. So Psalm 34, 18 fits right here.

00:44:41.860 --> 00:44:45.179
The Lord is near the brokenhearted. He saves

00:44:45.179 --> 00:44:47.780
those crushed in spirit. We were crushed. We

00:44:47.780 --> 00:44:51.500
were crushed by that accident. You know, I remember.

00:44:52.429 --> 00:44:56.730
We were like five weeks at my sister's. And I

00:44:56.730 --> 00:44:59.469
don't remember how far into the process it was

00:44:59.469 --> 00:45:04.150
before we left that one day I found myself singing

00:45:04.150 --> 00:45:06.769
or humming or whistling. I'm not sure which it

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was. Because usually I have a song going in my

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head, going in my spirit. I'm either humming

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or singing or whistling or it's just in my head.

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And I suddenly realized at that moment, oh. I

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got my song back. I didn't even know I'd lost

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it. It was the crushing. And there are crushings

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that we go through. It's for our good. There

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are good things that came out of that. And it's

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kind of like Jacob with his limp. You know, when

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he wrestled with the angel before he met his

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brother. He's about to meet his brother. He thinks

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his brother's going to kill him. So he goes to

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his brother limping. And I think... it probably

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helped his brother have a little compassion on

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him. Oh, well, he's not the tough guy that I

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thought he was going to be. Here he is limping

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and he's falling down on his face in front of

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me. Eh, I guess I can forgive him, you know?

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So God is doing these crushings in us, but he's

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also, in the process, he's crushing our enemies.

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Psalm 68, 21 says, surely. God crushes the heads

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of his enemies, the hairy brow of one who goes

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on in his guilty acts. God is in the crushing

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business, and he's not only crushing us for our

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good, he's willing to take our enemies out as

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well. And Psalm 89, 23 says, I will crush his

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foes before him and strike those who hate him.

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So that brings us back to our first verse where

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we started. Romans 16, 20, and this is from the

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Christian Standard Bible, which we've been using

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in this podcast. The God of peace will soon crush

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Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord

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Jesus be with you. And that's really what it's

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all about, that he gives us the grace. As he

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gives us grace to say thank you, Jesus, when

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we're throwing up, or to say thank you, Jesus,

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when we're in pain. Or to say thank you, Jesus,

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when we're just barely able to put one foot in

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front of the other. Or maybe we're bedridden.

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And to just keep saying, Jesus, my Savior, you

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are the one I'm reaching out to because I need

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you. I'm being crushed right now. And that reaching

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out to him, that saying his name is a fragrance.

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that fills the room with his presence. And he

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really wants us to understand this idea of when

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he has tried me, I'll come forth as gold. That's

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from Job. And I'd like to end this episode with

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a recording that we made of that song. I just

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feel like this will help you, listener, to understand

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that when... You've been tried when you've been

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crushed. What's really going on is the activity

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of the flesh or the activity of the devil against

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you that's being crushed. You're feeling the

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crushing. You're feeling the fire. You're feeling

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the flood. You're feeling the washing and the

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washing and the washing and the smoothing of

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the stone. God is doing that. And he's doing

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it for our good. When he's tried me, I will come

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forth as gold. When he has tried me, I will come

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forth as gold. The fires of affliction will not

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harm my soul. I know that God loves me. And when

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he has tried me, I will come forth as pure gold.

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Philip Buss. God bless you with His overwhelming,

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