(295) “What’s It To Ya?”

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You know, looking at others and how God has dealt

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with them doesn't necessarily give you the idea

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of how God wants to deal with you. And it might.

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It might give you some really good ideas, especially

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if they are doing things according to the Word.

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The important thing is that you know the Word

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of God, you know the character of God, and you

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follow Him. What's it to you what they do? God

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promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promised outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring, so that we may

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engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're going to talk about something that very

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well could be life -changing for you. Because

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we're going to investigate things about like

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not taking things personally and not judging

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people when they're doing things differently.

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And we're basing it on a scripture that if you

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put it in today's language, it's what's it to

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you? Thanks so much for joining us today. We're

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just delighted that you're with us. And we want

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delighted to hear that there's somebody that's

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listening and that the Lord is using this in

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your life. And also, while you're on our website,

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you can go to the events tab and look at Convention

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2026. We have it up on our website under events.

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And there's a link there where you can make reservations

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at the hotel. We're going to be at the Hilton

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Hotel, St. Louis Airport. It is just a couple

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blocks down, I think, from where we've been in

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other years. So it's very close and it's very

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convenient to fly in or to drive in. It's right

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by the interstate. So very easy to get to. And

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we'll be having wonderful speakers. Tony Kemp

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will be with us and Dean Braxton and Anna Werner.

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Claren McQueen, and I'll be speaking also, and

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we'll have awesome, awesome, wonderful worship.

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People come from the nations, and it's a life

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-changing experience, and you begin to make relationships

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with people of like precious faith, and there's

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something just so wonderful about that, and it

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goes on for eternity. These relationships are

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for always that God puts together. So today,

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we're going to look at John 21. This is after

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Jesus has resurrected from the dead. And we have

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the disciples, you know, Peter says, I'm going

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fishing. So they go up to Galilee, and they go

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fishing all night, and they catch nothing. Sounds

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like how it was at the very beginning of their

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ministry. I know what that feels like. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah. Of course, I didn't stay out all night.

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No. And so Jesus shouts at them, and how's it

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going? And they realize that it's Jesus. And

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Peter jumps in the water and swims to shore,

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and Jesus has fish already on the fire. He's

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got breakfast ready for him. After they eat breakfast,

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Jesus asks Peter three questions. You remember

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that story. And, you know, he's grieved about

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Jesus keeping on asking him three times, do you

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love me? And, of course, it's really dealing

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with the fact that he denied Jesus three times.

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So he's kind of undoing that. And then he goes

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on to say this in verse 18. You want to read

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that, Philip, from the English Standard Version?

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Truly, truly, I say to you. When you were young,

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you used to dress yourself and walk wherever

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you wanted. But when you are old, you will stretch

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out your hands, and another will dress you and

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carry you where you do not want to go. This he

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said to show by what kind of death he was to

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glorify God. That's an interesting thought, that

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your death glorifies God. Go ahead. And after

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saying this, he said to him, Follow me. Peter

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turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved

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following them, the one who also had leaned back

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against him during the supper and had said, Lord,

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who is it that is going to betray you? When Peter

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saw him, he said to Jesus, Lord, what about this

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man? Jesus said to him, If it is my will that

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he remain until I come, what is that to you?

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You follow me. What's it to you? What's it to

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you? You follow me. So the saints spread abroad

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among the brothers that this disciple was not

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to die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he

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was not to die, but if it is my will that he

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remain until I come, what is that to you? What's

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it to you? So the Message Bible puts it similarly

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from verse 20, turning his head. Peter noticed

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the disciple Jesus loved following right behind.

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When Peter noticed him, he asked Jesus, Master,

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what's going to happen to him? Because Jesus

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had just told him how he's going to die, right?

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Jesus said, if I want him to live until I come

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again, what's that to you? What's it to you?

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You follow me. And that's the whole message here.

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You know, whatever God's doing in somebody else's

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life, what's it to you? You follow me, right?

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And, you know, it's about the rumor. And John

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is saying, He didn't say that I'm going to stay.

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He just said, what's it to you? And then I like

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what the Amplified Classic says, and I'll just

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cut to the chase here in verse 22. Jesus said

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to him, if I want him to stay, survive, live

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until I come, what is that to you? What concern

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is it of yours? You follow me. So whatever is

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going on around us, we get so easily distracted

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by what's going on in other people's lives. that

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maybe there's an inclination to get jealous.

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Especially in ministry. Yeah, especially in ministry.

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Or what if somebody gets away with something?

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The Holy Spirit won't let me get away with it.

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I remember Dean Braxton talking about one time

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he was just relaxing in a hotel where he had

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been put before he ministered, and he put his

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feet up on the coffee table. And the Holy Spirit

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said, You know better than that. Oh, that's funny.

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It's like, you know, anybody else can put their

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feet up on the coffee table, but no, you know

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better, right? So I was reminded of something

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that the Lord gave me in my journal a couple

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of years ago when we were fasting. And the Lord

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said, I didn't choose you for what you were.

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I chose you for what you would become. You are

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still in the process of becoming what I created

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you to be. Learning to be completely dependent

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on me is key to your destiny. Destiny is not

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a destination. A destination is thought of as

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a place where you stop. Your destiny is eternal

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and will continue to grow and mature for all

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eternity. Isn't that beautiful? to have a unique

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destiny. So quit looking at others to emulate

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them. The saints and generals of the faith will

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inspire you to press on and persevere into your

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destiny as they did theirs, but you will never

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be exactly like them. They will be cheering you

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on to follow the Lamb. Remember Jesus said to

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Peter, follow me, you follow me. They will be

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cheering you on to follow the Lamb, to walk in

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the Spirit and not in the flesh. As you walk

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with me, leaning on my holy arm, you will grow

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and mature into what I intended for you from

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the beginning. It's not what you think. It's

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even better. Don't be afraid when I lead you

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into a place of risk and vulnerability, like

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Moses and Israel at the Red Sea shore. Moses

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received plenty of complaints, but he had to

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obey me. So I could use the situation to deal

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with Baal Zephon, which was an Egyptian god,

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and the Egyptian army who depended on that false

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god. I want to show myself strong in these days.

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Your trust in me will help you to be obedient

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in spite of how it looks. Beautiful. So, you

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know, looking at others and how God has dealt

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with them. doesn't necessarily give you the idea

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of how God wants to deal with you. And it might.

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It might give you some really good ideas, especially

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if they are doing things according to the Word.

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The important thing is that you know the Word

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of God, you know the character of God, and you

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follow Him. What's it to you what they do? You

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follow me. Right? You be you. I mean, that's

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one of the sayings that goes around these days.

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And there is a certain amount that can be out

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of sync with God. If you're just trying to be

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you and you're being you in the flesh, well,

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that's not going to accomplish anything eternal.

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But you be you in your walk with God and don't

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try and get all of your orders from other people.

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particularly. It's good to have someone that

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you can depend on to give you good guidance.

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And if you have somebody that's really good,

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they will take you back to the Word, and they

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will pray with you and help you find the will

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of God by the Holy Spirit. It's not like continually

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looking for a prophetic word. Oh, come on. Yes.

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If the Lord gives you a word through someone,

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you pray into that. Yeah. But don't go to a place

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where you get a prophetic word every other day

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or something like that because you'll end up

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getting confused. Right. And the bottom line

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is you need to do the thing that the Lord told

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you in the last word he gave you. Yeah. So if

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you're really seeking a word from the Lord, let

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him find you, not you always try to find him.

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Right. Because he'll have the right person at

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the right time that can give you just what you

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need to hear. And also, just know this, that

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sometimes, and I've seen it happen, sometimes

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a person with a prophetic gift will look at you

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in the spirit and see what's going on in your

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flesh and read your flesh instead of reading

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your spirit. And they'll prophesy according to

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what they see in your soul realm. that isn't

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necessarily from God. I've seen it happen. Even

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yesterday after church, one of our, I think it

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was Cheryl said, can I take you out to lunch?

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Oh, yeah. Cheryl Simpers. Okay. Sometimes if

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someone takes you out, they got a word or a hammer

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for you. No, what she had was really good. She

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had a tremendous word. We'll have to come back

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to that one and have her on again. That was really

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tremendous. Because it's something for the whole

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body of Christ. It's powerful. Yes. So we'll

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tease you with that. It'll be coming up. Yes.

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We'll have to have her come again. It was a good

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meal, too. Yes, it was. Very nice. You know,

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your destiny is not a destination. That's very

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good. You need to realize that your destiny is

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like ever, and I use this word loosely, ever

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evolving. It's because it's ever growing. Your

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destiny really is growing. Your ability to get

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to where you think you're supposed to be in the

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spirit has everything to do with your willingness

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to follow Jesus. Follow the Lamb whithersoever

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he goes. That is how it is if you want to be

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that person that God made you to be. So we had

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Nehemia Gordon on our podcast a while back, quite

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a while back. And he is a Karaite Jew, which

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means he's a scripturalist. Even though he comes

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from a long line of rabbis and very, very famous

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rabbis, doesn't follow the rabbinic tradition.

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He follows what the Word says, which I love.

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He's not a Christian. Personally, I think he's

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going to be, but he's going to find his Messiah.

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But he says about this that when we're trying

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to find something about the will of God or when

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we're trying to interpret a scripture, here's

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how he says it. Work it out for yourself in fear

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and trembling with prayer and study before the

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creator of the universe. Beautiful. So you're

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asking your heavenly father, what does the scripture

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mean? And the wonderful thing is a scripture

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can mean many, many things. Every time you read

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it, you can get a new shade of meaning or get

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a whole new revelation about it. But you compare

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Scripture with Scripture, and you compare it

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by the Holy Spirit and all of those things, and

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you ask for wisdom from others who have wisdom,

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right? So the thing about Scripture is you can

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also get it wrong. Interpret it wrong. And you

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can interpret it wrong. And the reason why the

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Pharisees and the Sadducees didn't recognize

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Jesus was because they weren't interpreting the

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scripture correctly. And they were also adding

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to the scripture. So one of the things that was

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going on, especially with the Sadducees, the

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Sadducees had this idea that everything is in

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the here and now. If you read... In the Gospels,

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in the book of Acts, when it mentions the Sadducees,

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it says they didn't believe in the resurrection.

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Resurrection, right. Well, not only did they

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not believe in the resurrection, they didn't

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believe in the afterlife. They just thought,

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when you die, you're done. So all of your rewards

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and judgments are going to be in this life. So

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that's why... Like Annas, who was the high priest.

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Remember there were two high priests, which never

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should be. There never should be two high priests.

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So his son -in -law. Right. So it was Annas and

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his son -in -law Caiaphas. Well, Annas had been

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the high priest and he was the patriarch of the

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family. So when he had somebody killed, stoned,

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I suppose, for breaking the Sabbath. He was deposed

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by Quirinius, who was the governor at the time.

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So he put in his son, and his son only lasted

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a year or two. And then he put in Caiaphas, and

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Caiaphas lasted about 18 years. 18 years, wow.

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He was out before the destruction of the temple

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then, wasn't he? Yes, he was. He was already

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out. He was. And a couple more of Annas' sons

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ruled for a while as high priest. They were out

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of there. But it's interesting what the Talmud

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says. The Talmud says, Woe to the house of Annas.

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Woe to their serpents His. They are high priests.

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Their sons are keepers of the treasury. Their

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sons -in -law are guardians of the temple, and

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their servants beat the people with staves. Oh,

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wow. So they had a bad reputation. Really, really

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bad. And they were... monopolizing the sale of

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sacrificial animals and money changing at exorbitant

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prices. It was really bad. Josephus talks about

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them as well. So anyway, that's why they had

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to go to Pilate to ask for Jesus to be killed,

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because they knew they weren't allowed to do

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capital punishment, especially about a Sabbath

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breaker, which they... said Jesus was, but it's

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because they didn't understand the scripture.

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And they were adding to the scripture, you know,

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the thing about fussing at him about telling

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the man to take up his bed and walk. Well, it's

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the Sabbath. You're not supposed to carry anything.

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Well, the law doesn't say that. Where they get

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that, as I understand it, is from Nehemiah, the

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last chapter of Nehemiah, where Nehemiah is all

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upset because these merchants aren't keeping

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the Sabbath. And they want to run the market

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seven days a week. So they're carrying their

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goods into Jerusalem to sell. And so he tells

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the keeper of the gate to close the gate when

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Shabbat starts on Friday night and don't open

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it until it's over. So that these guys who are

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busy carrying their merchandise won't carry their

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merchandise. And the Pharisees turned it into

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you're not allowed to carry anything on the Sabbath.

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Duh. That's a totally different interpretation.

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How do you get that? Yeah, there was an excuse.

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Yeah. Well, they're trying to do in the flesh

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what God wants done in the spirit. Right? So

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it helps us to understand that. It's important

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for us to not judge people based on how God deals

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with us. If it was wrong for them to carry on

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the Sabbath, let it be wrong for them to carry

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on the Sabbath, but don't make anybody else do

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that. I mean, it's not written that way. It was

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tradition of men. And Jesus was always pushing

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back on their traditions, right? Because they

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weren't part of the actual Torah, right? Yeah.

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So there's a beautiful writing by G .D. Watson

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that says, others may, you cannot. And I remember

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Sister Gwen, our founder. We had a tract. Yes.

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And we published it in our magazine years ago.

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One of these days soon, we're going to have our

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magazines archived onto our website so you can

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read them. Haven't quite gotten there yet, but

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it's a project that's in progress. But I just

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want to read this to you. Sometimes God deals

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with others differently than he deals with us.

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And especially if he's called us to a deep walk

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with him, then other people can get away with

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stuff that the Holy Spirit won't let us get away

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with. Like, what's it to you? You follow me.

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So here's what Brother Watson says. He lived

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over 100 years ago. If God has called you to

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be really like Jesus, He will draw you into a

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life of crucifixion and humility and put upon

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you such demands of obedience that you will not

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be able to follow other people. See, that's the

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thing. What's it to you? You follow me. You'll

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not be able to follow other people or measure

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yourself by other Christians. And in many ways,

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he will seem to let other good people do things

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which he will not let you do. Other Christians

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and ministers who seem very religious and useful

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may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes

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to carry out their plans, but you cannot do it.

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And if you attempt it, you will meet with such

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failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you

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sorely penitent. And it goes on along those lines.

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I won't take time to read the whole thing, but

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it's something that we need to understand. We'll

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put a link to the whole thing in our show notes

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so that you can. Have a look. Well, let me just

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read the last little bit. Settle it therefore

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then, that you are to deal directly with the

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Holy Spirit. Remember, Jesus said, follow me.

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What's it to you? What other people do? You follow

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me. You are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit

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and that he is to have the privilege of tying

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your tongue or chaining your hand or closing

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your eyes in ways that he does not seem to use

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with others. Now when you are so possessed with

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the living God that you are in your secret heart

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pleased and delighted over this peculiar personal,

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private, jealous guardianship and management

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of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have

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found the vestibule of heaven. Wow. Isn't that

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beautiful? Yeah. Wow. So we'll put a link to

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that and even a place where you can order packets

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of it. But I just wanted to bring that idea of,

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you know, others can do things that the Holy

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Spirit won't permit. you and me to do. So then

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what happens when somebody does something that

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offends us? What are we going to do? So when

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Jesus was resurrected and his disciples heard

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that he'd been resurrected and he had made his

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appearance on the road to Emmaus, and they're

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all still hanging out in the upper room, afraid,

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they're locked in, and Jesus suddenly appears.

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And he says, shalom. Shalom. Peace be to you,

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right? The jaws must have dropped. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, and he showed them his hands and his side.

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And when the disciples saw the Lord, they were

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filled with joy, delight, exultation, ecstasy,

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rapture. That's John 20, verse 20 in the Amplified

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Classic. And then Jesus said to them again, shalom,

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peace to you. Just as the Father has sent me

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forth, so am I sending you. And having said this,

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he breathed on them and said to them, Receive

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the Holy Spirit. So we need him to breathe on

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us and give us his Holy Spirit. Every day. Now,

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here's the key that I want to get to. Verse 23.

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Now, having received the Holy Spirit and being

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led and directed by him. And that's inserted

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by the authors of the Amplified Classic. If you

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forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven.

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If you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained.

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Wow. Wow is right. Yeah. So we have a job to

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do by the Holy Spirit. This forgiving, this idea

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of forgiving sins. First of all, if you get offended

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by somebody, you need to forgive. What does Matthew

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6, 12 say? It's part of the Lord's Prayer. And

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forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven,

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left, remitted, or let go of the debts, and have

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given up resentment against our debtors. Wow,

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that's huge, isn't it? Give up resentment. Oh,

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you mean that's in the same category? Kind of.

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So what we miss a lot of times, because most

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of us have memorized it from childhood or maybe

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early adulthood, we've memorized the Lord's Prayer,

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we don't realize that Jesus goes on with a footnote

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about forgiving. And that's in verses 14 and

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15. For if you forgive people their trespasses,

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their reckless and willful sins, leaving them,

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letting them go, and giving up resentment, your

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heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if

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you do not forgive others their trespasses, their

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reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting

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them go, and giving up resentment, neither will

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your Father forgive your trespasses. Now, haven't

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we heard testimonies of people who've been to

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hell? Yeah. Christians in there because they

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didn't forgive. Right. Wow. Very, very serious.

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Yeah. And I think you have to be really... dedicated

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to unforgiveness and bitterness to get to that

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point where you refuse to even as you're transitioning

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into eternity. I believe if in the moment of

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your departure that you ask God to forgive you

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for your unforgiveness, because it says it very

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clearly, if you forgive the sins of anyone, they're

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forgiven, and then your heavenly Father will

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forgive you. So I like what the passion Translation

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gives for the Lord's Prayer. Would you read that,

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please, Philip? Matthew 6, 9 through 15. Our

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beloved Father, dwelling in the heavenly realms,

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may the glory of your name be the center on which

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our lives turn. Isn't that beautiful? Yeah. Manifest

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your kingdom realm and cause your every purpose

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to be fulfilled on earth, just as it is in heaven.

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We acknowledge you as our provider of all we

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need each day. Amen. Forgive us all the wrongs

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we have done as we ourselves release forgiveness

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to those who have wronged us. Rescue us every

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time we face tribulation and set us free from

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evil. For you are the King who rules with power

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and glory forever. Amen. And when you pray, make

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sure you forgive the faults of others so that

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your Father in heaven will also forgive you.

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But if you withhold forgiveness from others,

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your Father withholds forgiveness from you. That's

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really clear, isn't it? So Jesus demonstrated

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that he had the authority to forgive sins. So

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remember that he's telling us we now have authority

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to forgive sins. In Matthew 9, 2 through 8, I'm

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going to read from the Amplified Classic. They

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brought to him a man paralyzed and prostrated

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by illness, lying on a sleeping pad. And when

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Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed

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man, Take courage, son, your sins are forgiven,

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and the penalty remitted. And behold, some of

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the scribes said to themselves, This man blasphemes.

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He claims the rights and prerogatives of God.

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But Jesus, knowing, seeing their thoughts, said,

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Why do you think evil and harbor malice in your

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hearts? For which is easier to say, Your sins

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are forgiven and the penalty remitted, or to

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say, Get up and walk? But in order that you may

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know that the Son of Man has authority on earth

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to forgive sins and remit the penalty, he then

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said to the paralyzed man, Get up, pick up your

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sleeping pad and go to your own house. And he

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got up and went away to his own house. When the

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crowd saw it, they were struck with fear and

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awe, and they recognized God and praised and

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thanked him who had given such power and authority

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to men. So that word for forgiven. Your sins

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are forgiven. Your penalty remitted. That word

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in the Greek means to send away. To send away.

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To bid going away or depart. It's used of a husband

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divorcing his wife. Like, I divorce you, get

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out of here. It means to send forth, to yield

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up, to expire, to let go, let alone, let be,

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disregard, to leave like a topic and not discuss

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it now, to omit, to neglect. to let go, give

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up a debt, forgive, to remit. And there's more.

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I'm not going to take time to read all these

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things. They're in the Blue Letter Bible, if

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you want to follow it up, the Blue Letter Bible

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app. The idea is to go away. And it comes from

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863. 863 means to send away. It also means freedom.

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And pardon, deliverance, forgiveness, liberty,

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remission. And then it goes on, you know, just

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a few verses. Jesus said in Matthew 26, 28, For

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this is my blood of the New Testament, which

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is shed for many for the remission of sins. So

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it's Jesus' blood that we depend on for the remission

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of sins. And that's how we can remit other people's

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sins. We can become their intercessor and ask

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God to see. the blood of Jesus over their sins,

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and to hear his cry, Father, forgive them, they

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know not what they do. We can carry that to him

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as intercession. One of the things that helps

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us deal with offenses is 1 Corinthians 13, verse

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5, and the latter part of it. From the Amplified

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Classic, it says, God's love in us does not insist

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on its own rights or its own way, for it is not

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self -seeking. It is not touchy or fretful or

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resentful. It takes no account of evil done to

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it. It pays no attention to a suffered wrong.

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That amplifies the idea of don't take offense.

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Love doesn't take offense. If we are truly letting

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God's love flow through us, we can let it go.

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Yeah, because a lot of times in offense, you

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don't know the rest of the story. It's true.

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It's true. And most of the time, people don't

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mean to offend you. Most of the time, people

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offend you accidentally. You mean something and

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they heard something else. They interpreted your

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words incorrectly or your actions. Or we interpret

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someone else's actions incorrectly. And it makes

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it easy to become offended. Yeah, and you have

00:30:20.569 --> 00:30:24.390
to deal with offense very quickly because if

00:30:24.390 --> 00:30:27.450
you don't, it'll just start, it'll be part of

00:30:27.450 --> 00:30:29.869
you. Yeah, it's true. And eventually it can affect

00:30:29.869 --> 00:30:32.349
your whole nature. Yeah, it can become bitterness

00:30:32.349 --> 00:30:36.349
and then bitterness controls you. So intercessors,

00:30:36.529 --> 00:30:40.670
right? We can become intercessors. And one of

00:30:40.670 --> 00:30:44.730
the best illustrations of that in the Word. is

00:30:44.730 --> 00:30:48.089
Moses when he comes down from the mountain. He's

00:30:48.089 --> 00:30:51.289
been 40 days in the presence of the Lord. What

00:30:51.289 --> 00:30:54.609
an amazing thing that has just happened to him.

00:30:54.670 --> 00:30:58.410
He's just been with God and learned all these

00:30:58.410 --> 00:31:02.009
things that God wants him to teach. And he comes

00:31:02.009 --> 00:31:06.529
down and he finds out that in his absence, his

00:31:06.529 --> 00:31:11.670
people have said, what happened to Moses? He

00:31:11.670 --> 00:31:15.839
must have been consumed by that fire. And, you

00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.880
know, Aaron, make us gods to worship. So Aaron

00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:23.460
gathers up all of their gold and throws it in

00:31:23.460 --> 00:31:25.579
the fire and out comes his calf. Yeah, isn't

00:31:25.579 --> 00:31:28.559
that amazing? At least that's what he said. I

00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:30.440
don't think that's what really happened, but

00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:35.319
it was his excuse, right? So Moses comes down

00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:40.789
and hears this reveling going on. The Lord said,

00:31:40.910 --> 00:31:45.130
I'm in Exodus 32 and verse 9. The Lord said to

00:31:45.130 --> 00:31:49.549
Moses, I have seen this people and behold, it's

00:31:49.549 --> 00:31:53.250
a stiff -necked people. And don't think it's

00:31:53.250 --> 00:31:56.049
all about the Jews, you guys, everybody listening

00:31:56.049 --> 00:31:59.109
here. It's not just about the Jews. It's just

00:31:59.109 --> 00:32:02.269
that they did it really well. We can all be very

00:32:02.269 --> 00:32:04.970
stiff -necked, right? Yeah, that's true. But,

00:32:04.970 --> 00:32:07.769
you know, God used them as an illustration for

00:32:07.769 --> 00:32:11.119
how the rest of us are. So these are stiff -necked

00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:15.000
people. Now, therefore, verse 10, now, therefore,

00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.440
let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against

00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:20.079
them and I may consume them and I will make of

00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:25.579
you a great nation. And Moses said, Lord, why

00:32:25.579 --> 00:32:29.319
is your wrath hot against your people, which

00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:32.119
you brought forth out of the land of Egypt with

00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:35.619
great power and with a mighty hand? Why should

00:32:35.619 --> 00:32:38.599
the Egyptians speak and say that? For mischief

00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:40.700
he did bring them out to slay them in the mountains

00:32:40.700 --> 00:32:42.480
and consume them from the face of the earth.

00:32:43.019 --> 00:32:45.759
Turn from your fierce wrath and repent of this

00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:48.960
evil against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac,

00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:51.359
and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:54.740
by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply

00:32:54.740 --> 00:32:56.960
your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this

00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:59.259
land that I have spoken of will I give to your

00:32:59.259 --> 00:33:02.319
seed, and they shall inherit it forever. And

00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:04.339
the Lord repented of the evil which he thought

00:33:04.339 --> 00:33:10.660
to do to his people. and asked God to reconsider.

00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:15.099
He became the intercessor when God really could

00:33:15.099 --> 00:33:18.140
have and should have probably wiped him out and

00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:21.140
started over with somebody whose heart was already

00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:24.819
toward him. But Moses reminded him of his covenant.

00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:28.779
And especially when you're interceding for someone

00:33:28.779 --> 00:33:31.759
you love, someone who has done something that

00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:34.099
they shouldn't do, someone who has disobeyed

00:33:34.099 --> 00:33:37.849
the Lord. Instead of being judgmental about them,

00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:41.609
if you'll become their intercessor, they'll get

00:33:41.609 --> 00:33:44.089
back a whole lot faster. Because remember what

00:33:44.089 --> 00:33:47.869
Jesus said to the disciples, whosoever sins you

00:33:47.869 --> 00:33:51.710
remit or forgive, they're forgiven. But whosoever

00:33:51.710 --> 00:33:54.970
sins you retain, they're retained. It puts them

00:33:54.970 --> 00:33:58.930
into a cage. And they can't get out. And it's

00:33:58.930 --> 00:34:00.650
not that it's impossible for them to get out.

00:34:00.769 --> 00:34:03.170
If they repent, God's going to forgive them.

00:34:03.289 --> 00:34:07.150
But if you hold that against them, it could very

00:34:07.150 --> 00:34:12.650
well keep them from ever feeling the Holy Spirit

00:34:12.650 --> 00:34:17.170
encouraging them to repent. So when we ask God

00:34:17.170 --> 00:34:20.289
to see the blood of Jesus, to forgive them of

00:34:20.289 --> 00:34:25.489
their sins, we're asking him. to make it possible

00:34:25.489 --> 00:34:28.110
for them to be freed and send the Holy Spirit

00:34:28.110 --> 00:34:31.010
to them, the Spirit of truth, to bring them to

00:34:31.010 --> 00:34:33.090
repentance. It's the goodness of God that leads

00:34:33.090 --> 00:34:36.150
to repentance. So we're asking God, shine your

00:34:36.150 --> 00:34:38.610
goodness on that one, even though they're misbehaving.

00:34:39.269 --> 00:34:41.449
We know that they're doing something they shouldn't

00:34:41.449 --> 00:34:44.130
be doing. We know that the thing that they did

00:34:44.130 --> 00:34:47.730
that really hurt us should be punished. But Lord,

00:34:47.789 --> 00:34:50.590
we're asking for mercy. We're asking for mercy

00:34:50.590 --> 00:34:52.889
so that you bring this person to repentance.

00:34:53.769 --> 00:34:57.550
And it's just amazing what happens when you start

00:34:57.550 --> 00:35:01.530
to ask God to forgive them. It gives you the

00:35:01.530 --> 00:35:04.809
grace to forgive also. And of course, in the

00:35:04.809 --> 00:35:07.210
book of Daniel, I think it's chapter 9, he goes

00:35:07.210 --> 00:35:10.670
to repenting on behalf of his people, even though

00:35:10.670 --> 00:35:13.710
he was such a godly man that he didn't need to

00:35:13.710 --> 00:35:17.469
repent for himself in particular. He was really

00:35:17.469 --> 00:35:23.590
godly, but he took on himself the burden of repenting

00:35:23.590 --> 00:35:26.170
on behalf of his people. And we can do that,

00:35:26.170 --> 00:35:32.150
too. So, you know, just recognize that the accuser

00:35:32.150 --> 00:35:36.210
of the brethren is trying to separate you from

00:35:36.210 --> 00:35:38.329
the people who are trying to offend you or who

00:35:38.329 --> 00:35:42.409
did offend you. It's the accuser. OK, so I have

00:35:42.409 --> 00:35:48.219
a story. Years ago, when our daughter was young,

00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:53.659
I remember there were several times that I would

00:35:53.659 --> 00:35:57.739
put our daughter to bed and I'm doing stuff to

00:35:57.739 --> 00:36:01.559
finish up the day. And Philip has already finished

00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:04.699
up his day and he's gone to bed already, right?

00:36:04.900 --> 00:36:09.239
Yeah. Happens more often than not. You just get

00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:12.719
done before I do. I'm slow. I'm very slow. And

00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:17.630
you're just... More fast. Anyway, so I remember

00:36:17.630 --> 00:36:21.429
it happening on multiple occasions that in this

00:36:21.429 --> 00:36:24.389
situation where I'm tired, right? I'm tired.

00:36:24.510 --> 00:36:28.769
I really should have quit sooner. And I get this

00:36:28.769 --> 00:36:32.550
thought in my head that Sister Gwen, our founder,

00:36:32.730 --> 00:36:36.550
was saying things against me behind my back.

00:36:37.070 --> 00:36:43.039
And I started getting angry and upset. I think

00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:46.159
I was actually going to bed upset. And then I'd

00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:48.719
get up in the morning, and she would be nice

00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:52.940
and kind and loving like she was most of the

00:36:52.940 --> 00:36:55.900
time. Not that she was perfect, but none of us

00:36:55.900 --> 00:37:00.239
really are. And then I thought about what I was

00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:03.659
thinking the night before, and I kind of dismissed

00:37:03.659 --> 00:37:07.440
it. And it happened several, several times. And

00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:11.849
then one night, I woke up to the fact. that this

00:37:11.849 --> 00:37:16.070
wasn't Sister Gwen. This idea was coming from

00:37:16.070 --> 00:37:18.590
the accuser of the brethren. And I said, oh,

00:37:18.690 --> 00:37:24.969
devil. You are the accuser of the brethren, and

00:37:24.969 --> 00:37:29.389
I am too tired to even listen to you. Like, I

00:37:29.389 --> 00:37:32.429
didn't even rebuke him. I just said, that's enough.

00:37:32.630 --> 00:37:36.730
I'm not listening to you. And I only had to do

00:37:36.730 --> 00:37:39.469
that about two or three times, and that never

00:37:39.469 --> 00:37:44.420
happened again. So we have to recognize when

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:47.980
the accuser is operating, because he does. He

00:37:47.980 --> 00:37:51.920
does tend to operate. And I remember Dean sharing

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:55.400
with John Thomas about, he shared with us also

00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:59.239
about how communication in heaven is thought

00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:02.260
to thought. Thought to thought. But you have

00:38:02.260 --> 00:38:05.519
to ask for permission to give a thought. That's

00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.500
really interesting. You have to give permission

00:38:07.500 --> 00:38:10.840
to get a thought. So that's the protocol of heaven.

00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:14.820
So what he told John was that at the beginning,

00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:17.820
when Lucifer got it into his head that he was

00:38:17.820 --> 00:38:21.980
going to overthrow God, he sent out a message

00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:26.519
to everybody in heaven about this overthrow,

00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.840
about this rebellion. And, you know, I'm going

00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.260
to be this, and I'm going to do that. And, you

00:38:32.260 --> 00:38:35.940
know, I guess the idea was, join me. And one

00:38:35.940 --> 00:38:38.500
third. But he sent it out without permission.

00:38:39.860 --> 00:38:42.659
Everybody gets this thought in their heads. And

00:38:42.659 --> 00:38:45.139
that's how he still operates, for heaven's sakes.

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:48.440
That's how he still operates. All these ideas

00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:51.500
that come into your head, that's not from the

00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:54.940
Holy Spirit. And it's not from your spirit. Okay,

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.329
your soul realm. The part of you that fears and

00:38:59.329 --> 00:39:01.889
the part of you that hates and the part of you

00:39:01.889 --> 00:39:05.309
that doubts and has unbelief, that part of you

00:39:05.309 --> 00:39:11.849
is more receptive to a lie. Okay. So we have

00:39:11.849 --> 00:39:16.409
to recognize when the accuser is giving us a

00:39:16.409 --> 00:39:21.409
thought, right? Yeah. So one third accepted the

00:39:21.409 --> 00:39:24.869
thought and two thirds said, no, you don't. I

00:39:24.869 --> 00:39:28.340
mean, two thirds said. I'm following Jesus. I'm

00:39:28.340 --> 00:39:32.139
sticking with God. So, you know, we have to recognize

00:39:32.139 --> 00:39:37.480
when we're being spoken to out of that dark realm

00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:41.239
and rebuke that devourer. You know, the Lord

00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:44.280
rebuke you. You know, I bring the blood of Jesus

00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.239
Christ against you. Yes. And those kind of things.

00:39:47.380 --> 00:39:51.079
You are trespassing. Get out of my life and go

00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:53.900
to the... Outer darkness and wait for the judgment,

00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:56.760
whatever, you know. But go to the feet of Jesus.

00:39:56.860 --> 00:39:58.239
That's another thing that you could tell him.

00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.360
Go to the feet of Jesus. I will not have you.

00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:04.760
I will not accept that wrong thought. And, you

00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.019
know, deal with temptation the same way. I bring

00:40:07.019 --> 00:40:08.920
the blood of Jesus Christ to bear against you.

00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:11.820
That's good, yes. And that reminds me also of

00:40:11.820 --> 00:40:15.380
a story that Peter Snyder told about, and he

00:40:15.380 --> 00:40:18.079
didn't tell us what was going on, but there was

00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:21.489
something that was troubling him. And the Lord

00:40:21.489 --> 00:40:24.150
said to him, and he was begging the Lord to take

00:40:24.150 --> 00:40:28.869
it away. And the Lord said, you just follow me

00:40:28.869 --> 00:40:32.809
and do what I told you. Rather than sitting there

00:40:32.809 --> 00:40:36.869
trying to fight this thing and struggle with

00:40:36.869 --> 00:40:39.110
it, what it's doing is it's trying to get your

00:40:39.110 --> 00:40:41.550
attention and keep you distracted from following

00:40:41.550 --> 00:40:45.909
Jesus. So following Jesus is really what it's

00:40:45.909 --> 00:40:48.889
all about. You follow him. What's it to you?

00:40:49.289 --> 00:40:53.429
What that thing says. You follow me, Jesus says.

00:40:53.710 --> 00:40:58.170
And so when we will just follow him, that's where

00:40:58.170 --> 00:41:00.250
we get the victory. That's where we get the breakthrough,

00:41:00.429 --> 00:41:03.090
is following him. And I want to close with another

00:41:03.090 --> 00:41:05.969
story that Sister Gwen, our founder, used to

00:41:05.969 --> 00:41:11.110
say. She told about this woman that had a friend

00:41:11.110 --> 00:41:13.650
or a relative, I don't remember which it was,

00:41:13.849 --> 00:41:19.599
that was in very, very serious condition. She

00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:23.380
was having a hard time breathing. It seemed like

00:41:23.380 --> 00:41:26.639
it was going to be life -threatening. And the

00:41:26.639 --> 00:41:29.599
doctors weren't giving her any hope. And so this

00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:33.579
woman was somehow in the ministry. I don't know

00:41:33.579 --> 00:41:36.420
if she was a minister or if she was a music minister

00:41:36.420 --> 00:41:39.159
or something like that. But she was praying for

00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:42.699
this friend of hers, a relative. And the Lord

00:41:42.699 --> 00:41:46.000
spoke to her and said, take her to that A .A.

00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:49.139
Allen meeting that's coming up. And I will heal

00:41:49.139 --> 00:41:53.280
her. And she said, but Lord, I've heard terrible

00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:57.719
things about A .A. Allen. And they didn't even

00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.800
have internet back then. Oh, no. That's true.

00:42:00.980 --> 00:42:03.760
Would have been even worse now. So she said,

00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:07.539
is he guilty or not guilty? And the Lord said,

00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:11.679
guilty or not guilty, I stand with the accused

00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:17.199
and not the accuser. So what is that to you?

00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:20.139
What's it to you? What's it to you? Follow me.

00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:24.739
You follow me. So she obeyed the Lord and took

00:42:24.739 --> 00:42:28.179
this friend or relative to an A .A. Allen meeting,

00:42:28.300 --> 00:42:32.900
and God indeed healed her. Because guilty or

00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:35.440
not guilty, he stands with the accused and not

00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:39.800
the accuser. Which is very comforting that even

00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:43.519
when I've done something wrong and I'm repentant,

00:42:43.579 --> 00:42:46.179
the Lord is going to stand with me. And even

00:42:46.179 --> 00:42:49.059
before we repent, he's there. He's there for

00:42:49.059 --> 00:42:52.719
us, and he's there for us to follow him. He's

00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:55.000
there to breathe on us and say, receive the Holy

00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.179
Spirit. He's there to take us out of temptation

00:42:59.179 --> 00:43:02.099
and deliver us into breakthrough. He's there

00:43:02.099 --> 00:43:06.039
for us, regardless of what anybody else is doing.

00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:11.860
What's it to you? You follow me. You follow me.

00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:16.460
So, Father, We just ask you right now to minister

00:43:16.460 --> 00:43:23.280
your love to all of our listeners, to enable

00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:27.099
each one to take that 1 Corinthians 13 5 into

00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:30.900
their heart, that your love, your love operating

00:43:30.900 --> 00:43:35.639
in us isn't self -seeking, and it's not looking

00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.099
for its own rights or its own way, and it's...

00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:41.300
not touch you or fretful or resentful, and it

00:43:41.300 --> 00:43:44.219
takes no account of evil done to it. It pays

00:43:44.219 --> 00:43:47.840
no attention to a suffered wrong. Lord, we're

00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:50.719
asking you to give each one of us the ability

00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:55.179
to rise above. Lord, to rise into your glory,

00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:59.380
to rise into praising you, to rise into interceding

00:43:59.380 --> 00:44:02.619
for those who have harmed us or for those. those

00:44:02.619 --> 00:44:05.119
we don't even know, that we can see that they're

00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:08.960
doing evil. Lord, we just ask you to use us by

00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:11.840
your Spirit, to keep us walking in the Spirit

00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:16.039
and not in the flesh, that we won't operate with

00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:18.840
the suggestions of the accuser of the brethren,

00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.840
but we will walk with you, that we will follow

00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:25.940
you, and that we will work with you in the outpouring

00:44:25.940 --> 00:44:28.980
of your Holy Spirit, Lord, that you will use

00:44:28.980 --> 00:44:32.969
us to intercede for those who are out of sorts,

00:44:33.090 --> 00:44:35.829
for those who are out of sync with you, for those

00:44:35.829 --> 00:44:39.389
who are lost. Lord, give us the heart of intercession

00:44:39.389 --> 00:44:42.429
for the lost. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:44:43.150 --> 00:44:59.880
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