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Beyond the Veil · Rick Manis Ministries Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Got something really real good here tonight.
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SPEAKER_00: Good news.
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SPEAKER_00: I never have bad news.
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SPEAKER_00: I never come with any dues for you to pay.
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SPEAKER_00: Never come with any blues for you to sing.
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SPEAKER_00: We're here preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and it's nothing but good news.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all about what Jesus did and it's wonderful and what we're what we're getting to do is we're getting to see.
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SPEAKER_00: We're just we're just getting to see it so we enjoy it more and and and uh uh benefit from it really.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and uh so you're gonna bear with have to bear with me, especially in the beginning of this, because I'm gonna lay some stuff out here and um and and in it, I really I'm really praying that the you know the the Spirit will help us to see how simple, how easy walking in all of this is.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, there's you know the Bible says things like uh we walk by faith and not by sight.
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SPEAKER_00: The Bible says that we we while we look not on the things that are temporary, but the things that are eternal.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh the things that are not physical, but of spiritual, because the things that are natural, normal, physical are temporal, but the things of the spirit are eternal.
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SPEAKER_00: Um we we we see those things.
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SPEAKER_00: We see we we see where the word says, let God be true, and every man a liar.
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SPEAKER_00: But what we see uh a lot of times in dealing with people is there is a uh too often, I think, a struggle in people that love Jesus struggling with seeing what the Father's doing and hearing what he's saying, so they can do it and and and and and and say it.
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SPEAKER_00: And they struggle with this with this idea of reality.
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SPEAKER_00: What's real, and and and you know, you say look not at the things of the natural, but look at the things of the spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm trying, Rick, but meanwhile, back in the ran at the ranch, I'm going down the tubes.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we want to look at that perception, we want to make that easy.
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SPEAKER_00: It shouldn't be so hard because what Jesus did was was so much.
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SPEAKER_00: But but there is a reason.
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SPEAKER_00: There are reasons for for why people struggle with it.
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SPEAKER_00: And and really, Jesus said the truth will make you free.
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SPEAKER_00: And so if if we just can see truth and what God is doing, and he's doing it around the world, is he's bringing, he's doing a wonderful, beautiful thing.
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SPEAKER_00: He's bringing the power and simplicity of the gospel that is totally centered around Christ and Him alone.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's bringing people out of the fringes of all of their works and all their ideas and all their doodads that they've been trying to do so they can operate this Christian life and the things of the kingdom and faith in God and all that, and getting down to the simplicity of a finished work in Jesus so they can rest in it, operate in it, and enjoy it.
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SPEAKER_00: And let the world see it.
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SPEAKER_00: The reasons are they go back to always Genesis.
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SPEAKER_00: And there was there there was a real separation.
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SPEAKER_00: Now I'm one who sees very clearly that that separation wasn't on God's end, it was on ours.
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SPEAKER_00: It's very clear to me that that when God comes, you know, uh in the cool of the day, man is the one that pulled away.
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SPEAKER_00: Man hid himself, man covered himself.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, because of his choice.
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SPEAKER_00: And we know that choice.
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SPEAKER_00: There were those two choices, and we know one was life and one was a knowledge of good and evil.
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SPEAKER_00: And very simply, a way to look at it tonight is this that in the spirit there is life.
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SPEAKER_00: And in the in the knowledge of good and evil that man chose, that we see there in Genesis, is that what we really did was we chose.
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SPEAKER_00: We got two choices here.
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SPEAKER_00: We can walk in the spirit or walk in the flesh.
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SPEAKER_00: We can choose, we can choose life in the spirit, we can choose to live by that, or there was the choice that man obviously took that says, I'm going to go with the knowledge of good and evil.
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SPEAKER_00: In other words, I'm going to go with sense knowledge.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go with the senses rather than the spirit of life.
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SPEAKER_00: I will go by what I see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and feel.
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SPEAKER_00: That will be my reality, that will govern me.
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SPEAKER_00: By the information that my brain takes in.
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SPEAKER_00: That there's these neurosensory things here that they take in when they what they see, what they feel, what they touch, that's going to be my reality.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what will govern my life.
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SPEAKER_00: And by that, I will know what to do and how to do it.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we chose that.
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SPEAKER_00: And so man has lived in that for thousands of years.
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SPEAKER_00: And so man has lived in that so long, and and and and it and it never could bring life because there's no life sufficiency in that.
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SPEAKER_00: Life is only in the spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's why Jesus said, I came that you would have life.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't come to expand your life, I didn't come to enhance your life, the life that you have, or the existence that you have.
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SPEAKER_00: I came to give you that which you did not follow in the beginning.
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SPEAKER_00: And so he gave us the spirit, and it's the spirit of life.
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SPEAKER_00: But what has happened, bless our hearts, and I'm not mad at anybody, but and I've done it as bad as anybody too.
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SPEAKER_00: We have taken the this sensory knowledge and we brought it into our Christianity a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: And what that did was it got so many Christians to have their attention turned on outward things.
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SPEAKER_00: Behavior.
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SPEAKER_00: For one.
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SPEAKER_00: Looking at outward manifestations and instead of trusting and believing and having faith inside.
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SPEAKER_00: Not that there aren't supposed to be, but I'm telling you, I've dealed with this so much that when people are struggling with their faith, when they're trying to receive something from God, it's hard when their eyes are just on the natural part of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead of finding that place of rest.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's what faith really is.
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SPEAKER_00: That people struggle, that they'll struggle in times of situations in this natural world where it becomes stressful.
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SPEAKER_00: There are problems that they're dealing with, and they struggle to find that peace.
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SPEAKER_00: And they'll know theologically that it's there, but because of how we've how we have pointed people towards fleshly things and our own behavior and our own abilities and our own senses, people think it's up to them to try to get that peace and talk themselves into peace and find and have that peace.
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SPEAKER_00: The same with faith.
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SPEAKER_00: They try to faith it up, they try to talk themselves into believing.
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SPEAKER_00: And so much of it, they're dealing with the sensor, they're dealing with this brain when we can walk in the spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, I want to show you something.
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SPEAKER_00: So we see that we see that that choice there.
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SPEAKER_00: And we know that by that choice, we chose to follow and be ruled by and be governed by our own human senses instead of by the Spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: And look what happened.
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SPEAKER_00: There was a separation there.
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SPEAKER_00: Now remember, the separation came from man.
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SPEAKER_00: What did man experience then?
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SPEAKER_00: There was the shame, there was the fear.
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SPEAKER_00: And remember, God said, Who told you that you were naked?
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SPEAKER_00: Who told you you were naked?
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SPEAKER_00: I was ashamed because I was naked, so I hid myself.
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SPEAKER_00: And he said, Who told you you were naked?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you eaten of that tree?
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SPEAKER_00: Because only by being led by your senses could you come up with the deduction that you did.
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SPEAKER_00: Because the deduction that he had, whatever it was, it made him feel, number one, that he would, when he heard the sound of God, he was not worthy to be with God in that place.
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SPEAKER_00: So he hid himself.
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SPEAKER_00: He was not worthy to be in God's present, to be seen by God.
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SPEAKER_00: He was ashamed of his condition.
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SPEAKER_00: He was afraid, and he had got all of these things, not from the Spirit of God, but from his sensory realm, what he could see and feel, and so on.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why God said, Who told you you were naked?
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SPEAKER_00: I've never told you that.
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SPEAKER_00: You've been naked all this time.
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SPEAKER_00: I never said, I never pointed that out.
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SPEAKER_00: There is no upbraiding with me.
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SPEAKER_00: There's no condemnation in me.
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SPEAKER_00: There is not is nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: There's nothing but life in me.
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SPEAKER_00: Choose life and you'll live.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember in Deuteronomy, he said it this way: I said before you life and death and blessing and cursing.
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SPEAKER_00: Huh?
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SPEAKER_00: That's that that that that that's that's pointing back to that decision right there in the beginning.
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SPEAKER_00: The one tree of life is life and life and blessing, and then the other way is death and cursing.
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SPEAKER_00: That's living by sense knowledge.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we chose that.
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SPEAKER_00: And there was a separation, and Ephesians does say that we were alienated, alienated from God in our minds.
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SPEAKER_00: We see what happened there with Adam.
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SPEAKER_00: Now the separation was very real, and we're going to look at that separation and how it worked.
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SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus actually fixed that thing.
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SPEAKER_00: And I want you to see tonight that he has fixed it once and for all.
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SPEAKER_00: He's not fixing it.
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SPEAKER_00: But he's fixing it and simply knowing the truth, or excuse me, he's fixed it, and simply knowing the truth of this thing allows absolute freedom to for where what we're talking about, when we talk about walking in the Spirit, when we talk about fellowshipping with God, hearing God, trusting God, enjoying God, having peace in the worst situation, having joy in a situation that looks anything but joyful, that that is so real to you that it's just like breathing because that's what this is.
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SPEAKER_00: I promise you, it has nothing to do with how strong you are.
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SPEAKER_00: If so, I can't do this.
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SPEAKER_00: Has nothing to do with how good we are, how how we have trained our behavior or anything.
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SPEAKER_00: It all hinges upon something that was done charitably for you and me.
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SPEAKER_00: Am I talking loud enough?
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SPEAKER_00: Can you hear me on that back row?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Genesis chapter 3, verse 24.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to need some water.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't mean I hate to put somebody to work.
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SPEAKER_00: Going to do much better.
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SPEAKER_00: Genesis chapter 3, verse 24.
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SPEAKER_00: This is where after the dirty deed was done.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, we had it already.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: After it was done, he said, so he drove out the man, and he um have you played college ball yet?
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SPEAKER_00: Do you have any eligibility?
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SPEAKER_00: So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim.
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SPEAKER_00: Cherubs.
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SPEAKER_00: And a flaming sword that turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.
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SPEAKER_00: To keep the way of the tree of life.
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SPEAKER_00: So what we're looking at here is uh speak something symbolically to us here.
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SPEAKER_00: There is there's much symbolism in this whole story.
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SPEAKER_00: Um say, no, it really I believe it's really it really, really, really happened.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I do too, but others say, well, I just believe it's it's it's just symbolic.
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SPEAKER_00: It can be both.
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SPEAKER_00: But it is very, very symbolic here.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, I'll show you something about the cherubs, and you've got to follow me in this and and and and and and and and listen and and and think about this.
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SPEAKER_00: That word cherub, I want to look at first, because the word cherub, it's got it's got a different meaning to us now than it meant in that time.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, uh the word is pronounced karub.
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SPEAKER_00: It means a cherub or an imaginary figure.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, what it over the thousands of years, and you can do this just by just by studying, go pick out some some some reading, read it, and and you can find this out real, real easy.
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SPEAKER_00: But over the thousands of years, the idea of cherub or karub has has evolved to different things.
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SPEAKER_00: Later on, um in um after Catholicism and so on, this the word cherub really took on the meaning of an angel.
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SPEAKER_00: Really it focused on the wings because because they're described as having wings.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, then later on with the Renaissance and Italian artist, it became it became the word cherub became cupid.
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SPEAKER_00: The word, when we say, when we say someone is cherubic, it's a little fat cute face, is what that is.
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SPEAKER_00: And and and the cherub was depicted as this naked little chubby boy, cupid in the Roman, Eros in the in in the Greek, but but this angel the little chubby boy with wings, this angelic thing with the, you know, with the with the uh bow and arrow.
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SPEAKER_00: And so that bec that's now the word that people think of.
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SPEAKER_00: If you don't know anything else about that, and you talk about a cherub, they think of this little cute chubby thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Before that's before that came along, before the Italian artist began rendering that, before that, it was more of an angel, uh, you know, like a more of a stronger figure of an angel with wings.
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SPEAKER_00: But going way, way, way back before that.
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SPEAKER_00: In in this day here, Egypt reigns.
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SPEAKER_00: Um the tabernacle was built, Israel comes out, Babylon, and all those countries are all doing their things and all have there's the there's that there's that word or karub that was something very, very common.
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SPEAKER_00: Was was where these were these images of these imaginary figures, and we see lots of them in history.
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SPEAKER_00: The Sphinx, for instance, the the Egyptian Sphinx, which has like the body of a lion and the head of a person, that's considered a carub, a an imaginary figure.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not real.
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SPEAKER_00: They put they put a head on an animal's body.
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SPEAKER_00: Um Griffins are are were considered, you know what a griffin is, right?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a lion, but it's got wings, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh and so they would combine these these these creatures to create an imaginary figure.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, and there's, I mean, you can look at at art history, and you can see there were it was this was quite common.
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SPEAKER_00: And so they're they're writing this in this idea, and think of it this way.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead of our modern Western American idea of what cherub means, think of what it might have meant then and why, and what we would see in in the imagery and in the tabernacles and in the statues and things that were that were that were being done.
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SPEAKER_00: Because these these cherubs or carubs were also embroidered in the veil in the tabernacle.
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SPEAKER_00: They were made like big um statues in Solomon's temple.
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SPEAKER_00: They're spoken of, this word cherub or carub is is is mentioned quite a few times, and they're always described as these beings that have different body parts put together.
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SPEAKER_00: They might have, they'll have the face, uh Ezekiel described them, John in Revelation described them in very similar ways.
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SPEAKER_00: They always had these wings, they'd have mixed bodies, animals of heads, and the bodies of this, or vice versa.
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SPEAKER_00: Some would have the head of the face of a man.
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SPEAKER_00: And so they had all these things, but it was it was it was it was considered as an imaginary figure.
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SPEAKER_00: So look at it this way and think of this: that this carub was standing there between man and the paradise of God.
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SPEAKER_00: And this kerub had, according to this, this King James says, this flaming sword, which turned every way.
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SPEAKER_00: The word flaming.
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SPEAKER_00: Flaming.
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SPEAKER_00: It's lahat.
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SPEAKER_00: Lahat.
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SPEAKER_00: Isn't that lahat?
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SPEAKER_00: Ablaze.
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SPEAKER_00: See, lahat.
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SPEAKER_00: Ablaze.
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SPEAKER_00: Also, it means magic as covert or a flaming enchantment.
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SPEAKER_00: And and and and and and I can get uh I can go more into the definition if you look at a Bible dictionary where there, where this this word lahat, the reason it's the reason it can it means flaming enchantment is because it indicates uh the the a wrapping flame that covers something that you that that you can't see it.
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SPEAKER_00: For instance, if it would wrap up a log or something that's burning.
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SPEAKER_00: And so, and it speaks of this enchantment, illusionary.
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SPEAKER_00: Um it's only used twice.
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SPEAKER_00: That word lahat is only used twice in the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: Once is right here.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's interpreted in the King James as flaming.
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SPEAKER_00: But it can also indicate there again that which is magic or enchantment.
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SPEAKER_00: The other time it's used is the word enchantment, and that's found in Exodus chapter 7.
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SPEAKER_00: Same word.
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SPEAKER_00: And in Exodus chapter 7, it says it this way.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is when Moses took his stick and threw it down, and Pharaoh got his guys to do a trick.
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SPEAKER_00: And Pharaoh also called the wise men, the sorcerers, the magicians of Egypt, and they also did in like manner with their enchantments, with their lah, with their lahat, the same word that we see.
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SPEAKER_00: So the reason I said all that first is to say this.
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SPEAKER_00: Think of something here.
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SPEAKER_00: Think of this imagery here, that man has this separation from God.
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SPEAKER_00: And in this separation, there is imagination.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, what doesn't the Bible, and we'll look at it here in a little bit, but doesn't the Bible say that what we're doing is we're casting down imaginations and every high thing that's exalted against, erected against the knowledge of God, and man has not known God.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, when Jesus, until Jesus came, John the Disciple announced in John chapter 1, no man had seen God at any time.
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SPEAKER_00: But the Son who's in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him to us.
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SPEAKER_00: He came along, they said, Show us the Father.
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody had known him, nobody perceived him, no one had seen him.
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SPEAKER_00: And Jesus said, If you want to see the Father, look at me.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I and my Father are one.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm the revelation of the Father.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever else you may have thought, whatever it was they thought, they knew it wasn't sufficient.
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SPEAKER_00: They knew they still did not know him.
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SPEAKER_00: They still knew that they had, they could not perceive him.
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SPEAKER_00: They said, Show us the Father and it will suffice us.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what we want.
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SPEAKER_00: And all the teaching and all the types and shadows has not been enough for us.
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SPEAKER_00: Show us the Father.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, what I'm pointing out here is this that with this separation, the big the big issue of this separation is imagination, deception, illusion.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why I like the word enchantments there.
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SPEAKER_00: It's illusion.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, you know any magicians, or some of you know how to know how to do a magic with a big, you know, part of the power of that thing is uh misdirection.
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SPEAKER_00: Now you see it, now you don't, you know, is that it gets you they get you to look look at one hand while the other hand's doing something else.
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SPEAKER_00: And what's the big issue?
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SPEAKER_00: What's the big problem that people have in struggling with this thing is looking at the reality.
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SPEAKER_00: I hear it all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: They say, Okay, I'm going through this hard thing, I'm trying to look at God.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to look in the spirit, I'm trying to look through God's eyes, I'm trying to look at the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: And they're struggling to do this because they're being fought and wrought with all these illusions and deceptions that are clamoring from in the sense realm and is saying, look at me, I am real and I'm bigger than what you're trying to imagine there.
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SPEAKER_00: And so people think they're trying to talk themselves into something, and they become so accustomed to being sensory-minded that they think it's reality.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not saying that what we're seeing here is not real, but how we perceive it is what's not real.
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SPEAKER_00: How we perceive physical things, how we perceive actual situations is is where the illusion, the deception, comes in.
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SPEAKER_00: So man has been enchanted.
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SPEAKER_00: Man has been under the bondage of an illusion that they have called life, and they call it normal.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we talk like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, we all just do this, and we all just do that, and we all feel like this, and we all feel like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Can we would it be okay to open up and say, you know what?
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SPEAKER_00: This kingdom of heaven is a very real and very now thing.
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SPEAKER_00: And that kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit that you have right now.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: And that's the victory that overcomes the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh uh remind you of many years ago I had a dream.
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SPEAKER_00: It was the longest dream I've ever had, the most clear dream I've ever had.
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SPEAKER_00: It wasn't one of those weird dreams, you know, where it's like, yeah, I had a dream and it was like you were there, but then it really wasn't you.
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SPEAKER_00: It turned out I was with Tom, and then, you know, we were at my house, but it didn't look like my house.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, all those, it wasn't anything like that.
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SPEAKER_00: It was so clear and so real, and I and it was so wonderful and beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: I was spending the whole time with Jesus Himself.
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SPEAKER_00: We were walking and talking, and it was so wonderful.
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SPEAKER_00: And I asked three times, is am I dreaming or is this real?
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SPEAKER_00: And three times he I asked, and three times he answered and said the exact same words.
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SPEAKER_00: I I remember it so clear.
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SPEAKER_00: He said, This is not a dream, this is real, and this will never end.
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SPEAKER_00: Second time I asked him, he said the same thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Third time said the same thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Eventually I woke up in the morning and I it hurt because when I woke up, I thought that was nothing but a dream.
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SPEAKER_00: Now here I am, back in reality.
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SPEAKER_00: See what I said, did?
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SPEAKER_00: Now I'm back in reality.
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SPEAKER_00: And and as soon as I said that, I'm sitting up in my bed, I heard the spirit, just like I can hear it right now, ringing in my ear, I heard the spirit say to me, This is not a dream.
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SPEAKER_00: This is real.
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SPEAKER_00: And this will never end.
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SPEAKER_00: And that was something that added to my perception of a now thing that Jesus announced 2,000 years ago that was at hand when he split that veil wide open and said, here's God, meet him, now enjoy.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's had, and over time, as I've grown and seeing this, it has had an automatic effect to where my whole nature is very, very much different than it used to be.
22:34
SPEAKER_00: The kid that used to sleep under the bridges because he had no place to go is the one that just feels like he's the wealthiest person in the world.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes my physical money, I've had it where it's piled up and I've had it where it's, you know, zero lots of times.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: But the reality of what's real in the spirit is not an imagination.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: Poverty was more the imagination, how I respond to those things that look like tougher times.
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SPEAKER_00: Because in the kingdom there's not.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: And it becomes reality.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, you know, remember Jesus had peace on the Sea of Galilee.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't you care?
23:23
SPEAKER_00: You start wondering why do I have such peace in this situation?
23:26
SPEAKER_00: Something has happened.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: Why?
23:28
SPEAKER_00: Because you're looking at reality, you're becoming convinced of what is really, really real.
23:34
SPEAKER_00: And he's why did he say that the natural things are not what we look at, but the spiritual?
23:39
SPEAKER_00: Because the natural is it is temporal, temporary.
23:44
SPEAKER_00: And the spiritual is eternal.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: It will always be true.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: You quit believing it and you come back later on, it'll say the same thing.
23:51
SPEAKER_00: It'll still be true.
23:52
SPEAKER_00: It's been true before creation was ever created.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: It was there, it was true, it's true right now, and it'll be true forever and ever.
23:59
SPEAKER_00: It'll always be consistent and constant, and it'll always be life, and it'll always be fullness of joy, and it'll always be a peace that passes understanding, and it'll always be there, and it's always right there, and God says, here it is, life and death, blessing and cursing.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Choose life, and I am that life.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: But people believe life was something else.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: People believe that that hell on earth is normal to be expected.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: Now remember, this kingdom is within us.
24:36
SPEAKER_00: We deal with realities, all of us do.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: So do I.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: I got some news just a couple of days ago.
24:42
SPEAKER_00: I got hit with something that we're gonna have to have to have to have to fix, and it's that and it's a big chunk of money.
24:50
SPEAKER_00: And we basically live with what's in our pocket.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: But we've been with we've been to these things, and even worse before.
24:57
SPEAKER_00: But we're so wealthy.
25:00
SPEAKER_00: You don't even flinch.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: Whereas before, I can remember being as a younger Christian, I would throw fits with God.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: I would beg and I would say, God, come on, I need a breakthrough.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: But something changes where you're just living in reality.
25:17
SPEAKER_00: And goodness and mercy are following you.
25:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, this is this, this is, I'm so crazy about this, I want everybody to just see.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: And show you why we see, because what I'm talking about is not a journey.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm not you talking, I'm not talking about you going on a pilgrimage and someday getting to the height of a holy mountain where you can finally see all this through.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you about something that had nothing to do with you, Jesus ripped open a veil so you can see right where you're at.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: Right where you're at.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: But he said, you got to know the truth.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: It's the truth that makes you free.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: And we've looked at other things and we think, and we've been directed towards the flesh.
25:50
SPEAKER_00: We've been directed to look at things.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: Even in our church world, you know why?
25:55
SPEAKER_00: Because when man was separated from God, all the religions and all the attempts, what what do they all have in common?
26:03
SPEAKER_00: They're all very sensory.
26:05
SPEAKER_00: That's why there's rituals, there's rites, there's practices, there's there's there's there's statues, there's symbols, there's all these things that you have to do that are physical, that your senses can touch, can see, to give your brain some semblance of having a connection.
26:25
SPEAKER_00: And it's nothing but sensory information.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: And then there's life, then there's reality.
26:36
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all seeing this?
26:38
SPEAKER_00: There's the one who has loved us with an everlasting love.
26:44
SPEAKER_00: And loved us so much, he did the good news, did the gospel work, right?
26:52
SPEAKER_00: But we understand that what we were looking at, what we were dealing with, what we thought was life, or how we perceived life, was a mirage, was an illusion.
27:05
SPEAKER_00: Many of us have chased things.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: I know I did.
27:07
SPEAKER_00: I chased all kinds of things to try to fulfill the want, the hurt, the lust, the desires.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: And it's just like it's the mirage.
27:17
SPEAKER_00: You think there, there's the water right there.
27:19
SPEAKER_00: Then you get closer, then you have to, then you see the water farther away.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: Then you get closer and closer, and you just keep on going and keep going and keep going.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: And so many of us thought that was Christianity.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: We thought it was normal.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: We thought it was right.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: That's why I talk about when I, you know, I you know, I used to I used to preach, this more of this living water you drink, the thirstier you get it, the more you want it.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, Rick, I said that whoever drinks this will never thirst again.
27:55
SPEAKER_00: Well, how will people pursue you?
27:56
SPEAKER_00: He said, I didn't want people pursuing me all their life.
28:00
SPEAKER_00: That's what they used to do before I came around.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: I wanted them to have me, know me, enjoy me.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: I didn't build my church to send people in pursuit for the rest of their life, to put them on a long, arduous journey.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: I didn't build my church to make them climb, climb a hill that they couldn't climb.
28:25
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all here?
28:26
SPEAKER_00: That's why it's all finished.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: That's why the Bible says we have come to Mount Zion.
28:30
SPEAKER_00: He put us there.
28:32
SPEAKER_00: That's why the veil we couldn't break, he broke.
28:37
SPEAKER_00: So we look at the veil here.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: Here's a picture of the veil.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: It's it's uh we we don't know exactly what it looked like.
28:42
SPEAKER_00: We know what color it was, but we don't know exactly what the what the creatures looked like.
28:47
SPEAKER_00: We know there were wings, and usually there were there were wings and animal heads, and so on.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: And and and so this one depicts the inside, you know, it's overlaid with gold on the walls, and there's a candlestick and showbread.
28:59
SPEAKER_00: And so there's that there's a there's there's that veil there, four inches thick.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: Why is it there?
29:04
SPEAKER_00: And why are there cherubs?
29:05
SPEAKER_00: Why are these imaginary creatures, why are they embroidered into that thing?
29:09
SPEAKER_00: Because it's symbolic.
29:10
SPEAKER_00: What is that veil?
29:11
SPEAKER_00: It's a separator, it's a covering.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: That veil is not there to show you what God looks like.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: That veil's there to keep you from seeing God.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: Huh?
29:22
SPEAKER_00: And so what that that shows is it depicts that what's kept us, what's keeping us from seeing God, is imaginations.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: Casting down imaginations.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: So Solomon, when he builds his temple, this is this is good.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: Not only does he have that veil with those four colors, and he has all this kind of stuff going on, and then also remember on the mercy seat, on the mercy seat, there are these cherubs that cover the mercy seat.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: They cover.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: They don't reveal, they cover.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: You can't see what's there because of the cover, but their wings are covering it.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: And then Solomon goes another step further.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: Not only does he have the veil, not only does he have the cherubim covering over that mercy seat, but he has what 2 Chronicles 3, very interesting reader, calls the great cherubs.
30:06
SPEAKER_00: He says they stood on all their feet, and they their wings were third, were you know they were 15 feet each, 30 feet across, touching each other.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: The temple was 30 feet, the inside of the temple was 30 feet across, and they were these huge things, and they are there.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: What are they doing?
30:20
SPEAKER_00: They're covering, they're protecting the way of life.
30:26
SPEAKER_00: And they've got all this, this these cherubs in the cherubs in the in the veil, cherubs covering the mercy seat, the great cherubs guardian.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: Nobody, that's why John could say, no one has seen God.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: Nobody could.
30:39
SPEAKER_00: He was covered.
30:40
SPEAKER_00: What was he covered in?
30:41
SPEAKER_00: He was covered in deceptions, he was covered in illusions, our deceptions.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: Our lies.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: He said, You believe a lie.
30:47
SPEAKER_00: You're destroyed because of a lack of knowledge.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: There is no knowledge of God.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: It's all been covered.
30:55
SPEAKER_00: And remember, it all went south when we believed the wrong thing at the beginning.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: If we go by our senses, we shall be like gods.
31:12
SPEAKER_00: No man had seen God.
31:13
SPEAKER_00: And religion has all done that, it falls right in line with all this stuff.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't reveal God.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: Jesus looked at the, talked to the religious leaders in his day, in his area, and he says, You guys, you hypocrites.
31:26
SPEAKER_00: He says, You don't enter into the kingdom of heaven, and you don't allow anybody else in either.
31:31
SPEAKER_00: You don't see it, they don't see it.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: He says that's why then he says, I tell you, Nicodemus, unless a man is born again, he can't see the kingdom of God.
31:40
SPEAKER_00: Because you've got to get back to the spirit.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: You've got to see in the spirit.
31:43
SPEAKER_00: You experience it in the spirit, you enjoy it in the spirit.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: You walk with God in the spirit.
31:48
SPEAKER_00: God is not flesh, God is spirit.
31:51
SPEAKER_00: And he says, and those that worship him are going to worship in spirit and in truth, not with right ritual and sacraments.
32:00
SPEAKER_00: In fact, he said, I hate those.
32:01
SPEAKER_00: They're going to stop.
32:03
SPEAKER_00: He's going to stop it with one final sacrifice, right?
32:09
SPEAKER_00: 2 Corinthians chapter 10, I think, points right to all of this.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: Casting down what?
32:18
SPEAKER_00: Imaginations.
32:20
SPEAKER_00: Imaginary figures.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: Thou shalt make no graven image of anything that's in heaven.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: Why can't why why not?
32:27
SPEAKER_00: He said, because any imagination you're going to come up with in your sensory brain there, it's going, it's never going to give you the image of God.
32:34
SPEAKER_00: It's so, what can with all the religions, with all the with all the attempts of man to try to have some semblance of connecting to God or approaching God, look how ridiculous it has been.
32:45
SPEAKER_00: And people have believed in this and put their lives on the line for it.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: But some of them, this is their images of God.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: That to appease God, they have to shed blood.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: It was never their own.
32:56
SPEAKER_00: They would always get other people and shed their blood.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: Tribes of people, they would go and they would they would maraud and capture whole tribes of people just about and use them for slaughter so the blood would pour down the steps and this would please their God.
33:11
SPEAKER_00: Because their God wanted blood.
33:18
SPEAKER_00: Where did they get that idea?
33:21
SPEAKER_00: Well, it's all out there.
33:26
SPEAKER_00: Where did Christians get the idea that if you sin, God turns his back on you?
33:33
SPEAKER_00: Where did Christians get the idea that God was angry with you and smoke was bowling out of his nose because of what you've done?
33:40
SPEAKER_00: And America is just.
33:47
SPEAKER_00: We've read things, we've seen things, we've misinterpreted things, we make we we our perceptions about all this were wrong from the get-go.
33:56
SPEAKER_00: And built all these images of God.
34:00
SPEAKER_00: And I'll have to say, for about 20 years of that, I still had a lot of illusion in this idea of God.
34:11
SPEAKER_00: But a time came when things started changing.
34:13
SPEAKER_00: It just started happening.
34:14
SPEAKER_00: I started seeing.
34:16
SPEAKER_00: I started fellowshipping.
34:18
SPEAKER_00: I started receiving.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: Things started changing.
34:25
SPEAKER_00: The guy who who was so stressful and anxious became a guy that people say has some such peace, it doesn't seem like he even cares about anything.
34:38
SPEAKER_00: When did that happen?
34:39
SPEAKER_00: That was didn't wasn't how it used to be.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: Something happened.
34:44
SPEAKER_00: The kingdom starts happening.
34:46
SPEAKER_00: He who my own negative family who didn't know God.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: My grandma was the biggest worry wart I'd ever seen.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: She sat with me one time and she said, Rick, you've got the worst outlook on life I've ever seen in my life.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: They were pretty bad themselves.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm the guy that seems to have this joy no matter what.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: What's going on here?
35:10
SPEAKER_00: Is he in denial?
35:11
SPEAKER_00: It's like he doesn't even know reality, they think.
35:15
SPEAKER_00: Master, don't you care that we're dying here?
35:17
SPEAKER_00: That was their reality.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: Their senses told them that they were going down the tubes and Jesus was taking a nap in the boat.
35:22
SPEAKER_00: They said, We're dying, and you don't care.
35:25
SPEAKER_00: Well, Jesus had peace because the truth was they weren't dying.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: They were going to the other side, right?
35:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, he knew that.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: The experience was real, but the perception caused two different outcomes.
35:40
SPEAKER_00: One had peace, and the others were freaking out.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: The kingdom is not around there, it's in here.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: Please see that.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: Now, so he says, We're casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself or is erected against the knowledge of God.
36:01
SPEAKER_00: We see it.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: Man would not know God.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: These cherubs with these with these with these swords, these enchanting, what, and also sword is is a symbolic too.
36:12
SPEAKER_00: Look all through.
36:13
SPEAKER_00: The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
36:15
SPEAKER_00: The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword.
36:18
SPEAKER_00: Revelation shows the Lamb with the sword coming out of his mouth, which is the word of God.
36:22
SPEAKER_00: It's a word.
36:24
SPEAKER_00: It's an enchanting word.
36:25
SPEAKER_00: It's a lie.
36:28
SPEAKER_00: It's a lie.
36:31
SPEAKER_00: Jesus brought us to reality.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: These things that are erected against the knowledge of God.
36:37
SPEAKER_00: Look at the veils.
36:38
SPEAKER_00: We were talking about this, and Judy's like, well, why did God's the one that told him, build the tabernacle?
36:44
SPEAKER_00: Why would he want them to have a veil there?
36:46
SPEAKER_00: I thought God didn't want there to be a veil and all that.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: He's showing us.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: It's all teaching, it's symbolic.
36:51
SPEAKER_00: He's showing us and the generation, and even people like you and I here, that separation, where it came from, and why it needed to be torn.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: What the issue really, really was.
37:02
SPEAKER_00: Hebrews 10 said the veil was the flesh.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: Sensory realm.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: Casting down imaginations in every high thing that's been erected.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: That veil, fifty feet tall in one place.
37:21
SPEAKER_00: This high thing that's erected against the knowledge of God.
37:24
SPEAKER_00: What was the veil there so people could not see?
37:28
SPEAKER_00: So people could not see.
37:31
SPEAKER_00: And nobody could go in.
37:34
SPEAKER_00: Except only once a year, the high priest, because he was a symbol of Jesus.
37:39
SPEAKER_00: But not the real thing.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: We look at John chapter 1.
37:45
SPEAKER_00: And I said all that to say this.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: The finished work.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: No man had seen God at any time.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: Verse 18.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: No man had seen God at any time.
37:57
SPEAKER_00: Why?
37:58
SPEAKER_00: From the very beginning.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: None of our efforts, none of our religions, none of our brains, none of our ideas, our philosophies, the things that we deduced through our through our thinking, our knowledge of good and evil, none of it ever got us close.
38:14
SPEAKER_00: We all missed the mark and came short of the reality, of the glory of God, which symbolically is shown beyond that veil.
38:25
SPEAKER_00: No man has seen God at any time, but the Son, the only begotten Son, who's in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him to us.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: Now what's going on?
38:37
SPEAKER_00: What's happening to you?
38:39
SPEAKER_00: What's this these changes that are happening in you?
38:41
SPEAKER_00: What's happening?
38:42
SPEAKER_00: Now you're now you can see.
38:44
SPEAKER_00: Why?
38:44
SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus ripped the veil.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: Right?
38:48
SPEAKER_00: God gave something to our sensory knowledge that really physically happened.
38:54
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus offered himself up on the cross and he's on that cross, something happened in the physical temple in Jerusalem.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: That veil ripped from the top to the bottom.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: A man didn't cut it with a sword down here.
39:07
SPEAKER_00: It ripped from the top to the bottom where nobody could reach.
39:10
SPEAKER_00: It ripped from the top to the bottom where nobody can reach.
39:13
SPEAKER_00: And now there is no barrier between God and man.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: God says, now you can see me.
39:20
SPEAKER_00: Now we can be together.
39:22
SPEAKER_00: Now we can walk.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: Now we can fellowship.
39:25
SPEAKER_00: Now we can enjoy each other.
39:27
SPEAKER_00: Now you can dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of your life.
39:31
SPEAKER_00: Do you see what Jesus did and why this is real?
39:33
SPEAKER_00: And it's not you journeying in there, it's not you splitting that veil open.
39:37
SPEAKER_00: Jesus did the whole thing, and he says, I am the unveiling of the Father.
39:43
SPEAKER_00: And because of that, tomorrow, you and I wake up and we rest in what Jesus did.
39:50
SPEAKER_00: And when we wake up, we don't have to enter into anything that something entered into us.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: The veil, I love this picture here.
39:59
SPEAKER_00: It's very different than anything I've ever seen, but I liked it because it was different.
40:03
SPEAKER_00: But it was almost like you get the picture of somebody that wanted to be known, somebody that wanted to be seen.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: In spite of our deception, in spite of us believing lies, in spite of us falling for the illusions of life, said I'm doing this anyway, and I'll do it all myself.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: I'm.
40:25
SPEAKER_00: This is what Ezekiel saw.
40:27
SPEAKER_00: He said, I saw the Lord.
40:28
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I wish I would have pulled that one up.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: In Ezekiel 10, I believe it is.
40:32
SPEAKER_00: He said, I saw the Lord coming out from among the cherubim and standing at the threshold of the temple.
40:44
SPEAKER_00: He came out.
40:46
SPEAKER_00: We're not going, we're not journeying into some place.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: We're not fighting our way past the brazen altar and the priest who sang his praise and we're not doing that.
40:56
SPEAKER_00: I saw the Lord come out from among the cherubim.
41:01
SPEAKER_00: He said, Here I am, whosoever.
41:04
SPEAKER_00: We're here.
41:05
SPEAKER_00: We're together.
41:07
SPEAKER_00: Would y'all stand up?
41:09
SPEAKER_00: How y'all doing?
41:14
SPEAKER_00: Kill the journey.
41:19
SPEAKER_00: Drop the work.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: The idea of any of it being up to you.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: Because if any of it's up to you, then it's going to have to be based on your knowledge of good and evil.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: It's going to be based on your ability to be strong enough to break a veil that nobody could break except Jesus, and he already did it.
41:45
SPEAKER_00: It'll be based on your ability to climb the holy hill.
41:49
SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you what, I bet you better better men and women than you have tried, and they didn't make it.
41:56
SPEAKER_00: But I can rejoice, I can party in this, I can be giddy, I can be joyful because it got done.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: And what we're looking at, what we're listening to, what we're experiencing, what we're feeling is eternity here.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: We'll dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
42:10
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all seeing this?
42:12
SPEAKER_00: This is where you're always going to be.
42:13
SPEAKER_00: This will always be your reality.
42:15
SPEAKER_00: And the good thing about this reality is that you're just going to inquire daily and see more and more.
42:21
SPEAKER_00: This is why it just gets better.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: I can promise you, I don't know what situations in this natural world I'll have to deal with, to be honest with you.
42:30
SPEAKER_00: But I can tell you that you'll be with God in all of it.
42:33
SPEAKER_00: That from now on you're always dwelling with Him.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: And because of that, no matter what's going on in the temporal realm, goodness and mercy will still follow you.
42:43
SPEAKER_00: You know, I brought up a situation just because I want you to know there are examples.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: We all deal with life.
42:50
SPEAKER_00: But I can assure you, we'll be fine through our trial like you will yours.
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SPEAKER_00: Goodness and mercy is following the you, and you'll dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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SPEAKER_00: How y'all doing?
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SPEAKER_00: Would you close your eyes?
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SPEAKER_00: And I want you to just take a few moments and just be there.
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SPEAKER_00: Just enjoy.
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SPEAKER_00: I said it wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: Be here.
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SPEAKER_00: Go preach the good news, Jesus said.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell them that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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SPEAKER_00: In this kingdom that's full of righteousness, peace, and joy, what's happening is you're you're beginning to see.
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SPEAKER_00: You're just beginning to do more of what you now can see the Father do.
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SPEAKER_00: Because you can see.
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SPEAKER_00: You can see now.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what you're seeing.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why you rejoice.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why you even came to this meeting tonight, because you can see things.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why you like hearing these things, because you can see these things.
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SPEAKER_00: And you're hearing and saying things that you're hearing the Father say because there's no separation.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's all gone.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's never going To be any.
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SPEAKER_00: And you'll never ever have a have that feeling of wondering is God care?
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SPEAKER_00: Is God do I need to do something else?
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SPEAKER_00: You can, I promise you, you can throw that away once and for all.
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SPEAKER_00: You need to do nothing but just be with God.
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SPEAKER_00: And being with God, you're going to receive from Him.
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SPEAKER_00: He'll be your life, He'll be your source, your provision, your blessing.
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SPEAKER_00: Because He's the one that set this whole thing up to be with you now.
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SPEAKER_00: And He's with you in your affliction.
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SPEAKER_00: And He's the one.
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SPEAKER_00: In Him, in Him alone is life.
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SPEAKER_00: Not in you trying to figure this out.
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SPEAKER_00: Doctors told you some things that are hard to handle.
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SPEAKER_00: In Him is life, and you're there.
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SPEAKER_00: You're at the biggest advantage.
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SPEAKER_00: You're in the safest place.
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SPEAKER_00: You're in the right place right now with Him and in Him.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's no place you need to go, spiritually speaking.
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SPEAKER_00: Nothing you need to do to make this work out for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Just be alive.
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SPEAKER_00: And be alive with the eternal life.
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SPEAKER_00: And I pray right now that the Holy Spirit help us.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we've been ingrained in the brain with illusions and deceptions, but He's helping.
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SPEAKER_00: That He helps us even tonight with the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Him.
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SPEAKER_00: That the eyes of our understanding, being opened, can perceive and know what is this strength and hope of our calling.
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SPEAKER_00: And that we would know the exceeding riches of His inheritance that's in you and I, His holy saints, His holy ones.
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SPEAKER_00: And we would know the exceeding greatness of His power that is both in us and for us as we believe.
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SPEAKER_00: The same power that He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him far above every principality, power, might, and dominion and every name that's named, and made Him to be the head over all things to the body, you and I, which is the fullness of Him that fills everything in everyone.
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SPEAKER_00: I thank you, Father, for the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
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SPEAKER_00: I thank you, Father.
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SPEAKER_00: For the ability to see that only comes by your Spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: We can't do it.
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SPEAKER_00: We can't think it up and we can't see it.
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SPEAKER_00: But you reveal it to someone as dumb as I am.
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SPEAKER_00: Someone as weak as I am.
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SPEAKER_00: You have revealed this not to the intellectuals trusting in their sensory knowledge.
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SPEAKER_00: You have revealed this to the babies.
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SPEAKER_00: You've revealed this to the weak.
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SPEAKER_00: You revealed this to the hopeless.
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SPEAKER_00: You've revealed it to us.
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SPEAKER_00: And for that we can only be grateful tonight.
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SPEAKER_00: So we thank you for the life that brings healing to our bodies.
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SPEAKER_00: We thank you for the life that brings absolute wealth and provision of heaven into our everyday being.
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SPEAKER_00: We thank you for righteousness, peace, and joy that passes all understanding and makes this temporal world look so, so small.
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SPEAKER_00: For now we see.
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SPEAKER_00: And giving you thanks and celebration in Jesus' wonderful saving name.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.