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One of Those People series (Part 4): "Bringing vs. Withholding" | October 23, 2023 · First Love Revolution

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Revolution Church Message Series one of those people.
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  Speaker 1: You can find the entire series in video and podcast format, as well as other messages, at FirstLoveRevolutioncom.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Pastor Shane with today's message.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of announcements before we do.
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  Speaker 2: This is, as Mike mentioned earlier, a talking experience group of people in their school.
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  Speaker 2: In this multiplying work, in addition to him already providing the means to purchase this facility, the staff or a number of us on staff went down last week with Canvas homes in the immediate surroundings of just the neighborhoods around the new property and meeting neighbors, you know, inviting them to the first information meeting that's coming up here in a couple of weekends.
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  Speaker 2: And in the process of doing that, god just swung wide some doors to walk through.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, three people praying to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior Just this last week.
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  Speaker 2: So amazing, two of them in their 80s praise God.
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  Speaker 2: Not that older people are setting their ways or anything, but I'm just saying God is great, okay, so only God would already be saving people the very first week of this multiplying work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm certainly in awe.
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  Speaker 2: Another testimony for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: So over the past couple of months, as we've been in the process of praying about the launch of the Colorado Springs campus, we've just sensed that one of the things that God was leading us to do is to hold a like a summer kids camp, utilizing the amenities of this new facility.
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  Speaker 2: I mean pool park, rock climbing wall, you know gym, et cetera, all things that you know we wouldn't have to rent.
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  Speaker 2: It's just such a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Amy, also our kids pastor, she's really passionate about kids camp, just believing that God can do so much in that kind of experience with children.
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  Speaker 2: And so, anyways, we had this sense that we'd be making available this upcoming summer, offering parents from here the chance to have their you know kids bus down daily for kids camp, kids from that area joining you as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one cool story is that as we went door to door and we did ask, like, how do you know, how do you think a church could serve this community?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just heard over and over and over again that the way we could bless and serve the community is through offering events for kids, like a summer camp.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we just heard this so many times.
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  Speaker 2: I just felt like it was such a testimony of how God's already been leading.
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  Speaker 2: Another thing that's worth saying is that, as we we learned in going door to door how much of a hub this facility is to that community, everybody that we talked to knew about this facility.
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  Speaker 2: They had been wondering about this facility.
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  Speaker 2: It was the only community and recreation center that this community had, so no others were moved in, no others were built for that community.
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  Speaker 2: So we just heard many times people saying, oh, we're just, we've been hoping something good would go into that facility, and so we feel like there's so many testimonies already stacking up of the God who makes the way, of making a way again, and so in three weekends from now, we're all going to be hearing ways that we can participate as a church body in the multiplying work, which will, of course, also include a hearing giving opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: So just putting that in front of you is coming in a few weeks, but we're just very excited about this.
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  Speaker 2: We will keep you guys updated with key dates as it relates to the campus launch, but for now just put it on your radar that next weekend we're going to be hosting a second special interest meeting.
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  Speaker 2: So next Sunday, October 30th, at 12 o'clock, so right after the Sunday morning service in the gym.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be for anybody who might be feeling led or called to participate in either a three a three to 12 month commitment or longer to actually helping to plant this multiplying work in Northeast Colorado Springs.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're just in that meeting, lunch we'll be provided.
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  Speaker 2: Childcare will be provided for that as well.
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  Speaker 2: If that's you or you know of a family member or a friend who might be interested in learning more, might even be willing to roll up their sleeves and participate in planting this campus, Well, we'd love to have you or them join us.
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  Speaker 2: Just email Becky Sawyer, Becky at churchreferrangecom, taking note of the special spelling of Becky.
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  Speaker 2: It's.
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  Speaker 2: B-e-c-k-i-e.
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  Speaker 2: They're at churchreferrangecom and let her know you'd like to come to that special interest meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Also, speaking of year end, this year we're going to be holding a Christmas store for the homeless in our area, where they're going to be able to come.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be able to shop for free, of course for the warm clothes and warm gear that they need.
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  Speaker 2: Boots clothing gloves, hats, that sort of thing and also share a Thanksgiving meal with us and together, and so, if you want to pencil that into your calendar, it's going to be taking place on Saturday, november 26th.
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  Speaker 2: We will have volunteer opportunities for this throughout that day to serve as ghost guests, hosts for our guests Somehow they're turning into ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: You can be a ghost I guess Halloween's right around the corner Hosts for our guests, as well as assisting with shopping for supplies for it, the store set up the store, take down meal preparation, transportation, those sorts of things, the things, the funding for this.
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  Speaker 2: It will also come from the year end, getting the opportunity that you're gonna hear about in a few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: If you'd like information regarding and volunteer opportunities for that, you can reach out to Michelle Woodruff.
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  Speaker 2: It's Michelle at churchreferrangecom.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray and then we'll jump into our time in the word.
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  Speaker 2: Today, god, as we open up your scriptures, lord, we recognize that it's your word, it's your mouth that is being opened, and we wanna open up the doors, the gates of our heart, that the kingdom glory may enter in.
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  Speaker 2: We want to hear from you, we want your word to speak to us and, god, we do not want to leave here the same.
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  Speaker 2: We want to leave here, changed by you in the power and presence of your word, and we ask for that, and all who agree said in Jesus' name amen, amen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, welcome back to our new weekend series called One of those People and you know who I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: One of those people because when you're around one of them, you know it.
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  Speaker 2: When you meet one of them, you know it.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk to one of them, you know that you have come across them.
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  Speaker 2: They're a blaze for God.
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  Speaker 2: They live for the things of eternity, not passionlessly, not lifelessly, but fully.
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  Speaker 2: Their eyes are full of life, their soul is full of fire, their soul is full of fervor for God and the things of God, and we kind of tend to think of them as maybe something other, like some foreign species, I don't know maybe some subset of people that have gotten this special gene in them.
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  Speaker 2: We tend to think that kind of fire, that kind of fervor for God and the things of God, it's just kind of like unattainable, you know, like it's unreachable for normal people to ever get to.
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  Speaker 2: But what if God has actually made all of us to be one of those people?
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  Speaker 2: What if that's who God has designed us to be?
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  Speaker 2: And what if there are principles that are actually keys to unlocking the heart to have this great passion for God?
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  Speaker 2: That is what we have been looking at in this series, what we're going to continue to be looking at in this series.
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  Speaker 2: So far we've looked at a couple of biblical principles Worship verse, complaint and fear verse, casualness.
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  Speaker 2: That worship, it is a passion kindler, and complaint is a passion killer.
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  Speaker 2: That fear of the Lord, it is a passion kindler.
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  Speaker 2: And the casualness of the Lord, it is a passion killer.
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  Speaker 2: Today we're going to look at another major and I believe capital M major kindler or killer, but it comes to the fires of passion To learn about it.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be talking about the fire of God a little bit today.
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  Speaker 2: I don't always talk about the fire of God, but in Matthew 3, 11, john the Baptist said as for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is my dear than I I'm not fit to remove his sandals.
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  Speaker 2: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: And with what?
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  Speaker 2: Fire?
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  Speaker 2: Fire, now, obviously Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: John the Baptist is talking about Jesus here and what he would do.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, if we're honest, many really underplay both of these baptisms.
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  Speaker 2: Many underplay the baptism of being baptized with the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Almost everybody underplays the second part.
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  Speaker 2: But who's really talking about being baptized with fire?
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  Speaker 2: Not many.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus didn't just come to baptize us with the Holy Spirit, he came to baptize us with fire.
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  Speaker 2: Man, that doesn't sound that pleasant, does it?
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  Speaker 2: I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 2: Several years ago we were singing a worship song.
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  Speaker 2: All consuming fire Fall on us.
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  Speaker 2: Someone came up to me after the service.
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  Speaker 2: They were so upset.
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  Speaker 2: Why on earth would you be praying for the fire of God to fall on us?
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  Speaker 2: Like what are you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: They were very disturbed by the words of this song and it doesn't sound all that great.
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  Speaker 2: But once you become familiar with the scriptures, you do begin to realize that the baptism of fire is a needed thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good thing, it is a great thing, it's a much needed thing, a thing you should be praying for.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 2: It's because the fire of God.
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  Speaker 2: It brings both passion and purity in a person's life, two things that are very interconnected.
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  Speaker 2: But if you want to be one of those people you want to be one that's a person of passion you need the fire of God to fall on your life.
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  Speaker 2: So how do we get that fire?
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  Speaker 2: If you have your bibles, you can go and turn to Leviticus, chapter nine.
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  Speaker 2: Today we're going to start at the end of the chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 24 says then fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat that were on the altar.
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  Speaker 2: And when all the people saw it, they shouted and they fell on their faces.
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  Speaker 2: There's a number of times like this in the Old Testament where the fire of God fell Different times, but only in one place did this actually ever happen?
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  Speaker 2: God's fire didn't fall just anywhere it could have, but it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: It fell only on what was offered on the altar, never anywhere else.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only place that fire ever fell, at least not in the positive sense that we are going after.
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  Speaker 2: This is the only place fire falls what's offered on the altar.
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  Speaker 2: So pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: How do you become one of those people?
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  Speaker 2: Passion is spanned into flame by what you bring.
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  Speaker 2: You bring more to blaze, more, so just to let the cat out of the bag.
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  Speaker 2: From the beginning of the message here bringing is a fire can learn.
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  Speaker 2: Withholding is a fire killer.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to understand something that withholding withholds.
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  Speaker 2: It withholds more of his spirit.
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  Speaker 2: If only we knew the cost of withholding from God, that we're actually withholding more of his spirit from us.
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  Speaker 2: You can kind of think of your soul like this, like a solo stove, like a blazing furnace.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't have one of these, by the way, I should be a salesman, because they're pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get into it all, but think of your soul like this okay, it's this furnace, it's meant to house the all-consuming fire of God, but what you withhold, it takes up space in your soul.
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  Speaker 2: It's like these boulders that are placed in your soul taking up space, and I'm so strong I can just palm these boulders like this.
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  Speaker 2: But the things that we withhold, they take up space in our soul and it's like, well, how much room is there left for the all-consuming fire of God to take place With these boulders taking up so much space within our soul?
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  Speaker 2: If we want to be a blaze for God, there's essentially two principles at work.
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  Speaker 2: We have to remove the things that we are withholding, because there's not much room for a blazing fire when those things are left remaining in our soul.
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  Speaker 2: And then we what Bring more to blaze more.
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  Speaker 2: We bring more to blaze more.
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  Speaker 2: You can kind of think of like this when we are withholding, we are placing firewalls within.
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  Speaker 2: Think of your soul like a home and you're just putting up these firewalls.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, if you do want more of his fire in your life, we got to make more space for the blades.
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  Speaker 2: Make more space for the place.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want more than offer more?
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  Speaker 2: Get rid of those things that you've been been molding.
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  Speaker 2: Add wood to the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Bring something fresh to the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Add more wood to the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Make space so that that space can be set of blades.
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  Speaker 2: God can consume anything in an incident, but what in Scripture is he pleased to consume?
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  Speaker 2: He's pleased to consume what's offered to him.
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  Speaker 2: All the things that we withhold from God, those are the boulders, the blockades, the barriers, the firewalls.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, whether it's Santa, it's ingenious or anything, it's just with Ella.
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  Speaker 2: That's our way of saying not here, god, nope.
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  Speaker 2: Not here, god.
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  Speaker 2: Not this part of the house, god no.
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  Speaker 2: So by withholding, we are constructing these firewalls within our souls and it's like, hey, I want this raging, burning, burning.
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  Speaker 2: So fire for you.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be one of those people in this one little inch of my soul and we've got this little triple full of fire instead of a raging house fire and we wonder why.
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  Speaker 2: I Want you to do your best and think of the time that you have been most fun fire for God.
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  Speaker 2: I've never met anyone who didn't have any ups and downs and their relationship with the Lord and their fire and their passion for God, the things of God.
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  Speaker 2: When were the times that you had the most.
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  Speaker 2: What was the great?
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  Speaker 2: It's.
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  Speaker 2: What was the second greatest, the third greatest?
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  Speaker 2: Just kind of get them, you know, recall in your mind and praise God if that's right now.
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  Speaker 2: But thinking of those things, I can just guarantee you this of all of those instances that are populating your mind right now, I promise you there were two things that were present.
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  Speaker 2: There was a fresh discovery of God that was fueling your pursuit, combined with a fresh offering to God that the fire fell upon there was a fresh discovery of God that was fueling your pursuit for God, and there was a fresh offering that was brought that fire fell upon.
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  Speaker 2: Just as a fire needs both wood and oxygen, passion needs these two things.
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  Speaker 2: It needs vision, fresh vision, and it needs an offering, a fresh offering.
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  Speaker 2: It's an unveiling of the eyes, combined with this offering, that fire falls on.
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  Speaker 2: To say it another way fresh vision plus fresh offering this is the recipe for passion.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fresh vision plus fresh offering, this is passion.
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  Speaker 2: You see something you want to run after and you're like I'm willing to make a sacrifice To go after that, to go after this thing of God.
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  Speaker 2: In the New Testament times, you guys know that the the altar.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a physical altar in the same way, and we don't have Physical offerings in the same way that they had in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 2: They have a more symbolic meaning, a fuller meaning, a more potent one, but still a more symbolic, conceptual one, and I'm concerned that we have lost understanding of the sacrifices on which fire falls In this process.
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  Speaker 2: We need to become experts at the altar again If we want to be set ablaze, because this is where fire falls.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just reclaim this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back to Leviticus 9.
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  Speaker 2: Here Leviticus 9, it is the inauguration of the sacrificial system of National Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the concentration, it is the utilization of the altar.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time, it's the place where fire falls, and so we start at the end of the chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's go back to a preceding fire Falling.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 1 came about in the eighth day.
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  Speaker 2: We read that Moses called Aaron, his sons and the elders of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: So why is it the eighth day?
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  Speaker 2: This is important to understand why fire fell on that day.
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  Speaker 2: It's because there have been seven days prior where Aaron and his sons, aka the priests they had been living inside the tent of meeting for a whole week, like they weren't even allowed to go outside of the door of the tent of meeting.
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  Speaker 2: They've been inside of the house of God, the tabernacle of God, for seven days straight.
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  Speaker 2: And and they just, I mean, they didn't even have social media.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there was no sister wise being wired up into that place.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't watch those shows.
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  Speaker 2: It's just them in the house of God.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, my wife, I love watching the sister.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I think of the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's what comes of my.
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell her.
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  Speaker 2: I told you, I'm sure she's in here as a side note.
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  Speaker 2: As the people of God, you want the leaders of your church to be first and foremost, devoted to being in the house of God and the presence of God, seeking after the presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget, in the New Testament church, the leaders were first to devote themselves to prayer and then second to the ministry of the words.
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  Speaker 2: So that's secret place, the secret place of God's presence.
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  Speaker 2: That is critical for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: But when the leaders of the community neglect, neglect this place or, conversely, pursue this place, it does impact the grace of the house, it impacts the whole.
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  Speaker 2: So just keep in mind those seven days.
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  Speaker 2: They had been set apart to be at God's presence as part of the offering that we are seeing in Leviticus, chapter 9 oh, which fire is about to fall.
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  Speaker 2: So when you hear that, we of course shouldn't be surprised that you know you probably encounter God.
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  Speaker 2: If you've ever gotten to a Christian camp before, you probably encounter God more than Normal.
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  Speaker 2: If you've come to revival weeks or revival weekend and you set aside Additional time to be in the house and the presence of God, you've probably encountered God in a unique way, experience fire falling in a unique way.
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  Speaker 2: We shouldn't be surprised.
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  Speaker 2: He says if you see me, you will find me.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 2 he said to Aaron take for yourself a calf, a bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defect, and offer them before the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Just real, quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Why do priests offer a bull for a sin offering?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever really studied this in depth about.
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  Speaker 2: Other people in Israel did not offer a cow or a bull as their sin offering, but it was required for the priests.
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  Speaker 2: Leviticus 4-3,.
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  Speaker 2: If the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the Lord a bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin that he is committed.
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  Speaker 2: So what does the bull remind us of?
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  Speaker 2: How?
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  Speaker 2: It reminds us of Aaron fashioning the golden calf and the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: That's what, of course, aaron B, the high priest at that time in this case Aaron the priest, was responsible for bringing sin to the whole of the people of Israel, and so, by having the priests offering for their own sin to be the same animal, it really makes a statement about the greatness and the gravity of the sin of a priest who is supposed to be devoted to God, who's a representative before God too of the people and not to mention their example and to leading the whole into sin as well.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever there's sin at the top.
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  Speaker 2: So to speak, it does impede the grace flowing to the whole as well, and so again, no matter what church you go to, whether it's this one or if you're visiting another one.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you should be praying for the leaders of your church to be prioritizing God's presence and prioritizing purity.
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  Speaker 2: You want the leaders of your church prioritizing the presence of God, prioritizing purity in their life, because it does affect the grace on the whole, not to mention if they fall and have failings.
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  Speaker 2: As we all know, far too frequently these days it reflects poorly on Christ's name.
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  Speaker 2: So for the priests, their sin, a bull was offering.
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  Speaker 2: There's one other time that a bull was used as a sin offering.
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  Speaker 2: It was also used whenever the whole nation had been guilty of something.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a bull like the gold calf.
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  Speaker 2: Only when the priests are, only when the whole nation has sin.
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  Speaker 2: If some other leader in Israel had sinned, it had to be a male goat without defect for their sin offering.
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  Speaker 2: And if it was a person from the congregation, from the community, who was not a priest or leader, then it had to be a female goat or female lamb without defect that had to be offered for their sin offering.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, male of course carries the significance of headship, which the leader over is a head over.
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  Speaker 2: So in all these cases, the type of offering, even that's being offered for a sin, it's revealing the significance of that sin's impact on the whole, especially when it was done by priests or by leaders.
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  Speaker 2: In verse three, to the sons of Israel, you shall speak saying take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb, both one year old without defect, for a burnt offering.
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  Speaker 2: And so again, here we are.
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  Speaker 2: This is not just the initial anointing and inauguration of the priests of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: This is the kickoff of the entire Israelite sacrificial system.
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  Speaker 2: It's all of Israel that's present and involved in this.
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  Speaker 2: Verse four, leviticus nine four and ox in the ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord in a grain offering mixed with oil.
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  Speaker 2: For today the Lord will appear to you.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got the priests.
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  Speaker 2: They're bringing a sin offering.
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  Speaker 2: The priests are bringing a burnt offering.
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  Speaker 2: The people are bringing a sin offering.
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  Speaker 2: They are bringing a burnt offering and peace offerings and a grain offering.
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  Speaker 2: And truth that we read Exodus, chapter 29, which is where the instructions for this whole ceremony were given, we learned that there had actually also been offerings happening all week long prior to this as well.
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  Speaker 2: So in simplest terms, there's like a whole lot being laid on the altar on this day, verse five to seven, the whole congregation came near and stood before the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Moses said this is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.
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  Speaker 2: Moses then said to Aaron come near the altar.
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  Speaker 2: Offer your sin offering and your burnt offering that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people.
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  Speaker 2: Then make the offerings for the people that you may make atonement for them, just as the Lord has commanded.
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  Speaker 2: So what we're seeing here is that, prior to fire falling the thing that we are hoping for and praying for well, the people had a vision of more of God.
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  Speaker 2: They were told.
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  Speaker 2: If we do this, god's glory may appear to you.
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  Speaker 2: This is really coming back to the formula for passion.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it always has fresh vision.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Passion always has fresh vision.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Passion for God, passion other places it always has fresh vision.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Let's just take a passion for photography, for example.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: When someone has a passion for photography, what happens?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: They catch a vision.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: They catch a vision of capturing some new scene, some new image in a special way.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a certain place that they learn about in a certain time, to photograph that place.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe they learn new techniques in photography, skills that are gonna enable them to capture the beauty and the grandeur of this image in a shot unlike ever before.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: But there's something new.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: There's always something new involved of passion.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It's a new place, a new time, it's a new technique that they're excited to go after.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And so what do they do?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Well, they get up early and they drive to that place and they spend hours positioning to get just the right angle and then boom, they get it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: They go after it and they get it and at the end, what are they left with?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: An important question are they left with more or less passion?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: In truth, it could go either way.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a hard truth, but at that moment they could end up growing into more passion or actually having now no passion, because you will.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: They will expire their passion by completing their vision.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: They will expire their passion by completing their vision or it's gonna fuel them to find some other new vision of what's next in photography.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: It's the same with God.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's the same with God.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Some of you have a passion problem because you went after God and you received from God and now you've expired your vision.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It's like, well, I've been there, I've done that and you have now no, what else that's fueling your passion for God anymore?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I just tell you some good news.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: The God of the Bible is limitless.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: He is endless.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: No matter how much we know of Him, we never get to the bottom of Him.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: We never get to the end of Him, because he is more.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: There is more, there's more, there's more of Him.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: The good news is that those of us who have gotten a little bit bored maybe a little stale in our spiritual life.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe we have been deceived into thinking that we know it all.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: We've seen it all.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: We've explored the depths of God.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I've got good news for you.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: You're just snorkeling in the intercoastal waters right now.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: There's so much more.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: In this instance, they had this new unveiling of their eyes that was fueling their pursuit.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I wanna see the glory of God.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: They're going to have to see the glory of God.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: The next few verses first, eight to 11, the parent starts to make those offerings.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: There's one key in verse 10, I want us to pay attention to.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: It says just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: So this isn't just like offering, hey, whatever I want, you know, whenever I want.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Like this whole thing is being done according to what God had shown.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: It's being done in obedience to God, fear in God, honor in God.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: We really do have a view of worship and sacrifice today.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: It's, I believe, quite distant from the biblical view of sacrifice and biblical worship.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: We've got this generation who thinks that if God got anything from me, he should be grateful for it, no matter what it was.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: It's like well, I showed up.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I mean come on, I say something, I put a little in the bucket.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, we do anything, we think we deserve something from God, we offer something, but it's not just as the Lord commanded and then we walk away complaining that fire didn't fall.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I put something on the altar and there was no fire.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Truth.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I read a couple of weeks ago, along with many of you, about Hoth the Infinius, the two sons of Eli, how they'd been sticking their fork into the offering and pulling back some of it for themselves, and I just knew this is what the American church has become.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: But as we do this, we're waiting for God's commendation because we offer something.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: We're waiting for God's commendation because we gave something when, billowly, god was greatly provoked by what they would have.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: We're those that are putting our forks into the offering, we're withholding and our worship, and then we're shocked that God's heart isn't moved by our defective, blemish and partial offerings.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: We need to bring an offering and laid on the altar in all the ways that God prescribes for us to do, just as the Lord commanded me.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's why it's so important to know the word of God.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Church, know the word of God.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Continuing on in verse 12 to 17,.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: He then offers something burnt offerings for himself, for his sons, as well as the people's sin offering and burnt offering.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: In verse 18 to 21 of the chapter he offers the people's peace offering and the wave offering, and then we get to the end of the chapter.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Leviticus 9, 22 to 24 says this then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and he stepped down.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: After making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings, moses and Aaron went into the tentative meeting.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Lord appeared to all the people.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Then the fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: And when all the people saw it, they shouted and they fell on their faces.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: This verse for shouted.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: It's usually translated shout up for joy in the scripture.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: So it's showing that, fire falling, they were celebrating, I mean, they were excited.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: It was a good thing, this was a great thing.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: This is something that they're pretty pumped about.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: They're giving out a shout for joy and then they're also, you know, following prostrate on their faces, which is the biblical description of worship.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: And so this fire falling, it's resulting in both joy and in worship from the people of God.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Now, while they're doing this, you assume that Aaron's sons, their names Neda and Abahoo you would respond.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Assume that they were responding the same way.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: After all, they just saw God's glory too.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: But we actually read they don't.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: In the next chapter, starting verse one, it says now, neda and Abahoo, the sons of Aaron, took their respective fire pans and, after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offering strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them, and fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: That is the correct translation of the Hebrew word, not the offering.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Consumed them?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Hosts who can say for sure, unless God gave special revelation, but knowing that these were bronze some sensors and bronze is made in part of copper.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Has anyone ever put copper into a fire before?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: You should try.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: It makes a lot of colors in the fire.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe you look up a YouTube video.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Like all kinds of colors come when you throw some copper wire, whatever into the fire Copper pipe, it's like.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like the suns, I think, are following up on what God just did with another spectacle.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: It's like oh, and now look, look at my bronze fire pan, the colors of the fire.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: This is very whimsical, uncommanded thing in this holy moment.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: And so what God consumed in the second instance was their lack of worship, their lack of honor, their lack of respect.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Then they were consumed.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Everything they withheld from Him was also consumed by Him.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: And I find that interesting Because we kind of have to ask like well, how could this be one of the same God, a consuming fire, falling both in this good way and this consuming way in both instances, but one time in a way that brings shouts of joy, another time it's consuming them.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: When fire falls on an offering that's brought to the altar, it actually fans it into flame.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: When fire falls on what is withheld, it brings it to nothing, it incinerates, it brings it to ash Church.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: So many mistakenly believe that something withheld from God is like safe from God.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: You know, it's like maybe I'm withholding, I don't know what are the primary things.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: People thought probably their kids.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: People want to withhold their kids from God.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: People want to withhold their finances, of course, from God.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, it's like, well, I want this to be safe because it's like, well, if I bring this to God and I put this on the altar, like who knows what God would have me to do with what I give to him, but if I withhold it, am I keeping it safe from Lord?
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: But is that what we see in scripture?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Things that are kept from God, they are also consumed by God.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: 1 Corinthians 3, speaking of all believers standing before the judgment seat of Christ, says Now, if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones or wood, hay or straw, each man's work will become evident, for the day will show it, because it is going to be revealed with fire.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: The fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: It's all consumed by the all-consuming fire.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: In the end, this is what we learned biblically.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: But there is a fire of blessing and there's a fire of judgment.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean, but I kind of like the fire of blessing God's glory coming.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: It can be one of two things it can be the first and the second.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: But when you pay attention to the story from this moment forward, after this, when do the people of Israel see the glory of God?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Does God's glory show up for blessing and God's glory showing up for judgment?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Well, the instances are well.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: When they want to go kill Moses, senor and Joshua, caleb and Stone, then God's glory shows up when Korah rebels against them.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: God's glory shows up when they're grumbling against Moses, senor.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: And God's glory shows up when you really go forward.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: You only see God's glory showing up in times of judgment, with the people of Israel and the wilderness.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: And you think that, after going through Leviticus chapter 9 and Leviticus chapter 10, that they'd be like I'd like more Leviticus 9, please, no more Leviticus 10 ever.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: And yet they actually prove the opposite.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: They just keep going after Leviticus 10, again and again and again.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: It's like why?
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Well, their vision got onto something else, their pursuit was given to something else, their passion dwindled, at least for God.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: But they were passionate about something, but not Him.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: There's very few passionate-most people.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: To be honest, as we're talking about passionate people, it's important to say like search the planet, it's hard to find people that aren't passionate about anything.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: It's just what are they passionate about?
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: It's the vision, it's the prize, it's the priority that's following that passion.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: God looks.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: He sees many passionate people, he doesn't see many who are passionate for more of Him.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Some are passionate about, I mean whatever being successful at work.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Some are passionate about health.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Some are passionate about photography.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Some are passionate about like, just not feeling pain.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many things that you could be passionate about.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: There's plenty of passion, but there's not plenty of passion for Him, and it's a shame, because there is nothing, nothing worthy of passion next to Him, absolutely nothing.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: But you can trust Israel to Moses.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Moses responded very differently to the glory of God.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, remember, he's the one that went up to the top of Mount Sinai, where the glory of God was within the cloud, and I mean he stepped into what they perceived to be just an all-consuming fire that they were terrified of.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: And yet later, after all that time in the glory of God, seeing the glory of God up on Mount Sinai.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: What is Moses saying to God?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Show me your glory.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: He's just asking for more.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: He's seeking God for more.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: He's praying for more.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: He's longing for more.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: It's not so with the people, and Moses did.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: After he prayed for even more, God did show him and manifest His glory to him more and it was only after that moment that Moses' face began to shine, after meeting with God.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: So God's giving a new manifestation of His glory to Moses in response to the prayer of Moses.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: It's having a different impact on Moses and through Moses than the experience and the encounter and the visible manifestations of God's glory before.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: But here, in Leviticus 9, god's glory is unveiled.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: It has an impact on all the people.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: I mean up to that point they would have assumed that only Moses could experience the glory of God in that way, in the way that he did.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: And we don't know everything that was involved in God's glory appearing to the people that day, but certainly there was one aspect of it that was fire coming out.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: But I mean, there's no cloud mentioned here, there's no shroud mentioned here.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: It's like whoa.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: There's no distance.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: He is in their midst, the glory of God in their midst, and yet we don't see them staying in this place.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: We don't see them saying, oh yes, all I want is to be with Him, all I want is more of Him.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: They were more marked by the Synonym of Nadav and Abba, who are by the grace of the glory of God.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: So it's actually their rebellion that they perpetuated moving forward.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: It was their rebellion that they continued in moving forward, which shows us that God's glory does not guarantee it does.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: The truth is is that when God's glory shows up, it changes things.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: God's glory changes everything, but for some, they will encounter the glory of God and they'll just run after God with greater fire and greater fervor and greater passion and hunger and all of that Faith.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Others will turn away and there are two different ways to respond.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: How will we respond?
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Is it by bringing or is it by withholding?
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: You know, as I was praying about the best way to end this message, so I just felt like maybe just to give some really practical examples of what fresh vision and from what God could be, as the practical examples of what a fresh offering, a fresh, you know, log to bring to the fire might look like, and obviously it couldn't possibly exhaust them all.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Let's start with some examples of fresh vision for God.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: One example of fresh vision is what we're talking about.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: That's what's been capturing my heart.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: It's just the vision of being ablaze for God, just personally, on fire for the Lord.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I want to be one of those people.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I want to be this walking, talking, living testament of the greatness of God, just to love Him like that, just to pursue the knowledge of God's love and to love Him in return, to be this living catalyst for the renewal of believers with sleepy eyes and board believers and all that kind of like.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe that would be a vision that you can catch ahold of.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe the vision for Lord God is like I want to hear the voice of God.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I want to be one of those people that just know intimately and hear His voice.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe the vision is I want to know the presence of God.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I want to be one of those people that just felt with His presence, aware of His presence, sensitive to His presence, walking in the presence of God.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: It would be this fresh vision for some of your pursuit.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Some people actually start to ache over the glory of God, the knowledge of God, to be known.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: It's like they become discontent that people would hear that 2000 years ago Jesus showed up and the lame would be like a deer and the blind saw and the deaf heard and demons were cast out and bodies were healed and all this kind of stuff.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: They're like no Jesus is alive today and they just want to go after seeing the knowledge of God's glory and their day and their time be known to the neighbors throughout the world.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: They get this ache and they start going after more of God.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: For that reason I've seen many people get renewed with fresh vision to pursue God in a sacrificial way, by going after a greater and annoying team from Lord, just wanting to be used by God, wanting to be an instrument that he picks up and uses powerfully for His purposes and His praise.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe that would be it.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe the fresh vision is a Leviticus 9 vision to see the glory of God.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Don't ever assume because something happened in the Bible that's like can't happen today.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: It's just not true.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: You've heard testimony in the opening week of this series.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Who caught that vision.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I want to see your glory.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: You start going after God.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: God manifested His glory to them.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's you.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I can tell you the Lord's been giving some fresh vision, not just personally, for me.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: You always need fresh vision.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Hopefully you're learning that from this at all times, even after God answers your prayer, your next prayer is like give me my next prayer.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: You don't want to go a period without a fresh vision for what is next in your relationship with God.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I've been getting this fresh vision for us corporately.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: I believe the Lord has been giving it.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: It's to see the ocean of His presence break over the breakers.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Imagine the beach or church or the farm range.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: You know how there's the jetties that are kind of like the wave breakers.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: God's saying I don't want those there, I want my presence to break over the breakers.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: I just believe that we as a church, we have experienced a measure of the spirit and certainly there are seasons that are in season, now season all that and he's continued to bless us with His spirit.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Praise God.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not making light of what he has done, but I believe that we have yet to encounter the wild and the untamed move of the spirit in our midst that we absolutely need to.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: We absolutely need to.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: I get this vision that we are in danger of settling for swimming pool of Christianity that tries to trap, contain and contain the Holy Spirit.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: We need the wild, rushing, raging river of the ocean of God's presence to sweep through this house.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: We do not need to be those standing ankle deep in the river of His presence knee deep waist deep, even up to our shoulders.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: We need to be those swept off of our feet, out of control in the presence of God.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm praying for, for this house, somebody like LaMona here.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm praying.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not praying for India, I'm praying for the president of the US.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Just to clarify, I just think we need the lying of the tribe of Judah to lower in her faces.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Have you ever stood in the face of the king and roared?
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: You want to know the glory of God.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: There's always a lot, is it just a?
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: few examples of fresh vision.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: What are some examples of fresh offerings that you could come and place?
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: There's always more.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: There's always more to bring to the Lord and to place an offer on the altar for Him.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: It's very important for me to say it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I want to be crystal clear.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: It should first be any area of disobedience, any area of delayed obedience to the Lord.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: It's got to be this In the name.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: It's in Scripture that we are out of alignment with.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: That's got to come first.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Obedience is better than sacrifice.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: If you're doing Bible in one year with us, you just read that.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: If we're bringing some sacrifice to God while we are withholding an obedience in another area.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: That's an offensive thing.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: That's what's called it.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: It's like saying to God I can kind of smooth it over by doing more over here, but God's wholeness, it can't be smoothed over.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Think of a husband who hits his wife but still provides and thinks it's okay that he hits his wife because he provides.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: We all know that that's not right.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: That's a failure to repent.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: It's a failure to do what's right while telling another that they should actually be satisfied because of what they do.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Many of us here.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: If someone said that to a wife in that situation, we would immediately recognize that is not true.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Do we think sin against God is a lesser thing?
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: It is not.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: It's not.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: It starts here.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: It always starts there.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Take time, ask Him, say God, search me, show me Even now.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Seriously, god, whatever you show me I'll repent of, I'll turn from Him.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: You know you think it's beyond your capacity.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Is it beyond the capacity of the Spirit of God who lives in you?
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's your speech, your constant condescension and criticism of your spouse, of your kids, of those around you?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Have you heard?
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: God will whisper to you.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Is that the way I talk to them the fire being set ablaze.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: It might just start with that today, something that's being withheld.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's your time, the time of the word, the time of the prayer.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Have you deprioritized, pursued Him to such a point that you've exchanged knowing God and loving God and chasing after the living God for principled morality?
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Have you become what you used to, would have looked at and seen with discernment as just dead religion?
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Principled morality?
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Is there withholding?
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Is it addictions, things that you've just been getting pulled into further and further into the grip?
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: You've been turning to them for comfort, you've been turning to them for consolation.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: You've been placing some person, something up on the pedestal as the source of strength for your life, the source of comfort for your life, the source of hope for your life that's called idolatry.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Is there withholding?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: For some, it's relationships, just relationships that are outside of the bound of God.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: There's withholding.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: For some it is the tithe.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: I know for so many Christians.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I want every single believer to experience the faithfulness of God and finances.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: It's a passion, because I just think so much else follows when you experience trust in the thing that's hardest to translate.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: So many.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: It's like God, I'll give you anything but finances.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tithe.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: I'll serve more in church or give you my time and not my tithe Church.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: The tithe is not a matter of options, it's a matter of obedience.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: It's a sacrifice Somewhere else.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: It doesn't justify disobedience in another way.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: To obey is better than sacrifice.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Beyond this kind of obedience stuff, there are also fresh offerings, free will offerings, the Old Testament call them.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Some of you might get a vision of overcoming the enemy.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I've heard of this kind of thing happening before, where people just get this vision to be used by God for breaking of strongholds, for the breaking of demonic strongholds in people's lives, and they adopt a lifestyle of prayer and fasting.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: They take Jesus as a word.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: This kind can only come out by prayer and fasting.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: They're not content for this kind not to come out, and so they just now want to be one of those that live the life of prayer and fasting so that, when I get the opportunity, it can be used by God for the deliverance of His people.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Some might get a vision of no ground being uncontested, and so I don't know.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: They start praying for all the neighbors in the street.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: They're out to meet every neighbor on the street.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: They're out to make sure it's the personal mission that everyone here has heard, the hope of Christ that's available to them.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Some people get a vision for radical generosity.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I know for some it's like that's the last thing I would ever pray for, you know.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: But some people just get caught up in this vision of radical generosity.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: It's like I just want to put as much in the eternal retirement account as possible.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: I've heard of people getting the vision for 20%, 30%, for over 50%, even one time.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Or someone get the vision for 90%.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: God actually enabled it.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: It's just incredible.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: They hear a God giving goal and they start to just put more logs on the fire.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Often time the fresh offering is time spent in pursuit of Him, just time, time in the presence of God.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, bring more to Blazmore, all fresh, alive.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Bring more to Blazmore.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Bring is a passion kindler.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Withholding is a passion killer.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: I'm going to invite us to pray as we close.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: I would just encourage all of us, if you feel comfortable, to bow heads and close eyes and take a moment.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: And this is that moment when we say God, I don't want to just hear the preaching and the teaching of your word, I want to be touched by your word in the way that you're calling me to.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: So, blazer, I would encourage you to ask the Lord, god, what is the fresh vision and what is the fresh offering?
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Would you show me what's the fresh vision of more of you that I need to let sink into my heart and grab a hold of and go after, and what is the fresh offering that I can place on the altar and doing so as you're praying, as you're listening and taking the heart with the Lord speaking to you at church?
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: I want to just talk for a moment to those of you who are here and maybe you're exploring the Christian faith.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe you're here and you're just like.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I have this kind of relationship with God.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I'll have this confidence that I'm right with God, at peace with God, that I know him and that I will be with him forever.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I want to share the good news with you that you can leave today with absolute confidence that you're at peace with God, right with God.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Recognize that God will be with him throughout life and for eternity.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: You see, the Bible tells us that God created this world good, perfect and for us to be in relationship with him.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: And when man turned from God and chose to rebel against God, sinning against God.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: That sin separated us from him.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: The Bible tells us that all of us have sinned, but none are without sin.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: There is sin that separates us from him.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: It threatens to keep us separated from him for all eternity.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: So, apart from God doing something to rescue us from our fallen faith, we would be hopeless, because no one can be perfect which God is perfect.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: No one can be without sin, no one can be sinless as God is, and no one can remove their own sin.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: So many are trying to earn their way into God by self-righteousness I do enough good that I will earn it, but you can't.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: You just can't, because God's standing as holy, it's perfection, it's sinlessness, and all fall short of that.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: And yet God, in his love for you, his desire to be in a relationship with you, he has made a way for your sins to be completely removed, for you to be forgiven of your sin, make holy and therefore be able to be reconciled into relationship with the holy God, both in this life and for eternity.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: After he did that by sending his one and only son, jesus Christ, who, himself, being God, came and he died on the cross for my sin and your sin.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: He took the punishment that our sins deserve.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: He took the consequence of sin, which is death, on himself, for me, for you and then he rose from the grave, promising life and life forever to those who have put their faith in him.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: And so if you're here and you have not received that, I want to encourage you to do that today, to receive them.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Eyes are closed, heads are bowed, nobody's looking around and no one's going to do anything weird to you, but if you're here and you're like I, want to receive the gift of forgiveness and eternal life in relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Today, I would encourage you to still lift your hand this time.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: It's like your way of saying God's extended his hand down to me.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: I want to extend my hand back up to him.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Anyone else?
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: This is you saying.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: I want to be included in the prayer that you're about to pray.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: I want to be forgiven with my sin.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: I want to be made right with God.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: I want to have peace with God.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Is that you today?
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: If you're listening online, there's a place for you to indicate that that's the decision you'd like to make as well.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Also, you can put your hands down.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to lead you in a prayer, if that's you today, to come to the Lord and just say to him God, I want to know you, god, I want to be in a relationship with you, and I'm not too proud to admit that I've sinned and that I need to be forgiven.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: In Jesus, I believe that, you being God, that you came, I believe that you died on the cross for my sin, and I believe that you rose from the grave, promising life in place of death for all of eternity for those who put their faith in you.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: And so I'm looking to you, I'm putting my trust in you, jesus, to be the one who can lead my life and forgive me of my sins, and I'm asking would you do that for me today?
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Please be the Lord of my life, please be the forgiver of my sins.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: I'm asking would you give me a relationship with you, starting now and lasting forever?
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: God, I thank you.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: I thank you for forgiving me, I thank you for saving me, I thank you for moving your spirit into my heart.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: I celebrate the new relationship that I have started with you today and I pray God, though I would grow my relationship with you day after day from this point forward and I ask this in Jesus' name Amen, can we just give a hand to those who said yes to Jesus?
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys for coming out for another weekend of our One of those People series.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: We're going to be in this for a while.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: It's a personal series that I'm very excited about, so I appreciate you guys coming.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Hope you guys have a fantastic Sunday afternoon.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Don't forget to grab your children on your way out, and I'll see you guys back here soon with the United Arab Emirates week.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Blessings everybody.