When we know - Rev. Holmes

It is knowing what to do rightly.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Bless God, Bless God, Bless God. And I like to
let you know that I don't mean that as just
a saying Blessed means to be happy, but it's also
to give honor, to give praise, and from a place
of happiness and joyfulness. Because for the things that we're
going through in our time, you can bless God, but

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from a place of sorrow, from a place of deep, deep, deep,
deep dismay, and that we are going through that the
times that we are in, the earth is going through
that to the point that most of us I'm a theologian,
and most of us who are theologians or who love

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to be in the Word of God and go into doctrine,
and we know that in the end times God isn't
going to destroy the earth with a flood, but he
said with fire. To the point that we have a song,
you know it won't be water but fire next time
we put it in a song. Even most of us
know that, even if we don't know all the scriptures,

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and yet living in these times, have we even noticed
in relation to the Word of God, that we know
that at the end of time the earth will be
destroyed by fire because our doctrines tell us that it's

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going to be this way and that way, and also
our scriptures tell us. And we know so much of
what we think that I'm asking the question, have we
even noticed that the year I could say last year

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and nameline last year or the year before. But I'm
going to right now, say twenty twenty four. There I
go rhyming. So if you haven't heard me before, I've
learned God has taught me that I'm in the prophetic
when I'm rhyming. But in the year twenty twenty four,

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not just where I live in the United States, not
just where I'm from or where my family heritage is from,
but the entire world has experienced extreme heat temperatures for

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the time of year, extreme And when I say extreme
record temperatures. And now if you would google it, you
would find and I say google it because that's the
times we live in. If Jesus doesn't come and you're
looking at this one hundred years from now, you tuned

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into this because you're a person of excellence and you
have to do with this, and you you're anointed, appointed
and equipped to handle the ill. I don't want to
say the negative we've gotten in my generation, we've gotten
into the habit of saying the negative, so that we

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don't even recognize think what negative is and does it's
of God? We only recognize negative as wrong and ill
and bad, and that is not a correct identification of
the negative. Have we noticed have we noticed to even

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ask God what or to find out from God what
we should be asking? Since we know that the earth
shall be destroyed by fire, and since we also know
that the scripture tells us that even the elect would
be deceived. And I trust that you are part of

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the elect. I do know that I am. Do you
know that you are? And God tells us in his
word that without the shortening of time, even the elect
would be deceived. And I recommend to look up not

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only that verse, but around it what God said. I'm
telling it to you from the understanding that I have.
I recommend that you ask God for his mind and
his heart concerning his word, so that he gives you
the understanding that you're two have. As I often remind

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us through the churches in Revelation, the Book of Revelation
in the Word of God, that each church had a
different revelation of Jesus Christ and not one of them
was an incorrect revelation, but not one of them was complete.

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And to get to what I am saying to you,
each of the churches were told he who has an
ear that means you want to hear, not the scoffer,
not the foolish who doesn't want to hear, who can't
handle rebuke, He who has an ear for hearing and

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learning and understanding. Here what the spirit now Jesus is talking.
When you start in the first chapter of revelation, you
know who's talking, and you know the revelation is the

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revelation of Jesus that the Father gave him. It's not
the whole, entire revelation, and for the revelation is for
a specific purpose. Look at the first chapter of Revelation. Now,
I'm going to take you to Judges. I'm just giving
you some background so that when you hear me, you

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can know I'm going to go to Judges nineteen and
knowing me being the theologian that I am, I'm not
going to get to finish. But look at nineteen twenty
twenty one to understand when we know we're right and

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I could have but and we are so very wrong,
and I mind bringing that because I want to bring encouragement.
I want to bring deliverance, and that means knowing the

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time and times, and that also means knowing other timing
and times and the spirit of God. God the Father said,
or Jesus said, if you're looking at the first chapter

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of Revelation, the opening, it's the Revelation of Jesus Christ,
that book that the Father gave to Jesus. However, where
does John fit in there? It tells you, He tells you.
What I'm reminding you of is that at the end

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of each of the churches it says the word of
God says he who has an ear. And by the
time we get to Revelation, we have learned what God
means by that, and we have learned the different sociological
things at different times that the world and God's people

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have thought of that. However, it is in the word
of God, he who has an ear let very important word.
It's not pull it on, take it on, it's not
goosebump it him here. And even the way that I'm

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saying it to you, I'm reminded how Adam and Eve
the scripture tells us walk with the voice of God.
And I always let you know that, or often let
you know that you can say the same thing, the
same phrase, in a different voice, a different tone of voice,
and give completely different meanings. So right now I'm saying

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in a tone of voice that gives meaning to what
I am conveying. He who has an ear, let not
make it, let him hear what the Spirit and in

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King James it says say it. And I like to
let remind us that that in King James at et
h on the end of a word is a tense at.
You know that it was, it is, and it's going
to be that way. What the Spirit saith to the
church is not just that one church. Each church is

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told that. And I know, I know that we have
doctrines on the times of each of the churches, yeah,
all seven churches, and we have doctrines where we show
that this church is of this time at that church.

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And a lot of that, I will suggest to you
is because each of those churches very quickly, the places
that they were in no longer even knew that they

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were Christian, that they were given over the things of Christ,
even though terminologies remained in the language, and the people
don't even know that they were given over to Jesus

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the Christ. And I suggest to you, in case you
missed it, I suggest to you that that's why we
came up with doctrines of the time and times that
reflect the Church of the Laodosians and the Church of
Philadelphia and the Church of Ephesus. As if he didn't

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say the church act or look at it and see
if he said the church in and yes, it's the
word of God. So it's alive even now when I'm
saying it, and the time whenever you're viewing this. His
word is alive. Quick, that's what quick is. And powerful.

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His word divides asunder divides, discerning the thoughts and the
intents of the word. Another place that lets us know
what the church is. He lets us know that the church. Yeah,

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I want to get to what's in Judges, because I
already told you it's Judges nineteen and even the very
first verse deals with this idea of when we know
that we're right. And I'll say, pardon me now, because
I see someone who pays attention was getting me a
tissue because I must have scratched with my right hand,
and I mind that it looks like you're digging in

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your nose. So I put the tissue here to and
this is a piece of paper. Tality got one, so
I must have done it with the wrong hand. When
we know we're right and we're just not. There's so

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many scriptures to relate to here, however, Judges nineteen and
so that one it's a chain link. I let you
know that in the Hebrew when you see and it's
a chain link. While the while what went before it

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and the and what comes after the end can stand
strong in its own it's not supposed to its chain linked.
And then another phrase. I'm going to try to not
to be so theological and break down every phrase it

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came to pass. See, we think we know about time
and timing, and a day with the Lord is as
a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day,
and so we count when we see God say a day,

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we count it as a thousand years. Or when we
see something we don't understand, we count a thousand years.
I really want to go back to a scripture that says,
and in that day God said, or in that day
was He saying in that thousand years? However, when you
read it without me having just said that you know goodwill.

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That's not what he was saying. Well, I'm letting you
know that it came. You don't know how long that
took the coming of it. However, we generally read it
that it came to pass like it happened, because that
is what the phrase means. However, when you're living it,

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you're going to see this. Even the whole portion that
I want to bring out is at least three chapters,
and I think four, But it came to pass in
those days. See, he's not saying in those thousand do
you see how our doctrines and what we so know

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and have scripture for doesn't apply to everything that we're
going to read in the Word. And that's why rightly
dividing the word it isn't to prove anything to anybody.
It's so that the man of God. It's for doctrine
and guess what he said, and for reproof and proverbs

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lets us know that the person who won't hear reproved,
there's no hope for them. They're going to have to
be reproved over and over and over. But the wise man,
the righteous man, reproof does him good. He's able to
take it and do you know, hear what the spirit

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has to say, so and it came to pass in
those days. Now, watch this, he's letting us know what ideology, philosophy,
whatever it is you want to call it, doctrines, what
those days were like when there was no king in Israel. Now,

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depending on what you think about king and kingdoms and
what you know, that's going to say a different thing
to you than what it says to me. However, it
is what the Word of God says when there was
no king of Israel. No, pardon me, when no king
in Israel. I left out the italics that's put there
for English to go flow better. That there was a

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certain Levite. Okay, not every levite, a certain Levite. So
journey on the side of Mount Ephraim. Now, by this
time we should have learned some things about Ephraim that
clew us in as to the attitudes and the way

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and the culture, and the things accepted and not accepted.
By this time anyway, who took him a concubine out
of Benjamin Judah? Most of us, even in this time,
don't even know. Pardon me, Bethleem Judah, not Benjamin Judah.

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I hope you're following with me. And I hope that
you go read even though I give you the reference,
that you read it, because I could make a mistake,
like I just now said, thought I was reading Benjamin
Judah because I know he was. Anyway, you read it
Bethlum Judah, and most of us, even of this day,

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including theologians, don't even know that. Uh, when the tribes
were split from never Run, I'm gonna I'm not gonna
deal with that right now. It's and I don't mean
never mind, I mean go find that out. What you
don't even know that I was about to say. And

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his Conkiebine played the whore against him and went away
from him unto her father's house to Bethlum Judah, and
was there four whole months. Now that all of this
says a whole lot of things, a whole lot of things.

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It came to pass in those days when there was
no king in Judah. I mean, pardon me. See this
is why you want to read. I think I'm reading
and I'm saying it from the things that I know
and what I want to get to what it says.
When there was no king in Israel, there was a
certain Levite Now, if you've already read the Penituke, by

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this time you've learned that a levite doesn't take a
whore for a wife, and yet tells you very plainly
here that it's a Levite. So I want us to
understand that when we think we're so right he's a Levite,
he knew good and well he was a Levite. And

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maybe if you look up, look him up, you can
find some things about why he knew he was a Levite,
where God even said he was a Levite. I often
remind you how the word of God says that David
was a man of God after his own heart. However,
for the way that we are in our ideologies and

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our sociologies and our doctrines are, if we met David
for that year and a half to two years that
he was fornicating with Bathsheba, there's no way we'd believe
that he's a was a man after God's own heart.
And yet that's what God's word testifies about him. So

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I'm letting you know here a certain Levite, Now, does
that certain mean that it was a certain specific man?
Does that certain talk about a certain Levite of a
certain group of Levites that believe things a certain way,
because right now in the day that I'm giving this from,
you can look up historical things from Hebrew scholars, and

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you can find different opinions on the same scripture. As
a matter of fact, I was looking one up the
other day, and I'm waiting for them to be like me,
give the scripture for this opinion, because I was seeing
various opinions on how many daughters did not Joe pardon me,
lot to have, And there were different opinions that I

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totally disagree with. However, any Hebrew would let you know
that you don't have the right to disagree with a sage,
to disagree with who I was disagreeing with. And yet
I'm looking for them to give word of God for

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their opinion. And each one of them was revered, still revered,
and had opposite opinions. So go to the word and
let God talk to us, and let his word talk
to us. And he told us in his word that
rightly dividing. One of the reasons of rightly dividing the

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Word of Truth is not so that I can show
up wonderful and fabulous to you or to anyone else,
but so that the Man of God is truly furnished.
It's for righteousness. So here we see a certain Levite Alevite.

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God had already said, you don't take a whore for
a wife. However, a Levite sojourning on the side of
Mount Ephraim sojourning? Is he allowed to sojourn? Y? Is
he not? And what kind of sojourning was he doing? Well?
The scripture lets us know. And on the mount of

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Ephraim a whole lot had happened by this time, a
whole lot of understandings, misunderstandings, and then resolutions and solutions
that didn't bring resolution or solution. He took him a
concubine out of Bethlem Judah. And again there's some things

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about Bethlum Judah and his that let you know why
there was a splitting after David, after Solomon of Israel,
so that you want to remember God's word that it's

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one nation Israel. Anyway, see, I only got the verse two,
and here it is twelve thirty one, and his concubine
played the whore against him and went away from him.
I'm going to try to read through this because there's
so many different things, and maybe just from the title

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that I wanted to handle today when we just know
we're right, Cause I don't think that that levite took
a whore for a wife thinking he was doing something wrong.
But that's what I think. I don't know what he thought.
And his concubine played the horror against him and went

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away from him unto her father's house. Now that she
goes to her father's house, lets me know that we
need to understand the word of God on whor. And
I'm generally letting you know that one of the things
God taught me is to look up a word and
get Now, he taught me because I had us. I

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was taught how to use a strong sc concordance at
the time to look up the number where that word
hohore is used, not just a dictionary, and use that
number and look how God uses that word, because horror
and harlot they're not always used the exact same way.

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And that she went to her father's house lets you
know that even we at our day and our time,
in almost any culture, knows that a daughter going to
her father, she's not thinking of herself as a whore,
She's not thinking of herself as awful unless she wants

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her father to cover her and help her find cleansing
and better actions, kind of like an AA program or something.
But I'm going to try to read through so that
you can know from the title when we just know

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where right and the subtitle and we are not get
the tone of voice on that, and we are not.
And went away from her father's house to Bethleem Judah

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and was there for four whole months. And her husband
arose and went after her to speak friendly unto her,
not the fuss adder, and to bring her again, having
his servant with him and a couple of asses, and
she brought him into her father's house. Let's you know,

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the friendliness is still seen and why she left hmm.
And when the father of the damsels saw him, he
rejoiced to meet him. Now, for me, this reminds me
of her Moses father in law, because most of us
don't think about it, but Moses married a woman who

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was the daughter of a priest of a whole other
religion that had nothing to do with Israel and his
father in law. After Moses went through all he went through,
after the burning Bush, after he went through all he
went through with Egypt, and all he went through with
the people getting them out, and while they're in the wilderness,

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I call him Grandpap. He brings the two boys. Because
the scripture lets us know that Moses sent her back. Now,
when you read the happening of the story, you don't
see it that way. It's later that the scriptures know
that it was Moses who sent her back. She couldn't
stand this circumcision business that wasn't part of their religion.

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She understood it in the sense of knowing that in
order to keep her son from dying, she needed to
circumcise it. This reminds me of that story how Grandpa
and I have a wonderful, wonderful friend who likes to
say that God doesn't have grandchildren. You want to read

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these things in the word to see how God deals
with the grand the second generation. When he's not talking
about the whole generation, he's talking about that particular child.
And when the father saw the father of the damsel
saw him, he rejoiced to meet him and his father

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in law, the damsel's father like, make no mistake, because
there's certain times when we think in law's everything's bad.
You know, no, no, And his father in law, the damsel's
father retained him, and he abode with him three days.

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So they did, they did eat and drink and lodge there.
So this is some good fellowship going on. And it
came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose
early in the morning, that he rose up to depart,

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and the damsel's father said, unto his son in law,
comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward
go on your way. For those of you who have
relatives who try to detain you and want you to
stay longer, but they don't come out and say just stay,
but they'll bring out a piece of pie, your favorite pie,

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or they'll bring out your favorite drink, whether it's coffee
or whatever it is, to get you to take time
and change your mind. That's what's going on here. And
they sat down and did eat and drink, both of
them together for the damsels. For the damsel's father had said,
unto the man, be content, I pray thee and tarry

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all night, and let thine heart be merry. And when
the man rose up to depart, his father in law
urged him. Therefore he lod there again, and he rose
up early in the morning on the fifth day to depart,
and the damsel's father said, comfort thine heart, I pray
thee and they tire it until afternoon, and they did

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eat both of them. And when the men, please understand,
there's a whole lot to this story. I want us
to understand. For all the things that we're living through
in our times, there's a whole lot of coming to pass.
There's a whole lot that's going on. There's a whole
lot that got us to where we are while all
this stuff is going on, and then it goes to

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where we just know we're right about something and we're
playing wrong. And I'm not talking about these two fellowshipping,
because what God says is an abomination in Proverbs is
so on discord among the brother and God loves the
fellowship anyway. He says to him verse nine, Well I
go to yeah in the middle of verse nine, Well,

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and when the rose up to depart, I'm gonna go
to the middle. Behold, now the day is the day drawth,
and I toward evening, I pray you tarry all night.
Behold the day groweth to an end. Lodge here that
thine heart may be merry, and tomorrow get ye early
on your way, that thou mayst go home. Here's part

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of when we just know we're right, it's not sin.
But when we just know we're right and we're not,
this is the beginning of a road. I generally tell
you about a fork in the road that at the
beginning of the fork, you're right close to where you

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want to be. But if you keep on going down
the road, you're so far you don't even know how
far you are. Most of us move into idolatry. None
of us are doing that on purpose. Please understand, when
you just know you're so right about something and you
know it that kind of way, you probably already passed

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your fork in the road. You're just not far enough along,
thank God, that you're into ideolatry. But that's where you're
on your way to. I'm letting you know well the
verse ten. But the man would not tarry that night.

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But he rose up and departed and came over against Javis,
which is Jerusalem. For what you're gonna see here, somebody
suggested that he had gone into Sodom and Gomara. Now
it is Jerusalem, the scripture says. And they were there

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with him. Two asses saddle his concubine also was with him.
And when they were by Javis, the day was far spent.
And the servants said, unto his master, come, I pray
thee let us turn in onto the city of the Jebusites,
and launching it. And his master said, unto him, knowing

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he's right, I'm letting you know we will not turn
in aside hither unto the city of a stranger. Now
though it's in Proverbs, and Proverbs wasn't written yet. Things
that are the Word of God, they're true even before
they're written. I'm just remembering that in Proverbs, it lets

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you know better. Is near the stranger, that's nearer than
the brother far off. Anyway, he said, now, we're not
going to turn into the city of a stranger that
is not of the children of Israel. And I want
to know why is he under standing that? And when

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he didn't understand as a Levite he wasn't to marry
a concubine anyway, Verse thirteen, Come and let us draw
near to one of those places to lodge all night,
in Gibea or in Raima. That sounds like it makes sense,

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So I can understand why he thought he was right,
And they passed on and went their way, and the
son went down upon them. And when they were by Giba,
one of the places he named one of the places
he thought of which belonged to Benjamin. Benjamin's a tribe

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of Judah that's ordained of God. And oh not sdom Gamarra,
which belonged to ben And they turned aside thither to
go in and to lodge and Gibbea. And when he
went in, he sat him down in a street of

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the city, for there was no man that took them
into his house to lodging. And this is something that
that's just not usual, that's not the way we as
a people are. And behold, there came an old man

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from his work out of the field at evening, at
even which was also of Mount Ephraim, and he sojourned,
didn't give you, But the men of the place were
Benjamin mights. God's making it clear where you are, who
you are, and how they are and how they're not.

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And when he lifted up his eyes and he saw
a wayfaring man in the street of the city, and
the old man said, whither goest thou and whither comest thou.
Where are you going where you're coming from. And he
said unto him, Oh, we are passing from Bethleem Judah
toward the side of the Man of Ephraim. From thence

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I am and I went to Bethlam Judah. But I
am now going to the house of the Lord, house
of Yahweh, ratifier of the Covenant, keeper of the covenant. Okay, Yahweh.
When you see Lord and all caps, and there is
no man that received with me to house. This is

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something that you're to expect when you're among your people.
Yet there is both straw and providence for our asses,
and there is bread and wine also for me, and
for thy handmaid and for the young man, which is
with thy servants. There's no want of anything now in
my day and in my country, in my culture, when

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we travel, we don't travel like that. We have just
enough for the time and just enough so that we
don't have extra bags. No, they learned to travel, and
they learned it's from God. By the way you travel
enough for you and anywhere you go, enough for the
house that you might want to be with. That was

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the way, not like it is in my day, hopefully
not yours. And the old man said Peace be with thee.
See it automatically. When you do things God's way, Peace
be with you, because Jesus is King of peace and
Prince of peace. Both, peace be with thee. Howsoever, let

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all thy once lie upon me only lunch, not in
the street. This is how, This is how cultural are
you to be. But it wasn't that way. Glad he
was coming from the field, and he still had the
way God had taught them. So he brought him into
his house and gave him proved unto the asses. And

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they washed their feet, and they did eat and drink.
Remember it came to pass. This wasn't all at once
the way we read it. Now, as they were making
their hearts merry, behold the men of the city. Now
you read what city they were in. The men of
the city certain sons of Belile. They're not supposed to

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be sons of Belile, false God Idolatres, sons of Belile.
Set beset the house around and beat at the door,
and spake unto the master of the house. Now, if
they're beaten on the door, you know the tone of
voice that they're speaking, that's not a ding down hum.

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And spake to the master of the house, the old
man saying, bring forth the man that came into thine house,
that we may know him. Now, in case children are listening,
you remember what no him means. Even though these are
men coming to know men, and the word of God

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lets us know ah, no, no. And the man, the
master of the house, went out unto them and said,
unto them, nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you do
not so wickedly. This is the word of God. Here okay,

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seeing that this man is coming to my house, do
not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden,
and his conkie bine. Then will I bring out now
and humble ye them, and do with them what thou

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seest good unto you, But unto this man, do not
so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken
unto him. So the man took his conki bine and
brought her fourth unto them, and they knew her and

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abused her all night until the morning, And when the
day began to spring, they let her go. You're done
with her. They let her go. Then came the woman
in the dawning of the day. Not a thousand year day,

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though it might have felt like that to her in
the dawning of the day, and fell down at the
door of the man's house where her lord was till
it was light. I pray at five am, and it's
not usually light yet, and I prayed till it's light.
And I know what it's like looking watching the sun

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come up, and till it's light. There's a whole lot
of meaning in that. And her lord rose up in
the morning and opened the doors of the house and
went out to go his way. And behold, like he
was going to leave her. Doesn't mean he wasn't going

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to look for her, but he was leaving. Behold, the
woman is conkybine. That woman scripture doesn't leave you hanging.
Was falling down at the door of the house, and
her hands were upon the threshold, And he said, unto
her up, let us go, let us be going, but

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none answered. Then the man took her up upon an
ass and the man rose up and gat him to
his place Verse twenty nine. And when he was come
into his house, he took a knife and laid hold
upon his conkie bine and divided her together with her bones.

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She was already dead. He didn't kill her into twelve
pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
And it was so that all that saw it said
there was no such deed done nor seen from the
day of the children of Israel came up out of

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the land of Egypt unto this day. Consider it take
a vice and speak, ye your minds. When we just
know we're right, and uh oh, I went to the
wrong place. I want us to remember when we just
know we're right, and then when everybody else around us

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has the same mind about a thing, and it makes
us just nowhere right that we all think the same thing.
And I'm in chapter twenty and there's still a few
more chapters to go to deal with this situation. Because
they keep thinking they're right instead of asking God, what

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what am I to do about this? Sometimes we don't
even know the right question, and we need to ask
even God what is the question? And I'm letting you know,
read the rest of the chapters that go with this
to see how each time they thought they're right, they
come up with what they're right, and not knowing that
each time they're going against things that God had said

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and God had ordained. We never mean to go into idolatry.
When we've gotten there, it's never what we meant. We
don't even see how we could. And I'm showing you
part of how he could. Being a LEVI took a conkybine. Lord, God, God,

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bless you, brother Felix, I love you. Then all the
children of Israel went out and the congregation was gathered
together as one man. See, that's another place when we
think we're right, when we all come to the same
conclusion as one man. God wants us to do that

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as one man. But it still needs to be the
mind of God. It still needs to be the heart
of God. And when in Jeremiah where God says about
knowing him before judgment comes mercy. It's not that we're
not to judge. And another place where told we're to
judge angels, we're to judge. However, before judgment there's mercy,

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not just agreement. Then all the children of Israel went
out and the congregation was gathered together as one man.
From Dan even to Borthsheba, with the land of Gilead
unto the Lord in Mispah, and oh we go unto
the Lord. I'm gonna say something, and I hope it

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brings it to mind. But for more than a decade now,
we pastors and preachers come together and we're telling God
what to do, not so much seeking Lord. And we
like to quote, if my people what are called by
my name, would humble themselves and pray, we don't come humbly.
We come telling God what to do, and then we

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come making the devil talking to the devil part of
our prayer. If you and I are having a conversation,
and all of a sudden you want to go talk
to my enemy and call in my enemy, much less
my arch enemy, my worst enemy. What kind of conversation
is that? And we call it prayer? Oh yeah, we

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pastor's apostles, bishops and all of that. Yeah, we call
it prayer if my people, which means we're following what
he said. How he said, what you're called by my name,
not the name of your denomination, by his name. Anyway,

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there's more than the next chapter and the next chapter
to even see how we can think we're so right
and we are not. And I'm going to jump to
they ended up doing away with the with the tribe
of Benjamin, and then realized, ah, what do we do?
What do we do, and then they came up with

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a solution of what to do about it, and it
still wasn't God's solution. When we know we're right, when
we're making corrections without asking God. In that scripture that
we like to call it, If my people what you're
called by my name, he tells us in there the
end of the situation, if we humble ourselves in pray

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and seek his face, his face. Even Isaiah, with his
train filled the temple, he said, woe is me. You
can't find anything bad on Isaiah. But and he knew
he was among people that were unclean, but he said,
woe is me when the presence of God just filled
everything in the house of God. If my people what

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you're called by my name, would humble themselves in pray
and seek my face, he said, I'll hear from heaven.
He says, I'll heal the life. And he gives us
the solution. He gives us the resolution, not just us
coming up with it and thinking that we came up

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with something good. Because everybody agrees to the same thing.
If you do a study on Ephemites, the two tribes
of Benjamin, they would agree on some things of killing folk,
not God's way, just because they understood that this deserves death.

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And I can so relate to that because before I
knew the Lord, I saw the path that I was
going and that I had done things that were against
my own principles, not that other people around me would
consider so bad, but I realized that I was going
on a path that I deserved to die, and I
wanted to die before I actually did something that I

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knew that I deserved to die. And I love God
and thanking for it every day that he had someone
teach me and bring me to the Lord, Jesus Christ,
who did die for my sin. And yes, I did
deserve to die, even though I hadn't got to what
I thought. So I want you to know to read

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the rest of these chapters and see how each time
they come up with a solution and a resolution, and
it's not God's solution, it's not God's resolution, and it
goes against what God ordained, what he gave. That they
did away with the whole tribe. Now what do we do?
And then they still rather than ask God, oh, and
they had gone into the house of the Lord. However,

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by this time, like the original Levite who wasn't even
following the word of the Lord, though he's serving the
house of the Lord to marry a conkybine. We don't
know we're in the idolatry when we're doing these things.
And I'm saying to us, we're in times where a
lot of that is going on, and we don't even

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recognize that the earth has been firing that this very year,
and we don't even recognize that the elite our being
to see, we're going into all this politics and each
one knows they're right about this and that for the
election and what should and shouldn't be and we're, oh,

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we say, we're seeking the Lord. Oh yeah, they because
they went to the Lord. You'll see that a few
times in there. And the answers they got were already
against things that God had already given and we didn't recognize.

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And I'm seeing we because I'm including me. I live
in these times and I'm going through things that make
no sense to me. And I recognized that I was
so busy looking at the things that I was being
like Peter looking at the storm and sinking because of it,
instead of looking to Jesus who caused him to walk

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on water. Yeah, Jesus walk on water. Jesus caused him
to walk on water. You look for him. You look
for Jesus, You look for God and his solution, his resolution,
and he'll have you walking on water even in a storm.
And we are living many storms. But do like Jesus

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when he was on the cross, going to the cross,
pardon me. He looked ahead to the glory that was
set before him. That's how you move with God. Honor God,
his majesty, his honor, his glory. Amen.