Bishop Noel Jones - Bible Study August 12 2020

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Episode Transcript

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Well, here I go again.I've got my mask on and I'm following
all of the rules, and Ihope you're doing the very same thing.
We're moving into a very critical time. We've got all kinds of things that
we want to do, all kindsof things that we want to start doing
again, and we want to openup and do a little church. We

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want to have all of these things. But all of these things are contingent
on how well we follow the policiesthat are set before us and how well
we move into those things that areimperative for our health and for the health
of others who are around us.I'm getting so much bad news and I'm
getting just so overwhelmed with what's goingon. Another friend Pasted in Chicago,

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you know him very well. He'sbeen with us. His brother, well
you know his brother who's been withus, Pastor Mark Hinton, And we're
praying for him because his brother Johnpassed this last week. And it is
just so so overwhelming. And I'mpraying for Mark, especially because he was

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very very close to PG. Theywere like brothers, and he lost PG
in the early part of the pandemic, and now he's losing his only brother.
This is the apostle Hinton's son Markwho took over, and just such

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a great family, just such wonderfulpeople, and yet still maybe probably holier
than I've ever been, and stillthis has bombarded them and come upon them.
So I'm saying to everybody, ifit'll get the Holy of holiness,
if it will get people who areso perfect and so righteous, then please

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don't think that your righteousness and yourholiness will keep you from getting this disease.
Stop following preachers. There's one whodeclared he'd never get this and had
church the other day. I justfound out last night that he died on
his way home from the virus afterstanding up and declaring that he could never

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get it. And others are sicknow that went to the same meeting up
north. And I just don't understandwhy those of us who know biblical situations
and plagues and how God uses circumstancesto correct people and get them straight.
I can't understand how we can ignorewhat the rules are and operate out of

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discipline. When we are disciples,then when we operate in principle, we
look forward the miracle of God.And as I said last week on Sunday,
and I say it today. Thepandemic has moved us into all the
world. I went into all theworld physically, preached everywhere there is to

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preach. I went into all thephysical world. But we lost the millennials,
we lost the zears. While Iwas moving around preaching the folk who
already saved, not doing crusades,but doing revivals. There's a difference.
There is a crusade revival and thenthere's a regenerative revival. I was doing

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more regeneration, preaching more to thechildren of God than doing crusade revival.
Well, when God told the childrenin Jerusalem, those who were saved in
Jerusalem, the saints in Jerusalem,to go into all the world, they
settled in Jerusalem. That was theircomfort zone. Then came the persecution and

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Paul included, and they scattered becauseof that, and they did what He
wanted them to do. The pandemichas brought us now into another go into
all the world. Because the worldwe were not a part of as strongly
as we should have been is theworld of cyberspace. We did not do

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the social media thing where all theseyoung people are locked in, and so
consequently this pandemic has sent us intoall the world of cyberspace. So now
I'm believing God for the saving ofthe zeers and the saving of the millennials,

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because now the Church is projecting JesusChrist in the cyber world, cyberspace,
CyberWorld. Eh. And so wethank God for that. That pandemic
is doing some things. It's bringingus into a closer relationship with God.
It's causing us to spend time inour Bibles, it's giving us greater prayer

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life, and it is certainly movingus into the cyber space to touch people
that we would not have touched,who would not come into the physical building.
But we need to stay safe sowe can get back together. Another
great point was made, and Ithink this point is quite significant to those

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who listen. I think it's theuh, the reverend doctor Ron Owens.
We are having a conversation and he'sa he's got a brilliant mind. I
was dealing with some of my illustriousbrothers from the Church of God in Christ
eight States. We had just amarvelous meeting, had a master class,
and had some presenters that were secondto none all week long. I don't

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know why they included me, butthey did. And Ron made a statement,
and I'm saying for those of uswho have been questioning seriously whether or
not we will get back to churchbecause of what's going on, and how
long will this pandemic last? Andhe made a statement. He said,
when it came to HIV, HIVdid not affect the world. Neither did

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it affect America economically as COVID nineteenhas. And nobody moved quickly, swiftly,
ebulliantly, intensely to find a solutionto HIV because it didn't mess with

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every body's money. I keep tellingyou about money. Now, what's going
to happen now? He made apoint that I have to believe and stick
with, and that is this,This COVID nineteen is messing with so many
coffee first, so many pocketbooks,so many bank accounts, so much of

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our investment, that we will finda solution because it is economically devastating.
The only problem that I see isthat our administration decided to see the virus
doesn't have a brain, but thepeople on the other side of this virus

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who's fighting it, we have brains. We need to use them. You
cannot fix the economy. If youdon't fix what broke it, and what
broke it the virus, you gottafix it. So let's do what we're
supposed to do. I said allof that, that we do it we're
supposed to do to keep this thingunder wraps. One of my security again

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is battling COVID nineteen difficulty breathing.We have to pray for him in a
great way. We're continuing to prayfor Pastor la Fayette Dorsey and his family
with the tragedy that they have hadto face. And this is becoming quite
overwhelming. But God would put nomore honest than we're able to bear.

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However, that does not take awaythe human response to the pain that we
all have to have. Father,we come in the name of Jesus,
and again we're praying for the situationthat we find ourselves in. We thank
you for the prayer warriors who havebeen praying diligently, not only from the

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city of Refuge, but from allover this country. And we pray now,
Lord that you will move in agreat way, give us our direction,
give us our marching orders, helpus to reboot the system of spirituality
and ministry. Help us to gointo the way that you would lead,

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and not just simply to try toget back to the old landmarks in the
same old manner. But help us, o God, to stay with the
old landmark principles, but move intothe methodology that will be significant for the
growth of the kingdom. And wethank you for that. Right now,
Bless families who are hurting. TouchPastor Dorsey and his family, Touch Apostle

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Mark Hinton and his family, Touchall families that we know and don't know.
Heal, Terence, heal and deliver, and we claim it right now,
Bless this today that you're anointing meupon every word in Jesus' name.
Amen, and amen and amen again. Now we're going back to Matthew chapter

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seven. Yes, we're going backto Matthew chapter seven. And listen,
I am getting older. I'm thiscovering this and now I'm reading more.
I'm studying more than I have becauseI'm home all the time, so I'm
working on different things. On everythingI'm writing. I'm all the things that

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you don't do when you're rushing fromplane to plane and all that kind of
stuff. So I have to have, uh another set of eyes because uh,
you know I've been praying about myeyes, but science says get some
glasses, so uh, don't bearwith me as I put on some other
kind of specs. And if Ican't see in the dark, I've got

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a light. So so you know, I've got everything I need to get
through this. Now we're going toMark to Matthew rather chapter seven and uh,
and it reads like this, askinga child be given, seeking,
ye shall find this is seven seven. Uh, knock, and a child
be open unto you. For everyonethat asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh

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findeth. And to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. Or what
man is there of you whom,if his son asks bread, will give
him a stone, or if heasks fish, will give him a serpent.
And he goes into it heavily whenhe says, now, if then,

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if ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, Hey, comefurther, how much more shall your heavenly
Father, which is in heaven,give good things to them that ask him?
Therefore, all things whatsoever ye thatmen should do to you, do

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even so to them. For thisis the law on the prophets. I
want to make an observation very quicklyhere, and of course we have to
look at the word father. Andwhen we look at the word father,
what we understand is in some sensesfrom the Greek, it is just,

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and it's pate, and it isfrom in some senses from the Greek.
It speaks primarily and only to maleancestry. But when you look at Peter
from the Bible, it's used ofthe God of the creator of all beings.
And he is not only the creatorof all beings, he is also

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the fountain of life. He isthe very substratum. He's greater than that,
he is the very essence out ofwhich all substance exists. And he
is therefore called the heavenly Father becauseof the placing. But he is also

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distinguished from earthly fathers because he isactually the individual, the being that put
the earthly fathers in place. Ithink it's important because of the how much
more, the how much more takesit from terrestrial to celest you, and

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I think we need to have someunderstanding to a great extent of if you,
being evil, will give good giftsto your children, then how much
more the heavenly Father, who isnot only the instigator, but the creator,

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the hah that I am, thatI am the self existent one.
How much more will he give goodgifts to his children? Having understood that,
you have to understand two things.One is that our heavenly Father didn't
create us and place us in Edenand placed us in the earth with everything

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that we needed before we got hereto hold it and keep it from us.
I think that's very critical to understandfrom Adam's day and Adam's time that
when he placed Adam in the gardengave him dominion, He gave him everything
that he would possibly need for hiscreature comfort. He wasn't holding anything back,

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indeed, And in fact, whenhe placed Adam there, he analyzed
him psychologically and he said it's notgood for him to be alone. And
out of that he created woman forman to complete the social cycle. That
is significant for and earthly dwelling.Might I say that again, it is

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significant for an earthly dwelling to havea social relationship. That's why my relationship
with God is spiritual. And hecreated the woman to complete what man would
need in the earthly sojourn. Veryimportant. Now, not only are we

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dealing now with us as the creationfor the revelation, and of course that
fell apart when Adam broke the commandmentof God and his spirit died. But
now that God has brought us intothe kingdom, and he is not only

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our father from an earthly point ofview, but now he becomes our father
in our born again relationship with him. I am saying that to say to
you that even in an earthly environmentalrelationship he has provided everything for our creature

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comfort. How much more will ourheavenly father, who has brought us into
a spiritual relationship with him? NowI'm running to Romans, and I'm running
to the place where Paul is sayingthat the God who brought us into the
fold through grace, we stand ingrace. And he's saying, if when

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we were evil, when we weresinners, when we were anti God,
ungodly, while we were weak,and he goes to a series of things
that depict our depraved condition, hesaid, if he was still good to
us, then how much more willhe be good to us now that we

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are justified by his blood. Notice, he's good to us because he allows
the rain to fall on the justand the unjust. If he is good
to us in a natural, earthly, still environ meant, how much more

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will he be to his children afterhe has shed his blood, that they
might be able to come to himboldly in the time of need. I
want you to put them in juxtaposition. He is good to the just and

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the unjust. And when we wereyet sinners, when we were ungodly,
when we were rebellious, when wedidn't want to deal with him, he
was still good. Now he hasshed his blood for his body, his

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ecclesial, his called out ones.He shed his blood and brought us into
the fold, justified by his deathon country, just as if we never
sin redeemed, sanctified, set apart that is adopted, yes, propitiated.

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He's done all of that to putus in the foe. Then he
turns around and says, you ask, you seek, and you knock.
And if he is good to younaturally when you're not good to him,
now that he has brought you intothe fold, how much more it is

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marvelous. So now I think weneed to focus. I focused primarily on
God, elevating our concept of ourrelationship with him. Now, let's elevate
our concept on just how powerful andwonderful, he is, I don't need

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the big glasses for this. Theobvious thing here now has to be upon
us, and that is the abilityof God to give more than you have
the capacity to ask for. Becausehe is saying to me, come boldly,
and he is saying to me,just ask. And remember we talked

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about it being open our carte blanche. He does not define what you ask
for. He does not tell youhow to ask. He is simply saying,
ask, of course, because ifyou ask for bread, you will
not get a stone. Then itwould seem to me no matter how you

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would ask for a serpent. Youmight think, you might not think it's
a serpent. Mm hmm, youmight think not think it's a stone.
But many times we ask amiss,and we don't know what we need to

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ask for, Paul says King Jamesversion as we ought. That's why the
Holy Spirit maketh intercession for us withgroanings that cannot be uttered. So please
don't tell me that you have alwaysasked for the right thing. And if
I have asked for what I thoughtwas something wonderful and beautiful, and I

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have done that, and I've endedup with a serpent, it is significant
that because I don't know what toask for, and if I ask for
the wrong thing, he will notgive it to me. Notice what he
said, how much more if youask, you, being evil, give

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good gifts to your children. Howmany times have your child asked you for
something you know wasn't good for them. Let's start with the chocolate, Let's
start with the can Let's start no, let me not call those things that.
Let's start with the teeth rotteners.And you choose, And how many

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times have you looked at a childfeeling the pain in your heart of them
not getting what they want, butyou know it's not good for them,
and you muster up that flint faceand you say a categorical no. Even

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though you would like them to havethe pleasure of having what they want,
you still say no. And muchof the problem that our kids have is
that we are so sentimental that wegive into something that we know is not
good for them. Not God.God does not carry the kind of sentiment

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that's going to allow him to goagainst what he knows is good for you,
being as righteous as he is.Here it goes again, ask card
Blanche, open, ask, buthe will not give you what's not good

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for you, no matter how youplead within. Because his righteousness dictates that
he protect you from you. Ishouldn't just say you, I should say

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us. His righteousness dictates that heprotects me from me, you from you,
and we from ourselves. Because youcan knock all you want to,
because you ask to receive, younot to get in, and you seek

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something you have lost, But youcan knock all you want to. He
will not let you into a placethat's going to destroy you. You can
seek all you want to. He'snot gonna let you find something you lost
that you needed to lose. Andyou can ask all you want to.

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He's not going to give you somethingthat's going to hurt you. So in
that rejoice because obviously we have thekind of God who allows us to ask,
but determines how he responds to theass the sikh and the knock.

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Now, let's take it to anotherlevel, whether that's higher or lower,
Say you know, another level,And now we want to look at the
obvious ability of God to give morethan we can ask or even think.
Have you ever invited a group ofpeople over and the amount of people that

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you invited you had enough for them. But what you didn't prepare for was
them inviting people that you didn't knowwere coming. And as conservative, and
please be conservative, is what you'dsay to the crowd as they entered,

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because now you don't want them toeat too much. You don't want them
to eat too much because you don'thave enough. And you really you prepared
a wonderful steak and lobster, oryou did lobster with shrimp, you did
a seafood cocktail, and you spentpretty much all of your money to do

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it. And now people just invitedfolk, and all of a sudden,
the whole party or the barbecue orwhatever it was on fourth of July,
it just kept growing out of space. People there you don't know, and
you're looking at the supply. Youdon't want to look like a host who

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is incapable of handling the people whoare there, because nobody knows who invited
who. So now it's all onyou and you want people now just to
pick a little and eat a little. And oh my god, you're trying
to hold things back because really,after that's spread, you don't want to
send somebody up to Louisiana chicken oror Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC, whatever

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it's called, and bring something backthat's less than the preparation you made.
Now, the difference is astounding betweenyou and God. The difference with God
is the more you want, themore people you invite, is the more

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she is able to do. Didyou get that? You never ask sparingly
because there is more in the supplyof God than you and everybody you invite,

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and let them invite that you don'tknow. Your hosts didn't know you
invited them, and you didn't knowthey invited others, and they didn't know
they invited others, and those peopledidn't know that they invited others. Bring
the whole world and there is stillmore than everybody could possibly eat. He

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actually tests you to eat as muchas you think you can, and He
still has more in store. Thatintensifies my boldness, That opens my faith
to a new dimension. And thatis whatever it is, I come to

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God, for he has that andthat much more. Paul does it.
And what Paul does is he callsit Hooper Panta and in he does that
in the Doxology when he is closingthe Book of Ephesians, and I gotta
go to work now what he doesthere, and I think I'll jump to

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the Book of Ephesians very quickly.I wanted to stay with Matthew, but
I've got to go to Ephesians veryvery quickly because this is going to be
just a wonderful day for me.And in the Book of Ephesians, and
it's chapter three. If you willnotice in Ephesians that Paul praise more than

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once. And what he does nowis he deals at first with the mystery
of the Gospel, and then hepraised that the eyes of their understanding,
our understanding, be enlightened, thatwe may know three things, And one
of the three things is the exceedinggreatness of His power unto us, who

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believe very very important. He doesthat in about verse fifteen, when and
he says, of whom the wholefamily in heaven and earth is named,
that he would grant you, accordingto the riches of his glory, to
be strengthened with might by his spiritin the inner man, that he may

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dwell in our hearts, by faith, being rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend with allsaints. What is the breath and length
and depth and height, and toknow the love of Christ which pass ath
knowledge, that he might be filledwith all the fullness of God. Now
unto him that is able. He'sgetting ready to close now, and he

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wants to use this as a doxology. Now listen to what he's doing.
In chapter three. He wants thisto be the last thing that his children,
the children of God, the saintsin Ephesus, and you and I.
This is the last thing he wantsto put on their mind before he

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goes to Amen. And that ishe wants you to know in the doxology
that he is houper panta. Nowwe've got two descriptions of God here with
these on, because this print isfive. We've got two descriptions of God.

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The first is a general description andthe other is a more specific description
that has to do with the believer. The first characterizes him as one who
is able to do hooper panther,which is literally above all things. Thus

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in the measure exceeding all things,beyond all things. I want to take
a break here. Faith cometh byhearing, hearing by the word of the
Lord, and many times, andin the last forty years, one of
the things we have done, whichnow has become a little inerrant. Well,

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we didn't tell the whole picture.We spend a lot of time trying
to develop faith on what it iswe wanted from God, what we wanted
God to do, But we didn'tspend a lot of time describing the God,
our God that we are addressing forthe things that we want him to

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do. When we pray in thewill of God, and according to our
understanding of God, when we prayand our faith is in the person of
God, our faith is not onlyto get him to give us something,
But our faith is in the personof God, who will not give us

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what is not right for us tohave. And that should be a glory
and a worship and a praise.When He does not give us what's harmful
to us, even though we beghim incessantly for it, and even though
we want it badly. That nowtakes me to the person of God,
not only to the gifts of God, but the person of God, who

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regulates what he will give, howmuch of it will he will give,
how much he wants me to ask, and how much more he has in
store. Notice, now, thisteaching today is going to be about the
person of God. First of all, he describes him, as I said,

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in a general way, and thenhe's going specific. Here is a
general way, Hooper panther above allin a measure exceeding all things, beyond
all things. Now to understand that, you would have to understand that whatever

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God has created, whatever he hasmade, whatever he has given you in
terms of your brain capacity, hehas not done all that God is capable
of, no matter how extensive yousee the universe, and no matter how

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little a part of our brain weuse. And we are told that we
use literally an infinitimally small part ofour brains, which means that God has
already given us a capacity that wehave not exhausted. Because if I'm only

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using a small part of my brainand can accomplish all that hasn't been accomplished,
if mankind is only using a limitedpart of what God gave him and
have messed things up like we have, then pray tell me what more capacity

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we have that we don't know,And if we used it to its one
hundred percent capacity, we still wouldonly be able to deal with an infectisious
much the small part of who heis. So when the writer here says

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above all things in measure, exceedingall things, beyond all things in a
general description of God. We haveto understand that if we used all our
brain, and we don't, westill couldn't rass the all that God is

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and all the exceeding more He has, because we in our fullness can't come
up with how much God is.This is saying to me, dear Saint,
the greater the vision you have,the greater the revelation you have from

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God as to where He wants totake you. This is why. And
now I'm getting it. I'm gettingit. I'm getting it. I'm getting
it. Thank you Lord, I'mgetting it. This is why He has
to take us beyond this world andbeyond the world's system into a kingdom system

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that ends with us leaving this world, because the capacity to understand God in
this world is limited. Further,because what He has put together in the
world is infinitimally small part of allthat He is. And to the mind

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that wants to probe into the personof God, you have to go beyond
the little asking for things. Thisis why he said to me, labor
not for the meat that parichet.The real secrets the real things to go

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after. The real thing to searchout for is not to search me out
for a Cadillac or a Rose Royce. I mean not to search me.
What am I sitting around bragging abouthow big my house is. I have
the biggest house in America. Ihave the biggest house in California, or

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what's the biggest state, Texas?I have the biggest house in the biggest
state, and I live in thebiggest city in the biggest county. I
mean, what God is saying is, man, you all have missed the
point. What I have put herein the world to cover your flesh is
so limited. What you can enjoyin life is so limited that I will

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even call riches deceitful. What youneed to do is explore my person,
to seek to get to know memore fully, because there is so much
about me that you don't know thatyou in using the little bit of your

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brain and locking that little bit ofyour brain on getting some things out of
me, is wasting the little bitof your brain. Let me expand your
brain further so you can indulge yourselfin getting to know the fastness of who

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I am. I showed you whoI am by showing you a few things
that I made and created for yourcreature comfort. But now I need you
to get over into the spirit andsee can you find out some deep things
about me? This is his generaldescription of God, and that's scary.

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And now his second description speakers ofhim as Hooper ecparasol oh Man. Listen,
this thing, this thing is wakenedme. I mean, I'm awake,
I'm locked out, but I'm I'mlocked in, but I'm not out.

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Glory be to God, because thisthing is opening up some things to
me that is quite significant. EverythingI have, everything you have and we
have is limited. Now we can'tuse it, we can't express it,
we can't enjoy it. So nowwhat is there to enjoy? What is

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there to probe? You've been inevery mall? What mall haven't you been
in? And whatever? You You'vehad every kind of designer clothes and and
and what else could you want?You've had all the perfume, you've you
know, we've had all the suits, the Nina Ricci ties and Ante shirts.

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We've had the Tom Ford We've wewe've had all the designer stuff.
Folks on just to go on Facebookand see folks showing off what they had.
What kind of cars haven't we driventhem? I mean, really,
you go on YouTube, you cansee what the rich and famous do,
and all of that stuff passes away. Paradise burned down in California. Here

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a little city called Paradise. Ihope my paradise won't burned down when I
get to Heaven. I mean,what else is there? The thing that's
left here is not simply probing aroundin the universe to make man better.
I think we ought to probe aroundin the universe to see can we get

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some disclosure to the power of Godthat we have not yet experienced, And
not only experience it selfishly to aggrandizethe flesh, but rather to have a
spirit that is open to the knowledgeof God. I have profits prophesy more
into me, getting to know God, prophesy more into what God is going

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to reveal to me of himself.I get mad when I read Hebrews and
where Paul, where the writer ratheris saying to them, I have things
to say to you, but Ican't say it because you're not yet able
to bear it. You're still child, You're yet carnal. You can't grasp
these things, And I'm saying tomyself, I wish they were mormentare because

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here is a revelatory experience I couldhave had through the writing if they were
mormentaure. And I'm saying, whyhave we lost the Zears and we have
lost the millennials. Maybe because wewere more concerned about pointing them to things
that they could get outside of thechurch, because they're more educated than we

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are. They could get that stuffwithout having to come to Jesus. Maybe
what we should have projected was aknowledge of Him and a greatness that he
possesses that all of your intellectuality,cognitive energy, and all of your creativity
in your mind and psyche could notget a hold to unless you're born into

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the kingdom that opens him up toyou. Maybe that's where we went wrong.
Why we lost them where they sawall the hypocrisy in us, where
we said everything about God just togain some things. Where they can gain
the things without having to go throughall of this perversions about God. Please,

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your writer is telling me here thathe is able. Now this specific
statement is hooper et parasol, andthe word is made up of parasaws,
which is exceeding some number or measure. Hooper panta is above all things.

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That's the general. Now he's goingto take hooper at parasol and say exceeding
some number or measure over and abovemore than necessary. That's one word.

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Then he puts Eck there eck Andwhat ck does. Now it is perfective
in force. So it intensifies thealready existing idea of the verb. I
was talking to the to the Churchof God in christ Ministries in with the

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under the Great, Great Great Leader, Doctor Sedgwick Daniels from Wisconsin, and
I discovered something as I was speakingto them about the enormity and the weight

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that comes from the word of God. And why is it so explicit?
Because God allowed his word, theNew Testament word to be put together in
the time when the Greek language wasso significant to the world. Knows this

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Roman empire. The Romans controlled theempire, but the language was Greek because
the Greek was so specific in itssuccinct explanations. How mud I put it,

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it was so specific that it couldtake the thought of the individual,
no matter how poignant and pointed theywere, and give the right word,
the right tense, the right intensity, and the right combinations of words to

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bring out the point to its fullest. That's why Greek was the language of
the New Testament, because God wantedus to get it with the little part
of our brains that we use.He wanted us to get as much as
we can. It now intensifies thealready existing verb. It intensifies it.

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So what it does now is itadds the idea of exhaustlessness. So now
we started out with a hypopontar,which is a general exceeding everything and above
everything. Then he brings it tohis children and it becomes Hooper ex parasol,

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and that now is above. BecauseHooper is above, Parasol is exceeding
all numbers and exceeding all measures.And Eck intensifies the exceeding all members and
puts it above, which now makesit exhaustless. So when I go to

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God, I'm going to a Godwhose supply is exhaustless, and he it
is exhaustless, and he has moreand more above being exhaustless. So let's
read it in how it should be. The idea is that God. The

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idea is that God has the abilityto do something, granted, but that
ability has more than enough potential powerthis power being exhaustless, and then he's

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got some more on top of that. He has the ability to do something,
and that ability is being done outof enough potential power to get it

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done smoothly and easily, and hestill has more power above the power he
used to do the thing, andthat more power that he has to do

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the thing is exhaustless, and hestill has more power on top of that.
Here's how one writer put it.God is able to do super abundantly
above and beyond what we ask orthink, and then have some power on

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top of that. So now youcan bring everybody to the barbecue, because
you can never ask for as muchas God has, or let me go
into his person as much as heis willing to give. You cannot think

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as much as God has. Andas God is willing to give, he
has capacity to give us more thanour capacity to ask, and he wants
us to know that. So ourpossession moves now from ask to seek to

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not? Can I associate that withthe progression of faith? Is there a
progression from ask to seek to not? Paul would indicate the progression of faith
is evident in Romans one seventeen,for therein is the righteousness of God revealed

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from faith to faith, as itis written to just shall live by faith.
Now Here he is talking about fromfaith to faith. This is why
when we begin with God, hesays to us that you will receive the

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Holy Spirit. I believe God forthe Holy Spirit. How do I know
I have it? When He comesto me and I speak in other tongues
as evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit, Now I know I have it.
When He moves me from faith tofaith, he has to deliver something in
order for me to know I haveit as an expression of my faith.

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Receiving what I believe God for,then I don't have to have faith for
that anymore because I have it.Hope being an integral part of faith causes
me to expect God to give mesomething that I asked him for, and
when I receive it, I don'thave to hope for it anymore. For

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that that is seen. Why doyou yet hope for so? Hope being
a part of faith means I expectsomething, but after I get it,
I don't expect it anymore. Ihave it, so now I can move
to something else. So pistis inthis particular text in Romans one point seventeen

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is the ablative of source, whichsimply means the source of bestowment is faith.
Whatever is bestowed of God is byfaith. It is the channel by
which the gifts are transferred. Faithin God transfers the gift to me.

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But faith is in the person ofGod, not in the things that God
has. I wish somebody'd get thatbecause this now allows him because my faith
is in his person and I knowhis ability to give. So it's not

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because he ran out of product whyhe didn't give it. It's because my
faith is in his person, andbecause my faith is in his person.
If I don't get it, it'sbecause that's not what he wants me to
have, because the gift would bechanneled through faith, if that's what he

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knew was best for me, becausehe's not giving me something that will destroy
me. I've been there fifty minuteson this, which means I gotta come
back here again. So let mesum this up and say to you,
your faith has to be in theperson of God. So you're asking,
you're seeking, and you're knocking.But he will not give you what's not

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good for you if you ask,and whatever you lost that you're looking for.
Again, I don't know what hisor her name is. Well,
I don't know what the thing is. I'm sorry, but whatever you lost,
he's not gonna let you find itif it's not good for you.

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And he's not letting you into adoor that's going to destroy you. Because
your faith is in the person ofGod and he is Hooper punter, he
is Hooper et parasol. He hasthe ability to do more than you can
ask or think. But your faithis not in the things he has.

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Your faith is in his person andthat's where we're gonna pick up the next
time again. Believe God, askhim. Don't let me tell you what
to ask. Don't let me tellyou how to ask. Just ask because
I know who he is and Iknow he's not gonna send you anything that's

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gonna hurt you, and our faithhas to accept that. God bless you
today. Oh I'm excited. We'regoing back here again, and we're going
deeper. We're not we're going deeper. We're going deeper. But now I
discovered something great, and that isthat my faith is in the person of
God. Not my faith is notin his supply. My faith is in

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his person and he has more thanI can ask or even think. Take
that to prayer this week, andI guarantee you some things will move,
some things will move. Father,We thank you for this lesson. We
thank you for your presence in thisroom. We thank you for your presence.

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Wherever there is a phone, thereis a computer, there is a
TV. We thank you for yourpresence in that place. And I pray
God that you we will completely envelopus in your grace. And I prayed

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in Jesus' name. Amen. Verycritical prayer at the cityofrefuge dot org if
you email us there. We thankGod for the report we have received.
People have been receiving the only ghostwonderful. People have been baptized, People
are coming back to the Lord,people are being saved. People are being

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reached that would not have been reachedhad we stayed in the building and we
were not scattered by the pandemic intocyber space. We thank God for the
people he is reaching. We thankGod and we will endure this sacrifice until

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we get back together again. Aslong as God is doing what He's doing
through us, we are very happy. Now. On the screen, of
course, is a way for youto give, and as this thing extends
itself, Remember you have to bewise with your finances. But the church

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still needs your support. So here'swhat I'm saying to the Lord. Lord,
supply the people so people can eat, people can work, people can
handle their business, take care oftheir children. And Lord, supply them
so that what you're going to giveus through them will not break them down.

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Knowing that God loves you, knowingthat He is the author and finisher
of his house, we believe thatHe will do both. Our intentions are
pure. Your intentions are pure andneeded for your children, for your household,

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for your grandchildren, for the peopleyou watch and that God has put
in your space. And since hesupplies us through you, we're asking him
to supply you so greatly that youwon't hurt, to be able to give
to your church, and to blessthe work of the Lord as we continue

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around the world and into spaces wehave never been. So it's on the
screen. Give and God certainly willgive you enough to give so that you
can give and bless others. Remember, mass, let's not get weary in
the well doing of following the principle, because in due time we will be

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out of this if we faint,not now, did I just butcher represcripture?
Did I just take it and useit? But I hope you understand
where I'm going with this. Let'sdo what we're supposed to do. Don't
get weary and decide. My goodfriend went to a party, a birthday

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party. My security went to abirthday party. And you know, when
you're around a lot of people,you don't know how you'll get it.
Let's just hang here for a minute, stay consecrated, and believe God for
it. God bless you, Heavensmile on you. I love you,
I miss you, and it's goingto come to pass that we get together

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again, because this thing is messingwith America's money, and America doesn't take
messing with their money. They don'ttake it easily, and they don't take
it for long. Heaven, smileon it. Attatatas