July 23, 2025 • 64 mins
“Permanent Pentecost” examines the Holy Spirit's role in guiding believers toward truth, unity, and a fruitful life. The Spirit guides the Church into true spiritual wisdom and a deeper knowledge of God based upon The Word.
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slaughtered for their faith. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,
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Prince of Peace. Father. We come to you now the
name of your Shure, the name above all names, the
only begotten Son of God, the only name in heaven
and Earth by which we may be saved. We thank
you for being a loving father, a caring father. We
thank you for being an absentee father and seeking us
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out even when we were separated from you. We thank
you for washing away our sins with your shoe as blood,
so that we could come home and have an eternity
with you and to fellowship with you as you did
with Adam. Lord, we thank you for paying our debts,
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for clearing the books, for covering it up so that
when we stand before you and the Father, we won't
owe anything but our worship and our praise and our adoration,
which we give you from our heart. Lord, thank you
for sending back the Holy Spirit, the Uru kak Kadesh,
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to walk with us, to teach us, to guide us,
to inspire us. Thank you. Thank you for the cross,
the empty tomb in the upper room. I thank you
for my family home, pat's possession, my salvation, for my
brothers and sisters. We asked that you would bless us,
bless this technology. Holy Spirit, have your way open our eyes,
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open our ears. We set our minds and our hearts
upon you. We take our thoughts captive to the obedience
of Messiah. Claiming the mind of Messiah. We cast down
every vein imagination that would exalt itself above the knowledge
of l Eon, God Most High, our Abba Father, Holy Spirit.
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Take this word, Drive it deep into our heart, into
our soul, into our spirit. Have you away with us today.
I pray all these things in your Shoea's name, And
if you agree with me, say amen.
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Open those Bibles. However, you follow along if you love me,
Lord says, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father,
and he will give you another helper that he may
abide with you forever, the Spirit of Truth, whom the
world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.
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But you know him, for he dwells with you and
will be in you. Oh, when the helper comes, whom
I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit
of Truth, who proceeds from the Father. He will testify me,
and you also will bear witness, because you have been
with me from the beginning. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.
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It is to your advantage that I go away, For
if I do not go away, the helper will not
come to you. But if I depart, I will send
him to you. And when he has come, he will
convict the world of sin and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Of sin because they do not believe in me. Of
righteousness because I go to my Father, and you see
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me no more. Of judgment, because the ruler of this
world is judged. However, when he, the Spirit of Truth,
has come, he will guide you into all truth. For
he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever
he hears, he will speak, and he will tell you
things to come. He will glorify me, for he will
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take of what is mine and declare it to you.
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes
upon you, and you will be my witnesses, telling people
about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and
to the ends of the earth. That's what this has
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been all about. Pentecost, the Day of Pentecost, the release
of the Holy Spirit into the Church, the birth of
the Church. To contain the spirit that he was releasing.
No longer would he live in temples made of men's hands,
but he would live in our hearts. He would live
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inside of us. That's why this third temple, this temple
that everybody's waiting for, isn't for our use. It's not
for us. We are the temple of the Living God.
That temple is for the Jews, and it's the draw
out the Antichrist. And even when the end has come
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and the Lord comes to the earth, I do not
believe the temple that he will sit in will be here.
I won't go into any further details, but I don't
believe he'll be sitting in a man made temple. Maybe
in the future I'll share that revelation with you. But
if you remember last week, I read these two scriptures
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Ephesians four one seven and First Peter four seven through eleven. I. Therefore,
the prisoner of the Lord beseech you. This is Paul
speaking to the church in Ephesus. Beseech you to walk
worthy of the calling with which you were called, with
all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one
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another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the
spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body
and one Spirit, just as you were called in one
hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is above all
and through all, in you all, but to each one
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of us grace was given according to the measure of
Messiah's gift. But the end of all things is at hand.
Please hear me, The end of all things is at hand. Therefore,
be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things,
have fervent love for one another, for love will cover
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a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
As each one has received a gift, minister it to
one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God.
If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the
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ability which God supplies. That in all things God may
be glorified through Jesus the Messiah, to whom belonged with
glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen, glory and
dominion forever that comes from the Holy Spirit and side
of us on the earth. Through us, come Holy Spirit.
We want to see this glory, We want to feel
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this glory. We want you to work in us, through us,
and with us. That's what the Holy Spirit in you
is for. To work with us and in us and
through us, to shine his light into the darkness, to
bring that glory into the world, to not contain it
in a building or in a box, or to do anything,
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but to release it. Release it in your shoe is name.
Go with me to cautions. Chapter one, verses twenty four
through twenty nine. Paul speaking now, I rejoice in my
sufferings on your behalf, and with my own body, I
supplement whatever is lacking on our part of Massiah's afflictions,
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on behalf of his body, which is the church. In
this church, I was made a minister according to the
stewardship which God entrusted to me for your sake, so
that I might make the word of God fully known
among you. That is the mystery which was hidden from
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angels in mankind for ages and generations, but has now
been revealed to his saints as Uscot's people. God, in
his eternal plan chose to make known to them. How
great for the gentiles are the riches of the glory
of this mystery, which is Messiah in you and among
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you the hope and the guarantee of realizing the glory.
We proclaim him, warning and instructing every one in all wisdom,
that is, with comprehensive insight into the word and purposes
of God, so that we may present every person complete
in Messiah, mature, fully trained, and perfect in Him the Anointed.
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For this I labor often to the point of exhaustion,
striving with His power and energy which so greatly works
within me. Messiah in you the hope of glory, the
hope of eternity, the hope of basking in his presence.
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Oswald Chambers says something about this. He says, his wonderful life,
meaning the Lord, his wonderful life that is imparted to
me in sanctification, imparted by faith as a sovereign gift
of God's grace. Sanctification means the impartation of the holy
qualities of Jesus the Messiah. To me, it is the
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gift of His patience, love, holiness, faith, purity, and godliness
that is exhibited in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification
is not true drawing from Jesus the power to be holy,
but it is drawing from Jesus, the very holiness which
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was exhibited in Him that he now exhibits in me.
Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something
altogether different. The perfection of everything is in Jesus the Messiah,
and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfect
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qualities of Jesus are at my disposal. We are to
live a life that reflects him. And that's what taking
in this word, hearing this word, being imprinted by this word,
sharing it with others, that's what it does. It shares
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his life through you. And there is no glory of
the Lord in us without the abiding presence of the
Holy Spirit. We are made because He is holy, and
the Spirit guides us into all truth, so that we
can be His witnesses and beacons to a world in darkness.
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The Believer's Bible Commentary says in the New Testament, of
mystery is a truth not previously revealed, but now made
known to the sons of men through the apostles and
prophets of the New Testament. It is a truth that
man could never have arrived at by his own intelligence,
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but which God has graciously designed to make known. The
Church was not known before the day of Pentecost, excuse me.
Whereas Israel began with God with God's calling on Abraham
when he was Abram from the earth of the Chaldeese.
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If you don't know where that is, it's along the
Euphrates River and summer on the southwest edge of the
Babylonian Kingdom, which is modern day Iraq. He created a
nation from Abraham's seed, a race distinctive morally and spiritually
from everyone else. The Church is from the seed planted
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by the Lord, and a new creation like the believers
in it. Implanted in the Church is the guarantee of
eternity of glory with Him. Through the Holy Spirit, you
have hope of His glory. The hope in you is
His glory. You see, Paul preached a person. He preached Yeshia.
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Didn't preach religion, didn't preach denominationalism, didn't preach any of
these things. He preached Yeshia, and all that Yeshia endured
for our freedom and the sufferings of the Church are
divinely ordained and as such an extension of the suffering
of the Lord. We don't want to hear about suffering
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bless me, bless me, bless me, Lord, protect me, keep
me from all harm, And yes he does, though we
are in a fallen world under the control of the
wicked ones plural, not just Satan. Paul also believed that
gentile believers would be united with believing Jews into one body,
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which is why this anti Semitic replacement theology clearly goes
against the teaching of the Word and the teaching of
the apostles, who, by the way, were Jewish, and the
glue that held them together was the Holy Spirit. Like
sap into the vine. Paul was very conscious of who
he was and what he was doing Colossians one, starting
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verse nine. For this reason, he says, since the day
we heard about it, we have not stopped praying for you,
you asking specifically that you may be filled with the
knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom, with insight
into His purposes. And as I speak this, take this
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as a prayer over you and an understanding of spiritual things,
so that you will walk in a manner worthy of
the Lord, displaying admirable character, moral courage, and personal integrity. Boy,
could the church use that to fully please him in
all things? Bearing fruit in every good work, and steadily
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growing in the knowledge of God with deeper faith, clearer insight,
and fervent love for His precepts. We pray that you
may be strengthened and invigorated with all power according to
His glorious might, to attain every kind of endurance and
patience with joy giving thanks to the Father who has
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qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints,
who are God's people in the light, the incomparable Messiah,
for he has rescued us and drawn us to himself
from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us to
the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have
redemption because of his sacrifice resulting in the forgiveness of
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our sins and the cancelation of sins penalty. Every time
I read that scripture, I remember that day I knelt
at the cross and made just shoe a load of
my life and confessed my sins. He rescued me. He
drew me out of the dominion, out of the control
of darkness, and transferred me instantly into the kingdom of
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his beloved Son, the Kingdom of Light. So Paul's making
four separate requests in prayer for the Colossians, that they
would have spiritual insight, that they would have a worthy walk,
that they would have abundant power, and that they would
have a thankful spirit. He also prayed that they might
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be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding, which cannot come without the Holy Spirit.
And he didn't ask that they should be satisfied or
that they would have boasted of their boastful knowledge, like
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the Gnostics of their day, which had infiltrated the Church.
And I think it's important we understand the threat that
the Church was under, and I believe still is under.
The Homan Bible Dictionary explains the term gnosticism as having
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been derived from the Greek word gnosis, which means knowledge,
because secret knowledge was so crucial to a doctrine. In gnosticism,
the Gnostics understood and their beliefs in their confused thinking,
humanity to be trapped within the physical body. The human
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spirit was understood to be part of an ultimate spiritual reality,
the Pleurroma, or part of the ultimate God, not the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but their God knowledge.
This entrapment is usually understood as ignorance or sleep, but
not as sin. For the human spirit to find salvation.
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In their thinking, it would need to be awakened to turn.
You hear a lot the New Age and the occult
and delivered from its ignorance by recovering the knowledge the
gnosis of its true self or character. As a part
of the Ploroma or Ultimate God. They believe the inferior
God arose through a mysterious tragic split with than the
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deity within the ultimate realm of the Ultimate True God,
often called Father, Mother, or Father of all. Often this
was expressed as the Ultimate God's sophia or wisdom, engaging
in independent reflection that results in producing an illegitimate offspring,
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meaning our beliefs who is the inferior created God or
the progenitor of that inferior God.
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Well.
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Elements of this understanding are indebted to the Platonic traditions,
to the Hellenistic Jewish wisdom traditions. Further, in the Christian
Gnostic text from the second century, the inferior God is
usually identified with the Creator God of Genesis, who then
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is clearly not the Ultimate True God in their eyes.
Think about Romans one whenever he these words. Many Gnostic
texts identify the creator God of Genesis as the inferior
evil God. In this context, Adam and Eve are often
seen as a paradigmatic representatives of humanity or on the
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verge of contact with the Ultimate God. Thus, the serpent,
in directing Adam and Eve to the Tree of knowledge Gnosis,
is actually a servant of the Ultimate God. Ah, now
we know who's behind this thinking. It is the inferior
God who does not want them to discover the value
of this tree. Oh. Yes, this infiltrated the church, and
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the church was torn by heated debates over this issue,
over gnoscissism. You know, whenever Paul says he left and
then people snuck in and started to preach a gospel
different than his, and he had either come back or
he had to write them letters. This is what he's
talking about. Many of the church fathers believe it traces
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back to one person, Simon Maggus. Simon the Sorcerer, referred
to an Axe eight. The origins of narcissism are given
to him. Now after the events described in Axe eight,
the Bible does not mention Simon again. Some apocryphal and
gnostic texts highlight his role as a sorcerer and attribute
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and attribute significant abilities to him, while certain early Christian
writers like Justin Martyr and Irenaeus betray him as an
opponent of early Christianity and suggests he contributed to the
formation of narcissism, and I might agree from what I
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know of Simon Maggus. By the end of the second century,
many Gnostics form separate alternative churches or belief systems, which
the Church viewed as a heretical. Gnosticism was thus a
major threat to the early Church, and early Church leaders
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such as Ironaeus, Tertullian, and Hippolotus wrote volun volumes against it.
And this split that I'm talking about, this infiltration of
the church, is what was brought to the Council of Nicia.
It was what was brought to Constantine to bring the
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church together as one. Because within that split, we also
have those that are following Paul and those that are
following Peter. And I got news for you. The Roman
Catholic Church was not born through the apostles. It was
born through forcing the sects that followed Paul, and the
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sects that followed Peter and the Gnostics. That was in
the mix to come together as one under the control
of the government. This battle about knowledge, this battle for
the church, goes back to the Garden of Eden. It
is satanic, it is diabolical, and it is meant to
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keep the Church from its true calling. Though we walk
in the flesh as mortal men, we are not carrying
on our spiritual warfare according to the flesh and using
the weapons of man. The weapons of our warfare are
not physical weapons of flesh and blood. Our weapons are
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divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying
sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets
itself up against the true knowledge of God. And we
are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience
of Messiah, being ready to punish every act of disobedience
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when you're own obedience as a church is complete. Tewod
Corinthians ten, verses three through six. Now, when you apply
that scripture to everything I just said, you understand better
what was going on during that time. There was a battle,
and Paul was trying to get the believers of that
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day to understand that the true knowledge of God comes
from the Word and from his Holy spirit, which the
Lord said he would send back to remind them of him,
of what he said, of what he taught. But this
conflict raged, And isn't it just like Satan as he
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did through the serpent in the garden. Did God really
say that? Did he really say that? He doesn't want
you to know that knowledge because it'll make you like God.
That's the deception of the New Age. You'll open up
parts of your mind, you'll gain all this universal knowledge.
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And none of it was Godly. And I fell for
it because I didn't know any better. I'd not been
raised in knowledge, I'd been raised in religion, I'd not
been raised in relationship. I was fooled. I was lied
to Glaussians to study Verse one. For I want you
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to know, Church, what a great conflict I have for
you and those in later to see you, For as
many has not seen MY face in the flesh, that
their hearts may be encouraged being knit together in love
and detaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding,
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to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of
the Father and of Messiah, in whom are hidden all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. See what he's doing there.
If you want the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, they're
in the Father and the Son. He goes on. Now
this I say, lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words,
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For though I am absent in the flesh flesh, I
am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good
order and the steadfastness of your faith in Messiah. Remember
I said he had to write back letters if he
couldn't get there in person. He had to confront what
was going on Verse six. As you therefore have received Messiah,
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issue of the Lord. So walk in Him, rooted and
built up in him, established in the faith as you
have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest
anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to
the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of
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the world, and not according to Messiah. For in him
dwells all the fullness of the Godhead. Bodily he's banging
on him. He's crushing this false knowledge, this deceit, coming
from the mouths of Satan himself. See to it. He's
saying that no one takes you captive through philosophy and
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empty deception, pseudo intellectual babbel. Oh my gosh, we have
folled with that today. Social media is full of people
think they know what they're talking about, and it's pseudo
intellectual babble. According to the tradition and the musings of
mere men, following the elementary principles of this world rather
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than following the truth. The teachings of Messiah Paul encouraged
the church and therefore us, to understand and apply God's
will for their lives. As described in scripture. You find
it in the Word, through the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
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When you begin this walk, however long you've been on it,
you're always learning. You're always in process. When you begin
this walk, like a baby, you're taking in baby food,
so to speak. You're not chewing the meat of the word,
yet you're nibbling. You're getting it. The spirit's revealing it,
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and it's building it upon precept upon precept, lying upon
lying knowledge upon knowledge. All of a sudden you start
getting this and oh, I see that. I didn't see
that before. Oh that applies back to here. That's what
he was saying, That's what he meant, And the reason
I fill in all the blanks about what's going on
in history, where they are, what the society thinks, what
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He means at that moment. I'm giving you both content
and context. If you remember, we did a big teaching
on that. If you don't, if you haven't heard it,
go back and look for it. Content has to be
taken within the context of which it was shared on
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Timothy six verses twenty and twenty one. Oh, Timothy, guard
to what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane
and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.
By professing it, some have strayed concerning the faith. He's
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still in this battle against gnosticism again, satanic demonic influence.
I see it so much in the world today. I
see it in the church today. God keep safe the
deposit of Godly truth and trusted to you. Turn away
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from worldly and godless chatter, which is profaned, empty words,
and the contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge. God
your faith, get in the word. Spend time with the
Holy Spirit so that you can hear his voice. You
can understand his nudgings. You can understand when he expounds
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upon a scripture and he brings a scripture to life
and suddenly becomes three dimensional and the light bulb goes
off in your head. The knowledge that Paul is trying
to get them to receive. He's not promoting a worldly
or a carnal knowledge, one that comes from man or
men's thinkings. It's characterized by the spiritual wisdom and understanding.
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Wisdom to apply the knowledge in the best way, and
understanding to see what agrees with and what conflicts with
God's will. This takes time, takes maturity in the word.
But if you have a desire to know, if you
have a desire to understand, and if you sit down
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with your Bible, even in listening to these Bible studies,
say Lord, help me, help me to understand, Help me
to get what it is you need me to understand
now at this point in my walk. Why did the
apostle Paul want the Colaussians be filled with the knowledge
of God's will? Was it so that they might become
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preachers or sensational teachers. Was it so they might attract
large followings to themselves, as the Gnostics sought to do. No,
the true purpose of spiritual wisdom and understanding is to
enable believers to walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him.
This is a personal thing. Now. Of course, in doing that,
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it becomes a public corporate thing, and it blesses and
it affects and changes others. But this isn't about you
becoming a great preacher or teacher. This isn't about drawing
following and crowds and doing all that. It's about obtaining
spiritual wisdom and understanding to walk worthy of the Lord,
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fully pleasing him personally. I am blessed, and I've said
this before. I am blessed that he did not allow
me to fall into that trap a building of following.
In fact, he put a stop to it at those
points where it could have happened, where I would have
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been on somebody's stage or behind somebody's pulpit every weekend,
he stopped it. I've shared this before. After I did
the Seven Hundred Club testimony the first time. After they
add it the first time, Pastor Shelley came to me
and some other church leaders said, well, I We'll never
see you again. That was the according to seven Hundred Club,
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that testimony gave them the greatest response and salvation call
among people involved in the Occult. At that point I
got no phone call from anybody. And then they aired
it again and again. It broke all their numbers and
heard from no one. No invitation to preach, no invitation
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he comes share my testimony, no invitation to come confront
the growing darkness and influence of the Occult in their youth.
And of course at that time I'd got my head
full of this is what it's supposed to be like,
and this is what I should be doing, and this
is how you know you're being successful. And I took
it personally until the Spirit began to reveal to me, Ay,
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he protecting He's protecting you, because you would have stopped
growing at that point. You'd have been pandering to the crowds.
You had been working towards invitations and doing all those things,
as opposed to working towards a deeper understanding of the
Word and relationship with the Lord. Here's a fundamental thing.
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God does not reveal his will to us just to
satisfy our curiosity or to fulfill our needs. Neither is
it intended to cater to our ambition or pride. Instead,
the Lord shows us his will for our lives so
that we might please him and all that we do,
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and that's all I've ever wanted to do. Once I
understood what was going on, Once I understood why all
those things didn't happen, that he was protecting me, that
he was jealous and zealous for me. I embraced it.
And the more I embraced it, the deeper I went
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with him, And the more he was willing to share
with me, the more he was willing to open up
the mysteries of the universe and of his kingdom and
of his word to me, knowing that he could trust
me with it. That I wasn't doing it for profit
or gain. Remember I mentioned Simon Magus who tries to
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buy the gifts of the Holy Spirit from Peter. It
became a term in the church semony, buying the offices
or buying the gifts. Well, he didn't allow me to
become one who bought the favor and bought the gifts. No,
he wanted to give it to me personally. He wanted
to work with me personally. He wanted me to be
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fruitful in every good work with him and for him. Now,
when I say a good work, let me give you
a helpful reminder that though a person is not saved
by works, he has saved four good works. Sometimes, in
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emphasizing the utter worthlessness of good works and the salvation
of souls, we create the impression that Christians do not
believe or should not participate in good works. Nothing could
be further from the truth. And Paul talks about this
a lot. For we are His workmanship, his own master work,
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work of art created and Messiah Yashu are reborn from above,
spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used for good works
which God prepared for us beforehand, taking paths which he
set so that we would walk in them, living the
good life which He pre arranged and made ready for us.
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We are his workmanships, created for good work, to get
people saved, healed and delivered, to build the kingdom, to
destroy the work of the enemy. Sorry about that, talking
with my hands, getting very excited and smacked the microphone away.
We are His workmanship. You are His workmanship to do
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what you've been called to do for His glory, not
for yours. Not for you to put your name on
things for people to know who you are, but to
know who He is. Paul wrote to Titus in chapter
three verse eight. This is a faithful saying. And these
things which I want to affirm to you constantly, that
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those who have believed in God should be careful to
maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men,
that those who have believed. If you are a believer,
you should be careful to maintain good works, good and
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profitable works to men in the Kingdom of God. So
those who have trusted in, relied on, and accepted Messiah.
Is sure a savior will be careful to party, dissipating,
doing good and honorable things, producing fruit. We're not just
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supposed to be sitting around studying and getting a knowledge.
We're supposed to be doing something with it. We're supposed
to be sharing it, telling up others about it, encouraging
one another. In the faith. This concept of fruit is
vital to the life of a believer, and the Lord
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made a big deal about it in John chapter fifteen,
starting verse one. I am the true vine, and my
father is the vine dresser. Every branch and me that
does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch
that bears fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit.
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Just think about that. Let's just the first two scriptures
of this section. I'm the vine, he's the vine dresser.
If you are a branch on my vine and you
don't bear fruit, he takes it away, boom gone. But
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if you're a branch attached to his vine of him
and bearing fruit, he'll prune you to bear more fruit.
You are already clean because of the word which I've
spoken to you. Abide in me and die in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide
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in me. Abide is what remember permanent residence. You're not
wandering away. You're not living any place else. You're not
doing any place else. I am the vine. You are
the branches. He who abides in me and I in him,
bear as much fruit. For without me you can do nothing.
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And if anyone does not abide me, he is cast
out as a branch and is withered. And they gather
them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you abide me and my words abide in you,
you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. By this, my father is glorified that
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you bear much fruit, so you will be my disciples.
If you're bearing fruit for him, it represents him. It
points back to him, to the vine, not to you,
and the Father is glorified when we do this. So
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in speaking of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit in you,
the Hope of glory. The reason I am focused on
this concept that Pentecost is still ongoing, because without it
we can do nothing. We can further the kingdom. We
can't get people saved, hill and delivered. We cannot confront
the enemy and tear down strongholds and principalities and overcome
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this false, demonic knowledge that has infiltrated the Church since
its beginning. We can only do it through the guidance
of the Holy Spirit. We can only do it with
the ongoing presence of the Holy Spirit. The free flow,
the dynamic circulating, almost like a nuclear reactor. It's always
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it's always there, it's always exploding, it's always growing, it's
always available, self replicating, it never goes out. That's why
the enemy fights it so hard. It's why he doesn't
want you to believe it. It's why he doesn't want
you to receive it. It's why he doesn't want you
to walk in the gifts. He doesn't want you to
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have the fruit of the spirit. He doesn't want you
to understand how powerless he really is. So he keeps
you confus us to keep you beaten down. We get
you to believe the lies. Well, this person's got a
huge following. They must be saying the truth. No, no, no,
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remain in me, the Lord says, and I will remain
in you. That starts first thing in the morning, that
ends last thing at night. It's always there, It's always
going on. How through the abiding presence of the Holy
Spirit in us. Holy Spirit, help us, help us to
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understand this, help us to get this, help us to
live this. Touch my brothers and sisters right now. Stir
them up, let them feel your presence, overshadow them, envelop them.
Peter talks about this too, and second Peter one starting two.
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Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge
of God and of Jesus our Lord, as his divine
power has been given to us all things that pertain
to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who
called us by glory and virtue, by which have been
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given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through
these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having
escaped the corruption that is in the world. Through lust,
he's attacking the gnosis, the knowledge of how you can
be god well. The only way we get to participate
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in His divine nature is through the Father and the
Son and the infilling of the Holy Spirit Verse five.
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add
to your faith, virtue to virtue, knowledge to knowledge, self control,
to self control, perseverance, to perseverance, godliness, to godliness, brotherly kindness,
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and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are
yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. For
he who lacks these things is shortsighted even to blindness,
and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren,
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be even more diligent to make your call and election sure,
for if you do these things, you will never stumble,
for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly
into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
the Messiah. You don't want to be fruitful, I don't unfruitful.
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You want to be fruitful, not unfruitful. Forgive me, I
don't want to be unfruitful. I want to be as
fruitful as possible. Be all the more diligent to make
certain about His calling and choosing. You be sure that
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your behavior reflects and confirms your relationship with God. And
by doing these things, by actively developing these virtues, you
will never stumble and all your spiritual growth and will
live a life that leads others away from sin. Oh
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my gosh, there it is. And you will never stumble
in your spiritual growth and will live a life that
leads others away from sin. You're not beating them over
the head. You're not preaching at them. You're not condemning
them to hell fire. You're leading them away from sin.
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You're rescuing them. And what does the Holy Spirit do
when he has come? He will convict the world of
sin and of righteousness and of judgment of sin because
they do not believe in me. And this happens through
us and our witness to those around us. Aw pink
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In has booked. The Holy Spirit says, though man in
his natural estate is spiritually dead, that is entirely destitute
of any spark or true holiness. Yet he's still a
rational being, has a conscience of which he's capable of
perceiving the difference between good and evil, and of discerning
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and feeling the force of moral obligation Romans One, Verses
twenty eight and thirty two. And even as they did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a debased mind to do things which
are not fitting. Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God
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that those who practice such things are deserving of death,
not only do the same, but also approve of those
who practiced them, lead them away from sin by the
example of your life. Conviction is in every heart. If
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someone's heart is so cold that they feel no conviction,
more than likely they reprobate. But if they're not, there's
always that opportunity. Even in my demonically possessed state, I
could feel the convicting presence of the Holy Spirit. Romans
Chapter two, verses fifteen and sixteen. They show the essential
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requirements of the law are written in their hearts and
operating there. Talking about people under conviction, with which their
consciences sense of right and wrong also bear witness, and
their moral decisions, their arguments of reason, their condemning or
approving thoughts will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse them
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on that day when, as my Gospel proclaims, God, by
Jesus the Missile will judge men in regard to these
things which they conceal their hidden thoughts. Nothing is hidden
before God. He knows everything you think. He knows everything
you do. Pink goes on. By having his sins brought
to his mind and conscience, he can be made to
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realize what his true condition is as a transgressor of
the Holy Law of God. The sight and sense of sin,
when aroused to excuse me for moral stupor under the
common operations of the Holy Spirit, is usually termed conviction
of sin. And there can be no doubt that the
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views and feelings of men may be evident and strong,
even when they are in an unregenerate state. They do
not differ in kind, though they do in degree from
what men will experience on the day of judgment, when
their consciences shall condemn them and they shall stand guilty
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before God. This is why the world doesn't want to
hear the Gospel in the streets. This is why they
don't want people witnessing outside abortion clinics or outside certain events.
They don't want conviction. The enemy doesn't want somebody to
feel the convicting presence of God and possibly get saved, heal,
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and delivered. And the enemy will use the government and
world systems to do everything that it can to keep
conviction from being present. That's why you need to live
a life that leads people away from sin, even without
saying a word. Romans thirty, Romans three, starting verse nineteen.
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Now we know that whatever the law says, it says
that those who are under the law, that every mouth
may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty
before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, no
flesh will be justified in his sight. For by the
law is the knowledge of sin. That's the purpose of
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the law to bring the knowledge of sin, to establish
what sin is. But it's only by grace that they
get set free of that sin. You know, Paul talks
about the spiritual gifts and one Corinthians twelve and fourteen.
I thought that's where I was going to go. But
then I realized that the reason I here is because
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he spends the first eleven chapters of First Corinthians, focusing
on the problems arising from a deficiency of the fruit
of the spirit. You can't understand the gifts. You cannot
apply the gifts if you can't grasp what I'm sharing here,
and a bigger thing value to grasp the meaning of
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the Cross means you will have a continued reliance on
human reasoning to interpret spiritual things. It all starts at
the cross, the cross where I first saw the light
and the burdens of my sins washed away. The Corinthians,
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as Greek, had a background of seeking for an exalting wisdom,
but it was human wisdom, human deductions, the application of
human philosophies revalent in the Church right now, especially those
that don't embrace the gifts of the spirit because of
their love for this wisdom. They looked at the Cross
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as foolishness before they have found the reality of Messiah
through Paul's preaching. Even some today do not focus on
the Cross, for the message of the Cross is foolishness
to those who are perishing, but to us who are
being saved, it is the power of God. For it
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is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent? Where
is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where's the disputer
of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom
of this world? Those First Corinthians one eighteen through twenty.
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Has God not made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Has He not made foolish the wisdom of men? Has
He not made foolish? The wisdom of the satanic and
the demonic and the fallen? I think he has I
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mentioned this before, But what the Bible says about the
Holy Spirit? Stanley M. Horton. He talks about this about
the groups that were forming in the church, not just
the Gnostics, but around a particular teacher, which in human
reasoning seems logical. I got saved through him in the Word,
through him, I'm going to follow him. Those who claimed
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they were holding to Paul probably felt it was right
and wise to be loyal to the founder of the church.
Those who followed Apollos likely argue that his knowledge of
the Bible had greatly contributed to the teaching of the church,
and that his eloquence, supposedly greater than Paul's, had propelled
it forward. You see that Acts eighteen. It's mentioned, and
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those who took Peter's name as their banner likely claimed
to be honoring him as one of the original pipe apostles,
which a major denomination still does today. And that is
all reasonable and logical and human thinking, but not in
their teachings. Peter had to learn about that teaching the
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hard way. In the Mount of Transfiguration, Matthew seventeen. Now,
after six days you sure it took Peter, James and
John his brother, and led them up on a high
mountain by themselves, Mount Herman, and he was transfigured before them,
and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes
became white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah
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appeared to them, talking with them, and Peter kind of
blurts out answers and says, to you, shoe a lord,
it is good for us to be here. If you wish,
let us make three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses,
and one for Elijah. He's thinking humanly, he's thinking to
humanistic wisdom. And while he was still speaking, behold a
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bright cloud overshadowed them, and suddenly a voice came out
of the cloud, saying this is my beloved son, and
whom I am well pleased hear him. When the disciples
heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly appraised,
greatly afraid hear him. Stop thinking the way you're thinking.
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Later on Peter confirms this, and second Peter one sundying
verse sixteen. For we did not follow cunningly devised fables
which we made known to you when we made known
to you the power and the coming of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.
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For he was God from God, the Father, Honor and glory.
When such a voice came to him from the excellent Glory,
this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
Of course he left out the last part. And we
heard this. When we heard this voice, we came from heaven.
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Let me back up, got a little too excited here,
And we heard this voice which came from heaven when
we were with him on the Holy Mountain. Why can't
we get this church? The Corinthians, just like the Church today,
need the new vision of Messiah crucified, of Messiah as
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the power of God and Messiah as the wisdom of God.
Even then they were having the problem we have today.
We preach Messiah crucified, which to the Jews is a
scandal and an offensive stumbling block that springs the snare
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or a trap into the Gentiles. It's absurd and utterly
unphilosophical nonsense. But to those who are called, whether Jew
or Gentile, Messiah is the power of God and the
wisdom of God. Messiah is the power of God and
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the wisdom of God. You're not going to find your
answers about you see, or a salvation, or whether I
should be born again or not in the wisdom of God.
You're not going to find it in artificial intelligence, which
is just going to scan the Internet for other people's thinkings.
It does not think on its own. You need to
get it from Him. Therefore, having been justified by faith,
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we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
through whom also we have access by faith into this
grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of
the glory of God. Not only that, we also glory
and tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance, character
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and character. Hope. Now, hope does not disappoint because the
love of God has been poured out in our hearts
by the Holy Spirit, who was given to us. How
the love of God poured out into our hearts by
the Holy Spirit, which was given to us. There was
Romans five one through five. Going back to Peter, he
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says in one Peter three point fifteen. But in your
hearts set Messiah apart as Holy acknowledging him, giving him
first place in your lives as Lord. Always ready to
give a logical defense to anyone who asks you to
account for the hope and confident assurance elicited by fate
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that is within you. Yet do it with gentleness and respect.
Why do you have hope? Well? An exam was being
held in Little Emma's class at school, and the question
was asked upon what do hibernating animals subsist during the winter.
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Emma thought for a few minutes, and then she wrote,
all winter long, hibernating animals subsist on the hope of
a coming spring. Probably not the answer they were looking for,
but it wasn't wrong. They had a hope of a
coming spring. They had a hope when there would be
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food and sunshine and warmth. My hope is built on
nothing less than you shoe his blood and righteousness. My
hope is a blessed hope of an assured expectation of
His coming back to where we started. The Holy Spirit
in you, the hope of glory. It's not just your hope,
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it's your glory. And it's the hope of glory to
those you inspire. And with everything going on in the world,
don't let it beat you down, don't let it weigh
you ho. It's bad, it can be really bad. It's
going to get worse. But I have hope. I have
a blessed hope for coming of the Lord, the Holy
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Spirit in you, the Holy Spirit in me, the hope
of glory, the guarantee of eternity with Him. It's a
hope that I offer to others by how I live,
by what I say, by what I do, and how
the Holy Spirit works in me and through me. Father Abbah,
Papa Daddy, help us to understand this with your Holy Spirit.
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Help us Spirit, help us, Please enlighten us, open the
eyes of our enlightenment, give us eyes to see and
ears to hear. Give us a wisdom and an understanding
beyond human abilities. Any false teachings, anything we have believed
or accepted that does not line up with your word.
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Purge it from us now, and let it become distasteful
to us whenever we see and hear it again. Thank
you for doing what you're doing here and now in
our lives, what you've done with us, what you've done
for us, but what you will be doing in the
days ahead. Help us to shine, help us to share
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this gospel, Help us to offer people hope, to have
the hope of glory just like we do. And you
shoe his name. I pray, Amen, May the Lord bless
you and keep you. The Lord would make his face
to shine upon you, be gracious to you. May the
Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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Prince of Peace. Father. We come to you now the
name of your Shure, the name above all names, the
only begotten Son of God, the only name in heaven
and Earth by which we may be saved. We thank
you for being a loving father, a caring father. We
thank you for being an absentee father and seeking us
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you for washing away our sins with your shoe as blood,
so that we could come home and have an eternity
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for clearing the books, for covering it up so that
when we stand before you and the Father, we won't
owe anything but our worship and our praise and our adoration,
which we give you from our heart. Lord, thank you
for sending back the Holy Spirit, the Uru kak Kadesh,
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to walk with us, to teach us, to guide us,
to inspire us. Thank you. Thank you for the cross,
the empty tomb in the upper room. I thank you
for my family home, pat's possession, my salvation, for my
brothers and sisters. We asked that you would bless us,
bless this technology. Holy Spirit, have your way open our eyes,
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open our ears. We set our minds and our hearts
upon you. We take our thoughts captive to the obedience
of Messiah. Claiming the mind of Messiah. We cast down
every vein imagination that would exalt itself above the knowledge
of l Eon, God Most High, our Abba Father, Holy Spirit.
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Take this word, Drive it deep into our heart, into
our soul, into our spirit. Have you away with us today.
I pray all these things in your Shoea's name, And
if you agree with me, say amen.
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Open those Bibles. However, you follow along if you love me,
Lord says, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father,
and he will give you another helper that he may
abide with you forever, the Spirit of Truth, whom the
world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.
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But you know him, for he dwells with you and
will be in you. Oh, when the helper comes, whom
I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit
of Truth, who proceeds from the Father. He will testify me,
and you also will bear witness, because you have been
with me from the beginning. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.
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It is to your advantage that I go away, For
if I do not go away, the helper will not
come to you. But if I depart, I will send
him to you. And when he has come, he will
convict the world of sin and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Of sin because they do not believe in me. Of
righteousness because I go to my Father, and you see
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me no more. Of judgment, because the ruler of this
world is judged. However, when he, the Spirit of Truth,
has come, he will guide you into all truth. For
he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever
he hears, he will speak, and he will tell you
things to come. He will glorify me, for he will
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take of what is mine and declare it to you.
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes
upon you, and you will be my witnesses, telling people
about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and
to the ends of the earth. That's what this has
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been all about. Pentecost, the Day of Pentecost, the release
of the Holy Spirit into the Church, the birth of
the Church. To contain the spirit that he was releasing.
No longer would he live in temples made of men's hands,
but he would live in our hearts. He would live
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inside of us. That's why this third temple, this temple
that everybody's waiting for, isn't for our use. It's not
for us. We are the temple of the Living God.
That temple is for the Jews, and it's the draw
out the Antichrist. And even when the end has come
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and the Lord comes to the earth, I do not
believe the temple that he will sit in will be here.
I won't go into any further details, but I don't
believe he'll be sitting in a man made temple. Maybe
in the future I'll share that revelation with you. But
if you remember last week, I read these two scriptures
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Ephesians four one seven and First Peter four seven through eleven. I. Therefore,
the prisoner of the Lord beseech you. This is Paul
speaking to the church in Ephesus. Beseech you to walk
worthy of the calling with which you were called, with
all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one
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another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the
spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body
and one Spirit, just as you were called in one
hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is above all
and through all, in you all, but to each one
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of us grace was given according to the measure of
Messiah's gift. But the end of all things is at hand.
Please hear me, The end of all things is at hand. Therefore,
be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things,
have fervent love for one another, for love will cover
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a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
As each one has received a gift, minister it to
one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God.
If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the
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ability which God supplies. That in all things God may
be glorified through Jesus the Messiah, to whom belonged with
glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen, glory and
dominion forever that comes from the Holy Spirit and side
of us on the earth. Through us, come Holy Spirit.
We want to see this glory, We want to feel
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this glory. We want you to work in us, through us,
and with us. That's what the Holy Spirit in you
is for. To work with us and in us and
through us, to shine his light into the darkness, to
bring that glory into the world, to not contain it
in a building or in a box, or to do anything,
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but to release it. Release it in your shoe is name.
Go with me to cautions. Chapter one, verses twenty four
through twenty nine. Paul speaking now, I rejoice in my
sufferings on your behalf, and with my own body, I
supplement whatever is lacking on our part of Massiah's afflictions,
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on behalf of his body, which is the church. In
this church, I was made a minister according to the
stewardship which God entrusted to me for your sake, so
that I might make the word of God fully known
among you. That is the mystery which was hidden from
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angels in mankind for ages and generations, but has now
been revealed to his saints as Uscot's people. God, in
his eternal plan chose to make known to them. How
great for the gentiles are the riches of the glory
of this mystery, which is Messiah in you and among
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you the hope and the guarantee of realizing the glory.
We proclaim him, warning and instructing every one in all wisdom,
that is, with comprehensive insight into the word and purposes
of God, so that we may present every person complete
in Messiah, mature, fully trained, and perfect in Him the Anointed.
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For this I labor often to the point of exhaustion,
striving with His power and energy which so greatly works
within me. Messiah in you the hope of glory, the
hope of eternity, the hope of basking in his presence.
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Oswald Chambers says something about this. He says, his wonderful life,
meaning the Lord, his wonderful life that is imparted to
me in sanctification, imparted by faith as a sovereign gift
of God's grace. Sanctification means the impartation of the holy
qualities of Jesus the Messiah. To me, it is the
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gift of His patience, love, holiness, faith, purity, and godliness
that is exhibited in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification
is not true drawing from Jesus the power to be holy,
but it is drawing from Jesus, the very holiness which
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was exhibited in Him that he now exhibits in me.
Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something
altogether different. The perfection of everything is in Jesus the Messiah,
and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfect
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qualities of Jesus are at my disposal. We are to
live a life that reflects him. And that's what taking
in this word, hearing this word, being imprinted by this word,
sharing it with others, that's what it does. It shares
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his life through you. And there is no glory of
the Lord in us without the abiding presence of the
Holy Spirit. We are made because He is holy, and
the Spirit guides us into all truth, so that we
can be His witnesses and beacons to a world in darkness.
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The Believer's Bible Commentary says in the New Testament, of
mystery is a truth not previously revealed, but now made
known to the sons of men through the apostles and
prophets of the New Testament. It is a truth that
man could never have arrived at by his own intelligence,
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but which God has graciously designed to make known. The
Church was not known before the day of Pentecost, excuse me.
Whereas Israel began with God with God's calling on Abraham
when he was Abram from the earth of the Chaldeese.
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If you don't know where that is, it's along the
Euphrates River and summer on the southwest edge of the
Babylonian Kingdom, which is modern day Iraq. He created a
nation from Abraham's seed, a race distinctive morally and spiritually
from everyone else. The Church is from the seed planted
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by the Lord, and a new creation like the believers
in it. Implanted in the Church is the guarantee of
eternity of glory with Him. Through the Holy Spirit, you
have hope of His glory. The hope in you is
His glory. You see, Paul preached a person. He preached Yeshia.
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Didn't preach religion, didn't preach denominationalism, didn't preach any of
these things. He preached Yeshia, and all that Yeshia endured
for our freedom and the sufferings of the Church are
divinely ordained and as such an extension of the suffering
of the Lord. We don't want to hear about suffering
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bless me, bless me, bless me, Lord, protect me, keep
me from all harm, And yes he does, though we
are in a fallen world under the control of the
wicked ones plural, not just Satan. Paul also believed that
gentile believers would be united with believing Jews into one body,
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which is why this anti Semitic replacement theology clearly goes
against the teaching of the Word and the teaching of
the apostles, who, by the way, were Jewish, and the
glue that held them together was the Holy Spirit. Like
sap into the vine. Paul was very conscious of who
he was and what he was doing Colossians one, starting
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verse nine. For this reason, he says, since the day
we heard about it, we have not stopped praying for you,
you asking specifically that you may be filled with the
knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom, with insight
into His purposes. And as I speak this, take this
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as a prayer over you and an understanding of spiritual things,
so that you will walk in a manner worthy of
the Lord, displaying admirable character, moral courage, and personal integrity. Boy,
could the church use that to fully please him in
all things? Bearing fruit in every good work, and steadily
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growing in the knowledge of God with deeper faith, clearer insight,
and fervent love for His precepts. We pray that you
may be strengthened and invigorated with all power according to
His glorious might, to attain every kind of endurance and
patience with joy giving thanks to the Father who has
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qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints,
who are God's people in the light, the incomparable Messiah,
for he has rescued us and drawn us to himself
from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us to
the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have
redemption because of his sacrifice resulting in the forgiveness of
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our sins and the cancelation of sins penalty. Every time
I read that scripture, I remember that day I knelt
at the cross and made just shoe a load of
my life and confessed my sins. He rescued me. He
drew me out of the dominion, out of the control
of darkness, and transferred me instantly into the kingdom of
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his beloved Son, the Kingdom of Light. So Paul's making
four separate requests in prayer for the Colossians, that they
would have spiritual insight, that they would have a worthy walk,
that they would have abundant power, and that they would
have a thankful spirit. He also prayed that they might
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be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding, which cannot come without the Holy Spirit.
And he didn't ask that they should be satisfied or
that they would have boasted of their boastful knowledge, like
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the Gnostics of their day, which had infiltrated the Church.
And I think it's important we understand the threat that
the Church was under, and I believe still is under.
The Homan Bible Dictionary explains the term gnosticism as having
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been derived from the Greek word gnosis, which means knowledge,
because secret knowledge was so crucial to a doctrine. In gnosticism,
the Gnostics understood and their beliefs in their confused thinking,
humanity to be trapped within the physical body. The human
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spirit was understood to be part of an ultimate spiritual reality,
the Pleurroma, or part of the ultimate God, not the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but their God knowledge.
This entrapment is usually understood as ignorance or sleep, but
not as sin. For the human spirit to find salvation.
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In their thinking, it would need to be awakened to turn.
You hear a lot the New Age and the occult
and delivered from its ignorance by recovering the knowledge the
gnosis of its true self or character. As a part
of the Ploroma or Ultimate God. They believe the inferior
God arose through a mysterious tragic split with than the
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deity within the ultimate realm of the Ultimate True God,
often called Father, Mother, or Father of all. Often this
was expressed as the Ultimate God's sophia or wisdom, engaging
in independent reflection that results in producing an illegitimate offspring,
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meaning our beliefs who is the inferior created God or
the progenitor of that inferior God.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Elements of this understanding are indebted to the Platonic traditions,
to the Hellenistic Jewish wisdom traditions. Further, in the Christian
Gnostic text from the second century, the inferior God is
usually identified with the Creator God of Genesis, who then
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is clearly not the Ultimate True God in their eyes.
Think about Romans one whenever he these words. Many Gnostic
texts identify the creator God of Genesis as the inferior
evil God. In this context, Adam and Eve are often
seen as a paradigmatic representatives of humanity or on the
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verge of contact with the Ultimate God. Thus, the serpent,
in directing Adam and Eve to the Tree of knowledge Gnosis,
is actually a servant of the Ultimate God. Ah, now
we know who's behind this thinking. It is the inferior
God who does not want them to discover the value
of this tree. Oh. Yes, this infiltrated the church, and
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the church was torn by heated debates over this issue,
over gnoscissism. You know, whenever Paul says he left and
then people snuck in and started to preach a gospel
different than his, and he had either come back or
he had to write them letters. This is what he's
talking about. Many of the church fathers believe it traces
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back to one person, Simon Maggus. Simon the Sorcerer, referred
to an Axe eight. The origins of narcissism are given
to him. Now after the events described in Axe eight,
the Bible does not mention Simon again. Some apocryphal and
gnostic texts highlight his role as a sorcerer and attribute
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and attribute significant abilities to him, while certain early Christian
writers like Justin Martyr and Irenaeus betray him as an
opponent of early Christianity and suggests he contributed to the
formation of narcissism, and I might agree from what I
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know of Simon Maggus. By the end of the second century,
many Gnostics form separate alternative churches or belief systems, which
the Church viewed as a heretical. Gnosticism was thus a
major threat to the early Church, and early Church leaders
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such as Ironaeus, Tertullian, and Hippolotus wrote volun volumes against it.
And this split that I'm talking about, this infiltration of
the church, is what was brought to the Council of Nicia.
It was what was brought to Constantine to bring the
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church together as one. Because within that split, we also
have those that are following Paul and those that are
following Peter. And I got news for you. The Roman
Catholic Church was not born through the apostles. It was
born through forcing the sects that followed Paul, and the
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sects that followed Peter and the Gnostics. That was in
the mix to come together as one under the control
of the government. This battle about knowledge, this battle for
the church, goes back to the Garden of Eden. It
is satanic, it is diabolical, and it is meant to
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keep the Church from its true calling. Though we walk
in the flesh as mortal men, we are not carrying
on our spiritual warfare according to the flesh and using
the weapons of man. The weapons of our warfare are
not physical weapons of flesh and blood. Our weapons are
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divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying
sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets
itself up against the true knowledge of God. And we
are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience
of Messiah, being ready to punish every act of disobedience
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when you're own obedience as a church is complete. Tewod
Corinthians ten, verses three through six. Now, when you apply
that scripture to everything I just said, you understand better
what was going on during that time. There was a battle,
and Paul was trying to get the believers of that
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day to understand that the true knowledge of God comes
from the Word and from his Holy spirit, which the
Lord said he would send back to remind them of him,
of what he said, of what he taught. But this
conflict raged, And isn't it just like Satan as he
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did through the serpent in the garden. Did God really
say that? Did he really say that? He doesn't want
you to know that knowledge because it'll make you like God.
That's the deception of the New Age. You'll open up
parts of your mind, you'll gain all this universal knowledge.
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And none of it was Godly. And I fell for
it because I didn't know any better. I'd not been
raised in knowledge, I'd been raised in religion, I'd not
been raised in relationship. I was fooled. I was lied
to Glaussians to study Verse one. For I want you
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to know, Church, what a great conflict I have for
you and those in later to see you, For as
many has not seen MY face in the flesh, that
their hearts may be encouraged being knit together in love
and detaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding,
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to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of
the Father and of Messiah, in whom are hidden all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. See what he's doing there.
If you want the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, they're
in the Father and the Son. He goes on. Now
this I say, lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words,
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For though I am absent in the flesh flesh, I
am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good
order and the steadfastness of your faith in Messiah. Remember
I said he had to write back letters if he
couldn't get there in person. He had to confront what
was going on Verse six. As you therefore have received Messiah,
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issue of the Lord. So walk in Him, rooted and
built up in him, established in the faith as you
have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest
anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to
the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of
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the world, and not according to Messiah. For in him
dwells all the fullness of the Godhead. Bodily he's banging
on him. He's crushing this false knowledge, this deceit, coming
from the mouths of Satan himself. See to it. He's
saying that no one takes you captive through philosophy and
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empty deception, pseudo intellectual babbel. Oh my gosh, we have
folled with that today. Social media is full of people
think they know what they're talking about, and it's pseudo
intellectual babble. According to the tradition and the musings of
mere men, following the elementary principles of this world rather
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than following the truth. The teachings of Messiah Paul encouraged
the church and therefore us, to understand and apply God's
will for their lives. As described in scripture. You find
it in the Word, through the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
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When you begin this walk, however long you've been on it,
you're always learning. You're always in process. When you begin
this walk, like a baby, you're taking in baby food,
so to speak. You're not chewing the meat of the word,
yet you're nibbling. You're getting it. The spirit's revealing it,
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and it's building it upon precept upon precept, lying upon
lying knowledge upon knowledge. All of a sudden you start
getting this and oh, I see that. I didn't see
that before. Oh that applies back to here. That's what
he was saying, That's what he meant, And the reason
I fill in all the blanks about what's going on
in history, where they are, what the society thinks, what
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He means at that moment. I'm giving you both content
and context. If you remember, we did a big teaching
on that. If you don't, if you haven't heard it,
go back and look for it. Content has to be
taken within the context of which it was shared on
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Timothy six verses twenty and twenty one. Oh, Timothy, guard
to what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane
and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.
By professing it, some have strayed concerning the faith. He's
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still in this battle against gnosticism again, satanic demonic influence.
I see it so much in the world today. I
see it in the church today. God keep safe the
deposit of Godly truth and trusted to you. Turn away
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from worldly and godless chatter, which is profaned, empty words,
and the contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge. God
your faith, get in the word. Spend time with the
Holy Spirit so that you can hear his voice. You
can understand his nudgings. You can understand when he expounds
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upon a scripture and he brings a scripture to life
and suddenly becomes three dimensional and the light bulb goes
off in your head. The knowledge that Paul is trying
to get them to receive. He's not promoting a worldly
or a carnal knowledge, one that comes from man or
men's thinkings. It's characterized by the spiritual wisdom and understanding.
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Wisdom to apply the knowledge in the best way, and
understanding to see what agrees with and what conflicts with
God's will. This takes time, takes maturity in the word.
But if you have a desire to know, if you
have a desire to understand, and if you sit down
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with your Bible, even in listening to these Bible studies,
say Lord, help me, help me to understand, Help me
to get what it is you need me to understand
now at this point in my walk. Why did the
apostle Paul want the Colaussians be filled with the knowledge
of God's will? Was it so that they might become
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preachers or sensational teachers. Was it so they might attract
large followings to themselves, as the Gnostics sought to do. No,
the true purpose of spiritual wisdom and understanding is to
enable believers to walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him.
This is a personal thing. Now. Of course, in doing that,
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it becomes a public corporate thing, and it blesses and
it affects and changes others. But this isn't about you
becoming a great preacher or teacher. This isn't about drawing
following and crowds and doing all that. It's about obtaining
spiritual wisdom and understanding to walk worthy of the Lord,
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fully pleasing him personally. I am blessed, and I've said
this before. I am blessed that he did not allow
me to fall into that trap a building of following.
In fact, he put a stop to it at those
points where it could have happened, where I would have
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been on somebody's stage or behind somebody's pulpit every weekend,
he stopped it. I've shared this before. After I did
the Seven Hundred Club testimony the first time. After they
add it the first time, Pastor Shelley came to me
and some other church leaders said, well, I We'll never
see you again. That was the according to seven Hundred Club,
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that testimony gave them the greatest response and salvation call
among people involved in the Occult. At that point I
got no phone call from anybody. And then they aired
it again and again. It broke all their numbers and
heard from no one. No invitation to preach, no invitation
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he comes share my testimony, no invitation to come confront
the growing darkness and influence of the Occult in their youth.
And of course at that time I'd got my head
full of this is what it's supposed to be like,
and this is what I should be doing, and this
is how you know you're being successful. And I took
it personally until the Spirit began to reveal to me, Ay,
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he protecting He's protecting you, because you would have stopped
growing at that point. You'd have been pandering to the crowds.
You had been working towards invitations and doing all those things,
as opposed to working towards a deeper understanding of the
Word and relationship with the Lord. Here's a fundamental thing.
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God does not reveal his will to us just to
satisfy our curiosity or to fulfill our needs. Neither is
it intended to cater to our ambition or pride. Instead,
the Lord shows us his will for our lives so
that we might please him and all that we do,
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and that's all I've ever wanted to do. Once I
understood what was going on, Once I understood why all
those things didn't happen, that he was protecting me, that
he was jealous and zealous for me. I embraced it.
And the more I embraced it, the deeper I went
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with him, And the more he was willing to share
with me, the more he was willing to open up
the mysteries of the universe and of his kingdom and
of his word to me, knowing that he could trust
me with it. That I wasn't doing it for profit
or gain. Remember I mentioned Simon Magus who tries to
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buy the gifts of the Holy Spirit from Peter. It
became a term in the church semony, buying the offices
or buying the gifts. Well, he didn't allow me to
become one who bought the favor and bought the gifts. No,
he wanted to give it to me personally. He wanted
to work with me personally. He wanted me to be
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fruitful in every good work with him and for him. Now,
when I say a good work, let me give you
a helpful reminder that though a person is not saved
by works, he has saved four good works. Sometimes, in
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emphasizing the utter worthlessness of good works and the salvation
of souls, we create the impression that Christians do not
believe or should not participate in good works. Nothing could
be further from the truth. And Paul talks about this
a lot. For we are His workmanship, his own master work,
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work of art created and Messiah Yashu are reborn from above,
spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used for good works
which God prepared for us beforehand, taking paths which he
set so that we would walk in them, living the
good life which He pre arranged and made ready for us.
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We are his workmanships, created for good work, to get
people saved, healed and delivered, to build the kingdom, to
destroy the work of the enemy. Sorry about that, talking
with my hands, getting very excited and smacked the microphone away.
We are His workmanship. You are His workmanship to do
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what you've been called to do for His glory, not
for yours. Not for you to put your name on
things for people to know who you are, but to
know who He is. Paul wrote to Titus in chapter
three verse eight. This is a faithful saying. And these
things which I want to affirm to you constantly, that
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those who have believed in God should be careful to
maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men,
that those who have believed. If you are a believer,
you should be careful to maintain good works, good and
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profitable works to men in the Kingdom of God. So
those who have trusted in, relied on, and accepted Messiah.
Is sure a savior will be careful to party, dissipating,
doing good and honorable things, producing fruit. We're not just
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supposed to be sitting around studying and getting a knowledge.
We're supposed to be doing something with it. We're supposed
to be sharing it, telling up others about it, encouraging
one another. In the faith. This concept of fruit is
vital to the life of a believer, and the Lord
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made a big deal about it in John chapter fifteen,
starting verse one. I am the true vine, and my
father is the vine dresser. Every branch and me that
does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch
that bears fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit.
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Just think about that. Let's just the first two scriptures
of this section. I'm the vine, he's the vine dresser.
If you are a branch on my vine and you
don't bear fruit, he takes it away, boom gone. But
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if you're a branch attached to his vine of him
and bearing fruit, he'll prune you to bear more fruit.
You are already clean because of the word which I've
spoken to you. Abide in me and die in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide
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in me. Abide is what remember permanent residence. You're not
wandering away. You're not living any place else. You're not
doing any place else. I am the vine. You are
the branches. He who abides in me and I in him,
bear as much fruit. For without me you can do nothing.
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And if anyone does not abide me, he is cast
out as a branch and is withered. And they gather
them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you abide me and my words abide in you,
you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
done for you. By this, my father is glorified that
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you bear much fruit, so you will be my disciples.
If you're bearing fruit for him, it represents him. It
points back to him, to the vine, not to you,
and the Father is glorified when we do this. So
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in speaking of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit in you,
the Hope of glory. The reason I am focused on
this concept that Pentecost is still ongoing, because without it
we can do nothing. We can further the kingdom. We
can't get people saved, hill and delivered. We cannot confront
the enemy and tear down strongholds and principalities and overcome
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this false, demonic knowledge that has infiltrated the Church since
its beginning. We can only do it through the guidance
of the Holy Spirit. We can only do it with
the ongoing presence of the Holy Spirit. The free flow,
the dynamic circulating, almost like a nuclear reactor. It's always
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it's always there, it's always exploding, it's always growing, it's
always available, self replicating, it never goes out. That's why
the enemy fights it so hard. It's why he doesn't
want you to believe it. It's why he doesn't want
you to receive it. It's why he doesn't want you
to walk in the gifts. He doesn't want you to
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have the fruit of the spirit. He doesn't want you
to understand how powerless he really is. So he keeps
you confus us to keep you beaten down. We get
you to believe the lies. Well, this person's got a
huge following. They must be saying the truth. No, no, no,
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remain in me, the Lord says, and I will remain
in you. That starts first thing in the morning, that
ends last thing at night. It's always there, It's always
going on. How through the abiding presence of the Holy
Spirit in us. Holy Spirit, help us, help us to
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understand this, help us to get this, help us to
live this. Touch my brothers and sisters right now. Stir
them up, let them feel your presence, overshadow them, envelop them.
Peter talks about this too, and second Peter one starting two.
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Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge
of God and of Jesus our Lord, as his divine
power has been given to us all things that pertain
to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who
called us by glory and virtue, by which have been
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given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through
these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having
escaped the corruption that is in the world. Through lust,
he's attacking the gnosis, the knowledge of how you can
be god well. The only way we get to participate
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in His divine nature is through the Father and the
Son and the infilling of the Holy Spirit Verse five.
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add
to your faith, virtue to virtue, knowledge to knowledge, self control,
to self control, perseverance, to perseverance, godliness, to godliness, brotherly kindness,
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and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are
yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. For
he who lacks these things is shortsighted even to blindness,
and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren,
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be even more diligent to make your call and election sure,
for if you do these things, you will never stumble,
for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly
into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
the Messiah. You don't want to be fruitful, I don't unfruitful.
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You want to be fruitful, not unfruitful. Forgive me, I
don't want to be unfruitful. I want to be as
fruitful as possible. Be all the more diligent to make
certain about His calling and choosing. You be sure that
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your behavior reflects and confirms your relationship with God. And
by doing these things, by actively developing these virtues, you
will never stumble and all your spiritual growth and will
live a life that leads others away from sin. Oh
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my gosh, there it is. And you will never stumble
in your spiritual growth and will live a life that
leads others away from sin. You're not beating them over
the head. You're not preaching at them. You're not condemning
them to hell fire. You're leading them away from sin.
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You're rescuing them. And what does the Holy Spirit do
when he has come? He will convict the world of
sin and of righteousness and of judgment of sin because
they do not believe in me. And this happens through
us and our witness to those around us. Aw pink
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In has booked. The Holy Spirit says, though man in
his natural estate is spiritually dead, that is entirely destitute
of any spark or true holiness. Yet he's still a
rational being, has a conscience of which he's capable of
perceiving the difference between good and evil, and of discerning
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and feeling the force of moral obligation Romans One, Verses
twenty eight and thirty two. And even as they did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a debased mind to do things which
are not fitting. Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God
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that those who practice such things are deserving of death,
not only do the same, but also approve of those
who practiced them, lead them away from sin by the
example of your life. Conviction is in every heart. If
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someone's heart is so cold that they feel no conviction,
more than likely they reprobate. But if they're not, there's
always that opportunity. Even in my demonically possessed state, I
could feel the convicting presence of the Holy Spirit. Romans
Chapter two, verses fifteen and sixteen. They show the essential
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requirements of the law are written in their hearts and
operating there. Talking about people under conviction, with which their
consciences sense of right and wrong also bear witness, and
their moral decisions, their arguments of reason, their condemning or
approving thoughts will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse them
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on that day when, as my Gospel proclaims, God, by
Jesus the Missile will judge men in regard to these
things which they conceal their hidden thoughts. Nothing is hidden
before God. He knows everything you think. He knows everything
you do. Pink goes on. By having his sins brought
to his mind and conscience, he can be made to
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realize what his true condition is as a transgressor of
the Holy Law of God. The sight and sense of sin,
when aroused to excuse me for moral stupor under the
common operations of the Holy Spirit, is usually termed conviction
of sin. And there can be no doubt that the
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views and feelings of men may be evident and strong,
even when they are in an unregenerate state. They do
not differ in kind, though they do in degree from
what men will experience on the day of judgment, when
their consciences shall condemn them and they shall stand guilty
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before God. This is why the world doesn't want to
hear the Gospel in the streets. This is why they
don't want people witnessing outside abortion clinics or outside certain events.
They don't want conviction. The enemy doesn't want somebody to
feel the convicting presence of God and possibly get saved, heal,
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and delivered. And the enemy will use the government and
world systems to do everything that it can to keep
conviction from being present. That's why you need to live
a life that leads people away from sin, even without
saying a word. Romans thirty, Romans three, starting verse nineteen.
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Now we know that whatever the law says, it says
that those who are under the law, that every mouth
may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty
before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, no
flesh will be justified in his sight. For by the
law is the knowledge of sin. That's the purpose of
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the law to bring the knowledge of sin, to establish
what sin is. But it's only by grace that they
get set free of that sin. You know, Paul talks
about the spiritual gifts and one Corinthians twelve and fourteen.
I thought that's where I was going to go. But
then I realized that the reason I here is because
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he spends the first eleven chapters of First Corinthians, focusing
on the problems arising from a deficiency of the fruit
of the spirit. You can't understand the gifts. You cannot
apply the gifts if you can't grasp what I'm sharing here,
and a bigger thing value to grasp the meaning of
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the Cross means you will have a continued reliance on
human reasoning to interpret spiritual things. It all starts at
the cross, the cross where I first saw the light
and the burdens of my sins washed away. The Corinthians,
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as Greek, had a background of seeking for an exalting wisdom,
but it was human wisdom, human deductions, the application of
human philosophies revalent in the Church right now, especially those
that don't embrace the gifts of the spirit because of
their love for this wisdom. They looked at the Cross
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as foolishness before they have found the reality of Messiah
through Paul's preaching. Even some today do not focus on
the Cross, for the message of the Cross is foolishness
to those who are perishing, but to us who are
being saved, it is the power of God. For it
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is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent? Where
is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where's the disputer
of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom
of this world? Those First Corinthians one eighteen through twenty.
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Has God not made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Has He not made foolish the wisdom of men? Has
He not made foolish? The wisdom of the satanic and
the demonic and the fallen? I think he has I
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mentioned this before, But what the Bible says about the
Holy Spirit? Stanley M. Horton. He talks about this about
the groups that were forming in the church, not just
the Gnostics, but around a particular teacher, which in human
reasoning seems logical. I got saved through him in the Word,
through him, I'm going to follow him. Those who claimed
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they were holding to Paul probably felt it was right
and wise to be loyal to the founder of the church.
Those who followed Apollos likely argue that his knowledge of
the Bible had greatly contributed to the teaching of the church,
and that his eloquence, supposedly greater than Paul's, had propelled
it forward. You see that Acts eighteen. It's mentioned, and
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those who took Peter's name as their banner likely claimed
to be honoring him as one of the original pipe apostles,
which a major denomination still does today. And that is
all reasonable and logical and human thinking, but not in
their teachings. Peter had to learn about that teaching the
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hard way. In the Mount of Transfiguration, Matthew seventeen. Now,
after six days you sure it took Peter, James and
John his brother, and led them up on a high
mountain by themselves, Mount Herman, and he was transfigured before them,
and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes
became white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah
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appeared to them, talking with them, and Peter kind of
blurts out answers and says, to you, shoe a lord,
it is good for us to be here. If you wish,
let us make three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses,
and one for Elijah. He's thinking humanly, he's thinking to
humanistic wisdom. And while he was still speaking, behold a
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bright cloud overshadowed them, and suddenly a voice came out
of the cloud, saying this is my beloved son, and
whom I am well pleased hear him. When the disciples
heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly appraised,
greatly afraid hear him. Stop thinking the way you're thinking.
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Later on Peter confirms this, and second Peter one sundying
verse sixteen. For we did not follow cunningly devised fables
which we made known to you when we made known
to you the power and the coming of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.
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For he was God from God, the Father, Honor and glory.
When such a voice came to him from the excellent Glory,
this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
Of course he left out the last part. And we
heard this. When we heard this voice, we came from heaven.
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Let me back up, got a little too excited here,
And we heard this voice which came from heaven when
we were with him on the Holy Mountain. Why can't
we get this church? The Corinthians, just like the Church today,
need the new vision of Messiah crucified, of Messiah as
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the power of God and Messiah as the wisdom of God.
Even then they were having the problem we have today.
We preach Messiah crucified, which to the Jews is a
scandal and an offensive stumbling block that springs the snare
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or a trap into the Gentiles. It's absurd and utterly
unphilosophical nonsense. But to those who are called, whether Jew
or Gentile, Messiah is the power of God and the
wisdom of God. Messiah is the power of God and
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the wisdom of God. You're not going to find your
answers about you see, or a salvation, or whether I
should be born again or not in the wisdom of God.
You're not going to find it in artificial intelligence, which
is just going to scan the Internet for other people's thinkings.
It does not think on its own. You need to
get it from Him. Therefore, having been justified by faith,
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we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
through whom also we have access by faith into this
grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of
the glory of God. Not only that, we also glory
and tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance, character
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and character. Hope. Now, hope does not disappoint because the
love of God has been poured out in our hearts
by the Holy Spirit, who was given to us. How
the love of God poured out into our hearts by
the Holy Spirit, which was given to us. There was
Romans five one through five. Going back to Peter, he
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says in one Peter three point fifteen. But in your
hearts set Messiah apart as Holy acknowledging him, giving him
first place in your lives as Lord. Always ready to
give a logical defense to anyone who asks you to
account for the hope and confident assurance elicited by fate
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that is within you. Yet do it with gentleness and respect.
Why do you have hope? Well? An exam was being
held in Little Emma's class at school, and the question
was asked upon what do hibernating animals subsist during the winter.
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Emma thought for a few minutes, and then she wrote,
all winter long, hibernating animals subsist on the hope of
a coming spring. Probably not the answer they were looking for,
but it wasn't wrong. They had a hope of a
coming spring. They had a hope when there would be
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food and sunshine and warmth. My hope is built on
nothing less than you shoe his blood and righteousness. My
hope is a blessed hope of an assured expectation of
His coming back to where we started. The Holy Spirit
in you, the hope of glory. It's not just your hope,
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it's your glory. And it's the hope of glory to
those you inspire. And with everything going on in the world,
don't let it beat you down, don't let it weigh
you ho. It's bad, it can be really bad. It's
going to get worse. But I have hope. I have
a blessed hope for coming of the Lord, the Holy
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Spirit in you, the Holy Spirit in me, the hope
of glory, the guarantee of eternity with Him. It's a
hope that I offer to others by how I live,
by what I say, by what I do, and how
the Holy Spirit works in me and through me. Father Abbah,
Papa Daddy, help us to understand this with your Holy Spirit.
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Help us Spirit, help us, Please enlighten us, open the
eyes of our enlightenment, give us eyes to see and
ears to hear. Give us a wisdom and an understanding
beyond human abilities. Any false teachings, anything we have believed
or accepted that does not line up with your word.
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Purge it from us now, and let it become distasteful
to us whenever we see and hear it again. Thank
you for doing what you're doing here and now in
our lives, what you've done with us, what you've done
for us, but what you will be doing in the
days ahead. Help us to shine, help us to share
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this gospel, Help us to offer people hope, to have
the hope of glory just like we do. And you
shoe his name. I pray, Amen, May the Lord bless
you and keep you. The Lord would make his face
to shine upon you, be gracious to you. May the
Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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Give you Shalon. I'm Richard Gund. This has been the
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