May 21, 2025 • 64 mins
The Cross set us free to live the lives God always intended for His children. We’ve been given the authority over the enemy and the ability to overcome the evil of this world. That was the intent of the Messianic Age. And yet so many Believers live in bondage with no victory in their lives. Why aren’t they living in the freedom of the Messianic Age?
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we care about you. Before we begin, I want to
dress a couple of things because we have some new listeners.
The Porch is a non denominational, full Gospel approach to
the Bible, based on the example of the Book of
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x Church. After the apostle John died and his student
and protege Polychoch passed away, things began to slide off
the rails. By the time of the Council of Nicea
in three twenty three a d. It was a completely
different entity than what it started out as. So I
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offer you the word as I believe the Apostles would
have offered it to the Jewish and Gentile believers of
their day. I will use both the name Yeshuah and Jesus.
When I speak of the Lord. I will use the
term Messiah instead of Christ, as I believe it speaks
more clearly to me of who he is and what
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they called him. I will offer the Hebrew, the Greek,
and the Aramaic definitions when needed. So that you understand
the intent of what was being said. Getting back to
basics isn't just a clever motto. It's been a mandate
from the Lord. The other thing we always do is
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we start out with praise and prayer and the sound
of the show far So, Father, I praise you. I
praise you for the opportunity to do this, that you
would call me into the kingdom, into the family of
God and then give me this as a responsibility for you.
I love doing it and I love you Abah Papa.
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Thank you for how much you love us. Thank you
for seeking reconciliation with us and then doing it for
us by sending your only son, you sure Jesus of Nazareth,
to pay our price. Without the shedding of blood, there
can be no remission of sins. Lord, We thank you well,
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I'm not even sure thank you are good enough way
to express it, but it's what we have. We thank
you with all of our heart and minds, soul and spirit,
and we love you. You did what we couldn't do
so that we could come home. Thank you for shedding
the blood and rising from the dead and sending the
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Holy Spirit back to walk with us to teach us,
to guide us, to help us to do this, to
live in this fallen world until you come back and
get us. Holy Spirit. I asked that you help us tonight,
that you enlighten us with the Word, with his intent,
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with everything the Lord meant when he either said it
or inspired it to be said. So have your way,
do whatever you want to do. We clear our minds
of all the cares of this world. We take our
thoughts captive to the obedience of Messiah. Claiming the mind
of Messiah, we cast down every vain imagination that would
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exalts itself above the knowledge of elia On. God must
high our Abba Father, protect us, protect this technology. Let
your will be done this night. I pray all these
things in yr Shoa's name, and if you agree with me,
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registered date of the following information. So we're still talking
about the Messianic gage. We are living in the free
flow of the Messianic gauge. Redeemed from sin and death,
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reconciled to God, having liberty and freedom. Bondages are broken,
and we've been rescued from darkness, and we are free
to praise and worship our abba Father in spirit and
in truth. We've been basing it on Luke four, verses
eighteen and nineteen specifically, but we'll back up to verse sixteen.
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So he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up,
and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day and stood up to read, and
he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. When
he opened the scroll, he found the place where it
was written, The spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has been anointed me to preach the gospel,
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both to the poor. He has sent me to heal
the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord. Right there in front of all his contemporaries.
They knew him as Joseph's son, they knew who he was.
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And he stood up and he read from the scroll
of Isaiah. Isaiah sixty one, declaring to them, the spirit
alone is upon me. I am the Messiah. He has
anointed me to preach the good news to the poor.
He has sent me to announce release, pardon and forgiveness
to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, both
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physical and spiritual, to set free those who are oppressed,
those who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy, To proclaim
the favorable year of the Lord, the day when salvation
and the favor of God abound greatly. So he's reading
from Isaiah sixty one one and two, but he leaves
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out the last part of verse two, which says in
Isaiah sixty one and the day of vengeance of our God,
because that hasn't happened yet. That's something in the future
that will be fulfilled when he returns. Right now, we
are living under God's favor. His wrath is yet to come.
So let's live in his favor. Let's live in his
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divine abiding favor. You sure fulfilled every prophecy about him,
but in a way that many of the Jews of
his day were unable to grasp. They pictured Messiah as
a conqueror, conquering king who would free them from Rome. Instead,
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he was a conqueror who would free them from sin,
the sin that had caused their captivity and oppression in
the first place, and restore them into wholeness and right
relationship with God. But they couldn't see that he was
setting them free from the kingdom of darkness. First, John
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three A tells us he who sins of the devil,
for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose,
the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy
the works of the devil.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That's why he came, That's why he set up his church,
to destroy the works of the devil. But I'll tell
you right here and now, in the last two thousand years,
we haven't done a real good job of that. The
truth sets you free John eight thirty two. And you
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
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For you've been set free. Once you acknowledge him as
Lord and Savior, once you acknowledge him as Messiah, as
the one who died for your sins, you accept the
payment on your behalf. You've been set free. The destruction
of the works of the devil and the kingdom of
darkness starts spiritually. And this is something I didn't understand
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when I first got saved. You know, I got saved
out of the occult and out of demonic bondage, and
my first desire was to go and fight the enemy
set others free. But I didn't really understand what I
was doing. Spiritual maturity really is a lot more important
than we let on. It's something we have to learn
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sometimes the hard way. But destroying the kingdom of darkness
starts spiritually. Some one of seven, verse fourteen. He brought
them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
he broke their chains in pieces. Isaiah forty two, verses
six and seven. I the Lord have called you in righteousness.
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I will hold your hand. I will keep you and
give you as a covenant to the people, as a
light to the gentiles, to open blind eyes, to bring
out prisoners from prison, those who sit in darkness from
the prison house. We can't be free or get anyone
else into a place of freedom unless we start with
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opening their eyes spiritually. This is what it's been all about.
And that's throughout the Bible, that's throughout every commentary, that's
throughout every statement, that's throughout every teaching, and yet it's
so ignored. Everybody wants to live live their best life.
Now they want a life coach. They don't want a
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spiritual coach. They don't understand. I mean, if we look
at Luke chapter two first, starting with verse twenty five,
and behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name
was Simeon. And this man was just and devout, waiting
for the consolation of Israel, who's waiting for the saviors,
waiting for Messiah. And the Holy Spirit was upon him,
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and it had been revealed to him by the Holy
Spirit that he would not see death before he had
seen the Lord's Messiah. So he came by the Spirit
into the temple. He was led to go, And when
the priest brought in the child Yeshure for him to
circumcise according to the custom of the law, he took
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him in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord,
now you are letting your servant depart in peace according
to your word. For my eyes have seen your salvation,
which you have prepared before the face of all people,
a light to bring revelation to the gentiles and the
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glory of your people Israel. It was never about starting
a new religion. It was the fulfillment of an old
one so that we could live the way he intended
for us to live, setting us free so that we
could have relationship and not religion, so that we would
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be free to worship the Father in spirit and truth.
Look at John chapter four of us Is twenty three
and twenty four, the story of the Samaritan woman at
the well, who after discussing with her about worship and
where they worshiped, and she could things, see things religiously,
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but she wasn't seeing who she was talking to. And
he said to her, the hour is coming, and now
is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such to
worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him
must worship in spirit and truth, not enrich well, not
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based upon where you are or what building that has
been built. Flaring to this woman, not a Jew as Samaritan,
the truth when he says the time is coming and
is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the
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Father in spirit, from the heart, from the inner self,
and in truth. For the fathers seeks such people to
be his worshipers. God is spirit. He's the spirit of life,
yet invisible to mankind, and those who worship him must
worship in spirit and truth. I don't know if you've
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ever experienced that, that kind of worship, where it's coming
from your heart. It's not form or formality, not based
on performance. It's just pure, unadulterated worship. The Life Application
Bible Commentary says Jesus announced that a new time had come,
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a time in which true worship worshippers excuse me, will
worship the Father and Spirit and truth. True worshipers are
to be recognized by the way they worship. After making
the place of worship and the order of worship secondary
to our spiritual relationship with God is sure, Jesus defined
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real worship. According to him, worship would take on two
new aspects, spirit and truth. God in dwells believers. That's
what true worship takes place. Remember inside out. We've talked
about that so much here on the board. Our body
can be anywhere, Yet worship occurs as our attention and
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praise are turned toward God. I don't need a building.
I used to think I did. I used to think
I had to be in a space, pacific place. I
am the Church, and wherever to a more like me
have gathered, there also is the Lord. Therefore we're having
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church where being the church, we're living it out in
truth means in a true way, with genuineness, and that
speaks to all people, Jews, Gentiles, Samaritans, they an't need
to worship God. By recognizing his true nature and character
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as well as our common need for him, we worship
in truth because worship what we worship is true. Remember,
He's the Way, the Truth, and the life. No man
comes to the Father but through him. So if we're
gonna worship him, we've got to worship him as he is.
We've got to worship him in character. So it doesn't
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matter where you are. It matters the attitude of your
heart and your mind. It's not form it's not formality.
It's not ritual or ceremony. It's in spiritual reality, harmony.
It's just the nature of God to be in harmony
with his creation. He spoke everything into existence. He's vibrational.
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We're vibrational. Ourselves are vibrating. We just can't see them.
It's all about that worship. If you've ever been in
high worship. We're suddenly all reality disappears. The airstans still.
You feel like you're outside of time. That means you've
been totally connected with Him, means you have been connected
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to the throne room. There is no distance between the two.
That should be our spiritual reality, in truth, transparent, sincere,
and with God has its center. But to do that,
the veil, the wall of separation had to be removed,
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so that we could be reconciled to God through a mediator,
through a bridge, through a connection between us and him.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's so holy, God is so holy.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We need something to bridge that distance and to make
us holy, to cleanse us. So there is one God
and one mediator between God and men. The man Messiah
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is sure, Jesus the Messiah.
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That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
No other man, no woman, no person is a mediator
between me and God. That was one Timothy twenty five.
By the way, see, I'm always going to give you
scripture of what I'm teaching. I'm not give you my opinion.
If I give you my opinion, I'll tell you why
I believe it based upon the word. Stop listening to
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people that tell you what they think based on their opinion,
but not based upon the word of God and the
pure word, not something that's been manipulated to fit what
they're saying. Hebrews eight six says, now he capital age
has obtained a more excellent ministry inasmuch as he is
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also the mediator of a better covenant, which was established
on better promises. So we know that that he is
just sure. Later on in Hebrews twelve twenty four clarifies
to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
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The Messianic age is based upon the cross, but it's
based upon the one who hung on that cross. It's
based upon the one who left that tomb empty. It's
based upon the one who ascended into heaven to send
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back the Holy Spirit, which was given on the day
of Pentecost. It's based on the Lord. Hebrews Chapter two,
verse fourteen and fifteen tell me, inasmuch then as the
children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself likewise
shared in the same that through death he might destroy
him who had the power of death, that is the devil,
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and released those who, through fear of death, were all
their lifetime subject to bondage. There it is again. The
Messianic age came to set the captives free to break
the chains of bondage through a new covenant of grace,
not written on stone, but written on human hearts. By
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the blood of the lamb, that's the ink that it's
written in. We are free to live in His grace,
with His spirit in us. This message that has been
rumbling through me for the last two weeks. And I'm
not sure it'll end here. I don't know. I won't
know until Lord tells me what he wants next week,
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and it's the end. I'll explain to you why. But
it's been for many years now. As I said in
the book and other things, I saw how they lived,
I saw what the Lord said. I saw that the
declarations of how things would change. We would lay hands
on the sick and they would recover, casting out of
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dem all these miracles, Well, where are they? Where are
the signs of the Messiah? Why aren't we seeing them?
And then you take that one step further, where's the victory?
Here's the victory? Why are so many people living in bondage?
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Two Corinthians three seventeen and eighteen tell me now the
Lord is the Spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord
is there is liberty. But we all with unveiled face
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord
are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory,
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just as by the Spirit of the Lord, the veil
of the Law was the type and shadows of things
to come. And the Gospel has no ceremonies. In comparison,
we only have two ceremonies, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
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Those are the only two outward rituals that we've been given.
So the Gospel is so simple that there could be
no confusion as to the terms and the blessings. The
simplicity of the Gospel we need to get back to that.
We need to understand what He intended and not the
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mess that man has created. That's why we do this
every week. Excuse me. The believer's study Bible says the
Lord is the Spirit is not an attempt at a
definition of the relationship of the Son to the Spirit.
It's an assertation that one cannot turn to the Lord
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without coming to know the ministry of the Spirit. At
the same time, the statement is functional and descriptive and
should be joined too the previous phrase from the Lord.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
The Spirit.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Within this framing, Pauly firms, it's where the spirit. The
Spirit ministers liberty through unveiled faces and through transformation, metamorphosis,
metamorpho and the ever increase in glory, transform from glory
to glory. The more you're in his presence, the more
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you're in His glory, you are transformed, just like Moses
on Mount Sinae, and literally you absorb that glory. That's
why that worship is that worship spirit and truth. The
be in his presence to absorb that into who you are.
We were designed in our DNA to be receptors and
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transmitters and receivers of His presence, of his glory. The
New Living Studying Bible says the believer who turns to
the Lord has freedom in the spirit. We receive something
Moses never knew as we become more and more like
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Messiah and reflect the glory of the Lord. See Moses,
it faded. It only fades in us when we separate
ourselves from His presence. We have the opportunity to always
bask in His glory and to reflect it. But the
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cares of this world, the attacks of the enemy, all
these external things get our eyes off of Him, keep
us from setting our mind on things above. Oh, we're
caught up in politics. We caught up in this for
caught up in that. We're being distracted away from what's important.
The older I get, the more those things offend me,
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anything that steals me away from Him. But that's the
battle of living in this world. There's a veil over
this world two Corinthians four, verses three and four. For
if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those
who are perishing, whose minds the God of this age
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mal g has blinded, who do not believe, lest the
light of the Gospel of the glory of Messiah, who
is the image of God, should shine on them. God's
action bringing people to himself is a movement from a
realm governed by darkness to the light of His presence. Now,
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for someone like me, who literally came out of the
kingdom of darkness, that's very dramatic, and you can even
see it externally at the time that it happened. But
most people don't even think about it, they don't even
sense it, they don't know it that they've been living
in darkness. I guess that's why the blind and follow
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the blind into a ditch. They don't know that they
can't see, they don't know that they have their head
in the ground, in the sand, and a blind to
what's really going on around them. That's what the enemy
wants them to think. The God of this world, Satan
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and the fallen. I will add that to that, because
he he's not doing it alone. Don't ever get fooled
that he's doing it alone. He has a massive corporation,
if you will, an army helping him to fight against
the transformation that the Gospel, the Good News, brings the
people's hearts and minds. And if he can't stop it
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subtly or manipulate it, he'll do anything he can to
stop it, including killing those that would seek to spread
the gospel. So part of the destruction of his works
is stopping his interference, his destruction of the spreading of
the Gospel. I've mentioned many times that when SRT is
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sent out, we are the tip of the spear. We
clear a path, we clear away for the Gospel to
be preached, for the local churches to do what they're
called to do, and they don't know who we are,
and they don't know what we've done. And even some
that have known what we've done, they don't really understand
what the Lord has done for them through us. They
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just act like it's business as usual, and it's not
not in the least. But we're living in a different time.
Since he died on the cross, since he rose from
the dead, since he has send it into heaven to
sit at the right hand of the Father, we are
living in the Messiganic age. We're living in a different time.
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Hebrews One, starting verse one, God, who at various times
and in various ways spoke in time passed to the
fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken
to us by his son, whom he has appointed heir
of all things, through whom he also made the worlds, who,
being the brightness of his glory in the express image
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of his person, and upholding all things by the word
of his power. When he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
having become so much better than the angels, as he
has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
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That's the Lord. That's the one we serve, that's the
one we follow. He did all that, and he allows
us to partake in it. Remember, he sits in the
heavenly places. We get to sit with him. This is
not our home. We don't belong. Philippians three, verses twenty
and twenty one tell me for our citizenship is in heaven,
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from which we eagerly await for the Lord, our savior, Jesus,
the Messiah, who will transform our lowly body, that it
may be conformed to his glorious body, according to the
working by which he is able even to subdue all
things himself, transform from glory to glory, from glory to glory,
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eventually will be permanently transformed divine glory in this present
life leads us to being like Messiah. Like is sure
in the next glory to glory transformation. So when I
say to you, get into the Word, when I say
to you, get into the praise and worship, I am
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saying get into the glory to glory transformation. Paul is
suggesting that believers will progress through anever greater degrees of
glory doxa doxa, and the Greek that they this may
mean that they will learn and grow more and more
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in their relationship with him over time. Alternately, well, yeah, Alternately,
this progress may begin with the indwelling presence of the
Holy Spirit and culminate in the transformation of our physical
body into a glorious one. How do you get to
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know somebody by spending time with them? And the more
time you spend with them, the more you become like them.
I mean, when you get married, and if you've been
married for a long time and the two become one,
you become very similar.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You think like.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You, even in the same wavelengths, the same thoughts, completing
a thought, completing a statement. So much more so with
the Lord, when we become one with him. That docs
of that glory describes the manifestation of the supernatural splendor
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of the divine glory of God. It's a visible splendor,
It's a brightness of God's presence. Something I've seen, something
I've been in and felt, and it's almost indescribable, and
it's almost something the human body cannot endure. More often
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than not, your body will be overwhelmed and shut down.
But that will be our experience throughout all of eternity.
Then one of the four living creatures, gave to the last,
to the seven angels, seven golden balls full of the
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wrath of God who lived forever and ever. The temple
was filled with smoke from the glory of God, from
his power, and no one was able to enter the
temple till the seven plagues of the seven Angels were
completed Revelation fifteen seven and eight. We know when Solomon
dedicated the temple and they were worshiping the glory, the
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Lord filled the place so that they could no longer worship.
They could no longer stand, and to think humanity forfeited
that in the fall, we lost all of that, just
like the angels that rebelled lost being in His presence,
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lost access to that glory. So did we. But we
will get it again someday. But for now, until we
are born again, we live in the mindset of Romans
three twenty three. For all have sinned and fall short
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of the glory of God. We cannot enter it, we
cannot feel it, we cannot experience it. God displayed his
glory through amazing acts of power, such as raising Messiah
from the dead. That's the Messianic age of living in
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his glory. Everyone has that access. Nobody's more special than another.
Anybody who wants it can have it. The simplicity of
the Gospel. It's not ritual, it's not religion. It's not
based upon all these things that men have made it
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based on. Let me ask you questions. Even in my notes,
it just came to me. Doesn't that sound good? Isn't
it something you desire? Do you feel a desire in
your heart to have that? Or have you been convinced
that you're not worthy, You don't deserve it. If you have,
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that's a lie. He died so that everyone could have that.
But you know what keeps us from having that sin.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
A topic.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Nobody wants to talk about sin, anything that displeases God,
anything that falls short of God or his intentions for us.
People say, oh, Richard, I live under the Covenant of grace.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I don't worry about sin.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well you should, because until we get our glorified bodies,
until we're out of this world, it's always there. We
can always be infected by it. It's like a disease.
It's like a germ. You can't see, and do you
experience the symptoms. We have been declared den dead to
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sin and alive to God Romans six one through four.
What shall we say, then, shall we continue in sin
that grace may abound? Certainly not how shall we who
died to sin live any longer in it? Do you
know that as many of us as were baptized into
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Messiah Yeshua, were baptized into his death. Therefore we were
buried with him through baptized baptism into death. You go out,
you go under the water, one way, you come up another.
That is just as Messiah was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father. Even so we should
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also walk in the newness of life. That's what baptism is.
You're showing I have accepted Him as my Lord and savior.
The old me is dead, the new me is born.
So our focus on the glory of God. His image
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has divine and splendor, those supernatural things that he offers us.
It aids our transformation into becoming more like him, into
the same glorious image. From glory to glory. We're in
process sanctification, salvation, instantaneous sanctification of process. Keep telling yourself
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that I am in process. If you make a mistake, repent,
you're in process. You're in change. It's when you stop changed,
when you stop praying, it's when you stop caring. That's
when the trouble comes two Corinthians three eighteen. And all
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of us, as we with unveiled face, because we continue
to behold in the word of God, as in the
mirror of the glory of the Lord, are constantly being
transfigured member mount of transfiguration, transfigured into his very own image,
in ever increasing splendor, from one degree of glory to another.
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For this comes from the Lord, who is the spirit.
Many people look for that big experience, that big change,
one degree of glory to another, closer and closer to transformation,
closer and closer to being like him one John three
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to two. Beloved, now we are children of God, and
it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.
But we know that when he is revealed, we shall
be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Whether you are resurrected from the dead or taken from
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this life, you'll be transformed in the twinkling of an
eye to what we were always supposed to be. That's
what I always think about the life I'm living, the
body I have. This was not his intention when He
created out him. This is the end result of sin,
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of the fall, of rebellion, of demonic interference. It's not
supposed to be this way. The destruction, the corruption, the degradation,
all the things that this world has, it wasn't supposed
to be this way. The Nelson Study Bible says, all
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believers behold the glory of the Lord in the scripture
and are transformed into the image of God. Messiah is
the image of God, glory to glory and ever growing glory.
As believers behold the glory of God and the Word
of God, the Spirit of God transforms them into the
likeness of Jesus the Messiah. This is a description of
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the gradual process of sanctification. The less you become like
you and more like Him. Sanctification the process from where
you are now to where you will be. And the
more you do that, the more the Spirit has the
ability to use you, the more room in you for
the spirit to dwell. Oh, I know what you want.
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You want what I want? Wanted to clear it all out,
take it out, clean every room and just fill it.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
For whatever reason, that's not what he does. So clean
as much as he needs to at that moment to
fill as much as he needs to. But you are
in process the law of the Spirit of Life and Messiah.
This show has made me free from the law of
sin and death Romans day two. Don't get confused, people,
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So I'm free from the law. You've been freed from
the law of sin and death, meaning you will not
die according to your sins. If you've accepted him name
written in the Lamb's Book of Life, you are no
longer judged by your life or by the things you've done.
You're judged by whether your name is written in His blood.
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That's why I don't have fear. We've not been given
a spirit of fear. We don't have that fear of judgment.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't other rules and
things He put into place for us to live in
this world that are not still in effect. The spirit
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of life, the law of our new being being born again,
has freed me from the law of sin and death.
Life application Bible tells me what the spirit of life is.
It's the Holy Spirit who was present at the creation
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of the world as one of the agents in the
origin of life itself Genesis one two. He is the
power behind the rebirth of every Christian, every believer. He
is the one who helps us to live the life
of a believer, a Christian life, if you will. The
Holy Spirit sets us free once and for all from
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sin and its natural consequence death, and I'll add separation
from God. That's why Paul dedicated himself to a ministry
of freedom. And I never thought about it before until
I just said it. I guess that's part of what
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my ministry is. I'm not a deliverance minister. I am
a minister issue of Jesus in every aspect of what
he did, and a ministry of freedom. Yeah, that fits.
That's a ministry of the Spirit. It's a ministry of life.
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It's a ministry of liberty. It's a ministry of righteousness
and truth. Paul defended his ministry and he had to
from the critics and the false teachers because it was
based upon the truthfulness of the Word of God. Deceit
or manipulation, not in trickery or flowery words or you know,
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doing the things that they did to deceive people. Things
we see today which drive me crazy. It is amazing
to me how many people who are supposed to know better,
who don't who are so easily fooled by the things
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they hear and I don't understand it. I really don't.
Very frustrating because it's not that hard to see when
something doesn't line up with the word.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
They're always saying think outside the box. Well, that's fine,
but you're thinking outside of the book. I'm not going
to do that. I'm not going to make the book
line up with my revelation. I'm going to make my
revelation line up with the book before I share it
with you. I remember when I started down this road
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back in two thousand and seven, this particular aspect of
my learning. I didn't share it, teach it, or do
anything for three years till I understood it. I could
verify it, and I could give it to his children
in a way that wouldn't endanger them. Today, to get
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the clicks and to get the notoriety, they get a
new revelation and they just run right out there with it.
They want to get it out there, they want to
get their name on it. They don't confirm it, they
don't test it according to the word. They don't wait
for a release from the Lord. We serve him. I
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don't serve any man. I don't serve myself. I serve
Him two Corinthians five, verses eighteen through twenty one. Now
all things are of God, who has reconciled us to
himself through Jesus the Messiah, and has himself given us
a ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in
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Messiah reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespassers
to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now,
then we are ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were
pleading through us. We employ you on Messiah's behalf. Be
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reconciled to God. For he made him who knew no sin,
to be sin for us that we might become the
righteousness of God in him. He did nothing wrong. He
didn't deserve to be nailed to the cross. He didn't
to drop every drop of blood into the ground and die.
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He didn't deserve to be beaten and scourged and torn apart.
We did. But He did that on our behalf, so
that we could be reconciled to God, and we could
take His righteousness upon ourselves. The New Living Study Bible
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tells me God is the author of reconciliation, and the
Father and the Son are bound together in this common purpose.
Messiah has become the means by which God won the
sinful world back to himself. Jesus the Messiah became one
with sinful humankind and released God's saving power and righteousness
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to restore the broken relationship between God and the world.
And he did that so that we could enter the
messian Age, a time of a new covenant. Two Corinthians
three six also made us sufficient as ministers of the
New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit.
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For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. So
the ministry of the Holy Spirit through us brings freedom
from the power of sin and death, something the law
could not do. Let me ask you another question, what
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have we done with that freedom? What have we done
with it? Personally? Corporately? What have we done? Are we
living in victory or victimhood? Are we victors or victims?
At times? I've been a little of both. But I
see some people that live a life of being victim
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and victimized by the enemy by this world. That's not
the that's not the life that he intended for us.
The Messianic Age is about freedom, not bondage. Why are
so many believers in bondage? That's been the recurring thing,
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that's been the thing that has been rolling through me
all these weeks. As I look at the people I
know on social media or I follow people that claim
to be believers, and I see their life and their lifestyles,
and I realized they're in bondage. Why we have not
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been given the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
we receive the spirit of adoption, by whom we cry
out above Father Romans eighteen fifteen Galatians five to one.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Messiah has
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it made us free, and do not be entangled again
with the yoke of bondage.
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Is that a hint?
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Is that what it is, the freedom Messiah has said
it's free, is completely liberating us. But we must keep
standing firm and do not be subject against to the
yoke of slavery which was removed from us. How do
we do that? How do we go back like a
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dog to its vomit or a pig to the mud.
How do we wallow in it? How do we go
back to where we came from? It's like going back
to Egypt. You've been set free. Well, it's a little
rough out here, you know, and I got the fear
of the unknown. I don't know what's going on. I'm
going to go back to where I came from. Wait
a second. Where you came from wasn't very good, wasn't
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very safe. They didn't treat you very well. And all
they really want to do is use you and then
kill you. Why would you want to go back to Egypt.
I've been set free. There's no going back. If she
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Wu did this for us, he part took of our
sin through death to destroy the power of Satan, who
had the power of death over us. And he released
us from the fear of death. He released us from
that bondage. We're not slaves anymore. We're free, free at last,
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Free at last, and God Almighty, I'm free at last.
Tell yourself that every day I'm free. I'm not going back.
I'm pressing on no matter what it takes. That's why
Paul taught how the Spirit works consistently, what he does
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for us and what he does in us. I say
that again, the Holy Spirit, what he does for us,
what he does in us. Inside out, we're living that
inside out faith. We're living that inside out power. We're
living that inside out victory. We've been set free and
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the spirit of God lives in us. Is a scripture
that always comes to mind when these thoughts come to me.
I have been crucified with Messiah in him. I have
shared his crucifixions. No longer I live, but Messiah lives
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in me. And the life that I now live in
the body, I live by faith, in adherence to and
reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God
who loved me and gave himself for me Galatians two twenty.
Maybe that's another scripture. Need to put up somewhere, or
memorize it, put it on the screen of your smartphone.
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We are never going to help anyone if we can't
help ourselves. We can't change the world. If we can't
change ourselves, we can't have the world shaking power that
the Book of Acts Church had. If we're always in bondage.
We're always fighting to regain the freedom that we had before.
And that's what the enemy wants us to do. He
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wants to put us on a spiritual merry go round,
or all you do is change horses, But never get
off Colossians two thirteen through fifteen. And you, being dead
in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he
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has made alive together with him, having forgiven all your trespasses,
having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us,
i e. The law which was contrary to us, and
he has taken it out of the way, having nailed
it to the cross, having disarmed principalities and power. He
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made a public spectacle of them, triumphant over them in it, triumphing.
He's triumphant. You'll no longer hold my people in bondage.
You'll no longer leave them to their death and their sins.
I have set them free. So again I ask, how
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does bondage continue in the church? And as I worked
on this yesterday, how was At that point I didn't
really have an answer.
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I didn't really have the way to close out all
of these thoughts.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
And then I saw it. Suddenly, there sure was right
in front of me Two Peter, Chapter two, verses one
through three. But there are also false prophets among the people,
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even as they will be false teachers among you, who
will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord
who brought them, and will bring on themselves swift destruction.
And many will follow their destructive ways because of whom
the way of truth will be blasphemed by covetousness. They
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will exploit you with deceptive words for a long time,
their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does
not slumber. Jumping down to verse eighteen of tewod Peter two,
he's talking about the deception of false teachers, for when
they speak great, swelling words of emptiness, they allure through
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the lust of the flesh, through lewdness. The ones who
have actually escaped from those live in error. While they
promise liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption. For by
whom a person is overcome by him, he's also brought
into bondage. For if after they escape the pollutions of
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the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior
Jesus the Messiah, are again entangled into them and overcome,
the latter end is worse for them than the beginning,
For it would have been better for them to not
have known the way of righteousness than having known it,
to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them but
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as it has happened to them. According to the true proverb,
a dog returns to his own vomit, and a sow,
having washed, to her wallowing in the mire, and then
the light bulb went off. That's what the word should
do for you. The enemy is brilliant what they do
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kind of like they've done in politics. They put people
in positions of power and authority who are corrupt, who
will promulgate or promote what the enemy wants them to.
And they will target new and scripturally ignorant converts, not
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giving them the water of life, but a tainted, a
poisoned water that leads to sin and bondage. These false
teachers will promise liberty from the condemnation of sinful lust,
but they themselves are not free. Over and over I
see people that I know into positions of power and
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popularity because they can tickle the ears. We're not free
from the very things they're trying to set the others
free from. Preachers have become powerful, and the next thing
you know, they've divorced their spouse and raised their mistress
up into position and ministry, whom they then marry. And
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the people don't leave, They don't hold them to account.
Freedom from authority is what they preach, but their slaves
to sin and corruption, casting off restraint while being constrained
by the very enemy they claim to confront. And I
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thought about it, and then I realized. I looked up
that word pollutions from verse twenty, The pollutions of the world.
It's a Greek work miasmata. It's things that infect, pollute,
and defile. It's still used today of the contagion of diseases,
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dangerous diseases, and of decaying bodies, stagnant water, and putrid matter.
The world is here pictured as putrid and full of contagion,
of sin and uncleanness. Wow, what a revelation from Peter.
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He was saying that they're infected, and they infect everyone
they speak to and teach, and they get to follow them.
And we have congregations, we have fellowships full of people
that without realizing, are getting infected. And it doesn't happen
so quickly that they can notice it and run away.
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It's a slow thing. It's like you go to a place.
So you go to a gym and it looks clean,
but maybe it's not as clean as it should be.
And every time there's a new bug going around, you
happen to catch it until eventually the light bulb goes
off in your head as to where you're catching this
flu or cold bug from.
Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
So what do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
You stop going there, You stop putting yourself in a
place to be infected. You stop getting around people that
aren't serious about their hygiene, in this case, spiritual hygiene.
So if I'm going to live in the free flow
of the Messianic Age, I can't do that. I don't
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have to put on a show. I don't have to
rebuke him unless the Lord tells me to. Usually he doesn't.
I just move on and get away from there. I
get safely away from it. So much you if you
are listening to someone, oh, you know, I don't agree
with everything.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
He's just a little off.
Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
That should be enough to make you stop listening, make
you stop following, make you stop supporting. No, no, no,
I'm living in the free flow of the Messianic Age.
I've been redeemed from sin and death. I've been reconciled
to God, my father. I've been given liberty and freedom.
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My bondages and there were many, are broken, and I've
been rescued. Translated from the kingdom of darkness, and I
am free to praise and worship my Abba Father and
Spirit and truth. I'm going to live by what he
said in Luke Foy eighteen, set free, being able to
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see both naturally and spiritually. I was reminded as I
was finishing my notes John eighth, verses thirty two and
thirty six. And you shall know the truth, and the
truth will set you free. So if the Son sets
you free, you are truly free. You're free. Indeed, live
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in that freedom. Join with me and that freedom. Let's
live a life in the messianic age. Let's go set
the captives free. Let's destroy the work of the enemy,
one person at a time, tearing these strongholds down until
the king returns. Father, thank you for saving us, Thank
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you for rescuing us. Thank you for giving us the
cure when we were sick and dying. Thank you Lord
for the blood.
Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
For the Cross.
Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
For you for what you've done and are doing for
us as you intercede for us at the right hand
of the Father. And I ask you, Holy Spirit, for
everyone who has stuck with this message, as uncomfortable as
it may have been, I ask that you begin to
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show them areas where they've been infected and cleanse them.
Cleanse it, set them free. Let it be their testimony
to others who have been deceived or touched by this world,
so that we can do what you've called us to do,
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not just live a life of freedom, but to set
others free, to shine the light in the darkness, show
people the way home. Heal us, Lord, empower us. Let
us shine, shine, shine. I pray all these things, and
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you see his name. Amen, Go stand fast in the
liberty well which Messiah has made you free. Don't get entangled,
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Escalatians five to one.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
Lord make his face to shine upon you, be gracious
to you. May the Lord, I don't know how you
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show Ahamashi, lift up his countenance upon you and give
you peace.
Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
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When I speak of the Lord. I will use the
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Thank you for how much you love us. Thank you
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about the Messianic gage. We are living in the free
flow of the Messianic gauge. Redeemed from sin and death,
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reconciled to God, having liberty and freedom. Bondages are broken,
and we've been rescued from darkness, and we are free
to praise and worship our abba Father in spirit and
in truth. We've been basing it on Luke four, verses
eighteen and nineteen specifically, but we'll back up to verse sixteen.
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So he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up,
and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day and stood up to read, and
he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. When
he opened the scroll, he found the place where it
was written, The spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has been anointed me to preach the gospel,
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both to the poor. He has sent me to heal
the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord. Right there in front of all his contemporaries.
They knew him as Joseph's son, they knew who he was.
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And he stood up and he read from the scroll
of Isaiah. Isaiah sixty one, declaring to them, the spirit
alone is upon me. I am the Messiah. He has
anointed me to preach the good news to the poor.
He has sent me to announce release, pardon and forgiveness
to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, both
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physical and spiritual, to set free those who are oppressed,
those who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy, To proclaim
the favorable year of the Lord, the day when salvation
and the favor of God abound greatly. So he's reading
from Isaiah sixty one one and two, but he leaves
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out the last part of verse two, which says in
Isaiah sixty one and the day of vengeance of our God,
because that hasn't happened yet. That's something in the future
that will be fulfilled when he returns. Right now, we
are living under God's favor. His wrath is yet to come.
So let's live in his favor. Let's live in his
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divine abiding favor. You sure fulfilled every prophecy about him,
but in a way that many of the Jews of
his day were unable to grasp. They pictured Messiah as
a conqueror, conquering king who would free them from Rome. Instead,
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he was a conqueror who would free them from sin,
the sin that had caused their captivity and oppression in
the first place, and restore them into wholeness and right
relationship with God. But they couldn't see that he was
setting them free from the kingdom of darkness. First, John
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three A tells us he who sins of the devil,
for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose,
the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy
the works of the devil.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That's why he came, That's why he set up his church,
to destroy the works of the devil. But I'll tell
you right here and now, in the last two thousand years,
we haven't done a real good job of that. The
truth sets you free John eight thirty two. And you
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
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For you've been set free. Once you acknowledge him as
Lord and Savior, once you acknowledge him as Messiah, as
the one who died for your sins, you accept the
payment on your behalf. You've been set free. The destruction
of the works of the devil and the kingdom of
darkness starts spiritually. And this is something I didn't understand
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when I first got saved. You know, I got saved
out of the occult and out of demonic bondage, and
my first desire was to go and fight the enemy
set others free. But I didn't really understand what I
was doing. Spiritual maturity really is a lot more important
than we let on. It's something we have to learn
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sometimes the hard way. But destroying the kingdom of darkness
starts spiritually. Some one of seven, verse fourteen. He brought
them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
he broke their chains in pieces. Isaiah forty two, verses
six and seven. I the Lord have called you in righteousness.
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I will hold your hand. I will keep you and
give you as a covenant to the people, as a
light to the gentiles, to open blind eyes, to bring
out prisoners from prison, those who sit in darkness from
the prison house. We can't be free or get anyone
else into a place of freedom unless we start with
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opening their eyes spiritually. This is what it's been all about.
And that's throughout the Bible, that's throughout every commentary, that's
throughout every statement, that's throughout every teaching, and yet it's
so ignored. Everybody wants to live live their best life.
Now they want a life coach. They don't want a
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spiritual coach. They don't understand. I mean, if we look
at Luke chapter two first, starting with verse twenty five,
and behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name
was Simeon. And this man was just and devout, waiting
for the consolation of Israel, who's waiting for the saviors,
waiting for Messiah. And the Holy Spirit was upon him,
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and it had been revealed to him by the Holy
Spirit that he would not see death before he had
seen the Lord's Messiah. So he came by the Spirit
into the temple. He was led to go, And when
the priest brought in the child Yeshure for him to
circumcise according to the custom of the law, he took
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him in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord,
now you are letting your servant depart in peace according
to your word. For my eyes have seen your salvation,
which you have prepared before the face of all people,
a light to bring revelation to the gentiles and the
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glory of your people Israel. It was never about starting
a new religion. It was the fulfillment of an old
one so that we could live the way he intended
for us to live, setting us free so that we
could have relationship and not religion, so that we would
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be free to worship the Father in spirit and truth.
Look at John chapter four of us Is twenty three
and twenty four, the story of the Samaritan woman at
the well, who after discussing with her about worship and
where they worshiped, and she could things, see things religiously,
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but she wasn't seeing who she was talking to. And
he said to her, the hour is coming, and now
is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such to
worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him
must worship in spirit and truth, not enrich well, not
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based upon where you are or what building that has
been built. Flaring to this woman, not a Jew as Samaritan,
the truth when he says the time is coming and
is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the
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Father in spirit, from the heart, from the inner self,
and in truth. For the fathers seeks such people to
be his worshipers. God is spirit. He's the spirit of life,
yet invisible to mankind, and those who worship him must
worship in spirit and truth. I don't know if you've
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ever experienced that, that kind of worship, where it's coming
from your heart. It's not form or formality, not based
on performance. It's just pure, unadulterated worship. The Life Application
Bible Commentary says Jesus announced that a new time had come,
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a time in which true worship worshippers excuse me, will
worship the Father and Spirit and truth. True worshipers are
to be recognized by the way they worship. After making
the place of worship and the order of worship secondary
to our spiritual relationship with God is sure, Jesus defined
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real worship. According to him, worship would take on two
new aspects, spirit and truth. God in dwells believers. That's
what true worship takes place. Remember inside out. We've talked
about that so much here on the board. Our body
can be anywhere, Yet worship occurs as our attention and
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praise are turned toward God. I don't need a building.
I used to think I did. I used to think
I had to be in a space, pacific place. I
am the Church, and wherever to a more like me
have gathered, there also is the Lord. Therefore we're having
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church where being the church, we're living it out in
truth means in a true way, with genuineness, and that
speaks to all people, Jews, Gentiles, Samaritans, they an't need
to worship God. By recognizing his true nature and character
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as well as our common need for him, we worship
in truth because worship what we worship is true. Remember,
He's the Way, the Truth, and the life. No man
comes to the Father but through him. So if we're
gonna worship him, we've got to worship him as he is.
We've got to worship him in character. So it doesn't
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matter where you are. It matters the attitude of your
heart and your mind. It's not form it's not formality.
It's not ritual or ceremony. It's in spiritual reality, harmony.
It's just the nature of God to be in harmony
with his creation. He spoke everything into existence. He's vibrational.
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We're vibrational. Ourselves are vibrating. We just can't see them.
It's all about that worship. If you've ever been in
high worship. We're suddenly all reality disappears. The airstans still.
You feel like you're outside of time. That means you've
been totally connected with Him, means you have been connected
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to the throne room. There is no distance between the two.
That should be our spiritual reality, in truth, transparent, sincere,
and with God has its center. But to do that,
the veil, the wall of separation had to be removed,
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so that we could be reconciled to God through a mediator,
through a bridge, through a connection between us and him.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's so holy, God is so holy.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We need something to bridge that distance and to make
us holy, to cleanse us. So there is one God
and one mediator between God and men. The man Messiah
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is sure, Jesus the Messiah.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
No other man, no woman, no person is a mediator
between me and God. That was one Timothy twenty five.
By the way, see, I'm always going to give you
scripture of what I'm teaching. I'm not give you my opinion.
If I give you my opinion, I'll tell you why
I believe it based upon the word. Stop listening to
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people that tell you what they think based on their opinion,
but not based upon the word of God and the
pure word, not something that's been manipulated to fit what
they're saying. Hebrews eight six says, now he capital age
has obtained a more excellent ministry inasmuch as he is
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also the mediator of a better covenant, which was established
on better promises. So we know that that he is
just sure. Later on in Hebrews twelve twenty four clarifies
to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
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The Messianic age is based upon the cross, but it's
based upon the one who hung on that cross. It's
based upon the one who left that tomb empty. It's
based upon the one who ascended into heaven to send
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back the Holy Spirit, which was given on the day
of Pentecost. It's based on the Lord. Hebrews Chapter two,
verse fourteen and fifteen tell me, inasmuch then as the
children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself likewise
shared in the same that through death he might destroy
him who had the power of death, that is the devil,
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and released those who, through fear of death, were all
their lifetime subject to bondage. There it is again. The
Messianic age came to set the captives free to break
the chains of bondage through a new covenant of grace,
not written on stone, but written on human hearts. By
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the blood of the lamb, that's the ink that it's
written in. We are free to live in His grace,
with His spirit in us. This message that has been
rumbling through me for the last two weeks. And I'm
not sure it'll end here. I don't know. I won't
know until Lord tells me what he wants next week,
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and it's the end. I'll explain to you why. But
it's been for many years now. As I said in
the book and other things, I saw how they lived,
I saw what the Lord said. I saw that the
declarations of how things would change. We would lay hands
on the sick and they would recover, casting out of
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dem all these miracles, Well, where are they? Where are
the signs of the Messiah? Why aren't we seeing them?
And then you take that one step further, where's the victory?
Here's the victory? Why are so many people living in bondage?
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Two Corinthians three seventeen and eighteen tell me now the
Lord is the Spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord
is there is liberty. But we all with unveiled face
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord
are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory,
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just as by the Spirit of the Lord, the veil
of the Law was the type and shadows of things
to come. And the Gospel has no ceremonies. In comparison,
we only have two ceremonies, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
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Those are the only two outward rituals that we've been given.
So the Gospel is so simple that there could be
no confusion as to the terms and the blessings. The
simplicity of the Gospel we need to get back to that.
We need to understand what He intended and not the
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mess that man has created. That's why we do this
every week. Excuse me. The believer's study Bible says the
Lord is the Spirit is not an attempt at a
definition of the relationship of the Son to the Spirit.
It's an assertation that one cannot turn to the Lord
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without coming to know the ministry of the Spirit. At
the same time, the statement is functional and descriptive and
should be joined too the previous phrase from the Lord.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
The Spirit.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Within this framing, Pauly firms, it's where the spirit. The
Spirit ministers liberty through unveiled faces and through transformation, metamorphosis,
metamorpho and the ever increase in glory, transform from glory
to glory. The more you're in his presence, the more
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you're in His glory, you are transformed, just like Moses
on Mount Sinae, and literally you absorb that glory. That's
why that worship is that worship spirit and truth. The
be in his presence to absorb that into who you are.
We were designed in our DNA to be receptors and
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transmitters and receivers of His presence, of his glory. The
New Living Studying Bible says the believer who turns to
the Lord has freedom in the spirit. We receive something
Moses never knew as we become more and more like
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Messiah and reflect the glory of the Lord. See Moses,
it faded. It only fades in us when we separate
ourselves from His presence. We have the opportunity to always
bask in His glory and to reflect it. But the
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cares of this world, the attacks of the enemy, all
these external things get our eyes off of Him, keep
us from setting our mind on things above. Oh, we're
caught up in politics. We caught up in this for
caught up in that. We're being distracted away from what's important.
The older I get, the more those things offend me,
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anything that steals me away from Him. But that's the
battle of living in this world. There's a veil over
this world two Corinthians four, verses three and four. For
if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those
who are perishing, whose minds the God of this age
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mal g has blinded, who do not believe, lest the
light of the Gospel of the glory of Messiah, who
is the image of God, should shine on them. God's
action bringing people to himself is a movement from a
realm governed by darkness to the light of His presence. Now,
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for someone like me, who literally came out of the
kingdom of darkness, that's very dramatic, and you can even
see it externally at the time that it happened. But
most people don't even think about it, they don't even
sense it, they don't know it that they've been living
in darkness. I guess that's why the blind and follow
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the blind into a ditch. They don't know that they
can't see, they don't know that they have their head
in the ground, in the sand, and a blind to
what's really going on around them. That's what the enemy
wants them to think. The God of this world, Satan
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and the fallen. I will add that to that, because
he he's not doing it alone. Don't ever get fooled
that he's doing it alone. He has a massive corporation,
if you will, an army helping him to fight against
the transformation that the Gospel, the Good News, brings the
people's hearts and minds. And if he can't stop it
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subtly or manipulate it, he'll do anything he can to
stop it, including killing those that would seek to spread
the gospel. So part of the destruction of his works
is stopping his interference, his destruction of the spreading of
the Gospel. I've mentioned many times that when SRT is
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sent out, we are the tip of the spear. We
clear a path, we clear away for the Gospel to
be preached, for the local churches to do what they're
called to do, and they don't know who we are,
and they don't know what we've done. And even some
that have known what we've done, they don't really understand
what the Lord has done for them through us. They
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just act like it's business as usual, and it's not
not in the least. But we're living in a different time.
Since he died on the cross, since he rose from
the dead, since he has send it into heaven to
sit at the right hand of the Father, we are
living in the Messiganic age. We're living in a different time.
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Hebrews One, starting verse one, God, who at various times
and in various ways spoke in time passed to the
fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken
to us by his son, whom he has appointed heir
of all things, through whom he also made the worlds, who,
being the brightness of his glory in the express image
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of his person, and upholding all things by the word
of his power. When he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
having become so much better than the angels, as he
has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
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That's the Lord. That's the one we serve, that's the
one we follow. He did all that, and he allows
us to partake in it. Remember, he sits in the
heavenly places. We get to sit with him. This is
not our home. We don't belong. Philippians three, verses twenty
and twenty one tell me for our citizenship is in heaven,
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from which we eagerly await for the Lord, our savior, Jesus,
the Messiah, who will transform our lowly body, that it
may be conformed to his glorious body, according to the
working by which he is able even to subdue all
things himself, transform from glory to glory, from glory to glory,
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eventually will be permanently transformed divine glory in this present
life leads us to being like Messiah. Like is sure
in the next glory to glory transformation. So when I
say to you, get into the Word, when I say
to you, get into the praise and worship, I am
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saying get into the glory to glory transformation. Paul is
suggesting that believers will progress through anever greater degrees of
glory doxa doxa, and the Greek that they this may
mean that they will learn and grow more and more
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in their relationship with him over time. Alternately, well, yeah, Alternately,
this progress may begin with the indwelling presence of the
Holy Spirit and culminate in the transformation of our physical
body into a glorious one. How do you get to
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know somebody by spending time with them? And the more
time you spend with them, the more you become like them.
I mean, when you get married, and if you've been
married for a long time and the two become one,
you become very similar.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You think like.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You, even in the same wavelengths, the same thoughts, completing
a thought, completing a statement. So much more so with
the Lord, when we become one with him. That docs
of that glory describes the manifestation of the supernatural splendor
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of the divine glory of God. It's a visible splendor,
It's a brightness of God's presence. Something I've seen, something
I've been in and felt, and it's almost indescribable, and
it's almost something the human body cannot endure. More often
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than not, your body will be overwhelmed and shut down.
But that will be our experience throughout all of eternity.
Then one of the four living creatures, gave to the last,
to the seven angels, seven golden balls full of the
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wrath of God who lived forever and ever. The temple
was filled with smoke from the glory of God, from
his power, and no one was able to enter the
temple till the seven plagues of the seven Angels were
completed Revelation fifteen seven and eight. We know when Solomon
dedicated the temple and they were worshiping the glory, the
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Lord filled the place so that they could no longer worship.
They could no longer stand, and to think humanity forfeited
that in the fall, we lost all of that, just
like the angels that rebelled lost being in His presence,
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lost access to that glory. So did we. But we
will get it again someday. But for now, until we
are born again, we live in the mindset of Romans
three twenty three. For all have sinned and fall short
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of the glory of God. We cannot enter it, we
cannot feel it, we cannot experience it. God displayed his
glory through amazing acts of power, such as raising Messiah
from the dead. That's the Messianic age of living in
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his glory. Everyone has that access. Nobody's more special than another.
Anybody who wants it can have it. The simplicity of
the Gospel. It's not ritual, it's not religion. It's not
based upon all these things that men have made it
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based on. Let me ask you questions. Even in my notes,
it just came to me. Doesn't that sound good? Isn't
it something you desire? Do you feel a desire in
your heart to have that? Or have you been convinced
that you're not worthy, You don't deserve it. If you have,
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that's a lie. He died so that everyone could have that.
But you know what keeps us from having that sin.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
A topic.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Nobody wants to talk about sin, anything that displeases God,
anything that falls short of God or his intentions for us.
People say, oh, Richard, I live under the Covenant of grace.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I don't worry about sin.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well you should, because until we get our glorified bodies,
until we're out of this world, it's always there. We
can always be infected by it. It's like a disease.
It's like a germ. You can't see, and do you
experience the symptoms. We have been declared den dead to
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sin and alive to God Romans six one through four.
What shall we say, then, shall we continue in sin
that grace may abound? Certainly not how shall we who
died to sin live any longer in it? Do you
know that as many of us as were baptized into
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Messiah Yeshua, were baptized into his death. Therefore we were
buried with him through baptized baptism into death. You go out,
you go under the water, one way, you come up another.
That is just as Messiah was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father. Even so we should
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also walk in the newness of life. That's what baptism is.
You're showing I have accepted Him as my Lord and savior.
The old me is dead, the new me is born.
So our focus on the glory of God. His image
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has divine and splendor, those supernatural things that he offers us.
It aids our transformation into becoming more like him, into
the same glorious image. From glory to glory. We're in
process sanctification, salvation, instantaneous sanctification of process. Keep telling yourself
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that I am in process. If you make a mistake, repent,
you're in process. You're in change. It's when you stop changed,
when you stop praying, it's when you stop caring. That's
when the trouble comes two Corinthians three eighteen. And all
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of us, as we with unveiled face, because we continue
to behold in the word of God, as in the
mirror of the glory of the Lord, are constantly being
transfigured member mount of transfiguration, transfigured into his very own image,
in ever increasing splendor, from one degree of glory to another.
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For this comes from the Lord, who is the spirit.
Many people look for that big experience, that big change,
one degree of glory to another, closer and closer to transformation,
closer and closer to being like him one John three
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to two. Beloved, now we are children of God, and
it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.
But we know that when he is revealed, we shall
be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Whether you are resurrected from the dead or taken from
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this life, you'll be transformed in the twinkling of an
eye to what we were always supposed to be. That's
what I always think about the life I'm living, the
body I have. This was not his intention when He
created out him. This is the end result of sin,
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of the fall, of rebellion, of demonic interference. It's not
supposed to be this way. The destruction, the corruption, the degradation,
all the things that this world has, it wasn't supposed
to be this way. The Nelson Study Bible says, all
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believers behold the glory of the Lord in the scripture
and are transformed into the image of God. Messiah is
the image of God, glory to glory and ever growing glory.
As believers behold the glory of God and the Word
of God, the Spirit of God transforms them into the
likeness of Jesus the Messiah. This is a description of
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the gradual process of sanctification. The less you become like
you and more like Him. Sanctification the process from where
you are now to where you will be. And the
more you do that, the more the Spirit has the
ability to use you, the more room in you for
the spirit to dwell. Oh, I know what you want.
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You want what I want? Wanted to clear it all out,
take it out, clean every room and just fill it.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
For whatever reason, that's not what he does. So clean
as much as he needs to at that moment to
fill as much as he needs to. But you are
in process the law of the Spirit of Life and Messiah.
This show has made me free from the law of
sin and death Romans day two. Don't get confused, people,
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So I'm free from the law. You've been freed from
the law of sin and death, meaning you will not
die according to your sins. If you've accepted him name
written in the Lamb's Book of Life, you are no
longer judged by your life or by the things you've done.
You're judged by whether your name is written in His blood.
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That's why I don't have fear. We've not been given
a spirit of fear. We don't have that fear of judgment.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't other rules and
things He put into place for us to live in
this world that are not still in effect. The spirit
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of life, the law of our new being being born again,
has freed me from the law of sin and death.
Life application Bible tells me what the spirit of life is.
It's the Holy Spirit who was present at the creation
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of the world as one of the agents in the
origin of life itself Genesis one two. He is the
power behind the rebirth of every Christian, every believer. He
is the one who helps us to live the life
of a believer, a Christian life, if you will. The
Holy Spirit sets us free once and for all from
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sin and its natural consequence death, and I'll add separation
from God. That's why Paul dedicated himself to a ministry
of freedom. And I never thought about it before until
I just said it. I guess that's part of what
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my ministry is. I'm not a deliverance minister. I am
a minister issue of Jesus in every aspect of what
he did, and a ministry of freedom. Yeah, that fits.
That's a ministry of the Spirit. It's a ministry of life.
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It's a ministry of liberty. It's a ministry of righteousness
and truth. Paul defended his ministry and he had to
from the critics and the false teachers because it was
based upon the truthfulness of the Word of God. Deceit
or manipulation, not in trickery or flowery words or you know,
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doing the things that they did to deceive people. Things
we see today which drive me crazy. It is amazing
to me how many people who are supposed to know better,
who don't who are so easily fooled by the things
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they hear and I don't understand it. I really don't.
Very frustrating because it's not that hard to see when
something doesn't line up with the word.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
They're always saying think outside the box. Well, that's fine,
but you're thinking outside of the book. I'm not going
to do that. I'm not going to make the book
line up with my revelation. I'm going to make my
revelation line up with the book before I share it
with you. I remember when I started down this road
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back in two thousand and seven, this particular aspect of
my learning. I didn't share it, teach it, or do
anything for three years till I understood it. I could
verify it, and I could give it to his children
in a way that wouldn't endanger them. Today, to get
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the clicks and to get the notoriety, they get a
new revelation and they just run right out there with it.
They want to get it out there, they want to
get their name on it. They don't confirm it, they
don't test it according to the word. They don't wait
for a release from the Lord. We serve him. I
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don't serve any man. I don't serve myself. I serve
Him two Corinthians five, verses eighteen through twenty one. Now
all things are of God, who has reconciled us to
himself through Jesus the Messiah, and has himself given us
a ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in
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Messiah reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespassers
to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now,
then we are ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were
pleading through us. We employ you on Messiah's behalf. Be
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reconciled to God. For he made him who knew no sin,
to be sin for us that we might become the
righteousness of God in him. He did nothing wrong. He
didn't deserve to be nailed to the cross. He didn't
to drop every drop of blood into the ground and die.
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He didn't deserve to be beaten and scourged and torn apart.
We did. But He did that on our behalf, so
that we could be reconciled to God, and we could
take His righteousness upon ourselves. The New Living Study Bible
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tells me God is the author of reconciliation, and the
Father and the Son are bound together in this common purpose.
Messiah has become the means by which God won the
sinful world back to himself. Jesus the Messiah became one
with sinful humankind and released God's saving power and righteousness
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to restore the broken relationship between God and the world.
And he did that so that we could enter the
messian Age, a time of a new covenant. Two Corinthians
three six also made us sufficient as ministers of the
New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit.
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For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. So
the ministry of the Holy Spirit through us brings freedom
from the power of sin and death, something the law
could not do. Let me ask you another question, what
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have we done with that freedom? What have we done
with it? Personally? Corporately? What have we done? Are we
living in victory or victimhood? Are we victors or victims?
At times? I've been a little of both. But I
see some people that live a life of being victim
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and victimized by the enemy by this world. That's not
the that's not the life that he intended for us.
The Messianic Age is about freedom, not bondage. Why are
so many believers in bondage? That's been the recurring thing,
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that's been the thing that has been rolling through me
all these weeks. As I look at the people I
know on social media or I follow people that claim
to be believers, and I see their life and their lifestyles,
and I realized they're in bondage. Why we have not
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been given the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
we receive the spirit of adoption, by whom we cry
out above Father Romans eighteen fifteen Galatians five to one.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Messiah has
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it made us free, and do not be entangled again
with the yoke of bondage.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Is that a hint?
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Is that what it is, the freedom Messiah has said
it's free, is completely liberating us. But we must keep
standing firm and do not be subject against to the
yoke of slavery which was removed from us. How do
we do that? How do we go back like a
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dog to its vomit or a pig to the mud.
How do we wallow in it? How do we go
back to where we came from? It's like going back
to Egypt. You've been set free. Well, it's a little
rough out here, you know, and I got the fear
of the unknown. I don't know what's going on. I'm
going to go back to where I came from. Wait
a second. Where you came from wasn't very good, wasn't
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very safe. They didn't treat you very well. And all
they really want to do is use you and then
kill you. Why would you want to go back to Egypt.
I've been set free. There's no going back. If she
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Wu did this for us, he part took of our
sin through death to destroy the power of Satan, who
had the power of death over us. And he released
us from the fear of death. He released us from
that bondage. We're not slaves anymore. We're free, free at last,
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Free at last, and God Almighty, I'm free at last.
Tell yourself that every day I'm free. I'm not going back.
I'm pressing on no matter what it takes. That's why
Paul taught how the Spirit works consistently, what he does
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for us and what he does in us. I say
that again, the Holy Spirit, what he does for us,
what he does in us. Inside out, we're living that
inside out faith. We're living that inside out power. We're
living that inside out victory. We've been set free and
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the spirit of God lives in us. Is a scripture
that always comes to mind when these thoughts come to me.
I have been crucified with Messiah in him. I have
shared his crucifixions. No longer I live, but Messiah lives
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in me. And the life that I now live in
the body, I live by faith, in adherence to and
reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God
who loved me and gave himself for me Galatians two twenty.
Maybe that's another scripture. Need to put up somewhere, or
memorize it, put it on the screen of your smartphone.
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We are never going to help anyone if we can't
help ourselves. We can't change the world. If we can't
change ourselves, we can't have the world shaking power that
the Book of Acts Church had. If we're always in bondage.
We're always fighting to regain the freedom that we had before.
And that's what the enemy wants us to do. He
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wants to put us on a spiritual merry go round,
or all you do is change horses, But never get
off Colossians two thirteen through fifteen. And you, being dead
in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he
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has made alive together with him, having forgiven all your trespasses,
having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us,
i e. The law which was contrary to us, and
he has taken it out of the way, having nailed
it to the cross, having disarmed principalities and power. He
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made a public spectacle of them, triumphant over them in it, triumphing.
He's triumphant. You'll no longer hold my people in bondage.
You'll no longer leave them to their death and their sins.
I have set them free. So again I ask, how
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does bondage continue in the church? And as I worked
on this yesterday, how was At that point I didn't
really have an answer.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
I didn't really have the way to close out all
of these thoughts.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
And then I saw it. Suddenly, there sure was right
in front of me Two Peter, Chapter two, verses one
through three. But there are also false prophets among the people,
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even as they will be false teachers among you, who
will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord
who brought them, and will bring on themselves swift destruction.
And many will follow their destructive ways because of whom
the way of truth will be blasphemed by covetousness. They
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will exploit you with deceptive words for a long time,
their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does
not slumber. Jumping down to verse eighteen of tewod Peter two,
he's talking about the deception of false teachers, for when
they speak great, swelling words of emptiness, they allure through
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the lust of the flesh, through lewdness. The ones who
have actually escaped from those live in error. While they
promise liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption. For by
whom a person is overcome by him, he's also brought
into bondage. For if after they escape the pollutions of
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the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior
Jesus the Messiah, are again entangled into them and overcome,
the latter end is worse for them than the beginning,
For it would have been better for them to not
have known the way of righteousness than having known it,
to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them but
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as it has happened to them. According to the true proverb,
a dog returns to his own vomit, and a sow,
having washed, to her wallowing in the mire, and then
the light bulb went off. That's what the word should
do for you. The enemy is brilliant what they do
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kind of like they've done in politics. They put people
in positions of power and authority who are corrupt, who
will promulgate or promote what the enemy wants them to.
And they will target new and scripturally ignorant converts, not
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giving them the water of life, but a tainted, a
poisoned water that leads to sin and bondage. These false
teachers will promise liberty from the condemnation of sinful lust,
but they themselves are not free. Over and over I
see people that I know into positions of power and
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popularity because they can tickle the ears. We're not free
from the very things they're trying to set the others
free from. Preachers have become powerful, and the next thing
you know, they've divorced their spouse and raised their mistress
up into position and ministry, whom they then marry. And
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the people don't leave, They don't hold them to account.
Freedom from authority is what they preach, but their slaves
to sin and corruption, casting off restraint while being constrained
by the very enemy they claim to confront. And I
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thought about it, and then I realized. I looked up
that word pollutions from verse twenty, The pollutions of the world.
It's a Greek work miasmata. It's things that infect, pollute,
and defile. It's still used today of the contagion of diseases,
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dangerous diseases, and of decaying bodies, stagnant water, and putrid matter.
The world is here pictured as putrid and full of contagion,
of sin and uncleanness. Wow, what a revelation from Peter.
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He was saying that they're infected, and they infect everyone
they speak to and teach, and they get to follow them.
And we have congregations, we have fellowships full of people
that without realizing, are getting infected. And it doesn't happen
so quickly that they can notice it and run away.
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It's a slow thing. It's like you go to a place.
So you go to a gym and it looks clean,
but maybe it's not as clean as it should be.
And every time there's a new bug going around, you
happen to catch it until eventually the light bulb goes
off in your head as to where you're catching this
flu or cold bug from.
Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
So what do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
You stop going there, You stop putting yourself in a
place to be infected. You stop getting around people that
aren't serious about their hygiene, in this case, spiritual hygiene.
So if I'm going to live in the free flow
of the Messianic Age, I can't do that. I don't
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have to put on a show. I don't have to
rebuke him unless the Lord tells me to. Usually he doesn't.
I just move on and get away from there. I
get safely away from it. So much you if you
are listening to someone, oh, you know, I don't agree
with everything.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
He's just a little off.
Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
That should be enough to make you stop listening, make
you stop following, make you stop supporting. No, no, no,
I'm living in the free flow of the Messianic Age.
I've been redeemed from sin and death. I've been reconciled
to God, my father. I've been given liberty and freedom.
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My bondages and there were many, are broken, and I've
been rescued. Translated from the kingdom of darkness, and I
am free to praise and worship my Abba Father and
Spirit and truth. I'm going to live by what he
said in Luke Foy eighteen, set free, being able to
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see both naturally and spiritually. I was reminded as I
was finishing my notes John eighth, verses thirty two and
thirty six. And you shall know the truth, and the
truth will set you free. So if the Son sets
you free, you are truly free. You're free. Indeed, live
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in that freedom. Join with me and that freedom. Let's
live a life in the messianic age. Let's go set
the captives free. Let's destroy the work of the enemy,
one person at a time, tearing these strongholds down until
the king returns. Father, thank you for saving us, Thank
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you for rescuing us. Thank you for giving us the
cure when we were sick and dying. Thank you Lord
for the blood.
Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
For the Cross.
Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
For you for what you've done and are doing for
us as you intercede for us at the right hand
of the Father. And I ask you, Holy Spirit, for
everyone who has stuck with this message, as uncomfortable as
it may have been, I ask that you begin to
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show them areas where they've been infected and cleanse them.
Cleanse it, set them free. Let it be their testimony
to others who have been deceived or touched by this world,
so that we can do what you've called us to do,
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not just live a life of freedom, but to set
others free, to shine the light in the darkness, show
people the way home. Heal us, Lord, empower us. Let
us shine, shine, shine. I pray all these things, and
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you see his name. Amen, Go stand fast in the
liberty well which Messiah has made you free. Don't get entangled,
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Escalatians five to one.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
Lord make his face to shine upon you, be gracious
to you. May the Lord, I don't know how you
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show Ahamashi, lift up his countenance upon you and give
you peace.
Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Give you shallow. I'm Richard Grund.
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
This has been the porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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