March 21, 2023 • 38 mins
Today, it's the 11th episode on " Pulpit Bitterness". And today we talk about how to identify the season of complaining in your life you may be in and what it looks like. Find out how to identify that voice and how to deal with it. You can find all episodes at www.heartofzion.org or subscribe in any podcast app that you use. https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/zion-s-voice-kingdom-conversations--884396/support
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the Table podcast where we explore the power
of meeting Jesus at the Table with topics that help
transform our relationship with God and each other. Welcome, This
is episode for on our podcast. Well, that just threw
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me off random moments. Anyhow, I'm so glad that we
are here today and we're going to be talking about
Acts twenty eight. The interesting thing is that I had
to go back to my last two videos that I
have done live in these two days to cap sure
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what it was that God was releasing. And as I
began to go through the transcribing or the transcription of
the videos, I realized that God was relaying a message,
and it wasn't just a moment of encouragement, but these
were actual messages that God was releasing in this hour.
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One of the things that we have noticed with our own,
with our own people or people around us, is that
I'm finding that the people of God have more bitterness
than they actually know. They might be thinking they don't,
But your actions, your sarcasm, all those things matter, especially
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in the realm of bitterness, because it can actually these
are all signs. So bitterness does have a stench, but
it also has signs attached to it. And lately we've
been looking at some of the things that God has
been revealing and I'm just like, wow, if the body
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of Christ has not lost the actual love of Christ,
it is very visible. I mean, I think we've taken
this whole well. We got to speak the truth and
bonus to a whole other level and kind of have
like parted the way we're staring away from what truth
and love looks like. It's one thing to address something,
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it's another thing to address it in a worldly matter
and call it holy. And I'm seeing more of that
happening than I'm seeing the image the presence of Christ.
And yes, Jesus is bold as a lion, but there
it was this also nature to him where he wasn't
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offended to say what he had to say or to
stand up in the truth. He just wasn't an offensive
person because all that he did he wanted to do
and remain in love. So if you're on here today,
it'd be a good time to start sharing, and we're
about to get ready to release the word. So when
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Acts twenty eight this morning, when I started to go
through it, the Lord was talking to me about this
place and in this place, Paul is on a ship,
and Paul gets to this island, to this place, this
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land near Italy between Africa and Sicily. And that city
where he landed was called Mada. And so when you
look that up, the word Manda in the Hebrew word
means honey. And when the scripture starts in Acts twenty eight,
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it starts talking about how Paul had arrived safe at
the place called honey. And I just knew that there
was more to this than I was actually seeing. That
there was more to what God was saying in the scripture,
and I began to go deeper into it to find
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more things that were hidden. So if you didn't catch
the morning set, you know I went in to say that.
And Acts twenty eight thirteen it talks about a city
called Regime and that place Regime means to be fractured
or fragile, and in the scripture it says in verse thirteen,
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from there we sailed around and arrived at Regime. We
arrived at this fragile state. We arrived at a place
where we realized there was a fracture. And then it
says a day later, the south wind began to blow
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and when the south wind came up. On the second
day we arrived to Putoli. And so Pattoli has a
significance where it talks about a well, but not just
a well, but a well of like sulfur. And if
you begin to dig in, honey has benefits, Honey has
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benefits to healed, has anzioxidants. Honey has so many things
to it. Then when we look at the regime, we
actually know that people can fall into a place in
life where circumstances and situations may come in and make
them feel fractured or fragile. You know, it's when you're
in a fragile state in life that you actually can say,
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I cannot do this on my own. I need God,
and I need to stop trying to do this on
my own. And that is a fragile state. That is
the state in your life where you know that in
your weakness you cannot do anything. You know that in
that weakness you need the strength of God to help
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you because you do not have the answers. And at
that point you probably realize you've gone so far on
your own that maybe it's a good time. Then by
God in so he gets to this place and he
arrives at a well. This is what the Bible says
it was called. It was called the well so far,
so if you look at the benefits of that, it
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has benefits where it is not just oh it can
be a place of hell. No, it can be a
place of benefits. If someone else had other eyes to see,
they might have said, well, Paul arrive to the place
of hell. But that's not really what happened. Paul arrived
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to a place where there was a well, and what
it needed the acid. Even just thinking about the acid
that can come from the sulfur. You can get acid
for acid from being in bitter waters. So there was
so much symbolism that was going on in this chapter
that I don't think if you don't look for it
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or position yourself to ask God to show you what
it is he's trying to relay, you probably wouldn't even
put these things together. Because you need the eyes of
the spirit. You need to see it through God's lens.
So he goes on and guess this second wind. Can
I tell you this? This is what I promised that
I would do. I promised that I would tell you
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what the south wind means. Okay, when this morning, I
released the word and I said, God is asking you
to ask him for a second wind. And in this
particular text, it talks about a particular direction of wind.
When I began to dig in to some researching, I
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found that there was a particular minister that is actually
teaching about the four winds of God and how the
four winds of God was given to us so that
we can utilize it to our benefit. And he showed
in scripture how Jesus carried the winds with him. So
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the south wind is there is the direction that carries
out the fragrance that brings forth an opportunity. I stated
this morning, I said, listen, this south wind, this moment
is a moment of opportunity. God is presenting. Paul showed
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up to a place called Honey in a fratial fragile state.
People were in a fratal fragile state. Do you hear
what I'm saying? Paul showed up to a place called
Honey and these people were in a fratual, fragile state.
How do I know that this was about the people? Well,
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if you go down to verse twenty seven, it starts
to talk about the prophecy of Isaiah, one that was
released in nine Isaiah nine, verse six, and it says
that you will keep on hearing, but you will not understand.
You will keep on seeing, but you will not perceive.
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For the heart the understanding, the soul of the people
has become dull, It has become calloused. And with their
ears they scarcely they kind of hear, and they have
a shut to their eyes to the truth. Otherwise they
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might see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart and return to me, and
I will heal them. See. When I started this message
this podcast, I said that I'm starting to see more
and more believers carrying a real deep well of bitterness,
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one that they're justifying by saying, well, it's the boldness
of coming before you and all this. It's not God,
It's not God. When we come in truth, it comes
with healing, It comes with reconciliation, It comes to bind
the wound, It comes to bring a light to your
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dark ignorance. It comes with the resolution. The truth of
God comes with a resolution. It does not come to
divide what you think you were called to divide. If
we are called to deliverance, if we are called to
inner healing. That is our position when we show up.
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It is what happens, and it happens through truth. It
happens through the rain and the realm of truth that
these things come forth. And if there's truth, there is love.
And there is such a teinting to God's love in
this culture that we think that hurting people intentionally is
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God's love. That's not how it works. So here when
God is talking in scripture and he's being specific about
the south wind, the south wind is caused to bring
an attraction to your garden. It is caused to bring
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to carry forth your fragrance and bring forth an opportunity
for the gospel. It is called to bring forth arrest
in you. So the south wind, when it begins to blow,
it begins to send out an advertisement two before you,
before before you can arrive, You've been advertised. Okay. When
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I say that, I'm saying God has announced that there
is a coming. And when you show up, when you
do or position yourself where God wants you to be,
there's already a fragrance before you that opens the door
to opportunity. Paularize to these people, and he starts to
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tell them I came I entered into the corridors of this.
But in verse seventeen said, three days later he called
together the leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered,
he said to them, Kings mean, though I have done
nothing against our people or against the customs of our fathers,
yet I was turned over as a prisoner from Jerusalem
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into the hands of the Romans. You know when he
said this to them, First of all, they didn't know
what he was talking about because they didn't hear what happened.
So they were blinded by his approach of his petition.
They had no idea that Paul was thrown into prison.
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They didn't get a wind of it. Okay, So that's
number one. He shows up and they have no idea
what had happened, which gave Paul a clean slate to
tell them. Here's my side of the story, favor. Second
nature of this was that he specifically used the word kingsmen.
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Last night in our ministry school, we were teaching about
the Kingsmen. We were talking about the Redeemer. Well, there
was specifics about a kingsman in redemption. The kingsmen had
to be obviously a man from your clan, from your
tribe a person that can help you redeem the thing
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that was stolen from you, the thing that was taken
from you, or the thing you owe adept to the
only one that can help you is a kingsman who
had the ability to help you recuperate what you have lost,
what you have stolen. It was only the ability to
be redeemed. Paul presents his petition before these people by saying, Hey,
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I am a part of your line, and I am
addressing this because I am making a way. I understand
that being having a kingsman being a part of that
can bring some redemption to what my petition, what I'm
petitioning for. And so Paul goes on to say, here
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I am, we're from the same and here's what I'm
stating needs to happen. Well, they go on to say,
we're not sure what exactly you're talking about, but we're
going to invite you to come and talk to us
about this Messiah. And Paul began. And in that invitation,
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Paul came before a fragile, fractured people whose hearts, oh
soul was too dull to receive or perceive what was happening.
What was the request of God. It's interesting that he
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uses Isaiah's prophecy to reveal to them a lineage of
their forefathers to bring in understanding and so they can
kind of connect to something, because they were already struggling
to connect with God. So if I present to them
the Holy Spirit, there's gonna be a rejection, a denial
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of it, because these people already are fractured in their soul.
So Paul is talking to a fractured people. He is
talking to a fragmented people that have dulled their hearing
because they have lost sight of God. You know, I
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found in this one commentary it says that verse twenty
six shows that there was trouble in the heart, that
they permitted their hearts to grow wax, their ears became
dull of hearing, and their eyes were too blind to
see the truth. It was noted that their hearts and
their ears and their eyes were their responsibility, not God.
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No man is forced to do this by God. If
he does it, it is it is man submitting to
Satan and not to God. Second Career Dance, chapter four
to four says that my conscience is clear, but that
does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who
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judges me. You know. The connection with this scripture and
what he's saying is he's saying, though I might feel
like my conscious is clean, that doesn't make me innocent.
That doesn't stay to me that I am clean unless
the Lord says I'm clean, unless the Lord is the
one who judges and justifies me. So he's saying, I
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can't go off and say that I am not that
I'm perfect, and that I'm sinless and that my conscience
is clean. I only know that when God reveals it
to me. Okay. So here we say, see that these
core people have now dull hearing and blind to the truth.
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So that means that no matter what you say to
these people, they are not able to receive truth because
they honestly believe that their conscious is clear, despite of
all the signs or symptoms that are connected to what
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they are saying or how they are presenting Christ. We
had a moment. I think it was like last week
someone had shared something and this woman's on the pulpit
and she's going on talking about issue in her husband
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with her husband in a soul called prophet, and how
I guess I'm assuming and what the conversation sounds like
that that she was trying to get with her husband.
You're on the pulpit. This wasn't a counting session. And
if that wasn't enough, she said, I'm anointed, but I'm
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anointed from the Bronx or Brooklyn and that that does it.
That just means I'm annointed. That doesn't mean I wouldn't
whoop your butt. And if that wasn't enough, she states that,
you know, ends it with I will whoop your aid
and so you know, we're on the pulpit. We're we're
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with the pulpit. Is you know what I like when
Paula Price says is it's the desk of God. You
are the representer of his desk. You were sitting at
his desk and you are representing the kingdom. Do you
think the kingdom looks foul and stench like that? Absolutely incorrect.
What that looks like to me is like you need
to go see a counselor. It looks like you need
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to take your business to a counselor and let the
counsel work your issues out in your marriage, because apparently
you have to worry about a female and your husband,
then you already have a problem Now, this is what
I'm saying. This. The truth of the matter is this,
if there is a situation like that, we don't we
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shouldn't let that be the presenting of the kingdom and
call it. Oh, God's doing some things. No he's not.
He's not doing that. He's doing those things behind closed
doors so that you can address your situation at those doors.
But when it comes to his pulpit, it's about him.
It's about glorifying him. You know. The one reason why
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we're here and people are now dull of hearing is
because we're not hearing the word enough. We're not hearing
enough of the word of God. We're not hearing people
teach the word of God. And when you don't have teachers,
you don't have a cleansing stream. So this, this thing
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that's happening is it's been happening for a while enough
enough to get people not to be able to hear God,
enough to get people to have their soul not able
to understand what God is saying. It's enough to have
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people fractured in a state and still be leading. Because
these were leaders that Paul came and addressed. They were
in leadership. So these aren't people that are not leading
or sitting down on the table somewhere. They're in actual
places and high places with influences, and they have these
issues and this is the influence that they're delivering to
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the people. So now we see that God and what
he's been saying is like we went from, don't despise
the seed, and the seed is the word of God.
It says it in Matthews that the seed is God's word.
You know, don't despise the seed because it is mighty.
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It's mighty to deliver, it's mighty to heal, it's a
mighty to cast down, it's mighty to loosen, it's mighty
to bind. It is mighty. The word of God is mighty.
And we should not despise what we know of what
we have. And when God gives us those seeds, it
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is our job to call forth the rain on it.
And that, my dear friend, is coming from a different direction.
So if I'm gonna call forth the south, when I
need the south wind to blow on his seed and
begin to send out a fragrance, so when I arrive,
I have the ability the wisdom to connect the dots
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of the situation. The people that I'm standing before because
I'm not here to satisfy you with your I'm not
here to satisfy your soul with you. We are here
to satisfy your soul with him. So let's go a
little further. I want to reap into this setting of Isaiah.
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In verse twenty six, it says that the Jews in
Rome knew that Paul had quoted Isaiah six, verse nine
and ten, and that they were familiar with the historical
background of it. They understood that God told.
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Isaiah to go to the Israelites, who's whose hearts are
hardened because of unbelief and disobedience.
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You know, one of the things that we're seeing is
not a powerful move of people casting down or you
know whatever we think there that it's happening in these
pulpits with cussin and all this other stuff. What I'm saying, honey,
is your streams of bitterness are flowing through the pulpit
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and what needs to happen. And let me tell you something.
There is a connection with bitterness and unbelief. All of
them run together. Bitterness, unbelief, disobedience, all of that runs together.
So here he's saying that Isaiah will send to the
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Israelites whose hearts were heartened from disbelief and disobedience, and
they knew that the divine words spoken by Isaiah only
drove the people of Israel further away from salvation. God
told Isaiah to go to Israel and inform the people
that they were always hearing but failing to understand, and
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always seeing but never perceiving. This was hardly a compliment.
In fact, it was a stern rebuke. So God was
rebuking them. I just want to make sure that we
got the end of that. It was a stern rebuke
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that ultimately terminated in judgment on Israel and resulted in
the destruction of the cities, the devastation of the fields,
and the exile of the people. Can we look at
this right now? Can we talk about what's happening right
now in the United States where we thought would never happen.
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You know, the breadline, the food line where people actually
need to stand in line so they can get food.
Did you ever think that would happen? Because the last
time that ever happened was in the Great Depression. And
here we are a wealthy nation that is wealthy. The
depth that was created was created by men, but it
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is a wealthy state. And I'm looking at how the
judgment fell on Israel from their actions, of their hardheartedness,
refusing to perceive, refusing to understand. It resulted in destructions
and cities, devastations of the fields and exile of the people,
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isolations of the people, fields not being able to produce,
cities going under destruction. Let's not forget that last year
we had riots up and down that this joy still
not restored. Today those cities are still in destruction. There's
cities now that I wonder what in the world is
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their mayor doing that they have a devastation of not
only drugs, but the abandonment of the churches, the abandonment
of houses, the abandonment of the city to move somewhere
else because you're refusing to or maybe don't have the
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solution for your destructive city. This is all coming into alignment.
This is all coming into the alignment and God's revealing
what is the problem. And you're probably thinking, yeah, that
sounds yeah. I think that what we need to do
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is we need to really regulate and check ourselves, make
sure that we're not the ones put the finger on
your own soul, Ask yourself, do I understand what God
is asking? Or do I understand what my relationship with
God looks like? Do I understand what God's really what
God is desiring of our relationship? Do our understand that
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second of all cannot perceive the truth? Am I able
to perceive His truth? We have to start asking ourselves
because if we are a product of the problem, then
we cannot produce a solution. We will not have an
opportunity to produce a solution. Because the opportunity of this
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hour is for those who God has put a finger
on and said, you have what it takes to go
to these places like Isaiah and break the heartened hearts
because I've anointed you a real anointing, one that will bind, loose, heal.
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So Isaiah's task would be disheartening. The Lord promised that
out of the stump, God will raise up his Holy seed.
My God, we are in this place. God is looking
for his Holy seed. You know, everybody knows that right
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now there's a time of holiness being shouted out. Wisdom
is shouting so loud, but not everybody's walking in holiness,
even though they say they are. Your holiness is not
something you can. You can pretend to walk in holiness
cannot pretend. Holiness is from the inside and it comes
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out flowing. So that's holiness has a standard. Holiness has righteousness.
Holiness has a garment. And if your garment does not
match the garments of heaven and it looks like the world,
I have to question your holiness. And I'm not talking
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about your exterior where I'm talking about your character. I'm
talking about your speech, because what comes out of your
heart will flow through your mouth. So Isaiah, the prophet
God is saying to Israel that the people have permitted
their hearts to become callous, and have let their hearing
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become impaired, and have allowed their eyesight to become dim.
They purposely have cut themselves off. Listen to what you're saying.
They purposely cut themselves off from the possibility of repentance.
If this were not so, they would turn to God
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and He will restore them. By quoting the passage of Isaiah,
Paul tells his listener that in terms of spirituality, they
are similar to Isaiah prophecy. So you know there's a
holy seed and I and I and I know now
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that what God was relating was that there is a
holy seed that you must not despise. You must not
despise that seed that God has placed in you, This
seed that causes cities to change us, you know, seeds
that cause people to change, Seeds that can that can
make the lands become ripe again. And there is a
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of holiness that God has given and put people in
this hour that need to not despise it. Because you
don't look like the others, because you don't talk like
the others, because you don't act like the others, because
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you can't laugh at the things that the others laugh at,
because you are a part for a time as this
when there will be a darkness up rivalry. Right now
is the time that we need a pure light that
can cast away the dimness of the lights in the
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eyes of the people, that can cast away the dimness
off of their face, that can actually take away that
dulness that is sitting in their face and put back
the light right where it belongs in the soul, and
so that they have the ability to perceive again, that
they would have the ability to understand what God is saying,
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so that they can grasp and grab a hold of
God again. We are in a time right now that
there are going to be what we have been calling for,
a remnant. But I'm not talking about the remnants you've
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been seeing here and there. I'm talking about a holy remnant.
I'm talking about a remnant whose message message cannot be altered,
and they refuse to have it altered, or they refuse
to idolatrize it. They refused to make it an adulter like.
They refused all these things because they knew that what
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God had called them to. They just knew that it
was God and it wasn't man. And though Man might
come and say, you might need to loosen up, you
might need to stop being so religious, you might listen.
What I am carrying might not be for you. I
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might not be for you, But for what I am carrying,
it is for a people, a dishearted people. Is what
Isaiah was sent to do, a dishearted people. That's hard work.
It's easier to compromise than to have to break down
those grounds and then to have to bring forth healing,
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to have to bring forth deliverance. But it is a
graceful work that God has given to a holy remnant.
I hope and pray that if you have been called
to this to if you were carrying a seed of holiness,
if you are carrying a seed of holiness and you
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have found yourself despising it because you wanted to be,
or you felt like you should be, or you felt
the tints of compromise to be like that other seed.
I hope that you find yourself in a place to
repent and turn back to what you know you were
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called to. You know, often people have turned away from
God because they were a holy seed and there was
no one to understand what they carried, no one to
perceive to help them. No no one had ears when
they were speaking, no one understood what they were speaking,
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and they had no choice but to turn away from
the church and go back to fishing because there was
no one who could understand what they were carrying. But
this time, there is a group of people and God
is going to bring them together, and they're going to
be knitted, and they were going to be diverse, and
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there's going to be love understanding and definitely a precise
precision in their eyes. And we are called to join
together in that movement so that the cleansing of our
nation can begin. For that the cleansing of the House
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of God can begin. And again I'm gonna say you
might you are not always going to be called to everyone.
Though you deliver the message to everyone, that does not
mean it is for us to make sure we stick
around that they receive it. They are to drop the seed.
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We are to drop the seed and ask the wind
of God to blow on it. We would ask the
wind of the north wind to blow on it. What
is the north wind of God? It is the wind
that is necessary to bring forth growth. It is the
wind that is necessary that brings forth rain. Every seed
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that proceeds out of the mouth is going to be
seated by God. And so the north north wind comes
to bring rain. But it also comes to deal with
the backbiting tongue. That's right. I said that because as
in Scripture Proverbs twenty five twenty three, you can go
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there and look at it. It says it deals with
the back binding tongue. What is a backbitding tongue. It's
a tongue of bitterness. So I hope that you are
encouraged to refreshing your relationship with the Lord and find
out if there's anything in you that you have fallen
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short and began to despise. When I say fallen short
is maybe you didn't have anybody to talk to. Maybe
you were the one that was carrying a message and
everybody was so compromised, and in order for you to
fit in and fellowship, you had to compromise, and somehow
you just fell short of that. Well, I am calling
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forth a north wind on you, that the wind of
God will come and rain on your garden, and that
everything that was dead will come to life once again.
And for those who did not compromise and remained faithful
to God, let the soft wind blow. That everything you
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have endured for the price of Christ, to pay the price,
for Christ to pay the price, for the call, to
pay the price for a pure message, that there will
be your fragrance will go out in the wind, and
that it would open up extraordinary opportunities. And when you arrive,
that you do not miss your land of honey. So
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I hope and pray that everyone who listens on the
podcast will receive this sea today and allow God to
water it. I hope that you will be blessed until
the next episode next week. We will see each other again.
Welcome to the Table podcast where we explore the power
of meeting Jesus at the Table with topics that help
transform our relationship with God and each other. Welcome, This
is episode for on our podcast. Well, that just threw
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me off random moments. Anyhow, I'm so glad that we
are here today and we're going to be talking about
Acts twenty eight. The interesting thing is that I had
to go back to my last two videos that I
have done live in these two days to cap sure
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what it was that God was releasing. And as I
began to go through the transcribing or the transcription of
the videos, I realized that God was relaying a message,
and it wasn't just a moment of encouragement, but these
were actual messages that God was releasing in this hour.
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One of the things that we have noticed with our own,
with our own people or people around us, is that
I'm finding that the people of God have more bitterness
than they actually know. They might be thinking they don't,
But your actions, your sarcasm, all those things matter, especially
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in the realm of bitterness, because it can actually these
are all signs. So bitterness does have a stench, but
it also has signs attached to it. And lately we've
been looking at some of the things that God has
been revealing and I'm just like, wow, if the body
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of Christ has not lost the actual love of Christ,
it is very visible. I mean, I think we've taken
this whole well. We got to speak the truth and
bonus to a whole other level and kind of have
like parted the way we're staring away from what truth
and love looks like. It's one thing to address something,
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it's another thing to address it in a worldly matter
and call it holy. And I'm seeing more of that
happening than I'm seeing the image the presence of Christ.
And yes, Jesus is bold as a lion, but there
it was this also nature to him where he wasn't
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offended to say what he had to say or to
stand up in the truth. He just wasn't an offensive
person because all that he did he wanted to do
and remain in love. So if you're on here today,
it'd be a good time to start sharing, and we're
about to get ready to release the word. So when
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Acts twenty eight this morning, when I started to go
through it, the Lord was talking to me about this
place and in this place, Paul is on a ship,
and Paul gets to this island, to this place, this
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land near Italy between Africa and Sicily. And that city
where he landed was called Mada. And so when you
look that up, the word Manda in the Hebrew word
means honey. And when the scripture starts in Acts twenty eight,
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it starts talking about how Paul had arrived safe at
the place called honey. And I just knew that there
was more to this than I was actually seeing. That
there was more to what God was saying in the scripture,
and I began to go deeper into it to find
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more things that were hidden. So if you didn't catch
the morning set, you know I went in to say that.
And Acts twenty eight thirteen it talks about a city
called Regime and that place Regime means to be fractured
or fragile, and in the scripture it says in verse thirteen,
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from there we sailed around and arrived at Regime. We
arrived at this fragile state. We arrived at a place
where we realized there was a fracture. And then it
says a day later, the south wind began to blow
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and when the south wind came up. On the second
day we arrived to Putoli. And so Pattoli has a
significance where it talks about a well, but not just
a well, but a well of like sulfur. And if
you begin to dig in, honey has benefits, Honey has
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benefits to healed, has anzioxidants. Honey has so many things
to it. Then when we look at the regime, we
actually know that people can fall into a place in
life where circumstances and situations may come in and make
them feel fractured or fragile. You know, it's when you're
in a fragile state in life that you actually can say,
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I cannot do this on my own. I need God,
and I need to stop trying to do this on
my own. And that is a fragile state. That is
the state in your life where you know that in
your weakness you cannot do anything. You know that in
that weakness you need the strength of God to help
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you because you do not have the answers. And at
that point you probably realize you've gone so far on
your own that maybe it's a good time. Then by
God in so he gets to this place and he
arrives at a well. This is what the Bible says
it was called. It was called the well so far,
so if you look at the benefits of that, it
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has benefits where it is not just oh it can
be a place of hell. No, it can be a
place of benefits. If someone else had other eyes to see,
they might have said, well, Paul arrive to the place
of hell. But that's not really what happened. Paul arrived
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to a place where there was a well, and what
it needed the acid. Even just thinking about the acid
that can come from the sulfur. You can get acid
for acid from being in bitter waters. So there was
so much symbolism that was going on in this chapter
that I don't think if you don't look for it
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or position yourself to ask God to show you what
it is he's trying to relay, you probably wouldn't even
put these things together. Because you need the eyes of
the spirit. You need to see it through God's lens.
So he goes on and guess this second wind. Can
I tell you this? This is what I promised that
I would do. I promised that I would tell you
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what the south wind means. Okay, when this morning, I
released the word and I said, God is asking you
to ask him for a second wind. And in this
particular text, it talks about a particular direction of wind.
When I began to dig in to some researching, I
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found that there was a particular minister that is actually
teaching about the four winds of God and how the
four winds of God was given to us so that
we can utilize it to our benefit. And he showed
in scripture how Jesus carried the winds with him. So
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the south wind is there is the direction that carries
out the fragrance that brings forth an opportunity. I stated
this morning, I said, listen, this south wind, this moment
is a moment of opportunity. God is presenting. Paul showed
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up to a place called Honey in a fratial fragile state.
People were in a fratal fragile state. Do you hear
what I'm saying? Paul showed up to a place called
Honey and these people were in a fratual, fragile state.
How do I know that this was about the people? Well,
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if you go down to verse twenty seven, it starts
to talk about the prophecy of Isaiah, one that was
released in nine Isaiah nine, verse six, and it says
that you will keep on hearing, but you will not understand.
You will keep on seeing, but you will not perceive.
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For the heart the understanding, the soul of the people
has become dull, It has become calloused. And with their
ears they scarcely they kind of hear, and they have
a shut to their eyes to the truth. Otherwise they
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might see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart and return to me, and
I will heal them. See. When I started this message
this podcast, I said that I'm starting to see more
and more believers carrying a real deep well of bitterness,
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one that they're justifying by saying, well, it's the boldness
of coming before you and all this. It's not God,
It's not God. When we come in truth, it comes
with healing, It comes with reconciliation, It comes to bind
the wound, It comes to bring a light to your
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dark ignorance. It comes with the resolution. The truth of
God comes with a resolution. It does not come to
divide what you think you were called to divide. If
we are called to deliverance, if we are called to
inner healing. That is our position when we show up.
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It is what happens, and it happens through truth. It
happens through the rain and the realm of truth that
these things come forth. And if there's truth, there is love.
And there is such a teinting to God's love in
this culture that we think that hurting people intentionally is
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God's love. That's not how it works. So here when
God is talking in scripture and he's being specific about
the south wind, the south wind is caused to bring
an attraction to your garden. It is caused to bring
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to carry forth your fragrance and bring forth an opportunity
for the gospel. It is called to bring forth arrest
in you. So the south wind, when it begins to blow,
it begins to send out an advertisement two before you,
before before you can arrive, You've been advertised. Okay. When
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I say that, I'm saying God has announced that there
is a coming. And when you show up, when you
do or position yourself where God wants you to be,
there's already a fragrance before you that opens the door
to opportunity. Paularize to these people, and he starts to
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tell them I came I entered into the corridors of this.
But in verse seventeen said, three days later he called
together the leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered,
he said to them, Kings mean, though I have done
nothing against our people or against the customs of our fathers,
yet I was turned over as a prisoner from Jerusalem
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into the hands of the Romans. You know when he
said this to them, First of all, they didn't know
what he was talking about because they didn't hear what happened.
So they were blinded by his approach of his petition.
They had no idea that Paul was thrown into prison.
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They didn't get a wind of it. Okay, So that's
number one. He shows up and they have no idea
what had happened, which gave Paul a clean slate to
tell them. Here's my side of the story, favor. Second
nature of this was that he specifically used the word kingsmen.
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Last night in our ministry school, we were teaching about
the Kingsmen. We were talking about the Redeemer. Well, there
was specifics about a kingsman in redemption. The kingsmen had
to be obviously a man from your clan, from your
tribe a person that can help you redeem the thing
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that was stolen from you, the thing that was taken
from you, or the thing you owe adept to the
only one that can help you is a kingsman who
had the ability to help you recuperate what you have lost,
what you have stolen. It was only the ability to
be redeemed. Paul presents his petition before these people by saying, Hey,
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I am a part of your line, and I am
addressing this because I am making a way. I understand
that being having a kingsman being a part of that
can bring some redemption to what my petition, what I'm
petitioning for. And so Paul goes on to say, here
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I am, we're from the same and here's what I'm
stating needs to happen. Well, they go on to say,
we're not sure what exactly you're talking about, but we're
going to invite you to come and talk to us
about this Messiah. And Paul began. And in that invitation,
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Paul came before a fragile, fractured people whose hearts, oh
soul was too dull to receive or perceive what was happening.
What was the request of God. It's interesting that he
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uses Isaiah's prophecy to reveal to them a lineage of
their forefathers to bring in understanding and so they can
kind of connect to something, because they were already struggling
to connect with God. So if I present to them
the Holy Spirit, there's gonna be a rejection, a denial
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of it, because these people already are fractured in their soul.
So Paul is talking to a fractured people. He is
talking to a fragmented people that have dulled their hearing
because they have lost sight of God. You know, I
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found in this one commentary it says that verse twenty
six shows that there was trouble in the heart, that
they permitted their hearts to grow wax, their ears became
dull of hearing, and their eyes were too blind to
see the truth. It was noted that their hearts and
their ears and their eyes were their responsibility, not God.
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No man is forced to do this by God. If
he does it, it is it is man submitting to
Satan and not to God. Second Career Dance, chapter four
to four says that my conscience is clear, but that
does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who
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judges me. You know. The connection with this scripture and
what he's saying is he's saying, though I might feel
like my conscious is clean, that doesn't make me innocent.
That doesn't stay to me that I am clean unless
the Lord says I'm clean, unless the Lord is the
one who judges and justifies me. So he's saying, I
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can't go off and say that I am not that
I'm perfect, and that I'm sinless and that my conscience
is clean. I only know that when God reveals it
to me. Okay. So here we say, see that these
core people have now dull hearing and blind to the truth.
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So that means that no matter what you say to
these people, they are not able to receive truth because
they honestly believe that their conscious is clear, despite of
all the signs or symptoms that are connected to what
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they are saying or how they are presenting Christ. We
had a moment. I think it was like last week
someone had shared something and this woman's on the pulpit
and she's going on talking about issue in her husband
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with her husband in a soul called prophet, and how
I guess I'm assuming and what the conversation sounds like
that that she was trying to get with her husband.
You're on the pulpit. This wasn't a counting session. And
if that wasn't enough, she said, I'm anointed, but I'm
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anointed from the Bronx or Brooklyn and that that does it.
That just means I'm annointed. That doesn't mean I wouldn't
whoop your butt. And if that wasn't enough, she states that,
you know, ends it with I will whoop your aid
and so you know, we're on the pulpit. We're we're
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with the pulpit. Is you know what I like when
Paula Price says is it's the desk of God. You
are the representer of his desk. You were sitting at
his desk and you are representing the kingdom. Do you
think the kingdom looks foul and stench like that? Absolutely incorrect.
What that looks like to me is like you need
to go see a counselor. It looks like you need
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to take your business to a counselor and let the
counsel work your issues out in your marriage, because apparently
you have to worry about a female and your husband,
then you already have a problem Now, this is what
I'm saying. This. The truth of the matter is this,
if there is a situation like that, we don't we
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shouldn't let that be the presenting of the kingdom and
call it. Oh, God's doing some things. No he's not.
He's not doing that. He's doing those things behind closed
doors so that you can address your situation at those doors.
But when it comes to his pulpit, it's about him.
It's about glorifying him. You know. The one reason why
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we're here and people are now dull of hearing is
because we're not hearing the word enough. We're not hearing
enough of the word of God. We're not hearing people
teach the word of God. And when you don't have teachers,
you don't have a cleansing stream. So this, this thing
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that's happening is it's been happening for a while enough
enough to get people not to be able to hear God,
enough to get people to have their soul not able
to understand what God is saying. It's enough to have
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people fractured in a state and still be leading. Because
these were leaders that Paul came and addressed. They were
in leadership. So these aren't people that are not leading
or sitting down on the table somewhere. They're in actual
places and high places with influences, and they have these
issues and this is the influence that they're delivering to
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the people. So now we see that God and what
he's been saying is like we went from, don't despise
the seed, and the seed is the word of God.
It says it in Matthews that the seed is God's word.
You know, don't despise the seed because it is mighty.
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It's mighty to deliver, it's mighty to heal, it's a
mighty to cast down, it's mighty to loosen, it's mighty
to bind. It is mighty. The word of God is mighty.
And we should not despise what we know of what
we have. And when God gives us those seeds, it
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is our job to call forth the rain on it.
And that, my dear friend, is coming from a different direction.
So if I'm gonna call forth the south, when I
need the south wind to blow on his seed and
begin to send out a fragrance, so when I arrive,
I have the ability the wisdom to connect the dots
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of the situation. The people that I'm standing before because
I'm not here to satisfy you with your I'm not
here to satisfy your soul with you. We are here
to satisfy your soul with him. So let's go a
little further. I want to reap into this setting of Isaiah.
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In verse twenty six, it says that the Jews in
Rome knew that Paul had quoted Isaiah six, verse nine
and ten, and that they were familiar with the historical
background of it. They understood that God told.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Isaiah to go to the Israelites, who's whose hearts are
hardened because of unbelief and disobedience.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You know, one of the things that we're seeing is
not a powerful move of people casting down or you
know whatever we think there that it's happening in these
pulpits with cussin and all this other stuff. What I'm saying, honey,
is your streams of bitterness are flowing through the pulpit
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and what needs to happen. And let me tell you something.
There is a connection with bitterness and unbelief. All of
them run together. Bitterness, unbelief, disobedience, all of that runs together.
So here he's saying that Isaiah will send to the
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Israelites whose hearts were heartened from disbelief and disobedience, and
they knew that the divine words spoken by Isaiah only
drove the people of Israel further away from salvation. God
told Isaiah to go to Israel and inform the people
that they were always hearing but failing to understand, and
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always seeing but never perceiving. This was hardly a compliment.
In fact, it was a stern rebuke. So God was
rebuking them. I just want to make sure that we
got the end of that. It was a stern rebuke
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that ultimately terminated in judgment on Israel and resulted in
the destruction of the cities, the devastation of the fields,
and the exile of the people. Can we look at
this right now? Can we talk about what's happening right
now in the United States where we thought would never happen.
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You know, the breadline, the food line where people actually
need to stand in line so they can get food.
Did you ever think that would happen? Because the last
time that ever happened was in the Great Depression. And
here we are a wealthy nation that is wealthy. The
depth that was created was created by men, but it
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is a wealthy state. And I'm looking at how the
judgment fell on Israel from their actions, of their hardheartedness,
refusing to perceive, refusing to understand. It resulted in destructions
and cities, devastations of the fields and exile of the people,
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isolations of the people, fields not being able to produce,
cities going under destruction. Let's not forget that last year
we had riots up and down that this joy still
not restored. Today those cities are still in destruction. There's
cities now that I wonder what in the world is
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their mayor doing that they have a devastation of not
only drugs, but the abandonment of the churches, the abandonment
of houses, the abandonment of the city to move somewhere
else because you're refusing to or maybe don't have the
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solution for your destructive city. This is all coming into alignment.
This is all coming into the alignment and God's revealing
what is the problem. And you're probably thinking, yeah, that
sounds yeah. I think that what we need to do
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is we need to really regulate and check ourselves, make
sure that we're not the ones put the finger on
your own soul, Ask yourself, do I understand what God
is asking? Or do I understand what my relationship with
God looks like? Do I understand what God's really what
God is desiring of our relationship? Do our understand that
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second of all cannot perceive the truth? Am I able
to perceive His truth? We have to start asking ourselves
because if we are a product of the problem, then
we cannot produce a solution. We will not have an
opportunity to produce a solution. Because the opportunity of this
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hour is for those who God has put a finger
on and said, you have what it takes to go
to these places like Isaiah and break the heartened hearts
because I've anointed you a real anointing, one that will bind, loose, heal.
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So Isaiah's task would be disheartening. The Lord promised that
out of the stump, God will raise up his Holy seed.
My God, we are in this place. God is looking
for his Holy seed. You know, everybody knows that right
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now there's a time of holiness being shouted out. Wisdom
is shouting so loud, but not everybody's walking in holiness,
even though they say they are. Your holiness is not
something you can. You can pretend to walk in holiness
cannot pretend. Holiness is from the inside and it comes
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out flowing. So that's holiness has a standard. Holiness has righteousness.
Holiness has a garment. And if your garment does not
match the garments of heaven and it looks like the world,
I have to question your holiness. And I'm not talking
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about your exterior where I'm talking about your character. I'm
talking about your speech, because what comes out of your
heart will flow through your mouth. So Isaiah, the prophet
God is saying to Israel that the people have permitted
their hearts to become callous, and have let their hearing
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become impaired, and have allowed their eyesight to become dim.
They purposely have cut themselves off. Listen to what you're saying.
They purposely cut themselves off from the possibility of repentance.
If this were not so, they would turn to God
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and He will restore them. By quoting the passage of Isaiah,
Paul tells his listener that in terms of spirituality, they
are similar to Isaiah prophecy. So you know there's a
holy seed and I and I and I know now
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that what God was relating was that there is a
holy seed that you must not despise. You must not
despise that seed that God has placed in you, This
seed that causes cities to change us, you know, seeds
that cause people to change, Seeds that can that can
make the lands become ripe again. And there is a
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of holiness that God has given and put people in
this hour that need to not despise it. Because you
don't look like the others, because you don't talk like
the others, because you don't act like the others, because
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you can't laugh at the things that the others laugh at,
because you are a part for a time as this
when there will be a darkness up rivalry. Right now
is the time that we need a pure light that
can cast away the dimness of the lights in the
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eyes of the people, that can cast away the dimness
off of their face, that can actually take away that
dulness that is sitting in their face and put back
the light right where it belongs in the soul, and
so that they have the ability to perceive again, that
they would have the ability to understand what God is saying,
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so that they can grasp and grab a hold of
God again. We are in a time right now that
there are going to be what we have been calling for,
a remnant. But I'm not talking about the remnants you've
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been seeing here and there. I'm talking about a holy remnant.
I'm talking about a remnant whose message message cannot be altered,
and they refuse to have it altered, or they refuse
to idolatrize it. They refused to make it an adulter like.
They refused all these things because they knew that what
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God had called them to. They just knew that it
was God and it wasn't man. And though Man might
come and say, you might need to loosen up, you
might need to stop being so religious, you might listen.
What I am carrying might not be for you. I
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might not be for you, But for what I am carrying,
it is for a people, a dishearted people. Is what
Isaiah was sent to do, a dishearted people. That's hard work.
It's easier to compromise than to have to break down
those grounds and then to have to bring forth healing,
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to have to bring forth deliverance. But it is a
graceful work that God has given to a holy remnant.
I hope and pray that if you have been called
to this to if you were carrying a seed of holiness,
if you are carrying a seed of holiness and you
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have found yourself despising it because you wanted to be,
or you felt like you should be, or you felt
the tints of compromise to be like that other seed.
I hope that you find yourself in a place to
repent and turn back to what you know you were
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called to. You know, often people have turned away from
God because they were a holy seed and there was
no one to understand what they carried, no one to
perceive to help them. No no one had ears when
they were speaking, no one understood what they were speaking,
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and they had no choice but to turn away from
the church and go back to fishing because there was
no one who could understand what they were carrying. But
this time, there is a group of people and God
is going to bring them together, and they're going to
be knitted, and they were going to be diverse, and
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there's going to be love understanding and definitely a precise
precision in their eyes. And we are called to join
together in that movement so that the cleansing of our
nation can begin. For that the cleansing of the House
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of God can begin. And again I'm gonna say you
might you are not always going to be called to everyone.
Though you deliver the message to everyone, that does not
mean it is for us to make sure we stick
around that they receive it. They are to drop the seed.
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We are to drop the seed and ask the wind
of God to blow on it. We would ask the
wind of the north wind to blow on it. What
is the north wind of God? It is the wind
that is necessary to bring forth growth. It is the
wind that is necessary that brings forth rain. Every seed
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that proceeds out of the mouth is going to be
seated by God. And so the north north wind comes
to bring rain. But it also comes to deal with
the backbiting tongue. That's right. I said that because as
in Scripture Proverbs twenty five twenty three, you can go
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there and look at it. It says it deals with
the back binding tongue. What is a backbitding tongue. It's
a tongue of bitterness. So I hope that you are
encouraged to refreshing your relationship with the Lord and find
out if there's anything in you that you have fallen
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short and began to despise. When I say fallen short
is maybe you didn't have anybody to talk to. Maybe
you were the one that was carrying a message and
everybody was so compromised, and in order for you to
fit in and fellowship, you had to compromise, and somehow
you just fell short of that. Well, I am calling
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forth a north wind on you, that the wind of
God will come and rain on your garden, and that
everything that was dead will come to life once again.
And for those who did not compromise and remained faithful
to God, let the soft wind blow. That everything you
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have endured for the price of Christ, to pay the price,
for Christ to pay the price, for the call, to
pay the price for a pure message, that there will
be your fragrance will go out in the wind, and
that it would open up extraordinary opportunities. And when you arrive,
that you do not miss your land of honey. So
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I hope and pray that everyone who listens on the
podcast will receive this sea today and allow God to
water it. I hope that you will be blessed until
the next episode next week. We will see each other again.
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