Bill Johnson #Bethel Redding, CA 01 24 21

 

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“Our only hope is God! He is about to introduce you THIS YEAR to His Golden Global #Glory.” - Sid Roth

Bill Johnson #Bethel Redding, CA 01 24 21 #unido

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bill johnson as he comes to share the
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word of the lord with us this morning
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thank you
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see all of you by faith i
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i trust you’re there how’s that i trust
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you there
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um what an amazing
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opportunity to see the goodness of the
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lord
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i i’ve had a i’ve had an interesting a
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couple of weeks just personally
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experiencing with the lord and
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and um so let me just get to it i really
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don’t have a teaching i have
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an exhortation an invitation a
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something i don’t even know what to call
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it uh
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probably 10 days ago i i joined
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a school of ministry out here under the
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tent and
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uh we had a it was a wonderful time of
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worship but something
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started to happen um that maybe it
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started previous to that but i became
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uh unusually aware aware of
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of the glory of the lord that began to
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fill
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that tent i could feel it tangibly i’ve
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had these
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um experiences throughout throughout my
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own personal journey
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i remember when i pastored in weberville
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i would i would take time
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often just to walk through the sanctuary
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back and forth when nobody was there i
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would uh
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just just just a worship just to pray
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i remember there was a little piano
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there and i would sit and play a bit and
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just
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just do whatever i could to give him the
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best offering i could give him
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i remember times where the presence of
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the lord became so overwhelming
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to me that i i’m embarrassed to say it
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now but i quickly thought of something
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else to do
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i i quickly thought of things that it
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that doesn’t mean when things come to
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mind it’s necessarily the enemy
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sometimes the lord brings things to mind
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that we need to take care of but it
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wasn’t that
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it was the the intensity of presence was
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so
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was so strong that i found myself just
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getting nervous
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just getting a little bit anxious and
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uh and i didn’t recognize it immediately
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it was it was later
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i i started to see that there’s there’s
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a measure of presence where
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where all of us that all of us delight
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in and measure presence that takes us
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into great great discomfort
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um
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which is fine because he’s the comforter
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so my opinion is
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uh he makes you uncomfortable so that
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you need the comfort
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and uh and he’s pretty good at that
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there was a story with moses where he um
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he could go no further until he had done
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what the lord
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commanded him to do in in that case it
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was to circumcise his kids his sons
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he had gone to this distance and then
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suddenly
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what was a normal journey became life
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and death and i
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i i don’t mean to suggest life-and-death
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decisions although i do think they exist
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for us
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um instead i i want to emphasize that
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we’re on this relational journey and
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they’re just come
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there come there comes to us points in
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time
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where he has an agenda and mine won’t do
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i mean you can have you know if you’ve
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been in this a while
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probably for all of us or you know 95
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of the people that would be watching
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every agenda you have
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every agenda you have has been shaped by
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scripture
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it’s it’s not like it’s not like wanting
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revival
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is an evil desire it’s not it’s just in
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the glory
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all my agendas all my
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ambitions all my dreams as lofty as they
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are
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they all have to take place
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another place outside of this glory
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because in this glory
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there’s only one thing that matters and
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that’s the face to face with this one
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i i’m not there as a pastor i’m not
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there
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as a speaker or writer or whatever else
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you’ve blank you’d feel and i’m not
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there as that all
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those hats are left outside the door
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there’s only one hands they had of a son
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it’s the only one that works
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in there and
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i’ve had this sense for quite a while
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but it’s becoming more
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tangible in the last especially the last
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10 days where in
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in that
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in that tent in that time with students
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i started
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to rediscover something that
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hadn’t been lost that would be wrong but
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there was a there’s always a freshness
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to his presence that makes
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it almost makes you feel like you’ve
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never had it before it’s so fresh you
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know
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there’s always something so new with
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what he’s saying and doing it almost
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feels like it’s the first time you’ve
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ever heard him speak
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and yet outside of that experience you
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can see the history that brought you
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here but in that
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moment it’s like it’s like
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it’s like hearing
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hearing for the first time i’ve
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it reminded me of something oh goodness
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it’d be
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2010 2011 somewhere near eric
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my son was was leading the second uh
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year school of ministry
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and there was a there was about a five
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month period i don’t remember the year
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but there was about a five-month period
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they met over our twin view campus our
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second campus
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and they were the the school uh the
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second year school was there and i don’t
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remember how many students there were
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i would guess 300 maybe but anyway
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uh that room was you know packed and
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eric was leading and and as one of the
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pastors i have a
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time slot where i i go over there and
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and speak and it’s always an incredible
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privilege to
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to do so i remember
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i would walk in there was this there was
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this five-month period of time
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where i’d walk in it was like walking
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into a cloud
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i mean it was it was it was
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like walking into a cloud that’s alive
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it wasn’t it wasn’t fog it was
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walking into this to life itself
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on a level that was
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so wonderful and so overwhelming
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i remember i would come in and back i
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would i would come sit down
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sometimes i’d make it to the run i’d
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come and i’d sit down and
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eric would be there and listen this
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wasn’t led by
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you know a great worship time those were
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there and that’s
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important we just had a wonderful time
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now and
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that kind of uh uh instrument that the
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lord uses is
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very significant and important but but
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this was different
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it was it was almost like the holy
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spirit
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the choir director of heaven entered the
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room
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and he was he was conducting something
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wow
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i remember sitting down next to eric and
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he would look up at me
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what do you want to do i said i’m not
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touching this
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i i have absolutely
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nothing to say
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there are times in the glory where
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that’s what you do there’s a word
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there’s a word of the lord it’s the
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ultimate
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moment i mean you want those moments i i
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don’t want to suggest at all that
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somehow when that
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that manifest presence of jesus comes in
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that measure
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that we that we don’t speak and somehow
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teaching goes out the window
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i don’t believe that and and i’ve seen
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the opposite happen
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i’ve seen those moments that are so
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overwhelmingly pregnant and
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filled with god himself in the room and
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then there’s a word and and i
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i believe that but this wasn’t this
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wasn’t that season it was
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it was five months of coming into a room
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where
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where it just didn’t matter
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strange strange to say you could have
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this burden or this vision or this
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desire or whatever to preach this or to
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pray for this or to do whatever but
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somehow
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somehow in this in this
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living cloud of presence
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oh goodness it
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it just doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter
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and i i remember
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during that period of time i don’t even
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know how many times i actually spoke
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i did a few times but it wasn’t very
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often it wasn’t very often but i
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sure encountered jesus a lot i sure
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encountered the love of god
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even through people there was such an
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unusual
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interaction in those times you know you
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don’t jesus said
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i gave them my glory that they may be
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one there’s something
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there’s something about the glory that
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just makes everybody fit together
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perfectly
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it’s not through striving it’s not
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through effort it’s not through
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determination it’s
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in the glory it fits and the reason is
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is that’s what we were designed for i
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was designed
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everything about me everything about me
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that’s of him
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was was designed to fit seamlessly
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in the glory seamlessly
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i’m actually wired in oh you are too
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every born-again believer we’re actually
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we’re actually
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wired to recognize him
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and to respond to him and part of that
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response is obedient so obedience is the
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most natural thing in the world
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in the presence you know if you can
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imagine isaiah 6 where isaiah
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says i see the lord he’s high lifted up
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train fills the temple this overwhelming
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this overwhelming baptism of presence
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where he sees the throne of god
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and then he hears god say not to him
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but in conversation in heaven who will i
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send
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see there’s something about in the glory
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the glory is is not just to
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absorb and walk away blessed it’s to be
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impacted by
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so that we impact everything around us
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and and the lord asked this question he
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said who will i send and i said he says
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i’ll go i can always tell when people
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are truly in the glory because they want
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to serve
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now you can want to serve without being
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in the glory but when you do
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the heart of god is what launches you
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it’s not uh it’s not my ministry goals
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that matter it’s
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it’s not you know it’s not me
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fighting to see my gift expressed or
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appreciated or whatever
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all that stuff just dies it just dies
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it’s so
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unimportant in that moment it’s
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embarrassing to discuss
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because in that moment all you know is i
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hear a heartbeat
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and that heartbeat has become my
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heartbeat
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and something has shifted and changed at
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least
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in this moment how i see life
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and i remember i remember that
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that five month period of time as there
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was yesterday because
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it has become yesterday
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ten days or so ago in the tent with the
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students last sunday night
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was the same kind of a same kind of a
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moment
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in the tent i don’t know maybe we’re
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just built for tents
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maybe maybe i don’t know maybe we should
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just do the big old revival tent and get
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it over with you know
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there’s i don’t know there’s some i
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don’t know what it is i i don’t
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understand it at all but i know that
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last sunday night i experienced it again
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it was
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he was he was there and that’s all you
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know that’s what the glory is is the
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manifest the presence of jesus
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he was just there you say well he’s here
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he’s with me now that’s true i i get
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that
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but there are so many dimensions of his
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presence that
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that no matter what you’re experiencing
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there’s more
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and the key to more is stewarding what
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you’ve been given
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it doesn’t matter if it’s money
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anointing gifting doesn’t french
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friends doesn’t matter what it is the
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key to increase is always stewarding
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what you have well
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and there are there have been times in
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my life where
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as i stated earlier that that presence
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that glory
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would come so strong in that little
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sanctuary up
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up in the mountains that i would just
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become nervous and find something else
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to do and so
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i don’t say this in shame embarrassment
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i’m just saying this is reality there’s
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no increase in that moment
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i found my limit and so
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somehow coming into that place of
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presence again
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and again and again
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with whatever in me needs to yield
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so that there can be more
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i can’t describe it but that’s the
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journey
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you see he’s got us on one track there’s
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he has one ambition base
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you know i mean a lot of dreams for us i
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don’t want to make it overly simple but
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there’s this statement in haggai
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chapter two i i will never forget when i
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first
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read this as a pastor in weaverville it
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just
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laughed at me it’s it’s haggai chapter 2
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which is one of the small
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little guys he’s kind of hard to find
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him
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if you get to matthew just turn left if
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you get to daniel turn right he’s in
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there
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but he he says several things here that
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i think would be
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worth noting and then i want to talk to
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a bit about where we’re headed
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where where where we’re headed according
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to him
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verse 5 according to the word that i
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covenanted with you
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when you came out of egypt so my spirit
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remains
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among you do not fear the presence of
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the lord
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makes fear illegal
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the presence of the lord is a
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partnership with a foreign spirit
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for thus says the lord verse 6 once more
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it is a little while i will shake heaven
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and earth the seed the dry land i will
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shake all the nations
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and they shall come to the desire of all
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nations
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my translation highlights this phrase in
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this way desire referring to jesus as
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the desire of the nations
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i i will fill this temple with glory
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says the lord of hosts the silver is
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mine the gold is mine says the lord of
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hosts
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and here’s our phrase the glory of this
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latter temple
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shall be greater than the former
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if god is in charge there’s always an
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increase of glory
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if we are we just build monuments to
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what has happened in the past
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we build them in our theology we build
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them in our experience we build them in
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our
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routines our disciplines they all
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shout to the past but there’s something
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that is always expanding in the presence
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it’s this
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it’s this intangible thing called the
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the glory of god that is always
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deepening and always i don’t know
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i don’t think we ever arrived to be
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honest with you i
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i’ve got a feeling that heaven is uh is
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going to be
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one continuous journey deeper into the
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glory and there is no limit there’s not
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an
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end it’s not like okay
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father says that’s all there is sorry
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we’ll have to exist the next hundred
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billion years just with what you got
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there it’s just this unending journey
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into the presence into the glory
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ephesians 2 talks about the riches of
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his grace which is one of the
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expressions of glory
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and in that phrase in ephesians 2 he
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says that in the ages to come
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we would discover the surpassing riches
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of his grace ages to come
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the billions of years ahead of time off
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in eternity in those
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ages there would be the continuous
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unveiling of yet a deeper level of this
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mystery called grace
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and that mystery of grace always
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introduces us
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to glory
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we find different stories in scripture
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that
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um
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that they they rock me uh i’m assuming
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they do
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you as well ii chronicles chapter 5 is
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one of them
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it’s this amazing uh moment in the
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dedication
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of the temple solomon had
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well let me back up david his dad
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had discerned that there was a shift
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actually there was a shift in worship
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but more specifically
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david perceived a reality that existed
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in heaven that was not discovered in the
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law
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it was not revealed in the law
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and david started to realize in his
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relationship with the lord that the lord
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wasn’t interested in the blood of bulls
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and goats it doesn’t mean it didn’t
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count
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it was important for that season but it
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had its it had its limits it had its
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its measure of impact it wasn’t the
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it wasn’t where god’s people were going
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to land was on the
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sacrifice of animals that’s not the
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landing point that was
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the illustration that got them ready for
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the real lamb of god that once and for
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all settled the issue
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but david somehow discovered this in his
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journey with the lord and
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the prophets nathan and gad confirmed
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what he was picking up it says in
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chronicles later
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he picked up this shift in in worship
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and
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and that the lord was actually looking
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for the sacrifice of the heart the
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contrite heart the yieldedness the fruit
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of the lips that gives
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thanks or praise to his name the lord is
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actually looking for
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for people to put themselves on the
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altar as an offering to him
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and it’s not because he’s an egotist
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that needs our affirmation he’s quite
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secure
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he’s he’s he doesn’t need anything i
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hear people say well he
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he needs our life he doesn’t need our
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love he doesn’t need anything he’s he’s
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very self-sufficient
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well the son holy spirit they make a
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real good team they don’t need anything
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but they desire
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many things they desire many things they
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desire my heart
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they desire but it adds something to
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them that nothing else and everything
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that they have made
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could add and he desires yours and it’s
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that
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wonderful that beautiful expression of
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just turning
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our our attention our affection towards
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him
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see the war that’s been going on over
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this last year with the pandemic and all
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the other stuff
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is it’s a war for attention because the
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enemy wants to dilute your affection
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it’s always to divert attention
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to defile affection
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and there’s something about this this
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reconnection with presence that
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is is home it’s just home
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it’s it’s home it’s like everything else
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is
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where i’m visiting this is actually home
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i’m set out from home i get to do all
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this stuff but this is home
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this seamless connection with this
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manifest presence of jesus the seamless
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connection between
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my surrendered heart and his heart for
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me is just the most
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beautiful thing
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and so when solomon becomes king he
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builds a temple we
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many are familiar with the story so it’s
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a truly truly wonderful
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story but he built it with the materials
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that david
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set aside for him you know solomon’s
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given the credit for this extravagant
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building but it was david’s wealth that
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built it
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he set the stuff aside as this
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father-son thing it was like
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the only time i can find in history
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where
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if i can call this revival what david
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was experiencing where a revival
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increased in the next generation for
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solomon
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now solomon didn’t sustain it tragically
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or everything would be different but he
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didn’t but
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for for a brief season there was an
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acceleration
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and where they learned the value the
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beauty of ministering directly to the
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lord not just
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for the lord and and you know they had
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to still
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do the blood sacrifice because there had
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to be that point of obedience
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that they never lost sight of that sin
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is only dealt with through blood
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it had to be established in their
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thinking and yet here’s the rub
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the blood of bulls and goats can’t deal
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with it it only postpones the penalty
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for one more year
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and so there’s this constant reminder
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they need the
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lamb of god they need that the law was
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given as a tutor
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a teacher an instructor that that would
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lead them to christ and so all of this
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is a part of that journey
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but throughout this journey they got to
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taste
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moments of grace
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grace was not just introduced in the new
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in the new testament
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grace is seen all through the old
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testament there’s just moments
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there’s just moments where there’s no
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other explanation but god just has mercy
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on
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abraham and considers him righteous
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because he believed that’s grace that’s
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great said actually that story became
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a new testament model it became the
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prototype
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for every new testament believer it
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happened in the old testament happened
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before the law it’s extraordinary what
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takes place through
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all these moments where there’s just
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this like just little windows that open
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to
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let us see what grace looks like another
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one i’m thinking of is when
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when there was this in nehemiah’s day
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where he uh
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in in nehemiah eight they they found the
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scriptures again they had had it for
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a generation or more and so they’re
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they’re standing in the open square and
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every everybody’s there i mean everybody
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kids babies infants everybody is there
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and they’re all standing
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at attention as the word is read and
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this there’s this
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there’s this overwhelming conviction
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that comes on the people because
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they see god’s standard is here as the
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word is read that they’ve not heard
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probably in their entire lifetime
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god’s standard is here and their
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lifestyles down here and they begin to
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weep and to mourn
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because they didn’t qualify and the
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priest
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ran among the people said stop mourning
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this day is holy
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i don’t know how you grew up but i grew
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up thinking morning and holy were
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synonymous
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you know the more you wept the more you
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were able to illustrate how holy the
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moment was and
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and it was it was it was actually the
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tears of mourning in that
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moment defiled the holiness of god
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and so the priest ran among the people
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and they said stop it
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stop it send portions
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to those who have nothing grab your food
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grab the meat
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grab the wine grab all these things that
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you have in a family feast
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get them together and start rejoicing
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because you understood the words
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that’s stunning god’s standards here my
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my lifestyle is here and god says the
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time to rejoice is when you understand
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that changes everything you actually
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rejoice your way into maturity
89:45
sounds like a child most of us need to
89:48
grow down
89:49
instead of grow up
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so here we are in this moment fast
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forward to solomon’s day he builds this
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temple and it’s time to dedicate this
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i’m going to assume the most extravagant
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building that’s ever existed
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man i would love to see it
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and so here’s this moment where the
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priests have come together
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and i remind you uh exodus 19
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verse 6 and isaiah 61 verse 7
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announce to the people of god you shall
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be
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priests under the lord ii peter 2.
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verse 9 says you are
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priests under the lord old testament
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pointed to the future said it’s help
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it’s going to happen
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peter and the book of revelation chapter
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1 i think it’s verse 5
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announce it’s not coming it is now
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you have the right and responsibility to
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minister
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directly to him so everything we see of
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that
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nature of that of that that function
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in in the old testament is is to seed
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the clouds just to give us insight and
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so here we have um we have all these
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priests gathered together
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and um we have uh um verse 12 let’s just
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start there it says
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the levites who were singing all those
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of asaph and haman
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and jeduthen with their sons with their
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brethren stood at the east end of the
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altar
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clothed in white linen they had to wear
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linen they couldn’t wear wool because if
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they wore wool they would sweat
91:30
and there was nothing you could do on
91:31
your own works sweat
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in the presence of god everything was to
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be by grace
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so here’s another glimpse you’re never
91:39
there by your works
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and that was that was the insistence of
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the lord they had
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symbols stringed instruments harps and
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with them 120 priests sounding trumpets
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man that had to be something
91:51
i mean there were entire family lines
91:53
their whole job was just to play
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trumpets
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and you think about it almost seemed
91:57
silly a whole another family line
91:59
they were singers a whole nother group
92:01
they were just symbol players the whole
92:02
point was they had to become excellent
92:04
what they were doing
92:05
and they were to carry on that mantle
92:06
throughout their family line
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120 priests sounding trumpets verse 13.
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it came to pass
92:16
when the trumpeters the singers were as
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one
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to make one sound
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yeah but i want to stand out no you
92:26
don’t
92:27
no no you don’t you’re privileged to be
92:30
a part of the whole
92:32
it’s not about you it’s not about me
92:37
whenever as one to make one sound to be
92:40
heard in praising and thanking the lord
92:42
when they
92:42
lifted up their voice with the trumpets
92:44
and symbols and
92:46
instruments of music and praised the
92:47
lord saying for he is good
92:49
for his mercy endures forever that the
92:52
house
92:53
the house of the lord was filled with a
92:55
cloud
92:58
so that the priest could not continue
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ministering because the cloud for the
93:02
glory of the lord had filled the house
93:05
what did we read in haggai the glory of
93:07
the latter house will be filled
93:09
will be greater than the former it’s
93:12
always his intent to take us from glory
93:14
to glory
93:15
anything less is man’s influence
93:20
it’s always his intent to take us from
93:22
glory to glory
93:24
it does doesn’t come because it’s my
93:27
goal
93:28
it comes because i surrender to his
93:34
so here in this moment we find i don’t
93:36
know how many are there there’s at least
93:37
120 there there
93:39
that are playing trumpets then you’ve
93:40
got probably the same amount or more
93:42
that are singers you’ve got the symbols
93:44
you’ve got string just you got all this
93:46
stuff so you get this
93:47
massive massive crowd and they’re all
93:49
playing
93:51
not for the nation of israel they are
93:52
playing for the audience of one we’re
93:55
playing
93:56
to him directly to him every strum
94:00
every clanging symbol every
94:04
vo every syllable that is lifted up in
94:06
song
94:07
everything is for the one and
94:10
when that happened and it became a
94:12
united sound
94:14
when they sang as one with horns
94:17
that’s a miracle right there when all of
94:19
that comes together
94:20
as one sound
94:26
the cloud the cloud came
94:29
and so filled the temple nobody had to
94:31
stand up and say i think it’d be
94:32
appropriate if we went to our knees
94:34
right now just to honor the lord
94:36
i i believe those moments are fine i’ve
94:38
done it and probably will do it again
94:39
who knows day’s not over but it wasn’t
94:43
that kind of a moment it was an
94:44
involuntary
94:46
i’ve got to hide my face from the one
94:48
who just entered the room
94:53
here’s the deal this all happened under
94:56
an inferior covenant and inferior
94:59
covenants
95:00
do not release superior blessings
95:05
if what happens in this context
95:08
happened in the old testament when they
95:11
were just
95:12
learning what it was to sing to the lord
95:14
and to honor him and to
95:15
give offerings of thanksgiving and
95:17
praise if if it would happen in that
95:19
environment
95:20
then how much more has he not designed
95:23
it to happen
95:25
here with us i remember a prophetic song
95:27
we had in weberville
95:31
prophetic songs were the song of the
95:33
lord with the lord himself
95:35
is is singing i mean i didn’t hear his
95:37
voice but we
95:38
we heard through another voice i
95:40
remember the word said did i not
95:42
fill the tabernacle of moses with my
95:45
glory
95:47
did i not fill the temple of solomon
95:50
with my glory
95:52
how much more should i fill the place
95:54
that i build with my own hands
95:57
my beloved i’m building you
96:04
no matter what we throw into the mix our
96:06
ambitions for our families our
96:09
countries our cities or whatever just
96:12
put it all in the pile
96:16
it is all
96:21
profoundly impacted
96:24
by the glory
96:28
where is this thing headed i
96:32
i can’t shake the fact that his goal
96:35
is for the whole earth to be filled with
96:36
his glory
96:38
now he’s god he can make that happen now
96:40
but it would be a military invasion it
96:42
wouldn’t be through partnership
96:45
see his longing is always to accomplish
96:48
the significant
96:49
things through co-laboring through the
96:51
yieldedness of his people
96:52
those who’ve been made in his image
96:54
created in his image would respond with
96:56
likeness with the same heart as he has
96:59
to model to illustrate to release to
97:02
activate his will in the earth and
97:05
that’s the heart of god that’s the heart
97:07
of god that’s the privilege that we have
97:08
in this hour
97:09
we we know his heart i may be confused
97:12
by a thousand things but the one thing
97:14
that’s not confusing not if i read this
97:16
the one thing is not confusing is he has
97:18
got me on a
97:20
track it’s not a road where i can take
97:24
directions i want it’s a railroad track
97:27
you don’t turn
97:29
the direction has been set you can stop
97:32
you can go backwards but you can’t
97:34
change the assigned direction the
97:35
direction
97:36
is from glory to glory
97:39
from glory to glory
97:44
so i remember
97:47
i’ve been uh sentimentally stirred up in
97:50
the last
97:51
week or so just in my own private little
97:54
world
97:55
remembering i’ll never forget the sunday
97:57
sitting
97:58
right down there where brian my son
98:01
happened to be leading a worship that
98:03
sunday
98:04
he may have played two chords i’ve
98:06
always said it was one but it might have
98:07
he might have gone to a second chord but
98:09
something happened on that second
98:11
chord where he
98:14
filled the room
98:18
and we didn’t get to our first song for
98:19
40 minutes
98:24
and no one was keeping track it was
98:26
after a fact you look back
98:28
why because some something happens when
98:30
he comes in
98:32
everything that was important to you you
98:34
can’t even remember
98:36
it’s not like ah i’ll bring it up later
98:38
no you can’t remember it in
98:40
in the manifest presence of the king of
98:42
glory suddenly there’s only
98:45
one thing on your mind it’s what i was
98:47
born for
98:48
i i was born for this seamless
98:50
interaction
98:52
between the king of glory who has made
98:54
me qualified because i could never
98:56
qualify myself
98:58
he’s qualified me to be here in this
99:00
moment
99:04
and it’s in those moments we hear him
99:07
say
99:08
who shall i send and without even
99:11
thinking the hand goes up
99:17
people who tell me i love to worship the
99:19
lord i don’t like to
99:22
i don’t like to leave that place
99:25
i’m not sure they saw him yet
99:28
i’m not sure they actually saw him
99:31
because i’m not sure he could see his
99:32
heart
99:33
and not want to go i i don’t know if
99:35
it’s possible
99:36
to sit in that moment where where you
99:38
see where
99:39
where this overwhelming sense of who he
99:41
is what he’s like and
99:43
then he says who shall i ascend and you
99:45
find your hand going up said i’ll
99:47
i’ll do it you name it i’ll do it i’m
99:49
there
99:50
i don’t know what i’m doing but i trust
99:53
you go
99:54
with me i’ll go
99:57
i i’m not sure that anybody who wants to
100:01
just sit there
100:02
and and do nothing
100:06
has actually seen what they claim to
100:08
have seen
100:11
there’s there’s something about
100:14
who shall i send i’ll go there’s
100:16
something about that moment of going
100:18
where that glory never leaves you it’s
100:20
not like i’m departing the glory it’s
100:22
like i’m i’m going to now enter into a
100:24
greater realm of glory
100:25
because i will now be an instrument in
100:27
his hand
100:28
and perhaps that is how the whole earth
100:33
becomes filled with this glory as people
100:36
in the presence
100:38
carry the presence to bring change
100:44
i believe you know i i teach a lot
100:46
unfulfilled dreams and
100:48
you know the desires that we have i
100:50
believe they’re meaningful to god
100:51
i i do all that i haven’t changed my
100:54
tune at all
100:56
but i
101:00
i have been strangely apprehended again
101:04
for something that’s way bigger than us
101:08
i love us but this one’s bigger than us
101:13
this one’s bigger than us
101:17
i remember that one sunday morning where
101:21
brian hit i think was the second
101:22
chord and and he just i don’t know how
101:25
to describe it you know
101:26
it’s afterwards in the moment you don’t
101:28
know what to do
101:29
you know afterwards you look back and go
101:31
man he just walked into the room and
101:33
that was that kind of a moment i’ll
101:35
never forget that we’ve only had that
101:36
happen
101:37
on that level one time in 25 years
101:42
but i remember a sunday night where the
101:44
worship team was playing
101:46
and they’re another one of those moments
101:48
where the glory just came in
101:49
and everybody up here just stopped
101:53
and everybody out here just stopped
101:56
and it was almost like we were suspended
101:58
in time
102:01
you know you know how people get nervous
102:02
when nothing’s happening you know like
102:04
somebody especially in
102:05
pentecostal circles somebody need to
102:07
pray in tongues or prophesy or
102:10
laugh or get out and dance or do
102:11
something else like we get nervous with
102:13
blank
102:14
spaces there was no nervousness with
102:16
that blank space because he filled the
102:17
blank space
102:20
he he just came into the blank space and
102:22
all of a sudden
102:24
you didn’t have to tell people turn your
102:25
affection to him it’s just there was
102:27
just silence i don’t remember ever
102:29
hearing
102:29
silence for that long in a in a crowd
102:33
that likes to make noise
102:35
it was like the ultimate offering was
102:37
just to shut up
102:39
but yet nobody said or suggested it was
102:42
just
102:43
it’s what you do when he enters the room
102:49
you find everything that you could think
102:51
of to say is completely meaningless
102:56
and i’m hungry for that again
103:00
i’ve had taste in the last
103:04
10 days or so at levels
103:08
measures that have not
103:10
had for a while
103:14
and it tells me
103:18
that we’re being set up
103:22
and it’s going to be good
103:25
but it won’t be about you and it won’t
103:28
be about me
103:33
he has set something in motion
103:36
and he wants us to see that he was
103:39
absolutely
103:41
serious when he said it the glory of the
103:45
latter house would be greater than the
103:47
former the context was
103:48
there were people that saw the temple
103:51
before it was destroyed and then rebuilt
103:53
and they remember
103:54
both and the first one solomon was just
103:57
incredibly glorious and the second one
103:59
wasn’t near as beautiful
104:01
and so you had you had two groups of
104:03
people there some were laughing for joy
104:05
because look the temple’s built and
104:07
others were weeping man it’s nothing
104:08
like it used to be
104:09
and so that prophecy was very very
104:11
specific
104:13
in in other words this thing that you
104:14
see over here that’s not it
104:17
i’m going to do something in the earth
104:18
that is going to be way more glorious
104:21
than even solomon’s temple
104:24
which silenced and stunned the leaders
104:28
of nations god will do it again in this
104:31
house
104:32
that’s you and that’s me
104:39
i feel like there’s an invitation i
104:43
i wasn’t sure how to how to label this
104:46
talk this conversation
104:48
with you today but to me i i can’t talk
104:51
about it
104:52
without feeling invited without feeling
105:00
compelled
105:04
now dissatisfaction
105:08
is a holy holy gift
105:12
see sometimes our
105:16
satisfaction in the absence of revival
105:21
is what prohibits revival
105:24
is that i’m actually okay without it
105:32
sometimes the absence of the manifest
105:35
presence of the king of glory
105:38
sometimes my satisfaction in those
105:40
moments may be the very thing
105:46
that propels
105:50
that glory so here’s
105:53
here’s an invitation i’d like for
105:56
everybody watching
105:58
to join me in this very very simple
106:00
prayer
106:04
god i can’t make myself suitable
106:08
but i can surrender
106:11
and there are people right now watching
106:12
you don’t even have a personal
106:14
relationship with
106:14
with the lord jesus christ and this is
106:17
the most
106:18
unusual message ever to invite you into
106:21
the family but i’m going to do it anyway
106:23
in this moment you have this sense some
106:25
of you in your homes
106:27
there’s going to be this sense of
106:28
presence you’ve never seen before you’ve
106:30
never felt before you’ve never realized
106:31
before
106:32
but it’s happening now i had that sense
106:34
early this morning that there would be
106:36
this
106:36
encounters with the lord himself in your
106:39
home i love the corporate gathering but
106:41
there’s see it was in my one-on-one
106:43
stuff that helped me to realize the
106:44
corporate stuff
106:49
so wherever you’re at some of you have
106:52
never surrendered to jesus i want you
106:53
just to simply pray this prayer and
106:55
in in the online chat room tell somebody
106:57
what you’ve done
106:58
but it’s just praying this prayer of god
107:00
i give you my entire life
107:03
that you would be glorified do in me
107:07
whatever pleases you that your name
107:11
would be exalted
107:14
do in my family in my
107:18
home that which
107:21
delights your heart
107:25
see the scripture says the lord speaks
107:27
at one point he says for i’m not ashamed
107:29
to be called their god i would like
107:30
everybody watching this
107:32
to have the lord shout over your actual
107:34
home the physical home that you live in
107:37
i would love to see the lord of glory
107:39
stand over your household and
107:40
shout to everything that exists i am not
107:43
ashamed
107:44
to be called their god there’s something
107:47
about to be released in the earth
107:50
and it’s through surrendered people so
107:52
father we pray right now i ask that you
107:54
would use this
107:55
overwhelming sense of presence and that
107:57
you disciple us this way
107:59
you teach us this way that we would
108:01
never be satisfied with anything
108:04
less than you again
108:07
like moses we want to say if you’re not
108:09
taking us we don’t want to go up from
108:11
here we don’t want to go just blessed we
108:13
don’t want to go just with favor and
108:14
open doors
108:15
if you’re not going if your presence
108:17
isn’t that which makes us
108:19
different than everyone else then we
108:21
don’t want to go anywhere
108:22
so i’m praying that i’m praying that for
108:24
us us
108:26
this tribe this family the bethel family
108:28
all over the world
108:30
mark us with the glory god i invite you
108:34
interrupt our dream time
108:37
teach us what you like teach us open up
108:41
new
108:42
pathways of discernment and perception
108:45
in our
108:46
physical body our hearts our minds that
108:48
we just expand our ability to recognize
108:50
you the glorious one
108:53
and that somehow that would be the
108:55
contagious factor not a pandemic not a
108:57
virus
108:59
but a contagious factor called the glory
109:02
of god
109:04
the glory of god has become known in the
109:06
earth that’s what we want
109:10
so i invite you to do that with us as a
109:13
family and i
109:14
give you thanks amen
109:18
if uh if you invited jesus
109:21
into your life please tell someone on
109:24
the
109:24
in the chat room if you’re a believer
109:26
that has just really
109:29
really really find yourself fighting
109:32
with what god is saying and doing
109:34
you know pray with somebody on the in
109:35
the chat room as well
109:37
we just want everyone to have this
109:40
ongoing encounter with king jesus
109:42
amen god bless you thanks for joining us
109:44
love you much