(175) How to Co-Operate with God

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Mark 16 20 says that the disciples went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working

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with them and confirming the word with signs following.

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He was working with them.

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That's co-operating.

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And another word is like the word collaborate comes from the parts that mean co-labor, working

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together with, operating together with, co-operating.

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That's what cooperation is meant to be, that we work together.

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So how do we get there?

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God promises in Joel 2 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring.

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Where we contend for that promised outpouring,

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And we equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We are joining together to talk about something that the Holy Spirit has been moving my heart

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about.

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And that has to do with co-operating with God.

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Not just cooperating, but co-operating, operating together with God.

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Thanks for joining us today.

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We're so glad that we can do this together, that we can study the word together and that

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we can learn from His word and learn from the Holy Spirit together.

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that will build you up in your faith in God and in your walk with the Holy Spirit.

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So today, we're talking about co-operating with the Holy Spirit, co-operating with God.

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When God created the heavens and the earth, there was a co-operation between Father, Son,

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and Holy Spirit as I see it.

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I think we can see the Trinity right at the very beginning because when God spoke, when

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He said, let there be light, when He said all of these things, let the waters bring

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forth living creatures and so on, every time He spoke, He spoke words.

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And we see that, you know, in John 1, we understand that Jesus is the Word and His breath is the

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Holy Spirit.

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So you see the Father speaking and His Spirit going out from Him to cause these things to

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be.

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And then He made Adam.

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And in Genesis chapter 2, it says that God formed every animal of the field and fowl

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of the air and brought them to Adam to see what He would call them.

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And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof, and Adam gave names

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to all the cattle, to the fowl of the air, to every beast of the field.

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But then for Adam, there was not found a help, meat for him or a helper or someone that matched

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him.

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And of course, that's when God caused a deep sleep to come on him and He took a portion

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of Adam and made Eve.

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And you know, there's more to that story.

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But the point is that God made the animals and then He had Adam name them.

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So there was a cooperation.

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They operated together, putting this thing together.

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So there's a picture right from the beginning of how God wants us to operate with Him.

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He has plans for each and every one of us.

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Every single person on the planet is unique and individual.

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Every one of us has a purpose.

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We have a call.

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We have something that God put us on this planet to do with Him, to cooperate with Him.

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Yeah, because we don't know, it doesn't say in Genesis, how much time that Adam and Eve

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were in the garden.

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True.

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Because they were cooperating with God until deception.

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This could have gone on for a long time.

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And maybe that serpent was just kind of doing this.

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It wasn't the first time he said this.

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What does the devil do?

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He always drops some, he keeps hammering away at you.

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Like that water torture drip.

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And it could have been something like this too.

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We don't know.

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We'll find out on the other side of eternity.

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Yes, yes.

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And it really doesn't matter as far as that goes.

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It's not something that's worth speculating about and saying, well, this is the way it

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is.

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But the point is that there was a cooperation before the fall.

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And then all through the Old Testament, we see that God is trying to get His people to

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cooperate with Him.

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And we can see like when God gave the law on Mount Sinai, He gave the 10 commandments

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to begin with.

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So in Exodus 20, God gives the 10 commandments.

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And it's like this is the...like the betrothal because God's about to marry Israel.

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It starts with the plans for a wedding because we had back in the garden, we had Adam and

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Eve.

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And God's trying to get people to come into that bridal relationship with Him so that

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we can have this marriage supper of the Lamb that's coming when Jesus comes for His bride.

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So God initiated this in the Garden of Eden.

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And then He re-initiated it again even with Noah.

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It says that Noah walked with God.

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And then fast forward to Mount Sinai and He's giving them an opportunity to learn His ways.

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So He spells out everything for them.

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And He spells it out so that if they will obey His commandments, He's going to bless

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them.

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Right?

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And you see that people are often familiar with Deuteronomy 28 about the blessings.

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But there's another place in Leviticus 26 that is similar that's talking about if you

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will walk in my statutes, if you'll walk in my commandments, if you'll walk in the things

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that I've given you to do.

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And He had spelled it all out in Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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He spells out all these things for how to live.

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And it's really not all that complicated.

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It's really not...you know, Jesus said the first and greatest commandment is to love

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the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all

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your strength.

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The second is like it.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

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Yeah.

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So, and then He said, on these hang all the law and the prophets.

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So the entirety of the laws and the commandments can be summed up by saying love God and love

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your fellow man.

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So really love is the fulfilling of the law.

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Because if you love God and if you love your neighbor, you're going to do by nature the

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things that He's written in His commandments.

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But just to spell it out for you, in Leviticus 26, He says, if you'll walk in my commandments

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and walk in my statutes, then here's what I'll do.

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Here's the covenant.

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If is the big, should be capitalized.

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Right.

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You do your part, I'll do mine.

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Here's my part.

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I'll give you rain and do season.

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The land shall yield her increase, the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

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Your threshing floor shall last until your grape vintage comes in.

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And then your vintage will reach until your sowing time.

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And you'll eat your bread to the full, dwell in the land safely.

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I'll give you peace in the land.

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You shall lie down and no one will make you afraid.

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And I will rid evil beasts out of the land.

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Neither shall the sword go through your land and you will chase your enemies.

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They'll fall before you by the sword.

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Five of you shall chase a hundred and a hundred of you shall put 10,000 to flight.

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And your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

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For I will have respect to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my

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covenant with you.

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You will eat your old store and carry it out because of the new.

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You're going to have so much that you'll be able to throw away the leftovers.

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I think the new age people would call that utopia.

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Yeah, maybe so.

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And then this is really cool.

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I will set my tabernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you.

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And I will walk among you and will be your God and you will be my people.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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That's a beautiful promise.

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It's tremendous promise.

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But then he goes on to say, well, so here's what happens if you don't do it.

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And if you're not going to harken to me and do my commandments, I will point over you

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terror, wasting disease, fever, sorrow of heart.

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You'll sow your seed in vain.

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Your enemies will eat it.

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I'll set my face against you.

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You'll be slain before your enemies.

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They that hate you will reign over you.

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You'll flee when no one pursues you.

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And this is awful.

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I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

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Well, that's what happens to a nation when they turn their back on God.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So we've seen today.

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It's awful kind of much like that.

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You know, even in our own nation.

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Right.

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Things happening now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's just never happened before.

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It's true.

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It's true because we've forsaken the God of our fathers.

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Yeah.

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In large portion.

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Because back when we were younger, we knew more that this was more of a godly nation.

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I mean, churches, most all your churches have, well, they had Sunday night service, Wednesday

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night.

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Sure.

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Bible study and prayer meeting.

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Yeah.

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And the schools, you know, and the schools, the Bible.

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Yeah.

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They had the Bible on the desk and even the public schools.

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Right.

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You know, all that and all that.

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It's just like putting a frog in the frying pan and you turn the heat up.

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Slow cook.

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And that's what happened.

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Yeah.

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That's what happened in this nation.

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Mm hmm.

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It's true.

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So it's time for us to get back to cooperating with God.

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Yeah.

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And God can turn all these things around.

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Yes.

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And we fully expect Him to do so.

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There's probably going to be a period of punishment to make people wake up.

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But He does that for the ones that He loves.

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He chases those that He considers to be His sons.

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So Jesus came to show us how to do it.

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He came to be the last Adam.

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The first Adam blew it.

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He came to be the last Adam, to be the man that would cooperate with God and show us

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how it's done.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, He said in John 10, 30, I and my Father are one.

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And then He goes on in John 5, 30, I can of my own self do nothing.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah.

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As I hear, I judge and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will, but the will

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of the Father, which has sent me.

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Amen.

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And that's what Adam originally did until he blew it.

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Yeah.

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And that's what Moses and the children of Israel did until they blew it.

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You know, they followed at times there was a following of the law.

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And whenever they did, they were blessed.

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I mean, look at the book of Judges.

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The book of Judges spells out when they were sinning, then the enemies came on them.

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And then God raised up a judge when they cried to Him, Oh, help us.

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Oh, God, help us.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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And then and then God raised up a judge.

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The judge cleaned house.

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And as long as the judge lived, they had peace.

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As long as the judge lived.

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Yeah, because they were cooperating with what the judge said.

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This is what God says.

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So people, even unbelievers can be blessed by believers.

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True.

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You know, because they're following like for a nation.

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You know, I won't say it rains on the just and the unjust.

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Very true.

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But when you have godly people in office, the nation's blessed.

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Because I remember America was the most blessed nation on the face of the earth in the 1960s.

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We were 50s.

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We were the world leaders in all kinds of stuff.

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Right.

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We still are in some ways, but we've watched as this nation has been degraded, being picked

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apart.

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And even when you talk about in Deuteronomy 28, where it talks about your neighbors will

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own you.

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What do we have?

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We have China and all these nations buying our land.

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It's true.

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You know, that never happened back then.

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No, it didn't.

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You never sold the land.

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No, no.

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No.

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So Jesus is showing us how to do it.

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So it's all about an intimate relationship with our father.

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And that intimate relationship, Jesus had a prayer life, you know, he had a prayer life

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where he would get up in the middle of the night and while it was still dark, and he

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would go and pray and the Lord would show him things that were to come the next day,

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I believe.

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I mean, it doesn't spell it out just that way.

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It kind of spells it out that way when he was going to pick which one would which ones

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of his disciples would be the 12 that would hang out with him all the time.

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Because he did that after he spent that time in prayer.

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So it's kind of implied that that's what happened.

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But I really believe that he would spend time in prayer and the father would show him the

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things that were to come in that next day and what to do and how to do it.

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And it was a co-operation that they operated together.

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The father would give him instructions.

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He would do the thing he was instructed to do.

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And then he said that I speak that which I've seen with my father.

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Now that's an interesting expression, John 838.

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I saw my father and I'm speaking what I saw.

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Lots of times when we're ministering, when we're praying for people, I'll see something

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in the spirit.

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It'll kind of play out on the screen of my imagination, something that maybe I don't

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even understand.

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But if I pray into it or if I tell the person what I'm seeing, it'll make sense to them.

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So you say what you see.

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And that is co-operating.

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The Lord has put something in your mind.

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He's put something in your imagination, put something for you to see.

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And then you say what you see.

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And that's co-operating.

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Well, I was reading this morning and when we cooperate, we have authority to do things.

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Oh, yes.

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You know, I was reading this morning, putting on the helmet of salvation, the breastplate

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of looking at all the words, everything involved.

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This is going to war.

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It seems most time that a lot of believers, they're in the defense mode to keep from getting

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beat up by the devil every day.

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You know, and all that.

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But it's time when we put all this armor on, you're going to war.

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You need to go on the offense.

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Amen.

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Like waking up in the morning, you know, we just wake up and say, yes, start praying in

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the Holy Ghost.

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Yes, amen.

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We're going to kick some devil today.

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You know, if we don't give him an open door, cooperating with God, we're going to be where

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we need to be more than conquerors, more than super conquerors.

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Yeah, yes.

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I like that.

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So that's that's how we cooperate with him.

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And Jesus said in John 14, 21, he that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that

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loves me and he loves me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest

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myself to him.

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So this cooperation really starts with love.

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Yeah.

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You know, which is the first commandment.

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Love God.

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So in our loving him, we are already beginning to cooperate with him.

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I loved it when the Lord showed me years ago that his presence was like oxygen and oxygen

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is all around us.

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But we can't sense it with our five senses.

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It's all around us, though, and we can't live without it.

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And that's the way the presence of God is.

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So I learned from that that we can breathe in of his presence because it's all around

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us just like oxygen.

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And we can breathe out worship to him.

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And that's another way that we cooperate with him is by worshiping him.

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We'll get into that in a minute, maybe.

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But I think you get the idea anyway.

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So then I asked Ivan Tuttle about that.

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Is that really true that his presence is like oxygen?

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He says oxygen is his presence.

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And that blew me away.

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Yeah, that's that's when you think about that's really amazing.

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But then I asked Dean Braxton.

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OK, now, both of these guys, in case you don't know either of those names, both of

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them have had a death experience where they went to heaven.

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Now, Ivan went to hell first, but then he went to heaven.

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They left the planet.

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They left the planet.

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They left their bodies behind.

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It was it was a I mean, there was no silver cord.

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OK, if the silver cord was cut, they were dead, dead, dead, dead.

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And so I asked Dean about it.

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I said, so Ivan says that oxygen is the presence of God.

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He says, well, I guess you could say it that way, but I would say it would be more accurate

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to say that oxygen is the love of God.

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Oxygen is the love of God.

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So think about that when you're breathing.

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Breathe in his presence.

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Breathe in his love.

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Because his breath first breathed in us.

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Yes.

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He was an atom and he became a living soul.

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And it's his love because he is love.

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So his presence would be love.

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Right.

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So then I learned recently, I was just studying this last night or was it this morning?

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Doesn't matter.

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I was just studying this recently that the oxygen in the air is about 21 percent of the

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air.

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78 percent is is nitrogen.

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Nitrogen.

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And nitrogen comes in and goes out and doesn't do affect our bodies at all.

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We need nitrogen, but we get it from our food.

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And then I've seen two different statistics.

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One of them says that you breathe in this 21 percent of the air is the oxygen and then

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you breathe back out 16 something percent.

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I've heard another that you only use about 10 percent.

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So it's you know, it's 10 to 20 percent something like that that you're using.

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So if you're trying to connect with the love of God, if you really want to meditate on

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this love of God, what you're getting in is more than you need.

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And there's enough when you exhale for somebody else.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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That's why mouth to mouth resuscitation works.

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CPR.

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CPR will work because you have enough to share.

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That's just amazing.

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You get in the oxygen, you get in the love of God and there's enough to share.

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So you're cooperating with him as his presence, as his love comes into you with every single

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breath.

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Amen.

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Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

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Hallelujah.

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And if you're cooperating with God, you're cooperating with the Holy Spirit.

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Exactly.

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The word spirit in Hebrew is ruach.

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And the word ruach can be translated three ways mostly.

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It's spirit and it's wind and it's breath.

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And it's the same in Greek.

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There's three words.

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Numa is the Greek word and it's spirit and wind and breath.

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And kind of another little track, you know, even following the spirit.

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Now that reminds me, when we were down in Argentina back in 1985, you know, we're these

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new missionaries out there, you know, and our team went into Chile, you know, we crossed

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into Chile.

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And we're in this church, you know, and Sharon was just, I remember what you were ministering

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on.

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I don't remember what it was, but you know, the real issue was that I got sent on that

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team because they didn't have an interpreter until the very last minute.

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And the interpreter that came along wasn't really an interpreter.

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They call them Tex-Mex.

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Yeah, yes, or speaking Spanglish.

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Spanglish, you know.

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And when he interpreted, he told us afterwards, he said, I think maybe they got 10% of what

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I said.

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So I was supposed to go and I don't speak Spanish well enough to interpret, period.

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But I can manage to get through to get my point across.

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So a hint, if you're going to the mission field, make sure you have a good interpreter.

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Amen.

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That's the truth.

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So I was studying and studying and came up with something that I thought was profound

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and important and deep.

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And I didn't see any great amount of yay and amen on people's faces when I was preaching

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or teaching.

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I suppose it was more teaching than preaching.

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And then we had another lady on our team that she worked with the interpreter, right?

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And she actually used some expressions that don't translate whatsoever.

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You know, like she said, something about not being a spring chicken.

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Well, that doesn't translate.

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The Spanish word is modismo.

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It's an expression.

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It's like a writing the fence.

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Oh, yeah, writing the fence.

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I think that was another one.

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Yeah, because it doesn't translate.

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Don't use expressions that don't literally translate.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, so she's telling these stories and talking about a man that had, he loved

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his pig.

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Okay.

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So he brought his pig into the house and he gave it a bath and he put a blue velvet suit

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on it.

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And then the pig wanted to go back outside and he went back outside and just got into

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his wallow again.

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And you know, it seemed like to us, I mean, what was your reaction?

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So this is just so simple.

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It's just gonna, you know, this is not going anywhere.

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We came all the way out here for this, you know.

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Never the Holy Spirit moved on that.

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He moved in people's lives.

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He transformed people's lives in that simple story.

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So she was doing better at cooperating with the Holy Spirit than I was.

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But I laid down my understanding of what was supposed to be and cooperated with her.

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And you know, God used us.

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We prayed for people.

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God moved.

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But it wasn't because of my fine preaching.

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It was because of some simple, very simple message.

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But the Holy Spirit anointed it and captured them and captured them and cooperating with

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the Holy Spirit is huge.

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I remember one time we were leading worship and our founder, Sister Gwen was, was on the

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organ and we were leading with leading worship with our guitars.

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And I just knew that I had a song list that the Holy Spirit had given me and we're gonna

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have a move of God tonight in the worship.

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And we're going along and singing the song list.

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And all of a sudden, Sister Gwen at the organ takes over and she changes direction and it's

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not on the list.

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And we're following her now instead of her following us.

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And I was getting a little miffed, flesh, okay.

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This was flesh.

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This is plain old flesh, old flesh.

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Not good to have when you're up leading worship.

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No, no.

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You'll never get anywhere in the spirit if you're dealing with the flesh.

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And so the Holy Spirit whispered to me, you can sing Bill Grogan's Goat and if I anointed,

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it's anointed.

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Now, in case you don't know what Bill Grogan's Goat is, it's a silly, ridiculous song about

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this goat that ate everything and he ate the songwriter's long red underwear off of the

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clothesline.

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And the man got so mad that he tied the goat to the railroad tracks.

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And Bill Grogan's Goat was resourceful enough that he coughed up the red underwear and flagged

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the train, made the train stop.

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So I mean, it's a silly song.

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But the Holy Spirit said, if I anointed, it's anointed.

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If I anoint it, it's anointed.

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Yeah.

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And that too, if I'll give a circumstance, you probably don't even know this one.

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It was one year at the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem.

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And they have an international choir, orchestra, and dance troupe.

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And we were in the choir and I was leading, going to, I was on to lead worship on one

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of the mornings, you know, when all the choir and orchestra, everybody's all together.

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This is before...

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For devotions.

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For devotions, you know.

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And all of a sudden that morning, it got changed.

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Another worship leader was put in place.

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And I had this amazing song I wrote called To the Minister of the Sanctuary.

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It comes out of Hebrews.

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You know, Jesus, you know, the minister of the sanctuary.

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And the speaker, you know, when they do the worship and the speaker gets up and he pulls

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out his Bible and says, I'm going to talk on the minister of the sanctuary.

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And I got mad, you know, kind of...

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Were you going to sing that song that week?

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I was going to sing it this morning and they changed.

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This was a perfect example of the Holy Spirit setting this up.

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And it didn't work.

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You know, and I sang it the next day, but it had not the effect when I was back on for

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the next day.

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They put me a day off, but it was like a window, but I should have led worship.

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And then what happened?

494
00:28:06,180 --> 00:28:08,140
I didn't and I had a pity party.

495
00:28:08,140 --> 00:28:09,900
Oh, and then what happened?

496
00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:14,820
Then I led the song the next morning, but it didn't have the same effect as it would

497
00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:16,820
have had that morning.

498
00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:18,700
But maybe that was just a lesson for me.

499
00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:22,180
You know, this is a character issue here.

500
00:28:22,180 --> 00:28:23,300
Yeah.

501
00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:26,580
Because God does make all things work together for good.

502
00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:29,420
That's another cooperation.

503
00:28:29,420 --> 00:28:36,960
So one of the ways that we can cooperate with the Lord is in trust.

504
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,220
So when we trust him, that's part of walking with him.

505
00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:43,500
That's part of obeying his commandments.

506
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:51,780
You can't really obey his commandments and have any effect unless you trust him.

507
00:28:51,780 --> 00:28:55,820
Yeah, I'm looking at Isaiah 57 13 here.

508
00:28:55,820 --> 00:29:02,220
He that puts his trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain.

509
00:29:02,220 --> 00:29:03,220
Yeah.

510
00:29:03,220 --> 00:29:04,220
Wow.

511
00:29:04,220 --> 00:29:05,220
That's huge.

512
00:29:05,220 --> 00:29:06,220
This is the promised land.

513
00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:07,220
Exactly.

514
00:29:07,220 --> 00:29:08,220
Exactly.

515
00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:12,780
And Isaiah 26, three and four says you will keep him in perfect peace, which is in Hebrew,

516
00:29:12,780 --> 00:29:16,900
it says you will keep him in shalom, shalom.

517
00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:18,700
That's great.

518
00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:24,380
You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.

519
00:29:24,380 --> 00:29:29,260
So trust gives you deep, deep peace.

520
00:29:29,260 --> 00:29:34,220
Trust in the Lord forever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

521
00:29:34,220 --> 00:29:38,140
You need some strength, you get it by putting your trust in him.

522
00:29:38,140 --> 00:29:49,900
And sometimes I see my trust as like an object that is in my spirit man or like in my midsection.

523
00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:53,660
And it's like an object kind of like a heavy weight.

524
00:29:53,660 --> 00:29:57,200
But it has a connection to me.

525
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,460
It's like an umbilical cord.

526
00:29:58,460 --> 00:29:59,460
Okay.

527
00:29:59,460 --> 00:30:04,140
It's I mean, it's not a baby, but it's it's a it's an object that has weight.

528
00:30:04,140 --> 00:30:13,060
And when I put my trust in God, he has a place in him where my trust will land and will anchor.

529
00:30:13,060 --> 00:30:17,940
And it's it's like an anchor for my soul that keeps me connected to him.

530
00:30:17,940 --> 00:30:18,940
Yeah, that's good.

531
00:30:18,940 --> 00:30:19,940
Do you see that picture?

532
00:30:19,940 --> 00:30:23,260
Does that come through in your mind?

533
00:30:23,260 --> 00:30:25,900
That's how I see putting my trust in him.

534
00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:27,820
It's it's a real thing.

535
00:30:27,820 --> 00:30:31,380
It's it's like a tangible thing in the spirit.

536
00:30:31,380 --> 00:30:32,380
Yeah.

537
00:30:32,380 --> 00:30:38,460
And in Psalms thirty seven, you know, and three and nine, you know, verse three is trust

538
00:30:38,460 --> 00:30:40,760
in the Lord and do good.

539
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,620
So shout, they'll dwell in the land and rarely they'll shall be fed.

540
00:30:44,620 --> 00:30:45,620
Yes.

541
00:30:45,620 --> 00:30:47,420
So that's a promise.

542
00:30:47,420 --> 00:30:50,180
And then verse nine, for evil doers shall be cut off.

543
00:30:50,180 --> 00:30:55,260
But those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

544
00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:56,420
Amen.

545
00:30:56,420 --> 00:30:58,980
So what happens when you wait on the Lord?

546
00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:02,380
You know, you inherit the earth and that's where you you get into his presence.

547
00:31:02,380 --> 00:31:03,380
Yes.

548
00:31:03,380 --> 00:31:05,500
And you renew your strength.

549
00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:09,300
I think there was someone I forget who it was.

550
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:14,340
You know, maybe this was a quote that they were just waiting so long for the Lord, you

551
00:31:14,340 --> 00:31:15,860
know, in prayer times and all that.

552
00:31:15,860 --> 00:31:21,100
And the Lord spoke to him and didn't come within this window of time and said, well,

553
00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:22,100
don't be so impatient.

554
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:23,100
Yeah.

555
00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:25,980
You know, it's just like, you know, Lord, give us patience.

556
00:31:25,980 --> 00:31:26,980
We want it now.

557
00:31:26,980 --> 00:31:27,980
Right.

558
00:31:27,980 --> 00:31:28,980
Right.

559
00:31:28,980 --> 00:31:30,060
It's true.

560
00:31:30,060 --> 00:31:38,940
So when Jesus left his disciples, when he went up into into the heavens, when he ascended,

561
00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:44,820
Mark 1620 says that the disciples went forth and preached everywhere.

562
00:31:44,820 --> 00:31:49,340
The Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following.

563
00:31:49,340 --> 00:31:51,700
He was working with them.

564
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:54,700
That's co-operating.

565
00:31:54,700 --> 00:32:03,100
And another word is like the word collaborate comes from the parts that mean co-labor, working

566
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:08,620
together with, operating together with, co-operating.

567
00:32:08,620 --> 00:32:13,580
That's what cooperation is meant to be, that we work together.

568
00:32:13,580 --> 00:32:19,260
So the Holy Spirit works with us with signs following in Acts 512.

569
00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:24,660
It says by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders worked among the people.

570
00:32:24,660 --> 00:32:31,020
And Romans 1519, Paul is talking about through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the

571
00:32:31,020 --> 00:32:37,540
Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and roundabout unto Illyricum, I have fully preached

572
00:32:37,540 --> 00:32:39,220
the gospel of Christ.

573
00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:46,860
So when we when we're preaching and working with the Holy Spirit, he is going to do those

574
00:32:46,860 --> 00:32:48,860
things with signs following.

575
00:32:48,860 --> 00:32:51,940
So how do we get there?

576
00:32:51,940 --> 00:32:53,100
How do we get there?

577
00:32:53,100 --> 00:33:03,100
Well, one of the things that that is a major part of working with the Holy Spirit, co-operating

578
00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:06,340
with the Holy Spirit is praying in tongues.

579
00:33:06,340 --> 00:33:12,540
Now if you listener don't yet pray in tongues, it's time to start and you can start today

580
00:33:12,540 --> 00:33:16,780
because it's a thing that comes by faith.

581
00:33:16,780 --> 00:33:18,420
The Holy Spirit gives us utterance.

582
00:33:18,420 --> 00:33:22,140
So you know, Acts 2, 4 says they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak

583
00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:25,400
with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

584
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:32,340
So they were speaking and as they spoke, different words came out than what they were trying

585
00:33:32,340 --> 00:33:34,660
to do.

586
00:33:34,660 --> 00:33:43,500
And what we have observed as we've prayed for people is that you just begin to make

587
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:50,500
sounds and the Holy Spirit turns it into language and the Holy Spirit understands what you are

588
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:51,500
saying.

589
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:56,620
The Holy Spirit is going to pray through you the things that are on our Father's heart

590
00:33:56,620 --> 00:34:01,240
so that we say back to him the things that he is saying.

591
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:06,220
And the wonderful thing about tongues is that we don't understand most of the time unless

592
00:34:06,220 --> 00:34:10,060
the Spirit gives us an interpretation and he does that sometimes.

593
00:34:10,060 --> 00:34:17,580
We don't understand what is being said, but we are saying something by faith and the Holy

594
00:34:17,580 --> 00:34:19,980
Spirit is using that.

595
00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:21,620
He's co-operating.

596
00:34:21,620 --> 00:34:27,900
We are co-operating with him and he is praying the things that need to be prayed.

597
00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:35,060
Romans 8, 26 and 27 says, likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses for we know not

598
00:34:35,060 --> 00:34:40,940
what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with

599
00:34:40,940 --> 00:34:42,940
groanings which cannot be uttered.

600
00:34:42,940 --> 00:34:44,280
So start with groaning.

601
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:52,460
If you are not praying in tongues yet, start with just let him help you say, mmm, mmm.

602
00:34:52,460 --> 00:35:00,460
And let him use your groaning to get through to our Father because that's how prayer works.

603
00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:05,880
And he searches, he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because

604
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,700
he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

605
00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:17,300
So as we are praying in tongues or even just with groanings and sometimes even with sighs,

606
00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:19,880
hmm.

607
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,860
You know the Holy Spirit hears that because we are breathing.

608
00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:25,260
We are breathing with purpose.

609
00:35:25,260 --> 00:35:26,540
We are breathing with intent.

610
00:35:26,540 --> 00:35:29,020
We are breathing with deliberation.

611
00:35:29,020 --> 00:35:34,540
We are deliberately going, oh God.

612
00:35:34,540 --> 00:35:39,420
You know that is being heard by our Father.

613
00:35:39,420 --> 00:35:44,860
All of our cries are being heard by our Father and the Holy Spirit helps us to make the right

614
00:35:44,860 --> 00:35:49,020
sounds that are language to our Father.

615
00:35:49,020 --> 00:35:50,900
Yeah, that's very well put.

616
00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:53,240
He understands that.

617
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:58,460
So that's another way that we can co-operate with God and accomplish things especially

618
00:35:58,460 --> 00:36:01,180
when we are praying for things that we don't understand.

619
00:36:01,180 --> 00:36:03,860
We don't know how to pray as we ought to pray.

620
00:36:03,860 --> 00:36:06,060
There is something that needs to be prayed.

621
00:36:06,060 --> 00:36:07,560
We know there is something that needs to be prayed.

622
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:11,180
If you pray it in tongues, you will be sure to pray the right thing.

623
00:36:11,180 --> 00:36:12,940
Yeah, that's good.

624
00:36:12,940 --> 00:36:21,660
So another thing that is critical to understand is that the real you, the real you is your

625
00:36:21,660 --> 00:36:22,660
spirit.

626
00:36:22,660 --> 00:36:23,660
Mm-hmm.

627
00:36:23,660 --> 00:36:28,140
And there is this war going on all the time between your spirit and your flesh.

628
00:36:28,140 --> 00:36:32,660
And I don't think we will take time to read the verses in Romans 7.

629
00:36:32,660 --> 00:36:37,540
I think it's verse 15 through 22.

630
00:36:37,540 --> 00:36:43,340
Okay, so I'll just recommend that you go out to the Passion Translation and read that.

631
00:36:43,340 --> 00:36:45,660
Just read a couple of verses anyway, Philip.

632
00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:46,660
Okay.

633
00:36:46,660 --> 00:36:47,660
This is verse 15.

634
00:36:47,660 --> 00:36:50,660
I am a mystery to myself.

635
00:36:50,660 --> 00:36:56,500
For I want to do what is right, but end up doing what my moral instincts condemn.

636
00:36:56,500 --> 00:37:01,300
And if my behavior is not in line with my desire, my conscience still confirms the excellence

637
00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:02,300
of the law.

638
00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:07,100
And I realize that it is no longer my true self doing it, but the unwelcome intruder

639
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,300
of sin in my humanity.

640
00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:11,660
Okay, so we're talking about the flesh.

641
00:37:11,660 --> 00:37:18,180
Yeah, and in verse 20, so if my behavior contradicts my desires to do good, I must conclude that

642
00:37:18,180 --> 00:37:24,220
it's not my true identity doing it, but the unwelcome intruder of sin hindering me from

643
00:37:24,220 --> 00:37:26,260
being who I really am.

644
00:37:26,260 --> 00:37:27,260
Amen.

645
00:37:27,260 --> 00:37:28,260
Isn't that good?

646
00:37:28,260 --> 00:37:29,260
Yes.

647
00:37:29,260 --> 00:37:30,260
Got some really good scriptures in here.

648
00:37:30,260 --> 00:37:31,440
Yes, yes.

649
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:38,020
So the point is that there's this war going on between our flesh and our spirit.

650
00:37:38,020 --> 00:37:41,200
And Galatians chapter 5 talks about that.

651
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:46,480
And it's interesting, people that have died and gone to heaven talk about how when they're

652
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,700
in heaven and when they're outside of their body and their body is dead, that there's

653
00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:52,540
no doubting.

654
00:37:52,540 --> 00:37:54,260
There's no questioning.

655
00:37:54,260 --> 00:38:01,020
There's only the reality of who you are in God and that you belong to him because you've

656
00:38:01,020 --> 00:38:02,380
made him your Lord and Savior.

657
00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:05,220
That doesn't work if you haven't made him your Lord and Savior.

658
00:38:05,220 --> 00:38:07,260
There's another place that they go.

659
00:38:07,260 --> 00:38:13,180
But for people who have made Jesus both Lord and Savior, when you get separated from your

660
00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:19,980
body, your soul, that soulish nature that is contrary to your spirit stays with your

661
00:38:19,980 --> 00:38:24,080
body, and it doesn't go with you to heaven.

662
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:32,180
So I just want to read from the Amplified Galatians 5.16 that says, but I say walk and

663
00:38:32,180 --> 00:38:40,100
live habitually in the Holy Spirit, responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit.

664
00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:45,900
Then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh of human nature without

665
00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:46,900
God.

666
00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:47,900
Doesn't that say it well?

667
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:48,900
Yeah, it sure does.

668
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,020
How does it say it in the passion?

669
00:38:51,020 --> 00:38:56,420
As you yield freely and fully to the dynamic life and power of the Holy Spirit, you will

670
00:38:56,420 --> 00:38:58,820
abandon the cravings of your self-life.

671
00:38:58,820 --> 00:39:00,820
I love that.

672
00:39:00,820 --> 00:39:02,700
Because you're walking with the Spirit.

673
00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:04,780
You're just going to abandon that self-life.

674
00:39:04,780 --> 00:39:06,660
I like the next one.

675
00:39:06,660 --> 00:39:12,040
For your self-life craves the things that offend the Holy Spirit and hinder him from

676
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,020
living free within you.

677
00:39:14,020 --> 00:39:15,020
Wow.

678
00:39:15,020 --> 00:39:16,020
Yeah.

679
00:39:16,020 --> 00:39:17,140
That says it amazingly.

680
00:39:17,140 --> 00:39:18,900
Go on and read some more.

681
00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:23,660
When the Holy Spirit's intense cravings hinder your old self-life from dominating you.

682
00:39:23,660 --> 00:39:24,660
Amen.

683
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:30,300
So then the two incompatible and conflicting forces within you are your self-life of the

684
00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:34,340
flesh and the new creation life of the Spirit.

685
00:39:34,340 --> 00:39:35,340
Yes.

686
00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:36,340
Wow.

687
00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:37,380
That's beautiful.

688
00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:43,020
So go on and read from verse 19 because I think it's important for us to understand

689
00:39:43,020 --> 00:39:46,100
what the Bible spells out as the flesh life.

690
00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:47,100
Okay.

691
00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:50,540
The cravings of the self-life are obvious.

692
00:39:50,540 --> 00:39:58,340
Sexual immorality, lustful thoughts, pornography, chasing after things instead of God, manipulating

693
00:39:58,340 --> 00:40:04,900
others, hatred of those who get in your way, senseless arguments, resentment when others

694
00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:12,180
are favored, temper tantrums, angry quarrels, only thinking of yourself, being in love with

695
00:40:12,180 --> 00:40:14,500
your own opinions.

696
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:21,900
Being envious of the blessings of others, murder, uncontrolled addictions, wild parties,

697
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:24,700
and all other similar behavior.

698
00:40:24,700 --> 00:40:30,460
Heaven already warned you that those who use their freedom for these things will not inherit

699
00:40:30,460 --> 00:40:32,740
the kingdom realm of God.

700
00:40:32,740 --> 00:40:33,740
Mm-hmm.

701
00:40:33,740 --> 00:40:34,840
That's true.

702
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,980
But then what happens when you cooperate with the Holy Spirit, when your spirit, the real

703
00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:45,900
you, the real you that loves God, that wants God, cooperates with the Spirit?

704
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:46,900
What happens?

705
00:40:46,900 --> 00:40:47,900
Well, you get fruit from that.

706
00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:48,900
Okay.

707
00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:50,420
What does it say the fruit is?

708
00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:55,500
But the fruit produced by the Holy Spirit within you is a divine love in all of its

709
00:40:55,500 --> 00:41:03,860
varied expressions, joy that overflows, peace that subdues, patience that endures, kindness

710
00:41:03,860 --> 00:41:11,220
in action, a life full of virtue, faith that prevails, gentleness of heart, and strength

711
00:41:11,220 --> 00:41:12,220
of spirit.

712
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:13,220
Beautiful.

713
00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:18,260
Never set the law above these qualities, for they are meant to be limitless.

714
00:41:18,260 --> 00:41:19,260
Limitless.

715
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:20,260
Limitless.

716
00:41:20,260 --> 00:41:22,180
Because the Holy Spirit is limitless.

717
00:41:22,180 --> 00:41:23,500
Yeah.

718
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:31,180
Keep in mind that we who belong to Jesus, the Anointed One, have already experienced crucifixion.

719
00:41:31,180 --> 00:41:35,660
After everything connected with our self-life was put to death on the cross and crucified

720
00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:37,740
with Messiah.

721
00:41:37,740 --> 00:41:41,820
We must live in the Holy Spirit and follow after Him.

722
00:41:41,820 --> 00:41:48,620
So may we never be arrogant or look down on another, for each of us is an original.

723
00:41:48,620 --> 00:41:49,620
Isn't that beautiful?

724
00:41:49,620 --> 00:41:50,620
Yes.

725
00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:53,700
So beloved listener, you are an original.

726
00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:54,700
Yeah.

727
00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:57,780
And God has a purpose for your life.

728
00:41:57,780 --> 00:42:00,140
And He has a plan for your life.

729
00:42:00,140 --> 00:42:02,940
And He has intentions for your life.

730
00:42:02,940 --> 00:42:06,240
And He wants you to co-operate with Him.

731
00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:08,220
He wants you to work with Him.

732
00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:15,460
He's got these amazing things for you to do, and even more so for you to be in Him and

733
00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:19,340
let His life live through you.

734
00:42:19,340 --> 00:42:24,020
Because one of the things that Jesus said that night that He was betrayed, when He was

735
00:42:24,020 --> 00:42:28,660
with His disciples in the upper room, He prayed for us.

736
00:42:28,660 --> 00:42:34,480
And I'm going to read this as a prayer for you and for all of us together in the body

737
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:41,940
of Christ, that they all may be one as you, Father, are in me and I in you.

738
00:42:41,940 --> 00:42:44,480
That they also may be one in us.

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That the world may believe that you have sent me.

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And the glory which you gave me, I have given them.

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Receive that glory today.

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That they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me.

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That they may be made perfect in one.

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And that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you loved me.

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Father, I will that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am.

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Is that co-operating or is that co-operating?

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That they may behold my glory which you have given me for you loved me before the foundation

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of the world.

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So, beloved, we pray for you that you will have that oneness, that you will be one with

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Him, that the Father and Jesus and the Holy Spirit will come in their fullness into your

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spirit and give you that ability to overcome the flesh and to be everything that He intended

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you to be so that you can work with Him, operate with Him, labor with Him in His work in the

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earth till He comes.

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And may it be soon.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Come, Lord Jesus.

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