(179) Hidden Treasures

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It's about being in His Presence and going from glory to glory.

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You know, we know that our God is a consuming fire.

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Deuteronomy 4:24 says it for the Lord.

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Your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

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that's gonna bring us into maturity and unity.

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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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We are going to delve into the scriptures and into real life about hidden treasures.

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Treasures that are hidden from us?

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So today, we're going to talk about treasures that are hidden in earthen vessels.

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And Philip, I remember some time ago, you preached a whole message about treasures in earthen vessels

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from 2 Corinthians 4-7.

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Can you just give us an encapsulated version of what that is to give us a springboard to go from today?

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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.

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And one of the meanings of that word, vessels, means we frail.

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And I had read somewhere, it was like a low-grade pottery.

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So low-grade pottery is not on the shelf out in front.

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It's kind of put in the back.

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It's in the bargain basement.

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Bargain basement, yeah.

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You'll have imperfections.

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It may not have actual cracks, but maybe flaws in the design.

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Flaws in the glazing and all that.

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So things like that, so what happens?

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You put that in the back and maybe when it's the last one left, somebody will buy it and they'll get their money's worth out of it.

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So when we look at ourselves like that, how frail we are in the natural, we're fearfully, we're wonderfully made.

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We can fall down and break an arm or something.

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We're very strong, but we're delicate.

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And spiritually too, there's things that can happen, can wound us and can mar us and can just damage you.

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And it's when we recognize these things, but that's what the blood of Jesus is for because it covers all that.

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Because we all have imperfections.

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You take anybody you know that you've known them, you just don't think about it.

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But you can, yeah, I remember this, I remember that.

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Now I'm glad I'm not married to that one, through this or that.

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You can always find flaws in people.

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There is no perfect person because as long as we are on this earth and we have this mindset that the way we have, we have a natural brain,

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we're not fully locked into the spirit yet because we have a soul and our soul wants to control us all the time.

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Yeah, the flesh.

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Flesh, yeah, that's it.

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Earth and vessel.

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Earth and vessel.

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Well, yeah, God made the flesh of Adam out of dust, out of earth.

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But we have this treasure in our vessels.

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Right, and the treasure is?

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Yeah, treasure is the glory of God, the presence of God because a vessel, even though it has imperfections, has Mars, all this and that,

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can still hold what the others hold.

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It will still carry that.

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So even if we feel like we're Mars, and many times we do, we feel you got slimed by somebody or something like that.

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We all know what that is like.

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But we just get cleansed of all that.

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We keep our sanctified imagination on the Lord and we can just get over that stuff and he can use us.

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Very true.

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Very true.

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I'm reminded of how Adam was formed of the dust of the ground according to Genesis 2.4.

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That word dust is the Hebrew word afar.

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That it means dust, like powdered or gray.

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And so it can also mean clay or earth or mud, ashes, dust, earth, ground, mortar, powder, rubbish.

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That's from the Blue Letter Bible, from the Strongs, I believe, the definitions.

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So we see that Adam was formed of the dust of the ground and Job refers to himself as being made of clay.

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And we also have Isaiah 64-8 talking about the Lord is our Father, that God is our Father.

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We're the clay, he's the potter.

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And so we're all the work of his hand.

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And in Genesis 3, 19 and 23, where the curse is coming because of sin, okay?

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God is saying to Adam, in the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread, till you return unto the ground.

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For out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

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And then verse 23 says, therefore the Lord sent him, the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden

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to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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Yeah, that is a sad statement.

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Very, very sad.

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And I love Psalm 103-14 that says, for he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.

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We are dust, yeah.

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And so we have to remember that each other are dust.

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You know, we have a tendency as human beings to become judgmental, and that's part of the flesh issue.

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And kind of tend to treat people like they're dust.

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Well, yeah, that's true too.

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You know, I remember a pastor one time having a men's group, and he got a word from the Lord.

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And he encouraged everyone, I don't think he encouraged them, I think he made them,

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go out and buy a very expensive teacup, you know, the English kind that's made of porcelain, you know,

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it's very fragile and it's very fine and it's very expensive.

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And he said, for the next month, you have to drink every drop that you are going to drink in your life.

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Drink it out of this teacup to learn how to treat your wife.

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Wow.

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Because the wife is, you know, Paul said she's the weaker vessel.

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Well, she's a delicate, a more delicate vessel.

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Women are not designed to be beaten up on.

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They're, you know, we're designed to be loved and men are designed to be respected.

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Yeah.

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So that's why it's important, you know, Paul talks about it in several places in the New Testament

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about husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and women honor your husband,

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reverence him, give him respect, because that's how we're wired.

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We're, women are wired to be delicate.

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We're wired to be treated delicately.

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We're wired to be treated like something fragile because we are, where, you know,

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a woman goes to tears real easily, you know.

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But even porcelain is made of clay.

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It's a certain kind of clay, but the formation of a porcelain vessel is, you know,

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a little bit different than just throwing it on the potter's wheel with made out of,

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you know, some other kind of clay.

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It's thinner too.

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Yeah, it's made, and I think they put bone in it like bone china.

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So the construction of it is, it's to be strong, but it's also delicate.

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And you have to take care of it delicately.

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So vessels, vessels are meant to contain something.

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And we see that God has given us also this picture in Ephesians 3.8, where Paul says,

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unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should

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preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.

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Yeah, that's beautiful.

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So when he's inside of us, there are unsearchable riches available to us that God wants to use

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us to bring forth.

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And as he used Paul, and as I was, as I was preparing notes for this, the thought came

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to me, we can search forever and never come to the end of his riches.

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There will always be new revelations of the riches of the anointed one who lives inside of us.

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Yeah, beautiful.

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And he wants us to recognize one another for who we really are.

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Now, this all started the other day when I was waiting on the Lord for, you know,

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what do you want to say to me today?

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And I just had the notion that I needed to go back to my journals from a ways back.

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And because, you know, God will speak something to us and we write it down and it's profound

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and it's wonderful.

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But if we don't follow up and review from time to time,

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we're going to not be doing what he said.

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So we have a responsibility to go back and reread and put into practice the things that

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he spoke to us.

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So I went back to my journal from quite a ways back.

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I went to 2009.

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Okay, that's a long ways back.

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And I read the following thing and I'll say upfront that I have no recollection as to

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what situation the Lord was referring to as the case in point.

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But obviously I was being bothered by something that somebody did or attitudes somebody had

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or imperfections in somebody that was annoying me.

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Kind of yank your chain.

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Yeah, I guess so.

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So this is what I wrote on July 24th, 2009, a long time ago.

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As I was waking up, I heard in my spirit, but we have this treasure in earthen vessels.

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And at the same time, I saw in my mind's eye the dead sea scrolls in the Kumbh Rang cave.

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Then the scripture goes on that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.

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And then the Lord began to speak this to me.

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The treasure, my presence, my word is within.

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Don't look at the earthen vessels.

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And don't look at the exterior of the vessel and judge the contents.

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Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart.

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Remember that's from 1 Samuel when Samuel is looking at Jesse's sons.

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And he's saying, surely this is the Lord's.

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Surely this is the one.

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Yeah, just look at him.

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And the Lord says, mm, that's not the one I have in mind.

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He might look good to you on the outside, but I know his heart.

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And he's not king material.

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So back to what the Lord was saying.

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Leave my vessels to me.

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As long as you continue to have shortcomings and areas in which you have not yet overcome

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and you continue to walk in the limitations of unglorified flesh, be careful how you judge

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others who have not yet overcome.

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I am patient with you and have gained much ground in you.

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Some was taken little by little and some all at once.

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You keep asking me to teach you my ways.

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I have brought this case in point into your midst to show you another facet of my character

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and how I deal with hearts.

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Keep watching and keep learning.

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I am well able to use earthen vessels to pour out my glory.

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Sometimes I use contentious preachers to preach my gospel and bring souls into my kingdom.

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Sometimes they are all I have to work with.

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Walk humbly before me.

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I want to teach you by my spirit the difference between the discernment that comes by my spirit

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and the judgment that comes by the letter of the law.

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Be careful not to be a Pharisee.

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Let my love be your standard.

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I see the finished vessel.

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You see the lump of clay.

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Leave my lumps of clay to me.

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Don't speak what you see with your natural eyes.

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Speak my mercy and grace and I will show it.

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Speak my eternal purposes and I will bring them to pass.

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I have given you a privilege to show mercy and love to one of my imperfect vessels.

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You will receive back that which you have given.

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Just down shaken together and running over.

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Isn't it amazing what I can do with imperfect vessels?

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The excellency of the power is mine.

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I will do what pleases me.

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If you watch humbly, I'll let you see my process.

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If you watch proudly, you'll only see the truth in the end.

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Beautiful.

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Ouch, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, that's one of those things that I just had to stop and

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humble myself and repent.

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I'm sure that that brought repentance at the time.

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I didn't write about it, but I'm sure it did because you don't hear a word like that

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from the Lord without stopping and saying, oh, I'm sorry.

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I've been judgmental.

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I'm sorry.

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The Lord just wants to set us free in those areas and to treat one another as though there's

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treasure inside.

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It makes me think of what Papa Dorn used to say.

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Robert Dorn was my pastor many, many, many years ago, and he taught in our School of

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Ministry for many years.

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He used to say, Jesus is inside of you and Jesus is inside of the other person.

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So be nice to Jesus.

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And that really helps.

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It helps us remember.

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And I've learned through the years that I can put up with a whole lot of stuff, especially

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if I know that a person is going to come under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and they're

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going to repent.

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They can blow off steam and say things that they probably shouldn't say, but if they have

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a track record with me that they're going to come back and say, I'm sorry, it gives

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me a whole lot of grace to just let them blow off their steam and get it out of their system

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and then they'll be okay.

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And we don't know what somebody's going through.

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There's that saying that I think it's an acronym that spells the word halt.

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You're most vulnerable to doing something in the flesh if you're hungry.

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That's the H. If you're angry.

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If you're lonely or if you're tired.

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And as I've pondered it, I think you need to add to that if you're not feeling well

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or if you're in pain.

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Those things make people tend to be more ready to bite your head off or get angry or act

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in the flesh.

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Have a flesh flash.

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Okay?

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That's a flesh flash.

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And sometimes there are those things that there's hunger or anger, like especially people who

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have low blood sugar issues.

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If they get hungry, they can get cranky.

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Well, yes, you're talking to one of them through the years.

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You've watched me get cranky before supper time.

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Don't talk to me about something that might stir me up.

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I'm less likely to be patient if I'm hungry.

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That happens to people.

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And if we will learn not to be triggered when someone else gets triggered, maybe something

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we did triggered them to blow and have a flesh flash.

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Or maybe there's something that we don't know about.

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Maybe something has happened in their family.

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Maybe somebody got angry with them at work or you hear the story of dad comes home from

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work and he got fussed at at work.

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And so he fusses at mom when he gets home and then mom fusses at the kids and then the

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kids.

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Just kick the dog.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And it becomes a chain reaction in the spirit because there are spiritual things, spiritual

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entities that are trying to disrupt our lives and trying to keep us in the flesh and out

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of the spirit.

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But the cool thing is, as I was meditating on this that I read, another thought came

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to me that I hadn't put together before, that not only is dust and clay something that can

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be made into a vessel.

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Sand is also a kind of earth.

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It's also a kind of dust, particularly sand that's been ground down from quartz.

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It's called silica or silicone dioxide.

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And if you heat that with the other proper ingredients, it turns into glass.

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Yeah, it's amazing.

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And glass has been known way back into ancient Egypt.

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There were objects, there's archaeology is uncovered objects that were made of glass.

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And you have some nice Roman earrings.

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Yeah, Roman glass.

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The Roman glass that you bought me.

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That I bought you.

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Sweet.

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So I did a little bit of research.

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And here's an interesting, before we get into a little bit of research, here's an interesting

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verse that also is about hidden treasures.

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Okay, we've got these treasures, the treasures of the word, we've got the treasures of the

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presence of God in us as earth and vessels.

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But here's another place that you find them.

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Deuteronomy 33, verses 18 and 19.

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This is where Jacob is prophesying over his sons and he's talking about zebulin.

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And he says, and of zebulin, he says, rejoice zebulin and you're going out and Issacur

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and your tents.

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Those two always went together, zebulin and Issacur.

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They shall call the peoples to the mountain.

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There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness.

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For they shall partake of the abundance of the seas and of treasures hidden in the sand.

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So sand can be made into glass.

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And you can do that by heating it up really, really hot.

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And you can see it in nature.

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And maybe this is where they got the idea to start making things out of glass.

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I have a piece of glass.

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What was sand, we got it when we were down in southwest Texas where lightning hit the

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sand and melted it.

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It melted it into a hard thing.

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I thought, wow, yeah, I thought, what is this?

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And so I said, that's lightning.

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That's where lightning hit the ground and did that to it.

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That is so cool.

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Oh, wow.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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And then you can also see obsidian is a natural type of glass that's formed from volcanic

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eruption.

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It's those elements that have been put together and it's part of what got heated up and it

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acts like glass.

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It behaves like glass.

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And you can chip it down to make something sharp to cut with or whatever, stone age tools.

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And meteorites striking the ground can produce glass as well.

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But if you want to make glass, you have to heat it like 600 to 1700 degrees centigrade,

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which would be 1920 degrees to 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit.

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That's like very, very hot.

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I work with glass at a glass company and we would do board ups.

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And if a big piece of plate glass broke within three feet of the door, it had to be replaced

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with safety glass.

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Well, what they do, they take the glass, remember we loaded this piece of pre-cut glass back

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of a truck and I drove it to a place, there was only one place in Chicago that did this,

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and they would take the glass with these little clips, would get the top of it, take it off

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and they would blast it, I think like about 1500 degrees or something for like so many

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seconds and that would temper the glass.

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Yeah.

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And a lot of times you can look in windows and stuff and you'll see a little wave and

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you look at the top, you can see like little, little tiny things where the things were actually

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holding the glass, kind of melted it into it.

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But sometimes the glass doesn't survive and it shatters.

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I could see on the bottom those that didn't make it.

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This pile's a glass down there, I thought, oh boy, hope that don't happen, that's a total

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loss.

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Yeah, I think.

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But it was very educational.

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Yeah.

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So there's glass and then there's tempered glass.

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Is that safety glass?

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Is that the same?

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Yeah, it's a safety glass, a type of safety glass.

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So what happens if that shatters?

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Yeah, it's like it goes into little tiny pieces.

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It's like the windows of your car, your sunroof or your side windows and your back window

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is made out of tempered glass, but your windshield is made out of laminate glass.

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It's two pieces of glass with plastic inside of it.

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It's kind of like it's glued to itself, it gets hit.

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You can still see through the cracks like you see you get the runs in your windshield,

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it's usually in the top layer, but you have to have the whole windshield.

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But that was the regular kind of safety glass, the whole thing would just, in front of your

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eyes would turn into a, you know, it would just all go to be awful little cracks, you

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couldn't see nothing.

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Yeah.

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So those are things that have been implemented in the industry in order to keep you safe.

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Keep you safe, yeah.

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Because if you use ordinary glass and it shatters, it shatters into very sharp edged things where

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safety glass, it's more like little round pieces that aren't as dangerous, right?

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Yeah.

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I remember when we had our accident and we came out of it, you know, the first thing

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I did, I spit glass out of my mouth.

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So did I.

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You know, it was the tempered glass.

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The car was totally up on its side, my head and my hand were on the, actually on the

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asphalt, out the broken window.

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You know, and I remember waking, kind of coming out of it and spitting glass out of my mouth.

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Yeah.

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You know, I was just semi-conscious.

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Right, right.

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So the point is that there are things that can be done to glass to make it more safe.

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The ancient glass that they made wasn't actually transparent.

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And it took a while before they learned in the glass making industry, you might call

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it that you add certain substances to it to actually make it clear.

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And one of the ways that you can make it clear is by adding lead to it.

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You've heard of lead crystal?

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Lead crystal, yeah.

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It's not actually crystal because it doesn't have any facets to it like something that's

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actually crystal, but they call it crystal, but it's really leaded glass.

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But they substitute lead for one of the other ingredients, you know, in actual glass making,

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you would have three things, sand, which is silicon dioxide like quartz, limestone, which

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is calcium carbonate, and soda ash, which would be sodium carbonate.

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And then there are plants that you can use to, you reduce them to ash and those can be

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used as one of those ingredients.

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And as the industry began to really come into its own where they developed clear glass,

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that's where this leaded glass came in.

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And the more lead you add to it, the more beautiful it becomes.

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It sparkles.

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Sparkles, huh?

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Lead, I love lead crystal.

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We've got a couple of pieces that you bought me when we were in Romania years and years

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ago because they make it there.

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And Sister Gwen Shaw, our founder, had a number of pieces.

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So we're living in her house and so we have access to those.

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I just love how the light sparkles through it.

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And that's the point I'm getting to, that earthen vessels can also be transparent.

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And the more lead that you add to it, think the weight of glory.

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Okay, cavod, the Hebrew word for glory.

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Glory, uh-huh.

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That means weight.

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So think of the weightiness of his glory as it gets added to this earthen vessel that

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starts with sand.

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You know, think of taking a handful of dirt from your garden.

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That's full of stuff that has been decomposed.

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It's organic material that has decomposed.

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And it's really good for growing stuff.

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But it's not very good for shining the light through it.

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And if you've got clay, a clay vessel, like an old clay pot or something, you're going

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to cook beans in or something like that.

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It's great for cooking beans, but you can't see the light through it.

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But if you take something as delicate as sand, you get a handful of sand, dry sand, and it

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just goes through your fingers.

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So it's really like you can hardly even work with it.

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It's so frail.

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There's not much you can do with it.

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It's great for on the beach.

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You like to have it on the beach rather than a rocky beach, you know?

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But it's not something that you would think you could make something beautiful out of.

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But you take that frail loose, something that you can't even grab ahold of and hang onto.

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And you put it in the heat of the all-consuming fire of our God in His presence.

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And you add something weighty like lead to it.

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Wow!

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What is that going to produce?

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What is that going to produce?

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It's going to produce something transparent.

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It's about being in His presence and going from glory to glory.

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We know that our God is a consuming fire.

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Deuteronomy 4.24 says it for the Lord.

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Your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

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Hebrews 12.29 says our God is a consuming fire.

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And it's the fire of His presence in the body of believers that's going to bring us into

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maturity and unity.

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And I love what Ephesians 4 talks about.

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And I'd like to read it from the Passion.

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I'm going to read several verses from verse 11 to verse 24.

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This is where he's talking about the five-fold ministry.

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The five-fold ministry are supposed to be mature believers.

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Sometimes there's flush flashes out of them too.

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Because there's not any one of them that has reached perfection yet.

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Otherwise they'd have been raptured.

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Just like Enoch Walketh.

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Like Enoch Walketh God took him.

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God took him because he made it to perfection.

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But the rest of us haven't made it there yet.

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So that's why we have to be full of grace for each other.

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So here's what I love the Passion translation.

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And he has appointed some with grace to be apostles.

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And some with grace to be prophets.

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And some with grace to be evangelists.

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And some with grace to be pastors.

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And some with grace to be teachers.

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And their calling is to nurture and prepare all the holy believers to do their own works

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of ministry.

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And as they do this, they will enlarge and build up the body of Christ.

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These grace ministries will function until we all attain oneness and the faith.

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Until we all experience the fullness of what it means to know the Son of God.

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And finally, we become one perfect man with the full dimensions of spiritual maturity

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and fully developed in the abundance of Christ.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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Yes.

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And then our immaturity will end.

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That's where the flesh-fleshes end, right?

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As we come into know, the more we know him, the more we spend time in the presence of

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our eternal Father, the all-consuming fire, the more he heats us up.

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I'm not reading now.

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I'm commenting.

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The more he heats us up in his presence, the more transparent we're going to become,

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right?

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We will, okay, now I'm back to reading.

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Then our immaturity will end.

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And we will not be easily shaken by trouble, nor let astray by novel teachings or by the

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false doctrines of deceivers who teach clever lies, but instead we will remain strong and

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always sincere in our love as we express the truth.

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All our direction and ministries will flow from Christ and lead us deeper into him, the

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anointed head of his body, the church.

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For his body has been formed in his image.

471
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Wow.

472
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Yeah.

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And is closely joined together and constantly connected as one.

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And every member has been given divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all.

475
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:34,720
And as these gifts operate effectively, throughout the whole body, we are built up and made perfect

476
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,520
in love.

477
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,840
So with the wisdom given to me from the Lord, I say, you should not live like the unbelievers

478
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around you who walk in their empty delusions.

479
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The corrupted logic has been clouded because their hearts are so far from God.

480
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Their blinded understanding and deep-seated moral darkness keeps them from the true knowledge

481
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,000
of God.

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Because of spiritual apathy, they surrender their lives to lewdness, impurity, and sexual

483
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,680
obsession.

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But this is not the way of life that Christ has unfolded within you.

485
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Within you.

486
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This treasure that's in earth and vessels.

487
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Within you.

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If you have really experienced the anointed one and heard his truth, it will be seen in

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your life.

490
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,880
For we know that the ultimate reality is embodied in Jesus.

491
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And he has taught you to let go of the lifestyle of the ancient man, the old self-life, which

492
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was corrupted by sinful and deceitful desires that spring from delusions.

493
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Now it's time to be made new by every revelation that's been given to you.

494
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And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ within as your new life and live in

495
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,360
union with him.

496
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For God has recreated you all over again in his perfect righteousness.

497
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And now you belong to him in the realm of true holiness.

498
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That's beautiful.

499
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That's the treasure in earth and vessels.

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As we become transparent, we're going to magnify him.

501
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:11,000
I remember some years ago, quite a few years ago, leading worship one morning in our devotions

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00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:17,320
time and we were singing a song about, oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt

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his name together.

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And I had this thought go through my head.

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How do we magnify the Lord?

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00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,480
And I saw in my mind's eye a picture of a magnifying glass.

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And I realized that the thing that makes us able to magnify him is being transparent.

508
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:42,920
So that transparent glass comes from spending time in his presence and spending time in

509
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:48,320
that heat, that intense heat of his love.

510
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,840
His love for us is what makes him an all-consuming fire.

511
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:58,120
It's his love for us that provides the oxygen around us.

512
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,360
And you have to have oxygen to have a good fire, right?

513
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:10,400
So the love of God is what gives us that intense heat that transforms us and changes us.

514
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And a magnifying glass is convex on both sides.

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00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:16,720
It's a curve.

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It's an outward curve.

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Concave is a curve that's shaped like a cave.

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So it's an inward curve.

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And we don't need an inward curve.

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We don't need to be more inward.

521
00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:35,120
We need to be more outward, letting the love of God put us out into that roundness, that

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00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:42,240
beautiful shape that will magnify him, that people will be able to see through our flesh

523
00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:49,200
into that glorious Christ that's within us, that glorious anointed one that's in us, that

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00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:55,880
leads us into the truth and leads us in love and leads us in purity, becoming transparent

525
00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,520
and letting people see, yeah, I've got flaws.

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00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,360
I'm not perfect yet.

527
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But Jesus inside of me is perfect.

528
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,400
And so he can pour out his glory through us.

529
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:16,480
And there's a scripture, 1 Corinthians 13-12, for now we see through a glass darkly, but

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then face to face.

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Now, I know in part, but then shall I know even as also as I am known.

532
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Amen, in the passion, 1 Corinthians 13-12 says, for now we see but a faint reflection

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of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror.

534
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And the mirrors in those days were not plain clear mirrors.

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But one day we will see face to face.

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My understanding is incomplete now.

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But one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully

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00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,760
understood.

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00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,120
We see through a glass darkly.

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So in 2 Corinthians 3-18, we see a similar word, but we all with open face, beholding

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as in a glass or a mirror, the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from

542
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,840
glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.

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00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:21,200
And that word glory, remember we were talking about in Hebrew, the word glory has the idea

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of weight to it.

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But in Greek, the word is dhoksa, and it has the idea of opinion or judgment or view.

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So we're looking at something and we're determining in our understanding the value of something.

547
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So one of the meanings is splendor or brightness, like of the moon and the sun and the stars.

548
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,760
It can mean magnificent, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace and majesty.

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And it can also refer to angels as a parent in their exterior brightness, a most glorious

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condition, a most exalted state.

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00:37:01,460 --> 00:37:05,880
This is the outline of biblical usage from the Blue Letter Bible.

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This idea of going from glory to glory, it's going from one weightiness to the next weightiness.

553
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:19,840
And it's like going from, when I think of glory, I think of, you know, when you look

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00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:25,560
at a little flame, the flame on a candle, you see the flame itself, but there's like

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00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,720
a circle of brightness around it, a glow.

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00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:35,960
And I always think of that glow when I think of glory as that brightness that surrounds

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00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,400
something that is a source of light.

558
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,400
Yeah, that's beautiful.

559
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,000
You know, I remember it was Steadley Pimlot.

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He was a minister out of Norwich, England.

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00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,200
He was looking in a mirror one morning getting ready.

562
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,920
He was in his 70s, wasn't he?

563
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,640
Yeah, he was reading his Bible that was sitting on his dresser.

564
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,880
Okay, was he reading that scripture?

565
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,600
I don't know what scripture he was reading, but he was reading his Bible and he glanced

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00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:01,840
up.

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00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,440
And he saw himself as what his glorified body would look like.

568
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:07,440
Yeah.

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You know, he was just so young and beautiful and all that, and then, incident was gone.

570
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:11,960
Yeah.

571
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,960
It was like a glimpse.

572
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,320
A momentary glimpse.

573
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,320
Yeah.

574
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,320
Yeah.

575
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:17,320
What's to come?

576
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,320
Yep.

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00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,440
That's treasure in these earthen vessels.

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00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:31,180
So our choice today is how much are we going to let the fire of God, and sometimes that

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00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:34,720
fire comes in fiery trials.

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00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:41,480
Remember you were once upon a time, a long ago, you were waiting on the Lord and you

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00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:47,480
heard that scripture out of Peter about, don't be surprised at the fiery trial, which is

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to try you.

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00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,480
Yeah.

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00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,480
Yeah.

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And I went through a fiery trial.

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00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,720
You went through a fiery trial in your health at the time.

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00:38:55,720 --> 00:39:01,720
But God was kind to you to give you that, and I'm sure that whatever you went through

588
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:08,160
did something in your character, did something in your life, did something in your processes

589
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:15,200
of how you process things to give you a greater understanding and greater revelation.

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00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:20,320
And it's somehow, I just know that that's how God works, that it elevates you into a

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00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,320
different place.

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00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:30,640
Because it's like going through school, you learn something, and then you practice it,

593
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,240
you review it, and then you're tested on it.

594
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:38,760
And you're tested to see, did you really learn this?

595
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:45,080
And sometimes the fiery trials in our lives are for that purpose to check and see, did

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00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:51,480
we actually learn the lesson, or do we have to go back and review again?

597
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:59,560
So the Lord is trying to challenge us that we have this treasure of Him inside of us.

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00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:10,520
And we have the opportunity all the time to judge or to give grace to other people who

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00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,840
also have a treasure in their earthen vessel.

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00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,440
And we have the choice of how much are we going to let the love of God shine through

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00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:20,440
us.

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00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,240
It's Christ in you, the hope of glory.

603
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:23,240
Yes.

604
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:24,240
Yeah.

605
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:25,240
And we've got to let that hope out.

606
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:26,240
Yeah.

607
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:27,440
We've got to give room for each other.

608
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:35,120
We've got to have love for each other, enough to cover each other when we've made a mistake.

609
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,480
And I just want to close with this thought from Revelation 12, verses 10 and 11.

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Now is come.

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Now is come salvation and strength.

612
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:50,600
And the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ, His anointed one, for the accuser

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00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,960
of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night, and they

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00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:02,640
overcame Him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

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00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,160
And they love not their lives unto the death.

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00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:11,640
So when we are being challenged by someone who has done something wrong, someone who

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00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:17,440
knows better, someone who has been misguided, misled, someone who's been tricked.

618
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,640
There's a lot of times that witchcraft is being done on our brothers and sisters and

619
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,480
the Lord, especially, especially preachers.

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00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,160
You know, they're coming under direct attack.

621
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,160
Yes.

622
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:35,400
They're coming under direct attack from the enemy to try and discredit them and push them

623
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,480
off the scene.

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00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:45,680
So God is trying to help us, to help each other to grow up into the maturity of the

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00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:53,660
Lord as we let His love shine through us and as we become intercessors for those who have

626
00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:55,440
made a mistake.

627
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,360
And instead of judging them and instead of calling them out on the carpet, you know,

628
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,240
what did Jesus say in the first place?

629
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:04,480
If your brother offends you, what are you supposed to do?

630
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,480
Forgive him.

631
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,200
Forgive him, first of all, but also if there's something needs to be dealt with, you go to

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00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,760
him personally, one on one.

633
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,340
You don't talk about it with other people.

634
00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:17,520
You go deal with it one on one.

635
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:23,800
And if you come to a conclusion that's amicable, then it's over.

636
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,640
And if the person doesn't hear you, then you go with someone else.

637
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:33,920
But you don't take it to the whole body until you've done those other steps.

638
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,040
And it grieves my heart when we have people out there that are accusing one another of

639
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,680
this and that, especially now that we have all the social media where we can just say

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00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,920
anything we want to.

641
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,560
And we get into trouble with that.

642
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:54,600
But God wants us to learn to be intercessors for each other and cover one another with

643
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:58,160
the blood of Jesus Christ and bring that forgiveness.

644
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:03,880
And as we pray for each other, that sets people free to realize, oh no, I made a mistake.

645
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:10,840
But if we hold judgments over them, it will keep them in bondage so that they won't even

646
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,000
feel like repenting.

647
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:19,520
But when we become intercessors, it will help and it will help to bring the body of Christ

648
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,280
to maturity.

649
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:27,640
And that comes from our intimate relationship with our Father, the all-consuming fire that

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00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:32,400
helps us to become transparent in Him, going from glory to glory.

651
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,280
So as we're going from glory to glory, as we're helping one another go from glory to

652
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:43,520
glory, as we're helping one another overcome by our intercessions, we are making the hidden

653
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,920
treasures of the Word of God viewable.

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00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:54,640
We're making the hidden treasures of the presence of God obvious and manifest in our

655
00:43:54,640 --> 00:44:01,280
lives so that the world can see that this hidden treasure is something that they're

656
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,720
going to want.

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00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:11,640
Father in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray for all of our listeners, Lord, to have this

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00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:17,600
revelation of how they can become intercessors for those that have made mistakes, how we

659
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:26,600
can all exhibit more of your glory by letting you burn your fire in us and transform us

660
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:31,640
even by the testings that we go through, Lord, that leads us into your hope and into your

661
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:32,720
glory.

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00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:37,280
In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, we just pray for that mighty grace that comes from

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00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:42,360
your presence to help each and every one of us to be transformed by the renewing of our

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00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:49,800
minds to go from glory to glory and let your hidden treasure that's inside of us be manifest

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00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:50,800
in Jesus' name.

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00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:51,800
Amen.

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