(199) "Cannibalism in the Church"

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when the Holy Spirit comes on us, He gives us the grace to overcome. He gives us the grace to take

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the high road. He gives us the grace to stop talking about one another, to stop backbiting,

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to stop this cannibalism in the church, to stop biting and devouring one another,

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because if you don't check that, it will ruin the church.

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God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage

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in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Bus. And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so glad that you're with us. The Holy Spirit has been speaking to us about something

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that is on His heart, and He wants us to talk about cannibalism in the church.

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Cannibalism in the Church, what a title. The Holy Spirit gave that to me. Some days ago,

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I had a thought came up in my spirit from Galatians chapter 5, and verse 15, it says,

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but if you bite and devour one another, take heed or watch out that you be not consumed one of

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another. And that, let me put that in context. I'll start with verse 13. For brothers and sisters,

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you have been called to liberty. Only don't use liberty for an occasion to the flesh,

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but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word. Even this,

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you shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, take heed,

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or watch out, be careful that you be not consumed one of another. This I say, verse 16, this I say

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then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust, the desire of the flesh. For the flesh

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lusts or desires against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary one to

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the other. So that you cannot do the things that you would. But if you be led of the spirit,

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of the spirit, you're not under the law. So this, this idea of biting and devouring one another,

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that's the picture that I'm seeing, you know, the bickering that might go on.

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Especially with social media, the way it is anymore. Oh my goodness. You know, there's things

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people, you know, don't need to know about a person or that because, you know, one accusation

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that may not be true, but out there could destroy a person. It's true. And he's seen that happen.

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And even discussing things to do with politics or even a doctrine, things like that. People have

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opposing views. You know, people say things on social media that they wouldn't say to a person's

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face. You know, you just get bold because they can't see you. You can't see them. And you know,

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it just causes the flesh to rise up and just get rude and snarky and mean. And, and you know,

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that's not what we've been called to do. We shouldn't be eating one another. That's the

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cannibalism that I think the Holy spirit is talking about that we're, we're back biting,

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you know, and sometimes it's not on social media. Sometimes it's just in the church in general,

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on a phone call. And did you hear about so-and-so and what they're doing? And I'm just telling you

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so that you'll pray. You know, that reminds me back when my parents moved to this kind of rural

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area of Arkansas was in 1975 and they had a, it was like a three party line or party line. I mean,

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you get on the phone. Yeah. I mean, you have two or three other people over there and they could

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just eavesdrop on your, your message or something like that. I mean, we're back in time a little

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bit. And so they know what's going on and that's how rumors get started. That's how rumors. Oh my,

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the rumors that can get started. Oh, shall we tell the rumor? Come on, let's tell the

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Okay. So when we induct someone into our ministry, we generally have them wear white because it's a

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sign of purity. And in order to join, they do a 21 day fast and they dedicate themselves to the Lord.

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You know, we have a prayer of dedication that they pray and we usually wear white for that. Right.

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And we had one lady on our staff for a while that wound up going to Israel to

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intercede at the wall, the Kotel, the wailing wall. It's sometimes called the retaining wall,

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the retaining wall of the temple mount. And that was her calling. She was to go there and she was

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to pray. And then at one point she wound up joining the civil guard in her neighborhood,

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where at night she would go out and patrol. If she wasn't patrolling in prayer at the wall,

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she was out patrolling in her neighborhood. And Israel was only a nation about 30 years at this

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point. Yeah. Yeah. This is still way back in the seventies. And in order to be patrolling,

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she had an Uzi, you know, a machine gun. And actually the, you hear the name Uzi and that's

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the maker. It's a, it was an Israeli that invented that gun. Okay. Name was Uzi. Okay. And that's how

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it got its name. So anyway, that was the real story about this gal. So one of our dearest, dearest

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people in her simple innocence, guilelessness would tell this story to folks. And the rumor got

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started around here that down here in this valley, we had a lady in a white dress sitting on top of

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a wall with a machine gun guarding the place. And that was back in the late 1970s. Yeah. And

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that rumor is still going around. We just heard it recently and it grew into that now she's in a

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wedding dress. That's how rumors get started. And they evolve. Yes. So the point is here that

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sometimes things get told that aren't true. And sometimes people just get all excited about

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getting the news. I want to, I want to know the first one to tell this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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But here's my question. What's the difference between a watchman on the wall who's looking

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out for trouble on behalf of the body of Christ and a critic or a gossip? Well, I'm just a watchman

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on the wall. And so I'm going to point out what's wrong. Wow. Okay. Maybe. But a real watchman is an

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intercessor. Yes. And a lot of times intercessors, they don't always share things as far as, you know,

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it's like kind of like keeping God's secrets. In fact, our founder, Gonshal, wrote a book on that,

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you know, keeping God's secrets. Yeah. Kind of like we've said before, her husband was retired

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Air Force, loose lips sink ships. Yeah. You know, and that's what would happen in war. Yeah. You

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know, some person says the wrong thing and the other side can get the information and use it

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against you. Right. So you have this tendency that is from the flesh. Okay. We've talked a number of

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times about having flesh flashes and it's a real thing. It's a real thing. I mean, come on, Philip,

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you and I are married. Yes. And every now and then not so much you, but more me, there's flesh flashes,

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you know, I guess hormones are, nevermind. It can be anything, but you're more likely to have flesh

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flashes when you're hungry or you're angry or you're lonely or you're tired or you're sick or in pain.

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Yeah. Okay. Those things, when any of those things are happening in your body,

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it tends to swing you over into letting things out your mouth that shouldn't be there. But it

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starts with things that are in your mind and that drops down into your heart and out of the abundance

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of the heart, the mouth speaks. Yeah. You can see how it takes, you know, like salvation can come in

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an instant, but a renewed mind takes a while. Yes, sir. And it shows up a lot of times when you at

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least expect it. So if you're young in the Lord and then if you used to have a bad swearing habit

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or something, but something catches you off guard and all of a sudden it comes out like, no, you

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know, it's still, it's just like you can go down the aisle of the store somewhere and you're hearing

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this old song from your teenage years, you know, and all that. And then all of a sudden you realize

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you realize it's playing on the intercom. You didn't realize it, but you heard it and it can

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bring back the memories with it, even though if it was like 30, 40 years ago, and it can bring back

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the pain that was initiated with it, if it wasn't dealt with. And so it is with your flesh. That

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renewed mind doesn't happen overnight. No, that's true. And we shouldn't expect it of one another

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either. Yeah. So this fighting and devouring and then backbiting and telling stories and, you know,

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it usually comes from becoming offended about something. And, you know, we are far too easily

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offended. I mean, our flesh is easily offendable. Let's put it that way. The spirit is not easily

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offendable. Yeah. But the carnal flesh, carnality, it means fleshliness. 1 Corinthians 3, 3, would

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you read that from the Passion Translation, Philip, please? For you are living your lives dominated by

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the mindset of the flesh. Ask yourselves, is there jealousy among you? Do you compare yourselves with

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others? Do you quarrel like children and end up taking sides? If so, this proves that you are

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living your lives centered on yourselves, dominated by the mindset of the flesh and behaving like

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unbelievers. For when you divide yourself up in groups, a Paul group and Apollo's group, you're

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acting like people without the spirit's influence. Yeah. Divisions. It's division causing, but it

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comes from the flesh. So that word carnal or fleshly, as used in the Passion, is the Greek word

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sarkeikos. And it means having the nature of flesh under the control of like your animal appetites,

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governed by mere human nature, not by the spirit of God. Yeah. And actually, earlier we were looking

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this up thinking maybe the word came from snarky. Because there's some similarities there. Yeah,

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it comes from the word sarx, which means flesh. So, snarky, maybe it was a derivative of that.

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Probably not, but it's fun to think about. So, let's look at 1 Corinthians 6, 6 through 11. I

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think it's really good in the Passion too. It's not right for a believer to sue a fellow believer,

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and especially to bring it before the unbelievers. Don't you realize that when you drag another

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believer into court, you're providing the evidence that you are already defeated?

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Wouldn't it be better to accept the fact that someone is trying to cheat and take advantage of

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you and simply choose the high road? At times, it is better to just accept injustice and even to let

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someone take advantage of you, rather than to expose our conflicts publicly before unbelievers.

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But instead, you keep cheating and doing wrong to your brothers and sisters,

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and then request that unbelievers render their judgment.

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Surely you must know that people who practice evil cannot possess God's kingdom realm.

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Stop being deceived. People who continue to engage in sexual immorality, idolatry,

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adultery, sexual perversion, homosexuality, fraud, greed, drunkenness, verbal abuse, or extortion,

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these will not inherit God's kingdom realm. It's true that some of you once lived in those

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lifestyles, but now you have been purified from sin, made holy, and given a perfect standing before

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God, all because of the power of the name of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and through our union

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with the spirit of our God. Amen. Beautiful.

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Now, do you understand what this passage is saying? You were once like those folks that are not going

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to inherit the kingdom. All of us at one time were on that path, not inheriting the kingdom.

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So we're really not better than those folks that are that, except we are better because Jesus

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fixed it. We've been redeemed.

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We've been redeemed. Jesus fixed it, but our flesh is just as bad, or it was just as bad,

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but we've been completely renewed. We've been cleansed. So let's stop behaving that way.

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Let's grow up. God wants us to grow up.

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God wants us to grow up. You want to be used, especially in ministry. It takes time.

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It takes time and circumstances. It's just like, if you're a fighter pilot, you want your wingman

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to be a novice. That's true.

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You might get shot down. It's true. I'm reminded of something that

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the Lord spoke to John Arnott in Toronto. Help me with the name of the church.

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Catch the Fire. There were a lot of things going on that were not typical in church.

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The Holy Spirit was moving in an amazing way. There were things that were going on. There was

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one lady that started crowing like a rooster. He went to her and he said, what is the Lord saying?

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And she said, it's a new day. So it was highly unusual, but there was a prophetic picture going

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on. There was a guy roaring like a lion. And he was from China. And the Lord was saying that

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here's these people that have been dominated by the dragon and the lion of Judah is roaring over

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them to bring them out of bondage. Yes. And 20 years later, when they interviewed him,

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they had found the underground church just exploded in China.

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Thousands. At that time. At that time. That was the fastest growing church in the world,

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was the underground church of China. At that time. At that time it was exploding.

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So the thing that the Lord said to him was, I am offending your mind to show you what's in your

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heart. And sometimes the Lord is trying to deal with us about our carnality, about our fleshliness,

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about our flesh flashes. And he's trying to get us to grow up. You know, the scripture you just read

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about here's brother taking brother to court in front of unbelievers. As though it's right for

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them to make a judgment over something that's in between believers. We should be able to judge

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these things ourselves. Right. And I love the way the Passion Translation put it, that wouldn't it

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be better to take the high road and just say, okay, you know, go ahead. And here's the thing.

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If we would start to intercede for the person who's offended us, you got to start by forgiving.

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That's the first thing. First, first, first, before you put your head on your pillow, forgive.

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Got to get your heart right.

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Got to get your heart right. And the easiest way for me to get my heart right when someone has

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offended me is immediately. I mean, it's taken years to get to where it was immediate. Okay.

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But now I'm at the point where it's immediate. I mean, within, if not seconds, but then certainly

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within minutes. Usually I try to do it within seconds. Sometimes it takes a few minutes.

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Yeah. And don't borrow someone else's offense.

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Right. But if I get offended, the first thing I do is I say, father, I'm asking you to forgive

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that person because if I start to intercede for that person before the Lord, because what they've

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done wasn't right, then it's easier for me to forgive if I'm asking him to forgive. I'm coming

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now as an intercessor. I'm asking now, father, please, please have mercy. And then I might think,

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you know, I could have done the same thing. Okay. I am flesh too, you know, I've had flesh

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flushes and I have to ask right away, please forgive me. You know, I've tried to, I try to

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be pretty quick about asking, don't I darling? Yes, you are. You really are. I realize right away.

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I realize right away when I've had a flesh flush, you know, the Holy Spirit kind of is quick.

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Thank you. Thank you. That's like that. Not like in a game show and it's like,

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and that's what you just met. Right. The buzzer goes off in your spirit. Like

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I shouldn't have said that. Right. So this is how we can begin to process and dial down this

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inclination to bite and devour one another in the church. Let's get rid of the cannibalism in the

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church. And while we're at it, you know, this idea of let's take the high road. Here is a high road

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scripture that I think most of Western Christians would have to scratch their head about. And that

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is in Hebrews 1034. It says, you sympathized, I'm reading from the Berean Standard Bible,

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you sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property,

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knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession. Here's from the Berean

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Literal Bible. For both you sympathized with the prisoners and you accepted the plundering of your

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possessions with joy, knowing yourselves to have a better and abiding possession. Now, obviously we

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know that this is talking about, you know, we've got heaven to look forward to, right? Yes. This

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is all temporary. All of this stuff here is temporary, but we get so wrapped up with our

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materialistic stuff. Like we've strived, we got to get that one thing that we want that, you know,

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you fill in the blank. What is the one thing that you want, right? But this is saying, and the writer

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of Hebrews, whether it's Paul or somebody else, is commanding these people because they've recognized

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that when their stuff got taken away, that it was just stuff, you know, and accepting it joyfully.

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I think that's something we need to sit and ponder. We really need to sit and ponder,

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like we've been through a fire, right? Yeah. It was our office. It wasn't our home, but our entire

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office building in 1990 burned to the ground. And there were things in my office that I've still kind

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of, I'm sad about, you know, I had some paperwork there that was important, my birth certificate

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and baby pictures. I'd just gotten my baby pictures from my dad. And they burned real good.

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They burned real good. You know, our guitars, our Bibles, that was the worst thing. Our Bibles

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were burned, but I've got a better Bible. I mean, that was a good Bible, but I've got a better one.

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heaven's point of view. You can't take joyfully the spoiling of your goods or confiscation of

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your property or the plundering of your possessions. You can't take that with joy unless you have the

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Holy Spirit working in you. That's a God thing. But that is a picture of what it looks like when

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you've grown up in the Spirit. Wow. Okay. I think that's a challenge for every one of us that are in

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kind of Western society where, you know, okay, we're here in the United States of America.

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And the American dream is, help me out here. Oh, having a bigger house. It used to be a two-car

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garage. Now it's a three-car garage. That means you'd have a boat in the third bay, maybe.

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Well, it's like the standard of life has increased on goods. Right. Back when we were younger.

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Now sports car or this or that, you know, things have just become more grandiose. Yeah. And it's

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supposed to be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The American way. Yeah. But the

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pursuit of happiness has become materialistic. Yeah. That's really not the source of happiness.

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What you have is not the source of happiness because you can't take it with you. That's right.

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I mean, it can burn in a moment. That sports car or that house. Yeah, that nice Porsche in your garage

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can go up in a fire that goes and you know, in some of these towns where the pine trees explode.

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Yeah. And they can't get anything out. They get out with their lives and there goes your $80,000

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Porsche. Yeah. You know, or whatever it costs. Or whatever you had, it could be a rare instrument,

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anything rare. And it can go just like that. Right. It can go in a flood. Right. We never had a flood

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here before, you know. Thank God. Thank God. I mean, referring to someone might say, we've never

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had a flood before and all of a sudden there was one. Right. Right. So. Yeah. So we can't put our.

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It's like Dino watching his grand piano go down the river when his house flooded. Yeah. Dino,

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the, what was his last name? Kartanakis. Yes. He had a theater in Branson and had a big flood

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in the river and his house got flooded. He watched his boys in Dorfer piano float down the river.

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And that's a very expensive piano from Austria. I think it is. Yeah. I'm just saying anything that

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we have in this world is temporary. It's all temporary. And when we begin to walk in the spirit,

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we can even come into that place of rejoicing when our stuff is taken away. Yeah. It's all

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wood, hay and stubble. Right. Of course, wood could be a house, hay, you know, could be your barn,

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but stubble is anything made out of the ground, which is everything else.

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Steel, plastic, whatever. Yeah. It's all temporary. It's all temporary. It's all temporary. Yeah.

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So this whole idea of being carnal, I love Romans chapter seven that talks about the war that's

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going on. Paul is talking about how he wants to do the right thing, but he finds he's not doing

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the right thing and he wants not to do the wrong thing. And he finds he's doing the wrong thing,

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and he's not doing the wrong thing. But he comes to this conclusion that the real you is your spirit

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and your spirit is what is renewed by Jesus. So this whole fleshly wrestling, all of this battle

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that goes on in the flesh is a battle between your worldly thinking, your fleshly thinking,

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and the spirit. And if you want to be grown up in the spirit, you have to yield to the spirit.

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Let's go on to Romans eight, where it talks about the sons of God. Romans eight, chapter two says,

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for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

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who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. And it goes on to say, to be carnally minded or

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fleshly minded is death. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace, because the carnal mind

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is hostile against God, for it's not subject to the law of God and it cannot be. So then they that

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are in the flesh cannot please God. So that's why we've got to get rid of this cannibalism in the

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church. All of this is fleshly and it's required of us, if we're filled with the Holy Spirit,

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especially it's required of us that we walk in the spirit. Verse nine says, but you are not in the

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flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the

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spirit of Christ, he is none of his. That's pretty strong. That's very strong. But it goes on to talk

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about verse 14 says, as many as are led or governed by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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And that word sons, it's the same word that's used in Matthew five, nine that says blessed are the

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peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God. And that word children or son in Romans

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eight 14 is the word Yos. Now you might hear some people pronouncing it wheels because that's what

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it looks like H of course it's written in Greek. So it uses different letters. But when you

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transliterate it into our letters, it's spelled H U I O S but it's pronounced Yos and it means son.

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There's another word for sons that is Tecna or Tecnon. And that refers to those who are born of

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God. But Yos or whatever the conjugation of it is refers to those who show maturity acting as sons.

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Yos gives evidence of the dignity of one's relationship and likeness to God's character.

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The expression son of God, that's the Yos is used of Jesus as a manifestation of his relationship

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with the father or the expression of his character. So it's about having the character of our father.

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Yeah. So that's how we become sons, mature sons is by our relationship with our father. You know,

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with our father. You know, I was thinking about, we've been talking about the law of the spirit

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of life in Christ Jesus sets us free from the law of sin and death. This law of sin and death

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is expressed in the Old Testament through the word of God to Moses, like a set of rules. A lot of

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people think about it as a whole bunch of do's and don'ts. Yeah. But it's really designed to be

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like an illustration of here's how a person behaves who loves the Lord their God with all their

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heart, with all their soul, with all their mind, with all their strength. Yeah. Our father is

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looking for lovers. He's looking for sons and daughters who love him and who let him love them.

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We didn't realize, you know, we grew up singing, Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me

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so little ones to him belong their week, but he is strong. We grew up with that. But you know,

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it's taken a while to really wake up to the fact that God loves me. You know, I don't know about

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you, but it was, Hey, come on, let's be real here. Our upbringing in church, and I'm not talking

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about church hurt for me. I don't think I really had a whole lot of it. I had a little, I suppose

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everybody does because you're still dealing with people who haven't fully grown up and fully

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matured yet. So church hurt usually comes from somebody having a flesh flesh and having a wrong

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attitude and not behaving like Jesus. You know, I want to write a meme and put it on my Facebook.

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I have never done it, but I have it in my head to do that. Don't blame Jesus for the bad behavior

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of his people. He didn't do it. They're not behaving like they're supposed to. Don't blame

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him. Don't blame Jesus. Don't walk away from Jesus because somebody that bears his name hurt you.

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But when we were growing up, we were kind of put into this religious box. Here's how you do it.

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Here's how you be a Christian. And we watched our parents and you know, we kind of walked along

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with them or whatever. And it wasn't until we had our own experience with God that we began our own

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walk. Yeah, that's amazing. You know, the testimonies you're listening to from Muslims,

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once they realize that, you know, Yeshua, Jesus, because they don't say Yeshua, it's Isa, you know,

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I believe. Yeah. And Jesus really loves because Allah does not. Right. You're a slave to Allah.

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Right. It's true. I mean, we're a love slave to Jesus. But we have our own will. Yeah. You know,

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so depending on how much of a love slave you are, it depends on the individual. Yeah. On how close

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you want to get to the Lord. So as I've been pondering this, this illustration came to me

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that the law or how we were raised in church or, you know, our religious box

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is like the training wheels that you put on a child's first bicycle. Well, they learn to

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develop balance. You know, at first you're just learning to pedal, right? You haven't learned to

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balance yet. You're just learning to pedal. You're just learning to steer. And the wheels,

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those training wheels keep you from falling over. Yeah. You don't even have to keep a balance at

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all. Your bike isn't going to fall over because the training wheels are there. But until you get

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free of those training wheels. Yeah. When they're taken off the first time. Yeah. I mean, it's a

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little scary. I mean, I remember going through that and first they took off one and I still had

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one training wheel. Oh, okay. And then I learned how to do it without training wheels. And that's

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the picture that I'm seeing about growing up in God, that we have this sort of a religious

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system that we're training our children in. But I think we have failed somewhat in expressing

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that this is how you behave when you love God and when you realize how much God loves you.

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Spiritual training wheels. Yeah. And so I really feel like God is wanting to help us

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to grow up. There's such a need for a maturing in the body of Christ. And it's not just about

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how many years that you've spent. It's about how close you are to Father. Yeah. And you could be a

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deep revelator of the word. And I forget what evangelist it was. It was, I think it was Jack

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Coe was warned by different people that, you know, he had this tremendous healing gift. Yeah. But

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he didn't treat people very nice. No, he was mean. He was mean. And so you can have a deep,

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you know, study of the word and learn all the Greek and all the Hebrew and all that. But if you

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have not love, you're like a clanging brass and a noisy symbol and all that. And then if you get all

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spiritual, because there are those, I mean, they can look at a cloud and spiritualize it three

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different ways. You know what I mean? You know, it's just like, look, that ripper, you know,

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you can see it looks just like, and there's times there are things in the clouds, but don't base

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everything you have on them. You know, you have to walk, when you walk in the spirit of the Lord,

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you know, everything else is going to line up. It's like that saying that we had heard some time

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back, you know, if you have all word in you and no spirit, you know, that you dry up. But if you're

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all spirit and have no word, you blow up. But if you have that balance of the spirit and the word,

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you grow up. And that's who we have to be. Amen. Absolutely. You can't make your denomination your

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God. That's what I mean. I mean, you have to, there's denominations, different ones, they will

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emphasize different things. Now you take that, but when you get into the presence of God,

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it's his spirit that will keep you balanced. Right. Right. And it's his spirit that will help you

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to rise above things that will enable you to take the higher road, because that's not something that

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your flesh can do. The flesh doesn't know the higher road. That's only a spiritual thing.

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It needs help. Yes. And when the Holy Spirit comes on us, He gives us the grace to overcome.

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He gives us the grace to take the high road. He gives us the grace to stop talking about one another,

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to stop backbiting, to stop this cannibalism in the church, to stop biting and devouring one another.

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Because if you don't check that, it will ruin the church. A whole congregation can be ruined

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by people talking and being mean and having wrong motives. And the church is going to be ruined.

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And the church has to be in unity in these last days. Absolutely. Because when things happen,

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you know, when emergencies and things happen, all of a sudden, you're going to want another

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believer to talk to and not care what denomination they're out of. It's absolutely true. That's

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what's happened in persecuted nations. It's true. People don't tear each other down for what church

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they go to. They're just happy to have someone to fellowship that where you have common ground.

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Yes. Unless we have to know, we have to agree on common ground. Amen. I mean, there's no denominations

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when Jesus walked the earth. Just Pharisees and Sadducees. So that spirit is still around.

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Yes. It's a division spirit. And the enemy of our souls is also the enemy of the church.

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And he's really just trying to keep us divided. But our Father wants us to be one. Remember the

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prayer that Jesus prayed at the end when he was having the last supper with his disciples.

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And he prayed, Father, that they may be one as you and I are one. Yeah, that's John chapter 17.

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And that comes by loving one another. You know, when you love the brethren, it doesn't mean that

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you have to agree with them about every little thing. You can have disagreements. I mean, there

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are a few things that you and I disagree on, but it's not anything that we would lose fellowship

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over. I mean, it's okay to have a different opinion about something. And we talk about it.

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We don't raise our eyebrows and, no, you're wrong. You're wrong. That's not right.

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No, we don't do that. We've never done that. No. But what I'm saying is it's okay to have different

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opinions. And, you know, as long as it's not something that we have to make a decision about,

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it's okay to, we don't ever have to resolve it. We don't want to give each other headaches. You

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know, way back when we were kids, there was excederant commercials. You know, the thing

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would go on. And I remember one, it was the mother-in-law says, I don't nag. Your mother

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nags, you know, and then plop, plop to, you know, to excederant going into a glass of water.

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I think it was Alka-Cells or something like that.

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Because it's upsetting in your stomach. So they had it. Well, then they had excederant headache

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and this, this and that. But if we can get that stuff out of the church, you know, where we can

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walk that place where you can help people that aren't in the church too, you know, to find the

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way because they, there's times they'll, you know, they need ministry and you can be just right there

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for them. Because love is patient. Yeah. And love is kind. Yeah. And love is not envious.

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And all of those things that are in first Corinthians 13, and all of those things that

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are the fruit of the spirit that are mentioned in Galatians five, all of those things are a result

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of the Holy Spirit working in us, helping us to overcome, helping us to grow up into the character

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of the Lord Jesus Christ. He walked on the earth as the son of God, as the son of man,

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in order to bring us up into the place of behaving like sons of God, as men and women, obviously.

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Yeah. And that's our goal. That's our goal. And anytime that we fall short of that, we quickly

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repent and get restored. Yeah. That's one of the signs of maturity is when you fall, how fast it is

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you get up. The faster you get up, the more mature you are. You know, if you blow it big,

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get over it in minutes. Yeah. Get over it. Like, especially if you blow it because somebody

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offended you. Get over it in minutes. Yeah. And it's possible because of the love of God,

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because of the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's pray.

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Father, we thank you for what you are doing in your people to grow us up, that we can be

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us up, that we can be bright and shining examples of your life and your love that overcome,

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that as examples, Lord, we can be like you because you're living inside of us. Yeah. And we're living

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inside of you. And it's possible for people to see you in us because of the relationship in our walk

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with you and our yielding to you and our getting into agreement with you so that we can see people

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who are misbehaving as people that you love, as people that you want to draw into a deeper

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relationship with you, whether they're believers yet or not. We're asking you, Lord, to work in us

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by your spirit, every listener and Philip and me, Lord, that you will work your work in your people

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that will make us ready to minister in this outpouring that you have begun and that is

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growing and growing and growing. Lord, help us to rise up into that place of maturity

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that we can help others to grow up into that place of maturity in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Amen. Amen.

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