(225) “If Nobody's Perfect, Why Does God Command It?”

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So everything that we do when we are walking with our Father, we're walking with Him, we're doing the things that He shows us, and He is working His character in us.

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He is shining His light on us.

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He's chasing the darkness out of those little places in us where we have a little rebellion or where we have a little fear or where we have an addiction or where we have, you know, some kind of sexual immorality that is, that is a temptation.

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He's working on it.

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He's getting rid of it.

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He's working on it.

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He's getting rid of it so that we will be complete.

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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, where we contend for that promise outpouring.

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

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're going to discuss a subject that some people are probably wondering about.

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Cause everybody says nobody's perfect.

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But if nobody's perfect, why does God command it?

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Let's dig.

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Thanks so much for joining us today.

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help you to contend and to equip and to engage in it.

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going to continue these days with the threats that we keep hearing all the time.

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Come on.

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We've got to walk together with God and that's what this is all about.

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So let's stay in touch with each other and we'd love to hear back from you.

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us to bring so that we can take it to the Holy Spirit and see what he gives us for you

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better.

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We just love the things of God and we love His outpouring and we want to see more of

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it in your life.

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So today we're going to talk about if nobody's perfect, why does God command it?

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Okay so where does God command it?

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Genesis 17, 1, and when Abram was 90 years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and

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said unto him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect.

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Oh, be perfect?

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What sounds like an order.

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So the word there in Hebrew for perfect is tamim and the outline of how it's used in

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the Bible is it means complete or whole or entire or sound.

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It can mean healthful, it can mean entire like of time and in the Strong's definitions

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it means integrity, it means without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincere, sound, without

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spot, undefiled, upright.

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It's referring to like the lamb that's without blemish for the sacrifices that you couldn't

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give something in a sacrifice that was blind in one eye or you know, bruised or has a

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broken leg.

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It has to be complete, it has to be entire.

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So in some other translations like the Young's literal translation, this Genesis 17, 1, that

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last portion of it says walk habitually before me and be perfect.

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You mean you have to make a habit about it?

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Sounds like it.

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And I think the walking habitually before him is the key to being perfect, to being

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complete, to being without blemish.

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Several translations use the word blameless there instead of perfect, be blameless, be

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complete.

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The Holman Christian Standard Bible says live in my presence and be blameless.

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The Amplified Classic says walk and live habitually before me and be perfect, blameless, wholehearted,

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complete.

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And it goes on to talk about making covenant.

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He's going to make covenant with him.

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He's at this point in that chapter, he gives the covenant of circumcision.

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He makes the promise about I'm giving you this land for you and your descendants.

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And then he says, I'm going to change your name.

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I'm going to put a ha into your name.

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So from Abram to Abraham, Avraham and Sarah to Sarah.

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You know, he's adding his breath.

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And of course, breath is life.

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If you don't have breath, you're not living.

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That's right.

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Okay.

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So let everything that has breath praise him, right?

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So he's giving him all of these promises.

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And Abram starts to negotiate with God.

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He says, Oh, I'm 99 years old.

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And Sarah is 90.

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And we're going to have a baby.

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You gotta be kidding.

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And Sarah laughed too.

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And so God tells him, you're going to have a baby and you're going to call his name laughter.

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Yeah.

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Yitzhak means laughter.

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We've talked about this before, but there's something that we totally miss in English

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about the meanings of names because it's like there's a root word that means something and

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then it's turned into a name and the name means that we don't get that much in our language.

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Like I think I've used these illustrations before that, okay, if you name your daughter

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Joy, you know what that means.

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If you name your son Rocky, it's pretty clear what that means.

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It's going to be kind of tough.

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Yeah.

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It's better be.

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Yeah.

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And like our pastor has named two of his sons with names that you understand, Arrow and

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Valor.

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Okay.

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You know what those names mean.

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It's not typical in English that we do that.

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But we have this name, Isaac, Yitzhak, it means laughter.

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And so God is making this promise and Abraham's going, come on, you know, we've got Ishmael

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here.

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Why don't we work with him?

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Yeah.

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You know, it's like some years, years ago, Johnny Cash did a song called Boy Named Sue.

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Oh yeah, I remember that one.

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And so the poor kid goes through life, then his dad left and the kid goes through life

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with a boy named, named Sue, you know, and my name is Sue.

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How do you do?

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Yeah.

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And finally he caught up with his dad and he's going to kill him in the bar because,

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because what he put him through naming him that.

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And then he says, says, I knew what life was going to be.

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I give you that name so that you would grow up to be tough.

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Then they made up and they're real good after, you know, that's, that's not realistic.

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You know, it was a good song, but.

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Yeah.

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But the point is that your name really has a lot to do with who you become too.

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Yeah.

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That's why the prayer of Jabez in the Bible, his mother named him Jabez or Yavetz.

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Yavetz, I think is how it's pronounced in Hebrew.

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And it really means pain because she had a lot of pain when he was born.

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I mean, she must've had back labor or something that there was so much pain involved that

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she named him pain.

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Well, when Benjamin was born, the last of the 12 sons, Benoni.

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Right.

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You mean, which means son of my sorrow.

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And then at the end of when she died, when she died, they changed it to Benjamin.

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Yes.

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Son of my right hand.

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That's Jacob said that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Son of my right hand changed his name.

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Right.

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It made a difference in his destiny.

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Yeah.

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You know, but the point is here that God is saying to Abram, here's all these things I'm

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doing and Abram is trying to say, you know, let's try this a different way.

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I can't see this working.

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You know, I really don't think you can do this is basically what he was saying, but

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our father is faithful and he's going to do what he says he's going to do.

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Yeah.

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But here's something that I saw as we were studying this, that the very first verse of

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this chapter is talking about be perfect.

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Walk with me, walk with me, walk habitually with me and have integrity, be blameless.

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Integrity, it's honesty.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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So, you know, the chapters that follow before Isaac was born, you've got the story of Sodom

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and Gomorrah in the middle of that.

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And then you've got where Abraham goes to Sojourn among the Philistines and he shows

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up near the king of Bimelech and he says to Sarah, you know, why don't you just tell them

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that you're my sister?

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Because it's really kind of true.

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You're my niece basically.

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And that's a really close family tie.

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So, you know, just don't tell them you're my wife because they might kill me because

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you're wonderful.

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I said Sarah must have been a knockout at 90 years old.

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Well, you know, she'd already had the, ah.

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Yeah, it makes her the breath of God.

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Even your skin.

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Yeah.

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You know, because the life they lived in like nomads out in the desert, dwelling in tents.

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Right.

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That's got that dry air.

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Sure.

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You know, people those that spend a lot of time in the sun, those in dry climates.

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I remember in Tibet.

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Oh, yeah.

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You know, because the sun is so intense, their faces are burned like a deep red.

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And I remember with one 23-year-old girl, it just looked like she was a lot older.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the sun does that.

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But I think the other thing is the political possibilities of a Bimelech wanting her to

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be in his harem because, you know, look at Abraham, this wealthy man with all these flocks

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and herds and all this wealth.

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And so, you know, let me take his sister into my harem and that makes us one.

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And that means I have access to his money.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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But I think God was giving Abraham a little hint at the beginning of all these promises.

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Walk before me, walk with me, walk close to me and have integrity.

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Be honest.

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What would have happened if he would have just said, and this is my wife.

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But here's the point.

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I think Abraham had all this wealth, but he didn't have an army.

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Well, he did manage to have enough of an army to rescue Lot, you know, back in the day.

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True.

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Yeah.

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But that was also because God was helping him.

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But I think the thing is that his fear for his life overwhelmed him that he forgot the

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promises of God.

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God had made him promises.

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Yeah.

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Uh-huh.

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So, giving him a clue here, walk before me and be blameless.

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Walk before me and be perfect.

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Walk before me and have integrity.

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Walk before me and be complete.

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If you'll stick with me, I will complete you.

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And he let his fear overwhelm him.

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And God had to come to his rescue.

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He gave a dream to Abimelech, you're a dead man if you touch that woman.

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She's another man's wife.

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And so, God rescues us even when we don't follow through with what God said.

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Yeah.

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You know, it was really kind of the Lord to give him a clue.

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It's kind of like what God said to Cain, evil is crouching at your door.

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Yeah.

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Don't open the door to it.

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Yeah.

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Leave that door closed.

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Don't go there.

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Have integrity.

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And we get tempted all the time.

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So, if this means be perfect, like don't ever do anything wrong, well, it's a good order.

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However, we are Adamic in our nature.

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And there is that weakness, like Jesus said of his disciples when they were sleeping,

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the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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Yeah.

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You know, and the flesh just doesn't have what it takes to come up to the standard without

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the spirit.

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So, the key is walking with him and he'll do the job.

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Yeah.

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If we go on and talk a little bit more about what our father is really like, we can see

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that remember Enoch walked with God and he walked with him habitually.

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That's one of the translations.

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He walked habitually with God.

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Yeah.

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So, in this walking together with him, what happened to Moses when he was on the Mount

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for 40 days, came down, went back up for 40 days more?

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What did he look like when he came down?

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He must have just glowed.

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Well, yeah.

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The only thing is that he glowed.

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That veil over your face.

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Yeah, they couldn't.

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They couldn't look at him.

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Yeah, they couldn't.

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I mean, that's when you think about that, you know, for somebody's face to shine so

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bright, you can't look at him.

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Wow.

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Right.

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So, that's what happens when you are habitually with him.

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You know, you can tell, you can tell when you meet someone that is really walking with

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God, they have a glow.

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They have a glow about them.

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So, 1 John 1, 5 says, then this is the message which we've heard of him and declared to you

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that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

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So, when Moses spent all that time with him on Mount Sinai, that light began to rub off

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on him.

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And remember the blessing, the Aaronic blessing, the Lord Yehovah bless you and keep you.

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The Lord Yehovah make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.

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The Lord Yehovah lift up his countenance, his face.

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His countenance.

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Yeah, and his countenance is light.

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Yeah, think about that.

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The Lord lift his countenance on you.

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Yeah.

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Oh, well, if he lives in you, he can shine on you.

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Exactly.

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And that gives you peace.

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Peace.

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That gives you shalom.

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The meaning of shalom is that there's nothing broken, there's nothing missing.

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It comes from the root word shalem that means complete.

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Paid in full.

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So, we learned from Claren McQueen when he lived in Israel, when he would go and pay

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his electric bill, they would stamp it shalem.

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Shalem.

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Yeah, shalem.

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That it means complete.

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It's paid.

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It's finished.

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You know, you have reached the goal this month.

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You have paid your bill.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So, it's about reaching a goal.

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It's about accomplishing something.

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It's about finishing something.

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So, if God is light and in him is no darkness at all, let's look at John 1 verse 4.

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It says in him, talking about Jesus, in him was life and the life was the light of men.

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Now, we know that when a baby is conceived, when the sperm comes together with the egg,

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there's a flash of light and that is the beginning of life.

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It's amazing.

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It is amazing.

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So, every one of us has that flash of light from our father who is the father of lights,

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right?

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Yeah.

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And then verse 9 says, that was the true light which lights every man that comes into the

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world.

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Well, there it is.

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That is the light that comes, that lights every man as he comes into the world.

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Every human being starts with a flash of light.

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And then John 8, 12 says, then spoke Jesus again unto them saying, I am the light of

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the world.

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He that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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We don't have to live in darkness.

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When he's living inside of us, he is providing light and he's shining his candle in all those

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little corners trying to drive out all of our little darknesses that cause us to fear,

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that cause us to not walk in integrity, that cause us to not be complete in some way.

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Yeah.

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When you have enough of the light in you, then the darkness doesn't stick.

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Yeah, that's a good way to put it.

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Excellent.

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Excellent.

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And then in John 9, 5, he says, as long as I'm in the world, I am the light of the world.

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And James 1, 17 says, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes

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down from the father of lights with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

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So he is complete light.

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Like there's no light behind him that would cause a shadow because he's just putting out

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light and that's why there will be no shadows in heaven because everything has the light

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of life in it.

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So that light of life that's in even the grass, there's no shadows.

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I can hardly wait to see it.

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I'm just really looking forward to that.

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But then Jesus goes on to say, he says in Matthew 5, 14, you are the light of the world.

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A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

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So then he goes on further in Matthew 5 and Matthew 5 is part of the Sermon on the Mount.

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So in verse 43, he says, you have heard that it's been said, you shall love your neighbor

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and hate your enemy.

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But I say to you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that

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hate you and pray for them, which despitefully use you and persecute you.

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Now just stop right there.

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That is something that we ought to just ponder about on a regular basis.

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That ought to be the kind of scripture that you put up on your mirror or your refrigerator.

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So that you ponder this, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them

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that hate you and pray for them, which despitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be

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the children of your father, which is in heaven.

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For he makes his son to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and

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on the unjust.

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For if you love them which love you, what reward do you have?

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Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

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And if you salute your brethren only, what are you doing more than others?

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Don't even the tax collectors do that?

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The lowest of the low are going to greet their own friends and their relatives, right?

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And verse 48 says, be therefore perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.

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Okay, so here's a New Testament scripture.

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We're being ordered to be perfect.

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What does it mean?

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What does it really mean?

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That latter part of the verse from the Young's literal translation says, you shall therefore

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be perfect as your father who is in heaven is perfect.

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So this is a statement.

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This is a promise rather than an order.

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Now I assume that it's probably correct that we should take it as an order.

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But when you put it in a more literal translation, it's not saying that you have some kind of

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way that you can do this yourself, which is where perfectionism comes in.

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You know, I'm a recovering perfectionist and I'm better than I used to be.

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Right, honey?

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We just celebrated 43 years or 43rd anniversary.

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43 years, yeah.

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And we're not perfect yet.

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No, we're not perfect in that way.

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But we are growing in God.

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Yes, and you never quit growing in God.

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Exactly.

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And I hope that you can see that I've made some improvements in 43 years.

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Because I used to really be a lot crankier than I am now.

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And I recognize it faster when I discover that I'm cranky.

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But you know, lots of times you're cranky because you're tired or because you're hungry.

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Or you didn't get enough sleep.

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Didn't get enough sleep.

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Something has got you angry that's something different.

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And then you respond in anger to something else.

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Yeah.

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You know, or if you're in pain, you can just those things can.

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What is it?

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Hungry, angry, lonely, tired.

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That's halt.

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It spells halt.

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Hungry, H, angry, A, L, lonely, T, tired.

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But you can add in pain or sick to those.

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And those are the times that you're most vulnerable to being less than perfect.

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Being cranky or out of sorts.

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Yeah, the decisions you can make when you're just because you're really hungry, you know,

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like, let's hurry up and do this so we can.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's a thing called hangry.

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Hangry.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, guard your children from that, always have some kind of a nutritional thing

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that you can give them when they're hungry that won't really spoil their dinner.

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I remember I would come in the kitchen and say, I'm hungry while mom's fixing dinner.

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She'd say, go have a glass of milk.

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Well, that would be enough to kind of get me over that hangry place without really spoiling

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my dinner.

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And there's some nutrition in it.

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Right.

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So anyway, moving on, moving on.

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It's about growing into spiritual maturity.

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That verse in the Amplified says, you therefore will be perfect growing into spiritual maturity,

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both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life as your

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heavenly father is perfect.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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Yeah, it's very beautiful.

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And then the literal standard version says, you will therefore be perfect as your father

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who is in the heavens is perfect.

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So what does that look like?

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What does that look like?

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It reminds me of when Dean Braxton got to heaven.

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Jesus looked at him.

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Yeah.

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Well, Jesus looked at him.

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And when Jesus saw himself in Dean, then he knew he was in because Jesus recognized, he

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mirrored himself.

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Yep.

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He recognized that his character was being built.

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Reflected.

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Not even reflected.

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He was in him.

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Sometimes we think that it's only reflection, but I think it really has a lot to do with

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how much we allow him to be seen in us, that we be transparent, that we humble ourselves,

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that we go low so that Jesus can go high, that his presence will be seen.

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Yeah, that's right.

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That's good.

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So this idea of perfection in the Greek, in the New Testament, the Strong's number is

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G5046 and the word is talios.

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It means brought to its end, finished, wanting nothing necessary to completeness, perfect,

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that which is perfect.

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It also means consummate human integrity and virtue, full grown adult of full age, mature.

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So the King James translates it perfect 17 times and of full age once and man once.

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But I think in the days when the King James was translated some 400 years ago, the word

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perfect might have been better understood as being complete.

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Complete, yeah.

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You know?

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But it's changed as it's been used generation after generation.

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So I want to read to you from some of these words from the lexical aides to the New Testament

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in the Bible that I use called the Hebrew Greek Key Study Bible, it's the 1991 edition.

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In the back of it, it has lexical aides that were put together by Spiros Zodiades.

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And he says of this word talios, as I said, it's number 5046.

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It is from the word talos, which is 5056, meaning goal or purpose.

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So it means adult, full grown, of full age, as opposite to little children.

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So in other words, we're going to act grown up instead of acting childish.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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There's a difference between childlike and childish.

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And we're supposed to be like little children in terms of trust, but we're not supposed

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to behave like little children having a temper tantrum.

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Or in character.

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Yeah, exactly.

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This image of fully completed growth as contrasted with infancy and childhood underlies the ethical

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use of, I'm not a Greek scholar, taloi.

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The talios is one who has attained his moral end, the goal for which he was intended, namely

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to be a man obedient in Christ or a woman, of course.

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It may be true though that having reached this attainment, other and higher ends will

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open up before him in order to have Christ formed in him more and more.

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When one is talios, it does not mean that he has all the grace available bestowed upon

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him.

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Taliotes, perfection is not a static state.

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In a physical or literal sense used of spotless sacrifices involving animals or objects, wherein

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nothing is deficient.

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So it can also be used for talking about a full year or a perfect work or something done

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as it ought to be.

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Okay.

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So that's what this word talios means.

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Then we have the word taliu.

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This is a word that comes from talios and it means to complete or finish.

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So it means to be made perfect or complete only in the sense of reaching one's prescribed

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goal.

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Hmm.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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It was about making Christ perfect.

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Remember how he was made perfect by his sufferings in Hebrews 5, 9, Hebrews 7, 28.

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It's to consecrate him by sufferings to his office and fully to qualify and enable him

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to discharge it.

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And it's part of the word that is used when Jesus said it is finished on the cross.

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And I love how that is put together where John is talking about what happened when Jesus

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was being crucified.

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It says this in John 19 and verse 28.

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It says, after this, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture

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might be fulfilled, he said, I thirst.

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Okay.

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And the word being accomplished, it's related to this word about being completed.

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Okay.

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Hmm.

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Okay.

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Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar and they filled a sponge with vinegar and

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put it up on hyssop and put it up to his mouth.

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When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, okay, it's prophesied that they gave me vinegar

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to drink.

491
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:54,560
In Psalm 22, 31, when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, like was prophesied

492
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,240
in Psalm 22, 31, he said, it is finished.

493
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:05,760
And that is what the high priest said when the lamb was slain and lifted up.

494
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,800
So Jesus was saying it is finished.

495
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:15,240
And that word comes from this same word that is talking about it being accomplished 50,

496
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:20,560
55, it means the end goal.

497
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:21,640
Okay.

498
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:28,100
So his goal, it's the end of the accomplishment to complete anything, not merely to end it,

499
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:32,680
but to bring it to perfection or to its destined goal, to carry it through.

500
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:38,880
Jesus came to this earth for the purpose of giving himself as the lamb of God.

501
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,880
Yeah.

502
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,160
That was his purpose.

503
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,400
That was his goal.

504
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:43,560
He completed it.

505
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:44,880
He finished it.

506
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:45,880
Yeah.

507
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:46,880
It is finished.

508
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:47,880
Okay.

509
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,440
He completed the goal that he perfected it.

510
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,840
He was perfected by the things that he suffered.

511
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,320
He completed his job.

512
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:04,320
So everything that we do when we are walking with our father, we're walking with him, we're

513
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:10,080
doing the things that he shows us and he is working his character in us.

514
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,920
He is shining his light on us.

515
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,760
He's chasing the darkness out of those little places in us where we have a little rebellion

516
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,700
or where we have a little fear or where we have an addiction or where we have some kind

517
00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:25,280
of sexual immorality that is a temptation.

518
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:26,480
He's working on it.

519
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,680
He's getting rid of it.

520
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:28,680
He's working on it.

521
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,360
He's getting rid of it so that we will be complete.

522
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:39,640
I'm looking at it as when a child is going through school, a kindergartener accomplishes

523
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,060
all of the things that a kindergartener should learn.

524
00:29:43,060 --> 00:29:44,720
They learn their colors.

525
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,600
They learn to count.

526
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,760
Maybe they've learned all those things before they get there.

527
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:49,760
I mean, I know...

528
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:50,760
It depends on the mom.

529
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:56,680
It depends on the mom or whoever's with the child, you know, but working with those things

530
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,840
that a kindergartener should accomplish.

531
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,600
I had learned how to tie my shoes before I got to kindergarten, but I taught a little

532
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,800
boy that didn't know how to do it because that's something that has to be accomplished

533
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,320
in kindergarten.

534
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,320
Then you get into first grade.

535
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,480
If you accomplish what you're supposed to do in kindergarten, you go into first grade

536
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,800
and that's where you learn more about the letters and putting the letters together.

537
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,720
The sounds now become words.

538
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:21,720
Promotion.

539
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,200
Yeah, you've been promoted into another place because you completed something.

540
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,320
Yeah, that's good.

541
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,440
So it's about completing.

542
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,320
You're walking with God and you're completing.

543
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:37,800
Here's the thing that you're completing for this space of your life.

544
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,720
So you mean if you don't pass the test, that means you get to take it over.

545
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:42,720
Oh yeah.

546
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,720
Oh yeah.

547
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,920
He wants you to pass the test.

548
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,880
So if you don't pass it for whatever reason, he'll give you another opportunity.

549
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,960
It's going to come around again.

550
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:57,960
And the sooner, you know, when we bumble, when we stumble, the picture of maturity is

551
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:03,480
in how fast we get up and get back to him because he's always calling us to come back

552
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:04,680
to me.

553
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,180
Just get up and keep going.

554
00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:10,320
You know, if you're in a race and you stumble and you fall, do you quit the race?

555
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,600
No, you get up and you keep running.

556
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,760
There are people who have won races that were on the ground, on the track.

557
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:23,920
They fell down, they got up, they gave it all they had and they won the race.

558
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,320
So Eric Little was one of those.

559
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,920
Yeah, I think he was.

560
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:33,280
So you know, this is the point that we walk with him and step by step.

561
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,040
How do you walk?

562
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,040
One step at a time.

563
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,040
One step at a time.

564
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,040
Yeah.

565
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:44,000
So you walk one step at a time and that is how we walk habitually with God.

566
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:50,160
I remember when we went behind the scenes at the Sight and Sound Theater in Branson,

567
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,040
which is better than any Broadway you can ever see.

568
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,040
It's beautiful.

569
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,040
And we got to see all the different animals that they had back there because they use

570
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,880
live animals on their sets.

571
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:06,080
And as far as someone asked about training them, and what they said is if the animal

572
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:13,760
will perform over a hundred times without messing up, you know, they will use it in

573
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,120
a live performance.

574
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:22,040
And I remember hearing, I don't know, Christopher Parkening, the guitarist, one of the, maybe

575
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:28,700
Smey with Segovia, it's like you have to play a piece seven times in a row without any flaws

576
00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:31,640
and you're ready to perform it live.

577
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:32,640
Yeah.

578
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,640
Wow.

579
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,760
So it's about practicing.

580
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:41,560
Practicing the presence of God will make you walk circumspectly toward Him.

581
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,560
Yes.

582
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,920
Yes, absolutely.

583
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:50,460
When we are walking with Him habitually, that's the key word.

584
00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:57,760
Not that we are completely every moment thinking about Him, but when you realize that you aren't

585
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,760
thinking about Him, you just go back and think about Him.

586
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,160
Go back and acknowledge His presence.

587
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,440
That's how you get closer.

588
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:11,900
We walk with Him and He's working with us to accomplish these things.

589
00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:19,000
So this is one of my favorite, absolute favorite verses, 1 Thessalonians 5, 23 and 24.

590
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,160
Philip, would you read that for us out of the Passion Translation, please?

591
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:30,240
Now may the God of peace and harmony set you apart, making you completely holy.

592
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:36,400
And may your entire being, spirit, soul and body be kept completely flawless in the appearing

593
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:43,160
of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, the One who calls you by name is trustworthy and will

594
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,880
thoroughly complete His work in you.

595
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:46,880
Amen.

596
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:47,880
Amen.

597
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,400
Thank you, Jesus, for completing your work in us.

598
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,920
That is the picture of what we're talking about.

599
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,160
And He never gives up.

600
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,160
No.

601
00:33:55,160 --> 00:34:00,120
Yeah, we're the ones that kind of, we do something wrong and sometimes you do something

602
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:06,960
and if you feel like maybe you got really humbled or this or that, then you may turn

603
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,680
your back on God.

604
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:15,120
Like He's not really with me, you know, something that can cause, maybe it's a direction God's

605
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:20,840
trying to steer you and it didn't go the way you wanted it to, you know, makes you take

606
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,480
offense maybe at others, maybe offense at God.

607
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,960
Can you take an offense at God?

608
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:26,960
Yeah, sure.

609
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,200
I get a bit on, you know, people that we do podcasts with, sometimes I just kind of, I

610
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,720
cringe a little and say, well, that's the way I can talk to God.

611
00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:37,320
I'm mad at God, you know, I thought, how could you get mad at God?

612
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,920
He can just blow you away, you know, one breath.

613
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,440
But you know, He is patient.

614
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,240
And that's why things take so long.

615
00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:50,460
Because He's being patient, giving people an opportunity to repent.

616
00:34:50,460 --> 00:34:57,600
So Fideus is a thousand years, so His patient, He just lets us go through something for a

617
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:58,600
while.

618
00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,600
Yeah, He's waiting for us to repent.

619
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,280
We want it done right away.

620
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,960
That's what develops patience in us.

621
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:10,680
Yeah, there was a song, I think, Wendy and Mary made back in the 1980s, you know, called

622
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:17,800
the microwave oven, mom's green come to put it on credit, take it with you, you know,

623
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:18,800
and all these things.

624
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,800
Instant breakfast.

625
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:25,680
Yeah, instant Christian saved overnight, something, something, because that's what we like.

626
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,440
You know, Lord, give me patience.

627
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,440
I want it now.

628
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,640
But we don't get it right now.

629
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,120
That doesn't work because it has to be built in you.

630
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,120
Yeah.

631
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,560
It's like if it takes, if it takes 21 days to make a habit, that's what they say a lot

632
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,320
of things you do something 21 days.

633
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,640
How long does it take?

634
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,360
How many tests does it make to make you perfect?

635
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:55,200
Yeah, if you had 21 tests in a row and you pass, will that make you perfect?

636
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,000
Well in that area, probably.

637
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Yeah.

638
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,360
And then there's another area that he's going to take you through.

639
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,360
You don't slam the door and leave.

640
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,480
Yeah.

641
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:10,040
So these words in First Thessalonians 5, 23 and 24, in the King James, it says the very

642
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,080
God of peace sanctify you wholly.

643
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:19,480
And that word wholly is the Greek word, holoteles.

644
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:26,460
And it comes from holos and teles, which is the word that we just studied, 5056.

645
00:36:26,460 --> 00:36:34,280
So it means complete to the end, absolutely perfect, wholly, in other words, completely.

646
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:39,140
So the God of peace sanctify you wholly, completely.

647
00:36:39,140 --> 00:36:44,200
And then he goes on to say, I pray God that your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved

648
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,520
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus.

649
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:51,580
That word whole is the word holocleros.

650
00:36:51,580 --> 00:36:58,160
And it comes from this word holos and kleros from holos, 3650 meaning all or the whole

651
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,160
and kleros meaning apart or share.

652
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,800
So the word holocleros means whole, having all its parts.

653
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,600
And perfect, perfect.

654
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:10,600
You get it?

655
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:11,600
Perfect.

656
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:12,860
I love this.

657
00:37:12,860 --> 00:37:20,920
That which retains all that was allotted to it at the first, wanting nothing for its completeness,

658
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,600
bodily, mental and moral and tiredness.

659
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,680
It expresses the perfection of man before the fall.

660
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:29,680
Beautiful.

661
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,320
I love that.

662
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:32,320
Yeah.

663
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:39,600
The holocleros is one who has preserved or who having once lost has now regained his

664
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,600
completeness.

665
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,220
Did you catch that?

666
00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:49,360
If you lost part of it along the way, he knows where you dropped it off and he's picked it

667
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,920
up and he's brought it to restore it to you.

668
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,720
Some part of you may have been put into a prison someplace.

669
00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:01,520
He knows exactly where it is and he knows how to get it out and restore it to you.

670
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:09,440
The next verse is faithful is he that calls you who also will do it.

671
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:17,080
So if you're walking with him, then he's going to be working all this stuff in you.

672
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,240
So it's about developing his character in you.

673
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:27,500
We were predestined to be conformed to the image of his son.

674
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:31,720
So for walking with him, we're going to start looking more and more like Jesus and it's

675
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:37,240
easy to do if he's living inside of us and we're clothed in him.

676
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:41,160
All we have to do is be transparent and he's the one that will be seen.

677
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,260
All we have to do is humble ourselves.

678
00:38:43,260 --> 00:38:45,600
If we go low, he'll go high.

679
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:46,600
He'll be seen.

680
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:47,920
What's that scripture?

681
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:54,060
Humble thyself in the sight of the Lord and he will lift you up in due time.

682
00:38:54,060 --> 00:39:02,020
So if Jesus said in Matthew 23, 37, you shall love the Lord with all your heart.

683
00:39:02,020 --> 00:39:07,400
So if God is love and we are to love him with all of our heart, with all of our soul, with

684
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:12,440
all of our mind, with all of our strength, it's something that he's working in us.

685
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:21,800
It's that agape love, the kind of love that looks for what the one loved needs and provides

686
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:22,800
it.

687
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,240
That's what the love of God is.

688
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:33,600
He's looking into us, seeing what we need and he's working with us to provide all of

689
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,260
that as we walk with him step by step.

690
00:39:37,260 --> 00:39:39,680
We're going from kindergarten to first grade.

691
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,240
We fulfill first grade, we go to second grade.

692
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:45,160
We fulfill second grade, we go to third grade.

693
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:50,360
The idea of perfection or completeness is like Ronis Sporopoulos, our friend that speaks

694
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,400
Greek because she is Greek.

695
00:39:53,400 --> 00:40:01,020
She explains this idea of completeness, of perfection as like if you have completely

696
00:40:01,020 --> 00:40:06,520
redone your living room and you've put in new furniture and you've hung new pictures

697
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:12,800
on the wall, you've put in all these decorations and you stand back and you say, that's perfect.

698
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,160
But then you're in the store and you find something else.

699
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,440
Oh, that would be perfect for this room.

700
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,200
And so you bring it in and you add to the perfection.

701
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,000
So that's perfect to the second power then.

702
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,860
That's a good way to put it.

703
00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:33,600
So the idea of perfection is not that we have attained all of it at once, but that we're

704
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:39,320
in a process as we walk with him, we're becoming like him.

705
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:44,480
The more time we spend with him who is light, the more light we become.

706
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:50,440
The more time we spend with him who is love, the more we're able to love beyond ourselves.

707
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,440
Yes.

708
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:58,320
Now this morning, just to close with this thought, this morning as I was waking up,

709
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:02,760
I heard these words, come closer.

710
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:11,200
And I think that is going perfectly, perfectly with this message that there is a place that

711
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:19,720
we can go that's closer, where we can have more today than we had yesterday of his light

712
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,880
and his life and his love.

713
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:26,400
We can have more grace worked in us as we get closer to him.

714
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:32,900
The closer we get to him, the more he is working what we're trying to call perfection.

715
00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:34,720
Let's call it completeness.

716
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:37,120
Let's call it blamelessness.

717
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,560
Let's call it without blemish.

718
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,600
You are complete in him.

719
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:42,600
Exactly.

720
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,880
You are complete in him because he did the work on the cross.

721
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,680
He said it is finished.

722
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:54,360
So what we're doing is we're applying the finished work that Jesus did on the cross

723
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,720
in order that we are complete.

724
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:02,800
But faithful is he that calls you who also will do it.

725
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,600
He is doing it in us as we walk with him.

726
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,000
Just have to keep walking with him.

727
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,920
Just step by step.

728
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:11,920
Amen.

729
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:12,920
Amen.

730
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:23,200
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731
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,800
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Until next time, this is Sharon Buss.

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And I'm Philip Buss.

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And God bless you with this overwhelming loving presence.