(227) “What You Exalt, You Empower”

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Dean Braxton expressed to us that when he looked at the Lord

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and he took in the greatness and the beauty

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and the glory and the love,

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and he's processing that in his mind for just that moment

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and he looks again and he's more so.

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So you have this idea of when we exalt him,

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we're seeing him grow right before our eyes.

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Wow.

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And when we exalt him, we're empowering him

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to make us grow.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his spirit

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on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring

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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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Thank you so much for joining us today.

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I believe this is going to be a life-changing podcast

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for you.

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It certainly has been for me as I've studied this.

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We want to talk about the principle

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that what you exalt, you empower.

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We're so glad that you've joined us today.

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Thank you so much.

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We would love to hear from you.

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You can send us an email at feedback at globaloutpouring.org

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or you can go to our website, globaloutpouring.net

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and you can leave us a comment there.

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We would love to hear from you.

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It's really, really empowering to us

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when you give us some feedback.

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We'd love to hear where you're listening from.

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We'd love to hear from you

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if you have something you need prayer for,

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if you have an idea that you want us to do a podcast on,

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we'll take it to the Holy Spirit,

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see what he gives us.

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There's so many things on our website that you can enjoy

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and we want to make sure if you haven't already done so

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that you have subscribed to our email lists

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because that's how we can stay in touch with you.

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If other forms of communication don't work for some reason,

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it could happen, it could happen,

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then this is a really good way for us

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to be able to stay in touch with you.

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I also want to mention, we are so excited

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about something that is coming up in 2025.

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We are working on getting all the details in place

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for convention 2025.

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It's going to be our 50th annual event.

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We haven't always called it convention or world convention.

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We had some years of having a tent meeting instead,

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camp meeting, but every year we were gathering.

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And so this is going to be our 50th gathering.

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It's going to be over Memorial Day weekend

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starting on Wednesday night, May 21st,

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and we're going through Saturday night, the 24th.

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It's going to be an amazing time.

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We will be in St. Louis at the St. Louis Airport,

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Marriott Hotel right across from the airport.

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It's just, you get on the shuttle and you're there in-

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Minutes.

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Minutes, like three minutes, five minutes.

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I suppose it depends on traffic,

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but it's really just across the highway.

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So, I mean, you can see the airport from the hotel,

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you can see the hotel from the airport.

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It couldn't be more convenient.

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So we want to encourage you.

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This is our heart that this be kind of like a family camp,

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that you can come with your family.

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We will have nursery and we will have not just childcare,

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we will have child ministry.

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So your children are going to be ministered to

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regardless of their age,

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whether they're newborn right up into the youth.

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We've got something special for them that they will,

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that they will be able to be built up in their spirit,

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be built up in their walk with God,

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and have a real experience with Jesus personally,

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get to know the Holy Spirit personally.

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And we even teach the children how to minister.

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It's going to be a glory time for every member of the family.

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And whether you have small children

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or whether you have grandchildren,

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whoever it is that is important in your life,

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why don't you make this an opportunity

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to grow in God as a family?

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This is a marvelous time.

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We're really excited about it.

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We hope that you'll join us.

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So we'll have more information on our website soon.

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It's not there yet.

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This is going to be a blessing for you

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and for everyone that attends.

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Now, Philip and I just got back from a glorious,

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glorious road trip, ministry trip.

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We were in St. Louis and Bloomington, Illinois

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at Pastor Tony Kemp's Supernatural Conference.

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And we went up into Wisconsin.

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Then we went to Chicago.

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Then we went to Niagara Falls, ministered there.

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We've ministering all along the way.

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God opened supernatural doors to us

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that we did not expect when we left home.

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Yeah, it was just amazing.

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It was amazing.

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And God has just,

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I believe that there were lives that were changed.

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That's our whole desire as we are doing things for the Lord,

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that people's lives are changed,

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that we grow, that we get empowered,

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that we get equipped so that we can participate

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in what God has for us.

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So we went from Niagara Falls

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to the Cleveland Akron branch of our ministry.

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Then we went up into Michigan

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and had a glorious meeting there in Detroit

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and visited some of my family members in Michigan.

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And then we went to Indianapolis,

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met with some of our members there

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and some new folks that we hadn't ministered to before.

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And then we came home.

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So, wow, it was a whirlwind trip.

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We were gone for almost four weeks.

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And by the way, if you want to invite us to come

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to wherever you live,

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we are certainly open to praying about that.

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Let us know if we can be a blessing to you.

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We're ready to do whatever God has for us to do.

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So today, we're going to be talking

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about what you exalt, you empower.

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So while we were at Pastor Tony Kemp's

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Supernatural Conference,

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Ira Milligan was ministering.

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And someday I want to have him on our podcast.

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We'll interview him.

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He is like a wealth, a deep, deep, deep well,

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full of treasures from the scripture, full of treasures.

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He's walked in a revelatory kind of walk with God,

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digging things out of the word.

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And I really, really enjoy him.

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But he said a couple of things that went into me.

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Now I've wanted to walk very softly

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about wanting to be a voice rather than an echo.

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So I always want to be a voice and not an echo.

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And you'll find me quoting people all the time

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because I hear people say things

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that go into me and make a difference.

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I don't want to just repeat what somebody else has said

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because it's really cool.

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I want it to be that I have taken it in and digested it

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and made it my own, made it part of me.

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Like the word becomes flesh, okay?

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That we apply the word.

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And then out of meditation on that

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or meditation on what God is saying,

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sometimes these things just kind of weave in.

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Well, I meditated quite a lot on those things

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that Ira Milligan said.

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There were two things that were particularly moving.

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Impacting. Impacting, yes.

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That's exactly the word.

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And I took note of the fact that he went

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to Hebrews chapter seven and verse seven.

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And he used this scripture that says,

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I'm reading out of King James,

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and without all contradiction,

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that means you can't refute this.

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The less is blessed of the better.

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And out of that, he said, what you exalt, you empower.

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In other words, as we lower ourselves

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and empower something higher,

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whatever that higher thing is that we're empowering

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is going to affect our lives.

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Now it's out of the story of Melchizedek

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that Abram on his way back from the battle with the kings

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where he was rescuing his nephew Lot,

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the story is told in Genesis 14,

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but it's also kind of retold here in Hebrews seven.

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But he talks about this Bible person called Melchizedek.

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Now I began to study about Melchizedek

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and I've heard lots of sermons about Melchizedek.

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Yeah, we sure have.

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Yeah, it's kind of a popular subject.

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So what the Lord gave me was not

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what I've heard other people say,

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not to say that I've got any great thing,

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but it made a difference for me, okay?

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It was something that impacted my life

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and I trust it will impact yours.

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And that is where in Hebrews seven,

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it's talking about Melchizedek being by interpretation,

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this is chapter seven, verse two,

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first by being interpretation king of righteousness

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and after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace.

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And it goes on to say without father, without mother,

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without descent or pedigree,

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having neither beginning of days nor end of life,

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but made like unto the son of God,

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abides a priest continually.

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Now you hear people talking about Melchizedek

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and I just want to make a couple of comments

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that there are various schools of thought

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about who Melchizedek was.

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And one of them is, and this comes out of Judaism,

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that Melchizedek was actually Shem

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and that Abram went to learn from Shem

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and spent time in his school and that sort of thing.

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Well, they didn't read the book of Hebrews.

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So while that is a lovely theory,

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I don't think it could possibly hold water

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because the book of Hebrews says that he is without father,

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without mother, without pedigree,

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neither having beginning of days nor end of life.

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Well, we know Shem.

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It sounds like somebody supernatural.

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I'm pretty sure that,

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I'm pretty sure you've got that right, Philip,

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because obviously we know who Shem's father was

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and we know that he had Mrs. Noah as his mother.

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And if you look in the book of Jasher,

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it says that Mrs. Noah was actually Enoch's daughter.

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That's quite fascinating.

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Yeah, it's very fascinating.

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So it's, you know, we know that it's a very clean line,

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clean lineage.

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Anyway, we don't wanna take that bunny trail for very long.

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So I have to say he's probably not Shem.

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And then there are others who only looking in,

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well, I don't know how they're even reading it,

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but they say that he was just a Canaanite king

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and that who he called the most high God

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wasn't necessarily the same most high God

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because he was a Canaanite,

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so he must've been worshiping somebody else.

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Well, that couldn't be possible either

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because of this description that is in the book of Hebrews.

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So I think, Philip, you have it right.

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I really believe for what it's worth.

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Here's my two cents worth.

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This is not a doctrine,

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but this is a subject of my meditations before the Lord

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that because God had a plan for Jerusalem,

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he sent somebody supernatural to be king over it,

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to keep it as a holy place,

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to start it as a holy place.

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Obviously we know the Jebusites moved there,

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took it over and they were Canaanites,

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but that's what the devil often does

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with something that God starts as something holy.

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He'll send somebody unholy in to try and-

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Try to defile it.

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Defile it, yeah.

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I mean, if you look at the city of Los Angeles,

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for instance, Los Angeles, it was named for the angels.

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It's a place of the angels.

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And we know that God moved in mighty ways there at times,

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but Hollywood sprung up there and it's unholy.

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It's really unholy wood and lots of other very bad things.

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you need to look for what God intended for that place to be

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and get a vision for how to pray for that place

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to loose it from the darkness and bring the light.

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That's another bunny trail we won't go on.

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But the thing that came to me as I was studying this,

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when you see the interpretation

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that the writer of Hebrews gives,

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that he is the king of righteousness and the king of peace

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because Salem means peace.

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Well, it's true that Salem is the root word for shalom,

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which means peace, but it comes from the verb shalem.

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And when I dug around a little deeper in Genesis 14,

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where it says that he was the king of Salem,

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in Hebrew it's pronounced shalem.

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So he's the king of shalem.

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And shalem means whole, perfect.

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It means a full and just number and measure,

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like as in a just weight.

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I'm reading from Gezanias that I found

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in the Blue Letter Bible app.

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It's also the word that is used

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to refer to a complete army.

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And I love this, this is really interesting.

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Stones that have been untouched or unviolated by iron.

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In other words, if you think back

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to how God gave instructions for the temple to be built,

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they were not to be touched by iron.

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They were to be shaped just by stone.

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So stone sharpening stone, okay?

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In fact, I think they used sapphires.

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I've heard that they use sapphires for polishing

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to make the stone smooth,

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but they were not to be touched with iron.

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Wow.

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And they're whole stones, in other words.

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Now also the name Melchizedek, Melki.

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Melki.

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Melki means my king.

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My king, okay.

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So it's not just king of righteousness.

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The tzedek part is righteousness,

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but it's really my king of righteousness.

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So it becomes personal.

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And here is this supernatural person laying a foundation

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for the city that would become the city of the great king.

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And Melchizedek was a pretty great king.

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He really was.

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But it's for God's city.

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It's his city.

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And we know that there is a new Jerusalem that's coming.

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So this idea of it being the place of wholeness,

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my king of righteousness dwells in a place of wholeness

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and perfection and completeness.

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And so when we invite him to come into us,

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guess what he does?

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Brings righteousness.

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Yeah, he brings his righteousness and he brings wholeness.

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Everything, like if you remember what we talked about

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a couple of episodes ago about if nobody's perfect,

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why does God command it?

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We covered some of this idea about being whole

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and being complete and being sound

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and being all of the things that God does in us

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when he's at work in our lives.

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So this idea of Jesus coming into us,

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the Holy Spirit coming into us when we welcome him in,

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when we make him Lord,

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in other words, when we exalt him

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into that place of lordship.

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And what does lordship mean?

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It means you make him your master.

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You make him your master, yes.

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So when we make him master,

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we are coming into that place of subservience

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where we submit to him

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and we let him make the decisions

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and we let him lead us and guide us

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instead of us trying to always do it our own way.

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That's the worldly way.

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The world teaches you do your own thing.

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Why do we always try to do it our own way?

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I think that's-

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Sometimes turning to God is the last thing.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It happens in situations where it's life and death.

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Yeah, and sometimes I think God allows us

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to get into those life and death situations

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so that we'll finally surrender.

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Yeah, it would have been easier

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if we would have surrendered a lot earlier though.

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Exactly, exactly.

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And that's why we have to learn to walk that way

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where he gets to be first all the time.

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Some of the best experience is watching people

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walk through theirs in similar situations

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that you might be in and get a more tuned ear.

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Very true, very true.

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And we can learn from each other

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so we don't have to go through those things.

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I think that's why God put so many of the details

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in the Bible of the stories

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that the Bible characters went through

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that he doesn't cover up their mistakes.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Everything is there, warts and all.

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Warts.

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Warts.

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All the stuff that they did is all there.

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And then you see how God redeems it.

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And you also see how there's consequences.

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But the point is that there's the consequence

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of exalting something, the consequence is whatever we exalt,

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we empower to do something back to us.

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So if we're exalting our circumstances,

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whatever our circumstances might be,

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whether our circumstances are financial issues,

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poverty or great need or whether it's sickness

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or disease or some kind of breaking,

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some kind of trauma that we've been through,

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if we're busy exalting that,

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we're actually empowering that

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to continue working in our lives.

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So if we exalt that,

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it's just gonna keep feeding it like waves.

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When we exalt the Lord, when we praise him,

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we worship him, the worship goes up,

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the praise goes up and his blessings come down.

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Yes.

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His empowering comes down to us and changes us

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and gives us what we need.

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He is Jehovah Jireh or Yehovah Yireh.

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He is the one who sees everything that we're gonna need

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and he sees to it.

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Yeah, the more we empower him,

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the more we will be closer to him.

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Right, and the more we exalt him,

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we're empowering him to do something back in our lives.

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So the other thing that Ira Milligan did

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at this conference was he took two glasses.

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One was empty and one had water in it

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and he stood them side by side.

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He held them up side by side.

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And he said, as long as this empty one is the same height,

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they were side by side,

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as long as it's in the same position side by side

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with the glass that has something in it,

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the empty one will never get anything from the full one.

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It's when the empty one lowers itself, okay?

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You cannot pour from one to another

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when they're side by side.

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One of them has to go up and one of them has to go down.

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So what you exalt, you empower to pour into you.

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Yeah, that's so good.

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So what an illustration that was.

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Yeah, the power of your words.

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Yeah, so when we exalt the Lord our God

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and when we worship him,

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we're empowering him to pour back into us.

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And isn't that what this whole podcast is about?

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The empowerment of the outpouring.

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We wanna see the fullness of the outpouring

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of the Holy Spirit on all flesh.

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So as we exalt our Father,

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as we exalt him as the Lord our God,

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as we exalt him, as we worship him,

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we are empowering him to pour out.

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And it's like he spoke to me

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when we got this name global outpouring,

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he said, don't ask me for the outpouring,

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ask me for my heart for the outpouring.

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So as we're exalting his heart,

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his heart is all about his love.

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He is love.

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He is the very source of love.

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He's the essence of love.

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Love doesn't exist except that it comes from him.

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Yeah.

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Now that's the agape kind of love.

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That other kind can come from elsewhere.

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But the true love of, the love of God,

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that perfect love that casts out fear comes from him.

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So we have to exalt him.

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So this idea of exalting him,

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we see it in Psalm 99 from the Amplified Classic.

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Starting with verse one,

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the Lord or Yehovah reigns,

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let the peoples tremble with reverential fear.

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He sits enthroned above the cherubim,

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let the earth quake.

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Now that picture of he sits enthroned above the cherubim

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is both in heaven and on earth in the Ark of the Covenant,

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because the cherubim are right there

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on the top of the Ark of the Covenant.

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And he sits enthroned there.

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The Lord is great in Zion.

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He is high above all the peoples.

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Let them confess and praise your great name,

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awesome and reverence inspiring.

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It is holy and holy is he.

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The strength of the King who loves righteousness,

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there he is, there he is, Melchizedek.

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Jesus is after the order of Melchizedek.

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The strength of the King who loves righteousness and equity,

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you establish in uprightness.

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You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob or Israel.

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Extol the Lord our God and worship at his footstool.

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Holy is he.

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So in the King James, it says, exalt the Lord our God

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and worship at his footstool.

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So one of the places where you see a description

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of the footstool of God is in 1 Chronicles 28 and verse 2.

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It says, then David the King stood up upon his feet

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and said, hear me my brethren and my people.

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As for me, I had in my heart to build a house of rest

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for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord.

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Yehovah and for the footstool of our God.

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And had made ready for the building.

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And he goes on to talk about how Solomon his son

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is going to do this.

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But the footstool of God is actually

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the Ark of the Covenant.

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And you see that with the, it's like his presence comes down

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upon the Ark of the Covenant.

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So it's as though that's where his feet go.

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He's occupying that place above the Ark of the Covenant.

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So you see that as his footstool.

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So exalting him, this word exalt

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is from the Hebrew word room

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and from the outline of biblical usage

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from the Blue Letter Bible app or blueletterbible.com.

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This comes in the polel stem formation of this verb.

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I won't try to take time explaining what that means,

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but it's a formation of the verb.

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So when you're looking at what a word means in the Hebrew,

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if it says polel, those are the meanings.

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So the polel version of this word means to raise

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or rear children, to raise as in children,

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to cause to grow up, to lift up,

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to raise, to exalt, to exalt or extol.

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So exalting the Lord, remember how we've said before

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that Dean Braxton expressed to us

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that when he looked at the Lord

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and he took in the greatness and the beauty

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and the glory and the love

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and he's processing that in his mind for just that moment

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and he looks again and he's more so.

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So you have this idea of when we exalt him,

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we're seeing him grow right before our eyes.

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And when we exalt him, we're empowering him

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to make us grow.

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We're made in his image.

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So we're in that place of exalting him

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and it's part of relationship that as we exalt him,

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he's doing something in us.

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So we also have Psalm 34 and verse three

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that says, oh, magnify the Lord with me

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or magnify Yehovah with me

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and let us exalt his name together.

522
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,600
So it's the same word exalt

523
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,280
where you're causing his name to grow.

524
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,560
And remember what Yehovah means, it means he who was,

525
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,480
he who is and he who always will be what he is.

526
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,480
He never changes in the essence of who he is,

527
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,840
he just grows, he just becomes more so.

528
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,840
So when we exalt him, we're causing that growing

529
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,400
in our eyesight before him.

530
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:45,200
The more we exalt him, the more we see his greatness

531
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,480
and the more we see his greatness, the more we magnify him.

532
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,480
So this word magnify comes from the Hebrew word gadal

533
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,360
and we get the word gadol from that, which means great.

534
00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:02,200
And like you see in the Hebrew that like the high priest,

535
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,200
the Hebrew expression is Kohen Hagadol.

536
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,760
So a Kohen is a priest,

537
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,440
but the high priest is Kohen Hagadol.

538
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,840
So he's the great priest,

539
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,360
he's the exalted priest so to speak,

540
00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,080
he's the big guy.

541
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:20,920
He's the big shot.

542
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,240
He's the big shot.

543
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,600
So this word magnify also means to cause to grow

544
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,600
or to make great or powerful or to magnify.

545
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,600
So I remember years ago, Philip and I are worship leaders

546
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,600
and we were singing a song about magnify the Lord.

547
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,640
And as we're singing, I'm meditating on

548
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,360
what does that look like?

549
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,120
What does that mean to magnify him?

550
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:50,920
And the thought came to me,

551
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,720
it's like all of a sudden in that moment,

552
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,600
I got a picture in my mind of a magnifying glass.

553
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,800
And then the question came in my spirit,

554
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,120
well, what is significant about that magnifying glass

555
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,360
that enables it to magnify?

556
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,840
And what I got was it's transparent.

557
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,720
So when we have allowed the Holy Spirit to be working in us

558
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,080
to make us transparent before him.

559
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,080
When the light lights us up.

560
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,320
Yeah, what lights us up.

561
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,960
And when we're honest, people will say,

562
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,800
you're so transparent.

563
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,640
You tell things about yourself

564
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,880
that you're not hiding anything.

565
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,160
You're being transparent.

566
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,320
And I think it's when we,

567
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,760
another way to say that would be to humble yourself.

568
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,160
In humbling yourself, you're magnifying him.

569
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,680
Yeah, and he will exalt you in due time.

570
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,520
Exactly.

571
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,680
And there was a song out of the 80s probably.

572
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,440
Remember that, humbly yourself in the side was around.

573
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:54,280
Oh yeah.

574
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,960
And he will lift you up higher and higher.

575
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,240
Oh yeah, I remember that one.

576
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,080
Yeah.

577
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,080
So. And that's true.

578
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,160
It's very true.

579
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,000
It's very true.

580
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,880
So as I was meditating on that,

581
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,200
getting ready to record this podcast,

582
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,400
as I was meditating on that,

583
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,440
I saw something else that I'd never seen before.

584
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,440
And another aspect of a magnifying glass is its shape.

585
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,440
Its shape is convex.

586
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,160
Now, when I was a kid,

587
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,200
I knew I had to learn the words convex and concave.

588
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,720
And they're opposite each other, but which one is which?

589
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,800
So concave means it's shaped like a cave

590
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,440
and it turns inward.

591
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,200
So that a lens that is concave turns inward on both sides.

592
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,160
Yeah.

593
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,360
And a convex lens turns outward.

594
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,200
Yeah.

595
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,360
It's like a bubble in the middle.

596
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,600
Yeah, it's like a bubble.

597
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,080
So I looked it up in the free dictionary.com

598
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,520
and it says rising or swelling

599
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,720
into a spherical or rounded form

600
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,960
that I'm talking about convex.

601
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,880
Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form.

602
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,400
And it says regularly protuberant.

603
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,560
Well, I didn't even bother looking that one up,

604
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,440
but I think it means sticking out, right?

605
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,080
Or bulging, okay?

606
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,080
So it's bulging in the middle, but it's in a regularity.

607
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,480
It's not like a house of mirrors

608
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,160
that has all of this distortion.

609
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,720
It's a purely smooth, rounded surface.

610
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,800
And when you look through it,

611
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,120
it magnifies the thing you're looking at.

612
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,040
Yeah.

613
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,120
So when we magnify the Lord,

614
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,560
we are making him look bigger to ourselves.

615
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:35,840
Ooh, I like that.

616
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:36,680
Okay.

617
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,920
And we're giving him the place that's due him

618
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,040
because he is greater than what we can understand.

619
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,880
He's greater than what we perceive.

620
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,600
He's more so.

621
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,040
He's always more so.

622
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,480
But if you are looking at yourself,

623
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,160
you know, the enemy of our souls,

624
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,960
the accuser of the brethren,

625
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,640
is always trying to magnify our faults.

626
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:00,840
Boy, that's for sure.

627
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:01,680
Yeah.

628
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,960
Just reminds us about them.

629
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:03,800
Yeah.

630
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,600
And I'm reminded of what Dean Braxton says

631
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,840
about how Lucifer fell to begin with was,

632
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,480
okay, so back up.

633
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,440
In heaven, you communicate thought to thought.

634
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,960
And the part that we don't know,

635
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,920
we didn't know until Dean told this truth,

636
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,160
was that you have to ask for permission to give a thought.

637
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,720
The person you wanna give it to grants permission

638
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,120
for you to give it, okay?

639
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,480
So what Lucifer started doing was putting thoughts in

640
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,320
without permission.

641
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,200
And that is still his MO.

642
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,680
That is still how he operates.

643
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,840
He's putting thoughts in our heads

644
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,960
that we've given him no permission to give.

645
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,200
And he never gives up.

646
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,360
He doesn't seem to,

647
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,640
but I think we have authority to stop him.

648
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,160
We just have to stay on top.

649
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,520
Yeah, we have to just keep saying, no, no,

650
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,040
that's not who I am.

651
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,680
The real me is my spirit.

652
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,280
And my spirit is one with the Holy Spirit.

653
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,080
And he's perfect.

654
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,040
He sees us as perfect.

655
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,280
When we've asked Jesus into our lives,

656
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,240
even if he hasn't worked out all the knots

657
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,240
and warts and things like that,

658
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,600
we're in process.

659
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:17,520
We're in process.

660
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,160
The whole Christian walk is a process,

661
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,520
but we're in process.

662
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,720
And our father sees the finished work through Jesus.

663
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,560
Thank God.

664
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,160
He sees us as finished.

665
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,160
So we mustn't give any place to that accuser

666
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,760
when he's accusing us to ourselves,

667
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,840
or when he's accusing others to us,

668
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,120
or when he's accusing God to us, he does that too.

669
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,280
The accuser, the brethren is cast down

670
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,760
by the power of the blood of Jesus.

671
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,000
And we have to keep applying the blood of Jesus

672
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,920
to keep our minds heavenward.

673
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,160
And Isaiah 55, God says,

674
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,680
my thoughts are not your thoughts,

675
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,040
neither are your ways my ways.

676
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,520
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

677
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,280
so are my ways higher than your ways

678
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,880
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

679
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,400
So our father is challenging us to keep looking at him

680
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,720
to learn his ways and learn his thoughts,

681
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,240
so that we renew our minds with his thinking.

682
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,280
That's the goal.

683
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,720
That's where we're supposed to be going.

684
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,720
But if we're looking at ourselves through a concave lens,

685
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,240
and we're seeing our faults, and we're seeing our failures,

686
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240
if you look at something through a concave lens,

687
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,520
it shrinks it.

688
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,400
And so we're actually magnifying our weaknesses

689
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,960
and making ourselves smaller in our own eyes.

690
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,680
So when we magnify our father,

691
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,520
one of the things that Dean says,

692
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,800
and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it,

693
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,520
is that although he didn't say it this way,

694
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:01,920
these are my words,

695
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,680
although you see our father in the shape of,

696
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,040
like our shape, with a head and arms and legs and so on,

697
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,440
he said that he's like a sphere, like a bubble,

698
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:15,520
and that we are too.

699
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,760
So what I'm imagining,

700
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,800
and I'll have to get with him about this

701
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,480
to make sure I've got this right,

702
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,400
but what I'm imagining is that it's kind of like

703
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,800
the circular or spherical glow

704
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,520
that is around a candle flame.

705
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:31,360
Okay, yeah.

706
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,680
If you ever look at a candle kind of in the darkness,

707
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,160
you'll see this circular flame,

708
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,240
so, or the circular glow around it.

709
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,400
And I think maybe that's kind of what this is like.

710
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,400
We'll have to ask him on the next podcast

711
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,640
that we do with him, which I hope will be soon.

712
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,840
So what I'm seeing is this idea of being spherical,

713
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,160
like this convex lens that we're using

714
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,400
as we're meditating on him, as we're exalting him,

715
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,200
as we magnify him.

716
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,680
He is the one that sets us into that place of wholeness,

717
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,960
because he is my King of righteousness, right?

718
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,120
Melchizedek, my King of righteousness,

719
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,760
dwelling in that place of wholeness and perfection.

720
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,920
He is in that process of doing that for us.

721
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,200
And the Melchizedek from Genesis 14

722
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:28,200
was placed there in that place as like a placeholder

723
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,920
to protect what God was going to do

724
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,280
on that mountain of Moriah.

725
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,520
Because the southern slope is what is the city of David,

726
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,560
and the upper slope is the place

727
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,400
where the Temple Mount was.

728
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,560
And if you look beyond that,

729
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,800
what used to be the northern slope was quarried away

730
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,040
to be the place where they quarried the rock

731
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,560
for the Solomon's Temple.

732
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,120
And beyond that is the place of Golgotha.

733
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:05,160
So the same place where Abraham was ready to sacrifice Isaac

734
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,760
and God counted it as though he actually did it.

735
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,080
He was enacting on earth something

736
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,680
that God was going to do himself.

737
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,880
But he needed a human being who was willing to do it

738
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,560
on earth as it is in heaven,

739
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,600
because Jesus was sacrificed

740
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,520
from before the foundation of the earth.

741
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,760
So we have this beautiful thing that comes

742
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,040
from our Father as we exalt him together.

743
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:40,040
Now, Philip, would you be so kind as to read Psalm 34

744
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:42,960
from the Passion Translation?

745
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,400
Let's read verses one through 14.

746
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,320
Lord, I'm bursting with joy over what you've done for me.

747
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,240
My lips are full of perpetual praise.

748
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,600
I'm boasting of you and all your works.

749
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,960
So let all who are discouraged take heart.

750
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,760
Let me just give you that in the-

751
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,600
King James.

752
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,080
King James, verse two.

753
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,400
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord.

754
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,840
The humble shall hear thereof and be glad.

755
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,400
So what does it say in the Passion for that?

756
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,960
I'm boasting of you and all your works.

757
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,920
So let all who are discouraged take heart.

758
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,360
Yeah, so humble or discouraged, it works for both.

759
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,200
Yeah.

760
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:26,960
But I think we need to make sure that we see both.

761
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:27,800
Go ahead.

762
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:28,840
Okay.

763
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:29,880
Join me, everyone.

764
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,360
Let's praise the Lord together.

765
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,520
Let's make him famous.

766
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,080
Let's make his name glorious to all.

767
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:36,920
Yes.

768
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,240
Listen to my testimony.

769
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:41,680
I cried to God in my distress and he answered me.

770
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,880
He freed me from all my fears.

771
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:44,720
Yes.

772
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:45,560
Yes.

773
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,520
Gaze upon him, join your life with his and joy will come.

774
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,480
Your faces will glisten with glory.

775
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,320
You'll never wear that shame face again.

776
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,400
When I had nothing, desperate and defeated,

777
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,960
I cried out to the Lord and he heard me,

778
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:03,560
bringing his miracle deliverance when I needed it most.

779
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,680
The angel of the Lord stooped down to listen as I prayed,

780
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,440
encircling me and powering me

781
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,640
and showing me how to escape.

782
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,160
He will do this for everyone who fears God.

783
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,400
Drink deeply of the pleasures of this God.

784
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,920
Experience for yourself the joyous mercies he gives

785
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,240
to all who turn to hide themselves in him.

786
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:30,160
Worship in awe and wonder all you who've been made holy

787
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for all who fear him will feast with plenty.

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Even the strong and the wealthy grow weak and hungry,

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but those who passionately pursue the Lord

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will never lack any good thing.

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Come children of God and listen to me.

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I'll share the lesson I've learned of fear in the Lord.

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Do you want to live a long good life,

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enjoying the beauty that fills each day?

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Then never speak a lie or allow wicked words

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to come from your mouth.

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Amen.

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Keep turning your back on every sin

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and make peace your life motto.

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Practice being at peace with everyone.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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So as we watch what comes out of our mouth,

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what are we exalting?

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What are we empowering?

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Are we exalting and empowering evil?

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Are we speaking so much about the agenda of the darkness

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that we're empowering it?

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Uh-oh, we better not.

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We better be speaking about our Father's agenda.

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What does he have planned?

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Because he's got some great things planned

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that are awesome and glorious.

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Instead of exalting what is being done in darkness,

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what is being planned in darkness,

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just because they're planning it

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doesn't mean they can pull it off.

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Yeah, that's right.

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So if we exalt Yehovah our God,

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as we exalt Jesus and what he finished on Calvary,

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he finished it.

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He said, it is finished.

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It is complete, it is whole.

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He is our King of righteousness.

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My King of righteousness did the work in Salem,

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for Salem, for Shalem, for wholeness, for perfection,

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to make me into a picture of him in the earth

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glistening with his glory.

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Yes.

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Glistening with his glory.

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So we exalt him together.

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Yes, thank you Father.

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Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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we ask you to cause each listener

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to receive your presence right now.

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That they will be like that Ark of the Covenant

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where you put your feet down,

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where you make your seat,

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00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:45,320
where you make your town of Shalem,

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00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,160
that place of wholeness,

841
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,240
that place of perfection,

842
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,840
that place where there's nothing missing, nothing broken.

843
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,800
Everything has been restored.

844
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,800
Everything is like a rock that hasn't been cut with iron.

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Lord, we're asking you to cause each one

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to see themselves as whole in you

847
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because you fill up all the places where we're deficient.

848
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And we thank you for that.

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We empower you Lord, by our exaltation of you.

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In Jesus' name.

851
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Amen.

852
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Amen.

853
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Amen.

854
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,320
Amen.

855
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:19,160
Amen.

856
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Amen.

857
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Amen.

858
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Amen.

859
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Amen.

860
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Amen.

861
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Amen.

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