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Jesus has the words of life and that's where we go on.
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When the way gets tough,
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and we get circumstances that make us question God,
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we lose everything, you know,
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remember we're following him and we're his disciples.
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Amen.
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And we're abiding in him.
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God promises in Joel 2, 28,
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to pour out his spirit on all humanity.
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Welcome to Global Outpouring,
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where we contend for that 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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Welcome to the podcast today.
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We're so delighted that you're with us.
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You know, God has given Philip a download for this episode.
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So I'm gonna toss the ball to him to introduce it.
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Well, this was a word that was coming to me.
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It started last week, but it all came together this morning.
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You could title this,
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Come and see, follow me,
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abide in me and send me.
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Amen.
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It's four things you do when you really follow the Lord.
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We're so glad that you are with us on this podcast today.
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Thank you so much for tuning in.
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Before we get started with this interesting study,
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I want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so,
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that you make sure that you've gone to our website,
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globaloutpouring.net,
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and that you have subscribed to our email lists
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so that we can stay in touch with you.
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It's really important that, you know,
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these days things are uncertain on the internet
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and it's just a good way to stay in touch.
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So that's one thing.
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And then the other thing is we want to make sure
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that you are making plans to come to convention 2025
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in St. Louis, Missouri.
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We're going to have this marvelous time
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of getting immersed in the presence of God
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in this convention.
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It's going to be family camp, bring the whole family.
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It's for every age.
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We've got something special
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and it's about connecting people.
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If you're hungry for God,
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and sometimes when you're hungry for God,
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you can't find anybody else that's hungry for God.
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Maybe you have one or two, bring those one or two.
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Maybe you've got a group of 10, bring that group of 10
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because this is an opportunity for you to come
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into a deeper place in God
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where God is moving in a unique, unique way.
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It's not like any convention you've ever been to
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or conference.
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This is going to be something very, very special.
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Pastor Tony Kemp is going to be one of our speakers
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and Dean Braxton will be one of our speakers.
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I'll be a speaker there.
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We've got another one or two up our sleeve
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that we'll introduce as soon as we have confirmation on them
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and it's going to be a time that is going to be
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very, very special where we go deep in worship,
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deep in intercession,
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deep in the things of God, deep in the word.
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It's going to be life-changing.
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So we want to really encourage you May 21st through 24th, 2025,
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be there with us at the St. Louis Airport Marriott Hotel.
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Very easy to get to by either plane or car.
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Very easy to get to a lovely, lovely place
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and it'll be a place where we join together
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and you'll build relationships that'll go on for eternity.
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It's just marvelous.
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So just please make sure that you've got that.
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And also, if you have any feedback for us,
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we'd love to hear from you.
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You can send an email to feedback at globaloutpouring.org
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or you can fill out the feedback form
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on globaloutpouring.net
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and it's all going to come to us by email.
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We'll email you back as soon as we have an opportunity to.
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So we'd just love to hear from you.
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And if you want to participate
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in helping us keep this podcast going,
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I just did the numbers last night
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and I'm overwhelmed with how much it costs.
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But like I said in the last episode or in a recent episode,
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I don't like to talk about money
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and I don't like to beg for money,
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but I'm asking you to hear the Holy Spirit
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and the Holy Spirit speaks to you to help us out with this
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so that we can pay it forward and keep going on this podcast,
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especially if it's being life-changing for you.
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We want to encourage you to hear from the Lord
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about helping us to produce this podcast.
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So Phillip, tell us about what the Holy Spirit
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has been giving you in your heart that's speaking to you
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and let it speak to us as well.
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You know, in our walk with the Lord, you know,
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we go back and we think about the pit,
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maybe that we had dug for ourselves.
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Oh yeah, and they're done that.
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And how God got us out of the pit.
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But a lot of times his circumstances were not,
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you know, the way of doing it were not to our liking.
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Oh yeah.
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Because he just has a, God has a unique way
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of taking things away that would hamper your following him.
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Yeah, it's true.
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Kind of like a mother bird pulls the feathers
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out of the nest when it's time for the babies
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to start to fly.
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Yeah, and on the way down is when you do it.
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And so when you feel like we're on the way down,
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like you've been booted out,
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it's just, if you flap your wings and just cry,
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cry out and you know, Jesus is there.
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It's like the painting you see with the footsteps.
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Yeah.
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You know, you see two sets of footsteps and only one,
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you know, and the person asks,
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where did the other footsteps go?
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And the Lord said, that's when I was carrying you.
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Yeah.
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Because you couldn't do it by yourself.
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You know, there's so much.
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When you're going through the hardest time,
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that's when he carries you.
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That's when you really need the carrying.
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So I just want to look, look a little bit
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into the life of the disciples,
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how they first started out, Jesus first followers.
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And you know, his ministry started,
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he did a 40 day fast.
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In the wilderness, tempted to the devil.
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You know, and it says, and the devil tempted him.
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You know, can go back and read that in two of the gospels.
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So he's getting harassed.
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How much day or night, we don't know.
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You know, and then the devil challenges his authority.
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And you know, then he comes out of the desert
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and ministry is ready to start, you know.
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And you had a little taste of it when he was 12 years old.
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When he was in the temple and all the,
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all the scribes and Pharisees are getting blown away
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for the wisdom that is in this 12 year old child.
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Like, how do you know that?
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You know?
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Where did you come from?
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Where did you go to school?
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You know, Nazareth, you're from Nazareth.
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What kind of rabbi do you have there that knows these things?
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So anyway, let's just take a look.
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So one of the first statements that Jesus says
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to his disciples is, come and see.
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So in the gospel of John chapter one,
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and I'm gonna start verse 29, and this is John the Baptist.
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And this is the second day, you know,
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Jesus has showed up again and two of his disciples are there.
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So he says to them, the very next day,
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John saw Jesus coming to him to be baptized.
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And John cried out, look, there he is, God's lamb.
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He will take away the sins of the world.
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Hallelujah.
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Yeah, because you know, back at this time,
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the only way you got your sins taken away
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was through a sacrificial lamb, a natural lamb,
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you know, which was done in the temple.
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Right.
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Which you had to take that long journey on.
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You know, and that nice, you don't have to take
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a long journey for salvation.
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It's just instant, you know?
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And he says, I told you that a mighty one would come
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who is far greater than I am,
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because he existed long before I was born.
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My baptism was for the preparation of his appearing
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to Israel, even though I've yet to experience him.
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He knew him in the Spirit.
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You know, cause even when Mary visited Elizabeth,
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John, who was in Elizabeth's womb,
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he jumped in her womb, you know,
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and he was filled with the Holy Spirit, you know,
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right there, you know.
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So they knew each other by the Spirit,
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even though they had never met for all those years
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that we know of.
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I wonder if they maybe saw each other
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when they were kids.
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Yeah, going up to the temple.
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Yeah, going to the feasts.
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Maybe they did.
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But at some point, John ended up in the wilderness.
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So anyway, the very next day, John was there again.
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I'm reading, this is verse 35.
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The very next day, John was there again
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with two of his disciples as Jesus was walking
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right past them.
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John, gazing upon him, pointed to Jesus and said,
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look, there's God's lamb.
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And as soon as John's two disciples heard this,
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they immediately left John and began to follow
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a short distance behind Jesus.
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Wouldn't that give you a complex, you think?
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Two of your disciples, you know,
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all of a sudden they're not following you anymore.
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Says, hey, where you going?
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You know, and they're following Jesus afar off.
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Yeah.
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Because it's just like the Holy Spirit is working.
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They're not filled, you know,
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the infilling hasn't been poured out yet, you know,
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on them.
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It has on Jesus, you know, but not on them.
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But there's this unction to follow them.
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Yeah.
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This unction, what does this man have to do with us?
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Kind of like you've had that feeling.
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I've had that feeling.
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Like those ladies that smuggled Bibles
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behind the Aaron curtain,
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there's something about them
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that has something to do with me.
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I was hooked.
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Yeah, and I wanted to stay away from them.
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I didn't want to go to jail smuggling Bibles.
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I did, I was willing.
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Self preservation.
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It was kind of working early there.
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So anyway, so Jesus turns around
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and saw that they were following him and asked,
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what do you want?
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They responded, Rabbi, you know,
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which means master or teacher, where are you staying?
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Jesus answered, come and discover for yourselves.
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Ooh.
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I thought that's a real neat statement.
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That's the passion, right?
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This is the passion, TPT, the passion.
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And in the King James, it's, you know, come and see.
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And in the Amplified, it's come and you will see.
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Come and you will see.
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Now, doesn't that sound?
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Yeah, that gives it another feel to it.
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And little did they know what they were getting into.
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Yeah, right.
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So come and discover for yourselves.
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So they went with him and saw where he was staying.
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And since it was late in the afternoon,
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they spent the rest of the day with Jesus.
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And I'm sure, you know, during all this time
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that he was probably reading their mail somewhat.
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Probably.
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You know, cause this is what happened to Nathaniel,
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a few disciples later here.
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Yeah.
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I remember the first time we met Dean Braxton.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, we were up at the church at the cornfield
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with Pastor Young, the wild Korean lady
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that you hear talked about.
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Yeah.
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River Destiny Church.
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So we're in a shopping mall where the meetings are going on.
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It's during COVID.
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No stores are open around it.
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We didn't wear our masks till we got in the door of the mall
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then took them off when we got inside.
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But hardly anybody had a mask on in there.
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But when the presence of God moves like that, you know.
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Yeah.
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And so we met Dean.
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And when the event was over and we're leaving that morning,
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he said, I got some books for you.
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And I'm sitting there holding this box of books.
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And he talked for about an hour,
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just talking about things of heaven, things pertaining us.
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Yeah.
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Reading our mail.
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Reading our mail and I put the box down.
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After an hour.
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After an hour.
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Yeah.
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And he talked for about another hour.
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I mean, I didn't mind.
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I was getting sunburn on my neck.
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You know, we were really getting,
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you know, we were just blown away.
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And this is someone you want to follow.
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You know, it's just like, wow, he really has it.
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It's just like your antenna goes up.
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Ding ding.
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If your frequency has been found, you know, and you're.
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And God told him that he wanted us to be friends with him.
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Yeah.
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And that's amazing.
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Yeah.
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We were blown away by that.
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I remember on our next trip, we met him.
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He gave us each this little horn, you know,
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put in leather, leather, sewed around it for anointing oil.
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Yeah.
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You know, and that's what-
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That was when he first came here.
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Okay. Yeah.
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And that's what Samuel did to David.
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So he anointed Saul with a vial of oil,
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but anointed David with a horn of oil.
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Big difference there.
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There's a lot more oil in that horn.
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One would think so.
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You know, so it was just like amazing.
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I thought, wow, you know, it's tremendous connect.
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So here are the disciples and he starts calling them out.
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And I'm in Luke's gospel right now and I'm in chapter five.
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And this is in the King James.
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And it came to pass that as the people pressed upon him
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to hear the word of God,
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he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
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which is the sea of Galilee,
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and saw two ships standing by the lake,
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but the fishermen were gone out of them
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and were washing their nets.
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And it's like what you do when you fish,
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even, you know, like trout fishing, you catch a fish,
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you get the fish out of the water,
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you put the nets in the water and you wash them all out.
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So it won't have all that fishy stuff on it.
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Fishy goo.
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Fishy goo, yeah.
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And he entered into one of the ships.
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I mean, just went up and walked in,
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went on the pier and stepped in, which was Simon's boat,
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and prayed that he would thrust them out
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a little from the land.
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And he sat down and taught the people out of the ship.
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Now that's just kind of neat.
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You got an audience.
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He's starting to get an audience.
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Disciples weren't the first one he revealed himself to.
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You know, he was doing the work of the Lord.
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He was in Nazareth.
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He made his declaration, Isaiah 61,
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the spirit of the Lord is upon me.
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And that's kind of where it all started.
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So he's starting to get known.
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We don't know the exact timeline of how much time
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between that and the disciples.
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You know, it takes a while to walk from one to the other.
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Now, when he had quit speaking, he said unto Simon,
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just go out into the deeper waters
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and just let your nets down for a haul.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, sure, okay.
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It sounds like an advertisement for a new lure.
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You're really gonna catch on this, you know?
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And Simon answering, sent on to him,
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Master, we have toiled all night.
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I mean, I've been there, I fished, you know,
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I did stuff like this and have taken nothing.
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Nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net.
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Now what's interesting, he says net, not nets.
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So he only put one net down.
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We always thought, well, he was really disobedient.
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He didn't say nets.
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But what would have happened if he would have had two nets?
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The boat may have just sank immediately instead of one.
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He would have had twice as many fish.
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Never thought of it like that.
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Never thought of it like that.
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But I did look it up in the Greek and it is singular.
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I will let down the net.
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Okay.
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When Jesus had said, let down your nets.
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Okay, and I've heard someone say,
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maybe it was Sister Glenn before,
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that the net he may have let down
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was not one that he just finished washing.
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It might have been another one in the boat
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that was just older.
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Maybe.
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And kind of brittle and all that.
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We don't know for sure.
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So when this was done, they enclosed a great hall
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of fish and their net break.
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Oh no.
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Hit bro.
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But there's so many of them.
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And they called on to their partners,
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which were in the other ship,
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and they should come and help them.
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And they came and filled both the ships.
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I mean, they're pulling this.
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I mean, they just hit the lottery big time here.
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You know, the fish lottery.
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The fish lottery.
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You know, this is, you know,
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there wasn't any limit on fish back then probably.
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Sure.
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You know, like we have today.
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So they make this massive catch,
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breaks the net, and so they begin to sink.
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There's so much weight in the boat.
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You know. Wow.
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And when Simon Peter saw it,
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he fell down at Jesus' knees saying,
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depart from me.
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I'm a sinful man.
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For he was astonished and all that were with him
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at the hall of the fish, which they had just got.
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So also was James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
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who were partners on the Simon.
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And Jesus said on the Simon,
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fear not, from henceforth, you're gonna catch men.
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Yes.
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You know, and when they had brought their ships to land,
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they forced it all and followed him.
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So they just handed the fish over to somebody else.
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Here, you deal with this.
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Here, Dad.
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See you later. Yeah, here, Dad.
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Yeah.
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Because they were the sons of Zebedee.
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Because they said that his father was there,
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you know, in the other gospel.
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And they just left.
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Took off.
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Maybe they had other brothers, who knows.
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Yeah, and didn't give a week's notice or anything.
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They just took off.
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So this was the start, you know,
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of the walk of the disciples.
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You know, and let's drop down to verse 27.
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And after these things, this is Jesus,
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as he was, and he healed the one that had the epilepsy.
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And he's walking by and he sees a publican
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whose name was Levi.
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So what's a publican?
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A publican is one that collects taxes.
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Yeah, it's public money.
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Public money.
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That's why they're called a publican.
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And why would this man, Levi,
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whose name would change to Matthew,
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so if he's a Levi, why would a Levi
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called to be a part of Levi works in the temple,
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part of the priesthood, collecting taxes?
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You ever think about that?
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No.
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I thought about that when I was getting this this morning.
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Interesting.
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So Levi is the tribe of Levi.
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You know, one of the tribal Levi called
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to be the priesthood, you know, from early on,
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collecting money from everybody else.
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Wouldn't his family want to disown him for that?
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It's good money, maybe, you know,
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though he's getting a percentage.
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You know, Rome is getting him a percentage
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of what he is getting.
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Interesting.
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Very interesting, you know.
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So let's go on.
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So he sees Levi sitting at the receipt of custom
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and said unto him, follow me.
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So this is the next statement in a life
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when you're gonna, you know, follow Jesus,
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is to follow him.
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So he rose up.
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What happened in Levi at that instant?
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He left all, got up, rose up and followed him.
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And Levi made a great feast in his own house.
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And there was a great company of publicans and others
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that were sitting down with him, you know,
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and this great controversy going on after this happens
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that Jesus is there.
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He's sitting and eating with other publicans,
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other tax collectors.
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Yeah.
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I mean, okay, think about this.
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How much time happened between Jesus meeting him
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and this feast?
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Good question.
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Yeah, how do you pull a feast together?
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Yeah, don't pull your phone out and email everybody.
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You got all your favorites on your phone, you know.
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That doesn't work back then.
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So maybe a little time passed between this.
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Yeah, or you know, word can spread pretty quickly.
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So he has this feast, you know, while he's with them all.
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So Levi, whose name now is Matthew,
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who wrote the Gospel of Matthew.
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Yes, and the name Matthew, by the way,
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means gift of Jehovah.
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Ooh.
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Matityahu.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah, so it's interesting.
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You know, he really was a gift.
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I mean, look at the gift that he gave to us
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in the Gospel that he wrote.
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Stunning.
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Yeah, that really is.
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So the other disciples are called one by one,
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or maybe two by two, some of them.
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And some of them, you can't find history
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where they really came from.
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All of a sudden we have 12 disciples.
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So there was a group that had been following him
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from place to place.
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So he could see, you know, by the Spirit, you know,
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who was going to be the next disciple.
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Right.
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Follow me.
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Follow me.
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But over in Luke chapter nine and verse 23,
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and this was after the multiplication
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of the loaves and fishes,
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which happened, you know, a couple of times.
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Then Jesus says to the disciples,
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when this was all said and done,
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00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,680
who do the people say that I am?
533
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,440
They answered saying, John the Baptist.
534
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,600
Some say Elias or Elijah.
535
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,400
Others say it's one of the old prophets risen again.
536
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,760
So he says to the 12, who do you say that I am?
537
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:13,600
Yes.
538
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,520
Peter answering said, the Christ of God.
539
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,360
The Messiah.
540
00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:18,200
The Messiah.
541
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,800
That would be, yeah, Messiah.
542
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,640
So then he straightly charged them
543
00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,760
and commanded them to tell no man that this was.
544
00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,440
And he was saying, the son of man,
545
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,360
you know, must suffer many things,
546
00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:32,280
be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes
547
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,040
and be slain and be raised up the third day.
548
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,880
Do you still want to follow me?
549
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,080
I mean, this is after this massive miracle.
550
00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,520
Did they even get that message?
551
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,320
No, I don't believe they really got it.
552
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,920
And then he said unto him, if any will follow after me,
553
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,120
and man is put in italics.
554
00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:50,200
That's anybody.
555
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,800
Man, woman, woman, child, you know.
556
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,320
And he said, if any will come after me,
557
00:20:55,320 --> 00:21:00,160
let him deny himself, take up his cross daily
558
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,080
and follow me.
559
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:01,920
Wow.
560
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,200
Ooh, okay.
561
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,440
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it,
562
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,200
but whosoever will lose his life for my sake,
563
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,760
the same shall save it.
564
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:11,600
Wow.
565
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,960
For what is a man advantage if he gains the whole world
566
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,880
and lose himself or be cast away?
567
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,920
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me in my words of him
568
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,360
shall the son of man be ashamed.
569
00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:27,240
And he shall come in his own glory and in his father's
570
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,800
and of the holy angels.
571
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,240
But I tell you of a truth, there shall be some standing here
572
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,320
which shall not taste of death
573
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,640
till they shall see the kingdom of God.
574
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,400
And we know that was John, you know, possibly John,
575
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,560
Isle of Patmos, you know.
576
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,360
They tried to boil him in oil, you know.
577
00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,880
And so this is the second step that you take.
578
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,880
That's follow me.
579
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,760
But it's taking up the cross daily, follow me.
580
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,920
What prevents you from taking up a cross and following him?
581
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,560
I mean, this isn't a normal message you hear
582
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,200
on a Sunday morning.
583
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,920
Because, you know, what happens if revival breaks out
584
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,120
and the Super Bowl starts this afternoon?
585
00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:08,960
Oh.
586
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,960
We were in Texas at a meeting and it was Super Bowl Sunday
587
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,440
and there weren't very many men in there.
588
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:18,280
Yeah.
589
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,560
Where were they?
590
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,000
I mean, the Super Bowl doesn't start too late.
591
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:22,840
Yeah.
592
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:23,840
They took Sunday off.
593
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,200
I thought, oh wow, what if Jesus came Sunday morning
594
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,160
and you weren't really looking for him?
595
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,160
You know, so we have to hear from the Holy Spirit.
596
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,320
If you're supposed to be somewhere at a specific time
597
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,120
and listening to his voice and that,
598
00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:43,120
but the only way we can do that is if we are with him daily.
599
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,880
You know, daily we pick up our cross,
600
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,360
starting first thing in the morning.
601
00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:49,080
It's a good thing to do.
602
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,320
You know, Lord, what do you have for us today?
603
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,520
You know, it's not what I want to do.
604
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,120
And it's about denying yourself.
605
00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:56,960
Yeah.
606
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:57,800
Really.
607
00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,360
It's about surrendering every day,
608
00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:02,480
surrendering to him, surrendering to his way,
609
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,600
surrendering to his will and listening for what that is.
610
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:06,440
Yeah.
611
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,960
I've been reading one of Bruce Allen's books
612
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:14,920
and he mentions, it's just like 90% of your soul
613
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,120
is taking over 10% of your spirit
614
00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:20,080
because of all the stuff that you're dealing with.
615
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:20,920
Wow.
616
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,600
I thought, you know, 90% of flesh,
617
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,400
which is your soul, that's a soulless part of you.
618
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,240
And you have to reverse that.
619
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,080
Yeah.
620
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,080
That's one of the hardest things you'll ever do.
621
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,640
But to follow him daily.
622
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:33,480
Yeah.
623
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,760
And it's the hardest thing you ever do
624
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,320
all day long every day.
625
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,920
Yeah. And a little side note here.
626
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,800
We, you know, when I got my ham radio license,
627
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,680
they gave me my call sign.
628
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,000
You know, you do your test, the FCC gives you a call sign.
629
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,240
It was KJ5FHD.
630
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,680
And to help me remember it,
631
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,560
it was John who works on our staff.
632
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,480
He gave me a little lingo and said,
633
00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,400
KJ5, King Jesus Five, follow him daily.
634
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,240
Yeah, that's true.
635
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,080
I thought, and so I remembered that.
636
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,760
And then I shortened it to find him daily
637
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,000
because it's shorter when you're trying to think of it.
638
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,720
Because when you're calling somebody on ham radio specific,
639
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,360
you give their call sign and then you give yours, you know?
640
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:16,920
And then they answer, you give yours
641
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,600
and then you talk to them.
642
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,240
It's a very neat protocol and all that, you know?
643
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,880
So follow him daily.
644
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:24,720
Yeah.
645
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,280
And which is, you know, what we all try to do.
646
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,560
And sometimes things just happen.
647
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,040
Maybe you got up late and you weren't,
648
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,800
didn't get your full devotions, you know?
649
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,760
And things like that happen, but there's grace for that.
650
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,040
You know, you don't have to be bound by tradition
651
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,760
that if I didn't do this, this isn't gonna happen, you know?
652
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,760
I had an incident that happened
653
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:48,000
that I'd been speaking at the World Mission Alliance
654
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,960
Conference some years ago.
655
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,200
And they have two speakers in every session.
656
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,680
So I was in the same session with Gary McSpadden,
657
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,640
who is brother-in-law to Dino Kartzanakis,
658
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,160
the amazing piano player.
659
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,360
And he used to travel with Catherine Kuhlman.
660
00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:05,200
Yes.
661
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,040
He was her pianist.
662
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:06,920
Yes.
663
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,720
So Dino was there to encourage his brother-in-law
664
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,440
and I was the other speaker of the session.
665
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,840
So, you know, you don't just walk out on the next speaker.
666
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,160
You be polite.
667
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,840
So they were there when I think Gary spoke first.
668
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,320
Yeah, he did.
669
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,760
And then I don't remember what I spoke about,
670
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,960
but in the middle of it, I just felt led to break into song.
671
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,480
And I sang this song about being beautifully broken.
672
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,720
And by the way, if anybody knows where to find that author
673
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,440
of that song, I would love to connect
674
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,640
because it's a really deeply moving song
675
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,960
about letting God break you.
676
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,600
And it's a beautiful thing.
677
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,920
It's, the picture on the album was a little chick
678
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,640
that's just broken out of an egg.
679
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:50,640
You know?
680
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,200
So anyway, so I broke into song and I, you know,
681
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,680
the anointing was on it and then the conference was over
682
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,000
and we were spending the night with our friend,
683
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,200
frenzy level and both of our alarm clocks
684
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,560
didn't go off that morning.
685
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,560
It was, that was the most amazing thing.
686
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,400
We, you know, and we have a habit of getting up
687
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,160
and having a prayer time.
688
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,600
You know, most days we have a worship time as well
689
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,720
before we even get ready for the day.
690
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,720
Well, Francine, it comes either knocking or just shouting,
691
00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,480
you know, breakfast is ready
692
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,320
and we hadn't gotten out of bed yet.
693
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,600
And I'm thinking, oh no.
694
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,080
What about our morning routine?
695
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,640
What about our morning routine?
696
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,560
You know, and so Sharon said, I don't think we can make it.
697
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,880
And I thought, I feel we're supposed to be there.
698
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,200
Yeah, we were gonna go to Gary McSpadden's church.
699
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,200
We're going for the church for that Sunday.
700
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,160
We had no obligation to be there, but I just felt,
701
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,680
so I encouraged her, you know,
702
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,200
cause you eat, put your, put makeup on and all that.
703
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,520
It was time to do that.
704
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:53,360
Yeah.
705
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:55,160
But there wasn't time to have a devotional time.
706
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,000
Yeah.
707
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,840
So we went to the service
708
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,680
and they sat us on the front row.
709
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,960
And I'm thinking, oh, okay.
710
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,480
And then, you know, after their worship service,
711
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,880
worship part of the service,
712
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,880
Pastor Gary starts talking and he comes down
713
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,080
with the microphone into the congregation
714
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,160
and he walks over to me and he says,
715
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,440
Sharon Buss, what's the Lord saying?
716
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,200
And I'm thinking, I didn't have my devotions this morning.
717
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,600
What is the Lord saying?
718
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,280
And in that moment, the Holy Spirit gave me something.
719
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,760
I don't remember what it was, it's some years ago,
720
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,360
but you know, whatever it was, it came out.
721
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,200
It was anointed.
722
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,120
It was beautiful.
723
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,080
It was, it was God, you know, the Holy Spirit spoke.
724
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,280
Yes. It's out there on YouTube somewhere.
725
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,200
Somewhere.
726
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,720
I don't know how to find it, but maybe we could find it.
727
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,960
If we find it, we'll put it in the show notes.
728
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,600
Anyway, then he, when I got finished with that,
729
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,440
he says, would you sing for us?
730
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,440
And at that moment, Dino stood up and he came running over
731
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,480
and he said, the Holy Spirit just spoke to me
732
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,200
that she's supposed to sing
733
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,000
and I'm supposed to accompany her.
734
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,880
So he comes over, he grabs my hand.
735
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,400
We're walking up onto the platform.
736
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,760
He says, what do you know?
737
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,640
I said, I don't know.
738
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,200
I said, make it something old.
739
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,120
Cause I didn't know what he knew.
740
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:21,200
You know, I had no idea.
741
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,200
And so, you know, he suggests something.
742
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,400
I said, no, he's, and then, then he suggested,
743
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,000
Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.
744
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,280
I said, yeah, let's do that one.
745
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,920
So he starts out playing.
746
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:32,920
Flamboyantly.
747
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:33,760
Oh yes.
748
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,800
He's just so amazing with his skills.
749
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,120
And he starts playing and I just belted it out.
750
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,720
It was amazing how I belt.
751
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,680
And you know, it was anointed by the Holy Spirit.
752
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:46,720
That's what I'm saying.
753
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,680
It wasn't that I was so amazing,
754
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,160
but what the Holy Spirit did through me was amazing.
755
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,440
And it was, it was just tremendous.
756
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,040
And we found out later that he doesn't do that for anybody.
757
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,800
But it was the Holy Spirit that led.
758
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,040
But the point of this is that sometimes
759
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,440
you don't have time to do your routine.
760
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,600
Sometimes you, you know, the thing that you depend on
761
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,400
to have the anointing in your life doesn't happen,
762
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,520
but the Holy Spirit is already there.
763
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,840
He's living inside you.
764
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,440
You're inside of him because you're following him.
765
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:20,280
Yeah.
766
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,080
You're following him and you're dwelling with him.
767
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,480
Yeah. If you're following him daily.
768
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:25,320
It's there.
769
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,120
Yeah. It's there when you need it.
770
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:27,960
Exactly.
771
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:28,800
Yeah.
772
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,640
So point number three, we're going to say,
773
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,920
and this is abide.
774
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,800
These chapters in John 13, 14, 15, 16,
775
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,800
17 are my discourse of the Upper Room.
776
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,600
And, you know, I'll just start from the beginning here.
777
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,640
I am the true vine and my father is the husband.
778
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,800
Every branch in me that bears not fruit,
779
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,800
he takes it away and every branch that bears fruit,
780
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,800
he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
781
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,200
Now you are clean through the word
782
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,360
which I have spoken to you.
783
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,240
Abide in me and I in you.
784
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,080
Amen.
785
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,320
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
786
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,560
except that abide in the vine,
787
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,560
no more can ye except ye abide in me.
788
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,760
And what you had just said, you know,
789
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,240
in the Passion Translation, it says dwell in me.
790
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:21,600
And you had just mentioned that.
791
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,440
Yes.
792
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,120
Have to dwell in me, you know.
793
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,840
And I looked abide up in the Greek and the Strongs.
794
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,560
It's number 3306.
795
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,560
And it means to remain, to sojourn,
796
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:40,560
not to depart, to continue to be present, you know.
797
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,840
And that's like, oh wow.
798
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,880
So it's just there all the time.
799
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,520
We're really abiding all the time.
800
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,160
And when we're listening to the Holy Spirit, that happens.
801
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,720
Because that's why the Holy Spirit was sent on earth,
802
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,880
was to be the comforter and our guide.
803
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,840
Yes.
804
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,960
So this is abiding in him.
805
00:30:58,960 --> 00:30:59,800
Yes.
806
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,440
I am the vine, ye are the branches.
807
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,640
He that abides in me and I in him,
808
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,480
the same brings much more fruit.
809
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,200
For without me, you can do nothing.
810
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,040
Amen.
811
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,120
Well, we found that out.
812
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,120
I haven't we though.
813
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,400
If a man abide not in me, he's cast forth as a branch,
814
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,800
he's withered.
815
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,920
And men gather them, cast them in the fire,
816
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,320
and they are burned.
817
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,440
But if you abide in me and my words abide in you,
818
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,200
ask which he will and it shall be done unto you.
819
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,000
Amen.
820
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,640
Wow, that's a great faith scripture.
821
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,160
But if we're not walking where we should be,
822
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,160
God's under no obligation to fulfill this.
823
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,480
That's true.
824
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,720
Because if we're desiring the things of the world
825
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,000
and what we're asking,
826
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,160
Asking amiss.
827
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,440
He can ask amiss, he can give it to you,
828
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,080
but in the scripture somewhere there,
829
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,760
it'll bring leanness to your soul.
830
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:56,600
That's true.
831
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,120
So things you ask for may be not what God
832
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,800
is the best for you.
833
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,720
Because too many things can steer you away.
834
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,760
So it's abiding in the vine.
835
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,840
It reminds me of Psalm 91,
836
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,840
he that dwells in the secret place of the most high
837
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,680
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
838
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,600
Yeah.
839
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,880
So I'm gonna go on now to the fourth point,
840
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,040
and that is send me.
841
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,680
And in John chapter 20, I think you,
842
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,280
Sharon, you had something.
843
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:32,040
So in John chapter 20, on the day that Jesus was resurrected
844
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:36,040
and Mary Magdalene saw him and John and Peter
845
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,640
went running to look in the tomb and found it empty.
846
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,360
Then he shows up while they're gathered in this upper room
847
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,680
and everything's closed and he just appears.
848
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,480
Some folks say that he went through the walls,
849
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,920
but I don't know whether he went through the walls
850
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,040
or he just appeared.
851
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:53,880
Just appeared, yeah.
852
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,240
He just came.
853
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,120
He said to them in verse 21,
854
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,880
he said to them, peace be to you.
855
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:01,720
Shalom.
856
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,080
Shalom, he's saying shalom.
857
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,600
I mean, that's what you always say in Hebrew
858
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,720
when you greet someone, shalom.
859
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,720
Just as the father has sent me forth, so am I sending you.
860
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,800
And there's a song that says,
861
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,000
so send I you to labor unrewarded,
862
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,120
to serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown.
863
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,840
We sang that when I was in the children's choir,
864
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,240
I was in third grade.
865
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,120
Wow.
866
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,080
Children's choir in the First Baptist Church.
867
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:35,080
And that song got into me.
868
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,520
And it was like, I felt this calling of God on my life
869
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,000
at that point.
870
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,280
And I knew that God wanted me to serve him.
871
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,960
And every time, like on a Sunday evening,
872
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,080
we'd go to church Sunday night and sometimes they would say,
873
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,160
okay, let's do favorites.
874
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,240
And I would always call for that song.
875
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,880
I was a kid, I was a little kid.
876
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,680
Wow, little did you know.
877
00:33:58,680 --> 00:33:59,840
Little did I know.
878
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,440
And we're still serving unpaid.
879
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,080
We live by faith.
880
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,680
So it was a part of my calling.
881
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,920
It was, I mean, I was born on the mission field.
882
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,840
I was born in India.
883
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,800
My parents were called to missions
884
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,200
and they didn't go back for whatever reason.
885
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,560
I won't go into that.
886
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,760
But my dad wanted us to understand missions
887
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,520
and for our family devotions, he would alternate.
888
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,240
One day he would read from the scripture
889
00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:30,120
and the next day he would read from a missionary story.
890
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,560
We grew up on missionary stories.
891
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,000
And it was like, this is what I want.
892
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,600
I knew from a young age
893
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,160
that I was supposed to be a missionary.
894
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,920
So anyway, that's my little story from So Send I You.
895
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,880
Wow, yeah.
896
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,880
And Isaiah chapter six, this is an amazing,
897
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,040
Isaiah's just so, it's one of my favorite books.
898
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,520
And he spans four kings,
899
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,600
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah,
900
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,080
and it was Manasseh's, I think Sodom and Half.
901
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:06,920
Oh really?
902
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,640
That's what I have a footnote here.
903
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,760
Oh wow, I didn't realize that.
904
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,760
And that in Hebrews 11, 37 is where,
905
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,560
I guess he was sawn asunder.
906
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,160
You know, I didn't say Isaiah,
907
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,280
but the saints were sawn asunder
908
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,920
when they're given the roll call of the saints.
909
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,600
Yeah, the hall of fame.
910
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,320
The hall of fame, yeah.
911
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,840
So in Isaiah chapter six,
912
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,760
in the year that King Uzziah died,
913
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,560
I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne,
914
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,480
high and lifted up and his train
915
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,880
or his glory filled the temple.
916
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,000
Above it stood the seraphims.
917
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,560
One had six wings and with two he covered his face,
918
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,800
with two covered his feet and two he did fly.
919
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,640
And one cried unto another and said,
920
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,680
holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
921
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,520
The whole earth is full of his glory.
922
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:56,360
Amen.
923
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:57,520
That's in the Psalms too.
924
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,200
The earth shall be filled with the knowledge
925
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,400
of the glory of the Lord.
926
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,240
Amen.
927
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:02,400
The glory is all around us.
928
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,240
Yes.
929
00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:04,200
It's when it's revealed.
930
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:05,040
Right.
931
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,680
You know, this thin veil between us and the spirit realm.
932
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,280
And the posts of the door,
933
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,760
this would be at the temple, you know, in heaven.
934
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:12,960
As you see in this,
935
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,800
they moved at the voice of them cried
936
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,920
and the house was filled with smoke.
937
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,120
Then I said, what was me?
938
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,400
I am undone because I'm a man of unclean lips.
939
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,240
I dwell in the midst of people that are unclean.
940
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,800
Mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of glory.
941
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,640
Yes.
942
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,280
And one of the seraphims came unto me
943
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,200
with a live coal in his hand,
944
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,280
which he took with tongs from off the coal of the altar
945
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,640
and put it on my mouth and said,
946
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,360
this has touched thy lips
947
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,680
and thine iniquity is taken away.
948
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:43,760
Hallelujah.
949
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:48,040
And I sin purged because of the fire.
950
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:48,880
Yes.
951
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,720
Because of the fire.
952
00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:52,440
This wasn't a sacrifice in the temple, you know,
953
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,600
where you get your sins, you know,
954
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,480
cleaned by sacrifice and animal.
955
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:02,200
This was fire from off the altar of God, purged him.
956
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,760
And that's why people fall in the presence of God.
957
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:05,600
Right.
958
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,280
Because it just overwhelms you.
959
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,000
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
960
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,120
who will go for us?
961
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,280
You know, who shall I send?
962
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,160
And I said, here I am, send me.
963
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,440
Hineni. Hineni.
964
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:19,400
I was thinking of that.
965
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:24,160
We heard on our Friday Night Live Worship a week ago,
966
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,840
Jean Little was speaking and Hineni, here I am, send me.
967
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,800
And it's all through the different parts of the scripture.
968
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,560
Yeah, we'll put a link to it in the show notes.
969
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:34,400
Yeah.
970
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,880
And in the Passion Translation,
971
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,640
it says, go tell the people is what it says.
972
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,480
Yeah, in verse nine here in King James,
973
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,600
he says, go and tell this people.
974
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,040
But in the Passion, it says,
975
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,400
go tell the people.
976
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,360
So that's his command.
977
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,240
And when we have gone through these steps,
978
00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:57,080
we have seen, we've had the Holy Spirit move on us,
979
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,600
you know, to get the salvation, you know.
980
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:00,520
Yeah, come and see.
981
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,680
Come and see his precious blood.
982
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,720
And so we follow him.
983
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:06,360
But it's kind of like the seed, you know,
984
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,400
the parable of the soils that was thrown out.
985
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,480
Some grew for this, some got eaten,
986
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,720
I'm some guy burnt by the sun.
987
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:15,960
But those that matured, you know,
988
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,560
were just being mighty used of God.
989
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,280
And so for those that don't drop off,
990
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,320
when he says, follow me, you know,
991
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,840
come and see, now follow me, you know.
992
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:27,680
Yes.
993
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,480
And so we take up our cross daily.
994
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,680
Of course, many don't, you know,
995
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,280
they're happy for Sunday morning, you know.
996
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,280
But to the disciples, you know,
997
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,520
this is the cream of the crop.
998
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,680
Now the 12, abide in me.
999
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,040
This is what you have to do.
1000
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,520
Even when he's told them,
1001
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,080
will you not follow me after he gave the revelation
1002
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,360
of eat my body and drink his blood.
1003
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,360
You know, many, all the others that were following him,
1004
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,040
all of a sudden they're gone.
1005
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,120
And he says to the 12, will you still follow me?
1006
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,560
And Peter says, where else will we go?
1007
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,320
You have the words of life.
1008
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,480
So Jesus has the words of life.
1009
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:02,400
And that's how we go on.
1010
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,320
When the way gets tough,
1011
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,120
and we get circumstances that make us question God,
1012
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,560
we lose everything, you know.
1013
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,840
Remember, we're following him and we're his disciples.
1014
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,800
And we're abiding in him.
1015
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,640
So when we abide in him,
1016
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,520
and he gives us all these revelations,
1017
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,080
that's how we get to know him in a deeper level.
1018
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,920
And then the next step, send me.
1019
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,080
Here I am Lord, send me.
1020
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,520
So go and tell the people.
1021
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:33,360
Beautiful.
1022
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,560
So that's what I got, finishing it up in my devotions,
1023
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,000
you know, yesterday morning, this morning.
1024
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,520
And I thought this is a tremendous pattern,
1025
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,280
but there's a price to pay in following.
1026
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,760
Taking up your cross, it's a price to pay.
1027
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,400
Every single day.
1028
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:51,280
Every single day.
1029
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:52,600
Hallelujah.
1030
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,960
So Father, we just thank you for this message.
1031
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,440
And we ask you to abide in us,
1032
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,720
help us to abide in you,
1033
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:03,880
that we will go through these steps of coming to see.
1034
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,080
Every time you give us something new to do,
1035
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,200
help us to come and see what that is.
1036
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,200
And then help us to follow you as you're leading us
1037
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,640
into whatever it is that you're calling us to do
1038
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,040
in any given day, Lord.
1039
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,560
And that we would keep mindful of your presence, Lord,
1040
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,840
that your presence will be the thing that we follow,
1041
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,920
the thing that we're aware of, that will abide in you.
1042
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,320
Will abide in your presence,
1043
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,000
will have that constant fellowship with you.
1044
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,840
And Lord, that out of that, we will be sent.
1045
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,440
That we'll say, yes, Lord, Hineni, here I am.
1046
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,400
Here I am, send me.
1047
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,480
Just like you sent Jesus, Lord, you're sending us.
1048
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,920
That we will be faithful to do the thing
1049
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,920
that you've called us to do every single day.
1050
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:47,760
Amen.
1051
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:48,600
Amen.
1052
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:49,440
Amen.
1053
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:50,280
Amen.
1054
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,120
Amen.
1055
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:51,960
Amen.
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Until next time, this is Sharon Buss.
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And I'm Philip Buss.
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God bless you with this overwhelming loving presence.
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God bless you.