Jan. 21, 2025

(248) “Four Steps to Walking with God”

(248) “Four Steps to Walking with God”
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Did you know that as disciples of Jesus Christ, there is a simple pattern we all must follow to walk in our calling?

In a time of personal devotions, Philip Buss received a revelation of this pattern throughout the gospels and even in the Old Testament. While this pattern does take us from salvation into our calling, it also takes us through our daily walk with Jesus into new assignments and transitions. Join the Busses for this anointed study so that you can recognize when the Lord is calling you to “come and see,” “follow Me,” and “abide in Me,” and you can respond like Isaiah did, “send me!”

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Transcript
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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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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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Yeah.

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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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Oh yeah.

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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.

439
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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?

459
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No.

460
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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.

480
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What happened in Levi at that instant?

481
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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

486
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that Jesus is there.

487
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He's sitting and eating with other publicans,

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other tax collectors.

489
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Yeah.

490
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I mean, okay, think about this.

491
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How much time happened between Jesus meeting him

492
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and this feast?

493
00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:36,400
Good question.

494
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Yeah, how do you pull a feast together?

495
00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,000
Yeah, don't pull your phone out and email everybody.

496
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You got all your favorites on your phone, you know.

497
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That doesn't work back then.

498
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So maybe a little time passed between this.

499
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Yeah, or you know, word can spread pretty quickly.

500
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So he has this feast, you know, while he's with them all.

501
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So Levi, whose name now is Matthew,

502
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who wrote the Gospel of Matthew.

503
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Yes, and the name Matthew, by the way,

504
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means gift of Jehovah.

505
00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:06,640
Ooh.

506
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Matityahu.

507
00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:08,720
Oh, wow.

508
00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,800
Yeah, so it's interesting.

509
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You know, he really was a gift.

510
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I mean, look at the gift that he gave to us

511
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in the Gospel that he wrote.

512
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Stunning.

513
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,520
Yeah, that really is.

514
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So the other disciples are called one by one,

515
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or maybe two by two, some of them.

516
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And some of them, you can't find history

517
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where they really came from.

518
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All of a sudden we have 12 disciples.

519
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So there was a group that had been following him

520
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:36,880
from place to place.

521
00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,560
So he could see, you know, by the Spirit, you know,

522
00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,880
who was going to be the next disciple.

523
00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:42,720
Right.

524
00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:43,560
Follow me.

525
00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:44,600
Follow me.

526
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:49,600
But over in Luke chapter nine and verse 23,

527
00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,400
and this was after the multiplication

528
00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:53,800
of the loaves and fishes,

529
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,360
which happened, you know, a couple of times.

530
00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,280
Then Jesus says to the disciples,

531
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,320
when this was all said and done,

532
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
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And Lord, that out of that, we will be sent.

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That we'll say, yes, Lord, Hineni, here I am.

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Here I am, send me.

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Just like you sent Jesus, Lord, you're sending us.

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That we will be faithful to do the thing

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that you've called us to do every single day.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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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.

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