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It's the anointing that's in your life
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because of his presence, because of his love for you
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and your love for him, that you have the grace
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to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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Just keep on walking.
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You're walking with him.
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He's with you.
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You are not alone in this.
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His presence gives you the grace to keep on walking.
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["The Last Supper"]
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["The Last Supper"]
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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 are with us
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and we want to share something
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that the Holy Spirit gave me a download about.
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I heard in my spirit, keep on walking.
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And sometimes you just need a little encouragement,
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depending on what you're walking through.
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Sometimes you just need to have that perseverance
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from the Holy Spirit that helps you to keep on walking.
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Thank you so much for joining us today.
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We're absolutely delighted that you have tuned in
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and that you want to participate
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in something that's life-changing.
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We trust that this podcast
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is going to be life-changing for you.
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But before we get started,
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we want to make sure that you have gone to our website,
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globaloutpouring.net,
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And this is a way for us to keep in touch with you.
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And we really like to hear back from you.
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If you're being touched by something
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or if you have an idea for us to bring on a podcast,
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we love to hear from our listeners.
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We'd love to hear from you
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wherever you're listening in the whole wide world.
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Because that just encourages us
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that we are actually doing something that,
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I mean, we know that we're doing something
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that the Holy Spirit is leading us,
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but we don't hear enough back to know
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that it's been life-changing for people,
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like we are expecting to happen.
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So we'd love to hear from you.
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And if the Holy Spirit is speaking to you to do so,
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we would be so grateful if you would stand with us
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and help us to produce this podcast and pay it forward.
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It's quite costly and we don't like to dwell on money.
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That's just not what we like to do.
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We want to trust God to speak to people.
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And so that I'm just bringing it up
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so that you're listening if the Lord is saying,
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help out global outpouring with their podcast.
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We would be so grateful.
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And don't forget that we've got convention 2025 coming up,
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May 21st through 24th in St. Louis
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at the St. Louis Airport Marriott.
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It's going to be family camp.
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It's going to be life-changing.
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It's for every age group, even the children,
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even the babies are gonna be ministered to and prayed for.
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We're gonna have something that will be life-changing
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and bring growth into your life.
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You'll be able to meet people and have
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a whole new perspective.
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Lots of times people come and they get marching orders
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for the next year.
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And it's just going to be deep worship
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and deep intercession and deep word.
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And it'll help you to go deep in the things of God.
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So today, I just want to bring this message
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that the Lord put on my heart, keep on walking.
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I heard it in my spirit, keep on walking, keep on walking.
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And I remember many years ago, our founder, Gwen Shaw,
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preached a message at the Blue Mountain Christian Retreat
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in Pennsylvania, and it was called Keep on Walking.
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We weren't there for that one.
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It was before we started traveling with her in 1983.
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So that's a long time ago.
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It was a long time ago.
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And her husband, Colonel Jim Shaw,
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every time he would mention that message,
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he would choke up in his speech.
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He'd just kind of stop.
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And he might have even come to tears,
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and he'd put his hand on his heart.
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He was really touched by that message.
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And I've looked for it in our archives, and I can't find it.
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So I don't know what that message was.
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And if we even heard the recording of it,
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it's so long ago that I don't remember what it was.
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But the Lord just put it on my heart
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that we need to have this kind of a message
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to encourage people to keep on walking,
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no matter what you're going through.
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Because sometimes you get discouraged.
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Yeah.
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Sometimes there's just some kind of an attack of the enemy,
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or maybe like we had in that podcast,
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it was episode 246, about what about the wilderness?
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Sometimes you're in a wilderness.
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Sometimes you're in a place
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where you're being accused by the enemy.
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Sometimes you're being accused by people.
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Sometimes you're just lonely,
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and you get tired and you wanna quit.
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But God says, keep on walking.
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Keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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I remember hearing some time ago,
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somebody asked John Wayne about how he walked.
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Because he had an unusual gait,
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that he was just an old cowboy.
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And he had-
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He was from riding horses.
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Maybe.
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But he had a certain stride that was kind of different.
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And somebody asked him about how he walked.
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And he says, well, my daddy taught me,
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you just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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And that was how he walked.
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He just-
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That's how he walked, yeah.
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It was his stride, it was his unique way.
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But it's still about putting one foot
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in front of the other.
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So we wanna look at some scriptures here,
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and then go on a journey with Jesus,
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that I think is going to really encourage you.
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But one of the things that I heard in my spirit,
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as I was meditating on this idea of keep on walking,
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I heard the words in my spirit, patient continuance.
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And I knew it came from a scripture,
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so I looked it up.
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And it's in Romans two, six, and seven.
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And in the King James,
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it uses that expression, patient continuance.
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And it's talking about how the Lord is going to give rewards
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for people according to their deeds.
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And it says, who will render to every man
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according to his deeds,
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to them who by patient continuance and well-doing,
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seek for glory and honor and immortality,
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eternal life.
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He's going to give eternal life to those who persevere.
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Other translations say those who keep on doing good,
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or patience and well-doing,
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or persistence or continuance of a good work.
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So it's about sticking to it.
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Stick into it.
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Stick into it.
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You do the thing that you've been given to do.
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And sometimes, we get inclined,
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we see something that looks like fun.
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Oh, I'd like to go and do that.
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And it's easy to just leave the post that God put you on
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and go and do something that looks exciting and fun,
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but God gave you a job to do.
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And like when our founder passed away,
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we're wondering, now what?
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What do we do now?
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I mean, it was a...
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It was a tough...
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Yeah, it was a significant weighty moment.
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And Gene Little, who along with his wife, Mary Lois,
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runs our house in Jerusalem,
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he was in the military and he said,
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old orders stand until new orders are given.
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Yeah.
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So you keep on walking.
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You keep on doing the thing that you've been given to do.
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You don't change course.
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You keep on walking.
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Even if it looks dark or foggy,
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or you're being sent into a thorn bush,
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you just keep on walking, keep on that trail.
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I remember we used to fly with Colonel Jim sometimes.
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He was a pilot, Sister Gwen's husband,
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and he was teaching me how to fly.
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We never got very far with it, but I loved it.
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And he taught me how to keep a heading.
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So he showed me the instruments,
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and my job was to steer the plane,
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pointing at that point.
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You keep on going in the direction you're supposed to go.
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If you want to get where you want to go,
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you got to keep on going in that direction.
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We didn't have GPS back then either.
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You're flying by faith, really,
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that you're going to have the place to land when you get there.
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Well, there were instruments and things
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that would keep you on your heading,
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but you had to stick with it.
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You know, there was such a thing as autopilot,
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but he was teaching me how to pilot.
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So anyway, the point is,
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you keep going in the direction you've been given,
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and you just keep going.
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Patient continuance.
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You endure.
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You keep on doing it.
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So the next scripture that I found was Romans 5.1-5.
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Philip, would you read that from the Passion, please?
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Our faith in Jesus transfers God's righteousness to us,
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and he now declares us flawless in his eyes.
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Oh, how beautiful.
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Yeah.
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This means we can now enjoy true and lasting peace with God,
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all because of what our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One,
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has done for us.
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Our faith guarantees us permanent access
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into this marvelous kindness
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that has given us a perfect relationship with God.
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What incredible joy bursts forth within us
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as we keep on celebrating our hope
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of experiencing God's glory.
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But that's not all.
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Even in times of trouble, we have a joyful confidence,
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knowing that our pressures will develop in us patient endurance.
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Yes, there it is again.
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And patient endurance will refine our character,
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and proven character leads us back to hope.
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And this hope is not a disappointing fantasy,
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because we can now experience the endless love of God
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cascading into our hearts
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through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
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Cascading into our hearts.
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That sounds like outpouring.
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Sounds like a waterfall outpouring.
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Yes, come on.
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Outpouring.
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So even the times of trouble,
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our pressures will develop in us
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patient endurance,
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which is like patient continuance in the other verse.
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And patient endurance will refine our character.
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This is like Galatians 5,
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where it talks about the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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It's developing His fruit in us.
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He's trying to make us look like Jesus.
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That's what the bride is supposed to be.
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We're supposed to be His counterpart.
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Counterpart, yeah, that's good.
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He wants us to be His counterpart that is like Him.
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Like Him.
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So then this idea of keeping on walking,
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patient endurance is a part of keeping on walking.
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You just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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So Abraham was commanded to walk up and down
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through the land of promise.
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And in Genesis 13, 14 to 18 in the ESV,
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would you read that for us?
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The Lord said to Abram,
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after Lot had separated from him,
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lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are,
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northward and southward and eastward and westward,
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for all the land that you see,
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I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
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Hallelujah.
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I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth
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so that if one can count the dust of the earth,
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your offspring also can be counted.
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Hallelujah.
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Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land
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for I will give it to you.
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Amen.
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So Abram moved his tent and came and settled
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by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron.
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And there he built an altar to the Lord.
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So the Lord gave him this word, arise, walk.
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So he had to keep on walking.
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Keep on walking.
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And because he had lots of flocks and herds,
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he had to keep walking through the length
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and the breadth of the land
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in order to find pasture for them.
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So he was nomadic.
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So he walked around and walked around and walked around,
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but he settled in Hebron.
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And that's another whole subject.
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I've been studying on that one.
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We'll come to that sometime.
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And he built an altar.
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That's a huge thing.
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He built an altar there.
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And it's interesting that that's the place
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where he buried Sarah.
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And that's the place he was buried.
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And in the next generation,
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Isaac and Rebecca were buried there.
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And then Jacob and Leah were buried there.
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And I just learned from extra biblical sources
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that the sons of Jacob were also buried there,
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except for Joseph.
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We know that he was buried up in Shechem.
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But I just think that's interesting
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that all of these patriarchs were buried in the same place.
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Hebron.
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And I think Hebron means friendship.
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So there's something about he walked
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to the place of friendship.
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And he built an altar to the Lord there,
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like, okay, here's my settling place,
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but I am going to walk through the length
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and breadth of the land,
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because God told him to, I'm sure he did.
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But he kept on walking.
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He kept on walking all through the length
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and the breadth of the land.
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And then in Deuteronomy 11, 24,
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would you read that for us?
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Every place wherein the soles of your feet shall tread
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shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon,
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from the river, the river Euphrates,
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even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
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So every place where you put your feet.
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And then he goes on says a similar thing in Joshua 1, 2,
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and 3, would you read that?
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Moses, my servant is dead.
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Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan,
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thou and all this people,
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unto the land which I shall give to them,
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even to the children of Israel.
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Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon,
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that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
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Okay, so you have two witnesses.
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Two witnesses, he says, walk.
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Every place you walk belongs to you and to your descendants.
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So it's important that we keep on walking,
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because every place God sends us,
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no matter how much trouble or how good it is,
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every place you go, you are claiming that
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for the kingdom of God.
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Yes, amen.
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So if you're walking at Walmart,
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you can be claiming the people of Walmart,
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the people that are working there,
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you can be claiming them for the kingdom,
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you can be claiming as you walk down the street,
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you can be claiming,
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lots of people will walk their neighborhood and pray.
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Yeah, well that's why we're seeing
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what we're seeing today with Islam.
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Oh yeah.
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You know, any country they've been,
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any place they've had their foot, it's mine.
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That's what they believe.
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That's what they believe, that's what the Quran says.
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Yeah, and the thing is that they are also sons of Abraham,
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so they have some of these principles from him.
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So that's where there's a big contention
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over the land of Israel,
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because they think because they walked there
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and because it was under Islamic rule for hundreds of years,
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since about 1400 years, they think it belongs to them,
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and that's why they want to have genocide over the Jews.
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They're mad that Hitler didn't finish the job,
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and so they're gonna finish it.
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The Israeli army has found in Gaza,
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many copies of Mein Kampf, which is Hitler's story.
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My life.
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I think it's his struggle.
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I think that's what it means.
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And if it doesn't, we'll just edit that out.
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But they found many copies of Mein Kampf in Arabic.
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So, you know, these people have just bought into
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destroying the Jews because they don't believe
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that Israel should exist.
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But the word says, but the promisee goes to Isaac.
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Exactly, exactly, but it's not in the Koran.
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It's not in the Koran, yeah.
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Yeah, there's some corruption there,
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and they think that the other scriptures
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have been corrupted.
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Yeah.
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Oops.
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Anyway, moving on.
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The point is every place where you walk,
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every place where you keep on walking,
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your feet are making a difference.
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And so get your mind on what your walk is.
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That your walk is making a difference
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because you're connected to our Father.
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So in Hebrews 12, one, would you read that
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from the Amplified Classic, Philip?
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Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great
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a cloud of witnesses who have borne testimony to the truth,
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let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance
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or unnecessary weight, and that sin which so readily
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deftly and cleverly clings to and entangles us,
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and let us run with patient endurance
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and steady and active persistence the appointed course
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of the race that is set before us.
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So when we keep on walking, it's really part of the race.
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We are in a race.
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We are in a race for the planet Earth.
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We are earthlings.
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And so where we put our feet, where we walk,
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makes a difference.
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And then James 1, 2 to 4, and 12,
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would you read that please from the Amplified Classic?
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Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren,
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whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials
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of any sort or fall into various temptations.
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Be assured and understand that the trial and proving
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of your faith bring out endurance
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and steadfastness and patience.
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But let endurance and steadfastness and patience
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have full play and do a thorough work
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so that you may be people perfectly and fully developed
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with no defects, lacking in nothing.
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Beautiful.
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Blessed is the man who is patient under trial
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and stands up under temptations.
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For when he has stood the test and been approved,
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he will receive the victorious crown of life,
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which God has promised to those who love him.
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Amen.
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So just keep walking and just keep standing.
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Standing up, keep on, have a standing up mindset
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that we're gonna square our shoulders
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and hold our head high and we're going to walk,
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not in pride, but in knowing who Jesus is in us
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and knowing who we are in him
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and knowing that he has a purpose for us to accomplish.
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And we're just going to continue to do the things
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in obedience and love to him.
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We're gonna keep on walking.
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So what is Colossians 1, 9 through 12,
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say in the Amplified, classic.
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For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it,
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have not ceased to pray and make special requests for you,
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asking that you may be filled with a full,
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deep and clear knowledge of his will
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and all spiritual wisdom and comprehensive insight
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into the ways and purposes of God.
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Yes.
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And an understanding and discernment of spiritual things
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that you may walk, live and conduct yourselves
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in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him
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and desiring to please him in all things,
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bearing fruit in every good work
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and steadily growing and increasing in
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by the knowledge of God with fuller, deeper
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and clearer insight, acquaintance and recognition.
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We pray that you may be invigorated and strengthened
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with all power according to the might of his glory
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to exercise every kind of endurance and patience,
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perseverance and forbearance with joy,
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giving thanks to the Father who has qualified
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and made us fit to share the portion
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which is the inheritance of the saints,
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God's holy people in the light.
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Yes, we're walking in the light.
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Yes.
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If we walk in the light as he is in the light,
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we will have fellowship one with another
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and the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us from our sins.
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It's walking in the light.
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It's walking with him.
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There is a joy in walking with him,
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even in the most horrible trials.
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Mm, yeah.
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And I mean, I don't mean to sound like
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life is just a bunch of trials.
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No, no.
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But sometimes it seems like it.
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Sometimes you go through a valley to get to the mountain.
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Yes, yes.
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And sometimes you have to climb with endurance
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to get up the mountain too.
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Yeah.
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Many mountain ranges, it's just not...
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One mountain going up, you have...
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You have little ones before it,
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and there's valleys, little ones before it, valleys.
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Yeah.
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And that's a picture of what we go through.
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It's true, up and down and up and down.
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It's kind of normal.
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But it's walking with him.
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Yes.
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So I was reminded as I was meditating about this
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of the Baton Death March.
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It's B-A-T-A-A-N.
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It happened during World War II in the Philippines
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when there was a location where American troops
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and Filipino troops were fighting against the Japanese.
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And they were kind of cornered.
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And...
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It's kind of like Dunkirk.
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Yeah.
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And it was...
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Except there wasn't a way out of this.
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Yeah, well, there wasn't any way out of this either.
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They had to surrender.
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Yeah, that's what I mean.
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There wasn't anything out of the way of this.
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Yeah.
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Dunkirk, they got boats in and...
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Oh, yeah.
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They got people out.
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So I've looked up some different numbers
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and I've been on history.com and on the National
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Museum of the Air Force and the National Guard website.
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And I've just grabbed a few details.
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So it says estimates vary widely,
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but the Department of Veterans Affairs
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estimates that 650 American and 16,500 Filipino soldiers
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were killed during and after the Baton Death March.
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Other researchers claim the number of deaths,
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including Filipino citizens who tried to help the marchers,
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is even higher.
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And what I found was that was somewhere between 75,000
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and 78,000 men were marched 65 to 66 miles,
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estimated 65 or 66, 100 at a time, to go into POW camps.
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And if you got sick and fell along the way,
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they just shot you?
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Yeah, or bayonetted you.
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Bayonetted, yeah.
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Saves bullets.
534
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,280
Yeah, and they were ruthless.
535
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:47,560
Yeah.
536
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,840
Absolutely ruthless.
537
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,960
And it says that roughly 54,000 service members
538
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,400
survived the march, though conditions
539
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,880
didn't improve once prisoners reached their destination.
540
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,920
Poor living areas and overcrowding
541
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,520
gave rise to diseases such as dysentery.
542
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,920
Medical care was virtually nonexistent,
543
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,840
and many who survived the march itself
544
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,880
died in the days after reaching the camp.
545
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,080
The prisoners endured continued abuse until the end of the war
546
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,360
and were often used as slave labor.
547
00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:20,880
But the point is, in order to survive a death march,
548
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,320
you have to keep on walking.
549
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,320
You just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
550
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,160
People might be dying on your left hand
551
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,400
and might be dying on your right hand, but you keep walking.
552
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,480
Don't lose your faith.
553
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,920
If you haven't filled out everything
554
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,600
that God has given you to do, keep on walking.
555
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,560
Don't quit.
556
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,280
Don't quit.
557
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:48,160
Well, Colonel Jim used to say, plot on, plot on, plot on.
558
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:48,680
Yeah.
559
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:49,680
That was one of his sayings.
560
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:50,920
That was one of his sayings.
561
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,760
It really means keep on walking.
562
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,160
But we don't use the word plot very much.
563
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,280
So I looked it up so that I could give a dictionary
564
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,480
definition from Merriam-Webster.
565
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:07,440
And so to plot means to walk laboriously and monotonously,
566
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,360
like drudge.
567
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:12,560
Or to walk heavily or slowly, like trudge.
568
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,800
Both of those are walking words.
569
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,480
Or drudge is kind of like it's drudgery.
570
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,520
You know what, like a lot of bodybuilders and stuff would
571
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,480
do, or track.
572
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,960
It was track people.
573
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,080
They would put those weights on their feet.
574
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:26,840
Oh, yes.
575
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:27,880
We had a set of those.
576
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,600
And that would strengthen their legs.
577
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,440
And that way, when they ran, they
578
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,680
had more strength in their muscles.
579
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,640
Because they trained to do that.
580
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,040
And that kept them going.
581
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,680
So even when sometimes you feel that you've
582
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,320
got weights on your feet, that's in the practice.
583
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,520
That's in the practice, you wear the weights.
584
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,320
And then when the race is on, you take them off.
585
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,720
That'll kind of preach.
586
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,560
Yes, it will.
587
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,800
When the rubber hits the road or the soles of your feet
588
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,560
hit the road, keep walking.
589
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:00,120
Keep running.
590
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:00,880
Keep walking.
591
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:01,400
It's true.
592
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,080
Just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
593
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,080
Just keep walking.
594
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,880
And maybe you don't feel joy in it
595
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,240
because you're looking at the circumstances.
596
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,600
The joy is at the end when you cross the finish line.
597
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:13,680
It's true.
598
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,680
But there is a joy in the presence of the Lord
599
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,920
that when you're going through stuff,
600
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:25,040
you have the opportunity to experience His presence.
601
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,120
I have a saying that in every kind of circumstance,
602
00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,840
there is a door to God in it.
603
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,160
You'll find that God is there.
604
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,600
And it's just a matter of stopping and listening
605
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,680
for His presence.
606
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,600
One of the things that Papa Jim also said,
607
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,680
that Colonel Jim also said was, and I
608
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,640
think he had his own version of the quote.
609
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,520
I've looked online, and there's other versions of it out there.
610
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,240
But here's what he said, if I recall correctly.
611
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,920
The plains of hesitation are littered
612
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,640
with the bones of those who upon the eve of success
613
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,080
sat down to rest, and resting died.
614
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,000
They stopped walking.
615
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,200
Stopped walking, yeah.
616
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,880
You've got to keep on walking.
617
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:15,400
But there is a kind of rest while you walk
618
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:20,120
that is the rest that God has for us in the Spirit.
619
00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,640
And I remember the Lord speaking to me once about,
620
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:29,680
you can have a restless sleep, or you can have a rest even
621
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:35,160
without sleep, because there's a rest in His presence.
622
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,960
And I remember, this is funny.
623
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,640
We're talking about Colonel Jim a lot in this podcast.
624
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,680
But he was a man that kept on walking no matter what.
625
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,280
And five of us girls on the staff
626
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,640
had an opportunity to go on a weekend survival trip.
627
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,320
Where was that at?
628
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,760
It was in the Panhandle of Texas somewhere in the wilderness.
629
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,880
It was really a wilderness kind of a place.
630
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:07,880
And we drank water out of mud puddles and cow prints.
631
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,640
And you ate minnows sun dried on the rocks.
632
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,720
Yes, we did.
633
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,280
I won't go into all those details.
634
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,120
But Colonel Jim came with us.
635
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:20,280
He didn't want to see us girls go out by ourselves.
636
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,320
So he wasn't in particularly good shape
637
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,840
himself because of the kind of stuff he was doing.
638
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,600
He just hadn't been exercising.
639
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:31,740
But he was up for it.
640
00:27:31,740 --> 00:27:35,960
He was going to do anything to protect his girls.
641
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,320
So we all had heavy backpacks.
642
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,120
And we trudged into the wilderness.
643
00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:42,800
And we learned how to survive.
644
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,000
We learned some survival techniques.
645
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,600
And on the way out, he was so tired.
646
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,600
He was bringing up the rear.
647
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,080
And I was right in front of him.
648
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,280
And I turned around and looked at him.
649
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,320
And he was walking in his sleep.
650
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:57,120
Wow.
651
00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,560
He was sleeping while he walked.
652
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:05,880
And I think there is a thing that we can learn to rest
653
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,360
and still keep putting one foot in front of the other.
654
00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,920
And not even knowing it sometimes.
655
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,520
Yeah, it's true.
656
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,640
There's a principle in Psalm 46, 10,
657
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,320
where it says, be still and know that I'm God.
658
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,440
That word be still can be translated
659
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,160
several different ways.
660
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,280
One of them that I think is very good is desist.
661
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,760
In other words, stop what you're doing.
662
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:33,960
Stop.
663
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,760
But it also can mean to sink down.
664
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:44,360
So there's a thing that goes on in us, in our emotions,
665
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:50,240
in our thinking, in that non-physical part of us,
666
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:55,960
where we learn to let go to God.
667
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,120
Where we surrender to God and let go.
668
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,600
And let his presence carry us.
669
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,120
There's joy in his presence.
670
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,360
And in his presence is fullness of joy.
671
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,560
So how do you get that joy?
672
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,080
You get the joy by entering into his presence
673
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,360
with thanksgiving.
674
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,120
So when you're walking, when you're keeping on walking,
675
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,440
and it seems like a drudgery, it seems
676
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,800
like you're just trudging, it seems like,
677
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,880
how long is this going to keep going on?
678
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,640
If you begin to praise him, if you
679
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,600
begin to thank him, if you begin to give glory to him,
680
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,920
something happens in your spirit that joy begins to come up.
681
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,520
And the joy of the Lord is your strength.
682
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,120
So it gives you strength to keep on walking.
683
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,320
But it has to do with surrendering to him.
684
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,680
It has to do with sinking down into him.
685
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,000
Even in Ephesians 6, 10, where it says,
686
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,200
put on the whole armor of God.
687
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,760
That word put on also means sink down into it.
688
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,680
So you're going to sink down into the armor.
689
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,520
You're going to sink down into his presence.
690
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,760
And his presence is going to carry you.
691
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,760
I'm reminded of that.
692
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:05,880
You see it on cards.
693
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,560
You see it on plaques, where it's talking about footprints.
694
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,960
And we mentioned this in the last podcast.
695
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,840
Philip brought it up, about where
696
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,120
you see the footprints in the sand.
697
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,760
And there's two sets of footprints going along.
698
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,520
And the person who's looking at it
699
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,800
recognizes that there's one place where it's just
700
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,760
one set of footprints.
701
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,280
And that person recognizes that this was a really hard time.
702
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,600
Was I all by myself?
703
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,160
And the Lord said, no, I was carrying you at that time.
704
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,720
And he does carry us.
705
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,800
When we reach out to him, when we put our trust in him,
706
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:47,160
when we sink down into him, when we put our confidence in him,
707
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,280
he's there.
708
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,600
He's there all the time.
709
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,080
He's more there than we realize.
710
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,160
There's no place where he isn't.
711
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,160
Hallelujah.
712
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,080
Hallelujah.
713
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,040
So it's not something that we do in our own strength.
714
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,040
We do it in his strength.
715
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,320
And when we keep trying to put one foot in front of the other
716
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,680
in our own strength, that's where we really get weary.
717
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,760
But when we begin to lean on his strength,
718
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,200
that reminds me also of that podcast,
719
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,200
246, of What About the Wilderness,
720
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,560
where you go into the wilderness to learn
721
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,800
to lean on your beloved.
722
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,040
It's a bridal thing.
723
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,960
He's calling us into the wilderness.
724
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,960
He's calling us into these trudging places
725
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,480
to keep on walking through difficulties,
726
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,920
to learn to lean on him to become his bride.
727
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,120
It's a beautiful thing.
728
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,160
Yes, amen.
729
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,040
So you just have to not ever quit.
730
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,680
I love what Winston Churchill said in 1941.
731
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,760
This is during World War II.
732
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,880
He said, never give in.
733
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:48,920
Never give in.
734
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,720
Never, never, never, never.
735
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,960
Never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty,
736
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:58,440
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
737
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,040
Never yield to force.
738
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,640
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might
739
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:03,480
of the enemy.
740
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,880
And I'm gonna leave some out,
741
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,320
but he says, we can be sure
742
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,840
that we have only to persevere, to conquer.
743
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,520
Yeah, 1941.
744
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,440
Yeah.
745
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:15,880
Yeah, the Battle of Britain.
746
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,120
Yeah.
747
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:18,640
London was being bombed.
748
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,480
Right.
749
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,840
The point is you get your mind on,
750
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,560
we're gonna persevere and we're never gonna quit.
751
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,040
We're never gonna give in.
752
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,160
We're never gonna let the enemy overwhelm us
753
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,120
with his agenda that he's taunting us with his agenda.
754
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,240
I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that.
755
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,320
And we can say, oh no, you're not.
756
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,880
I bring the blood of Jesus Christ to bear against you.
757
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,120
You can't do this.
758
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,240
You are doomed.
759
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,080
Yeah.
760
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:44,920
You're doomed.
761
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:45,760
You're doomed, yeah.
762
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,680
And just say, no, uh-uh, I'm not taking,
763
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,480
I am not going to listen to what you're saying.
764
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,360
And I'm not gonna give you one centimeter, not one millimeter.
765
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,520
You can't even stay in my mind.
766
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,880
Those thoughts that you're giving me,
767
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,240
I say no to them instantly, like a mousetrap, you know, snap.
768
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,080
Yeah.
769
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,840
As soon as he puts the bait out, snap.
770
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,160
You know, have you ever baited a mousetrap
771
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,520
and it snaps on your fingers?
772
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,320
That's the rat traps that are really scary.
773
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,600
Oh, yeah, yeah.
774
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,720
So, you know, he's trying to bait a trap to get you
775
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,880
and we just declare that he gets snapped instead.
776
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:23,720
Yeah, that's it.
777
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,040
Hallelujah.
778
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,920
So you don't ever give in.
779
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,120
And you have to remember that you're not walking alone
780
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,520
because if you have Jesus inside of you
781
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,480
and you are inside of him, you are never alone.
782
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,240
So the lonely march, even when you're surrounded by people,
783
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,960
you know, that's all about learning to lean,
784
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,440
like I just said.
785
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,360
So in your walking, realize that he is carrying you,
786
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,520
but you are also carrying him.
787
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,560
Yes, amen.
788
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,160
So that anointing that's on him, you are carrying
789
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,120
because you're carrying him and he's carrying you.
790
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,960
It's a unit, you're a unit.
791
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,720
You're meant to be one with him.
792
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,920
Remember, this is a bridal thing.
793
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,800
The bride and the groom become one, okay?
794
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,920
So he is in the process of making us one with him.
795
00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:20,520
So your walk with him is designed by him
796
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,240
to cause you to know him.
797
00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:24,480
So it's like the fulfillment of the new covenant.
798
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,120
There's four points of the new covenant,
799
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,920
according to Jeremiah 31 verses 31 to 34,
800
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,120
and it's repeated again in the book of Hebrews
801
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,680
in a couple of places.
802
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,280
So he says, I will put my law in their inward parts
803
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,480
and write it on their hearts.
804
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,960
Number two, I will be their God and they shall be my people.
805
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,360
Number three, they shall all know me
806
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,360
from the least of them to the greatest of them.
807
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:51,800
Don't you want to know him?
808
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:52,640
Yes.
809
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,880
To know him in his power and his resurrection
810
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,720
and his love and his life.
811
00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:59,440
He wants you to know him.
812
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,040
That's part of the promise.
813
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,200
And then the fourth thing is,
814
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,920
for I will forgive their iniquity
815
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,760
and I will remember their sin no more.
816
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,760
So that wall that came up between us
817
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,320
because of our sins, because of our iniquities,
818
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,680
all of those things were nailed to the cross.
819
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,080
So when we accept what he did for us on the cross,
820
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,200
the wall comes down and we can know him.
821
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,160
So you can't know him as long as you've got this wall
822
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,480
of sin and iniquity between you and him.
823
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,960
But because of the forgiveness of sin,
824
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,680
because of the forgiveness of iniquity that comes
825
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,680
when we say, yes, Lord, I surrender to you.
826
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,800
Come and be my Lord.
827
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:38,920
Yes.
828
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,200
I surrender.
829
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,320
That is where we begin to have relationship with him.
830
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,600
We begin to know him.
831
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,800
So as you keep on walking,
832
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,600
you are carrying the light of the world within you.
833
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,840
You're hosting his presence.
834
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,480
His presence is in you to give you the grace
835
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,640
to go through anything, to keep on walking.
836
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,680
Sometimes we have the privilege of entering
837
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,880
into his suffering, but that also brings his glory.
838
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:07,720
Yes.
839
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,520
So I just wanna talk for a few minutes
840
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,560
about the anointing that he had to go through
841
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,480
what he went through for us.
842
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,280
So remember that just six days before the Passover,
843
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:25,560
they were meeting in the house of Simon the Leper.
844
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:26,840
Jesus was there.
845
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,360
He was being hosted by Simon the Leper.
846
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,640
Martha was there and serving and Mary was there too.
847
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,080
And because of her great love for him
848
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,720
and her dedication to him
849
00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:40,960
and her obedience to the Holy Spirit's leading,
850
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,080
this Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and Lazarus,
851
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,040
and Lazarus was there too.
852
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,080
And he had just been raised from the dead
853
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,360
shortly before that.
854
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,560
So like the Pharisees and the chief priests
855
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,600
and all those, they didn't know what to do.
856
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,000
This man's been raised from the dead.
857
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:57,840
Now what?
858
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,360
There were lots of witnesses.
859
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:00,680
Oh yeah.
860
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,840
So Mary came and anointed Jesus.
861
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,760
Now in Matthew, it says a woman,
862
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,920
and in Mark it just says a woman,
863
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,920
came and poured this expensive oil of spikenard or nard.
864
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,240
It's very perfumey, it's very costly,
865
00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,280
and poured it on his head.
866
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,760
But in the book of John, the Gospel of John,
867
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,760
it says that she anointed his feet with this oil of nard.
868
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,560
I think they say that it had the value
869
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,640
of a whole year's wages.
870
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:35,480
Wow, yeah.
871
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:36,920
Very expensive.
872
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,080
And it may have been part of like her dowry.
873
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,600
So according to the book of John,
874
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,080
she poured it on his feet
875
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,200
and then she wiped his feet with her hair.
876
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:48,560
And Jesus said, you know,
877
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,520
cause some of the disciples,
878
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,640
and in one account it says that Judas
879
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,080
was the one that brought it up.
880
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:54,920
Why are you doing this?
881
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,120
And it's interesting that it says Judas,
882
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,040
the son of Simon.
883
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,440
This is my opinion.
884
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,040
I think it was his daddy,
885
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,160
and he was bringing up, you know,
886
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,640
this could have been sold and given to the poor.
887
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,600
And Jesus rebuked him in front of his dad
888
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,120
and embarrassed him.
889
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,720
And it was at that point that he went out to betray Jesus,
890
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:18,000
cause I think he got angry.
891
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,920
That's just my take on it, whatever.
892
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,920
Which means that his dad probably was healed.
893
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:23,760
Yes.
894
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,200
He wouldn't be Simon the leper
895
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,480
and they wouldn't be there with him.
896
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,680
Yeah, cause he'd be without the camp.
897
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:29,600
Yeah.
898
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,600
So when Mary wiped his feet,
899
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,120
this anointing for the burial of Jesus,
900
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,760
she wiped his feet with her hair.
901
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,400
So that means that whatever perfume was on Jesus
902
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,880
was also on her.
903
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,040
And I think you can see that she would be a type of the bride.
904
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,880
That, you know, cause the Bible says in,
905
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,160
I think it's first Corinthians,
906
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,560
that a woman's hair is her glory.
907
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,600
So as she wiped his feet with her glory,
908
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,200
she took on that same anointing.
909
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,320
Interesting thought.
910
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,040
Now the thing about anointing is
911
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,080
in the government of Israel,
912
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,760
the biblical government,
913
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,720
it was the kings and the priests that were anointed.
914
00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:14,640
They had the oil poured on their heads.
915
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,040
That's what made them king and priest.
916
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,640
Even in England, I remember hearing that
917
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,240
when the queen was crowned,
918
00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,320
that it wasn't the crown that made her queen.
919
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,520
It was the anointing.
920
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,360
The anointing, yeah.
921
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:28,200
Yeah.
922
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,320
So, and I think that's the case
923
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,920
in many of the royal houses of Europe, at least.
924
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,200
I don't know about other places,
925
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,160
but it's the anointing that makes you the king.
926
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,280
It's the anointing that makes you the priest, right?
927
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,440
So Jesus was anointed and the very next day,
928
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,520
he goes out and he sends his disciples
929
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:54,200
to find a colt that's never been ridden on
930
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,760
and the disciples put their garments on the-
931
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:58,760
Back of the colt.
932
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,640
On the back of the colt of the donkey.
933
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,720
Okay, it was a young donkey that had never been ridden.
934
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:08,280
And when you first try to break an animal to ride-
935
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,120
Especially a donkey.
936
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,080
Yeah, they don't usually like it,
937
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,880
but this is Jesus, right?
938
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,480
So this donkey's gonna help.
939
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,480
And all the people cut down palm branches
940
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,320
and they're shouting,
941
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,480
Hosanna, Hosanna, which means save us.
942
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:22,320
Save us, yeah.
943
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,400
They're asking him to save us from Rome
944
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,800
is basically what they were saying.
945
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,640
Yeah.
946
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,880
And so he is going into,
947
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,080
he rides down the Mount of Olives and into the temple area
948
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,440
and he's fulfilling Zechariah 9.9.
949
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,440
You know, this was the triumphal entry,
950
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,640
what we celebrate Palm Sunday, right?
951
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:43,480
Yeah.
952
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,600
So he's fulfilling the scripture Zechariah 9.9.
953
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,560
Do you wanna read that for us?
954
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,920
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion,
955
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,440
proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem.
956
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,600
Behold, the King is coming to you, just and a savior.
957
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,320
He has meek and writing on an ass and a young foe.
958
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,720
So this is from the Brenton's English Septuagint.
959
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:06,720
In other words, it was translated into English
960
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:09,240
from the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures
961
00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:10,960
of Zechariah 9.9.
962
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,360
So I use this because it says that he is a savior
963
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,480
and he is a king.
964
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,480
All of them say he's the king.
965
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,360
So he was anointed and the next day he comes in
966
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,440
to show himself as the anointed Messiah.
967
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,280
Yeah.
968
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:28,200
I thought that was amazing.
969
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,040
Yeah.
970
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:29,880
A woman anoints him.
971
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:30,720
One day later.
972
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:31,560
Yeah.
973
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,360
And then he's walking in this anointing.
974
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,480
Okay, so with this anointing on his feet,
975
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,440
with this anointing on his head,
976
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,200
he goes into the temple and he cleanses the temple
977
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,200
of the money changers, throws over their things.
978
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,720
My father's house is a house of prayer.
979
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:49,120
So he's walking in the fragrance of this anointing.
980
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,760
So everywhere he went for the next days,
981
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,120
this fragrance was on him.
982
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,400
I remember, this is kind of a funny little side note.
983
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,440
I remember when Sister Gwen prayed for me
984
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,320
and she laid hands on me.
985
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,760
I don't remember if she had anointed me with oil or what,
986
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,880
but I remember the smell of it.
987
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,400
And I wouldn't wash my face or my hair for days
988
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,320
because I wanted to keep that smell.
989
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,160
Yeah.
990
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,120
So the smell, a strong anointing smell,
991
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,600
is gonna stay with you as long as you don't wash it off.
992
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,880
So Jesus was walking in that fragrance.
993
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,240
He was walking.
994
00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:30,880
Everywhere he went, he walked.
995
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,680
Other than that little ride down the Mount of Olives,
996
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,160
he was walking.
997
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,560
So at that point, then six days later,
998
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,040
it's about the Passover time.
999
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:45,080
And he's on this night of that he was betrayed.
1000
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,480
So he washes his disciples' feet.
1001
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,480
Now, we did a whole podcast about Peter and his blunders.
1002
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,120
It was episode 139.
1003
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,680
It was called, Whatever Your Blunder,
1004
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,560
It's Forgivable, There's Hope.
1005
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:00,640
It's all about Peter.
1006
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,400
And I won't go into those details
1007
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,800
because it's in that podcast,
1008
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,280
if you wanna go back and catch the,
1009
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,160
there's a lot of stuff that,
1010
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,240
we don't see plainly in the scripture,
1011
00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:13,280
but it's there if you understand the history
1012
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,120
and the ways that things were done.
1013
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,120
The culture.
1014
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,120
So Jesus washed their feet.
1015
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:24,120
Doesn't this have something to do with the walk?
1016
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,120
Their feet were dusty.
1017
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,240
They'd come in from walking.
1018
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:31,200
And it was really the job of the servant
1019
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,160
or the last guy at the table, which was Peter.
1020
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,440
It was his job to do it, and he didn't.
1021
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,080
We went into those details in the other podcast.
1022
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:43,280
So Jesus gets up, the one with this anointing,
1023
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,760
he's got the anointing on his feet.
1024
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,440
He's got the anointing on his head.
1025
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,280
And he's going around and washing their feet.
1026
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,520
He's getting them ready to keep on walking.
1027
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,520
Yes, wow.
1028
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,680
Because they're gonna have to keep on walking.
1029
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,040
They've got stuff to walk through in the days to come.
1030
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,000
And it got pretty serious real quick.
1031
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:03,840
Yeah.
1032
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,440
So while they were at the table,
1033
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,640
and Jesus had just given Judas a bite of food,
1034
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,400
he told Judas to go out quickly
1035
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,600
and do what was in his heart to do.
1036
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,800
So as Judas exited, Jesus said in John 13, 31,
1037
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,240
now is the son of man glorified,
1038
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:24,600
and God is glorified in him.
1039
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,200
And I just think it's so amazing
1040
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,240
that as Judas is about to betray him,
1041
00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:35,520
Jesus is talking about being glorified.
1042
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:36,360
Yeah.
1043
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,320
This whole process that he walked through
1044
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,080
was for his glorification.
1045
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,160
Yeah.
1046
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,760
That's just stunning to me.
1047
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:45,600
Yeah, it really is.
1048
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,360
So let's talk a little bit about the things
1049
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,520
that he walked through, okay?
1050
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,080
And I really encourage you, if you haven't read it,
1051
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,520
take time to read this Upper Room Discourse
1052
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,600
from John 13, 31 through chapter 17, it's huge.
1053
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,040
So Jesus' glorification began
1054
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,080
as he gave his greatest sermon to his disciples.
1055
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:05,560
And they walked out into the night
1056
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,080
to the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives,
1057
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,720
where he suffered alone in prayer.
1058
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:13,080
He was abandoned by his sleeping disciples.
1059
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,640
He told them, pray, come on, help me pray.
1060
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:16,520
But they didn't.
1061
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:20,200
They had had several cups of wine in the Passover meal.
1062
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:21,520
The Passover, yeah.
1063
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,000
So they were tired, they were just overwhelmed.
1064
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,320
So Jesus wrestled in prayer in the darkness
1065
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,440
to the point of sweating blood.
1066
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,080
So the outpouring of his blood for us began
1067
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,040
in his prayer life.
1068
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:33,880
It's beautiful.
1069
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:34,840
Isn't that a great thought?
1070
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,920
Struggling for grace to obey our Father.
1071
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,840
This was part of his glorification
1072
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,800
and our struggles to lay down our will
1073
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,320
are also part of our glorification.
1074
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,600
So when we're struggling to lay it down,
1075
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,320
it's part of our glorification.
1076
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,920
It's part of our becoming like him.
1077
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,600
He laid down his will and the shedding of his blood
1078
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,560
in prayer gives us the grace to yield our will
1079
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,840
to our Father, trusting that his ways
1080
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,360
are higher than our ways.
1081
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,360
His plans and strategies are sometimes
1082
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,840
beyond our comprehension, but getting into agreement
1083
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,040
with him to keep on walking,
1084
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,760
whether we're going through the tough times or good times,
1085
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,600
that releases a fragrance.
1086
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,000
There's a perfume that comes out of our lives
1087
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,680
as we yield to him.
1088
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,960
So when Judas brought the temple guard to arrest him,
1089
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,240
he walked, he kept on walking.
1090
00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:29,200
He walked to the Mount of Olives.
1091
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,280
He prayed, then he walked through the Kidron Valley
1092
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,520
with the soldiers and he went to the house of Caiaphas
1093
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:37,760
where he was held.
1094
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,880
Then they gathered the Sanhedrin to try him
1095
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,480
and he was mocked and beaten there already.
1096
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,000
So they brought all kinds of false witnesses against him.
1097
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,360
They couldn't find any two that would agree.
1098
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,120
Then they asked him directly, are you the Messiah?
1099
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,280
Are you the son of God?
1100
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:54,920
They're just angry.
1101
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,840
And he declared in Matthew 26, 64 to 68.
1102
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,320
You want to read that, Philip?
1103
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,360
I think it's in the Amplified Classic.
1104
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,680
Then he declared, you have stated the fact.
1105
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,800
More than that, I tell you, you will in the future
1106
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,400
see the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty
1107
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,360
and coming on the clouds of the sky.
1108
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,040
Then the high priest tore his clothes and exclaimed,
1109
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,920
he has uttered blasphemy.
1110
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,880
What need me any more of further evidence?
1111
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,000
You know, I've heard his blasphemy.
1112
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,240
What do you think now?
1113
00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:31,280
They answered, he deserves to be put to death.
1114
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,440
Then they spat on his face and struck him with their fists
1115
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,760
and some slapped him in the face saying, prophesy to us,
1116
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,840
you Christ, the Messiah.
1117
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,440
Who was it that struck you?
1118
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,080
Yeah, they really abused him already there.
1119
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:44,920
Yeah.
1120
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,080
So then they led him to a place called the pavement,
1121
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,280
Gabatha, where he was brought before Pilate.
1122
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:56,280
So he had to walk there from Caiaphas' house to walk there.
1123
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,040
So every time you see the words in scripture,
1124
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:03,320
and there's many, and they led him, he was walking.
1125
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,600
He was putting one foot in front of the other.
1126
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,560
So Jesus walked on this pavement
1127
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,520
with his feet still smelling of that anointing oil.
1128
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,760
And he stood on that pavement while he was being tried.
1129
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,880
He walked as he was led away of the soldiers
1130
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,720
to be beaten and shredded for us.
1131
00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:20,800
Now it's interesting, this word pavement,
1132
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,000
I'm gonna just take a quick side note.
1133
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,640
Song of Solomon 3, nine through 10 says,
1134
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,800
King Solomon made himself a chariot of wood of Lebanon.
1135
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,920
He made the pillars thereof of silver,
1136
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,520
the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple,
1137
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,520
the midst thereof being paved with love
1138
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:38,880
for the daughters of Jerusalem.
1139
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:43,880
Now this word pavement in the Greek is referring to
1140
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,440
like stuff that was made of stones
1141
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,360
that would be fit together.
1142
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,160
So it could be like a checkerboard look,
1143
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,280
or it could be mosaics, you know,
1144
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,120
where you take lots of little stones
1145
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,920
and put things together and create a look.
1146
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,920
Okay, so King Solomon is a picture of the Lord
1147
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,400
and his loved one is a picture of the bride, right?
1148
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,000
So in the TPT, would you read that in the TPT?
1149
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,760
It's so beautiful in the Passion Translation.
1150
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,240
The King made this mercy seat for himself
1151
00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:18,800
out of the finest wood that will not decay.
1152
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,400
Pillars of smoke like silver mist,
1153
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,720
a canopy of golden glory dwells above it.
1154
00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:26,960
This place where they sit together is sprinkled
1155
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,480
with crimson, love and mercy covered this carriage,
1156
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,280
blanketing his tabernacle throne.
1157
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,080
The King himself has made it for those
1158
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,680
who will become his bride.
1159
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,400
See, that's the point.
1160
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:39,240
That is the point.
1161
00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:41,160
He went to the pavement.
1162
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:46,040
This is a place that King Solomon paved his chariot.
1163
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,680
And they call that today in Israel, the pavement.
1164
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:49,520
Don't they?
1165
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:50,360
Oh yeah, they still do.
1166
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,800
They still do, because that's what the scripture calls it.
1167
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,240
So that's what they call it.
1168
00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:57,120
So he went to this pavement place.
1169
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,080
And I can't help but wonder if he thought about
1170
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:04,280
how Solomon's chariot was paved with love
1171
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,600
because he was going on this pavement,
1172
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,080
walking in love for us.
1173
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,680
He did all of this because he loved us so much.
1174
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,760
So when Pilate examined him, he found no fault with him.
1175
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,040
But the scribes and Pharisees screamed
1176
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,240
that he had been stirring up and perverting the nation
1177
00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:21,680
all the way from Galilee.
1178
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,480
Well, when Pilate heard that he was from Galilee,
1179
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,280
he tried to pass off the responsibility to Herod,
1180
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,800
who had jurisdiction over Galilee.
1181
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,280
So Jesus was led off and he had to walk.
1182
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,240
He walked to the streets of Jerusalem
1183
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,640
with his anointed feet.
1184
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,240
Every place where the soles of your feet shall tread,
1185
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:41,760
I've given it to you.
1186
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,320
He walked with his anointed feet to where Herod was staying.
1187
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,480
Herod was there for the Passover feast as well.
1188
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,440
So he was there for the Passover feast.
1189
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,120
And so Herod was delighted to see him
1190
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,280
because he had heard about the miracles
1191
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:55,520
and he wanted to see a miracle.
1192
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:56,360
He wanted to see a miracle, yeah.
1193
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,120
So he's taunting Jesus and asking him questions
1194
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:02,280
and Jesus didn't say a word to him, not a word,
1195
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:03,600
not one thing.
1196
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,960
And so they put one of the Herod's robes on him
1197
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,200
and they taunted him and mocked him.
1198
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,000
And then they led him back to Pilate.
1199
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,040
So he had to walk again,
1200
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,680
he had to walk the streets of Jerusalem
1201
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,840
with those anointed feet.
1202
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,480
So now he's going back to face his accusers
1203
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:23,840
before the Roman authority.
1204
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,440
And the chief priests and scribes, the Pharisees,
1205
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,120
didn't have the authority to kill him.
1206
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,160
They had to bow to Rome.
1207
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,320
They had to get Rome to do it.
1208
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:37,480
So they led him back to Pilate.
1209
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,400
He had to walk the streets again.
1210
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,800
And this time Pilate became afraid when he found out
1211
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:47,000
that Jesus was the son of God, the Messiah,
1212
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,920
the King of the Jews.
1213
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,040
Pilate knew that it was customary to release a prisoner
1214
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,640
at that point during the Passover.
1215
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,680
So he tried to release Jesus to them
1216
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,960
because he saw that Jesus wasn't really guilty of anything.
1217
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,040
And if anything, he really was the King of the Jews.
1218
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,160
So they refused and they're asking
1219
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,360
for this rabble rouser, Barabbas.
1220
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,960
He was a murderer, he was guilty of sedition,
1221
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,400
but they said, no, no, no, we don't want this Jesus,
1222
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:16,920
we want Barabbas.
1223
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,520
And so they, you know, he just said, okay, well, I guess.
1224
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,200
But Pilate sent Jesus to be scourged.
1225
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,960
And the Roman scourging was so, so awful.
1226
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:28,800
Brutal, yeah.
1227
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,240
Brutal, absolutely brutal.
1228
00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:35,440
And they used this instrument called a flagellum.
1229
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,120
It has multiple straps of leather, at least three straps,
1230
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,400
but sometimes more.
1231
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:44,400
And it had sharp pieces of metal, sharp pieces of bone,
1232
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:50,200
even nails attached to it so that it would tear up the flesh.
1233
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,960
And there are many accounts of people
1234
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,800
that witnessed this kind of beating
1235
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,600
and people that were scourged like that,
1236
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,760
even though they weren't necessarily condemned to die,
1237
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,240
many of them died from loss of blood.
1238
00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:08,000
And they went down the back, they went on the chest,
1239
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,720
they went down the arms and the legs,
1240
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:14,000
they just, just evil, just evil.
1241
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,160
I think they must have been demon possessed
1242
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,240
in order to be able to do that.
1243
00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:20,760
So once he went through that,
1244
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,360
then he had to walk down the Via Dolorosa,
1245
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,720
the way of pain, the way of pains.
1246
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:29,400
And he was so weak from the beating
1247
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:30,920
that as he was carrying his cross,
1248
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,000
he fell under the weight of it.
1249
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,840
And so the Roman centurion or whoever was following them
1250
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,360
just grabbed Simon of Serene to carry it for him.
1251
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:41,880
But he still had to walk.
1252
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,320
He still had to keep putting one foot
1253
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,280
in front of the other to get the rest of the way
1254
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,880
out the city gates to fulfill the prophecy
1255
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,760
that he would be marred beyond.
1256
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,960
And he had to go outside the gates
1257
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,200
in order to be crucified, that's in the scripture too.
1258
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,640
They had to be crucified, this cruelest of deaths
1259
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,400
and his hands and his feet, those anointed feet.
1260
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,200
He also had this crown of thorns on his anointed head.
1261
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,920
They must have smelled that perfume on him
1262
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,400
when they were cramming that crown of thorns on his head
1263
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,440
and they crammed the crown of thorns on
1264
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,360
and then they beat him.
1265
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,560
It was horrible, horrible.
1266
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:25,960
But he had to die this death for us.
1267
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,800
He had to pay our death penalty for our sin and inequity.
1268
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,960
So when our friend Dean Braxton was in heaven,
1269
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,000
he was shown Jesus on the cross.
1270
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,440
And he said it was just like Isaiah 52, 14 says
1271
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:40,600
in the passion translation.
1272
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,440
Would you read that for us, Philip?
1273
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,320
Just as many were appalled at the sight of him
1274
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,920
for so marred was his appearance like an object of horror.
1275
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,840
He no longer looked like a man.
1276
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,320
Yeah, Dean said that Jesus' flesh was shredded
1277
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,680
and he hardly even looked like a man.
1278
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,840
But he still must have had that fragrance
1279
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,120
of anointing upon him, cause he was anointed
1280
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,080
for his burial, remember?
1281
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,280
So if he was anointed for his burial,
1282
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,800
the fragrance still had to be there, right?
1283
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:11,760
The anointing of the King, the anointing to do the hard walk
1284
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,120
step by step all the way to the cross,
1285
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,840
the anointing to die and be buried.
1286
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,120
He hung there with the title given to him
1287
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:20,200
by the Roman authority.
1288
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,800
This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.
1289
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,960
He had been anointed just about a week earlier.
1290
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,040
But of course his first anointing, don't forget,
1291
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,040
his first anointing was when the Holy Spirit
1292
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,440
came down on him at his baptism.
1293
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,400
That's when he was anointed with the Holy Spirit,
1294
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:40,840
like Acts says that he was anointed of the Holy Spirit
1295
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:42,120
and went about doing good,
1296
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,120
healing all that were oppressed of the devil.
1297
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,160
So that was his first anointing from the Lord,
1298
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,400
but here was a physical anointing.
1299
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,320
And there wasn't anybody in the priesthood
1300
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:52,640
that would anoint him.
1301
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,200
Nobody would anoint him King,
1302
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:59,200
but a woman anointed him and rubbed the anointing
1303
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:01,640
with her hair.
1304
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,200
I just love that.
1305
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,320
So he was declared the King of the Jews
1306
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,560
by the Roman authority.
1307
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,160
And if you remember when he was born in Bethlehem
1308
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,840
of Judea, right, Jews, okay, Judea,
1309
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,560
the Magi that came from the East,
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they were known as kingmakers.
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And when they showed up with their entourage in Jerusalem,
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that's why Herod was troubled at all of Jerusalem with him
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because these guys were kingmakers.
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And they said, where is he that's born King of the Jews?
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They saw it in the stars.
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They could see that the King of the Jews was born.
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And so they came to bring him gifts of gold
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and frankincense and myrrh.
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Just suffering.
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Yeah, but could it be that there was even an anointing
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in the myrrh?
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Yeah.
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Interesting thought.
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Interesting thought.
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So sometimes you have to look at,
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these people were what the Jews would call goyim,
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people from the nations, the Romans at his death
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and the Magi at his birth,
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declaring him to be King of the Jews.
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The nations recognized him.
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Wow.
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And he wound up going to the nations.
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I mean, really, it started with a Jewish church.
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It started with a Jewish group of believers.
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But as time went on, it was the nations
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and we have Jesus in all the nations.
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We recognize him as our King in the nations.
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And Israel is beginning to recognize him too.
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Just keep praying for that.
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Just keep praying for that.
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Cause it's time.
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It's time for Israel to come in.
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So just to close, I want to bring up a subject
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cause this is about keeping on walking.
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Jesus kept on walking with that anointing.
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And Mary had that anointing in her hair.
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Yeah.
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As the bride.
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So we have this, because he lives inside of us,
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we have this anointing also.
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We are called Christians.
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Christ means the anointed one.
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We're called Christians because we are
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to be carrying his anointing.
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Right?
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So it's that anointing that gives us the grace
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to keep on walking.
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And I remember hearing Kathy Matthews,
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her husband Sam Matthews told this story.
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She was going through a terrible trial,
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a terrible suffering.
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And it was a part of an intercession
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that she and her husband were doing together.
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And I won't go into all those details,
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but she was about to quit.
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She was about to give up Jesus,
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I just can't do this anymore.
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And Jesus gave her a vision of himself on the cross.
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And he said, I did this for you.
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00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,080
Can't you do this for me?
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00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:52,080
Won't you do this for me?
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Would you please do this for me?
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00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,080
And that gave her the grace to say, yes.
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The things that Jesus has suffered
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00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,600
gives us the grace to walk that anointed walk
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00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,480
and keep on walking.
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00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,520
So just determine in your heart,
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00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,160
it's the anointing that's in your life
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00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,280
because of his presence, because of his love for you
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00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:15,920
and your love for him,
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00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,320
that you have the grace to keep putting one foot
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00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,160
in front of the other, just keep on walking.
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00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,880
You're walking with him, he's with you.
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00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,240
You are not alone in this.
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00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,200
His presence gives you the grace to keep on walking.
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00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,000
So Father, we just thank you for this message.
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And we thank you for the grace.
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00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,760
We thank you for your presence coming down upon us,
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00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,280
to give us what we need to keep on walking,
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00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:43,840
to keep on putting one foot in the front of the other,
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00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,560
no matter what things look like,
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00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,160
no matter what it seems in our circumstances,
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00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,200
that we can walk with you in the joy of your presence,
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00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,160
in the joy of giving thanks to you
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00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,960
that gives us the strength to keep on walking.
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01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,320
Lord, we bless you and we say thank you.
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01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,160
Lord, we ask you for this anointing
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01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,000
to be upon every listener
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01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,760
as they go through whatever they're going through.
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01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,760
And if they're not going through anything now,
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01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,560
to be able to go through what comes up
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01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,040
that they will go through.
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01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,480
Lord, we bless each and every one of them
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01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,640
to have this grace and this anointing and this fragrance
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01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,960
to carry the fragrance and to carry the light
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01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,520
of the Lord Jesus Christ everywhere they go.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:32,240
Amen.
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01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:37,240
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01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:40,960
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