Jan. 28, 2025

(249) “Keep on Walking”

(249) “Keep on Walking”
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Sometimes in our daily walk, things get difficult. You may get discouraged or even be tempted to quit. But don’t lose heart! The Busses invite you into an encouraging discussion and look into the Scriptures to find strength and hope to just keep on walking. Jesus walked through many, many difficult and painful things, but He had the grace and anointing to do it, and so do you! You’re never alone, no matter what you walk through, because Jesus is with you, He’s in you, and He’s carrying you through it all.

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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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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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And so that I'm just bringing it up

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And don't forget that we've got convention 2025 coming up,

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Lots of times people come and they get marching orders

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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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Yeah.

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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

522
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,400
were killed during and after the Baton Death March.

523
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,360
Other researchers claim the number of deaths,

524
00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:19,000
including Filipino citizens who tried to help the marchers,

525
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,640
is even higher.

526
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,400
And what I found was that was somewhere between 75,000

527
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:32,240
and 78,000 men were marched 65 to 66 miles,

528
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:38,080
estimated 65 or 66, 100 at a time, to go into POW camps.

529
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,360
And if you got sick and fell along the way,

530
00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:41,360
they just shot you?

531
00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,160
Yeah, or bayonetted you.

532
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,360
Bayonetted, yeah.

533
00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:45,320
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
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And there wasn't anybody in the priesthood

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that would anoint him.

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Nobody would anoint him King,

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but a woman anointed him and rubbed the anointing

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with her hair.

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I just love that.

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So he was declared the King of the Jews

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by the Roman authority.

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And if you remember when he was born in Bethlehem

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of Judea, right, Jews, okay, Judea,

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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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00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,760
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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00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:52,120
Yeah, but could it be that there was even an anointing

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00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:53,040
in the myrrh?

1322
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:53,880
Yeah.

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00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:54,720
Interesting thought.

1324
00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:55,560
Interesting thought.

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00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,640
So sometimes you have to look at,

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00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,600
these people were what the Jews would call goyim,

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00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,200
people from the nations, the Romans at his death

1328
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,360
and the Magi at his birth,

1329
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,040
declaring him to be King of the Jews.

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00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,400
The nations recognized him.

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00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:13,240
Wow.

1332
00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:15,040
And he wound up going to the nations.

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00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,360
I mean, really, it started with a Jewish church.

1334
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:22,320
It started with a Jewish group of believers.

1335
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,560
But as time went on, it was the nations

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00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,400
and we have Jesus in all the nations.

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00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,120
We recognize him as our King in the nations.

1338
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:36,200
And Israel is beginning to recognize him too.

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00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,000
Just keep praying for that.

1340
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,600
Just keep praying for that.

1341
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,280
Cause it's time.

1342
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,640
It's time for Israel to come in.

1343
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,160
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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00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,080
Jesus kept on walking with that anointing.

1346
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,080
And Mary had that anointing in her hair.

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00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:56,920
Yeah.

1348
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:58,240
As the bride.

1349
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,080
So we have this, because he lives inside of us,

1350
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,160
we have this anointing also.

1351
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:06,880
We are called Christians.

1352
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,960
Christ means the anointed one.

1353
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,960
We're called Christians because we are

1354
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,200
to be carrying his anointing.

1355
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:14,080
Right?

1356
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,800
So it's that anointing that gives us the grace

1357
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:19,680
to keep on walking.

1358
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,200
And I remember hearing Kathy Matthews,

1359
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,600
her husband Sam Matthews told this story.

1360
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,240
She was going through a terrible trial,

1361
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,080
a terrible suffering.

1362
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:31,960
And it was a part of an intercession

1363
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,360
that she and her husband were doing together.

1364
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,240
And I won't go into all those details,

1365
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,480
but she was about to quit.

1366
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,000
She was about to give up Jesus,

1367
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:41,520
I just can't do this anymore.

1368
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:45,600
And Jesus gave her a vision of himself on the cross.

1369
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,000
And he said, I did this for you.

1370
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,080
Can't you do this for me?

1371
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:52,080
Won't you do this for me?

1372
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,200
Would you please do this for me?

1373
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,080
And that gave her the grace to say, yes.

1374
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,720
The things that Jesus has suffered

1375
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,600
gives us the grace to walk that anointed walk

1376
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,480
and keep on walking.

1377
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,520
So just determine in your heart,

1378
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,160
it's the anointing that's in your life

1379
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,280
because of his presence, because of his love for you

1380
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:15,920
and your love for him,

1381
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,320
that you have the grace to keep putting one foot

1382
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,160
in front of the other, just keep on walking.

1383
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,880
You're walking with him, he's with you.

1384
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,240
You are not alone in this.

1385
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,200
His presence gives you the grace to keep on walking.

1386
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,000
So Father, we just thank you for this message.

1387
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,760
And we thank you for the grace.

1388
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,760
We thank you for your presence coming down upon us,

1389
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,280
to give us what we need to keep on walking,

1390
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:43,840
to keep on putting one foot in the front of the other,

1391
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,560
no matter what things look like,

1392
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,160
no matter what it seems in our circumstances,

1393
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,200
that we can walk with you in the joy of your presence,

1394
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,160
in the joy of giving thanks to you

1395
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,960
that gives us the strength to keep on walking.

1396
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,320
Lord, we bless you and we say thank you.

1397
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,160
Lord, we ask you for this anointing

1398
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,000
to be upon every listener

1399
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,760
as they go through whatever they're going through.

1400
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,760
And if they're not going through anything now,

1401
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,560
to be able to go through what comes up

1402
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,040
that they will go through.

1403
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,480
Lord, we bless each and every one of them

1404
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,640
to have this grace and this anointing and this fragrance

1405
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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01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,560
In Jesus' name, amen.

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01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:31,400
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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