(251) “How Can I Serve You?”

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So we can live on the earth, how can I serve you?

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I can serve him in expectation of the next thing

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being better than the first thing.

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That whatever miracles that we saw yesterday,

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whatever miracles are in the Bible,

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we're gonna see something more so.

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See bigger ones tomorrow.

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Bigger so, bigger and greater.

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Jesus said that-

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Greater things shall ye do.

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Yes, that's right.

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Because I go to the Father,

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is it our expectation to see God do greater things?

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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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Will we contend for that promised outpouring?

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Will 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 are so excited to share this time with you.

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We've got a very special message from the Lord for you today

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that's kind of piggybacking on a couple

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of Dean Braxton's episodes that we've had with him.

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And it's about serving, about serving the Lord.

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And our question to him is, how can I serve you?

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Thank you so much for joining us today.

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We are really excited about this episode.

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And we want to encourage you before we get started,

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if you haven't already done so,

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to go to our website, globaloutpouring.net

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and make sure that you've connected with us

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on our email lists.

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And make sure that you have started making provision

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and making steps to come to Global Outpouring

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and making sure that you have started making provision

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and making steps to come to Global Outpouring Convention 2025.

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This is going to be such an amazing gathering.

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It's an opportunity to get to know one another better.

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It's going to be May 21st through 24th in St. Louis

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at the St. Louis Airport Marriott,

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right across from the airport.

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It's so easy to get to.

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It's right off of the interstate, so easy to get to.

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And we will be having wonderful speakers.

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Siggy O'Blander is going to be our opening night speaker.

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She's an amazing woman of God that was born in Berlin

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when the bombs were falling there during World War II.

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And she lived on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall.

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She was raised under communism.

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And boy, does she have an amazing perspective

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about communism and what it's like to live under it.

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So many people are thinking,

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oh, communism sounds so good.

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No, communism isn't good.

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And you just need to go back to the podcast

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that we did with her.

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We'll put that link in the show notes

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where she's talking about it.

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But she is an amazing woman of God

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that loves the deep things of the Word of God.

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And God just opens things to her and gives her treasures,

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absolute treasures.

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And she's always got the Word of the Lord,

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just an amazing prophetic gift.

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So she's going to be with us

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and we'll have Tony Kemp with us.

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Also an amazing man of God

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just pours out from the deep things of the Lord.

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And Dean Braxton will be with us

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and he'll be having a question and answer period

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as well as an opportunity to speak in a regular session.

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So we just want to encourage you,

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this is a time when you can grow in God in an amazing way.

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It's a family camp, bring your whole family.

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We've got something for every age group

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and all of our lives will be changed

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and brought closer to Jesus.

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This is a place that you have always wanted to go to,

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to find your tribe and find the people

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that are hungering for God like you are.

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So today we're going to spin off

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of a couple of the sessions that we did with Dean Braxton.

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We did episode 237 called

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One of Heaven's Best-Kept Secrets, The Joy of Serving.

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And also in episode 250,

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Dean was answering questions from our listeners.

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And one of the questions had to do with serving.

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And so, you handle this kind of thing

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and you hear these things

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and I've just been meditating on it.

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I just always want to be growing in God, don't you?

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Yes, amen.

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There's no end.

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Are we supposed to?

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Well, yeah.

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We're not supposed to get stale.

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We're supposed to keep growing.

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We're supposed to keep putting our roots deeper

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and our branches reaching out higher and bearing fruit

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and bringing forth fruit from the things

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that we're learning from the word of God.

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So as I was getting up this morning,

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in fact, I hadn't even gotten out of bed yet.

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I was just kind of working on it.

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And the thought came to my mind, how can I serve you?

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I was speaking to the Lord

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because I love for my first thoughts

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to be reaching out to him.

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And I was just saying, Lord, how can I serve you?

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Because that's the question

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in case you didn't hear those other episodes.

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The question in heaven that you ask of everyone

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is how can I serve you?

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And everyone is asking you the same thing.

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How can I serve you?

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And Dean talked about it in the last episode,

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in episode 250, about what that looks like

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and how he experienced it.

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But as I was saying this to the Lord,

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I remembered also about what Dean said

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about serve him with a smile,

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that even a smile is serving him.

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And I kind of got thinking about,

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because when we were interviewing him,

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when he said it, it reminded me of how many times,

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like if I'm just in a store or out in public somewhere,

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I just smile at people.

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Yeah, I do that too.

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Yeah, there's something, because smiles are contagious.

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And a lot of them smile back too.

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That's the whole point.

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I look at people with the sourest look on their face

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and I smile at them.

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And most of them can come up with a smile

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or at least attempt.

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Once in a great while, you see somebody

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that just keeps on looking at you sour.

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But most of the time, you have brightened their day.

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You have served them by giving them a smile.

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So I was giving the Lord a smile this morning

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as I was thinking about how can I serve you?

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And I thought, okay, I'm gonna serve you with a smile.

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I put a smile on my face.

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Philip didn't even see me

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because I wasn't facing that direction.

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So I'm just having this little talk with the Lord

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as we're making the bed.

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And then it occurred to me that the word how

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isn't the same as what.

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Like when we think of how can I serve you,

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you have a tendency to think of what task.

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What task you have for me today.

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Yeah, what project can I do for you today?

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I'm gonna do a nice little project for you.

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What's on your agenda for me to do, right?

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But the word how is an adverb.

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And if you don't remember that from English grammar

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or you maybe never learned it,

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an adverb is a word that describes the action word.

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So it's not about what you're doing.

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It's not about the doing of it itself.

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It's about how you do it.

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And then I realized, oh, well, this is like an attitude.

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Oh, this goes a little deeper.

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So then I started digging.

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And I went to the dictionary.com.

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I've got a little dictionary app on my phone.

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And it says for the word how,

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it said in what manner or way, by what means or process.

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That's the first one.

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And the second one was to what degree or extent,

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number or amount, in what proportion,

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by what measure or quality.

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And the example that was given,

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cause this is a really old dictionary.

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I think it's probably from the 18 something Websters.

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The example that they gave was from Psalm 119 verse 97.

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Oh, how I love your law.

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It is my meditation all the day, how.

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Okay.

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So then I went a little deeper on the internet.

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The first thing that came up for a dictionary definition

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was from the Oxford languages.

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It's talking about the adverb how.

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And the first one is in what way or manner,

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by what means, for example, how does it work?

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Two, used to ask about the condition

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or quality of something.

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How was your vacation?

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Number three, used to ask about someone's physical

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or mental state.

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How are the children?

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Okay, think of this in terms of how can I serve you?

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Okay, quality.

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Quality.

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By what manner.

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The fourth one is used to ask about the extent

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or degree of something.

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How old are you?

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Okay, so how you serve could be to what extent?

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To what degree can I serve you?

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Five, used to express a strong feeling such as surprise

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about the extent of something.

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How kind it was of him.

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Okay.

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And number six, the way in which that,

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in other words, she told us how she had lived

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out of a suitcase for a week.

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Okay, the way in which she lived.

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So how can I serve you?

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In what way can I serve you?

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And then seven, any way in which, however,

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like I'll do business how I like.

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So the point is that there's something about how,

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how we are to serve him.

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So as I was meditating on this,

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I was reminded of this idea of serving the Lord

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with gladness.

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Psalm 100 from the Amplified Classic says,

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serve the Lord with gladness.

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Serve the Lord with gladness.

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Okay, so we're gonna serve him.

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How can I serve you?

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I'm gonna serve you with.

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Gladness.

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Gladness.

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So, and then it goes on to explain what that looks like.

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Come before his presence with singing.

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Know, perceive, recognize, and understand with approval

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that the Lord or Yehovah, that's his name,

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he is God, that the Lord is God.

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It is he who has made us, not we ourselves.

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You know, so many times in our current culture,

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we're talking about a self-made person, you know?

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And we have all these books about self-help

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and all these videos.

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You can go through YouTube and there's a gazillion videos

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about how to help yourself.

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What can you do to make yourself better?

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But it's really about him who made us,

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and he designed us to work with him.

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So going on, it says, we are his people

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and the sheep of his pasture.

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He's our shepherd, remember?

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Okay, verse four says, we're still looking at how

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to serve the Lord.

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We're gonna serve him with gladness.

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Here's what it looks like.

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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving

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and a thank offering and into his courts with praise.

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So be thankful and say so to him.

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Bless and affectionately praise his name,

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for the Lord is good.

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His mercy and loving kindness are everlasting.

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His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations.

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So that's how we can serve the Lord with gladness.

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We can praise him.

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We can be thankful to him.

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And when we express our thanks,

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I've said this before, but it bears repeating.

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Our pastor used to say,

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I've never met an unhappy, thankful person.

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Yeah.

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In other words, when you're thankful, it makes you happy.

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You can just, you know, the more thankful you are,

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the happier you are.

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And you can get yourself out of the doldrums

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by starting to say thanks.

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Oh, yes.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Well, it's true.

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Remember the story of the guy in prison

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that they called the animal?

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Yeah.

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They threw him a copy of From Prison to Praise.

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The guard says, hear animal, read this.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that was him.

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Yeah, so he was put in the hole,

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which was a solitary confinement thing

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that they had to let him down into this room.

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Yeah, and they called him an animal

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because he kind of acted like a wild one.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And he couldn't be tamed.

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He absolutely couldn't be tamed.

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Everybody else, they spent one time in the hole

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and they learned their lesson

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and they learned to have some self-control

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so that they didn't go back there.

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It worked for them, but it didn't work for him.

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He was just so angry and so vicious

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and so bitter and so animalish.

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Animal, yeah.

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And so this Christian guard threw him this book

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and said, here animal, read this.

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So he read it.

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And the whole point of that book by Merlin Carruthers,

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it's a fantastic book.

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You should read it if you haven't read it.

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The whole point of it is learning to praise

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and give thanks under all kinds of circumstances,

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no matter what, no matter what, no matter what,

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no matter what.

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And that's really hard a lot of times.

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Oh yeah.

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So in mockery, this guy they called the animal,

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he starts saying, oh right then I'll do it.

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Thank you God that my mother abandoned me

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when I was a baby.

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Now I might not be remembering exactly what I said.

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I'm probably making up some of this,

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but something along these lines.

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Thank you God that my father abused me.

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Thank you God that he got me drinking alcohol

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when I was eight years old.

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Thank you God that I started smoking when I was seven.

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Thank you God that, you know,

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and all these awful, awful things that happened to him.

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So then what happened?

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Then Jesus came into the cell.

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Yeah.

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Came into the pit.

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Yep, the hole.

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The hole, Jesus came into the hole where he was.

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Yes. Wow.

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And in that moment, the man felt love

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for the first time in his life.

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Wow.

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He hadn't ever felt it before.

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He didn't know what it was.

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And there he was being loved by his maker,

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loved by the one who gave his life

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to deliver him from all the sorrows,

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to deliver him from all the pains,

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to deliver him from all the abuse,

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to deliver him from all the demons, deliverance.

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And he came up out of that hole, a totally different man.

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They didn't know who he was.

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Yeah, he wasn't an animal anymore.

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No, he wasn't an animal and he wanted to hug everybody.

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He wanted to share the love that he had gotten.

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So in his presence, we get this joy from his love.

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And sometimes, sometimes we don't even think

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about his love so much, but his presence is love.

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And so in his presence is this fullness of joy.

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And at his right hand are pleasures forevermore.

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That's Psalm 16 verse 11.

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It says, you will show me the path of life

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in your presence is fullness of joy

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at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

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And then in Psalm 95 verse two,

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it says, let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

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That's another one.

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Okay, it's the same idea as in Psalm 100 that we just read

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and make a joyful noise unto him with Psalms.

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So it's not just about having a joyful attitude,

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but it comes out your mouth

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that you begin to sing to him.

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And to sing to him.

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Which starts in your heart.

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Right.

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And something happens, I think, in your brain.

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I think it releases chemicals in your brain

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that are happy chemicals.

369
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Endorphins?

370
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Endorphins, yeah.

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I think when you start singing happy songs,

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when you start singing joyfully,

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when you start, listen, even if you don't sing on key,

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go ahead and sing.

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Because it makes your father happy.

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He gave you a voice.

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Okay?

378
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And don't think your voice isn't trainable.

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The problem isn't that your voice isn't trainable.

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It's just that your ear needs to be trained.

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You need to learn to hear the note and match it.

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And you can be trained.

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Don't think you can't.

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Don't let anybody tell you you can't.

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Because you can.

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And you just have to learn to hear and repeat.

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And match it.

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And so it's just a process of learning.

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But don't stop singing just because somebody said,

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oh, please don't sing.

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You know, maybe sing by yourself to the Lord.

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Maybe don't sing in front of other people

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until you're more confident to do it.

394
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But do sing.

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Come before his presence with singing.

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It makes a difference in your inner man.

397
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See, you're building up your spirit.

398
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You're building up your spirit.

399
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Really, what you're doing when you say,

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how can I serve you?

401
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When you start serving him with joy,

402
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when you start serving him out of your love for him,

403
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when you start serving him in relationship with God,

404
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in relationship, you are doing something

405
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that is building up your spirit

406
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because his spirit is inhabiting your spirit.

407
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Yeah, that's good.

408
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You become one with him.

409
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That is the beginning.

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Paul talks about it as being the earnest of the inheritance

411
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when you get the Holy Spirit.

412
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This is like the engagement ring that will show everyone

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that you're engaged to Jesus

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by having his spirit working with your spirit.

415
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So how can I serve you has to do with serving in the spirit,

416
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serving with joy.

417
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So what happens when you get in his presence with singing

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and in his presence with thanksgiving?

419
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It gives you fullness of joy.

420
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And then what do you get?

421
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Well, the joy of the Lord is your strength.

422
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Yes.

423
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From Nehemiah 8.10.

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That's when they're building the wall.

425
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Okay.

426
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I'm sure, because in most of these that came back,

427
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they never saw the former Jerusalem,

428
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only if they were probably over 70 years old,

429
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which means if they were young, whatever age they were,

430
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76, 78, they wouldn't remember what the temple looked like.

431
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But when they came, all's there is is piles of rubble.

432
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Now, how do they move those rocks?

433
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I mean, if you go today, you go to the retaining wall

434
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because that's what's there.

435
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How long are some of those big heavy rocks

436
00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,480
that were put in place?

437
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Oh, they're massive.

438
00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:46,480
There are tons and tons and tons.

439
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Tons and tons.

440
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How did they get there?

441
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So, and that's the second temple.

442
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This is the retaining wall of the second temple.

443
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But the first temple, well, however big the stones were,

444
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they're all in pieces.

445
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So that means you'd have to use pieces that were,

446
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maybe the stones, they stayed together,

447
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it was the mortar where they just broke and fell down.

448
00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:09,600
We don't know.

449
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Yeah, that could be.

450
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At least some of it would be.

451
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So I think the Nehemiah 8.10 was actually

452
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after the wall was completed

453
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and they hung the door and they're dedicating it.

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So that's when he says, go your way, eat the fat,

455
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drink the sweet, in other words, eat rich foods.

456
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Drink, celebrate, send portions to them that have nothing

457
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for this day is holy to our Lord.

458
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Neither be sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

459
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There's something about joy that gives you the strength

460
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to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

461
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Yeah, it's like Jesus said, with joy, he endured the cross.

462
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Yes, in Hebrews 12.1.

463
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Who for the joy that was set before him.

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The joy that was set before him.

465
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It's like he was in the spirit looking on the other side

466
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as a result of what this was gonna be,

467
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knowing that this is worth it.

468
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Yes, it is.

469
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And whatever you're going through

470
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and something of great trial on the other end,

471
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it's gonna be worth it, hallelujah.

472
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Amen, amen.

473
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So how can I serve you?

474
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Let's talk a little bit more about how

475
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and what does it look like?

476
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It's not just doing the thing,

477
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it's how you do the thing that he gives you to do.

478
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He may have called you as a street preacher,

479
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he may have called you as a garbage collector,

480
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he may have called you as a teacher,

481
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he may have called you as a lawyer.

482
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Whatever he's called you to do, it's how you serve him.

483
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Yes. Okay?

484
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So from the Passion Translation,

485
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Psalm 63, four and five says,

486
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daily I will worship you passionately and with all my heart.

487
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See, that's how we're gonna serve him.

488
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Passionately with all our hearts.

489
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My arms, I love this,

490
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my arms will wave to you like banners of praise.

491
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That's beautiful.

492
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Think of it even as an exercise.

493
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When you lift your hands and move them in the air,

494
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it's doing good for your body even.

495
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Yeah.

496
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Okay, verse five, I overflow with praise

497
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when I come before you,

498
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for the anointing of your presence

499
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satisfies me like nothing else.

500
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You are such a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul.

501
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,320
Isn't that beautiful?

502
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So that's how we're gonna serve him.

503
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:36,000
We're gonna serve him with worship passionately,

504
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with all our hearts, with our arms moving.

505
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,120
These are things that Dean talks about in his book,

506
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Deep Worship in Heaven,

507
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that even every little motion,

508
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every movement is worship to him.

509
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Beautiful.

510
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,240
And when we get ahold of this idea

511
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that instead of that you do something

512
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because that's what you've been told to do,

513
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,720
you do it by rote, you do it by habit.

514
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,320
This is how we do it.

515
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,200
We go to the church and we open the book

516
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,920
and we do this and we do that.

517
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,500
And in some churches you kneel and get up

518
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and then you kneel again and get up

519
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,800
and you do this and you do that.

520
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,320
But sometimes it's done just by habit

521
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:24,320
without being engaged in our spirit and soul and body.

522
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:25,440
Maybe our body's doing it,

523
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,960
but our mind is someplace else.

524
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,400
Someplace else.

525
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,760
But this is serving him how?

526
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,240
With gladness, serving him with joy,

527
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,480
lifting our hands.

528
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,200
Psalm 71, 23 says,

529
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:44,200
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you.

530
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,200
Isn't that beautiful?

531
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,520
And my soul which you have redeemed.

532
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,360
So it sets your soul and even your lips.

533
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:53,440
We think of what he did for us.

534
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:54,440
Oh yeah.

535
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,400
Right.

536
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,680
But here's a secret I think as we look at this.

537
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,120
That if you keep your lips,

538
00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:04,640
if you keep your lips rejoicing

539
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,200
instead of saying negative things,

540
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,320
if you keep your lips speaking the right words,

541
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,760
it's going to keep your lips

542
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,000
and other parts of you out of trouble.

543
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,080
Yeah. Well speak joy over yourself.

544
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:17,920
Yes.

545
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,160
You know in the faith movement,

546
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,040
it's speaking the word,

547
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,240
you speak the word healing over yourself.

548
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,080
Yes.

549
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,160
Which means you don't speak yourself getting old.

550
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,960
Because if you speak over yourself,

551
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,480
okay you'll get old.

552
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,920
I hate people in their early 60s,

553
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:34,880
I'm getting old.

554
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:35,720
No.

555
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,720
No way.

556
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,000
You have to totally change your way of thinking.

557
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,520
It's like that song,

558
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:43,760
we don't use it much,

559
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:44,960
10,000 reasons.

560
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:45,800
Yeah we don't sing that much.

561
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,640
Bless the Lord on my soul.

562
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,400
We never sing that last verse.

563
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,160
You know when I'm old and.

564
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:51,000
No, no, no.

565
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,040
No we don't sing that.

566
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,000
I thought no.

567
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,680
I'm not going to speak old over myself.

568
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,840
I speak young over myself.

569
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:58,680
Yes.

570
00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,520
That's right.

571
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:00,800
Just speak the word over yourself.

572
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:01,640
That's right.

573
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,600
That you know keeps your brain.

574
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:04,440
Mm hmm.

575
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,280
Yeah.

576
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:06,280
Keep your brain young.

577
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,120
That's right.

578
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:10,560
And I remember what the Lord spoke to Claren McQueen

579
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,000
when he was,

580
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,640
I think he was just getting into his 60s.

581
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,760
And he started talking to the Lord about,

582
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:17,880
I'm getting old now.

583
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:18,720
And the Lord said,

584
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,480
you're not old, you're trained.

585
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,320
You're trained.

586
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,400
We are trained.

587
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:24,640
There we go.

588
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,520
But the training continues.

589
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,760
Because it goes on through eternity.

590
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,080
And these things just keep getting better

591
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,680
and better and bigger and bigger.

592
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,320
And it's kind of like,

593
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,640
oh.

594
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,760
It's kind of like taking the test

595
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,080
for forgetting your ham license,

596
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,520
your amateur radio license.

597
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,400
So I just took my test.

598
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:45,240
And I passed.

599
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,440
Thank you Jesus.

600
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,160
But the three different levels of these things,

601
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:52,840
you know, you get the first level

602
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,440
and I got the first level down.

603
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:55,280
I got it.

604
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,640
Yeah, I got 100%.

605
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,880
I understood that one pretty well.

606
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,800
Because I began to understand it more

607
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,440
as I studied the second level.

608
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,280
Yeah, okay.

609
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,640
But I went ahead and tried taking the third level test

610
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,000
even though I hadn't studied for it.

611
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,560
It was like, oh, this is way over my head.

612
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,880
This is way, I don't know any of this.

613
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,880
But you know, the point is that as we grow in God,

614
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,000
we learn more, we understand more.

615
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,200
And you gotta know this listener,

616
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,560
there always will be more for you to get from God.

617
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,440
Everything, everything, everything gets better.

618
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,920
It gets bigger.

619
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,240
As wonderful as it is today,

620
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,480
wait till tomorrow.

621
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,760
It's gonna be even more wonderful.

622
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,880
Wait until the next moment.

623
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,960
The next moment in his presence is greater.

624
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,640
It's better than the last moment.

625
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,600
It just keeps getting better.

626
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,440
The more and more joyful you are,

627
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,000
the more you stay in his presence.

628
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:54,960
Yes.

629
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,720
And the more you stay in his presence,

630
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,560
the more joyful you get.

631
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,520
Yes, exactly, exactly.

632
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:01,360
It's a two-way street.

633
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,720
So we can keep living this life of joy,

634
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,120
this life of living in his presence.

635
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,600
There's that book by Brother Lawrence

636
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,120
that everybody should read.

637
00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:12,640
I've read it several times.

638
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,160
And every now and then you gotta go read it again

639
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,280
about the practice of the presence of God.

640
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,760
And I think it's like 400 years old.

641
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,720
So it's a classic and it's out there.

642
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,320
Yeah, and he was in a monastery.

643
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,600
Wasn't he the cook?

644
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,160
Yes, he was the cook.

645
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,120
He wasn't any great grand saint,

646
00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:31,920
except he was.

647
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,520
I mean, men wouldn't look at him

648
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,560
as being so very important,

649
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,480
but God found him to be a friend.

650
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,320
Yeah.

651
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,400
And he just, he was frustrated

652
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,280
over the fact that he would just get

653
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,200
into the presence of God in the prayer times,

654
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,920
because in a monastery there's a prayer time,

655
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:52,760
there's a work time,

656
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:53,600
then there's a prayer time,

657
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:54,440
then there's a work time,

658
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:55,440
there's a prayer time, there's a work,

659
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,320
and somewhere there's meals in there.

660
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,720
So he would just get into the presence of God,

661
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,080
and then it was time to go back to work.

662
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,680
And he was frustrated with that.

663
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,240
So he began to practice the presence

664
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,880
even while he was working.

665
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,720
Yeah.

666
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,200
So he didn't lose that sense of the presence of God

667
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,320
in his working.

668
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,520
And his writings are out there on the internet.

669
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,200
You can find free PDF downloads that you can read,

670
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,480
and we'll see if we can put a link to it

671
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,320
in the show notes,

672
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,480
because it's a good read,

673
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,120
especially if you get a more modern translation.

674
00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:31,640
I think it was written,

675
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,600
I think the man was French,

676
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:34,760
but I'm not sure.

677
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,800
So the point is that practicing his presence,

678
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,960
this is how you serve him,

679
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,600
that everything that you do,

680
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,960
everything that we do is done in his presence.

681
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,520
Well, that keeps you out of trouble.

682
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,080
You're not gonna be led into temptation

683
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,280
when you're staying in his presence.

684
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,960
That's true.

685
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,000
So God's trying to get us

686
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,680
into that kind of relationship with him.

687
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,880
He's our father.

688
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,040
He designed us to work with him.

689
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,880
I was reading in Bruce Allen's book,

690
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,280
and he just has this unique relationship with the Lord.

691
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,320
And he says, we're about 90% in the flesh

692
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,920
and 10% in the spirit.

693
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:16,760
Oh Lord, help us.

694
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:17,600
Yeah, help us.

695
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,280
So that's why a lot of times,

696
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,280
if our mind dominates that much,

697
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,560
that's only a 10% chance you're doing okay,

698
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,640
that you're really hearing the spirit of God,

699
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,160
unless you're just totally locked in.

700
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,000
Yeah.

701
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,960
And that's where God can speak to you in the night

702
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:36,800
when you're sleeping

703
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,520
and your brain is hopefully is resting.

704
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,600
Yeah, for sure.

705
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,160
I'm reminded of Psalm 107,

706
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,600
because it says it over and over again.

707
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,560
Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness

708
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,680
and for his wonderful works to the children of men.

709
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,920
It's like, oh, if only,

710
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,800
if only people would just praise him,

711
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,200
because he's so good.

712
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,120
And he's done so many things for us.

713
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,640
And he's constantly,

714
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,120
we don't have any idea how many times every single day

715
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,280
that he has intervened to protect us.

716
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,480
Beautiful, yeah.

717
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,400
Or to help us in some way.

718
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,120
We're so clueless, but the more you recognize it,

719
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,600
the more you recognize those little kisses

720
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,680
that he gives you, that's what I call it.

721
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,560
Can I just tell that kiss story, Philip?

722
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,400
Yeah.

723
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,960
The story that one of our members told us,

724
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,440
I've never forgotten it.

725
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:33,960
And I've probably told it here before,

726
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,360
but in case you missed it, or it's just a good story.

727
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:42,360
This gal, she likes coffee with something sweet.

728
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,680
And she likes something sweet with coffee,

729
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,800
never one without the other.

730
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,600
And she was watching, a commercial came on the TV

731
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,120
about Oreo cookies.

732
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,760
And the commercial was-

733
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,880
Unless you're good anytime, really.

734
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,000
Unless you're staying off them, yeah.

735
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
Unless you're carnivore.

736
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,200
So the advertisement said, Oreo cookies,

737
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,560
the cookie that loves milk.

738
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,080
And she spoke to the TV and said,

739
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,480
ah, it's not the cookie that loves milk,

740
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,240
it's the cookie that loves coffee.

741
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,520
And she went on about her business and so on.

742
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,840
Well, not long after that, she was in a restaurant

743
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,520
and she had just finished her dinner

744
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,840
and she had her dessert with coffee, right?

745
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,800
So the waiter comes along with a pot of coffee

746
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,840
and says, would you like some more coffee?

747
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,280
She said, no, thank you.

748
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,160
I have already had my sweet thing.

749
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,320
I don't know if she had pie or whatever it was she had,

750
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,920
pie or cake, whatever.

751
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,400
And she says, no, I've already finished my sweet thing

752
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,760
so I don't want any more coffee.

753
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,360
I only have coffee with something sweet.

754
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,400
He says, oh, well, let me see what I can do.

755
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,000
He disappears and he comes back with a little plate

756
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,520
with Oreo cookies on it.

757
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,840
And she heard the Lord say, I was listening.

758
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,400
Now that's a kiss from the Lord.

759
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,160
And it turns out that this guy went into his own

760
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:15,160
personal backpack in the kitchen and pulled out Oreo cookies

761
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,160
from his supply of Oreo cookies to serve to her.

762
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,920
That's real love, to give up your Oreo cookies

763
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,640
to somebody you don't even know.

764
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,800
I know, but that's a kiss from the Lord.

765
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,800
See, he was prompted by the Holy Spirit.

766
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,880
He had no idea he was being called.

767
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,240
He had no idea he was being prompted by the Holy Spirit.

768
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,960
We don't realize how much the Lord is intervening

769
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,200
every single day, every moment of every day.

770
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,920
And so we can rejoice.

771
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,720
We can serve him with gladness.

772
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,000
We can serve him with joy.

773
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,000
I love how it says in Acts chapter two,

774
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,360
this is after they've received the baptism

775
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,200
of the Holy Spirit, this outpouring of the Holy Spirit

776
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,760
that happened in Acts two.

777
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,000
So in verses 46 and 47, it says,

778
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,760
and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple

779
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,080
and breaking bread from house to house,

780
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:12,000
did eat their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

781
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,160
praising God and having favor with all the people.

782
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,960
And the Lord added to the church daily,

783
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,600
such as should be saved.

784
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,800
Can you realize the, you have to understand

785
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,600
the joy they have here.

786
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,400
They've been on the Old Testament rituals,

787
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,960
just going to the temple, getting cleansed.

788
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,840
Messiah has come.

789
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,160
This is what we've been waiting for.

790
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,120
I mean, it's just like, still today,

791
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,720
they're waiting for the Messiah.

792
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,960
It'll be the second time for us and the first time for them.

793
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,320
But the incredible joy of the Messiah,

794
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,000
everything that was prophesied,

795
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,040
everything they've been waiting for,

796
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,880
here he is, we're serving him and he lives in us.

797
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,720
Yes, yes.

798
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,720
And his spirit is in us too.

799
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,880
Right, it's not just for the prophets.

800
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,200
It's not just for the high priest,

801
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,880
for the spirit of God to come on him.

802
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,880
Because most of the high priests,

803
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,160
there was only a handful of them

804
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,040
that were serving Jehovah with gladness.

805
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,200
Well, that's probably true.

806
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,760
Like Nicodemus and different ones,

807
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,680
and they had to be hidden.

808
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,440
Because they lose their position or they might get,

809
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:24,560
who knows what would happen.

810
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,640
Right.

811
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,520
So there's an interesting scripture in Deuteronomy 28.

812
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,680
Now the first 14 verses are verses of blessings.

813
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,080
This is what happens to you when you serve the Lord.

814
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,120
This is what happens to you.

815
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,280
I will bless your storage.

816
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,760
I will bless your fields.

817
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:43,600
I will bless your flocks.

818
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,840
Bless your basket and your store.

819
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:45,800
Everything, everything.

820
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:46,640
I'm going to bless it.

821
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:47,480
I'm going to bless it.

822
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,040
Bless, bless, bless, bless for 14 verses.

823
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,040
Then from verse 15 to the end of the chapter

824
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,800
is a whole list of very specific curses.

825
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,480
And verse 47 sits kind of in the middle of all that.

826
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,960
And it says, because you didn't serve the Lord or Jehovah,

827
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,200
your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart

828
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,840
for the abundance of all things.

829
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,480
And then there's 20 more verses of curses.

830
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,360
So he designed us, here's the point.

831
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,360
He designed us to work with him and serve him with love

832
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,640
and serve him with gladness and serve him with joy

833
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,400
because he made us.

834
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,400
He's our father.

835
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,560
It's meant to be God and Son's wonder working company.

836
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,400
Yes.

837
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:33,840
That's what it's meant to be.

838
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,960
And he wants us to know him

839
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,200
to know how to run the family business.

840
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,320
That's what growing up in God is all about

841
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,320
is maturing into that place where we have the checkbook

842
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,480
and we can work with people

843
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,800
who want to make contracts with our father.

844
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,400
We can represent him in a contract

845
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:58,400
and he approves of it because we're trained by him.

846
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,160
He made us to work with him.

847
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,680
So, you know, he designed us.

848
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:05,520
Yes.

849
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,400
He designed us to show forth his glory

850
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,120
and his character in the earth

851
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:13,040
so that we have this mindset of doing on earth

852
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:13,880
as it is in heaven.

853
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,640
And that's why I so appreciate the fact

854
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,280
that God has allowed us to connect with Dean Braxton

855
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,680
to get more of an understanding of how it is in heaven

856
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,960
so that we can do it on earth as it is in heaven.

857
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:26,920
As it is in heaven, yes.

858
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,880
And on earth as it is in heaven,

859
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,480
remember what he said about every moment it's better.

860
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,680
Every moment our father's more glorious.

861
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,560
Every moment he loves us more.

862
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,480
Every moment is greater.

863
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,360
Every moment is more, more so than the moment before.

864
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,840
So we can live on the earth, how can I serve you?

865
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,960
I can serve him in expectation

866
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,000
of the next thing being better than the first thing

867
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,680
or the thing that we just had a moment ago.

868
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,160
That whatever miracles that we saw yesterday,

869
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,440
whatever miracles are in the Bible,

870
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,920
we're gonna see something more so.

871
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:03,960
See bigger ones tomorrow.

872
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,520
Bigger so, bigger and greater.

873
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:06,920
Jesus said that-

874
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:07,920
Greater things shall you do.

875
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,920
Yes, that's right.

876
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,920
Because I go to the father.

877
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,640
So do we believe it?

878
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:14,480
Yes.

879
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:15,320
We need to believe it.

880
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:16,960
Is that our expectation?

881
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:17,800
Yeah.

882
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,920
Is it our expectation to see God do greater things?

883
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,360
You know, Michael Van Blimey in his books,

884
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,040
when he describes just waiting on God,

885
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,240
he says you expect him to come.

886
00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:30,080
Yes.

887
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,760
Expect him to come.

888
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,440
I thought, okay, that's,

889
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,040
so if you expect him all the time to do something,

890
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:37,880
he'll do it.

891
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:38,960
Yes.

892
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,360
And when we're walking in that joy,

893
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,440
when we're walking in that peace,

894
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:48,120
we are carriers of an atmosphere of heaven

895
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,040
that is affecting the atmosphere around us.

896
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:52,880
Yes.

897
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,200
I remember hearing Sister Gwen telling about her friend

898
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,960
that worked in the Philippines.

899
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,520
We carry her book in the bookstore.

900
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,120
It's called The Men in My Life.

901
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,920
And she was like a chaplain or had a ministry

902
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,760
in the prison in the Philippines.

903
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,400
And you know, she was working with these guys on death row

904
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,200
and bringing them to the Lord.

905
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,520
And there was a time that there was a prison riot

906
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,880
and she had to go in and bring peace.

907
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,360
She carried an atmosphere of the presence of God

908
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,600
that overwhelmed the atmosphere of those demons

909
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,400
in the men that were upset about

910
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,840
whatever they were upset about.

911
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,160
And it made a difference.

912
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,440
It stopped the riot.

913
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,360
God can do those things.

914
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,280
Get an expectation that he will do that with you.

915
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,920
Don't be afraid to walk in to something that is

916
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,760
like Daniel going into the lion's den.

917
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,160
I was just listening to that this morning on my Bible app.

918
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,360
He was thrown into the den of lions,

919
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,520
but God kept the lion's mouth shut.

920
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,160
And he will do that for us as we are faithful with him

921
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,640
in our relationship.

922
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,520
Daniel was faithful.

923
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,480
Daniel was absolutely determined

924
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,760
that he's not gonna defile himself.

925
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,320
He's gonna do in Babylon.

926
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,560
Remember the letter that Jeremiah wrote to the exiles

927
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,640
was telling them, okay, you're gonna be here for 70 years.

928
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,960
So plant gardens and build houses

929
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,840
and let your life help to bring peace to this place.

930
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,320
So that's how we've been planted here on planet earth.

931
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,200
To be atmosphere changers.

932
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,560
And as we carry that joy of the Lord,

933
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,840
as we carry that peace, as we carry his character,

934
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,000
it's changing the situation.

935
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,600
It's bringing light into darkness.

936
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,240
Hallelujah.

937
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:51,720
So I wanna close with just a couple of thoughts here

938
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:55,840
from Jude chapter one, there's only one chapter,

939
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,360
verses 24 and 25.

940
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,880
It says, now unto him that is able to keep you from falling.

941
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,280
That's a powerful scripture.

942
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:05,280
I love that.

943
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,800
You know, sometimes especially when we're first in our walk

944
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,400
and we stumble quite a lot.

945
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,120
He's able to keep you from falling, beloved.

946
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,560
He is able to keep you from falling.

947
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,880
The more time you spend in his presence,

948
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:23,000
the less time you're likely to have falling.

949
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,520
Okay, he will keep you.

950
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,400
He will keep you on your feet.

951
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,960
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling

952
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,000
and to present you faultless, faultless.

953
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,440
Don't let that accuser make you think

954
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,600
that you are less than faultless

955
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,360
because Jesus' blood covers everything that you have done.

956
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:48,000
If you've received him, just ask him to forgive you.

957
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,560
And if you fell this morning,

958
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,480
just ask him to forgive you

959
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,240
and get back into his presence.

960
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:56,320
Don't carry it around all day.

961
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,720
Yeah, don't carry it around.

962
00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:02,440
Don't let that slimy Satan serpent.

963
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,480
Don't stay slimed.

964
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,520
Right, just keep getting back into his presence.

965
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,480
Enter his presence with thanksgiving.

966
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,240
Enter his courts with praise.

967
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:13,360
Thank you, Jesus, for forgiving me.

968
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,760
Thank you, Jesus, that you paid for this sin

969
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,880
to wash me clean and to change me

970
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,960
so that I don't do this anymore, to change my habits.

971
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,080
Thank you, Holy Spirit.

972
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,440
And just start thanking, just start praising.

973
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,320
He is able to present you faultless

974
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,680
before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

975
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,520
Okay, here's the joy part.

976
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,440
Remember, we're serving the Lord with gladness.

977
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,480
How can I serve you?

978
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:39,440
With gladness.

979
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,640
He has been serving the Father with gladness

980
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,560
all the time that he was here on planet Earth.

981
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,000
He was serving our Father with gladness.

982
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,400
So it goes on in verse 25, says,

983
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,880
to the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty,

984
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,840
dominion and power, both now and ever, amen.

985
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:58,760
Ever and ever and ever.

986
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,320
Ever and ever and ever.

987
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,800
It's about serving him with joy.

988
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,800
And just to finish, this is the last passage.

989
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,560
John 15, verses nine through 12,

990
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,400
I'm gonna read it from the Amplified Classic.

991
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,000
This is Jesus talking to his disciples

992
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,240
the night that he was betrayed.

993
00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,240
This is the upper room discourse, as they call it.

994
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:22,240
This is what he spoke to them at the last supper.

995
00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:25,320
He's giving them final instructions before he's going

996
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,200
to be crucified.

997
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,920
And he says in verse nine, I have loved you

998
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,440
just as the Father has loved me.

999
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,360
Abide in my love.

1000
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,920
Continue in his love with me.

1001
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,280
Isn't that beautiful?

1002
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,880
Verse 10, if you keep my commandments,

1003
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,960
if you continue to obey my instructions,

1004
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,320
you will abide in my love.

1005
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,880
In other words, you're gonna live there.

1006
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,720
You will abide in my love and live on in it

1007
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,120
just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments

1008
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,080
and live on in his love.

1009
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,440
Verse 11, I have told you these things

1010
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:08,000
that my joy and delight may be in you.

1011
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,520
And that your joy and gladness may be of full measure

1012
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,440
and complete and overflowing.

1013
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,720
Verse 12, this is my commandment,

1014
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:21,240
that you love one another just as I have loved you.

1015
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:26,240
So Father, we just thank you for this enlightening

1016
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,160
about how we can serve you, to serve you with joy,

1017
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,680
to serve you with love, to serve you by loving you so much

1018
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,040
that we want to obey you in everything,

1019
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,920
that we want to give you glory,

1020
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,760
that we want to be lights in the darkness.

1021
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,000
Lord, we just speak this over our listeners, Father,

1022
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,920
that you will give them this joy,

1023
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,240
this overwhelming joy in your presence.

1024
00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:52,120
Father, let your presence just settle in

1025
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,000
upon each and every one of them.

1026
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,560
Lord, that they will feel the joy of your presence

1027
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:01,120
and that they will find that your joy is their strength

1028
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,600
for today that's gonna keep getting better every moment,

1029
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,320
even stronger tomorrow and stronger the next day.

1030
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,840
The joy of the Lord is their strength, is our strength.

1031
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,800
Your presence gives us this fullness of joy

1032
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,280
and we serve you today with this fullness of joy

1033
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,760
and gladness in Jesus' name, amen.

1034
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:25,600
Amen.

1035
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,440
Amen.

1036
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:27,280
Amen.

1037
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:28,120
Amen.

1038
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:28,960
Amen.

1039
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:29,800
Amen.

1040
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:30,640
Amen.

1041
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,940
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1042
00:43:32,940 --> 00:43:35,620
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1043
00:43:35,620 --> 00:43:39,100
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1044
00:43:39,100 --> 00:43:41,400
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00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,920
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1048
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,520
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00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,400
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1050
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,200
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1051
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,680
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1052
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,400
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1053
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:02,800
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1054
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,160
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1055
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:18,560
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1056
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,620
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