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The 27th chapter, the book of Exodus.

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Book of Exodus chapter 27, at verse 20.

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And thou shalt command the children of Israel

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that they bring unto thee pure olive oil

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beaten for the light to cause a lamp

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to burn continually.

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In the tense of meeting, without the veil

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which is before the testimony, Aaron and his

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son shall keep it in order from evening

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to morning before the Lord.

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It shall be a statute forever throughout their

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generations on behalf of the children of Israel.

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Oil for the light.

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It is my growing conviction, dear friends, that

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the greatest need of our time is a

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true knowledge and understanding of the Holy Spirit

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and his work.

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Such knowledge, if spiritually apprehended, would really

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solve by far the greater number of the

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problems which beset Christians and the Church today.

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If only we really lived in the good

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of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

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With all that that means, as a matter

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of light, how different everything would be.

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So I say again, the pressing need of

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our time is for such knowledge, such understanding.

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So what follows this morning is just a

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touching on the very fringe of that matter.

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Not by any means an attempt to fathom

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it or exhaust it.

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This simple fragment, thou shalt command the children

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of Israel that they bring pure olive oil

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for the light.

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Notice this is a command to the Lord's

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people.

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This is an imperative.

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This is a necessity.

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This is indispensable.

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This is essential.

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Command.

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It is not optional.

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Left to choice.

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This is an obligation.

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Command the children of Israel that they bring

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oil for the light.

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Now first of all note the place of

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the light.

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The lampstand, as you know, was in the

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holy place between the outer court and the

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most holy place.

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It was in that place which in type

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is a between place.

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A place between heaven and earth.

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Heaven and the world.

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There's the outside and there's the inside.

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There is all that is here in this

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world on the one side, on the other

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side.

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There's all that which is essentially heaven.

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The very presence of God.

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And in between heaven and earth this light

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was to be.

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A place which united heaven and earth and

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yet divided them.

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I think the meaning is what our Lord

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meant in his great prayer.

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Seems to me that he was standing very

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much in this position.

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Then he prayed as in John 17.

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They are not of the world.

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Even as I am not the world.

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And yet, and yet they are in the

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world.

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These are in the world.

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I come to thee.

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They are not of the world.

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It's so familiar a truth.

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Almost a hackneyed phrase.

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In the world but not of it.

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Here is an in between place which is

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the place of believers in this present dispensation.

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At this present time.

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It is our place between heaven and earth

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in a very real sense.

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Well we know that don't we?

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We know that on the one hand we

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are here in this world right in us.

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And it's very real.

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And yet it is just as real that

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we don't belong.

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We are not of it.

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We're in an in between place.

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We know that we're not yet literally and

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actually in heaven.

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And yet, and yet somehow or other we

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are deeply linked with heaven.

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The place between.

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That's where the light was to be.

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Or where the light was.

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Place which defines heaven and earth and yet

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brings them together.

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There were no windows in that place.

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No windows in the holy place.

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No provision was made for natural light.

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Natural light was excluded.

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But for this lamp stand it would have

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been totally dark.

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All that was there represented type and symbol.

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All the values and the functions of that

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place were only possible, capable of being effective

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by a light which was not the light

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of nature.

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The light of the spirit.

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The light produced by the oil.

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That is very true.

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And touches very closely upon my opening remark.

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This holy place, this in between place, was

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symbolic of the position in which Israel were

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just at that time.

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They were out of Egypt.

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But they're not yet literally and altogether in

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the land of Canaan.

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They were in an in between place and

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oh how they needed the light of heaven

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for that wilderness journey.

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There are two aspects of the Christian life.

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In Christ it is true we are seated

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in the heavenlies.

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But Peter will tell us that we're still

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pilgrims and strangers.

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We're sojourners.

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Always the two aspects.

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And on this side peculiar, peculiar position of

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God's people at the present time.

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The pilgrimage aspect.

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And this is true to very positive teaching

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in the New Testament.

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In this life God has made no provision

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for natural life.

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If you and I are going on our

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way to reach God's full end, natural life

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for one thing will be no good to

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us.

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But for another God has ruled it out.

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He has made no windows.

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That's the argument of the letter to the

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first letters to Corinthians isn't it?

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Natural man receiveth not the things of the

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Spirit of God, neither can he know them.

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And the whole course of the chapter in

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which those words occur is God has made

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no windows for that.

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Your reason doesn't come in here.

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The light of your natural judgment is not

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allowed here.

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It's all excluded.

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The light that is here is the light

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from the oil.

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It's the light of the Spirit.

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So the argument of the first letter to

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the Corinthians is the argument about the Spirit

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isn't it?

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And what is spiritual for guidance, for judgment,

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for counsel, for the knowledge of everything of

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the Lord?

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No place for natural life.

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Yet God's own provision for light, which is

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better than that, it's God's own light.

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Now look at the content of this place,

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the holy place.

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Well, in addition to the lampstand, the golden

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lampstand, you know, there was the golden altar

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of incense.

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And then there was the golden table of

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bread of the loaves.

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Simple symbols that help us to understand the

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meaning of the light, the functioning of the

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oil, does this dear friend?

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And of course we know the symbolism is

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that the oil is the Holy Spirit and

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the Holy Spirit is our light for the

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things of God.

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But this light is not just unto itself.

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It is to throw its rays upon, to

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light up, to illumine this whole matter of

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prayer.

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And I'm quite sure I carry you with

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me when I say what a tremendous need

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there is that the people of God should

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know how to pray in the Spirit.

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If only we knew how to pray in

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the Holy Ghost.

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That's a New Testament phrase, praying in the

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Holy Ghost.

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We need that.

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We never really get very far without that.

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We'll be going around in circles.

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You see, the Lord from time to time

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called a halt in this journey for the

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setting up of the tabernacle again with everything

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that it contained, but right in the center,

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this thing, the light in the holy place

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upon this matter of intercession and prayer, the

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altar of incense.

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It is as though the Lord was saying

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we can't get any further until we have

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put a new emphasis upon this matter of

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prayer in the Spirit, praying in the Holy

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Ghost.

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Our future, our progress, our fresh stages will

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require that we get into the Spirit of

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prayer again, and we get prayer in the

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Spirit.

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Now, it's difficult for me to convey all

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that I am feeling about that, but, dear

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friends, you will grasp the point.

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If in our own prayers, our own prayer

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life, privately, and when we came together, we

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come together for prayers, the Lord's people, we

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were really praying in the Spirit, how much

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further we should get?

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Instead of praying in our own judgments, our

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own feelings, our own impulses, our own ideas,

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our own reasoning of what ought to be,

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what we think should be, and so on,

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and uttering a lump of things out of

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our own natural light, if the Holy Spirit

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took hold of our praying, and we prayed

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in the Spirit, even one thing, how much

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further we should get?

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See, I do not believe it's possible to

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pray a thing in the Holy Ghost without

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an issue, without something happening, without something being

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reached, some moving taking place.

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Look again in the Book of the Ends.

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That's just how it was, you see.

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They prayed in the Spirit, and that did

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not mean that they just prayed in a

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kind of feeling.

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The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Light,

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see, and the Holy Spirit knows what God

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wants.

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He knows all the purposes of God, all

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the designs of God, all the ways of

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God, all the times of God.

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He knows when the time is due for

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such and such a thing.

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He knows exactly how that thing ought to

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be done.

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He knows it all.

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He is the Spirit of Light.

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Pray in the Holy Spirit, and you pray

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right on for the things that God intended,

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and they must be.

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And I can do no more this morning

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than just make this appeal that you and

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I seek the Lord yet more earnestly, that

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our prayer life shall be in the Spirit,

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illumined by the Spirit.

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We shall pray in the intelligence and the

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understanding of the Holy Spirit.

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So the oil for the light has a

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relationship to prayer in the Holy Spirit.

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On the other hand, this light was thrown

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upon the table and the bread, and that

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surely indicates that we must feed upon the

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Word of God in the illumination of the

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Holy Spirit.

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This is the extra factor that is so

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necessary.

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I feel perhaps more necessary today than ever

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if that's possible.

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You can take this book, the Bible, and

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from the same book, using exactly the same

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scriptures, get a hundred different positions, in every

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one of which is in conflict with the

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other.

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That is what has been done.

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That is what nearly all the different aspects

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and forms of Christianity today build themselves upon

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scripture, support their position by scripture, and very

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few of them can stand together.

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They're contradictory, if not antagonistic, to one another.

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They take one thing out of the Word

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of God, and you get these different views

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which are absolutely in conflict with each other,

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and yet built upon scripture.

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And that can be extended over so many

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things, so many ways.

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Well, what are we to do?

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How are we to know?

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Not by leaving the scripture and arriving at

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our own conclusions and judgments, but we need

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the Holy Spirit to tell us what the

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scripture means.

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There's something, you see, extra to the Word.

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The Spirit gave this Word, and He knew

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what He meant by it.

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And He never meant two conflicting and contradictory

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things.

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He's not like that.

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The Spirit's mind is one mind.

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Always very consistent is the Holy Spirit, and

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there are no contradictions in the Bible where

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the Holy Spirit is concerned.

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There are in our natural light interpretations or

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apprehensions.

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Do you not see how important it is

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to bring oil for the light?

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That in the Word of God, upon which

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we've got to feed, it is our bread.

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Christ has come to us as the bread

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in the form of the Word.

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Man shall not live by bread alone, but

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by every word, every word.

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Christ is the living Word as the living

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bread.

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But oh, we need the Holy Spirit to

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illumine this Word, and to interpret, and to

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convict, to save us from contradictions.

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Ah yes, but the Holy Spirit has no

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windows for our reasoning and our interpretation, natural

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light.

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Here everything is shut up to Him.

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Shut up to Him.

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Everything else excluded.

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Well, time's gone.

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I think you see what I meant, the

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tremendous importance in our day of the Holy

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Spirit, knowing the Holy Spirit.

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And my last word is this.

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Beaten.

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Bring pure olive oil.

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Beaten.

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There's got to be definite exercise about this

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matter, of the guidance of the Holy Spirit,

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the illumination of the Holy Spirit.

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It just does not happen, come about.

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It does not just come about.

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We've got to get down to this matter.

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The real exercise and energy, and make, shall

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I say, a business of it.

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Lord, Lord, roll out my judgment.

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Roll out my feelings.

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Roll out my likes and my dislikes.

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You come by Your Spirit and have absolute

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preeminence in my heart, in my mind, as

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I pray, as I read Thy Word.

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See, it's business.

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Beaten out.

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Real exercise about the place and the work

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of the Holy Spirit in our personal life

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with the Lord, and in our collective life.

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One does long to hear that note in

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our prayer gatherings, real laying hold to Lord.

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Now, Lord, tonight, in this hour, we must

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come into the mind of the Spirit about

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it.

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Real laying hold of God.

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Beating it out.

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Understand.

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Command children of Israel that they bring pure

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olive oil.

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Beaten.

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For the light.