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Is this really happening?

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Well, if my mother could only see me

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now.

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I'm a blessed man, and I'm a privileged

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man, and a grateful man to have been

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given this opportunity to share.

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I think it's the first of its kind

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that I've had this kind of a context

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with emphasis on revival, which several churches have

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combined.

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And maybe I'm becoming respectable and acceptable now.

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But thank you, and I appreciate the labors,

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Don's labors, and all of the pastors and

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those who have come together to arrange these

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days.

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So, tonight I have an ominous sense in

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my heart.

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Well, some of us are already aware that

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we have reached an hour where messages, per

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se, are passe.

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That somehow we've run the gamut, and sermons

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and homiletics and preaching of that kind somehow,

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how whatever purpose it has served for now,

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somehow it's no longer appropriate for the hour

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and the place where we now stand.

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The only kind of preaching now that would

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be appropriate is that preaching that constitutes an

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event.

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The word of God that performs something, that

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sets something in motion, that affects something of

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consequence, particularly as we face the impending end

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of the age.

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Do you use the phrase, the last days?

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If you don't, you need to employ it,

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and not as an artifice, but as a

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reality, the sense of impending coming to the

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conclusion of an age.

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And we know that this age is going

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to end in apocalyptic collision, powers of darkness

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and light, and a final paroxysm of violent

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contending for this creation of who, in fact,

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is going to be its Lord.

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And that this is going to be such

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a time, and the Church plays a remarkable

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and pivotal function in this final scenario.

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And that the Jews, who have been quiescent,

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out of the picture, dormant, apostate, somehow are

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coming up again into the consideration of God.

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Not only in Israel, in that troubled nation,

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but worldwide we're going to see ramifications and

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the effect upon Jews as they are uprooted,

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moved, and brought to a final time of

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sifting before they are brought again into the

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place of God's intention.

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Now, please get this morning's tape, a remarkable

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statement on Romans 11, that I'm just so

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grateful, may the Lord do as much tonight,

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but that will give you an incisive understanding

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of the significance of Israel and the place

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of the Church, appointed by God to be

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the salvific agent in Israel's restoration after centuries

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-long apostasy.

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Am I getting too fancy?

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Good.

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So, Lord, precious God, we were trembling in

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that back room, not because we're nervous, but

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because we sense something in the air.

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There's something tonight that's ominous, that's weighty, that

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we're called not just to hear a message,

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we're called to some kind of transaction.

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There's something that you want wrought that will

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affect this community and beyond it that has

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to go forth somehow with the word and

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the response.

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So, Lord, mercy upon us again.

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Mercy upon me, Lord.

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These people think that I'm some kind of

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a pro, and they don't know.

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The trembling and the terrible sense of frailty

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in these prophets who are the sons of

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man, so aware of their humanity, their limitation,

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so feeling strange always, never at once ever

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comfortable as if, yes, but always, how did

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I get into this, and where am I,

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and what am I doing, and, Lord, how?

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So let it be.

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But out of that, my God, may this

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people receive your word and even more hear

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your voice.

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We thank you for this privilege.

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Come, my God, bring the conclusion.

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You're the great alpha and the omega, and

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you've led us on a charted course through

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these days, and we've not understood every segment

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of it.

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Some of it yet remains strange, and we've

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not been able to somehow factor it in,

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but we trust you for the whole flow

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of it, the whole continuum, from the beginning

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until the conclusion now tonight.

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So we're grateful you're the alpha and the

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omega of our faith.

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And may your soul be blessed.

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May you be gratified.

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May you be entirely delighted with the proceeding

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of this night because it goes forth by

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your word and your spirit.

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We're privileged, Lord, in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Well, if you're—anyone's hearing me for the first

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time?

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Oh, you poor souls.

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Culture shock.

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See, the others have already been initiated.

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So you've got to take the whole thing

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in one night.

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But then it gives me occasion to say

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a little word about my books, all of

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which are extraordinary.

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What shall I say?

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Who knows that better than I?

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Because I know how divinely inspired every one

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of these books is.

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The Holocaust book, we have only three copies

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left.

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You'll have to contend and fight for it

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over at the table.

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But we want to reserve it for those

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who have a particular passion and burden for

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Israel and for the Jew, and have always

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pondered how it is that God has allowed

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his covenant people to suffer such a tragedy

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as the Holocaust indeed was.

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But more than that, need to know that

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I believe that there's another one yet coming

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that will eclipse the former and for which

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the Jewish community has no anticipation at all.

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But the Church needs to know, needs to

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anticipate, needs to prepare.

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And so it's in this book.

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And other of the books serve purposes of

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their own.

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The Spirit of Truth, the title speaks for

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itself.

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The Church is the ground and pillar of

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truth.

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If we're not jealous for the truth, if

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we are not the truth itself in fact,

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if we ourselves become actors and performers and

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lose integrity, what can be hoped for in

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the world?

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So we need to love the truth.

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And, of course, the truth is painful before

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it's glorious.

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You need to love it or you'll not

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welcome it.

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An apostolic conversion, a little Holy Ghost gem,

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the verbatim transcript of a message given in

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despair with a congregation in California that seemed

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to have it all together but somehow had

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silently contracted with God this far, no further.

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And God wanted to go further.

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And this is the word he put before

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them that brought them down on their faces.

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I've seen people go down on their faces

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but have not seen them dig into the

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woodwork, into the floor.

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They did that that night and they've been

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changed ever since.

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So we have this.

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All of these books are in several languages.

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And I have not lifted a finger to

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promote any of it.

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So I have to assume that God himself,

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by seeing through their foreign additions, recognizes the

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word as something appropriate for the church of

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the nations.

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This is the most recent.

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It's a classic already.

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We're getting such response from apostolic foundations, a

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kind of cosmic overview of the faith.

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The word apostolic, like the word prophetic, needs

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to be jealously guarded and cherished because they

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are the foundation of the church.

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the word prophetic comes to mean something in

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our generation, less or other than God's intention,

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we're on the way to deception.

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Likewise, the word apostolic.

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So the book contains chapters on apostolic character,

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apostolic perception, apostolic proclamation, the principalities and powers

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of the air about which few know anything,

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the subject of eternity which few take into

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their consideration.

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This is a gem.

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In fact, I'm appreciating it so much as

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I'm talking about it.

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I think we'll double the price.

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So this is the last opportunity to get

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these books, none of which are available in

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bookstores.

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You want to turn to Joshua, Chapter 3.

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Does this light bother anyone?

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Is it too glaring?

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You don't mind if I take my jacket

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off because I'm going to be working.

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I can't think of a more propitious text

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than Joshua 3, because we stand tonight as

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the church in a place appropriate or equivalent

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to where Israel stood as it waited before

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the Jordan before crossing over.

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Do you have that sense that we're at

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a threshold, that everything till now has been

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preparation and that we're being fitted for something?

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of that something, which is altogether awesome and

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will cost much for many of us and

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for some of us, even our lives.

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I'm not dismissing martyrdom in the last days,

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not in remote China, but, I mean, right

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here, Canada, the United States, Western countries, that

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the issues are going to be so fierce

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that the requirement of the sacrifice of life

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in the hostility that will come upon us

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will not be an unusual factor.

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church, to be the church, needs to see

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itself as a martyr church.

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Whether or not the life is required, we

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have long ago resolved that should it be

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required, yes, we're already living as martyrs.

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Martyrdom is not a mode of dying.

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in a final moment is the sum of

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all the moments that preceded it.

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Martyrdom is a mode of being, an attitude

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that your life is not your own.

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That you don't hold it dear as unto

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yourself.

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It's purchased, it's bought with a price for

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God, for his glory, for his honor, whatever

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the requirement upon ourselves.

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Have you come to that?

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Well, that's why you have to wait three

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days at the banks of the Jordan before

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crossing over.

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You need to ponder what crossing is going

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to mean.

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This isn't some kind of mindless logistic of

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getting the people over on the right side

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so they can then take the land.

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Wait three days, assemble yourself, wait there at

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the banks.

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That's the same number of days that Jesus

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was himself in the grave.

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There's something about three that has a symbolism,

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a significance, that we need to consider that

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we are not able to articulate.

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So let's look at this text.

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Early in the morning, Joshua rose and set

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out from Shittim with all the Israelites, and

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they came to the Jordan.

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They camped there before crossing over.

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At the end of three days, the officers

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went through the camp and commanded the people,

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when you see the Ark of the Covenant

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of the Lord your God being lifted or

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carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall

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set out from your place, follow it, so

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that you may know the way you should

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go, for you have not passed this way

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heretofore.

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Yet there shall be a space between you

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and it, a distance of about 2,000

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cubits.

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Do not come any nearer to it.

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Then Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves

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for tomorrow.

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The Lord will do wonders among you.

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To the priest Joshua said, Take up the

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Ark of the Covenant and pass on in

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front of the people.

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So they took up the Ark of the

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Covenant and went in front of the people.

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The Lord said to Joshua, This day I

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will begin to exalt you in the sight

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of all Israel so that they may know

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that I will be with you as I

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was with Moses.

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You are the one who shall command the

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priests who bear the Ark of the Covenant.

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When you come to the edge of the

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waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still

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in the Jordan.

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Joshua then said to the Israelites, Draw near.

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Hear the words of the Lord your God.

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Joshua said, By this you shall know that

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among you is the living God who without

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fail will drive out from before you the

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Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the

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Girgashites, the Amorites, the Jebusites.

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The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord

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of all the earth is going to pass

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before you into the Jordan.

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So now select twelve men from the tribes

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of Israel, one from each tribe.

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When the soles of the feet of the

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priests who bear the Ark of the Lord,

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the Lord of all the earth, rest in

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the waters of the Jordan, the waters of

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the Jordan flowing from above shall be cut

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off.

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They shall stand in a single heap.

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When the people set out from their tents

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to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing

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the Ark of the Covenant were in front

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of the people.

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Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout

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the time of harvest.

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So when those who bore the Ark had

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come to the Jordan and the feet of

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the priests bearing the Ark were dipped in

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the edge of the water, the waters flowing

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from above stood still, rising up in a

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single heap far off at Adam, the city

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that is beside Zarathon, while those flowing toward

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the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea,

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were wholly cut off.

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Then the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

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While all the priests were crossing over on

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dry ground, the priests who bore the Ark

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of the Covenant of the Lord stood still

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on dry ground in the middle of the

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Jordan until the entire nation finished crossing over

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the Jordan.

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Well, this is written for our instruction upon

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whom the ends of the age have come.

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This is accurate history, but it's also a

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paradigm.

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It's also a pattern, a model of some

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way in which God and his wisdom apportions

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a significant crossing prior to the taking of

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the land.

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Israel has been milling about for 40 years

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in the wilderness, and many of the carcasses

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of the unbelieving and the faithless have been

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falling away.

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A whole generation has been raised up who

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never came up out of Egypt but were

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born in the wilderness.

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They had never passed through the Red Sea.

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But before they could come into the land,

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this is the requisite thing.

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There's a crossing over of the Jordan.

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I don't know if you know what the

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word Jordan means.

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It means a descent unto death, a going

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down into death.

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And there's no coming into the land, and

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there's no taking the land without first passing

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through this.

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But what is the order of God?

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The priests have to bear the Ark and

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go in front of the people.

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When they see the Ark being lifted, they

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are to follow after.

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So I don't know how to translate this,

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but I know I'm intuiting.

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My spirit is telling me that this is

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the paradigm for this last day's preparation for

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the people of God who have been too

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long in the wilderness, too long on the

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wrong side, to now prepare to cross over.

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And you stay there for three days and

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look at that Jordan.

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Usually it's a very modest river, but this

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is the harvest season, and the waters now

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overflow their banks.

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Now what is ordinarily tranquil is menacing.

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God doesn't call you to cross when it's

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convenient.

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He calls you to cross when it's perilous.

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But there's an order of God, the priests

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first.

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And I think we're going to find out

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who, in fact, they are.

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It may not be the ordained ministry, the

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clergy.

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I pray God that it will be.

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But it may well be that there are

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those who have not that kind of training

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or formal background who are appointed by God

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to be in front of the people and

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be the bearers of the Ark of God.

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The Ark of God, what shall we say,

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is symbolic of the Lord himself.

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It's something contained, the presence, the righteousness, the

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holiness, the tablets of the law, the rod

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that butted, the pot of manna encased in

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gold.

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It's a central, pivotal place of Israel's worship.

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It's very God, his presence.

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To have the Ark is to have the

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Lord.

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And he goes in before us.

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Hasn't he already done that?

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He's already gone down and into the place

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of death, and he's opened a way for

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us that's dry.

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Death, where is thy terror?

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Death, where is thy sting?

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And grave, where is thy terror?

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The Lord has gone before.

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The Ark of God has gone into the

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Jordan and into the place of death.

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But the question is, have we followed after?

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Which side are you on tonight, and which

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side do you prefer to be on?

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To cross over now through these perilous waters,

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trusting that they will stay in banks that

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permit your passage and will not collapse and

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inundate you and wash you into the Dead

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Sea, is itself a tremulous faith.

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And the one who needs to have it

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most is the one who goes in first

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and comes out last.

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No priest, no entry, no parting of the

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waters.

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We can't make it until those who bear

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the Ark go before us.

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And when you see them lift the Ark,

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when you see them rise above their conventional

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religious performance and move out into realms in

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which we are aware of a conspicuous sense

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of God with them, their word, their presence,

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there's an aura, there's something of a priestly

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kind.

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God is with them.

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They're bearing the Ark.

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They're lifting it up.

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It's visible to us who these priests are.

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They must precede us, and they must have

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a faith to put their feet in those

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waters, perilous now as they are at flood

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stage, because until they will, the waters will

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not part.

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And so in first with the Ark, right

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into the midst of that place now made

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dry and waiting for all Israel to pass

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through, and how slow and cumbersome the people

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of God are.

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What an agony to wait as you see

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this palpitating mass of water ready to break

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its confines and inundate and flood and sweep

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into death those who are taking the risk

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of crossing over the dry ground if it

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will remain dry.

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But if you have not the faith for

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this, have you the faith for the parasites

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and the Girgashites and the Amorites and all

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the host of Canaanite demonic hordes that have

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always opposed the people of God and need

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now to be finally routed?

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Because the issue of the taking of the

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land is not just a comfortable place for

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us to settle, but to establish for the

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king his place of sanctuary and dwelling at

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Zion.

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The ultimate end of the taking of the

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land is a place for God, who is

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the creator of the heavens and the earth,

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to have for himself a tabernacle and a

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sanctuary out of which the law of the

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law shall go forth to the nations and

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the word of the Lord out of a

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Jerusalem and out of a Zion that has

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been taken from the Girgashites and regained from

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the powers of darkness by a people of

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faith who have crossed over.

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Something happens in the crossing.

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Something happens when you descend into death.

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It's not just coming up onto the underside.

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You're not the same one who entered the

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banks that comes up at the other edge.

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You've passed through death and therefore you have

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entered into life.

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Resurrection life, for that is the requisite enablement

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for the taking of the land.

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Religious well-meaning intentions will never suffice.

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It's enough to have you bumble around in

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the wilderness, but it's not a provision for

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the taking of the land.

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Can you understand that?

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How am I doing in trying to spell

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out, trying to feel my way in what

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is the spiritual application of the text that

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the Lord has quickened for me upon arrival

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in Dunville?

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Do you have a heart for this?

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You priests, first one in, last one out.

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And not only in, but stand still and

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rest in the center of that Jordan.

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And if we're nervous about tonight's meeting, how

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will we do then?

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Rest is a statement of assurance in God.

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Rest is more than, what shall I say?

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It's an ultimate kind of spiritual condition that

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you don't come to automatically.

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It's a consequence of a life lived in

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God that has obtained a knowledge of Him

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and a trust that no matter how things

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are unknown and fearful and yet undescribed and

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what will await us on the other side,

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we yet can rest in Him who bids

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us cross over.

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If there's agitation, if there's restlessness, impatience, fearful

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timidity, I think the waters will close in

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upon us.

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So who's been fitted for this?

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Who's been through trials?

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Who has had to meet God in crisis

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conditions where if God be not God, we've

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had it.

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Where if there's no resurrection, we of all

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men are most to be pitied.

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The priests are the tested servants.

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The priests have a history.

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The priests know their God and He has

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given them a word and a strange word

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and that's all He needs to give them.

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They don't need further explanation.

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They can rest in that word.

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You shall stand still in death.

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You shall stand still in the midst of

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death.

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Everything around you is fearful, full of trepidation,

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00:24:39,090 --> 00:24:43,270
waters ready to break their banks, dangerous enemies

544
00:24:43,270 --> 00:24:47,250
awaiting you in the land that exceed you

545
00:24:47,250 --> 00:24:49,990
in stature, who are fierce, who are opposed

546
00:24:49,990 --> 00:24:50,570
to God.

547
00:24:51,330 --> 00:24:52,810
Nevertheless, you stand still.

548
00:24:53,270 --> 00:24:56,310
We don't know what crossing will mean, but

549
00:24:56,310 --> 00:24:57,350
we don't have to know.

550
00:24:59,070 --> 00:25:01,050
There's a God who is with us, the

551
00:25:01,050 --> 00:25:03,590
Ark of God, being born by the priest

552
00:25:03,590 --> 00:25:07,450
of God, and that suffices for everything.

553
00:25:09,050 --> 00:25:10,570
You see how we're in this together?

554
00:25:11,530 --> 00:25:14,250
No individual virtuosos who are going to swim

555
00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:17,230
across the Jordan or take their own route.

556
00:25:17,870 --> 00:25:21,350
It's the people of God acting in concert

557
00:25:21,350 --> 00:25:24,050
according to the requirement of God and the

558
00:25:24,050 --> 00:25:25,850
pattern of God and the wisdom of God.

559
00:25:26,090 --> 00:25:28,250
First priests, then the people.

560
00:25:28,830 --> 00:25:30,490
And that's, in fact, the way that Jericho

561
00:25:30,490 --> 00:25:31,790
itself is going to be taken.

562
00:25:31,790 --> 00:25:34,590
This same ark is going to be toted

563
00:25:34,590 --> 00:25:37,430
around that city whose walls were double thick

564
00:25:37,430 --> 00:25:42,130
and, what's the word, invincible, impenetrable, and the

565
00:25:42,130 --> 00:25:45,190
jeering and the howling of those pagans on

566
00:25:45,190 --> 00:25:49,410
these stupid Israelites walking around and kicking dust

567
00:25:49,410 --> 00:25:52,350
into each other's teeth every day in the

568
00:25:52,350 --> 00:25:54,890
heat of it, blowing trumpets, the priests with

569
00:25:54,890 --> 00:25:56,990
their trumpets, with the carrying of the ark

570
00:25:56,990 --> 00:25:58,130
and the people following behind.

571
00:25:58,130 --> 00:26:00,910
What a motley crew.

572
00:26:01,250 --> 00:26:05,150
What an unimpressive people.

573
00:26:06,270 --> 00:26:08,170
And seven times on the seventh day?

574
00:26:08,870 --> 00:26:11,830
And don't shout until you hear the trumpet.

575
00:26:12,670 --> 00:26:17,290
Everything requires a discipline, an order, a stateliness,

576
00:26:17,870 --> 00:26:21,790
a procession, the priests, the people, the soldiers,

577
00:26:22,110 --> 00:26:23,490
the trumpets, the ark.

578
00:26:24,350 --> 00:26:26,670
So the means by which the Jordan was

579
00:26:26,670 --> 00:26:28,990
crossed is the means by which the Jericho

580
00:26:28,990 --> 00:26:29,550
is taken.

581
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,260
I don't think we're ready for this.

582
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:34,840
We're too individualistic.

583
00:26:35,580 --> 00:26:37,980
We don't even know what place in the

584
00:26:37,980 --> 00:26:40,040
line we ought to be walking.

585
00:26:41,260 --> 00:26:43,340
Are we content to follow these priests?

586
00:26:43,460 --> 00:26:45,360
Because, after all, we've seen them in their

587
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:48,360
humanity, and we're not altogether impressed.

588
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,040
And what if they're mistaken?

589
00:26:50,140 --> 00:26:50,760
What if they're wrong?

590
00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:54,300
This is the way we are.

591
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,480
And that's why the land is not taken.

592
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,520
That's why we're still bumbling around in the

593
00:26:58,520 --> 00:26:58,780
wilderness.

594
00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:02,080
That's why we're on the religious side rather

595
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,520
than on the resurrection side.

596
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,380
And that's why the Canaanites and all of

597
00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:09,260
these, the host of powerful demon entities and

598
00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:11,360
principalities and powers are thumbing their nose at

599
00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:11,620
us.

600
00:27:12,260 --> 00:27:13,080
They're ensconced.

601
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:13,820
They're in power.

602
00:27:14,260 --> 00:27:16,260
They're in the place that God must have

603
00:27:16,260 --> 00:27:18,320
if he's going to rule over his creation

604
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:18,940
from Zion.

605
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,160
But who's going to displace them?

606
00:27:23,860 --> 00:27:27,400
Only the ordered people of God, in the

607
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,960
discipline of God, moving in the time of

608
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,280
God, according to the requirement of God.

609
00:27:32,940 --> 00:27:35,920
Having waited three days by these banks and

610
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,940
thinking all these thoughts, what is it going

611
00:27:38,940 --> 00:27:39,620
to cost me?

612
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,600
What happens when we cross?

613
00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:43,840
What will happen at Jericho?

614
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:45,920
What about these other fierce peoples?

615
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,300
How shall we overcome them?

616
00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:50,160
Maybe it's a mistake.

617
00:27:50,580 --> 00:27:53,160
Maybe we can settle on the wilderness side

618
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,960
and have some kind of church services and

619
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,020
other kinds of things.

620
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:01,760
And we don't want to give up this

621
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,500
manna because when we cross over, the manna

622
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:05,800
ceases.

623
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,260
Manna is not the statement of our spirituality.

624
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,320
Manna is the statement of our immaturity.

625
00:28:13,340 --> 00:28:16,380
Manna is the provision of God for those

626
00:28:16,380 --> 00:28:18,660
who have not yet the faith to live

627
00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:19,380
from the land.

628
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:21,540
It's going to cease the day we cross.

629
00:28:22,020 --> 00:28:23,900
And what happens on the day of crossing?

630
00:28:24,940 --> 00:28:25,380
Circumcision.

631
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,160
Wow, how we have been trying to put

632
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:32,700
that off.

633
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,020
Is that really necessary?

634
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,160
It's painful and humiliating.

635
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,600
And it's at the nexus of our sexuality

636
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,580
and our power and our manliness.

637
00:28:44,860 --> 00:28:48,580
But God says, until you have been circumcised,

638
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,940
cut the foreskins with a sharp knife.

639
00:28:51,180 --> 00:28:53,120
And so many of them were cut that

640
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,000
they called it Gilgal, the hill of foreskins.

641
00:28:56,740 --> 00:28:58,220
Because there's no Passover.

642
00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,920
You can't eat at Passover.

643
00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:03,060
You can't have a sacramental meal unless you're

644
00:29:03,060 --> 00:29:03,840
circumcised.

645
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,360
It's okay to knock about in the religious

646
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,760
wilderness as the uncircumcised and go through the

647
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,800
lifting of a plastic cup and a wafer,

648
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,420
no sweat.

649
00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:18,280
But when the communion, when the sacramental covenantal

650
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,100
meal is your enablement, when it's your life,

651
00:29:21,180 --> 00:29:23,300
when it's your power, when it's being imbued

652
00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:24,920
with the reality of what God is in

653
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,100
himself, by the eating and drinking from that

654
00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,420
Passover table, you can't come to that table

655
00:29:29,420 --> 00:29:30,840
except to be circumcised.

656
00:29:31,580 --> 00:29:32,920
You better think this over.

657
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,380
Maybe you need more than three days to

658
00:29:36,380 --> 00:29:39,120
weigh it up, what this is going to

659
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,680
cost, what this is going to require.

660
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,440
Can't we go on?

661
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,700
Can't Ishmael live?

662
00:29:44,340 --> 00:29:46,220
Can't we go on with the present configuration

663
00:29:46,220 --> 00:29:47,100
of things?

664
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,240
Maybe tone it up a bit?

665
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,260
Bring in a revival speaker?

666
00:29:57,350 --> 00:30:00,130
We want to improve, but we don't want

667
00:30:00,130 --> 00:30:01,890
to be radically transcendent.

668
00:30:02,750 --> 00:30:05,390
We don't want to be an army of

669
00:30:05,390 --> 00:30:05,730
God.

670
00:30:06,210 --> 00:30:09,370
We would rather be, you know, well-meaning

671
00:30:09,370 --> 00:30:10,150
pusitors.

672
00:30:11,330 --> 00:30:15,430
Dear saints, if ever I know anything in

673
00:30:15,430 --> 00:30:18,550
my spirit, I know that the hour has

674
00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:18,950
come.

675
00:30:19,570 --> 00:30:22,210
That's a perfect parallel to this text for

676
00:30:22,210 --> 00:30:23,510
the church in the world.

677
00:30:24,510 --> 00:30:25,710
It's time to cross over.

678
00:30:26,370 --> 00:30:28,810
It's time to descend into death.

679
00:30:29,710 --> 00:30:33,030
It's time to move from the mere acknowledgement

680
00:30:33,030 --> 00:30:35,370
of the truth of the doctrine of resurrection

681
00:30:35,370 --> 00:30:38,670
to the appropriation of its life and power,

682
00:30:39,010 --> 00:30:40,410
or there'll be the taking of nothing.

683
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,700
So I flayed the church this morning, and

684
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:50,780
I said, you have not needed resurrection till

685
00:30:50,780 --> 00:30:51,020
now.

686
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:51,880
What for?

687
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,880
To perform services and programs?

688
00:30:55,580 --> 00:30:57,820
You only need the enablement of the power

689
00:30:57,820 --> 00:31:00,120
of the risen and ascended life when you're

690
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,780
taking the land against fierce and opposing forces.

691
00:31:05,740 --> 00:31:08,600
And that power and that enablement is only

692
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,560
to be found in one place, the place

693
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,500
of death, in going down and into a

694
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:15,080
descent into Jordan.

695
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,060
It's a dry ground.

696
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:18,460
The waters have been parted.

697
00:31:19,060 --> 00:31:19,640
Will you follow?

698
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:41,340
So in chapter 4, the Israelites did in

699
00:31:41,340 --> 00:31:44,820
verse 8, as Joshua commanded, they made a

700
00:31:44,820 --> 00:31:46,660
memorial, they took up stones from the middle

701
00:31:46,660 --> 00:31:48,720
of the Jordan 12, according to the tribes

702
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,820
of Israel, and placed them where Joshua had

703
00:31:52,820 --> 00:31:56,600
designated, that they will always remember this location.

704
00:31:57,340 --> 00:31:58,800
This was the place of crossing.

705
00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:01,540
This is where we made the decisive break

706
00:32:01,540 --> 00:32:04,940
with the religious wilderness to come into the

707
00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:06,280
land of promise.

708
00:32:09,490 --> 00:32:11,150
That break has got to be made.

709
00:32:11,850 --> 00:32:14,450
And we need to recognize that where we

710
00:32:14,450 --> 00:32:17,170
have been up till now is not that

711
00:32:17,170 --> 00:32:17,490
land.

712
00:32:17,890 --> 00:32:20,290
It's the place of preparation, of training and

713
00:32:20,290 --> 00:32:20,570
learning.

714
00:32:21,170 --> 00:32:24,510
Now we're being required for an obedience of

715
00:32:24,510 --> 00:32:25,950
crossing and taking.

716
00:32:27,170 --> 00:32:29,050
The Lord is now the captain of the

717
00:32:29,050 --> 00:32:32,370
host and not some sappy Jesus who does

718
00:32:32,370 --> 00:32:32,890
our bidding.

719
00:32:33,830 --> 00:32:36,450
He's got a sword in his hand and

720
00:32:36,450 --> 00:32:38,910
there's a design and something that must be

721
00:32:38,910 --> 00:32:40,930
performed that completes the age.

722
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,440
So in verse 10, the priest who bore

723
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,400
the ark remained standing in the middle of

724
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,820
the Jordan until everything was finished.

725
00:32:52,420 --> 00:32:54,680
That the Lord commanded Joshua to tell the

726
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,060
people, according to all that Moses had commanded

727
00:32:58,060 --> 00:33:00,540
Joshua, the people crossed over in haste.

728
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,140
As soon as all the people had finished

729
00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:04,120
crossing over, the ark of the Lord and

730
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,580
the priest crossed over in front of the

731
00:33:05,580 --> 00:33:05,880
people.

732
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:15,330
In verse 14, on that day the Lord

733
00:33:15,330 --> 00:33:17,410
exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel

734
00:33:17,410 --> 00:33:20,130
and they stood in awe of him as

735
00:33:20,130 --> 00:33:22,190
they had stood in awe of Moses all

736
00:33:22,190 --> 00:33:23,350
the days of his life.

737
00:33:24,090 --> 00:33:26,630
For in verse 23, the Lord your God

738
00:33:26,630 --> 00:33:29,790
has dried up the waters of the Jordan

739
00:33:29,790 --> 00:33:33,210
for you until you crossed over as the

740
00:33:33,210 --> 00:33:34,870
Lord your God did to the Red Sea

741
00:33:34,870 --> 00:33:37,430
when he dried up for us until we

742
00:33:37,430 --> 00:33:39,950
crossed over so that all the peoples of

743
00:33:39,950 --> 00:33:41,990
the earth may know that the hand of

744
00:33:41,990 --> 00:33:43,890
the Lord is mighty so that you may

745
00:33:43,890 --> 00:33:46,250
fear the Lord your God forever.

746
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:51,020
Those who had not passed through the Red

747
00:33:51,020 --> 00:33:54,620
Sea, who had not been baptized unto Moses

748
00:33:54,620 --> 00:33:57,980
in the water and in the cloud, need

749
00:33:57,980 --> 00:34:00,740
now to do that in passing through this

750
00:34:00,740 --> 00:34:04,220
Jordan, preparatory to their call.

751
00:34:07,389 --> 00:34:10,710
I can't say enough for the two great

752
00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:13,210
sacraments I've been talking to Don about this,

753
00:34:13,909 --> 00:34:17,170
baptism in water, baptism in the spirit.

754
00:34:17,530 --> 00:34:20,310
These were the two provisions of God for

755
00:34:20,310 --> 00:34:24,449
Israel to bring them from Egyptian slavery and

756
00:34:24,449 --> 00:34:26,770
wilderness into a land of promise.

757
00:34:27,409 --> 00:34:30,330
There's no taking the land without these two

758
00:34:30,330 --> 00:34:34,250
profound, that's okay, provisions of God.

759
00:34:35,270 --> 00:34:36,989
Have you had either one?

760
00:34:38,150 --> 00:34:41,670
I'm not so persuaded that every baptism is

761
00:34:41,670 --> 00:34:42,070
valid.

762
00:34:42,830 --> 00:34:46,030
If you only saw that, understood it as

763
00:34:46,030 --> 00:34:50,290
a religious ordinance, as a religious requirement, I

764
00:34:50,290 --> 00:34:51,489
don't know that it was more than getting

765
00:34:51,489 --> 00:34:51,850
wet.

766
00:34:52,630 --> 00:34:55,170
Unless you recognized that it was a going

767
00:34:55,170 --> 00:34:58,850
down and into, a death and a burial,

768
00:34:59,210 --> 00:35:01,230
that you might be raised with him unto

769
00:35:01,230 --> 00:35:04,330
newness of life, how then could it effectually

770
00:35:04,330 --> 00:35:07,870
perform what God intends through this great sacrament?

771
00:35:09,390 --> 00:35:12,350
We have done despite to the holy sacraments

772
00:35:12,350 --> 00:35:16,790
of God, both the Passover, the Lord's table,

773
00:35:17,750 --> 00:35:20,110
baptism, and baptism in the spirit.

774
00:35:20,910 --> 00:35:22,910
We thought that the baptism in the spirit

775
00:35:22,910 --> 00:35:25,510
was the distinctive of the Pentecostals and the

776
00:35:25,510 --> 00:35:27,630
Charismatics, and we could let them do their

777
00:35:27,630 --> 00:35:30,410
thing, but there was no implication for ourselves.

778
00:35:30,410 --> 00:35:32,990
O you dear saints, I think I can

779
00:35:32,990 --> 00:35:35,710
say with full assurance, unless we have the

780
00:35:35,710 --> 00:35:39,310
full enablement of God, both in the resurrection

781
00:35:39,310 --> 00:35:42,010
life in which we are joined, by joining

782
00:35:42,010 --> 00:35:44,610
him in death and burial, and have also

783
00:35:44,610 --> 00:35:47,610
been baptized in the cloud as well as

784
00:35:47,610 --> 00:35:50,010
into the sea, we're not fit, we're not

785
00:35:50,010 --> 00:35:51,950
enabled to take the land.

786
00:35:54,180 --> 00:35:56,640
We've got to get over our fundamental and

787
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:02,400
evangelical, what's the word, distaste and fear over

788
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,920
that questionable realm that seems to be murky

789
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,560
and often is.

790
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,320
If it's that powerfully requisite, what will the

791
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,640
enemy do to make it questionable and distasteful

792
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,740
and spurious and something to be dismissed, but

793
00:36:20,740 --> 00:36:26,000
have those who purport to have it so

794
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,140
deport themselves as to turn us off, to

795
00:36:29,140 --> 00:36:30,040
make it questionable.

796
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,120
But isn't it time to grow up?

797
00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:35,000
Isn't it time to come of age?

798
00:36:35,460 --> 00:36:37,680
Isn't it time to recognize that God has

799
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,340
called us to things of such a weight

800
00:36:40,340 --> 00:36:43,000
and of so momentous a kind that we

801
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000
need the full enablement of God, the full

802
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:45,900
equipping of God?

803
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,620
Paul said, I speak with tongues more than

804
00:36:50,620 --> 00:36:52,500
you all, and I don't believe he ever

805
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:54,320
spoke in tongues publicly.

806
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,800
It wasn't the gift of tongues that Paul

807
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:57,640
was speaking about.

808
00:36:58,020 --> 00:37:01,340
He was speaking about his private, personal, devotional

809
00:37:01,340 --> 00:37:04,400
life, something that I know myself in my

810
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,820
experience and would not give up for anything.

811
00:37:10,250 --> 00:37:12,710
Maybe you need to follow me sometime at

812
00:37:12,710 --> 00:37:15,470
a university encounter, as I have been in

813
00:37:15,470 --> 00:37:20,250
many universities in America and overseas, and be

814
00:37:20,250 --> 00:37:22,610
led by the hand from one meeting to

815
00:37:22,610 --> 00:37:25,690
the other, from student union buildings to classrooms

816
00:37:25,690 --> 00:37:29,730
to dormitories to fraternity houses, with the hostility

817
00:37:29,730 --> 00:37:33,670
of Jewish students and their rabbis and secular

818
00:37:33,670 --> 00:37:36,130
atheists ready to chew me up and spit

819
00:37:36,130 --> 00:37:38,510
me out, and to be exhausted speaking four,

820
00:37:38,630 --> 00:37:41,030
five, six times a day, to have a

821
00:37:41,030 --> 00:37:43,810
debate with a philosophy professor at the Jewish

822
00:37:43,810 --> 00:37:48,030
fraternity house, and to move away from the

823
00:37:48,030 --> 00:37:51,830
table, and they were serving steak, and find

824
00:37:51,830 --> 00:37:54,990
a place to prayer, feeling so absolutely inadequate.

825
00:37:55,770 --> 00:37:58,270
And in that prayer, after I had spoken

826
00:37:58,270 --> 00:38:00,530
all that I know to speak in my

827
00:38:00,530 --> 00:38:03,570
own language to God, I moved into the

828
00:38:03,570 --> 00:38:06,490
realm of spirit and spoke mysteries unto God,

829
00:38:06,630 --> 00:38:08,950
and my spirit was being edified and built

830
00:38:08,950 --> 00:38:09,190
up.

831
00:38:10,190 --> 00:38:12,310
When I came back to that table and

832
00:38:12,310 --> 00:38:16,290
opened my mouth, in five minutes, that philosophy

833
00:38:16,290 --> 00:38:19,470
professor excused himself and left the building.

834
00:38:20,310 --> 00:38:21,690
And I went on until two o'clock

835
00:38:21,690 --> 00:38:24,210
in the morning, with Jewish students in such

836
00:38:24,210 --> 00:38:27,730
demonstration of the power of God that you

837
00:38:27,730 --> 00:38:29,230
would think I would be boasting if I

838
00:38:29,230 --> 00:38:29,650
told you.

839
00:38:30,530 --> 00:38:35,550
I walked into one meeting, exhausted, having already

840
00:38:35,550 --> 00:38:37,810
had three or four, and in the five

841
00:38:37,810 --> 00:38:39,350
minutes from leading from one building to the

842
00:38:39,350 --> 00:38:42,310
other, under my breath, I'm praying in tongues,

843
00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:43,110
in the spirit.

844
00:38:43,850 --> 00:38:45,150
And when I get to the next room,

845
00:38:45,450 --> 00:38:47,670
I open my mouth, and instead of fatigue

846
00:38:47,670 --> 00:38:52,210
and exhaustion, something comes forth in power.

847
00:38:53,390 --> 00:38:58,170
And in that meeting, some Vietnam vet came

848
00:38:58,170 --> 00:39:01,330
staggering in, half-crocked on drugs, and fell

849
00:39:01,330 --> 00:39:03,910
to the floor, and sat through the entire

850
00:39:03,910 --> 00:39:06,610
rest of the presentation, and when I finished,

851
00:39:07,030 --> 00:39:09,030
I opened for questions and answers, and there

852
00:39:09,030 --> 00:39:12,010
was the usual angry, hostile response.

853
00:39:12,470 --> 00:39:17,250
And this unbelieving, crocked-out Vietnam vet, who

854
00:39:17,250 --> 00:39:19,770
is now the head of the entire French

855
00:39:19,770 --> 00:39:21,870
work of Youth with a Mission, and has

856
00:39:21,870 --> 00:39:24,690
opened the doors for me in Lausanne to

857
00:39:24,690 --> 00:39:27,890
speak for five days on apostolic foundations, for

858
00:39:27,890 --> 00:39:30,630
which reason, by that transcript, we have this

859
00:39:30,630 --> 00:39:30,950
book.

860
00:39:33,130 --> 00:39:35,630
When he heard the angry reprisals, he stood

861
00:39:35,630 --> 00:39:37,110
up, shaking, and he said to these men,

862
00:39:37,110 --> 00:39:39,630
what are you guys doing?

863
00:39:40,350 --> 00:39:41,010
Don't you see?

864
00:39:41,130 --> 00:39:42,010
Don't you understand?

865
00:39:42,530 --> 00:39:48,750
God is here and got saved, and has

866
00:39:48,750 --> 00:39:51,290
risen now to such a place of prominence

867
00:39:51,290 --> 00:39:53,130
as to open many doors for me in

868
00:39:53,130 --> 00:39:53,510
the world.

869
00:39:55,730 --> 00:40:00,350
Oh, dear saints, I'm not touting Pentecostalism.

870
00:40:00,850 --> 00:40:02,670
I'm one of the severest critics of the

871
00:40:02,670 --> 00:40:04,370
charismatic movement that could be found.

872
00:40:04,850 --> 00:40:08,070
But I know the legitimacy and the preciousness

873
00:40:08,070 --> 00:40:11,990
of this baptism in the Spirit, of passing

874
00:40:11,990 --> 00:40:14,450
through the cloud as passing through the sea,

875
00:40:14,650 --> 00:40:16,990
or we cannot possess the land.

876
00:40:19,140 --> 00:40:21,620
Your crossing over, your going down into death,

877
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:25,300
includes a death of your fear and your

878
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:30,240
trepidation and your timidity and your fundamental and

879
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:32,860
evangelical notions by which you have kept this

880
00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:34,160
requirement at distance.

881
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,740
The very going down into the Jordan, the

882
00:40:37,740 --> 00:40:40,380
very following of these priests will deal with

883
00:40:40,380 --> 00:40:41,980
that and bring it to the death that

884
00:40:41,980 --> 00:40:42,640
it deserves.

885
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,840
And when you come up on the other

886
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,380
side, you'll come up in the fullness of

887
00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:48,380
his life and power.

888
00:40:53,170 --> 00:40:54,550
So have you crossed over?

889
00:40:55,530 --> 00:40:59,310
Supposing that the word came tonight, supposing that

890
00:40:59,310 --> 00:41:01,730
you're the Israel of God, and you've been

891
00:41:01,730 --> 00:41:05,130
in the wilderness long enough, supposing that God

892
00:41:05,130 --> 00:41:07,730
is now speaking and saying it's time now,

893
00:41:07,730 --> 00:41:10,810
not three days, but 30 minutes or whatever

894
00:41:10,810 --> 00:41:13,950
this time is, to consider what God is

895
00:41:13,950 --> 00:41:17,290
requiring, would you be as obedient as the

896
00:41:17,290 --> 00:41:18,750
Israel that has preceded you?

897
00:41:19,610 --> 00:41:21,510
Will you get up?

898
00:41:21,650 --> 00:41:22,290
Will you move?

899
00:41:22,630 --> 00:41:24,570
Will you follow the ark when you see

900
00:41:24,570 --> 00:41:25,830
it lifted by the priests?

901
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,200
It's time to cross over, in my opinion,

902
00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:35,280
and to follow the ark of the Lord

903
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,580
and come in and on and into the

904
00:41:37,580 --> 00:41:38,620
resurrection site.

905
00:41:38,620 --> 00:41:46,420
The Lord has dried up and parted the

906
00:41:46,420 --> 00:41:49,320
waters by the ark of the Lord having

907
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,620
gone in before you, and it's time now

908
00:41:52,620 --> 00:41:53,800
to follow after.

909
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,160
The Canaanite kings will tremble when they know

910
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,960
that you have passed over, that you're on

911
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,780
the other side and you're in another place

912
00:42:04,780 --> 00:42:07,960
and represent something to them that is fearful

913
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,180
and foreboding, for they know that their end

914
00:42:11,180 --> 00:42:11,780
is imminent.

915
00:42:12,660 --> 00:42:15,600
They've had too long a sway already and

916
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,620
were not at all threatened or challenged so

917
00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:19,120
long as the church was on the wilderness

918
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,360
side doing its religious thing.

919
00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:24,460
But once a people cross over, they know

920
00:42:24,460 --> 00:42:26,260
it's the beginning of the end.

921
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,500
God has opened the waters for this people.

922
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:33,940
So if you want to remain on the

923
00:42:33,940 --> 00:42:37,140
wrong side, you can, but you'll be intimidated

924
00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:38,100
all your life.

925
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,740
Instead of intimidating them, you'll be intimidated as

926
00:42:42,740 --> 00:42:45,940
you largely too often now are.

927
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,540
Fearful powers of darkness.

928
00:42:51,540 --> 00:42:52,580
It's unfamiliar.

929
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,600
You don't have a confidence.

930
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,180
You want to just play it safe.

931
00:42:57,660 --> 00:43:00,860
There's a confrontation coming that needs to be

932
00:43:00,860 --> 00:43:02,700
faced, but it needs to be faced in

933
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:04,780
the power of God, which is the life

934
00:43:04,780 --> 00:43:07,320
of God, the resurrection life, that will only

935
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,960
be imputed and conferred and given to those

936
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,900
who come into the baptism of the sea

937
00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:14,500
and of the cloud.

938
00:43:18,460 --> 00:43:20,480
We've been too long on the wrong side.

939
00:43:21,180 --> 00:43:22,960
The Lord is lifting the ark.

940
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,120
It's time to cross over and become the

941
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:27,620
army of God and take the land.

942
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,400
It's time to take the kingdom, to assert

943
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,620
the accomplished triumph of God over an already

944
00:43:34,620 --> 00:43:39,680
defeated and disarmed foe, to establish Zion for

945
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,980
the coming of the king and of his

946
00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:45,600
kingdom through the power of his life obtained

947
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,340
in union with him on the dry ground

948
00:43:48,340 --> 00:43:49,440
of the Jordan.

949
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,240
Well, I have a little note here for

950
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:57,180
myself to turn to page 368 of this

951
00:43:57,180 --> 00:43:59,600
remarkable book that has come into my hands

952
00:44:01,780 --> 00:44:07,520
by Albert Schweitzer, 386, a German theologian that

953
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:14,990
I have avoided because his reputation somehow discouraged

954
00:44:14,990 --> 00:44:17,670
my reading him, but when I read the

955
00:44:17,670 --> 00:44:21,050
man himself, I can't say enough in gratitude

956
00:44:21,050 --> 00:44:25,670
for the remarkable perception of the faith that

957
00:44:25,670 --> 00:44:27,930
this man had and of Paul at the

958
00:44:27,930 --> 00:44:29,490
turn of the century.

959
00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:36,680
His whole understanding is that the Holy Spirit

960
00:44:36,860 --> 00:44:40,360
is not some kind of enablement to improve

961
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,660
our meetings or to refresh our denominations.

962
00:44:44,220 --> 00:44:47,360
The Holy Spirit is the modus vivendi.

963
00:44:47,940 --> 00:44:52,100
It's the operating enablement of the resurrection life,

964
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,280
and the resurrection life is already the statement

965
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,880
of the kingdom of God.

966
00:44:57,900 --> 00:44:59,220
We're already in the kingdom.

967
00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:00,860
We're already evidencing the kingdom.

968
00:45:01,220 --> 00:45:04,380
We're already living in kingdom enablement to exhibit

969
00:45:04,380 --> 00:45:06,820
the heavenly quality and character of the kingdom

970
00:45:06,820 --> 00:45:09,420
by the life of the king that is

971
00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:12,040
now ours in union with him through...

972
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,860
I didn't understand that you were being invited

973
00:45:14,860 --> 00:45:18,020
to join him in death and burial, that

974
00:45:18,020 --> 00:45:20,600
you might be raised with him unto newness

975
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:21,100
of life.

976
00:45:21,620 --> 00:45:24,480
You need either to go into those waters

977
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,360
or to appropriate what those waters meant that

978
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,200
you did not understand and now have the

979
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,680
faith both to desire and to obtain.

980
00:45:41,750 --> 00:45:44,630
The experience of which Paul sets before us,

981
00:45:45,710 --> 00:45:48,430
the gateway to the eternal is the dying

982
00:45:48,430 --> 00:45:50,070
and rising again with Christ.

983
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,820
If the elect who belong to the kingdom

984
00:45:53,820 --> 00:45:56,680
of God are already in the resurrection mode

985
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:02,220
of existence, their redemption is an anticipation and

986
00:46:02,220 --> 00:46:05,160
a participation in the kingdom while still in

987
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,760
their natural life.

988
00:46:07,740 --> 00:46:11,020
Through union with Christ, a hidden daily dying

989
00:46:11,020 --> 00:46:13,560
and rising again by which they become new

990
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,960
men raised above the world and above their

991
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,880
own natural and human limitation.

992
00:46:19,380 --> 00:46:20,760
Is that descriptive of you?

993
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,760
You can almost say that the issue of

994
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,860
the success of the word of God tonight

995
00:46:28,860 --> 00:46:31,420
is the question of whether it's true of

996
00:46:31,420 --> 00:46:31,660
me.

997
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,760
If this is only a man speaking out

998
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,280
of his own humanity, well, it could be

999
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,920
an interesting novelty but not a requirement.

1000
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,000
But if it's a man speaking out of

1001
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,900
that union and out of that life, if

1002
00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:53,200
it's the word given of the Lord and

1003
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,740
empowered of the Lord to convict and to

1004
00:46:55,740 --> 00:46:59,440
penetrate and to require a response, then we're

1005
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:00,700
not hearing a sermon.

1006
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,140
We're at the threshold of an event.

1007
00:47:04,660 --> 00:47:09,300
If the preaching of such a requirement compels

1008
00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:11,900
and must be performed on the basis of

1009
00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:14,640
resurrection, what will the obedience require?

1010
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,040
So this union with Christ becomes actual, a

1011
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,380
manifestation of the spirit of the being in

1012
00:47:33,380 --> 00:47:36,320
the kingdom of God because flesh and blood

1013
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:37,680
cannot inherit that kingdom.

1014
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,640
Flesh and blood cannot take that kingdom.

1015
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:44,060
Flesh and blood may have some play and

1016
00:47:44,060 --> 00:47:47,720
sway in the wilderness religious side, but on

1017
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:49,300
the other side in the taking of the

1018
00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:51,820
land and the establishing of the Lord Zion,

1019
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:53,040
it has no place.

1020
00:47:53,460 --> 00:47:55,400
Flesh and blood cannot.

1021
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:58,740
Only the life of God.

1022
00:48:01,650 --> 00:48:03,490
So our belief in the kingdom of God

1023
00:48:04,550 --> 00:48:08,210
must return to what the early church understood

1024
00:48:08,210 --> 00:48:11,210
in the sense that we expect its realization

1025
00:48:11,210 --> 00:48:15,190
not from deliberate organized measures but from a

1026
00:48:15,190 --> 00:48:16,870
growing power of the spirit of God.

1027
00:48:17,350 --> 00:48:17,690
What?

1028
00:48:17,790 --> 00:48:19,970
This was written in 1906, 1910?

1029
00:48:20,310 --> 00:48:22,050
Sounds like it's written today.

1030
00:48:22,510 --> 00:48:23,410
It's contemporary.

1031
00:48:24,450 --> 00:48:26,070
Organization cannot succeed.

1032
00:48:27,050 --> 00:48:30,290
Human measures cannot succeed, but only the growing

1033
00:48:30,290 --> 00:48:33,970
power of the spirit of God, the spirit

1034
00:48:33,970 --> 00:48:36,450
of the kingdom of which we become partakers

1035
00:48:36,790 --> 00:48:38,870
in the dying and rising again with Christ

1036
00:48:38,870 --> 00:48:41,890
in the true way of working for the

1037
00:48:41,890 --> 00:48:44,570
kingdom of God without which all other ways

1038
00:48:44,570 --> 00:48:45,530
are vain.

1039
00:48:53,870 --> 00:48:58,810
Well, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say

1040
00:48:58,810 --> 00:49:02,190
that this message tonight is itself a lifting

1041
00:49:02,190 --> 00:49:02,850
of the ark.

1042
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:09,380
It's itself a requirement and a call to

1043
00:49:09,380 --> 00:49:13,760
consider and rise up and follow after and

1044
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,260
come down and in and through and onto

1045
00:49:16,260 --> 00:49:17,540
the other side.

1046
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,080
I'm finished, but I'm asking.

1047
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,220
I'm going to give an invitation.

1048
00:49:23,100 --> 00:49:24,440
You think I'm going to let this last

1049
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,080
message pass without giving you an opportunity to

1050
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,960
follow the ark that has been lifted before

1051
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:31,460
you tonight?

1052
00:49:32,340 --> 00:49:34,620
You who know you're on the wrong side

1053
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,640
and have been there too long, comfortable and

1054
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,960
convenient and not requiring, now are hearing an

1055
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,580
ominous note of a very serious call that

1056
00:49:46,580 --> 00:49:50,560
requires your death, requires your going down and

1057
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:54,320
into a Jordan of death, that you might

1058
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,940
come up on the other side as the

1059
00:49:56,940 --> 00:50:00,860
army of God enabled through that union with

1060
00:50:00,860 --> 00:50:02,680
the ark of God who is in the

1061
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,580
midst of that Jordan to take the land.

1062
00:50:07,650 --> 00:50:08,430
Are you willing?

1063
00:50:10,610 --> 00:50:12,390
You're not going to work this through in

1064
00:50:12,390 --> 00:50:14,970
your mind, and you're not going to resolve

1065
00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:21,550
your difficulties, your hang-ups and the problematical

1066
00:50:21,550 --> 00:50:24,190
things that have kept you at a distance.

1067
00:50:24,610 --> 00:50:27,850
Those things will be resolved in death, burial,

1068
00:50:28,050 --> 00:50:29,690
and union themselves.

1069
00:50:31,390 --> 00:50:35,350
It's being baptized into Christ that confers not

1070
00:50:35,350 --> 00:50:37,650
only the power of his life, but the

1071
00:50:37,650 --> 00:50:39,110
meaning of baptism itself.

1072
00:50:41,370 --> 00:50:43,050
And here we think that we can induct,

1073
00:50:43,470 --> 00:50:48,070
by long explanation, candidates for baptism when the

1074
00:50:48,070 --> 00:50:51,430
reality of what is to be understood is

1075
00:50:51,430 --> 00:50:53,950
part and parcel of the going down into

1076
00:50:53,950 --> 00:50:54,730
death itself.

1077
00:50:58,710 --> 00:51:00,330
So I want to give you an invitation

1078
00:51:02,250 --> 00:51:03,390
to follow the ark.

1079
00:51:04,350 --> 00:51:07,050
It's time to cross over.

1080
00:51:08,370 --> 00:51:12,330
It's time to make a symbolic, physical step.

1081
00:51:13,650 --> 00:51:17,490
And I don't take invitations lightly, nor do

1082
00:51:17,490 --> 00:51:18,470
I give them lightly.

1083
00:51:19,230 --> 00:51:21,370
But I think I have a confidence to

1084
00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:23,750
say that if God has given me the

1085
00:51:23,750 --> 00:51:27,700
burden for this word and is in it

1086
00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:31,200
and is waiting your response, that anyone who

1087
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,340
will get up and come down and into

1088
00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:38,960
this Jordan will not return to their seat

1089
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:39,540
the same.

1090
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,760
Something will be transacted that waits for your

1091
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,820
action to follow what has been lifted and

1092
00:51:48,820 --> 00:51:49,560
to come after.

1093
00:51:51,460 --> 00:51:54,520
It will not wait on further explanation.

1094
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:04,780
It waits for a people who have had

1095
00:52:04,780 --> 00:52:12,070
a gutful of being too long on the

1096
00:52:12,070 --> 00:52:15,030
wrong side and who sense that there's an

1097
00:52:15,030 --> 00:52:18,710
hour whose time has now come that is

1098
00:52:18,710 --> 00:52:22,610
moving us from religion to participation in the

1099
00:52:22,610 --> 00:52:24,710
kingdom of God and its very taking.

1100
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:32,720
So I invite you, whatever your fear, whatever

1101
00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:38,320
long-standing reluctance to come up and out

1102
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,800
and into the Jordan of the Lord.

1103
00:52:41,780 --> 00:52:42,600
He's waiting.

1104
00:52:42,740 --> 00:52:43,880
The ark of God is here.

1105
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:45,560
He's gone before you.

1106
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,460
He's taken the sting out of this death.

1107
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,840
But he requires you to enter it.

1108
00:52:52,140 --> 00:52:55,620
It's the end of your religious intention, your

1109
00:52:55,620 --> 00:53:00,360
religious ambition, your hopes for success as you

1110
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,840
would have defined it or your denomination defines

1111
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:04,180
it.

1112
00:53:09,380 --> 00:53:12,700
It's for the Israel of God who are

1113
00:53:12,700 --> 00:53:16,460
jealous for his glory and know that unless

1114
00:53:16,460 --> 00:53:19,760
we cross over there's no taking of anything.

1115
00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:23,220
And if we remain on the wrong side

1116
00:53:23,220 --> 00:53:28,420
after such an invitation, we face the increased

1117
00:53:28,420 --> 00:53:32,100
intimidation of the powers of darkness who know

1118
00:53:32,100 --> 00:53:34,100
that you were invited and refused to cross

1119
00:53:34,100 --> 00:53:39,760
and will say, we know who you are.

1120
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,480
Jesus we know and Paul we know but

1121
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:43,220
who are you?

1122
00:53:43,540 --> 00:53:48,440
You moral and spiritual coward whose comfort and

1123
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:52,400
convenience is preferable to the risk of following

1124
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,760
the ark.

1125
00:53:57,780 --> 00:53:58,480
Come on saints.

1126
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,020
God has selected Dunville.

1127
00:54:03,580 --> 00:54:05,300
This is a piece of Canada.

1128
00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:06,880
This is Canada.

1129
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:11,880
And something has got to break.

1130
00:54:13,060 --> 00:54:14,620
Something has got to give.

1131
00:54:25,230 --> 00:54:26,550
You'll not be the same.

1132
00:54:28,310 --> 00:54:31,570
You'll have another heart, another attitude, another disposition

1133
00:54:31,570 --> 00:54:32,370
of spirit.

1134
00:54:32,990 --> 00:54:34,430
You'll see things differently.

1135
00:54:34,430 --> 00:54:36,010
You'll understand differently.

1136
00:54:36,710 --> 00:54:40,330
Your whole framework of life, though nothing physical,

1137
00:54:40,370 --> 00:54:41,150
will change.

1138
00:54:42,070 --> 00:54:45,290
Your business remains, but it remains differently.

1139
00:54:46,210 --> 00:54:48,070
It's not a first priority.

1140
00:54:48,370 --> 00:54:50,930
It's only enablement, a secondary thing for the

1141
00:54:50,930 --> 00:54:53,110
true purpose of being in the army of

1142
00:54:53,110 --> 00:54:53,370
God.

1143
00:54:55,470 --> 00:54:57,210
I'm going to pray for these people and

1144
00:54:57,210 --> 00:54:59,990
bless them and seal them in their consecration.

1145
00:55:00,250 --> 00:55:01,250
This is real saints.

1146
00:55:02,250 --> 00:55:05,290
This is not some hokey, last kind of

1147
00:55:05,290 --> 00:55:06,470
thing to gratify a speaker.

1148
00:55:06,830 --> 00:55:08,550
This is divine transaction.

1149
00:55:09,590 --> 00:55:12,130
If I know anything in 36 years with

1150
00:55:12,130 --> 00:55:17,390
God and a generation of his service, I

1151
00:55:17,390 --> 00:55:20,690
know that this is a fateful, ominous night

1152
00:55:20,690 --> 00:55:24,310
for Dunville, Canada and perhaps for Canada itself.

1153
00:55:26,330 --> 00:55:31,370
So Lord, precious God on high, to the

1154
00:55:31,370 --> 00:55:34,550
degree, my God, that this has been your

1155
00:55:34,550 --> 00:55:37,430
word and your call, that you have used

1156
00:55:37,430 --> 00:55:40,910
this historic text to show us that we

1157
00:55:40,910 --> 00:55:44,710
are in approximately the same place as Israel

1158
00:55:44,710 --> 00:55:47,670
long before us and that it's time now

1159
00:55:47,670 --> 00:55:48,750
to cross over.

1160
00:55:49,190 --> 00:55:52,690
I ask you to receive these children in

1161
00:55:52,690 --> 00:55:55,710
and through who have followed the arc of

1162
00:55:55,710 --> 00:56:00,530
this word born by this priest and bring

1163
00:56:00,530 --> 00:56:02,050
them up on the other side, Lord.

1164
00:56:03,090 --> 00:56:07,610
Precious God on high, bring to death of

1165
00:56:07,610 --> 00:56:10,590
that death that only a Jordan can perform,

1166
00:56:11,170 --> 00:56:14,770
of those things we can't even identify that

1167
00:56:14,770 --> 00:56:17,690
intimidate us, that make us fearful, that make

1168
00:56:17,690 --> 00:56:21,350
us timid, that keep us from being the

1169
00:56:21,350 --> 00:56:23,410
people of God and the army of God.

1170
00:56:23,590 --> 00:56:24,470
Bring it to death.

1171
00:56:24,470 --> 00:56:32,500
Ambition, fear, we don't have to identify it.

1172
00:56:32,660 --> 00:56:34,420
We have only to be obedient and come

1173
00:56:34,420 --> 00:56:36,260
and you will perform that work.

1174
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:37,960
You have already performed it.

1175
00:56:38,700 --> 00:56:41,620
It's a dry ground if we'll but enter.

1176
00:56:43,620 --> 00:56:48,460
So Lord, in Jesus' name, seal every soul

1177
00:56:48,460 --> 00:56:52,900
that has come before you tonight and raise

1178
00:56:52,900 --> 00:56:57,140
up from among them priests who go before

1179
00:56:57,140 --> 00:57:00,380
the people who are willing to be the

1180
00:57:00,380 --> 00:57:04,620
first ones in to catch the static, the

1181
00:57:04,620 --> 00:57:08,500
reproach, have to face the fearful thing of

1182
00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:12,120
a Jordan at flood stage because if they

1183
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,200
will not go before us, there's no following.

1184
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,540
May we see the arc of God being

1185
00:57:17,540 --> 00:57:23,990
lifted by the ministers of this community more

1186
00:57:23,990 --> 00:57:26,170
than we have had opportunity to recognize till

1187
00:57:26,170 --> 00:57:30,450
now because they have played it safe, have

1188
00:57:30,450 --> 00:57:34,530
performed what is expected admirably, but we have

1189
00:57:34,530 --> 00:57:37,930
not seen in them and with them the

1190
00:57:37,930 --> 00:57:39,690
arc of God being lifted.

1191
00:57:41,730 --> 00:57:43,930
They should be the first one down at

1192
00:57:43,930 --> 00:57:47,410
this altar tonight before anyone else is invited,

1193
00:57:47,810 --> 00:57:49,090
the priest first to enter.

1194
00:57:50,190 --> 00:57:59,020
So my God, let tonight be historic, an

1195
00:57:59,020 --> 00:58:02,600
event, something transacted.

1196
00:58:07,910 --> 00:58:08,850
Bless these children.

1197
00:58:10,090 --> 00:58:11,670
Prepare them for circumcision.

1198
00:58:12,910 --> 00:58:16,630
Cut away the flesh, my God, that has

1199
00:58:16,630 --> 00:58:22,110
been so long a hindrance and give them

1200
00:58:22,110 --> 00:58:24,050
with that cutting, my God, in the work

1201
00:58:24,050 --> 00:58:27,250
of your cross, a sensitivity to the most

1202
00:58:27,250 --> 00:58:30,630
high, to those things that lie too deep

1203
00:58:30,630 --> 00:58:31,350
for words.

1204
00:58:35,460 --> 00:58:37,180
I bless these children, Lord.

1205
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:39,160
Take them in.

1206
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:41,320
Seal them.

1207
00:58:42,340 --> 00:58:45,100
You know them by name and let them

1208
00:58:45,100 --> 00:58:48,340
be fitted into the army of God, each

1209
00:58:48,340 --> 00:58:50,480
one in his place.

1210
00:58:55,410 --> 00:58:57,110
Fill them with your spirit.

1211
00:58:58,870 --> 00:59:02,830
Let them be fools for Christ's sake and

1212
00:59:02,830 --> 00:59:06,170
be willing to give up the control of

1213
00:59:06,170 --> 00:59:09,830
their own tongue and speak foolish things that

1214
00:59:09,830 --> 00:59:14,070
make them an object of reproach and uncertainty

1215
00:59:15,690 --> 00:59:18,830
because they have died to constraint.

1216
00:59:19,170 --> 00:59:21,330
They have died to how they appear to

1217
00:59:21,330 --> 00:59:21,790
others.

1218
00:59:22,170 --> 00:59:24,210
They want only to be your fool.

1219
00:59:25,110 --> 00:59:29,810
Come, my God, and liberally endow them with

1220
00:59:29,810 --> 00:59:31,990
the spirit of the living God.

1221
00:59:33,730 --> 00:59:37,350
Overflow their banks in everything that is arid,

1222
00:59:37,850 --> 00:59:41,230
parched, and dry, inundated, my God, with the

1223
00:59:41,230 --> 00:59:42,510
Jordan of your spirit.

1224
00:59:42,830 --> 00:59:44,910
Let those waters come back and flow over

1225
00:59:44,910 --> 00:59:49,290
those that have passed through that they might

1226
00:59:49,290 --> 00:59:51,150
be the men and women of the spirit,

1227
00:59:51,150 --> 00:59:53,430
the children of the resurrection.

1228
00:59:54,210 --> 00:59:55,230
I bless them.

1229
00:59:56,430 --> 00:59:57,110
Seal them.

1230
01:00:00,860 --> 01:00:01,680
Thank you, Lord.

1231
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:08,020
Holy One on High, we bless your great

1232
01:00:08,020 --> 01:00:08,440
name.

1233
01:00:09,540 --> 01:00:11,740
Thank you, my God, for the hour that

1234
01:00:11,740 --> 01:00:14,600
has come beyond messages.

1235
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,680
Thank you for the event that has come

1236
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:26,140
to Dunville, Canada that will be consequential for

1237
01:00:26,140 --> 01:00:27,460
all the earth.

1238
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:43,160
Thank you, Lord.

1239
01:00:45,870 --> 01:00:47,630
You who have come forward, give the Lord

1240
01:00:47,630 --> 01:00:48,130
praise.

1241
01:00:48,870 --> 01:00:49,710
Give him thanks.

1242
01:00:49,850 --> 01:00:50,650
Express gratitude.

1243
01:00:51,770 --> 01:00:52,890
This is liberation.

1244
01:00:53,710 --> 01:00:56,430
Hallelujah, to come out of the muck of

1245
01:00:56,430 --> 01:01:00,650
wilderness living, knocking about in those things that

1246
01:01:00,650 --> 01:01:04,110
are pointless and profitless to be called into

1247
01:01:04,110 --> 01:01:07,070
the significance of the Kingdom of God and

1248
01:01:07,070 --> 01:01:08,130
the taking of the land.

1249
01:01:08,250 --> 01:01:10,330
Give him thanks for the privilege.

1250
01:01:10,990 --> 01:01:13,110
Thank you, my God, for the enablement.

1251
01:01:14,170 --> 01:01:15,190
Thank you, Lord.

1252
01:01:15,910 --> 01:01:17,950
Oh, bless these children, my God.

1253
01:01:18,290 --> 01:01:19,530
Break every fetter.

1254
01:01:19,930 --> 01:01:21,530
Loose the restraint, my God.

1255
01:01:21,790 --> 01:01:25,030
Let your spirit and your life flow through

1256
01:01:25,030 --> 01:01:26,670
these vessels, Lord, we pray.

1257
01:01:27,110 --> 01:01:28,210
Thank you, my God.

1258
01:01:28,430 --> 01:01:30,770
We have been in bondage too long over

1259
01:01:30,770 --> 01:01:35,110
this stupid dispute of a denominational kind over

1260
01:01:35,110 --> 01:01:36,570
the issue of the Holy Spirit.

1261
01:01:36,930 --> 01:01:38,170
He is too precious.

1262
01:01:38,550 --> 01:01:42,210
His enablement is too significant to be dismissed

1263
01:01:42,210 --> 01:01:44,070
as a denominational distinctive.

1264
01:01:44,710 --> 01:01:47,890
It's the provision of God for the army

1265
01:01:47,890 --> 01:01:48,550
of God.

1266
01:01:48,690 --> 01:01:50,810
And I ask you, my God, to bestow

1267
01:01:50,810 --> 01:01:53,730
these children, to fill them, my God, with

1268
01:01:53,730 --> 01:01:56,110
that spirit and that glory even now.

1269
01:01:57,050 --> 01:01:57,450
Glory to God.

1270
01:02:03,090 --> 01:02:05,070
Open their mouths, Lord.

1271
01:02:05,130 --> 01:02:05,670
Loose them.

1272
01:02:06,870 --> 01:02:07,950
Thank you, my God.

1273
01:02:08,250 --> 01:02:12,290
From fear, from intimidation, from timidity, from unnecessary

1274
01:02:12,290 --> 01:02:16,750
restraint, from religious intimidation, let there be the

1275
01:02:16,750 --> 01:02:21,210
unabashed and wholly given over sons and daughters

1276
01:02:21,210 --> 01:02:21,670
of God.

1277
01:02:22,370 --> 01:02:24,610
Oh, I bless these children.

1278
01:02:24,610 --> 01:02:26,510
This precious young man.

1279
01:02:26,890 --> 01:02:27,930
These ministers.

1280
01:02:28,630 --> 01:02:29,570
Oh, my God.

1281
01:02:29,870 --> 01:02:30,870
The day will begin.

1282
01:02:30,950 --> 01:02:33,370
Just as the last message was unfolded, but

1283
01:02:33,370 --> 01:02:35,250
the beginning, the day will begin.

1284
01:02:35,670 --> 01:02:37,990
For as many who have seen and heard

1285
01:02:37,990 --> 01:02:42,790
the offering whistled and have followed after you.

1286
01:02:42,890 --> 01:02:43,830
Thank you, my God.

1287
01:02:44,410 --> 01:02:46,070
Oh, I bless them, Lord.

1288
01:02:46,450 --> 01:02:47,730
Bless them, my God.

1289
01:02:47,790 --> 01:02:50,350
Seal their hearts and give them the joy

1290
01:02:50,350 --> 01:02:50,930
of heaven.

1291
01:02:51,530 --> 01:02:54,610
A first-proof covenant who have heard your

1292
01:02:54,610 --> 01:02:57,810
word and have received it as being your

1293
01:02:57,810 --> 01:03:01,590
word and have responded obey and cross.

1294
01:03:03,270 --> 01:03:03,950
Seal them.

1295
01:03:04,890 --> 01:03:08,630
Let Dumbledore be not tempted by their presence.

1296
01:03:09,250 --> 01:03:11,930
Let their pastors have to run to keep

1297
01:03:11,930 --> 01:03:14,070
up with them as they live at the

1298
01:03:14,070 --> 01:03:16,510
heels of those who are supposed to be

1299
01:03:16,510 --> 01:03:18,390
priests but have kept their seats.

1300
01:03:25,250 --> 01:03:27,030
Holy God, seal them.

1301
01:03:27,990 --> 01:03:29,310
Seal this, my God.

1302
01:03:30,290 --> 01:03:31,150
Oh, Lord.

1303
01:03:31,290 --> 01:03:35,210
Holy, holy unto the Lord this night, this

1304
01:03:35,210 --> 01:03:37,790
transaction, this call, this cross.

1305
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:46,080
Hallelujah.

1306
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:48,860
We give you the praise, my God.

1307
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,480
And we await our first Passover as the

1308
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:53,820
circumcised of the Lord.

1309
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,160
Oh, we will come to your table with

1310
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:57,060
a new velvet shirt.

1311
01:03:57,380 --> 01:03:58,840
There will be no more of that stale,

1312
01:03:59,460 --> 01:04:02,140
studdied moment of holding the plastic cup and

1313
01:04:02,140 --> 01:04:03,900
the little waker waiting for the signal.

1314
01:04:05,020 --> 01:04:06,900
There will be a coming with the light

1315
01:04:06,900 --> 01:04:08,060
that can't escape.

1316
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:10,060
We'll eat from the table of the Lord.

1317
01:04:10,740 --> 01:04:14,060
And we'll eat from the lamb where the

1318
01:04:14,060 --> 01:04:15,180
manna is no more.

1319
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:18,220
As you've given us the faith for a

1320
01:04:18,220 --> 01:04:22,080
new year, a new appropriation, a new heritage.

1321
01:04:22,580 --> 01:04:23,520
I bless you, sir.

1322
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:25,300
Seal them.

1323
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:27,080
Seal this night.

1324
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:28,820
Thank you, God.

1325
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:56,560
Amen.

1326
01:04:56,620 --> 01:04:56,720
Amen.

1327
01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:56,940
Amen.

1328
01:04:57,480 --> 01:04:57,780
Amen.

1329
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:05,960
Amen.

1330
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:06,400
Amen.

1331
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:07,020
Amen.

1332
01:05:07,020 --> 01:05:07,120
Amen.

1333
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:07,460
Amen.

1334
01:05:10,370 --> 01:05:10,850
Amen.

1335
01:05:37,150 --> 01:05:37,890
Amen.

1336
01:05:37,890 --> 01:05:37,990
Amen.

1337
01:05:41,830 --> 01:05:42,270
Amen.

1338
01:05:42,570 --> 01:05:42,670
Amen.

1339
01:05:43,990 --> 01:05:45,410
Thank you, my God.

1340
01:05:45,670 --> 01:05:49,130
Oh, break in and break through.

1341
01:05:49,690 --> 01:05:53,910
Restain conventional, tidy, gun-filled heaven.

1342
01:05:54,870 --> 01:05:57,870
Shake, my God, what needs to be shaken.

1343
01:05:58,310 --> 01:06:01,590
Bring the reality of the divine perspective to

1344
01:06:01,590 --> 01:06:04,170
bear on the unsuspecting.

1345
01:06:04,550 --> 01:06:05,730
Thank you, my God.

1346
01:06:05,870 --> 01:06:08,250
Enable us to see as you see that

1347
01:06:08,250 --> 01:06:10,090
we might act for you.

1348
01:06:10,670 --> 01:06:12,910
Oh, my God, may we not come before

1349
01:06:12,910 --> 01:06:15,550
you ashamed in the day of your appearance.

1350
01:06:15,950 --> 01:06:18,370
And we are told and assured somehow that

1351
01:06:19,750 --> 01:06:23,110
we bless you for a privileged call to

1352
01:06:26,790 --> 01:06:29,450
seal every soul who has responded.

1353
01:06:30,210 --> 01:06:31,310
Thank you, Jesus.

1354
01:06:32,090 --> 01:06:32,970
Thank you, Jesus.

1355
01:06:33,190 --> 01:06:33,450
Amen.

1356
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:07,040
Amen.

1357
01:11:17,820 --> 01:11:20,580
...that when fought by your spirit in any

1358
01:11:20,580 --> 01:11:23,660
way come back to you void, but accomplish

1359
01:11:23,660 --> 01:11:26,680
every purpose whereunto it was sent.

1360
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:30,520
Bless these children who have come forward with

1361
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:33,620
a fresh revelation of the Lord as the

1362
01:11:33,620 --> 01:11:36,280
captain of the host with his sword drawn.

1363
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:38,400
May we see you in a new way,

1364
01:11:38,480 --> 01:11:40,560
Lord, we who have made you a patsy

1365
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:42,520
and a convenience for our life.

1366
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,400
May we see you in the awesome majesty

1367
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,420
of your lordship, sword drawn, for the time

1368
01:11:48,420 --> 01:11:49,740
has come to take the land.

1369
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:51,960
And may you give us your direction from

1370
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:54,440
that place and know that we are on

1371
01:11:54,440 --> 01:11:56,120
holy ground.

1372
01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:57,800
So we thank you, Lord.

1373
01:11:58,020 --> 01:11:58,680
Seal this.

1374
01:11:59,180 --> 01:12:00,580
Put it in the archives of heaven.

1375
01:12:00,980 --> 01:12:02,860
We thank and give you praise for the

1376
01:12:02,860 --> 01:12:05,820
conclusion that you have given in these days

1377
01:12:05,820 --> 01:12:08,080
as holy ghost event.

1378
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:12,040
Bless the fearful, bless the timid, bless those

1379
01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:14,380
who could not bring themselves to come up

1380
01:12:14,380 --> 01:12:15,520
and out and across.

1381
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:18,740
My God, give them another opportunity.

1382
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:21,000
May they not be like the half-tribes

1383
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,860
of Manasseh and forgot the other who did

1384
01:12:24,860 --> 01:12:29,380
not cross over Ephraim and ended up becoming

1385
01:12:29,380 --> 01:12:33,220
herders and in the time of Jesus involved

1386
01:12:33,220 --> 01:12:33,880
with pigs.

1387
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,280
My God, may there not be a melancholy

1388
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:40,460
fate for those who refused to cross.

1389
01:12:41,060 --> 01:12:45,120
Even tonight, my God, at their bedside, however

1390
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,620
reluctant they may have been here, let them

1391
01:12:47,620 --> 01:12:51,000
not close out this day with saying, Lord,

1392
01:12:51,260 --> 01:12:53,500
forgive me for my reticence.

1393
01:12:54,220 --> 01:12:56,320
And now I want to be included with

1394
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:57,080
those who came.

1395
01:12:57,660 --> 01:13:00,300
I want to be in with the people

1396
01:13:00,300 --> 01:13:00,740
of God.

1397
01:13:01,140 --> 01:13:01,840
Receive me.

1398
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:05,180
Whatever that means, whatever the implications, I'll rest

1399
01:13:05,180 --> 01:13:05,680
in that.

1400
01:13:06,100 --> 01:13:07,180
I'll trust you.

1401
01:13:08,180 --> 01:13:09,760
Oh, bless these children, Lord.

1402
01:13:10,140 --> 01:13:12,520
And we thank and give you praise for

1403
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:15,380
your great love and leadership in Jesus' name.

1404
01:13:16,060 --> 01:13:16,360
Amen.

1405
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:18,040
God bless you.

1406
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:19,700
You are dismissed.

1407
01:13:20,660 --> 01:13:22,900
See the books while they're yet available tonight.

1408
01:13:22,900 --> 01:13:27,560
Anyone who wants personal prayer, I'm willing and

1409
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:28,140
available.

1410
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,000
And there's Mike and other of the ministers

1411
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:31,740
that are here.

1412
01:13:32,900 --> 01:13:33,980
Anything in particular?