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Whosoever shall call on the name of the

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Lord shall not be disappointed.

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We have not a single complaint, Lord.

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You're so good.

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So we bless you, my God, for the

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mercies that are ours every day.

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However able we are to recognize them, you've

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been good to us, Lord, even in these

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immediate days.

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Thank you.

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And indeed, it is well with our soul,

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Lord.

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Come and uplift those that are fatigued, my

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God, and breathe afresh upon the inner man

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and grant us something of your inexhaustible life

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and its strength, Lord, even to discuss, to

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handle, to contemplate difficult things.

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So do we bless you, Lord.

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What a precious high calling of God we

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have in Christ Jesus, and what a precious

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grace, my God, to meet it.

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So come, Lord, bless your servants, bless your

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people whom you've gathered to yourself in these

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days.

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Enlarge us, stretch us, my God, establish us.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Give us glimpses of the eternal reward, and

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we even now enjoy its contemplation.

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And we bless you, Lord, for what I

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have not seen and you have not heard,

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that you have laid out for those who

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love you.

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We bless you, Lord.

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Precious God, if you're proud of invisible witnesses

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over us tonight, we wouldn't be a bit

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surprised.

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And if we could even put in our

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request, we would desire that, which would be

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a token of the statement that we're about

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something, my God, in which they have a

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stake and an interest.

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And they're looking down with more than just

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mild curiosity.

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They have a better understanding and appreciation of

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what is represented here.

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And we welcome, my God, their being together

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with us in these days.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Precious God, may their souls be gratified as

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they see an encouragement and a hope pointing

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toward the thing for which they sacrificed and

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gave themselves.

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Now approaching fulfillment.

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We thank you, Lord.

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Amen.

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Well, I like what we started with this

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morning of what the prophet represents and how

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he blows the whistle on the things that

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are unreal, sane, false, synthetic, compromised, the things

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that constitute the lie.

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And if people continue with it, constitutes death,

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death even while they live.

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Not death as final termination, but death even

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while they live.

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Any restriction, any stupefaction, any constricted life is

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a measure of death.

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Any falling short of the full life that

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God intends for men and women in their

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humanity and with God, any loss of that

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is the incursion of death.

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Headaches, tiredness, fatigue, depression, moods, even moods.

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Anything that restricts the life is some expression

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of death.

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So the prophet is totally committed to life

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and has an uncanny ability to discern and

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to pick up those elements of death that

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had become so normative that people learn to

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live with it as if it's customary.

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The prophet will not tolerate it.

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He'll cry out, he'll demand, he'll intervene and

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intercede for the fullness of life.

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Paul was a full-orbed man.

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I love the breadth of Paul.

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Even as your prophets have written, he says

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in Acts 17, indicating that he was not

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so hyper-spiritual that he couldn't touch something

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of the world's culture and its thought.

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Fluent in that language and there's a breadth

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of the man.

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And maybe that's what, I'll put it this

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way.

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After misspending my first year as a believer,

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trying to bring to the Bible the analytical

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literary skills developed in universities, thinking was that

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kind of literature, I was going to do

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with God what I did with Shakespeare.

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And we got nowhere, spinning my wheels.

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Someone just said to me one day, Art,

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do you know what the whole Bible is

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about?

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I said, what?

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He said, it's how to live.

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live and to live fully.

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Jesus said, I've come to bring you life

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and that more abundantly.

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So we need to contend for life.

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And be against every kind of pharmaceutical deadening

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and stultifying thing that even children are taking

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now because they're hyper and whatever it is

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to quiet them.

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So where does the prophet get his perspective?

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What is the basis by which he sees

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by comparison the things that are contrary to

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He has a particular vantage point of seeing

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where it would not be an exaggeration to

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say he sees as God sees or he

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sees with God's seeing.

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And that's a remarkable vantage point.

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So I'm just tempted, I'm toying with the

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thought of looking at a statement in Exodus

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that God himself describes as the place in

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which he would meet with those who come

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to that particular locus in the tabernacle of

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God.

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And there he would commune with those who

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meet with him there.

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Remember that the condemnation of the false prophets

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is that they get their word from each

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other.

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or that the Lord had said, but he

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did not send, he did not speak, and

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he was not the author of that dream.

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They coined it out of their own humanity.

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They did not get it from the counsel

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of God.

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They were not in the place with God

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in fellowship in which his communion and communication

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would be given that they could then relate

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and speak.

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Where is that place of counsel?

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a place of beginning where on the mount

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Moses is given the design of God, the

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pattern that should be maintained.

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Chapter 25, I'm looking at 24 with that

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scripture about the mount, on the mount, be

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sure that you build it according to the

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pattern.

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Here it is, it's in 25 verse 8.

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After all of the details, and it's very

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detailed, we don't have the time to go

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into it, the dimensions, the size, the stones,

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the building materials, everything is so specific, even

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the oil in a later place in Exodus,

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how to make the anointing oil and the

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strict injunction that there should not be any

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other made like it.

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Don't try and come up with some substitute

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that seems to be like it.

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It has got to be the authentic thing

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according to the prescription of God.

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use this spice, that spice, and that it's

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got to be tempered altogether, ground in a

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pestle and a mortar and ground very small.

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It's a remarkable, intricate, detailed statement that makes

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you to suspect that there's a purpose for

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God in these details that go beyond the

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immediate issue of what was to be built

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in the generation of Moses.

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But that God is speaking to all generations

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in symbolic terms that we need to understand

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and to perceive that there is a pattern

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and it's a sanctuary for me that I

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may dwell among them.

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If you'll excuse my reference, another word for

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sanctuary is tent.

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According to all that I'm going to show

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you as the pattern of the tabernacle and

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the pattern of all its furniture, just so

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you shall construct it exactly.

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arc of acacia wood, two and a half

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cubits long, one and a half cubits wide,

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Cubit is about 18 inches.

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I've never understood, maybe someone can help, why

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the measures are irregular.

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Instead of two feet long, it's a foot

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It's a cubit and a half.

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It's as if the corresponding half that you're

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constructing here for me on earth is to

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be found in heaven.

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above will come down on below and the

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two will be joined as one.

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Where does it say that at?

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I don't know that it does say that,

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but I'm trying to suspect, understand why we're

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given, being given here, measures of a remarkable

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You would think that they would be complete,

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but they seem to be in part and

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fragmentary.

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divine wisdom of God, whose mind and will

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is past finding out.

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But whatever it was, there's no explanation, only

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the injunction.

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So, and according to this, you shall build

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Don't vary.

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Don't be expedient.

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Don't cut any corners.

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You shall overlay it with pure gold inside

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and out.

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You shall overlay it.

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You shall make a gold molding around it.

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You shall cast four gold rings for it

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and fashion them on its four feet and

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two rings should be on one side, two

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rings on the other.

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wood and overlay them with gold.

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on the sides of the ark to carry

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the ark with them.

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of the ark.

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They shall not be removed from it.

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Acacia wood is the lowliest scrub brush wood

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to be found in the wilderness.

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It's not your handsome oak.

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It's twisted and gnarled by the elements in

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the wilderness.

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It's the most common, the most available, the

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most ordinary, and the most unattractive building material.

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And yet, that was the wood in which

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the ark of God was to be made.

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But it's to be overlaid both on the

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inside and the outside by gold.

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Gold is the symbolic metal representing deity.

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So the wood is never directly touching the

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things of God because it's overlaid with gold.

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If that's not a picture of the saints

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and the diversity of the saints made up

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of scrub brush and ordinary roughage to be

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found in the wilderness, then I don't know

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what is.

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But the privilege and the honor that out

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of this ordinary material, God constructs an everlastingly

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beautiful and glorious sanctuary for his presence.

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All of this is his dwelling.

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And so the poles and the rings, that

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it's to be borne that a man's hand

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will not touch it, but it's to be

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borne on the shoulders of the Levites and

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the priests.

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Can you imagine that that's your lifelong function

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and ministry, is to bear that ark no

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more, no less.

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And you can't begin to function in it

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until you're 30 years of age.

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And when you're 50, you retire.

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God takes the 20 best years of a

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man's life and does not count it to

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extravagant an investment that only in those years

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shall he serve me as priest.

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And he's bearing the ark on foreshoulders.

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We know what happened when David, forgetting these

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injunctions, put the ark on a cart.

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And as it was being moved and began

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to be jostled, and it seemed to threaten

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to overturn, a well-meaning guy put his

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hand on it, boom, and perished.

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Man's hand shall not touch it.

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The oil, you shall not make another like

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it.

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Upon man's flesh, it shall not be poured.

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The garment of the priest, if we had

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time to go into this, and the way

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in which they even ascend up to the

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place of ministry is not on steps, but

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on a ramp.

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Even that detail is given.

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Why?

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Because in raising the leg, if it had

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to go from step to step, the flesh

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of a man's thigh might have been seen.

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But on a ramp, he can take mincing

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little steps and not reveal his flesh.

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Remarkable.

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Tell you what, dear saints, this is more

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than just Old Testament archaeology.

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This is insight of the holiness of God

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and what is sacred that is not to

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be given in any other place.

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And though the ark itself is lost, but

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the details pertaining to it and the priesthood

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and the ordination and all those things convey

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a sense of God that is not to

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be found in another place.

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The only people I know who have retained

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any sense of this and want to see

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it reestablished and are even now making some

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of the utensils for temple use are these

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many Orthodox Jews.

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And they have brooded over this inheritance, and

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we have discarded it.

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And so we don't exhibit to them any

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kind of priestly demeanor in what we are

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about.

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Jesus is the High Priest and the Apostle

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of all confession.

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And as you know from the Apostolic Foundation's

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book and tapes, my reiterated contention that there's

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no apostolicity without a priesthood.

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There's no propheticness without a priest, priestliness.

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There's no evangelism without priestliness.

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Priestliness is the necessary sine qua non, the

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Latin term, of the necessary and indispensable condition

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by which the other follows.

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No priesthood, no apostleship.

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What we have today are men presuming to

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be apostles who don't even give the faintest

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tincture or intimation of a sense of priestliness.

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And I'm not in any way saying that

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they have to go into the law and

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that the law, no, they have to go

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into the essence.

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They've got to come into the sense that

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is deposited for us in these remarkable scriptures

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that something might come in to their being

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that will temper and touch every word they

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speak, every gesture that they make, every look,

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that even in their silence they are an

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indictment.

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This quality needs to come into the church.

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And so we do well to see how

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fastidious God is in the details that he

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requires, even in the furniture of the sanctuary,

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just the furnishings.

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And we know that the sanctuary itself was

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explicit of the material with which it's made

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and the poles.

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And here's a whole Levitical people whose function

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is only to carry it for it is

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a thing that moves.

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It's mobile and the glory of God and

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fire by night and his presence by day

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leads, leads this people as they bear this

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great sanctuary that his presence might dwell with

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us.

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If you go, if you go, don't go

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up with us, don't send us.

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Your presence is necessary.

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And this is where my presence will reside

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in the tabernacle, in the sanctuary that you

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shall make according to the pattern given you

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on the mount.

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And then we come to the chief article

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of furnishing in the tabernacle.

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You know, there are three courts.

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There's an outer court with the brazen thing

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for water, for washing.

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Then there's the brazen altar for the sacrifice.

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That's the place of foundational salvation.

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And there is a greater deal of activity

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with priests, with the sacrifice and the cutting

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away and the washing and all of these

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things.

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Then is the second compartment called the holy

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place.

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And there is much less activity, but there's

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the showbread and the showbread table and the

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bread.

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And what else?

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There's the menorah because now you've gone out

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from the open air sunlight into an enclosure.

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And the only illumination is the menorah of

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God, the seven branch candlestick.

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And by that light is another kind of

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seeing.

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We're talking about where does, how does the

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prophet see?

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Where does he, how does he have his

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sense of things that puts him in such

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opposition and contradiction to the world?

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Because there's a contest about reality.

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There's a rivalry between the powers of darkness

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and their wisdom and God as to what

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in fact constitutes that which is real.

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So the prophet is the guardian and the

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spokesman to even to commend to God's people,

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the vision of the reality given of God

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for everything in the world that is external

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and seen contends against it.

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That's why Paul says, I see that which

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is invisible and eternal.

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I see the invisible weight of glory.

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I do not look upon the things which

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are seen.

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He takes an effort because the things that

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are seen are voluptuous and engaging and seductive.

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That's why they are that they want you

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to be engaged with your eyeballs and then

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your senses, then your thought, then your conduct,

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and then your action.

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I despise going to Bemidji to go to

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a supermarket or Walmart or any such place.

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It's an agony.

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I want to get in and out as

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quickly as I can with a minimum of

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time and even almost have to shut my

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eyes from having to look.

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I do not look, Paul says, upon the

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things that are seen.

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Another remarkable statement.

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I make it my business to avoid allowing

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the visible things to engage me as if

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they constitute reality.

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The reality that I see because I avert

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my eyes from that which is seen is

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that which is both invisible and eternal.

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And because I see that which is eternal,

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I see the eternal weight of glory and

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I see it so vividly and so as

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the constituting the uttermost reality of how I

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see that it makes my present suffering both

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momentary and light.

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Well, what's the reason for your suffering?

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Because you have this insane propensity and the

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powers of the air hate you for it

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and they will afflict you for it because

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you're not one of the boys, because you're

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not playing the game, because you're not seduced

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and taken up with visible things, rewards and

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titles and prestige and comfort and creature comfort,

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all the kinds of things that the world

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is about to seduce the souls of men

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and turn them from God to themselves as

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the God of this world.

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It's a battle for conflicting realities and the

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world seems to have all the marvels.

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You know that when we had a 10

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-day period of fasting and 24 hours around

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-the-clock prayer at an earlier time in

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Ben Israel's history and we came out of

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that and on the first day that we

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came out of that 10-day fast, the

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Lord said, go to Bemidji State University and

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conduct an evangelistic outreach.

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No sweat, Lord.

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I've been at the University of California, I've

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been at Berkeley, I've been at UCLA, I've

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been at Cal, I've been at Yale, I've

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been at Harvard, I've been at Tubingen, I've

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been at Aarhus, you name it, the universities

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in the world where I have spoken and

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contended for the Lord.

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Bemidji State did stuff.

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So we got into a van, we were

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all revved up, I tell you with that

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fasting and that prayer at 24 hours o

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'clock that if we could have at that

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moment spoken, the word of God would have

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breathed out of us.

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The whole university would have gone down flat

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like the walls of Jericho, not just the

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student body, the administrators, the faculty.

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The only catch was we had to ride

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for 30 minutes to get to Bemidji.

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All through the countryside but as we started

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to come into Bemidji and started to see

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the buildings and the visible structures of that

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civilization and then came with inside of the

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university itself and the arts building and the

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great dish outside, whatever they call that, I

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could feel the virtue just going out of

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me.

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So that by the time we set up

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the microphones and came into the student union

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building for the first meeting at 12 o

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'clock, there was nothing in me left.

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I had been robbed by the things that

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were seen.

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The world had done a number on me

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and I never felt more foolish and more

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stupid to have thought that we have anything

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to say at that university but the clock

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was ticking away and there were the Venezuelan

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people.

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I was to begin and the word was

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on eternal judgment.

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Try that out at the student union building

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sometime.

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While the bell rings and they're going from

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class to class and they're coming in hungry

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and they're going to the pop machines and

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they're getting their corn chips and this and

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that and going through and there's some jerk

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standing there looking as awkward as all get

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out with a and his people positioned that

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way you have to begin.

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I began and it seemed so futile and

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weak and inept but it was enough to

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to gall some of the instructors to remarkable

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anger.

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I could almost see the smoke coming out

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of these guys ears and they turned to

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look at this evangelism in their dining room

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and one of them got up from the

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table and said where do you get the

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authority to do this?

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Good question.

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That's how foolishly the whole four days of

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outreach started.

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We didn't see any visible fruit and on

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the last day in a we were fasting

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again through that time on the last day

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in a fast I went from door to

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door in the dormitory knocking on doors and

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inviting them to a meeting that night of

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a kind I said I don't care what

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your Christian background you have never seen anything

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like what we're going to see tonight just

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by faith that God in the end is

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going to bring a great climax and when

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those doors opened you found students male and

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female in compromising positions and we're going from

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there which is also a drain looking upon

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that which is visible and finally we came

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together that night and I had no message

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that Lord this is the climax and I've

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been advertising you and that what you're going

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to do will exceed anything that they may

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have ever known from their Christian life and

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for which reason they're coming on that boast

543
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and I have no message and so it

544
00:24:53,610 --> 00:24:56,790
went finally had to start the meeting I

545
00:24:56,790 --> 00:24:59,090
opened with prayer I looked out on maybe

546
00:24:59,090 --> 00:25:01,230
I don't know what 50 75 100 people

547
00:25:02,790 --> 00:25:05,570
and had nothing more to say and a

548
00:25:05,570 --> 00:25:07,110
hand went up there's one of the Venezuelan

549
00:25:07,110 --> 00:25:09,030
people art do you mind if I share

550
00:25:09,030 --> 00:25:10,490
the Lord showed me something this morning of

551
00:25:10,490 --> 00:25:12,870
my devotional time I said no I don't

552
00:25:12,870 --> 00:25:15,690
like come and share and then someone else

553
00:25:15,690 --> 00:25:18,010
had something and someone else had something what

554
00:25:18,010 --> 00:25:20,050
the message was that night was the body

555
00:25:20,050 --> 00:25:23,170
of Christ the Venezuelan people sharing the verse

556
00:25:23,170 --> 00:25:25,750
sharing something out of devotional time sharing the

557
00:25:25,750 --> 00:25:28,430
thought sharing the prayer until finally it was

558
00:25:28,430 --> 00:25:30,950
time to conclude I thought what what an

559
00:25:30,950 --> 00:25:34,230
inadequate presentation I thought we're going to see

560
00:25:34,230 --> 00:25:37,750
power and all of just these homey little

561
00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:43,000
things being expressed so but I've got to

562
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,520
end with an invitation so I'm looking at

563
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:47,620
the guys in the front row there are

564
00:25:47,620 --> 00:25:49,340
four guys that they they were looking like

565
00:25:49,340 --> 00:25:50,640
they're just waiting up to me to work

566
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,040
me over this is going to cost us

567
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,360
something my my Jewish nose was going to

568
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:59,580
be massaged and I gave the invitation weak

569
00:25:59,580 --> 00:26:02,900
and inept and this guy started to get

570
00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:03,940
out of his seat I thought here it

571
00:26:03,940 --> 00:26:07,100
comes and he said I've never seen or

572
00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:09,600
heard anything like this in my life what

573
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,940
must I do to be saved all four

574
00:26:12,940 --> 00:26:16,980
of them are in ministry today and so

575
00:26:16,980 --> 00:26:18,500
we prayed with them they came to the

576
00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:20,620
Lord and we're about to pack up and

577
00:26:20,620 --> 00:26:24,820
they said how about getting baptized I said

578
00:26:24,820 --> 00:26:27,020
what they said there's a lake right here

579
00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:28,880
at the university it was pitch black out

580
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,980
I'm wearing my my preaching pants no bathing

581
00:26:31,980 --> 00:26:34,120
suit they wanted to I said well we

582
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,220
have been this we're going to buy a

583
00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:36,900
lake next week or we can arrange the

584
00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:38,960
time but we think that it ought to

585
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,060
be now so we let left the ladies

586
00:26:43,060 --> 00:26:45,900
in the building to pray while some of

587
00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:47,860
us as men went out into the lake

588
00:26:47,860 --> 00:26:50,220
took our pants off and went in and

589
00:26:50,220 --> 00:26:58,460
our bbds and baptized thinking what a what

590
00:26:58,460 --> 00:27:01,680
a what a slim result for so great

591
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,880
an investment 10 days of prayer and fasting

592
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,140
around the clock and all we got before

593
00:27:07,140 --> 00:27:10,300
but to learn later that those four are

594
00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:12,660
in and have remain in full-time ministry

595
00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:15,400
and pray this God that may turn the

596
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,660
world upside down my point is you'll never

597
00:27:18,660 --> 00:27:22,120
be more foolish than accepting your obedience and

598
00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:23,580
when you when your eye is open to

599
00:27:23,580 --> 00:27:25,980
see you'll feel the virtue going out from

600
00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:29,860
you so there is a place of seeing

601
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,480
that needs to be sought and then we

602
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:41,950
have a vantage point with the world and

603
00:27:41,950 --> 00:27:44,770
I believe that that place is the tabernacle

604
00:27:44,770 --> 00:27:48,970
of God it's where he is it's where

605
00:27:48,970 --> 00:27:51,130
he was literally at this time and where

606
00:27:51,130 --> 00:27:55,010
he may be symbolically in the description of

607
00:27:55,010 --> 00:27:58,750
these requirements verse 17 you shall make a

608
00:27:58,750 --> 00:28:01,170
mercy seat of pure gold two and a

609
00:28:01,170 --> 00:28:02,990
half cubits long one and a half cubits

610
00:28:02,990 --> 00:28:06,590
wide again these are regular measures and you

611
00:28:06,590 --> 00:28:08,950
shall make it make two cherubim of gold

612
00:28:08,950 --> 00:28:12,050
make them of hammock work at the two

613
00:28:12,050 --> 00:28:14,590
ends of the mercy seat and make one

614
00:28:14,590 --> 00:28:16,410
cherub at one end and one cherub at

615
00:28:16,410 --> 00:28:18,550
the other end and and you shall make

616
00:28:18,550 --> 00:28:20,430
the cherubim of one piece with the mercy

617
00:28:20,430 --> 00:28:23,210
seat at its two ends and the cherubim

618
00:28:23,210 --> 00:28:25,850
shall have their wings spread upward covering the

619
00:28:25,850 --> 00:28:28,370
mercy seat with their wings and facing one

620
00:28:28,370 --> 00:28:31,590
another the face the faces of the cherubim

621
00:28:31,590 --> 00:28:33,930
are to be turned toward the mercy seat

622
00:28:33,930 --> 00:28:35,890
and you shall put the mercy seat on

623
00:28:35,890 --> 00:28:38,030
top of the ark and in the ark

624
00:28:38,030 --> 00:28:40,370
you shall put the testimony which I shall

625
00:28:40,370 --> 00:28:43,030
give you the ten commandments and there I

626
00:28:43,030 --> 00:28:45,530
will meet with you and there there I

627
00:28:45,530 --> 00:28:48,170
will meet with you from above the mercy

628
00:28:48,170 --> 00:28:51,030
seat and from between the two cherubim which

629
00:28:51,030 --> 00:28:53,690
are upon the ark of the testimony and

630
00:28:53,690 --> 00:28:55,710
there I will speak to you or give

631
00:28:55,710 --> 00:29:00,270
you instruction about all that pertains in commandment

632
00:29:00,270 --> 00:29:05,100
for the sons of Israel a remarkable description

633
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,220
why does God require this mercy seat with

634
00:29:11,220 --> 00:29:12,880
a cherubim on one end the term and

635
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,640
the other hammered out of pure gold and

636
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,660
anyone who has had experience in the truth

637
00:29:21,660 --> 00:29:24,140
of the body of Christ knows what being

638
00:29:24,140 --> 00:29:27,560
hammered out of pure gold means and it's

639
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,840
one with the mercy seat itself but one

640
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,140
on one end and one on the other

641
00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:35,220
end and facing each other and at the

642
00:29:35,220 --> 00:29:37,700
same time looking down through the mercy seat

643
00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,280
to the ten commandments and the pot of

644
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,180
manna and Aaron's rod that butted that is

645
00:29:43,180 --> 00:29:46,880
below or within what does all that mean

646
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,020
there I will meet with you and in

647
00:29:50,020 --> 00:29:52,920
no other place but above that mercy seat

648
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,140
and between the cherubim there I will meet

649
00:29:55,140 --> 00:30:03,050
with you well I think that the two

650
00:30:03,050 --> 00:30:07,890
cherubim represent all that is contrary and opposite

651
00:30:07,890 --> 00:30:12,230
in the genius of God's creation male and

652
00:30:12,230 --> 00:30:20,490
female jew and gentile prophet and teacher think

653
00:30:20,490 --> 00:30:28,110
of any tension and inherent and resident opposition

654
00:30:28,110 --> 00:30:30,790
that comes from the differences that God himself

655
00:30:30,790 --> 00:30:35,820
creates and God is saying I'll meet you

656
00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:38,380
in the place of tension I'll meet you

657
00:30:38,380 --> 00:30:41,180
in the place where the natural outworking of

658
00:30:41,180 --> 00:30:43,540
the differences that I created will be the

659
00:30:43,540 --> 00:30:48,460
most viable and and forceful reality if you'll

660
00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:50,820
not turn away from it if you'll face

661
00:30:50,820 --> 00:30:54,020
each other and because your tendency will be

662
00:30:54,020 --> 00:30:57,360
to run and this guy doesn't understand he

663
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,380
doesn't have the prophet's breath he doesn't see

664
00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:01,860
the ultimate thing and the teacher's ready to

665
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:04,480
run because the prophet is being inspired by

666
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,380
a ketchup label and where does he get

667
00:31:06,380 --> 00:31:08,360
that in this picture and how dare he

668
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,420
say I have the sweeping generalization and say

669
00:31:11,420 --> 00:31:15,340
that this means that what they are in

670
00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:20,880
themselves is by nature so volatile and so

671
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,520
oppositional but God says have them to face

672
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,780
each other look look each other straight in

673
00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:30,500
the eyeball but at the same time look

674
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:33,660
down to the place of mercy I can't

675
00:31:33,660 --> 00:31:36,480
think of a more profound requirement where alone

676
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,420
where God will be met there I'll meet

677
00:31:38,420 --> 00:31:41,120
with you and no other place I'll meet

678
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:46,530
with you if you'll be willing for the

679
00:31:46,530 --> 00:31:49,850
conditions represented by these by these charitables beaten

680
00:31:49,850 --> 00:31:54,950
out of pure gold if you're blanched if

681
00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:57,930
you balk if you don't like the requirement

682
00:31:57,930 --> 00:31:59,590
if you don't want to look straight on

683
00:31:59,590 --> 00:32:02,550
if you or if you refuse to consider

684
00:32:02,550 --> 00:32:05,030
looking also at the same time at the

685
00:32:05,030 --> 00:32:08,070
place of mercy I'll not be above and

686
00:32:08,070 --> 00:32:10,170
I'll not be between there I will meet

687
00:32:10,170 --> 00:32:12,950
with you and there I will commune with

688
00:32:12,950 --> 00:32:15,390
you and there I will speak to you

689
00:32:15,390 --> 00:32:18,690
and give you instruction and in commandment for

690
00:32:18,690 --> 00:32:20,730
the sons of Israel I'll give you my

691
00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:23,950
word I'll give you my prophetic mind I'll

692
00:32:23,950 --> 00:32:25,790
give you my thought I'll give you my

693
00:32:25,790 --> 00:32:29,770
instruction you don't have to conjure something up

694
00:32:29,770 --> 00:32:32,730
or catch what is the consensus that is

695
00:32:32,730 --> 00:32:35,370
now popular or pick up what someone else

696
00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:37,570
is saying and then you play it in

697
00:32:37,570 --> 00:32:40,530
order to obtain popularity if you'll meet with

698
00:32:40,530 --> 00:32:42,550
me in that place I will give you

699
00:32:42,550 --> 00:32:47,810
that a precious dependency and a precious promise

700
00:32:47,810 --> 00:32:51,970
because only that instruction is viable only that

701
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:55,430
instruction is life-giving only that instruction can

702
00:32:55,430 --> 00:32:56,990
meet the need of an hour and the

703
00:32:56,990 --> 00:32:59,450
time as God in his great wisdom knows

704
00:32:59,450 --> 00:33:01,410
it and in his great grace gives it

705
00:33:01,410 --> 00:33:03,450
in that place I will meet with you

706
00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:09,240
so the tabernacle may be lost historically maybe

707
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,420
we'll not see it again but the wisdom

708
00:33:13,420 --> 00:33:17,280
of what is symbolized by it remains for

709
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,120
this piece of furniture is the ultimate place

710
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,120
of the holiest of holies there's the outer

711
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,880
court there's the holy place but this is

712
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,940
the holiest place of all and only one

713
00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:30,700
priest can enter it once in the year

714
00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,720
and there's no menorah there's no lamp light

715
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,460
the light of the holiest place of all

716
00:33:36,460 --> 00:33:39,280
is the shekinah presence of God himself who

717
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,280
dwells there that remarkable so you go from

718
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,000
daylight to to oil light and menorah to

719
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,060
the light of God himself the question is

720
00:33:50,060 --> 00:33:54,680
in what court are we and someone has

721
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,340
probably rightly said most Christians are still in

722
00:33:57,340 --> 00:33:59,240
the outer court we're still in the place

723
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,160
of salvation praise God for it without it

724
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,960
you can't proceed further but pity if we

725
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,980
would be fixed in that place and not

726
00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:11,659
come into the the the riches of illumination

727
00:34:11,659 --> 00:34:13,960
that come in the holy place from the

728
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,679
menorah and the showbread of God real bread

729
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:19,679
real teaching real learning about the kingdom of

730
00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:21,340
God the realities of the body of Christ

731
00:34:21,340 --> 00:34:24,219
the mystery of the kingdom even the mystery

732
00:34:24,219 --> 00:34:26,460
of Israel and the church ought to be

733
00:34:26,460 --> 00:34:29,460
found in the illumination of that menorah what

734
00:34:29,460 --> 00:34:31,440
then will be reserved in the ultimate place

735
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,840
that is the holiest place of all where

736
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,239
there's one piece of furniture only it's this

737
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,320
piece where he waits and he dwells above

738
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,340
and between and there he will meet with

739
00:34:41,340 --> 00:34:44,620
us intimately and in no other place and

740
00:34:44,620 --> 00:34:46,840
there I will give you and in no

741
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,120
other place will I give you that's why

742
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,139
God's condemnation of the false prophets that have

743
00:34:52,139 --> 00:34:56,300
not stood in my council I have not

744
00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:58,300
given them their words I have not given

745
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:00,540
them their dreams and I've not sent them

746
00:35:00,540 --> 00:35:03,640
but they say that that I have sent

747
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,900
them and they say that the thus sayeth

748
00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:07,340
the Lord and they say and they say

749
00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:09,320
but they have not been in my council

750
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,140
they have not come into my presence to

751
00:35:12,140 --> 00:35:14,040
receive what only I will give him in

752
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,440
one place only because they have no stomach

753
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,820
for the tension they have no stomach to

754
00:35:18,820 --> 00:35:21,940
look the opposite member in the face they

755
00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:23,520
want to do their own thing they're self

756
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:29,600
-exalting independent unilateral what's the word autonomous they

757
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,940
are God's man of faith they are the

758
00:35:31,940 --> 00:35:36,740
apostle because unless you look face to face

759
00:35:36,740 --> 00:35:40,280
not not not in just a gritting of

760
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,380
your teeth until the moment passes you are

761
00:35:42,380 --> 00:35:46,640
fixed forever in that posture symbolized by the

762
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,660
mercy seat of true cherubim beaten out of

763
00:35:49,660 --> 00:35:52,160
the gold of the mercy seat itself and

764
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:56,440
forever looking upon one another not with impatience

765
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,140
that they might be uh free to do

766
00:35:59,140 --> 00:36:01,700
their thing but to know that there's no

767
00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:04,040
thing that they can do independent of the

768
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,680
one with whom they are in ultimate tension

769
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,180
because they are so opposite one to another

770
00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:12,200
like male and female like black and white

771
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,120
like jew and gentile like prophet and teacher

772
00:36:17,540 --> 00:36:21,260
God is the author of those contradictory oppositions

773
00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:24,600
and and he who has created them is

774
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,380
waiting for something because the tendency is to

775
00:36:27,380 --> 00:36:31,360
run from tension and not to look and

776
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,280
not just with a as I said as

777
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,540
out of a resignation because you have to

778
00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:40,460
but with a loving look you love that

779
00:36:40,460 --> 00:36:44,480
face he's different altogether from you but he's

780
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,800
also equally as much God's creation as yourself

781
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,320
and without him you yourself are incomplete maybe

782
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:53,960
we can even include the cloud of individual

783
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,880
witnesses they're incomplete without us not yet made

784
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,880
perfect waiting for something from us and with

785
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,220
us maybe the one and a half cubits

786
00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:04,660
is waiting for the other one and a

787
00:37:04,660 --> 00:37:06,400
half cubits to be joined and to be

788
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,200
made the full measure there's mystery here but

789
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,300
I believe that this is suggestive and why

790
00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:15,560
why am I speaking it because God is

791
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,780
saying how can you be in the world

792
00:37:17,780 --> 00:37:21,600
and for the church a voice of reality

793
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,000
and bring a moment of present truth to

794
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,300
those who don't want to hear don't want

795
00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:28,700
to see it if you if you're not

796
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:31,100
in the place in which you're in union

797
00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:35,140
and intimate fellowship with my heart and receive

798
00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:38,800
my thoughts and and my my seeing and

799
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,600
my reality in that place then because I

800
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,180
will give you instruction on what to speak

801
00:37:46,180 --> 00:37:47,700
to the sons of Israel you'll have a

802
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:54,390
word how many how many are there that

803
00:37:54,390 --> 00:37:58,090
are coming from the one court to the

804
00:37:58,090 --> 00:38:02,650
other each one is a portal and a

805
00:38:02,650 --> 00:38:05,470
sacrifice in the history of the cross and

806
00:38:05,470 --> 00:38:10,990
a suffering and a kind of cumulative thing

807
00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:15,760
to which we're bidding to come and it's

808
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,880
priestly to enter and what does it say

809
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:24,920
in Hebrews that the Lord himself has once

810
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,720
and for all entered the holy place and

811
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,540
brought the blood of his own sacrifice to

812
00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:34,780
sanctify it once and for all and that

813
00:38:34,780 --> 00:38:38,740
we're bidden to enter and dwell in that

814
00:38:38,740 --> 00:38:41,860
place because he has done it once but

815
00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:44,040
he's done it for all so how many

816
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,240
of us have entered the holiest place of

817
00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:51,980
all through his blood not our qualification but

818
00:38:51,980 --> 00:38:55,380
his and not only entered to look around

819
00:38:55,380 --> 00:38:57,620
and take a couple of photographs and show

820
00:38:57,620 --> 00:39:01,320
people where you've been but to dwell enter

821
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,680
to dwell and to have your essential being

822
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,400
there that Jesus could say to Nicodemus no

823
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,340
one has no one has descended who has

824
00:39:11,340 --> 00:39:14,740
not first ascended even the son of man

825
00:39:14,740 --> 00:39:19,180
who is in heaven saying that to Nicodemus

826
00:39:19,180 --> 00:39:22,900
confusing him completely and bewildering a ruler of

827
00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:25,780
the Jews by being right opposite him in

828
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:28,800
Jerusalem and saying the son of man who

829
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,100
right now while I'm speaking to you physically

830
00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:33,580
here I'm at the same time in heaven

831
00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:36,100
not only am I at the same time

832
00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:39,900
in heaven that's where I am essentially that

833
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:42,360
is the essence of where I am the

834
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,020
fact that I'm down here speaking to you

835
00:39:44,020 --> 00:39:47,320
is the secondary truth of my life the

836
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,620
primary truth is I'm in heaven while I'm

837
00:39:50,620 --> 00:39:52,600
yet here in the earth I'm in the

838
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,660
sanctuary of God while I'm yet here in

839
00:39:54,660 --> 00:39:58,620
Laporte Minnesota or Oshkosh or Timbuktu or Brooklyn

840
00:39:58,620 --> 00:40:03,100
New York or wheresoever you are and you'll

841
00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:05,660
trail clouds of glory with you and you'll

842
00:40:05,660 --> 00:40:08,820
communicate a sense that will bewilder the Nicodemuses

843
00:40:08,820 --> 00:40:11,520
to whom you're brought because they're so categorical

844
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,800
they have their principles and you're in a

845
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:19,420
transcendent place beyond that you're seeing by another

846
00:40:19,420 --> 00:40:21,640
eye how do they say it you're you're

847
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,720
moved by another drummer you're hearing another beat

848
00:40:25,670 --> 00:40:30,310
and when you represent its ultimate reality how

849
00:40:30,310 --> 00:40:33,970
often does the prophetic man come into congregations

850
00:40:33,970 --> 00:40:36,650
where they are celebrating and having a ball

851
00:40:36,650 --> 00:40:39,850
and amens and hallelujahs and the worship is

852
00:40:39,850 --> 00:40:42,250
coming off the wall and loud and everybody

853
00:40:42,250 --> 00:40:44,490
is rejoicing and you say what am I

854
00:40:44,490 --> 00:40:46,570
doing here these guys have it all together

855
00:40:46,570 --> 00:40:49,610
I'm the one who's awkward I'm I'm the

856
00:40:49,610 --> 00:40:53,970
despicable strange kind of a man who's out

857
00:40:53,970 --> 00:40:55,550
of time and out of joint these guys

858
00:40:55,550 --> 00:40:58,650
have it all together but while you're waiting

859
00:40:58,650 --> 00:41:01,830
to be called on the Lord is giving

860
00:41:01,830 --> 00:41:04,070
you a sense of something from where he

861
00:41:04,070 --> 00:41:06,650
is in the holy place a sense of

862
00:41:06,650 --> 00:41:10,170
seeing beyond what those people are able to

863
00:41:10,170 --> 00:41:13,050
see and that they're rejoicing is really false

864
00:41:13,730 --> 00:41:18,970
it's prompted it's soulishly proctored and engineered to

865
00:41:18,970 --> 00:41:21,270
establish a certain kind of atmosphere but the

866
00:41:21,270 --> 00:41:24,330
truth of their lives is altogether a contradiction

867
00:41:24,330 --> 00:41:28,310
to their ostensible celebration and you are required

868
00:41:28,310 --> 00:41:31,330
to speak that truth you are required to

869
00:41:31,330 --> 00:41:35,410
speak what you see beyond and through their

870
00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:38,610
apparent celebration of the actual condition of their

871
00:41:38,610 --> 00:41:41,670
life together as God himself sees it for

872
00:41:41,670 --> 00:41:44,350
he has flashed it upon your soul in

873
00:41:44,350 --> 00:41:47,030
the holy place and then the moment comes

874
00:41:47,030 --> 00:41:49,710
that you're called on and you have a

875
00:41:49,710 --> 00:41:53,030
choice to be prompted by the q c

876
00:41:53,030 --> 00:41:55,870
u e given by the environment that has

877
00:41:55,870 --> 00:41:59,310
been created especially by the worship team that

878
00:41:59,310 --> 00:42:02,610
wants to draw you into their nexus and

879
00:42:02,610 --> 00:42:05,810
into their mode of celebration that you would

880
00:42:05,810 --> 00:42:09,570
affirm them and confirm them in that unreality

881
00:42:09,570 --> 00:42:14,690
and it's very tempting so to do but

882
00:42:14,690 --> 00:42:16,250
you take a deep breath like a man

883
00:42:16,250 --> 00:42:20,190
going to the guillotine because to speak the

884
00:42:20,190 --> 00:42:22,670
present truth as it is in Christ Jesus

885
00:42:22,670 --> 00:42:25,990
contrary to what men think it is that

886
00:42:25,990 --> 00:42:30,290
would altogether unseat their unreality and blow the

887
00:42:30,290 --> 00:42:32,890
whistle on its fraudulence and bring them back

888
00:42:32,890 --> 00:42:34,710
to square one to start all over again

889
00:42:34,710 --> 00:42:37,270
when they think they've attained something is nothing

890
00:42:37,270 --> 00:42:41,250
less than a death obedience to speak what

891
00:42:41,250 --> 00:42:45,370
you see from God is death and when

892
00:42:45,370 --> 00:42:51,430
you speak it they stop breathing it's like

893
00:42:51,430 --> 00:42:54,110
a car coming to the crest of a

894
00:42:54,110 --> 00:42:56,370
hill to find that there's another car out

895
00:42:56,370 --> 00:42:58,290
of the lane and approaching it head-on

896
00:42:58,290 --> 00:43:00,750
and you slam your brakes with such force

897
00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:04,450
that that the very thing violently shudders to

898
00:43:04,450 --> 00:43:06,430
avoid that collision and that's what you're seeing

899
00:43:06,430 --> 00:43:10,150
they're violently shuddering because something has come that

900
00:43:10,150 --> 00:43:14,230
something's got to go either that man has

901
00:43:14,230 --> 00:43:15,890
got to go and his word with him

902
00:43:15,890 --> 00:43:18,510
or we in one fell swoop in one

903
00:43:18,510 --> 00:43:21,650
moment have got to believe that that man

904
00:43:21,650 --> 00:43:24,450
is from God and that he's bringing something

905
00:43:24,450 --> 00:43:28,350
out from the sanctuary and the holy place

906
00:43:28,350 --> 00:43:31,310
of God of the truth of our lives

907
00:43:31,310 --> 00:43:33,670
a moment of truth has come either we're

908
00:43:33,670 --> 00:43:35,370
going to bow to it and surrender to

909
00:43:35,370 --> 00:43:37,610
it and repent for what we were celebrating

910
00:43:37,610 --> 00:43:40,270
which is false or we will call this

911
00:43:40,270 --> 00:43:43,250
false and get rid of the awkward man

912
00:43:43,250 --> 00:43:46,610
and the moment it's a shudder of collision

913
00:43:46,610 --> 00:43:49,450
in a single moment of time that has

914
00:43:49,450 --> 00:43:57,170
been brought by your obedience praise God on

915
00:43:57,170 --> 00:44:00,130
the on the occasion that I'm remembering that

916
00:44:00,130 --> 00:44:05,610
I'm describing so vividly they broke and went

917
00:44:05,610 --> 00:44:08,730
down like dead people they broke there was

918
00:44:08,730 --> 00:44:13,030
a cry not in the moment in the

919
00:44:13,030 --> 00:44:14,770
several moments that it took to make a

920
00:44:14,770 --> 00:44:17,750
decision for or against the word whether it

921
00:44:17,750 --> 00:44:20,130
was come from God as true or was

922
00:44:20,130 --> 00:44:21,410
just a man speaking out of his own

923
00:44:21,410 --> 00:44:25,110
humanity it took a while but when they

924
00:44:25,110 --> 00:44:28,590
made a decision a cry broke out of

925
00:44:28,590 --> 00:44:32,230
that congregation and they went down and that

926
00:44:32,230 --> 00:44:35,290
cry was the dearest music that I had

927
00:44:35,290 --> 00:44:37,670
ever heard they went it ascended right up

928
00:44:37,670 --> 00:44:41,610
to God it was it was infinitely superior

929
00:44:41,610 --> 00:44:45,130
to their famed worship that had proceeded with

930
00:44:45,130 --> 00:44:49,090
all their musicality instruments and amplifiers this cry

931
00:44:49,090 --> 00:44:52,170
was true worship it was a moment of

932
00:44:52,170 --> 00:44:56,070
truth received from God and and the heck

933
00:44:56,070 --> 00:44:58,890
of it was that there was a meal

934
00:44:58,890 --> 00:45:01,350
to be served after the meeting and I

935
00:45:01,350 --> 00:45:04,070
had to stay and remain and talk with

936
00:45:04,070 --> 00:45:05,450
these same people and look at them over

937
00:45:05,450 --> 00:45:08,570
the same table who had brought this jarring

938
00:45:08,570 --> 00:45:13,630
and dislocating word and I have to say

939
00:45:14,530 --> 00:45:17,230
praise God for the for the maturity of

940
00:45:17,230 --> 00:45:19,830
that people to receive it and to recognize

941
00:45:19,830 --> 00:45:22,610
before God we've got to go back to

942
00:45:22,610 --> 00:45:25,370
square one we've got to begin afresh we've

943
00:45:25,370 --> 00:45:28,110
taken a devious route we were prompted we

944
00:45:28,110 --> 00:45:31,290
we found easy ways to simulate a sense

945
00:45:31,290 --> 00:45:33,010
of overcoming as if we have it together

946
00:45:33,010 --> 00:45:35,490
but we realize that we don't have it

947
00:45:35,490 --> 00:45:37,270
together at all the fact of the matter

948
00:45:37,270 --> 00:45:39,970
is that that episode was in Australia and

949
00:45:41,410 --> 00:45:43,970
what the Lord showed me was that with

950
00:45:43,970 --> 00:45:46,610
all of their buoyant celebration there was the

951
00:45:46,610 --> 00:45:49,930
deepest sense of insecurity and lack of self

952
00:45:49,930 --> 00:45:53,510
-worth and deep depression and despondency in that

953
00:45:53,510 --> 00:45:58,570
congregation thinly gilded over with a charismatic uh

954
00:45:58,570 --> 00:46:04,290
kind of celebration and that that deep self

955
00:46:04,290 --> 00:46:11,490
-hatred and insecurity goes back to the earliest

956
00:46:11,490 --> 00:46:14,430
history of Australia when it was founded by

957
00:46:14,430 --> 00:46:17,650
the dregs brought out of English prisons to

958
00:46:17,650 --> 00:46:21,030
populate and be a labor source for this

959
00:46:21,030 --> 00:46:25,090
colony they've never recovered from their origin and

960
00:46:25,090 --> 00:46:27,690
you can't gild over that you've got to

961
00:46:27,690 --> 00:46:29,890
face the truth of that and work your

962
00:46:29,890 --> 00:46:32,010
way through that in the grace that has

963
00:46:32,010 --> 00:46:34,190
come in the power of his blood and

964
00:46:34,190 --> 00:46:35,530
the new man that we are in Christ

965
00:46:35,530 --> 00:46:39,870
Jesus but to celebrate independent of that reality

966
00:46:39,870 --> 00:46:43,130
is something false they were put on the

967
00:46:43,130 --> 00:46:46,350
path of reality and truth and now they

968
00:46:46,350 --> 00:46:48,330
could be a witness to their own nation

969
00:46:48,330 --> 00:46:51,130
that has to crunch beer cans in their

970
00:46:51,130 --> 00:46:53,970
bare hand and win the Wimbledon titles and

971
00:46:53,970 --> 00:46:56,490
sweep the opposition off the rugby field because

972
00:46:56,490 --> 00:46:58,970
they're macho and they've got to prove that

973
00:46:58,970 --> 00:47:00,950
they are larger than life than men because

974
00:47:00,950 --> 00:47:04,250
there's a deep-grained national sense of inferiority

975
00:47:04,250 --> 00:47:07,110
that goes back to their to their origins

976
00:47:07,110 --> 00:47:10,810
I did not know that I was not

977
00:47:10,810 --> 00:47:13,810
speaking out of that kind of knowledge I

978
00:47:13,810 --> 00:47:17,370
was only speaking out of an inward seeing

979
00:47:17,370 --> 00:47:20,250
and a sense of something that God was

980
00:47:20,250 --> 00:47:23,210
giving in the moment that was the greater

981
00:47:23,210 --> 00:47:24,970
reality and the greater truth than what was

982
00:47:24,970 --> 00:47:30,430
purported to be true this is critical to

983
00:47:30,430 --> 00:47:32,930
meet with God in that place and to

984
00:47:32,930 --> 00:47:38,830
find your perspective and receive what I will

985
00:47:38,830 --> 00:47:40,870
give you in command of an instruction to

986
00:47:40,870 --> 00:47:43,170
speak to the sons of Israel not what

987
00:47:43,170 --> 00:47:46,050
your mind dictates or your intelligence or your

988
00:47:46,050 --> 00:47:48,690
appraisal or critique of the need of the

989
00:47:48,690 --> 00:47:52,370
situation what I will give you in the

990
00:47:52,370 --> 00:48:03,780
holy place well may the Lord revive

991
00:48:04,940 --> 00:48:07,960
the awareness that such a place yet exists

992
00:48:09,540 --> 00:48:11,820
that he waits yet to be found in

993
00:48:11,820 --> 00:48:15,180
such a place and that he dwells in

994
00:48:15,180 --> 00:48:18,700
the tension of opposites and it's above the

995
00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:21,600
place of mercy for how shall we relate

996
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,780
to each other in our differences except by

997
00:48:23,780 --> 00:48:25,880
the mercy of God and how shall we

998
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,920
relate to each other significantly except we look

999
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,420
through the mercy seat to the tablets of

1000
00:48:32,420 --> 00:48:35,240
the law within the righteous requirement of God

1001
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:38,500
it's not by slighting them or ignoring them

1002
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:40,480
that would that we're in the place that

1003
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,360
God is wanting it's taking full cognizance of

1004
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,260
what is in the ark it's the law

1005
00:48:46,260 --> 00:48:49,820
it's the righteous requirement of God you don't

1006
00:48:49,820 --> 00:48:52,340
circumvent it you don't slap it off you

1007
00:48:52,340 --> 00:48:54,860
don't dismiss it as legalism you have an

1008
00:48:54,860 --> 00:48:57,380
obligation to the righteousness of God you've got

1009
00:48:57,380 --> 00:48:59,380
to relate to each other in the context

1010
00:48:59,380 --> 00:49:02,600
of righteousness not on the context of convenience

1011
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,540
or a glib word brother a little pat

1012
00:49:05,540 --> 00:49:07,640
on the back like a full gospel bear

1013
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:12,120
hug as if that constitutes reality it's righteousness

1014
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,460
it's it's examining the differences it's working your

1015
00:49:15,460 --> 00:49:17,340
way through them what what that means for

1016
00:49:17,340 --> 00:49:21,060
male and female who has done that what

1017
00:49:21,060 --> 00:49:22,960
that means for jew and gentile in the

1018
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:24,960
church one new man who has done that

1019
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,280
what that means for the motley representation that

1020
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,580
was to be found at Antioch where there

1021
00:49:31,580 --> 00:49:33,240
was a man called niger who was black

1022
00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:35,940
and minayan who was a roman and paul

1023
00:49:35,940 --> 00:49:38,160
who was a hebrew and one from cyprus

1024
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:42,320
a whole motley composition of the mediterranean world

1025
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,200
was found in one church and when they

1026
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:50,340
were found worshiping the lord together the holy

1027
00:49:50,340 --> 00:49:53,180
spirit said separate unto me a piece of

1028
00:49:53,180 --> 00:49:55,460
that reality that i can now bring into

1029
00:49:55,460 --> 00:49:57,920
a world that is at each other's thoughts

1030
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,760
because of the differences that are never reconciled

1031
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:05,500
you come to them and and depict what

1032
00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:08,600
you have obtained in and being with one

1033
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:13,360
another face to face not walking and and

1034
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:17,000
seeing the issues of righteousness through in that

1035
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,280
relationship because you receive you see it also

1036
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,940
and through the place of mercy and there

1037
00:50:23,940 --> 00:50:25,960
i'll meet with you and from there i'll

1038
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:27,920
send you and from there i'll be with

1039
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:29,720
you i'll give you my words i'll give

1040
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:33,080
you my unction my anointing my authority because

1041
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,740
this is life-saving what you are finding

1042
00:50:36,740 --> 00:50:39,460
is what the world is desperately dying for

1043
00:50:39,460 --> 00:50:43,380
and for the want of and it's in

1044
00:50:43,380 --> 00:50:46,560
it's and that's where i dwell you like

1045
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,780
that yeah i like that yeah but that's

1046
00:50:50,780 --> 00:50:53,760
where i dwell and where i dwell is

1047
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:58,680
liberty grace unction wisdom all that i am

1048
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,060
is to be found there if you'll come

1049
00:51:01,060 --> 00:51:02,420
to the place where i wait for you

1050
00:51:02,420 --> 00:51:04,860
above the mercy seat between the wings of

1051
00:51:04,860 --> 00:51:07,700
the cherubim there i am and that in

1052
00:51:07,700 --> 00:51:10,960
the nexus and where the what do they

1053
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,300
call these where it lines up like like

1054
00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:17,360
uh the vectors that's the word where the

1055
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,820
vectors meet that's where i am where the

1056
00:51:19,820 --> 00:51:22,280
opposition is at its greatest where the tensions

1057
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:27,080
are most incisive and painful because you've not

1058
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,340
flinched from it and you continue to look

1059
00:51:29,340 --> 00:51:31,800
face to face and know that there's a

1060
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,800
righteous requirement under that mercy seat and i'm

1061
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,300
looking through the place where the blood of

1062
00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:40,600
my son has been sprinkled there i will

1063
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,160
give you an answer to that very predicament

1064
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,580
that arises out of your opposition that is

1065
00:51:46,580 --> 00:51:48,080
not to be found in any other place

1066
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,260
and then you have a message then you

1067
00:51:51,260 --> 00:51:54,280
are a message then you can come to

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a world that's divided like uh the balkans

1069
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and the syria what is it the albanians

1070
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kosovo and serbia and and this ethnic cleansing

1071
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and bloodletting and the tribes in africa where

1072
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over a million were hacked to death with

1073
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machetes it was a genocidal bloodbath of black

1074
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against black so lord if there's such a

1075
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:30,240
place that is eternal of which all this

1076
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made according to the pattern given on the

1077
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mount yet remains as a spiritual place that

1078
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,580
can be abound and that is a very

1079
00:52:39,580 --> 00:52:41,940
genius of what the church is in its

1080
00:52:41,940 --> 00:52:45,520
diversity of what christian marriages in itself in

1081
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:49,100
its gender opposition in what what life is

1082
00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:51,460
in the tension between our children and their

1083
00:52:51,460 --> 00:52:55,040
parents from different generations wherever we look lord

1084
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i remember it as a teacher there was

1085
00:52:56,940 --> 00:52:58,860
a tension between the teachers and the administrators

1086
00:52:58,860 --> 00:53:02,240
they were the enemy we were we were

1087
00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:04,900
the guardians of truth they were the administrators

1088
00:53:06,260 --> 00:53:08,860
wherever it is wherever we look tension and

1089
00:53:08,860 --> 00:53:16,860
conflict palestinian and israeli the church is god's

1090
00:53:16,860 --> 00:53:20,440
answer there's a greater reality and it's got

1091
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,900
to be in wrought in meeting with the

1092
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:27,460
lord where he is so lord thank you

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00:53:27,460 --> 00:53:31,300
for tonight now we can go on with

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00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:33,340
the subject of what the prophet is and

1095
00:53:33,340 --> 00:53:36,800
represents what he communicates and that is an

1096
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,000
issue of life and death people that are

1097
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,420
living in a lie that are in unreality

1098
00:53:41,420 --> 00:53:43,940
and in deception they're dead while they yet

1099
00:53:43,940 --> 00:53:46,740
live and their eternity we don't even want

1100
00:53:46,740 --> 00:53:50,060
to consider there's an urgency my god for

1101
00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:52,440
a moment of truth that can come to

1102
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,440
them from sent ones who come to them

1103
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,460
from the place of truth which is the

1104
00:53:56,460 --> 00:53:58,460
place of your dwelling but that's what you

1105
00:53:58,460 --> 00:54:02,020
yourself are so grant us a fresh heart

1106
00:54:02,020 --> 00:54:05,120
my god to be priestly to press in

1107
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,740
and deeper than what we have known if

1108
00:54:07,740 --> 00:54:09,980
we're only yet lingering in the outer court

1109
00:54:09,980 --> 00:54:13,100
and still celebrating our salvation as if it's

1110
00:54:13,100 --> 00:54:14,740
the sum all and the be all rather

1111
00:54:14,740 --> 00:54:17,000
than the beginning of all and to come

1112
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,520
in and through into the deeper place where

1113
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:23,240
the light of your menorah shines to give

1114
00:54:23,240 --> 00:54:25,840
us illumination on the mystery of israel and

1115
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,400
the church the kingdom of god has been

1116
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,820
something more and other than just the subjective

1117
00:54:30,820 --> 00:54:36,340
and inward standard but the theocratic rule of

1118
00:54:36,340 --> 00:54:39,120
god out of zion and then an even

1119
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,200
deeper thing beyond the table of showbread however

1120
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,780
nourishing that is to where you yourself are

1121
00:54:44,780 --> 00:54:47,960
the light the shekinah glory of god the

1122
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,740
presence of god for those who come and

1123
00:54:51,740 --> 00:54:54,660
dwell in that inmost place maybe what you're

1124
00:54:54,660 --> 00:54:57,240
saying is the you're giving us the structure

1125
00:54:57,240 --> 00:55:00,620
and the tenth of shem however much that

1126
00:55:00,620 --> 00:55:02,880
is so lord or whether it's so this

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00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:08,500
is indescribably precious and unknown and i'm asking

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00:55:08,500 --> 00:55:11,920
for a faith lord that believes for it

1129
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,460
and that it's accessible even now that there's

1130
00:55:15,460 --> 00:55:17,200
a place that we can find and maintain

1131
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,280
and dwell where you are and if we

1132
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:24,180
will avoid coining our own thoughts and forming

1133
00:55:24,180 --> 00:55:26,520
our own words which is the rest of

1134
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:28,840
god to enter this place is to enter

1135
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,040
the rest which the brother who visited us

1136
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:34,620
and no longer with us was denigrating because

1137
00:55:34,620 --> 00:55:37,380
it was it so jarred his spirit he

1138
00:55:37,380 --> 00:55:38,740
could not stand to be in the room

1139
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,640
but that this is the rest of god

1140
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,940
for in this place you cease from yourself

1141
00:55:45,620 --> 00:55:49,020
i will give you instruction you won't have

1142
00:55:49,020 --> 00:55:56,100
to fabricate it so lord we bless you

1143
00:55:56,100 --> 00:56:02,480
thank you for the specific description the reality

1144
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:05,680
of what what is stated here stir our

1145
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,300
hearts to seek it to find it to

1146
00:56:08,300 --> 00:56:10,140
dwell in it and to speak from it

1147
00:56:10,140 --> 00:56:13,140
and to serve out from it that which

1148
00:56:13,140 --> 00:56:15,300
issues out of yourself to those who meet

1149
00:56:15,300 --> 00:56:17,840
you in that place the world is dying

1150
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,300
for this for this we thank and give

1151
00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:24,420
you praise in jesus name tonight let there

1152
00:56:24,420 --> 00:56:27,200
be those who enter the holiest place of

1153
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:31,440
all who would think themselves disqualified but need

1154
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,840
to be reminded it's not your qualification it's

1155
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,480
his by his blood he entered in a

1156
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:41,600
new and living way once and for all

1157
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,960
you're not exempt you're invited this is the

1158
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,200
normative place of our dwelling our speaking our

1159
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:52,260
being our service our life enter and come

1160
00:56:52,260 --> 00:56:55,080
into the rest by faith in jesus name