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It's been a shocked and grieving city this
week.
As we've all had to face, in one
way or another, the horror of the collapse
of the Twin Towers, the terrorist attack.
And in times like these, that I believe
that God opens the ears of many people.
C.S. Lewis said that pain is God's
megaphone.
That pain causes us to stop in our
tracks and say, God, what is happening?
What are you doing?
And I think as the Christians who say,
Lord, we want you to speak to us
at all times, against the backdrop of horror
and pain, it's especially important that we hear
Him speak to us.
God does not trifle with our lives.
God has a purpose and a plan.
And when we say, Lord, speak to me,
and we say, Lord, I want you to
teach me to tremble before your word, that
when you speak to me through this word,
it has the full effect of God speaking
to me.
And then we'll have something to say to
people dying around us.
Today, the word that the Lord gave me
is called, The Word of the Lord to
His People in Troubled Times.
And if you would turn with me to
Hebrews chapter 2, I'm going
to pray.
Father, I ask, Lord, that you would come,
that Jesus, you would walk in our midst,
that you would touch the ears and our
heart.
Jesus, we want you to fully grip us.
We want, Lord, in this time to know
you and to love you as never before.
Jesus, we know that you have promised to
be everything we need.
Yet, Lord, so many times we fall beneath
what you have for us.
So, Lord, lift us up today.
Lord, let us hear this word.
Lord, let us love this word.
Lord, give us the grace to live in
it.
And Jesus, we ask that you be glorified.
We ask, Lord, that you be heard.
We ask, Lord, that you do among us
what we so desperately need to be done.
Lord, teach us to praise you with all
our hearts.
Lord, teach us to magnify you.
Lord, teach us to live in your presence.
Lord, we thank you that that living word
can create something, that that living word can
be such a light and a lamp and
a hope to us.
Lord, let us not hold this word lightly
nor disregard when you speak to us.
But, Lord, let it be a holy trust.
God, we thank you that you do speak.
We thank you, Lord, that you are speaking
to your bride this hour.
Lord, we love it.
We ask you to do its precious and
its holy work.
And, Lord, we'll give you the praise and
the glory for it belongs to no other.
We thank you, Lord, in this hour.
You're calling out a people.
You're calling out a bride.
And there's going to be a glory in
her midst.
Oh, God, let us be part of it.
And we thank you for it in Jesus'
name.
Amen.
Hebrews 2, chapter 10.
Sorry.
Chapter 2, verse 10.
For it became Him for whom are all
things and by whom are all things in
bringing many sons into glory to make the
captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Beloved, this line is truly a thought in
the heart of God.
This verse is not something that you and
I would think up.
But God is giving us a window into
His heart for us to understand something about
Himself so that He can be something in
us that He needs to be.
And it says, for it became Him.
It is fitting for God.
It is not one bit beneath Him and
who He is.
And then, lest we forget who it is
that's going to speak to us of this
verse, He says it's not the least bit
fitting.
But it became Him from whom are all
things and by whom are all things.
It's going to be becoming and fitting to
a Most High God.
That in bringing many sons into glory, that
to make the captain of their salvation perfect
through sufferings.
It's saying here that it is God's heart
that you and I as children be brought
into a glory.
Beloved, this is not a glory that the
flesh understands or our mind comprehends.
But He says everyone who has the Spirit
of God are led by the Spirit of
God.
And those that have the Spirit, God is
saying that He wants to bring us into
a glory of His presence and a glory
of knowing Him, regardless of circumstance.
And in this glory, He says the captain,
the founder, the author and the finisher of
our faith is going to be a leader
to us, is going to show us something,
is going to through His life and who
He is, in order to bring us into
the glory of those that belong to Jesus
Christ, He says in order for that to
happen, He is going to lead the way
by being perfect through sufferings.
And that word perfect means to fully complete,
to accomplish the goal.
And in order to bring us into glory,
to fully complete and to accomplish that goal,
of bringing us into that glory, He is
going to teach us something about suffering.
Christ chose to suffer in order for us
to be led into glory.
And in the next verse, it says, For
both He that sanctifies and they who are
sanctified are all of one, for which cause
He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
And beloved, this is talking here of He
who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are
all of one.
That means that Jesus Christ, sanctified means to
be set apart.
To be set apart, to be separated from
and to be enabled to be made holy.
And Jesus Christ who is totally set apart
and who is totally holy is now going
to do that in us.
And we who are sanctified or called of
God are going to be called to be
a separated people.
There is no other way that we can
walk with Jesus Christ except we become a
separated people.
Beloved, the call in our lives are to
be a called out people.
The call and the way that we walk
with Jesus Christ is to be separate, to
have a completely distinctness from those that we
live among.
Beloved, separating is painful.
We are very webbed in.
We are very tied in to the world.
We are very tied in to the people
around us that think differently than the thoughts
of God.
But yet there is no getting around this
because He says that both He that sanctifies,
He that is holy and apart, and those
that He touches and moves into their lives,
they are sanctified and they are holy and
apart.
And the Scripture says all are of one.
When Christ comes into our life, if we
are one with Him, all are of one
spirit.
We are of one mind with Christ.
We are one in Him if we will
be led by Him.
There is a call of separateness.
In 2 Corinthians 6.17 it says, Come
out from among them and touch not the
unclean thing and I will receive you.
Beloved, the call on our lives is to
let Christ separate us from the world and
that which feeds that other life and other
nature in us.
And sometimes that is hard for us to
hear.
But Christ says, For the witch cause, those
that are willing to be separated unto Him,
He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
The them He is talking about is the
brethren that say, Lord, there is something, there
is a glory You want to give us,
but You can only give it to a
separated people.
There is a glory of those that say,
Lord, I want You to bind me to
You and where You lead I will follow.
But Lord, I know that is going to
lead me out of the camp.
It is going to lead me out of
the places, Lord, that keep me bound to
this world and this earth.
That keep me bound in my sin.
And Lord, in this last day, I believe
the call is so clear in the hour
that we live that Jesus said, I am
serious about this.
You need to hear this.
The earmark when we have a divided heart
is we are compromised.
That we have a divided heart.
And the call in our lives is so
much greater and so much higher.
But we don't realize fully who Christ is
because we will not follow Him.
We will not be let out.
There is a glory that He gives to
His people that are bound to Him.
That are separated unto Him and not unto
the world.
But we know so little about it because
He gives it to those, the brethren that
are called out.
And He says, those that are willing to
follow Him, He is not ashamed to call
them brethren.
Beloved, it doesn't mean that we are perfect.
It doesn't mean that we never fail.
But if we have that heart to say,
Jesus, bind me to You.
Bind me to this glory in You and
separate me from the world.
There is, Jesus says, I am not ashamed
of You.
He says that even though you don't see
a full complete work in yourself yet.
I know what I can do in a
heart that says, bind me to You, Jesus.
And separate me.
He says, I am not ashamed even though
you see things that you would be ashamed
of.
He says clearly in your word, if we
have that heart to say, Lord, lead me
out.
And have me not touch the unclean thing.
Give me that enabling power, what you are
speaking to me.
Give me that defiling thing that you are
speaking to me about.
Not salvation, but what keeps me separated from
You.
And that I seem outside of the glory
of the full presence of Christ in my
life.
Beloved, these last few weeks we have seen
the Holy Spirit move into our presence.
And I hope that He is creating a
hunger for Himself in it.
There is a glory that comes with a
people that are serious.
Say, Lord, show me whatever it is you
need to show me.
But Jesus says that I will come and
I will fill you.
I will give you a displace for the
world.
I will cut the ties.
You will stand up and think that the
cords that used to bind me are no
longer attached.
You are no longer attached to it.
But we have to have that willing heart.
And He says, I will give it to
you.
You see, because I sanctify you.
And if you are sanctified, that means you
are set apart.
But I will give you the power to
stay apart as you are bound to me
instead.
And He says, I am not ashamed of
what I have to do in your life.
And I don't want you to be ashamed.
I am not ashamed of you, Jesus says.
You are my brethren.
Beloved, I so understand this.
Because having three kids, although they are not
perfect, I am not ashamed of them.
I see who they are.
And I know the promises of God over
their life.
And I am not ashamed of them.
And God is that way with us.
He is saying, I am calling out to
you.
Now, I will give you the heart.
I will unite your heart that you may
fear my name.
And if you have a heart for that,
I tell you, I am not ashamed of
you.
But there is going to be a work
I will do in your life that is
awesome.
Beloved, in the workplace, in our families, so
many times, when we get among the laughing
crowd and the mocking crowd, we begin to
bow to the hardened spirits in our presence.
When we hear their laughter and their mockery,
when we hear their talk, all of a
sudden we go into the mode, we don't
want to offend them.
We want to be able to present Christ
in a winsome way.
But beloved, many times, that is us bowing
down to spirits and people in a few
that will never hear, in some who will
never hear, who will always mock, always despise
the name of Christ.
They are enemies of the cross.
But it is to shut us down because
there are others in our midst who will
hear.
There are others that would be so touched
if someone will finally take a stand in
the name of Christ.
If someone will stand up and say, I
am bound to Him.
And begin to speak His Word.
Begin to cry out, Oh God, make me
not ashamed.
You say you are not ashamed of me,
but God, I want you to drive the
shame in me for you out.
Jesus is calling for a called out people
separated unto Himself.
In Psalm 25 verse 2 it says, Oh
my God, I trust indeed.
Let me not be ashamed.
Let not my enemies triumph over me.
Because as long as we are ashamed of
Christ, beloved, that is a devilish spirit upon
us.
And our enemies do triumph.
We will fall down before those intimidating spirits
every time if we are not separated unto
Him.
But this is an hour and a time
where the Word of the Lord can get
cracked through hurting hearts.
Can smash down walls if someone will stand
and speak in the compassion and authority of
Christ.
People will hear.
This is a time where the church says,
I need Jesus to stand up for you
and be, I want to be that blood
washed church.
I want to be so separated unto you,
I don't want the defilement of the world
in my spirit and mind anymore.
The world is crying for this witness and
all the more in this hour.
Psalm 25 verse 3 says, Yea, let none
that wait on thee be ashamed.
Let none that wait on thee be ashamed.
And here the Lord is teaching us.
Here is the first steps, the beginning steps
of crying out, God, separate me from the
uncleanness.
That word wait means to bind together by
twisting.
Yea, let none that wait on thee be
ashamed.
But God, as I wait on thee, you
say as I wait on thee, you are
going to bind together by twisting my spirit
and your spirit.
What you say in Hebrews, that you who
sanctify and the sanctified, they all are one.
That's a promise that you make.
And through patient enduring, Lord, as I wait
on thee, there will be a twisting, there
will be a binding together of my spirit
and your spirit, my mind and your mind.
That's a promise that he makes to his
children who will say, God, lead me out
of the camp.
Lead me out of compromise.
Lead me out of being ashamed.
Lead me out of, Lord, defilements that you've
been speaking to me about over and over
again.
You say the enemies will not triumph over
me while I wait.
When we say, Lord, teach me that I
will not be ashamed of you.
Find me to Christ that I may be
bound to glory.
That's what it is.
Beloved, all of us start out shamed.
We all start out poor.
Some are born into hard, grinding poverty, to
financial difficulties.
We can be born poor when we're brought
up and we're emotionally needy.
Where we were not given what was good
and wholesome.
And we grow up with holes in us.
If we could see each other in the
spiritual way, we would see holes.
Because of an upbringing that was inferior.
But, beloved, the Scripture says we're all poor
because we're all short of the glory of
God in our lives.
We all fall short of that.
And for many that are walking around, even
in the body of Christ, there is a
deep inferiority.
A feeling of never measuring up.
A feeling of inadequacy.
There are intensely painful memories.
There's a feeling of shame.
There are areas of constant dismay and confusion
and embarrassment.
This opens the doors to rejection.
Where people walk around and everything comes through
a screen of rejection.
Everything they hear, every interaction they have, comes
through a screen of rejection.
And the result is a broken and a
wounded spirit.
It breeds deep inferiority.
And then when God asks us to trust
Him, it seems like an almost impossible task.
So many look in a mirror and say,
I don't like what I see.
I don't like who I am.
But I'm hopeless to change it.
But when there is a cry, Oh God,
I am ashamed.
I'm ashamed of me.
I'm ashamed to speak Your name.
Beloved, we are confronted with two realities.
One is of true painful past and a
painful present.
And the other reality is God's unconditional love.
Love that says, this is love for while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
And beloved, He suffered.
He chose to suffer that our shame may
be broken off our lives.
Every painful memory can be given to Christ
who chose to suffer that it could be
broken off our lives.
And beloved, then that path of separateness that
He is bidding us to, when we let
Him break off the strongholds that cause the
fear of following Him.
Because we're all born in shame.
We're all born poor and He understands that.
That's why His word to us, I'm not
ashamed of you if you will let me
do the work I long to do in
your heart and life.
I'm not ashamed of those that I call
brethren.
And He's saying, I'm going to break every
area of shame off your life that you
may stand up in the power of me
and follow me.
In verse 12, it says here, this is
Christ speaking to His church, to His called
out brethren.
He says, I will declare thy name unto
my brethren.
In the midst of the church, will I
sing praise unto thee.
God is saying, there is a glory to
the called out ones that only they know.
There is a glory and you come to
church to praise me.
You come to church to honor me that
I say to those that can hear my
voice and will follow me out.
He's saying, I will declare thy name to
the brethren in the glory, in the heavens.
And in the midst of my church, I
will sing praise back to thee.
I will sing to thee.
Jesus will sing the songs of strength and
love.
Jesus will sing to us, to a called
out brethren.
Have you heard Him sing to you?
Have you heard that tune back from heaven?
That says, I'm not ashamed of you.
No, I'm not ashamed of the work that's
going on.
Don't be discouraged.
Don't be fearful.
In this time, I have come and I'm
going to say words to you that are
going to create life.
I'm going to create power and create hope
to my called out ones.
I'm not ashamed of you because I'm committed
to bring you to glory.
In verse 14, it's talking about when
Jesus took on flesh and blood.
For as much then as the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself
likewise took part of the same.
And through death, He might destroy him that
had the power of death.
That is the devil.
Now Jesus is saying, because I was willing
to suffer to bring you through into glory.
You're going to see that because I came
and put on flesh, I needed to do
that because I needed to die a death.
And the death that I died, I break
the power of Him whose power lies in
death.
And that's the devil.
Death is the ultimate separation.
The devil has death at his command.
He is the Lord of death.
Beloved, every time He touches our lives, He
is bringing death if He doesn't already own
us.
Everything He has access to is death.
And beloved, the devil's whole intent is to
separate us.
Beloved, he's an accuser of the brethren.
And because he accuses, his job is to
separate us.
To separate us from the love of God,
the consolation of God, the promises of God.
And if he can separate us, if he
can cut that vine and twine and we're
left, Oh God, where are you?
That accusations can rise up in the midst
of our heart and separate us.
Lord, that is when He's beginning to have
death.
That death begins to reign in our life
where Christ says, I came, I became flesh
and blood and I suffered the death on
the cross that you did not have to
know this death.
You do not have to know the death
of separation between me and my love for
you.
You do not have to know the death
of the separation in your spirit.
Jesus says that the power of death has
been broken.
And in verse 15, He says, And I
deliver them who through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Beloved, it's saying that Christ died and He
suffered to bring us to glory so that
the fear of death could be broken off
our lives and bring a peace.
It is so precious, the scripture says, in
the eyes of the Lord when the death
of one of His saints occurs.
There is such a peace that comes on
one that have lived their life for Him.
And then it's just one step from this
side of eternity to the next.
And there is an incredible peace.
There is a glory in that.
But then also when He begins to break
off our lives that fear of death, beloved,
it determines how we live.
Because if He begins to come in and
move and touch every area of death, that
causes a separation from the reality and the
glory of God.
If we begin to separate from that fear
of death, it determines how we live.
And beloved, this is the hour when saints
are to live, not saying, Lord, I want
my life to count for You.
I don't want to spare myself.
God, it doesn't matter how my life is
lived as long as it's lived for You.
Teach me that.
God, it doesn't matter where You lead me
or how You lead me, it matters most
that I'm bound to You.
It matters that this binding and this twisting
goes on, that where You lead, I automatically
follow.
Because Jesus says, where I am, You may
also be.
That's the heart of Christ for us.
And He wants to break off every area
of death in our life.
And beloved, He will.
He will.
To those that say, Jesus, separate me from
those things that are bringing death into my
life.
Scripture goes on to say that He is
a merciful and a faithful high priest.
Because He became a man.
He knows what it is to face what
we face.
When we cry out to Him, He's going
to say, I know.
When He had to be separated from the
Father, that was a suffering.
When He was separated from glory, from being
totally in the Father's presence, there was a
suffering in His spirit to walk as a
man clothed in flesh and blood.
He knew what it is to be lonely.
He knew what it is to be exhausted.
He knew what it is to try to
reach out to a people that are choosing
darkness.
He knew what it is to be misjudged
and misquoted.
He knew what it is to have prejudice
against Him.
He knew what it was to be rejected
by those that He had come to lay
down His life for.
He knew every facet of the human condition
and the suffering.
Beloved, because the human condition that says we
suffer, then He chose to suffer.
So that He could say, I know.
So He could say, in truth, that He
is a merciful and a faithful high priest.
But in Hebrews 7.26, it says, That
means separate from them in the way they
think.
Separate from them in how He lived His
life.
Beloved, if we are bound to Him, this
is the call that God is asking us
to do in this hour.
In verse 18, it says, And
when you look up that Old Testament word
for that word tempted, it means to be
unwilling to refuse.
And now Jesus is telling us, that when
I became a man and walked this earth,
and I put on flesh, all of a
sudden, I had a temptation to be unwilling.
Because I put on flesh and blood, I
had a pull and a struggle in me
to refuse the will of God in my
life.
I know what it is in my flesh,
He is saying, where it rises up and
does not want to be willing to follow.
Does not want to be willing to speak
His truth.
Does not want to be willing to be
found in a place of being misunderstood.
Of being found in a place where there
was a possibility I could refuse.
And when we are tempted to be unwilling
to do the will of God, Christ knows
that struggle.
Tempted to refuse.
Christ was tempted, yet never did He obey
that unwillingness.
But beloved, He knows what the struggle is.
And He is committed, because in His suffering,
He said, I'm going to experience everything they
have, yet without sin.
I'm going to be a high priest that
can be moved and touched by their cry.
I'm going to be a high priest that
knows every struggle, because I chose to suffer.
So when they suffer to pay to follow
me, I understand.
And I alone can help them in their
time of need.
He says He will help us when we
find ourselves unwilling.
He says, I know what it is to
have that.
I know what it is to have something
rise up, yet He never fell to it.
And beloved, in this hour and this time,
there is much in us that rises up
to be unwilling.
And yet there's another side, because Christ dwells
in us.
That there is this struggle, and the Scripture
says, unite my heart to fear Thy name.
There has to be this cry, and there
is.
Lord, when I am unwilling, You understand.
You're not ashamed.
You're not condemning me.
You understand.
But Lord, I want to know what it
is to follow You wherever You lead.
I want to know what it is to
be separate in this hour.
I am beginning to see what this hour
brings, with its music, with its devilish entertainment,
with everything that is defiling me.
And I know what it is to walk
half-hearted and divided.
And I know that it's death.
And Jesus knows it too, because that's why
He tells us in Hebrews, I have come
to destroy death, that is the separation.
But you have to hear me.
If I lead you out, you must follow.
Beloved, if the blood-washed church of Jesus
Christ needs to be a separated people, and
we have to settle it in our hearts,
He must be able to speak to us
in the areas where He says, that's unclean,
you don't touch it.
Where He says, others may, but you may
not.
We have to hear that.
If we're going to people that are going
to rise up in the glory of Jesus
Christ and speak with power and compassion to
the dying around us, we have to have
a separated walk.
We cannot have that doubleness anymore.
There's got to be a determination.
And I believe that the Spirit of God
is moving in our midst strongly, speaking to
us over and over of this same issue.
Beloved, we could count in the recent past
how many times God has been bringing forth
this word, that we're to be separated unto
Him.
That we're to turn from all that defiles
us.
This is not an hour.
This is not a time to have a
foot in the world and a foot in
His camp.
This is not a time where we think
we can handle the devil.
This is not a time where we think
that, Lord, you understand.
He says, I do understand.
I understand more than you know.
That's why I say, come out from among
them.
And it tells us in Hebrews 18 that
He knows what it is to be unwilling.
And He's able to help those that are
tempted, who are even unwilling.
He's saying, I've taken away every excuse, because
I chose to suffer, because I know in
this separating, there will be hours, there will
be times in your life, in the choosing
to be separate, it will bring a sorrow.
It will bring a pain with that wrenching
of separating.
But He says, there's a glory.
That those who are not separated, that those
who are not cleaving to me, that are
not saying, Jesus, bind me to you so
that I can't run away.
Jesus, bind me so that wherever you lead
me, I will follow, because I'm bound to
you.
We're twisted together.
And, beloved, when we have that, we're going
to find in the midst, though there is
sometimes when that flesh wants to rise up,
and we say no to it, and we
say no to it, and that is a
time of sorrow, it is a time of
pain.
And yet the glory of God is going
to move through us.
It is going to accomplish things that we
never thought possible.
We're going to touch people we were never
able to touch before.
We're going to be able to move into
situations and see with the eyes of God
what is happening and what is going on.
We're no longer going to be a blinded
people.
But as we are separated unto Him, the
glory of God, the courage of God, the
authority of God, is going to be, we're
going to be able to finally stand up
and not be ashamed of Him.
We're going to be able to speak His
name.
He'll give us wisdom, that He will give
us the strength that we need.
Turn with me quickly to John 8.
In John 8, verse 1, this is a
story familiar to most, but for the sake
of the new believers in our midst and
those that are our visitors, it's a story
about a woman that was taken to Jesus
in the very act of adultery.
And the Bible tells us that the men
that brought this woman to Jesus were Pharisees
and scribes.
And verse 3, And the scribes and Pharisees
brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery.
And when they set her in the midst,
they say unto Him, Master, this woman was
taken in adultery in the very act.
Now, Moses in the law commanded us that
such should be stoned.
But what sayest thou?
This they said, tempting Him, that they might
have to accuse Him.
But Jesus stooped down and with His finger
wrote on the ground, as though He not
heard them.
Now, beloved, in verse 6, where it says,
And they said, tempting Him.
That word tempting means to prove that one
has been evil or to make Him evil,
to sin.
And these men came and they wanted to
either prove that He had been evil or
that they could make Him evil, they could
make Him sin.
That's why they'd come.
And they just knew from hanging around Him
that if they had this woman caught in
adultery, somehow they just knew, they felt they
could get Him on this point.
Because He would speak mercy to her.
And the law clearly said that she needed
to be stoned.
But on another level, they wanted to make
Him sin.
There was going to be something in them.
There was going to be something in this
interaction that could cause the man, Christ Jesus,
to move in His flesh.
And so they're coming now, fully animated by
the enemy.
Because they want to either accuse Him of
evil or cause Him to sin.
And they brought her that they might accuse
Him.
And they say, she was caught in adultery,
this is the law.
Says she has to be stoned.
What do you say?
And Jesus fully well knew that this, why
they brought her, was an absolutely unrighteous intention.
There was no thought in their mind for
the community good or upholding the law or
certain standards.
If that had been their intent, then they
would have brought the man also.
But they had no intention, see, she was
just exhibit A.
She was nothing to them.
She was just there to prove the point.
The point to entrap Him.
The point that they could get Him on
the law.
The point that they could tempt Him to
sin somehow in this accusation.
And so here they are, their intentions are
evil.
And beloved, they brought her to Him because
they were filled with envy.
They were moved with envy and there was
something murderous in them.
And in every chance that they could accuse
Him, that they could cause Him to sin,
they would do it.
And so their hearts filled with envy and
hypocrisy.
Because beloved, I believe one reason they never
took the man, he could have been a
comrade.
They themselves could have been with her.
They could be lusting after her.
They weren't interested in accusing the man.
That was a little too close.
And so they bring Him to her to
tempt Him.
But it says, but Jesus stooped down and
with His finger wrote on the ground as
though He heard them not.
I've heard this preached many times.
But beloved, there's something in this story that
so moved me.
Because when I saw Jesus stooped on the
ground and He began to write as He
heard them not.
All of a sudden, all of a sudden,
I felt Jesus ashamed that His Father was
being so misrepresented by this man.
And yet at the same time, He wasn't
listening to their voices.
Because that word stooped down, that word means
stooping down to look into something.
And as there was something in Him and
He's so ashamed of these men and He
sees right into their heart.
He's getting, I believe because of what stooped
down means like a check in the spirit.
Have you ever had a check in your
spirit?
Do you know what it is where you
can feel something rising up in you and
you get a check?
There's all of a sudden a Holy Ghost
saying stop.
And He stooping on the ground begins to
write.
And I believe that Jesus could have justifiably
stood up and called these men like He
had and rightly so, men with these intentions
in their heart.
He had called them whited tombs.
He had called them vipers.
He had called them full of dead men's
bones.
And now seeing through them and what they
were up to, I believe that there was
something in Him that in His flesh would
once again want to speak to them that
way.
But He stooped down as if into looking
at something.
Believe it.
Beloved, here He is waiting on the Lord
that your enemies may not triumph over you.
And there was a fleshly battle.
There could be on one hand to speak
the truth.
But as He's bent down, as He's bent
down, when He rises up, beloved, He speaks
the Word of God.
And He says in verse 7, So when
they continued asking Him, He lifted Himself up
and said unto them, He that is without
sin among you, let Him first cast a
stone at her.
Beloved, the Scripture says, He was as though
He were a son, yet He learned obedience
by the things which He suffered.
And I believe bent down, there could have
been a war in His flesh.
And He could have rightly spoken words to
those men.
But bent down, being tempted, He waited.
And when He stood, He had the Word
of God in His mouth.
And beloved, the word He spoke to them
was able to convict them.
The Bible says everyone, every one of those
men were convicted by the word that was
in His mouth.
That He spoke, given to Him by the
Spirit of God.
And the Bible says that they dropped down
their stones, every one of them, beginning with
the eldest.
Beloved, our battle is going to be in
the days ahead when we say, Lord, lead
me out.
There is going to be that same battle
where the flesh wants to rise up and
speak its mind.
Where the flesh wants to rise up and
compromise and pad the truth.
Or to be ashamed.
To let death reign in our tongue, to
lash out, to wound and shame.
But as surely as the Word came to
Jesus, stooping down, looking into something, He is
our pattern.
That the flesh does not need to rule
the ones that are called out.
And those that await upon the Lord, He
will fill our mouths.
And it will go forth in the power
that it only can when it's anointed by
the Spirit of God.
They went out convicted one by one.
And then, beloved, He turned to the woman.
And He said to her, where are your
accusers?
Has no man condemned thee?
She says, there are none, Lord.
There are no more accusers.
And He said to her, verse 11, she
said, no man, Lord.
And Jesus said unto her, neither do I
condemn thee.
Go and sin no more.
Beloved, the only way that she could go
and sin no more, is to separate herself
from her sin.
To separate herself from that lifestyle.
To separate herself from that path.
To separate herself from those companions.
To separate herself and to cleave unto Jesus.
That is the only way that we go
and sin no more.
Is we separate from that and we cleave
unto Him.
But then what does Jesus say?
I don't condemn you.
I'm not ashamed of you.
I'm not ashamed of that work that I've
started in you.
I'm not ashamed.
I see who you are.
I know what you've done.
But I'm not ashamed of you if you
will cleave to me.
If you will separate yourself.
If you will do what I ask you
to do.
If you will learn to wait on me,
I will fill your mouth with power.
And you will stand and testify of me
in this hour.
Beloved, that is the promise.
But there is no glory if there is
no separation.
There is nothing of what we're talking about
unless we say, Jesus, lead on and bind
me to you.
But there is that promise and there is
that glory.
For those that will follow Him.
Beloved, I believe that God is speaking to
us what He wants us separated from.
Today, after the service and that powerful word,
a precious couple came backstage.
They said, we want to get married.
We're living in sin.
We have a child.
We want to get married now.
We hear the warning.
We know the time.
Our eyes have been opened and we see
what we're doing.
Beloved, do we see what we're doing?
Do we see the glory we miss by
a compromise?
Do we see that God is saying, we
have a heart for Him, I'm not ashamed
of you.
But are we saying, God, why am I
ashamed of you then?
If you're not ashamed of me.
It is an hour to let Him call
us out.
I love you, Lord Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
Love you, Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
Love you, Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
Love you, Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
Love you, Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
Love you, Jesus.
I love you, Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
I love you, Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
I love you, Jesus.
I love you, Lord.
I love you, Jesus.
I raise my voice up with a cry.
I raise my voice up and will silence
the dry my eyes.
I, I, I love you.
I love you, Jesus.
You are the Alpha and Omega
You're the first, the last, the same This
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