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Okay, let's look at the book of Exodus,

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chapter 34, or maybe, let's see, I'll

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go back a minute there into chapter 33,

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sorry.

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Now here's Moses talking, let's go to verse

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12.

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And Moses said unto the Lord, isn't that

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lovely?

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It means he's sitting and having a conversation

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with the Lord.

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Not with an archangel or some other being,

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but with the Lord.

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The Lord we sang about tonight, immortal, invisible,

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God only wise.

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And yet man talks with God.

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In verse 12, Moses said unto the Lord,

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See thou sayest unto me, bring up this

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people, and thou hast not let me know

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whom thou wilt send with me.

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Yet thou hast said, I know thee by

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name, I know thee by name, and that

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thou hast also found grace in my sight.

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Now therefore I pray thee, if I have

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found grace in thy sight, show me now

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thy way, that I may know thee, that

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I may find grace in thy sight, and

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consider that this nation is thy people.

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And he, God said, my presence shall go

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with thee, and I will give thee rest.

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Now if you wonder what rest is, it's

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answered for you in that verse.

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Rest is the presence of God.

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Never being afraid, knowing he's with us, he's

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guaranteed he'll never leave us or forsake us,

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and because of that we have rest.

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We can lean back as it were on

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God.

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My presence shall go with thee.

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And then this other wonderful verse, the end

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of verse 17, or in verse 17, The

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Lord said unto Moses, I will do this

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thing also that thou hast spoken, for thou

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hast found grace in my sight, and I

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know thee by name.

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Do you believe God knows you by name?

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You say so and so talks with the

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Queen of England, and when he goes in

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he doesn't bow and say your excellency, your

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majesty, he says hi Elizabeth.

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He'd be a bit nervous to do that.

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But isn't it wonderful that God knows us

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by name?

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I know thee by name.

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That's what I want the Lord to do,

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know me by name.

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I know thee by name.

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And he said, Moses said, I beseech thee,

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show me thy glory.

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Verse 2 of chapter 34 says, Be ready

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in the morning, and come up in the

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morning unto the Mount Sinai, and present thyself

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to me there in the top of the

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mount.

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Now this is a hazard, isn't it?

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He'd done that in the 32nd chapter.

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What happened?

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While he was up there they fooled around,

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they made a graven image, they got drunk,

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they got naked, they did every crazy willful

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thing to disobey God.

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And now God says now come up on

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the mountain again.

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And verse 5 says, The Lord descended in

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the cloud and stood with him there, and

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proclaimed the name of the Lord.

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And the Lord passed by him and proclaimed

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the Lord.

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The Lord, merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness

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and in truth.

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So he's gone up the mount with God.

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Look at verse 29.

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Oh pardon me, look at verses 6 and

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8 first.

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The Lord passed before him and proclaimed the

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The Lord, God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering and

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abundant in goodness and truth.

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And verse 8, Moses made haste and bowed

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his head toward the earth and worshipped.

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In chapter 32, and verse 22 it says,

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And Aaron said, Let not the anger of

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my Lord wax hot.

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Now he's talking there to Moses.

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And thou know'st the people that they're full

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of mischief.

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Okay, I'm coming back into this chapter now,

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into chapter 34 for this reason.

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The Lord passed by.

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What had he requested?

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He'd request, Show me thy glory.

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And now he's gone up a second time

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up on the mountain.

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You know, we kind of look at that

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as we took a helicopter ride, or stood

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on an escalator.

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Instead of that he has to struggle up

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the mountain.

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And I identify that with that word in

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the fourth chapter of Hebrews, when it said

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that we're to labor, to enter into rest.

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There's nothing comes easy in the Christian life.

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Everything is a wrestling.

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Everything is a striving.

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We've got the world, the flesh, the devil

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against us.

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And Moses here now has gone the second

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time onto the mountain.

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If I remember right, he's about 80 years

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of age.

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He must have been pretty fit.

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It doesn't say how long he stayed there,

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how long it took the glory of the

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Lord to pass before him.

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But the Lord was merciful and gracious.

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I believe in this instance, while there's no

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time factor given, if all the glory of

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God went past him, he could have been

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there for weeks.

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I believe he was transfixed.

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Transfixed means motionless.

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I believe he stood awed.

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I believe he gazed at the majesty of

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God.

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Something that we've totally forgotten in our day.

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The awful majesty of God.

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As I said last week, you should read

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at least once a week the 40th chapter

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in Isaiah, which tells you that God made

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the stars.

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He counts them all and he knows every

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one of them by name.

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That the nations are as a drop in

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a bucket.

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That he has all power and all authority.

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You see, our God is so small.

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And we have such a small concept of

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God, the world outside isn't in any way

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staggered by what we are or who we

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are.

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The Lord passed by him.

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You know, if you put it into common

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vernacular, I think Moses had a bit of

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a nerve to say to God, show me

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thy glory.

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Boy, if I'd taken a stick and divided

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the Red Sea, I'd thought I'd seen all

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the glory I needed.

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If I hit a rock and it split

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open and it followed the nation wherever they

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went, I'd say, look at the magic.

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Hey, I did that.

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Remember when I did it that morning?

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You're all thirsty and I did it.

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Good old me, Moses.

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But instead of that, he's awed.

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He bowed down and what did he do?

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He worshipped.

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And you know what?

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If ever you see the glory of God,

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you'll worship.

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He bowed down, but Moses was alone.

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Aaron wasn't with him.

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The highest moments of your life will be

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when you're alone in worship and in adoration.

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They'll surpass all the preaching you've ever heard.

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Unless you heard mine, but apart from that,

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we don't see the glory of God.

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I've said to you often, when do you

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tiptoe out of the sanctuary?

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Because you've been overwhelmed with the mercy and

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the glory and the majesty and the holiness

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of God.

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People go into church dirty, sing about him

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and go out dirty.

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You can't do that if you see God.

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He goes on a mountain, he climbs to

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the height.

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Show me thy glory.

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Lord, I've seen your miracles.

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Show me yourself.

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I want to get intimate with you.

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That's what it means.

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Show me thy glory.

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And the Lord passed by him and proclaimed,

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the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious.

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I think all the history of Israel must

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have gone past him like you watch a

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film go when God said that to him.

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Remember my mercy.

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I could have blotted you out with your

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transgressions.

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I could destroy you when you made a

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golden calf.

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Instead, I extended my mercy.

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I extended my mercy.

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I'm well past 70 years of age.

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People tell me sometimes I'm living on borrowed

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time.

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The only time I borrowed was the watch

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tonight because I didn't have one.

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I borrowed time.

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But anyhow, living on borrowed time, America's living

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on borrowed time.

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Amen.

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We passed the safety line years ago.

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We're heading for hell as quick as any

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nation on earth.

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But if we saw the glory of God

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one Sunday in every church in America, we'd

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shake the country for God the next week.

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Amen.

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Everything else would wither.

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Everything else would perish.

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All our values would change.

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Here he is on a mountaintop.

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I looked at the seventh chapter.

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Don't look now.

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The seventh chapter of the Acts of the

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Apostles.

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And that second, about the second verse, where

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that marvelous young man, the first martyr in

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the church, possibly not more than 19 years

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of age, Stephen, and he says, the God

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of Abraham appeared to our father.

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The glory of God appeared to Abraham where?

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In a hellhole called Mesopotamia.

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A place that was full of idolatry.

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A moral dungheap.

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And yet God appears to a man.

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There's no system.

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There are no priests.

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There are no altars.

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And yet the God of glory unveiled himself

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to a man in a hellhole like that.

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You know, maybe the God of glory has

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appeared in some cells of those poor prisoners

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in Russia today more than in our life.

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We're so busy we can't, we haven't time

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to wait for him.

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Oh, we say, be filled with the Holy

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Ghost.

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Sure, that's a command.

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Be filled with the Spirit.

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There's another command.

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Be still and know that I'm God.

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It's in the 42nd Psalm when the seas

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are roaring and the mountains are falling.

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Paraphrased, I guess, again by Isaac Watts.

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Let mountains from their seats be hurled down

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to the deeps and buried there.

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Convulsions shake the solid earth.

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Our faith shall never yield to fear.

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But in a shaking world where everything is

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chaos, everything that's orderly has become disorderly, then

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God says, be still and know that I'm

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God.

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Everybody else is going mad.

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Christians today think if they knock on doors

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till their fingers bleed and give out tracks

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until they're dropping in the shopping mall, they've

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pleased God.

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Let me tell you, I believe you could

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earn, you could win a hundred souls to

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Jesus Christ every hour on the hour in

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the day and still disappoint him.

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Because that's service in the outer court.

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God says Aaron and his son shall minister

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unto me.

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Come on now.

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I know you nod your heads and say

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I'm right.

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How much ministering have you done to the

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Lord today?

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You said your prayers, but it was request,

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wasn't it?

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Do this, do that, do the other.

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Again, prayer is our preoccupation with our needs.

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Praise is preoccupation with our blessings.

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Worship is preoccupation with God.

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Just God himself.

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I put that in the back of my

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Bible.

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I think I did anyhow.

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But I brought the wrong Bible.

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But it begins with my goal is God

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himself, not joy, not peace, not even blessing,

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but with thee my God.

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Moses was confronted and he saw the glory

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of God.

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And he appeared where?

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In Mesopotamia.

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Again, I says I prayed over this today.

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Mesopotamia is about the most corrupt place on

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the earth.

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It was full of idols.

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It was full of immorality.

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It was lawless.

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It was godless.

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And yet almighty God comes to one man,

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only one saint, maybe in a whole nation

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of a million people, and he reveals himself

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to that one man.

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You say, why does he reveal himself to

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me?

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Because you don't stay still, that's why.

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You give him a shopping list and get

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up and go out and your prayers are

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over.

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I wish I had some more details about

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this.

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I could fill it in by imagination, but

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I won't.

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Moses standing there and God, the God of

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glory, the God of the universe, unveils his

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majesty, unveils his glory.

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Isn't this man speechless?

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Why does he bow down to the earth?

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Because he can't stand there.

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Because he can't keep looking, the glory is

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so great.

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And he bows himself to the earth, and

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not only bows himself to the earth, he

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worships.

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And there's only one way you can worship,

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and that is to worship God in spirit

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and in truth.

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God is a spirit, I'm a spirit.

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My spirit must connect with God's spirit.

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Most of our religion today, in Christian centers,

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it's soulish, it's not spiritual, it's soulish.

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That's why kids like to go to these

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rock concerts, because it's soulish, it stirs the

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soul.

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And they go out and sin and do

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all the devilish things they want to do,

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there's no change there.

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You can't glorify God, you can't have a

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vision of the glory of God and turn

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around and be mean to your wife or

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children.

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Oh, this is a marvelous scripture, but I've

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got to link it up with something else

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here.

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Go to the second, where are we, second

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book of Corinthians, where

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do I want to go, second book of

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Corinthians chapter three, I guess, and

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2 Corinthians 3, 18, I think it is,

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I'll get there in a minute.

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Now this is bringing it right down to

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earth where we live.

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2 Corinthians 3 and verse 18, that we

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all with open face beholding as in a

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glass the glory of the Lord are changed

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by the same image from glory to glory,

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even by the Spirit of the Lord.

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Now he's talking about us, he's talking about

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the Corinthians that got lost in vanity, and

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they're drifting away from fundamental truths.

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They were turning to other things, but he

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says, we all with open face.

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Phillips translates that, we without veils on our

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faces.

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I didn't read the scripture, I should have

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gone on there, and read where Moses came

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down the mount and his face so reflected

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the glory of God, he had to wear

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a veil.

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Now in the 32nd chapter, when he comes

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down the mountain, he's blood red with anger.

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God is angry, and he's angry because he's

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in tune with God.

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How often do you get angry?

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Are you in tune with the Holy Ghost?

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When the Spirit of God is offended, are

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you offended?

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Or do you just go on buying and

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selling and eating and drinking and all the

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normal things that the man next door does?

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I'm supposed to be a spiritual man.

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I'm supposed to be in tune with the

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infinite.

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I'm supposed to be regulated by the Holy

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Ghost, not the traditions of my setup or

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denomination.

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Moses stood there until the very radiance of

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God shone on him.

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Remember the mount of transfiguration?

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Well, the mount of transfiguration was not Jesus

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reflecting the glory of the Father, it was

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the inherent qualities of Jesus Christ.

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It wasn't a spotlight from heaven, it was

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the holiness and purity of God in him,

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being God, that flashed out.

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But I noticed this, they never fell down

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and worshipped him.

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They fell down and worshipped him at the

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beginning of the revelation, because he was a

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different Christ in one sense.

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He'd accomplished his mission.

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He'd led captivity captive, he'd given gifts unto

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many, taken the hinges off the gates of

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hell.

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He destroyed the power of the devil.

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Do you think the church will ever enter

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into that?

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I hear people saying, Lord, rebuke the devil.

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He rebuked him 2,000 years ago, come

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on.

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Why don't we enter into what he did?

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There's only one reason that the world is

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going to hell tonight, and that is the

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unbelief of the church, and you can argue

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as you like.

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We do not believe God.

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It's not the sinners that don't believe him,

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we don't believe him.

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We have a partial belief, not a full

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belief.

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But when they saw Moses come down from

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the mount, they couldn't gaze on him.

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I was going to say, I have a

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poem, I had it somewhere.

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I've got part of it here, written by

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Frieda Hanbury-Allen, which I think explains the

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thing very beautifully.

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She's talking about you and I going into

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the holy place.

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Not being in the outer court, not going

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into the holy place, but really going into

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the holy of holies.

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That's the only place that God came.

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In the outer court, there was daylight.

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In the holy place, in the holy of

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holies, or in the holy place, there was

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candlelight, a seven-branch candlestick.

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In the holy of holies, it was pitch

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black.

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And unless a shekinah glory came, there was

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no light.

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When men put Jesus Christ to death, they

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put out the light of the world.

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The only light in the world tonight is

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the word of God.

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Thy word is a lamp to my feet.

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That's to guide me in what to do.

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And the light to my path, that to

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me, the light is the word of God,

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the lamp to my feet.

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Is the word of God.

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And the lamp, to me, is the word

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of prophecy.

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That tells me not just what to do,

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but where to go.

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And the only light in the world tonight

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is the word of God.

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Plus the glory that's reflected in your personality

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and mine.

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Romans 12, 1 and 2 says, present your

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body a living sacrifice unto God.

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And be not conformed to this world.

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Or as J.B. Phillips puts it so

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well, don't let this world press you into

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its mold.

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Come on, is it doing that?

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The style of clothes you wear, the style

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of life you live?

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Is the world system pressing me into its

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mold?

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Do you feel unhappy if you go to

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church and you have to design a dress

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on?

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Or the ladies shoes?

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Is the world pressing us almost unconsciously into

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its mold?

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Be not conformed, but be transformed.

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It's the same word used of Jesus, be

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transfigured.

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Be transfigured by the renewing of your mind,

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having the very mind of God himself given

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to us.

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Frieda Allen says this, within the veil be

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this beloved thy portion.

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Within the secret of thy Lord to dwell,

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beholding him until thy face is glory, thy

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life is love, thy lips his praise shall

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tell.

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Within the veil, for only as thou gazest

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upon the matchless beauty of his face, canst

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thou become a living revelation of his great

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heart of love, his untold grace.

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Within the veil is fragrance poured upon thee.

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Remember the woman that washed the feet of

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Jesus with tears, and then put that wonderful

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ointment on, then dried his feet with the

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hair of her head.

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The fragrance she poured out on him came

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back on her.

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Do you know why you find prayer so

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dry?

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Because you don't worship.

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Do you know why you come out of

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the place of prayer the same as you

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went in?

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Because you don't gaze on his wholeness, on

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his majesty, on his sufficiency, on his glory.

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And then having tasted something of the other

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world, you come back into this world with

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a radiance that's totally un-understandable to the

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world.

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Be not conformed, be transformed.

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Within the veil his fragrance poured upon thee,

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without the veil that fragrance shed abroad.

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Within the veil his hand shall tune the

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music which sounds on earth the praises of

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thy God.

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Within the veil thy spirit deeply anchored, thou

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walkest calm above a world of strife.

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Within the veil thy soul with him united

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shall live on earth the resurrection life.

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Now that's why we should be living now,

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not after we die and shuffle off this

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mortal coil, if you want to be Shakespearean.

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But even now I should be.

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Not I'm going to reign with him, I

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should be reigning.

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If I'm not reigning with him, then the

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world's reigning in me.

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Either I have total dominion by the grace

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of God over the world, the flesh, the

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devil, or the picture is reversed.

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I think there's a very wonderful verse here.

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We all with open face.

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We don't have to veil our faces, do

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we?

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I've quoted you before, that little daughter, nine

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-year-old daughter of the man who preached

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that hellfire sermon that still preaches.

549
00:22:42,510 --> 00:22:44,170
Sinners in the hands of an angry God,

550
00:22:44,290 --> 00:22:44,990
Jonathan Edwards.

551
00:22:46,550 --> 00:22:48,610
And his little nine-year-old daughter says,

552
00:22:48,750 --> 00:22:51,230
people mock my daddy, he's so gravel-voiced,

553
00:22:51,890 --> 00:22:53,530
he's so serious when he preaches.

554
00:22:53,650 --> 00:22:55,150
Well, God in heaven, what is the most

555
00:22:55,150 --> 00:22:56,430
serious to preach in the gospel?

556
00:22:58,350 --> 00:23:00,610
Paul says more than once to Timothy, be

557
00:23:00,610 --> 00:23:02,530
sober, be sober, be sober, the end of

558
00:23:02,530 --> 00:23:03,250
the world is coming.

559
00:23:03,570 --> 00:23:05,270
Dear Lord, if it was coming 2,000

560
00:23:05,270 --> 00:23:06,590
years ago, where are we tonight?

561
00:23:07,150 --> 00:23:08,150
Is the church sober?

562
00:23:08,330 --> 00:23:09,570
Go down the road and see how many

563
00:23:09,570 --> 00:23:11,350
are there in the family circle outside the

564
00:23:11,350 --> 00:23:11,670
church.

565
00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:14,270
They'll be playing ping-pong and fooling as

566
00:23:14,270 --> 00:23:15,350
though the world's going to heaven.

567
00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:22,360
I said before, if you take the view

568
00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:29,420
of the politicians, Mr. President, I'm glad he's

569
00:23:29,420 --> 00:23:32,240
because fire's going to come and destroy the

570
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:32,600
nation.

571
00:23:33,340 --> 00:23:35,280
But supposing you don't believe what the politicians

572
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,720
say, the word of God says Armageddon's coming,

573
00:23:38,220 --> 00:23:40,260
and a system is going to come to

574
00:23:40,260 --> 00:23:42,400
destroy a third of the world's population, that

575
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:43,340
should make us a nightmare.

576
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,000
If we eat any gumption at all, if

577
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,740
we're a fraction as spiritual as we think

578
00:23:47,740 --> 00:23:49,320
we are, both at last days and every

579
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:50,960
church in town would have a prayer meeting

580
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,980
24 hours a day, at least a room

581
00:23:52,980 --> 00:23:53,580
in the church.

582
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,320
If I ever get into a fellowship and

583
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,000
have control of it, there'll be a room

584
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,560
open 24 hours a day, and they'll expect

585
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,540
me to keep up that 24-hour prayer.

586
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:05,820
Does the devil go to sleep?

587
00:24:07,020 --> 00:24:09,040
You go to bed tonight, it happens to

588
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,700
be Friday night, folk don't have to work

589
00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:10,980
tomorrow.

590
00:24:11,340 --> 00:24:13,300
They'll be at the hell holes, the dung

591
00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:15,860
houses till 12, 1, 2, 3 in the

592
00:24:15,860 --> 00:24:16,180
morning.

593
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,760
Many of them don't start till about 2

594
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,060
or 3.

595
00:24:19,140 --> 00:24:21,140
They go to these night clubs, night spots.

596
00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:25,020
The church doesn't, every church mill in town

597
00:24:25,020 --> 00:24:26,560
will be locked up tonight by about 10

598
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:26,920
o'clock.

599
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,920
If the fire department did that, we'd raise

600
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:31,900
hell about it, wouldn't we?

601
00:24:33,660 --> 00:24:35,920
If the hospitals did that, we'd be disgusted,

602
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:36,920
you can't do it.

603
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,060
I think I told you last week, two

604
00:24:44,060 --> 00:24:47,640
men came into my office, and the first

605
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:48,920
thing they said is, anybody real?

606
00:24:48,980 --> 00:24:50,580
You remember that, because you were there, you're

607
00:24:50,580 --> 00:24:51,000
one of them.

608
00:24:51,980 --> 00:24:53,860
That put you on the spot, Jacob, but

609
00:24:53,860 --> 00:24:56,280
anyhow, he doesn't mind, I know him.

610
00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,560
I straighten him out every day, but he's

611
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:00,860
twisted the next day, but anyhow.

612
00:25:02,780 --> 00:25:05,080
Just like Jacob, just like Jacob in the

613
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:05,300
scriptures.

614
00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:06,880
No, he's really coming on, I love this

615
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,720
man very, very much, he's my new neighbor.

616
00:25:09,580 --> 00:25:11,320
And if he doesn't buy that house, you're

617
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:11,700
in trouble.

618
00:25:15,740 --> 00:25:17,240
But they asked the question, the other brother,

619
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:18,400
I think with you, asked the question, is

620
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,140
anybody real?

621
00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:23,140
I changed that, and now, sure I break

622
00:25:23,140 --> 00:25:23,360
up.

623
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,880
My question is, does anybody care?

624
00:25:29,010 --> 00:25:30,530
Do we really care the world is going

625
00:25:30,530 --> 00:25:30,990
to hell?

626
00:25:32,910 --> 00:25:34,270
Do we want to go on Sunday and

627
00:25:34,270 --> 00:25:35,830
be nice and sweet, and have a nice

628
00:25:35,830 --> 00:25:37,110
little time, and get a hug and a

629
00:25:37,110 --> 00:25:39,290
kiss, and then go out to a perishing

630
00:25:39,290 --> 00:25:40,590
world, exactly the same?

631
00:25:40,670 --> 00:25:42,070
You can't do that if you gaze on

632
00:25:42,070 --> 00:25:42,630
his holiness.

633
00:25:43,010 --> 00:25:44,510
The more you see his holiness, the more

634
00:25:44,510 --> 00:25:45,890
you see corruption in the world.

635
00:25:46,470 --> 00:25:49,170
The more you see his integrity, the more

636
00:25:49,170 --> 00:25:51,490
you see of the deception and falseness of

637
00:25:51,490 --> 00:25:53,510
the systems that we live in the church,

638
00:25:53,550 --> 00:25:54,890
as well as outside of the church.

639
00:25:58,590 --> 00:26:00,850
We all with open face, beholding as in

640
00:26:00,850 --> 00:26:03,650
a glass, the glory of the Lord God,

641
00:26:03,710 --> 00:26:06,870
changed from image, from glory to glory.

642
00:26:08,290 --> 00:26:10,150
Or it says, it says they emphasize, that's

643
00:26:10,150 --> 00:26:13,170
a good Bible to read, reflecting the glory

644
00:26:13,170 --> 00:26:17,610
of God into the same image, we are

645
00:26:17,610 --> 00:26:20,210
being transformed from glory to glory.

646
00:26:20,990 --> 00:26:23,010
So, I showed you quickly there, the glory

647
00:26:23,010 --> 00:26:26,250
of Moses, he had to drape his face,

648
00:26:26,290 --> 00:26:28,510
because people couldn't bear to see the reflected

649
00:26:28,510 --> 00:26:30,150
majesty of God in him.

650
00:26:31,730 --> 00:26:34,930
And I'm supposed to live reflecting, we beholding

651
00:26:34,930 --> 00:26:36,730
in a mirror, you can't look on God.

652
00:26:37,550 --> 00:26:38,790
And so you have to hold a mirror

653
00:26:38,790 --> 00:26:39,730
and see him that way.

654
00:26:40,070 --> 00:26:41,850
We see his glory in the word of

655
00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:42,050
God.

656
00:26:42,110 --> 00:26:43,150
The more you know of the word of

657
00:26:43,150 --> 00:26:44,490
God, the more you know of his majesty,

658
00:26:44,650 --> 00:26:45,670
the more you know of his glory.

659
00:26:47,450 --> 00:26:49,070
Look at Acts chapter 3 for a minute

660
00:26:49,070 --> 00:26:49,670
or two here.

661
00:26:57,820 --> 00:26:59,060
The more I read of this book, the

662
00:26:59,060 --> 00:26:59,880
more trouble I get.

663
00:27:07,940 --> 00:27:09,440
Sorry, it's Acts chapter 4.

664
00:27:14,930 --> 00:27:16,650
Acts chapter 4, verse 13.

665
00:27:16,810 --> 00:27:20,150
Now, when they saw the boldness, now they

666
00:27:20,150 --> 00:27:21,590
say, when they saw the coldness.

667
00:27:25,930 --> 00:27:27,430
It says in the same chapter, I guess,

668
00:27:27,490 --> 00:27:29,290
see how these Christians love one another, now

669
00:27:29,290 --> 00:27:31,170
they see how these Christians shove one another.

670
00:27:34,390 --> 00:27:36,850
Verse 13 says, now when they saw the

671
00:27:36,850 --> 00:27:37,930
boldness, who are they?

672
00:27:38,570 --> 00:27:40,250
Well, look up the chapter a bit further

673
00:27:40,250 --> 00:27:40,650
back.

674
00:27:43,610 --> 00:27:45,150
Verse 5, it came to pass on the

675
00:27:45,150 --> 00:27:47,130
morrow that their rulers, they were the rulers

676
00:27:47,130 --> 00:27:48,990
and the elders, and the scribe, Annas the

677
00:27:48,990 --> 00:27:51,310
high priest, and Caiaphas another high priest, and

678
00:27:51,310 --> 00:27:53,370
that's illegal anyhow, the Jews weren't allowed to

679
00:27:53,370 --> 00:27:54,870
have two high priests, and they had them.

680
00:27:55,910 --> 00:27:57,950
And John and Alexander, and as many as

681
00:27:57,950 --> 00:27:59,350
were of the kinnet of the high priest,

682
00:27:59,430 --> 00:28:00,750
were gathered together in Jerusalem.

683
00:28:02,590 --> 00:28:04,990
Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter

684
00:28:04,990 --> 00:28:07,750
and John, they conceived, they perceived that they

685
00:28:07,750 --> 00:28:08,970
were unlearned and ignorant men.

686
00:28:09,170 --> 00:28:10,790
And they took knowledge of them that the

687
00:28:10,790 --> 00:28:13,070
glory of Jesus Christ was shining in them.

688
00:28:13,890 --> 00:28:16,890
The glory of Jesus shining in Moses, up

689
00:28:16,890 --> 00:28:18,430
on a mountain, he's by himself.

690
00:28:19,410 --> 00:28:21,190
These men are in a hell hole, these

691
00:28:21,190 --> 00:28:23,450
men have been to prison, and yet the

692
00:28:23,450 --> 00:28:25,530
glory of Jesus Christ is there, though they

693
00:28:25,530 --> 00:28:27,330
have a prison sentence hanging over them.

694
00:28:28,250 --> 00:28:30,770
You don't need ideal situations to get the

695
00:28:30,770 --> 00:28:32,550
glory of Jesus Christ, all you need to

696
00:28:32,550 --> 00:28:33,510
do is to be in his will.

697
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,440
Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter

698
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,760
and John, they perceived that they were unlearned

699
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:42,400
and ignorant men.

700
00:28:42,460 --> 00:28:43,120
Isn't that something?

701
00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:46,580
Just imagine those men in the upper room

702
00:28:46,580 --> 00:28:49,860
didn't have a PhD between them, didn't have

703
00:28:49,860 --> 00:28:51,220
a bank account between them.

704
00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:57,580
Unlearned, unusual, unwanted, but boy before long the

705
00:28:57,580 --> 00:28:58,600
world knew they were around.

706
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,360
They had no backing company, they had no

707
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,420
bank accounts, no newsletters.

708
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:06,320
Isn't that terrible?

709
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,640
Don't mention that, please, around here, but anyhow.

710
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,420
And we all get to have, wouldn't it

711
00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:20,920
be wonderful not getting junk mail from all

712
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:21,920
these big evangelists.

713
00:29:25,850 --> 00:29:28,350
You'll tell the evangelists when you get to

714
00:29:28,350 --> 00:29:29,950
heaven, very clearly, you know, the streets are

715
00:29:29,950 --> 00:29:31,430
made of gold, they'll be digging the streets

716
00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:31,630
up.

717
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,280
I'll be looking for you, see if you...

718
00:29:44,940 --> 00:29:46,660
Isn't it a paradox, this book?

719
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,220
If you want to go up, go down.

720
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,820
If you want to gain, throw everything you

721
00:29:50,820 --> 00:29:51,320
have away.

722
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:52,760
Lose your life, you'll find it.

723
00:29:52,820 --> 00:29:53,880
Keep your life, you'll lose it.

724
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,000
If you ascend, you'll be humiliated.

725
00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:57,640
If you humble yourself, you'll be exalted.

726
00:29:58,220 --> 00:29:59,660
If you want to be a somebody, be

727
00:29:59,660 --> 00:30:00,200
a nobody.

728
00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:03,440
So foolish, isn't it?

729
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,900
You better nod your head because you know

730
00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:08,540
it's true anyhow.

731
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,200
When they saw the boldness of Peter and

732
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,820
John and perceived that they were unlearned and

733
00:30:14,820 --> 00:30:16,220
ignorant men, they took knowledge of...

734
00:30:16,220 --> 00:30:17,880
That gets under my skin, it gets in

735
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:18,360
my heart.

736
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,440
They took knowledge of them.

737
00:30:23,750 --> 00:30:25,230
Go back and see why they should be

738
00:30:25,230 --> 00:30:25,730
so happy.

739
00:30:26,570 --> 00:30:27,170
Verse 1.

740
00:30:27,290 --> 00:30:29,390
They spake to the people, the priests and

741
00:30:29,390 --> 00:30:31,270
the captain of the temple and the Sadducees

742
00:30:31,270 --> 00:30:31,910
came upon them.

743
00:30:31,910 --> 00:30:33,170
Now you've got the whole load on your

744
00:30:33,170 --> 00:30:33,470
back.

745
00:30:34,130 --> 00:30:35,930
The priests, the captain of the temple, the

746
00:30:35,930 --> 00:30:36,630
Sadducees.

747
00:30:37,370 --> 00:30:39,690
And then over in verse 5, you have

748
00:30:39,690 --> 00:30:40,970
the rulers and the scribes.

749
00:30:41,070 --> 00:30:41,530
Verse 6.

750
00:30:41,610 --> 00:30:43,990
Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John

751
00:30:43,990 --> 00:30:45,890
and Alexander and many of the kindred of

752
00:30:45,890 --> 00:30:47,350
the high priests, they were gathered together.

753
00:30:49,540 --> 00:30:50,680
And when they had set them in the

754
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:50,980
midst...

755
00:30:50,980 --> 00:30:53,060
Fancy facing that gang, how would you feel?

756
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:53,940
Huh?

757
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,640
If you were ushered into the high court

758
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,000
and you saw all the big shots there

759
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,780
and you knew that your life was hanging

760
00:30:58,780 --> 00:31:00,660
on a thread, would we have boldness?

761
00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:03,840
When they saw the boldness of Peter and

762
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,140
John, verse 3 says, they laid their hands

763
00:31:07,140 --> 00:31:08,900
on them and put them in hold for

764
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:10,520
the next day, for it was eventide.

765
00:31:11,660 --> 00:31:13,580
How many of them which heard the word

766
00:31:13,580 --> 00:31:13,920
believe?

767
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:14,800
Glory to God.

768
00:31:14,860 --> 00:31:15,620
Isn't that preaching?

769
00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:17,500
That when you lock the preachers up, the

770
00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:18,600
revival still goes.

771
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,320
If your revival isn't working in your church,

772
00:31:22,420 --> 00:31:24,480
get the sheriff to come and arrest the

773
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:24,840
preacher.

774
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,700
Stick him in jail and see if he

775
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:27,280
comes round.

776
00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:32,420
You know, the tragic thing about us today

777
00:31:32,420 --> 00:31:33,860
is the world couldn't put up with us.

778
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,360
It couldn't put up with the early church.

779
00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:37,560
The early church was going that way, the

780
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:38,300
world was going that.

781
00:31:38,340 --> 00:31:40,080
Now we're running side by side and God

782
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:40,940
knows, nobody knows.

783
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,780
There's no line of demarcation.

784
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,160
We're as greedy as the world, as fashionable

785
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:46,800
as the world.

786
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,560
We want a place in the sun with

787
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,220
our jealousy, our envy, our pride.

788
00:31:51,620 --> 00:31:53,700
These men were destitute of all that.

789
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:55,680
Why?

790
00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:57,840
Because they gazed on the risen Christ of

791
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:58,160
God.

792
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,200
And even though they'd been in jail for

793
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,600
days, it didn't brush off.

794
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,060
They couldn't be intimidated, didn't matter what you

795
00:32:06,060 --> 00:32:06,640
said to them.

796
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:08,840
They'd seen Jesus.

797
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,680
And ungodly men said, there's only one reason

798
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,440
why these men are like this, they're like

799
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:15,040
their master.

800
00:32:15,140 --> 00:32:16,700
We couldn't intimidate their master.

801
00:32:17,580 --> 00:32:19,260
We tried to threaten him, we tried to

802
00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:21,080
destroy him, we pushed him over the edge,

803
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,240
I tried to push him over the edge

804
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,880
of the cliff, and he was as calm

805
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:24,400
as could be.

806
00:32:26,490 --> 00:32:28,330
We got men to scream for his death,

807
00:32:28,850 --> 00:32:30,570
and he was still the prince of peace,

808
00:32:30,610 --> 00:32:31,650
he was still placid.

809
00:32:32,090 --> 00:32:34,090
And these men have the same kind of

810
00:32:34,090 --> 00:32:34,950
spirit in them.

811
00:32:37,980 --> 00:32:39,640
They didn't just take notice of them, look

812
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,540
what it says, in the middle of verse

813
00:32:41,540 --> 00:32:43,160
13, they marveled.

814
00:32:43,460 --> 00:32:46,300
They marveled, they were astonished, they were dumbfounded.

815
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,360
They were saying under their breath, what in

816
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,140
God's name is the secret of these men?

817
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,460
They're no better than when we put them

818
00:32:52,460 --> 00:32:54,260
in jail, their hair hasn't changed a different

819
00:32:54,260 --> 00:32:57,340
color, they're not at six inches taller, they

820
00:32:57,340 --> 00:32:58,120
don't look stronger.

821
00:32:59,660 --> 00:33:02,080
They had a living intimate relationship with the

822
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,460
risen Son of God, that's why.

823
00:33:06,490 --> 00:33:08,430
Preachers argue about what happened in the upper

824
00:33:08,430 --> 00:33:09,610
room, no argument about it.

825
00:33:10,450 --> 00:33:11,150
Common sense.

826
00:33:12,710 --> 00:33:14,150
What does it say, the end of Luke,

827
00:33:14,230 --> 00:33:15,810
where it says that when they saw Jesus

828
00:33:15,810 --> 00:33:17,090
risen, what did they do?

829
00:33:17,330 --> 00:33:19,430
They went roaring back to the temple, filled

830
00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:20,950
with ecstasy, filled with joy.

831
00:33:21,050 --> 00:33:21,850
Do you think they stopped?

832
00:33:22,370 --> 00:33:24,790
I think that ten days that they waited,

833
00:33:24,930 --> 00:33:26,410
the last ten days in the upper room

834
00:33:26,410 --> 00:33:28,250
was the most ecstatic meeting that had ever

835
00:33:28,250 --> 00:33:29,390
been in the history of the world.

836
00:33:30,330 --> 00:33:32,450
I believe it exceeded the joy of Moses

837
00:33:32,450 --> 00:33:34,610
when he wrote, got all Israel to sing,

838
00:33:34,710 --> 00:33:36,370
the horse and his rider hath he cast

839
00:33:36,370 --> 00:33:36,990
into the sea.

840
00:33:37,310 --> 00:33:39,050
They knew the devil's power was broken.

841
00:33:39,430 --> 00:33:41,510
They've seen Jesus going up, he says, I'll

842
00:33:41,510 --> 00:33:43,290
go up there to my Father, and when

843
00:33:43,290 --> 00:33:45,410
I get there I'll make perfect your imperfect

844
00:33:45,410 --> 00:33:45,810
praying.

845
00:33:46,130 --> 00:33:47,270
I think in the upper room they were

846
00:33:47,270 --> 00:33:49,350
saying, he's there, he's there at the right

847
00:33:49,350 --> 00:33:51,410
hand of the Father, if we just pray

848
00:33:51,410 --> 00:33:53,070
he'll just communicate with the Father.

849
00:33:53,970 --> 00:33:55,590
He said, I go to prepare a place

850
00:33:55,590 --> 00:33:57,350
for you, he's got angels busy getting your

851
00:33:57,350 --> 00:33:58,030
mansion ready.

852
00:33:58,530 --> 00:33:59,330
So why worry?

853
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,260
They'd lost all fear of men, they'd lost

854
00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:06,520
all fear of death, they'd lost all fear

855
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:07,540
of consequences.

856
00:34:09,219 --> 00:34:11,179
They lived in this world as though they're

857
00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:12,360
already in the next world.

858
00:34:13,340 --> 00:34:14,699
Well isn't that what it's about?

859
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,239
Why do you say, thy kingdom come, thy

860
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,080
will be done, not on earth, in earth,

861
00:34:20,179 --> 00:34:21,920
I am earth, I'm of the earth earthy.

862
00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:25,540
And the kingdom of God can start now,

863
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,400
that's where it starts, not right after I

864
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:27,719
die.

865
00:34:29,060 --> 00:34:31,080
I read the other day somewhere about, they

866
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,699
buried a man, what they say, they buried

867
00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:38,699
a man yesterday, or so-and-so died

868
00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:41,159
yesterday, and they buried him, and somebody who

869
00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:43,139
knew him said he died 45 years ago.

870
00:34:44,820 --> 00:34:46,719
He's been no good for 45 years.

871
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,679
He wasted his life.

872
00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:49,679
Are you dead?

873
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:50,580
Are you alive tonight?

874
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,120
If they bury you tomorrow, would you say,

875
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:56,820
well that man's already been dead about three

876
00:34:56,820 --> 00:34:57,180
years?

877
00:34:58,940 --> 00:35:00,740
Now there are two classes of people in

878
00:35:00,740 --> 00:35:02,340
the world, not rich and poor, not black

879
00:35:02,340 --> 00:35:06,260
and white, not bond slaves and free men,

880
00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:07,380
just two kinds.

881
00:35:07,820 --> 00:35:09,620
Those who are dead in sin, and those

882
00:35:09,620 --> 00:35:10,540
who are dead to sin.

883
00:35:10,740 --> 00:35:13,800
There's no other cloud, but either dead in

884
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,600
trespasses and in sin, or that miracle has

885
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,560
taken place in us which had taken place

886
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,380
in some of these men, in fact all

887
00:35:20,380 --> 00:35:20,740
of them.

888
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,500
It says in Ephesians 2, the first verse,

889
00:35:24,860 --> 00:35:28,940
you did in time past, time past, something's

890
00:35:28,940 --> 00:35:29,320
happened.

891
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:31,680
In time past you ought to go into

892
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,460
the prince of this world, the power of

893
00:35:33,460 --> 00:35:35,000
this world, the prince of the power of

894
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:35,340
the air.

895
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,080
And yet at the end of that very,

896
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,860
very, very same chapter, it says you're the

897
00:35:39,860 --> 00:35:41,100
habitation of God.

898
00:35:41,980 --> 00:35:43,400
You can't show me a miracle in the

899
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:44,480
world greater than that.

900
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:46,920
A man is the habitation of fear, the

901
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,460
habitation of sins, bondage to habits, and God

902
00:35:50,460 --> 00:35:52,080
gets hold of him, kicks the devil out

903
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,920
of his life and fills him with God.

904
00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:58,380
You know, if we gazed every day on

905
00:35:58,380 --> 00:35:59,920
the majesty of the risen son of God,

906
00:35:59,980 --> 00:36:01,960
you'd never backslide, you'd never be afraid, you'd

907
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:02,880
never get depressed.

908
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,320
After all, everything's going our way because it's

909
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,040
gone his way.

910
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,860
They took knowledge of, they marveled at that.

911
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,720
Oh Lord, I'm waiting for us some Sunday,

912
00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:17,560
I'm expecting the glory of God to come.

913
00:36:21,780 --> 00:36:23,400
We'll walk out of the sanctuary with a

914
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:28,660
different attitude entirely, a revolutionized personality, a consciousness

915
00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:30,820
that even now, with two feet on earth,

916
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,680
I can be in heavenly places in Christ

917
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:33,140
Jesus.

918
00:36:35,020 --> 00:36:38,780
That's what Paul says, we're seated with him.

919
00:36:40,340 --> 00:36:42,460
And that's where these disciples were.

920
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:47,800
I went to a little Bible college, I've

921
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,620
told you, with 35 students, no girls, they're

922
00:36:51,620 --> 00:36:55,520
too distracting, both before and after marriage.

923
00:36:55,580 --> 00:37:02,080
But anyhow, uh, 35 young men, and I

924
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:03,460
sat here, and there's a picture of a

925
00:37:03,460 --> 00:37:07,320
saintly man here, at one time president of

926
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,240
the Methodist church, and president of the college

927
00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:11,860
before I get there, his name was Thomas

928
00:37:11,860 --> 00:37:12,240
Cook.

929
00:37:13,060 --> 00:37:14,920
He wrote a very fine book on holiness,

930
00:37:15,140 --> 00:37:16,580
which is still printed these days.

931
00:37:19,130 --> 00:37:20,370
I used to look up at that when

932
00:37:20,370 --> 00:37:22,310
I, when I couldn't answer questions, it didn't

933
00:37:22,310 --> 00:37:22,990
help me at all.

934
00:37:24,290 --> 00:37:28,230
But he had a marvelous saintly face, and

935
00:37:28,230 --> 00:37:30,210
he used to go around the village churches.

936
00:37:31,810 --> 00:37:33,530
And one day a little girl went, the

937
00:37:33,530 --> 00:37:34,710
old-fashioned way, you know, they used to

938
00:37:34,710 --> 00:37:36,290
have a butcher's shop where all you sold

939
00:37:36,290 --> 00:37:36,790
was meat.

940
00:37:37,330 --> 00:37:38,850
You won't remember those days, you go to

941
00:37:38,850 --> 00:37:41,590
supermarkets, you see half a cow here, and

942
00:37:41,590 --> 00:37:43,930
half a pig there, and other pigs outside.

943
00:37:44,030 --> 00:37:47,430
But anyhow, then you saw the butcher's meat,

944
00:37:48,130 --> 00:37:50,050
and this little girl was restless, and the

945
00:37:50,050 --> 00:37:52,110
butcher said, now Mary, come on, you're usually

946
00:37:52,110 --> 00:37:52,910
so quiet.

947
00:37:53,730 --> 00:37:56,690
Now don't step out of line, dear, but,

948
00:37:56,930 --> 00:37:57,770
but what?

949
00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:01,190
Oh, she said, we're having a visitor at

950
00:38:01,190 --> 00:38:03,270
the manse, as they call the pastor's house.

951
00:38:03,690 --> 00:38:05,410
Having a visitor at the manse this week.

952
00:38:06,630 --> 00:38:08,730
Well, don't you have visitors almost every week?

953
00:38:08,970 --> 00:38:09,390
Yes.

954
00:38:10,230 --> 00:38:11,330
What's the difference this week?

955
00:38:11,450 --> 00:38:13,330
Oh, they've taken the furniture out on the

956
00:38:13,330 --> 00:38:15,030
lawn, and they've been beating it, and beating

957
00:38:15,030 --> 00:38:15,470
the mats.

958
00:38:16,030 --> 00:38:18,010
And the little girl was 14, and she

959
00:38:18,010 --> 00:38:20,610
said, you know, sir, they're making such a

960
00:38:20,610 --> 00:38:23,150
fuss, as we say in England, getting excited

961
00:38:23,150 --> 00:38:26,890
so much, you'd think Jesus himself was coming.

962
00:38:27,710 --> 00:38:29,570
And the butcher laughed and said, well, Annie,

963
00:38:29,630 --> 00:38:31,070
that's a nice little thing to say.

964
00:38:32,490 --> 00:38:34,150
Next week she went to the butcher's, and

965
00:38:34,150 --> 00:38:35,330
he said, well, Annie, how are you?

966
00:38:36,390 --> 00:38:37,470
She said, he's been.

967
00:38:39,450 --> 00:38:40,050
Who's been?

968
00:38:41,330 --> 00:38:43,330
I told you last week, they were making

969
00:38:43,330 --> 00:38:44,990
such a commotion at the house, you'd think

970
00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:45,750
Jesus was coming.

971
00:38:45,930 --> 00:38:47,870
Well, he came, his name is Thomas Cook.

972
00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:49,770
Isn't that nice?

973
00:38:51,310 --> 00:38:53,010
The same man was going on a ship

974
00:38:53,010 --> 00:38:55,990
off the west coast of Africa.

975
00:38:57,550 --> 00:39:00,290
They pulled out from Spain, and gone down

976
00:39:00,290 --> 00:39:01,070
the coast there.

977
00:39:02,130 --> 00:39:03,590
And the first night he was out, he

978
00:39:03,590 --> 00:39:05,310
went through the saloon, where men were drinking,

979
00:39:05,470 --> 00:39:07,570
and smoking, and playing cards, and suddenly everybody

980
00:39:07,570 --> 00:39:09,150
grabs their cards, and put them under the

981
00:39:09,150 --> 00:39:09,410
table.

982
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,300
Did you notice that?

983
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,240
Yeah, sure did.

984
00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:19,620
I've been on this trip many times.

985
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:20,520
What happened?

986
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,320
Everybody grabbed their cards, stuck their pipes underneath.

987
00:39:24,540 --> 00:39:25,340
Why did they do it?

988
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,540
One man said, well, could you do anything

989
00:39:27,540 --> 00:39:29,300
less with a face like that, that came

990
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:29,940
through the saloon?

991
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,020
He had a face like the Prince of

992
00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:34,400
Peace.

993
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,020
There was engraved on him, there was a

994
00:39:38,020 --> 00:39:39,880
majesty about him, there was something in his

995
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,940
walk, something in his talk, something in his

996
00:39:41,940 --> 00:39:42,420
actions.

997
00:39:43,140 --> 00:39:45,060
And everybody took notice of him, that he

998
00:39:45,060 --> 00:39:45,900
lived with Jesus.

999
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,900
He did, because he spent hours every day

1000
00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:49,060
in the presence of Jesus.

1001
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:56,920
They took knowledge of him.

1002
00:40:02,660 --> 00:40:04,940
Within the veil is fragrance poured upon thee,

1003
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,180
without the veil that fragrance shed abroad.

1004
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,680
Within the veil is hand shall tune the

1005
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,200
music, which sounds on earth the praises of

1006
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:12,800
thy God.

1007
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:15,880
There's something wrong.

1008
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,300
I think you said today, when you were

1009
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:21,540
at the Vanity Fair the other day, Christian

1010
00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:24,200
Booksellers Association, which is two doors from Babylon.

1011
00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:29,540
Isn't it something when you have Christians with

1012
00:40:29,540 --> 00:40:33,680
dogs, little coats on dogs, Jesus saves, and

1013
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:38,200
shirt buttons that have Jesus and other rotten

1014
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:38,640
stuff.

1015
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,480
The man said, well, it's the only testimony

1016
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,600
some people have.

1017
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:44,940
Well, why not get them saved?

1018
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,120
That's the only testimony they have?

1019
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,520
Boy, if your button comes off, has anybody

1020
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,020
seen my testimony around here?

1021
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,000
That'd be terrible.

1022
00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:08,020
The whole thing was Babylon.

1023
00:41:08,180 --> 00:41:10,720
They had little stuffed dogs with Jesus on

1024
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:10,900
them.

1025
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:12,320
That's degrading.

1026
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,380
It's Babylon as far as I'm concerned.

1027
00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:21,880
Do we have to wear a badge, a

1028
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,180
sign that the living Christ is in us?

1029
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:27,940
Isn't there a dignity about our language, about

1030
00:41:27,940 --> 00:41:28,540
our attitude?

1031
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,180
I don't care if you're a deacon or

1032
00:41:31,180 --> 00:41:32,480
a beacon or what in the world you

1033
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:32,640
are.

1034
00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:34,700
I won't ask your friend what kind of

1035
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:35,320
a person you are.

1036
00:41:35,340 --> 00:41:36,720
I'll slip up to the back door when

1037
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:38,060
you're away and ask your wife how you

1038
00:41:38,060 --> 00:41:38,340
live.

1039
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:40,320
Do you get wild?

1040
00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:41,040
Do you get angry?

1041
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:42,580
Do you get distressed?

1042
00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:44,660
Or do you live as calmly as Jesus

1043
00:41:44,660 --> 00:41:46,080
would under those circumstances?

1044
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,480
After all, he has no other lights to

1045
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,020
shine in the world except you and I.

1046
00:41:54,970 --> 00:41:55,950
Reflecting is in a mirror.

1047
00:41:56,650 --> 00:41:57,650
Do you know how to get a mirror

1048
00:41:57,650 --> 00:41:58,410
so it won't work?

1049
00:41:58,530 --> 00:41:59,350
Smear it with grease.

1050
00:42:00,130 --> 00:42:01,250
You don't have to put an inch thick,

1051
00:42:01,290 --> 00:42:03,570
just smear it with your hand that always

1052
00:42:03,570 --> 00:42:05,410
has oil on it and the mirror immediately

1053
00:42:05,410 --> 00:42:06,730
disfigures a reflection.

1054
00:42:08,450 --> 00:42:10,030
And if there's something in your life of

1055
00:42:10,030 --> 00:42:13,070
bitterness and strife and envy or some other

1056
00:42:13,070 --> 00:42:14,890
thing, the image will be marred.

1057
00:42:16,690 --> 00:42:18,290
The image of God that should be in

1058
00:42:18,290 --> 00:42:20,990
us, restored by the redemptive work of Jesus

1059
00:42:20,990 --> 00:42:23,490
Christ and by the abiding spirit of the

1060
00:42:23,490 --> 00:42:24,150
Holy Ghost.

1061
00:42:26,150 --> 00:42:27,710
You see, God only has one class for

1062
00:42:27,710 --> 00:42:29,410
his people, only one, and that's holiness.

1063
00:42:31,620 --> 00:42:32,740
I didn't write it.

1064
00:42:32,860 --> 00:42:35,780
I like that verse in Hebrews where it

1065
00:42:35,780 --> 00:42:38,000
says that we, we, we, we, on this

1066
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,260
earth while we're here, as the Henry says,

1067
00:42:41,460 --> 00:42:46,570
in this body pent or tied up, we

1068
00:42:46,570 --> 00:42:48,550
while we're here on earth are supposed to

1069
00:42:48,550 --> 00:42:50,270
be as holy as Jesus Christ was when

1070
00:42:50,270 --> 00:42:50,910
he was on earth.

1071
00:42:52,370 --> 00:42:54,630
He didn't die to leave us moral cripples

1072
00:42:54,630 --> 00:42:58,270
leaping around or staggering and falling and stumbling.

1073
00:42:59,490 --> 00:43:01,870
The ordinary course of the Christian life is

1074
00:43:01,870 --> 00:43:03,890
victory from morning time you get up to

1075
00:43:03,890 --> 00:43:04,710
the time you go to bed.

1076
00:43:06,170 --> 00:43:07,890
It isn't that we can't sin, it's that

1077
00:43:07,890 --> 00:43:08,750
we don't want to sin.

1078
00:43:09,530 --> 00:43:11,410
It's not that it's impossible to sin, it's

1079
00:43:11,410 --> 00:43:12,510
possible not to sin.

1080
00:43:13,670 --> 00:43:14,830
There's a big difference.

1081
00:43:17,430 --> 00:43:19,530
I want Jesus Christ expects that you and

1082
00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:21,230
I to be little Christ while we're here

1083
00:43:21,230 --> 00:43:21,870
in this world.

1084
00:43:23,810 --> 00:43:26,410
Reflecting the moral and spiritual glory of God

1085
00:43:26,410 --> 00:43:29,470
in the face, and not just our physical

1086
00:43:29,470 --> 00:43:32,070
face, but in our display to other people

1087
00:43:32,070 --> 00:43:33,710
as they read us, as they see us.

1088
00:43:36,550 --> 00:43:38,250
We don't need veils on our faces.

1089
00:43:39,170 --> 00:43:41,750
We don't have enough glory, but it should

1090
00:43:41,750 --> 00:43:43,770
be that the glory of God is reflected

1091
00:43:43,770 --> 00:43:46,230
in our demeanor, in our actions, in our

1092
00:43:46,230 --> 00:43:48,390
attitudes, in our personality.

1093
00:43:48,990 --> 00:43:51,730
There's nothing more revolutionary than the sacrificial work

1094
00:43:51,730 --> 00:43:53,570
of Jesus Christ made real in us, putting

1095
00:43:53,570 --> 00:43:55,150
to death the old man and putting on

1096
00:43:55,150 --> 00:43:57,450
the new man, and then being indwelt by

1097
00:43:57,450 --> 00:43:58,350
the Spirit of God.

1098
00:43:58,450 --> 00:44:01,430
That's not super, that's the normal Christian life.

1099
00:44:04,850 --> 00:44:06,830
Again, it's not impossible to sin, it's possible

1100
00:44:06,830 --> 00:44:07,490
not to sin.

1101
00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:12,280
What a difference when Moses was there in

1102
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,280
the presence of God, and God was angry.

1103
00:44:14,420 --> 00:44:16,620
He came down livid with anger, so much

1104
00:44:16,620 --> 00:44:20,100
so that he threw the stones down, and

1105
00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:21,460
he broke the Ten Commandments.

1106
00:44:22,460 --> 00:44:24,600
But in the next chapter, it's altogether different.

1107
00:44:25,620 --> 00:44:26,800
He's a different Moses.

1108
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,160
When he comes down this time, his face

1109
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,220
isn't blood-red with anger, his face is

1110
00:44:31,220 --> 00:44:32,760
radiating a holy God.

1111
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,260
The reflection of eternity is in the face

1112
00:44:35,260 --> 00:44:37,640
of the man, and the people are speechless

1113
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:38,660
at him, no wonder.

1114
00:44:41,950 --> 00:44:43,210
You know, if we ever get into the

1115
00:44:43,210 --> 00:44:45,130
fullness of the blessing, then the neighbors will

1116
00:44:45,130 --> 00:44:46,130
wonder what in the world is wrong with

1117
00:44:46,130 --> 00:44:46,310
us.

1118
00:44:49,620 --> 00:44:51,080
I think about half a dozen going down

1119
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:52,740
a dark street one night, the street would

1120
00:44:52,740 --> 00:44:53,300
light up.

1121
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,240
It's a bit of an exaggeration, but I'm

1122
00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:57,240
hoping it will work anyhow.

1123
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,360
It should be that we change the atmosphere

1124
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,040
in any place that we go to.

1125
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,340
The Quakers used to say that.

1126
00:45:04,420 --> 00:45:06,620
Do you remember that, dear brother Dale?

1127
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:08,880
They used to say, a man is his

1128
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:09,640
own atmosphere.

1129
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,040
If you're on fire for God, you can

1130
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,760
go into a frozen atmosphere and it will

1131
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:14,600
change like that.

1132
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,540
If you're holy, the atmosphere will change.

1133
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,560
You'll send some waves through that audience because

1134
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,420
they know the holiness of God is there.

1135
00:45:25,020 --> 00:45:26,640
And it doesn't reflect on me, it reflects

1136
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:27,640
on him, not me.

1137
00:45:30,370 --> 00:45:31,850
No, we don't have to put veils on

1138
00:45:31,850 --> 00:45:32,390
our faces.

1139
00:45:34,110 --> 00:45:36,710
It should be the normal reaction of our

1140
00:45:36,710 --> 00:45:38,610
lives that the grace of God is in

1141
00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:41,150
his honest to its fullness, that everybody knows

1142
00:45:41,150 --> 00:45:43,650
every time they see us, there's an evenness.

1143
00:45:45,330 --> 00:45:46,730
You know, you see some people one day,

1144
00:45:46,810 --> 00:45:47,890
they have a smile like this.

1145
00:45:47,990 --> 00:45:49,450
Excuse me, not quite as big, but anyhow,

1146
00:45:50,090 --> 00:45:51,410
it's from ear to ear nearly.

1147
00:45:52,670 --> 00:45:53,710
And another day you see them and say,

1148
00:45:53,830 --> 00:45:54,290
morning.

1149
00:45:56,150 --> 00:46:06,880
And you think they're in morning, if

1150
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,680
it's really true what we sang tonight.

1151
00:46:11,250 --> 00:46:13,390
My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious

1152
00:46:13,390 --> 00:46:13,830
thought.

1153
00:46:13,870 --> 00:46:15,570
It doesn't have dominion over me, I have

1154
00:46:15,570 --> 00:46:17,790
it under my feet by the grace of

1155
00:46:17,790 --> 00:46:18,130
God.

1156
00:46:19,690 --> 00:46:22,130
All the vain things that charm me most

1157
00:46:22,130 --> 00:46:22,930
have gone away.

1158
00:46:23,070 --> 00:46:25,250
The vain things charm me most and help

1159
00:46:25,250 --> 00:46:25,850
me least.

1160
00:46:28,430 --> 00:46:29,830
It should be that when we go into

1161
00:46:29,830 --> 00:46:32,210
an atmosphere that people welcome us, not of

1162
00:46:32,210 --> 00:46:34,210
our station in life, not that we're wealthy

1163
00:46:34,210 --> 00:46:36,450
or brilliant because the grace of God is

1164
00:46:36,450 --> 00:46:38,010
there, but they know that we're people of

1165
00:46:38,010 --> 00:46:41,390
sound speech, not critical speech, not unkind speech,

1166
00:46:41,390 --> 00:46:42,350
but holy speech.

1167
00:46:44,070 --> 00:46:47,750
They took knowledge of them, the hierarchy, the

1168
00:46:47,750 --> 00:46:52,070
big shots, religious leaders, the other leaders, and

1169
00:46:52,070 --> 00:46:54,750
these little nobodies come up and they take

1170
00:46:54,750 --> 00:46:56,290
notice of them and say, you don't see

1171
00:46:56,290 --> 00:46:57,430
men like this every day.

1172
00:46:57,570 --> 00:46:58,670
What's the quality of them?

1173
00:46:58,730 --> 00:46:59,910
What's the quality of their living?

1174
00:47:00,670 --> 00:47:02,310
And somebody says they've been with Jesus.

1175
00:47:05,070 --> 00:47:07,810
Just one thing, I remember when we lived

1176
00:47:07,810 --> 00:47:09,890
just outside of Manchester, that's a place to

1177
00:47:09,890 --> 00:47:10,070
live.

1178
00:47:10,870 --> 00:47:12,590
It's one of the darkest towns in England,

1179
00:47:12,590 --> 00:47:13,530
one of the wettest.

1180
00:47:14,130 --> 00:47:15,490
It seems to rain every day.

1181
00:47:16,570 --> 00:47:18,670
And I'd been visiting and boy, it was

1182
00:47:18,670 --> 00:47:19,650
a pretty miserable day.

1183
00:47:19,770 --> 00:47:20,470
I was pretty wet.

1184
00:47:21,590 --> 00:47:23,450
I saw a bus coming and I flagged

1185
00:47:23,450 --> 00:47:24,110
the fellow down.

1186
00:47:24,170 --> 00:47:28,490
And when I got in, oh mercy, it

1187
00:47:28,490 --> 00:47:29,990
was overbearing with perfume.

1188
00:47:30,290 --> 00:47:32,010
It was just fantastic.

1189
00:47:33,230 --> 00:47:34,550
And then the lady put up her money.

1190
00:47:34,970 --> 00:47:37,030
The fellow goes down the middle corridor of

1191
00:47:37,030 --> 00:47:38,430
the bus and you hand him your money.

1192
00:47:38,870 --> 00:47:40,550
And this lady raised her hand and she

1193
00:47:40,550 --> 00:47:42,770
had a red cuff and a blue thing

1194
00:47:42,770 --> 00:47:43,390
like this.

1195
00:47:44,830 --> 00:47:45,910
And she gave her money.

1196
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:50,050
And as she did, I suddenly realized, you

1197
00:47:50,050 --> 00:47:52,610
know, some of you guys have some stuff

1198
00:47:52,610 --> 00:47:56,310
called English leather and it's made at the

1199
00:47:56,310 --> 00:47:58,170
factory where the bus started.

1200
00:47:58,670 --> 00:48:00,990
And those women had been in that atmosphere

1201
00:48:00,990 --> 00:48:01,950
all the day.

1202
00:48:02,730 --> 00:48:06,030
And just as you go home, where have

1203
00:48:06,030 --> 00:48:06,310
you been?

1204
00:48:06,370 --> 00:48:07,410
I was on the plane and they were

1205
00:48:07,410 --> 00:48:09,510
all smoking and it penetrates your clothes.

1206
00:48:10,210 --> 00:48:12,050
These women had been in that atmosphere.

1207
00:48:13,050 --> 00:48:15,130
They hadn't poured it on, but the clothing

1208
00:48:15,130 --> 00:48:15,950
absorbed it.

1209
00:48:16,630 --> 00:48:18,110
And they were all sitting there in the

1210
00:48:18,110 --> 00:48:18,350
bus.

1211
00:48:18,430 --> 00:48:19,730
And when I got out of that dirty

1212
00:48:19,730 --> 00:48:22,170
atmosphere in Manchester, which is a dull atmosphere,

1213
00:48:22,370 --> 00:48:24,250
and stepped in, it was as fragrant as

1214
00:48:24,250 --> 00:48:24,710
a garden.

1215
00:48:25,430 --> 00:48:26,290
They didn't shout.

1216
00:48:26,470 --> 00:48:28,890
They didn't say, look, it spoke for itself.

1217
00:48:30,110 --> 00:48:32,130
It should be the grace of Jesus Christ,

1218
00:48:32,370 --> 00:48:35,310
the gentleness and meekness of the Lord Jesus

1219
00:48:35,310 --> 00:48:35,970
Christ.

1220
00:48:37,690 --> 00:48:39,330
I don't know, maybe I'll...

1221
00:48:39,330 --> 00:48:40,550
Will David be here next week?

1222
00:48:43,390 --> 00:48:43,690
Paul?

1223
00:48:45,550 --> 00:48:46,670
Well, you'll have a good preacher.

1224
00:48:46,750 --> 00:48:47,990
One of my sons may be here and

1225
00:48:47,990 --> 00:48:48,730
he'll be preaching.

1226
00:48:50,010 --> 00:48:51,290
So I'll get the night off.

1227
00:48:51,390 --> 00:48:52,810
I won't get paid, but that's all right.

1228
00:48:59,290 --> 00:49:01,370
But David always reminds me of that scripture,

1229
00:49:01,490 --> 00:49:03,410
the gentleness and meekness of Jesus Christ.

1230
00:49:04,610 --> 00:49:06,290
He was the most nervous boy, I think,

1231
00:49:06,370 --> 00:49:08,310
I'd ever seen in my life, till the

1232
00:49:08,310 --> 00:49:09,610
Lord got hold of him and saved him

1233
00:49:09,610 --> 00:49:10,650
and filled him with the Spirit.

1234
00:49:12,330 --> 00:49:14,030
Now he's co-pastor in a church of

1235
00:49:14,030 --> 00:49:17,010
1600 every Sunday morning, another 600 in Sunday

1236
00:49:17,010 --> 00:49:18,930
school running at the same time.

1237
00:49:20,290 --> 00:49:21,810
God has used him around the world.

1238
00:49:21,910 --> 00:49:22,910
He's on a trip around now.

1239
00:49:24,590 --> 00:49:26,410
I say that not to boast of my

1240
00:49:26,410 --> 00:49:28,730
son, though there's nothing boasting about him, I

1241
00:49:28,730 --> 00:49:28,890
guess.

1242
00:49:30,110 --> 00:49:31,910
But because if you think it couldn't happen

1243
00:49:31,910 --> 00:49:33,010
to me, it can.

1244
00:49:34,030 --> 00:49:35,470
Listen, it's not what you can bring to

1245
00:49:35,470 --> 00:49:36,110
God that matters.

1246
00:49:36,170 --> 00:49:37,430
It's what God can bring to you.

1247
00:49:38,390 --> 00:49:39,650
But you've got to be a clean vessel,

1248
00:49:39,770 --> 00:49:40,490
a purge vessel.

1249
00:49:41,450 --> 00:49:42,910
You're not wanting to be a somebody and

1250
00:49:42,910 --> 00:49:44,450
hang your hat up with the great preachers

1251
00:49:44,450 --> 00:49:46,950
or get some society behind your name, but

1252
00:49:46,950 --> 00:49:48,890
just totally glorify him.

1253
00:49:49,830 --> 00:49:51,890
And say, I want to sit in your

1254
00:49:51,890 --> 00:49:54,710
presence until the very fragrance of eternity comes

1255
00:49:54,710 --> 00:49:56,830
into my being, into my thinking, into my

1256
00:49:56,830 --> 00:49:58,950
acting, into my talking, into my demeanor.

1257
00:49:59,750 --> 00:50:01,670
Just like the fragrance got into the clothing

1258
00:50:01,670 --> 00:50:02,330
of those women.

1259
00:50:05,830 --> 00:50:06,990
Well, what's this all got to do with

1260
00:50:06,990 --> 00:50:07,310
praying?

1261
00:50:07,390 --> 00:50:08,710
Well, if you see the glory of a

1262
00:50:08,710 --> 00:50:10,470
God like that in all his majesty, you'll

1263
00:50:10,470 --> 00:50:12,250
have more confidence in prayer, at least you

1264
00:50:12,250 --> 00:50:12,510
should.

1265
00:50:13,930 --> 00:50:14,570
I do.

1266
00:50:15,710 --> 00:50:17,490
I think of that bunch of failures, they

1267
00:50:17,490 --> 00:50:19,490
almost all let Jesus down and now they're

1268
00:50:19,490 --> 00:50:20,410
standing up against.

1269
00:50:20,850 --> 00:50:23,190
You see, the greatest miracle was not Peter

1270
00:50:23,190 --> 00:50:24,790
and John healing the cripple at the gate

1271
00:50:24,790 --> 00:50:25,270
of the temple.

1272
00:50:25,350 --> 00:50:26,870
It's a miracle in John and Peter.

1273
00:50:27,570 --> 00:50:29,290
Peter that ran away from the finger of

1274
00:50:29,290 --> 00:50:30,750
a girl and now he stands up against

1275
00:50:30,750 --> 00:50:33,290
the big hierarchy, the big shots.

1276
00:50:33,290 --> 00:50:35,670
And he points the finger and says, you

1277
00:50:35,670 --> 00:50:37,690
crucified the Lord of glory, but him at

1278
00:50:37,690 --> 00:50:38,590
God raised up.

1279
00:50:39,590 --> 00:50:41,610
Come on, Jesus has nothing else to do.

1280
00:50:41,690 --> 00:50:43,330
He's done everything he can for the church.

1281
00:50:43,970 --> 00:50:45,770
It's just that we have to enter in

1282
00:50:45,770 --> 00:50:49,820
and we enter in by humility.

1283
00:50:52,580 --> 00:50:55,200
We enter in by recognizing again our weakness

1284
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,240
and yet his majesty.

1285
00:50:59,690 --> 00:51:01,170
What the church has had up to this

1286
00:51:01,170 --> 00:51:02,410
point hasn't shaken the world.

1287
00:51:03,090 --> 00:51:04,770
And if we've gone like this, it'll take

1288
00:51:04,770 --> 00:51:06,470
a thousand years to get the world turned

1289
00:51:06,470 --> 00:51:07,630
around and we won't do it then.

1290
00:51:08,230 --> 00:51:10,190
Because we're working on the same old formula.

1291
00:51:10,830 --> 00:51:12,410
We have to behold his glory.

1292
00:51:12,550 --> 00:51:13,710
We have to behold his majesty.

1293
00:51:13,930 --> 00:51:16,630
We have to behold him risen in all

1294
00:51:16,630 --> 00:51:18,610
his glorious power and then let this be

1295
00:51:18,610 --> 00:51:20,010
absorbed in our lives.

1296
00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:24,610
That people take knowledge of us, not by

1297
00:51:24,610 --> 00:51:26,690
what we dress or the car we drive,

1298
00:51:26,790 --> 00:51:27,830
but they take knowledge of us.

1299
00:51:27,910 --> 00:51:28,850
We've been with Jesus.

1300
00:51:30,570 --> 00:51:32,230
I get bored to death when I'm in

1301
00:51:32,230 --> 00:51:34,370
with places, no matter how nice and smart

1302
00:51:34,370 --> 00:51:35,970
they are, how big the house is.

1303
00:51:36,050 --> 00:51:37,870
If the conversation is about Jesus, it's wasting

1304
00:51:37,870 --> 00:51:38,330
time.

1305
00:51:41,170 --> 00:51:42,790
When we travel, I don't travel much, I

1306
00:51:42,790 --> 00:51:44,150
travel some and when we go, every time

1307
00:51:44,150 --> 00:51:45,410
we go, it's an Emmaus journey.

1308
00:51:46,490 --> 00:51:48,590
Even if it isn't a Cadillac, you have

1309
00:51:48,590 --> 00:51:49,410
to make the best of it.

1310
00:51:51,510 --> 00:51:53,670
And you can sing and praise and magnify

1311
00:51:53,670 --> 00:51:54,150
the Lord.

1312
00:51:55,950 --> 00:51:57,790
Come on, there's not much time left.

1313
00:51:59,430 --> 00:52:01,310
I said a phrase, I intended to say

1314
00:52:01,310 --> 00:52:01,810
it the other night.

1315
00:52:02,370 --> 00:52:03,390
How many of you were there the night

1316
00:52:03,390 --> 00:52:04,150
I preached on?

1317
00:52:04,990 --> 00:52:06,130
David and Betty, you weren't there.

1318
00:52:06,210 --> 00:52:07,390
That was the night the glory came.

1319
00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:09,110
Not because you weren't there.

1320
00:52:14,220 --> 00:52:16,740
I preached on the judgment seat the other

1321
00:52:16,740 --> 00:52:16,980
night.

1322
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:17,680
How many were there?

1323
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:18,240
Some of you.

1324
00:52:18,340 --> 00:52:18,840
Oh, good.

1325
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:20,200
Wasn't it a gracious meeting?

1326
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,940
I've preached that a hundred times, but never

1327
00:52:23,940 --> 00:52:25,740
with as much joy and anointing, I think,

1328
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:26,360
as that night.

1329
00:52:27,020 --> 00:52:28,540
But one thing I forgot to say, there'll

1330
00:52:28,540 --> 00:52:30,260
be no maturing after we die.

1331
00:52:31,420 --> 00:52:33,640
I believe as a tree falls, it lies.

1332
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,760
I don't think a million years in eternity

1333
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,020
will make a bit of difference to your

1334
00:52:38,020 --> 00:52:39,520
standing there or your maturity.

1335
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:40,860
All the maturity is here.

1336
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,560
And that's a very serious thing.

1337
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:48,720
There's not much time for many of us,

1338
00:52:48,980 --> 00:52:49,780
any of us really.

1339
00:52:50,860 --> 00:52:52,820
And to think that between here and there,

1340
00:52:53,220 --> 00:52:55,920
that once the thread of life snaps, I'm

1341
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:56,760
not going to be maturing.

1342
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,700
God has given me all I need for

1343
00:52:58,700 --> 00:52:59,900
maturity in this book.

1344
00:53:02,020 --> 00:53:03,760
And no man, however tall he was, however

1345
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,520
strong he was, however great he was, in

1346
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,000
the kingdom of God, ever had more than

1347
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:07,940
I have in this book.

1348
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,680
He just absorbed more of it.

1349
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:11,020
He dwelt on it more.

1350
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:12,860
He meditated on it.

1351
00:53:12,980 --> 00:53:13,920
Moses could have run away.

1352
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,200
Oh, I've seen the glory of God.

1353
00:53:15,260 --> 00:53:16,060
He stays there.

1354
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:18,260
He isn't caring what's happening.

1355
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,180
What if they're making another golden calf?

1356
00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:20,620
Forget it.

1357
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,700
He says, I'm absorbed with God's glory, with

1358
00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:24,300
God's majesty, with God's beauty.

1359
00:53:25,060 --> 00:53:26,480
And if you say God like that, you

1360
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,000
won't care a hill of beans if somebody

1361
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,900
leaves you out of some special function they

1362
00:53:29,900 --> 00:53:30,160
have.

1363
00:53:30,420 --> 00:53:32,040
They'd invite you to a wedding or invite

1364
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:32,860
you somewhere else.

1365
00:53:35,050 --> 00:53:36,290
It won't make a bit of difference.

1366
00:53:37,170 --> 00:53:39,450
The more I'm absorbed in him, the less

1367
00:53:39,450 --> 00:53:40,850
I care about the things round about.

1368
00:53:42,270 --> 00:53:44,270
I want to be eternity conscious.

1369
00:53:44,490 --> 00:53:45,810
I want to be God conscious.

1370
00:53:48,220 --> 00:53:50,060
I'm going to eternity not for the weekend.

1371
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,680
If you are, well go, but I'm not

1372
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:53,220
going with you.

1373
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,420
I'm going into his eternal presence forever.

1374
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:58,820
So what if I suffer a little?

1375
00:53:58,900 --> 00:53:59,960
What if I'm not liked?

1376
00:54:01,740 --> 00:54:03,180
People don't like my preaching.

1377
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:04,200
I say, I don't like your preaching.

1378
00:54:04,260 --> 00:54:04,940
I say, shake hands.

1379
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:05,860
I don't like it either.

1380
00:54:07,180 --> 00:54:09,120
You won't get one over me saying that.

1381
00:54:09,460 --> 00:54:10,480
It could be a lot better.

1382
00:54:11,620 --> 00:54:12,620
Maybe it could be worse too.

1383
00:54:15,060 --> 00:54:17,260
Come on, we're eternity bound people.

1384
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,260
Are we absorbing all there is in the

1385
00:54:19,260 --> 00:54:20,560
risen Christ of God?

1386
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,400
Is your life reflecting his peace, his peace,

1387
00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:26,540
his joy, his love?

1388
00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:30,680
It's all there to be absorbed by us.

1389
00:54:31,340 --> 00:54:32,620
My peace I live with.

1390
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,060
Not peace, my peace.

1391
00:54:34,860 --> 00:54:35,160
Joy?

1392
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:36,180
No, my joy.

1393
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,580
No man taketh it from you.

1394
00:54:37,660 --> 00:54:38,540
Take everything else.

1395
00:54:39,220 --> 00:54:40,340
Take the shirt off your back.

1396
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:41,560
Take the money out of your pocket.

1397
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:42,240
Take your friends.

1398
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:43,220
You can't take your joy.

1399
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,960
Joy, he says, your joy, no man taketh

1400
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:48,500
it from you.

1401
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,080
Read the 16th chapter of John.

1402
00:54:51,060 --> 00:54:53,240
It's his joy, the joy that dominated his

1403
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:55,260
life under pressure, when they threatened him, when

1404
00:54:55,260 --> 00:54:55,960
they would have killed him.

1405
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,460
But he was dominated by joy, by peace,

1406
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,640
and I leave you my peace by joy.

1407
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:02,380
And his joy was doing the will of

1408
00:55:02,380 --> 00:55:02,820
the father.

1409
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,680
This is his legacy to his disciples.

1410
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,700
Any king dies poor as Jesus.

1411
00:55:09,380 --> 00:55:11,280
He didn't have any houses he could share.

1412
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,000
Didn't have any horses to leave them.

1413
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:14,840
He didn't have any money.

1414
00:55:15,100 --> 00:55:16,400
He says, I give you my peace.

1415
00:55:16,460 --> 00:55:17,300
I'll give you my joy.

1416
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,400
These are worth a million, million times the

1417
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:20,200
other things you have.

1418
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:22,740
And if I'm living in less than that,

1419
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,160
I'm not living where God wants me.

1420
00:55:25,260 --> 00:55:26,580
And if I'm not living there, I won't

1421
00:55:26,580 --> 00:55:27,480
reflect his glory.

1422
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:28,680
I won't reflect his beauty.

1423
00:55:31,250 --> 00:55:31,890
Ah, yes.

1424
00:55:33,530 --> 00:55:37,390
And while we're rejoicing, there's a world outside

1425
00:55:37,390 --> 00:55:37,890
perishing.

1426
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:41,860
The more I see of him, the more

1427
00:55:41,860 --> 00:55:42,620
I'll hate sin.

1428
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,240
The more I see of him, the more

1429
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:47,740
I long that what Jesus died for will

1430
00:55:47,740 --> 00:55:49,320
be accomplished in my generation.

1431
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:50,660
It hasn't been accomplished in any other.

1432
00:55:51,620 --> 00:55:53,900
You've got the greatest chance in the world

1433
00:55:53,900 --> 00:55:54,660
to make history.

1434
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,220
And you'll only do it when you're cleansed

1435
00:55:57,220 --> 00:55:59,020
and filled with the spirit of God.

1436
00:56:01,620 --> 00:56:02,400
We're going to pray.

1437
00:56:02,500 --> 00:56:04,160
If you wish to go, you're free to

1438
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,320
go as we kneel to pray.

1439
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,880
We leave the service open-ended because so

1440
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:14,430
often we've, uh, let me find the watch

1441
00:56:14,430 --> 00:56:14,770
I borrowed.

1442
00:56:19,220 --> 00:56:20,760
I don't know whose watch was it.

1443
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:21,760
Don't all put your hands up.

1444
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,040
Whose watch was this, some brother?

1445
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:32,060
Catch.

1446
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:32,760
No.

1447
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,820
Pass it over to him, please.

1448
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:37,340
Thank you so much.

1449
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,420
It didn't help me too much, but anyhow.

1450
00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:44,840
Let's pray.

1451
00:56:44,940 --> 00:56:47,060
We're praying for revival in this community as

1452
00:56:47,060 --> 00:56:47,960
well as other places.

1453
00:56:48,980 --> 00:56:50,940
We're praying for revival in your church.

1454
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,460
I felt there was real blessing down there

1455
00:56:54,460 --> 00:56:56,420
at, what do you call it, Rose Heights?

1456
00:56:57,220 --> 00:56:58,000
Church of God.

1457
00:56:58,040 --> 00:56:59,940
There's a lovely spirit, a very precious man

1458
00:56:59,940 --> 00:57:00,200
there.

1459
00:57:01,020 --> 00:57:02,240
I learned to love him in the few

1460
00:57:02,240 --> 00:57:03,120
nights I was there.

1461
00:57:04,700 --> 00:57:05,960
And I ask you to pray for that

1462
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,480
church as well, that the glory will come.

1463
00:57:07,500 --> 00:57:09,160
I don't care where the fire falls, but

1464
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:10,100
it must fall somewhere.

1465
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:13,800
So feel free.

1466
00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:17,140
If you're not in the spirit, if you

1467
00:57:17,140 --> 00:57:19,040
say my life doesn't reflect the glory of

1468
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,760
Jesus, well, cough out what's wrong.

1469
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:21,520
Is it pride?

1470
00:57:21,620 --> 00:57:22,120
Is it envy?

1471
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:22,660
What is it?

1472
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:23,440
Stubbornness?

1473
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:24,720
Jealousy?

1474
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:25,340
What is it?

1475
00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:28,940
Don't say, bless me, Lord, kill this thing

1476
00:57:28,940 --> 00:57:29,320
in me.

1477
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:35,340
Go to the cross and die and get

1478
00:57:35,340 --> 00:57:36,260
resurrection life.

1479
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:38,920
So now we're going to pray.

1480
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:40,320
And as I say, you feel to leave

1481
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:41,100
anytime you like.

1482
00:57:41,180 --> 00:57:46,260
Give me a chair, thanks Jacob.