1 00:00:00,970 --> 00:00:02,730 I've known this young man since he was 2 00:00:02,730 --> 00:00:04,970 probably about 16 or 17, I can't remember, 3 00:00:06,110 --> 00:00:10,050 and we've been through a lot together, and 4 00:00:10,050 --> 00:00:11,950 I just asked him to share what the 5 00:00:11,950 --> 00:00:14,770 Lord's been doing in his life and saying 6 00:00:14,770 --> 00:00:17,230 to his heart, and I believe it will 7 00:00:17,230 --> 00:00:18,670 be a warning maybe even to some of 8 00:00:18,670 --> 00:00:21,650 the young people here to take heed, amen? 9 00:00:26,370 --> 00:00:33,610 And I'll try to get through this, over, 10 00:00:34,630 --> 00:00:37,650 when I first received baptism in the Holy 11 00:00:37,650 --> 00:00:40,570 Spirit, really when I first began trying to 12 00:00:40,570 --> 00:00:42,510 walk with God at the age of about 13 00:00:42,510 --> 00:00:47,110 16, I dearly loved the regular, you know, 14 00:00:47,190 --> 00:00:51,830 I would spend, during the summers then, you 15 00:00:51,830 --> 00:00:53,150 know, I had a lot of free time, 16 00:00:53,370 --> 00:00:55,810 and I would just sit and read for 17 00:00:55,810 --> 00:01:00,810 hours and hours, and one day some unknowing 18 00:01:00,810 --> 00:01:04,050 soul who intended no harm whatsoever walked through 19 00:01:04,050 --> 00:01:07,250 and said, I guess they were concerned about 20 00:01:07,250 --> 00:01:10,070 my mental state or whatever, they said, you 21 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:12,210 know, you don't have to read that all 22 00:01:12,210 --> 00:01:15,490 the time, and that, you know, I didn't 23 00:01:15,490 --> 00:01:18,070 immediately just put the thing down and go 24 00:01:18,070 --> 00:01:20,070 about my way, but it, that planted a 25 00:01:20,070 --> 00:01:21,550 seed in my mind, and I thought, well, 26 00:01:21,590 --> 00:01:24,190 maybe I am being a little, and so 27 00:01:24,190 --> 00:01:25,790 over a period of time, I began to, 28 00:01:25,890 --> 00:01:29,050 I read less and less, and I was 29 00:01:29,050 --> 00:01:31,390 still going to services and worshiping the Lord 30 00:01:31,390 --> 00:01:34,090 and all that, and I didn't, at the 31 00:01:34,090 --> 00:01:35,630 time, I didn't think much about it, but 32 00:01:35,630 --> 00:01:39,510 anyway, over a period of years, some things 33 00:01:39,510 --> 00:01:41,670 happened, I had some, what I consider to 34 00:01:41,670 --> 00:01:47,050 be some pretty severe failures, and I really 35 00:01:47,050 --> 00:01:49,110 got away from the Word as a source 36 00:01:49,110 --> 00:01:51,650 of strength, and when I, when I would 37 00:01:51,650 --> 00:01:53,450 go to the Word, I would read the 38 00:01:53,450 --> 00:01:54,990 Word out of a sense of duty or 39 00:01:54,990 --> 00:01:58,270 whatever, and I found lots of condemnation that 40 00:01:58,270 --> 00:02:02,470 was a fearful thing for me, and this 41 00:02:02,470 --> 00:02:04,130 went on for a number of years, and 42 00:02:04,130 --> 00:02:06,850 finally here, here recently, I just needed to 43 00:02:06,850 --> 00:02:08,810 seek God about some things, and I knew 44 00:02:08,810 --> 00:02:10,990 that I needed my own answers, I didn't 45 00:02:10,990 --> 00:02:13,070 need somebody else to tell me a bunch 46 00:02:13,070 --> 00:02:17,190 of things, and what came to my heart 47 00:02:17,190 --> 00:02:20,350 was that I should know, I should know 48 00:02:20,350 --> 00:02:25,290 the answer, and I thought, well, how, you 49 00:02:25,290 --> 00:02:26,530 know, how can I do that, and I 50 00:02:26,530 --> 00:02:28,150 thought, well, you just, you just need to 51 00:02:28,150 --> 00:02:29,570 read the Word, you need to go to 52 00:02:29,570 --> 00:02:31,010 the Word and find out what the Word 53 00:02:31,010 --> 00:02:35,180 says about it, so I would get up 54 00:02:35,180 --> 00:02:37,400 at night, sometimes after I would work late, 55 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,140 long hours and all like that, but I 56 00:02:39,140 --> 00:02:41,040 would wake up about two o'clock, two 57 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:42,680 or three in the morning, and I'd jump 58 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,960 up and grab the Bible and go in 59 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:45,920 there and see what it said, and I 60 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:50,050 would read for hours at a time, and 61 00:02:50,050 --> 00:02:52,990 through doing that, the blessedness of the Word 62 00:02:52,990 --> 00:02:57,430 has come back, and the joy of reading 63 00:02:57,430 --> 00:03:03,510 the Word has come back, and the deliverance 64 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:08,490 and the peace that the Word can bring, 65 00:03:10,210 --> 00:03:14,430 and the appreciation for what God gave us, 66 00:03:14,550 --> 00:03:16,190 has come. 67 00:03:19,190 --> 00:03:22,150 And I don't, you know, whatever that's worth 68 00:03:22,150 --> 00:03:23,650 to you, I don't know, maybe you've never 69 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:26,190 been through any, you know, may not have 70 00:03:26,190 --> 00:03:28,430 taken the steps that I've taken, but I 71 00:03:28,430 --> 00:03:32,470 know this, I was telling Paulson, I guess 72 00:03:32,470 --> 00:03:37,580 at one point I knew this, I believe 73 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:40,320 that even if you read this without faith, 74 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,020 but if you just sat down and read, 75 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,480 and you read enough to give it a 76 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:52,060 chance, it will create, and I, you know, 77 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,260 I've often, I've heard that over and over, 78 00:03:54,380 --> 00:03:56,140 that faith come up by hearing, and hearing 79 00:03:56,140 --> 00:03:58,840 by the Word of God that there truly 80 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,040 is something alive and wonderful about the words 81 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,140 written in this book, and I don't understand 82 00:04:04,140 --> 00:04:04,400 it. 83 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,640 I lean towards, I'm not that smart, but 84 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,240 I lean towards an intellectual approach to life 85 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:13,760 in virtually every area. 86 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,440 I don't pretend to understand, I can't imagine 87 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,140 how mere words can change your life, but 88 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:21,240 I know that they can. 89 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:27,100 And if you're not reading, if you're not 90 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:29,880 reading because, like I was, it has become 91 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,200 a fearful thing to you, or because maybe 92 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,380 you think you're not getting what you need 93 00:04:34,380 --> 00:04:38,340 from it, probably the problem is just that 94 00:04:38,340 --> 00:04:40,460 you're not reading enough, or you're not spending 95 00:04:40,460 --> 00:04:41,640 enough time on it. 96 00:04:44,350 --> 00:04:48,030 Because speaking virtually as someone back from the 97 00:04:48,030 --> 00:04:57,410 dead, it can bring life and 98 00:04:57,410 --> 00:05:03,720 deliverance and peace when it doesn't appear, when 99 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,880 there doesn't appear to be any, to be 100 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:07,280 half. 101 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,160 And if I have a thankful heart this 102 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,340 morning for anything, it's just for the fact 103 00:05:17,340 --> 00:05:20,280 that I again appreciate the Word of God, 104 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,880 and that's something that's been missing for a 105 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:24,500 long time. 106 00:05:26,060 --> 00:05:26,580 Amen. 107 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:28,580 Thank you, Lord. 108 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,460 Thank you, Lord. 109 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:30,520 Thank you, Lord. 110 00:05:30,620 --> 00:05:31,200 Thank you, Father. 111 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:33,360 Thank you, Lord Jesus. 112 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:37,780 Oh, Father. 113 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,360 Thank you, Father. 114 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,780 Thank you, Lord, for rejoicing in me. 115 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:50,520 Amen, Father. 116 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:58,180 Oh, God. 117 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:06,500 Thank you, Lord. 118 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,740 One thing I'm convinced of in this hour 119 00:06:08,740 --> 00:06:12,660 is I remember the parable of the hunter 120 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:13,120 sheep. 121 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:17,340 The Lord had 99 of them, but one 122 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:18,240 of them wasn't there. 123 00:06:19,420 --> 00:06:22,180 And he said he left the 99, and 124 00:06:22,180 --> 00:06:24,220 he went and found the one sheep. 125 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,400 The parable of the prodigal son, I think, 126 00:06:28,460 --> 00:06:30,060 speaks of what God's going to do. 127 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:32,040 He's going to go out and find his 128 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:32,860 children, isn't he? 129 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:35,100 Every last one of them. 130 00:06:35,780 --> 00:06:36,100 Amen. 131 00:06:37,060 --> 00:06:38,120 And bring them home. 132 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,260 I think we need to pray that those 133 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:43,520 that are out in the high plains, you 134 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:44,760 know, you've been out there for a while, 135 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:46,140 you don't know you're starving to death. 136 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,680 You don't know you're living with a swine. 137 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,460 You don't know that you have just hushed 138 00:06:52,460 --> 00:06:53,280 to eat, you know. 139 00:06:53,980 --> 00:06:55,960 And that's what it is when you backslide 140 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:56,820 and you go into the world. 141 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:57,200 Amen. 142 00:06:58,060 --> 00:07:01,660 But finally, the prodigal son, by the grace 143 00:07:01,660 --> 00:07:03,780 of God, I think God opened his eyes 144 00:07:03,780 --> 00:07:06,160 to realize where he was. 145 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,740 And it seems like it's strange. 146 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:11,100 It took him a long time, but all 147 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:12,460 of a sudden he remembered what? 148 00:07:13,220 --> 00:07:17,800 In my father's house, there's plenty of food 149 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:18,180 to eat. 150 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,680 Even my father's hired servants are better off 151 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:23,200 than I am. 152 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,100 He said, I know what I'll do. 153 00:07:25,220 --> 00:07:26,520 I wouldn't even claim to be a son 154 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:26,960 anymore. 155 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,640 I'll go back and hire myself out to 156 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:30,220 my father. 157 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,180 Of course, we know the father would not 158 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:34,140 accept that, would he? 159 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:37,900 He received him back as a son, killed 160 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:40,020 the fatted calf, gave him a robe, which 161 00:07:40,020 --> 00:07:41,940 I believe is again the robe of righteousness. 162 00:07:42,220 --> 00:07:42,400 Amen. 163 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:44,780 Put the signet ring on it, which means 164 00:07:44,780 --> 00:07:46,680 he gave him back authority, didn't he? 165 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:47,780 And took him back. 166 00:07:47,980 --> 00:07:50,960 And may we, as God feeds us, may 167 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,180 we be burdened by the spirit, cry out 168 00:07:54,180 --> 00:07:57,580 for the lost sheep of the house of 169 00:07:57,580 --> 00:07:57,900 Israel. 170 00:07:58,020 --> 00:07:58,300 Amen. 171 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,760 And for the prodigal son, and plead that 172 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,660 God will restore them and bring them back. 173 00:08:05,780 --> 00:08:05,980 Amen. 174 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,300 You may not be touched by this as 175 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:12,460 much as I am, because you have to 176 00:08:12,460 --> 00:08:14,820 know some of the history, some of the 177 00:08:14,820 --> 00:08:16,580 things that's happened, but this has blessed me 178 00:08:16,580 --> 00:08:17,100 so much. 179 00:08:17,860 --> 00:08:18,180 Amen. 180 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,420 Well, the Lord bless you and we hope 181 00:08:22,420 --> 00:08:25,280 you're enjoying the services the word that God 182 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:26,180 is bringing to us. 183 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:28,580 We hope that you're feasting on the table 184 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:30,460 that God set before us. 185 00:08:30,460 --> 00:08:30,680 Amen. 186 00:08:31,740 --> 00:08:33,559 So anything else I need to add? 187 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:34,380 I don't know. 188 00:08:35,780 --> 00:08:38,720 Again, we're going to have food after the 189 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:39,159 services. 190 00:08:39,820 --> 00:08:41,100 If you'd like to stay with us all 191 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,560 afternoon, the church is going to be open. 192 00:08:44,180 --> 00:08:47,220 And again, service tonight at seven and then 193 00:08:47,220 --> 00:08:50,120 it's seven o'clock each night next week. 194 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:50,540 Okay. 195 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,800 So without any further ado, we'll turn it 196 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,920 over to Brother George Warnock. 197 00:09:11,490 --> 00:09:14,470 I know these days we're emphasizing a lot 198 00:09:14,470 --> 00:09:18,510 the spirit of truth. 199 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:26,020 We haven't emphasized the Bible as such, because 200 00:09:26,020 --> 00:09:30,220 there is a great imbalance between the written 201 00:09:30,220 --> 00:09:32,480 word and that living word that God wants 202 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:33,140 to bring forth. 203 00:09:34,420 --> 00:09:38,580 But we certainly honor the word of God, 204 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:41,360 the Bible very much, steam it very highly. 205 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,640 And people say, well, the letter killeth, just 206 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:48,360 the dead letter. 207 00:09:48,860 --> 00:09:50,160 The spirit giveth life. 208 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,060 So let's concentrate on the spirit. 209 00:09:55,260 --> 00:09:58,000 And Paul isn't dividing the literal word from 210 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:58,500 the spirit. 211 00:09:59,740 --> 00:10:04,040 He is saying that if you divide the 212 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,480 spirit from the word, then the letter will 213 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:07,800 kill. 214 00:10:08,580 --> 00:10:10,140 He isn't saying it's not necessary. 215 00:10:10,780 --> 00:10:12,000 It's very necessary. 216 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,360 They tell me that's a pecan tree out 217 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:15,620 there. 218 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,280 I don't know if you've ever seen one, 219 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,060 but I've worked with pecan wood. 220 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:20,580 It's very, very hard stuff. 221 00:10:21,660 --> 00:10:24,120 But it has a shell on it, and 222 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,620 that shell is totally essential. 223 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,840 You wouldn't have, I don't think the kernel 224 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,120 would develop without the shell developing around it. 225 00:10:33,460 --> 00:10:34,460 Very essential. 226 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,160 But the shell has to be cracked open 227 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,440 before you get the kernel. 228 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,180 And so as a young man, knowing that 229 00:10:44,180 --> 00:10:48,020 God had some purpose in ministry for me, 230 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,260 and I never was a speaker, a preacher. 231 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,660 I didn't have that kind of eloquence. 232 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:58,140 I thought, well, I'll just memorize Scripture. 233 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,580 And one time when we moved to the 234 00:11:00,580 --> 00:11:02,420 coast from the parish where I grew up, 235 00:11:03,380 --> 00:11:06,780 I grew up in a little town and 236 00:11:06,780 --> 00:11:08,820 landed in that big city of Vancouver. 237 00:11:09,180 --> 00:11:11,100 And I had to find a job, and 238 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:12,800 jobs weren't plentiful in those days. 239 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:14,940 Anything I hated was looking for work. 240 00:11:16,460 --> 00:11:18,060 I like work all right now, but I 241 00:11:18,060 --> 00:11:19,980 don't mind work, but I hate looking for 242 00:11:19,980 --> 00:11:20,180 it. 243 00:11:22,410 --> 00:11:24,110 So I grew up in that big city 244 00:11:24,110 --> 00:11:26,610 and go to a half a dozen places 245 00:11:26,610 --> 00:11:27,590 looking for work. 246 00:11:28,830 --> 00:11:31,910 And always scared, you know, goodness, I don't 247 00:11:31,910 --> 00:11:33,610 know if I could work in this place. 248 00:11:34,210 --> 00:11:36,270 Glad when they said no, there was no... 249 00:11:36,270 --> 00:11:40,930 I'd go home and memorize the Scripture. 250 00:11:40,950 --> 00:11:42,110 I did that all one summer. 251 00:11:43,610 --> 00:11:45,210 And then in the fall I got somewhat 252 00:11:45,210 --> 00:11:45,870 of a job. 253 00:11:46,950 --> 00:11:49,090 So about three months there I memorized Scripture 254 00:11:49,090 --> 00:11:50,370 almost every day. 255 00:11:51,170 --> 00:11:53,390 In which time I memorized about a chapter 256 00:11:53,390 --> 00:11:53,810 a day. 257 00:11:54,290 --> 00:11:55,510 Started with a book of Romans. 258 00:11:56,430 --> 00:12:00,870 I memorized in that one summer most of 259 00:12:00,870 --> 00:12:01,630 Paul's epistles. 260 00:12:01,930 --> 00:12:05,610 Romans, 1st, 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philistines, Colossians, 261 00:12:06,690 --> 00:12:09,650 1st, 2nd Thessalonians, and Hebrews. 262 00:12:10,050 --> 00:12:11,810 I thought, well, I'll leave the smaller ones 263 00:12:11,810 --> 00:12:15,430 until the last, Titus, Philemon, 1st, 2nd Timothy. 264 00:12:16,610 --> 00:12:18,490 And then I sort of got bogged down, 265 00:12:18,830 --> 00:12:21,730 and since then I don't know if I've 266 00:12:21,730 --> 00:12:23,490 done hardly any memorizing. 267 00:12:25,370 --> 00:12:26,990 And I can't say I can go through 268 00:12:26,990 --> 00:12:29,210 it all now, but I do thank the 269 00:12:29,210 --> 00:12:29,790 Lord for that. 270 00:12:30,870 --> 00:12:35,010 I know it was just a letter, and 271 00:12:35,010 --> 00:12:36,790 it didn't mean that much to me as 272 00:12:36,790 --> 00:12:38,570 I read it and memorized it. 273 00:12:39,330 --> 00:12:42,710 But I knew enough about God's ways that 274 00:12:42,710 --> 00:12:44,570 I knew he honored this book very highly. 275 00:12:45,810 --> 00:12:49,910 He gave it, and I came across a 276 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,200 writing concerning Ivan Panin, and I got his 277 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:55,180 works on it. 278 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,120 As a mathematician and a very godly Christian, 279 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,960 it come to him that if that Bible 280 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,700 is the infallible Word of God in its 281 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:11,120 original writing, it had to be mathematically correct. 282 00:13:12,220 --> 00:13:14,120 And he spent the rest of his life, 283 00:13:14,140 --> 00:13:17,480 he spent fifty years proving that the original 284 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,860 Scriptures in the original Greek and Hebrew were 285 00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:23,220 perfectly mathematically correct. 286 00:13:25,060 --> 00:13:27,380 So that gave me, not that I studied 287 00:13:27,380 --> 00:13:29,300 it a lot, but it gave me added 288 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:29,840 assurance. 289 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,040 And he also says, according to mathematics, there 290 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:35,800 are sixty-six books in that Bible and 291 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:36,300 no more. 292 00:13:37,020 --> 00:13:38,260 That's the canon of Scripture. 293 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,800 You come across a writing in the Old 294 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,440 Testament, you know, is it not written in 295 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,780 the book of Jasher or whatever? 296 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,460 And people say, oh, we've got to find 297 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:50,120 those books. 298 00:13:51,020 --> 00:13:51,900 They're lost books. 299 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,740 So they come up with supposed to be 300 00:13:54,740 --> 00:13:56,660 books that belong to the Bible. 301 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,880 I believe in this we have the canon 302 00:13:58,880 --> 00:13:59,380 of Scripture. 303 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:02,740 Not to say there are not valid historical 304 00:14:02,740 --> 00:14:03,280 records. 305 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:07,000 Paul wrote a letter to Laodicea, told the 306 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:07,740 Colossians to read it. 307 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:08,560 It's not in the Scripture. 308 00:14:08,660 --> 00:14:09,900 It wasn't intended to be part of the 309 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:10,520 canon of Scripture. 310 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,400 And so I believe we have that evidence 311 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,220 that it is the canon of Scripture. 312 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,420 And I didn't intend to go into this, 313 00:14:19,620 --> 00:14:23,760 but when I was a young man in 314 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:28,400 Vancouver, I sat under the ministry of Brother 315 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,040 Ern Baxter, who has just gone on to 316 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,360 be with the Lord and found great profit 317 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:35,180 from it. 318 00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:37,980 And I believe it gave me, sitting under 319 00:14:37,980 --> 00:14:41,140 his ministry, was the meaning of a sure 320 00:14:41,140 --> 00:14:43,640 foundation of the Word in my own life. 321 00:14:45,860 --> 00:14:50,160 Not to say that there was any increased 322 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,720 revelation beyond what God had given to the 323 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,320 church at that hour, but he had a 324 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,480 great ministry of bringing forth the established truth 325 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,160 that we knew in those days. 326 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,860 And he took a study in the tabernacle 327 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:05,640 in the wilderness, and so I made a 328 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,700 model of it, which I still have. 329 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:11,920 It's pretty well beaten up now. 330 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,900 It's traveled far more miles than the tabernacle 331 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:17,360 that Moses built in the wilderness. 332 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,640 And it's got beat up a lot. 333 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,580 But I made it from the Scriptures. 334 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,080 And I thought I'd look up a Bible 335 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:27,720 dictionary if I thought I'd need a little 336 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:29,740 help, and other versions of Scripture. 337 00:15:30,420 --> 00:15:33,640 But when it came to the candlestick, it 338 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,120 is quite difficult. 339 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:40,360 There was no dimensions, and it sounded a 340 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:41,100 little complicated. 341 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,140 And I'd see diagrams of it in Bible 342 00:15:44,140 --> 00:15:46,680 dictionaries, and I couldn't seem to get that 343 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,660 to conform to what was written in the 344 00:15:48,660 --> 00:15:48,960 Bible. 345 00:15:49,260 --> 00:15:51,340 So I just went by the Scriptures when 346 00:15:51,340 --> 00:15:54,100 I built the model of the candlestick. 347 00:15:54,100 --> 00:16:05,300 And I came up 348 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:06,460 with something like this. 349 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,360 It speaks about the bowl, the knot, the 350 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:10,700 flower. 351 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:12,320 The bowl, the knot, the flower, and the 352 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:12,760 candlestick. 353 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,560 In other words, each section was in three. 354 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:17,400 A bowl, knot, flower. 355 00:16:17,460 --> 00:16:18,320 And I don't know what it was. 356 00:16:18,380 --> 00:16:22,160 It seems to have been different forms in 357 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,760 which the almond came forth. 358 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,940 And so there was a bowl, a knot, 359 00:16:29,060 --> 00:16:30,220 and a flower. 360 00:16:31,460 --> 00:16:38,390 And then a bowl, a knot, and a 361 00:16:38,390 --> 00:16:38,790 flower. 362 00:16:39,770 --> 00:16:43,610 A bowl, a knot, and a flower. 363 00:16:44,830 --> 00:16:45,570 Four of them. 364 00:16:46,070 --> 00:16:48,230 Bowl, knot. 365 00:16:55,910 --> 00:17:00,450 I'm Out of the candlestick, there was a 366 00:17:00,450 --> 00:17:02,130 branch with three parts in it. 367 00:17:03,130 --> 00:17:04,410 A bowl, a knot, a flower. 368 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,200 And a bowl, a knot, a flower. 369 00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:19,440 And a bowl, a knot, and a flower. 370 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:20,420 One, two, three. 371 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:21,180 One, two, three. 372 00:17:21,260 --> 00:17:21,819 One, two, three. 373 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,760 And each one was in these three parts. 374 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:25,940 And the same the other side. 375 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,500 That's not quite right. 376 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:37,540 That comes under. 377 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:39,920 Don't cough again. 378 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,840 It came out of, in between them like. 379 00:17:50,630 --> 00:17:53,090 Oh, I'm getting all confused here. 380 00:17:58,660 --> 00:18:00,300 These all came in between here. 381 00:18:00,380 --> 00:18:02,540 This one, two, three. 382 00:18:03,860 --> 00:18:05,260 They came in between here. 383 00:18:10,990 --> 00:18:12,830 And so there's, each one of these was 384 00:18:12,830 --> 00:18:13,350 in three. 385 00:18:13,810 --> 00:18:15,650 And there's one, two, three, four, five, six, 386 00:18:15,690 --> 00:18:17,830 seven, eight, nine, three, three, two, nine, three, 387 00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:19,870 there's twenty-seven pieces. 388 00:18:21,090 --> 00:18:23,130 And the other side, twenty-seven pieces. 389 00:18:23,650 --> 00:18:25,850 And one, two, three, four in the middle, 390 00:18:25,950 --> 00:18:29,550 which I believe is the Christ, the stem. 391 00:18:29,730 --> 00:18:31,270 I am the vine, you're the branches. 392 00:18:32,150 --> 00:18:33,830 He's the light. 393 00:18:34,790 --> 00:18:38,150 And there were lamps on these seven. 394 00:18:38,330 --> 00:18:39,270 You see the lamp. 395 00:18:39,970 --> 00:18:44,890 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. 396 00:18:45,110 --> 00:18:45,950 Seven lamps. 397 00:18:47,250 --> 00:18:49,690 And then so twenty-seven, there are twenty 398 00:18:49,690 --> 00:18:49,970 -seven. 399 00:18:50,050 --> 00:18:53,310 One, two, three, four times three is twelve. 400 00:18:54,470 --> 00:18:55,330 Sixty-six. 401 00:18:56,570 --> 00:18:57,910 And I wasn't looking for that. 402 00:18:57,970 --> 00:18:58,990 I wasn't looking for anything. 403 00:18:59,150 --> 00:19:01,350 I was just making it the best I 404 00:19:01,350 --> 00:19:02,890 could from the Scriptures. 405 00:19:04,650 --> 00:19:06,550 It comes to sixty-six pieces. 406 00:19:08,790 --> 00:19:10,630 And to me that was a confirmation of 407 00:19:10,630 --> 00:19:11,550 the canon of Scripture. 408 00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:15,590 And then this tremendous finding by Ivan Panin, 409 00:19:16,970 --> 00:19:21,250 confirming that the Apocrypha does not belong to 410 00:19:21,250 --> 00:19:22,090 the canon of Scripture. 411 00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:27,050 Not to say it's not historical, but God 412 00:19:27,050 --> 00:19:30,070 saw fit to have sixty-six books. 413 00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:30,930 So I honor that. 414 00:19:31,150 --> 00:19:32,950 And I don't encourage people to read these 415 00:19:32,950 --> 00:19:33,490 other writings. 416 00:19:33,630 --> 00:19:34,990 I've read a bit of the Apocrypha. 417 00:19:35,070 --> 00:19:37,350 I don't accept it as the, on a 418 00:19:37,350 --> 00:19:38,910 level of the Word of God, there's perhaps 419 00:19:38,910 --> 00:19:41,130 historical facts in it. 420 00:19:41,770 --> 00:19:44,610 But I hear people getting all excited about 421 00:19:44,610 --> 00:19:46,510 getting to know the book of Thomas, for 422 00:19:46,510 --> 00:19:46,790 instance. 423 00:19:47,970 --> 00:19:52,570 And I'm not saying there's anything wrong. 424 00:19:52,650 --> 00:19:53,410 I haven't read it. 425 00:19:54,290 --> 00:19:58,830 But these people don't necessarily know this book 426 00:19:58,830 --> 00:20:02,110 and Paul's writings and Peter's and James', but 427 00:20:02,110 --> 00:20:02,710 Thomas. 428 00:20:02,910 --> 00:20:04,390 We've got to hear what Thomas has to 429 00:20:04,390 --> 00:20:04,610 say. 430 00:20:04,690 --> 00:20:06,550 And it's not proven to be part of 431 00:20:06,550 --> 00:20:07,510 the canon of Scripture. 432 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:12,850 But you see, they weren't all pinned together 433 00:20:12,850 --> 00:20:14,910 or welded together, all these pieces. 434 00:20:16,750 --> 00:20:18,670 God says take a solid piece of gold 435 00:20:18,670 --> 00:20:20,330 and beat it out of that. 436 00:20:22,290 --> 00:20:24,010 So there were sixty-six parts, but it 437 00:20:24,010 --> 00:20:26,690 wasn't pinned together, it wasn't welded together. 438 00:20:27,850 --> 00:20:30,410 What a tremendous amount of work. 439 00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:34,650 And there's no dimensions to it. 440 00:20:35,550 --> 00:20:38,310 All the other things, there's dimensions to it. 441 00:20:38,710 --> 00:20:39,890 No dimensions to it. 442 00:20:39,970 --> 00:20:43,110 Because it's the Word of God, yes. 443 00:20:44,030 --> 00:20:48,550 But it's dead in itself. 444 00:20:49,810 --> 00:20:52,410 But it is necessary to carry the lamps. 445 00:20:53,690 --> 00:20:56,290 The Bible. 446 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:01,240 But it's more than the Bible. 447 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:03,760 It's the living truth. 448 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:04,980 It's Jesus. 449 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:06,620 Jesus is the Word. 450 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,310 He's not the Bible, but He's the Word. 451 00:21:10,550 --> 00:21:16,130 And the Bible, like the candlestick, is that 452 00:21:16,130 --> 00:21:20,230 instrument, that vessel, intended of the Lord to 453 00:21:20,230 --> 00:21:21,610 reveal the Christ. 454 00:21:25,260 --> 00:21:27,140 And so Genesis is the first book of 455 00:21:27,140 --> 00:21:30,620 the Bible and Revelation is the end, because 456 00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:33,180 the whole sum and substance of the Bible 457 00:21:33,180 --> 00:21:34,440 is to reveal Christ. 458 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,660 Not a lot of knowledge about Him, but 459 00:21:38,660 --> 00:21:41,400 to reveal the living Christ so that in 460 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,640 the revelation, in the consummation of the book, 461 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:50,020 it's the book of the revelation of Jesus 462 00:21:50,020 --> 00:21:50,640 Christ. 463 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,880 The unshining forth of Jesus Christ. 464 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:55,840 That's why John saw Him in the midst 465 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,780 of seven lampstands. 466 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:01,780 Standing in the midst of the seven lampstands. 467 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,220 I believe we often wish somehow, and I 468 00:22:06,220 --> 00:22:09,680 know, I believe the time will come when 469 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,600 the book of Revelation will be that in 470 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,480 the midst of His people, instead of a 471 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,380 book of obscurity. 472 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,420 A book of the revelation of Jesus Christ. 473 00:22:21,380 --> 00:22:24,140 And we're going to see that, because as 474 00:22:24,140 --> 00:22:27,680 we come closer and closer to the time 475 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,540 of the revelation of Jesus Christ, God is 476 00:22:31,540 --> 00:22:34,060 going to be pleased someday to come forth 477 00:22:34,060 --> 00:22:37,740 and stand in the midst of this candlestick. 478 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,980 As He does in the heavens, stands in 479 00:22:41,980 --> 00:22:44,540 the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. 480 00:22:46,220 --> 00:22:49,000 So in our gatherings together in His name, 481 00:22:49,140 --> 00:22:54,460 we want to see Him revealed, because what 482 00:22:54,460 --> 00:22:57,140 goes on in heavenly places, it's the office 483 00:22:57,140 --> 00:22:59,340 work of the Holy Spirit to take that 484 00:22:59,340 --> 00:23:02,900 which is transpiring in heavenly places, that which 485 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:04,780 is in Christ, and reveal it to His 486 00:23:04,780 --> 00:23:05,580 people in the earth. 487 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,520 It's the ministry of the Holy Spirit to 488 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,020 do that. 489 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,080 Know how we long and pray for that 490 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,760 day when we'll be so aware of that, 491 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,860 so conscious of it, and that the burden 492 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:18,860 of it will become so great upon our 493 00:23:18,860 --> 00:23:27,450 shoulders that we won't want anything else but 494 00:23:27,450 --> 00:23:30,590 for the Spirit of God to take the 495 00:23:30,590 --> 00:23:33,010 things of Christ and reveal them to us. 496 00:23:34,230 --> 00:23:38,230 God will be all forms of gimmicks, entertainment, 497 00:23:39,670 --> 00:23:45,550 all that music, all the rock-and-roll, 498 00:23:45,670 --> 00:23:47,530 and all that stuff that they use to 499 00:23:47,530 --> 00:23:49,290 try and bring people in. 500 00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:55,400 And God's bringing forth such a measure of 501 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,480 the Spirit of God and the lives of 502 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,600 His people that people won't come in, and 503 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,540 you won't go trying to bring them in 504 00:24:02,540 --> 00:24:07,160 unless they're seeking God, unless they're seeking the 505 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,380 light, because God is going to have a 506 00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:13,160 brilliant light in the midst of His people. 507 00:24:14,580 --> 00:24:16,920 And in the early church, no man dared 508 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,660 join themselves to the congregation of the saints 509 00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:24,260 unless they were ready to forsake the darkness. 510 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,280 They were coming into the light. 511 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,800 They couldn't stand it unless they were ready 512 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,460 to see the Lord dissolve that darkness. 513 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,000 They weren't out, come, come, come, come to 514 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:37,520 our meeting. 515 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:41,960 No man dared join themselves to the people 516 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,420 of God unless they were really seeking God, 517 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,260 unless their hearts were open towards Him. 518 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,680 Sinners would come, yes, we want the light, 519 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:52,520 and they would come. 520 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,380 So we look for that. 521 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,600 We look for the Son of Man standing 522 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,740 in the midst of the candlestick, this candlestick 523 00:25:01,740 --> 00:25:03,840 here, right where you are. 524 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,520 The Son of Man to reveal Himself in 525 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,200 such a way that there's a shining forth 526 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:10,920 of a light. 527 00:25:12,580 --> 00:25:14,020 And that's what the Word is supposed to 528 00:25:14,020 --> 00:25:14,340 do. 529 00:25:15,380 --> 00:25:19,800 And so God gives great instructions that this 530 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,200 candlestick would be made according to proper form. 531 00:25:23,420 --> 00:25:26,000 And we thank the Lord that He's seen 532 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:32,320 fit to give us this holy book that 533 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,380 is intended to be in God's time and 534 00:25:35,380 --> 00:25:40,000 in God's way, that candlestick from which the 535 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,300 light of God might shine forth. 536 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,680 And so, you know, you memorize it, you 537 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,140 read it, you read it, and virtually people 538 00:25:48,140 --> 00:25:49,280 say, I'll just study the Bible. 539 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,600 Virtually, just read it and memorize it. 540 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,940 And I thought once I should get books 541 00:25:55,940 --> 00:25:59,640 and get a little bit of theological understanding. 542 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,340 And I did get a few books, but 543 00:26:03,340 --> 00:26:05,620 somehow, you see, why do you sort of 544 00:26:05,620 --> 00:26:09,340 speak disparagingly of books when you write them 545 00:26:09,340 --> 00:26:09,860 yourself? 546 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,560 I'm not really speaking disparagingly of books, but 547 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,220 I'm saying there's most of it is theological. 548 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,520 It's not the shining of a light. 549 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,120 And I'm not saying there's no value for 550 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:23,600 that. 551 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:29,040 Perhaps there are certain theological books that God 552 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,000 intended to lay out certain patterns and structures 553 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:33,920 and so forth. 554 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,840 As long as we recognize that God's desire 555 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,520 is not for theology, but for the theoslogos 556 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,660 to be revealed in our midst. 557 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:55,920 Because that's where we get theology from. 558 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,580 And I'm not high on Greek either, but 559 00:26:59,580 --> 00:27:03,280 theos is God and logos is the word. 560 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,680 And that's the word from which we get 561 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:07,500 theology. 562 00:27:10,850 --> 00:27:12,770 That's where the word theology comes from. 563 00:27:12,810 --> 00:27:14,510 The word concerning God. 564 00:27:14,790 --> 00:27:16,690 The science concerning God. 565 00:27:17,450 --> 00:27:18,130 Psychology. 566 00:27:18,910 --> 00:27:21,870 The science concerning the soul. 567 00:27:22,990 --> 00:27:26,610 But that's not my job to do that. 568 00:27:26,730 --> 00:27:28,510 And I don't want to condemn any theologians 569 00:27:28,510 --> 00:27:31,670 who feel it's their job to analyze the 570 00:27:31,670 --> 00:27:32,850 Scriptures in that way. 571 00:27:34,110 --> 00:27:37,030 But God doesn't want us to be theological. 572 00:27:37,550 --> 00:27:38,730 He wants us to know Him. 573 00:27:39,450 --> 00:27:42,190 He wants us to know the theoslogos. 574 00:27:42,910 --> 00:27:45,370 The word that was with God and was 575 00:27:45,370 --> 00:27:45,830 God. 576 00:27:46,050 --> 00:27:49,170 In the beginning was the logos and the 577 00:27:49,170 --> 00:27:50,710 word was with the theos. 578 00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:53,990 And God, theos, was the logos. 579 00:27:54,450 --> 00:27:57,570 The same was in the beginning with theos. 580 00:27:58,590 --> 00:28:00,390 He was God and He was with God 581 00:28:00,390 --> 00:28:01,930 and He was God and He was with 582 00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:03,050 God and He was God. 583 00:28:03,110 --> 00:28:04,610 And the word became flesh. 584 00:28:04,790 --> 00:28:07,890 The logos became flesh and tabernacled among us. 585 00:28:08,590 --> 00:28:11,930 The logos became flesh and tabernacled among us. 586 00:28:12,510 --> 00:28:15,110 And so the logos is higher than the 587 00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:15,490 Bible. 588 00:28:17,170 --> 00:28:20,230 Because this tells about God and it gives 589 00:28:20,230 --> 00:28:21,990 us instruction concerning God. 590 00:28:22,050 --> 00:28:24,770 If perhaps we might seek after God and 591 00:28:24,770 --> 00:28:25,390 find Him. 592 00:28:26,210 --> 00:28:27,930 And you can read the Scriptures and find 593 00:28:27,930 --> 00:28:30,350 God if your heart is open for God. 594 00:28:30,950 --> 00:28:32,490 You won't find it if you just read 595 00:28:32,490 --> 00:28:35,610 it to criticize or to refute the Bible. 596 00:28:35,810 --> 00:28:38,910 But nevertheless, you're in dangerous ground if you 597 00:28:38,910 --> 00:28:40,390 start reading it for that purpose. 598 00:28:45,470 --> 00:28:48,050 Because there's dynamite there and you might, God 599 00:28:48,050 --> 00:28:49,730 by His Spirit, might see fit. 600 00:28:50,490 --> 00:28:53,570 Like Arthur Katz mentioned one time when he 601 00:28:53,570 --> 00:28:57,270 was brought up in Orthodox Judaism. 602 00:28:58,590 --> 00:29:01,450 But he was constantly confronted with Jesus and 603 00:29:01,450 --> 00:29:04,370 he tried to shut it out of his 604 00:29:04,370 --> 00:29:04,790 mind. 605 00:29:05,810 --> 00:29:08,590 And he went to Jerusalem because he knew 606 00:29:08,590 --> 00:29:11,010 they'd have books there that would refute the 607 00:29:11,010 --> 00:29:13,130 idea of Christ being the Messiah. 608 00:29:13,850 --> 00:29:16,130 He walks around Jerusalem looking for a bookstore 609 00:29:16,130 --> 00:29:18,010 where he could find books that would refute 610 00:29:18,010 --> 00:29:20,990 the fact that Jesus was Messiah. 611 00:29:21,750 --> 00:29:23,630 And he dropped into a bookstore and it 612 00:29:23,630 --> 00:29:25,090 was a Messianic bookstore. 613 00:29:25,090 --> 00:29:28,850 And so wherever he went, he was in 614 00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:29,190 trouble. 615 00:29:29,490 --> 00:29:31,150 And anyway, he took a New Testament and 616 00:29:31,150 --> 00:29:32,450 he thought, I'll read the New Testament. 617 00:29:32,590 --> 00:29:33,970 I don't know if it's on that occasion. 618 00:29:34,530 --> 00:29:36,010 I'm just going to read it through. 619 00:29:36,450 --> 00:29:38,750 And so he read it through and he 620 00:29:38,750 --> 00:29:41,850 said something was grabbing him, you know. 621 00:29:42,050 --> 00:29:45,250 And he came to the story of the 622 00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:46,950 woman that was taken in adultery. 623 00:29:48,090 --> 00:29:49,870 And he thought, now I'm going to close 624 00:29:49,870 --> 00:29:50,930 the book here for a minute. 625 00:29:52,170 --> 00:29:54,210 He said, I can't see how he'll ever 626 00:29:54,210 --> 00:29:55,010 get out of that one. 627 00:29:56,990 --> 00:29:58,710 The law said you got to stone her. 628 00:29:58,770 --> 00:30:00,690 And he knew by what he'd already read 629 00:30:00,690 --> 00:30:03,090 that Jesus wouldn't go along with the law. 630 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:06,560 He's in a fix. 631 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,460 And he closed the book and he thought, 632 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,980 how will he get out of that one? 633 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,780 And he couldn't figure out how he was 634 00:30:16,780 --> 00:30:17,580 going to get out of it. 635 00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:24,630 And he who was the Logos incarnate, who 636 00:30:24,630 --> 00:30:28,710 came to redeem men, who loved sinners, and 637 00:30:28,710 --> 00:30:31,550 loved righteousness and hated iniquity but loved sinners, 638 00:30:34,710 --> 00:30:37,110 turned to the woman and said, where are 639 00:30:37,110 --> 00:30:38,010 thine accusers? 640 00:30:38,250 --> 00:30:39,550 Hath no man condemned thee? 641 00:30:43,250 --> 00:30:44,970 First of all, he said, he that is 642 00:30:44,970 --> 00:30:47,990 without sin, let him first cast a stone 643 00:30:47,990 --> 00:30:48,490 at her. 644 00:30:50,110 --> 00:30:52,650 Infinite wisdom clothed in human flesh. 645 00:30:55,190 --> 00:30:57,010 Believing in the law of God, knowing that 646 00:30:57,010 --> 00:30:58,590 God gave the law of God, but knowing 647 00:30:58,590 --> 00:31:00,510 also that he came to change it, to 648 00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:02,970 fulfill it, and to bring forth what was 649 00:31:02,970 --> 00:31:07,010 the true substance of the law, which was 650 00:31:07,010 --> 00:31:10,430 righteousness and mercy and truth and lovingkindness. 651 00:31:11,250 --> 00:31:13,430 It was God's intention in the law. 652 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,360 And so little by little it led him 653 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:21,040 to Christ. 654 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,060 Reading a book, reading it hoping to find 655 00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:27,700 something that he could know for sure that 656 00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:29,800 he had an answer to contradict it. 657 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,660 And it became a trap. 658 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,200 So we thank the Lord for the written 659 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,140 word of God. 660 00:31:43,820 --> 00:31:47,940 But now that we're anticipating and looking for 661 00:31:47,940 --> 00:31:52,850 the coming of Jesus Christ, and one of 662 00:31:52,850 --> 00:31:55,150 the words that's used very often concerning the 663 00:31:55,150 --> 00:31:58,930 coming of Jesus Christ is the Apocalypse of 664 00:31:58,930 --> 00:32:01,810 Jesus Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ. 665 00:32:03,370 --> 00:32:04,710 And therefore it's the last book of the 666 00:32:04,710 --> 00:32:04,990 Bible. 667 00:32:05,150 --> 00:32:06,850 And as we read that and we bear 668 00:32:06,850 --> 00:32:10,210 that in mind, let's understand it's the shining 669 00:32:10,210 --> 00:32:15,950 forth, the unveiling, the brilliant shining forth of 670 00:32:15,950 --> 00:32:18,770 the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Logos. 671 00:32:19,630 --> 00:32:23,550 Shining forth in the brilliant light which is 672 00:32:23,550 --> 00:32:25,830 inherent in this word as a seed. 673 00:32:27,850 --> 00:32:31,010 It comes forth in the fullness of revelation 674 00:32:31,010 --> 00:32:35,070 in Jesus Christ who is the word, God's 675 00:32:35,070 --> 00:32:36,710 word in the flesh. 676 00:32:37,730 --> 00:32:40,350 So that this is inadequate in itself. 677 00:32:41,390 --> 00:32:43,070 It is the shell. 678 00:32:44,090 --> 00:32:46,030 Christ is the kernel inside. 679 00:32:46,970 --> 00:32:47,950 It's necessary. 680 00:32:48,130 --> 00:32:50,090 And God has preserved it through the centuries. 681 00:32:51,410 --> 00:32:54,810 But God has preserved it that people reading 682 00:32:54,810 --> 00:32:57,650 it or hearing it sent forth by the 683 00:32:57,650 --> 00:33:02,330 Spirit might see the unveiling, the revelation, and 684 00:33:02,330 --> 00:33:05,310 that's what the word means, the unveiling of 685 00:33:05,310 --> 00:33:06,210 Jesus Christ. 686 00:33:08,810 --> 00:33:11,810 The book of the revelation of Jesus Christ. 687 00:33:16,310 --> 00:33:18,150 The first book is the book of Genesis. 688 00:33:20,140 --> 00:33:21,380 The book of the seed. 689 00:33:23,060 --> 00:33:24,860 The book of the sowing of the seed. 690 00:33:26,220 --> 00:33:28,700 The last book is the book of the 691 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:29,360 harvest. 692 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,060 And I know there's still a lot of 693 00:33:33,060 --> 00:33:34,320 mystery in the book of Revelation. 694 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:37,880 And we know that God will in his 695 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,000 time and as we need it, crack that 696 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,860 kernel and cause us to see the substance 697 00:33:42,860 --> 00:33:43,600 in it. 698 00:33:44,980 --> 00:33:47,220 But little by little we can derive much 699 00:33:47,220 --> 00:33:47,740 benefit. 700 00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:51,380 Not only from all the other books of 701 00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:53,120 the Bible, but from the book of Revelation 702 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:53,720 itself. 703 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,620 If we're faithful just to read it as 704 00:33:56,620 --> 00:33:58,700 John said, blessed is he that heareth and 705 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:00,980 that readeth and that heareth the words of 706 00:34:00,980 --> 00:34:03,600 the prophecy of this book for the time 707 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:04,220 is at hand. 708 00:34:05,420 --> 00:34:07,020 And so I've read it many, many times. 709 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,219 And very little yet do I feel that 710 00:34:11,219 --> 00:34:13,760 I've really understood concerning it. 711 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,940 But there are glimpses of truth. 712 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,000 There are rays of glory here and there 713 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,300 that I think are very clear. 714 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,840 And God will be faithful, I believe, in 715 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,060 the outworking of his purposes in the church 716 00:34:25,060 --> 00:34:27,300 to make everything that's in this book to 717 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:29,360 be very vital in the congregation of the 718 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:29,659 people. 719 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,880 Because Jesus is that word and that word 720 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,520 has been pleased to take upon himself to 721 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,960 join unto himself others. 722 00:34:41,620 --> 00:34:45,760 For he is that Son of Man, Matthew, 723 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,239 Mark, Luke and John, that center, that central 724 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:54,120 stem out from which flows these branches, the 725 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:54,580 vine. 726 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,220 And we're the branches that in union with 727 00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:59,440 him we would be the light of the 728 00:34:59,440 --> 00:34:59,840 world. 729 00:35:04,250 --> 00:35:05,790 Or you say Jesus is the light. 730 00:35:05,790 --> 00:35:07,910 I know, but Jesus said as long as 731 00:35:07,910 --> 00:35:09,230 I am with you I'm the light of 732 00:35:09,230 --> 00:35:09,570 the world. 733 00:35:11,950 --> 00:35:13,650 And then he said you are the light 734 00:35:13,650 --> 00:35:14,030 of the world. 735 00:35:17,390 --> 00:35:20,190 We have no problem saying Jesus is the 736 00:35:20,190 --> 00:35:20,890 light of the world. 737 00:35:21,930 --> 00:35:23,590 The problem is he's not here. 738 00:35:23,670 --> 00:35:24,830 He's way up there in heaven. 739 00:35:25,830 --> 00:35:28,830 We're going around telling people to somehow receive 740 00:35:28,830 --> 00:35:30,370 Jesus who is the light of the world. 741 00:35:30,490 --> 00:35:30,950 Where is he? 742 00:35:30,970 --> 00:35:31,790 He's up there in heaven. 743 00:35:32,190 --> 00:35:33,850 God says as long as I'm with you 744 00:35:33,850 --> 00:35:34,690 I'm the light of the world. 745 00:35:35,790 --> 00:35:39,510 I'm going away and that you might be 746 00:35:39,510 --> 00:35:40,470 the light of the world. 747 00:35:44,450 --> 00:35:48,070 If there's anything that's a revelation of the 748 00:35:48,070 --> 00:35:49,990 Spirit of God for the church of this 749 00:35:49,990 --> 00:35:51,030 hour, it is this. 750 00:35:53,190 --> 00:35:55,490 That Jesus went away that everything that's in 751 00:35:55,490 --> 00:35:58,850 him, everything that he is, might be poured 752 00:35:58,850 --> 00:36:00,930 into the church of Jesus Christ in the 753 00:36:00,930 --> 00:36:01,110 earth. 754 00:36:02,310 --> 00:36:04,950 That we might be of one substance with 755 00:36:04,950 --> 00:36:05,250 him. 756 00:36:05,710 --> 00:36:10,810 Not mechanically joined together, but formed together in 757 00:36:10,810 --> 00:36:11,090 him. 758 00:36:11,310 --> 00:36:14,270 Just the branches of the scandal stick were 759 00:36:14,270 --> 00:36:16,050 formed out of him. 760 00:36:19,180 --> 00:36:20,600 Mystery that we can't explain. 761 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,980 We're not trying to, but something God wants 762 00:36:22,980 --> 00:36:23,720 us to believe. 763 00:36:26,060 --> 00:36:27,820 I think David caught a glimpse of it 764 00:36:27,820 --> 00:36:31,300 way back there in the book of Psalms 765 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:36,180 when he marveled at God's greatness and his 766 00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:37,460 power and his might. 767 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:41,200 Then he goes off and he says something 768 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,980 that can only apply to the Lord Jesus 769 00:36:45,980 --> 00:36:47,160 Christ and his body. 770 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,040 He said my substance was not hid from 771 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:52,380 thee. 772 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,080 When I was made in secret and curiously 773 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,420 wrought in the lowest parts of the earth, 774 00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:05,570 couldn't have been speaking of himself, but as 775 00:37:05,570 --> 00:37:09,130 God was forming this body, it was necessary 776 00:37:09,130 --> 00:37:12,010 that the head would suffer and die and 777 00:37:12,010 --> 00:37:14,650 go down, Paul says, into the lowest parts 778 00:37:14,650 --> 00:37:15,230 of the earth. 779 00:37:17,450 --> 00:37:20,010 Then he came again from the dead, from 780 00:37:20,010 --> 00:37:22,130 the lowest parts of the earth and ascended 781 00:37:22,130 --> 00:37:28,030 on high, giving gifts unto men, giving some 782 00:37:28,030 --> 00:37:33,790 apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, some 783 00:37:33,790 --> 00:37:37,250 teachers, all in the context of what Jesus 784 00:37:37,250 --> 00:37:39,150 did in going to the lowest parts of 785 00:37:39,150 --> 00:37:42,370 the earth, that he might go down to 786 00:37:42,370 --> 00:37:45,790 the lowest depths to be raised to the 787 00:37:45,790 --> 00:37:52,530 highest heights of glory, giving gifts unto men, 788 00:37:53,510 --> 00:37:58,130 apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers for the perfecting 789 00:37:58,130 --> 00:38:00,370 of the saints, for the work of the 790 00:38:00,370 --> 00:38:03,090 ministry, for the edifying of the body of 791 00:38:03,090 --> 00:38:06,390 Christ, till we all come unto the unity 792 00:38:06,390 --> 00:38:08,110 of the faith and of the knowledge of 793 00:38:08,110 --> 00:38:10,870 the Son of God, unto a perfect man. 794 00:38:14,050 --> 00:38:16,910 We're all mingled together with him. 795 00:38:18,330 --> 00:38:20,310 He went down into the lowest parts of 796 00:38:20,310 --> 00:38:22,830 the earth, then ascended to the highest heaven, 797 00:38:23,270 --> 00:38:25,510 giving apostles and prophets and so forth for 798 00:38:25,510 --> 00:38:26,830 the perfecting of the saints. 799 00:38:27,830 --> 00:38:29,830 Lord willing, we'll continue with that. 800 00:38:31,050 --> 00:38:32,870 Let's go back to what David saw. 801 00:38:33,790 --> 00:38:37,090 My substance was not hid from thee when 802 00:38:37,090 --> 00:38:38,570 I was made in secret. 803 00:38:43,250 --> 00:38:46,310 God has made his church in secret. 804 00:38:46,870 --> 00:38:49,110 He's making his church in secret. 805 00:38:50,170 --> 00:38:52,910 There are many powerful churches in this country, 806 00:38:53,010 --> 00:38:57,210 many in this little city, that, well, we're 807 00:38:57,210 --> 00:38:57,850 the church. 808 00:38:58,470 --> 00:39:00,850 They might know about this little band of 809 00:39:00,850 --> 00:39:01,750 heretics here. 810 00:39:01,870 --> 00:39:02,410 I don't know. 811 00:39:05,190 --> 00:39:07,270 God is doing a work in secret. 812 00:39:09,070 --> 00:39:10,790 He's doing a secret work. 813 00:39:11,970 --> 00:39:14,410 Jesus said, in secret have I said nothing. 814 00:39:15,910 --> 00:39:17,590 And yet, few heard him. 815 00:39:19,770 --> 00:39:22,810 So it was a secret that Christ revealed 816 00:39:22,810 --> 00:39:24,870 to those whose hearts were ready for it. 817 00:39:26,390 --> 00:39:29,490 Paul says God made him to be a 818 00:39:29,490 --> 00:39:31,810 steward of the secrets of God, a steward 819 00:39:31,810 --> 00:39:37,070 of God's mysteries, steward of the secrets of 820 00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:37,450 God. 821 00:39:38,850 --> 00:39:40,930 So it's a secret, but a secret is 822 00:39:40,930 --> 00:39:48,770 something that's known to others who are close 823 00:39:48,770 --> 00:39:49,210 to you. 824 00:39:51,450 --> 00:39:53,210 But in this life, if you really want 825 00:39:53,210 --> 00:39:55,810 to keep a secret, don't tell anybody. 826 00:39:57,650 --> 00:40:00,910 But God wants to tell certain ones who 827 00:40:00,910 --> 00:40:02,070 are able to keep the secret. 828 00:40:04,690 --> 00:40:07,190 And so Paul said he was a steward 829 00:40:07,190 --> 00:40:08,350 of God's secrets. 830 00:40:10,650 --> 00:40:12,770 That you'd keep it and then share it 831 00:40:12,770 --> 00:40:15,530 as a good steward of the manifold grace 832 00:40:15,530 --> 00:40:16,070 of God. 833 00:40:16,070 --> 00:40:20,450 And share it as a trust that's been 834 00:40:20,450 --> 00:40:21,010 given to you. 835 00:40:21,150 --> 00:40:23,890 Paul says, I have a stewardship concerning the 836 00:40:23,890 --> 00:40:24,290 mystery. 837 00:40:26,250 --> 00:40:28,250 A steward is one who has charge of 838 00:40:28,250 --> 00:40:29,170 a man's property. 839 00:40:30,050 --> 00:40:33,290 I turn it over to you because I'm 840 00:40:33,290 --> 00:40:34,850 going away on a journey or whatever. 841 00:40:35,410 --> 00:40:36,570 You be the steward. 842 00:40:36,870 --> 00:40:38,810 It doesn't mean he just, oh, the boss 843 00:40:38,810 --> 00:40:40,770 is gone now, runs out in the street 844 00:40:40,770 --> 00:40:42,910 here, take this here, come on in and 845 00:40:42,910 --> 00:40:43,350 help yourself. 846 00:40:45,810 --> 00:40:48,170 But a steward of God's secrets. 847 00:40:49,510 --> 00:40:51,670 God wants to share his secrets with others, 848 00:40:52,210 --> 00:40:53,750 but he can only do it with friends. 849 00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:57,650 And so God sees fit in his own 850 00:40:57,650 --> 00:41:02,090 purposes to make us to be stewards of 851 00:41:02,090 --> 00:41:03,570 the secrets of God. 852 00:41:04,430 --> 00:41:05,950 Oh, yeah, openly declared. 853 00:41:06,190 --> 00:41:08,010 I mean, my books are available everywhere. 854 00:41:08,010 --> 00:41:10,690 They're getting around quite a bit. 855 00:41:12,530 --> 00:41:14,970 They're in a bookstore in our little town 856 00:41:14,970 --> 00:41:15,610 where we live. 857 00:41:16,030 --> 00:41:18,130 I think a dozen will last them a 858 00:41:18,130 --> 00:41:18,970 year or so, maybe. 859 00:41:21,430 --> 00:41:23,090 But I mean, they're there. 860 00:41:23,310 --> 00:41:23,770 They're open. 861 00:41:26,690 --> 00:41:28,170 It's a secret, you see. 862 00:41:32,850 --> 00:41:34,830 It's in plain sight, but it's hidden. 863 00:41:34,830 --> 00:41:39,330 And so Jesus said, I don't call you 864 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:42,090 bond-slave servants anymore. 865 00:41:43,010 --> 00:41:45,210 I'm calling you friends now because I told 866 00:41:45,210 --> 00:41:46,690 you everything the Father told me. 867 00:41:49,110 --> 00:41:51,250 Everything the Father told me, I told you. 868 00:41:51,850 --> 00:41:55,190 So he wasn't keeping any secrets to himself 869 00:41:55,190 --> 00:41:57,530 because the Father says, tell your disciples what 870 00:41:57,530 --> 00:41:58,650 I tell you. 871 00:41:59,590 --> 00:42:01,190 And so they'd ask him things and he 872 00:42:01,190 --> 00:42:03,570 said, well, I don't even know that. 873 00:42:05,070 --> 00:42:07,590 Neither the Son of Man nor the angels 874 00:42:07,590 --> 00:42:08,450 know that. 875 00:42:11,910 --> 00:42:13,670 Well, you say, wasn't he filled with all 876 00:42:13,670 --> 00:42:14,670 wisdom and knowledge? 877 00:42:14,810 --> 00:42:15,010 Yes. 878 00:42:17,250 --> 00:42:19,990 But under the constraint of the Heavenly Father, 879 00:42:20,670 --> 00:42:23,910 he was only able to reveal his secrets 880 00:42:23,910 --> 00:42:25,790 to those whom God says here. 881 00:42:27,550 --> 00:42:29,730 Tell this secret to Peter and tell it 882 00:42:29,730 --> 00:42:31,010 to John, James. 883 00:42:32,530 --> 00:42:33,590 Tell it to Bartholomew. 884 00:42:33,670 --> 00:42:36,810 Tell it to Philip, Nathaniel. 885 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,960 And so God ordained his pathway and God 886 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,760 ordained the pathway of his servants. 887 00:42:45,060 --> 00:42:46,580 That they might be able to go as 888 00:42:46,580 --> 00:42:49,560 a good steward and tell God's secrets to 889 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,060 those that God wants to hear. 890 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,700 Well, when you understand that, that you're a 891 00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:57,400 steward of the mysteries of God, it doesn't 892 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,140 matter if you've got two or three people, 893 00:42:59,980 --> 00:43:00,700 a dozen. 894 00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:06,340 Or if perchance God sees fit to gather 895 00:43:06,340 --> 00:43:10,660 together a hundred thousand, God can still declare 896 00:43:10,660 --> 00:43:16,080 the word openly and only the friends of 897 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:16,660 God will hear. 898 00:43:18,380 --> 00:43:19,200 That's right. 899 00:43:22,090 --> 00:43:25,370 So you see, it's no longer of any 900 00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:29,150 significance whether God calls you to minister to 901 00:43:29,150 --> 00:43:32,110 two or three people, a dozen, fifty, five 902 00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:35,410 thousand, a hundred thousand, or over TV, ten 903 00:43:35,410 --> 00:43:35,810 million. 904 00:43:37,030 --> 00:43:38,610 It's not significant. 905 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,220 The only thing that's significant is that you 906 00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:45,400 and I learn the voice of God. 907 00:43:47,260 --> 00:43:48,280 Learn to do what he says. 908 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,360 So much and no more. 909 00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:54,080 Just his will. 910 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,940 He can't do any more that would be 911 00:43:55,940 --> 00:43:56,380 profitable. 912 00:43:57,340 --> 00:43:58,320 Just to do his will. 913 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,340 Well, that's why we emphasize that an agenda 914 00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:03,180 is not... 915 00:44:03,180 --> 00:44:05,020 You don't come up with an agenda because 916 00:44:05,020 --> 00:44:07,080 now God said, I'm going to be an 917 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:08,440 apostle, so we're not seeing... 918 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,100 I'll read what the scriptures say about an 919 00:44:10,100 --> 00:44:10,500 apostle. 920 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,820 Apostles establish churches, so I'll go about establishing 921 00:44:14,820 --> 00:44:15,280 churches. 922 00:44:17,060 --> 00:44:20,140 And try and fulfill your ministry as an 923 00:44:20,140 --> 00:44:22,280 apostle or prophet or teacher or something by 924 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,980 seeing what an apostle is supposed to do 925 00:44:24,980 --> 00:44:26,280 and you do it. 926 00:44:27,020 --> 00:44:31,720 But rather, walking in the spirit, letting the 927 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:35,260 Lord lead you, and do what he says. 928 00:44:38,790 --> 00:44:40,970 My substance was not hid from thee. 929 00:44:41,690 --> 00:44:46,510 I was made in secret and curiously wrought. 930 00:44:47,710 --> 00:44:49,390 I looked that up, it means a sort 931 00:44:49,390 --> 00:44:51,670 of an intertwining of threads. 932 00:44:51,670 --> 00:44:55,110 The intricate work that they performed in the 933 00:44:55,110 --> 00:44:58,370 temple, in the tapestry of the temple, and 934 00:44:58,370 --> 00:45:01,170 different things that they used in temple worship, 935 00:45:02,290 --> 00:45:03,590 intricately woven. 936 00:45:04,770 --> 00:45:07,490 And that's the thought, curiously wrought. 937 00:45:09,010 --> 00:45:12,110 Like with needlework, it's curiously wrought. 938 00:45:13,150 --> 00:45:17,550 And as God is curiously working on his 939 00:45:17,550 --> 00:45:21,790 people, we feel the needle, we don't see 940 00:45:21,790 --> 00:45:25,810 much sense in the pattern because we don't 941 00:45:25,810 --> 00:45:28,090 know what God is bringing forth. 942 00:45:31,710 --> 00:45:33,910 This is something in which God poured in 943 00:45:33,910 --> 00:45:34,810 everything he did. 944 00:45:35,610 --> 00:45:39,570 There'll never be anything greater in the universe 945 00:45:40,770 --> 00:45:43,030 than Christ in union with his bride. 946 00:45:44,450 --> 00:45:45,690 There'll never be anything greater. 947 00:45:46,930 --> 00:45:50,570 But there will be a continual unfolding of 948 00:45:50,570 --> 00:45:53,830 that, and an unfolding of God's glory throughout 949 00:45:53,830 --> 00:45:54,390 the ages. 950 00:45:55,270 --> 00:45:58,390 But it's an unfolding of that which God 951 00:45:58,390 --> 00:46:01,330 is about to reveal in the earth, the 952 00:46:01,330 --> 00:46:02,570 unfolding of his masterpiece. 953 00:46:03,730 --> 00:46:07,250 We are his workmanship, we are his masterpiece. 954 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,500 This beautiful body of Christ, this bride of 955 00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:18,320 Christ, this church of the living God, curiously 956 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,720 wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 957 00:46:23,390 --> 00:46:25,770 And as he is curiously working in his 958 00:46:25,770 --> 00:46:28,990 people, he's bringing forth that which is for 959 00:46:28,990 --> 00:46:31,390 his own honor and glory to the praise 960 00:46:31,390 --> 00:46:32,910 of the glory of his grace. 961 00:46:35,250 --> 00:46:37,170 That throughout eternal ages we should be to 962 00:46:37,170 --> 00:46:39,590 the praise of the glory of his grace. 963 00:46:40,830 --> 00:46:43,290 Not just in what we say or in 964 00:46:43,290 --> 00:46:45,630 what we do, but in what we are. 965 00:46:46,890 --> 00:46:49,950 To the praise of the glory of his 966 00:46:49,950 --> 00:46:50,510 grace. 967 00:46:52,110 --> 00:46:55,150 And God is forming this people for himself. 968 00:46:56,170 --> 00:46:58,190 And Paul says, I'm a steward of the 969 00:46:58,190 --> 00:47:01,110 mysteries, that I might reveal these secrets to 970 00:47:01,110 --> 00:47:04,390 God's chosen people, that he might make known 971 00:47:04,390 --> 00:47:06,730 these secrets to them, that they might be 972 00:47:06,730 --> 00:47:09,170 made heirs of this thing that God is 973 00:47:09,170 --> 00:47:10,930 doing, that they might become a part of 974 00:47:10,930 --> 00:47:11,150 it. 975 00:47:12,310 --> 00:47:15,330 And the full gospel is not telling people 976 00:47:15,330 --> 00:47:18,450 that Jesus died for your sins and redeemed 977 00:47:18,450 --> 00:47:18,690 you. 978 00:47:19,630 --> 00:47:21,470 And the full gospel is that you're filled 979 00:47:21,470 --> 00:47:22,130 with the Spirit. 980 00:47:22,970 --> 00:47:25,250 But the full gospel goes far beyond that. 981 00:47:26,730 --> 00:47:29,070 And Paul says that God made him, set 982 00:47:29,070 --> 00:47:31,890 him apart to be a minister of the 983 00:47:31,890 --> 00:47:34,710 gospel, that he might preach the unsearchable riches 984 00:47:34,710 --> 00:47:35,810 of Christ. 985 00:47:37,630 --> 00:47:40,150 That he might preach the unsearchable riches of 986 00:47:40,150 --> 00:47:41,070 Christ, yes. 987 00:47:41,070 --> 00:47:44,290 But that I might make all men see 988 00:47:45,490 --> 00:47:48,070 what is the fellowship of the mystery, which 989 00:47:48,070 --> 00:47:49,670 from the beginning of the world was hidden 990 00:47:49,670 --> 00:47:50,290 in God. 991 00:47:50,810 --> 00:47:53,530 It wasn't just to declare the unsearchable riches 992 00:47:53,530 --> 00:47:55,430 of Christ, but that he might remove the 993 00:47:55,430 --> 00:47:57,370 scale from the eyes of people that they 994 00:47:57,370 --> 00:47:58,310 might see. 995 00:48:00,590 --> 00:48:02,910 So we haven't seen the full gospel until 996 00:48:02,910 --> 00:48:05,790 that manifestation of the Spirit is there to 997 00:48:05,790 --> 00:48:08,610 take away the veil from the eyes of 998 00:48:08,610 --> 00:48:08,970 people. 999 00:48:10,070 --> 00:48:13,390 That's why there's so much that goes forth 1000 00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:15,490 as the gospel that's not really the full 1001 00:48:15,490 --> 00:48:15,970 gospel. 1002 00:48:16,610 --> 00:48:18,730 It's telling people that Jesus died for their 1003 00:48:18,730 --> 00:48:20,810 sins and we must do that. 1004 00:48:21,890 --> 00:48:23,810 We must do the best he enables us, 1005 00:48:23,890 --> 00:48:25,870 preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. 1006 00:48:26,410 --> 00:48:29,810 But Paul said that the fuller message of 1007 00:48:29,810 --> 00:48:31,830 the gospel was when you cause men to 1008 00:48:31,830 --> 00:48:34,150 see what is the fellowship, what is the 1009 00:48:34,150 --> 00:48:36,490 secret of the mystery, which from the beginning 1010 00:48:36,490 --> 00:48:39,350 of the world was hidden in God, who 1011 00:48:39,350 --> 00:48:43,730 created all things by Christ Jesus to the 1012 00:48:43,730 --> 00:48:46,310 intent that there's a purpose beyond that even, 1013 00:48:47,150 --> 00:48:50,070 to the intent that now unto principalities and 1014 00:48:50,070 --> 00:48:53,110 powers in heavenly places might be made known 1015 00:48:53,110 --> 00:48:56,290 through the church the manifold wisdom of God. 1016 00:48:58,190 --> 00:48:59,130 That's the full gospel. 1017 00:48:59,310 --> 00:49:00,150 We haven't seen it yet. 1018 00:49:00,250 --> 00:49:00,730 We're going to. 1019 00:49:01,590 --> 00:49:04,490 And let's continue to declare the unsearchable riches 1020 00:49:04,490 --> 00:49:05,450 of Christ, yes. 1021 00:49:05,830 --> 00:49:07,710 But even as we do, we must seek 1022 00:49:07,710 --> 00:49:10,210 God to take away veils from the hearts 1023 00:49:10,210 --> 00:49:10,770 of people. 1024 00:49:11,590 --> 00:49:13,230 Because I don't care how much you declare 1025 00:49:13,230 --> 00:49:15,210 the people are deaf, and if they're blind, 1026 00:49:15,310 --> 00:49:16,850 they don't hear it and they don't see 1027 00:49:16,850 --> 00:49:17,110 it. 1028 00:49:17,810 --> 00:49:19,790 But there is to be a penetration of 1029 00:49:19,790 --> 00:49:22,330 the gospel that will go forth into this 1030 00:49:22,330 --> 00:49:25,250 old world, the gospel of the kingdom of 1031 00:49:25,250 --> 00:49:27,070 Christ that's going to cause men to hear 1032 00:49:27,070 --> 00:49:28,630 and is going to cause them to see 1033 00:49:28,630 --> 00:49:30,890 the unveiled glory of Jesus Christ. 1034 00:49:30,890 --> 00:49:34,410 I just picked up that Reader's Digest out 1035 00:49:34,410 --> 00:49:36,950 there in the stand, and it talked about 1036 00:49:36,950 --> 00:49:39,090 the horrible things going on in Asia. 1037 00:49:39,250 --> 00:49:42,010 And I just read one paragraph of the 1038 00:49:42,010 --> 00:49:44,530 horror that's going on, not only there, but 1039 00:49:44,530 --> 00:49:45,470 all over the world. 1040 00:49:45,970 --> 00:49:48,890 Little children that are kidnapped for prostitution and 1041 00:49:48,890 --> 00:49:50,190 little innocent kids. 1042 00:49:51,110 --> 00:49:51,710 Oh, God! 1043 00:49:53,050 --> 00:49:56,070 Oh, God, send forth the gospel of the 1044 00:49:56,070 --> 00:49:58,670 kingdom that will open the eyes of people, 1045 00:49:58,930 --> 00:50:01,630 Lord, that will cause their ears to hear 1046 00:50:01,630 --> 00:50:05,510 the glorious message of deliverance from the Christ 1047 00:50:05,510 --> 00:50:07,310 that's reigning on high. 1048 00:50:07,970 --> 00:50:10,270 Let the feet of your people in the 1049 00:50:10,270 --> 00:50:13,150 earth become beautiful, Lord, with the shoes of 1050 00:50:13,150 --> 00:50:15,850 the gospel of peace, the shoes of the 1051 00:50:15,850 --> 00:50:18,290 preparation of the gospel of peace, that your 1052 00:50:18,290 --> 00:50:20,890 gospel may go forth to the four corners 1053 00:50:20,890 --> 00:50:24,450 of the earth, opening the eyes of the 1054 00:50:24,450 --> 00:50:27,390 blind and causing the prisoners to be set 1055 00:50:27,390 --> 00:50:27,830 free. 1056 00:50:27,830 --> 00:50:30,750 We send forth the gospel of the kingdom 1057 00:50:30,750 --> 00:50:33,490 of Christ to the ends of the earth. 1058 00:50:37,370 --> 00:50:39,950 Because Jesus said it's going to happen before 1059 00:50:39,950 --> 00:50:40,870 he comes. 1060 00:50:43,210 --> 00:50:44,230 He's not coming tonight. 1061 00:50:44,430 --> 00:50:46,150 He's going to send this gospel of the 1062 00:50:46,150 --> 00:50:48,290 kingdom to the far corners of the earth. 1063 00:50:49,410 --> 00:50:51,930 This gospel, not the one that you hear 1064 00:50:51,930 --> 00:50:53,410 on TV and so forth. 1065 00:50:54,170 --> 00:50:56,750 It's the gospel of the shining force of 1066 00:50:56,750 --> 00:50:59,450 the light of Jesus Christ causing blind eyes 1067 00:50:59,450 --> 00:51:03,110 to see, causing the veil to be removed, 1068 00:51:04,130 --> 00:51:06,670 causing the prison doors to be opened and 1069 00:51:06,670 --> 00:51:08,430 the captives to be set free. 1070 00:51:18,810 --> 00:51:21,010 To make all men see what is the 1071 00:51:21,010 --> 00:51:25,550 fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning 1072 00:51:25,550 --> 00:51:29,610 of the world has hidden God in Christ 1073 00:51:29,610 --> 00:51:36,130 Jesus to the intent, the intention of it, 1074 00:51:36,870 --> 00:51:41,390 is that now unto the principalities and powers 1075 00:51:41,390 --> 00:51:44,150 and heavenly places might be made known through 1076 00:51:44,150 --> 00:51:46,790 the church the manifold wisdom of God. 1077 00:51:47,870 --> 00:51:50,370 To the church, the many-sided aspects of 1078 00:51:50,370 --> 00:51:50,870 His wisdom. 1079 00:51:56,150 --> 00:51:58,110 You say, I'm not interested in making known 1080 00:51:58,110 --> 00:52:00,270 the wisdom of God to principalities and powers. 1081 00:52:00,350 --> 00:52:01,710 I want to preach the gospel to the 1082 00:52:01,710 --> 00:52:02,050 lost. 1083 00:52:03,250 --> 00:52:05,210 That's why the veil isn't being removed. 1084 00:52:06,590 --> 00:52:08,790 But when principalities and powers and heavens hear 1085 00:52:08,790 --> 00:52:11,870 the message of the cross going forth in 1086 00:52:11,870 --> 00:52:13,290 kingdom power, they're shaken. 1087 00:52:14,790 --> 00:52:15,970 They can't stand it. 1088 00:52:16,630 --> 00:52:19,630 They know that because they were there when 1089 00:52:19,630 --> 00:52:22,350 Jesus died on the cross and they remember 1090 00:52:22,350 --> 00:52:24,550 their time when they wilted to when Jesus 1091 00:52:24,550 --> 00:52:27,090 died on the cross and realized that they 1092 00:52:27,090 --> 00:52:28,010 were being destroyed. 1093 00:52:31,970 --> 00:52:33,510 You say, if they were destroyed then, why 1094 00:52:33,510 --> 00:52:35,230 did they be destroyed again? 1095 00:52:35,310 --> 00:52:35,710 They're not. 1096 00:52:36,270 --> 00:52:39,770 The sentence was declared there, but the execution 1097 00:52:39,770 --> 00:52:41,810 of it has been pending these 2,000 1098 00:52:41,810 --> 00:52:42,170 years. 1099 00:52:43,710 --> 00:52:45,910 What God is going to do in this 1100 00:52:45,910 --> 00:52:50,410 earth is nothing less than the execution of 1101 00:52:50,410 --> 00:52:52,630 the sentence that was passed when Jesus died 1102 00:52:52,630 --> 00:52:53,270 on the cross. 1103 00:52:55,690 --> 00:52:57,810 That's what the day of the Lord is 1104 00:52:57,810 --> 00:52:58,330 all about. 1105 00:52:59,130 --> 00:53:01,290 When the victory of the cross is going 1106 00:53:01,290 --> 00:53:03,550 to be manifest in the earth, not only 1107 00:53:03,550 --> 00:53:05,950 in the earth, but before principalities and powers 1108 00:53:05,950 --> 00:53:09,410 in the heavens to the intent that now 1109 00:53:09,410 --> 00:53:13,670 under principalities and powers in heavenly places might 1110 00:53:13,670 --> 00:53:18,310 be known through the church the many-sided 1111 00:53:18,310 --> 00:53:20,730 aspects of the wisdom of God. 1112 00:53:24,460 --> 00:53:27,000 And be assured, what the many-sided aspects 1113 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,600 of the wisdom of God is all about, 1114 00:53:30,860 --> 00:53:33,200 it's the wisdom of the cross. 1115 00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,240 That's what the wisdom of God is all 1116 00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:39,500 about. 1117 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,220 It's the wisdom of the cross. 1118 00:53:46,940 --> 00:53:48,580 The wisdom of the cross. 1119 00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,660 That a man dying on the cross destroyed 1120 00:53:54,660 --> 00:53:56,480 all evil in the world. 1121 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,400 Hanging there on the cross, he destroyed all 1122 00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,920 evil because it was there on the cross 1123 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,500 that there shone forth the love of God, 1124 00:54:06,500 --> 00:54:08,800 the light of God, the truth of God. 1125 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,380 The wisdom of God, the power of God 1126 00:54:12,380 --> 00:54:14,180 had shone forth on the cross. 1127 00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,320 The wisdom of God is the unveiling of 1128 00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,020 that not only to men on the earth, 1129 00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,000 but principalities and powers in the heavens because 1130 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,800 that's where the authority is held over the 1131 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:28,220 church. 1132 00:54:29,820 --> 00:54:32,120 And when the message of the gospel reaches 1133 00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:36,060 them, they're going to wither in the presence 1134 00:54:36,060 --> 00:54:36,480 of it. 1135 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,080 That's why Moses said, hear, heavens, I've got 1136 00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:41,100 something to say. 1137 00:54:43,660 --> 00:54:45,400 I'm not interested in what they hear. 1138 00:54:46,580 --> 00:54:47,700 I'm here on earth. 1139 00:54:48,460 --> 00:54:49,080 I know. 1140 00:54:49,580 --> 00:54:51,700 But you won't hear it unless they hear 1141 00:54:51,700 --> 00:54:51,960 it. 1142 00:54:53,260 --> 00:54:55,000 Hear, oh heavens, and I will speak. 1143 00:54:56,940 --> 00:54:58,660 Listen, oh earth, to the words of my 1144 00:54:58,660 --> 00:54:58,980 mouth. 1145 00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,340 My doctor shall drop as the rain. 1146 00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,360 My speech shall distill as the dew. 1147 00:55:05,300 --> 00:55:07,220 The prophets called on the heavens to listen 1148 00:55:07,220 --> 00:55:07,660 in. 1149 00:55:08,700 --> 00:55:10,840 Because if they're not listening in, man's not 1150 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:11,420 going to hear it. 1151 00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:11,980 He's deaf. 1152 00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:12,600 He's blind. 1153 00:55:13,140 --> 00:55:15,680 But heaven hears that those principalities and powers 1154 00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,360 are broken in the hearts and minds of 1155 00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,260 men and women, and they're able to hear 1156 00:55:19,260 --> 00:55:20,020 what you're saying. 1157 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:41,420 My substance was not hidden thee when I 1158 00:55:41,420 --> 00:55:45,260 was made in secret and curiously wrought in 1159 00:55:45,260 --> 00:55:46,640 the lowest parts of the earth. 1160 00:55:48,830 --> 00:55:53,740 Thine eyes did see my substance yet unperfect, 1161 00:55:53,860 --> 00:55:58,320 and in thy book all my members were 1162 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:03,100 written, which in continuance were fashioned. 1163 00:56:05,340 --> 00:56:06,860 And as yet there was none of them. 1164 00:56:09,210 --> 00:56:12,910 He's continuing to fashion this body. 1165 00:56:13,010 --> 00:56:14,630 Let's not think that the body of Christ 1166 00:56:14,630 --> 00:56:15,870 is just a group of people. 1167 00:56:17,050 --> 00:56:24,420 It's a people curiously wrought, intricately woven into 1168 00:56:24,420 --> 00:56:28,900 Christ until we become one with Him. 1169 00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:31,720 We in Him and He in us. 1170 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,040 And let Him continue that work and let 1171 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:42,260 us not fret under the workings of God. 1172 00:56:42,740 --> 00:56:44,460 Let us have faith to believe that He 1173 00:56:44,460 --> 00:56:48,780 is working everything right according to His good 1174 00:56:48,780 --> 00:56:52,340 pleasure, according to His good plan, that in 1175 00:56:52,340 --> 00:56:54,860 the day of the revelation of Jesus Christ, 1176 00:56:54,860 --> 00:56:59,360 when the sons of God are revealed, I 1177 00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,880 know that word has become a dirty word, 1178 00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:03,820 the manifestation of the sons of God. 1179 00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,020 It simply means the unveiling of the Christ 1180 00:57:07,020 --> 00:57:07,980 and His many brethren. 1181 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,340 That Christ Himself might be glorified. 1182 00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:17,600 That His name might be exalted in earth 1183 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,840 and in heaven and throughout all eternity. 1184 00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:25,540 Through a people in whom God is working 1185 00:57:25,540 --> 00:57:29,040 His grace with much trial and suffering and 1186 00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,940 testing in secret. 1187 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,600 We wonder about it. 1188 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,860 We ponder it and we fret under it 1189 00:57:37,860 --> 00:57:41,340 not realizing that the Master workman is bringing 1190 00:57:41,340 --> 00:57:46,460 forth this glorious church, this glorious body, not 1191 00:57:46,460 --> 00:57:47,780 just to rapture us and get us out 1192 00:57:47,780 --> 00:57:49,440 of the mess, but to clean up the 1193 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,780 mess and establish the kingdom of righteousness on 1194 00:57:52,780 --> 00:57:53,240 the earth. 1195 00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:54,660 That's right. 1196 00:57:54,860 --> 00:57:55,320 Hallelujah. 1197 00:57:56,340 --> 00:57:57,640 Glory to God. 1198 00:57:57,900 --> 00:57:58,440 Glory. 1199 00:57:58,580 --> 00:57:59,740 Hallelujah, Lord Jesus. 1200 00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,160 Thank you, Lord. 1201 00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:04,760 Hallelujah, Lord. 1202 00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:05,680 Thank you, Lord. 1203 00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:06,540 Thank you, Lord. 1204 00:58:06,540 --> 00:58:07,480 Thank you, Lord God. 1205 00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:08,520 Praise you, Father. 1206 00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:09,400 Thank you, Lord Jesus. 1207 00:59:56,930 --> 00:59:57,410 Amen. 1208 00:59:57,610 --> 00:59:59,310 We bow before you today, Lord. 1209 01:00:00,330 --> 01:00:00,590 Amen. 1210 01:00:00,750 --> 01:00:02,490 We welcome the change in our hearts. 1211 01:00:03,090 --> 01:00:05,450 We welcome the change in our lives today. 1212 01:00:06,950 --> 01:00:08,030 Yes, work it. 1213 01:00:08,150 --> 01:00:09,110 Earn it in the heart. 1214 01:00:09,810 --> 01:00:10,470 Earn it in the heart. 1215 01:00:15,230 --> 01:00:16,250 I want you to work, Father. 1216 01:00:17,190 --> 01:00:18,790 I want you to bless today, Father. 1217 01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:20,630 I want you to bless today, Father. 1218 01:00:21,490 --> 01:00:23,230 I want to be a disciple, Father. 1219 01:00:26,910 --> 01:00:27,390 Hallelujah. 1220 01:00:29,070 --> 01:00:29,550 Hallelujah. 1221 01:00:39,050 --> 01:00:48,370 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, 1222 01:00:48,510 --> 01:04:45,900 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, 1223 01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:47,640 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, 1224 01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:47,740 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, 1225 01:04:47,740 --> 01:04:47,840 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, 1226 01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:47,940 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, 1227 01:04:47,940 --> 01:04:48,560 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, 1228 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:55,290 Alleluia, Alleluia May our thoughts would become your 1229 01:04:55,290 --> 01:04:58,830 thoughts, O God, and that the Holy Spirit 1230 01:04:58,830 --> 01:05:01,330 would open us up, O God, and that 1231 01:05:01,330 --> 01:05:04,830 you would expose the inner parts of us, 1232 01:05:15,750 --> 01:05:57,360 O God, O 1233 01:06:02,380 --> 01:06:12,730 God, O 1234 01:06:12,730 --> 01:06:19,810 God, O Father, glory to you, glory to 1235 01:06:19,810 --> 01:06:20,770 you, glory to you, glory to you, glory 1236 01:06:20,770 --> 01:06:24,310 to you, glory to you, glory to you, 1237 01:06:26,850 --> 01:06:26,950 glory to you, glory to you, glory to 1238 01:06:26,950 --> 01:06:27,050 you, glory to you, glory to you, glory 1239 01:06:27,050 --> 01:06:27,150 to you, glory to you, glory to you, 1240 01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:27,250 glory to you, glory to you, glory to 1241 01:06:27,250 --> 01:06:27,350 you, glory to you, glory to you, glory 1242 01:06:27,350 --> 01:06:27,450 to you, glory to you, glory to you, 1243 01:06:27,450 --> 01:06:27,550 glory to you, glory to you, glory to 1244 01:06:27,550 --> 01:06:27,650 you, glory to you, glory to you, glory 1245 01:06:27,650 --> 01:06:27,750 to you, glory to you, glory to you, 1246 01:06:27,750 --> 01:06:27,850 glory to you, glory to you, glory to 1247 01:06:27,850 --> 01:06:27,950 you, glory to you, glory to you, glory 1248 01:06:27,950 --> 01:06:28,050 to you, glory to you, glory to you, 1249 01:06:28,050 --> 01:06:28,150 glory to you, glory to you, glory to 1250 01:06:28,150 --> 01:07:50,090 you, glory to you, glory to you, 1251 01:08:04,650 --> 01:08:05,810 glory 1252 01:08:05,810 --> 01:08:16,229 to 1253 01:08:16,229 --> 01:08:16,329 you, glory to you, glory to you. 1254 01:08:16,990 --> 01:08:20,250 Heavens are going to hear, amen, by His 1255 01:08:20,250 --> 01:08:21,750 grace and mercy in us, amen. 1256 01:08:22,649 --> 01:08:24,170 So we thank God. 1257 01:08:24,330 --> 01:08:26,609 We truly, I believe, have heard a word 1258 01:08:26,609 --> 01:08:28,609 that's part of what our brothers have quoted 1259 01:08:28,609 --> 01:08:32,890 in Ephesians 4, to perfect the saints for 1260 01:08:32,890 --> 01:08:34,550 the work of the ministry. 1261 01:08:35,170 --> 01:08:35,450 Amen. 1262 01:08:36,330 --> 01:08:37,710 So we eat this word, Lord. 1263 01:08:37,810 --> 01:08:39,229 We eat your flesh today. 1264 01:08:40,430 --> 01:08:42,310 We drink your blood today, Lord. 1265 01:08:43,069 --> 01:08:45,410 Truly, we want to be your disciples, Lord. 1266 01:08:46,109 --> 01:08:47,970 Dear God, we will to do your will, 1267 01:08:48,109 --> 01:08:48,550 O Father. 1268 01:08:48,970 --> 01:08:50,450 We will to do your will. 1269 01:08:50,990 --> 01:08:52,770 Because we know it's only those who will 1270 01:08:52,770 --> 01:08:54,790 to do your will that will know the 1271 01:08:54,790 --> 01:08:57,189 doctrines, will know the truth, whether it be 1272 01:08:57,189 --> 01:08:58,090 of God or not. 1273 01:08:58,609 --> 01:09:00,090 And Lord, we do want to know whether 1274 01:09:00,090 --> 01:09:01,410 it be of you or not, O Father. 1275 01:09:01,870 --> 01:09:05,050 So we set our hearts, Lord, humbly, Lord, 1276 01:09:05,569 --> 01:09:07,890 fearfully before you, that we would do your 1277 01:09:07,890 --> 01:09:10,670 will all the days of our life, Father. 1278 01:09:10,670 --> 01:09:11,270 Amen. 1279 01:09:11,630 --> 01:09:11,850 Amen. 1280 01:09:12,330 --> 01:09:12,689 Hallelujah. 1281 01:09:12,970 --> 01:09:13,770 We thank you, Lord. 1282 01:09:14,250 --> 01:09:15,450 We thank you, Lord. 1283 01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:21,020 We're not going to dismiss, because this is 1284 01:09:21,020 --> 01:09:22,359 going to be one service, okay? 1285 01:09:23,100 --> 01:09:25,399 So we just want to fellowship and enjoy. 1286 01:09:25,500 --> 01:09:26,640 If you just want to sit and just 1287 01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:30,020 marinate in this, we'll have it. 1288 01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:33,260 Anybody have anything to share? 1289 01:09:41,100 --> 01:09:41,979 Thank you, Jesus.