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I would like to turn to 1 John

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and chapter 3.

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John wrote this episode when he was about

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ninety-five years old.

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He was the only apostle living at that

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time.

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All the others had been killed.

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And he had seen the day of Pentecost,

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the tremendous revival with which the Church of

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Jesus Christ had started.

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And he saw in his time the decline

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of those churches.

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Some of the other apostles who died earlier

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may not have seen that.

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But he saw how churches that started with

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tremendous power, great fervency, filled with the Holy

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Spirit, had declined to the place where they

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had, as we read in Revelation 2, lost

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their first love.

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Elders who were still sitting on their thrones,

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having lost their love for the Lord, elders

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and messengers of churches who had named that

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they were alive but were dead, who were

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lukewarm, messengers who were in the Lord's mouth,

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whom the Lord said, I am ready to

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spit you out of my mouth.

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Churches that had lost their zeal, churches that

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had allowed women false prophetesses like Jezebel to

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rise and lead people astray, and elders sat

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back and did nothing.

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This is the condition.

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I am only telling you what you can

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read in Revelation 2 and 3.

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You can imagine how that would have grieved

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John's heart.

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How he must have sorrowed as he saw

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all this.

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And with all this in his heart, he

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writes this first epistle of John.

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That's the background to this letter.

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And it's very significant to see the things

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he emphasizes and the things he doesn't.

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Because Christendom today is in a similar condition.

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There are great movements that were there in

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the 19th and 20th century, different parts of

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the world.

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Mighty movements of God, where God raised up

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great men who knew Him.

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There was revival in many parts of the

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world.

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But you look at those movements today, and

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it's exactly like John saw in his time.

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Decline, declension, corruption.

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Elders who've gone the way of Balaam after

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money, who permit immoral standards in their churches.

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That's also the way of Balaam, who led

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Israel astray through allowing them to mingle with

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the daughters of Moab.

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And there's so much similarity in what's happening

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in Christian churches.

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The problem is not with doctrine.

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It's with life.

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It's evangelical churches, charismatic churches that have gone

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the way of the world.

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And the power is gone.

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John, bearing all this in his heart, writes

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a lot in this chapter, in this episode

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about loving one another.

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And in 1 John chapter 3, I want

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to read from verse 10.

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By this, the children of God and the

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children of the devil are obvious.

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He divides people into children of God and

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children of the devil.

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There's two categories.

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And he says, the way to find out

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the difference is, anyone who does not practice

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righteousness is not of God, nor the one

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who does not love his brother.

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It's a categorical distinction.

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One who does not love his brother is

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not of God.

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He can have ten thousand reasons why he

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doesn't love his brother, but he's not of

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God.

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For this is the message which you have

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heard from the beginning, that we should love

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one another, and not be as Cain who

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was of the evil one, and slew his

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brother Abel.

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When Jesus spoke about the righteous, he started

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with Abel.

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He said, from the blood of righteous Abel,

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to the blood of Zechariah who was slain,

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between the court and the temple.

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So there was a righteous Abel, and here

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was Cain of the evil one, who slew

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his brother.

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And for what reason did he slay him?

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Because his deeds were evil, and his brothers

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were righteous.

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Now, I want you to read that carefully.

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It does not say, that after he slew

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him, his deeds were evil.

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Before he slew him, why did he slay

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Abel?

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Because Cain's deeds were evil, even before he

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slew Abel.

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That's why he slew him.

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And his brother's deeds were righteous.

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Now, we have often heard, that the reason

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why God accepted Abel, was because he offered

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blood, and Cain didn't offer blood.

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But it's more than that.

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See what it says here.

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His deeds were evil.

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His brother's deeds were righteous.

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And he says, don't marvel brethren, if the

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world hates you.

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He's talking about Cain hating Abel.

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Don't marvel if the world hates you.

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That's the mark of the sons of Cain,

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and all who follow what Jude calls in

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his epistle, the way of Cain.

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They hate.

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But we know, we have passed out of

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death into life, not because we got baptized,

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not because we partake of the bread and

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the wine, but because we love the brethren.

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He who does not love, abides in death.

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He's still thinking of Cain here.

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Everyone, and it doesn't matter which church they

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belong to, who hates his brother, is a

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murderer.

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Everyone.

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And you know that no murderer has eternal

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life, abiding in him.

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The way of Cain, is the way of

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hatred.

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But in contrast to that, he says we

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know, verse 16, love by this, that instead

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of slaying your brother, you slay yourself.

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You lay down your life.

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We know love by this, that he laid

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down his life for us, and we ought

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to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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You see, in both cases there is a

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death.

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Cain kills his brother, that's the way of

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evil.

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In this the children of the devil are

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manifest, that they slay their brothers and sisters.

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Today we don't use a rock, like Cain.

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Cain went out and took a rock and

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smashed Abel's head in.

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Today we are gentler, we use our tongue,

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to slay our brothers and sisters.

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But, it's just as bad.

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When you slay your brothers and sisters, with

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your tongue, tear them down, speak evil of

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them, make them look bad and small, and

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evil, in the eyes of others, you are

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slaying them.

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In this, the children of the devil are

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obvious.

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Because that's what the devil does.

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The Bible says in Revelation 12, verse 9

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and 10, that the devil accuses the brothers,

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day and night.

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And just like God looks for co-workers,

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in His work, the devil looks for co

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-workers, all over the world.

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What does the devil do day and night?

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It says there in Revelation 12, he accuses

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the brethren, day and night.

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And I want to tell you, that the

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devil can't tell lies to God.

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He does not tell God false things about

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the brethren, because he knows that God knows

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everything.

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He tells the truth.

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And he is looking for co-workers across

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the world, the devil, who will speak the

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truth, with the spirit of accusation.

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An accuser need not tell false stories.

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The devil tells no false stories to God.

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He tells the absolute truth.

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But he is the accuser of the brethren.

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And you can speak the absolute truth, and

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be an accuser of the brethren, hearing how

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the children of the devil, made obvious.

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That's the way of King.

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And no murderer, has eternal life, abiding in

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Him.

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He who has ears to hear, let him

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hear.

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No murderer has eternal life, abiding in Him.

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Whatever you may say, whatever doctrine you believe,

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whichever way you were baptized in, whether you

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speak in tongues or not, whether you break

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bread or not, however long your skirts are,

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no murderer has eternal life, abiding in Him.

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Do you slay your brother, or your sister?

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When Ham, went and told Shem and Japheth,

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that their father was drunk, and lying naked,

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he spoke the absolute truth.

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He never added one word.

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He said, dad is lying naked, after having

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got drunk.

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God not only cursed him, He cursed his

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children.

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And that curse remains.

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For what?

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For speaking the truth.

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From Noah in Genesis 9, from that time,

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all the way to Revelation 12, we read,

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accusers speak the truth.

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So, we don't escape, by saying, I only

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spoke the truth.

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It's exactly what Ham said.

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It's exactly what the devil says to God.

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I'm only speaking the truth.

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Jesus also does something day and night.

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It says in Hebrews 7.25, He ever

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liveth, to make intercession for them.

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Here's a brother, or a sister, who's got

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a fault.

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Maybe he's drunk.

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Maybe he's naked.

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Stupid thing to do.

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He's a brother.

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Maybe it's not so bad.

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We don't wait for something to do.

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We don't wait for a brother to get

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that far.

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To be drunk and naked.

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We start judging and accusing long before Ham

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did.

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We wait for a small fault.

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Drunk.

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Oh, drunkenness and nakedness would be extreme, long

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before a brother has got that far.

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There's a fault in a brother, or a

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sister.

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Something that irritates us.

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Jesus sees it.

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Satan sees it.

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Satan is quick to accuse.

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Jesus is quick to intercede.

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Both, Satan and Jesus, are looking for co

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You can have your choice.

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You see that weakness too.

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And in that moment you decide, there's a

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fork in the road there.

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As soon as you see a weakness in

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a brother or sister, there lies before you

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a fork in the road.

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The way Jesus is gone, and the way

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Satan is gone.

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The way of intercession, and the way of

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accusation.

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And every one of us, we don't usually

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stand there.

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Some people think they're spiritual, just because they

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stand there.

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They don't go take either road.

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But Jesus has taken one road, and Satan

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has taken another.

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And when we accuse, we take one fork

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in the road.

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And you know who you're in fellowship with.

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And when we intercede, we take the other

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fork in the road.

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Herein are the children of God, and the

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children of the devil, made obvious.

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There's no hiding it.

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It says, herein are the children of God,

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and the children of the devil, made obvious.

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Why did Cain slay his brother?

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Let's turn back to Genesis in chapter 4.

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Genesis 4.

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It says here that Cain brought an offering

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to the Lord.

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Verse 4, verse 3.

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Genesis 4, 3.

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Verse 4, Abel also brought an offering to

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the Lord.

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Cain was not an atheist.

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Cain was a deeply religious man.

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The children of the devil are not all

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atheists.

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99% of them are deeply religious people.

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The way of Cain is not the way

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of atheism.

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It's the way of religion.

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It's also the way of sacrifice and offering

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to God.

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Cain offered.

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He brought a sacrifice.

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Abel also brought an offering, and notice, we've

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always, as I told you, thought that the

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Lord accepted Abel's offering.

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But read carefully.

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It says in verse 4, the last part,

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the Lord had regard for Abel, and for

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his offering.

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It was Abel he regarded, and therefore he

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accepted his offering.

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Don't read the other way around.

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That the Lord had regard for his offering,

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therefore he accepted Abel.

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That's often how we have heard it.

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There are many wrong doctrines we get when

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we read scripture wrongly.

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The Lord had regard for Abel, and his

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offering.

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But for Cain, and his offering, he had

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no regard.

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Who was the one he, what did he

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disregard in Cain?

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We have always been told, the Lord disregarded

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his offering, therefore he disregarded Cain.

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But no, it was Cain he disregarded, and

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therefore he disregarded his offering.

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We think, if I bring the blood, I'm

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okay.

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No.

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If, when you come to the altar with

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the blood offering, with the blood of Jesus,

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and there you remember that your brother has

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something against you, your offering will not be

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accepted.

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Leave your offering there, it says.

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Go and settle things with your brother.

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That's what Jesus said, Matthew 5.

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Then come, and offer what you have.

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Lot of believers are living in this deception.

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If I bring the blood, I'm okay.

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You're not.

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If your brother has something against you, because

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you're not right with him, because you've used

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your tongue to slay him, go and settle

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that.

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Then come with your offering.

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The Lord has regard to you, then your

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offering.

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And if your heart is not right, he

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will not accept your offering.

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It's clear.

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And we read here that, the Lord said

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to Cain in verse 6, so Cain, verse

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5, the last part, became very angry, and

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his countenance fell.

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It's a mark of those who are not

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right, one mark of those who are not

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right with God.

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There's no cheerfulness in their countenance.

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Their countenance has fallen.

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The psalmist said, the Lord is my glory,

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and the lifter of my hand.

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When your countenance has fallen, something is wrong.

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The very first words, that God ever asked

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a human being, outside the garden of Eden.

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First words that God ever asked a human

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being, outside the garden of Eden, were, why

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is your face falling?

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Why are you angry?

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Don't forget that.

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Why, why is there that cloud over your

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face?

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You just came from the meeting.

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You just came after offering something to God.

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You came from a prayer meeting.

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You're a deeply religious person.

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You came from the revival meeting.

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Why is your face falling?

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Cain came from a meeting.

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He had gone and offered something to God.

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Should your face be falling, after you've gone

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to a meeting?

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After you've read the Bible, and you've met

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with God?

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Why is your face falling?

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I'm always suspicious and wary, of people who

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cannot look me straight in the face.

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I'll give you a simple bit of advice.

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When a person can't look you straight in

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the face, eye to eye, when he cannot

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make eye contact with you, something is wrong.

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That's what the Lord was saying.

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Why can't you make eye contact with me,

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Cain?

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What's wrong?

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Why is your face falling?

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Why is it long?

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It's the first question God asked man.

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You're angry.

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You're angry with something.

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And the Lord said to him, if you

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intend well, in your heart, I'm paraphrasing those

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words, won't you, won't your countenance be lifted

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up?

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Surely you'll be accepted.

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I have no partiality, Cain.

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All are the same to me.

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If your heart is right, and you intend

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well, towards your brother.

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If you do well, if your intention, the

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intention of your heart, towards your brother or

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sister is good.

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Your countenance will be lifted up.

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Sure.

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When your countenance is fallen, it means something

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is wrong.

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It's not the way the other person treated

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you.

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It's your attitude towards that other person.

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Maybe your husband, maybe your wife, maybe your

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parents, maybe your brother, maybe an elder brother,

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maybe anyone.

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But there is something wrong.

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But if you don't intend well, in your

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heart, then God says to Cain, sin is

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crouching at the door of your heart.

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Don't think sin is far away.

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Jesus said, pray, our father who art in

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heaven, lead us not into temptation, but deliver

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us from evil.

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That means, Oh God, please keep temptation far

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away from me.

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Don't lead me that way.

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Deliver me from evil.

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But if you don't intend well, sin is

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not far away.

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Sin is crouching at the door, like a

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lion or a tiger, waiting outside your door,

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waiting for a slight opening of the door,

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and he's got his foot in.

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He's going to come right in.

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But, and his desire, his desire is for

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you.

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Sin's desire is to eat you up like

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any tiger or lion.

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And here is the first place in the

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Bible, in the very first message that God

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ever gave to man outside the garden of

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Eden.

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The very first message that God ever gave

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to man outside the garden of Eden.

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He says to them, he says to him,

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you must have victory over sin.

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This is not in Romans 6.14. This

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is Genesis 4.7. You must master it.

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You must master that sin that's crouching at

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your door.

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The message of victory over sin is there

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in Genesis 4.7. Not an afterthought with

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God, it's the very first thing that God

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ever proclaimed to man.

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Inside the garden of Eden, God killed that

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animal, shed its blood, a picture of Jesus

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shedding his blood on Calvary, took the skin

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of that animal, threw away the fig leaves

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of Adam and Eve, symbolizing religion and human

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righteousness.

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Throw it away.

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It will wither up in no time.

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And God told Adam, you can't keep fig

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leaves on you forever.

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Human righteousness will wither away.

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Let me give you something that will last

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forever, the righteousness of Christ.

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That's how he was clothed.

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That's the first thing.

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The shed blood, get rid of the fig

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leaves of your own righteousness, filthy rag, fig

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leaves that dry up.

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That's why Jesus cursed the fig tree.

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When he saw the leaves on it.

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It's all human righteousness.

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Cursed it.

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It was cursed from the day of Adam.

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And God cursed those fig leaves and put

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the skin of the animal on Adam and

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Eve and sent them out.

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And then the next message was, okay, the

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first message is, you need the blood shed

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and you need the righteousness of Christ.

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The next one is, you must have victory

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over sin.

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It's all there, way back in Genesis 3

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and 4.

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You must master it.

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This wrong attitude towards your brother, you must

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overcome it.

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And I believe the Lord is saying that

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to many of us this evening.

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Do you intend well?

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Is your attitude right?

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Sin is crouching at your door and you

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must master it.

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It's a voice of love pleading with you.

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Why should God plead with man?

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He could have said, well, I came, he's

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got enough understanding that he shouldn't have such

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an attitude towards brother, but he pleads.

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Just like the father of the elder son,

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of the prodigal son, went outside and pleaded

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with his elder brother, elder son.

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Why do you have such an attitude towards

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your younger brother?

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Why do you have such an attitude?

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Why are you jealous that we are honored

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your younger brother and he's sitting in the

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right hand.

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Come in.

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But he wouldn't come in.

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Well, the same story with Cain and Abel.

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God went out and pleaded with him.

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And what's the very next thing that Cain

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does?

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He doesn't listen to the voice of God.

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He has no fear of God.

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He went and told Abel, spoke to him,

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called him out for a walk and innocent

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Abel went out with him and Cain smashed

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his head in and killed him.

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And the Lord said to Cain, where is

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Abel your brother?

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He said, I don't know.

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You know when your conscience is hardened, you

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can tell lies even to God.

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It's a terrible thing.

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After God has spoken to you and you

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don't listen, he pleads with you, you don't

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listen.

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Your conscience becomes so hard, you can not

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only tell lies to man, you can tell

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lies to God.

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He said, I don't know.

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Am I my brother's keeper?

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God said, what have you done?

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The voice of your brother's blood is crying

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to me from the ground and now you

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are cursed from the ground which has opened

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its mouth to receive you.

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When Adam and Eve sinned, God never cursed

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them.

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Read Genesis 3, He never cursed them.

551
00:28:45,780 --> 00:28:47,440
He cursed the ground.

552
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:49,720
Not Adam and Eve.

553
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,420
But this is the first time He cursed

554
00:28:51,420 --> 00:28:51,900
a man.

555
00:28:54,810 --> 00:28:58,570
When this man had a wrong attitude to

556
00:28:58,570 --> 00:28:59,070
a brother.

557
00:29:00,490 --> 00:29:02,730
Please remember this, my brothers and sisters.

558
00:29:03,590 --> 00:29:05,470
The first time God ever cursed a man

559
00:29:05,470 --> 00:29:07,150
was when he had a wrong attitude to

560
00:29:07,150 --> 00:29:09,690
his brother and slew him.

561
00:29:12,130 --> 00:29:13,310
Have you slain your brother?

562
00:29:13,870 --> 00:29:14,810
Or your sister?

563
00:29:16,110 --> 00:29:17,170
Do you fear God?

564
00:29:19,110 --> 00:29:23,130
In this it is obvious, the children of

565
00:29:23,130 --> 00:29:24,070
God and children of the devil.

566
00:29:25,770 --> 00:29:29,720
And he said to him, what is the

567
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,440
mark of the curse of God?

568
00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:38,330
When you cultivate the ground, verse 12, it

569
00:29:38,330 --> 00:29:40,990
shall not yield its strength to you.

570
00:29:42,250 --> 00:29:45,210
You shall be a vagrant and a wanderer

571
00:29:45,210 --> 00:29:45,790
on the earth.

572
00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:53,990
You will preach, there will be no blessing.

573
00:29:55,330 --> 00:29:56,170
There will be no fruit.

574
00:29:58,540 --> 00:30:00,060
You will go somewhere and you will try

575
00:30:00,060 --> 00:30:03,520
to build a church and you will preach

576
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,360
what you heard on all those tapes and

577
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,600
what you read in all those books.

578
00:30:07,420 --> 00:30:09,680
But it will not produce fruit.

579
00:30:10,860 --> 00:30:12,560
You will cultivate the ground and you will

580
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:13,220
work hard.

581
00:30:14,540 --> 00:30:15,700
There will be no church.

582
00:30:17,660 --> 00:30:18,740
You will be alone.

583
00:30:21,670 --> 00:30:25,210
You will be a vagrant and a wanderer.

584
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,180
You will gather people and they will go

585
00:30:29,180 --> 00:30:29,980
away one by one.

586
00:30:30,060 --> 00:30:30,760
You will be alone.

587
00:30:33,010 --> 00:30:34,530
And you will go from one church to

588
00:30:34,530 --> 00:30:34,810
another.

589
00:30:34,930 --> 00:30:39,550
You will be a wanderer, a vagrant, a

590
00:30:39,550 --> 00:30:40,050
beggar.

591
00:30:42,460 --> 00:30:43,740
You will try this church.

592
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,380
There will be something wrong there.

593
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,140
You will go to the other one.

594
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,160
There will be something wrong there.

595
00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:51,080
And you will be a wanderer all your

596
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:51,500
life.

597
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,900
I have seen so many people like this.

598
00:31:00,740 --> 00:31:02,980
And this is obvious.

599
00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:05,740
The children of God and the children of

600
00:31:05,740 --> 00:31:06,060
the devil.

601
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,140
Something is wrong in their heart towards somebody.

602
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,160
God has spoken to them but they will

603
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:13,740
not break.

604
00:31:15,220 --> 00:31:17,020
They have no lack of knowledge.

605
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,940
Their doctrines are all correct.

606
00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:25,490
But something is wrong in their heart.

607
00:31:25,610 --> 00:31:29,110
And when they work, they cultivate the ground.

608
00:31:29,990 --> 00:31:31,630
It does not yield anything.

609
00:31:34,540 --> 00:31:35,340
Are you like that?

610
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:37,040
Fruitless.

611
00:31:41,330 --> 00:31:43,090
Jesus said, I have chosen you and ordained

612
00:31:43,090 --> 00:31:43,390
you.

613
00:31:44,170 --> 00:31:46,930
John 15, that you should go forth and

614
00:31:46,930 --> 00:31:48,190
go and bring forth fruit.

615
00:31:49,690 --> 00:31:51,510
John 15, 9 I think it is.

616
00:31:51,510 --> 00:31:55,150
Herein is my Father glorified that you bear

617
00:31:55,150 --> 00:31:55,650
much fruit.

618
00:31:55,750 --> 00:32:00,010
It is impossible for a branch to remain

619
00:32:00,010 --> 00:32:03,010
in the vine and be fruitless.

620
00:32:04,130 --> 00:32:04,770
Impossible.

621
00:32:05,470 --> 00:32:06,930
Not Jesus the vine.

622
00:32:07,870 --> 00:32:11,470
Some other false vine, maybe.

623
00:32:11,790 --> 00:32:13,430
But if you are in Jesus, grafted into

624
00:32:13,430 --> 00:32:15,390
Jesus, it is impossible.

625
00:32:16,470 --> 00:32:20,350
If the sap from the vine, the Holy

626
00:32:20,350 --> 00:32:23,430
Spirit is flowing into the branches, it is

627
00:32:23,430 --> 00:32:25,170
impossible to be fruitless.

628
00:32:26,350 --> 00:32:28,090
To be without fruit.

629
00:32:28,290 --> 00:32:29,850
You have to be fruitful.

630
00:32:34,530 --> 00:32:37,310
And if you are a wanderer, wanderer does

631
00:32:37,310 --> 00:32:39,510
not necessarily mean just being alone.

632
00:32:40,110 --> 00:32:43,770
I have seen numerous people who have come

633
00:32:43,770 --> 00:32:45,770
to our conferences in India and think that

634
00:32:45,770 --> 00:32:51,480
the secret is this doctrine that we preach.

635
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,220
And so they get our books and our

636
00:32:54,220 --> 00:32:56,500
tapes and they sing the songs that we

637
00:32:56,500 --> 00:32:57,900
sing and they think the secret is in

638
00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:59,160
the pattern of our meetings.

639
00:33:00,180 --> 00:33:02,000
And they go and try to duplicate that

640
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,920
pattern where they are and it is death.

641
00:33:06,050 --> 00:33:06,750
It is not there.

642
00:33:06,970 --> 00:33:08,090
The secret is not there.

643
00:33:09,890 --> 00:33:13,110
The secret is into falling into the ground

644
00:33:13,110 --> 00:33:14,710
and dying to your self-life.

645
00:33:15,410 --> 00:33:18,390
Being cut off from that old vine and

646
00:33:18,390 --> 00:33:21,570
being grafted into the new and letting the

647
00:33:21,570 --> 00:33:23,430
sap, the fullness of the Holy Spirit as

648
00:33:23,430 --> 00:33:26,690
it comes forth, bring forth fruit.

649
00:33:27,090 --> 00:33:28,070
It is not in a doctrine.

650
00:33:28,270 --> 00:33:29,090
It is not in a pattern.

651
00:33:30,030 --> 00:33:31,250
It is in a life.

652
00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:33,190
In the life of Jesus.

653
00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:38,800
Cain said, My punishment is too great to

654
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:39,100
bear.

655
00:33:40,020 --> 00:33:41,740
Thou hast driven me from the face of

656
00:33:41,740 --> 00:33:43,340
the ground and I shall be a vagrant

657
00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:44,380
and wanderer.

658
00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:47,520
And the Lord, I am amazed at the

659
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,280
Lord's tremendous compassion.

660
00:33:50,220 --> 00:33:51,560
Even to Cain.

661
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,680
He says, No, I won't allow anybody to

662
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:55,220
kill you.

663
00:33:57,780 --> 00:33:59,740
The Lord appointed a sign for Cain, verse

664
00:33:59,740 --> 00:34:02,060
15, lest anyone finding him should slay him.

665
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:05,200
He could have repented.

666
00:34:05,780 --> 00:34:07,639
He could have said, O God, be merciful

667
00:34:07,639 --> 00:34:08,280
to me.

668
00:34:08,739 --> 00:34:09,639
But he didn't.

669
00:34:10,380 --> 00:34:11,980
He went out from the presence of the

670
00:34:11,980 --> 00:34:12,280
Lord.

671
00:34:15,909 --> 00:34:18,989
And, one of the first things he did

672
00:34:18,989 --> 00:34:20,350
when he went out from the presence of

673
00:34:20,350 --> 00:34:23,389
the Lord was to build a city.

674
00:34:23,870 --> 00:34:24,550
Verse 17.

675
00:34:25,550 --> 00:34:27,550
The origin of city life.

676
00:34:28,250 --> 00:34:29,250
Do you know where it is?

677
00:34:30,370 --> 00:34:31,389
It's in Cain.

678
00:34:32,110 --> 00:34:32,909
Verse 17.

679
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,760
And he named it after his son.

680
00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:44,080
Let the name of my son be honored.

681
00:34:44,820 --> 00:34:48,300
He couldn't care less for the name of

682
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:48,679
the Lord.

683
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:49,960
City life.

684
00:34:52,409 --> 00:34:57,210
And he produced people who were interested, verse

685
00:34:57,210 --> 00:34:58,770
21, in music.

686
00:35:00,930 --> 00:35:02,950
Jubal was the father of those who played

687
00:35:02,950 --> 00:35:05,370
the lyre and the pipe and they sat

688
00:35:05,370 --> 00:35:08,790
in the night in those cities and played

689
00:35:08,790 --> 00:35:09,610
music.

690
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,320
The origins of rock music is right there,

691
00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:16,020
verse 21.

692
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,540
A lot of things happen when you go

693
00:35:20,540 --> 00:35:22,160
away from the presence of the Lord.

694
00:35:24,510 --> 00:35:25,790
Lots of things happen.

695
00:35:26,590 --> 00:35:27,170
You don't know.

696
00:35:27,250 --> 00:35:28,530
You don't have any sense of direction.

697
00:35:28,650 --> 00:35:29,490
You're a vagrant.

698
00:35:29,910 --> 00:35:31,210
You're a wanderer.

699
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,460
And you think, oh, what's wrong with city

700
00:35:35,460 --> 00:35:35,820
life?

701
00:35:35,940 --> 00:35:37,260
You say, what's wrong with music?

702
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:37,860
Yeah, yeah.

703
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:44,040
You lose all sense of God when you're

704
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,180
not in the presence of the Lord.

705
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:47,840
Where did it all start?

706
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,080
See, this is, what we've looked at is

707
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,020
the end of it all.

708
00:35:52,460 --> 00:35:53,980
But where did it all start?

709
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,820
Let's, you know, nip it in the bud.

710
00:35:57,780 --> 00:36:00,580
Have you got something of that in us?

711
00:36:01,340 --> 00:36:06,250
It started with the fact that the fire

712
00:36:06,250 --> 00:36:10,770
of God fell upon Abel's offering and no

713
00:36:10,770 --> 00:36:13,750
fire fell on Cain's offering.

714
00:36:15,750 --> 00:36:18,050
And to, I mean, if Abel was older

715
00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:19,730
than him, he could have borne it.

716
00:36:20,750 --> 00:36:22,510
But Abel was younger.

717
00:36:23,770 --> 00:36:28,590
How can God anoint somebody younger than me?

718
00:36:30,580 --> 00:36:35,900
How can God put a fire in someone

719
00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:37,120
younger than me?

720
00:36:37,940 --> 00:36:39,620
It bothered him.

721
00:36:39,820 --> 00:36:40,560
Bothered him.

722
00:36:40,780 --> 00:36:41,360
Bothered him.

723
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,740
And he was determined to find some fault

724
00:36:45,740 --> 00:36:46,280
with Abel.

725
00:36:48,460 --> 00:36:49,460
Does that sound familiar?

726
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,300
God's blessing on somebody's ministry.

727
00:36:56,660 --> 00:36:58,980
And you can't bear it.

728
00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:03,080
And you're determined to find something or the

729
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,080
other wrong with him.

730
00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:05,900
No.

731
00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:07,160
Can't be.

732
00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:09,300
And yet it is obvious.

733
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,660
The fire of God is there upon him.

734
00:37:13,860 --> 00:37:18,010
If you are humble, you say, well, Lord,

735
00:37:20,310 --> 00:37:21,850
maybe I don't see any good in him,

736
00:37:21,930 --> 00:37:23,110
but you must be seeing a lot of

737
00:37:23,110 --> 00:37:23,650
good in him.

738
00:37:24,370 --> 00:37:26,210
Because you have regard for him and his

739
00:37:26,210 --> 00:37:26,510
offering.

740
00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:32,020
That would have been the right approach.

741
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,580
I have told the different brothers who work

742
00:37:40,580 --> 00:37:44,180
with me, my co-workers, brothers who have

743
00:37:44,180 --> 00:37:48,600
accepted the doctrine we preach, the doctrine of

744
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,740
victory, the doctrine of building the body of

745
00:37:50,740 --> 00:37:54,800
Jesus Christ, of coming out of Babylon and

746
00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:04,100
being, building Jerusalem, and who have understood all

747
00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:04,380
this.

748
00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:06,540
I say, well, you have understood all this.

749
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,640
But I want to still sit back and

750
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:14,280
watch whether the fire of God falls on

751
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:15,660
your sacrifice or not.

752
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,940
Because if the fire of God doesn't fall,

753
00:38:19,060 --> 00:38:21,940
brother, I'm sorry, I can't support you.

754
00:38:24,180 --> 00:38:26,100
I'm always, I'm not going to jump one

755
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:27,140
step ahead of God.

756
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,900
I want to go behind God.

757
00:38:32,980 --> 00:38:40,940
If God supports you, and it manifests, God

758
00:38:40,940 --> 00:38:46,880
bears witness to your life, to your family

759
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,040
life, to your ministry.

760
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:53,940
Even if I don't like your faith, I'm

761
00:38:53,940 --> 00:38:55,400
going to support you 100%.

762
00:38:57,350 --> 00:39:00,990
But if God doesn't bear witness to you,

763
00:39:01,370 --> 00:39:03,470
or to your family life, or to your

764
00:39:03,470 --> 00:39:08,450
ministry, even if you're my thickest friend, I'm

765
00:39:08,450 --> 00:39:10,970
sorry, I cannot support you.

766
00:39:11,850 --> 00:39:13,610
I go behind God.

767
00:39:14,370 --> 00:39:15,690
I don't jump ahead of Him.

768
00:39:16,190 --> 00:39:18,050
I don't care if your adoptions are right.

769
00:39:18,170 --> 00:39:19,410
I don't care if you're following the same

770
00:39:19,410 --> 00:39:21,570
pattern, singing the same songs, doing the same

771
00:39:21,570 --> 00:39:21,850
thing.

772
00:39:22,210 --> 00:39:24,170
And you say you're one of our churches.

773
00:39:25,150 --> 00:39:25,890
No use.

774
00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:28,130
If the fire is not there, you are

775
00:39:28,130 --> 00:39:30,050
not one of our churches.

776
00:39:30,690 --> 00:39:31,090
Sorry.

777
00:39:35,710 --> 00:39:39,270
And you can't be so close a friend

778
00:39:39,270 --> 00:39:40,810
of mine that you'll get me to support

779
00:39:40,810 --> 00:39:42,210
you without the fire of God on your

780
00:39:42,210 --> 00:39:42,510
life.

781
00:39:42,610 --> 00:39:43,330
It's impossible.

782
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:47,950
I say, I will recognize what God recognizes.

783
00:39:48,670 --> 00:39:51,190
And I will not recognize what God does

784
00:39:51,190 --> 00:39:51,910
not recognize.

785
00:39:52,270 --> 00:39:53,910
I have no friend after the flesh.

786
00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,180
I look, where does God bear witness to

787
00:40:00,180 --> 00:40:00,620
a man?

788
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,640
And to tell you honestly, doctrine is in

789
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:06,820
a sense, secondary to me.

790
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:09,320
I don't care whether he believes in the

791
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,600
baptism in the spirit or not.

792
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:13,600
Whether he preaches it like me or not.

793
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,780
Whether he speaks in tongues or not.

794
00:40:15,860 --> 00:40:17,240
Whether he has the gift of healing or

795
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:17,540
not.

796
00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:21,580
Whether he is this denomination or that denomination.

797
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,580
I say, some of these things I've discovered

798
00:40:24,580 --> 00:40:27,440
through the years are matters of how we

799
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:28,140
understand it.

800
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,160
We can have problems in how we explain

801
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:30,560
things.

802
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,020
If the fire is there, God is there.

803
00:40:33,460 --> 00:40:35,840
I don't care what doctrine he's talking about.

804
00:40:36,180 --> 00:40:39,080
If the fire is not there, God is

805
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:39,500
not there.

806
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,940
Whatever noise he may be making or whatever

807
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:43,340
he claims to have.

808
00:40:44,540 --> 00:40:47,080
And if he's a vagrant and a wanderer,

809
00:40:48,980 --> 00:40:51,880
God obviously has left him.

810
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,780
You see, you can be a vagrant and

811
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:57,860
a wanderer even sitting in a large church

812
00:40:57,860 --> 00:40:58,540
like this.

813
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:00,600
You know that?

814
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:02,480
You say, I'm not a vagrant and a

815
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:02,760
wanderer.

816
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,420
I sit here, in a church with so

817
00:41:05,420 --> 00:41:06,060
many people.

818
00:41:06,460 --> 00:41:08,240
What do you mean by being a vagrant

819
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:10,160
and a wanderer sitting in a church like

820
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,800
this when you don't have fellowship?

821
00:41:15,090 --> 00:41:18,030
You can have 1,000 people sitting in

822
00:41:18,030 --> 00:41:18,810
a movie theater.

823
00:41:19,910 --> 00:41:21,070
It's a big crowd, isn't it?

824
00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:24,820
Person sitting here doesn't know the person sitting

825
00:41:24,820 --> 00:41:25,320
next to him.

826
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:26,700
He doesn't know the person sitting next to

827
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:26,800
him.

828
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,020
There's no fellowship there.

829
00:41:28,380 --> 00:41:29,880
But there are 1,000 people.

830
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:32,480
And 1,000 people can sit in a

831
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:32,900
church.

832
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,240
They can all be lonely.

833
00:41:37,420 --> 00:41:39,300
Can't a husband and wife live under the

834
00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:42,160
same roof and be lonely with no fellowship?

835
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:43,320
Sure.

836
00:41:44,580 --> 00:41:47,020
Parents and children sitting, living under the same

837
00:41:47,020 --> 00:41:47,460
roof.

838
00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:48,780
Lonely.

839
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,960
Husbands and wives glorying that we haven't divorced

840
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,380
one another, but lonely.

841
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,020
They are vagrants and wanderers.

842
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,180
And you can sit in the best church

843
00:41:58,180 --> 00:42:00,060
in the world and be a vagrant and

844
00:42:00,060 --> 00:42:00,680
a wanderer.

845
00:42:00,780 --> 00:42:02,840
God doesn't bear witness to your life.

846
00:42:03,860 --> 00:42:07,060
And very often, because you have something in

847
00:42:07,060 --> 00:42:08,340
your heart against your brother.

848
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:12,480
Jealousy.

849
00:42:13,660 --> 00:42:17,580
You cannot bear to see God bearing witness

850
00:42:17,580 --> 00:42:18,080
to someone.

851
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:26,820
The first sin, described in detail outside the

852
00:42:26,820 --> 00:42:27,440
Garden of Eden.

853
00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:29,220
Jealousy.

854
00:42:33,690 --> 00:42:36,970
Where, which leads Cain to kill Abel.

855
00:42:37,330 --> 00:42:39,690
And John speaks about it.

856
00:42:40,310 --> 00:42:42,770
When he sees the condition of all those

857
00:42:42,770 --> 00:42:44,110
churches in his time.

858
00:42:45,430 --> 00:42:46,670
What does he write to them?

859
00:42:47,610 --> 00:42:49,170
He writes to them about Cain.

860
00:42:50,490 --> 00:42:53,550
When Jude writes, what does he write?

861
00:42:54,250 --> 00:42:56,390
He writes about the way of Cain.

862
00:42:58,460 --> 00:42:59,280
Must be important.

863
00:42:59,820 --> 00:43:01,020
Cain is mentioned at the beginning of the

864
00:43:01,020 --> 00:43:01,200
Bible.

865
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:02,380
Cain is mentioned at the end of the

866
00:43:02,380 --> 00:43:02,600
Bible.

867
00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:04,940
Learn something from that.

868
00:43:05,180 --> 00:43:06,240
What is the way of Cain?

869
00:43:06,980 --> 00:43:08,380
It's the way of jealousy.

870
00:43:09,580 --> 00:43:11,080
Which leads to loneliness.

871
00:43:11,540 --> 00:43:13,080
Which leads to wandering.

872
00:43:13,940 --> 00:43:14,620
No fellowship.

873
00:43:17,710 --> 00:43:20,030
He could not bear that God could bless

874
00:43:20,030 --> 00:43:20,990
someone.

875
00:43:21,990 --> 00:43:24,510
He could not humble himself and say, Lord,

876
00:43:24,910 --> 00:43:27,930
I accept that God, that you have borne

877
00:43:27,930 --> 00:43:28,970
witness to him.

878
00:43:31,030 --> 00:43:33,550
I probably have a wrong attitude towards him,

879
00:43:33,630 --> 00:43:36,050
but you obviously have a different opinion.

880
00:43:37,210 --> 00:43:38,670
I want to ask you, my brothers and

881
00:43:38,670 --> 00:43:39,010
sisters.

882
00:43:39,250 --> 00:43:41,330
Do you think it's likely that God's got

883
00:43:41,330 --> 00:43:43,650
a different opinion about that brother, whom you

884
00:43:43,650 --> 00:43:44,510
don't like too much?

885
00:43:46,050 --> 00:43:47,690
Is it possible that God's got a different

886
00:43:47,690 --> 00:43:49,510
opinion about that sister, whom you can't get

887
00:43:49,510 --> 00:43:49,990
along with?

888
00:43:50,810 --> 00:43:52,850
God seems to be able to get along

889
00:43:52,850 --> 00:43:53,730
with that person fine.

890
00:43:54,770 --> 00:43:56,610
But you don't seem to be able to.

891
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:00,980
Jealousy gets in so easily.

892
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,760
There's so much of jealousy in Christian work.

893
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,160
And when there's jealousy in your heart, one

894
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,280
thing it clearly proves is you haven't seen

895
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,420
the body of Jesus Christ.

896
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,280
In this body, there is no jealousy.

897
00:44:21,230 --> 00:44:25,850
The left hand is never jealous that all

898
00:44:25,850 --> 00:44:27,630
the checks are signed by the right hand.

899
00:44:32,170 --> 00:44:34,910
$500, $700, I never get a chance.

900
00:44:35,770 --> 00:44:36,550
It's always him.

901
00:44:37,010 --> 00:44:37,770
Always him.

902
00:44:38,190 --> 00:44:39,070
He's getting the honor.

903
00:44:39,670 --> 00:44:40,570
He's getting the honor.

904
00:44:41,510 --> 00:44:42,790
And one day if the right hand gets

905
00:44:42,790 --> 00:44:46,350
hurt, does the left hand rejoice in that?

906
00:44:48,150 --> 00:44:50,550
Ah, now is my chance to sign the

907
00:44:50,550 --> 00:44:50,750
checks.

908
00:44:50,750 --> 00:44:52,230
The bank won't accept it.

909
00:44:52,350 --> 00:44:53,690
They can't recognize the signature.

910
00:44:55,170 --> 00:44:55,890
Humble yourself.

911
00:44:57,690 --> 00:44:59,150
There's no jealousy in the body.

912
00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:02,370
The left hand rejoices.

913
00:45:03,590 --> 00:45:05,330
When the right hand signs the check and

914
00:45:05,330 --> 00:45:07,470
takes $700, the left hand says, that's mine

915
00:45:07,470 --> 00:45:07,790
too.

916
00:45:09,030 --> 00:45:09,890
It's not the right hand.

917
00:45:09,970 --> 00:45:11,550
If that soul is saved, so what if

918
00:45:11,550 --> 00:45:12,450
that brother saved him?

919
00:45:12,690 --> 00:45:13,790
That's praise God.

920
00:45:13,890 --> 00:45:15,290
It's for the body of Jesus Christ.

921
00:45:16,910 --> 00:45:17,890
Can you see that?

922
00:45:17,890 --> 00:45:20,550
When you see God blessing another brother's ministry

923
00:45:20,550 --> 00:45:22,990
somewhere and a church is established through his

924
00:45:22,990 --> 00:45:25,650
ministry, can you rejoice and say, praise God!

925
00:45:26,630 --> 00:45:27,930
That's for my Lord.

926
00:45:28,770 --> 00:45:29,630
I'm excited.

927
00:45:30,170 --> 00:45:31,330
I had nothing to do with it.

928
00:45:31,810 --> 00:45:34,170
But praise God, one part of me went

929
00:45:34,170 --> 00:45:35,830
there and established a church.

930
00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:38,540
Can you rejoice?

931
00:45:40,140 --> 00:45:43,280
Ask yourself honestly whether you can rejoice when

932
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,280
God doesn't use you at all, but uses

933
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:45,980
somebody else.

934
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:51,700
The foot rejoices with every part of the

935
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:52,000
body.

936
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,060
Think of those little toes.

937
00:45:57,180 --> 00:45:58,620
I never get a chance to be seen.

938
00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,080
I'm always closed up in socks and shoes.

939
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,100
Nobody ever sees me.

940
00:46:03,260 --> 00:46:04,560
I wish I could move up a little

941
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:05,020
in the body.

942
00:46:05,660 --> 00:46:06,540
Get a little promotion.

943
00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:09,220
Come up to be in the hands at

944
00:46:09,220 --> 00:46:10,880
least or somewhere in the face.

945
00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:12,340
Never.

946
00:46:13,460 --> 00:46:16,500
It says if God keeps me covered with

947
00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:19,240
socks and shoes the rest of my life,

948
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,020
I'm quite happy.

949
00:46:20,980 --> 00:46:23,200
I rejoice with other members of the body.

950
00:46:25,590 --> 00:46:29,770
So jealousy comes where people haven't seen that

951
00:46:29,770 --> 00:46:32,430
it is God who has placed them in

952
00:46:32,430 --> 00:46:35,170
the body in a particular place.

953
00:46:36,830 --> 00:46:41,860
It says in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, 1

954
00:46:41,860 --> 00:46:46,490
Corinthians chapter 12, This is what they haven't

955
00:46:46,490 --> 00:46:46,850
seen.

956
00:46:47,530 --> 00:46:48,790
1 Corinthians 12, 18.

957
00:46:49,010 --> 00:46:52,910
But now God has placed the members, each

958
00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:56,230
one of them in the body just as

959
00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:57,590
He desires.

960
00:47:00,590 --> 00:47:03,330
He chose the place for me in the

961
00:47:03,330 --> 00:47:03,590
body.

962
00:47:04,450 --> 00:47:06,010
And He chose the place for you.

963
00:47:07,550 --> 00:47:09,470
And if you have a quarrel, your quarrel

964
00:47:09,470 --> 00:47:10,430
is against God.

965
00:47:11,670 --> 00:47:14,670
Don't say that brother is not giving me

966
00:47:14,670 --> 00:47:16,070
an opportunity to minister.

967
00:47:16,890 --> 00:47:18,670
That's a lot of garbage.

968
00:47:20,250 --> 00:47:23,490
How can that brother hinder you from fulfilling

969
00:47:23,490 --> 00:47:25,850
your ministry in the body if God Almighty

970
00:47:25,850 --> 00:47:28,970
has decided to give you a particular task?

971
00:47:30,030 --> 00:47:31,150
Nobody can do it.

972
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,080
I remember in my younger days, I used

973
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,500
to be in an assembly where I was

974
00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:40,700
just 23.

975
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,860
And the elders were jealous of my ministry.

976
00:47:47,220 --> 00:47:51,100
They wouldn't let me speak in the church

977
00:47:51,100 --> 00:47:51,860
meetings.

978
00:47:54,290 --> 00:47:55,550
So I used to speak on the street.

979
00:47:56,410 --> 00:47:57,410
Nobody could stop me there.

980
00:47:58,770 --> 00:48:00,350
That's where I learned to preach in all

981
00:48:00,350 --> 00:48:00,790
the streets.

982
00:48:01,310 --> 00:48:02,950
Every street corner, I'd stand and preach the

983
00:48:02,950 --> 00:48:03,210
gospel.

984
00:48:05,090 --> 00:48:06,850
The elders were not interested in coming there.

985
00:48:07,930 --> 00:48:09,310
But when I came to the church, the

986
00:48:09,310 --> 00:48:11,710
Lord said, Humble yourself.

987
00:48:12,950 --> 00:48:14,110
Submit to these elders.

988
00:48:15,090 --> 00:48:15,750
Love them.

989
00:48:15,750 --> 00:48:17,990
Keep a good relationship with them.

990
00:48:18,950 --> 00:48:19,890
And I did that.

991
00:48:21,190 --> 00:48:23,290
Even today when I see those brothers, I

992
00:48:23,290 --> 00:48:24,570
have a good relationship with them.

993
00:48:26,070 --> 00:48:27,870
After nearly 40 years.

994
00:48:28,950 --> 00:48:30,650
God broke me in those years.

995
00:48:30,870 --> 00:48:31,570
Crushed me.

996
00:48:33,050 --> 00:48:34,610
People made me sit at the back of

997
00:48:34,610 --> 00:48:36,990
the assembly because they were jealous.

998
00:48:38,610 --> 00:48:38,990
Okay.

999
00:48:40,230 --> 00:48:42,210
Maybe it's not your time for me.

1000
00:48:43,530 --> 00:48:46,090
I think of Jesus sitting in the synagogues

1001
00:48:46,090 --> 00:48:46,670
in Nazareth.

1002
00:48:47,570 --> 00:48:50,550
Listening to all those boring sermons of the

1003
00:48:50,550 --> 00:48:51,270
Pharisees.

1004
00:48:52,250 --> 00:48:53,770
Year after year.

1005
00:48:54,550 --> 00:48:56,050
He knew the scriptures at the age of

1006
00:48:56,050 --> 00:48:56,370
12.

1007
00:48:56,650 --> 00:48:57,990
Can you imagine Jesus sitting there?

1008
00:48:59,270 --> 00:49:01,930
Listening to all this trash they were preaching

1009
00:49:01,930 --> 00:49:02,630
from the pulpit.

1010
00:49:03,630 --> 00:49:04,430
And he kept quiet.

1011
00:49:05,830 --> 00:49:10,490
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 years, 26

1012
00:49:10,490 --> 00:49:11,130
years, 27.

1013
00:49:11,130 --> 00:49:11,850
Quiet.

1014
00:49:12,490 --> 00:49:14,690
Can you imagine the number of boring sermons

1015
00:49:14,690 --> 00:49:15,370
Jesus heard?

1016
00:49:15,550 --> 00:49:18,010
His parents took him to the synagogue regularly.

1017
00:49:19,670 --> 00:49:22,250
52 Saturdays into 30 years.

1018
00:49:22,350 --> 00:49:23,050
How much is that?

1019
00:49:23,950 --> 00:49:26,270
That many boring sermons he heard.

1020
00:49:27,150 --> 00:49:27,790
And he sat.

1021
00:49:28,650 --> 00:49:30,130
He sat through it all.

1022
00:49:30,250 --> 00:49:31,670
He endured until the end.

1023
00:49:32,350 --> 00:49:34,290
Without wasting his time bothering.

1024
00:49:34,530 --> 00:49:36,850
His hour had not yet come.

1025
00:49:37,610 --> 00:49:40,390
I see today young people who are impatient.

1026
00:49:41,470 --> 00:49:42,350
They are ready.

1027
00:49:43,450 --> 00:49:44,110
They are not.

1028
00:49:44,930 --> 00:49:46,050
They haven't been broken.

1029
00:49:47,190 --> 00:49:48,870
They have never submitted to authority.

1030
00:49:50,390 --> 00:49:51,470
They are jealous.

1031
00:49:53,730 --> 00:49:55,310
God can never bear witness to them.

1032
00:49:57,010 --> 00:49:58,830
God did this with me once in one

1033
00:49:58,830 --> 00:50:00,770
assembly, another assembly, another assembly.

1034
00:50:01,550 --> 00:50:02,310
Crushed me.

1035
00:50:03,110 --> 00:50:03,770
Humbled me.

1036
00:50:04,750 --> 00:50:05,510
Keep your mouth shut.

1037
00:50:05,610 --> 00:50:06,430
And I kept my mouth shut.

1038
00:50:06,430 --> 00:50:08,570
Keep a good relationship with these elders.

1039
00:50:08,710 --> 00:50:09,370
Submit to them.

1040
00:50:10,570 --> 00:50:11,230
I did it.

1041
00:50:14,460 --> 00:50:17,740
God never commits authority, spiritual authority to a

1042
00:50:17,740 --> 00:50:18,800
man who has not been broken.

1043
00:50:18,940 --> 00:50:19,900
It would be too dangerous.

1044
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,860
It would be like having electricity, wires going

1045
00:50:24,860 --> 00:50:26,160
around without insulation.

1046
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:27,340
It will kill.

1047
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,020
Electricity is very useful, but all the wires

1048
00:50:30,020 --> 00:50:31,040
have got to be insulated.

1049
00:50:32,580 --> 00:50:33,900
Not enough to have power.

1050
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:34,780
We need insulation.

1051
00:50:36,100 --> 00:50:37,480
Not enough to have the power of the

1052
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:37,960
Holy Spirit.

1053
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:39,060
We need brokenness.

1054
00:50:39,660 --> 00:50:41,000
Then you don't kill people.

1055
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:42,480
That's the insulation.

1056
00:50:44,260 --> 00:50:46,240
And that comes only if you will allow

1057
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:48,960
God to crush you and humble you.

1058
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,840
God has got a plan for you, brother,

1059
00:50:52,060 --> 00:50:52,300
sister.

1060
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,020
Not a human being in the world can

1061
00:50:55,020 --> 00:50:56,860
ever frustrate that.

1062
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,120
No matter how much they try to keep

1063
00:50:59,120 --> 00:50:59,780
you down.

1064
00:51:01,380 --> 00:51:03,220
People tried to keep me down for many,

1065
00:51:03,380 --> 00:51:03,700
many years.

1066
00:51:03,820 --> 00:51:04,480
I said, fine.

1067
00:51:04,980 --> 00:51:07,080
If God wants me to sit here all

1068
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:08,020
my life, I will sit here.

1069
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,120
But one day, after God had observed Jesus

1070
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,300
for 30 years, He said, go.

1071
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:17,360
And He said, I am well pleased with

1072
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:17,900
my son.

1073
00:51:18,700 --> 00:51:22,140
He was well pleased with the humility with

1074
00:51:22,140 --> 00:51:24,620
which Jesus sat for 30 years in those

1075
00:51:24,620 --> 00:51:28,140
boring synagogues till the time came.

1076
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,200
And in three and a half years, He

1077
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,660
had such an anointed ministry, such as the

1078
00:51:34,660 --> 00:51:36,420
world has never seen, what other people can't

1079
00:51:36,420 --> 00:51:37,560
do in 3,000 years.

1080
00:51:39,140 --> 00:51:40,460
Learn from Jesus.

1081
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:47,640
He wasn't going to move till His Father

1082
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:48,260
told Him.

1083
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:49,240
He was humble.

1084
00:51:49,900 --> 00:51:52,520
He submitted to imperfect Joseph and Mary.

1085
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,040
Submitted to listening to boring sermons.

1086
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,660
And it says in Isaiah 53.10, It

1087
00:51:59,660 --> 00:52:01,200
pleased the Lord to crush you.

1088
00:52:03,660 --> 00:52:05,480
Has it pleased the Lord to crush you?

1089
00:52:06,220 --> 00:52:08,440
Have you allowed the Lord to crush you?

1090
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,160
Ask the seeker of authority.

1091
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,740
God cannot use a man or a woman

1092
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:16,660
who has not been broken.

1093
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,660
Sisters, God may use a difficult husband as

1094
00:52:22,660 --> 00:52:24,700
an authority over you to crush you.

1095
00:52:25,540 --> 00:52:26,780
And you rebel.

1096
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,080
You fight back.

1097
00:52:30,140 --> 00:52:32,860
You don't join the women's liberation movement, but

1098
00:52:32,860 --> 00:52:34,800
if people saw you at home, they'd think

1099
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:35,540
you're a part of that.

1100
00:52:36,260 --> 00:52:37,100
You don't have a badge.

1101
00:52:37,220 --> 00:52:39,780
Women live, but they're in your attitude.

1102
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:41,680
What's the result?

1103
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:43,420
What's the result today?

1104
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,720
You're a vagrant and a wanderer.

1105
00:52:47,620 --> 00:52:49,720
No fellowship, no spiritual authority.

1106
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:54,100
And long, long ago, you could have become

1107
00:52:54,100 --> 00:52:57,200
a woman of God if you had learned

1108
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:57,900
submission.

1109
00:52:59,060 --> 00:53:02,420
I see young people who think they know

1110
00:53:02,420 --> 00:53:04,540
more than their parents, who will not submit

1111
00:53:04,540 --> 00:53:05,900
to the authority of their parents.

1112
00:53:06,860 --> 00:53:08,740
I've seen lots of people like that.

1113
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:11,020
Where are they today?

1114
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,820
Vagrants and wanderers.

1115
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,560
Don't waste your life, young people.

1116
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:19,060
Submit.

1117
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,620
Don't expose the nakedness of your parents like

1118
00:53:23,620 --> 00:53:24,140
Ham did.

1119
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:26,100
There'll be a curse on you and your

1120
00:53:26,100 --> 00:53:27,520
children for the rest of your life.

1121
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,100
Okay, maybe they're naked, maybe they're drunk.

1122
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:32,860
Let God deal with that.

1123
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,200
Love covers a multitude of sins.

1124
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,500
Be like Shem and Japheth who went backwards

1125
00:53:39,500 --> 00:53:41,320
and covered the nakedness of their parents.

1126
00:53:42,100 --> 00:53:43,420
That's submission to authority.

1127
00:53:44,980 --> 00:53:48,800
But we have a smart generation today, unfortunately,

1128
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,960
who think they know so much, who think

1129
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,500
they know more than their parents.

1130
00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:55,460
They're smart, they're educated.

1131
00:53:55,940 --> 00:53:57,520
Parents are not so educated.

1132
00:53:59,820 --> 00:54:00,860
God doesn't bear witness.

1133
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,700
What's the use of all that knowledge if

1134
00:54:02,700 --> 00:54:04,080
God doesn't bear witness to you?

1135
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:05,100
Where's the fire?

1136
00:54:05,940 --> 00:54:06,700
Where's the fire?

1137
00:54:08,380 --> 00:54:09,980
Plenty of knowledge, but where's the fire?

1138
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,060
We can imitate anything.

1139
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,960
We read that the whole pattern of the

1140
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:18,080
tabernacle is in Exodus.

1141
00:54:18,220 --> 00:54:19,640
You can make one like that today, you

1142
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:19,780
know.

1143
00:54:20,420 --> 00:54:22,480
You follow the pattern of the tabernacle in

1144
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,560
Exodus, you can make one exactly the correct

1145
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,000
size, correct material and you can make it

1146
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,080
like that in your yard.

1147
00:54:31,060 --> 00:54:32,820
There'll be only one thing missing there.

1148
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:33,620
You know what?

1149
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:34,960
The fire.

1150
00:54:35,820 --> 00:54:37,180
You can't reproduce that.

1151
00:54:37,820 --> 00:54:39,080
The glory from heaven.

1152
00:54:39,240 --> 00:54:40,780
You can never reproduce that.

1153
00:54:41,100 --> 00:54:43,900
And that's the mark of God's presence, not

1154
00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:44,360
the pattern.

1155
00:54:45,460 --> 00:54:47,060
Don't think the pattern of a church is

1156
00:54:47,060 --> 00:54:47,640
the main thing.

1157
00:54:48,620 --> 00:54:49,700
I've never believed it.

1158
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:51,420
I've seen a lot of churches which don't

1159
00:54:51,420 --> 00:54:53,480
follow the New Testament pattern fully, but there's

1160
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:53,880
a fire.

1161
00:54:54,860 --> 00:54:57,900
Like a tabernacle with one board missing or

1162
00:54:57,900 --> 00:54:59,700
one of the curtains missing over it, but

1163
00:54:59,700 --> 00:55:00,380
the fire is there.

1164
00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:01,400
I see that's the main thing.

1165
00:55:01,860 --> 00:55:04,860
I don't go looking for the ramskins dyed

1166
00:55:04,860 --> 00:55:05,280
red.

1167
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:06,900
I look for the fire.

1168
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:08,580
What are you looking for?

1169
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,400
Is the ramskins dyed the right color of

1170
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:12,620
red?

1171
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,280
I couldn't care less.

1172
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:16,120
Is the fire there?

1173
00:55:17,820 --> 00:55:19,160
You can go counting the board.

1174
00:55:19,660 --> 00:55:21,360
I don't go counting the boards of the

1175
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:21,800
tabernacle.

1176
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,300
I want to see if the fire is

1177
00:55:23,300 --> 00:55:23,560
there.

1178
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,400
Is the fire there in your church?

1179
00:55:26,020 --> 00:55:27,660
Is the fire there in your ministry?

1180
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,640
Does God bear witness to you?

1181
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:32,420
That's the important thing.

1182
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,300
That was the thing that made Abel stand

1183
00:55:34,300 --> 00:55:34,480
out.

1184
00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:36,960
Is there a jealousy in your heart because

1185
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:38,580
God is using somebody else?

1186
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,020
God's bearing witness to someone.

1187
00:55:40,340 --> 00:55:41,860
And you say, how in the world can

1188
00:55:41,860 --> 00:55:43,180
God bear witness to that person?

1189
00:55:43,260 --> 00:55:44,540
He's got this doctrine wrong.

1190
00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:47,620
Well, God doesn't think that doctrine is so

1191
00:55:47,620 --> 00:55:49,280
important as you think it is.

1192
00:55:50,060 --> 00:55:50,500
Obviously.

1193
00:55:52,580 --> 00:55:54,600
You know, I've had to learn lots of

1194
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:54,980
lessons.

1195
00:55:55,620 --> 00:55:56,920
A lot of things which I thought were

1196
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,820
important, God didn't think were so important.

1197
00:56:01,110 --> 00:56:02,470
And a lot of other things which I

1198
00:56:02,470 --> 00:56:04,410
thought were not so important, God thinks important.

1199
00:56:04,510 --> 00:56:06,970
He considers humility very important.

1200
00:56:07,630 --> 00:56:08,070
Fundamental.

1201
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:12,640
He considers freedom from the love of money

1202
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:13,680
very important.

1203
00:56:14,980 --> 00:56:16,440
Those are the doctrines God wants.

1204
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,280
Freedom from the love of money, humility.

1205
00:56:20,180 --> 00:56:22,540
Which doctrinal statement has got freedom from the

1206
00:56:22,540 --> 00:56:23,020
love of money?

1207
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,100
Have you ever seen a denomination which has

1208
00:56:25,100 --> 00:56:26,640
got freedom from love of money as one

1209
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:27,480
of its doctrines?

1210
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:30,900
Freedom from jealousy.

1211
00:56:31,220 --> 00:56:32,900
Is that one of the fundamental doctrines of

1212
00:56:32,900 --> 00:56:33,640
any denomination?

1213
00:56:34,820 --> 00:56:38,710
Those are the things God looks weak and

1214
00:56:38,710 --> 00:56:40,850
glory in being correct in a doctrine.

1215
00:56:43,590 --> 00:56:47,330
I think of the book of Numbers, chapter

1216
00:56:47,330 --> 00:56:47,970
16.

1217
00:56:49,810 --> 00:56:57,270
It says here about Korah, Dathan and Abiram

1218
00:56:58,490 --> 00:56:59,290
and on.

1219
00:56:59,330 --> 00:57:00,970
I want you to notice something here in

1220
00:57:02,670 --> 00:57:05,150
Numbers, chapter 16, verse 1.

1221
00:57:05,670 --> 00:57:06,910
Please read very carefully.

1222
00:57:09,660 --> 00:57:11,180
There were four people here.

1223
00:57:12,060 --> 00:57:16,960
Korah, Dathan, Abiram and on.

1224
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:19,460
You got it?

1225
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,260
Korah, Dathan, Abiram and on.

1226
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:29,040
Four people who took action, rose up before

1227
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:29,560
Moses.

1228
00:57:30,580 --> 00:57:33,560
They were jealous just like Cain.

1229
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:38,280
They couldn't bear God bearing witness to Moses

1230
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,300
time after time after time.

1231
00:57:41,260 --> 00:57:42,300
They couldn't bear it.

1232
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:44,140
They got into the way of Cain.

1233
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,380
That's why Jude in his letter combines the

1234
00:57:47,380 --> 00:57:49,220
rebellion of Korah with the way of Cain.

1235
00:57:50,900 --> 00:57:52,020
It's the same way.

1236
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,860
They couldn't bear God bearing witness to Moses

1237
00:57:55,860 --> 00:57:58,060
that he always had the word of God.

1238
00:57:59,420 --> 00:58:01,760
They said, You've gone too far.

1239
00:58:02,420 --> 00:58:03,320
He said to him.

1240
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:04,400
Everyone is holy.

1241
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,220
We believe in the priesthood of all believers.

1242
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:08,280
The Lord is in the midst.

1243
00:58:08,340 --> 00:58:09,880
Why do you exalt yourself?

1244
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,140
And Moses, this is the man who never

1245
00:58:14,140 --> 00:58:15,300
wanted to exalt himself.

1246
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:16,940
When God pulled him out of the wilderness,

1247
00:58:17,140 --> 00:58:18,800
he said, please God send somebody else.

1248
00:58:18,860 --> 00:58:19,580
I'm not the man.

1249
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:21,480
He didn't exalt himself.

1250
00:58:22,100 --> 00:58:23,460
He had no intention.

1251
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:27,060
It was God who took him up, saw

1252
00:58:27,060 --> 00:58:28,820
his faithfulness and exalted him.

1253
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,680
So what did Moses do?

1254
00:58:32,660 --> 00:58:34,120
Verse 4, he fell on his face.

1255
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,820
Good thing to do when other people accuse

1256
00:58:38,820 --> 00:58:39,020
you.

1257
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:40,640
Don't defend yourself.

1258
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:41,800
Let God do the defending.

1259
00:58:42,820 --> 00:58:44,040
Fall on your face.

1260
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,860
When people question your authority, fall on your

1261
00:58:46,860 --> 00:58:47,180
face.

1262
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,600
If God doesn't defend you, no use your

1263
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:50,440
defending yourself.

1264
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,260
God can deal with the Korah.

1265
00:58:54,380 --> 00:58:56,920
God can deal with the Dathan's and the

1266
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,540
Byron's and all much better than we can.

1267
00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:04,000
Long, long ago God said to me, when

1268
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,100
people accuse you, question your ministry, fall on

1269
00:59:07,100 --> 00:59:07,600
your face.

1270
00:59:08,140 --> 00:59:10,360
And that's what I've done for 25 years.

1271
00:59:12,510 --> 00:59:15,090
God can do a better job than me.

1272
00:59:16,430 --> 00:59:20,290
And Moses said tomorrow, the Lord will show

1273
00:59:20,290 --> 00:59:21,010
who is holy.

1274
00:59:22,630 --> 00:59:24,210
And so they came along tomorrow.

1275
00:59:24,210 --> 00:59:26,710
Who were the four people?

1276
00:59:27,570 --> 00:59:33,810
Korah, Dathan, Byron and on, verse 1.

1277
00:59:34,710 --> 00:59:40,770
The next morning they come along and Moses

1278
00:59:40,770 --> 00:59:41,590
warns them.

1279
00:59:42,330 --> 00:59:43,470
I don't have time to go into all

1280
00:59:43,470 --> 00:59:44,150
that passage.

1281
00:59:45,350 --> 00:59:47,970
And then Moses says in verse 24, the

1282
00:59:47,970 --> 00:59:50,390
Lord spoke to Moses saying, verse 23, here's

1283
00:59:50,390 --> 00:59:52,670
what the Lord is saying, please read carefully,

1284
00:59:53,390 --> 00:59:56,590
speak to the congregation saying, get back from

1285
00:59:56,590 --> 00:59:59,790
around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Byron.

1286
01:00:01,430 --> 01:00:02,530
What happened to Owen?

1287
01:00:03,790 --> 01:00:05,830
He got some sense that night.

1288
01:00:07,250 --> 01:00:08,510
And he pulled out.

1289
01:00:09,510 --> 01:00:12,070
He went to Korah and said, brother, I

1290
01:00:12,070 --> 01:00:13,970
am not joining in this at all.

1291
01:00:14,110 --> 01:00:15,330
Please count me out.

1292
01:00:17,270 --> 01:00:19,370
He saved his life.

1293
01:00:20,350 --> 01:00:22,030
He saved his family.

1294
01:00:23,130 --> 01:00:25,650
Because he pulled out of that spirit of

1295
01:00:25,650 --> 01:00:27,710
rebellion that he sensed in these people.

1296
01:00:29,450 --> 01:00:31,430
He was a sensible man.

1297
01:00:34,350 --> 01:00:35,090
Are you sensible?

1298
01:00:36,630 --> 01:00:38,830
Do you join with others who have a

1299
01:00:38,830 --> 01:00:39,610
spirit of rebellion?

1300
01:00:41,150 --> 01:00:42,530
Are you jealous?

1301
01:00:45,050 --> 01:00:45,830
Pull back.

1302
01:00:47,090 --> 01:00:50,390
Learn from Owen, the son of Philip.

1303
01:00:51,810 --> 01:00:56,570
And Moses arose and said, get back, verse

1304
01:00:56,570 --> 01:01:00,470
27, from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and

1305
01:01:00,470 --> 01:01:00,950
Byron.

1306
01:01:02,790 --> 01:01:05,870
They came out and said, and Moses said,

1307
01:01:05,930 --> 01:01:07,090
now the Lord will show you.

1308
01:01:07,330 --> 01:01:08,670
The Lord will bring about a new thing,

1309
01:01:08,770 --> 01:01:09,250
verse 30.

1310
01:01:10,830 --> 01:01:13,750
And as he finished speaking these words, verse

1311
01:01:13,750 --> 01:01:16,810
31, it says in verse 32, the earth

1312
01:01:16,810 --> 01:01:21,010
opened its mouth and swallowed them up.

1313
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:26,640
And their households, they suffered, their children suffered.

1314
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,980
It's sad when a father is rebellious and

1315
01:01:30,980 --> 01:01:32,020
his children have to suffer.

1316
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,180
Just like heaven opened and took two people

1317
01:01:36,180 --> 01:01:38,640
alive into heaven, Enoch and Elijah.

1318
01:01:39,900 --> 01:01:41,120
This is the one place in the Bible

1319
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,640
where earth opened up and people went alive

1320
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:45,220
into hell.

1321
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,920
They went alive, verse 33, into hell.

1322
01:01:51,380 --> 01:01:54,020
The one place in the Bible where people

1323
01:01:54,020 --> 01:01:59,600
went alive into hell was when God saw

1324
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:04,840
jealousy of a ministry which he had endorsed.

1325
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,260
The fire fell on Abel.

1326
01:02:08,180 --> 01:02:09,900
The fire fell on Moses and it was

1327
01:02:09,900 --> 01:02:10,520
on Moses.

1328
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:12,900
Others were jealous.

1329
01:02:14,100 --> 01:02:15,520
And God taught them a lesson.

1330
01:02:17,460 --> 01:02:21,740
3,500 years later, people still haven't learned

1331
01:02:21,740 --> 01:02:22,320
that lesson.

1332
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,320
To recognize those whom God recognized.

1333
01:02:28,270 --> 01:02:29,390
I don't mean numbers.

1334
01:02:29,990 --> 01:02:31,310
I'm not impressed by numbers.

1335
01:02:31,690 --> 01:02:32,710
The cults have numbers.

1336
01:02:33,870 --> 01:02:36,050
False religions have more numbers than any of

1337
01:02:36,050 --> 01:02:36,330
us.

1338
01:02:37,910 --> 01:02:39,670
The anointing of God is not known by

1339
01:02:39,670 --> 01:02:40,010
numbers.

1340
01:02:40,170 --> 01:02:41,110
Jesus had only 11.

1341
01:02:42,870 --> 01:02:45,090
Not talking about numbers at all.

1342
01:02:47,690 --> 01:02:53,610
It's to me, I say, I'll know whether

1343
01:02:53,610 --> 01:02:55,530
the anointing of God is upon my life,

1344
01:02:55,610 --> 01:02:58,530
not by thousands of people coming in through

1345
01:02:58,530 --> 01:02:59,210
my ministry.

1346
01:02:59,410 --> 01:03:03,490
No, not by thousands of churches and fantastic

1347
01:03:03,490 --> 01:03:04,010
report.

1348
01:03:05,190 --> 01:03:10,350
It's by the quality of people whom I

1349
01:03:10,350 --> 01:03:10,950
can gather.

1350
01:03:12,430 --> 01:03:13,590
Godly people.

1351
01:03:15,110 --> 01:03:17,990
If I can gather 11 people like those

1352
01:03:17,990 --> 01:03:21,170
apostles in my life in India, I would

1353
01:03:21,170 --> 01:03:24,690
say, Lord, let us now thy servant depart

1354
01:03:24,690 --> 01:03:25,230
in peace.

1355
01:03:26,110 --> 01:03:27,910
For mine eyes have seen your salvation.

1356
01:03:28,810 --> 01:03:29,950
It's not numbers.

1357
01:03:30,330 --> 01:03:31,710
It's the quality of people.

1358
01:03:32,250 --> 01:03:35,290
The thing that encourages me most in the

1359
01:03:35,290 --> 01:03:38,030
25 years of ministry that we've had in

1360
01:03:38,030 --> 01:03:40,910
India is not 30-40 churches that there

1361
01:03:40,910 --> 01:03:43,610
are or the hundreds and thousands of people

1362
01:03:43,610 --> 01:03:43,910
there.

1363
01:03:44,030 --> 01:03:47,150
It is the quality of some of those

1364
01:03:47,150 --> 01:03:50,830
elders whom God has raised up in to

1365
01:03:50,830 --> 01:03:51,790
lead those churches.

1366
01:03:52,550 --> 01:03:54,490
Some whom I know them.

1367
01:03:55,530 --> 01:03:58,450
Some of the godliest people in the land.

1368
01:04:00,620 --> 01:04:02,880
To me, that's what encourages me the most.

1369
01:04:03,580 --> 01:04:07,100
The quality of people, sacrificial, devoted.

1370
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:10,780
God can bear witness to your life.

1371
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:13,320
You are a sister.

1372
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:16,060
God can make you such a tremendous blessing.

1373
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,200
Even if you can make one or two

1374
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:20,360
sisters godly.

1375
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:21,780
Christ-like.

1376
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:25,580
She'll never make them godly by slaying other

1377
01:04:25,580 --> 01:04:26,580
people with your tongue.

1378
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:30,700
So the earth opened up and swallowed.

1379
01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:33,220
Now I want you to see something.

1380
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:39,020
Turn to Numbers and chapter 26 where this

1381
01:04:39,020 --> 01:04:40,040
is reported further.

1382
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:42,580
Numbers 26.

1383
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:47,230
It says here about these people in verse

1384
01:04:47,230 --> 01:04:47,510
9.

1385
01:04:47,610 --> 01:04:49,830
The sons of Elie Abnimiel, Dathan and Abiram.

1386
01:04:50,530 --> 01:04:52,630
Dathan and Abiram were called by the congregation

1387
01:04:52,630 --> 01:04:55,830
who contended against Moses in the company of

1388
01:04:55,830 --> 01:04:56,190
Korah.

1389
01:04:57,050 --> 01:05:00,010
Numbers 26.10 The earth opened its mouth

1390
01:05:00,010 --> 01:05:02,390
and swallowed them up along with Korah.

1391
01:05:03,390 --> 01:05:07,150
But, verse 11 the sons of Korah however

1392
01:05:07,150 --> 01:05:08,370
did not die.

1393
01:05:09,870 --> 01:05:10,790
How would that happen?

1394
01:05:12,110 --> 01:05:14,290
They were standing there outside the tent.

1395
01:05:14,950 --> 01:05:15,810
The sons of Korah.

1396
01:05:17,090 --> 01:05:19,670
And when Moses gave them a final warning.

1397
01:05:21,050 --> 01:05:24,050
He said, Dad, we're pulling out of this.

1398
01:05:25,310 --> 01:05:29,110
They ran away from their dad and stood

1399
01:05:29,110 --> 01:05:29,610
with Moses.

1400
01:05:30,590 --> 01:05:32,910
They escaped at the last minute.

1401
01:05:33,670 --> 01:05:35,030
You know you can escape at the last

1402
01:05:35,030 --> 01:05:35,290
minute?

1403
01:05:36,110 --> 01:05:37,250
Have some sense.

1404
01:05:39,470 --> 01:05:41,410
Those sons of Korah did not die.

1405
01:05:43,030 --> 01:05:44,690
Now I want you to turn to Psalm

1406
01:05:44,690 --> 01:05:45,310
46.

1407
01:05:46,850 --> 01:05:47,810
Psalm 46.

1408
01:05:49,290 --> 01:05:51,010
It says at the top of the psalm.

1409
01:05:51,970 --> 01:05:53,570
A psalm of the sons of Korah.

1410
01:05:54,530 --> 01:05:55,470
What's the psalm?

1411
01:05:56,930 --> 01:05:58,830
God is our refuge and strength.

1412
01:06:00,110 --> 01:06:01,830
A very present help in trouble.

1413
01:06:03,110 --> 01:06:04,570
Therefore we will not fear.

1414
01:06:04,970 --> 01:06:06,250
Though the earth should change.

1415
01:06:06,370 --> 01:06:09,590
Though the earth should open up and swallow

1416
01:06:09,590 --> 01:06:12,350
and the mountains slip right in.

1417
01:06:13,610 --> 01:06:14,430
Verse 4.

1418
01:06:14,530 --> 01:06:16,330
There's a river whose streams make glad the

1419
01:06:16,330 --> 01:06:17,150
city of God.

1420
01:06:18,170 --> 01:06:18,950
Verse 8.

1421
01:06:19,010 --> 01:06:20,430
Come behold the works of the Lord.

1422
01:06:20,610 --> 01:06:22,750
What desolation He has wrought in the earth.

1423
01:06:24,330 --> 01:06:24,990
Verse 10.

1424
01:06:26,050 --> 01:06:27,030
Be still.

1425
01:06:28,430 --> 01:06:29,210
Let go.

1426
01:06:29,870 --> 01:06:30,690
Cease striving.

1427
01:06:31,470 --> 01:06:31,750
Relax.

1428
01:06:32,950 --> 01:06:34,750
All of that is implied in that verse.

1429
01:06:35,430 --> 01:06:37,510
And know that I am God.

1430
01:06:38,310 --> 01:06:40,650
I will be exalted among the nations.

1431
01:06:41,830 --> 01:06:44,030
Those sons of Korah wrote that with meaning.

1432
01:06:44,910 --> 01:06:46,530
They knew they would not have been alive

1433
01:06:47,750 --> 01:06:50,830
if their fathers had not pulled out at

1434
01:06:50,830 --> 01:06:51,530
the last minute.

1435
01:06:52,930 --> 01:06:55,050
These are probably the descendants of those sons

1436
01:06:55,050 --> 01:06:57,130
of the original sons of Korah who wrote

1437
01:06:57,130 --> 01:06:57,410
this.

1438
01:06:58,390 --> 01:07:00,630
Or perhaps the original sons of Korah themselves.

1439
01:07:01,050 --> 01:07:01,590
I don't know.

1440
01:07:02,470 --> 01:07:03,470
But whoever it is.

1441
01:07:04,150 --> 01:07:05,630
They knew they wouldn't have been alive.

1442
01:07:06,970 --> 01:07:08,970
And those wonderful psalms.

1443
01:07:09,230 --> 01:07:10,290
Read it sometimes.

1444
01:07:10,790 --> 01:07:11,890
Psalm 42.

1445
01:07:12,290 --> 01:07:13,170
The sons of Korah.

1446
01:07:13,290 --> 01:07:14,350
Psalm 44.

1447
01:07:15,050 --> 01:07:15,770
Psalm 45.

1448
01:07:16,010 --> 01:07:19,970
The bridal psalm of Jesus and His bride.

1449
01:07:20,770 --> 01:07:21,730
Psalm 47.

1450
01:07:21,930 --> 01:07:22,650
Psalm 48.

1451
01:07:22,790 --> 01:07:23,410
Psalm 49.

1452
01:07:23,570 --> 01:07:26,090
Some wonderful psalms written by the sons of

1453
01:07:26,090 --> 01:07:26,690
Korah.

1454
01:07:27,370 --> 01:07:29,130
Who pulled out at the last minute.

1455
01:07:30,530 --> 01:07:32,550
And you'll find meaning in those psalms when

1456
01:07:32,550 --> 01:07:34,370
you read it and understanding the background of

1457
01:07:34,370 --> 01:07:34,510
it.

1458
01:07:35,670 --> 01:07:37,430
I want to turn you to another passage.

1459
01:07:38,770 --> 01:07:39,810
In 2 Samuel.

1460
01:07:41,490 --> 01:07:43,150
In chapter 15.

1461
01:07:43,850 --> 01:07:46,250
2 Samuel chapter 15 it says.

1462
01:07:48,710 --> 01:07:52,370
This is referring to the, to Absalom, the

1463
01:07:52,370 --> 01:07:53,050
son of David.

1464
01:07:54,450 --> 01:07:57,350
David had been very good to Absalom.

1465
01:07:58,710 --> 01:08:01,110
David had forgiven Absalom.

1466
01:08:02,050 --> 01:08:03,070
He had nurtured him.

1467
01:08:03,070 --> 01:08:04,490
I don't want to go into all the

1468
01:08:04,490 --> 01:08:05,830
story before that.

1469
01:08:06,810 --> 01:08:07,710
But it says here.

1470
01:08:09,170 --> 01:08:11,230
In the last part of verse 33 of

1471
01:08:11,230 --> 01:08:11,910
chapter 14.

1472
01:08:12,070 --> 01:08:13,330
The king kissed Absalom.

1473
01:08:14,030 --> 01:08:14,690
He loved him.

1474
01:08:16,290 --> 01:08:17,410
Chapter 15.

1475
01:08:19,410 --> 01:08:22,350
Absalom took advantage of David's goodness.

1476
01:08:24,229 --> 01:08:25,870
And he used to rise up early in

1477
01:08:25,870 --> 01:08:26,350
the morning.

1478
01:08:26,630 --> 01:08:27,270
Verse 2.

1479
01:08:28,410 --> 01:08:30,609
And stand beside the way of the gate.

1480
01:08:31,550 --> 01:08:33,729
And it happened that whenever a man who

1481
01:08:33,729 --> 01:08:35,609
had a suit to come to the king

1482
01:08:35,609 --> 01:08:36,350
for judgment.

1483
01:08:37,350 --> 01:08:39,069
Absalom would call that man.

1484
01:08:39,510 --> 01:08:40,729
Put his arms around him.

1485
01:08:42,149 --> 01:08:43,930
And say What city are you from?

1486
01:08:44,069 --> 01:08:45,490
Your servant is from one of the tribes

1487
01:08:45,490 --> 01:08:45,990
of Israel.

1488
01:08:46,130 --> 01:08:47,010
And Absalom would say.

1489
01:08:47,090 --> 01:08:49,750
See, you know I really believe your claims

1490
01:08:49,750 --> 01:08:51,229
are very good and right.

1491
01:08:51,510 --> 01:08:52,050
Verse 3.

1492
01:08:52,569 --> 01:08:54,109
I think you really need justice.

1493
01:08:54,270 --> 01:08:58,689
But unfortunately there is no one to listen

1494
01:08:58,689 --> 01:08:59,050
to you.

1495
01:08:59,149 --> 01:09:01,310
The king hasn't appointed anybody to take care

1496
01:09:01,310 --> 01:09:02,130
of your needs.

1497
01:09:03,270 --> 01:09:05,189
And he would say, you know I really

1498
01:09:05,189 --> 01:09:08,710
wish somebody would be appoint me as a

1499
01:09:08,710 --> 01:09:08,990
judge.

1500
01:09:09,109 --> 01:09:11,010
I tell you I would sort out these

1501
01:09:11,010 --> 01:09:12,290
problems in no time.

1502
01:09:12,390 --> 01:09:12,890
Verse 4.

1503
01:09:13,729 --> 01:09:17,310
If anybody had a suit or cause.

1504
01:09:17,529 --> 01:09:18,609
I would give him justice.

1505
01:09:20,410 --> 01:09:22,529
And it happened when a man verse 5.

1506
01:09:22,590 --> 01:09:24,430
Came here to prostrate himself before him.

1507
01:09:24,590 --> 01:09:25,490
He would put out his hand.

1508
01:09:25,550 --> 01:09:26,069
He said don't.

1509
01:09:26,069 --> 01:09:27,210
I am only your brother.

1510
01:09:27,910 --> 01:09:28,990
Don't humble yourself to me.

1511
01:09:29,090 --> 01:09:29,830
He would kiss him.

1512
01:09:30,689 --> 01:09:33,149
And in this manner it says in the

1513
01:09:33,149 --> 01:09:34,210
last part of verse 6.

1514
01:09:34,330 --> 01:09:37,450
Absalom stole the hearts of the men of

1515
01:09:37,450 --> 01:09:40,990
Israel from the man whom God had anointed.

1516
01:09:41,890 --> 01:09:45,750
That happened many times in 3000 years since

1517
01:09:45,750 --> 01:09:46,170
then.

1518
01:09:46,950 --> 01:09:51,950
To steal the hearts of people away from

1519
01:09:51,950 --> 01:09:53,410
God's anointed man.

1520
01:09:53,410 --> 01:09:58,510
Because Absalom couldn't bear God's blessing.

1521
01:09:58,890 --> 01:10:00,390
He was his father.

1522
01:10:01,690 --> 01:10:05,470
I have seen people who have been spiritual

1523
01:10:05,470 --> 01:10:06,110
fathers.

1524
01:10:08,310 --> 01:10:10,430
And when their spiritual sons grew up who

1525
01:10:10,430 --> 01:10:11,150
were nobody.

1526
01:10:11,910 --> 01:10:13,610
But now they have become somebody.

1527
01:10:15,310 --> 01:10:18,770
Neglect and ignore their spiritual fathers and seek

1528
01:10:18,770 --> 01:10:23,070
to steal the hearts of people away from

1529
01:10:23,070 --> 01:10:23,690
their father.

1530
01:10:25,110 --> 01:10:26,370
You think God doesn't see it?

1531
01:10:27,430 --> 01:10:29,030
He sees everything.

1532
01:10:30,590 --> 01:10:30,850
Ok.

1533
01:10:32,210 --> 01:10:35,010
He stole the hearts of people and gradually

1534
01:10:35,010 --> 01:10:36,390
in a few verses you read.

1535
01:10:36,950 --> 01:10:37,750
He became king.

1536
01:10:38,950 --> 01:10:40,090
David had to flee.

1537
01:10:40,270 --> 01:10:42,530
The man after God's own heart had to

1538
01:10:42,530 --> 01:10:43,510
flee for his life.

1539
01:10:45,350 --> 01:10:46,950
And Absalom sat on the throne.

1540
01:10:48,090 --> 01:10:49,550
Who wants you sitting on the throne if

1541
01:10:49,550 --> 01:10:50,650
God doesn't back you up?

1542
01:10:51,230 --> 01:10:54,070
It's just a matter of time before God

1543
01:10:54,070 --> 01:10:54,770
destroy them.

1544
01:10:55,570 --> 01:10:57,510
And I have seen that happen again and

1545
01:10:57,510 --> 01:10:58,950
again and again and again.

1546
01:10:59,090 --> 01:11:02,050
The apostle Paul told the elders in Ephesus

1547
01:11:02,050 --> 01:11:03,110
in Acts chapter 20.

1548
01:11:03,290 --> 01:11:04,450
He says, I know what's going to happen

1549
01:11:04,450 --> 01:11:05,250
after I leave.

1550
01:11:06,610 --> 01:11:09,330
From among your own selves men will arise

1551
01:11:09,330 --> 01:11:14,890
who like Absalom will draw disciples after themselves.

1552
01:11:15,810 --> 01:11:17,870
Men who speak perverse things.

1553
01:11:18,130 --> 01:11:19,450
What are those perverse things?

1554
01:11:19,770 --> 01:11:21,650
Those perverse things are not wrong doctrines.

1555
01:11:22,210 --> 01:11:24,270
Perverse things are to draw people after themselves.

1556
01:11:25,170 --> 01:11:26,590
They've got their own private agenda.

1557
01:11:27,570 --> 01:11:29,210
They've got their own program and that is

1558
01:11:29,210 --> 01:11:30,090
to promote themselves.

1559
01:11:31,690 --> 01:11:35,610
And they have forgotten from whom they received.

1560
01:11:35,850 --> 01:11:38,370
Absalom forgot his father's goodness.

1561
01:11:39,470 --> 01:11:43,250
And I've seen people who forget where they

1562
01:11:43,250 --> 01:11:45,150
received all their goodness from.

1563
01:11:45,970 --> 01:11:48,630
Where they received even a ministry from.

1564
01:11:49,270 --> 01:11:50,570
And they are jealous.

1565
01:11:51,650 --> 01:11:53,630
They want to exalt themselves in the eyes

1566
01:11:53,630 --> 01:11:54,350
of the congregation.

1567
01:11:55,650 --> 01:11:57,130
And God sees it all.

1568
01:11:58,230 --> 01:11:58,970
Jealousy.

1569
01:11:59,330 --> 01:11:59,990
Jealousy.

1570
01:12:01,010 --> 01:12:05,310
Unable to bear God blessing somebody else.

1571
01:12:06,590 --> 01:12:08,450
What was the end of Absalom?

1572
01:12:10,090 --> 01:12:13,190
Hanging in a tree by his hair.

1573
01:12:14,790 --> 01:12:15,870
Stabbed to death.

1574
01:12:16,690 --> 01:12:17,730
How terrible.

1575
01:12:19,770 --> 01:12:21,950
David was a man after God's own heart.

1576
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:24,720
Jealousy.

1577
01:12:26,780 --> 01:12:28,460
You find it again and again and again

1578
01:12:28,460 --> 01:12:29,300
and again and again.

1579
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:34,930
Turn to Matthew chapter 27.

1580
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:38,360
Matthew 27.

1581
01:12:41,230 --> 01:12:43,690
Pilate was a heathen man who didn't know

1582
01:12:43,690 --> 01:12:44,690
anything about the Bible.

1583
01:12:45,990 --> 01:12:47,570
He didn't have the Holy Spirit.

1584
01:12:47,870 --> 01:12:48,850
He didn't know God.

1585
01:12:48,850 --> 01:12:51,130
He was a heathen man.

1586
01:12:53,710 --> 01:12:57,030
And when Jesus stood before him, he could

1587
01:12:57,030 --> 01:12:59,490
recognize Jesus was innocent.

1588
01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:03,210
What those people who study the Bible couldn't

1589
01:13:03,210 --> 01:13:03,770
understand.

1590
01:13:04,690 --> 01:13:06,170
Pilate understood it clearly.

1591
01:13:07,170 --> 01:13:09,530
And it says here, Pilate asked the crowd.

1592
01:13:09,830 --> 01:13:11,250
Matthew 27 verse 17.

1593
01:13:11,790 --> 01:13:13,010
Whom do you want me to release for

1594
01:13:13,010 --> 01:13:13,110
you?

1595
01:13:13,210 --> 01:13:14,030
Barabbas or Jesus?

1596
01:13:14,490 --> 01:13:15,470
Listen to verse 18.

1597
01:13:15,970 --> 01:13:19,270
Because he knew that it was because of

1598
01:13:19,270 --> 01:13:23,610
jealousy that the Pharisees had delivered Jesus out.

1599
01:13:24,630 --> 01:13:28,770
You see how this thread, this green thread

1600
01:13:28,770 --> 01:13:32,810
of jealousy goes all the way through the

1601
01:13:32,810 --> 01:13:33,110
Bible.

1602
01:13:33,630 --> 01:13:37,130
Starting with Cain through Absalom.

1603
01:13:37,870 --> 01:13:39,370
Saul was also in that line.

1604
01:13:39,730 --> 01:13:40,770
Jealous of David.

1605
01:13:41,530 --> 01:13:44,250
Absalom and Korah was also there.

1606
01:13:45,110 --> 01:13:47,250
Now even the son of God himself.

1607
01:13:48,930 --> 01:13:49,450
Jealous.

1608
01:13:50,990 --> 01:13:54,170
The Pharisees were jealous because the people appreciated.

1609
01:13:54,250 --> 01:13:55,630
The Pharisees were 60 years old.

1610
01:13:55,930 --> 01:13:57,270
Jesus 33 years old.

1611
01:13:57,510 --> 01:13:58,950
They were accepting this young man.

1612
01:13:59,450 --> 01:14:00,350
They were jealous.

1613
01:14:00,750 --> 01:14:01,570
Get rid of him.

1614
01:14:01,830 --> 01:14:02,130
Kill him.

1615
01:14:02,470 --> 01:14:03,510
The way of Cain.

1616
01:14:04,490 --> 01:14:05,670
Not from atheists.

1617
01:14:06,330 --> 01:14:08,590
Deeply religious people, the Pharisees.

1618
01:14:08,990 --> 01:14:11,930
This atheist, Pilate, he could see through the

1619
01:14:11,930 --> 01:14:12,410
whole thing.

1620
01:14:12,970 --> 01:14:14,610
He had enough discernment to see this is

1621
01:14:14,610 --> 01:14:15,330
just jealousy.

1622
01:14:15,750 --> 01:14:16,750
This is pure jealousy.

1623
01:14:18,130 --> 01:14:21,910
Do you know the jealousy of one Christian

1624
01:14:21,910 --> 01:14:24,110
brother to another, even an atheist like Pilate

1625
01:14:24,110 --> 01:14:25,850
would be able to discern and see.

1626
01:14:27,450 --> 01:14:28,890
But you are not able to see it

1627
01:14:28,890 --> 01:14:29,310
in yourself.

1628
01:14:31,250 --> 01:14:33,030
I want to ask you brothers and sisters.

1629
01:14:34,470 --> 01:14:36,970
Are you jealous because God has blessed somebody

1630
01:14:36,970 --> 01:14:37,670
materially?

1631
01:14:39,930 --> 01:14:42,630
I think Job's three preacher friends were jealous

1632
01:14:42,630 --> 01:14:43,110
of him.

1633
01:14:44,550 --> 01:14:49,110
Because they couldn't stand that a man could

1634
01:14:49,110 --> 01:14:50,850
be spiritual and also wealthy.

1635
01:14:51,430 --> 01:14:52,890
I mean if he was poor and spiritual,

1636
01:14:52,970 --> 01:14:53,190
ok.

1637
01:14:55,070 --> 01:14:58,350
And if he was rich but not spiritual,

1638
01:14:58,550 --> 01:14:58,750
ok.

1639
01:15:00,070 --> 01:15:04,110
But he was spiritual and he was prospering.

1640
01:15:04,950 --> 01:15:07,590
Oh, they burned with jealousy.

1641
01:15:10,050 --> 01:15:10,730
They were his friends.

1642
01:15:11,630 --> 01:15:12,930
They visited him now and then, but they

1643
01:15:12,930 --> 01:15:14,230
never revealed that jealousy.

1644
01:15:15,410 --> 01:15:19,050
And one day they heard it's gone badly

1645
01:15:19,050 --> 01:15:20,250
with Job's children.

1646
01:15:22,170 --> 01:15:28,940
Ah, at last, children are killed.

1647
01:15:30,540 --> 01:15:32,560
His business is destroyed.

1648
01:15:34,770 --> 01:15:36,010
Let's go and comfort him.

1649
01:15:36,510 --> 01:15:37,970
You think they really came to comfort him?

1650
01:15:38,550 --> 01:15:40,590
They were thrilled in their hearts.

1651
01:15:41,590 --> 01:15:44,110
And they came there, pretended to be sorrowful,

1652
01:15:44,230 --> 01:15:46,190
sat with him and did all the actions

1653
01:15:46,190 --> 01:15:48,390
of throwing mud on their heads and weeping

1654
01:15:48,390 --> 01:15:49,030
and all that.

1655
01:15:50,090 --> 01:15:52,830
And kept on saying, sin in your life,

1656
01:15:52,930 --> 01:15:53,990
sin in your life.

1657
01:15:56,140 --> 01:15:57,280
You know what God said to them at

1658
01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:00,120
the end of the end of Job?

1659
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:05,540
He said, My wrath is kindled against you,

1660
01:16:05,780 --> 01:16:06,480
three of you.

1661
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:09,300
And I'll consume you if you don't get

1662
01:16:09,300 --> 01:16:10,480
Job to come and pray for you.

1663
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:13,680
And Job, good man that he was, he

1664
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:14,300
prayed for them.

1665
01:16:14,660 --> 01:16:15,860
Lord, don't judge them.

1666
01:16:15,860 --> 01:16:16,760
Forgive them.

1667
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:17,620
They don't know what they're doing.

1668
01:16:18,540 --> 01:16:19,740
They got into the way of Cain.

1669
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:25,420
Preachers, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, read it.

1670
01:16:26,420 --> 01:16:28,520
They never said one wrong thing about God.

1671
01:16:29,780 --> 01:16:31,900
But jealousy burned in their hearts and God

1672
01:16:31,900 --> 01:16:33,400
was almost ready to consume them.

1673
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:36,840
You see this green thread of jealousy running

1674
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:37,440
right through.

1675
01:16:38,540 --> 01:16:40,760
God blesses a man and somebody else can't

1676
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:41,140
bear it.

1677
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:43,920
God blesses a man materially.

1678
01:16:44,700 --> 01:16:45,980
Why can't you bear it?

1679
01:16:46,180 --> 01:16:47,900
Because money means so much to you.

1680
01:16:48,480 --> 01:16:51,020
You think money is such a big thing.

1681
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:52,440
That's why.

1682
01:16:53,220 --> 01:16:54,240
Otherwise you'd be happy.

1683
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,980
Lord, I'm so happy that my brother is

1684
01:16:58,980 --> 01:16:59,520
prospering.

1685
01:16:59,980 --> 01:17:01,460
I'm so happy that he's got a house

1686
01:17:01,460 --> 01:17:02,620
ten times bigger than mine.

1687
01:17:05,290 --> 01:17:07,030
I'm happy that he's got a good car.

1688
01:17:07,110 --> 01:17:08,170
Maybe he's got five of them.

1689
01:17:08,730 --> 01:17:10,250
And I've got a broken down old one.

1690
01:17:10,370 --> 01:17:10,910
That's fine.

1691
01:17:12,250 --> 01:17:12,970
Perfectly happy.

1692
01:17:14,310 --> 01:17:20,070
That's one who's understood that God determines the

1693
01:17:20,070 --> 01:17:21,170
boundary of my life.

1694
01:17:22,890 --> 01:17:26,390
I thank God that I've discovered that God

1695
01:17:26,390 --> 01:17:28,570
draws the financial circle around me.

1696
01:17:30,470 --> 01:17:32,930
He's decided what the size of my financial

1697
01:17:32,930 --> 01:17:33,890
circle should be.

1698
01:17:34,390 --> 01:17:35,510
That's no man.

1699
01:17:36,030 --> 01:17:37,170
It's God.

1700
01:17:38,670 --> 01:17:39,410
And I'm happy.

1701
01:17:40,630 --> 01:17:43,150
When I ride my two-wheeled scooter in

1702
01:17:43,150 --> 01:17:47,120
India, because the price of gas is high,

1703
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:51,200
and I see all these preachers who make

1704
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:53,100
money in the name of religion going by

1705
01:17:53,100 --> 01:17:56,580
in their huge vehicles, I rejoice.

1706
01:17:57,660 --> 01:18:00,120
I'm not jealous of them at all.

1707
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:02,080
I'm happy.

1708
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,640
I say, Lord, I'm supremely happy.

1709
01:18:07,460 --> 01:18:09,740
You have drawn the size of my circle

1710
01:18:09,740 --> 01:18:10,320
around me.

1711
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:13,220
I rejoice.

1712
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:14,820
Can you rejoice?

1713
01:18:17,860 --> 01:18:20,120
Do you think material things mean that much?

1714
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:24,100
When you get into glory, you'll see it

1715
01:18:24,100 --> 01:18:25,720
doesn't mean anything.

1716
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:31,460
Godliness with contentment is a great thing.

1717
01:18:32,180 --> 01:18:34,080
Not godliness with prosperity.

1718
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,280
Have you got godliness with contentment?

1719
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:41,400
Or have you got godliness with jealousy?

1720
01:18:42,660 --> 01:18:46,880
Are you happy that another can prosper, spiritually

1721
01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:47,660
and materially?

1722
01:18:50,440 --> 01:18:52,220
Let me ask you, my brothers and sisters,

1723
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:55,640
do you really rejoice when it goes well

1724
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:56,860
with somebody else's children?

1725
01:18:57,860 --> 01:18:59,080
And your own children are struggling.

1726
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:02,120
Is there jealousy there?

1727
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:08,940
Is there a longing to see one of

1728
01:19:08,940 --> 01:19:11,700
that brother's children fall in some way?

1729
01:19:13,420 --> 01:19:15,280
I'm not inventing stories.

1730
01:19:15,780 --> 01:19:17,720
Perhaps I'm speaking of what dwells in your

1731
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:18,140
heart.

1732
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:22,700
And God exposes you like He exposed Cain

1733
01:19:22,700 --> 01:19:26,740
and said, if you intend well, your face

1734
01:19:26,740 --> 01:19:27,580
will be lifted up.

1735
01:19:29,480 --> 01:19:30,720
You will also be accepted.

1736
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:32,940
There will be a fire upon your life

1737
01:19:32,940 --> 01:19:33,260
too.

1738
01:19:34,100 --> 01:19:36,400
But you don't intend well.

1739
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:39,460
You're trying to show that you're better than

1740
01:19:39,460 --> 01:19:40,160
someone else.

1741
01:19:41,140 --> 01:19:43,180
You're waiting for some calamity to hit that

1742
01:19:43,180 --> 01:19:43,460
brother.

1743
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,940
You, like Job's preacher friends, you act very

1744
01:19:46,940 --> 01:19:49,640
nice, visit his home, and act as though

1745
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:51,260
you're very interested in him, but you're not.

1746
01:19:51,940 --> 01:19:53,200
You're walking the way of Cain.

1747
01:19:54,860 --> 01:19:57,520
Are you jealous because somebody else's ministry prospers,

1748
01:19:57,620 --> 01:19:59,720
his church prospers, and you don't think he

1749
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:01,180
should because he's wrong in this, and he's

1750
01:20:01,180 --> 01:20:02,280
wrong in that, and he's wrong in the

1751
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:02,600
other thing?

1752
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:05,080
But God doesn't share your opinion, unfortunately.

1753
01:20:06,100 --> 01:20:06,660
What to do?

1754
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:09,080
God doesn't share your opinion.

1755
01:20:09,820 --> 01:20:11,280
He doesn't agree with you.

1756
01:20:11,820 --> 01:20:12,660
What shall we do then?

1757
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,760
We shall humble ourselves, say, Lord, I'm wrong.

1758
01:20:15,860 --> 01:20:20,060
Let God be true, and every man a

1759
01:20:20,060 --> 01:20:20,440
liar.

1760
01:20:21,100 --> 01:20:21,960
So the Bible says.

1761
01:20:24,220 --> 01:20:26,720
So I say, Lord, I could be totally

1762
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:27,340
wrong.

1763
01:20:28,580 --> 01:20:32,320
Are you jealous of some other sister for

1764
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:34,880
whom everything seems to go smoothly, and for

1765
01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:36,880
you it is pressure upon pressure upon pressure,

1766
01:20:37,020 --> 01:20:39,840
and you're just hoping that some calamity will

1767
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:40,500
hit that sister?

1768
01:20:41,580 --> 01:20:44,240
In this, the children of God and the

1769
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:47,140
children of the devil are made obvious.

1770
01:20:49,190 --> 01:20:50,790
We are called to lay down our lives

1771
01:20:50,790 --> 01:20:51,730
for our brothers.

1772
01:20:52,610 --> 01:20:56,450
How far the Christian church has come from

1773
01:20:56,450 --> 01:21:00,690
that spirit of Christ, and think that they've

1774
01:21:00,690 --> 01:21:02,730
got God with them because their doctrines are

1775
01:21:02,730 --> 01:21:05,550
right, or they speak in tongues, or their

1776
01:21:07,250 --> 01:21:09,410
praise and worship is so beautiful.

1777
01:21:10,750 --> 01:21:12,530
No, these are not the marks.

1778
01:21:13,770 --> 01:21:15,550
Jesus never said, all men will know you're

1779
01:21:15,550 --> 01:21:17,430
my disciples when your doctrine is right.

1780
01:21:18,190 --> 01:21:19,510
He never said, all men will know you're

1781
01:21:19,510 --> 01:21:21,390
my disciples when you break bread every week,

1782
01:21:21,450 --> 01:21:23,510
or when you speak in tongues, or when

1783
01:21:23,510 --> 01:21:26,450
your songs are so melodious.

1784
01:21:27,110 --> 01:21:28,710
All men will know you're my disciples when

1785
01:21:28,710 --> 01:21:29,670
you love one another.

1786
01:21:30,330 --> 01:21:31,030
That's all.

1787
01:21:32,710 --> 01:21:34,750
That we don't belong to that evil one

1788
01:21:34,750 --> 01:21:37,370
king, and we don't walk that way.

1789
01:21:39,890 --> 01:21:41,230
I want to invite you to repent.

1790
01:21:42,850 --> 01:21:45,030
God has shown you something in your heart.

1791
01:21:45,770 --> 01:21:47,590
The spirit of Cain, the spirit of Korah,

1792
01:21:48,090 --> 01:21:50,630
the spirit of Absalom, repent.

1793
01:21:52,310 --> 01:21:54,470
Spirit of the Pharisees, repent.

1794
01:21:55,390 --> 01:21:59,110
The spirit of Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, repent.

1795
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:05,040
There is forgiveness with God, that He may

1796
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:05,600
be feared.

1797
01:22:06,580 --> 01:22:08,200
Let us humble ourselves.

1798
01:22:08,740 --> 01:22:09,540
God is almighty.

1799
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:13,780
We are nobodies.

1800
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,080
Let's humble ourselves under His mighty hand.

1801
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:18,360
Let's bow before God.

1802
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:23,260
Heavenly Father, help us.

1803
01:22:23,440 --> 01:22:24,200
We are a needy people.

1804
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:29,500
Our flesh is so corrupt and evil.

1805
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:35,440
We don't even realize how easily it leads

1806
01:22:35,440 --> 01:22:36,660
us to the sin of jealousy.

1807
01:22:37,900 --> 01:22:40,200
That we cannot rejoice over your blessing upon

1808
01:22:40,200 --> 01:22:40,900
another's life.

1809
01:22:42,020 --> 01:22:43,120
Please help us.

1810
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:46,720
That we shall see our need and repent.

1811
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:50,680
We know that if we intend well, our

1812
01:22:50,680 --> 01:22:51,920
faith too can be lifted up.

1813
01:22:52,020 --> 01:22:53,660
Your fire can fall upon our life too.

1814
01:22:54,740 --> 01:22:57,580
Save us from spending our days as vagrants

1815
01:22:57,580 --> 01:22:58,840
and wanderers on this earth.

1816
01:22:59,780 --> 01:23:01,240
Help us to build fellowship.

1817
01:23:03,900 --> 01:23:05,920
Lord, help us to set things right quickly.

1818
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:08,720
Lest it be forever too late.

1819
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:11,600
Have mercy upon us, we ask in Jesus'

1820
01:23:11,820 --> 01:23:12,060
name.

1821
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:13,280
Amen.