1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,520 How many remember the day the burdens of your soul rolled away? 2 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,080 You grateful for that? 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:14,560 If you have your Bibles, be turning with me this morning to the book of 2 Corinthians, 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,360 chapter 4. 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,640 2 Corinthians 4. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:32,880 There's a verse in that old song that says, now I can feel him by my side, my feeble steps 7 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,280 he comes to guide. 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:40,000 When trials come, he comforts me through faith in him over sin. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,360 I have the victory and I never shall forget the day. 10 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:47,360 Right? 11 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:54,160 When all the burdens of my soul, well, they rolled away. 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:00,600 He made me happy, oh so happy, glad and free. 13 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,160 I'll sing and shout it, for he's everything. 14 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,520 He's everything. 15 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,520 He's everything to me. 16 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,520 Right? 17 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:35,680 Then we'd roll over in an old song that says, sing the wondrous love of Jesus, sing his 18 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,760 mercy and his grace. 19 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:52,960 In those mansions, bright and blessed, he'll prepare for us a place when we all get to 20 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:53,960 heaven. 21 00:01:53,960 --> 00:02:00,120 Oh, what a day of rejoicing that will be. 22 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:18,120 Oh, when we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the victory. 23 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,200 Right? 24 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:30,960 When we all get to heaven, you know that's going to be a reality. 25 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,640 Don't get lost in the confusion of all that's going on around you. 26 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:40,080 Don't lose hope, don't lose faith that there's going to be a meeting in the air. 27 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,320 You see how we did that right there? 28 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,640 You've heard a little Moses in the Bull Rush and, you know, Joan and the whale you sing 29 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:49,080 about often. 30 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,320 Right? 31 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:58,200 But one day, just maintain your faith, maintain your confidence. 32 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:05,360 One day, there's going to be a meeting in the air. 33 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,760 The reality of the Word of God is going to come full circle. 34 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:16,360 An angel shouts, a trumpet sounds, the dead rise and those that are alive and remain shall 35 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,880 be changed. 36 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:27,280 And don't miss this part and together, together, they don't get there before we do. 37 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,480 They've got to wait that split second till we get changed. 38 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:37,600 Ladies, it'll be the quickest change that you'll ever pull off because you're not making 39 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,640 the change. 40 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,880 You don't have to get the shoes, you know, to match everything. 41 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:43,880 No. 42 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:44,880 You're changed. 43 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:51,920 And then together, we go to meet Him in the air. 44 00:03:51,920 --> 00:04:00,000 And then, you know, from there, we are escorted to this banqueting table. 45 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:11,920 And then for oh, about seven years or so, there's meatloaf, fried taters. 46 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:23,360 It's just going to be a great time when we all get there. 47 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:30,120 She's just trying to ag me on. 48 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:40,080 At that meeting in the air, oh, there is going to be a meeting in the air. 49 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:47,440 Oh, in that sweet, sweet by and by, I am going to meet you. 50 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:54,200 I'll meet you over there in that home beyond the sky. 51 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,280 Such singing you will hear never heard by mortal ear. 52 00:04:58,280 --> 00:04:59,280 It will be. 53 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:08,440 I do declare for God's own son will be the leading one at that meeting. 54 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:15,680 Oh, in the air, oh, there is going to be a meeting in the air. 55 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:23,000 Oh, in that sweet, sweet by and by, I am going to meet you. 56 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:29,640 I'll meet you over there in that home beyond the sky. 57 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:33,600 Such singing you will hear never heard by mortal ear. 58 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:43,800 It will be glorious, I do declare, and God's own son will be the leading one at that meeting. 59 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:51,240 Oh, in the air. 60 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:58,240 Hallelujah. 61 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,760 There's an old song that says getting ready to leave this world, right? 62 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,200 You all want to sing or you want me to preach? 63 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,200 I'm going to do both. 64 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,200 So it's early. 65 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,200 It's just 20 after 11, you know. 66 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,200 Yeah. 67 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:15,000 The Lord is good to us. 68 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 He's merciful. 69 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,160 It's hard for me to sing all the new ones without the words because these are ingrained 70 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,800 in my memory. 71 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:25,800 You know what I mean? 72 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:26,800 I've got to have the words. 73 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,800 I can sing them if I've got the words. 74 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:33,520 But these, they just come out, you know. 75 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,960 Just like for those of you, the ones that I have to read the words on, you sing them 76 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,760 all day, right? 77 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,680 Because that's what comes out. 78 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:48,400 And the blessed folks are those that's able to do both. 79 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:49,640 You know what I'm saying? 80 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,160 You can roll out of that into something else. 81 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:53,160 Get your Bible. 82 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,160 You got it. 83 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:55,160 Hopefully, let me get this done. 84 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,160 You're standing. 85 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,440 I feel good in my spirit today. 86 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,440 Amen. 87 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:08,240 Excited, I think, about what the Lord has placed in my heart for this morning. 88 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:13,520 And I do sometimes think we get a little guilty of rushing through worship. 89 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,880 We get a little bit of hurry, you know. 90 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,760 Then we want the preacher to hurry. 91 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,320 Your preacher don't hurry. 92 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,200 Right? 93 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:35,040 We don't do Sunday night, so we try to get the full maximum potential out of Sunday morning. 94 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,760 Amen. 95 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:49,680 Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 8 reads, we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. 96 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:54,840 We are perplexed, but not in despair. 97 00:07:54,840 --> 00:08:00,400 We are troubled, but not forsaken. 98 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:06,320 Cast down, but not destroyed. 99 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:12,160 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus 100 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,000 might be made manifest in our body. 101 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,640 With the help of the Lord this morning for the next little bit, I want to talk to us 102 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,120 on this thought. 103 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,360 Advancing beyond the press. 104 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,360 Advancing beyond the press. 105 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:32,360 Father, I love you today. 106 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,480 So grateful, so thankful for your goodness and your mercy. 107 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:41,320 And I ask God that you continue to work in our midst today. 108 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,320 Work among us. 109 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:47,360 Sweet Holy Ghost, take your liberty in the hearts and minds of those who are here. 110 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:53,220 For Lord, I believe fully in your sovereignty and your reign and your rules, so therefore 111 00:08:53,220 --> 00:08:57,400 there's no accidental attendance here today. 112 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,880 According to your word, the steps of good manner ordered. 113 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,300 Ordered of the Lord. 114 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:07,400 So we are assembled here today very uniquely because of your divine will and plan for our 115 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:08,400 lives. 116 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:16,720 So we surrender the hearing of our heart and the ears of our soul that we may hear what 117 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,920 the Spirit's saying to the church today. 118 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:29,720 And that we together leave this house of worship strengthened, built, established, encouraged, 119 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:35,840 empowered and imparted with your Spirit and your word. 120 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,120 You be praised forever in Christ's name. 121 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,640 And the church says, Amen. 122 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:49,160 Tell your neighbor you're going beyond the press. 123 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,000 You're going beyond the press. 124 00:09:53,000 --> 00:10:01,320 This series we've been in, Advancing Beyond the Limits, has thus far taken us on quite 125 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,980 the journey. 126 00:10:04,980 --> 00:10:14,000 And I expect nothing less than to travel on further today. 127 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:19,200 We've talked some about the press, but we're really going to dive into the press today. 128 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,560 We looked at Advancing Beyond the Labels. 129 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:29,960 Last week, Brother Milton Carter brought a wonderful message on Advancing Beyond the 130 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,700 Limits in Marriage and Relationship. 131 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:36,560 He's still standing and looking over me. 132 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,400 How many of you were here last week? 133 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,160 He's still looking over me. 134 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,160 Hallelujah. 135 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,040 I've told several about that today through the course of the week. 136 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,640 I said, you know, it was a great word. 137 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,280 If it's up, you need to go listen to it. 138 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,700 I said, but it's just one part that just really got me. 139 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:55,040 He's looking over me. 140 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:04,120 And in the Gospels where Jesus reached and Matthew, he records, he picks her up, right? 141 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:11,600 But then before, in the passage that Brother Milton read, before he touches or lifts or 142 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,680 does anything, he leans over. 143 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:19,120 That just really got me. 144 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:23,000 To know that before he does anything, he's observing, he's looking, he's seeing. 145 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,040 Let's get on. 146 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:32,560 So with that, seeing beyond sight, giving beyond resource, touching beyond reach. 147 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:39,880 How the Lord wants us to progress in every area of our faith walk in 2025. 148 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,160 To see beyond things that are simply sight. 149 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:47,400 To see into the realm and to delve into the realm of His Spirit. 150 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,540 And to know, you've heard it said, we walk in this parallel universe. 151 00:11:50,540 --> 00:11:55,560 We walk in the flesh, but yet we walk in the Spirit as well, right? 152 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,660 And the flesh being weak, but the Spirit being willing. 153 00:11:58,660 --> 00:12:04,600 And that our Spirit be willing to see that we by faith and through faith and the avenue 154 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,460 of faith and the word and the power of God's word in our life that we see beyond simple 155 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:10,460 sight. 156 00:12:10,460 --> 00:12:17,980 I know for some of us sight isn't as simple anymore, you know? 157 00:12:17,980 --> 00:12:21,880 But yet that we progress on and to see the goodness and the greatness of God and what 158 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,480 God has in store for us. 159 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,360 That we may be able to get a glimpse into that. 160 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,880 That we give beyond resource. 161 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,880 What the Lord is doing, we're going to have a mission Sunday coming up before long. 162 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,400 And I think you're going to be amazed at what you are doing. 163 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,720 And I want to inform you of what you're doing. 164 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,940 Church is being built under the name and the guise of the Hopewell Church of God. 165 00:12:43,940 --> 00:12:49,920 That you and I, we are invested in building the kingdom, building churches around the 166 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:50,920 world. 167 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:51,920 Amen? 168 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,080 And those far to reach places, that's where God is giving. 169 00:12:55,080 --> 00:13:00,240 And we're going to give even beyond the resources that we have to see even greater things done 170 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:01,240 for the kingdom. 171 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,680 Touching beyond reach, that somehow that we can have an extension beyond. 172 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:10,600 We all have a physical limitation with our reach or we can get reaching aids. 173 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:15,520 We can, I watched just the other day of a fellow that something was out of his reach 174 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:20,040 so he grabs a little stick and reaches a little further and brings what he was reaching for 175 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:21,040 to himself. 176 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,160 Isn't that the way it is to reach beyond that we have an extension to our reach? 177 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:30,480 And can I tell you, it's the power and the work of the Holy Ghost that gives us an extension 178 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,440 that our prayers reach further. 179 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:33,440 Amen? 180 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,220 That our faith extends beyond our own reach. 181 00:13:36,220 --> 00:13:40,800 It's not just what we can physically do but what we can do through the power of the Spirit 182 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,640 that enables us to do the great work of the kingdom. 183 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:50,000 So today as we look at advancing beyond the press, I've had this on my mind now for about 184 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,320 three weeks and just waiting for this moment and this opportunity to think about the press. 185 00:13:55,320 --> 00:14:00,440 We looked at Philippians 3 where Paul would say, forgetting those things which are behind, 186 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:06,080 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 187 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,560 And we looked at the thought of moving past those labels, those things that are put on 188 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,880 us that we don't look back. 189 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,480 One of the worship songs we sung about this morning is that we're not going back. 190 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:16,680 We're not looking back. 191 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:22,840 There's nothing behind us but yet we are pressing forward and we're moving beyond where we are. 192 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:28,840 When we think about press and the definition for it in the English language, it means to 193 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,080 push or to thrust, to continue to move forward. 194 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,720 But in the Greek it has three different connotations. 195 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:41,520 It has three different words and the implication all have a varying severity of what's taking 196 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,560 place and what is going on. 197 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:48,720 When we look at our text today as Paul was writing to the church at Corinth when he said, 198 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,840 we are troubled on every side, that word troubled there is actually hard pressed. 199 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,640 He's saying we are pressed on every side. 200 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:02,560 The opposition to our faith is squeezing in and it's putting a lot of pressure on us. 201 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,600 But here's the thing, we are not distressed. 202 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,840 Amen. 203 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,620 We are not crushed. 204 00:15:08,620 --> 00:15:13,080 But I want to talk to us this morning a little bit about the crushing and the pressing and 205 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:19,200 how that we can advance beyond both of those ideas for our life and in our faith. 206 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:25,840 The three words in Greek that actually are rendered for this press, piazzo is one, to 207 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,920 oppress or to afflict, to press together. 208 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,480 Apothelebo is to press hard, to crush. 209 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,880 The lipsis is to add pressure. 210 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,640 So when we begin to read throughout the text and we read where the Word of God is talking 211 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:45,240 about a press or a pressuring, we think about all these severities and what could be going 212 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,760 on in our life. 213 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:53,440 The apostle Paul in Philippians 3, he's talking from a jail cell, from a Philippian jail. 214 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,080 It's one of the most joy-filled letters of Paul's writing. 215 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:01,160 Everywhere you look it's joy to be excited, but yet he's imprisoned. 216 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,400 He said this one thing I do, forgetting what's behind me, I press toward. 217 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,040 So I'm thrusting forward. 218 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:11,360 I'm moving on and he doesn't just leave us with the idea of moving forward. 219 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:12,960 He tells us what for? 220 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:18,200 For the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 221 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:23,280 We look at another instance in Mark's gospel, I believe it is, where we see the woman with 222 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,200 the issue of blood in Mark 5 and 25. 223 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:32,040 The scripture says that she's had spent all that she had and she grew none the better, 224 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,040 but yet grew worse. 225 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:39,300 She hears that Jesus is coming to town and the scripture says she comes in the press 226 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:41,240 from behind, right? 227 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,480 She comes in the press from behind. 228 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,520 That's the second place of the press. 229 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:51,480 Then there's a third in Matthew's gospel 26 when we see Jesus, our Lord and Savior, make 230 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,400 his way to the place called Gethsemane. 231 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,440 Gethsemane's translation is the place of the press. 232 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:59,440 Hallelujah. 233 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,880 When you begin to think about the press and all that transpires at the press. 234 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,720 I think about our life and how it is that we are pressed on every side. 235 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:13,840 If you look at the woman with the issue of blood, her press is actually a sickness and 236 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,160 a disease. 237 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,480 That sickness and disease has pressed her to a breaking point. 238 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,360 She's now down to her last option. 239 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:27,640 Oh, know something today, you and I have an option before we get to the last option. 240 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:28,640 You don't have to wait. 241 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:33,480 You spend everything you've got to turn to Jesus because you and I know the proclamation 242 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,840 of the Christ who is our healer. 243 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,800 You can be pressed now to turn toward him. 244 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:39,800 Amen. 245 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:40,800 You don't have to wait. 246 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,800 He's made available. 247 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:47,120 She heard this Jesus is coming to town and makes her way through the press, the squeezing 248 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:52,880 that is around him and makes her way to touch the him of his garment. 249 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,600 When we think about the pressing Jesus at this place called Gethsemane, the press. 250 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,400 What you have here is actually an olive press. 251 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,000 Brother Hunter, do you have the other picture of the crushing meal? 252 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,400 If you have, put that one up. 253 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:12,680 I had this process in my mind and the old olive press and the crushing is this round 254 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,520 wheel that goes around in a trough, something like that. 255 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,480 It's pulled by a donkey or it's pushed by men. 256 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,520 The olives when they're taken there, they've got a hard husk and it's just not an easy 257 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:29,440 process and they are placed in there and this stone rolls around and it mashes it to a pulp. 258 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:34,280 Then we begin to think about our lives and how an olive press and a crushing has anything 259 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,760 to do with who we are and where we are. 260 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:41,000 We have to think about the pressure has a process and the process has a pressure and 261 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,840 it all has a purpose for my and your life. 262 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,400 We think about Gethsemane. 263 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,360 It is there where there's a threefold process to this. 264 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:51,800 First of all, there is the crushing. 265 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,280 There's no pressing without the crushing. 266 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:59,480 You cannot just put the olive into that press right there and get anything out of it. 267 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,120 It has to be first crushed. 268 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,120 It has to be made to a pulp. 269 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:08,400 That's the stone that rolls around and mashes it to a pulp. 270 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,680 But then when you get it to the pulp, it's put in a woven basket and these, I don't know 271 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:19,720 if you can tell or not, but those are layers of woven baskets of reeds and the pulp is 272 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,240 taken out of that and put it at and flat and it's stacked up under that laver right there 273 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,800 that's going to have heavy stones hanging on it. 274 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:33,040 Then there's a stone on the top of those mats that are placed there and pressure is applied 275 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,000 and pressure is put to it. 276 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:40,840 As pressure gets on, the more weight, the olive oil begins to squeeze out of the pulp 277 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,320 and begins to run down. 278 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,600 You can't see it in that picture, but around that bottom stone is a trough that has been 279 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,760 hewn out and it pours out and it is caught. 280 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:56,280 It is added with some water and later the oil is extracted off the top. 281 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,800 Now there's this threefold pressing that's taking place after the crushing. 282 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:08,680 This threefold pressing, the first press is where they get the anointing oil. 283 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:09,680 I'm trying. 284 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,520 It's meaning more to me that it is used, so just hang on. 285 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:18,460 The first pressing is where you get the olive oil that's used for the anointing. 286 00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:23,160 It's used for the oil in the menorah that was in the temple. 287 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,200 It's that extra virgin olive oil. 288 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,160 It's the one time pressed. 289 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,160 Are you hearing me? 290 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:33,440 But it's been crushed, but now it's being pressed and then from that pressing that extraction 291 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:34,440 is made. 292 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,120 Then it goes through a second pressing. 293 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:42,360 A little more weight is added and an already crushed and an already pressed olive has to 294 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:44,520 give up a little bit more oil. 295 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:49,480 Out of this second pressing, out of this second pressing comes cooking oil. 296 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:50,480 Hallelujah. 297 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:56,800 And medicinal oil where they would apply it to wounds out of the second pressing. 298 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,360 We're getting somewhere this morning. 299 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:03,660 Then there's the third pressing where you've got all the olive has to give. 300 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:04,880 You add more weight. 301 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,600 You add more pressure. 302 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:13,680 And out of this third pressing comes the lamp oil, the burning oil, the usable oil. 303 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:14,680 And it's not over with. 304 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:19,080 Then they'll take the pulp and the poorest of the poor would take the pulp and stick 305 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,760 their wick in it and light it as it would soak out and drain everything that the olive 306 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:24,760 had to offer. 307 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,960 Can I tell you today that you and I have to go through some pressings in life, but before 308 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,200 we ever go through a pressing, we have to go through a crushing. 309 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:38,480 My God, before anything is extracted out of us, anything that of good use is extracted 310 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,780 from us, we have to go through a crushing. 311 00:21:40,780 --> 00:21:44,960 We go through the mill and the hardships and the hard ends of life. 312 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,720 My God, but don't give up there because there's something good coming out of the crushing. 313 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,680 There's a purpose in the crushing. 314 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,960 Before you ever get pressed, you're going to get crushed at that place called Gethsemane. 315 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,880 How many remember the story Jesus went and prayed? 316 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:06,840 How many times? 317 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,120 On the very night that he makes his way and he leads his disciples there, he's in an 318 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,120 upper room. 319 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:12,720 He institutes the Lord's Supper. 320 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,720 He breaks the bread. 321 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:14,860 He passes the cup. 322 00:22:14,860 --> 00:22:18,000 They sing hymns and they worship and they leave from there. 323 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,480 They go down the street away and they go to the Garden of Gethsemane, the Garden of the 324 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:24,480 Pressing. 325 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,320 It would stand to reason that they would be a crushing and a pressing in Gethsemane because 326 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:33,880 it was an olive grove and there's still trees standing there, 800, 900 years old. 327 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:39,160 They presume probably from those who were in the garden, seed from gardens when Jesus 328 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,160 was there. 329 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,120 Now we understand why Jesus is going there because he's about to be crushed. 330 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:49,600 When we read the story of the happenings of that night, the crushing actually took place 331 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,080 in that upper room. 332 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,840 That crushing took place as he's looking at his disciples and he tells them that one of 333 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,680 you are going to betray me. 334 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,600 The crushing was the betrayal of Judas when he crushed him there in that room. 335 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:08,080 Oh my God, I don't know what you're feeling this morning, but I'm all inside and upside 336 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,120 down today when I think about the crushing that took place. 337 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:16,640 One of his own beloved, those who traveled with him, he sold him out for 30 pieces of 338 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:22,080 silver and he was crushed, but he didn't stop at the crushing because he knew the pressing 339 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,600 was still in the garden. 340 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,880 My God, you cannot stop at the crushing. 341 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,600 You can't quit at your crushing. 342 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:33,000 I know life has come down on you heavy and you feel like you've been squashed a pulp, 343 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,440 but you can't stop at the crushing. 344 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:48,160 The crushing for the woman with the issue of blood as she spent all that she had and 345 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,320 still grew worse. 346 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:55,000 Crushed, right? 347 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,260 The crushing for Paul, he's falsely accused and he's in prison. 348 00:23:59,260 --> 00:24:00,260 You know his story. 349 00:24:00,260 --> 00:24:02,400 He's beat, left for dead. 350 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,960 Stoned, left for dead. 351 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,400 Shipwrecked, left for dead. 352 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:12,840 Crushed, but the press is on its way. 353 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:19,400 She comes through the crowd and presses her way through, thrusts her way through and at 354 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:28,760 a last gasp she makes a final lunge and touches the hem of his garment. 355 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:29,760 And that's all you need. 356 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,320 Let me just tell you something this morning. 357 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,000 You don't need a handful of Jesus. 358 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,240 You don't have to tear a piece of his garment away. 359 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,680 You just got to touch him. 360 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,960 How do we do that today, Pastor? 361 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:50,560 We touch him through our faith as we're processing our way through the crushing. 362 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:51,560 We're sick. 363 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:52,560 We're devastated. 364 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,300 Life's turned us upside down. 365 00:24:54,300 --> 00:25:00,680 We have been crushed on the wheel and we have been made to a pulp as though it feels like 366 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,240 and we have nothing left. 367 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:07,120 You take your nothing that you have and you make one final lunge and you let your faith 368 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:12,760 be released in Jesus Christ and the power that he possesses that he can enable you over 369 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,120 every obstacle that is before you. 370 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:21,080 And when you are crushed, then get ready for the press because he will extract the best 371 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,080 out of you. 372 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:33,240 Isn't it amazing that it's the first pressing after the crushing that you get the best oil? 373 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:40,000 You get the best immediately after you are crushed. 374 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Pressure's applied. 375 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,280 You can go watch the little videos of it. 376 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,640 It just truly amazed me. 377 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:50,320 I've been in this 30 years now and preached on the press and all that. 378 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,560 Never understood this part of it. 379 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,080 Because when you pull up an olive press, you're just going to see that wheel. 380 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,520 That's most of the time all that they show is the point of crushing. 381 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,520 That's all I saw. 382 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,880 Had to dig a little bit deeper. 383 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,120 I thought, well, that's not pressing. 384 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:08,120 Just thought come to my mind. 385 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:09,760 You know, that's the crushing. 386 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:15,080 And so a little bit of further research on the winterweb and it pops up this picture 387 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,160 and many more like it. 388 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,960 And it pops up pictures and little videos of actually seeing this thing at work. 389 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,400 This big heavy law with a big flat stone tied to it. 390 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,440 And then the process after the pulp is made and they put in those little woven baskets 391 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,080 and they stack them up and then they apply the pressure. 392 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:42,240 As time would come and technology would advance, they got to where they understood threads. 393 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:50,120 And we can apply more pressure by just turning the wheel, not having to lean and get neighbors 394 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:55,000 and everybody set on the pole. 395 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,800 Pretty good looking size rocks if you ask me. 396 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,080 Pretty heavy to drag all that in. 397 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:06,600 Somebody's got to get it picked up to get everything under it. 398 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,000 So it works the same way in our life. 399 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,280 How do we understand the crushing and the pressing? 400 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,560 I thought, Lord, I guess this is the reason it's meaning so much to me this morning. 401 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,280 I don't know what press I'm in. 402 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,840 Press one, press two, or press three. 403 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:21,840 I know this. 404 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,840 I have been crushed. 405 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,680 I feel like I'm nothing but pulp right now. 406 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:27,840 How about you? 407 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:34,440 I feel like life has left a tire tread on my back and it's in a 2000, 2000 pound old 408 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,760 Israeli stone that's got me in a trough and it's rolling around over my back. 409 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,760 I feel like I've been crushed. 410 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:41,760 Amen. 411 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:46,560 But I know that now the process is you got to get crushed before there's something that's 412 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,840 pulled out of you of value. 413 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:49,880 My God. 414 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,320 So I'm ready, ready, ready, ready, ready, ready, because now the weight's being added, 415 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,600 the pressure's being applied, and there's something squeezing out of me, David, old 416 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,480 Paul, that I can't quite explain. 417 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:05,320 I've been in this for a long time, but I'm feeling something on the inside of me coming 418 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,000 out that hadn't come out ever. 419 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,080 There's a place in him that we are reaching. 420 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,240 There's a place in his anointing through the press of life that the good is about to be 421 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,240 extracted. 422 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,960 The valuable is about to be pulled forward. 423 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:20,960 Oh my God. 424 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:21,960 Hold on. 425 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:22,960 You've been crushed. 426 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:29,960 Now get ready to be pressed so that the anointing can come out of you. 427 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:50,200 Sometimes I just simply say life stinks, but I don't think this is about life. 428 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,200 Is it? 429 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:58,360 If you're confused about what's going on in you is about life, then you're mistaken. 430 00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:59,800 It's not about life. 431 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:06,680 It's not about politics, whichever side of that stupid fence you're on. 432 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,640 Don't get me on that. 433 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:16,800 Ignorance is running unabased on both sides of that fence. 434 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:22,080 Somebody ought to say hallelujah and watch what flag you run up the pole and start saluting 435 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:27,200 and bowing down to, mind you. 436 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,640 I'm feeling it. 437 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,000 Doesn't matter if you're a never Trump or ever Trump. 438 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:43,520 Trump is not the savior or the anti-Christ. 439 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:48,320 I almost said he's just an elevated, arrogant New Yorker that's president of the United 440 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:57,800 States, but I didn't want to go there. 441 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:03,440 Far as alternatives goes, it's better than what we have. 442 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,600 There's my geopolitical stance. 443 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,920 I'm a Jesus man. 444 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,440 My allegiance is to Christ. 445 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:15,440 Why? 446 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,520 Because he went to Gethsemane in that upper room crushed by betrayal. 447 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:26,360 He made his way to the first prayer of pressing where he said he was heavy, greatly heavy 448 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,920 and much distressed in that first prayer. 449 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:35,480 He prays, oh Lord, if there's a way, Father, let it pass from me, but not my will but yours 450 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:36,480 be done. 451 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,760 He gets up, goes back. 452 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,240 His disciples are sound asleep. 453 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:41,240 Why? 454 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,440 Because their crushing is coming. 455 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,360 They hadn't been crushed yet, but there's a crushing coming toward. 456 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,600 Oh, Peter, that he's not, it's going to blow his mind when the crushing's done with him. 457 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,920 Oh, let me just jump ahead and just go ahead and tell you, Peter's crushing and the reality 458 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:03,240 of his crushing came at the third coring of the cock. 459 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:09,680 When the old rooster crowed that third time, my God, can you not see it come together? 460 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:15,640 One crow, two crow, three crow, one prayer, two prayer, three prayer, one press, two press, 461 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:22,360 three press, it was there, my God, he's crushed. 462 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:28,400 Can you not tear with me but an hour and help me pray? 463 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:34,000 He goes back for his second pressing, right? 464 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,960 He goes back for that second prayer. 465 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:43,480 The press of surrender. 466 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:52,320 He comes back to stir them awake one more time and he goes back for the third prayer, 467 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,680 the third press. 468 00:31:54,680 --> 00:32:00,520 Remember, the first press is the anointing. 469 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:07,640 The second press is medicinal. 470 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:16,760 The third press is just for fuel. 471 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:23,240 You go read the third pressing prayer and he just simply prays, this is what it says, 472 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:28,440 and he's saying the same words. 473 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,200 There's nothing left to say. 474 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,720 There's nothing left to say. 475 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:42,880 He's heavy, he's greatly distressed with the weight that's being placed on him, crushed 476 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,520 by betrayal. 477 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:56,680 Now the weight of the sins of the world is squeezing out the sweet aroma of the anointing. 478 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:08,120 So he goes back, he prays the second pressing, this anointing of healing, this taking in, 479 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,480 let's fry a little flatbread with what? 480 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,480 The second crushing. 481 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:19,320 Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the 482 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,320 Father. 483 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,840 So he comes back and he just lets them sleep and goes and prays. 484 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,560 And he says the same thing as he did at the second pressing. 485 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:34,160 There's nothing left to say. 486 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:40,880 You are greatly pressed on every side. 487 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:48,340 We are pressed down, right? 488 00:33:48,340 --> 00:33:54,800 We have a heavy load, a heavy weight of life that tries to enable us from the goodness 489 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,560 of God. 490 00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:04,640 But yet, but yet we travel on. 491 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:11,680 Yet we continue forward in our faith because there's no stopping place. 492 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:19,480 Just because you feel like you're being crushed, you can't stop because the best is about to 493 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,680 come out of you. 494 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,120 The oil is about to be squeezed out. 495 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:35,840 For you and I, the oil is a symbol of the Holy Ghost. 496 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:45,600 We do know there's the same process at the wine press, the crushing of the grape, the 497 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:51,000 extraction of the juice. 498 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:57,600 So that we understand that through the crushing and the pressing, the good gets squeezed out 499 00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:58,600 of us. 500 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:03,840 That's the reason the scripture says, be ye not drunk with wine as in excess but be ye 501 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:10,320 filled with the Holy Spirit. 502 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,000 Be ye being, it's a continual. 503 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Why? 504 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,600 Because there's a continual pressing. 505 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,040 We can't stop at the crushing. 506 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:27,080 That's the reason Peter would put it this way, think it not strange concerning the fiery 507 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:32,620 trial that's come against you. 508 00:35:32,620 --> 00:35:37,960 Don't think what's happening to you is strange or odd and you've done something wrong. 509 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:43,720 The first thing the devil wants to come up to you and tell you is you did something wrong 510 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,120 for you to be crushed. 511 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:58,560 No, we had to be crushed so that the anointing can be extracted from us at the press. 512 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,040 We have to be pressed so that the good can come forward. 513 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:08,840 The anointing flow out and people be fed. 514 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:16,900 We have to be crushed, pressed over and over and over again so that the fuel of faith ignites 515 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:25,680 the hearts of those who are around us and they remain engaged no matter what the press 516 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,080 is, whether it be sickness, whether it be grief. 517 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,520 Grief is an awful press. 518 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,200 It's an awful crushing. 519 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:40,080 Betrayal, anybody ever been betrayed by a supposed friend? 520 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,080 We call it backstabbing. 521 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,320 Anybody ever been stabbed in the back by a friend? 522 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,320 You know what I'm saying? 523 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,320 That's the same thing. 524 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,320 Right? 525 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:53,840 Anybody ever lied on you? 526 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:54,840 That's betrayal. 527 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,840 It's crushing, isn't it? 528 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,280 It's devastating in our heart and life. 529 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:14,240 Anyway, I'm quitting. 530 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:21,120 There's an advancement beyond the press. 531 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:22,800 It's beyond the press for Jesus. 532 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:23,800 It was Calvary. 533 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,560 You say, well, that's worse. 534 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,560 No. 535 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:32,320 Calvary was won at the place of the press. 536 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,520 When he said, not my will but yours, victory. 537 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,320 The rest was semantics. 538 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,680 The deal was sealed at the press. 539 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:45,880 Right? 540 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,680 At the press, it was a done deal. 541 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:58,640 When his sweat became his great drops of blood, he surrendered his flesh, his body, his life, 542 00:37:58,640 --> 00:37:59,760 victory. 543 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:05,560 The rest was just to follow it out. 544 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,960 That's the reason before Pilate, he never said a word. 545 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,960 He didn't have to. 546 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:18,640 He knew what was going to happen three days from then. 547 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,680 That event would speak for itself. 548 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,840 Oh, they say you're the king of the Jews. 549 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,120 Well, if that's what they say, I'm more than that. 550 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,880 Boy, couldn't he just really have told old Pilate? 551 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:39,160 Couldn't he just really laid it out there? 552 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:44,560 Couldn't he display his power like he did over the winds and the waves and the storms? 553 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:53,520 Like when they come to take him at a movement, soldiers fall down. 554 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,120 Couldn't he really demonstrate his power when Peter and his zealousness chopped off the 555 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:05,520 guys there and he picks it up out of the dirt? 556 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,400 Right back up on the side of his head. 557 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,720 Could he not have demonstrated to Pilate? 558 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,720 You mock me now. 559 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:25,560 But no, he walks down those stations of the Via De La Rosa, makes his way to the foothill 560 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:36,320 of Galgotha, his flesh unable to sustain the strength of his spirit. 561 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:47,280 Simon, the man they laid his cross on to bear the weakness of his flesh, Jesus' 562 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,920 spirit was not diminished whatsoever. 563 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:59,160 It was just that earthly body he had to get to count. 564 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:11,040 Makes his confessions, sayings from the cross, yields his life. 565 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:16,000 Crushed, pressed. 566 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,640 Purpose, power. 567 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:29,520 The purpose of his pressing and crushing was that you and I may have power, anointing, 568 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:37,640 fuel, sustenance through our crushing and the phases of our pressing. 569 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,440 Father, I love you today. 570 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:48,080 Lord, I don't have a clue with what you want to do with this this morning, but I've delivered 571 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,440 my soul today. 572 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:58,920 I've carried this, Lord, for a couple of weeks now and I don't know if it's made any sense 573 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,360 to anybody else. 574 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:05,320 Maybe you were just speaking to me. 575 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:13,020 But Lord, just knowing a few folk and a little bit of what I do know, I know there's others 576 00:41:13,020 --> 00:41:19,920 that's been crushed besides me. 577 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:25,440 I know there's others who feel as though they have been gathered after the crushing and 578 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:37,140 carried to the press and the pressure has been applied. 579 00:41:37,140 --> 00:41:45,480 Going through the first pressing well, the anointing flowing, but the second press, there 580 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,640 wasn't near as much. 581 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,680 Some in the third pressing and there's even less. 582 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:59,120 And some feel as though they've came out of the press like they went into the meal. 583 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,240 Just pulp. 584 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:21,960 My Lord, if you're here this morning and you just feel like pulp, you've been crushed, 585 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:29,460 you've been pressed, and the only time you come off the press is when there's nothing 586 00:42:29,460 --> 00:42:35,360 else to extract. 587 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:44,920 The three prayers of the garden, the crushing of the upper room, the extraction of all that 588 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:56,960 He had, He gave it so that you and I could live in victory. 589 00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,960 So think it not strange, concerning. 590 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:16,840 Let me read these last scriptures to you. 591 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:25,920 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding 592 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,960 and eternal weight of glory. 593 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:37,600 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. 594 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:43,840 For the things which are seen are temporal, temporary, but the things which are not seen 595 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:44,840 are eternal. 596 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:52,920 I don't know what you're seeing, I don't know what the press is, don't know what the 597 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:58,840 weight of it feels like in your life, but it isn't compared to the glory that is to 598 00:43:58,840 --> 00:43:59,840 come for you. 599 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,820 The good, the good comes after the press. 600 00:44:04,820 --> 00:44:08,360 Not the crush, the good comes after the press. 601 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,600 The crush just gets you ready to be pressed. 602 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:18,280 Well, I feel like I've been repressed and re-crushed, if that's you. 603 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:19,740 I want to pray for you. 604 00:44:19,740 --> 00:44:21,320 Just come stand in the front. 605 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:22,520 We're going to pray for one another. 606 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:27,200 I'll tell you what, to keep putting anybody on the spot, why don't we just all come down 607 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,040 here? 608 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:42,440 All that will, all that can, because I know life happens to every single one of us. 609 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,440 You're not going to get out of this thing without a crushing. 610 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:52,440 For those who live godly and endeavor to live godly in Christ Jesus, welcome to Christ Jesus. 611 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,520 Welcome to it. 612 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:55,520 Hello? 613 00:44:55,520 --> 00:45:04,480 Because you do realize that, just to put it bluntly, Satan hates your guts. 614 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:10,760 I mean, old Popeye says, I am what I am. 615 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,120 Devil hates your guts. 616 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:18,880 He has no good for you, no purpose for you, other than to destroy you. 617 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,680 Bottom line, that's it. 618 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:28,760 He'll use anything and everything at his disposal to do it. 619 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:34,920 But what he doesn't realize is, as he's trying to crush you, the Lord draws nine to those 620 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:39,480 who are of a contrite spirit, broken. 621 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:44,320 That contrite means to dust. 622 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:49,560 So the whole time the devil's breaking you down, he thinks, he's just preparing you for 623 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,520 the best. 624 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,040 He's getting you ready for the press, and he may be the one to put you in the press, 625 00:45:55,040 --> 00:46:02,560 but let him apply the pressure, because I told a guy the other day, people are trying 626 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,280 to figure out how to live out their faith, right? 627 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:11,120 They go to different venues, they go to different things, so they hear different stuff. 628 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:17,400 And so if they know me, they kind of know who I am, what I stand for, so they ask questions 629 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:22,600 about how I see scripture. 630 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:29,520 So I just tell them I kind of read it for what it says and try to apply it like that. 631 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:34,440 And boy, how we do, we try to justify kind of where we're at. 632 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:40,080 Well, you know, that's the worst I do, and the more I say a cuss word every now and then. 633 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:41,080 And I say, well, why? 634 00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,240 Well, I don't know, that's why I'm asking you. 635 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:48,200 I said, well, if there's no cuss in you, one can't come out of you. 636 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,960 He said, well, what does that mean? 637 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:58,000 I said, I can mash my thumb with a hammer on a cold day, and the first thing that comes 638 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:04,720 to my mind is not a curse, it's a prayer. 639 00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:06,480 Because there's not a cuss in me. 640 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:12,160 Never did do it much anyway, afraid mom would hear me and mash my mouth, or hear about it 641 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,600 and mash it when I got home. 642 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:21,960 In my youthful stupidity, I used the Lord's name in vain one time, one. 643 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:27,960 I'll never forget where I was standing at, vocational school, county line, Sequatchia, 644 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:36,160 Bledsoe County, in the welding department, third booth down. 645 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:43,640 Pissed up a weld, got mad, come out, and I said it, and I kid you not, as the last syllable 646 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:51,400 come off of my tongue, I ducked, because I just knew God was about to strike me. 647 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,560 So I'm trying to tell him how to live out his faith and the pressure of life. 648 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,640 If you got the right stuff in you, you don't have to worry about the wrong stuff coming 649 00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:58,640 out. 650 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,160 Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 651 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:06,520 And I said, if you've been transformed into a new creature, they should not be a cuss 652 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:07,520 in you. 653 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:08,520 Well, what do I do? 654 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,080 Go back until it's not. 655 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,040 Crushing. 656 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:23,600 Life stinks sometimes, but for the child of God, the crushing is just to extract the best 657 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,360 out of you. 658 00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,680 It's just to get the sweet anointing to flow out of us. 659 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,960 And people see it. 660 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,120 That first press is so that the light burns. 661 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,560 Father, I love you today. 662 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:49,800 And over this household of faith, Father God, in the name of Jesus, God, I pray, I know 663 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:51,440 they're getting crushed. 664 00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,880 I know they're getting crushed. 665 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,760 They're getting crushed at the job side. 666 00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:56,840 They're getting crushed at school. 667 00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,920 They're getting crushed at home. 668 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,400 They're in the meal of life, and it's rolling over and over and over and over and over top 669 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:04,400 of them. 670 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:11,360 And Lord, they're being placed in this structure, this holding, and they get put in this basket 671 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:15,720 and it gets folded over as they are crushed to hold it all together. 672 00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:18,520 My God, to hold me all together. 673 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,900 And then I'm placed beneath the press, and then more weight's added. 674 00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:25,480 But this time something's happening to me. 675 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:26,840 There's something coming out of me. 676 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:27,840 It's not a cursing. 677 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,360 It's a blessing. 678 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,120 I just want to bless your name. 679 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:36,920 I feel the weight, Lord, but something odd and something strange is happening. 680 00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:41,600 Every time the weights get added, every time I feel pressed, there's just something different 681 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:42,880 coming out of me. 682 00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,440 There's something different coming out of me that might be useful, Lord, to let my light 683 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,840 shine, to let my life shine before those. 684 00:49:49,840 --> 00:50:02,000 And Lord, for those who are crushed this morning, and life is pressing, Lord, that widow, that 685 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:09,560 woman with that issue of blood, she comes in, she touches the hymn by faith, she's healed. 686 00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:14,840 Paul is released to make his way to Rome before Agrippa and all the others, and Caesar, he 687 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:20,160 proclaims the gospel. 688 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:31,800 Jesus, to Gethsemane, pressed, crushed, sits at the right hand of the Father, ever making 689 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:40,320 intercession on my behalf, on our behalf, so that when we are crushed, we're not destroyed, 690 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:45,240 so that when we're perplexed, we're not cast down. 691 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:50,720 When we're troubled on every side, we're not distressed. 692 00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:57,360 When we're hard pressed, we're not fully crushed. 693 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:03,320 For the weight, for the weight's going to turn to glory. 694 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:11,640 Hear me, hear me, folk, for the eye has not seen, and the ear has not heard, neither has 695 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:19,360 it entered into the heart of man what God has in store for those who love him. 696 00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,000 So don't focus on the crushing. 697 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,560 Jesus didn't focus on Judas. 698 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:25,760 He didn't focus on Judas. 699 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:32,160 He carried through the supper, sung his hymns, and went to the garden. 700 00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,520 Don't hang up at the crush. 701 00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,360 Don't hang up at the crusher. 702 00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:44,860 Make your way to the press so that the very best can be extracted out of you for his glory 703 00:51:44,860 --> 00:51:46,760 and for your building and your strengthening. 704 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,240 Father, I love you today. 705 00:51:49,240 --> 00:52:09,560 Help us, Lord, help us.