1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,200 It's about being in His Presence and going from glory to glory. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,200 You know, we know that our God is a consuming fire. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,940 Deuteronomy 4:24 says it for the Lord. 4 00:00:10,940 --> 00:00:14,720 Your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,520 Hebrews 12:29 says our God is a consuming fire. 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:23,280 And it's the fire of his presence in the body of believers 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,720 that's gonna bring us into maturity and unity. 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:39,840 God promises in Joel 2:28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,080 Welcome to Global Outpouring. 10 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,000 Where we contend for that promised outpouring, 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,120 We equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 12 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:51,240 I'm Philip Buss. 13 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,080 And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,800 We're so glad that you're with us. 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:03,440 We are going to delve into the scriptures and into real life about hidden treasures. 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,320 Treasures that are hidden from us? 17 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:10,480 No, hidden for us and hidden in us. 18 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,280 We're so glad that you're with us today on this global outpouring podcast. 19 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,400 Before we get started, though, we want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, 20 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,640 to go to our website and sign up for our email blasts. 21 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,360 They don't come out a whole lot. 22 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,840 They're gonna be bothering you. 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,600 We don't blast you with too much stuff. 24 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,720 But we want to keep you informed and we want you to get connected with us. 25 00:01:37,720 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00:02:33,800 Can you just give us an encapsulated version of what that is to give us a springboard to go from today? 36 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:41,440 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. 37 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:46,880 And one of the meanings of that word, vessels, means we frail. 38 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:53,080 And I had read somewhere, it was like a low-grade pottery. 39 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,880 So low-grade pottery is not on the shelf out in front. 40 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,400 It's kind of put in the back. 41 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,560 It's in the bargain basement. 42 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,080 Bargain basement, yeah. 43 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:04,880 You'll have imperfections. 44 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:10,360 It may not have actual cracks, but maybe flaws in the design. 45 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,640 Flaws in the glazing and all that. 46 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:17,880 So things like that, so what happens? 47 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:25,240 You put that in the back and maybe when it's the last one left, somebody will buy it and they'll get their money's worth out of it. 48 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:33,440 So when we look at ourselves like that, how frail we are in the natural, we're fearfully, we're wonderfully made. 49 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,600 We can fall down and break an arm or something. 50 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,720 We're very strong, but we're delicate. 51 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:52,080 And spiritually too, there's things that can happen, can wound us and can mar us and can just damage you. 52 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:58,840 And it's when we recognize these things, but that's what the blood of Jesus is for because it covers all that. 53 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,720 Because we all have imperfections. 54 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:06,280 You take anybody you know that you've known them, you just don't think about it. 55 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,720 But you can, yeah, I remember this, I remember that. 56 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:16,440 Now I'm glad I'm not married to that one, through this or that. 57 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,440 You can always find flaws in people. 58 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:29,600 There is no perfect person because as long as we are on this earth and we have this mindset that the way we have, we have a natural brain, 59 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:38,280 we're not fully locked into the spirit yet because we have a soul and our soul wants to control us all the time. 60 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:39,360 Yeah, the flesh. 61 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,320 Flesh, yeah, that's it. 62 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:42,200 Earth and vessel. 63 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,120 Earth and vessel. 64 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:48,600 Well, yeah, God made the flesh of Adam out of dust, out of earth. 65 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,040 But we have this treasure in our vessels. 66 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,040 Right, and the treasure is? 67 00:04:53,040 --> 00:05:02,200 Yeah, treasure is the glory of God, the presence of God because a vessel, even though it has imperfections, has Mars, all this and that, 68 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,440 can still hold what the others hold. 69 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,000 It will still carry that. 70 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:15,200 So even if we feel like we're Mars, and many times we do, we feel you got slimed by somebody or something like that. 71 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,280 We all know what that is like. 72 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:20,000 But we just get cleansed of all that. 73 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:28,680 We keep our sanctified imagination on the Lord and we can just get over that stuff and he can use us. 74 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,040 Very true. 75 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,680 Very true. 76 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:38,680 I'm reminded of how Adam was formed of the dust of the ground according to Genesis 2.4. 77 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,840 That word dust is the Hebrew word afar. 78 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:46,520 That it means dust, like powdered or gray. 79 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:54,920 And so it can also mean clay or earth or mud, ashes, dust, earth, ground, mortar, powder, rubbish. 80 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:01,120 That's from the Blue Letter Bible, from the Strongs, I believe, the definitions. 81 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:08,000 So we see that Adam was formed of the dust of the ground and Job refers to himself as being made of clay. 82 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:15,600 And we also have Isaiah 64-8 talking about the Lord is our Father, that God is our Father. 83 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,760 We're the clay, he's the potter. 84 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,600 And so we're all the work of his hand. 85 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:27,840 And in Genesis 3, 19 and 23, where the curse is coming because of sin, okay? 86 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:34,320 God is saying to Adam, in the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread, till you return unto the ground. 87 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,200 For out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return. 88 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:44,440 And then verse 23 says, therefore the Lord sent him, the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden 89 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,560 to till the ground from whence he was taken. 90 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,560 Yeah, that is a sad statement. 91 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,840 Very, very sad. 92 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:58,760 And I love Psalm 103-14 that says, for he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust. 93 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,560 We are dust, yeah. 94 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:06,160 And so we have to remember that each other are dust. 95 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:13,680 You know, we have a tendency as human beings to become judgmental, and that's part of the flesh issue. 96 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,480 And kind of tend to treat people like they're dust. 97 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,680 Well, yeah, that's true too. 98 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:26,080 You know, I remember a pastor one time having a men's group, and he got a word from the Lord. 99 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:31,080 And he encouraged everyone, I don't think he encouraged them, I think he made them, 100 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:38,320 go out and buy a very expensive teacup, you know, the English kind that's made of porcelain, you know, 101 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:43,920 it's very fragile and it's very fine and it's very expensive. 102 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:52,240 And he said, for the next month, you have to drink every drop that you are going to drink in your life. 103 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:57,040 Drink it out of this teacup to learn how to treat your wife. 104 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:57,640 Wow. 105 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,600 Because the wife is, you know, Paul said she's the weaker vessel. 106 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,680 Well, she's a delicate, a more delicate vessel. 107 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,360 Women are not designed to be beaten up on. 108 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:14,840 They're, you know, we're designed to be loved and men are designed to be respected. 109 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:15,480 Yeah. 110 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,840 So that's why it's important, you know, Paul talks about it in several places in the New Testament 111 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:26,760 about husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and women honor your husband, 112 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:31,640 reverence him, give him respect, because that's how we're wired. 113 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,920 We're, women are wired to be delicate. 114 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,280 We're wired to be treated delicately. 115 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:43,960 We're wired to be treated like something fragile because we are, where, you know, 116 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,720 a woman goes to tears real easily, you know. 117 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:52,360 But even porcelain is made of clay. 118 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:59,640 It's a certain kind of clay, but the formation of a porcelain vessel is, you know, 119 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,560 a little bit different than just throwing it on the potter's wheel with made out of, 120 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:04,760 you know, some other kind of clay. 121 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,720 It's thinner too. 122 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,560 Yeah, it's made, and I think they put bone in it like bone china. 123 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:15,000 So the construction of it is, it's to be strong, but it's also delicate. 124 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,600 And you have to take care of it delicately. 125 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:24,120 So vessels, vessels are meant to contain something. 126 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:31,400 And we see that God has given us also this picture in Ephesians 3.8, where Paul says, 127 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:36,920 unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should 128 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:42,280 preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. 129 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:44,360 Yeah, that's beautiful. 130 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:52,840 So when he's inside of us, there are unsearchable riches available to us that God wants to use 131 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,680 us to bring forth. 132 00:09:54,680 --> 00:10:01,240 And as he used Paul, and as I was, as I was preparing notes for this, the thought came 133 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,240 to me, we can search forever and never come to the end of his riches. 134 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:13,080 There will always be new revelations of the riches of the anointed one who lives inside of us. 135 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,120 Yeah, beautiful. 136 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:19,320 And he wants us to recognize one another for who we really are. 137 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:25,480 Now, this all started the other day when I was waiting on the Lord for, you know, 138 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:27,240 what do you want to say to me today? 139 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:34,200 And I just had the notion that I needed to go back to my journals from a ways back. 140 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:40,600 And because, you know, God will speak something to us and we write it down and it's profound 141 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:41,560 and it's wonderful. 142 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:47,800 But if we don't follow up and review from time to time, 143 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,560 we're going to not be doing what he said. 144 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:57,960 So we have a responsibility to go back and reread and put into practice the things that 145 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,240 he spoke to us. 146 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:04,200 So I went back to my journal from quite a ways back. 147 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,720 I went to 2009. 148 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,360 Okay, that's a long ways back. 149 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:15,720 And I read the following thing and I'll say upfront that I have no recollection as to 150 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:21,000 what situation the Lord was referring to as the case in point. 151 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:28,200 But obviously I was being bothered by something that somebody did or attitudes somebody had 152 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:33,640 or imperfections in somebody that was annoying me. 153 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:34,760 Kind of yank your chain. 154 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,760 Yeah, I guess so. 155 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:42,600 So this is what I wrote on July 24th, 2009, a long time ago. 156 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:48,920 As I was waking up, I heard in my spirit, but we have this treasure in earthen vessels. 157 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:54,600 And at the same time, I saw in my mind's eye the dead sea scrolls in the Kumbh Rang cave. 158 00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:00,360 Then the scripture goes on that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. 159 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,920 And then the Lord began to speak this to me. 160 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:08,280 The treasure, my presence, my word is within. 161 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,000 Don't look at the earthen vessels. 162 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:17,720 And don't look at the exterior of the vessel and judge the contents. 163 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,960 Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. 164 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:29,320 Remember that's from 1 Samuel when Samuel is looking at Jesse's sons. 165 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,320 And he's saying, surely this is the Lord's. 166 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:32,320 Surely this is the one. 167 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:33,320 Yeah, just look at him. 168 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,160 And the Lord says, mm, that's not the one I have in mind. 169 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,960 He might look good to you on the outside, but I know his heart. 170 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,840 And he's not king material. 171 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,320 So back to what the Lord was saying. 172 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,640 Leave my vessels to me. 173 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:54,160 As long as you continue to have shortcomings and areas in which you have not yet overcome 174 00:12:54,160 --> 00:13:00,760 and you continue to walk in the limitations of unglorified flesh, be careful how you judge 175 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,800 others who have not yet overcome. 176 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:08,240 I am patient with you and have gained much ground in you. 177 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,040 Some was taken little by little and some all at once. 178 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,600 You keep asking me to teach you my ways. 179 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:22,960 I have brought this case in point into your midst to show you another facet of my character 180 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,920 and how I deal with hearts. 181 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,760 Keep watching and keep learning. 182 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,360 I am well able to use earthen vessels to pour out my glory. 183 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:40,240 Sometimes I use contentious preachers to preach my gospel and bring souls into my kingdom. 184 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,600 Sometimes they are all I have to work with. 185 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,200 Walk humbly before me. 186 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:51,240 I want to teach you by my spirit the difference between the discernment that comes by my spirit 187 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,920 and the judgment that comes by the letter of the law. 188 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,680 Be careful not to be a Pharisee. 189 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:59,880 Let my love be your standard. 190 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,200 I see the finished vessel. 191 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,560 You see the lump of clay. 192 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,800 Leave my lumps of clay to me. 193 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,600 Don't speak what you see with your natural eyes. 194 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,920 Speak my mercy and grace and I will show it. 195 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:20,400 Speak my eternal purposes and I will bring them to pass. 196 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:26,560 I have given you a privilege to show mercy and love to one of my imperfect vessels. 197 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,720 You will receive back that which you have given. 198 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,400 Just down shaken together and running over. 199 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,640 Isn't it amazing what I can do with imperfect vessels? 200 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,680 The excellency of the power is mine. 201 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,760 I will do what pleases me. 202 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,400 If you watch humbly, I'll let you see my process. 203 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:50,360 If you watch proudly, you'll only see the truth in the end. 204 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:51,360 Beautiful. 205 00:14:51,360 --> 00:15:01,200 Ouch, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, that's one of those things that I just had to stop and 206 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,400 humble myself and repent. 207 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,280 I'm sure that that brought repentance at the time. 208 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:12,320 I didn't write about it, but I'm sure it did because you don't hear a word like that 209 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,360 from the Lord without stopping and saying, oh, I'm sorry. 210 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:17,640 I've been judgmental. 211 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,160 I'm sorry. 212 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:26,920 The Lord just wants to set us free in those areas and to treat one another as though there's 213 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,800 treasure inside. 214 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,200 It makes me think of what Papa Dorn used to say. 215 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,640 Robert Dorn was my pastor many, many, many years ago, and he taught in our School of 216 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,880 Ministry for many years. 217 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:45,320 He used to say, Jesus is inside of you and Jesus is inside of the other person. 218 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,960 So be nice to Jesus. 219 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:50,520 And that really helps. 220 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:51,520 It helps us remember. 221 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:58,640 And I've learned through the years that I can put up with a whole lot of stuff, especially 222 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:03,440 if I know that a person is going to come under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and they're 223 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,320 going to repent. 224 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:10,840 They can blow off steam and say things that they probably shouldn't say, but if they have 225 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,440 a track record with me that they're going to come back and say, I'm sorry, it gives 226 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:22,000 me a whole lot of grace to just let them blow off their steam and get it out of their system 227 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,040 and then they'll be okay. 228 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,240 And we don't know what somebody's going through. 229 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:35,240 There's that saying that I think it's an acronym that spells the word halt. 230 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,640 You're most vulnerable to doing something in the flesh if you're hungry. 231 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,120 That's the H. If you're angry. 232 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,560 If you're lonely or if you're tired. 233 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:51,520 And as I've pondered it, I think you need to add to that if you're not feeling well 234 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,000 or if you're in pain. 235 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:02,560 Those things make people tend to be more ready to bite your head off or get angry or act 236 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:03,560 in the flesh. 237 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:04,560 Have a flesh flash. 238 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:05,560 Okay? 239 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:06,560 That's a flesh flash. 240 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,680 And sometimes there are those things that there's hunger or anger, like especially people who 241 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,880 have low blood sugar issues. 242 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,960 If they get hungry, they can get cranky. 243 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,160 Well, yes, you're talking to one of them through the years. 244 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,460 You've watched me get cranky before supper time. 245 00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:28,520 Don't talk to me about something that might stir me up. 246 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,400 I'm less likely to be patient if I'm hungry. 247 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:33,640 That happens to people. 248 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:40,680 And if we will learn not to be triggered when someone else gets triggered, maybe something 249 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:46,280 we did triggered them to blow and have a flesh flash. 250 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,680 Or maybe there's something that we don't know about. 251 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,760 Maybe something has happened in their family. 252 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:58,880 Maybe somebody got angry with them at work or you hear the story of dad comes home from 253 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,800 work and he got fussed at at work. 254 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:06,160 And so he fusses at mom when he gets home and then mom fusses at the kids and then the 255 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:07,160 kids. 256 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:08,160 Just kick the dog. 257 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:09,680 Yeah, exactly. 258 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:15,160 And it becomes a chain reaction in the spirit because there are spiritual things, spiritual 259 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:20,440 entities that are trying to disrupt our lives and trying to keep us in the flesh and out 260 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,520 of the spirit. 261 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:28,240 But the cool thing is, as I was meditating on this that I read, another thought came 262 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:38,320 to me that I hadn't put together before, that not only is dust and clay something that can 263 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,440 be made into a vessel. 264 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,880 Sand is also a kind of earth. 265 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:50,360 It's also a kind of dust, particularly sand that's been ground down from quartz. 266 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:55,280 It's called silica or silicone dioxide. 267 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:00,360 And if you heat that with the other proper ingredients, it turns into glass. 268 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:02,120 Yeah, it's amazing. 269 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:07,120 And glass has been known way back into ancient Egypt. 270 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:11,720 There were objects, there's archaeology is uncovered objects that were made of glass. 271 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,720 And you have some nice Roman earrings. 272 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:14,720 Yeah, Roman glass. 273 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:15,720 The Roman glass that you bought me. 274 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:16,720 That I bought you. 275 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:17,720 Sweet. 276 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,240 So I did a little bit of research. 277 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:27,000 And here's an interesting, before we get into a little bit of research, here's an interesting 278 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,880 verse that also is about hidden treasures. 279 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:35,600 Okay, we've got these treasures, the treasures of the word, we've got the treasures of the 280 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,120 presence of God in us as earth and vessels. 281 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:40,440 But here's another place that you find them. 282 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,560 Deuteronomy 33, verses 18 and 19. 283 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:49,160 This is where Jacob is prophesying over his sons and he's talking about zebulin. 284 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,600 And he says, and of zebulin, he says, rejoice zebulin and you're going out and Issacur 285 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:54,600 and your tents. 286 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,000 Those two always went together, zebulin and Issacur. 287 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,280 They shall call the peoples to the mountain. 288 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,600 There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness. 289 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:12,520 For they shall partake of the abundance of the seas and of treasures hidden in the sand. 290 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,520 So sand can be made into glass. 291 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:22,040 And you can do that by heating it up really, really hot. 292 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,320 And you can see it in nature. 293 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,320 And maybe this is where they got the idea to start making things out of glass. 294 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,960 I have a piece of glass. 295 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:37,680 What was sand, we got it when we were down in southwest Texas where lightning hit the 296 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,920 sand and melted it. 297 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,320 It melted it into a hard thing. 298 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,640 I thought, wow, yeah, I thought, what is this? 299 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,200 And so I said, that's lightning. 300 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,280 That's where lightning hit the ground and did that to it. 301 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,280 That is so cool. 302 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:52,280 Oh, wow. 303 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,280 Okay. 304 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,280 Yeah. 305 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:59,960 And then you can also see obsidian is a natural type of glass that's formed from volcanic 306 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:01,660 eruption. 307 00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:06,360 It's those elements that have been put together and it's part of what got heated up and it 308 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,480 acts like glass. 309 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,160 It behaves like glass. 310 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:16,240 And you can chip it down to make something sharp to cut with or whatever, stone age tools. 311 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,640 And meteorites striking the ground can produce glass as well. 312 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:26,880 But if you want to make glass, you have to heat it like 600 to 1700 degrees centigrade, 313 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:34,640 which would be 1920 degrees to 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit. 314 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,560 That's like very, very hot. 315 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:42,120 I work with glass at a glass company and we would do board ups. 316 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:48,880 And if a big piece of plate glass broke within three feet of the door, it had to be replaced 317 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,280 with safety glass. 318 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:55,680 Well, what they do, they take the glass, remember we loaded this piece of pre-cut glass back 319 00:21:55,680 --> 00:22:01,560 of a truck and I drove it to a place, there was only one place in Chicago that did this, 320 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,520 and they would take the glass with these little clips, would get the top of it, take it off 321 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:12,000 and they would blast it, I think like about 1500 degrees or something for like so many 322 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,320 seconds and that would temper the glass. 323 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:16,320 Yeah. 324 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,120 And a lot of times you can look in windows and stuff and you'll see a little wave and 325 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:24,760 you look at the top, you can see like little, little tiny things where the things were actually 326 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,720 holding the glass, kind of melted it into it. 327 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,880 But sometimes the glass doesn't survive and it shatters. 328 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,880 I could see on the bottom those that didn't make it. 329 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,160 This pile's a glass down there, I thought, oh boy, hope that don't happen, that's a total 330 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,160 loss. 331 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,160 Yeah, I think. 332 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,880 But it was very educational. 333 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:45,880 Yeah. 334 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,520 So there's glass and then there's tempered glass. 335 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:50,520 Is that safety glass? 336 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:51,520 Is that the same? 337 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,000 Yeah, it's a safety glass, a type of safety glass. 338 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,120 So what happens if that shatters? 339 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,480 Yeah, it's like it goes into little tiny pieces. 340 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:05,400 It's like the windows of your car, your sunroof or your side windows and your back window 341 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:12,080 is made out of tempered glass, but your windshield is made out of laminate glass. 342 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,880 It's two pieces of glass with plastic inside of it. 343 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,600 It's kind of like it's glued to itself, it gets hit. 344 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,880 You can still see through the cracks like you see you get the runs in your windshield, 345 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,320 it's usually in the top layer, but you have to have the whole windshield. 346 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,360 But that was the regular kind of safety glass, the whole thing would just, in front of your 347 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:35,560 eyes would turn into a, you know, it would just all go to be awful little cracks, you 348 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:36,560 couldn't see nothing. 349 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,560 Yeah. 350 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:42,920 So those are things that have been implemented in the industry in order to keep you safe. 351 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,240 Keep you safe, yeah. 352 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:50,800 Because if you use ordinary glass and it shatters, it shatters into very sharp edged things where 353 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:56,400 safety glass, it's more like little round pieces that aren't as dangerous, right? 354 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:57,400 Yeah. 355 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,840 I remember when we had our accident and we came out of it, you know, the first thing 356 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,680 I did, I spit glass out of my mouth. 357 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,680 So did I. 358 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,840 You know, it was the tempered glass. 359 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,400 The car was totally up on its side, my head and my hand were on the, actually on the 360 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,760 asphalt, out the broken window. 361 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:18,000 You know, and I remember waking, kind of coming out of it and spitting glass out of my mouth. 362 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Yeah. 363 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,120 You know, I was just semi-conscious. 364 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,760 Right, right. 365 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:30,920 So the point is that there are things that can be done to glass to make it more safe. 366 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:37,000 The ancient glass that they made wasn't actually transparent. 367 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:43,040 And it took a while before they learned in the glass making industry, you might call 368 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:50,400 it that you add certain substances to it to actually make it clear. 369 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,960 And one of the ways that you can make it clear is by adding lead to it. 370 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,720 You've heard of lead crystal? 371 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:57,720 Lead crystal, yeah. 372 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:02,520 It's not actually crystal because it doesn't have any facets to it like something that's 373 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:07,800 actually crystal, but they call it crystal, but it's really leaded glass. 374 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:14,600 But they substitute lead for one of the other ingredients, you know, in actual glass making, 375 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:21,840 you would have three things, sand, which is silicon dioxide like quartz, limestone, which 376 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:27,160 is calcium carbonate, and soda ash, which would be sodium carbonate. 377 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:33,680 And then there are plants that you can use to, you reduce them to ash and those can be 378 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,160 used as one of those ingredients. 379 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:43,920 And as the industry began to really come into its own where they developed clear glass, 380 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,640 that's where this leaded glass came in. 381 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,680 And the more lead you add to it, the more beautiful it becomes. 382 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:53,680 It sparkles. 383 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:54,680 Sparkles, huh? 384 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:55,760 Lead, I love lead crystal. 385 00:25:55,760 --> 00:26:01,120 We've got a couple of pieces that you bought me when we were in Romania years and years 386 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,160 ago because they make it there. 387 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,960 And Sister Gwen Shaw, our founder, had a number of pieces. 388 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,600 So we're living in her house and so we have access to those. 389 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:15,160 I just love how the light sparkles through it. 390 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:23,440 And that's the point I'm getting to, that earthen vessels can also be transparent. 391 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,200 And the more lead that you add to it, think the weight of glory. 392 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,640 Okay, cavod, the Hebrew word for glory. 393 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:33,880 Glory, uh-huh. 394 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,800 That means weight. 395 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:42,640 So think of the weightiness of his glory as it gets added to this earthen vessel that 396 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,400 starts with sand. 397 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:51,200 You know, think of taking a handful of dirt from your garden. 398 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:57,160 That's full of stuff that has been decomposed. 399 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:02,600 It's organic material that has decomposed. 400 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,040 And it's really good for growing stuff. 401 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,960 But it's not very good for shining the light through it. 402 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:14,400 And if you've got clay, a clay vessel, like an old clay pot or something, you're going 403 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,520 to cook beans in or something like that. 404 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,000 It's great for cooking beans, but you can't see the light through it. 405 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,960 But if you take something as delicate as sand, you get a handful of sand, dry sand, and it 406 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,880 just goes through your fingers. 407 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,840 So it's really like you can hardly even work with it. 408 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,120 It's so frail. 409 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,320 There's not much you can do with it. 410 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,080 It's great for on the beach. 411 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,400 You like to have it on the beach rather than a rocky beach, you know? 412 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:50,640 But it's not something that you would think you could make something beautiful out of. 413 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:59,120 But you take that frail loose, something that you can't even grab ahold of and hang onto. 414 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:08,560 And you put it in the heat of the all-consuming fire of our God in His presence. 415 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,440 And you add something weighty like lead to it. 416 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,440 Wow! 417 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,560 What is that going to produce? 418 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:18,840 What is that going to produce? 419 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,560 It's going to produce something transparent. 420 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,800 It's about being in His presence and going from glory to glory. 421 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,640 We know that our God is a consuming fire. 422 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,360 Deuteronomy 4.24 says it for the Lord. 423 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:37,080 Your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 424 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:41,040 Hebrews 12.29 says our God is a consuming fire. 425 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:46,920 And it's the fire of His presence in the body of believers that's going to bring us into 426 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,680 maturity and unity. 427 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,680 And I love what Ephesians 4 talks about. 428 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,320 And I'd like to read it from the Passion. 429 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,560 I'm going to read several verses from verse 11 to verse 24. 430 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,400 This is where he's talking about the five-fold ministry. 431 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:08,600 The five-fold ministry are supposed to be mature believers. 432 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,440 Sometimes there's flush flashes out of them too. 433 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:15,760 Because there's not any one of them that has reached perfection yet. 434 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,160 Otherwise they'd have been raptured. 435 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,160 Just like Enoch Walketh. 436 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,760 Like Enoch Walketh God took him. 437 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,240 God took him because he made it to perfection. 438 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,400 But the rest of us haven't made it there yet. 439 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,480 So that's why we have to be full of grace for each other. 440 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,640 So here's what I love the Passion translation. 441 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,880 And he has appointed some with grace to be apostles. 442 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,040 And some with grace to be prophets. 443 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,440 And some with grace to be evangelists. 444 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,160 And some with grace to be pastors. 445 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,200 And some with grace to be teachers. 446 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:50,320 And their calling is to nurture and prepare all the holy believers to do their own works 447 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,840 of ministry. 448 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:57,440 And as they do this, they will enlarge and build up the body of Christ. 449 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:02,560 These grace ministries will function until we all attain oneness and the faith. 450 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:07,760 Until we all experience the fullness of what it means to know the Son of God. 451 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:13,800 And finally, we become one perfect man with the full dimensions of spiritual maturity 452 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,520 and fully developed in the abundance of Christ. 453 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:17,520 Isn't that beautiful? 454 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:18,520 Yes. 455 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,800 And then our immaturity will end. 456 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,200 That's where the flesh-fleshes end, right? 457 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:29,080 As we come into know, the more we know him, the more we spend time in the presence of 458 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,960 our eternal Father, the all-consuming fire, the more he heats us up. 459 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,120 I'm not reading now. 460 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,080 I'm commenting. 461 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:42,640 The more he heats us up in his presence, the more transparent we're going to become, 462 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:43,640 right? 463 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,400 We will, okay, now I'm back to reading. 464 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,440 Then our immaturity will end. 465 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,720 And we will not be easily shaken by trouble, nor let astray by novel teachings or by the 466 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:58,080 false doctrines of deceivers who teach clever lies, but instead we will remain strong and 467 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,960 always sincere in our love as we express the truth. 468 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,120 All our direction and ministries will flow from Christ and lead us deeper into him, the 469 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,040 anointed head of his body, the church. 470 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,440 For his body has been formed in his image. 471 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,440 Wow. 472 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,440 Yeah. 473 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:21,680 And is closely joined together and constantly connected as one. 474 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:27,400 And every member has been given divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all. 475 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:34,720 And as these gifts operate effectively, throughout the whole body, we are built up and made perfect 476 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,520 in love. 477 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,840 So with the wisdom given to me from the Lord, I say, you should not live like the unbelievers 478 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,160 around you who walk in their empty delusions. 479 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:50,640 The corrupted logic has been clouded because their hearts are so far from God. 480 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,440 Their blinded understanding and deep-seated moral darkness keeps them from the true knowledge 481 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,000 of God. 482 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,280 Because of spiritual apathy, they surrender their lives to lewdness, impurity, and sexual 483 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,680 obsession. 484 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,920 But this is not the way of life that Christ has unfolded within you. 485 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:07,920 Within you. 486 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,600 This treasure that's in earth and vessels. 487 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,100 Within you. 488 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:17,040 If you have really experienced the anointed one and heard his truth, it will be seen in 489 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,440 your life. 490 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,880 For we know that the ultimate reality is embodied in Jesus. 491 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:28,640 And he has taught you to let go of the lifestyle of the ancient man, the old self-life, which 492 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,560 was corrupted by sinful and deceitful desires that spring from delusions. 493 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:38,280 Now it's time to be made new by every revelation that's been given to you. 494 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:44,920 And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ within as your new life and live in 495 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,360 union with him. 496 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,080 For God has recreated you all over again in his perfect righteousness. 497 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,520 And now you belong to him in the realm of true holiness. 498 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,480 That's beautiful. 499 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,120 That's the treasure in earth and vessels. 500 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,760 As we become transparent, we're going to magnify him. 501 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:11,000 I remember some years ago, quite a few years ago, leading worship one morning in our devotions 502 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:17,320 time and we were singing a song about, oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt 503 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,120 his name together. 504 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,640 And I had this thought go through my head. 505 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,160 How do we magnify the Lord? 506 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,480 And I saw in my mind's eye a picture of a magnifying glass. 507 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:36,720 And I realized that the thing that makes us able to magnify him is being transparent. 508 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:42,920 So that transparent glass comes from spending time in his presence and spending time in 509 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:48,320 that heat, that intense heat of his love. 510 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,840 His love for us is what makes him an all-consuming fire. 511 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:58,120 It's his love for us that provides the oxygen around us. 512 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,360 And you have to have oxygen to have a good fire, right? 513 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:10,400 So the love of God is what gives us that intense heat that transforms us and changes us. 514 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,720 And a magnifying glass is convex on both sides. 515 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:16,720 It's a curve. 516 00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:18,320 It's an outward curve. 517 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,640 Concave is a curve that's shaped like a cave. 518 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,840 So it's an inward curve. 519 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,440 And we don't need an inward curve. 520 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,140 We don't need to be more inward. 521 00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:35,120 We need to be more outward, letting the love of God put us out into that roundness, that 522 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:42,240 beautiful shape that will magnify him, that people will be able to see through our flesh 523 00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:49,200 into that glorious Christ that's within us, that glorious anointed one that's in us, that 524 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:55,880 leads us into the truth and leads us in love and leads us in purity, becoming transparent 525 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,520 and letting people see, yeah, I've got flaws. 526 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,360 I'm not perfect yet. 527 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,120 But Jesus inside of me is perfect. 528 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,400 And so he can pour out his glory through us. 529 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:16,480 And there's a scripture, 1 Corinthians 13-12, for now we see through a glass darkly, but 530 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:17,960 then face to face. 531 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:23,080 Now, I know in part, but then shall I know even as also as I am known. 532 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:30,000 Amen, in the passion, 1 Corinthians 13-12 says, for now we see but a faint reflection 533 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,200 of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror. 534 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:41,600 And the mirrors in those days were not plain clear mirrors. 535 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,520 But one day we will see face to face. 536 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,080 My understanding is incomplete now. 537 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,880 But one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully 538 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,760 understood. 539 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,120 We see through a glass darkly. 540 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:04,280 So in 2 Corinthians 3-18, we see a similar word, but we all with open face, beholding 541 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:11,360 as in a glass or a mirror, the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from 542 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,840 glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord. 543 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:21,200 And that word glory, remember we were talking about in Hebrew, the word glory has the idea 544 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,240 of weight to it. 545 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:31,280 But in Greek, the word is dhoksa, and it has the idea of opinion or judgment or view. 546 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:39,480 So we're looking at something and we're determining in our understanding the value of something. 547 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:45,440 So one of the meanings is splendor or brightness, like of the moon and the sun and the stars. 548 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,760 It can mean magnificent, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace and majesty. 549 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:59,560 And it can also refer to angels as a parent in their exterior brightness, a most glorious 550 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,460 condition, a most exalted state. 551 00:37:01,460 --> 00:37:05,880 This is the outline of biblical usage from the Blue Letter Bible. 552 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:13,280 This idea of going from glory to glory, it's going from one weightiness to the next weightiness. 553 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:19,840 And it's like going from, when I think of glory, I think of, you know, when you look 554 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:25,560 at a little flame, the flame on a candle, you see the flame itself, but there's like 555 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,720 a circle of brightness around it, a glow. 556 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:35,960 And I always think of that glow when I think of glory as that brightness that surrounds 557 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,400 something that is a source of light. 558 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,400 Yeah, that's beautiful. 559 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,000 You know, I remember it was Steadley Pimlot. 560 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,040 He was a minister out of Norwich, England. 561 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,200 He was looking in a mirror one morning getting ready. 562 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,920 He was in his 70s, wasn't he? 563 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,640 Yeah, he was reading his Bible that was sitting on his dresser. 564 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,880 Okay, was he reading that scripture? 565 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,600 I don't know what scripture he was reading, but he was reading his Bible and he glanced 566 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:01,840 up. 567 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,440 And he saw himself as what his glorified body would look like. 568 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:07,440 Yeah. 569 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,960 You know, he was just so young and beautiful and all that, and then, incident was gone. 570 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:11,960 Yeah. 571 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,960 It was like a glimpse. 572 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,320 A momentary glimpse. 573 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,320 Yeah. 574 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,320 Yeah. 575 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:17,320 What's to come? 576 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,320 Yep. 577 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,440 That's treasure in these earthen vessels. 578 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:31,180 So our choice today is how much are we going to let the fire of God, and sometimes that 579 00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:34,720 fire comes in fiery trials. 580 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:41,480 Remember you were once upon a time, a long ago, you were waiting on the Lord and you 581 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:47,480 heard that scripture out of Peter about, don't be surprised at the fiery trial, which is 582 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,480 to try you. 583 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,480 Yeah. 584 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,480 Yeah. 585 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,320 And I went through a fiery trial. 586 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,720 You went through a fiery trial in your health at the time. 587 00:38:55,720 --> 00:39:01,720 But God was kind to you to give you that, and I'm sure that whatever you went through 588 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:08,160 did something in your character, did something in your life, did something in your processes 589 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:15,200 of how you process things to give you a greater understanding and greater revelation. 590 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:20,320 And it's somehow, I just know that that's how God works, that it elevates you into a 591 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,320 different place. 592 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:30,640 Because it's like going through school, you learn something, and then you practice it, 593 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,240 you review it, and then you're tested on it. 594 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:38,760 And you're tested to see, did you really learn this? 595 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:45,080 And sometimes the fiery trials in our lives are for that purpose to check and see, did 596 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:51,480 we actually learn the lesson, or do we have to go back and review again? 597 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:59,560 So the Lord is trying to challenge us that we have this treasure of Him inside of us. 598 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:10,520 And we have the opportunity all the time to judge or to give grace to other people who 599 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,840 also have a treasure in their earthen vessel. 600 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,440 And we have the choice of how much are we going to let the love of God shine through 601 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:20,440 us. 602 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,240 It's Christ in you, the hope of glory. 603 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:23,240 Yes. 604 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:24,240 Yeah. 605 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:25,240 And we've got to let that hope out. 606 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:26,240 Yeah. 607 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:27,440 We've got to give room for each other. 608 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:35,120 We've got to have love for each other, enough to cover each other when we've made a mistake. 609 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,480 And I just want to close with this thought from Revelation 12, verses 10 and 11. 610 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,720 Now is come. 611 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,800 Now is come salvation and strength. 612 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:50,600 And the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ, His anointed one, for the accuser 613 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,960 of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night, and they 614 00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:02,640 overcame Him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. 615 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,160 And they love not their lives unto the death. 616 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:11,640 So when we are being challenged by someone who has done something wrong, someone who 617 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:17,440 knows better, someone who has been misguided, misled, someone who's been tricked. 618 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,640 There's a lot of times that witchcraft is being done on our brothers and sisters and 619 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,480 the Lord, especially, especially preachers. 620 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,160 You know, they're coming under direct attack. 621 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,160 Yes. 622 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:35,400 They're coming under direct attack from the enemy to try and discredit them and push them 623 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,480 off the scene. 624 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:45,680 So God is trying to help us, to help each other to grow up into the maturity of the 625 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:53,660 Lord as we let His love shine through us and as we become intercessors for those who have 626 00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:55,440 made a mistake. 627 00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,360 And instead of judging them and instead of calling them out on the carpet, you know, 628 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,240 what did Jesus say in the first place? 629 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:04,480 If your brother offends you, what are you supposed to do? 630 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,480 Forgive him. 631 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,200 Forgive him, first of all, but also if there's something needs to be dealt with, you go to 632 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,760 him personally, one on one. 633 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,340 You don't talk about it with other people. 634 00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:17,520 You go deal with it one on one. 635 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:23,800 And if you come to a conclusion that's amicable, then it's over. 636 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,640 And if the person doesn't hear you, then you go with someone else. 637 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:33,920 But you don't take it to the whole body until you've done those other steps. 638 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,040 And it grieves my heart when we have people out there that are accusing one another of 639 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,680 this and that, especially now that we have all the social media where we can just say 640 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,920 anything we want to. 641 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,560 And we get into trouble with that. 642 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:54,600 But God wants us to learn to be intercessors for each other and cover one another with 643 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:58,160 the blood of Jesus Christ and bring that forgiveness. 644 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:03,880 And as we pray for each other, that sets people free to realize, oh no, I made a mistake. 645 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:10,840 But if we hold judgments over them, it will keep them in bondage so that they won't even 646 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,000 feel like repenting. 647 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:19,520 But when we become intercessors, it will help and it will help to bring the body of Christ 648 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,280 to maturity. 649 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:27,640 And that comes from our intimate relationship with our Father, the all-consuming fire that 650 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:32,400 helps us to become transparent in Him, going from glory to glory. 651 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,280 So as we're going from glory to glory, as we're helping one another go from glory to 652 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:43,520 glory, as we're helping one another overcome by our intercessions, we are making the hidden 653 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,920 treasures of the Word of God viewable. 654 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:54,640 We're making the hidden treasures of the presence of God obvious and manifest in our 655 00:43:54,640 --> 00:44:01,280 lives so that the world can see that this hidden treasure is something that they're 656 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,720 going to want. 657 00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:11,640 Father in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray for all of our listeners, Lord, to have this 658 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:17,600 revelation of how they can become intercessors for those that have made mistakes, how we 659 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:26,600 can all exhibit more of your glory by letting you burn your fire in us and transform us 660 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:31,640 even by the testings that we go through, Lord, that leads us into your hope and into your 661 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:32,720 glory. 662 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:37,280 In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, we just pray for that mighty grace that comes from 663 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:42,360 your presence to help each and every one of us to be transformed by the renewing of our 664 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:49,800 minds to go from glory to glory and let your hidden treasure that's inside of us be manifest 665 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:50,800 in Jesus' name. 666 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:51,800 Amen. 667 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