God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,
where we contend for that promised outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage
in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. Philip
and I are going to talk about something that is a little unusual. You'll be hearing some really
familiar scriptures, but from a very different perspective, we're going to look at dark reflections
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help us keep this podcast going. So today, we're going to look at a scripture that has been on my
heart ever since about two episodes ago, when we were talking about going from glory to glory and
hidden treasures, treasures in earthen vessels. There was a scripture that Philip brought that
I've been meditating about ever since. And I just felt like it was really important that we come
back and revisit that scripture. Yeah, this is the King James, 1 Corinthians 13 verse 12,
for now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall
I know even as also I am known. Beautiful. That idea of seeing through a glass darkly has just been
rolling around in my spirit. And I looked at some other translations to get an idea of what else
has been translated from this scripture. The Berean Standard Bible says, now we see but a dim
reflection as in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known. And the Berean Literal Bible says, for presently we see through a glass
in obscurity, but then face to face. Presently I know in part, but then I will know fully,
even as I have been fully known. And the Amplified says, now we are looking in a mirror that gives
only a dim blurred reflection of reality as in a riddle or enigma. But then when perfection comes,
we shall see in reality and face to face. Now I know in part, imperfectly, but then I shall know
and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and
understood by God. So there's some different ways that it's being translated. And that's the wonder
of the original languages. There is not one single translation that fully gives every,
every, everything. Because Hebrew and Greek are both kind of pictorial languages that one word
can be translated by many words into English. So that's why we have all of these, give it your best
shot translations. But you kind of need to compare one with another to get the full meaning.
And you can dig down into like the Strong's Concordance Dictionary. And my personal favorite
is the, my favorite Bible is the Hebrew Greek Key Study Bible that has the lexical aids in the back
that were compiled by Spiros Zodiades. Wow, there's just a depth, a depth and treasure trove of words.
You know, you have one Greek word or one Hebrew word and you get a whole paragraph about what it
means. Yeah, because there's places you go, you have no internet. If you're the speaker,
you can't rely on the internet to look up your Greek word. Well, that's true. That's true. So
it's nice having a Bible with all this in there. That is true. However, I regularly, on my phone,
I'm all the time using the Blue Letter Bible app. It's quicker. It's very quick. It doesn't have
the depth of information that this other one does, but it's got quite a lot. And I use the Bible Hub.
You can go to BibleHub.com or Blue Letter Bible.com, but I use the apps on my phone.
If I'm on my desktop, obviously I'm going to use the internet version, but the Bible Hub gives you
different translations. And that's where I pulled some of these from that I just read. That's why
they call it a hub. It's a hub. Absolutely. And it's wonderful. You can do verse by verse and
I don't know how many it is, 20 or 30 different translations. So I use it almost every day.
I'm voracious. I'm so hungry for the word because I just want to know the author.
And you get to know the author by reading what he says. And for me, everything is all about knowing
God. That is what this verse is all about. And that is what this verse is all about. But, okay,
let me just go back and talk about mirrors in ancient times. And I think we talk about that
a little bit in that previous podcast on hidden treasures. I think we touched on it about how
the mirrors in ancient times, they might have been made out of obsidian, which is a black glass
that's volcanic. And so they would, you know, just slice it somehow and then polish it up.
It's pretty reflective to begin with. But, you know, I'm sure they would have polished it or
they've made it, they would have made it out of brass or steel and then polish that. But I'm
thinking in the 21st century, what we might consider to be a dark reflection, okay, a reflection
that's kind of obscure that you really can't see well. As we were getting ready for the
podcast, I was sitting in front of my laptop and it hadn't been turned on yet. So the screen is
dark, but I could see myself in it. I could see a reflection, but I couldn't really see details.
You know, I couldn't see my eyelashes. I couldn't see. I couldn't even tell what color eyes I had.
Okay, I happen to have blue eyes.
Yeah, I remember when you were Skyping me from Nigeria one time.
Oh yeah, the room was very dark.
All I could see was your teeth and the reflection from that 30 watt light bulb on the wall and the
frame of your glasses. And that's all I saw. It was quite amazing.
And we were looking through a glass darkly. It was an obscure reflection.
But I knew it was you.
Probably because you could hear my voice. But, you know, another dark version of this would be,
for instance, if you were if you were by a black car and a black automobile that's been highly
polished, nice and shiny, you know, you can see yourself in it. You can see reflection.
That might be what it would have been like to have a mirror made of obsidian.
Yeah, because I think back in the time of Jesus, they used Roman glass. Yeah. And you can buy.
It's like one of my favorite things to do when we were in the church.
It's like one of my favorite things to do when we were in Israel.
Then we would take the tours and we go into a shop.
And sometimes I would hunt for a pair of earrings or a necklace that was made out of Roman glass.
Yeah, I like all of them. You got me.
Yeah. And it's just very, you know, they're a little pricey, but they're beautiful because
it's a rarity to find 2000 year old glass. Very true. Very true.
But, you know, the whole point is that the reflection in these ancient mirrors would not have been
anywhere near the kind of reflection that we would have in our mirrors today in the 21st century
that have clear glass with silver behind them. But, you know, even a current modern mirror,
you know, if it's maybe if it's a little bit old and the conditions have been damp or something
like that, it might cause the silvering in the back to deteriorate.
Yeah. And then you can't see very clearly. No.
The reflection is marred. Yeah.
Okay. And there's another thing about ancient mirrors, which kind of freaked me out when I saw
it. I saw some pictures online when I was studying this and a lot of them, the handle of the mirror
was an image of one of the gods that these people would have worshiped.
Of course, these were would not have been cheap. They were more for the upper class.
Oh, yeah. They were for the upper class and the upper class would have been,
you know, really replete in their idols. Yeah.
So they had lots and lots of idols. Yeah.
And this was just there was part of their day to day thing to have idols all around them,
because that's what they believed was making the difference in their lives.
I remember our founder, Sister Gwyn, would say in Taiwan, you could go into a lot of the stores
and you would see they have a little altar in the back up there. And then sometimes they would put
a little honey on the lips of the kitchen god. Oh, yeah.
So it would only say sweet things. Yeah. At the new year.
At the new year. At the new year, they would change
the kitchen god. They'd get rid of the old one. They'd bring the old one.
So they put honey on the lips so that it would it wouldn't tell all the nasty things that people
had done in the kitchen. So that's before they burned it, right?
Before they burned it. Yeah. Oh, wow.
Anyway, anyway, so much so much for idols. We don't want to talk about idols, but even in
the occult, there are occult mirrors. There are mirrors that have been that have been given over
and prayed over and and cursed so that they will will somehow be used in occult practices.
And I don't study that kind of thing. I don't want to know that kind of thing,
but I know that it's out there. Yeah.
And so what I want to say about mirrors is even a really, really good mirror,
even a magnifying mirror, you know, I use a magnifying mirror when when I put my makeup on
because, well, I don't have my glasses on when I'm putting my makeup on. So I need to be able
to see well. So I want to use a magnifying mirror so I can see the details. But even the best mirrors
are not really telling you the truth. Because if you compare the image in a mirror
and the image in a photograph, the photograph is really what you look like.
Only not really, because it's only two dimensional. Yeah, it's flat, you know,
it's not three dimensional. But the idea is that the photograph will at least show that the right
side of you is the right side of you and not the left side of you. When when you're looking at a
mirror, like if I part my hair on the right hand side, the person in the mirror has it parted on
the left hand side. And sometimes on like on Facebook or something, people post something
out of themselves and it's the writing on their sweatshirt or something is backwards.
Exactly, because it's a mirror image. So your mirror is really not telling you the truth.
It's not it's giving you a false sense of understanding. Now, it's good to help you
find if you have a smudge of mud on your face, you know where to wash, you know, you didn't get all
the chocolate off or whatever. Gotcha. Yeah, got you eating chocolate. You know, but and it can tell
you if you've got a new gray hair or if you've got a zit or whatever, you know, it is good for
that kind of thing, although you don't necessarily even want to know those kind of things. But it's
not giving you a full picture of the truth. So what was rolling in me was why? Why is this scripture
in First Corinthians 13? Now, what do we know about First Corinthians 13? If you're a Bible
knower at all, if you're a Bible reader at all, if you've listened to very many sermons,
you've probably heard a sermon about First Corinthians 13. The love chapter. Exactly.
It's the love chapter. So why? Why would we have a scripture that's talking about
looking through a mirror dimly, obscurely? It's like a riddle.
It's knowing the author because even in verse 13, the end of the chapter,
it says, And now by the faith, hope, love these three, but the greatest of these is love. Right.
And that's what we're called to. It's what we're called to because that's who he is.
And, you know, it's first, John four, seven and eight. Remember that little song we used to sing?
I hope it's not copyrighted. Yeah. We love it. Let us love one another for love is of God.
And everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. Oh, listen to that. And knoweth God. He that
loveth not knoweth not God for God is love. Beloved, let us love one another. First John four, seven and eight.
Wow. Remember that? Yeah, I remember that. Yeah.
So knowing God is about knowing his love. Yeah. So I want to look at 1 Corinthians 13
for a little while today and just get the idea of why are we having a dim version?
Why is this like a riddle to us? Why are we only getting it part way? I think the answer really lies
in the fact that we are fleshly, that we are a spirit living in a fleshly body with a soul
that is under training for learning how to walk with the spirit. And having to put down
idle thoughts and put down. Imagination. Vain imaginations. Yeah. And having to put away doubts.
Doubts. I mean, Adam and Eve started their downward spin by doubting.
They listened to the accuser. They listened to the one who was lying to them.
God didn't really mean that. He just doesn't want you to be like him. Yeah. And I'm going to throw in
here. I think it was Dean Braxton or yeah, I think it was Dean Braxton that said, you know, this wasn't
something that had just happened. This was going on for a while. I mean, you know, the serpent. Yeah.
This, you know, this wasn't just this one time thing. This had been going on for a while.
And isn't that what the devil does? You know, it just keeps whispering stuff into your soul.
Right. And the only way you can filter that out is keeping your focus on the Holy Spirit and Jesus.
That's the only way that you're going to focus all that out because it's just going to come at you.
Yeah. It's true. It's like, it's like Chinese water torture. Drip. One drip at a time. Drip.
Wow. Drip. And it never stops. Yeah. That's what it can be. So let's look at 1 Corinthians 13
and let's consider what are the filters in us that would keep us from getting it.
Okay. So I'm going to look at it in the amplified. If I can speak in the tongues of men and even of
angels, but have not love, that reasoning, intentional spiritual devotion, such as is inspired
by God's love for us and in us, I am only a noisy gong or a clanging symbol. So what would that be?
Would that be like pride? If I can speak in the tongues of men and angels, da da da da da,
how wonderful I am. Yeah, very well could be boasting. Boasting. It's all pride. Yeah.
Before we go any deeper though, I'd like to, I forgot to do this earlier. I would like to
give a definition of what this agape is. This agape love. Thank you, Spiros Zodiac. This is
from the lexical aids to the New Testament in his Bible I just mentioned. It's love, a word not
found in classical Greek, but only in revealed religion, translated charity, meaning benevolent
love. It's benevolence, however, is not shown by doing what the person loved desires, but what the
one who loves deems as needed by the one loved. For God so loved the world that he gave. He gave
not what man wanted, but what man needed as God perceived his need, namely his son who brought
forgiveness to man. God's love for man is doing what he thinks best for man and not what man
desires. It is God's willful direction toward man, but for man to show love to God, he must first
appropriate God's agape for only God has such an unselfish love. It's beautiful. Isn't that
beautiful? So it's love by choice, not by chance. So if I don't have love, I'm going to be like a
noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. But what would it sound like if I do have love and speak with
tongues? See, that's where we know in part and we prophesy in part and that's how we're seeing
through a glass darkly. This is a dark reflection. What does it look like if I do those things with
love? Maybe it'll sound more like a wedding bell. Because that's a love thing, right? So let's go
on to verse two. If I have prophetic powers, the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose
and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have sufficient
faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love, God's love in me, I am nothing.
And that word nothing, that Greek, I don't have the name of the word, but it's zero.
Nothing.
Literally zero.
Literally zero. Yeah. And it goes on to say a useless nobody.
Well, what's the scripture Jesus used? Said all those in that day, you know, did we not do all
these wonderful things in your name? He says, I never knew you. It's just like we had the gift,
but not the giver.
Oh, well said. Yeah. And too many times a ministry will teach about getting a gift
without really concentrating on the giver of the gift, because that's what keeps the gift pure.
It's true. It's true. And it reminds me of that story of how back in the days of the Muslim conquest
of Egypt, that there was a Sultan that he enjoyed the debate between the Jews and the Christians.
Yeah.
And the Christian won the last debate and the Jewish guy was so angry. And so he did a little
research and found out that Jesus said, if you have faith, you can move a mountain. So he told
the Sultan about this. And the Sultan said, you know, that mountain there is in my way of the view.
I'm going to ask these guys to move this mountain. So he called in the patriarch of the Coptic church
and said, is it true that your Bible says that if you have faith, you can remove this mountain?
He said, yes, it does say that. And he said, good. So I need you to move this mountain in three days.
I guess maybe he wanted it right away. And the patriarch said, can we have three days to pray
and fast, please? And so they prayed and fasted. Oh, and by the way, if you don't move the mountain,
then all the Christians are going to have to become Muslims or be killed.
Yeah.
Or something like that. And so they're praying and fasting for three days. And the night before
they're supposed to move the mountain, the patriarch has a vision and he's told in the vision
to go out right now. There's a man named Simon the Tanner and he's carrying a water pot and he's,
I think that's what he was carrying. He was doing something. He was out and about doing something.
I don't remember the details, but he only has one eye and you'll know him and he's the one
that will move the mountain for you. So the patriarch goes out and he meets Simon the Tanner
and he explains what he's supposed to do. And he says, I can't move a mountain. What are you thinking?
I'm sorry, but I'm not your man. I'm just a humble shoemaker. And he says, they're conversing
and the patriarch says, well, by the way, how did you lose your eye? He says, well, I was bending
down to fix a shoe for this lady. I was just going to take her shoe off of her and fix it for her.
And she pulled her skirt up way too far. And I saw what I shouldn't have seen. And I remembered
what Jesus said, if your right eye offends you, pluck it out. So I reached up my all and I took
my eye out. And the patriarch says, I don't think he really meant that. But he'd done it, you know.
And to me, anyone who will take the book that literally should be able to move a mountain.
But he was very humble. And that's why he qualified because he had this walk with God in humility
and in taking the book literally. And so the next morning, Simon said, you know, I'll stand behind
you and you and everybody, let's just all pray and ask God for mercy. And I'll be praying with you.
So, you know, it won't look like it's me. And so they came out there as the sun is coming up
and they prayed, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy. And the mountain picked up
and moved. And you can go in Cairo, Mount Makatam is there. And it is the mountain that moved. It's
called the Broken Mountain. That's what Mount Makatam means. And it moved from Tahir Square.
You know, it's been proved geologically.
Geologically that that used to be on top of here.
Yeah, exactly.
And they said you could see the sunrise underneath the mountain when it lifted.
Exactly. And actually the the sultan became a Christian at that point. He lost his job as sultan
because he wasn't a Muslim anymore. But it brought great respect for the Christian community.
And the thing was, Simon the Tanner disappeared. He wasn't going to hang around to be congratulated
for having done something. I would say that that qualifies for what it looks like for someone who
does have love. Beautiful. Not taking any credit for himself.
Not taking any credit. And even this idea of understanding mysteries. You know, there's a lot
of folks that are that are delving into the mysteries of God. And I love that. You know,
it's part of the book. Mysteries are hidden for us to find. So don't get freaked out about Christian
mystics because they're just dealing with what the book says. And the deeper you dig, the more
mysteries you're going to uncover and the more nuggets you're going to find.
And that's what we do. We just love to dig in it. But to do it without love, you wind up being
nothing. And I think we look at this chapter of all of these great things that can be done
by God's people that are part of the walk of the Spirit. But if we do it without love,
if we do it without God's kind of love that is more concerned about the needs of others
and how can we fulfill the needs of others. You know, even the unlovely, this last podcast
that we did with Sherri Grubelnick about talking about what she's been through and her daughter
Amber that is a special child, not what you'd call normal. How does the love of God
move us, move us with his compassion to want to help? You know, that's where we become something
in the kingdom, not this nothing thing. Yeah. Okay. I was looking for that scripture where
your works are tried by fire. Oh, yeah. That's in 1 Corinthians 2, starting with verse 10. He's
talking about, Paul is talking about himself as being a wise master builder. I've laid the
foundation and the foundation is Jesus and others have built on it. And some are building with
wood hay and stubble and some are building with gold and silver and precious stones. Every man's
work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire
and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. Wow. Yeah. If any man's work abide,
which he's built there on, he shall receive a reward. But if any man's work shall be burned,
he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved yet. So as by fire. Yeah. And that's what
we're looking at. So if, what are we building with? If your works are love motivated, yes,
then that, that gives you an entrance. I remember we had a speaker once, Howard Pittman. He was a
good Baptist. I mean, he took trouble people into his home and he'd give out tracks and everything
like that. And he had a massive heart attack, died on the table. He went to heaven, but they wouldn't
let him through the gate and said, everything you did, you did for yourself. I think it was Jesus
standing there. Everything you did, you did for yourself. It was your self motive. I'm sending you
back to give you another chance. Thank God. I thought, Oh, wow. Yeah. So let's get it right the
first time. Yes. Let's do things by love, by love, because otherwise we're not seeing clearly.
We're not seeing the fullness of what, what God is trying to show us. And, and if we, if we go on,
you know, he, it says, let's go to verse four, love endures long and is patient and kind.
Love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy is not boastful or vainglorious does not display
itself haughtily. See those, those things are like filters that keep us from seeing love.
It's like looking at my reflection in the dark screen of my, of my laptop. You know, you really
don't, you really don't see it well. Jealousy, boastfulness, haughtiness at verse five says,
it is not conceited, arrogant and inflated with pride. It is not rude, unmanorly and does not act
unbecomingly love. God's love in us does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not
self-seeking. It is not touchy or fretful or resentful. Boy, the, the amplified really gets it.
Doesn't it? Lays it up. You can't escape it. Like, ouch, hallelujah. Yeah. It takes no,
I love this one. This one is so powerful. It takes no account of the evil done to it.
It pays no attention to a suffered wrong. Wow. Come on, we got it. We got to come up higher.
We've got to come up higher. We've got to not even be moved when our flesh wants to just
go back and lick its wounds from, from something that somebody's done to us. It pays no attention
to a suffered wrong. It's unoffendable. Love is unoffendable. It does not rejoice at injustice
and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love does not
rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes is ever ready to believe the best of every
person. Beautiful. Wow. I'm, I'm thinking we need to, Holy Spirit help us, you know, because we've,
we've been seeing through a glass darkly. We've, we've been seeing a dark reflection. It's not
d tell how much itㅠㅠ, you know? By the way, you know, we, I was going to happen with something
like the David from David finished the story. And you know, the 얼굴 in the
marketplace, you know, in intervention of tools and tools, you know, you can show like a
mould by twice, the
interpreting the divine will and purpose, it will be fulfilled and pass away. Hmm, that's
well put. As for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease. As for knowledge, it will pass
away. It will lose its value and be superseded by truth. You know, we're not cessationists.
There are people that use this scripture to say that now that we have the fullness of
the scriptures, we have the canon of scripture, and so that which is perfect has come. That
comes up a little bit further, but you know, they're saying that prophecy and tongues have
ceased. That's only because it ceased for the people, the theologians that were trying
to figure out why they didn't have any power. And so they made up this idea that it's because
all of that ceased with the apostles. As for knowledge, it will pass away. It will lose
its value and be superseded by truth. Wow, that's great. Knowledge will be superseded
by truth. Verse nine, for our knowledge is fragmentary, incomplete and imperfect. And
our prophecy, our teaching is fragmentary, incomplete and imperfect. But when the complete
and perfect total comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away, become antiquated,
void and superseded. Wow. When I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a child.
I reasoned like a child. Now that I've become a man, I am done with childish ways and have
put them aside. And here we come to verse 12. Now, now we've got it in context. For
now we are looking in a mirror that only gives a dim, blurred reflection of reality as in
a riddle or enigma. And actually the Greek word there is enigma. But then when perfection
comes, we shall see in reality and face to face. Now I know in part, imperfectly, but
then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have
been fully and clearly known and understood by God. Now, I just want to go back and take
a few of those words where it says we know in part. That word know means to know experientially,
not intuitively. Like intuition is something that you know and you knower. Yeah. And you
know you're right. But this is knowledge that you've gained by experience. We haven't experienced
everything there is to experience. There's always more to experience. Yeah. For we know
in part and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect is come and that word
perfect doesn't mean perfect as in with no flaws. You know, like we think about the scripture
is the perfect thing. Well, no. When that which is perfect is come, the word perfect
there is the word Greek word telios. And it means adult, full grown or full age as opposite
to little children. It can mean to reach the intended goal. So that gives context for the
next verse. Okay. When that which is perfect is come perfect, meaning adult or full grown,
full age as opposite to little children, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, okay, the word child is nepios and it means infant not able to speak
plainly. When I was a child, I spoke as a child. Okay. We've just been around some little
children today and, and I'm thinking about our youngest granddaughter. Sometimes you
understand what she's saying. And sometimes it's like, what did you say? I didn't catch
that. Yeah. Not able to speak clearly. So the comparison here is when that which is
perfect has come, when that which is full age, it's comparing to a little child. When
I was a child, I spoke as a child. I understood as a child. And it can also mean a minor,
a minor child. It's like, you don't give the keys to the car to a minor child. They're
not ready to drive yet. Yeah. You know, you might give the keys to the baby to play with,
not to drive the car. I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I came to a
man, when I became a man, I put away childish things. So it's about being full grown, full
grown when you can be trusted. And so the comparison here is we are only getting this
whole love picture dimly. We're only getting this walk in the spirit picture dimly. We're
not getting the full reflection. We're not getting the whole details. Because we're trying
to look at everything through a natural eye. What's going on around us. Maybe what we're
hearing. What did the Lord speak to you? Pull back, draw back and pray, which means don't
listen to anybody else. Yes, that's exactly what it means. Because that's how we're motivated
a lot of times. Yeah. A lot of times we are parroting what other people are saying. Yeah.
And there's something to that, that when you hear something that you know, the Holy Spirit
is resonating with you about, you can make it your own. Right. Yeah. But other things,
if you repeat it enough, you believe it. Yeah, that's true. And it might not even be true.
Isn't that what the news media? Sure. They would just keep repeating things and eventually
you get used to it and then maybe you or your siblings or something, they'll agree to it.
Yeah. Because you've heard it enough. And that's what the whole propaganda idea is.
That if you say it enough times, people will start saying it for you. Propaganda is not
just a communist word. It's for what's happening today and all things. We understand that.
Propaganda. Yeah. But we have to put away the childish things. We have to be able to
be so focused on the Lord and focused on His word that we're getting to know Him, getting
to know His ways and letting His love begin to operate through us. And that's through
who you listen to. We said that, but I was listening just a little bit ago to a message
by Catherine Kuhlman. Wow. Because she knew the Holy Spirit. Yes, she did. I mean, you
look at the tremendous miracles, everything she had. But we've heard someone say that
knows her workers very well. She would just run out. If I can just get out because I know
the Holy Spirit is out there on the stage waiting for me. But I had to get out there.
She was like a caged tiger before it was time to get out there. She was saying, Oh God,
please, please don't fail me. Please don't leave me. And just pacing, just pacing and
praying. So if you can imagine walking out into an auditorium full of thousands of people,
that the Holy Spirit was who she just relied on. Absolutely. And when you listen to people
like that, that are in the presence of God like that, you feel it. Yes. It might have
been a recording 30, 40 years ago. 50, 60 years ago. 50, 60? Yeah, it was the 1970s.
You feel it. So that's what you need to have when you're people you listen to. You need
to feel it. You need to resonate. I think that would be the word we're looking for.
If you can just resonate with what they're speaking, how you can really capture what
they are saying. It's true. With regard to that word about when that which is perfect
has come, in the explanation of it in this Bible I was talking about, it mentions the
word, okay, we were looking at the word, Talios. He was saying, Talia agape is perfect love.
And perfect love means that it's not lacking anything. It's not wanting love. And it's
a love that accomplishes its goal. Yeah. And so that's what I believe the Lord is trying
to encourage us about today. The thing that we have just been not seeing clearly, that
God wants to give us clearly. And I'll just go back to the idea that Moses was face to
face with God and it changed him. It changed his countenance. And that countenance, that
face to face kind of face to face activity, just being with God, face to face, spending
time with him, waiting on him. It changes us. And because he is love, the more we spend
time in his presence, the more we're going to be able to live this 1 Corinthians 13.
The more our flesh is going to lie down and let our spirit lead, because I think the key
is that part of your soul that is your will. When you determine with your will, I'm going
to go with my spirit. I'm going to walk with the Holy Spirit. My spirit is connected to
the Holy Spirit and I'm not going to follow those fleshly ways. I'm not going to listen
to that accuser anymore. When he's accusing me to me, when he's accusing others to me,
when he's accusing God to me, causing me to doubt, I'm going to say no. And one of the
things that God has been doing in me, I've probably mentioned it before, and it just
started without me thinking about doing it. It wasn't something like God challenged me
to do this. I found myself doing it because the Holy Spirit was doing it through me in
my spirit. That every time I would get a thought into my head that my spirit would even recognize
it before my conscious mind recognized what it was. And I'd find myself praying in tongues,
speaking in tongues, addressing it in tongues. Instead of replying to it in English, get
out of here. Get out of here. I start praying in tongues. I start speaking in tongues and
it's like it stops it dead. Some kind of accusing thought, some kind of a you stupid, why did
you do that? Or those kind of thoughts or look at that person or things that are thoughts
of doubt. All of a sudden I'm speaking in tongues and it disappears. It's like it can't
stand the light. Turn on the light. And that's what this whole study is about today. Turn
on the light. It's when we're in his presence. We go from glory to glory. We go in this face
to face, putting our face in a place where we can see his face. Even if you just start
with your sanctified imagination, looking for his bright shining face and that Aaronic
blessing. I believe there's something to that that we're seeing darkly still. He says twice.
And it starts with the Lord Yehovah bless you and keep you. The Lord Yehovah make his
face to shine upon you. This is Aaron saying this over the whole nation, the whole nation
of Israel. As I'm meditating on it, I'm thinking he's saying you can have face to face just
like Moses did. May his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord Yehovah lift
up his countenance. That's his face upon you. And when you have that experience, when you
have that face to face encounter, I'm telling you, it gives you shalom. It gives you peace.
It gives you that completeness, that tailios, that reaching a prescribed goal. Growing up,
becoming the fullness of an adult. That's what he's trying to do. An adult believer,
an adult saint, where his ways are being worked in us. And the more we spend time with him,
the more we're going to get that shalom. So we just speak that over you listener.
Yes. Amen.
That he gives you his shalom as you are seeking him face to face. You will go from glory to
glory. It's a transition. It's a transformation. It's like turning from a caterpillar into
a butterfly. That's what he's doing. And as we start looking with the light on his word,
beginning with the light of his spirit, in him was light and the light was the life of
men. His life begins to pump through your veins and transform you into looking just
like him. Wow.
Hallelujah.
Glory.
There's hope.
Amen.
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