1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,040 You know that we're not perfect. 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:03,640 We live in an imperfect world. 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:04,080 Right. 4 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:08,000 We're around imperfect people driving imperfect cars, right? 5 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,360 You know, going to imperfect work a lot of times. 6 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,320 So it's all around us. 7 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,200 It's the only, our only hope is just pressing toward the mark. 8 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:30,400 God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:35,000 Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promise outpouring. 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,800 We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,280 I'm Philip Bus. 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,440 And I'm Sharon Bus. 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:43,920 Welcome to the podcast today. 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:45,640 We're so glad that you're with us. 15 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:52,200 The Lord has been speaking to us and he gave me a marvelous word that we want to share at 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,240 the end of this podcast. 17 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:05,680 But it's starting out with talking about our feelings of failure and God's vision for success. 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,360 Thanks so much for joining us today. 19 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,360 We're so glad that you're with us. 20 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:15,600 We want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, to go to our website, globaloutpouring.net 21 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,960 and make sure that you have signed up for our email blasts. 22 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:27,520 We have several to choose from and you can go and read our blogs there and go and shop 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,280 in our web store. 24 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,360 We've got a number of our things that are on sale right now, getting ready for Christmas 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,080 so that you can have a good opportunity to get life changing things for people that you 26 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:39,720 love. 27 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,560 And today we are going to talk about, do you ever feel like a failure? 28 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,080 Oh, yes. 29 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:54,080 I know that it seems like we're under a barrage a lot of times of failure feelings, like, you 30 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,760 know, where you should have done something, I should have done something that I didn't 31 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,880 do or I did something I shouldn't have done. 32 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:06,560 You know, I feel like Paul, you know, in Romans seven that I do what I don't want to do. 33 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:07,560 Yeah. 34 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,560 And the thing that I want to do, I don't do. 35 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:18,800 And Romans eight fills in the gap that we have the Lord Jesus Christ to be the one that 36 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,600 makes up the difference. 37 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,480 Yeah, verse one. 38 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,040 There's therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. 39 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,040 Yes. 40 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,400 Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. 41 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,720 And verse 28. 42 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:34,720 Yes. 43 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:41,080 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who 44 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,360 are the called according to his purpose. 45 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,560 Yeah, we're called. 46 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,160 We're all called. 47 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,160 Exactly. 48 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:56,680 And our enemy is constantly trying to get us to either fall into sin or miss something. 49 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:02,080 Either we're intending to do something, we don't get it done or we fall into something 50 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:09,440 that we shouldn't do just because in a moment we have a flesh flash and things don't go 51 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,000 the way we intended. 52 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:18,600 But Jesus is there to be the one that is fixing it. 53 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:25,160 And as I was waiting on the Lord some days ago, I'm not sure if I was challenging him 54 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:31,600 or he was challenging me, but I wrote down in my journal, let's talk about failure. 55 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,840 Because I wanted him to talk to me about failure because lots of times, you know, lots of times 56 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:42,720 you're just under that haranguing voice that's trying to get you to be depressed or to be 57 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,720 disheartened. 58 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:44,720 Yeah. 59 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:45,720 And... 60 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:50,680 Well, you look at all these, look at any of your preachers. 61 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,640 What you see up there in the platform is totally different than maybe when they're really going 62 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,560 through stuff because they won't let it show. 63 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,560 Right. 64 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,080 Because they're trying to be an example. 65 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,360 And it's good to be an example. 66 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,280 And we try to be an example too. 67 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:10,840 But I think it's important also for us to be transparent and let people see that, hey, 68 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,480 we're having the same kind of struggles that you're having. 69 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,760 First Corinthians 10 13 says, there is no temptation taking you, but such as is common 70 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,420 to man. 71 00:04:22,420 --> 00:04:27,880 But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able, but 72 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:34,760 will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it. 73 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:40,100 In other words, everybody is going through something similar. 74 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:44,840 You know, and the enemy wants us to think that what we're going through is something 75 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:47,800 that nobody has ever gone through before. 76 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,880 It's worse than anybody else. 77 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:56,000 It's like in, in, uh, first Peter, you know, this fiery trial that you're going to go through. 78 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Right. 79 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,440 And it's like, we're not exempt from trials. 80 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:00,440 Right. 81 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,360 I had a saying I kind of coined some years back, you know, just kind of dropped in my 82 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,360 spirit. 83 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,240 He who is perfect, let him fly away to glory. 84 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,240 I remember that. 85 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,600 And I think it was over something that happened or something. 86 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:14,600 I'm sure probably was. 87 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,680 It just came and I never forgot that. 88 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,580 I thought, you know, that we're not perfect. 89 00:05:19,580 --> 00:05:21,240 We live in an imperfect world. 90 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:22,240 Right. 91 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,120 We're around imperfect people driving imperfect cars. 92 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:26,120 Right. 93 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,360 And going to imperfect work a lot of times. 94 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:30,800 So it's all around us. 95 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,760 That's the only, our only hope is just pressing toward the mark. 96 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:35,760 Right. 97 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:36,760 You know, and that's, that's Paul. 98 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:42,240 It says I press toward the mark of the high calling of God and that mark in the, in the 99 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:43,240 Greek. 100 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:44,240 Yeah. 101 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,600 And you really know this if you go up to Jerusalem and Scopus and Mount and Scopus that's there's 102 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,920 a Mount Scopus and Israel. 103 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:57,560 And when the pilgrims would come, not the modern ones today on a bus, I mean, this is 104 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,880 2000 years ago when they're coming up to the feast, they would walk to Jerusalem and come 105 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:03,880 to Mount Scopus. 106 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:04,880 Right. 107 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:10,160 And if you could get there by sundown, the glow of sunset was falling on the city. 108 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,880 It was a beautiful, it's a beautiful sight. 109 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:13,880 Yes. 110 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:19,080 You know, so the only way you'll get to capture that is if you go to Jerusalem, Israel and 111 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,080 do that, you know. 112 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,080 Right. 113 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:28,080 Because the mark was let's get the Mount Scopus before nightfall so we can get the view, you 114 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,040 know, before the sun goes down. 115 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,040 Right. 116 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,040 Pressing toward the mark. 117 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,520 And, and that's what we have to do. 118 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,320 It's, you know, pressing toward that mark. 119 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,560 Even, even when you feel like you've been blown out of the water. 120 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:39,560 Right. 121 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,320 Because I even not too long ago, you know, something happened that just kind of kind of 122 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,320 yanked my chain if you want to want to call it that. 123 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:54,720 And I, I kind of took offense, you know, and I fought, I mean, it was a real, it was a 124 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,960 real depression thing that just, just hit me. 125 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:03,160 And, and it's just like, you know, words, you know, people things had spoken and, and 126 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:08,400 that, you know, like, made you feel like a failure, you know, like, and the devil will 127 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,080 just he just haunts you with that. 128 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,840 I mean, even in my prayer time, my worship time, I couldn't shake this thing off. 129 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:20,240 It was just a, it was just a downright attack, you know, but after a day and a half or so, 130 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,680 I, I finally got the victory over it. 131 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:23,680 Yes. 132 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,000 And it's just like, I don't know where the scripture is like, climb out of the pit, which 133 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,720 you have dug for yourself. 134 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:29,720 Yeah. 135 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,360 Because we dig our own pits many times. 136 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Yeah. 137 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:34,360 You know, and then we fall into it. 138 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:35,360 It's true. 139 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,560 You know, good thing we didn't have a shovel to cover ourselves totally up. 140 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,880 You know, somebody's got to do that on the top or you can let people shovel it in on 141 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:43,880 you. 142 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:44,880 You know, you can do that too. 143 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:45,880 Right. 144 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:46,880 And there are plenty of people who are willing to. 145 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,480 They just love to bury you, you know, the devil be happy to send a few your way. 146 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:52,480 Yeah. 147 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:53,480 Yeah. 148 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:54,800 But you got to get out of that pit and quickly. 149 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:55,800 Right. 150 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,480 Because there's no guarantee you're not going to fall into a pit. 151 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,180 It's going to happen. 152 00:08:00,180 --> 00:08:04,740 Things are going to happen that are going to catch you off guard or you will take a fence. 153 00:08:04,740 --> 00:08:09,080 And that's one of the strongest things to you have to beat off is offense because it 154 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,080 opens a door. 155 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:11,080 Yes. 156 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,080 To your flesh. 157 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,080 That's true. 158 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:18,760 And according to Matthew 24, where Jesus is listing the events that are going to be signs 159 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,920 of his coming, taking offense is one of those. 160 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:22,920 Yeah. 161 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,440 And if you don't forgive, hey, you're not going to be forgiven. 162 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,440 Yeah. 163 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,220 And that's very, very serious. 164 00:08:29,220 --> 00:08:31,240 So it's repentance and forgiveness. 165 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:32,240 Right. 166 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:33,240 We have to do it. 167 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,860 It's just like we repent. 168 00:08:34,860 --> 00:08:37,400 Forgive me, Lord, for for what had happened. 169 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,800 You know, and if you have to ask forgiveness to somebody. 170 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:40,800 Yeah. 171 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,240 You have to go ahead and do it and that restores your relationship. 172 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,240 It's true. 173 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,240 It's true. 174 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,980 But sometimes you have to back up and be an intercessor for a person. 175 00:08:50,980 --> 00:08:59,820 Like if you well, I'll just say for myself, I've had experiences and more than one where 176 00:08:59,820 --> 00:09:06,060 I've become offended or someone has done something that hurt me or could have hurt me. 177 00:09:06,060 --> 00:09:11,020 You know, and like if I discovered that someone was talking behind my back, they say really 178 00:09:11,020 --> 00:09:13,340 nice things to my face. 179 00:09:13,340 --> 00:09:17,160 And then they're tearing me down to other people behind my back. 180 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:22,800 You know, I overheard a conversation once that I was absolutely devastated by it. 181 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:29,080 Devastated because of the the attitude that was in the voices. 182 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:34,720 And I felt like I'd been slashed and I walked away from it. 183 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:42,040 But I was on my way back to my office and I knew that I couldn't hold offense because 184 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,340 offense is something that you take. 185 00:09:44,340 --> 00:09:45,340 You take it. 186 00:09:45,340 --> 00:09:46,340 It's an act. 187 00:09:46,340 --> 00:09:47,420 You actually take it. 188 00:09:47,420 --> 00:09:51,820 It's offered to you on a silver platter, as it were. 189 00:09:51,820 --> 00:09:53,960 But you have to take offense. 190 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:58,180 And by the time I got to the top of the stairs, I knew, oh, I've got to forgive. 191 00:09:58,180 --> 00:10:05,480 So my favorite way of forgiving is to begin to ask our father to forgive, because if I 192 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:12,060 can start to become that person's intercessor asking God to forgive the person, then it's 193 00:10:12,060 --> 00:10:17,800 easier for me to forgive the person because I'm already interceding for that person. 194 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:23,060 And you know, I don't want anything bad to happen to that person because they shouldn't 195 00:10:23,060 --> 00:10:24,500 slander. 196 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:25,880 It's blaspheming. 197 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:30,160 You know, remember that we are made in the image of God. 198 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:36,200 And when we choose to speak against one another to other people, you know, you don't blaspheme 199 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,280 God and you don't blaspheme people that are in the image of God. 200 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,860 You must recognize that God has a purpose for that person. 201 00:10:45,860 --> 00:10:51,240 And if I place a judgment over them and begin to speak over them and speak against them, 202 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:57,680 the devil can use that information that I'm saying in the court of heaven against them 203 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,460 as an expert witness. 204 00:11:00,460 --> 00:11:02,900 And that locks them up and it locks me up. 205 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:05,640 So that's not a good thing. 206 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,160 But that's the kind of wiles that the devil has. 207 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:14,900 So it's so important that we learn to pray for people who have hurt us. 208 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:19,720 And it helps so much to enable us to forgive those people. 209 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:28,240 And like you said, it took me a couple of days where, you know, you have this replay 210 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,200 that goes on in your head. 211 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,760 And I think that comes from the devil too. 212 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,240 It's a spirit of replay, you might call it. 213 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,720 And you just have to keep saying no and begin to pray in tongues. 214 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,440 That's a huge thing to help. 215 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,060 Pray in tongues and begin to intercede for that person because you don't want the kind 216 00:11:45,060 --> 00:11:49,840 of thing to fall on them that the devil is trying to do to them. 217 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:50,840 Yeah. 218 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:51,840 Yeah. 219 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,920 But looking at the prayer that you had written down here, why don't you read that since you 220 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:58,640 wrote it? 221 00:11:58,640 --> 00:11:59,720 Okay. 222 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:01,600 I'm sharing with you from my journal. 223 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:07,400 Father, help me to see the circumstances and situations from my seat in Christ next to 224 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:08,400 you. 225 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:14,240 I need your heavenly perspective in order to order my steps are right. 226 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,800 I yield to your spirit, Father, order my steps are right. 227 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,940 And then he began to lead me into some scriptures. 228 00:12:21,940 --> 00:12:30,000 So let's just look at how Jesus is that one back to Romans 7 verse 25, it says, I thank 229 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,000 God. 230 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,440 Oh, I better go back to verse 24. 231 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,520 Oh, wretched man that I am. 232 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,120 Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 233 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,960 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 234 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:46,560 So then with the mind, I serve the law of God, but with the flesh, I serve the law of 235 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:47,560 sin. 236 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:51,920 So it's the difference between the flesh and the spirit. 237 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,040 So Philip, the first one that I got was from Romans 3. 238 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,040 Okay. 239 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,200 And this is out of the passion, the TPT version. 240 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,160 This is verse 25. 241 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:08,480 Jesus, God given destiny was to be the sacrifice to take away sins. 242 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:13,520 And now he is our mercy seat because of his death on the cross. 243 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,520 We come to him for mercy for God has made a provision for us to be forgiven by faith 244 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,480 in the sacred blood of Jesus. 245 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:28,200 This is the perfect demonstration of God's justice because unto now he had been so patient 246 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,360 holding back his justice out of his tolerance for us. 247 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,080 He is tolerant for us. 248 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:40,160 So he covered over the sins of those who live prior to Jesus sacrifice. 249 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,160 Beautiful. 250 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,160 Yeah. 251 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,160 Beautiful. 252 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:44,240 That's so well put. 253 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:51,000 You know, I had an awful time as a child and a young adult and really into my adulthood 254 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,880 a ways before I understood the King James on that verse. 255 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,600 It says that God has sent Jesus forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. 256 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:08,640 And I was I could never get a good handle on what does that mean? 257 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,760 I will give to you what the dictionary says. 258 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,340 I think this is dictionary.com. 259 00:14:14,340 --> 00:14:20,280 It says instead of using the word propitiation, I'm looking at the verb propitiate. 260 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:21,280 Okay. 261 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,280 It means to appease, to render favorable, to make propitious. 262 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,480 Well, that doesn't help. 263 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:35,440 To conciliate and another way to say it is to atone so we can understand that he's making 264 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:36,920 reconciliation. 265 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,360 But what you read was he is the mercy seat. 266 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:45,480 And I hadn't had that in any translation that I had ever read. 267 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:52,480 But when I studied the Spanish, I understood that the word mercy seat in Spanish is el 268 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,000 propiciatorio. 269 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,200 So then I got it that Jesus is our mercy seat. 270 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:06,240 And so it kind of took me back in my mind to a teaching that the Lord had given me from 271 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:12,960 Exodus 25, where it describes the making of the Ark of the Covenant. 272 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:17,400 And I'll just give it to you really, really briefly, but this was life changing for me 273 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:25,040 because for years I'd been trying to get a good picture in my mind of what it looked like 274 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:31,100 to have Jesus on the inside of us and also to be in him. 275 00:15:31,100 --> 00:15:36,240 So it's kind of like this layered thing, but I couldn't really find a good picture until 276 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,720 I discovered this scripture. 277 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:45,240 And in this scripture in Exodus 25, starting with verse 10, I'm not going to read it so 278 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,240 much. 279 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:51,040 I'm not going to tell the story, but you can go and study it for yourself, where Moses 280 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,840 is being given instructions of how to make the Ark of the Covenant. 281 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,920 And he says to make an ark of chateam wood. 282 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:04,720 Now chateam wood is acacia wood and it grows in the desert. 283 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,200 Well, that's all they had to work with was what grew in the desert because that's where 284 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,280 they were. 285 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:15,040 So it's a thorny tree that grows very slowly because it's in the desert. 286 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,080 So if it grows very slowly, it's also a very hard wood. 287 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,920 And if you see it, it's really kind of gnarly. 288 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,520 And so it's gnarly and it's hard and it's thorny. 289 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:31,840 And to me, as I was reading this, I was realizing, you know, that is a picture of our flesh. 290 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:40,240 You know, when we have a flesh flash, it's usually hard and gnarly and thorny. 291 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:46,120 And one time we were in one of the museums or an institute, Temple Institute in Jerusalem, 292 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:52,440 and we were being instructed about the making of the Ark of the Covenant. 293 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:57,680 And when you read this, it says you overlay it with gold inside and out. 294 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:03,520 But this lady who was teaching us said, no, that's it's not like gold leaf where you just 295 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,400 have this little thin layer of gold. 296 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:11,320 No, she said it was a gold box inside of the wooden box. 297 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,160 And those two boxes were put inside of another gold box. 298 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:22,360 And then you've got this gold crown around it that covers over the layers. 299 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:24,060 All you can see is gold. 300 00:17:24,060 --> 00:17:26,960 You can't see any wood at all. 301 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,160 It's all covered. 302 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:29,360 It's all covered. 303 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:37,000 And that is a picture of what it's like when our flesh is under the control, shall I say, 304 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:44,600 of the Spirit, because gold in Scripture is a picture of deity. 305 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:51,160 So when you have the pure gold of the presence of God inside of you and inside of the Ark, 306 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:58,440 we know was the pot of manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tablets of the covenant, 307 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,720 all of those things are in your inner man when you're walking with the Lord and he's 308 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:09,680 doing his work in you and his provision is in you and his authority is in you and his 309 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,440 word is in you. 310 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,720 And it covers up all of the flesh. 311 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:18,160 So there's no flesh flashing when you're walking in the Spirit. 312 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,040 And that's the wonderful thing. 313 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,640 Walking in the Spirit is the thing. 314 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,640 It's the place where we're going. 315 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:32,480 So then he goes on to say that on top of that, you put a mercy seat or a propitiatorio or 316 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,720 in the Hebrew, the word is caporet. 317 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,120 And it means cover. 318 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:39,120 It means lid. 319 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:40,120 Okay. 320 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:41,340 So it's the cover. 321 00:18:41,340 --> 00:18:47,280 It's the lid, but it's the place where the blood is sprinkled. 322 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:54,480 And there's two cherubim over that, two angels that are hovering over this place of the mercy 323 00:18:54,480 --> 00:19:02,240 of God, this place where the reconciliation is taking place, where judgment is averted, 324 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,840 where it's put away. 325 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:04,840 It's dealt with. 326 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:06,460 It's covered. 327 00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:08,520 It's the cover place. 328 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,700 And on Yom Kippur, the word Kippur means to cover. 329 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:20,300 So the caporet is from the same word as Kippur, that it's this place of covering. 330 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:26,640 And so we see that this is also the place where God spoke to Moses. 331 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,460 This is interesting to me as I've studied this. 332 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:35,560 It doesn't say that he spoke to Aaron there, but he spoke to Moses. 333 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:41,360 Aaron could only go in there once a year, but it doesn't seem that there was any limitation 334 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:42,780 for Moses. 335 00:19:42,780 --> 00:19:45,800 He could go there as much as he wanted. 336 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,380 Isn't that an amazing thought? 337 00:19:48,380 --> 00:19:52,220 But it was the place where God said, I will meet you there. 338 00:19:52,220 --> 00:19:54,760 I will speak to you there. 339 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:00,040 And when we see in the book of Hebrews over and over again, you'd see it in, if you'll 340 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:05,280 do a search for high priest in the book of Hebrews, you'll find it's throughout the whole 341 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,440 book. 342 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:14,240 It's talking about Jesus as our high priest who is interceding for us with his own blood, 343 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,720 with what he did on the cross for us. 344 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:24,200 He is the one, just like the end of Romans seven says, that he's the answer to all of 345 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,520 our failures, all those places where we fall short. 346 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,720 He's there interceding for us. 347 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:32,920 He's there doing the stuff for us. 348 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,320 He is there. 349 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:39,000 So we see that Jesus is there at the mercy seat. 350 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,620 He is the mercy seat. 351 00:20:40,620 --> 00:20:42,480 He is the sacrifice. 352 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:48,260 His blood is speaking better things than that of Abel, which is in Hebrews 12, 24. 353 00:20:48,260 --> 00:20:55,840 So when Cain killed Abel, God said to Cain, your brother's blood is crying to me out of 354 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,980 the ground. 355 00:20:57,980 --> 00:21:04,800 So whatever his voice was crying for, our fleshly human ways are going to be crying 356 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,520 for retribution, crying for fix this. 357 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:15,440 So for life is in the blood, in our nature we have all blood in us. 358 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:25,080 So if Jesus were redeemed by his blood, that gives you a better picture of blood. 359 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,040 And it's got to be blood for blood. 360 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:33,080 Anytime there was a murder in the Old Testament, anytime there was a murder, a premeditated 361 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:38,640 murder, then the next of kin was responsible to go and kill the murderer. 362 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,200 It had to be blood paying for blood. 363 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,320 There's no remission without the shedding of blood. 364 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,960 So Jesus shed his blood for us. 365 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:52,660 He was the sacrifice and his blood on the mercy seat is probably saying what he said 366 00:21:52,660 --> 00:21:56,440 from the cross, Father, forgive them. 367 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,640 They know not what they do. 368 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:05,800 We don't realize how much influence from the dark side there is over our minds or other 369 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,760 people's minds, especially unregenerate people's minds. 370 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:14,880 They haven't gotten the freedom that comes from knowing Jesus and that comes from having 371 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,640 a renewed mind. 372 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,460 It's easy to say, Father, forgive them. 373 00:22:18,460 --> 00:22:19,980 They don't know what they do. 374 00:22:19,980 --> 00:22:23,840 If you realize somebody's done something to you and you've gotten offended about it, but 375 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:29,080 they didn't realize what they did, or maybe lots of times we take things wrong. 376 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,320 We might hear something wrong. 377 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,360 They might not have said what we thought we heard them say. 378 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:39,360 Sometimes words get twisted by the time they get into our ears. 379 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:45,720 And God wants us to begin to speak with Jesus, to begin to speak with Jesus' blood, those 380 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,360 things that are better things. 381 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:50,600 He's praying, Father, forgive them. 382 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,000 Father, forgive them. 383 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Father, forgive them. 384 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,200 He's interceding for us. 385 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,200 Father, forgive them. 386 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,720 Father, forgive them. 387 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:04,600 And not only is he, you know, if you have the picture of the Holy of Holies, he is the 388 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,060 Ark of the Covenant. 389 00:23:06,060 --> 00:23:08,520 He is the mercy seat. 390 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,520 It's his blood that's on the mercy seat. 391 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,480 He is the high priest that is interceding. 392 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,080 And he's also the veil, the veil of his flesh. 393 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:23,080 I mean, he's done the whole thing for us. 394 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:29,720 And if you look at the picture of Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur is the one feast where it's not 395 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,060 a pilgrimage feast. 396 00:23:31,060 --> 00:23:33,560 You don't go to Jerusalem for this. 397 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:41,080 You hunker down right where you're at and you fast, you deny yourself and you repent, 398 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,840 whatever, and you let the high priest do the job for you. 399 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:46,840 Yeah. 400 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,240 That's a day, it's a lack of feast. 401 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,240 Yes. 402 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,240 You know, no food. 403 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,640 It's a fast instead of feast. 404 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:58,240 So all of these things the Lord was showing me in the scriptures. 405 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:04,400 And then as I sat before him, considering what he had showed me, he began to speak to 406 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,520 me in my journal. 407 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,880 And I just want to read this to you. 408 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,280 He says, come up and see from my point of view. 409 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,880 I'm Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last. 410 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:24,880 Of course, that's a quote from Revelation 1 verses 8 and 11. 411 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,000 I saw your end from your beginning. 412 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:35,080 I saw you and your entire life before the beginning of the earth as you know it. 413 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,240 I am Yehovah Shema. 414 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:45,200 I'm continuously present with you and I have foreknowledge about every detail of your life, 415 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,240 past, present, and future. 416 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,040 For I am the one who is and who was and who is to come. 417 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,480 Nothing exists without me. 418 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:01,600 I see the eternal you, the redeemed you. 419 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:07,560 Your repentance for your failures and shortcomings erases them from my records. 420 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:14,600 Now use the power of my word and my blood to blot them out from your memory and the 421 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,320 devil's records so he has no grounds for accusations. 422 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,040 Blot them out before me in the memory of those who are aware of the situation that every 423 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,720 defiling root of bitterness will be vaporized, disintegrated. 424 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:36,720 Learn to co-operate with my spirit in intercession for those you have hurt and those who have 425 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,520 hurt you. 426 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:45,800 Pray and bring my blood and my word over the roots and ripples that go out with the potential 427 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,920 to damage my kingdom in the people around and in generations to come. 428 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,760 I'm going to read that line again. 429 00:25:53,760 --> 00:26:01,400 Pray and bring my blood and my word over the roots and ripples that go out with the potential 430 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,920 to damage my kingdom in the people around and in generations to come. 431 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,120 Oh, that's beautiful. 432 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:13,440 Defeat the mental strongholds with my blood and my word. 433 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,680 You have continuous choices to agree with the accuser or with me. 434 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:25,880 As you continuously choose to be being filled with my spirit, you gain valuable ground in 435 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,260 my kingdom and for my kingdom in the earth. 436 00:26:30,260 --> 00:26:31,920 Did you catch that? 437 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:40,160 You're gaining ground in my kingdom and for my kingdom in the earth. 438 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,440 Your overcoming makes it easier for others to overcome. 439 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,680 You become a forerunner. 440 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,640 It's the overcoming that I highlight in my view. 441 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,920 I paid for it. 442 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,400 It's my blood on the mercy seat, the lid, the covering. 443 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,000 And I am the mercy seat and I am the high priest of your profession. 444 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,480 And I am the veil of the Holy of Holies. 445 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,520 And I am your intercessor and I am in you and you are in me. 446 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,680 So stop listening to the accuser whenever you fall short. 447 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:19,640 Co-operate with me in my plan for you and let me help you fulfill my work. 448 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,040 I have called you to. 449 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,800 It's meant to be a team effort and I'm the captain of the team. 450 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,360 Hallelujah. 451 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,920 So I just want to encourage you listener. 452 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:38,280 We encourage you that we're just like you and you've had some things that have happened 453 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:44,860 and our father wants you to know that you are just like everybody else. 454 00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:53,000 What has happened to you is probably abnormal circumstances and probably your reaction was 455 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,360 normal in abnormal circumstances. 456 00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:58,200 Yeah. 457 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,720 But there's a new normal that comes from heaven. 458 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:09,220 There's an eternal normal that our father wants us to shift gears and get into that 459 00:28:09,220 --> 00:28:16,280 heavenly normal where we go up into his viewpoint to see things from how he sees them. 460 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:24,560 Because if he sees me in my eternal me, he wants to open my eyes and your eyes to see 461 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,200 others from his eternal perspective. 462 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:35,280 And that will help you deal with the things that go on around you, the hurts and the wounds 463 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,600 and the things that happen. 464 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,740 This stuff happens. 465 00:28:38,740 --> 00:28:45,040 But he wants you to know that you have an eternal purpose. 466 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:52,540 He has an eternal purpose for you and your eternal purpose is linked to him. 467 00:28:52,540 --> 00:28:54,320 You can't do it by yourself. 468 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,040 You're trying to. 469 00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:04,280 He's there to co-operate with you and bring you into that place of success from his point 470 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,800 of view. 471 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:14,600 Just relax and let him work in you and let him just work with him. 472 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,920 The job of the clay, if he's the potter, we're the clay. 473 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,160 The job of the clay is to yield under pressure. 474 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:28,800 And sometimes we have these pressures that come from the outside to help us see the imperfections 475 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,360 that need to be pushed out. 476 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:36,200 Like if a potter is dealing with clay, he can tell if there's like a little rock in 477 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,960 it and he's got to push it out because it doesn't belong there. 478 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:46,600 If he puts that vessel in the fire with that little rock in it, it'll explode. 479 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,940 And then the vessel's ruined. 480 00:29:48,940 --> 00:29:53,520 But he wants to push that out before he puts you in the fire. 481 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,340 It's wonderful what he does. 482 00:29:55,340 --> 00:30:01,960 Begin to expect him to give you eternal perspective on the things that you're going through because 483 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,840 that's where we're at right now. 484 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:09,260 He wants to give you help to understand that all of these things that are happening to 485 00:30:09,260 --> 00:30:13,760 you are not to discourage you or defeat you. 486 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:19,640 They are to give you, they're like hurdles in a race. 487 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,400 And you have to jump over the hurdles in order to get through the race. 488 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:28,520 If you go around the hurdles, you're not going to win because you didn't do it according 489 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,920 to the way that the race was laid out. 490 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,820 You have to go over the hurdles. 491 00:30:32,820 --> 00:30:35,000 You have to get through these things. 492 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,960 And just like it took Philip and me a couple of days, but we started in the first, we recognized 493 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:47,440 what the battle was and we fought it through and you can too because you have this new 494 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,360 eternal perspective. 495 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:50,960 Amen. 496 00:30:50,960 --> 00:31:00,720 If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate and review this podcast on Apple podcasts 497 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,300 or wherever you listen to podcasts. 498 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:07,800 Your review helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other listeners who 499 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,400 are 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