1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,780 He wants to use you. 2 00:00:01,780 --> 00:00:04,980 You can make a difference in the earth, 3 00:00:04,980 --> 00:00:07,200 in your sphere of influence. 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,980 Your intercessions can drill through that darkness. 5 00:00:10,980 --> 00:00:14,480 Your praise and your worship can drill through the darkness 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,480 that is trying to keep heaven and earth separated. 7 00:00:19,740 --> 00:00:21,600 You can make a difference. 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,600 God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,000 Welcome to Global Outpouring. 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,920 Will we contend for that promised outpouring? 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,840 Will we equip for that outpouring 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,860 so that we may engage in that very outpouring? 13 00:00:44,860 --> 00:00:46,040 I'm Philip Bus. 14 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,080 And I'm Sharon Bus. 15 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,320 Welcome to the podcast today. 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,480 Philip and I are going to talk about something 17 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:54,280 that's very, very important. 18 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,960 And it's very important for you 19 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,200 to realize how important you are 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,520 in the whole grand scheme of things 21 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,520 that God has planned and prepared. 22 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,680 He wrote a book about you before you were ever born. 23 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,160 And it's important for you to understand 24 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,640 that it only takes the obedience of one 25 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:23,240 or the disobedience of one to make a difference. 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:24,680 Welcome to the podcast today. 27 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,520 We're so glad that you've joined us 28 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,040 and we just love interacting with you. 29 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00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,080 in the outpouring that is upon us. 69 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,960 It's already started and you want to be ready 70 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,840 to be used by God, right? 71 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:26,680 Amen. 72 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:27,640 Amen. 73 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,960 So the subject today that the Lord put on my heart, 74 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:33,960 and I've preached a message about this 75 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,440 kind of a long time ago, but it just came up 76 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,560 in my spirit again today. 77 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,600 And it's about, it only takes one 78 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,640 and it only takes one to goof things up. 79 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:45,480 You know? 80 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,800 Like there's a tremendous picture in the Bible 81 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,960 about the disobedience of one 82 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,680 in the story of the fall of Jericho. 83 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,040 Jericho in Joshua chapter six, 84 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,040 God tells Joshua all of the things 85 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,920 that they're supposed to do 86 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:08,560 and he makes it very clear in chapter six of Joshua verse 18, 87 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,480 he says, keep yourselves from the accursed thing. 88 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,040 That's what it says in the King James. 89 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,600 Another way to say it would be the devoted things. 90 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,320 And I think really what was in God's heart, 91 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,760 I haven't seen it spelled out in scripture directly, 92 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,920 but the principle of the first fruits belonging to God, 93 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,280 I think is what we see here in the battle of Jericho, 94 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:36,920 because Jericho was the first city that they conquered 95 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,640 when the children of Israel were coming 96 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,360 into the promised land. 97 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,200 And so you see the principle of first fruits, 98 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,280 that the first thing belongs to God. 99 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:48,960 So this first whole city was to be dedicated 100 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,840 and devoted to God, that they weren't to touch anything. 101 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:54,560 They weren't to take any of the spoils. 102 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,880 Now after that, all of the other cities, 103 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,760 they could take spoils, but not this one, but Achan. 104 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,280 Achan saw something and he coveted it. 105 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:07,400 He wanted it. 106 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,400 He was greedy and he couldn't keep himself obedient. 107 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,480 And so he took. 108 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:16,320 What did he take? 109 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,280 A couple of Babylonian garments, I guess. 110 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:21,680 Where did he think they were gonna wear him at? 111 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,080 I don't know, but he thought it must have been 112 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:24,760 really, really beautiful. 113 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:29,640 He took a Babylonian garment and silver and gold, 114 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,680 and he hid them in his tent. 115 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,640 That must have been a very wealthy place, 116 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:36,560 wherever he went into. 117 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:37,640 Sure. 118 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,080 Cause you read about the walls of Jericho, 119 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,080 and we've been to Jericho a number of times, 120 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,600 and the walls didn't fall down. 121 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,680 Like we heard the walls came tumbling down, 122 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:50,640 cause they found the walls. 123 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,560 It's like the angels just pushed them down. 124 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:54,400 Straight down. 125 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,440 And the whole army, cause even Rahab and her family 126 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,080 was in the wall. 127 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:01,600 So think about that. 128 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,160 If the walls all came tumbling down, 129 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,640 everybody would have died for sure. 130 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:06,720 Anybody that lived on the wall. 131 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,840 And maybe the section of wall Rahab and her family was in 132 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:10,840 didn't go down all the way. 133 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:13,520 I don't know, but a lot of the walls are intact, 134 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,280 and they say it's just like the walls went straight down. 135 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:18,120 Pushed down. 136 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,720 They didn't just fall over, 137 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,280 cause that made it real easy for the army 138 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,360 and the people just to come right across. 139 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,320 So what does it say in your? 140 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,080 Well, I've got an interesting note here in my Bible 141 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,160 that I made at some point. 142 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,520 Do you remember Roland Buck? 143 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:35,360 Oh yeah. 144 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:36,200 The man who talked with angels? 145 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,040 Talked with angels, yes. 146 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,400 The angels told him that they pushed the wall 147 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,240 straight down. 148 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,200 Pushed it straight down. 149 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,000 Which is what the archeology shows. 150 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,200 The walls are there, they're intact. 151 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,040 Wow. 152 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,560 That's very interesting. 153 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:48,400 That is amazing. 154 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,640 And imagine what that did to the army. 155 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,920 All of a sudden the walls are down 156 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:54,320 and here they're all coming in. 157 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,160 Yeah. 158 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,920 And what kind of weaponry did they have? 159 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,080 The children of Israel. 160 00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:59,280 I don't know. 161 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,240 They didn't have all the modern, 162 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,920 or the stuff of the day. 163 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:04,800 I mean, they just came out of the wilderness 164 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,320 with what was on their back. 165 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,080 Well, they had already had a few battles. 166 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,200 They had battled Amalek 167 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,040 and they had battled up on the Golan Heights. 168 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,560 So they probably had gotten some kind of weapons 169 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,920 from the enemy. 170 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,640 But you know, God was fighting for them. 171 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,240 So every battle they got into, 172 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,040 they would have won and part of the spoils 173 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,240 would have been weapons. 174 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:25,600 Yeah, there's stories we won't know 175 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,520 till we get to the other side of eternity. 176 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:28,840 That's very true. 177 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,480 But what happened, because Aachen took these things 178 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,960 and they were all forbidden to take anything, 179 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,520 when the next battle came along, 180 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,160 the battle of Ai, or AI, 181 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,360 different people pronounce it different ways. 182 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:43,360 And... 183 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,920 Yeah, it's a bad... 184 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,920 Yeah, it's a, what is that? 185 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,000 The initials for artificial intelligence today. 186 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,360 And that's a battle too. 187 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,280 Yeah, there's some battles with AI now. 188 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,080 So anyway, they thought, 189 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,120 okay, so this little town of Ai, or AI, 190 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,720 it's just so small, we don't need to trouble everybody. 191 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,200 Let's just take 3,000 men and go after them. 192 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,400 And the people came out and the children of Israel, 193 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,680 the soldiers of Israel fled before them. 194 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:15,560 They turned tail and ran and 36 men died. 195 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,280 Well, that wasn't what they were expecting. 196 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,440 And Joshua was beside himself. 197 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,160 He said, wait a minute, wait a minute. 198 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:25,480 And he cried out to the Lord and he was weeping on his face 199 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:26,440 and the Lord said, 200 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,280 Get up. 201 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,720 Yeah, get up, Joshua, there's sin in the camp, 202 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,000 go deal with the sin. 203 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,960 And they found out that Achan was the one 204 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,280 that had done this. 205 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:39,280 So my whole point is, this one man disobeyed God. 206 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,880 And God said, Israel has sinned. 207 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,240 He held the whole nation responsible for one man's sin. 208 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,480 That's my point. 209 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,160 The whole nation suffered. 210 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,680 36 men lost their lives. 211 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:54,760 And it didn't look good for the soldiers. 212 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,080 Joshua was all worried that if our people have retreated, 213 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,720 if they've run away from the enemy, 214 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,920 the rest of the Canaanites are gonna hear about it 215 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,560 and we're sunk, we're sunk, we're done. 216 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:06,640 Yeah, well, I've got a question. 217 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,320 So Achan sinned, but was it the sin 218 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,560 that he just sinned what he did 219 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:17,320 or was it because he took of a curse stuff into the camp? 220 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,280 So it was probably a curse. 221 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:20,520 That was the sin. 222 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,120 The sin is the curse. 223 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,840 The sin is that he was greedy 224 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,040 and he stole something that belonged to God. 225 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,720 And it's gold, and it's silver, it's gold. 226 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:32,960 But it belonged to God. 227 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,280 He stole something from God. 228 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,640 Ooh, that's right because- 229 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:37,880 Because it belonged to God. 230 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,120 God said, this is mine, don't you touch it. 231 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:41,600 Oh, wow. 232 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:42,560 Robbing God. 233 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:46,360 And so I think that you could call it the cursed thing. 234 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,840 It was cursed because it didn't belong to anybody but God. 235 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,760 But I think we misunderstand it. 236 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,600 Other translations say it was devoted to God. 237 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,480 It belonged to him. 238 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,360 That gives a whole better explanation. 239 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:00,280 Yeah. 240 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,600 So the point is, if we touch something 241 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,040 that doesn't belong to us, 242 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,480 I mean, that's one of the 10 commandments. 243 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,200 Thou shalt not steal. 244 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,040 Okay, Achan stole, but he didn't just steal anything. 245 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,040 He stole something from God. 246 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:16,920 Yeah, and it doesn't matter, but look at that. 247 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,240 It's just laying there, those gold pieces. 248 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,080 Yeah. 249 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,600 But if God said, don't do it, don't do it. 250 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,120 So the point is, I mean, he paid for it with his life, 251 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,840 but not only he, but also his children. 252 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,720 His children and his family. 253 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,400 It's assumed because God took the family as well. 254 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,600 It's assumed that the family probably was in cahoots, 255 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,440 that they saw him bring it into the tent 256 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,480 because he didn't live by himself in the tent. 257 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:43,480 Yeah. 258 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,800 So, you know, they didn't fess up either. 259 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:51,800 So it was a picture of what it does to you 260 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,760 and what it does to your family when you disobey God. 261 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,600 It's not only something that affects you, 262 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:00,840 it affects your children. 263 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,000 Remember what it says in the 10 commandments 264 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,600 about idolatry in Exodus 20 verse five. 265 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,480 This is about the sin of idolatry. 266 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,800 You know, God is telling the children of Israel 267 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,520 not to make a graven image and not to worship it. 268 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,280 Don't bow down to it. 269 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,280 Don't bow down yourselves to them, to other gods, 270 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,840 nor serve them for I, Yehovah, your God, 271 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,160 am a jealous God, visiting, catch this, 272 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,280 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 273 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,800 unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. 274 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,960 So one of the rules that God gave the children of Israel 275 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,120 was love the Lord your God with all your heart, 276 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,680 with all your soul, with all your mind, 277 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:43,520 with all your strength. 278 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,040 It's the number one. 279 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,240 I mean, it's not a part of the 10 commandments, 280 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,680 but it is the one that Jesus said 281 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:52,160 is the most important commandment of all. 282 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:53,320 And it's part of the Shema. 283 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:54,600 It's part of the- 284 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:55,440 Hero Israel. 285 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,520 Yeah, hero Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one, 286 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:00,040 and you shall love the Lord. 287 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,680 It has his name, okay? 288 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:05,360 Yehovah, you shall love Yehovah your God 289 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,040 with all your heart, with all your soul, 290 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,840 with all your mind, with all your strength. 291 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,200 If you bow yourself to other gods, 292 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:12,520 if you're serving other gods, 293 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,840 you're showing God you don't love him. 294 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,000 Okay? 295 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,360 And what happens when you turn away from God 296 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,160 and worship something else, something happens. 297 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,560 Sin gets into your DNA. 298 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:29,280 Remember, the wages of sin is death, okay? 299 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,120 So death comes because of sin. 300 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:33,560 Adam and Eve showed us that 301 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:35,560 and started the whole ball rolling. 302 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:39,880 And what happens is that it affects your DNA 303 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,320 and it affects the people around you, your family, okay? 304 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,360 So I pondered this third and fourth generation 305 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,360 for a long time, and then I felt like the Lord showed me 306 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,120 that the people that are around you, 307 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,280 you have an effect on your children. 308 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,960 So you're one generation. 309 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,520 Then your children would be the second generation. 310 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,640 Your grandchildren would be the third generation. 311 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,880 Most folks see their grandchildren. 312 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,880 And sometimes you get to see your great grandchildren. 313 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:16,880 Okay, so I knew two out of eight great grandparents. 314 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,840 So I was affected by third and fourth generation. 315 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,640 I knew my grandparents 316 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:25,840 and I knew some of my great grandparents. 317 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,400 And so, you know, here we are 318 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,920 and we have a child and we have grandchildren. 319 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,640 And you know, there's the potential 320 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,760 that we'll have great grandchildren at some point. 321 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:41,760 So the stories that we tell, the lifestyle that we have, 322 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,600 the way that we deal with our children 323 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,920 and our grandchildren affects their lives. 324 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,920 I mean, think about the stories 325 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,800 that you know from your grandparents, right? 326 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,360 You know lots of stories from your grandparents 327 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,360 and that has affected your life. 328 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,120 So I think this is where 329 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,920 that third and fourth generation comes from. 330 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,120 So if you're a big sinner, 331 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,840 that's going to affect your children 332 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,160 and your children's children 333 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,840 and your children's children's children. 334 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:11,640 And as DNA goes, like an alcoholic, right? 335 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,880 There's a tendency. 336 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,160 There's a tendency for the children 337 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,640 to follow in the parents' footsteps. 338 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:23,640 And the grandchildren, each generation has the opportunity 339 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,320 to say yes or no to the sins of the fathers. 340 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:28,240 Yeah. 341 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,760 So you're really responsible for your own sins, 342 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,760 but the bent to sin is available in your DNA 343 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,640 from your parents or grandparents or great-grandparents. 344 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,000 It's affecting those generations. 345 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,680 So Aiken and his family, 346 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,880 we don't know how many family members there were. 347 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,600 We don't know if there were children and grandchildren. 348 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,080 We don't know who all they were. 349 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:57,080 But my point is that when we make a conscious choice 350 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:02,080 to walk in sin and do things that we should not be doing, 351 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,600 it doesn't just affect me. 352 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,320 It doesn't just affect you, listener. 353 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,080 It doesn't just affect you. 354 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,200 It affects others around you. 355 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,320 So you're making a choice that is affecting 356 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,000 more than just you. 357 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,600 So pay attention. 358 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:20,880 It's really important. 359 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,320 Yeah, it's really important hearing the voice of the Lord. 360 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,800 It reminds me of a story of a missionary that was in India 361 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,360 and he was scheduled to come home. 362 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,000 And I think the Lord spoke to him, 363 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,080 your time is up, time to go. 364 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,040 Yeah, I think he was even supposed to go home early. 365 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,440 Yeah, and he stayed. 366 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,680 I don't know if it was more invitations or something. 367 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,920 He stayed, came back, 368 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,480 and someone showed us a picture of him. 369 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,040 And behind him, behind his head a little ways back 370 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,200 was this demonic looking thing 371 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,520 that followed him all the way from India. 372 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,640 I mean, because he broke what God said, 373 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,920 so he gave a legal right to lose protection. 374 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,840 I mean, that may sound like, 375 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,280 well, I've never heard that before, 376 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,600 but you're seeing it here, the children of Israel. 377 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,760 It's not just New Testament we're in. 378 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,480 I mean, the New Testament fulfills the old. 379 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,120 I mean, God's protection was here on Israel 380 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,360 as long as they obeyed. 381 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,600 I mean, when you go through Chronicles, 382 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,680 first and second kings and Chronicles, 383 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,640 and you look at the story of all the kings, 384 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,920 and I have a Thompson chain Bible, 385 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,840 and in the back it has a graph, 386 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,400 up and down, up and down. 387 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,040 Whenever you had a good king, Josiah, Asa, 388 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,680 things prospered and did well. 389 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,840 And then when you got a bad king like Manasseh, 390 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,960 or, and all of a sudden it go down, 391 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,720 and it was Israel went into captivity first, wasn't it? 392 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,160 Yes, the 10 Northern Treasures. 393 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,240 They had like three bad kings in a row. 394 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:54,800 They only had bad kings. 395 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,640 Only had bad kings. 396 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,200 They never had any captives, not one. 397 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,160 Oh my. 398 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:00,640 Remember the first one? 399 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,520 The first one brought the golden calf. 400 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:03,840 Yeah, okay. 401 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,520 Put two golden calves, one in the North, one in the South, 402 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,360 so nobody has any reason to go to Jerusalem. 403 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:09,400 That was Rehoboam, wasn't it? 404 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:10,240 Jeroboam. 405 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,400 Jeroboam, Jeroboam, okay. 406 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,000 Yeah, so right from the get-go, they're idolatrous. 407 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,840 And they were the first ones to go into captivity. 408 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:19,680 Right. 409 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,080 Right, from idolatry. 410 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,280 But God would always give a space to repent. 411 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,640 Oh yeah, it was hundreds of years. 412 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,040 It wasn't like God slammed them immediately. 413 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,040 It was, every generation has an opportunity to obey. 414 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,840 Yeah, it's like the Lord God, He's slow to anger. 415 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,320 I can't quote right where that is off the top of my head, 416 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,080 but He's slow to anger. 417 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,400 He's slow to anger, but when He's very patient, you know. 418 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,400 Long suffering. 419 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,640 But when His time is up with you, it's up. 420 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,640 Yes, yes, He gives you chance after chance after chance. 421 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,560 And that's why I think one of the reasons why we get kind of, 422 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,200 I don't know that upset is the right word, 423 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,760 but we bewildered maybe at why it's taking God so long 424 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,440 to judge sin. 425 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,600 But it's because He's giving chance after chance 426 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,160 after opportunity after opportunity. 427 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,760 You know, how many people do you know 428 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,240 that are running from God and they've gotten into 429 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,000 car accidents or situations where they've gotten 430 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,800 really, really deathly ill and somehow they recover 431 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,480 or somehow their life is spared. 432 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,600 It's because God keeps giving them a chance 433 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,920 because He wants them to come to Him. 434 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:33,080 It's the mercy of God. 435 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,000 Mercy, mercy, mercy. 436 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,720 And He's not willing that any should perish, 437 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,480 but that all should come to the knowledge of Christ. 438 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,760 So we really want to see people get saved. 439 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,960 And that's why we intercede for them. 440 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,680 Remember what Dean Braxton said, it's almost impossible 441 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,320 for someone to go to hell if someone is praying for them. 442 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,800 So it's important that we pray for people who, 443 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,200 you know, we might even think, 444 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,400 that one is so sinful. 445 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,200 God, get them, just take them to hell. 446 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,520 You know, I mean, you might just get that offended sometimes, 447 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,920 but that's not our Father's heart. 448 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,080 He wants us to be interceding for them and praying for them 449 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,960 because it's the obedience of one that turns things around 450 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,600 because of the disobedience of one. 451 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,400 I mean, look at Romans 5 verse 17. 452 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,240 What does it say in the passion? 453 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,200 I think maybe even more than 17. 454 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,480 What was that one that you were reading earlier? 455 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,680 Romans 5, it's at least 17. 456 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:33,760 Yeah, it was 17. 457 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:34,600 Okay. 458 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,920 Death once held us in its grip, 459 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,680 and by the blunder of one man, 460 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,560 death reigned as king over humanity. 461 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,520 But now, how much more are we held in the grip of grace 462 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,560 and continue reigning as kings in life, 463 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,320 enjoying our regal freedom 464 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,960 through the gift of perfect righteousness 465 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,080 and the one and only Jesus, the Messiah. 466 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,040 Amen. 467 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,680 I like how the King James puts it. 468 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,600 It says, for if by one man's offense, 469 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,280 and we know that one man is Adam, 470 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,560 and Adam and Eve together are one, 471 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,840 remember when you're married, you're one. 472 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:12,840 So, for if by one man's offense, death reigned by one, 473 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,520 much more they which receive abundance of grace 474 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,040 and of the gift of righteousness 475 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,800 shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. 476 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,280 In other words, Jesus' obedience 477 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,280 canceled out the disobedience. 478 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,120 Yeah. 479 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:31,440 So obedience transforms the world 480 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,240 in amazing ways as well. 481 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,600 So, let's just look at one individual people 482 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,440 that have made a difference in the world by their obedience. 483 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,360 So we know that God spoke to Noah to build an ark 484 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:49,600 because he was getting ready to destroy the world 485 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,040 because of the terrible disobedience that was going on 486 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,440 and horrific, it was just horrific. 487 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:56,880 Kind of like what's going on today, 488 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,640 but without the technology. 489 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,120 Yeah, but we don't know what technology they had. 490 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,760 Some of this technology comes straight from the pit. 491 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,640 So I think we've got some of that kind of technology 492 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,000 going on too. 493 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,320 So anyway, Noah was obedient. 494 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,080 God said, build an ark and Noah built the ark. 495 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,760 In other words, Noah had a walk with God 496 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,360 and his walk with God caused him to obey. 497 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,680 I just heard a story recently of somebody we know, 498 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,880 she heard an audible voice to put something away 499 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,880 that would be dangerous, hide it, hide this thing. 500 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:41,400 And she didn't understand why, 501 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,640 but she had heard the voice of God enough 502 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,760 that she knew to obey. 503 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,760 And she did what the voice told her to do with that thing. 504 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,200 And then this person attacked her. 505 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:01,200 And if she hadn't put that thing away, 506 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,560 she might not be alive now, 507 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,680 but she obeyed because she heard the voice. 508 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,560 It saved her life. 509 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:09,800 And so- 510 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,200 How did it save her life? 511 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,520 Because the person couldn't find that thing 512 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:14,760 that she had put away. 513 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:15,600 Oh, okay. 514 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,440 That he would have used. 515 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,520 He would have used it on her. 516 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,000 Okay, he knew it was there. 517 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,760 He knew there was something somewhere 518 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,600 and he wasn't able to find it. 519 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:24,600 Wow. 520 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,640 Because she had obeyed the voice of the Lord. 521 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,840 So my point is, listen to the voice of the Lord. 522 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,520 Your walk with God can save your life. 523 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,920 Your intimacy with God can save your life 524 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:40,760 and save the life of others. 525 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,120 Noah heard, build an ark. 526 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:45,040 And he built an ark. 527 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,200 It took him a while. 528 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,040 Yeah. 529 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,000 He and his sons. 530 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,920 Maybe they hired the local guys to do it 531 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,760 and they preached to them and the local guys went, 532 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,640 ha ha ha, ha ha. 533 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,080 But you're paying us, so I guess we'll do it. 534 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,120 I mean, it may have been that way. 535 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:58,960 We don't know. 536 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,000 I mean, the crazy man's given us money to do this. 537 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,200 Yeah, what a nut. 538 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,880 What a nutcase. 539 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:05,760 Till. 540 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,760 So, you know, the obedience of one saved the human race. 541 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:12,960 The righteousness, yeah. 542 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,880 Yeah, Noah's obedience. 543 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,480 God brought the animals. 544 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,600 Saved not only mankind, 545 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,680 because every single human being, 546 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,680 everybody with a belly button is related to Noah 547 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:24,760 through one of his sons 548 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,560 and maybe more than one of his sons. 549 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:27,400 Yeah. 550 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:28,240 Okay? 551 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,240 And all of the animals that are on the planet now 552 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:36,240 are on the planet because God brought those kinds of animals 553 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,160 to the ark. 554 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,200 They came in the ark. 555 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,720 Noah took care of them. 556 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,720 And we have animals today because of the obedience of one. 557 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,240 Yeah. 558 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:47,080 Okay? 559 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,000 Now let's look at Abraham. 560 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,880 Abraham, God told him, 561 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,960 get up out of your country from your father's house 562 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,960 to a land that I will show you. 563 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,760 He gets there and God promises this land to him 564 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,600 and his descendants. 565 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,800 And one thing after another thing after another thing, 566 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,800 God tells him what to do and he does it. 567 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,640 He does it, yeah. 568 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,920 He did some other things that God didn't tell him to do. 569 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,280 And that got him in trouble 570 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,320 and we're still having trouble because of it. 571 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,680 But because Abraham was God's friend, 572 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,360 again, Abraham's walking with God. 573 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:26,360 He's obeying God and his obedience is creating a nation, 574 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,600 actually creating many nations. 575 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,360 God said, you're gonna be the father of many nations. 576 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,920 So there's lots of nations 577 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,480 that are the result of Abraham's obedience. 578 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,040 So he obeyed. 579 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,520 And here's another one, take your son, 580 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,440 your only son that you love 581 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,440 and take him up to the mountains of Moriah 582 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:46,440 and do what I tell you. 583 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,440 So that created the opportunity on earth as it is in heaven 584 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,760 because of Abraham's obedience 585 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,200 to be willing to sacrifice his son, 586 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,080 expecting resurrection in that very same place 587 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,720 on Mount Moriah is where our father was able 588 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,520 to sacrifice his own son and resurrect him. 589 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,720 I just think that's so amazing. 590 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,240 But it was because of obedience 591 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,000 and obedience because of a walk with God, 592 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,920 a love walk with God. 593 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:19,760 A love walk. 594 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,600 A love walk, okay. 595 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,320 So now let's look at Moses. 596 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,120 Here's one man, very special man, 597 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,360 special from the moment he was born, okay. 598 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,480 They could see that he was a very special child 599 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,800 and they hid him even though Pharaoh had ordered 600 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,000 all the babies to be thrown in the Nile. 601 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,360 The crocodiles had a feast. 602 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,760 Nile crocodile, yeah. 603 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,200 Yeah, they had a feast. 604 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:50,200 And so Jacobet, Moses' mother, did what she was told. 605 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,880 She put him in the river, but she put him in a basket 606 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,680 and Pharaoh's daughter found him and raised him as her own. 607 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,680 And I won't take time for the whole story. 608 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:01,960 It's a very, very long story. 609 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,080 It's in the book. 610 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,160 Go and read the book of Exodus. 611 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,800 It's an amazing story. 612 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,080 But Moses was selected by God 613 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,800 and he went through a whole lot of stuff to learn obedience, 614 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,400 but he obeyed when God said, 615 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,640 go and tell Pharaoh, let my people go. 616 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:27,640 Well, he had some excuses and he had to overcome his fear 617 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:30,320 of going back to Egypt. 618 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,680 That wasn't an easy thing. 619 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,720 He was a wanted man, but he obeyed. 620 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,840 And God used him in a powerful way 621 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,200 to save an entire nation. 622 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,080 So the obedience of one, this is an amazing thing, 623 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,000 the obedience of one. 624 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,960 Then we have the intercession of one. 625 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,880 So Moses was an intercessor. 626 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,240 When the children of Israel, immediately after 627 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,680 they get the 10 commandments and the one commandment 628 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,840 that at the very beginning is, have no gods before me, 629 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,320 and they get impatient. 630 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,160 Moses is up there in Mount Sinai with this fire 631 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,320 and who knows if he's been burnt to a crisp? 632 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,840 Come on, Aaron, make us some gods so that we can, 633 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,040 we can live by these things. 634 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,520 And so Aaron, his excuse was he just threw the gold 635 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:21,360 into the fire. 636 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:22,200 Out came this calf. 637 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,120 Yeah, all by itself, right? 638 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:25,880 Right, yeah. 639 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,880 So Moses interceded for the children of Israel 640 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:36,360 and the intercession of one because of his walk. 641 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:40,280 He had a walk with God that he could say, 642 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,120 but Father, this isn't gonna look good for you 643 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:45,120 if you kill everybody like you wanna kill. 644 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,720 You know, he was angry. 645 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,720 The wrath of God is ready to be poured out on these people 646 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,480 that broke the covenant just days after they said, 647 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,240 oh yes, oh yes, we will do exactly what you say. 648 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,960 After they saw everything, all the miracles of Egypt, 649 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:01,800 to get them out. 650 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,760 Yeah, all that stuff they saw. 651 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,120 That just shows how deep embedded sin is. 652 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:09,960 When someone turns their life to Jesus, 653 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,200 there's times you get instant deliverance. 654 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,040 Right. 655 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,440 But there's other times, there's things you have to, 656 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,360 it's just like you're cleansed of your sins, 657 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:23,120 but your walk, it's gonna take a while to stay above 658 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,880 all that stuff that used to pull you down. 659 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,440 You have to unlearn some things. 660 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,200 You have to unlearn stuff. 661 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,520 It's like it was my rock records, 662 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,720 I had to destroy them all. 663 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,920 Instead of saving them and selling them. 664 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,800 So they were not in my position anymore, I destroyed them. 665 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:38,880 Yes. 666 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,920 And it was like a cut, clean cut. 667 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,480 Yes, and there are things that the Lord will show you to do 668 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,160 in obedience if you'll obey. 669 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,880 It might be very difficult, but it will be worth it all. 670 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,040 And it can save your family and it can save your nation. 671 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,480 It can save all the nations. 672 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,640 It can save people groups. 673 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,400 Your obedience, your walk with the Lord, 674 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:09,400 you, you, one person can make a difference. 675 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,080 That's the whole point here. 676 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,840 Yeah, I don't know right where the scripture is, 677 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,440 but what comes in me, it's where if you are willing 678 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,000 and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land. 679 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:18,840 Exactly. 680 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,880 If you're willing and obedient. 681 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:25,240 If you look, take your time, it's Deuteronomy 28, 682 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,440 I believe, isn't it? 683 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:27,920 The blessings and cursings. 684 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:28,760 Right. 685 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,400 And I don't know if you're going there, but you read through, 686 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,640 we'll do another podcast. 687 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,600 I think that would be an excellent thing to do. 688 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:36,440 Let's do that. 689 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,520 You know, on Deuteronomy. 690 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:38,360 Yes. 691 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,240 So we'll let you know when that happens. 692 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,320 Okay. 693 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,720 So think about Daniel. 694 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,840 Daniel was another intercessor. 695 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,920 The children of Israel had gone into the land. 696 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,160 They had taken over the land of Canaan immediately. 697 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,800 As soon as Joshua died and that generation died, 698 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,080 they fell into idolatry with their neighbors 699 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,280 because they didn't obey the Lord 700 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,600 who had told them to wipe out all the neighbors. 701 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,280 Deal with these people, wipe them out 702 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:12,000 because they came from the seed that Noah had cursed. 703 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,800 You remember the curse that Noah put on 704 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,720 because Ham had walked in on him when he was naked 705 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,000 and drunken and fallen asleep in his drunkenness 706 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000 and something happened. 707 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,560 And he woke up and found out what his younger son had done. 708 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,280 And he cursed Canaan. 709 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,960 Yeah, cursed to be Canaan. 710 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:30,800 Right. 711 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,720 So the children of Canaan had inhabited this land 712 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,000 that God wanted to give to the descendants of Abraham. 713 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:45,080 And if you'll notice, it was somehow in that family line 714 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,360 that there were still giants. 715 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,600 Remember David had to deal with Goliath who was a giant. 716 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,880 And I've been meditating on this recently 717 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,120 and I don't have any scripture to back it up, 718 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,560 but I have a theory, okay? 719 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,120 This is just my theory, don't build a doctrine on it, 720 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,080 but I have a theory that in Ham's wife, 721 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,760 there must have been some seed of the Nephilim 722 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,360 in her family line. 723 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,160 And when you look at ancestry, 724 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,360 you'll find that even among siblings, 725 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,360 there will be different genes that come 726 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,920 from different ancestors. 727 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,240 Like the German gene might show up in one 728 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,240 and the Native American might show up in another 729 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,120 and not show up in all of the children, 730 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,800 even though they're children of the same parents, 731 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,280 because each parent gives one chromosome 732 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,120 and each parent has two chromosomes from their parents. 733 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,360 So my father's gene might come out in one child 734 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,160 and my mother's gene might come out in another child. 735 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,000 All these different possibilities of combinations. 736 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,000 So I feel like there must have been Nephilim seed 737 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:01,360 that came through Ham's wife that came into Canaan. 738 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,440 That it was expressed in Canaan 739 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,040 and it didn't go into the other children necessarily, 740 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:07,480 but it went into Canaan. 741 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:12,080 And that's why Noah's mouth spoke that word from the Lord 742 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,720 that Canaan would be cursed because this Nephilim seed, 743 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,880 this seed that God was trying to destroy in the flood 744 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,120 had survived in the line of Canaan. 745 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:24,960 Yeah. 746 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,640 So that's just a theory, 747 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,840 because here's these giants already in the land. 748 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,440 So I'm thinking that's how it happened. 749 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,600 Don't build a doctrine on it, 750 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,160 but I think that's what happened. 751 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,360 So anyway, the children of Israel took over 752 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:39,880 the land of Canaan. 753 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,480 They were supposed to follow these instructions 754 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,640 that God gave them, the 10 commandments 755 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,840 and the other commandments that God gave to Moses 756 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,240 in the Torah. 757 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,480 They were supposed to follow them. 758 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,560 They didn't. 759 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,880 Hundreds of years later, hundreds of years later, 760 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,200 like from Saul until the carrying away of captivity 761 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,160 was over 400 years. 762 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,000 Yeah. 763 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,760 Okay, so it wasn't a fast coming of the wrath of God. 764 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,080 He was very patient, but there came a time. 765 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,880 And according to Jeremiah, the prophecy of Jeremiah, 766 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,840 they were gonna be in Babylon for 70 years. 767 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,640 So when Daniel realized that 70 years had come, 768 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,880 he got on his knees and he began to intercede. 769 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,960 He pled for the children of Israel. 770 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,080 He asked for God to forgive them. 771 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,240 He confessed their sins and he fasted. 772 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:34,360 Fasted 21 days. 773 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,200 Yeah. 774 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,280 And so he was an intercessor. 775 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,360 And God uses intercessors. 776 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,320 And there's intercessors now that are making a difference. 777 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,440 And you think of the lion's den. 778 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,280 Oh yeah. 779 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,200 Daniel was thrown into the lion's den. 780 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,720 He had an angel of the Lord there. 781 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,120 He had protection. 782 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,080 Right, because of his walk. 783 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,120 Because of his walk. 784 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,320 His walk of obedience with God. 785 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,120 And it's not just about obeying on the outside. 786 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,360 It's obeying on the inside. 787 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,760 Because before I got saved and there was times, 788 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,200 yeah, I lived in Chicago's Southwest suburbs at the time 789 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,080 and I was gonna go visit some friends 790 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,240 up on the north side of the city. 791 00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:19,720 And this happened more than once. 792 00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:22,000 I was gonna get into the car. 793 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,120 I thought, you know, if I die out there on the highway 794 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,320 in a wreck, I know where I'm going. 795 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,160 And I didn't go. 796 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,760 And I really believe that was God protecting me. 797 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,000 Because he knew there was a plan for my life 798 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,920 that I had no idea about. 799 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,640 Wasn't in my vision, but it was in his. 800 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:41,680 Right. 801 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,120 But you really knew deep down what the right thing was. 802 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,240 You had just been going the wrong way. 803 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:50,560 I mean, I was a good, I didn't do drugs. 804 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,480 I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. 805 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:53,320 Right. 806 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:54,160 But I was backslidden. 807 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,440 Exactly. 808 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,640 So if you're backslidden, you know, 809 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,280 it's like a little sin is a big sin. 810 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,120 Exactly. 811 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,320 If you don't, don't do it. 812 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,320 That's true. 813 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,880 That's very true. 814 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,880 Daniel was an intercessor. 815 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,880 And his intercession broke through the bondage 816 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,880 that kept the children of Israel in Babylon. 817 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,160 His intercession broke through the bondage 818 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,360 that kept Israel in Babylon. 819 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,400 And so we see that Paul was an intercessor 820 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:25,560 in the New Testament. 821 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,600 And I'm thinking about a couple of intercessors 822 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,200 in more recent times. 823 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,040 Yeah. 824 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:36,040 In the 1800s, Charles Finney was an amazing evangelist. 825 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:36,880 Yeah. 826 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,840 And he has these fiery looking eyes. 827 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:39,680 Oh yeah, yeah. 828 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:40,520 Oh wow. 829 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,680 Yeah, the portrait of him is almost scary. 830 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:44,520 Scary. 831 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,000 It's like he's looking right through you. 832 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,280 Right, right. 833 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,840 And God had prepared him as an evangelist, 834 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,800 but it wasn't until he teamed up with a man 835 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,160 they called Father Nash. 836 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,920 Now he was father like as in daddy, 837 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,360 not as in a Catholic priest, 838 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,200 but he was an intercessor. 839 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,880 And Charles Finney stayed in his home at one time 840 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,640 and Charles Finney woke up in the night 841 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,280 and he found that Father Nash was up and praying. 842 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,520 And Father Nash told him, 843 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,120 well, I just take a nap every night. 844 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,360 And then I get up and I pray, I spend time with God. 845 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,560 And this man became Charles Finney's intercessor. 846 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:30,080 And he would go to places before Charles Finney got there. 847 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,760 And he would intercede and he would deal 848 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,080 with the strongholds in the spirit. 849 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,000 And he would pray through. 850 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,800 And when he prayed through, 851 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,680 he would send for Charles Finney. 852 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,800 And as soon as Charles Finney got within miles 853 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,360 of the city. 854 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,760 Holy Spirit was working. 855 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,120 Holy Spirit was working 856 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,720 and people were coming under conviction already 857 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,920 before he even got there. 858 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,040 The presence of God was there. 859 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,040 And we need more intercessors, beloved. 860 00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,560 We need more intercessors. 861 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,840 Maybe you're called to be an evangelist, 862 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,400 but maybe you're called to be an intercessor. 863 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,840 Whatever it is that God has called you to be, 864 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,840 it's time for you to take up what God has planned for you. 865 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,640 Another one was Reese Howells. 866 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:15,920 Reese Howells, yes. 867 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,640 Even more recently in the time of World War II. 868 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,360 In a Bible school of Wales. 869 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,200 Yes. 870 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,000 And it was a day by day thing. 871 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,560 If you read his book, Reese Howells Intercessor, 872 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,160 it's a powerful book on his walk 873 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,200 and where he got to where he is. 874 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,160 But he talks about the war. 875 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,960 It was a day by day thing for the whole Bible school. 876 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,840 They would fast that day, 877 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,440 or they would have classes or they would pray. 878 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,840 And it was amazing. 879 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,520 And the Holy Spirit would give him things to pray 880 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,520 and Hitler would do them and it would backfire on them. 881 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,600 And that was amazing strategy. 882 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:53,440 Yeah, yeah. 883 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,280 Amazing strategy. 884 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,120 God had them pray strategies 885 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,760 and they would find out on the radio or the newspaper 886 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,520 in the next day or two that what they had prayed 887 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,800 was what took place on the battlefield. 888 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,160 And God gave victory after victory. 889 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,960 Yeah, it's amazing just being in obedience to God. 890 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,360 Especially in days like today, 891 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,360 where there's so much to distract you. 892 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,360 I mean, it's easy to get distracted. 893 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,560 I mean, you can get a post on your phone 894 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,640 on a Facebook post or something. 895 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,920 Oh yeah, so and so has a birthday today. 896 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,120 Yeah, and you wish him happy birthday, 897 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,200 then you school and all of a sudden you're caught. 898 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,120 And maybe it's not a bad thing, 899 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,520 but if it's robbing your time for something else. 900 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:36,720 You're supposed to be doing something else. 901 00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:37,560 You're supposed to be. 902 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,800 I mean, if you do have a thing that gives you birthdays, 903 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,800 okay, you'll see it when it comes up. 904 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,560 But if you keep surfing the Facebook, 905 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,760 you're gonna find stuff that you wanna read and hear. 906 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,360 And an hour later, maybe you're. 907 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,800 Oops. Oops. 908 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,760 I should have done that in the meantime. 909 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,600 Yeah. 910 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:54,760 Obedience. 911 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,280 God is looking for obedience. 912 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,520 He's looking for those who are going to walk in love 913 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:05,320 with him that we love him and put our face in his book 914 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,160 rather than Facebook. 915 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,640 And it's something like, you know, 916 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,560 it's kind of been a challenge to me too. 917 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,680 It's like you can be sitting or waiting on somebody 918 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,120 or this or that, you know, get on your phone 919 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,640 and da da da da. 920 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,000 You know, pull up, we have like blue letter Bible 921 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,360 and you can just pull up the Bible in an app and read. 922 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,360 You know, just read the Bible. 923 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,280 That's what Smith Wigglesworth did. 924 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,120 Oh yeah. 925 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:31,960 Very frequently. 926 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,920 Every 20 minutes he was in the word. 927 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:34,880 Wow. 928 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,480 And that's what began to give him his power 929 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,080 in being in the word and he prayed in tongues a lot. 930 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,000 So, you know, it's about your walk with our father, 931 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,200 your walk with him, your obedience to him, 932 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,520 learning obedience and learning to do things 933 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,720 the way he wants it done, listening to his voice 934 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,920 and obeying obedience. 935 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,920 You know, the thing that's beautiful 936 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,400 is that God has given each and every one of us 937 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,120 our own calling, our own election, 938 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,280 our own purpose in the earth. 939 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:14,280 And I love what it says in Psalm 139 and verse 16. 940 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,240 King James says it this way, 941 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:21,560 thine eyes did see my substance yet being un-perfect 942 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,040 and in thy book all my members were written 943 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,040 which in continuance were fashioned 944 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,840 when as yet there was none of them. 945 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,760 Other translation, here's New International. 946 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,640 Your eyes saw my unformed body. 947 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,760 All the days ordained for me were written in your book 948 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,200 before one of them came to be. 949 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,840 What does it say in the passion, Philip? 950 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,360 Start a little earlier, start with verse 13. 951 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,480 You formed my innermost being, 952 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,120 shaping my delicate inside of my intricate outside 953 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,760 and wove them all together in my mother's womb. 954 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,760 I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex. 955 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,120 Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. 956 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,760 It simply amazes me to think about it. 957 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,080 How thoroughly you know me, Lord. 958 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,080 You even formed every bone in my body 959 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,440 when you created me in the secret place. 960 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,920 Carefully, skillfully you shaped me 961 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,400 from nothing to something. 962 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,560 You saw who you created me to be before I became me, 963 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,120 before I've ever seen the light of day 964 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,920 the number of days you planned for me 965 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,360 were already recorded in your book. 966 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,240 Beautiful, beautiful. 967 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:32,280 And then the Hebrew of that expression, 968 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,800 before I became me, it could be translated as an embryo. 969 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,040 Isn't that amazing? 970 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:38,880 Yeah. 971 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:39,720 Wow. 972 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:40,640 And now you can see it. 973 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:41,480 In a microscope. 974 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:42,320 Microscope, yeah. 975 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,760 And then soon you'll see it on a, what's the scan? 976 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:46,600 Ultrasound. 977 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:47,440 Ultrasound. 978 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,280 Yeah. 979 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:49,920 You can see it in an ultrasound now. 980 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,680 It's remarkable, absolutely remarkable. 981 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:57,680 But the point is that you were formed specifically 982 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,400 by our Father using various parts 983 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,000 of your ancestry from your parents. 984 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,160 You were not a mistake. 985 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:07,800 You were not an accident. 986 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,120 You were created by our Heavenly Father 987 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,520 in conjunction with your parents, 988 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,600 working together to make you. 989 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,160 And maybe you have had a rough go of it. 990 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,840 Maybe you had parents that were abusive 991 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,520 or absentee father or a harsh father or mother, 992 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,920 or perhaps you've had wonderful parents. 993 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,680 The point is that our Father has a path for you. 994 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:38,080 He laid out all of your days, wrote them in his book 995 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:42,320 so that when the time came for you to be on the earth, 996 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,880 everything was prepared ahead of time 997 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,080 so that all things would work together 998 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:52,280 for good for you because he wanted you to love him. 999 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,360 He wanted you to walk with him. 1000 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,800 He wanted you to have relationship with him 1001 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,080 so that your obedience would make a difference 1002 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,360 in the world right here, right now. 1003 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:07,800 You have a sphere of influence that no one else has. 1004 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,040 You are surrounded by people in a different way, 1005 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,280 even from your siblings, even from your parents, 1006 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,040 even from your offspring. 1007 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,040 You alone have that path, that assignment, 1008 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,560 that thing that God has called you to do. 1009 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,960 I remember one time I thought I was gonna volunteer to God 1010 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,920 for something that I thought that I could do. 1011 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,800 And I said, I know how to do that. 1012 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,200 I've got a burden for that. 1013 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,840 And the Lord spoke to me very clearly. 1014 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,440 He said, there are plenty of things 1015 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:38,760 that you are capable of doing 1016 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,560 that I've not called you to do. 1017 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:41,880 Mm-hmm, yeah. 1018 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,760 And so I stopped my volunteering to do that thing 1019 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,920 because it wasn't what God had called me to do. 1020 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:48,760 Focus. 1021 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,280 Stay focused on what he called you to do. 1022 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,840 And Dean Braxton sent me a thing today, 1023 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,960 and I think we can maybe put a link to it in the show notes. 1024 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,360 It's just a little short or a reel or whatever you call it 1025 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,840 that a man is preaching and he's talking about, 1026 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,960 I am on my path with God. 1027 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,920 And I'm not jealous of anybody else 1028 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,720 because if I was jealous of somebody else, 1029 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:15,520 it would be saying to God, 1030 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,680 I don't value what you made me to be. 1031 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,160 Oh, wow. 1032 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,000 Isn't that powerful? 1033 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,040 That'll keep you focused. 1034 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,960 Yeah, stay focused on what he made you to be 1035 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,000 because he made somebody else to be something else. 1036 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,720 Don't compare yourself to anybody else. 1037 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:31,920 He made you, you. 1038 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,120 That's very good. 1039 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:38,120 And he made you to be in fellowship with him, 1040 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,000 in communication with him. 1041 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:45,000 He made you to co-operate with him in the spirit. 1042 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,760 And that's why it's so important for you 1043 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,520 to be filled with the Holy Spirit 1044 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,480 and be speaking in tongues, 1045 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,400 like we talked about in episode 194 1046 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,920 that we did not too awfully long ago. 1047 00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,480 So go back to that one if you didn't hear it 1048 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,600 about the importance of praying in tongues 1049 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,920 and how God wants to use you. 1050 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,720 He wants to use you. 1051 00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:09,080 You can make a difference in the earth. 1052 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,160 In your sphere of influence, 1053 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,960 your intercessions can drill through that darkness. 1054 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,760 Your praise and your worship 1055 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,480 can drill through the darkness 1056 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,480 that is trying to keep heaven and earth separated. 1057 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,440 You can make a difference. 1058 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,240 And your worship and your intercession 1059 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:30,240 and your walk with God 1060 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:33,160 will impact the people around you. 1061 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,840 It will impact the society around you. 1062 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,440 You can change your neighborhood. 1063 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,520 You can change your family. 1064 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,280 You can change your city. 1065 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,600 You can change your nation and the world 1066 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,120 by your obedience to the Holy Spirit 1067 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,880 by letting him work through you. 1068 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:51,720 Yes, amen. 1069 00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:52,560 Amen. 1070 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:53,400 Amen. 1071 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:59,200 If you enjoyed today's podcast, 1072 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,920 please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast 1073 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,400 on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. 1074 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,840 Your review helps the podcasting platform 1075 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,160 suggest this podcast to other listeners 1076 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,640 who are also looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. 1077 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,440 Check out our website at globaloutpouring.org 1078 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,120 to find out more information, 1079 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,840 read our blogs, connect with us, and donate. 1080 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,680 You can also browse our web store 1081 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,200 for life-changing anointed books. 1082 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,760 Until next time, this is Sharon Buss. 1083 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,240 And I'm Philip Buss. 1084 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,640 God bless you with his overwhelming, loving presence. 1085 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,640 God bless you with his overwhelming, loving presence.