1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,200 It's the anointing that's in your life 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,320 because of his presence, because of his love for you 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,240 and your love for him, that you have the grace 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,080 to keep putting one foot in front of the other. 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,220 Just keep on walking. 6 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:13,920 You're walking with him. 7 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:14,940 He's with you. 8 00:00:14,940 --> 00:00:17,280 You are not alone in this. 9 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,440 His presence gives you the grace to keep on walking. 10 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,440 ["The Last Supper"] 11 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,440 ["The Last Supper"] 12 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,600 God promises in Joel 2, 28, 13 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,360 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. 14 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,760 Welcome to Global Outpouring, 15 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,400 where we contend for that promise outpouring, 16 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,400 we equip for that outpouring, 17 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,640 so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 18 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:44,800 I'm Philip Bus. 19 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,920 And I'm Sharon Bus. 20 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,860 Welcome to the podcast today. 21 00:00:47,860 --> 00:00:49,760 We're so delighted that you are with us 22 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,280 and we want to share something 23 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,400 that the Holy Spirit gave me a download about. 24 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,000 I heard in my spirit, keep on walking. 25 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,880 And sometimes you just need a little encouragement, 26 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,040 depending on what you're walking through. 27 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,720 Sometimes you just need to have that perseverance 28 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,480 from the Holy Spirit that helps you to keep on walking. 29 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,600 Thank you so much for joining us today. 30 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,880 We're absolutely delighted that you have tuned in 31 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,640 and that you want to participate 32 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,520 in something that's life-changing. 33 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,000 We trust that this podcast 34 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,120 is going to be life-changing for you. 35 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,200 But before we get started, 36 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,000 we want to make sure that you have gone to our website, 37 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,720 globaloutpouring.net, 38 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,160 that you have subscribed to our email lists. 39 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,640 We have several to choose from 40 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,360 and you can choose one or more. 41 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,600 And this is a way for us to keep in touch with you. 42 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,640 And we really like to hear back from you. 43 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,680 If you're being touched by something 44 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00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,160 It's for every age group, even the children, 72 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,840 even the babies are gonna be ministered to and prayed for. 73 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,000 We're gonna have something that will be life-changing 74 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,640 and bring growth into your life. 75 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:17,200 You'll be able to meet people and have 76 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:18,400 a whole new perspective. 77 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,400 Lots of times people come and they get marching orders 78 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:22,560 for the next year. 79 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,240 And it's just going to be deep worship 80 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,800 and deep intercession and deep word. 81 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,400 And it'll help you to go deep in the things of God. 82 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,400 So today, I just want to bring this message 83 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,200 that the Lord put on my heart, keep on walking. 84 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,000 I heard it in my spirit, keep on walking, keep on walking. 85 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,320 And I remember many years ago, our founder, Gwen Shaw, 86 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,800 preached a message at the Blue Mountain Christian Retreat 87 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,800 in Pennsylvania, and it was called Keep on Walking. 88 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,240 We weren't there for that one. 89 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,840 It was before we started traveling with her in 1983. 90 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,640 So that's a long time ago. 91 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:01,680 It was a long time ago. 92 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,120 And her husband, Colonel Jim Shaw, 93 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,920 every time he would mention that message, 94 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,800 he would choke up in his speech. 95 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:12,960 He'd just kind of stop. 96 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,560 And he might have even come to tears, 97 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,400 and he'd put his hand on his heart. 98 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,360 He was really touched by that message. 99 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,360 And I've looked for it in our archives, and I can't find it. 100 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,880 So I don't know what that message was. 101 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,320 And if we even heard the recording of it, 102 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,240 it's so long ago that I don't remember what it was. 103 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,360 But the Lord just put it on my heart 104 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,440 that we need to have this kind of a message 105 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,640 to encourage people to keep on walking, 106 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,720 no matter what you're going through. 107 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,360 Because sometimes you get discouraged. 108 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:45,160 Yeah. 109 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,280 Sometimes there's just some kind of an attack of the enemy, 110 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:51,400 or maybe like we had in that podcast, 111 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:56,080 it was episode 246, about what about the wilderness? 112 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,880 Sometimes you're in a wilderness. 113 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,440 Sometimes you're in a place 114 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,920 where you're being accused by the enemy. 115 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,400 Sometimes you're being accused by people. 116 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,680 Sometimes you're just lonely, 117 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,640 and you get tired and you wanna quit. 118 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,840 But God says, keep on walking. 119 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:14,960 Keep on putting one foot in front of the other. 120 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,680 I remember hearing some time ago, 121 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,240 somebody asked John Wayne about how he walked. 122 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,640 Because he had an unusual gait, 123 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,200 that he was just an old cowboy. 124 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,040 And he had- 125 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:29,920 He was from riding horses. 126 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:30,760 Maybe. 127 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,440 But he had a certain stride that was kind of different. 128 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,080 And somebody asked him about how he walked. 129 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,680 And he says, well, my daddy taught me, 130 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,280 you just keep putting one foot in front of the other. 131 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:45,560 And that was how he walked. 132 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,400 He just- 133 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:47,240 That's how he walked, yeah. 134 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,040 It was his stride, it was his unique way. 135 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,960 But it's still about putting one foot 136 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,440 in front of the other. 137 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,240 So we wanna look at some scriptures here, 138 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,280 and then go on a journey with Jesus, 139 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:02,120 that I think is going to really encourage you. 140 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,440 But one of the things that I heard in my spirit, 141 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:08,040 as I was meditating on this idea of keep on walking, 142 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,280 I heard the words in my spirit, patient continuance. 143 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:12,920 And I knew it came from a scripture, 144 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:14,200 so I looked it up. 145 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,680 And it's in Romans two, six, and seven. 146 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,400 And in the King James, 147 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,280 it uses that expression, patient continuance. 148 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:25,040 And it's talking about how the Lord is going to give rewards 149 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,120 for people according to their deeds. 150 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,200 And it says, who will render to every man 151 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:30,800 according to his deeds, 152 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,760 to them who by patient continuance and well-doing, 153 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,960 seek for glory and honor and immortality, 154 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:38,800 eternal life. 155 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,280 He's going to give eternal life to those who persevere. 156 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:46,600 Other translations say those who keep on doing good, 157 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,480 or patience and well-doing, 158 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,000 or persistence or continuance of a good work. 159 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,240 So it's about sticking to it. 160 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,080 Stick into it. 161 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,680 Stick into it. 162 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,640 You do the thing that you've been given to do. 163 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,320 And sometimes, we get inclined, 164 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,120 we see something that looks like fun. 165 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:07,840 Oh, I'd like to go and do that. 166 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:12,520 And it's easy to just leave the post that God put you on 167 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,640 and go and do something that looks exciting and fun, 168 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,120 but God gave you a job to do. 169 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,400 And like when our founder passed away, 170 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,120 we're wondering, now what? 171 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:24,160 What do we do now? 172 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:26,400 I mean, it was a... 173 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,560 It was a tough... 174 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,640 Yeah, it was a significant weighty moment. 175 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,040 And Gene Little, who along with his wife, Mary Lois, 176 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,960 runs our house in Jerusalem, 177 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,160 he was in the military and he said, 178 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,600 old orders stand until new orders are given. 179 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:46,600 Yeah. 180 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,040 So you keep on walking. 181 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,040 You keep on doing the thing that you've been given to do. 182 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,040 You don't change course. 183 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:55,120 You keep on walking. 184 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,840 Even if it looks dark or foggy, 185 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,200 or you're being sent into a thorn bush, 186 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,360 you just keep on walking, keep on that trail. 187 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,400 I remember we used to fly with Colonel Jim sometimes. 188 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,760 He was a pilot, Sister Gwen's husband, 189 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,240 and he was teaching me how to fly. 190 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,480 We never got very far with it, but I loved it. 191 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,360 And he taught me how to keep a heading. 192 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,600 So he showed me the instruments, 193 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,400 and my job was to steer the plane, 194 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:27,800 pointing at that point. 195 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,120 You keep on going in the direction you're supposed to go. 196 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,120 If you want to get where you want to go, 197 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,440 you got to keep on going in that direction. 198 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,320 We didn't have GPS back then either. 199 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,320 No. 200 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:39,440 You're flying by faith, really, 201 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,320 that you're going to have the place to land when you get there. 202 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,720 Well, there were instruments and things 203 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,080 that would keep you on your heading, 204 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:47,880 but you had to stick with it. 205 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:49,640 You know, there was such a thing as autopilot, 206 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,680 but he was teaching me how to pilot. 207 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:52,680 Yeah. 208 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:54,200 So anyway, the point is, 209 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,520 you keep going in the direction you've been given, 210 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,120 and you just keep going. 211 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,440 Patient continuance. 212 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:02,440 You endure. 213 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:03,920 You keep on doing it. 214 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,120 So the next scripture that I found was Romans 5.1-5. 215 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,040 Philip, would you read that from the Passion, please? 216 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:15,080 Our faith in Jesus transfers God's righteousness to us, 217 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,520 and he now declares us flawless in his eyes. 218 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:18,520 Oh, how beautiful. 219 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:19,520 Yeah. 220 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,760 This means we can now enjoy true and lasting peace with God, 221 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,000 all because of what our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, 222 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,600 has done for us. 223 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,080 Our faith guarantees us permanent access 224 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,200 into this marvelous kindness 225 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,920 that has given us a perfect relationship with God. 226 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,400 What incredible joy bursts forth within us 227 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,360 as we keep on celebrating our hope 228 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,800 of experiencing God's glory. 229 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:44,120 But that's not all. 230 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:48,000 Even in times of trouble, we have a joyful confidence, 231 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,920 knowing that our pressures will develop in us patient endurance. 232 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:53,200 Yes, there it is again. 233 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,080 And patient endurance will refine our character, 234 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,960 and proven character leads us back to hope. 235 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,080 And this hope is not a disappointing fantasy, 236 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,640 because we can now experience the endless love of God 237 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,360 cascading into our hearts 238 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,840 through the Holy Spirit who lives in us. 239 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:11,440 Cascading into our hearts. 240 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:12,760 That sounds like outpouring. 241 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,080 Sounds like a waterfall outpouring. 242 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,080 Yes, come on. 243 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,080 Outpouring. 244 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,400 So even the times of trouble, 245 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,080 our pressures will develop in us 246 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,480 patient endurance, 247 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,760 which is like patient continuance in the other verse. 248 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,680 And patient endurance will refine our character. 249 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:31,480 This is like Galatians 5, 250 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,600 where it talks about the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 251 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,760 It's developing His fruit in us. 252 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,520 He's trying to make us look like Jesus. 253 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,240 That's what the bride is supposed to be. 254 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,680 We're supposed to be His counterpart. 255 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:46,040 Counterpart, yeah, that's good. 256 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,240 He wants us to be His counterpart that is like Him. 257 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,240 Like Him. 258 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,080 So then this idea of keeping on walking, 259 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,240 patient endurance is a part of keeping on walking. 260 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,600 You just keep putting one foot in front of the other. 261 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,720 So Abraham was commanded to walk up and down 262 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,280 through the land of promise. 263 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,080 And in Genesis 13, 14 to 18 in the ESV, 264 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,040 would you read that for us? 265 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:13,400 The Lord said to Abram, 266 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,680 after Lot had separated from him, 267 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,800 lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, 268 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,480 northward and southward and eastward and westward, 269 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,000 for all the land that you see, 270 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,640 I will give to you and to your offspring forever. 271 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,000 Hallelujah. 272 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,920 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth 273 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,240 so that if one can count the dust of the earth, 274 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,560 your offspring also can be counted. 275 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:36,880 Hallelujah. 276 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,120 Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land 277 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:41,520 for I will give it to you. 278 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,600 Amen. 279 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,080 So Abram moved his tent and came and settled 280 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,440 by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron. 281 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,200 And there he built an altar to the Lord. 282 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:56,200 So the Lord gave him this word, arise, walk. 283 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:58,640 So he had to keep on walking. 284 00:11:58,640 --> 00:11:59,560 Keep on walking. 285 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:02,360 And because he had lots of flocks and herds, 286 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,080 he had to keep walking through the length 287 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,840 and the breadth of the land 288 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,080 in order to find pasture for them. 289 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:10,600 So he was nomadic. 290 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,480 So he walked around and walked around and walked around, 291 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,920 but he settled in Hebron. 292 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:18,600 And that's another whole subject. 293 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:19,920 I've been studying on that one. 294 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,640 We'll come to that sometime. 295 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:22,800 And he built an altar. 296 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:23,680 That's a huge thing. 297 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,120 He built an altar there. 298 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,600 And it's interesting that that's the place 299 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,720 where he buried Sarah. 300 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,920 And that's the place he was buried. 301 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,320 And in the next generation, 302 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,320 Isaac and Rebecca were buried there. 303 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,600 And then Jacob and Leah were buried there. 304 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,840 And I just learned from extra biblical sources 305 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,880 that the sons of Jacob were also buried there, 306 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:48,800 except for Joseph. 307 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,400 We know that he was buried up in Shechem. 308 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,160 But I just think that's interesting 309 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,080 that all of these patriarchs were buried in the same place. 310 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,320 Hebron. 311 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,240 And I think Hebron means friendship. 312 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,840 So there's something about he walked 313 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:04,280 to the place of friendship. 314 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,200 And he built an altar to the Lord there, 315 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,120 like, okay, here's my settling place, 316 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,640 but I am going to walk through the length 317 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:13,480 and breadth of the land, 318 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,520 because God told him to, I'm sure he did. 319 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:17,840 But he kept on walking. 320 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,760 He kept on walking all through the length 321 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,520 and the breadth of the land. 322 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,160 And then in Deuteronomy 11, 24, 323 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:25,880 would you read that for us? 324 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,000 Every place wherein the soles of your feet shall tread 325 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,200 shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, 326 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,520 from the river, the river Euphrates, 327 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,680 even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 328 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:40,880 So every place where you put your feet. 329 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,200 And then he goes on says a similar thing in Joshua 1, 2, 330 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,840 and 3, would you read that? 331 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,920 Moses, my servant is dead. 332 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,680 Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, 333 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:52,640 thou and all this people, 334 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,280 unto the land which I shall give to them, 335 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,520 even to the children of Israel. 336 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,800 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, 337 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,280 that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 338 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,480 Okay, so you have two witnesses. 339 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,360 Two witnesses, he says, walk. 340 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:14,360 Every place you walk belongs to you and to your descendants. 341 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,520 So it's important that we keep on walking, 342 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,120 because every place God sends us, 343 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,440 no matter how much trouble or how good it is, 344 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,800 every place you go, you are claiming that 345 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,080 for the kingdom of God. 346 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:31,920 Yes, amen. 347 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,000 So if you're walking at Walmart, 348 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,120 you can be claiming the people of Walmart, 349 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,360 the people that are working there, 350 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,200 you can be claiming them for the kingdom, 351 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,840 you can be claiming as you walk down the street, 352 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:43,960 you can be claiming, 353 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,000 lots of people will walk their neighborhood and pray. 354 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,480 Yeah, well that's why we're seeing 355 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,760 what we're seeing today with Islam. 356 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:52,600 Oh yeah. 357 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:53,440 You know, any country they've been, 358 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,600 any place they've had their foot, it's mine. 359 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,440 That's what they believe. 360 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,720 That's what they believe, that's what the Quran says. 361 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,560 Yeah, and the thing is that they are also sons of Abraham, 362 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,160 so they have some of these principles from him. 363 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,680 So that's where there's a big contention 364 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,640 over the land of Israel, 365 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,880 because they think because they walked there 366 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,880 and because it was under Islamic rule for hundreds of years, 367 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,440 since about 1400 years, they think it belongs to them, 368 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,760 and that's why they want to have genocide over the Jews. 369 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,440 They're mad that Hitler didn't finish the job, 370 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,400 and so they're gonna finish it. 371 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,720 The Israeli army has found in Gaza, 372 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:41,720 many copies of Mein Kampf, which is Hitler's story. 373 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:42,880 My life. 374 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,040 I think it's his struggle. 375 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,680 I think that's what it means. 376 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,160 And if it doesn't, we'll just edit that out. 377 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:56,000 But they found many copies of Mein Kampf in Arabic. 378 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,840 So, you know, these people have just bought into 379 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:03,160 destroying the Jews because they don't believe 380 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,840 that Israel should exist. 381 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,360 But the word says, but the promisee goes to Isaac. 382 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,600 Exactly, exactly, but it's not in the Koran. 383 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,600 It's not in the Koran, yeah. 384 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,800 Yeah, there's some corruption there, 385 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,440 and they think that the other scriptures 386 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,520 have been corrupted. 387 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:19,360 Yeah. 388 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:20,240 Oops. 389 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,800 Anyway, moving on. 390 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,880 The point is every place where you walk, 391 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,040 every place where you keep on walking, 392 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,280 your feet are making a difference. 393 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:36,160 And so get your mind on what your walk is. 394 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,600 That your walk is making a difference 395 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,240 because you're connected to our Father. 396 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,080 So in Hebrews 12, one, would you read that 397 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,160 from the Amplified Classic, Philip? 398 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,320 Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great 399 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,960 a cloud of witnesses who have borne testimony to the truth, 400 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,200 let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance 401 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,560 or unnecessary weight, and that sin which so readily 402 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,360 deftly and cleverly clings to and entangles us, 403 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:06,600 and let us run with patient endurance 404 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,200 and steady and active persistence the appointed course 405 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,560 of the race that is set before us. 406 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,920 So when we keep on walking, it's really part of the race. 407 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:17,560 We are in a race. 408 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,920 We are in a race for the planet Earth. 409 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,600 We are earthlings. 410 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:28,600 And so where we put our feet, where we walk, 411 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,520 makes a difference. 412 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,000 And then James 1, 2 to 4, and 12, 413 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,480 would you read that please from the Amplified Classic? 414 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,240 Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, 415 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,280 whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials 416 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:47,320 of any sort or fall into various temptations. 417 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,000 Be assured and understand that the trial and proving 418 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,360 of your faith bring out endurance 419 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:55,280 and steadfastness and patience. 420 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,040 But let endurance and steadfastness and patience 421 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,000 have full play and do a thorough work 422 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,800 so that you may be people perfectly and fully developed 423 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,520 with no defects, lacking in nothing. 424 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:08,360 Beautiful. 425 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:10,800 Blessed is the man who is patient under trial 426 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,360 and stands up under temptations. 427 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:16,240 For when he has stood the test and been approved, 428 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,840 he will receive the victorious crown of life, 429 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:22,280 which God has promised to those who love him. 430 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:23,120 Amen. 431 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:26,280 So just keep walking and just keep standing. 432 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,400 Standing up, keep on, have a standing up mindset 433 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,720 that we're gonna square our shoulders 434 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,560 and hold our head high and we're going to walk, 435 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:39,920 not in pride, but in knowing who Jesus is in us 436 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,480 and knowing who we are in him 437 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,640 and knowing that he has a purpose for us to accomplish. 438 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:51,400 And we're just going to continue to do the things 439 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,600 in obedience and love to him. 440 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,760 We're gonna keep on walking. 441 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,280 So what is Colossians 1, 9 through 12, 442 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,400 say in the Amplified, classic. 443 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,880 For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, 444 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,440 have not ceased to pray and make special requests for you, 445 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,880 asking that you may be filled with a full, 446 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,520 deep and clear knowledge of his will 447 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,080 and all spiritual wisdom and comprehensive insight 448 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,080 into the ways and purposes of God. 449 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:19,960 Yes. 450 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,720 And an understanding and discernment of spiritual things 451 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,360 that you may walk, live and conduct yourselves 452 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:29,760 in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him 453 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,640 and desiring to please him in all things, 454 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:34,800 bearing fruit in every good work 455 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,120 and steadily growing and increasing in 456 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:40,160 by the knowledge of God with fuller, deeper 457 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,840 and clearer insight, acquaintance and recognition. 458 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,160 We pray that you may be invigorated and strengthened 459 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,560 with all power according to the might of his glory 460 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:55,000 to exercise every kind of endurance and patience, 461 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,160 perseverance and forbearance with joy, 462 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,960 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified 463 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:02,800 and made us fit to share the portion 464 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,040 which is the inheritance of the saints, 465 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,560 God's holy people in the light. 466 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,440 Yes, we're walking in the light. 467 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,160 Yes. 468 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,320 If we walk in the light as he is in the light, 469 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,280 we will have fellowship one with another 470 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,680 and the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us from our sins. 471 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:21,840 It's walking in the light. 472 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:23,680 It's walking with him. 473 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,040 There is a joy in walking with him, 474 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,120 even in the most horrible trials. 475 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:30,160 Mm, yeah. 476 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,080 And I mean, I don't mean to sound like 477 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,080 life is just a bunch of trials. 478 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:35,720 No, no. 479 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,640 But sometimes it seems like it. 480 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,200 Sometimes you go through a valley to get to the mountain. 481 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,520 Yes, yes. 482 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,600 And sometimes you have to climb with endurance 483 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:44,720 to get up the mountain too. 484 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:45,360 Yeah. 485 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,760 Many mountain ranges, it's just not... 486 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,000 One mountain going up, you have... 487 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,400 You have little ones before it, 488 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,600 and there's valleys, little ones before it, valleys. 489 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:55,120 Yeah. 490 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:57,280 And that's a picture of what we go through. 491 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,400 It's true, up and down and up and down. 492 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:00,280 It's kind of normal. 493 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,280 But it's walking with him. 494 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,320 Yes. 495 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,920 So I was reminded as I was meditating about this 496 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,320 of the Baton Death March. 497 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,040 It's B-A-T-A-A-N. 498 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,840 It happened during World War II in the Philippines 499 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,280 when there was a location where American troops 500 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:26,080 and Filipino troops were fighting against the Japanese. 501 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,480 And they were kind of cornered. 502 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:29,080 And... 503 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,280 It's kind of like Dunkirk. 504 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:30,960 Yeah. 505 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:31,440 And it was... 506 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,760 Except there wasn't a way out of this. 507 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,760 Yeah, well, there wasn't any way out of this either. 508 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:36,480 They had to surrender. 509 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:37,280 Yeah, that's what I mean. 510 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,880 There wasn't anything out of the way of this. 511 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:39,280 Yeah. 512 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,160 Dunkirk, they got boats in and... 513 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:41,800 Oh, yeah. 514 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,040 They got people out. 515 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,520 So I've looked up some different numbers 516 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,880 and I've been on history.com and on the National 517 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:56,080 Museum of the Air Force and the National Guard website. 518 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,200 And I've just grabbed a few details. 519 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,880 So it says estimates vary widely, 520 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,880 but the Department of Veterans Affairs 521 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:10,560 estimates that 650 American and 16,500 Filipino soldiers 522 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,400 were killed during and after the Baton Death March. 523 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,360 Other researchers claim the number of deaths, 524 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:19,000 including Filipino citizens who tried to help the marchers, 525 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,640 is even higher. 526 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,400 And what I found was that was somewhere between 75,000 527 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:32,240 and 78,000 men were marched 65 to 66 miles, 528 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:38,080 estimated 65 or 66, 100 at a time, to go into POW camps. 529 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,360 And if you got sick and fell along the way, 530 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:41,360 they just shot you? 531 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,160 Yeah, or bayonetted you. 532 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,360 Bayonetted, yeah. 533 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:45,320 Saves bullets. 534 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,280 Yeah, and they were ruthless. 535 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:47,560 Yeah. 536 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,840 Absolutely ruthless. 537 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,960 And it says that roughly 54,000 service members 538 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,400 survived the march, though conditions 539 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,880 didn't improve once prisoners reached their destination. 540 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,920 Poor living areas and overcrowding 541 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,520 gave rise to diseases such as dysentery. 542 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,920 Medical care was virtually nonexistent, 543 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,840 and many who survived the march itself 544 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,880 died in the days after reaching the camp. 545 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,080 The prisoners endured continued abuse until the end of the war 546 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,360 and were often used as slave labor. 547 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:20,880 But the point is, in order to survive a death march, 548 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,320 you have to keep on walking. 549 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,320 You just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. 550 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,160 People might be dying on your left hand 551 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,400 and might be dying on your right hand, but you keep walking. 552 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,480 Don't lose your faith. 553 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,920 If you haven't filled out everything 554 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,600 that God has given you to do, keep on walking. 555 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,560 Don't quit. 556 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,280 Don't quit. 557 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:48,160 Well, Colonel Jim used to say, plot on, plot on, plot on. 558 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:48,680 Yeah. 559 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:49,680 That was one of his sayings. 560 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:50,920 That was one of his sayings. 561 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,760 It really means keep on walking. 562 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,160 But we don't use the word plot very much. 563 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,280 So I looked it up so that I could give a dictionary 564 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,480 definition from Merriam-Webster. 565 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:07,440 And so to plot means to walk laboriously and monotonously, 566 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,360 like drudge. 567 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:12,560 Or to walk heavily or slowly, like trudge. 568 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,800 Both of those are walking words. 569 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,480 Or drudge is kind of like it's drudgery. 570 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,520 You know what, like a lot of bodybuilders and stuff would 571 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,480 do, or track. 572 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,960 It was track people. 573 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,080 They would put those weights on their feet. 574 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:26,840 Oh, yes. 575 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:27,880 We had a set of those. 576 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,600 And that would strengthen their legs. 577 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,440 And that way, when they ran, they 578 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,680 had more strength in their muscles. 579 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,640 Because they trained to do that. 580 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,040 And that kept them going. 581 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,680 So even when sometimes you feel that you've 582 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,320 got weights on your feet, that's in the practice. 583 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,520 That's in the practice, you wear the weights. 584 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,320 And then when the race is on, you take them off. 585 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,720 That'll kind of preach. 586 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,560 Yes, it will. 587 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,800 When the rubber hits the road or the soles of your feet 588 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,560 hit the road, keep walking. 589 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:00,120 Keep running. 590 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:00,880 Keep walking. 591 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:01,400 It's true. 592 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,080 Just keep putting one foot in front of the other. 593 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,080 Just keep walking. 594 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,880 And maybe you don't feel joy in it 595 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,240 because you're looking at the circumstances. 596 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,600 The joy is at the end when you cross the finish line. 597 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:13,680 It's true. 598 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,680 But there is a joy in the presence of the Lord 599 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,920 that when you're going through stuff, 600 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:25,040 you have the opportunity to experience His presence. 601 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,120 I have a saying that in every kind of circumstance, 602 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,840 there is a door to God in it. 603 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,160 You'll find that God is there. 604 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,600 And it's just a matter of stopping and listening 605 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,680 for His presence. 606 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,600 One of the things that Papa Jim also said, 607 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,680 that Colonel Jim also said was, and I 608 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,640 think he had his own version of the quote. 609 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,520 I've looked online, and there's other versions of it out there. 610 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,240 But here's what he said, if I recall correctly. 611 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,920 The plains of hesitation are littered 612 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,640 with the bones of those who upon the eve of success 613 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,080 sat down to rest, and resting died. 614 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,000 They stopped walking. 615 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,200 Stopped walking, yeah. 616 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,880 You've got to keep on walking. 617 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:15,400 But there is a kind of rest while you walk 618 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:20,120 that is the rest that God has for us in the Spirit. 619 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,640 And I remember the Lord speaking to me once about, 620 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:29,680 you can have a restless sleep, or you can have a rest even 621 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:35,160 without sleep, because there's a rest in His presence. 622 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,960 And I remember, this is funny. 623 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,640 We're talking about Colonel Jim a lot in this podcast. 624 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,680 But he was a man that kept on walking no matter what. 625 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,280 And five of us girls on the staff 626 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,640 had an opportunity to go on a weekend survival trip. 627 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,320 Where was that at? 628 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,760 It was in the Panhandle of Texas somewhere in the wilderness. 629 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,880 It was really a wilderness kind of a place. 630 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:07,880 And we drank water out of mud puddles and cow prints. 631 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,640 And you ate minnows sun dried on the rocks. 632 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,720 Yes, we did. 633 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,280 I won't go into all those details. 634 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,120 But Colonel Jim came with us. 635 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:20,280 He didn't want to see us girls go out by ourselves. 636 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,320 So he wasn't in particularly good shape 637 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,840 himself because of the kind of stuff he was doing. 638 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,600 He just hadn't been exercising. 639 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:31,740 But he was up for it. 640 00:27:31,740 --> 00:27:35,960 He was going to do anything to protect his girls. 641 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,320 So we all had heavy backpacks. 642 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,120 And we trudged into the wilderness. 643 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:42,800 And we learned how to survive. 644 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,000 We learned some survival techniques. 645 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,600 And on the way out, he was so tired. 646 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,600 He was bringing up the rear. 647 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,080 And I was right in front of him. 648 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,280 And I turned around and looked at him. 649 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,320 And he was walking in his sleep. 650 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:57,120 Wow. 651 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,560 He was sleeping while he walked. 652 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:05,880 And I think there is a thing that we can learn to rest 653 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,360 and still keep putting one foot in front of the other. 654 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,920 And not even knowing it sometimes. 655 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,520 Yeah, it's true. 656 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,640 There's a principle in Psalm 46, 10, 657 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,320 where it says, be still and know that I'm God. 658 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,440 That word be still can be translated 659 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,160 several different ways. 660 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,280 One of them that I think is very good is desist. 661 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,760 In other words, stop what you're doing. 662 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:33,960 Stop. 663 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,760 But it also can mean to sink down. 664 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:44,360 So there's a thing that goes on in us, in our emotions, 665 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:50,240 in our thinking, in that non-physical part of us, 666 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:55,960 where we learn to let go to God. 667 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,120 Where we surrender to God and let go. 668 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,600 And let his presence carry us. 669 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,120 There's joy in his presence. 670 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,360 And in his presence is fullness of joy. 671 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,560 So how do you get that joy? 672 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,080 You get the joy by entering into his presence 673 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,360 with thanksgiving. 674 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,120 So when you're walking, when you're keeping on walking, 675 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,440 and it seems like a drudgery, it seems 676 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,800 like you're just trudging, it seems like, 677 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,880 how long is this going to keep going on? 678 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,640 If you begin to praise him, if you 679 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,600 begin to thank him, if you begin to give glory to him, 680 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,920 something happens in your spirit that joy begins to come up. 681 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,520 And the joy of the Lord is your strength. 682 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,120 So it gives you strength to keep on walking. 683 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,320 But it has to do with surrendering to him. 684 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,680 It has to do with sinking down into him. 685 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,000 Even in Ephesians 6, 10, where it says, 686 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,200 put on the whole armor of God. 687 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,760 That word put on also means sink down into it. 688 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,680 So you're going to sink down into the armor. 689 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,520 You're going to sink down into his presence. 690 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,760 And his presence is going to carry you. 691 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,760 I'm reminded of that. 692 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:05,880 You see it on cards. 693 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,560 You see it on plaques, where it's talking about footprints. 694 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,960 And we mentioned this in the last podcast. 695 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,840 Philip brought it up, about where 696 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,120 you see the footprints in the sand. 697 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,760 And there's two sets of footprints going along. 698 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,520 And the person who's looking at it 699 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,800 recognizes that there's one place where it's just 700 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,760 one set of footprints. 701 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,280 And that person recognizes that this was a really hard time. 702 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,600 Was I all by myself? 703 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,160 And the Lord said, no, I was carrying you at that time. 704 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,720 And he does carry us. 705 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,800 When we reach out to him, when we put our trust in him, 706 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:47,160 when we sink down into him, when we put our confidence in him, 707 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,280 he's there. 708 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,600 He's there all the time. 709 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,080 He's more there than we realize. 710 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,160 There's no place where he isn't. 711 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,160 Hallelujah. 712 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,080 Hallelujah. 713 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,040 So it's not something that we do in our own strength. 714 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,040 We do it in his strength. 715 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,320 And when we keep trying to put one foot in front of the other 716 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,680 in our own strength, that's where we really get weary. 717 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,760 But when we begin to lean on his strength, 718 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,200 that reminds me also of that podcast, 719 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,200 246, of What About the Wilderness, 720 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,560 where you go into the wilderness to learn 721 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,800 to lean on your beloved. 722 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,040 It's a bridal thing. 723 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,960 He's calling us into the wilderness. 724 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,960 He's calling us into these trudging places 725 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,480 to keep on walking through difficulties, 726 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,920 to learn to lean on him to become his bride. 727 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,120 It's a beautiful thing. 728 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,160 Yes, amen. 729 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,040 So you just have to not ever quit. 730 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,680 I love what Winston Churchill said in 1941. 731 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,760 This is during World War II. 732 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,880 He said, never give in. 733 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:48,920 Never give in. 734 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,720 Never, never, never, never. 735 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,960 Never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, 736 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:58,440 never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. 737 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,040 Never yield to force. 738 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,640 Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might 739 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:03,480 of the enemy. 740 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,880 And I'm gonna leave some out, 741 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,320 but he says, we can be sure 742 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,840 that we have only to persevere, to conquer. 743 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,520 Yeah, 1941. 744 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,440 Yeah. 745 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:15,880 Yeah, the Battle of Britain. 746 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,120 Yeah. 747 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:18,640 London was being bombed. 748 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,480 Right. 749 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,840 The point is you get your mind on, 750 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,560 we're gonna persevere and we're never gonna quit. 751 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,040 We're never gonna give in. 752 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,160 We're never gonna let the enemy overwhelm us 753 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,120 with his agenda that he's taunting us with his agenda. 754 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,240 I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that. 755 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,320 And we can say, oh no, you're not. 756 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,880 I bring the blood of Jesus Christ to bear against you. 757 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,120 You can't do this. 758 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,240 You are doomed. 759 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,080 Yeah. 760 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:44,920 You're doomed. 761 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:45,760 You're doomed, yeah. 762 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,680 And just say, no, uh-uh, I'm not taking, 763 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,480 I am not going to listen to what you're saying. 764 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,360 And I'm not gonna give you one centimeter, not one millimeter. 765 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,520 You can't even stay in my mind. 766 00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,880 Those thoughts that you're giving me, 767 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,240 I say no to them instantly, like a mousetrap, you know, snap. 768 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,080 Yeah. 769 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,840 As soon as he puts the bait out, snap. 770 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,160 You know, have you ever baited a mousetrap 771 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,520 and it snaps on your fingers? 772 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,320 That's the rat traps that are really scary. 773 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,600 Oh, yeah, yeah. 774 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,720 So, you know, he's trying to bait a trap to get you 775 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,880 and we just declare that he gets snapped instead. 776 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:23,720 Yeah, that's it. 777 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,040 Hallelujah. 778 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,920 So you don't ever give in. 779 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,120 And you have to remember that you're not walking alone 780 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,520 because if you have Jesus inside of you 781 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,480 and you are inside of him, you are never alone. 782 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,240 So the lonely march, even when you're surrounded by people, 783 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,960 you know, that's all about learning to lean, 784 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,440 like I just said. 785 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,360 So in your walking, realize that he is carrying you, 786 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,520 but you are also carrying him. 787 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,560 Yes, amen. 788 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,160 So that anointing that's on him, you are carrying 789 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,120 because you're carrying him and he's carrying you. 790 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,960 It's a unit, you're a unit. 791 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,720 You're meant to be one with him. 792 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,920 Remember, this is a bridal thing. 793 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,800 The bride and the groom become one, okay? 794 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,920 So he is in the process of making us one with him. 795 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:20,520 So your walk with him is designed by him 796 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,240 to cause you to know him. 797 00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:24,480 So it's like the fulfillment of the new covenant. 798 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,120 There's four points of the new covenant, 799 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,920 according to Jeremiah 31 verses 31 to 34, 800 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,120 and it's repeated again in the book of Hebrews 801 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,680 in a couple of places. 802 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,280 So he says, I will put my law in their inward parts 803 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,480 and write it on their hearts. 804 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,960 Number two, I will be their God and they shall be my people. 805 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,360 Number three, they shall all know me 806 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,360 from the least of them to the greatest of them. 807 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:51,800 Don't you want to know him? 808 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:52,640 Yes. 809 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,880 To know him in his power and his resurrection 810 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,720 and his love and his life. 811 00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:59,440 He wants you to know him. 812 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,040 That's part of the promise. 813 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,200 And then the fourth thing is, 814 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,920 for I will forgive their iniquity 815 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,760 and I will remember their sin no more. 816 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,760 So that wall that came up between us 817 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,320 because of our sins, because of our iniquities, 818 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,680 all of those things were nailed to the cross. 819 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,080 So when we accept what he did for us on the cross, 820 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,200 the wall comes down and we can know him. 821 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,160 So you can't know him as long as you've got this wall 822 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,480 of sin and iniquity between you and him. 823 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,960 But because of the forgiveness of sin, 824 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,680 because of the forgiveness of iniquity that comes 825 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,680 when we say, yes, Lord, I surrender to you. 826 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,800 Come and be my Lord. 827 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:38,920 Yes. 828 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,200 I surrender. 829 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,320 That is where we begin to have relationship with him. 830 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,600 We begin to know him. 831 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,800 So as you keep on walking, 832 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,600 you are carrying the light of the world within you. 833 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,840 You're hosting his presence. 834 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,480 His presence is in you to give you the grace 835 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,640 to go through anything, to keep on walking. 836 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,680 Sometimes we have the privilege of entering 837 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,880 into his suffering, but that also brings his glory. 838 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:07,720 Yes. 839 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,520 So I just wanna talk for a few minutes 840 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,560 about the anointing that he had to go through 841 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,480 what he went through for us. 842 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,280 So remember that just six days before the Passover, 843 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:25,560 they were meeting in the house of Simon the Leper. 844 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:26,840 Jesus was there. 845 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,360 He was being hosted by Simon the Leper. 846 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,640 Martha was there and serving and Mary was there too. 847 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,080 And because of her great love for him 848 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,720 and her dedication to him 849 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:40,960 and her obedience to the Holy Spirit's leading, 850 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,080 this Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, 851 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,040 and Lazarus was there too. 852 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,080 And he had just been raised from the dead 853 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,360 shortly before that. 854 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,560 So like the Pharisees and the chief priests 855 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,600 and all those, they didn't know what to do. 856 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,000 This man's been raised from the dead. 857 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:57,840 Now what? 858 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,360 There were lots of witnesses. 859 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:00,680 Oh yeah. 860 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,840 So Mary came and anointed Jesus. 861 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,760 Now in Matthew, it says a woman, 862 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,920 and in Mark it just says a woman, 863 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,920 came and poured this expensive oil of spikenard or nard. 864 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,240 It's very perfumey, it's very costly, 865 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,280 and poured it on his head. 866 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,760 But in the book of John, the Gospel of John, 867 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,760 it says that she anointed his feet with this oil of nard. 868 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,560 I think they say that it had the value 869 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,640 of a whole year's wages. 870 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:35,480 Wow, yeah. 871 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:36,920 Very expensive. 872 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,080 And it may have been part of like her dowry. 873 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,600 So according to the book of John, 874 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,080 she poured it on his feet 875 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,200 and then she wiped his feet with her hair. 876 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:48,560 And Jesus said, you know, 877 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,520 cause some of the disciples, 878 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,640 and in one account it says that Judas 879 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,080 was the one that brought it up. 880 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:54,920 Why are you doing this? 881 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,120 And it's interesting that it says Judas, 882 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,040 the son of Simon. 883 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,440 This is my opinion. 884 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,040 I think it was his daddy, 885 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,160 and he was bringing up, you know, 886 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,640 this could have been sold and given to the poor. 887 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,600 And Jesus rebuked him in front of his dad 888 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,120 and embarrassed him. 889 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,720 And it was at that point that he went out to betray Jesus, 890 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:18,000 cause I think he got angry. 891 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,920 That's just my take on it, whatever. 892 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,920 Which means that his dad probably was healed. 893 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:23,760 Yes. 894 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,200 He wouldn't be Simon the leper 895 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,480 and they wouldn't be there with him. 896 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,680 Yeah, cause he'd be without the camp. 897 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:29,600 Yeah. 898 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,600 So when Mary wiped his feet, 899 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,120 this anointing for the burial of Jesus, 900 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,760 she wiped his feet with her hair. 901 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,400 So that means that whatever perfume was on Jesus 902 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,880 was also on her. 903 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,040 And I think you can see that she would be a type of the bride. 904 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,880 That, you know, cause the Bible says in, 905 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,160 I think it's first Corinthians, 906 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,560 that a woman's hair is her glory. 907 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,600 So as she wiped his feet with her glory, 908 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,200 she took on that same anointing. 909 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,320 Interesting thought. 910 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,040 Now the thing about anointing is 911 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,080 in the government of Israel, 912 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,760 the biblical government, 913 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,720 it was the kings and the priests that were anointed. 914 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:14,640 They had the oil poured on their heads. 915 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,040 That's what made them king and priest. 916 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,640 Even in England, I remember hearing that 917 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,240 when the queen was crowned, 918 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,320 that it wasn't the crown that made her queen. 919 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,520 It was the anointing. 920 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,360 The anointing, yeah. 921 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:28,200 Yeah. 922 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,320 So, and I think that's the case 923 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,920 in many of the royal houses of Europe, at least. 924 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,200 I don't know about other places, 925 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,160 but it's the anointing that makes you the king. 926 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,280 It's the anointing that makes you the priest, right? 927 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,440 So Jesus was anointed and the very next day, 928 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,520 he goes out and he sends his disciples 929 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:54,200 to find a colt that's never been ridden on 930 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,760 and the disciples put their garments on the- 931 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:58,760 Back of the colt. 932 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,640 On the back of the colt of the donkey. 933 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,720 Okay, it was a young donkey that had never been ridden. 934 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:08,280 And when you first try to break an animal to ride- 935 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,120 Especially a donkey. 936 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,080 Yeah, they don't usually like it, 937 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,880 but this is Jesus, right? 938 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,480 So this donkey's gonna help. 939 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,480 And all the people cut down palm branches 940 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,320 and they're shouting, 941 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,480 Hosanna, Hosanna, which means save us. 942 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:22,320 Save us, yeah. 943 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,400 They're asking him to save us from Rome 944 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,800 is basically what they were saying. 945 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,640 Yeah. 946 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,880 And so he is going into, 947 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,080 he rides down the Mount of Olives and into the temple area 948 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,440 and he's fulfilling Zechariah 9.9. 949 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,440 You know, this was the triumphal entry, 950 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,640 what we celebrate Palm Sunday, right? 951 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:43,480 Yeah. 952 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,600 So he's fulfilling the scripture Zechariah 9.9. 953 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,560 Do you wanna read that for us? 954 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,920 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, 955 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,440 proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem. 956 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,600 Behold, the King is coming to you, just and a savior. 957 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,320 He has meek and writing on an ass and a young foe. 958 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,720 So this is from the Brenton's English Septuagint. 959 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:06,720 In other words, it was translated into English 960 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:09,240 from the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures 961 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:10,960 of Zechariah 9.9. 962 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,360 So I use this because it says that he is a savior 963 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,480 and he is a king. 964 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,480 All of them say he's the king. 965 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,360 So he was anointed and the next day he comes in 966 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,440 to show himself as the anointed Messiah. 967 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,280 Yeah. 968 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:28,200 I thought that was amazing. 969 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,040 Yeah. 970 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:29,880 A woman anoints him. 971 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:30,720 One day later. 972 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:31,560 Yeah. 973 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,360 And then he's walking in this anointing. 974 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,480 Okay, so with this anointing on his feet, 975 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,440 with this anointing on his head, 976 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,200 he goes into the temple and he cleanses the temple 977 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,200 of the money changers, throws over their things. 978 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,720 My father's house is a house of prayer. 979 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:49,120 So he's walking in the fragrance of this anointing. 980 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,760 So everywhere he went for the next days, 981 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,120 this fragrance was on him. 982 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,400 I remember, this is kind of a funny little side note. 983 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,440 I remember when Sister Gwen prayed for me 984 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,320 and she laid hands on me. 985 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,760 I don't remember if she had anointed me with oil or what, 986 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,880 but I remember the smell of it. 987 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,400 And I wouldn't wash my face or my hair for days 988 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,320 because I wanted to keep that smell. 989 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,160 Yeah. 990 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,120 So the smell, a strong anointing smell, 991 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,600 is gonna stay with you as long as you don't wash it off. 992 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,880 So Jesus was walking in that fragrance. 993 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,240 He was walking. 994 00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:30,880 Everywhere he went, he walked. 995 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,680 Other than that little ride down the Mount of Olives, 996 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,160 he was walking. 997 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,560 So at that point, then six days later, 998 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,040 it's about the Passover time. 999 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:45,080 And he's on this night of that he was betrayed. 1000 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,480 So he washes his disciples' feet. 1001 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,480 Now, we did a whole podcast about Peter and his blunders. 1002 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,120 It was episode 139. 1003 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,680 It was called, Whatever Your Blunder, 1004 00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,560 It's Forgivable, There's Hope. 1005 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:00,640 It's all about Peter. 1006 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,400 And I won't go into those details 1007 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,800 because it's in that podcast, 1008 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,280 if you wanna go back and catch the, 1009 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,160 there's a lot of stuff that, 1010 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,240 we don't see plainly in the scripture, 1011 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:13,280 but it's there if you understand the history 1012 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,120 and the ways that things were done. 1013 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,120 The culture. 1014 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,120 So Jesus washed their feet. 1015 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:24,120 Doesn't this have something to do with the walk? 1016 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,120 Their feet were dusty. 1017 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,240 They'd come in from walking. 1018 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:31,200 And it was really the job of the servant 1019 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,160 or the last guy at the table, which was Peter. 1020 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,440 It was his job to do it, and he didn't. 1021 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,080 We went into those details in the other podcast. 1022 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:43,280 So Jesus gets up, the one with this anointing, 1023 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,760 he's got the anointing on his feet. 1024 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,440 He's got the anointing on his head. 1025 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,280 And he's going around and washing their feet. 1026 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,520 He's getting them ready to keep on walking. 1027 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,520 Yes, wow. 1028 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,680 Because they're gonna have to keep on walking. 1029 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,040 They've got stuff to walk through in the days to come. 1030 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,000 And it got pretty serious real quick. 1031 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:03,840 Yeah. 1032 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,440 So while they were at the table, 1033 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,640 and Jesus had just given Judas a bite of food, 1034 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,400 he told Judas to go out quickly 1035 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,600 and do what was in his heart to do. 1036 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,800 So as Judas exited, Jesus said in John 13, 31, 1037 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,240 now is the son of man glorified, 1038 00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:24,600 and God is glorified in him. 1039 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,200 And I just think it's so amazing 1040 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,240 that as Judas is about to betray him, 1041 00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:35,520 Jesus is talking about being glorified. 1042 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:36,360 Yeah. 1043 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,320 This whole process that he walked through 1044 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,080 was for his glorification. 1045 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,160 Yeah. 1046 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,760 That's just stunning to me. 1047 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:45,600 Yeah, it really is. 1048 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,360 So let's talk a little bit about the things 1049 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,520 that he walked through, okay? 1050 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,080 And I really encourage you, if you haven't read it, 1051 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,520 take time to read this Upper Room Discourse 1052 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,600 from John 13, 31 through chapter 17, it's huge. 1053 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,040 So Jesus' glorification began 1054 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,080 as he gave his greatest sermon to his disciples. 1055 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:05,560 And they walked out into the night 1056 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,080 to the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, 1057 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,720 where he suffered alone in prayer. 1058 00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:13,080 He was abandoned by his sleeping disciples. 1059 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,640 He told them, pray, come on, help me pray. 1060 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:16,520 But they didn't. 1061 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:20,200 They had had several cups of wine in the Passover meal. 1062 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:21,520 The Passover, yeah. 1063 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,000 So they were tired, they were just overwhelmed. 1064 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,320 So Jesus wrestled in prayer in the darkness 1065 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,440 to the point of sweating blood. 1066 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,080 So the outpouring of his blood for us began 1067 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,040 in his prayer life. 1068 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:33,880 It's beautiful. 1069 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:34,840 Isn't that a great thought? 1070 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,920 Struggling for grace to obey our Father. 1071 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,840 This was part of his glorification 1072 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,800 and our struggles to lay down our will 1073 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,320 are also part of our glorification. 1074 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,600 So when we're struggling to lay it down, 1075 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,320 it's part of our glorification. 1076 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,920 It's part of our becoming like him. 1077 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,600 He laid down his will and the shedding of his blood 1078 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,560 in prayer gives us the grace to yield our will 1079 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,840 to our Father, trusting that his ways 1080 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,360 are higher than our ways. 1081 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,360 His plans and strategies are sometimes 1082 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,840 beyond our comprehension, but getting into agreement 1083 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,040 with him to keep on walking, 1084 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,760 whether we're going through the tough times or good times, 1085 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,600 that releases a fragrance. 1086 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,000 There's a perfume that comes out of our lives 1087 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,680 as we yield to him. 1088 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,960 So when Judas brought the temple guard to arrest him, 1089 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,240 he walked, he kept on walking. 1090 00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:29,200 He walked to the Mount of Olives. 1091 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,280 He prayed, then he walked through the Kidron Valley 1092 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,520 with the soldiers and he went to the house of Caiaphas 1093 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:37,760 where he was held. 1094 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,880 Then they gathered the Sanhedrin to try him 1095 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,480 and he was mocked and beaten there already. 1096 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,000 So they brought all kinds of false witnesses against him. 1097 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,360 They couldn't find any two that would agree. 1098 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,120 Then they asked him directly, are you the Messiah? 1099 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,280 Are you the son of God? 1100 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:54,920 They're just angry. 1101 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,840 And he declared in Matthew 26, 64 to 68. 1102 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,320 You want to read that, Philip? 1103 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,360 I think it's in the Amplified Classic. 1104 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,680 Then he declared, you have stated the fact. 1105 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,800 More than that, I tell you, you will in the future 1106 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,400 see the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty 1107 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,360 and coming on the clouds of the sky. 1108 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,040 Then the high priest tore his clothes and exclaimed, 1109 00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,920 he has uttered blasphemy. 1110 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,880 What need me any more of further evidence? 1111 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,000 You know, I've heard his blasphemy. 1112 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,240 What do you think now? 1113 00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:31,280 They answered, he deserves to be put to death. 1114 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,440 Then they spat on his face and struck him with their fists 1115 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,760 and some slapped him in the face saying, prophesy to us, 1116 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,840 you Christ, the Messiah. 1117 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,440 Who was it that struck you? 1118 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,080 Yeah, they really abused him already there. 1119 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:44,920 Yeah. 1120 00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,080 So then they led him to a place called the pavement, 1121 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,280 Gabatha, where he was brought before Pilate. 1122 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:56,280 So he had to walk there from Caiaphas' house to walk there. 1123 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,040 So every time you see the words in scripture, 1124 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:03,320 and there's many, and they led him, he was walking. 1125 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,600 He was putting one foot in front of the other. 1126 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,560 So Jesus walked on this pavement 1127 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,520 with his feet still smelling of that anointing oil. 1128 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,760 And he stood on that pavement while he was being tried. 1129 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,880 He walked as he was led away of the soldiers 1130 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,720 to be beaten and shredded for us. 1131 00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:20,800 Now it's interesting, this word pavement, 1132 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,000 I'm gonna just take a quick side note. 1133 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,640 Song of Solomon 3, nine through 10 says, 1134 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,800 King Solomon made himself a chariot of wood of Lebanon. 1135 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,920 He made the pillars thereof of silver, 1136 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,520 the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, 1137 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,520 the midst thereof being paved with love 1138 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:38,880 for the daughters of Jerusalem. 1139 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:43,880 Now this word pavement in the Greek is referring to 1140 00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,440 like stuff that was made of stones 1141 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,360 that would be fit together. 1142 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,160 So it could be like a checkerboard look, 1143 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,280 or it could be mosaics, you know, 1144 00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,120 where you take lots of little stones 1145 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,920 and put things together and create a look. 1146 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,920 Okay, so King Solomon is a picture of the Lord 1147 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,400 and his loved one is a picture of the bride, right? 1148 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,000 So in the TPT, would you read that in the TPT? 1149 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,760 It's so beautiful in the Passion Translation. 1150 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,240 The King made this mercy seat for himself 1151 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:18,800 out of the finest wood that will not decay. 1152 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,400 Pillars of smoke like silver mist, 1153 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,720 a canopy of golden glory dwells above it. 1154 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:26,960 This place where they sit together is sprinkled 1155 00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,480 with crimson, love and mercy covered this carriage, 1156 00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,280 blanketing his tabernacle throne. 1157 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,080 The King himself has made it for those 1158 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,680 who will become his bride. 1159 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,400 See, that's the point. 1160 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:39,240 That is the point. 1161 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:41,160 He went to the pavement. 1162 00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:46,040 This is a place that King Solomon paved his chariot. 1163 00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,680 And they call that today in Israel, the pavement. 1164 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:49,520 Don't they? 1165 00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:50,360 Oh yeah, they still do. 1166 00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,800 They still do, because that's what the scripture calls it. 1167 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,240 So that's what they call it. 1168 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:57,120 So he went to this pavement place. 1169 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,080 And I can't help but wonder if he thought about 1170 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:04,280 how Solomon's chariot was paved with love 1171 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,600 because he was going on this pavement, 1172 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,080 walking in love for us. 1173 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,680 He did all of this because he loved us so much. 1174 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,760 So when Pilate examined him, he found no fault with him. 1175 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,040 But the scribes and Pharisees screamed 1176 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,240 that he had been stirring up and perverting the nation 1177 00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:21,680 all the way from Galilee. 1178 00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,480 Well, when Pilate heard that he was from Galilee, 1179 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,280 he tried to pass off the responsibility to Herod, 1180 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,800 who had jurisdiction over Galilee. 1181 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,280 So Jesus was led off and he had to walk. 1182 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,240 He walked to the streets of Jerusalem 1183 00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,640 with his anointed feet. 1184 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,240 Every place where the soles of your feet shall tread, 1185 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:41,760 I've given it to you. 1186 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,320 He walked with his anointed feet to where Herod was staying. 1187 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,480 Herod was there for the Passover feast as well. 1188 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,440 So he was there for the Passover feast. 1189 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,120 And so Herod was delighted to see him 1190 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,280 because he had heard about the miracles 1191 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:55,520 and he wanted to see a miracle. 1192 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:56,360 He wanted to see a miracle, yeah. 1193 00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,120 So he's taunting Jesus and asking him questions 1194 00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:02,280 and Jesus didn't say a word to him, not a word, 1195 00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:03,600 not one thing. 1196 00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,960 And so they put one of the Herod's robes on him 1197 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,200 and they taunted him and mocked him. 1198 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,000 And then they led him back to Pilate. 1199 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,040 So he had to walk again, 1200 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,680 he had to walk the streets of Jerusalem 1201 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,840 with those anointed feet. 1202 00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,480 So now he's going back to face his accusers 1203 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:23,840 before the Roman authority. 1204 00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,440 And the chief priests and scribes, the Pharisees, 1205 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,120 didn't have the authority to kill him. 1206 00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,160 They had to bow to Rome. 1207 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,320 They had to get Rome to do it. 1208 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:37,480 So they led him back to Pilate. 1209 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,400 He had to walk the streets again. 1210 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,800 And this time Pilate became afraid when he found out 1211 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:47,000 that Jesus was the son of God, the Messiah, 1212 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,920 the King of the Jews. 1213 00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,040 Pilate knew that it was customary to release a prisoner 1214 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,640 at that point during the Passover. 1215 00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,680 So he tried to release Jesus to them 1216 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,960 because he saw that Jesus wasn't really guilty of anything. 1217 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,040 And if anything, he really was the King of the Jews. 1218 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,160 So they refused and they're asking 1219 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,360 for this rabble rouser, Barabbas. 1220 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,960 He was a murderer, he was guilty of sedition, 1221 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,400 but they said, no, no, no, we don't want this Jesus, 1222 00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:16,920 we want Barabbas. 1223 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,520 And so they, you know, he just said, okay, well, I guess. 1224 00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,200 But Pilate sent Jesus to be scourged. 1225 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,960 And the Roman scourging was so, so awful. 1226 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:28,800 Brutal, yeah. 1227 00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,240 Brutal, absolutely brutal. 1228 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:35,440 And they used this instrument called a flagellum. 1229 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,120 It has multiple straps of leather, at least three straps, 1230 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,400 but sometimes more. 1231 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:44,400 And it had sharp pieces of metal, sharp pieces of bone, 1232 00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:50,200 even nails attached to it so that it would tear up the flesh. 1233 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,960 And there are many accounts of people 1234 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,800 that witnessed this kind of beating 1235 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,600 and people that were scourged like that, 1236 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,760 even though they weren't necessarily condemned to die, 1237 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,240 many of them died from loss of blood. 1238 00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:08,000 And they went down the back, they went on the chest, 1239 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,720 they went down the arms and the legs, 1240 00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:14,000 they just, just evil, just evil. 1241 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,160 I think they must have been demon possessed 1242 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,240 in order to be able to do that. 1243 00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:20,760 So once he went through that, 1244 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,360 then he had to walk down the Via Dolorosa, 1245 00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,720 the way of pain, the way of pains. 1246 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:29,400 And he was so weak from the beating 1247 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:30,920 that as he was carrying his cross, 1248 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,000 he fell under the weight of it. 1249 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,840 And so the Roman centurion or whoever was following them 1250 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,360 just grabbed Simon of Serene to carry it for him. 1251 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:41,880 But he still had to walk. 1252 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,320 He still had to keep putting one foot 1253 00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,280 in front of the other to get the rest of the way 1254 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,880 out the city gates to fulfill the prophecy 1255 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,760 that he would be marred beyond. 1256 00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,960 And he had to go outside the gates 1257 00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,200 in order to be crucified, that's in the scripture too. 1258 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,640 They had to be crucified, this cruelest of deaths 1259 00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,400 and his hands and his feet, those anointed feet. 1260 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,200 He also had this crown of thorns on his anointed head. 1261 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,920 They must have smelled that perfume on him 1262 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,400 when they were cramming that crown of thorns on his head 1263 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,440 and they crammed the crown of thorns on 1264 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,360 and then they beat him. 1265 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,560 It was horrible, horrible. 1266 00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:25,960 But he had to die this death for us. 1267 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,800 He had to pay our death penalty for our sin and inequity. 1268 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,960 So when our friend Dean Braxton was in heaven, 1269 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,000 he was shown Jesus on the cross. 1270 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,440 And he said it was just like Isaiah 52, 14 says 1271 00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:40,600 in the passion translation. 1272 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,440 Would you read that for us, Philip? 1273 00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,320 Just as many were appalled at the sight of him 1274 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,920 for so marred was his appearance like an object of horror. 1275 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,840 He no longer looked like a man. 1276 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,320 Yeah, Dean said that Jesus' flesh was shredded 1277 00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,680 and he hardly even looked like a man. 1278 00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,840 But he still must have had that fragrance 1279 00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,120 of anointing upon him, cause he was anointed 1280 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,080 for his burial, remember? 1281 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,280 So if he was anointed for his burial, 1282 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,800 the fragrance still had to be there, right? 1283 00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:11,760 The anointing of the King, the anointing to do the hard walk 1284 00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,120 step by step all the way to the cross, 1285 00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,840 the anointing to die and be buried. 1286 00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,120 He hung there with the title given to him 1287 00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:20,200 by the Roman authority. 1288 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,800 This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. 1289 00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,960 He had been anointed just about a week earlier. 1290 00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,040 But of course his first anointing, don't forget, 1291 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,040 his first anointing was when the Holy Spirit 1292 00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,440 came down on him at his baptism. 1293 00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,400 That's when he was anointed with the Holy Spirit, 1294 00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:40,840 like Acts says that he was anointed of the Holy Spirit 1295 00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:42,120 and went about doing good, 1296 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,120 healing all that were oppressed of the devil. 1297 00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,160 So that was his first anointing from the Lord, 1298 00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,400 but here was a physical anointing. 1299 00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,320 And there wasn't anybody in the priesthood 1300 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:52,640 that would anoint him. 1301 00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,200 Nobody would anoint him King, 1302 00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:59,200 but a woman anointed him and rubbed the anointing 1303 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:01,640 with her hair. 1304 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,200 I just love that. 1305 00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,320 So he was declared the King of the Jews 1306 00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,560 by the Roman authority. 1307 00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,160 And if you remember when he was born in Bethlehem 1308 00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,840 of Judea, right, Jews, okay, Judea, 1309 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,560 the Magi that came from the East, 1310 00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,680 they were known as kingmakers. 1311 00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:23,440 And when they showed up with their entourage in Jerusalem, 1312 00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:27,760 that's why Herod was troubled at all of Jerusalem with him 1313 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,280 because these guys were kingmakers. 1314 00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,880 And they said, where is he that's born King of the Jews? 1315 00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,000 They saw it in the stars. 1316 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,760 They could see that the King of the Jews was born. 1317 00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:43,760 And so they came to bring him gifts of gold 1318 00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:47,120 and frankincense and myrrh. 1319 00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:48,160 Just suffering. 1320 00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:52,120 Yeah, but could it be that there was even an anointing 1321 00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:53,040 in the myrrh? 1322 00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:53,880 Yeah. 1323 00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:54,720 Interesting thought. 1324 00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:55,560 Interesting thought. 1325 00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,640 So sometimes you have to look at, 1326 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,600 these people were what the Jews would call goyim, 1327 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,200 people from the nations, the Romans at his death 1328 00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,360 and the Magi at his birth, 1329 00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,040 declaring him to be King of the Jews. 1330 00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,400 The nations recognized him. 1331 00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:13,240 Wow. 1332 00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:15,040 And he wound up going to the nations. 1333 00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,360 I mean, really, it started with a Jewish church. 1334 00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:22,320 It started with a Jewish group of believers. 1335 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,560 But as time went on, it was the nations 1336 00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,400 and we have Jesus in all the nations. 1337 00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,120 We recognize him as our King in the nations. 1338 00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:36,200 And Israel is beginning to recognize him too. 1339 00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,000 Just keep praying for that. 1340 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,600 Just keep praying for that. 1341 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,280 Cause it's time. 1342 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,640 It's time for Israel to come in. 1343 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,160 So just to close, I want to bring up a subject 1344 00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,520 cause this is about keeping on walking. 1345 00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,080 Jesus kept on walking with that anointing. 1346 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,080 And Mary had that anointing in her hair. 1347 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:56,920 Yeah. 1348 00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:58,240 As the bride. 1349 00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,080 So we have this, because he lives inside of us, 1350 00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,160 we have this anointing also. 1351 00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:06,880 We are called Christians. 1352 00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,960 Christ means the anointed one. 1353 00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,960 We're called Christians because we are 1354 00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,200 to be carrying his anointing. 1355 00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:14,080 Right? 1356 00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,800 So it's that anointing that gives us the grace 1357 00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:19,680 to keep on walking. 1358 00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,200 And I remember hearing Kathy Matthews, 1359 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,600 her husband Sam Matthews told this story. 1360 00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,240 She was going through a terrible trial, 1361 00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,080 a terrible suffering. 1362 00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:31,960 And it was a part of an intercession 1363 00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,360 that she and her husband were doing together. 1364 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,240 And I won't go into all those details, 1365 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,480 but she was about to quit. 1366 00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,000 She was about to give up Jesus, 1367 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:41,520 I just can't do this anymore. 1368 00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:45,600 And Jesus gave her a vision of himself on the cross. 1369 00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,000 And he said, I did this for you. 1370 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,080 Can't you do this for me? 1371 00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:52,080 Won't you do this for me? 1372 00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,200 Would you please do this for me? 1373 00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,080 And that gave her the grace to say, yes. 1374 00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,720 The things that Jesus has suffered 1375 00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,600 gives us the grace to walk that anointed walk 1376 00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,480 and keep on walking. 1377 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,520 So just determine in your heart, 1378 00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,160 it's the anointing that's in your life 1379 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,280 because of his presence, because of his love for you 1380 00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:15,920 and your love for him, 1381 00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,320 that you have the grace to keep putting one foot 1382 00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,160 in front of the other, just keep on walking. 1383 00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,880 You're walking with him, he's with you. 1384 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,240 You are not alone in this. 1385 00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,200 His presence gives you the grace to keep on walking. 1386 00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,000 So Father, we just thank you for this message. 1387 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,760 And we thank you for the grace. 1388 00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,760 We thank you for your presence coming down upon us, 1389 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,280 to give us what we need to keep on walking, 1390 00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:43,840 to keep on putting one foot in the front of the other, 1391 00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,560 no matter what things look like, 1392 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,160 no matter what it seems in our circumstances, 1393 00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,200 that we can walk with you in the joy of your presence, 1394 00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,160 in the joy of giving thanks to you 1395 00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,960 that gives us the strength to keep on walking. 1396 01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,320 Lord, we bless you and we say thank you. 1397 01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,160 Lord, we ask you for this anointing 1398 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,000 to be upon every listener 1399 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,760 as they go through whatever they're going through. 1400 01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,760 And if they're not going through anything now, 1401 01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,560 to be able to go through what comes up 1402 01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,040 that they will go through. 1403 01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,480 Lord, we bless each and every one of them 1404 01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,640 to have this grace and this anointing and this fragrance 1405 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,960 to carry the fragrance and to carry the light 1406 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,520 of the Lord Jesus Christ everywhere they go. 1407 01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,560 In Jesus' name, amen. 1408 01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:31,400 Amen. 1409 01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:32,240 Amen. 1410 01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:37,240 If you 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