As we get more and more acquainted with his love,
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to crush the devil under our feet. God promises
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Welcome to the podcast today. We're so glad that
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the word crushed. There are all kinds of crushings
in life. We all go through crushings. But there's
also a crushing that is taking place even now
as the Lord is crushing Satan under your feet.
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So today we're talking about a very important
subject and it has to do with crushing. Have
you ever been crushed? Oh, yes. Stuff happens,
doesn't it? Yeah. But the thing that I started
out with and I was meditating on this morning
came from Romans 16, 20. And it says, and the
God of peace, that would be Jehovah Shalom or
Yehovah Shalom. The God of peace will crush Satan
under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. So that's the
ending of the book of Romans. Paul is signing
off there. But what a sign -off. Yeah, that tremendous
sign -off. A tremendous takeaway. Yeah, that's
a takeaway for sure. And I love the fact that
this crushing of Satan under your feet is...
going with the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Because in that crushing gives you,
oh my, what grace we even get from the Lord to
do crushings. And so as I was meditating on that
scripture, I was reminded of the Garden of Eden
and what happened in the Garden of Eden with
the woman and the snake. I remember how the serpent
was tempting her and getting her to doubt. And
this, according to Dean Braxton, who went to
heaven, this wasn't a one -time thing. Right.
He says this is what had been going on for a
while. Yeah. So every now and then he'd be putting
this thought into her head, you know, wouldn't
you like to be as wise as God? You eat that fruit,
it'll make you wise. You'll be just like God.
Knowing good and evil. So what happened, you
know, after they ate the fruit and, you know,
there was this blame shifting where Adam said,
well, the woman you gave me, she gave it to me
to eat. And the woman says, well, it was the
snake. It was the serpent. He beguiled me and
I ate it. And it's interesting what God says
to the snake. And I'm just going to look at it.
In the Amplified. Amplified, yeah. In the Amplified
Classic. In Genesis 3, 14 and 15, God is speaking
to the serpent. And the Lord God said to the
serpent, because you have done this, you are
cursed above all. Now, the Amplified Classic
puts in the word domestic. Above all domestic
animals and above every wild living thing in
the field. Upon your belly you shall go, and
you shall eat dust and what it contains all the
days of your life. And I will put enmity between
you and the woman, and between your offspring
and her offspring. He will bruise and tread your
head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and
bruise his heel. Now, that is obviously a prophecy
about Jesus. When Jesus would come, he would
be born of a virgin. So there's no man's seed
involved. It's only the woman's seed. It was
just her egg. There's no sperm. The Holy Spirit
just overshadowed her and provided what needed
to be provided. You know, there had to be a Y
chromosome to make him a male because she could
only give an X chromosome. And somehow or other,
there had to be the blood. connection. So you
can tell from the Shroud of Turin, which I'm
becoming more and more convinced is really Jesus'
burial shroud, that the man who was buried in
that shroud had AB positive blood, which means
an AB positive person can take a blood transfusion
from anybody on the planet. That's amazing. He's
the universal recipient. Wow. And that means
he would be able to take the blood curses from
everybody on the planet. Whether you have O negative
blood or A blood or negative or positive, any
of the combinations, he was able to handle it.
Interesting. Very interesting. Yeah. But it says
here that he would tread the serpent's head underfoot.
Well, that's crushing. Yeah. absolute crushing,
and you will lie in wait and bruise his heel.
Well, it's also interesting to note from the
Shroud of Turin, I think this is true. I'll qualify
this that I think it's true. I know that it's
true that they have found remains of people who
have been crucified, and the spike, the nail,
was driven through the heel. You know, some years
ago already they had, in biblical archaeology
review, they were showing a heel bone with a
Roman spike through it. Wow. And so I'm presuming
that this was also the case with Jesus. I don't
remember whether the shroud shows that or not
for sure, but, you know, we know that the Romans
did that. They were brutal. Oh, absolutely brutal.
Totally brutal and totally, totally moved by
the devil. So the serpent was told that he would
go on his belly. Imagine a dragon with no legs.
And what do you have? What would a dragon with
no legs look like? It would go on its belly,
wouldn't it? So I think we have a connection
there. Because in Revelation chapter 12, you
have this description of what goes on or what
went on. I think it must be a look backwards
in Revelation. this great sign in heaven with
the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under
her feet. And she was pregnant and cried out
in her birth pangs. And then there was this fiery
red dragon with seven heads and 10 horns and
his tail swept across the sky, dragged a third
of the stars. Well, you know, we know that that
is the only scripture that we have that talks
about how the devil took away one third of the
beings of heaven with him when he fell. So that's
the scripture where we have this. And then it
says that the dragon stationed himself in front
of the woman who was about to be delivered so
that he might devour her child as soon as she
brought it forth. So what happened when Jesus
was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of
Herod the king? What happened when the wise men
came, the magi, and they came and said, where
is he that is born king of the Jews? Well, Herod
was wicked. Yeah. And very jealous. He was so
jealous that he had his own offspring killed
because he was afraid they were going to try
and take over the throne. Wow. I mean, he was
wicked. Yeah. So somebody comes along and says,
King of the Jews, I'm the King of the Jews. And
so he pretends, oh, you just go and find him
and let me know and I'll come and worship him
too. Yeah. Just like a snake. So what happened?
He killed from two years old and under. Exactly.
In Bethlehem. Exactly. And so he's absolutely
ready to devour babies anytime he gets an opportunity,
because really it's the seed that's the offspring.
Adam named Eve, in Hebrew I think it's Chava,
and it comes from the word that means to live.
Adam was saying, you're the mother of all living.
So every living person is descended from Eve.
And everybody but Jesus was descended from Adam
too. But Jesus had a different father. So anyway,
you know, the point is that he's after babies.
And he did the same thing in Pharaoh's. court
in Egypt when the children of Israel were slaves,
and he saw that they were becoming a great nation.
And what if they turn against us? Let's kill
all the babies, all the boy babies. You can save
the girl babies alive, and we'll make them wives
and slaves and so on. But let's kill the boy
babies. So the same thing happened just before
the Exodus when God released Israel from captivity.
So, you know, these slaughters of babies and
what we've got even currently with the abortion
issue, it really hasn't been fully dealt with
yet. We've had some tremendous victories lately
with the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, but, you know,
there's still stuff going on the state level.
And, you know, we need to contend. We need to
continue to contend with this abortion issue
because the enemy is getting strength by... killing
babies. He likes to devour that kind of thing.
Yeah, I remember Henry Gruber, when he said he
would walk down the street, he would hear the
blood of aborted babies crying out in the sewer.
He could hear that in the spirit. Yes. Because
in Genesis, it says the life is in the blood.
The spirit life is nephesh, the Hebrew. The spirit
is in the blood. Yes. I thought, oh, my. That's
true. So he knew there was an abortion clinic
there. Yeah. Yeah, he could tell it was nearby.
It's life. Mm -hmm. And so we still need to be
dealing with these things and overcoming and
binding these strong men. I'm reminded, too,
of 1 John 3, 8, that it says, He that commits
sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from
the beginning. The beginning. Remember, in the
beginning? Mm -hmm. Well, there was eternity
before the beginning. So we have a different
idea of beginning than what God's idea of the
beginning is. It's from the beginning of time.
There was eternity before time. We have to get
that clear in our heads that he always has been
God before the devil ever fell. But the beginning
of time was when the devil fell. And that's why
you wound up with this chaos and darkness. There
was no darkness before the devil fell. All the
light was yanked out of him and everybody that
fell with him. That's why we have a dark universe,
because there's no darkness in heaven, because
there's no darkness in God. He's the father of
lights. Father of lights, yeah. So it says that
the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose
was the Son of God manifested, that he might
destroy. The works of the devil. Evil, the devil.
Yeah, the devil, our adversary. The one who hates
us because he hates God. He hates the offspring
of the woman. And that's why he's trying to kill
us all the time. He's really after us. But the
beautiful thing is God is going to crush Satan
shortly under our feet. He crushed the head of
the devil on the cross. And remember what it
says in, we've talked about this before, but
it bears repeating. In Isaiah 52, the very last
few verses, right before Isaiah 53, that really
shows us who Jesus is and what he came for to
deliver us from our sins and our griefs and our
weaknesses and our sicknesses. It says, I don't
know that I've ever read it out of the Amplified
before. So you're hearing this firsthand. Yeah.
So verse 13 says, behold, my servant shall deal
wisely and shall prosper. He shall be exalted
and extolled and shall stand very high. The servant
of God became an object of horror. Many were
astonished at him. His face and his whole appearance
were marred more than any man's and his form
beyond that. of the Son of Man. But just as many
were astonished at him, so shall he startle and
sprinkle many nations. And kings shall shut their
mouths because of him. For that which has not
been told them shall they see, and that which
they have not heard shall they consider and understand.
And I believe that when Jesus was being crucified,
all of the demons and the devils and fallen creation
were rejoicing with glee that they have beat
the system. They've beat out the king. They're
killing the king so they get to take over and
be in charge. But what they didn't realize until
they're looking at him, they're looking at him,
and it says that they were astonished at him.
And it says, so shall he startle and sprinkle
many nations. And that word sprinkle is the same
in Hebrew as the word where it talks about sprinkling
when Moses would sprinkle the blood on the tabernacle,
all the furnishings. And he sprinkled it on the
people and he sprinkled it on the book. On the
ark. On the ark. And everything had the sprinkling
of blood on it. And Dean Braxton says that when
he was in heaven, he saw Jesus on the cross.
And every time his heart would beat, because
he'd been so lacerated, there were places on
his body that the arteries had been pierced just
enough that every time his heart would beat,
it would send out a mist. And he was sprinkling
the nations. Ba -boom, ba -boom, ba -boom. Sprinkling,
sprinkling, sprinkling. Spraying a mist. that
we could all come under and be forgiven of our
sins. And it was like, uh -oh, all of a sudden
they could see, what does it say? Is it 1 Corinthians
or 2 Corinthians where it says, if they had known,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Because they didn't know. They didn't know. And
here it is, what they've not heard, shall they
consider and understand. They knew they were
in trouble. You know, it's amazing because the
devil knows the scripture. Right. Yeah. But he
doesn't understand everything. But he doesn't
have the wisdom. Yeah. You know, because that's
there. Yeah. That is all in there. Yeah. You
know, because even when Satan appeared to Jesus
before his ministry, remember, he took him to
the pinnacle of the temple. All this I will give
you if you will fall down and worship me. Yeah.
You know, get thee behind me, Satan. Yeah. Yeah.
So he knew the scripture, you know, like. The
angels will pick you up if you cast your foot
against the stone. So the devil knows scripture,
but he did not have the understanding of this.
That was hidden from him. Yeah, there are things
that are still hidden from him that God's going
to roll out, and he's just in trouble. And I
think the same thing really happened in the garden.
I think when God said to him that I'll put...
enmity or hostility or make you actively opposed
to this woman and her seed and your seed, your
offspring and her offspring, that God took the
devil's plan. The devil was really trying to
just ruin things. Everything was perfect then.
The garden was perfect. The people were perfect.
Everybody's perfect. And he wanted to sow a seed
of imperfection. He wanted to throw the whole
thing into chaos again. God took the devil's
plan and turned it on him then, because it would
be the offspring of the one he deceived who would
bring his demise. That's Romans 8, 28. You know,
all things work together for good. God knows
how to take all the bad stuff and turn it into
good. The crushings, right? There are crushings
that we go through that God is going to turn
to good. Going on, I think we can look at Hebrews
2, 14 and 15. It says, for as much then as the
children are partakers of flesh and blood, he
also himself, this is Jesus, likewise took part
of the same. Jesus was the seed of the woman.
He was fully human, but he was also fully God.
that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the devil, and
deliver them who through fear of death were all
their lifetime subject to bondage. I mean, that's
the main bondage in life is a fear of death.
Fear of death. You know, people, even godly people.
I've known some godly people who were afraid
to die. And how does that keep us from taking
a risk to obey God when it looks like it's dangerous?
Especially going on a mission field. Yeah. We've
gone to some dangerous places. And you have to
deal with your own mortality and say, I am already
dead. And my life is hid with Christ in God.
The nearest road by you can... Your fear of dying
by going out on a road. Yeah. Some people stay
home because they're afraid to go out. I had
an aunt that she had varicose veins taken out.
Oh, I remember. And she was I don't know, a shower
or something. And all of a sudden it popped open
and she started, you know, just blood started
bleeding. And that scared her so much she made
herself bedridden. That was the last time she
walked. Yeah. And she went to the grave that
way. Yeah. You know, fear of death over something
like that. Yep. And what a wasted life. Yeah,
what a waste of life. Yeah. You can't let a circumstance
stop you from serving God. Right. Or the fear
of it. Right. Yeah, it's like stuff I deal, I've
had to deal with since the wreck, you know, balance
issues and getting sick easy and things like
that. You know, and I've had my challenges. Yes,
you have. I have. And you have overcome. I've
watched you overcome again and again. I'm so
proud of you. Yeah, it's kind of like our...
Our pastor's son, when he was sick, you know,
he says, oh, thank you, Jesus. You know, he was
just overcoming. Praise God in all things. You
know, I had a hard time doing that on that road
in India. I littered the highway for miles. I
wasn't rejoicing. No, but you did overcome in
the end. In the end, but I felt like I was going
to die, you know. But I'm still here. I've been
many places since. That's right. That's right.
So, isn't it wonderful that Jesus came to destroy
the works of the devil? Oh, yes. And I love what
it says in Isaiah 25, 7 to 12. It says, he will
destroy on this mountain. And this is the temple
mount he's talking about. The temple mount. He
will destroy on this mountain the surface of
the covering cast over all people. And the veil
that is spread over all nations, he will swallow
up death forever. Yes. And the Lord God will
wipe away tears from all faces. Now, just to
give you. a little clarity about this mountain.
It's not only talking about where the temple
was. It's also talking about the entire mount.
Mount Moriah. Mount Moriah. Okay. Mount Moriah
is the place where Abraham took his son, bound
him, and was ready to plunge in the knife when
God said, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
that's enough. You've gone, you've passed the
test. You don't have to kill him. Yeah. And that's
where the dome of the rock is. on the Temple
Mount, that golden dome, which is actually a
shrine. It's not a mosque. It's a shrine. Right.
And I remember the days we would go underneath
there, and they had the rock where they say he
was going to sacrifice Isaac. Yeah, that's where
they think that it was. That's where they think
it was. I don't know that that's true. But it's
a big mountain, though, Moriah. Right. And so
the southern slope of Mount Moriah is the city
of David. So that was an important location.
And the top of it, it was Arunah's threshing
floor. And when David numbered the people and
he chose pestilence, you know, I'll just take
the short one because God might be merciful and
we'll get it over with. And so the angel stopped
there before he hit Jerusalem, I think. Maybe
he hit Jerusalem first, but he stopped there
on that mount. And the Lord said, that's enough.
And he told David. To buy the threshing floor.
To buy the threshing floor. And he bought it
for full price. And he bought the animals and
used the wooden parts, you know, to make the
sacrifice. And it stopped the pestilence. It
stopped the plague. It stopped the angel that
was standing by with the sword because he saw
it. So that was then the location that David
understood this is the place where the temple's
to be built. Yeah. Okay. But if you go on down
the northern slope. When you get to the northern
end, well, it's all quarries where they dug out
the rock to build the temple. And that is the
area where Jesus was crucified and rose from
the dead. So put this in the context of the scripture.
He will destroy on this mountain. The surface
of the covering cast over all people and the
veil that is spread over all nations. He will
swallow up death forever. He was resurrected
from that very mountain. Yes, amen. Isn't that
amazing? And what's amazing, what is the veil
today present that is over the people? That is
on that mount. That is on the people of that
mount. Right, right. The women all have to wear
a veil. The women all have to wear a veil. And
it says that he will destroy. The veil that is
over all nations. That's right. Now, how many
nations are Muslims not in? Right. They're everywhere.
They're everywhere. And there's a circulatory
thing going around on Facebook of all these different
nations of the women, the beautiful women, what
they look like, the prince, the queens, or even
everyday dress, what they look like then, what
they look like now. Yeah. Persia. Before and
after veils. Before and after veils. Right. And
it's astounding. But this is a natural veil that
is over all the Muslim women. It's true. He says
he's going to take this away. This will be this
because the veil, when this mighty outpouring
comes, the veils are going to go flying. Amen.
Hallelujah. Kind of like graduation. The hat
comes off and it flies. I mean, there's going
to be, I mean, the power of God's going to come
down in such a way in nations that it's just
the leaders are going to repent, you know, and
there's going to be a freedom and a liberty.
So this is like a two -sided thing. It's a spiritual
and a natural veil that is in place here. Yes.
Okay, well, maybe we better get back on track
again. Well, actually, we're on track. We're
on track. We're not off track at all. Going on
in verse 10, it says, For on this mountain the
hand of the Lord will rest, and Moab shall be
trampled down under him. Well, who's in control
of Moab right now? Islam. Islam, yeah. It's the
same thing. So it's going to be trampled as straw
is trampled down for the refuse heap. And he
will spread out his hands in their midst as a
swimmer reaches out to swim, and he will bring
down their pride together with the trickery of
their hands. Now, who's the king of pride? The
devil. Well, yeah, yeah. And there's a creature
that might... be described like a massive dinosaur.
Yeah, exactly. Leviathan is the king of pride,
and I think he's a dragon too. And the fortress
of the high fort of your walls he will bring
down low and bring to the ground down to the
dust. There's a crushing going on here. There's
a crushing that Jesus initiated. But remember,
he's going to crush Satan under our feet. Shortly.
And the word shortly there, as I understand it
in the Greek, can also mean suddenly. Okay. Because
we think of shortly meaning in a reasonably soon
period of time. Well, it's been a long time.
Behold, I come quickly. But it's suddenly. It's
suddenly. Yes. More than quickly. I mean, the
actual action is quick. And we don't think that
way in English currently. So anyway, it goes
on to, like, this is dust. So it's crushed, crushed
down into the dust, trampled in the dust. So
looking at Romans 8 and 35 to 39, do you want
to read that, Philip? Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress
or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril
or sword? As it is written, for your sake we
are killed all day long. We are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him who loved
us. Oh, and I love the 38. For I am persuaded
that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present nor things to
come, nor height or depth, or any other created
thing, shall be able to separate us from the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Oh, that's such a magnificent scripture. I mean,
Paul just said that so well. Yeah. And so what
Jesus did in his love for us, God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believes in him should not perish.
but have everlasting life. He did all of this
so that we could have life. He destroyed the
death. He crushed it. And he's still in the process.
And we get to participate. Hallelujah. Yes. So
as we get more and more acquainted with his love,
we're going to become more and more used by him.
to crush the devil under our feet. Amen? Amen.
So in 2 Corinthians 2, 14 -17, it says, But thanks
be to God, who always leads us in Christ's triumphal
procession. I think there's another in King James
that says, who always causes us to triumph. I
like that too. And through us spreads the aroma
of the knowledge of him in every place. For to
God we are the fragrance of Christ among those
who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
To some we are an aroma of death leading to death,
but to others an aroma of life leading to life.
Who is adequate for these things? For we do not
market the word of God for profit like so many.
I like putting that into a modern way of saying
it. We're not marketing the word of God for profit.
On the contrary. We speak with sincerity in Christ
as from God and before God. So there's an aroma
that comes when we pass from death unto life.
Now, you know that there is a smell of death,
right? We were going down the highway yesterday.
Was it yesterday? Recently. Anyway, and, you
know, something had died and was decomposing
near the highway, and it was terrible smell.
Okay? So there's a smell of death, and there's
a smell of life. Yeah. I remember Dean, when
he was in heaven and came back to earth, he said,
the whole earth smells of death because everything
that is alive is going to die. Yeah, it's true.
And it just had that smell. Yeah, we already
have death working in us. Yeah. Because of sin.
What happens when you die, worms eat you up.
Yes, but the thing is, That the worms are already
there in your body. They're microbes in your
body. They are microbes, and they morph into
this decomposition. Yeah, as soon as your body
hits a point of acidity, then they go to work.
Yep, yep. And that's why a lot of the sickness
that comes, that leads to death, is a result
of our bodies getting out of balance in the pH.
Yeah, this is a freebie. When your body starts
going real acidic, These things, microbes in
your blood that help you are now trying to morph
to take you out. Yeah. They think it's their
job to decompose you. You won't hear that in
your textbooks. No, not really. But this idea
of the smell of death and the smell of life,
I found here that it takes 60 whole roses to
produce just one drop of essential oil. Ooh.
Wow. And if you want to have a teaspoon of rose
oil, it takes 10 ,000 freshly picked roses. Wow.
Okay. So I think, I guess it's an old movie or
something that I'm thinking of where, you know,
there's some kind of a death smell. And the lady
takes her handkerchief and puts a drop of perfume
into it. So she's breathing her handkerchief
so that she doesn't smell the death. We can smell
life instead of death. We just need to get ourselves
where we're receiving life from the Lord. But
these smells come from a crushing, okay? You
have to crush those roses to produce that smell.
And that's where we have to get God's perspective
of the crushings that we go through. Because
the crushings that we go through, if we learn
our lessons well, we're going to have something
of the character of Christ being built into us
as a result. Remember that picture that I had
in my, I guess you could call it a vision or
a mental picture of, and again, this is probably
an old movie or different movies or TV programs
where the woman is put into this place where
she's... in a small, confined place, and this
one wall is moving towards her. The wall is moving,
yeah. Getting closer and closer, and it's going
to crush her, right? So I have this vision that
when we're in those crushing times, what is really
happening, we think we're dying. And actually,
there's part of us that is. Because our fleshly
nature needs to die in order for the spirit life
to have... the preeminence, right? We have to
continually submit ourselves to the Lord, continually
go down in humility and die to our pride, right?
Kill that pride. We have to kill the pride because
that's what's killing us, really. It's easy to
let us to kill it ourselves because if we don't,
then God kills us. He has ways of making it.
Yes, yes. If we don't humble ourselves, He has
ways of crushing. In another way. Yeah, it's
true. So in this picture that I had, the wall
is getting closer and closer and it's smushing
me and smushing me and smushing me into, but
the wall that's steady and not moving is God.
And so when the pressure lets up, we come off
with the image of God on us instead of us. That's
beautiful. Yeah, that's what he's trying to do.
That's what he's working in us. It's really a
love thing. And we squirm and we howl and we
whine and we cry. This hurts. I don't like this.
I'm being crushed. It's like Jesus is trying
to get us ready for the marriage supper of the
Lamb. Right. But we don't want to get married.
Yeah, we're trying to run. Yeah, the bride has
to look like him. Yeah. The bride is meant to
look like him. Adam looked at Eve and said, bone
of my bone and flesh of my flesh. Yeah. She was
made out of him. And so we are being made out
of Jesus. So we should be looking like him. We
should be sounding like him. We should be smelling
like him. All of the fleshly things, he's working
the process in us. It's a process. It doesn't
happen overnight. It doesn't happen in a few
days. It takes a lifetime. It takes a lifetime.
But the more we let him work, the farther we'll
go faster, and by the end of the lifetime, we
will be beyond what we would have been if we
were fighting against him all the time. So the
crushing is good. The crushing is for a good
thing. So Ephesians... 5, 1 and 2 says, therefore
be imitators of God as dearly loved children
and walk in love as Christ also loved us and
gave himself for us a sacrificial and fragrant
offering to God. So every time we humble ourselves,
there's a release of a fragrance that is pleasing
to the Lord. I mean, think about it. You think
about all these sacrifices that are going on
in the temple. Who doesn't like the smell of
barbecue? I mean, really. Somebody in the neighborhood
is barbecuing and it's like... Especially if
you're fasting. Well, yeah, that's true. And
sometimes you can actually just get happy just
by smelling it. Yeah, that's true. I've done
that many times on a fast when people are eating
around you. Oh, just let me smell it. Just go
up and just take a deep... Yeah, it helps. Oh,
that's so good. It helps somehow. So here's another
crushing. And crushing for fragrance. We've got
Exodus chapter 30, verses 34 to 38. Philip, would
you read that? The Lord said to Moses, take fragrant
spices, stacte, onycha, pardon? Maybe I should
let you read these three. Onycha and gabonim.
The spices and pure frankincense are to be in
equal measures. Prepare expertly blended incense
from these. It is to be seasoned with salt, pure
and holy. Grind some of it into a fine powder
and put some in front of the testimony in the
tent of meeting, where I will meet with you.
It must be especially holy to you. As for the
incense you are making, you must not make any
for yourselves using its formula. It is to be
regarded by you as holy, belonging to the Lord.
Anyone who makes something like it to smell its
fragrance must be cut off from his people. No
counterfeits. Exactly. And you can't copy it
to use it on yourself. This is God's fragrance.
And I won't take time to teach about what each
of those different spices means or elements means,
but the point is that it has to be crushed. It
has to be crushed. It has to be ground into powder.
And it has to be all mixed up. All these different
things have to be mixed together. And sometimes
we're going through those crushings and mixings.
But in order for it to produce the fragrance
that it's meant to produce, it also has to be
put on the fire. So think about the things you're
going through. They are for your perfecting.
They are for making you into a fragrance of the
Lord, a beautiful fragrance that brings him glory
and it makes him smile and it makes him happy.
When in the midst of our trial and trouble, we
say, thank you, Jesus. I trust you. I trust you.
That's the beauty of it. And this idea of this
word in the Hebrew that is for crushing is the
word shakak. And it means to wear down or to
wear away or to wear out like the erosion of
stones by water. Okay. It's amazing to me how
something as hard as a stone, you go into a creek
bed or a river bed and you find these beautifully
smooth stones. And that's why David went down
to the creek to find a smooth stone, because
it's been eroded by water. It's been smoothed
out by water. And they fly real good, too. Oh,
yeah. Try to skip them across water. Yeah, you
do really well with that. I can only get a couple
of skips, but you can make them go flying across
the river. Anyway, that smoothness, it's amazing
something as hard as a rock can be smoothed by
something as... Soft as water. Yeah. And the
more we submit to the water of the word in our
lives, the more he can smooth us out with that
rather than having to put us in the fire and
crush us. You know, growing up in Chicago, we'd
go along the beaches. And there's one they called
the Rock Street Beach. Oh, really? And it had
these big rocks. Oh, yeah. And we would climb
down into the rocks, you know, and the water
would go and wash in there. And you could find
like broken 7 -Up bottles, you know, because
of that color. It would take the broken glass
and it would shine it. It would be a dull, kind
of like a diamond, you know. The diamond, it's
not shiny when you look at it. It has to be polished.
Yeah. But it took the sand. Yeah. It took all
the sharp edges off of it. That's right. And
you had these beautiful pieces of glass that
the water. It's the water what did it. Water
used in the sand, it just made it smooth where
it wouldn't cut or anything like that. Yeah,
yeah. And that's what God is doing in our lives
when he's putting us in the floods, when he's
putting us through things. It's for our perfecting.
It is a good thing. It's making it smooth for
you. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So these ingredients
were crushed into fine powder, mixed together.
And the fragrance was released with the fire.
So all of these crushings, we just have to trust
that it's our Father at work in making us beautiful.
We wouldn't think that this is a beautifying
process, but it is. And, you know, think back
about Esther. She had to spend six months being
soaked in myrrh. Myrrh is one of the things she
was soaked in. And myrrh means bitterness. So
there are bitter things that we go through that
are for our beautification. We have to receive
it from the Lord. And when we receive it from
the Lord, that's when the fragrance begins to
go forward. And I think the sooner we get to
that point, the sooner we'll get out of the crushing.
So here's another thing. Olives are crushed,
right? You want olive oil. And you use it for
food. And like the third or fourth crushing is
used for light. And probably the temple oil was
probably an earlier crushing, I think. That would
be the first squeeze. So, you know, that's just
another thing that's crushed. And then you have
when you harvest grain. You get the wheat, and
it's all in the heads on the wheat stalk. And
you have to crush that in order to get the husk
off of it, the chaff. So there's a crushing that
has to happen in order for food. In order to
get your food, you have to do this crushing.
In order for us to become food for the nations.
Will you be poured out as wine for the Lord?
Will you be beaten into flour to make bread to
feed the hungry? Are you willing to do this?
Are you willing to go through this crushing?
You know, if you don't get the husk off. I mean,
have you had bread that has a piece of husk in
it? Yeah. Every now and then. It caught in your
teeth. Yeah. It's not pleasant. It's not meant
to be in your bread. So there's also an offering
in Leviticus 2 .14. It says, if you present a
grain offering of first fruits to the Lord, you
are to present fresh heads of grain, crushed
kernels, roasted on the fire for your grain offering
of first fruits. Roasted. Crushed and roasted.
It was like the song Sister Gwen wrote years
ago. It was called, When He Has Tried Me, I'll
Come Forth as Golden. Yes. And when we had our
wreck and it's like the dark night of the soul.
Yeah. I kind of changed the words for a while.
When He Has Fried Me, you know, because that's
what it felt like, you know, just like it had
been really roasted because it's just like. Sometimes
all your dreams and things seemed like they were
so far away and how can that ever happen now?
Yeah. But God used it for his glory. Yeah. And
we got there. We did get out of that trial. We
survived and we didn't get bitter over it. Yeah,
that's right. So Psalm 34, 18 fits right here.
The Lord is near the brokenhearted. He saves
those crushed in spirit. We were crushed. We
were crushed by that accident. You know, I remember.
We were like five weeks at my sister's. And I
don't remember how far into the process it was
before we left that one day I found myself singing
or humming or whistling. I'm not sure which it
was. Because usually I have a song going in my
head, going in my spirit. I'm either humming
or singing or whistling or it's just in my head.
And I suddenly realized at that moment, oh. I
got my song back. I didn't even know I'd lost
it. It was the crushing. And there are crushings
that we go through. It's for our good. There
are good things that came out of that. And it's
kind of like Jacob with his limp. You know, when
he wrestled with the angel before he met his
brother. He's about to meet his brother. He thinks
his brother's going to kill him. So he goes to
his brother limping. And I think... it probably
helped his brother have a little compassion on
him. Oh, well, he's not the tough guy that I
thought he was going to be. Here he is limping
and he's falling down on his face in front of
me. Eh, I guess I can forgive him, you know?
So God is doing these crushings in us, but he's
also, in the process, he's crushing our enemies.
Psalm 68, 21 says, surely. God crushes the heads
of his enemies, the hairy brow of one who goes
on in his guilty acts. God is in the crushing
business, and he's not only crushing us for our
good, he's willing to take our enemies out as
well. And Psalm 89, 23 says, I will crush his
foes before him and strike those who hate him.
So that brings us back to our first verse where
we started. Romans 16, 20, and this is from the
Christian Standard Bible, which we've been using
in this podcast. The God of peace will soon crush
Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord
Jesus be with you. And that's really what it's
all about, that he gives us the grace. As he
gives us grace to say thank you, Jesus, when
we're throwing up, or to say thank you, Jesus,
when we're in pain. Or to say thank you, Jesus,
when we're just barely able to put one foot in
front of the other. Or maybe we're bedridden.
And to just keep saying, Jesus, my Savior, you
are the one I'm reaching out to because I need
you. I'm being crushed right now. And that reaching
out to him, that saying his name is a fragrance.
that fills the room with his presence. And he
really wants us to understand this idea of when
he has tried me, I'll come forth as gold. That's
from Job. And I'd like to end this episode with
a recording that we made of that song. I just
feel like this will help you, listener, to understand
that when... You've been tried when you've been
crushed. What's really going on is the activity
of the flesh or the activity of the devil against
you that's being crushed. You're feeling the
crushing. You're feeling the fire. You're feeling
the flood. You're feeling the washing and the
washing and the washing and the smoothing of
the stone. God is doing that. And he's doing
it for our good. When he's tried me, I will come
forth as gold. When he has tried me, I will come
forth as gold. The fires of affliction will not
harm my soul. I know that God loves me. And when
he has tried me, I will come forth as pure gold.
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