WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.680 As we get more and more acquainted with his love, 00:00:02.899 --> 00:00:07.459 we're going to become more and more used by him 00:00:07.459 --> 00:00:18.899 to crush the devil under our feet. God promises 00:00:18.899 --> 00:00:22.940 in Joel 2 .28 to pour out his spirit on all humanity. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.300 Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend 00:00:26.300 --> 00:00:29.100 for that promise outpouring. We equip for that 00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:32.079 outpouring so that we may engage in that very 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.280 outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.420 Welcome to the podcast today. We're so glad that 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:40.320 you're with us. We're going to talk today about 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:44.600 the word crushed. There are all kinds of crushings 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.380 in life. We all go through crushings. 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So if you 00:02:31.110 --> 00:02:33.250 can possibly get there, please get there. We've 00:02:33.250 --> 00:02:35.629 got something for all the family and we trust 00:02:35.629 --> 00:02:37.710 that you will be blessed by it and your family 00:02:37.710 --> 00:02:39.990 members will be too. Come and bring a friend. 00:02:40.830 --> 00:02:44.509 So today we're talking about a very important 00:02:44.509 --> 00:02:49.110 subject and it has to do with crushing. Have 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:54.439 you ever been crushed? Oh, yes. Stuff happens, 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.259 doesn't it? Yeah. But the thing that I started 00:02:57.259 --> 00:02:59.120 out with and I was meditating on this morning 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.800 came from Romans 16, 20. And it says, and the 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.439 God of peace, that would be Jehovah Shalom or 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:11.819 Yehovah Shalom. The God of peace will crush Satan 00:03:11.819 --> 00:03:16.469 under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord 00:03:16.469 --> 00:03:18.870 Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. So that's the 00:03:18.870 --> 00:03:21.969 ending of the book of Romans. Paul is signing 00:03:21.969 --> 00:03:25.930 off there. But what a sign -off. Yeah, that tremendous 00:03:25.930 --> 00:03:29.550 sign -off. A tremendous takeaway. Yeah, that's 00:03:29.550 --> 00:03:32.569 a takeaway for sure. And I love the fact that 00:03:32.569 --> 00:03:36.349 this crushing of Satan under your feet is... 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.620 going with the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ 00:03:39.620 --> 00:03:43.039 be with you. Because in that crushing gives you, 00:03:43.060 --> 00:03:46.860 oh my, what grace we even get from the Lord to 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:51.120 do crushings. And so as I was meditating on that 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:55.800 scripture, I was reminded of the Garden of Eden 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.620 and what happened in the Garden of Eden with 00:03:59.620 --> 00:04:04.919 the woman and the snake. I remember how the serpent 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:09.000 was tempting her and getting her to doubt. And 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.400 this, according to Dean Braxton, who went to 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.460 heaven, this wasn't a one -time thing. Right. 00:04:15.699 --> 00:04:17.540 He says this is what had been going on for a 00:04:17.540 --> 00:04:21.220 while. Yeah. So every now and then he'd be putting 00:04:21.220 --> 00:04:23.920 this thought into her head, you know, wouldn't 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.939 you like to be as wise as God? You eat that fruit, 00:04:27.139 --> 00:04:30.680 it'll make you wise. You'll be just like God. 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:39.199 Knowing good and evil. So what happened, you 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.959 know, after they ate the fruit and, you know, 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.300 there was this blame shifting where Adam said, 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.019 well, the woman you gave me, she gave it to me 00:04:47.019 --> 00:04:49.339 to eat. And the woman says, well, it was the 00:04:49.339 --> 00:04:53.160 snake. It was the serpent. He beguiled me and 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.139 I ate it. And it's interesting what God says 00:04:56.139 --> 00:04:59.839 to the snake. And I'm just going to look at it. 00:05:00.189 --> 00:05:03.889 In the Amplified. Amplified, yeah. In the Amplified 00:05:03.889 --> 00:05:09.050 Classic. In Genesis 3, 14 and 15, God is speaking 00:05:09.050 --> 00:05:12.949 to the serpent. And the Lord God said to the 00:05:12.949 --> 00:05:16.170 serpent, because you have done this, you are 00:05:16.170 --> 00:05:19.269 cursed above all. Now, the Amplified Classic 00:05:19.269 --> 00:05:22.470 puts in the word domestic. Above all domestic 00:05:22.470 --> 00:05:25.470 animals and above every wild living thing in 00:05:25.470 --> 00:05:29.310 the field. Upon your belly you shall go, and 00:05:29.310 --> 00:05:33.050 you shall eat dust and what it contains all the 00:05:33.050 --> 00:05:36.610 days of your life. And I will put enmity between 00:05:36.610 --> 00:05:39.410 you and the woman, and between your offspring 00:05:39.410 --> 00:05:43.410 and her offspring. He will bruise and tread your 00:05:43.410 --> 00:05:46.769 head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and 00:05:46.769 --> 00:05:52.290 bruise his heel. Now, that is obviously a prophecy 00:05:52.290 --> 00:05:56.579 about Jesus. When Jesus would come, he would 00:05:56.579 --> 00:06:01.819 be born of a virgin. So there's no man's seed 00:06:01.819 --> 00:06:05.399 involved. It's only the woman's seed. It was 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.439 just her egg. There's no sperm. The Holy Spirit 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.560 just overshadowed her and provided what needed 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:13.439 to be provided. You know, there had to be a Y 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.860 chromosome to make him a male because she could 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:20.779 only give an X chromosome. And somehow or other, 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:26.199 there had to be the blood. connection. So you 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.300 can tell from the Shroud of Turin, which I'm 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:32.620 becoming more and more convinced is really Jesus' 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.519 burial shroud, that the man who was buried in 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.339 that shroud had AB positive blood, which means 00:06:40.339 --> 00:06:43.240 an AB positive person can take a blood transfusion 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:45.779 from anybody on the planet. That's amazing. He's 00:06:45.779 --> 00:06:51.000 the universal recipient. Wow. And that means 00:06:51.529 --> 00:06:54.629 he would be able to take the blood curses from 00:06:54.629 --> 00:06:58.629 everybody on the planet. Whether you have O negative 00:06:58.629 --> 00:07:02.970 blood or A blood or negative or positive, any 00:07:02.970 --> 00:07:06.430 of the combinations, he was able to handle it. 00:07:06.850 --> 00:07:10.290 Interesting. Very interesting. Yeah. But it says 00:07:10.290 --> 00:07:16.750 here that he would tread the serpent's head underfoot. 00:07:16.970 --> 00:07:20.839 Well, that's crushing. Yeah. absolute crushing, 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:24.060 and you will lie in wait and bruise his heel. 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.699 Well, it's also interesting to note from the 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:30.740 Shroud of Turin, I think this is true. I'll qualify 00:07:30.740 --> 00:07:33.220 this that I think it's true. I know that it's 00:07:33.220 --> 00:07:37.300 true that they have found remains of people who 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:40.879 have been crucified, and the spike, the nail, 00:07:41.019 --> 00:07:43.819 was driven through the heel. You know, some years 00:07:43.819 --> 00:07:46.600 ago already they had, in biblical archaeology 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.430 review, they were showing a heel bone with a 00:07:50.430 --> 00:07:55.370 Roman spike through it. Wow. And so I'm presuming 00:07:55.370 --> 00:07:58.009 that this was also the case with Jesus. I don't 00:07:58.009 --> 00:07:59.970 remember whether the shroud shows that or not 00:07:59.970 --> 00:08:03.290 for sure, but, you know, we know that the Romans 00:08:03.290 --> 00:08:07.990 did that. They were brutal. Oh, absolutely brutal. 00:08:08.250 --> 00:08:11.750 Totally brutal and totally, totally moved by 00:08:11.750 --> 00:08:16.649 the devil. So the serpent was told that he would 00:08:16.649 --> 00:08:23.480 go on his belly. Imagine a dragon with no legs. 00:08:24.180 --> 00:08:26.959 And what do you have? What would a dragon with 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.339 no legs look like? It would go on its belly, 00:08:29.379 --> 00:08:33.000 wouldn't it? So I think we have a connection 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:38.779 there. Because in Revelation chapter 12, you 00:08:38.779 --> 00:08:43.480 have this description of what goes on or what 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.000 went on. I think it must be a look backwards 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:50.789 in Revelation. this great sign in heaven with 00:08:50.789 --> 00:08:52.789 the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under 00:08:52.789 --> 00:08:55.769 her feet. And she was pregnant and cried out 00:08:55.769 --> 00:08:58.629 in her birth pangs. And then there was this fiery 00:08:58.629 --> 00:09:01.730 red dragon with seven heads and 10 horns and 00:09:01.730 --> 00:09:03.789 his tail swept across the sky, dragged a third 00:09:03.789 --> 00:09:05.889 of the stars. Well, you know, we know that that 00:09:05.889 --> 00:09:08.629 is the only scripture that we have that talks 00:09:08.629 --> 00:09:12.850 about how the devil took away one third of the 00:09:12.850 --> 00:09:17.370 beings of heaven with him when he fell. So that's 00:09:17.370 --> 00:09:19.169 the scripture where we have this. And then it 00:09:19.169 --> 00:09:22.830 says that the dragon stationed himself in front 00:09:22.830 --> 00:09:25.169 of the woman who was about to be delivered so 00:09:25.169 --> 00:09:27.470 that he might devour her child as soon as she 00:09:27.470 --> 00:09:31.710 brought it forth. So what happened when Jesus 00:09:31.710 --> 00:09:34.490 was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of 00:09:34.490 --> 00:09:38.610 Herod the king? What happened when the wise men 00:09:38.610 --> 00:09:42.009 came, the magi, and they came and said, where 00:09:42.009 --> 00:09:44.509 is he that is born king of the Jews? Well, Herod 00:09:44.509 --> 00:09:48.210 was wicked. Yeah. And very jealous. He was so 00:09:48.210 --> 00:09:50.929 jealous that he had his own offspring killed 00:09:50.929 --> 00:09:53.110 because he was afraid they were going to try 00:09:53.110 --> 00:09:56.470 and take over the throne. Wow. I mean, he was 00:09:56.470 --> 00:09:59.169 wicked. Yeah. So somebody comes along and says, 00:09:59.269 --> 00:10:03.570 King of the Jews, I'm the King of the Jews. And 00:10:03.570 --> 00:10:08.029 so he pretends, oh, you just go and find him 00:10:08.029 --> 00:10:10.370 and let me know and I'll come and worship him 00:10:10.370 --> 00:10:15.190 too. Yeah. Just like a snake. So what happened? 00:10:15.269 --> 00:10:19.090 He killed from two years old and under. Exactly. 00:10:19.330 --> 00:10:23.470 In Bethlehem. Exactly. And so he's absolutely 00:10:23.470 --> 00:10:27.070 ready to devour babies anytime he gets an opportunity, 00:10:27.269 --> 00:10:30.549 because really it's the seed that's the offspring. 00:10:30.769 --> 00:10:35.769 Adam named Eve, in Hebrew I think it's Chava, 00:10:35.970 --> 00:10:40.450 and it comes from the word that means to live. 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.019 Adam was saying, you're the mother of all living. 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:49.279 So every living person is descended from Eve. 00:10:50.019 --> 00:10:54.340 And everybody but Jesus was descended from Adam 00:10:54.340 --> 00:10:58.940 too. But Jesus had a different father. So anyway, 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.980 you know, the point is that he's after babies. 00:11:02.539 --> 00:11:06.169 And he did the same thing in Pharaoh's. court 00:11:06.169 --> 00:11:10.190 in Egypt when the children of Israel were slaves, 00:11:10.330 --> 00:11:13.029 and he saw that they were becoming a great nation. 00:11:13.389 --> 00:11:16.649 And what if they turn against us? Let's kill 00:11:16.649 --> 00:11:19.490 all the babies, all the boy babies. You can save 00:11:19.490 --> 00:11:21.429 the girl babies alive, and we'll make them wives 00:11:21.429 --> 00:11:24.669 and slaves and so on. But let's kill the boy 00:11:24.669 --> 00:11:28.289 babies. So the same thing happened just before 00:11:28.289 --> 00:11:33.909 the Exodus when God released Israel from captivity. 00:11:34.889 --> 00:11:37.669 So, you know, these slaughters of babies and 00:11:37.669 --> 00:11:40.769 what we've got even currently with the abortion 00:11:40.769 --> 00:11:43.629 issue, it really hasn't been fully dealt with 00:11:43.629 --> 00:11:46.149 yet. We've had some tremendous victories lately 00:11:46.149 --> 00:11:49.350 with the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, but, you know, 00:11:49.370 --> 00:11:51.009 there's still stuff going on the state level. 00:11:51.990 --> 00:11:54.990 And, you know, we need to contend. We need to 00:11:54.990 --> 00:11:57.610 continue to contend with this abortion issue 00:11:57.610 --> 00:12:01.940 because the enemy is getting strength by... killing 00:12:01.940 --> 00:12:05.580 babies. He likes to devour that kind of thing. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.039 Yeah, I remember Henry Gruber, when he said he 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.080 would walk down the street, he would hear the 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:14.059 blood of aborted babies crying out in the sewer. 00:12:14.340 --> 00:12:17.419 He could hear that in the spirit. Yes. Because 00:12:17.419 --> 00:12:21.919 in Genesis, it says the life is in the blood. 00:12:22.019 --> 00:12:25.500 The spirit life is nephesh, the Hebrew. The spirit 00:12:25.500 --> 00:12:29.659 is in the blood. Yes. I thought, oh, my. That's 00:12:29.659 --> 00:12:31.399 true. So he knew there was an abortion clinic 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.840 there. Yeah. Yeah, he could tell it was nearby. 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.940 It's life. Mm -hmm. And so we still need to be 00:12:37.940 --> 00:12:41.500 dealing with these things and overcoming and 00:12:41.500 --> 00:12:44.659 binding these strong men. I'm reminded, too, 00:12:44.740 --> 00:12:48.820 of 1 John 3, 8, that it says, He that commits 00:12:48.820 --> 00:12:52.059 sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from 00:12:52.059 --> 00:12:54.600 the beginning. The beginning. Remember, in the 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:57.590 beginning? Mm -hmm. Well, there was eternity 00:12:57.590 --> 00:13:01.129 before the beginning. So we have a different 00:13:01.129 --> 00:13:04.669 idea of beginning than what God's idea of the 00:13:04.669 --> 00:13:07.289 beginning is. It's from the beginning of time. 00:13:07.929 --> 00:13:11.230 There was eternity before time. We have to get 00:13:11.230 --> 00:13:13.549 that clear in our heads that he always has been 00:13:13.549 --> 00:13:17.129 God before the devil ever fell. But the beginning 00:13:17.129 --> 00:13:19.889 of time was when the devil fell. And that's why 00:13:19.889 --> 00:13:24.139 you wound up with this chaos and darkness. There 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:27.519 was no darkness before the devil fell. All the 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.320 light was yanked out of him and everybody that 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:32.700 fell with him. That's why we have a dark universe, 00:13:32.820 --> 00:13:37.940 because there's no darkness in heaven, because 00:13:37.940 --> 00:13:40.659 there's no darkness in God. He's the father of 00:13:40.659 --> 00:13:43.600 lights. Father of lights, yeah. So it says that 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.460 the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose 00:13:47.460 --> 00:13:50.960 was the Son of God manifested, that he might 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.320 destroy. The works of the devil. Evil, the devil. 00:13:55.539 --> 00:13:58.000 Yeah, the devil, our adversary. The one who hates 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.480 us because he hates God. He hates the offspring 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.279 of the woman. And that's why he's trying to kill 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:07.860 us all the time. He's really after us. But the 00:14:07.860 --> 00:14:10.679 beautiful thing is God is going to crush Satan 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:14.360 shortly under our feet. He crushed the head of 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:18.080 the devil on the cross. And remember what it 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.740 says in, we've talked about this before, but 00:14:20.740 --> 00:14:25.950 it bears repeating. In Isaiah 52, the very last 00:14:25.950 --> 00:14:29.809 few verses, right before Isaiah 53, that really 00:14:29.809 --> 00:14:33.710 shows us who Jesus is and what he came for to 00:14:33.710 --> 00:14:37.389 deliver us from our sins and our griefs and our 00:14:37.389 --> 00:14:41.570 weaknesses and our sicknesses. It says, I don't 00:14:41.570 --> 00:14:43.590 know that I've ever read it out of the Amplified 00:14:43.590 --> 00:14:46.870 before. So you're hearing this firsthand. Yeah. 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.299 So verse 13 says, behold, my servant shall deal 00:14:51.299 --> 00:14:54.120 wisely and shall prosper. He shall be exalted 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:57.779 and extolled and shall stand very high. The servant 00:14:57.779 --> 00:15:01.639 of God became an object of horror. Many were 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.480 astonished at him. His face and his whole appearance 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.320 were marred more than any man's and his form 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.399 beyond that. of the Son of Man. But just as many 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.139 were astonished at him, so shall he startle and 00:15:13.139 --> 00:15:15.899 sprinkle many nations. And kings shall shut their 00:15:15.899 --> 00:15:18.659 mouths because of him. For that which has not 00:15:18.659 --> 00:15:21.320 been told them shall they see, and that which 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.399 they have not heard shall they consider and understand. 00:15:23.860 --> 00:15:28.580 And I believe that when Jesus was being crucified, 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:33.679 all of the demons and the devils and fallen creation 00:15:35.170 --> 00:15:39.129 were rejoicing with glee that they have beat 00:15:39.129 --> 00:15:44.309 the system. They've beat out the king. They're 00:15:44.309 --> 00:15:47.970 killing the king so they get to take over and 00:15:47.970 --> 00:15:53.250 be in charge. But what they didn't realize until 00:15:53.250 --> 00:15:56.289 they're looking at him, they're looking at him, 00:15:56.350 --> 00:16:00.250 and it says that they were astonished at him. 00:16:01.230 --> 00:16:04.009 And it says, so shall he startle and sprinkle 00:16:04.009 --> 00:16:06.629 many nations. And that word sprinkle is the same 00:16:06.629 --> 00:16:09.669 in Hebrew as the word where it talks about sprinkling 00:16:09.669 --> 00:16:13.929 when Moses would sprinkle the blood on the tabernacle, 00:16:13.929 --> 00:16:17.690 all the furnishings. And he sprinkled it on the 00:16:17.690 --> 00:16:19.730 people and he sprinkled it on the book. On the 00:16:19.730 --> 00:16:22.929 ark. On the ark. And everything had the sprinkling 00:16:22.929 --> 00:16:26.830 of blood on it. And Dean Braxton says that when 00:16:26.830 --> 00:16:29.289 he was in heaven, he saw Jesus on the cross. 00:16:30.110 --> 00:16:33.909 And every time his heart would beat, because 00:16:33.909 --> 00:16:37.330 he'd been so lacerated, there were places on 00:16:37.330 --> 00:16:40.970 his body that the arteries had been pierced just 00:16:40.970 --> 00:16:44.129 enough that every time his heart would beat, 00:16:44.190 --> 00:16:48.029 it would send out a mist. And he was sprinkling 00:16:48.029 --> 00:16:54.230 the nations. Ba -boom, ba -boom, ba -boom. Sprinkling, 00:16:54.470 --> 00:17:00.159 sprinkling, sprinkling. Spraying a mist. that 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.059 we could all come under and be forgiven of our 00:17:03.059 --> 00:17:06.720 sins. And it was like, uh -oh, all of a sudden 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:10.519 they could see, what does it say? Is it 1 Corinthians 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:13.839 or 2 Corinthians where it says, if they had known, 00:17:13.940 --> 00:17:16.160 they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 00:17:16.779 --> 00:17:19.259 Because they didn't know. They didn't know. And 00:17:19.259 --> 00:17:22.619 here it is, what they've not heard, shall they 00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:25.160 consider and understand. They knew they were 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:27.980 in trouble. You know, it's amazing because the 00:17:27.980 --> 00:17:30.900 devil knows the scripture. Right. Yeah. But he 00:17:30.900 --> 00:17:32.519 doesn't understand everything. But he doesn't 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:36.000 have the wisdom. Yeah. You know, because that's 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.160 there. Yeah. That is all in there. Yeah. You 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.380 know, because even when Satan appeared to Jesus 00:17:42.380 --> 00:17:46.019 before his ministry, remember, he took him to 00:17:46.019 --> 00:17:48.880 the pinnacle of the temple. All this I will give 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.259 you if you will fall down and worship me. Yeah. 00:17:52.259 --> 00:17:54.579 You know, get thee behind me, Satan. Yeah. Yeah. 00:17:54.619 --> 00:17:58.500 So he knew the scripture, you know, like. The 00:17:58.500 --> 00:18:00.960 angels will pick you up if you cast your foot 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.259 against the stone. So the devil knows scripture, 00:18:04.579 --> 00:18:07.400 but he did not have the understanding of this. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.640 That was hidden from him. Yeah, there are things 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.819 that are still hidden from him that God's going 00:18:11.819 --> 00:18:15.319 to roll out, and he's just in trouble. And I 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:17.700 think the same thing really happened in the garden. 00:18:18.099 --> 00:18:22.339 I think when God said to him that I'll put... 00:18:22.569 --> 00:18:26.049 enmity or hostility or make you actively opposed 00:18:26.049 --> 00:18:31.349 to this woman and her seed and your seed, your 00:18:31.349 --> 00:18:34.869 offspring and her offspring, that God took the 00:18:34.869 --> 00:18:38.029 devil's plan. The devil was really trying to 00:18:38.029 --> 00:18:42.269 just ruin things. Everything was perfect then. 00:18:42.430 --> 00:18:45.230 The garden was perfect. The people were perfect. 00:18:45.369 --> 00:18:50.190 Everybody's perfect. And he wanted to sow a seed 00:18:50.190 --> 00:18:53.299 of imperfection. He wanted to throw the whole 00:18:53.299 --> 00:18:57.279 thing into chaos again. God took the devil's 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:01.460 plan and turned it on him then, because it would 00:19:01.460 --> 00:19:03.660 be the offspring of the one he deceived who would 00:19:03.660 --> 00:19:07.299 bring his demise. That's Romans 8, 28. You know, 00:19:07.339 --> 00:19:09.900 all things work together for good. God knows 00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:12.900 how to take all the bad stuff and turn it into 00:19:12.900 --> 00:19:16.940 good. The crushings, right? There are crushings 00:19:16.940 --> 00:19:19.000 that we go through that God is going to turn 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.099 to good. Going on, I think we can look at Hebrews 00:19:22.099 --> 00:19:25.900 2, 14 and 15. It says, for as much then as the 00:19:25.900 --> 00:19:29.420 children are partakers of flesh and blood, he 00:19:29.420 --> 00:19:32.940 also himself, this is Jesus, likewise took part 00:19:32.940 --> 00:19:35.920 of the same. Jesus was the seed of the woman. 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:40.140 He was fully human, but he was also fully God. 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:44.619 that through death he might destroy him that 00:19:44.619 --> 00:19:47.519 had the power of death, that is the devil, and 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:50.200 deliver them who through fear of death were all 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:53.559 their lifetime subject to bondage. I mean, that's 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.460 the main bondage in life is a fear of death. 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:59.779 Fear of death. You know, people, even godly people. 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:02.420 I've known some godly people who were afraid 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:06.319 to die. And how does that keep us from taking 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:09.859 a risk to obey God when it looks like it's dangerous? 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.819 Especially going on a mission field. Yeah. We've 00:20:14.819 --> 00:20:18.200 gone to some dangerous places. And you have to 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.799 deal with your own mortality and say, I am already 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:23.339 dead. And my life is hid with Christ in God. 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:27.940 The nearest road by you can... Your fear of dying 00:20:27.940 --> 00:20:31.019 by going out on a road. Yeah. Some people stay 00:20:31.019 --> 00:20:32.920 home because they're afraid to go out. I had 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:36.460 an aunt that she had varicose veins taken out. 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:41.309 Oh, I remember. And she was I don't know, a shower 00:20:41.309 --> 00:20:44.150 or something. And all of a sudden it popped open 00:20:44.150 --> 00:20:47.150 and she started, you know, just blood started 00:20:47.150 --> 00:20:51.269 bleeding. And that scared her so much she made 00:20:51.269 --> 00:20:53.569 herself bedridden. That was the last time she 00:20:53.569 --> 00:20:56.690 walked. Yeah. And she went to the grave that 00:20:56.690 --> 00:20:58.970 way. Yeah. You know, fear of death over something 00:20:58.970 --> 00:21:02.690 like that. Yep. And what a wasted life. Yeah, 00:21:02.710 --> 00:21:06.029 what a waste of life. Yeah. You can't let a circumstance 00:21:06.029 --> 00:21:09.930 stop you from serving God. Right. Or the fear 00:21:09.930 --> 00:21:13.269 of it. Right. Yeah, it's like stuff I deal, I've 00:21:13.269 --> 00:21:15.250 had to deal with since the wreck, you know, balance 00:21:15.250 --> 00:21:18.349 issues and getting sick easy and things like 00:21:18.349 --> 00:21:21.970 that. You know, and I've had my challenges. Yes, 00:21:21.970 --> 00:21:24.950 you have. I have. And you have overcome. I've 00:21:24.950 --> 00:21:27.130 watched you overcome again and again. I'm so 00:21:27.130 --> 00:21:29.450 proud of you. Yeah, it's kind of like our... 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.019 Our pastor's son, when he was sick, you know, 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:36.200 he says, oh, thank you, Jesus. You know, he was 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:41.880 just overcoming. Praise God in all things. You 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.180 know, I had a hard time doing that on that road 00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:49.960 in India. I littered the highway for miles. I 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:53.259 wasn't rejoicing. No, but you did overcome in 00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:55.240 the end. In the end, but I felt like I was going 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:59.640 to die, you know. But I'm still here. I've been 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:02.299 many places since. That's right. That's right. 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:06.440 So, isn't it wonderful that Jesus came to destroy 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:09.700 the works of the devil? Oh, yes. And I love what 00:22:09.700 --> 00:22:13.500 it says in Isaiah 25, 7 to 12. It says, he will 00:22:13.500 --> 00:22:16.019 destroy on this mountain. And this is the temple 00:22:16.019 --> 00:22:19.059 mount he's talking about. The temple mount. He 00:22:19.059 --> 00:22:21.660 will destroy on this mountain the surface of 00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:25.660 the covering cast over all people. And the veil 00:22:25.660 --> 00:22:28.279 that is spread over all nations, he will swallow 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:31.799 up death forever. Yes. And the Lord God will 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:35.319 wipe away tears from all faces. Now, just to 00:22:35.319 --> 00:22:38.579 give you. a little clarity about this mountain. 00:22:39.380 --> 00:22:42.420 It's not only talking about where the temple 00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:45.859 was. It's also talking about the entire mount. 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:48.940 Mount Moriah. Mount Moriah. Okay. Mount Moriah 00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:52.519 is the place where Abraham took his son, bound 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:54.980 him, and was ready to plunge in the knife when 00:22:54.980 --> 00:22:56.700 God said, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 00:22:56.779 --> 00:22:59.720 that's enough. You've gone, you've passed the 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:02.920 test. You don't have to kill him. Yeah. And that's 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.420 where the dome of the rock is. on the Temple 00:23:05.420 --> 00:23:08.980 Mount, that golden dome, which is actually a 00:23:08.980 --> 00:23:11.519 shrine. It's not a mosque. It's a shrine. Right. 00:23:11.779 --> 00:23:14.039 And I remember the days we would go underneath 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.500 there, and they had the rock where they say he 00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:20.599 was going to sacrifice Isaac. Yeah, that's where 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:22.039 they think that it was. That's where they think 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:26.059 it was. I don't know that that's true. But it's 00:23:26.059 --> 00:23:28.319 a big mountain, though, Moriah. Right. And so 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.000 the southern slope of Mount Moriah is the city 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:34.019 of David. So that was an important location. 00:23:34.569 --> 00:23:37.930 And the top of it, it was Arunah's threshing 00:23:37.930 --> 00:23:42.230 floor. And when David numbered the people and 00:23:42.230 --> 00:23:45.609 he chose pestilence, you know, I'll just take 00:23:45.609 --> 00:23:48.509 the short one because God might be merciful and 00:23:48.509 --> 00:23:52.009 we'll get it over with. And so the angel stopped 00:23:52.009 --> 00:23:56.170 there before he hit Jerusalem, I think. Maybe 00:23:56.170 --> 00:23:58.089 he hit Jerusalem first, but he stopped there 00:23:58.089 --> 00:24:01.170 on that mount. And the Lord said, that's enough. 00:24:01.710 --> 00:24:05.059 And he told David. To buy the threshing floor. 00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:07.099 To buy the threshing floor. And he bought it 00:24:07.099 --> 00:24:10.680 for full price. And he bought the animals and 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:13.619 used the wooden parts, you know, to make the 00:24:13.619 --> 00:24:17.819 sacrifice. And it stopped the pestilence. It 00:24:17.819 --> 00:24:19.200 stopped the plague. It stopped the angel that 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:21.240 was standing by with the sword because he saw 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:25.579 it. So that was then the location that David 00:24:25.579 --> 00:24:27.640 understood this is the place where the temple's 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:30.799 to be built. Yeah. Okay. But if you go on down 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:34.089 the northern slope. When you get to the northern 00:24:34.089 --> 00:24:38.990 end, well, it's all quarries where they dug out 00:24:38.990 --> 00:24:43.890 the rock to build the temple. And that is the 00:24:43.890 --> 00:24:47.269 area where Jesus was crucified and rose from 00:24:47.269 --> 00:24:51.549 the dead. So put this in the context of the scripture. 00:24:52.289 --> 00:24:56.450 He will destroy on this mountain. The surface 00:24:56.450 --> 00:24:58.970 of the covering cast over all people and the 00:24:58.970 --> 00:25:01.549 veil that is spread over all nations. He will 00:25:01.549 --> 00:25:04.549 swallow up death forever. He was resurrected 00:25:04.549 --> 00:25:07.369 from that very mountain. Yes, amen. Isn't that 00:25:07.369 --> 00:25:10.089 amazing? And what's amazing, what is the veil 00:25:10.089 --> 00:25:13.750 today present that is over the people? That is 00:25:13.750 --> 00:25:16.470 on that mount. That is on the people of that 00:25:16.470 --> 00:25:18.549 mount. Right, right. The women all have to wear 00:25:18.549 --> 00:25:20.769 a veil. The women all have to wear a veil. And 00:25:20.769 --> 00:25:24.519 it says that he will destroy. The veil that is 00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:26.839 over all nations. That's right. Now, how many 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.319 nations are Muslims not in? Right. They're everywhere. 00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:33.420 They're everywhere. And there's a circulatory 00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:37.339 thing going around on Facebook of all these different 00:25:37.339 --> 00:25:40.920 nations of the women, the beautiful women, what 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.720 they look like, the prince, the queens, or even 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:47.619 everyday dress, what they look like then, what 00:25:47.619 --> 00:25:50.299 they look like now. Yeah. Persia. Before and 00:25:50.299 --> 00:25:53.440 after veils. Before and after veils. Right. And 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:58.299 it's astounding. But this is a natural veil that 00:25:58.299 --> 00:26:01.680 is over all the Muslim women. It's true. He says 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:04.420 he's going to take this away. This will be this 00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:07.119 because the veil, when this mighty outpouring 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:10.200 comes, the veils are going to go flying. Amen. 00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:13.619 Hallelujah. Kind of like graduation. The hat 00:26:13.619 --> 00:26:16.779 comes off and it flies. I mean, there's going 00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:19.220 to be, I mean, the power of God's going to come 00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:23.140 down in such a way in nations that it's just 00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:25.960 the leaders are going to repent, you know, and 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:28.500 there's going to be a freedom and a liberty. 00:26:29.469 --> 00:26:32.250 So this is like a two -sided thing. It's a spiritual 00:26:32.250 --> 00:26:36.049 and a natural veil that is in place here. Yes. 00:26:36.369 --> 00:26:38.269 Okay, well, maybe we better get back on track 00:26:38.269 --> 00:26:40.390 again. Well, actually, we're on track. We're 00:26:40.390 --> 00:26:43.150 on track. We're not off track at all. Going on 00:26:43.150 --> 00:26:45.569 in verse 10, it says, For on this mountain the 00:26:45.569 --> 00:26:48.089 hand of the Lord will rest, and Moab shall be 00:26:48.089 --> 00:26:52.529 trampled down under him. Well, who's in control 00:26:52.529 --> 00:26:55.730 of Moab right now? Islam. Islam, yeah. It's the 00:26:55.730 --> 00:26:58.589 same thing. So it's going to be trampled as straw 00:26:58.589 --> 00:27:01.589 is trampled down for the refuse heap. And he 00:27:01.589 --> 00:27:03.569 will spread out his hands in their midst as a 00:27:03.569 --> 00:27:06.009 swimmer reaches out to swim, and he will bring 00:27:06.009 --> 00:27:09.369 down their pride together with the trickery of 00:27:09.369 --> 00:27:12.089 their hands. Now, who's the king of pride? The 00:27:12.089 --> 00:27:15.049 devil. Well, yeah, yeah. And there's a creature 00:27:15.049 --> 00:27:20.400 that might... be described like a massive dinosaur. 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:25.039 Yeah, exactly. Leviathan is the king of pride, 00:27:25.180 --> 00:27:28.259 and I think he's a dragon too. And the fortress 00:27:28.259 --> 00:27:30.539 of the high fort of your walls he will bring 00:27:30.539 --> 00:27:33.799 down low and bring to the ground down to the 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.599 dust. There's a crushing going on here. There's 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:40.920 a crushing that Jesus initiated. But remember, 00:27:41.140 --> 00:27:44.470 he's going to crush Satan under our feet. Shortly. 00:27:44.769 --> 00:27:47.589 And the word shortly there, as I understand it 00:27:47.589 --> 00:27:51.670 in the Greek, can also mean suddenly. Okay. Because 00:27:51.670 --> 00:27:56.009 we think of shortly meaning in a reasonably soon 00:27:56.009 --> 00:27:58.950 period of time. Well, it's been a long time. 00:27:59.150 --> 00:28:03.029 Behold, I come quickly. But it's suddenly. It's 00:28:03.029 --> 00:28:06.190 suddenly. Yes. More than quickly. I mean, the 00:28:06.190 --> 00:28:11.109 actual action is quick. And we don't think that 00:28:11.109 --> 00:28:14.579 way in English currently. So anyway, it goes 00:28:14.579 --> 00:28:19.400 on to, like, this is dust. So it's crushed, crushed 00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:23.079 down into the dust, trampled in the dust. So 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:29.000 looking at Romans 8 and 35 to 39, do you want 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.019 to read that, Philip? Who shall separate us from 00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:35.440 the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:40.799 or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.440 or sword? As it is written, for your sake we 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:47.240 are killed all day long. We are accounted as 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:50.039 sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things 00:28:50.039 --> 00:28:52.859 we are more than conquerors through him who loved 00:28:52.859 --> 00:28:56.980 us. Oh, and I love the 38. For I am persuaded 00:28:56.980 --> 00:29:01.559 that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, 00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.380 nor powers, nor things present nor things to 00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:09.000 come, nor height or depth, or any other created 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:12.190 thing, shall be able to separate us from the 00:29:12.190 --> 00:29:15.690 love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 00:29:15.910 --> 00:29:19.769 Oh, that's such a magnificent scripture. I mean, 00:29:19.829 --> 00:29:25.809 Paul just said that so well. Yeah. And so what 00:29:25.809 --> 00:29:29.930 Jesus did in his love for us, God so loved the 00:29:29.930 --> 00:29:33.430 world that he gave his only begotten Son, that 00:29:33.430 --> 00:29:36.029 whosoever believes in him should not perish. 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:39.019 but have everlasting life. He did all of this 00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:41.660 so that we could have life. He destroyed the 00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:46.000 death. He crushed it. And he's still in the process. 00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:50.519 And we get to participate. Hallelujah. Yes. So 00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:53.460 as we get more and more acquainted with his love, 00:29:53.700 --> 00:29:58.319 we're going to become more and more used by him. 00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.779 to crush the devil under our feet. Amen? Amen. 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:06.059 So in 2 Corinthians 2, 14 -17, it says, But thanks 00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:10.079 be to God, who always leads us in Christ's triumphal 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:13.519 procession. I think there's another in King James 00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:15.380 that says, who always causes us to triumph. I 00:30:15.380 --> 00:30:19.000 like that too. And through us spreads the aroma 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:23.210 of the knowledge of him in every place. For to 00:30:23.210 --> 00:30:25.630 God we are the fragrance of Christ among those 00:30:25.630 --> 00:30:28.750 who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 00:30:29.049 --> 00:30:32.650 To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, 00:30:32.829 --> 00:30:36.289 but to others an aroma of life leading to life. 00:30:36.670 --> 00:30:39.829 Who is adequate for these things? For we do not 00:30:39.829 --> 00:30:42.410 market the word of God for profit like so many. 00:30:42.490 --> 00:30:45.089 I like putting that into a modern way of saying 00:30:45.089 --> 00:30:47.450 it. We're not marketing the word of God for profit. 00:30:48.009 --> 00:30:51.619 On the contrary. We speak with sincerity in Christ 00:30:51.619 --> 00:30:55.619 as from God and before God. So there's an aroma 00:30:55.619 --> 00:31:01.339 that comes when we pass from death unto life. 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:04.660 Now, you know that there is a smell of death, 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.720 right? We were going down the highway yesterday. 00:31:07.900 --> 00:31:11.720 Was it yesterday? Recently. Anyway, and, you 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.319 know, something had died and was decomposing 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.740 near the highway, and it was terrible smell. 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:23.200 Okay? So there's a smell of death, and there's 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:27.180 a smell of life. Yeah. I remember Dean, when 00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:30.039 he was in heaven and came back to earth, he said, 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.579 the whole earth smells of death because everything 00:31:33.579 --> 00:31:37.420 that is alive is going to die. Yeah, it's true. 00:31:37.619 --> 00:31:41.079 And it just had that smell. Yeah, we already 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:43.579 have death working in us. Yeah. Because of sin. 00:31:43.579 --> 00:31:46.519 What happens when you die, worms eat you up. 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:49.549 Yes, but the thing is, That the worms are already 00:31:49.549 --> 00:31:51.710 there in your body. They're microbes in your 00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:54.390 body. They are microbes, and they morph into 00:31:54.390 --> 00:31:56.910 this decomposition. Yeah, as soon as your body 00:31:56.910 --> 00:32:00.670 hits a point of acidity, then they go to work. 00:32:00.970 --> 00:32:04.710 Yep, yep. And that's why a lot of the sickness 00:32:04.710 --> 00:32:08.589 that comes, that leads to death, is a result 00:32:08.589 --> 00:32:12.309 of our bodies getting out of balance in the pH. 00:32:12.750 --> 00:32:14.710 Yeah, this is a freebie. When your body starts 00:32:14.710 --> 00:32:20.079 going real acidic, These things, microbes in 00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.700 your blood that help you are now trying to morph 00:32:22.700 --> 00:32:26.940 to take you out. Yeah. They think it's their 00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:29.000 job to decompose you. You won't hear that in 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.799 your textbooks. No, not really. But this idea 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.160 of the smell of death and the smell of life, 00:32:35.339 --> 00:32:41.559 I found here that it takes 60 whole roses to 00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:44.539 produce just one drop of essential oil. Ooh. 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:48.450 Wow. And if you want to have a teaspoon of rose 00:32:48.450 --> 00:32:53.410 oil, it takes 10 ,000 freshly picked roses. Wow. 00:32:53.630 --> 00:32:57.210 Okay. So I think, I guess it's an old movie or 00:32:57.210 --> 00:32:59.230 something that I'm thinking of where, you know, 00:32:59.230 --> 00:33:02.690 there's some kind of a death smell. And the lady 00:33:02.690 --> 00:33:05.309 takes her handkerchief and puts a drop of perfume 00:33:05.309 --> 00:33:07.529 into it. So she's breathing her handkerchief 00:33:07.529 --> 00:33:11.839 so that she doesn't smell the death. We can smell 00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.500 life instead of death. We just need to get ourselves 00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:18.579 where we're receiving life from the Lord. But 00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:22.720 these smells come from a crushing, okay? You 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.319 have to crush those roses to produce that smell. 00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:29.339 And that's where we have to get God's perspective 00:33:29.339 --> 00:33:32.039 of the crushings that we go through. Because 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:35.299 the crushings that we go through, if we learn 00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:38.980 our lessons well, we're going to have something 00:33:38.980 --> 00:33:41.880 of the character of Christ being built into us 00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:44.900 as a result. Remember that picture that I had 00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:47.200 in my, I guess you could call it a vision or 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.140 a mental picture of, and again, this is probably 00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:54.160 an old movie or different movies or TV programs 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.880 where the woman is put into this place where 00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.950 she's... in a small, confined place, and this 00:34:00.950 --> 00:34:02.670 one wall is moving towards her. The wall is moving, 00:34:02.890 --> 00:34:05.230 yeah. Getting closer and closer, and it's going 00:34:05.230 --> 00:34:08.469 to crush her, right? So I have this vision that 00:34:08.469 --> 00:34:12.389 when we're in those crushing times, what is really 00:34:12.389 --> 00:34:15.349 happening, we think we're dying. And actually, 00:34:15.449 --> 00:34:18.869 there's part of us that is. Because our fleshly 00:34:18.869 --> 00:34:23.869 nature needs to die in order for the spirit life 00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:27.070 to have... the preeminence, right? We have to 00:34:27.070 --> 00:34:30.190 continually submit ourselves to the Lord, continually 00:34:30.190 --> 00:34:34.730 go down in humility and die to our pride, right? 00:34:34.889 --> 00:34:37.710 Kill that pride. We have to kill the pride because 00:34:37.710 --> 00:34:39.929 that's what's killing us, really. It's easy to 00:34:39.929 --> 00:34:43.170 let us to kill it ourselves because if we don't, 00:34:43.170 --> 00:34:46.570 then God kills us. He has ways of making it. 00:34:46.690 --> 00:34:49.489 Yes, yes. If we don't humble ourselves, He has 00:34:49.489 --> 00:34:52.900 ways of crushing. In another way. Yeah, it's 00:34:52.900 --> 00:34:56.559 true. So in this picture that I had, the wall 00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:58.400 is getting closer and closer and it's smushing 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.920 me and smushing me and smushing me into, but 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.460 the wall that's steady and not moving is God. 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:09.059 And so when the pressure lets up, we come off 00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:14.559 with the image of God on us instead of us. That's 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.599 beautiful. Yeah, that's what he's trying to do. 00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:19.340 That's what he's working in us. It's really a 00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:22.909 love thing. And we squirm and we howl and we 00:35:22.909 --> 00:35:27.190 whine and we cry. This hurts. I don't like this. 00:35:27.369 --> 00:35:29.889 I'm being crushed. It's like Jesus is trying 00:35:29.889 --> 00:35:32.030 to get us ready for the marriage supper of the 00:35:32.030 --> 00:35:35.010 Lamb. Right. But we don't want to get married. 00:35:35.829 --> 00:35:38.889 Yeah, we're trying to run. Yeah, the bride has 00:35:38.889 --> 00:35:41.489 to look like him. Yeah. The bride is meant to 00:35:41.489 --> 00:35:44.769 look like him. Adam looked at Eve and said, bone 00:35:44.769 --> 00:35:47.809 of my bone and flesh of my flesh. Yeah. She was 00:35:47.809 --> 00:35:51.769 made out of him. And so we are being made out 00:35:51.769 --> 00:35:54.769 of Jesus. So we should be looking like him. We 00:35:54.769 --> 00:35:57.030 should be sounding like him. We should be smelling 00:35:57.030 --> 00:36:00.829 like him. All of the fleshly things, he's working 00:36:00.829 --> 00:36:04.289 the process in us. It's a process. It doesn't 00:36:04.289 --> 00:36:06.570 happen overnight. It doesn't happen in a few 00:36:06.570 --> 00:36:10.650 days. It takes a lifetime. It takes a lifetime. 00:36:10.929 --> 00:36:14.750 But the more we let him work, the farther we'll 00:36:14.750 --> 00:36:18.210 go faster, and by the end of the lifetime, we 00:36:18.210 --> 00:36:21.030 will be beyond what we would have been if we 00:36:21.030 --> 00:36:24.590 were fighting against him all the time. So the 00:36:24.590 --> 00:36:26.869 crushing is good. The crushing is for a good 00:36:26.869 --> 00:36:30.699 thing. So Ephesians... 5, 1 and 2 says, therefore 00:36:30.699 --> 00:36:33.940 be imitators of God as dearly loved children 00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:37.139 and walk in love as Christ also loved us and 00:36:37.139 --> 00:36:40.619 gave himself for us a sacrificial and fragrant 00:36:40.619 --> 00:36:44.519 offering to God. So every time we humble ourselves, 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:49.119 there's a release of a fragrance that is pleasing 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.400 to the Lord. I mean, think about it. You think 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.840 about all these sacrifices that are going on 00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.820 in the temple. Who doesn't like the smell of 00:36:57.820 --> 00:37:02.150 barbecue? I mean, really. Somebody in the neighborhood 00:37:02.150 --> 00:37:04.670 is barbecuing and it's like... Especially if 00:37:04.670 --> 00:37:08.250 you're fasting. Well, yeah, that's true. And 00:37:08.250 --> 00:37:10.550 sometimes you can actually just get happy just 00:37:10.550 --> 00:37:12.409 by smelling it. Yeah, that's true. I've done 00:37:12.409 --> 00:37:15.510 that many times on a fast when people are eating 00:37:15.510 --> 00:37:18.289 around you. Oh, just let me smell it. Just go 00:37:18.289 --> 00:37:21.610 up and just take a deep... Yeah, it helps. Oh, 00:37:21.630 --> 00:37:26.769 that's so good. It helps somehow. So here's another 00:37:26.769 --> 00:37:29.679 crushing. And crushing for fragrance. We've got 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:33.780 Exodus chapter 30, verses 34 to 38. Philip, would 00:37:33.780 --> 00:37:37.340 you read that? The Lord said to Moses, take fragrant 00:37:37.340 --> 00:37:44.780 spices, stacte, onycha, pardon? Maybe I should 00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:48.880 let you read these three. Onycha and gabonim. 00:37:49.099 --> 00:37:52.420 The spices and pure frankincense are to be in 00:37:52.420 --> 00:37:55.699 equal measures. Prepare expertly blended incense 00:37:55.699 --> 00:37:59.460 from these. It is to be seasoned with salt, pure 00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:02.800 and holy. Grind some of it into a fine powder 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:05.260 and put some in front of the testimony in the 00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:07.519 tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. 00:38:08.340 --> 00:38:12.460 It must be especially holy to you. As for the 00:38:12.460 --> 00:38:15.260 incense you are making, you must not make any 00:38:15.260 --> 00:38:18.739 for yourselves using its formula. It is to be 00:38:18.739 --> 00:38:22.760 regarded by you as holy, belonging to the Lord. 00:38:23.150 --> 00:38:25.949 Anyone who makes something like it to smell its 00:38:25.949 --> 00:38:29.449 fragrance must be cut off from his people. No 00:38:29.449 --> 00:38:33.730 counterfeits. Exactly. And you can't copy it 00:38:33.730 --> 00:38:36.969 to use it on yourself. This is God's fragrance. 00:38:37.730 --> 00:38:40.889 And I won't take time to teach about what each 00:38:40.889 --> 00:38:44.829 of those different spices means or elements means, 00:38:44.989 --> 00:38:48.929 but the point is that it has to be crushed. It 00:38:48.929 --> 00:38:52.050 has to be crushed. It has to be ground into powder. 00:38:52.090 --> 00:38:55.110 And it has to be all mixed up. All these different 00:38:55.110 --> 00:38:58.670 things have to be mixed together. And sometimes 00:38:58.670 --> 00:39:01.809 we're going through those crushings and mixings. 00:39:01.969 --> 00:39:05.329 But in order for it to produce the fragrance 00:39:05.329 --> 00:39:07.610 that it's meant to produce, it also has to be 00:39:07.610 --> 00:39:11.489 put on the fire. So think about the things you're 00:39:11.489 --> 00:39:15.150 going through. They are for your perfecting. 00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:20.079 They are for making you into a fragrance of the 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:24.400 Lord, a beautiful fragrance that brings him glory 00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.760 and it makes him smile and it makes him happy. 00:39:26.820 --> 00:39:29.820 When in the midst of our trial and trouble, we 00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:33.539 say, thank you, Jesus. I trust you. I trust you. 00:39:33.780 --> 00:39:37.840 That's the beauty of it. And this idea of this 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:42.679 word in the Hebrew that is for crushing is the 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:46.590 word shakak. And it means to wear down or to 00:39:46.590 --> 00:39:49.429 wear away or to wear out like the erosion of 00:39:49.429 --> 00:39:54.010 stones by water. Okay. It's amazing to me how 00:39:54.010 --> 00:39:57.389 something as hard as a stone, you go into a creek 00:39:57.389 --> 00:40:00.670 bed or a river bed and you find these beautifully 00:40:00.670 --> 00:40:04.139 smooth stones. And that's why David went down 00:40:04.139 --> 00:40:06.139 to the creek to find a smooth stone, because 00:40:06.139 --> 00:40:09.480 it's been eroded by water. It's been smoothed 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:11.880 out by water. And they fly real good, too. Oh, 00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.699 yeah. Try to skip them across water. Yeah, you 00:40:14.699 --> 00:40:18.300 do really well with that. I can only get a couple 00:40:18.300 --> 00:40:20.400 of skips, but you can make them go flying across 00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:25.079 the river. Anyway, that smoothness, it's amazing 00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:28.599 something as hard as a rock can be smoothed by 00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:33.610 something as... Soft as water. Yeah. And the 00:40:33.610 --> 00:40:36.050 more we submit to the water of the word in our 00:40:36.050 --> 00:40:39.170 lives, the more he can smooth us out with that 00:40:39.170 --> 00:40:41.309 rather than having to put us in the fire and 00:40:41.309 --> 00:40:43.949 crush us. You know, growing up in Chicago, we'd 00:40:43.949 --> 00:40:47.010 go along the beaches. And there's one they called 00:40:47.010 --> 00:40:49.690 the Rock Street Beach. Oh, really? And it had 00:40:49.690 --> 00:40:52.170 these big rocks. Oh, yeah. And we would climb 00:40:52.170 --> 00:40:54.510 down into the rocks, you know, and the water 00:40:54.510 --> 00:40:58.559 would go and wash in there. And you could find 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.780 like broken 7 -Up bottles, you know, because 00:41:01.780 --> 00:41:04.420 of that color. It would take the broken glass 00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:08.099 and it would shine it. It would be a dull, kind 00:41:08.099 --> 00:41:10.699 of like a diamond, you know. The diamond, it's 00:41:10.699 --> 00:41:14.019 not shiny when you look at it. It has to be polished. 00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:17.260 Yeah. But it took the sand. Yeah. It took all 00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:19.300 the sharp edges off of it. That's right. And 00:41:19.300 --> 00:41:22.460 you had these beautiful pieces of glass that 00:41:22.460 --> 00:41:25.400 the water. It's the water what did it. Water 00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:28.380 used in the sand, it just made it smooth where 00:41:28.380 --> 00:41:30.400 it wouldn't cut or anything like that. Yeah, 00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:32.440 yeah. And that's what God is doing in our lives 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:35.519 when he's putting us in the floods, when he's 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.159 putting us through things. It's for our perfecting. 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.019 It is a good thing. It's making it smooth for 00:41:41.019 --> 00:41:44.679 you. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So these ingredients 00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:46.900 were crushed into fine powder, mixed together. 00:41:47.949 --> 00:41:50.130 And the fragrance was released with the fire. 00:41:50.230 --> 00:41:53.150 So all of these crushings, we just have to trust 00:41:53.150 --> 00:41:56.789 that it's our Father at work in making us beautiful. 00:41:57.510 --> 00:41:59.909 We wouldn't think that this is a beautifying 00:41:59.909 --> 00:42:02.349 process, but it is. And, you know, think back 00:42:02.349 --> 00:42:06.969 about Esther. She had to spend six months being 00:42:06.969 --> 00:42:10.989 soaked in myrrh. Myrrh is one of the things she 00:42:10.989 --> 00:42:14.340 was soaked in. And myrrh means bitterness. So 00:42:14.340 --> 00:42:16.219 there are bitter things that we go through that 00:42:16.219 --> 00:42:19.500 are for our beautification. We have to receive 00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:21.920 it from the Lord. And when we receive it from 00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.579 the Lord, that's when the fragrance begins to 00:42:24.579 --> 00:42:27.659 go forward. And I think the sooner we get to 00:42:27.659 --> 00:42:30.059 that point, the sooner we'll get out of the crushing. 00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:33.320 So here's another thing. Olives are crushed, 00:42:33.500 --> 00:42:37.880 right? You want olive oil. And you use it for 00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:41.559 food. And like the third or fourth crushing is 00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:44.949 used for light. And probably the temple oil was 00:42:44.949 --> 00:42:47.409 probably an earlier crushing, I think. That would 00:42:47.409 --> 00:42:51.150 be the first squeeze. So, you know, that's just 00:42:51.150 --> 00:42:53.309 another thing that's crushed. And then you have 00:42:53.309 --> 00:42:57.530 when you harvest grain. You get the wheat, and 00:42:57.530 --> 00:43:01.449 it's all in the heads on the wheat stalk. And 00:43:01.449 --> 00:43:05.750 you have to crush that in order to get the husk 00:43:05.750 --> 00:43:08.960 off of it, the chaff. So there's a crushing that 00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.980 has to happen in order for food. In order to 00:43:11.980 --> 00:43:14.059 get your food, you have to do this crushing. 00:43:14.300 --> 00:43:18.280 In order for us to become food for the nations. 00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:21.840 Will you be poured out as wine for the Lord? 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.780 Will you be beaten into flour to make bread to 00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:27.099 feed the hungry? Are you willing to do this? 00:43:27.300 --> 00:43:29.340 Are you willing to go through this crushing? 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:33.099 You know, if you don't get the husk off. I mean, 00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:37.119 have you had bread that has a piece of husk in 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.099 it? Yeah. Every now and then. It caught in your 00:43:39.099 --> 00:43:42.219 teeth. Yeah. It's not pleasant. It's not meant 00:43:42.219 --> 00:43:45.400 to be in your bread. So there's also an offering 00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:48.260 in Leviticus 2 .14. It says, if you present a 00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:51.139 grain offering of first fruits to the Lord, you 00:43:51.139 --> 00:43:54.300 are to present fresh heads of grain, crushed 00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:57.639 kernels, roasted on the fire for your grain offering 00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:00.920 of first fruits. Roasted. Crushed and roasted. 00:44:01.139 --> 00:44:03.900 It was like the song Sister Gwen wrote years 00:44:03.900 --> 00:44:06.179 ago. It was called, When He Has Tried Me, I'll 00:44:06.179 --> 00:44:09.000 Come Forth as Golden. Yes. And when we had our 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.980 wreck and it's like the dark night of the soul. 00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:15.559 Yeah. I kind of changed the words for a while. 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.800 When He Has Fried Me, you know, because that's 00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:20.440 what it felt like, you know, just like it had 00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:24.219 been really roasted because it's just like. Sometimes 00:44:24.219 --> 00:44:26.820 all your dreams and things seemed like they were 00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:29.380 so far away and how can that ever happen now? 00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:32.260 Yeah. But God used it for his glory. Yeah. And 00:44:32.260 --> 00:44:35.699 we got there. We did get out of that trial. We 00:44:35.699 --> 00:44:38.340 survived and we didn't get bitter over it. Yeah, 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:41.480 that's right. So Psalm 34, 18 fits right here. 00:44:41.860 --> 00:44:45.179 The Lord is near the brokenhearted. He saves 00:44:45.179 --> 00:44:47.780 those crushed in spirit. We were crushed. We 00:44:47.780 --> 00:44:51.500 were crushed by that accident. You know, I remember. 00:44:52.429 --> 00:44:56.730 We were like five weeks at my sister's. And I 00:44:56.730 --> 00:44:59.469 don't remember how far into the process it was 00:44:59.469 --> 00:45:04.150 before we left that one day I found myself singing 00:45:04.150 --> 00:45:06.769 or humming or whistling. I'm not sure which it 00:45:06.769 --> 00:45:10.750 was. Because usually I have a song going in my 00:45:10.750 --> 00:45:13.130 head, going in my spirit. I'm either humming 00:45:13.130 --> 00:45:16.110 or singing or whistling or it's just in my head. 00:45:16.750 --> 00:45:21.969 And I suddenly realized at that moment, oh. I 00:45:21.969 --> 00:45:24.510 got my song back. I didn't even know I'd lost 00:45:24.510 --> 00:45:28.570 it. It was the crushing. And there are crushings 00:45:28.570 --> 00:45:31.409 that we go through. It's for our good. There 00:45:31.409 --> 00:45:33.929 are good things that came out of that. And it's 00:45:33.929 --> 00:45:37.570 kind of like Jacob with his limp. You know, when 00:45:37.570 --> 00:45:40.949 he wrestled with the angel before he met his 00:45:40.949 --> 00:45:43.210 brother. He's about to meet his brother. He thinks 00:45:43.210 --> 00:45:45.750 his brother's going to kill him. So he goes to 00:45:45.750 --> 00:45:50.059 his brother limping. And I think... it probably 00:45:50.059 --> 00:45:52.579 helped his brother have a little compassion on 00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:55.920 him. Oh, well, he's not the tough guy that I 00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:58.199 thought he was going to be. Here he is limping 00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:00.119 and he's falling down on his face in front of 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:03.739 me. Eh, I guess I can forgive him, you know? 00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:09.760 So God is doing these crushings in us, but he's 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:12.480 also, in the process, he's crushing our enemies. 00:46:12.900 --> 00:46:17.199 Psalm 68, 21 says, surely. God crushes the heads 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:20.659 of his enemies, the hairy brow of one who goes 00:46:20.659 --> 00:46:24.400 on in his guilty acts. God is in the crushing 00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.699 business, and he's not only crushing us for our 00:46:28.699 --> 00:46:32.980 good, he's willing to take our enemies out as 00:46:32.980 --> 00:46:37.000 well. And Psalm 89, 23 says, I will crush his 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.380 foes before him and strike those who hate him. 00:46:40.380 --> 00:46:43.239 So that brings us back to our first verse where 00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:46.920 we started. Romans 16, 20, and this is from the 00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:49.079 Christian Standard Bible, which we've been using 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:54.460 in this podcast. The God of peace will soon crush 00:46:54.460 --> 00:46:58.519 Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:02.340 Jesus be with you. And that's really what it's 00:47:02.340 --> 00:47:06.460 all about, that he gives us the grace. As he 00:47:06.460 --> 00:47:09.699 gives us grace to say thank you, Jesus, when 00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:12.659 we're throwing up, or to say thank you, Jesus, 00:47:12.699 --> 00:47:15.409 when we're in pain. Or to say thank you, Jesus, 00:47:15.489 --> 00:47:20.269 when we're just barely able to put one foot in 00:47:20.269 --> 00:47:21.989 front of the other. Or maybe we're bedridden. 00:47:23.030 --> 00:47:28.369 And to just keep saying, Jesus, my Savior, you 00:47:28.369 --> 00:47:31.429 are the one I'm reaching out to because I need 00:47:31.429 --> 00:47:37.150 you. I'm being crushed right now. And that reaching 00:47:37.150 --> 00:47:41.170 out to him, that saying his name is a fragrance. 00:47:42.250 --> 00:47:46.590 that fills the room with his presence. And he 00:47:46.590 --> 00:47:50.110 really wants us to understand this idea of when 00:47:50.110 --> 00:47:52.789 he has tried me, I'll come forth as gold. That's 00:47:52.789 --> 00:47:57.650 from Job. And I'd like to end this episode with 00:47:57.650 --> 00:48:00.429 a recording that we made of that song. I just 00:48:00.429 --> 00:48:04.010 feel like this will help you, listener, to understand 00:48:04.010 --> 00:48:08.260 that when... You've been tried when you've been 00:48:08.260 --> 00:48:11.840 crushed. What's really going on is the activity 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:15.000 of the flesh or the activity of the devil against 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:17.539 you that's being crushed. You're feeling the 00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:20.340 crushing. You're feeling the fire. You're feeling 00:48:20.340 --> 00:48:23.460 the flood. You're feeling the washing and the 00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:25.639 washing and the washing and the smoothing of 00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:29.360 the stone. God is doing that. And he's doing 00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:33.179 it for our good. When he's tried me, I will come 00:48:33.179 --> 00:48:44.019 forth as gold. When he has tried me, I will come 00:48:44.019 --> 00:48:48.579 forth as gold. The fires of affliction will not 00:48:48.579 --> 00:48:54.380 harm my soul. I know that God loves me. And when 00:48:54.380 --> 00:48:58.539 he has tried me, I will come forth as pure gold. 00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:07.579 Check out our website at globaloutpouring .org 00:54:07.579 --> 00:54:10.360 to find out more information, read our blogs, 00:54:10.579 --> 00:54:13.400 connect with us, and donate. You can also browse 00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:15.960 our web store for life -changing anointed books. 00:54:16.380 --> 00:54:19.789 Until next time. This is Sharon Buss. And I'm 00:54:19.789 --> 00:54:22.489 Philip Buss. God bless you with His overwhelming, 00:54:22.690 --> 00:54:23.730 loving presence.