WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.299 So we're created for good works, unto good works, 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:08.220 but it's not the works that define us, it's the 00:00:08.220 --> 00:00:20.059 relationship that defines us. God promises in 00:00:20.059 --> 00:00:23.839 Joel 2 .28 to pour out of His Spirit on all humanity. 00:00:24.579 --> 00:00:27.359 Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:29.890 for that promised outpouring. We equip for that 00:00:29.890 --> 00:00:33.250 outpouring so that we may engage in that very 00:00:33.250 --> 00:00:36.689 outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. 00:00:36.710 --> 00:00:39.130 Welcome to the podcast today. We're delighted 00:00:39.130 --> 00:00:42.229 that you're with us. We're going to talk about 00:00:42.229 --> 00:00:48.429 what can I do? Or what can I do? Or what can 00:00:48.429 --> 00:00:56.609 I do? Thanks so much for joining us today. 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So I was meditating about 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:11.099 this idea of what can I do? And I was reminded 00:02:11.099 --> 00:02:13.719 of this incident with our granddaughter when 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.889 we were playing a game that It was kind of a 00:02:16.889 --> 00:02:20.629 hide and seek kind of game. And she was really 00:02:20.629 --> 00:02:23.930 little. And I could tell that she had seen something 00:02:23.930 --> 00:02:27.550 on TV or in a video or something that, you know, 00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:30.550 while we're making this big deal about this mystery 00:02:30.550 --> 00:02:33.430 and, you know, looking for something and looking 00:02:33.430 --> 00:02:35.449 for the treasure and that kind of thing. And 00:02:35.449 --> 00:02:41.050 she says, what can I do? And it was so cute. 00:02:41.289 --> 00:02:45.310 What can I do? This little tiny voice. And so. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.060 I was thinking about, you know, what is it that 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:51.080 we can do? What is it that God put us on this 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:54.280 planet to do? You know, it seems like we want 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:59.120 to be doing something. But he didn't make us 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.319 human doings. He made us human beings. Right, 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:06.120 human beings. And our humanness and our beingness 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:12.159 is because our God, our Father, is our creator. 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.919 He created us to be in relationship with him. 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:21.580 And the doing comes out of the being. It comes 00:03:21.580 --> 00:03:26.139 out of cooperating with him and doing things 00:03:26.139 --> 00:03:30.900 with him. Because we get so busy thinking about, 00:03:31.020 --> 00:03:36.919 oh, what can I do? I want to please God. I want 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.699 to do something for him. And we get some grandiose 00:03:40.699 --> 00:03:46.020 ideas sometimes. I love that word. And it reminds 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:49.280 me of this story that I heard or read about a 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:52.360 young person that, you know, dad was going away 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.479 for the day and it was a Saturday and he says, 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:01.699 son, I want you to sweep the garage. So the son 00:04:01.699 --> 00:04:04.379 gets out there and he's thinking, I really want 00:04:04.379 --> 00:04:10.949 to please dad. Clean the garage and rearrange 00:04:10.949 --> 00:04:16.269 everything. And dad comes back and the son is 00:04:16.269 --> 00:04:17.970 working really hard. Well, if you're going to 00:04:17.970 --> 00:04:19.509 rearrange, you're going to pull everything out 00:04:19.509 --> 00:04:23.230 and you're going to make a big mess. And of course, 00:04:23.250 --> 00:04:28.670 a young person sometimes gets into a job and 00:04:28.670 --> 00:04:32.050 doesn't necessarily finish. And dad comes home 00:04:32.050 --> 00:04:37.069 and he says, son, I asked you to sweep the garage. 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:43.740 I didn't ask you to rearrange it. But the kid's 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:46.959 heart was in the right place. I want to do something 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.800 to please you, Dad. And sometimes we get into 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.279 this thing where we want to just do something. 00:04:55.540 --> 00:04:57.800 Make it better. Yeah, we're going to make it 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:02.240 better. What can I do? Or what can I do? Or what 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.540 can I do? You know, sometimes we look at ourselves 00:05:05.540 --> 00:05:10.089 and we think, eh. What can I do? I'm nobody. 00:05:10.410 --> 00:05:14.870 I'm nothing. And sometimes we also get grandiose 00:05:14.870 --> 00:05:18.649 ideas about, I can do something. I have a gift. 00:05:18.750 --> 00:05:23.790 I can do this. And we get all worked up in pride 00:05:23.790 --> 00:05:29.910 and arrogance and fall on our face. Because that's 00:05:29.910 --> 00:05:33.910 not what God asked us to do. So Ephesians chapter 00:05:33.910 --> 00:05:38.019 2 and verse 8 says, For by grace. You are saved 00:05:38.019 --> 00:05:43.560 through faith, and that not of yourselves. It 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.639 is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:50.800 should boast. Pride. Pride, like, I did this. 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:56.220 I got myself out of that hole. No, not really. 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:01.759 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:06.540 Jesus unto good works. which God has before ordained 00:06:06.540 --> 00:06:10.319 that we should walk in them. In other words, 00:06:10.459 --> 00:06:16.100 he created us for good works as his workmanship 00:06:16.100 --> 00:06:22.120 to cooperate with him out of being, being in 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:27.500 relationship with him. So Jesus said that of 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:30.649 myself, I can do nothing. So if the Son of God 00:06:30.649 --> 00:06:32.829 could do nothing by himself, what are we trying 00:06:32.829 --> 00:06:34.930 to do? What were the disciples thinking when 00:06:34.930 --> 00:06:38.750 he said that? I don't know. Because here he is, 00:06:38.769 --> 00:06:41.370 and their mind's going to be the next king eventually. 00:06:41.910 --> 00:06:45.069 Right, right. And soon. And soon, yeah. They 00:06:45.069 --> 00:06:47.230 were expecting any minute he's going to just 00:06:47.230 --> 00:06:50.269 overrule the Romans, right? Yeah, because you 00:06:50.269 --> 00:06:53.110 can do miracles. And there's probably things 00:06:53.110 --> 00:06:57.810 that happened, like with regards to Roman soldiers. 00:06:58.649 --> 00:07:01.149 I remember on a, it wasn't the chosen, it was 00:07:01.149 --> 00:07:04.069 something else, where this, you know, someone 00:07:04.069 --> 00:07:08.529 was carrying something for a Roman soldier, and 00:07:08.529 --> 00:07:10.350 they're just being rough on him and all that, 00:07:10.389 --> 00:07:12.990 you know. And then all of a sudden, Jesus kind 00:07:12.990 --> 00:07:15.170 of is standing there, and the Roman soldier comes 00:07:15.170 --> 00:07:18.850 up to him, and he stops, and he just turns and 00:07:18.850 --> 00:07:21.589 backs away out of fear, you know. I thought, 00:07:21.629 --> 00:07:25.930 oh, that's kind of neat. How many things? like 00:07:25.930 --> 00:07:29.550 that happen with Roman soldiers that we don't 00:07:29.550 --> 00:07:31.990 know anything about. That's true. What does it 00:07:31.990 --> 00:07:34.449 say that the earth would not be able to hold 00:07:34.449 --> 00:07:37.870 the volumes of what Jesus did when he was on 00:07:37.870 --> 00:07:40.149 earth? Very true. That's what John said. So if 00:07:40.149 --> 00:07:43.689 he was on earth for a very short time, he did 00:07:43.689 --> 00:07:47.540 a lot of stuff. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. And the 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:49.639 thing about carrying something for a Roman soldier, 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.399 Jesus said, if you're compelled to walk a mile, 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.699 to carry something for a soldier, basically, 00:07:55.819 --> 00:07:58.339 if you're compelled to do that, and they were 00:07:58.339 --> 00:08:01.379 required to. They were required to carry whatever 00:08:01.379 --> 00:08:04.939 the Roman soldier said for a mile. And Jesus 00:08:04.939 --> 00:08:08.259 said, carry it two. Two miles, yeah. In other 00:08:08.259 --> 00:08:11.220 words, Jesus was trying to give the idea on earth. 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.339 Remember what Dean Braxton said about in heaven. 00:08:14.170 --> 00:08:16.290 How can I serve you? Yeah, the greeting is, how 00:08:16.290 --> 00:08:20.189 can I serve you? So Jesus is trying to give us 00:08:20.189 --> 00:08:25.110 this instruction that we're here to serve. So 00:08:25.110 --> 00:08:28.870 if your enemy, the Romans were the enemies of 00:08:28.870 --> 00:08:32.950 Israel, if your enemy compels you to do something, 00:08:33.129 --> 00:08:36.950 do it twice as much for him. Yeah, and we don't 00:08:36.950 --> 00:08:39.440 have an understanding of how brutal. It was. 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:42.879 Things really were with Rome. That's true. There's 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.919 a lot of movies out there and stuff of the Nazi 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:50.440 regime and how brutal they were to everybody. 00:08:50.820 --> 00:08:53.580 Yeah. And so when you put yourself, there's something 00:08:53.580 --> 00:08:56.279 you're looking at because you don't see movies 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.460 out there of the Jewish nation. Rome is in control 00:09:00.460 --> 00:09:03.220 and they're just being brutal in a lot of ways. 00:09:03.259 --> 00:09:06.240 We don't see that. With all the stuff that's 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.240 out there, what the Nazis did, we see all that. 00:09:08.419 --> 00:09:11.799 And so when you compare that to that, that's 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.019 what it would kind of be like. Yeah. You know, 00:09:14.059 --> 00:09:16.860 no mercy, really. Yeah. It wasn't any mercy. 00:09:17.220 --> 00:09:22.740 So Jesus was trying to teach us about what works 00:09:22.740 --> 00:09:27.480 we're expected to do. We're expected to do things 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:31.860 out of service. And to do things, Jesus said, 00:09:31.899 --> 00:09:35.740 love your enemies. Do good to them that hate 00:09:35.740 --> 00:09:39.600 you. Be kind to those that despitefully use you 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:44.019 and abuse you. He's trying to teach kingdom living, 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:47.779 the kingdom of God, the way it is in heaven. 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:50.899 That's how we're supposed to be doing it on earth. 00:09:51.220 --> 00:09:54.720 But Jesus had this relationship with his father 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.279 where he said, I can't do anything by myself. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.059 I only do what I see the father doing. Let's 00:10:01.059 --> 00:10:04.210 look at John 5. So this is the story of the man 00:10:04.210 --> 00:10:07.789 by the pool of Bethesda that Jesus healed on 00:10:07.789 --> 00:10:10.370 the Sabbath day. This is the story where, you 00:10:10.370 --> 00:10:12.929 know, these people are gathered around the pool 00:10:12.929 --> 00:10:15.789 and they're waiting for the waters to be stirred. 00:10:15.990 --> 00:10:19.789 And the first one who gets in gets healed. Yeah. 00:10:19.990 --> 00:10:22.190 At least that was the legend. That was the legend. 00:10:22.289 --> 00:10:24.629 Yeah. It could be that it was happening, but 00:10:24.629 --> 00:10:27.009 there's lots of opinions about what that is. 00:10:28.220 --> 00:10:30.299 That's not what we're doing here. Yeah, that's 00:10:30.299 --> 00:10:33.139 not the purpose of this discussion. But in verse 00:10:33.139 --> 00:10:37.399 19 of John 5, do you want to read that, Philip? 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.179 So Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to 00:10:41.179 --> 00:10:44.279 you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, 00:10:44.500 --> 00:10:48.059 but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever 00:10:48.059 --> 00:10:50.799 the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.399 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.919 that he himself is doing. And greater works than 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.539 these will he show him so that you may marvel. 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.980 Truly, truly, I say unto you, the hour is coming 00:11:03.980 --> 00:11:07.259 and is now here when the dead will hear the voice 00:11:07.259 --> 00:11:10.360 of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:14.539 For as the Father has life in himself, so he 00:11:14.539 --> 00:11:17.220 has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:20.919 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:25.059 because he is the Son of Man. I can do nothing 00:11:25.059 --> 00:11:28.960 on my own. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.000 is just, because I seek not my own will, but 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.799 the will of him who sent me. So if Jesus was 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:40.980 seeking the will of him who sent him, that is 00:11:40.980 --> 00:11:45.960 a clue for us. What can I do? I can seek what 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:49.250 is the will of the Father. Why did Father put 00:11:49.250 --> 00:11:52.049 us here on this planet? Every single one of us 00:11:52.049 --> 00:11:55.490 has a purpose. Every single one of us has unique 00:11:55.490 --> 00:11:59.690 giftings. Every one of us thinks a little differently 00:11:59.690 --> 00:12:02.330 than others. Every one of us speaks a little 00:12:02.330 --> 00:12:04.529 differently. We use different words. We're not 00:12:04.529 --> 00:12:06.529 going to say things exactly the same because 00:12:06.529 --> 00:12:09.970 we don't think exactly the same. We don't see 00:12:09.970 --> 00:12:15.850 things exactly the same. For instance, I'm just 00:12:15.850 --> 00:12:21.460 going back. Oh, 44 years or so. Uh -oh. When 00:12:21.460 --> 00:12:25.840 we went on our extended honeymoon trip to Israel, 00:12:26.019 --> 00:12:30.379 okay, this wasn't my first trip to Israel. I 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:32.980 had been going a few years already, but this 00:12:32.980 --> 00:12:38.539 was Philip's first trip. Oh, boy, I think I know 00:12:38.539 --> 00:12:43.620 what's coming. I'm busy looking at all this biblical 00:12:43.620 --> 00:12:46.549 stuff, and I'm looking at... and listening to 00:12:46.549 --> 00:12:49.570 the guide, and he's talking about archaeology, 00:12:49.610 --> 00:12:51.450 and he's talking about the Bible, and he's talking 00:12:51.450 --> 00:12:55.169 about, and Philip is saying, wow, look at that 00:12:55.169 --> 00:13:00.190 car. Remember what kind of cars they were? It 00:13:00.190 --> 00:13:05.029 was older. Older American cars, GMs, Fords. Yeah, 00:13:05.049 --> 00:13:07.129 you won't even see those now. No, not now. But 00:13:07.129 --> 00:13:09.710 44 years ago, they were there. Yeah. And I was 00:13:09.710 --> 00:13:13.049 like. What's the matter, you? No, I wasn't quite 00:13:13.049 --> 00:13:16.690 like that. But I was like, is that what you're 00:13:16.690 --> 00:13:20.129 seeing? My point is, we see things differently. 00:13:20.590 --> 00:13:24.149 And I was immature at this point. I hardly had 00:13:24.149 --> 00:13:26.590 been saved for how long? Yeah, just months. Not 00:13:26.590 --> 00:13:30.190 a real, real long time. Yeah, yeah. To be fair, 00:13:30.330 --> 00:13:33.970 to be fair. It takes a while to get your focus 00:13:33.970 --> 00:13:36.649 on things right. But those were the things that 00:13:36.649 --> 00:13:38.529 were impressing you in the moment. That's all 00:13:38.529 --> 00:13:41.269 I'm saying. I'm not down on you for that. But 00:13:41.269 --> 00:13:45.289 my point is, we see things differently because 00:13:45.289 --> 00:13:49.129 of where we are in our walk. You were early in 00:13:49.129 --> 00:13:52.629 your walk at that point. But the idea here is 00:13:52.629 --> 00:13:57.669 that as we grow and become more mature, more... 00:13:58.220 --> 00:14:01.480 inclined to be communicating with our Father, 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:06.179 we're going to get more out of what He has for 00:14:06.179 --> 00:14:10.259 us. It's like, think about your destiny. You 00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:13.980 know, we hear a lot about destiny. But destiny 00:14:13.980 --> 00:14:18.320 is not a destination. Because a destination is 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:24.039 like an end point. It's the end of a trip. But 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:28.309 we're designed for eternity. Our destiny goes 00:14:28.309 --> 00:14:33.230 beyond, you know, beyond the grave. It goes beyond, 00:14:33.389 --> 00:14:35.950 what is it, three score years and 10 or four 00:14:35.950 --> 00:14:38.629 score years or 90 years or 120 years, however 00:14:38.629 --> 00:14:43.370 long you live. Your destiny is eternal. And the 00:14:43.370 --> 00:14:46.889 things that you learn in your walk on the planet 00:14:46.889 --> 00:14:51.789 here are significant. in your relationship with 00:14:51.789 --> 00:14:55.870 Father. So we're not trying to rearrange the 00:14:55.870 --> 00:14:59.570 garage when he asks us to sweep it. You know, 00:14:59.610 --> 00:15:04.230 your first trip to Israel was an introduction. 00:15:05.350 --> 00:15:07.809 My first trip to Israel was an introduction. 00:15:07.970 --> 00:15:10.789 You know, you weren't with me when I was on my 00:15:10.789 --> 00:15:13.610 first trip, but I was gawking at things too. 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:16.799 And, you know, I heard the word diaspora and 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.519 I had no idea what that meant. What do you mean 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.259 diaspora? I've never heard that word. And, you 00:15:23.259 --> 00:15:24.960 know, for those of you who don't know what that 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.980 word is, it means dispersion. It's where people 00:15:27.980 --> 00:15:31.200 have been dispersed around the world. So the 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.059 Jews had been dispersed and I'd never heard that 00:15:34.059 --> 00:15:37.419 before. I learned so much. You just continue 00:15:37.419 --> 00:15:39.570 to learn. You don't quit learning. You never 00:15:39.570 --> 00:15:42.690 stop learning. Yeah. If you stop learning, you 00:15:42.690 --> 00:15:46.269 start going into not good things in your brain. 00:15:47.509 --> 00:15:50.970 You know, you start becoming a couch potato or, 00:15:51.029 --> 00:15:54.529 you know, you can even go into dementia if you 00:15:54.529 --> 00:15:56.730 stop learning. You got to keep your mind sharp. 00:15:57.049 --> 00:15:58.409 Keep your brain active. Keep your brain active. 00:15:58.570 --> 00:16:04.649 So Jesus said that he doesn't do anything. except 00:16:04.649 --> 00:16:07.950 what he sees the Father doing. And so I'm under 00:16:07.950 --> 00:16:10.889 the impression that when he got up while it was 00:16:10.889 --> 00:16:14.029 yet dark, he was getting a download from his 00:16:14.029 --> 00:16:17.450 father and seeing what was coming for the day. 00:16:17.490 --> 00:16:20.649 For the day, yeah. And when we spend time with 00:16:20.649 --> 00:16:24.230 the Lord in the morning, we're taking an opportunity 00:16:24.230 --> 00:16:28.830 to learn something and get something in relationship 00:16:28.830 --> 00:16:34.100 with him, in being. And out of the being, out 00:16:34.100 --> 00:16:37.899 of those works, I love this, we are his workmanship, 00:16:38.059 --> 00:16:42.740 created in Christ Jesus, created in the Anointed 00:16:42.740 --> 00:16:47.960 One, our Savior, for good works, unto good works. 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.139 When you think of that word workmanship, you 00:16:51.139 --> 00:16:54.759 think like how something is built, like a car, 00:16:54.940 --> 00:16:59.720 how complex, like computers. How complex things 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.659 are. Yeah. Humans, how complex we are. Oh, yes. 00:17:03.740 --> 00:17:06.019 How complex. It's a good thing we only have 10 00:17:06.019 --> 00:17:08.799 % of our brain in use. You know, what would have 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.700 happened if we had the other 90 after the fall? 00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:15.839 Right. Yeah. So we're created for good works, 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:20.039 unto good works. But it's not the works that 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:23.420 define us. It's the relationship that defines 00:17:23.420 --> 00:17:29.839 us. So Jesus went on in John 15. talking about 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:33.740 being the true vine and we're the branches. Do 00:17:33.740 --> 00:17:35.960 you want to read that? John 15, 1 through 17. 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.019 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 00:17:40.740 --> 00:17:43.220 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:46.279 he takes away, and every branch that does bear 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.740 fruit, he prunes. Can I just interject something 00:17:48.740 --> 00:17:52.140 here? Remember when Marilyn Hargis taught us 00:17:52.140 --> 00:17:55.660 on the vine? The vine, uh -huh. She and her co 00:17:55.660 --> 00:18:00.700 -worker, Judith Moore. went to a vineyard and 00:18:00.700 --> 00:18:04.259 watched this whole process so that she could 00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:08.559 teach from John 15 to really understand. And 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.559 this first thing about every branch in me that 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:15.079 does not bear fruit, he takes away, in the Greek, 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.680 it really means he lifts it up. And in this real 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.119 vineyard that they went to. Sometimes they just 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.099 have to lift it up and attach it to something 00:18:24.099 --> 00:18:27.000 in order to help it to bear fruit. It's already 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.460 talking about pruning in another place. So lifting 00:18:30.460 --> 00:18:34.180 it up can help it to bear fruit. So I just thought 00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:38.140 I'd throw that in. Don't expect that everything 00:18:38.140 --> 00:18:40.460 in your life is going to get cut away. There 00:18:40.460 --> 00:18:43.079 is a pruning process, and it's good. It's good 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.940 for us. Verse 3. Already you are clean because 00:18:46.940 --> 00:19:12.430 of the word that I have spoken to you. That's 00:19:12.430 --> 00:19:15.349 the word. Nothing. Without me, you can do nothing. 00:19:16.299 --> 00:19:19.539 If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown 00:19:19.539 --> 00:19:22.339 away like a branch and withers, and the branches 00:19:22.339 --> 00:19:24.980 are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 00:19:25.779 --> 00:19:28.599 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:31.660 ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for 00:19:31.660 --> 00:19:35.440 you. By this my Father is glorified, that you 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:38.599 bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.519 See, there's the works. There's the works. Bearing 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:43.740 fruit. Bearing fruit. Yeah, that's the works. 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:47.450 Go ahead. As the Father has loved me, so have 00:19:47.450 --> 00:19:51.750 I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my 00:19:51.750 --> 00:19:54.950 commandments, you will abide in my love, just 00:19:54.950 --> 00:19:57.210 as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide 00:19:57.210 --> 00:20:01.109 in his love. These things I have spoken to you, 00:20:01.250 --> 00:20:04.890 that my joy may be in you, and that your joy 00:20:04.890 --> 00:20:09.490 may be full. Amen. In the Message Bible, it says, 00:20:09.710 --> 00:20:12.410 live in me. Instead of abide, it says, live in 00:20:12.410 --> 00:20:15.640 me. That kind of gives a better description of 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:19.099 that. Yes, absolutely. This is my commandment 00:20:19.099 --> 00:20:21.279 that you love one another as I have loved you. 00:20:21.500 --> 00:20:24.599 That's big. Greater love has no one than this, 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.880 that someone lay down his life for his friends. 00:20:28.619 --> 00:20:31.240 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.880 There's the works. No longer do I call you servants, 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:37.140 for the servant does not know what his master 00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:40.400 is doing. But I have called you friends, for 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:42.819 all that I have heard from my Father I made known 00:20:42.819 --> 00:20:46.700 to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you 00:20:46.700 --> 00:20:49.440 and appointed you that you should go and bear 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:52.400 fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.480 whatsoever you ask the Father in my name, he 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:58.480 may give it to you. These things I command you, 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:02.400 so that you will love one another. So loving 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:08.420 one another is really the works of God. Because 00:21:08.420 --> 00:21:11.980 he is love. And greater love has no man than 00:21:11.980 --> 00:21:13.980 this, than that he lay down his life for his 00:21:13.980 --> 00:21:17.660 friends. Which Jesus did for us. Exactly. God 00:21:17.660 --> 00:21:21.779 so loved the world that he gave his only begotten 00:21:21.779 --> 00:21:24.700 son, that whosoever believes in him should not 00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:29.519 perish, but have everlasting life. So this abiding 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:32.900 and abiding in his love and living, I like what 00:21:32.900 --> 00:21:37.170 you brought about that, living in his love. living 00:21:37.170 --> 00:21:43.890 in his presence. His presence is love. When we 00:21:43.890 --> 00:21:50.809 work from that standpoint, when he says, sweep 00:21:50.809 --> 00:21:55.470 the garage, that we just sweep the garage. And 00:21:55.470 --> 00:21:58.130 that obedience is what he's looking for, that 00:21:58.130 --> 00:22:01.690 he gives us things to do. There are works that 00:22:01.690 --> 00:22:06.980 we do, but some of it is going to be The Bible 00:22:06.980 --> 00:22:11.299 says do this. So we should do these things because 00:22:11.299 --> 00:22:14.839 that's what the word of God says. And we rightly 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.019 divide the word of truth. Let the Bible interpret 00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:22.480 the Bible. Let the scriptures explain to us what 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:24.559 the scriptures mean. Don't just pick out one 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:29.329 verse and say, oh, this verse means this. It's 00:22:29.329 --> 00:22:32.829 out of context or outside of the way that God 00:22:32.829 --> 00:22:37.509 works. We learn his ways by walking with him. 00:22:37.670 --> 00:22:41.009 We learn his ways by learning his word, by learning 00:22:41.009 --> 00:22:45.289 history of how he operates. Not that he does 00:22:45.289 --> 00:22:48.289 the same thing twice. Lots of times, you know, 00:22:48.289 --> 00:22:52.349 he brings fresh new miracles all the time out 00:22:52.349 --> 00:22:57.109 of his love, out of his love for us. Learning 00:22:57.109 --> 00:22:59.789 to walk with him in love, it's about learning 00:22:59.789 --> 00:23:02.890 that walk of the Spirit so that we don't do things 00:23:02.890 --> 00:23:09.170 in the flesh. That the works that we do come 00:23:09.170 --> 00:23:13.529 out of our relationship. So I love what 1 Corinthians 00:23:13.529 --> 00:23:16.920 3 says about... us being God's fellow workers. 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:22.799 Paul is talking in context here about the contentions 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.500 that are going on in the church in Corinth. Which 00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:28.119 is what most of the letters to the churches were. 00:23:28.539 --> 00:23:31.839 Yeah, yeah. He's dealing with, you know, some 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.700 people are saying, well, I'm of Apollos, and 00:23:33.700 --> 00:23:36.380 others are saying, well, I'm of Paul. And, you 00:23:36.380 --> 00:23:39.460 know, so there's divisions. And again, we're 00:23:39.460 --> 00:23:43.710 talking about people who are young in their faith. 00:23:44.109 --> 00:23:46.529 They're young in their walk. They're immature. 00:23:47.450 --> 00:23:50.049 And Paul says, I'm feeding you milk when you 00:23:50.049 --> 00:23:54.529 should be ready for some meat. Like a baby, you 00:23:54.529 --> 00:23:58.130 don't give a newborn baby meat. You just don't. 00:23:58.529 --> 00:24:03.210 Milk is for babies. So Paul is saying, I want 00:24:03.210 --> 00:24:06.250 you to grow up. Let's grow up here. Let's get 00:24:06.250 --> 00:24:09.009 rid of this contention. One is planting, so verse 00:24:09.009 --> 00:24:13.089 6 says, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave 00:24:13.089 --> 00:24:15.730 the growth. So in other words, we're working 00:24:15.730 --> 00:24:20.589 together with God. Take it from verse 7. So neither 00:24:20.589 --> 00:24:23.529 he who plants nor he who waters is anything, 00:24:23.750 --> 00:24:27.910 but only God who gives the growth. Amen. He who 00:24:27.910 --> 00:24:31.009 plants and he who waters are one, and each will 00:24:31.009 --> 00:24:34.509 receive his wages according to his labor. For 00:24:34.509 --> 00:24:37.470 we are God's fellow workers. Amen. You are God's 00:24:37.470 --> 00:24:40.710 field, God's building. According to the grace 00:24:40.710 --> 00:24:43.849 of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, 00:24:44.309 --> 00:24:47.049 I laid a foundation and someone else is building 00:24:47.049 --> 00:24:50.690 upon it. Let each one take care of how he builds 00:24:50.690 --> 00:24:53.529 upon it. Okay, so that's you and that's me and 00:24:53.529 --> 00:24:55.269 that's everybody that's listening. Every one 00:24:55.269 --> 00:24:58.470 of us needs to take care how we build on this 00:24:58.470 --> 00:25:01.829 foundation. Go on. According to the grace of 00:25:01.829 --> 00:25:04.619 God given to me, Like a skilled master builder, 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:07.319 I laid a foundation and someone else is building 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.279 upon it. Let each one take care how he builds 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:13.380 upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other 00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:15.859 than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:19.539 Okay, Jesus is the foundation. Cornerstone. If 00:25:19.539 --> 00:25:22.920 we make him our cornerstone. Absolutely. Now, 00:25:22.940 --> 00:25:25.380 if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, 00:25:25.539 --> 00:25:29.920 silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:32.950 one's work will become manifest. for the day 00:25:32.950 --> 00:25:35.210 will disclose it because it will be revealed 00:25:35.210 --> 00:25:38.609 by fire, and the fire will test what sort of 00:25:38.609 --> 00:25:42.009 work each one has done. If the work that anyone 00:25:42.009 --> 00:25:45.250 has built on the foundation survives, he will 00:25:45.250 --> 00:25:48.410 receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned 00:25:48.410 --> 00:25:52.089 up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will 00:25:52.089 --> 00:25:56.210 be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not 00:25:56.210 --> 00:25:58.369 know that you are God's temple and that God's 00:25:58.369 --> 00:26:01.920 Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's 00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:05.319 temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple 00:26:05.319 --> 00:26:08.819 is holy, and you are that temple. Oh, you are 00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:12.039 that temple. Okay, so there's another picture 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:18.259 of the relationship. You are the temple of God. 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:22.039 Yeah, and you had the tabernacle in the wilderness, 00:26:22.380 --> 00:26:26.019 Moses' tabernacle. And David had it, and he put 00:26:26.019 --> 00:26:28.940 it out where people can see it, which was amazing. 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.539 David's tabernacle. And then you had the temple. 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:35.720 And when you read in the book of Revelation, 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.960 you will find the temple. The temple of God was 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:42.680 opened in heaven. So it's on earth as it is in 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:46.740 heaven. That was a pattern given Moses. And when 00:26:46.740 --> 00:26:48.740 you read those scriptures about the temple in 00:26:48.740 --> 00:26:53.480 heaven, it's just like, oh, wow. There's some 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.900 incredible stuff being released. So the temple 00:26:56.900 --> 00:27:00.920 on earth was kind of like, Not the replica, but 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:04.819 it was the representation of God's glory on earth 00:27:04.819 --> 00:27:08.400 as it was in heaven. Yes. But things kind of 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.279 went sour. Well, they did. But God gave instructions 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:14.819 to do it in a way that would be on earth as it 00:27:14.819 --> 00:27:18.700 is in heaven. And I'm excited to learn more about. 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:21.720 what Dean saw when we were in Israel with him. 00:27:21.819 --> 00:27:23.720 Yeah, he's going to tell us some more. He's going 00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:26.279 to tell us more. In a little bit here. Yes. A 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:29.339 few more episodes coming. Yes. So stay tuned, 00:27:29.380 --> 00:27:32.339 everybody. But, you know, back to this idea of 00:27:32.339 --> 00:27:35.019 we are God's workmanship. We are his temple. 00:27:35.819 --> 00:27:39.740 Jesus is the foundation. So he's the foundation 00:27:39.740 --> 00:27:44.599 of the temple. And it's up to us what we... build 00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:47.960 with? So are we, I'm reminded of the three little 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.480 pigs story, you know, where you have the one 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.819 little pig that built his house out of straw, 00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:56.000 another one out of his sticks, and the other 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.420 one out of bricks. What are you going to build 00:27:58.420 --> 00:28:02.160 with? What's going to be enduring? Bricks are 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.640 going to endure. And when the big bad wolf comes, 00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:07.440 I'm going to huff and puff and blow your house 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:11.660 down. Exactly. Exactly. So what are we building 00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:15.680 with? Because on the day of judgment, our works 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.180 are going to be tried. And our works are what 00:28:19.180 --> 00:28:22.759 we built with. So if we built with something 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.819 of our own making, if we built with something 00:28:26.819 --> 00:28:30.200 that was, you know, rearranging the garage instead 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:34.180 of just sweeping it, you know, that's going to 00:28:34.180 --> 00:28:36.980 burn up. I remember the visions that, I think 00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:40.960 it was Anna Roundtree had, and she was in heaven. 00:28:41.849 --> 00:28:44.970 And she was talking to this little... A being. 00:28:45.170 --> 00:28:47.869 It was a being. Yeah, looked like a child. It 00:28:47.869 --> 00:28:49.509 looked like a child, but she could tell it was 00:28:49.509 --> 00:28:53.910 old. It was an ancient being. And it's talking 00:28:53.910 --> 00:28:57.279 to... And the little being, you know, talks about 00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:59.859 people, you know, many people make sandcastles. 00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:02.559 You know, we just let them make sandcastles. 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.980 Yes. You know, and she said, I had the taste 00:29:04.980 --> 00:29:09.039 of a copper penny in my mouth, you know. Yes, 00:29:09.099 --> 00:29:11.339 I think that that being's name was called Crystal 00:29:11.339 --> 00:29:15.099 Clear. Crystal Clear. Yeah, Crystal Clear. And 00:29:15.099 --> 00:29:19.460 she was, yeah. And really, Crystal Clear was 00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:22.500 pointing out to Anna that she had been building 00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:26.210 with sand. Yeah. You know, and many times we 00:29:26.210 --> 00:29:29.430 don't know until we have an experience that something 00:29:29.430 --> 00:29:33.069 we're doing wasn't right. I mean, how many, you 00:29:33.069 --> 00:29:35.390 know, we know numerous ones that have had visits 00:29:35.390 --> 00:29:38.230 to heaven, but a lot of times things were correction. 00:29:38.890 --> 00:29:41.890 You know, you're not doing this right. It was 00:29:41.890 --> 00:29:45.549 Howard Pittman. He was a Baptist minister doing 00:29:45.549 --> 00:29:49.089 all the right things. He took in people. Yeah, 00:29:49.170 --> 00:29:51.470 standing on street corners, handing out tracts. 00:29:51.470 --> 00:29:53.539 Handing out tracts and that. And when he got 00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:56.299 to heaven, Jesus wouldn't let him in the gate. 00:29:56.579 --> 00:29:59.259 He had a massive heart attack and died instantly. 00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:02.000 He says, everything you did was for yourself. 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:05.019 It wasn't for me. I'm giving you another chance 00:30:05.019 --> 00:30:09.880 to go back. Oh, wow. See, many never have a second 00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:13.460 chance. Very true. Very true. And if he had been 00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:17.279 allowed to go in, his works would have been burnt 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:20.400 up. So he would have been saved, yet so as by 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:23.819 fire, as the scripture says, but he would have 00:30:23.819 --> 00:30:26.680 had no reward. One of our teachers, that was 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.180 June Lewis, always taught with illustrations. 00:30:29.460 --> 00:30:31.420 Yes, she was an artist. And she had this picture 00:30:31.420 --> 00:30:35.319 of this man before the throne, and with an angel 00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:37.819 with a bolt, and had all his works, and all his 00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:40.980 works burnt up. Yep. They were all on fire because 00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:44.400 they, that was for him. What are we doing? What 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:49.849 can I do? And it's real easy to get busy doing 00:30:49.849 --> 00:30:53.890 the work of the ministry, doing the business 00:30:53.890 --> 00:30:57.890 of the ministry. I remember a story Jeff Johns 00:30:57.890 --> 00:31:01.529 told once. A young lady came up and says, can 00:31:01.529 --> 00:31:04.369 I sing? It was a solo or something like that. 00:31:04.410 --> 00:31:07.349 He says, well, first, and he had her cleaning 00:31:07.349 --> 00:31:10.970 toilets, had her sweeping, having to do all these 00:31:10.970 --> 00:31:13.950 things, teaching her to be a servant. Right. 00:31:14.380 --> 00:31:18.700 And after she had learned obedience in many ways 00:31:18.700 --> 00:31:22.059 and different things, he let her sing. And it 00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:25.799 was so anointed. Yes. Yeah. It has to do with 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:28.460 getting our attitude right. Yeah. And a similar 00:31:28.460 --> 00:31:31.539 story I'm reminded of is one that Walter Buechler 00:31:31.539 --> 00:31:33.859 told. And Walter Buechler was a man who really 00:31:33.859 --> 00:31:37.180 walked with God and really practiced the presence 00:31:37.180 --> 00:31:41.579 of God. He taught in a Bible school in Pennsylvania 00:31:41.579 --> 00:31:46.400 at Camp Hill. There was a young woman, one of 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:50.759 the students, that had a beautiful voice, and 00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:56.019 she would sing for their chapel time. And the 00:31:56.019 --> 00:32:01.880 Lord told him to tell her that her voice, I don't 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:03.619 remember the exact words, but it was something 00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:06.519 along the lines of, your voice is obnoxious to 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:11.720 me. Sit down. Oh, my. And she was horribly embarrassed. 00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:15.009 He didn't want to tell her. I mean, who would 00:32:15.009 --> 00:32:17.150 want to give that kind of a message from God 00:32:17.150 --> 00:32:20.589 to anybody? But he obeyed God and he told her 00:32:20.589 --> 00:32:24.849 and she wept and she cried and she sat down. 00:32:24.970 --> 00:32:27.650 And I don't think he rebuked her publicly. I 00:32:27.650 --> 00:32:31.329 think he gave her the word privately. So she 00:32:31.329 --> 00:32:34.369 didn't sing for, I don't know if it was weeks 00:32:34.369 --> 00:32:38.309 or months. And then the Lord told him to tell 00:32:38.309 --> 00:32:41.700 her it was time for her to sing again. And she 00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:44.160 had been humbled in that time because she realized 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.960 that the reason why she was singing was out of 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:50.180 her own pride. And that she thought her voice 00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:54.000 was so beautiful to God and to everyone else 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.720 that there was a pride issue. And so she sat 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.259 down humbly for that time and really humbled 00:33:02.259 --> 00:33:05.720 herself before God. When he did tell her to sing 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.619 again, she said, I was afraid I would never sing 00:33:08.619 --> 00:33:12.039 again. Remember, your brother laid down his violin 00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:14.640 for a season. Yeah, that was The Eye of the Needle, 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.380 the prophetic parable by Charlotte Baker. Yes, 00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:20.460 and I think we did a whole podcast on that, so 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:24.380 we'll include the link to that. Because even 00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:27.299 at convention, I would help on the sound table, 00:33:27.380 --> 00:33:31.460 and there would be this stack of... Of soundtracks. 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:34.500 Oh, yeah. If Sister Gwen asked me to sing, you 00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:37.599 know, we got all these stack of cassettes and 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:42.160 CDs, you know. I'm prepared to sing. I'm ready 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.640 to sing, yeah. It's always good to be prepared. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:48.740 Yes. But how did the Lord deal with you? Oh, 00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:52.619 wow. Yeah, I had a stack of soundtracks, you 00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:55.660 know. And I'd ask Sister Gwen because we were 00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:58.670 her road crew. Right. We traveled with her. And 00:33:58.670 --> 00:34:01.049 I'd say, do you want me to sing anything tonight, 00:34:01.230 --> 00:34:03.910 you know? And she would always, you know, have 00:34:03.910 --> 00:34:06.390 something. There would be something, you know, 00:34:06.390 --> 00:34:08.510 she's preaching on. I could, you know, do a song 00:34:08.510 --> 00:34:11.230 or something. Yeah. And often she did ask you 00:34:11.230 --> 00:34:13.349 to do things. Yeah, she did. But there came a 00:34:13.349 --> 00:34:16.090 time. When there came a time when things just 00:34:16.090 --> 00:34:18.889 started going wrong. Oh, yeah, I remember. I 00:34:18.889 --> 00:34:21.389 mean, all of a sudden the soundtrack wasn't, 00:34:21.389 --> 00:34:24.329 you know, it would do something. Or the monitors 00:34:24.329 --> 00:34:27.960 didn't work. Or maybe the microphone. It was 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:32.340 constant. So I got to realize, and I thought 00:34:32.340 --> 00:34:35.559 of this eye of the needle thing. I went back 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.780 to that, and I thought, you know, self -examination 00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:41.320 is what it was. When a thing like that happens, 00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:45.599 what's the purpose for this? So I wouldn't ask 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:49.440 her anymore, only if she asked me to sing. And 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:51.500 then we went through it, and I said, Lord, take 00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:55.840 the desire out to lead worship. Because as a 00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:00.199 worship leader, you want to get on a stage. And 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:03.860 there can be a lot of pride in that. You see 00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:07.019 that all the time. There's something about getting 00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:10.340 on the stage in somebody's convention or something. 00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:15.980 And if your attitude's not right. And so we went 00:35:15.980 --> 00:35:19.929 through a season of time. And I felt like we're 00:35:19.929 --> 00:35:21.889 coming out of this. And then we're on our way 00:35:21.889 --> 00:35:25.230 to Israel. And it was Sadhu Salvage invited us 00:35:25.230 --> 00:35:28.429 to be one of the worship teams on his first conference 00:35:28.429 --> 00:35:32.570 on the Mount of Olives. I thought, that's tremendous. 00:35:32.730 --> 00:35:35.730 We're coming out full barrel. Thank you, Jesus. 00:35:36.030 --> 00:35:39.389 And we're on our way to New York, the long way, 00:35:39.469 --> 00:35:42.190 have meetings driving along the way. And that's 00:35:42.190 --> 00:35:46.360 when we had our big wreck, which messed. My hands 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:51.599 up, my arms messed a lot of things up. And when 00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:53.960 we got home after five weeks, it took about five 00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.420 weeks before I was able to fly. I told everybody, 00:35:57.619 --> 00:36:00.739 you know, the eye of the needle has a long tunnel. 00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:06.659 Sometimes when you think you're at the end of 00:36:06.659 --> 00:36:10.559 something, there can be a final testing that 00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.650 will really... You know, it's like almost the 00:36:13.650 --> 00:36:15.909 dark night of the soul. Oh, it was. It really 00:36:15.909 --> 00:36:18.110 was for us. It absolutely was. We never dreamed 00:36:18.110 --> 00:36:20.510 that could ever happen to us. God, how could 00:36:20.510 --> 00:36:23.989 you let this happen? You know. Right. But it 00:36:23.989 --> 00:36:27.389 happened. Yeah. And there were things that God 00:36:27.389 --> 00:36:30.150 was dealing with. Yeah. You know, in my life, 00:36:30.170 --> 00:36:34.130 I know. And so. Sometimes we think, Lord, isn't 00:36:34.130 --> 00:36:35.849 there an easier way this could have happened? 00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:39.570 But wouldn't, isn't it better that we go through 00:36:39.570 --> 00:36:44.710 the fire now? on this side rather than having 00:36:44.710 --> 00:36:46.769 all of our works burned up on the other side 00:36:46.769 --> 00:36:50.150 the scripture what is the profit a man if he 00:36:50.150 --> 00:36:52.590 gains the world or whatever he does in the world 00:36:52.590 --> 00:36:57.570 and loses his own soul yeah yeah you know even 00:36:57.570 --> 00:37:01.150 a particular worship leader in a church we went 00:37:01.150 --> 00:37:04.469 to he was asked to leave and we kind of wondered 00:37:04.469 --> 00:37:07.789 i wonder what happened you know and and some 00:37:07.789 --> 00:37:11.079 years later He got into an accident, and it turns 00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:15.159 out he had a mistress. He was into all kinds 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:18.039 of wrong things, and he ended up in a bad car 00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:21.659 crash, and he ended up going to jail. But on 00:37:21.659 --> 00:37:24.739 the surface, he looked so anointed, but sometimes 00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:27.980 you could just kind of tell things that, you 00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:31.239 know, okay, because eventually things will come 00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:33.980 out. Remember the old saying, you can fool some 00:37:33.980 --> 00:37:35.920 of the people all the time, but you can't fool 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.000 all the people. You know, how does that work? 00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:41.360 You can fool some of the people all the time. 00:37:41.420 --> 00:37:44.079 But you can't fool all the people. All the time, 00:37:44.219 --> 00:37:47.320 yeah. Some of the people, some of the time. Yeah. 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:50.039 And all the people, some of the time. Well, you 00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:52.719 get the idea anyway. Eventually, it's going to 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:55.400 catch you. Yes. You know, like the con man gets 00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.940 caught usually eventually. Yes. And ultimately, 00:37:59.219 --> 00:38:02.599 God is going to see to it that judgment happens. 00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:07.090 So if you're a con man in ministry. Ooh. I've 00:38:07.090 --> 00:38:09.429 never thought of that before. Oh, and there are 00:38:09.429 --> 00:38:11.050 some. And there's a lot of them. Yes. Have you 00:38:11.050 --> 00:38:13.869 ever heard that before? The con man in ministry? 00:38:14.389 --> 00:38:19.630 Yeah. Wow. And God deals with them. Yeah. God 00:38:19.630 --> 00:38:22.409 has the final say. Even though things start out 00:38:22.409 --> 00:38:25.630 right. Or maybe they look right. Look right. 00:38:26.309 --> 00:38:30.369 But ultimately, God is looking for us to walk 00:38:30.369 --> 00:38:33.409 in relationship with him. Yeah. And I love the 00:38:33.409 --> 00:38:37.780 fact that he... is the one that initiates the 00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:41.420 stuff and he's busy helping us by his Holy Spirit 00:38:41.420 --> 00:38:45.039 to get into a place where we're walking with 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.619 him and doing stuff out of obedience and doing 00:38:49.619 --> 00:38:53.219 stuff out of love for him and just sweeping the 00:38:53.219 --> 00:38:55.400 garage when he says sweep the garage. Yeah, and 00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:58.340 the scriptures, humble thyself in the sight of 00:38:58.340 --> 00:39:01.940 the Lord and he will exalt thee. In due time. 00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:04.599 In Kairos time. That's right. I'm sure that would 00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:08.139 be more like a Kairos time. Yeah. Yeah. So I 00:39:08.139 --> 00:39:11.840 love the fact that it's really God that's busy 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:15.420 doing the whole thing. He's looking for us to 00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:19.960 work with him. Yeah. We are. God's fellow workers. 00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:23.980 We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus 00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:28.079 unto good works. And he has ordained that we 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:32.460 should walk in them. So walking with him is what 00:39:32.460 --> 00:39:36.619 makes it work. It makes the works work. Makes 00:39:36.619 --> 00:39:40.139 the works work. That's pretty good. So what I 00:39:40.139 --> 00:39:43.500 love also is that God, there's a few places in 00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:47.039 the scripture where God says the words by myself. 00:39:48.650 --> 00:39:51.449 So in the Old Testament, there are several places 00:39:51.449 --> 00:39:56.090 where it says, as the Lord lives or as Yehovah 00:39:56.090 --> 00:40:01.309 lives. And it's a statement of kind of like making 00:40:01.309 --> 00:40:05.650 a declaration about as truly as God lives, this 00:40:05.650 --> 00:40:09.469 is the truth. Okay, so God is in a few places, 00:40:09.489 --> 00:40:13.010 he's swearing by himself because there's nobody 00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:17.639 greater to swear by, right? And he says, as truly 00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.619 as I live, all the earth shall be filled with 00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:23.880 the glory of the Lord. As truly as I live. So 00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:28.820 he swears by himself. And in Genesis 22, verses 00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:32.619 15 through 18, just read that if you would. And 00:40:32.619 --> 00:40:35.139 the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second 00:40:35.139 --> 00:40:39.440 time from heaven and said, by myself I have sworn, 00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:42.420 declares the Lord, because you have done this 00:40:42.420 --> 00:40:45.380 and have not withheld your son. your only son, 00:40:45.420 --> 00:40:47.320 so this was Isaac when he was going to offer 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.500 him, I will surely bless you and I will surely 00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:53.099 multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven 00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:56.519 and as the sand that is on the seashore. And 00:40:56.519 --> 00:40:58.880 your offspring shall possess the gate of his 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:02.000 enemies. And in your offspring shall all the 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.840 nations of the earth be blessed because you have 00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.900 obeyed my voice. So he's swearing by himself. 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:11.639 So he's saying, as truly as I live, basically, 00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:16.590 I have sworn by myself. Because you did this. 00:41:16.809 --> 00:41:21.969 See, Abraham did a work. It was a work for him 00:41:21.969 --> 00:41:26.909 to obey God when God said, sacrifice your son. 00:41:27.469 --> 00:41:29.769 And the point of that, and we've talked about 00:41:29.769 --> 00:41:33.309 this before, but the point of that was that on 00:41:33.309 --> 00:41:37.349 earth as it is in heaven, Abraham sacrificed 00:41:37.349 --> 00:41:40.030 or was willing to sacrifice. It was as though 00:41:40.030 --> 00:41:44.139 he had done it. Before he did it. It was in his 00:41:44.139 --> 00:41:46.840 heart he had done it. He had sacrificed his son 00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:51.639 because God said to. And that was doing on earth 00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:55.119 as it is in heaven because our Father in heaven 00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:57.800 was going to sacrifice his son on the very same 00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:03.579 place. On Mount Moriah, right? So God was declaring. 00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:08.070 Because you did this. I'm going to do this. And 00:42:08.070 --> 00:42:11.010 I'm going to do it for sure because I'm swearing 00:42:11.010 --> 00:42:14.690 by myself. Nobody else. There's nobody else to 00:42:14.690 --> 00:42:19.010 swear by. And then in Isaiah 45, 22 and 23, he 00:42:19.010 --> 00:42:21.070 says, turn to me and be saved all the ends of 00:42:21.070 --> 00:42:24.230 the earth for I am God and there is no other 00:42:24.230 --> 00:42:28.230 by myself. I have sworn from my mouth has gone 00:42:28.230 --> 00:42:30.969 out in righteousness, a word that shall not return 00:42:30.969 --> 00:42:34.409 to me. Every knee shall bow. Every tongue shall 00:42:34.409 --> 00:42:36.510 swear allegiance or every tongue shall confess. 00:42:36.570 --> 00:42:39.769 Right. So see, there's things that he does by 00:42:39.769 --> 00:42:44.380 himself. He wants us to cooperate with him in 00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:48.780 the things that he does. We're working together 00:42:48.780 --> 00:42:52.380 with him. We are his fellow laborers, his fellow 00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:57.739 workers. In Isaiah 44, 23 to 28, he says, Sing, 00:42:57.739 --> 00:43:01.039 O heavens, for the Lord, Yehovah, has done it. 00:43:01.369 --> 00:43:04.730 Shout, O depths of the earth. Break forth into 00:43:04.730 --> 00:43:06.989 singing, O mountains, O forests, and every tree 00:43:06.989 --> 00:43:11.429 in it. For Yehovah the Lord has redeemed Jacob 00:43:11.429 --> 00:43:16.030 and will be glorified in Israel. Thus says Yehovah 00:43:16.030 --> 00:43:19.730 your Redeemer who formed you from the womb. I 00:43:19.730 --> 00:43:24.769 am Yehovah who made all things, who alone stretched 00:43:24.769 --> 00:43:27.769 out the heavens, who spread out the earth by 00:43:27.769 --> 00:43:32.199 myself. So he's the creator. He did it all by 00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.039 himself. But he's looking for us to be his fellow 00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:39.739 workers. Yeah. Isn't that beautiful? Wow. That 00:43:39.739 --> 00:43:44.659 is just amazing. Just amazing. So let's wrap 00:43:44.659 --> 00:43:50.960 this up by going to Psalm 46. Psalm 46 is one 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:54.840 of those places that just brings you so much 00:43:54.840 --> 00:44:00.019 comfort. I just love Psalm 46. So Psalm 46 from 00:44:00.019 --> 00:44:04.480 the Amplified Classic, God is our refuge and 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.579 strength, mighty and impenetrable to temptation, 00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:13.159 a very present and well -proved help in trouble. 00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:17.539 Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth 00:44:17.539 --> 00:44:20.679 should change, and though the mountains be shaken 00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:23.539 into the midst of the seas, though its waters 00:44:23.539 --> 00:44:26.980 roar and foam. Though the mountains tremble at 00:44:26.980 --> 00:44:31.000 its swelling and tumult, silah, pause and calmly 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:34.480 think of that. There's a river whose streams 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.280 shall make glad the city of God, the holy place 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.320 of the tabernacles of the Most High. Remember, 00:44:39.539 --> 00:44:44.519 we are his temple. So he's busy building his 00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:47.280 temple on earth the same way that it is in heaven. 00:44:48.099 --> 00:44:50.500 God is in the midst of her. God is in the midst 00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:55.809 of you. God is in the midst of me. is in the 00:44:55.809 --> 00:44:58.070 midst of us. God is in the midst of her. She 00:44:58.070 --> 00:45:01.570 shall not be moved. God will help her right early 00:45:01.570 --> 00:45:05.070 at the dawn of the morning. The nations raged. 00:45:05.090 --> 00:45:08.150 The kingdoms tottered and were moved. He uttered 00:45:08.150 --> 00:45:12.070 his voice. The earth melted. The Lord of hosts 00:45:12.070 --> 00:45:14.929 is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge, our 00:45:14.929 --> 00:45:18.829 fortress and high tower. Selah. Pause and think 00:45:18.829 --> 00:45:23.969 calmly of that. Come, behold the works of the 00:45:23.969 --> 00:45:27.280 Lord. He's done all these things by himself, 00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:32.139 and yet he wants to partner with us. Come behold 00:45:32.139 --> 00:45:35.079 the works of the Lord, who has wrought desolations 00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:38.679 and wonders in the earth. He makes wars to cease 00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:41.760 to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow into 00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:46.059 pieces and snaps the spear in two. He burns the 00:45:46.059 --> 00:45:50.860 chariots in the fire. Let be and be still. and 00:45:50.860 --> 00:45:55.079 know, recognize, and understand that I am God. 00:45:55.340 --> 00:45:58.559 I will be exalted among the nations. I will be 00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:02.639 exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with 00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:05.719 us. The God of Jacob is our refuge, our high 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:09.900 tower and stronghold. Selah. Pause and calmly 00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:16.659 think of that. Beautiful. How amazing that the 00:46:16.659 --> 00:46:20.980 one who has done it all wants to work with us, 00:46:21.179 --> 00:46:25.460 come behold the works of the Lord. He's working 00:46:25.460 --> 00:46:29.960 in us. He's working in us by His Spirit. We are 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:35.599 in Him, and He is in us. And when you have that 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:39.739 life going back and forth through our flesh, 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:45.380 He's designed us so that the life is in us and 00:46:45.380 --> 00:46:48.719 around us. His love, His life, His presence. 00:46:49.530 --> 00:46:53.269 It kind of like arcs through our flesh to bring 00:46:53.269 --> 00:46:56.389 us into subjection, to bring us into that place 00:46:56.389 --> 00:47:00.590 where we just sweep the garage. When he says 00:47:00.590 --> 00:47:04.690 sweep the garage. This is in verse 8, 9. Everyone 00:47:04.690 --> 00:47:08.090 look. This is the Passion Translation. Come and 00:47:08.090 --> 00:47:10.969 see the breathtaking wonders of our God. Yes. 00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:14.389 For he brings both ruin and revival. Oh, that's 00:47:14.389 --> 00:47:17.190 good. He's the one who makes conflicts end throughout 00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:20.130 the earth. Breaking and burning every weapon 00:47:20.130 --> 00:47:24.849 of war. He's going to do that completely. Yeah, 00:47:24.889 --> 00:47:28.809 there's great hope. When we look at everything 00:47:28.809 --> 00:47:33.750 accelerating around us, the agendas of things 00:47:33.750 --> 00:47:36.929 that are going on, it's just like, you know, 00:47:37.010 --> 00:47:39.510 this cannot be fixed in the natural. There's 00:47:39.510 --> 00:47:43.550 just no way. Only God can do this. And so when 00:47:43.550 --> 00:47:46.289 we look our eyes to him, that's where our hope 00:47:46.289 --> 00:47:49.789 lies. Right. Our hope lies in His promise to 00:47:49.789 --> 00:47:53.849 pour out His Spirit on all flesh. 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