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Happy Memorial Day. It's Memorial Day. But did

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you know it's also Pentecost? About six of you

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knew that. That's good. Pentecost Sunday. Welcome.

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Are we sounding okay? Okay. Yeah, Pentecost,

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we... are here to celebrate the outpouring of

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the Holy Spirit. And you have to, just a fair

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warning, okay? Just a fair warning. I was in

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India, well, last week or whatever, ten days

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ago or something. And we did four sessions. No,

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no, four days, two sessions a day. Four or five

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hours each time. Sunday service was 9 a .m. to

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3 p .m. So if you look back and it's like 12

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.05 and you feel that we're wrapping up, just

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know that the way maker is in the house and a

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miracle has happened. And with Jesse being gone,

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we can get a little leeway. But no, awesome to

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be here this morning. get the honor and opportunity

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to share the word on Pentecost Sunday. We, you

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know, it's Pentecost Sunday. Ironically, the

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Pentecostals on Pentecost Sunday were the ones

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outside of the upper room. Just a fun fact for

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you. Everyone celebrating Pentecost was outside

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the upper room. The only non -Pentecostals were

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the 120 in the upper room. You understand? So

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we don't celebrate Pentecost today. We celebrate

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the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And in my

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mind and humble opinion, I believe it's just

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as important as the resurrection. Just as important

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as celebrating the resurrection, right? We celebrate

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Easter or Resurrection Sunday. I believe Pentecost

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Sunday, where we celebrate the outpouring of

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the Holy Spirit, is just as important. Because

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without the Holy Spirit, We can't be born again.

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We can't know the power of the resurrection without

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the Holy Spirit, right? So, hallelujah. What

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a day to celebrate. What a thing to celebrate.

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And so it just so happens also that we're in

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our year of supernatural kingdom expansion. And

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so if you're visiting with us, this has kind

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of been our theme for the year. So today, we're

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going to marry the two. supernatural expansion,

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plus the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and by

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God's special grace, I believe we're just going

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to go on a journey through the Word this morning.

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And I believe we're here together. We're here

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in the presence of God. Our lives are going to

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be changed forever. I'm here for that reason.

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Amen? So, are you hungry for the Word? Amen?

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Let's do this. Put your hand on your heart. Close

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your eyes. And just pray with me as we get started.

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Father, I'm hungry for the Word. Father, restore

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my appetite for the Word. Come on, we're praying.

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You can say it with me. Father, remove everything

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from my system that doesn't have an appetite

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for Your Word. I'm hungry for your word. I receive

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your word today. I want the word, and I receive

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it with my heart. Amen. It's just a little spiritual

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check up there, right? Okay. Let's open the Bible

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up to the book of Genesis. Genesis chapter 8.

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A few years ago, I was in the great nation of

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Cuba. And one fine, hot, muggy morning, I was

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sitting in the church. We were there ministering

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in the church in Amancio, Cuba. And we've been

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together, a few of us. And it was before service.

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Now, they can't really build like big church

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structures like we can. They don't have that

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liberty. So I'm sitting there in this like lean

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-to that's built onto a house. So there's no

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walls. So you can just see out. You get a little

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breeze, but it's hot and humid under this thing.

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It's early one day. We're having like a day session.

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In Cuba. And so people are starting to come and

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I'm just sitting like sitting in the pew, sitting

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in the chair. And of course, you know, Cuba been

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under communism for so long and the people, you

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know, without goes without saying they're living

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in a level of oppression. Commodities and things

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are scarce. So I'm sitting there. And the Lord

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begins to speak to me and show me some things

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about the power of the church. and the importance

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of the church. And the fact that this church

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there in the midst of this impoverished culture

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and society was opening their doors to bring

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people in to worship God in this community. It's

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like in the middle of a neighborhood and people

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are just coming in to have church, have service,

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right? And we're worshiping, we're hearing the

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Word, and the Lord began to show me that If that

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church was not there, it would be like taking

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away these people's opportunity to experience

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what God had for them, in a sense. Because the

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divine institution that God has established on

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the earth to bring about His blessing and His

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glory is the church. And He began to show me

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this. in scripture from that time to this and

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i've just been working through this i've never

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shared this before but let's take a journey and

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look at these three things okay you're going

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to find this pattern it's very powerful number

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one is encounters so this local church right

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in the middle of this city in cuba opened their

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church up for people to encounter the living

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god Whether through the Word, whether through,

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you know, worship, whether through just a spontaneous

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moment with the Lord. So, encounters, altars,

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and anointings. These three things. Can you just

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say them with me? Encounters, altars, and anointings.

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One more time. Encounters, altars, and anointings.

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This divine structure, this divine system. And

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we're just taking off, okay? So just bear with

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me. The plane is just taxiing. We're just taking

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off. And we're going to see how this feeds into

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the depths of Pentecost, the depths of the outpouring

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of the Holy Spirit. And we're going to peer into

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the mind, the brilliant, genius mind of Almighty

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God as He set these things up in place. You ready?

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Look at Genesis chapter 8. Look at verse... Are

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we going to get Scriptures on screen? Genesis

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8. 15. Awesome. What translation you got? I didn't

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hear you. It's okay. 8 .15. Then God spoke to

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Noah, saying, Encounter. You see it? Right there.

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God spoke to Noah. Encounter. Make note of it.

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Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your

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sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring out

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with you every living thing of all flesh that

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is with you. birds and cattle and every creeping

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thing that creeps on the earth, so that they

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may abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply

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on the earth. Now take note of that language

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also. Blessing, fruit, multiply. Does that sound

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familiar? Isn't that the word that came to Adam?

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Okay. 19, every... So Noah went out and his sons

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and his wife's sons with him and every animal,

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every creepy thing, every bird and whatever creeps

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on the earth according to their families went

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out of the ark. Note here. Then Noah built an

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altar to the Lord. So Noah encountered the Lord.

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What happened? The Lord showed up and spoke to

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him. There's your encounter. What was Noah's

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response? Alter. Encounter, alter. And then what

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was the anointing? Be fruitful. Multiply. You

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get it? You guys are going to have to just feed

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back a little bit today. Okay. Encounter, altar,

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anointing. So that's the very first place in

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the Scripture where the word altar is used. So

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Noah just like spontaneously got this idea of

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altar. He was so moved by the encounter that

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he just said, I have to do something. I have

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to worship. I have to build something to worship

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God, to put a sacrifice to the Lord. Very important.

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Remember that. Alright, let's flip through here

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because we have several of these. I'm building

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my case. Genesis 12. We're going to talk about...

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Big Daddy Abe. Abram. Genesis 12, verse 7. Then

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the Lord appeared to Abram and said, Encounter.

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Right? The Lord appeared to him. He encountered

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him. Abram, to your descendants I will give this

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land. And what did Abram do? He responded by

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building an altar. Encounter. Altar. Now, let's

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go up a few verses here in that same chapter.

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Because this is important. Actually, let's read

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verse 1. Now the Lord had said to Abram, get

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out of your country from your family, from your

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father's house to a land that I will show you.

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I will make you a great nation. I will bless

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you. I will make your name great and you shall

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be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you

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and I will curse those who curse you. And in

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you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

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Hallelujah. Does it feel like God's trying to

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get a message to Noah? And then to Abraham? something

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about blessing, something about multiplying,

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something about making someone great. And then

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he comes down in verse 7 and he appears to him

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again and he says, to your descendants I will

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give this land. And then Abram somehow says,

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I have to build an altar. And he responds. And

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then, of course, the Lord... encounters Abraham

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many times from this. He tells him, you know,

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your descendants will be like the sands of the

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sea, like the stars of the sky. He just really

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hammers this vision home for Abraham. And Abraham

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builds other altars and builds other places of

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worship to God. Does everyone understand what

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an altar is before we move on? Let me give you

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a definition of altar. Or what an altar is for.

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And this is why. You know, you go around the

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world, you go to other cultures and societies

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that have more history, the concept of altar

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is there. Like many other nations, like you drive

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down the road and they have an altar built to

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a stone. Or an altar built to a tree. Or an altar

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built to a cow. You understand? Now, when you

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get into the West, the concept of altar gets

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a little bit lost on us because we are sort of,

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now not us, okay? I'm just saying in general,

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a little more materialistic, right? These ancient

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spiritual structures and systems are foreign

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to us. But biblically and spiritually, they're

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very real. The concept of an altar is very real.

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It can be very powerful or it can be very dangerous.

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Because altars will open you up or people up

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to the realm of the Spirit. Okay, just with that,

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you see how important this is, can you? You see

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how vital this is that we understand this concept

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of altar. Has anyone ever heard of an altar call?

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Does anyone ever know what in the world that

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is supposed to be? Come to the altar. Well, okay.

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Is that where we just come up front and Miss

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Susie cries a little bit and we go back and don't

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really know what happened? What's an altar? What's

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an altar call? It's a very powerful thing. It's

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a very, very, very powerful spiritual system

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that God has set up. An altar is for worship,

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for sacrifices, and for memorials of encounters

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with Him. Altars mark places of consecration,

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thanksgiving, covenants, atonement, and divine

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intervention. So in other words, an altar is

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a place and a moment. Where the divine and the

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natural meet. It's a place of invoking the divine

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into the natural. Are we learning? So you see

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these old saints of God. They understood this

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concept. This idea where. hey, God encountered

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me, so what am I going to do? I'm going to respond

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by building a structure of worship where I, now

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this is the key, where I make a sacrifice. And

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there's something about a sacrifice that is irresistible

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to the Spirit of God. Can you see it? It's so

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important. I promise if you just stick with me

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today, this will absolutely shift the culture

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of your heart, the culture of your home, and

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hopefully the culture of our church. And I don't

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mean our church, but just the church. Okay, let's

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fast forward to... Book of Genesis. We're staying

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with Abraham here. We said Abraham had many other

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encounters with God. He built many other altars.

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There was many other sacrifices that Abraham

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made upon the altars that he built. And Abraham

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was so convinced of this system. Look what happens.

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He was so convinced. Now God spoke to him and

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said, I'm going to make you the father of many

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nations. Your seed is going to be mighty in the

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earth. I'm going to use your lineage to bless

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the whole entire world. And of course, Abraham

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was like, I don't even have a kid. And then God

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supernaturally brought him two kids. So now he's

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starting to see the fulfillment of the promise

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of God in his son, Isaac. But then God speaks

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to him and says something very crazy one day.

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After he'd already told him, through your seed,

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I'm going to bless the world. Then he'd given

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him the fulfillment of the promise of a son.

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Then in Genesis chapter 22, let's start in verse

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8. Genesis 22, 8. He prepares his stuff. He's

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going up onto the mountain to make a sacrifice,

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to build an altar. Are we there? Abraham said,

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God, my son. So he's with Isaac. He's got Isaac

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on the mountain. And he says, what are we going

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to sacrifice, Pop? And Abraham says to Isaac,

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My son, God will provide for himself the lamb

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for a burnt offering. So the two of them went

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together. Then he came to the place of which

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God had told him, and Abraham built an altar

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there and placed the wood in order. Then, hey,

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what are you doing? He bound Isaac, his son,

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and laid him on the altar. Now think of it. Abraham,

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the father of our faith, was so persuaded that

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this system of altar and sacrifice would bring

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multiplication and blessing that this son of

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his, who is the fulfillment of the promise, he

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was willing to take him and put him on the altar.

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Because he knew, listen, whatever goes on this

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altar, the anointing will come upon and cause

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it to explode with blessing. He was so convinced.

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He said, I know God told me that my seed would

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inhabit the earth and fill the earth. He said,

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and I've got two sons, and this son was the son

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of promise. And I trust God knows what he's doing,

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and I'm going to fulfill my obligation to this

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system. Can you see it? Can you enter into what

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he might have been thinking there? He was convinced

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of the system. So powerful. And of course we

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know the rest, we'll just read it. Abraham stretched

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out his hand, took the knife to slay his son,

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but the angel of the Lord called to him from

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heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. So he said,

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here I am. And he said, do not lay your hand

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on the lad or do anything to him, for now I know

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that you fear God since you have not withheld

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your son, your only son from me. And I think

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spiritually we could say that... actually he

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did put his son on the altar. In fact, Hebrews

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11 shows us he actually put his son on the altar.

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And that was a moment where the anointing came

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upon that moment. The Spirit of God was so pleased

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with that sacrifice. He said he's willing to

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give, even give me the promise. You understand?

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Even give me the promise, promise seed on the

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altar. So much trust, so much faith, so much

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Belief in this spiritual system. Amen? Alright,

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let's fast forward. We're just taking off. We're

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at 5 ,000 feet and rising. Genesis 26. So here's

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that same Isaac that was on the altar that came

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off the altar. So it was Abraham. Now this is

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Isaac, his son. God prospered in many ways. You

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can read from that Genesis 22 to here. You can

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see where God just prospered him. God just blessed

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his socks off. He was so prosperous in calves

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and goats and sheep and all these things. By

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the way. Our church in India is doing great.

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Hallelujah. If you didn't know, you guys and

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we planted churches. We now have over 40 churches

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in India using these principles. I'm telling

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you today. So this is not just something that

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we just theory out in the stratosphere. These

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are spiritual principles that work. And they

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have a... So I was just there at our mission,

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our church in Rajasthan. It's actually in Banswara,

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Rajasthan, India. Last week was the hottest place

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on earth. It was like 150 ,000 degrees. We landed

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and I stepped outside. We had all day. We gathered

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our pastors and leaders. We have like 50 pastors

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and leaders that we support. And we stepped out

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into the heat. We traveled, you know, you travel

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like a long time to get there. And we finally

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got there after a four -hour car ride from the

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airport, and we stepped out, and the sun hit,

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and we knew, I mean, they don't have air conditioning,

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or, you know, they have a big pink tent in the

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field, you know, that's what we had. And they

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were all gathered, banging their drum, and we

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stepped out, and the sun hit, and I said, Lord,

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I don't, this may be it. Talking about altars,

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this may be the one. that ends it for me. I'm

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putting myself, but if I go, I'll go out doing

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what he wants me to do. But we ended up having

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great meetings, and it was just fine. I made

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it. Here I am. But we went back to dinner, and

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I've never seen this. I've been there many times.

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Michelle's been there. They have a vat of wheat

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that they actually harvest. you know, the wheat

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berries. Correct me if I'm not saying it right.

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I don't exactly know what I'm talking about.

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But it's a big thing of wheat that they harvest

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and they make bread. Chapati and paratha and

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all those different kinds of bread. And so I'd

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never seen it, but the guy that was with me was

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very inquisitive. And he noticed things that

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I didn't. So we said, what is this? So we opened

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it up and said, this is our wheat. The Indian,

00:25:51.710 --> 00:25:54.869
our main pastor, Pastor Lazarus. He's probably

00:25:54.869 --> 00:25:59.759
watching. So they have all these herbs and stuff

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in this vat of wheat that they put in there to

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keep bugs and stuff away. You know, they've got

00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:06.859
it down. This is like thousands of year old,

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you know, crunchiness. Their ultimate crunchy,

00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:18.279
organic and all that. And so they harvest this

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wheat they put in there and they said, well,

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when do you harvest it? Oh, we harvest it a few

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times a year. I said, well, how long does it

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last? They said, well, what do you mean? I said,

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how long does it last? It never runs out. Well,

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who all eats it? Everyone. Everyone from our

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tribe and village come. We never even think about

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it. They just reach in and grab the wheat and

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it never runs out. Isn't that awesome? Miracles

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of biblical proportions. They don't even think

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about it. It just keeps expanding in there. Because

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it's... They live on the altar. They live with

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the anointing. The Spirit of God is on everything

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because everything they do is on the altar of

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sacrifice. So it opens the channel for the Holy

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Spirit to come and hit their lives and expand

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and increase and grow everything that they do.

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This is real. It works. How could Jesus multiply

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the bread and the fish? Why was He even interested

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to do it? He was the Bethel. Open heavens over

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him. His life. Here I am, God, to do your will.

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That's what he said. And maybe we'll get there.

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Into the New Testament. Genesis 26, right? Okay.

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I don't want to leave you hanging. I'm trying

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my hardest to stick to this because I want to

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just journey through this with this. Genesis

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26 and 12. We're on Isaac. I'm sorry, 28, 28.

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28, 12. Oh, see, you guys got me off telling

00:28:28.180 --> 00:28:38.480
this story. 2624. If you were on Life 360 right

00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:40.400
now, navigating through the Bible, it'd be like

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this, just all over the place. 2624. This is

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Isaac. And the Lord appeared to him that same

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night. Encounter. Say encounter so I know you're

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awake. The Lord appeared to him that same night

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and said, I am the God of your father Abraham.

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Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless

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you and multiply your descendants for my servant

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Abraham's sake. So he built an altar there and

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called on the name of the Lord and pitched his

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tent there. And there Isaac's servant dug a well.

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Encounter. The Lord encountered him. Isn't that

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:22.539
interesting? The Lord encountered him and he

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said virtually the same thing. The same thing

00:29:25.859 --> 00:29:28.299
he said to Adam. The same thing he said to Noah.

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The same thing he said to Abraham. I'm going

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to bless you. I'm going to make you great. I'm

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going to prosper you. I'm going to show forth

00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:48.380
my glory through your life. And Isaac responded,

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I guess. His daddy Abe taught him how to respond,

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I guess, to build an altar. Now let's look at

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Genesis 28. Breathe in. Okay, I can handle this

00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:33.519
much Scripture, right? Okay, now we're on Jacob,

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right? Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Let's see what

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happens. 28, let's start in 10. Now Jacob went

00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.299
out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So

00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:47.160
he came to a certain place and stayed there all

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night. I love this story so much. because the

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sun had set. And he took one of the stones of

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that place and put it at his head, sleeping on

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a rock. And he lay down in that place to sleep.

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Then he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:04.059
set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven.

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And there the angels of God were ascending and

00:31:06.980 --> 00:31:10.380
descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood

00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:12.859
above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham,

00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:15.359
your father, and the God of Isaac. I love how

00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.609
God identifies himself that way. The land on

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which you lie, I will give to you and your descendants.

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Also, your descendants will be as the dust of

00:31:24.430 --> 00:31:28.630
the earth. Multiply, right? Blessing, multiplying,

00:31:29.009 --> 00:31:33.549
expansion. You shall spread abroad to the west,

00:31:33.670 --> 00:31:36.609
to the east, to the north, to the south. And

00:31:36.609 --> 00:31:39.329
in you and in your seed, all the families on

00:31:39.329 --> 00:31:44.250
earth shall be blessed. Isn't that awesome? Have

00:31:44.250 --> 00:31:47.880
you ever seen that before? Oh, I guess all of

00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:49.359
you have seen that. Okay, well maybe it's just

00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:56.960
new to me. Alright. Verse 15. Behold, I am with

00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.779
you, and will keep you wherever you go, and will

00:31:59.779 --> 00:32:02.000
bring you back to this land, for I will not leave

00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:04.519
you until I have done what I have spoken to you.

00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:08.359
Then Jacob woke up. He wipes the sleep out of

00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:12.039
his eyes and says, Whoa! I remember Grandpa telling

00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.079
me that God showed up to him this way. I remember

00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.829
Papa. telling me that God showed up to him this

00:32:17.829 --> 00:32:22.930
way. Now look, he shows up to me. I think that

00:32:22.930 --> 00:32:26.009
was a happy day for Jacob. I think that was a

00:32:26.009 --> 00:32:29.609
great moment. You know, because Jacob was a rascal.

00:32:31.250 --> 00:32:34.809
His name was Subplanter. You know, he was kind

00:32:34.809 --> 00:32:38.329
of a real fast guy. He was a little juking jiver.

00:32:38.990 --> 00:32:40.869
So he might have been a little worried. Is God

00:32:40.869 --> 00:32:43.190
going to continue this promise with me? This

00:32:43.190 --> 00:32:46.069
thing that he's done where he's encountered grandpa

00:32:46.069 --> 00:32:52.569
and dad. And he wakes up from this dream. In

00:32:52.569 --> 00:32:56.069
verse 16. And he says, surely the Lord is in

00:32:56.069 --> 00:33:00.490
this place. And I did not know it. And he was

00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:03.990
afraid and said, how awesome is this place. This

00:33:03.990 --> 00:33:06.369
is none other than the house of God. And this

00:33:06.369 --> 00:33:09.099
is the gate of heaven. Then Jacob rose early

00:33:09.099 --> 00:33:12.640
in the morning. Now look what he does. And took

00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:16.619
the stone that he put his head on. And he set

00:33:16.619 --> 00:33:21.480
up as an altar or pillar. And then he does something

00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:31.980
different. What does he do? Pours oil. Where

00:33:31.980 --> 00:33:36.640
did he get that? What is the oil representing?

00:33:37.939 --> 00:33:43.319
The anointing. He has an encounter. He builds

00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:53.440
an altar. Then the anointing. And he called that

00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.900
place Bethel, which is house of God. Now let's

00:33:58.900 --> 00:34:08.500
do one more, okay? In Genesis. One more. We're

00:34:08.500 --> 00:34:10.159
just kind of having a Bible study today. This

00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:14.900
is good. I probably haven't even gotten above

00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:19.559
20 decibels with my voice. That's how you know

00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:24.960
I can sustain four or five hours when there's

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:31.420
not much shouting. The record is 14 hours. 14

00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:39.780
hours with a tea break. you know and you don't

00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:43.179
even know it's it's so wonderful it's like what

00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:47.059
else would you do you guys i can tell you're

00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:51.179
getting really worried right now i got you right

00:34:51.179 --> 00:34:54.199
where i want you my dad used to preach and and

00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:58.880
me and valerie had this joke where he we would

00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:02.460
be sitting back there and just you know there's

00:35:02.460 --> 00:35:05.480
a lot to overcome in church right to like to

00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:09.980
really get blessed and and between social awkwardness

00:35:09.980 --> 00:35:15.280
and you know uh the music and uh and not liking

00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:17.719
things and not having donuts there's a lot to

00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:20.639
overcome right i'm gonna just be honest us americans

00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:24.019
there's a lot to overcome a lot of times it's

00:35:24.019 --> 00:35:25.980
like you're trying to worship and then brad sings

00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:29.000
a bad note and you're like oh man i was just

00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:33.599
kind of getting in the pocket and uh one thing

00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:36.550
that you shouldn't have to overcome is like The

00:35:36.550 --> 00:35:40.869
utter cringe factor of the minister. And my dad,

00:35:40.909 --> 00:35:45.110
bless him, he's not watching, thankfully. We

00:35:45.110 --> 00:35:48.190
would sit back in the back and just, Valerie

00:35:48.190 --> 00:35:55.289
and I, just endure. And we were hostages. It

00:35:55.289 --> 00:36:00.809
was like, 911, we got a hostage situation. And

00:36:00.809 --> 00:36:02.929
that was not, you know, that was like 45 minutes.

00:36:03.829 --> 00:36:08.489
Is that true, Valerie? We stayed married through

00:36:08.489 --> 00:36:11.289
a lot. That was one of our biggest trials. And

00:36:11.289 --> 00:36:16.610
some of you know. So I will not have you as hostage

00:36:16.610 --> 00:36:19.730
today, okay? I promise. But nevertheless, we're

00:36:19.730 --> 00:36:22.389
navigating through some important scripture here.

00:36:23.230 --> 00:36:39.690
Genesis 35, 11. This is still Jacob. Oh, let's

00:36:39.690 --> 00:36:48.130
go 9, 35, 9. Then God appeared to Jacob again

00:36:48.130 --> 00:36:51.650
when he came from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

00:36:51.730 --> 00:36:55.269
Yes, thank you, Lord. And God said to him, your

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name is Jacob. Your name shall not be called

00:37:00.070 --> 00:37:03.590
Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.

00:37:03.909 --> 00:37:07.860
So he called his name Israel. Also God said to

00:37:07.860 --> 00:37:11.659
him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply.

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There it is again. A nation and a company of

00:37:16.659 --> 00:37:19.199
nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall

00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.099
come from your body. The land which I gave Abraham

00:37:22.099 --> 00:37:24.460
and Isaac I give to you, and to your descendants

00:37:24.460 --> 00:37:27.119
after you I give this land. Then God went up

00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:28.880
from him in that place where he talked to him.

00:37:28.900 --> 00:37:32.500
So Jacob, what does he do? Set up a pillar. And

00:37:32.500 --> 00:37:34.480
that place where he talked with him, a pillar

00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:36.980
of stone, and he poured a drink offering on it,

00:37:37.019 --> 00:37:39.980
and he poured oil on it. And he called that place

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:43.840
again, or that place was called Bethel. So you

00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.760
see there, once again, God encountered him. He

00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:52.659
said the same thing, virtually. Blessing, multiplication,

00:37:53.300 --> 00:37:57.360
expansion. So there was the encounter. There

00:37:57.360 --> 00:37:59.719
was the altar or the pillar. Then there's the

00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:06.329
anointing right there. Encounter, sacrifice,

00:38:06.889 --> 00:38:13.269
alter, anointing. Encounter, sacrifice, anointing.

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Encounter, alter, anointing. You see that pattern

00:38:20.909 --> 00:38:25.750
over and over again. And always coupled with

00:38:25.750 --> 00:38:32.730
this, be fruitful, multiply. Isn't that pertinent

00:38:32.730 --> 00:38:36.909
to our year of expansion? Isn't that pertinent

00:38:36.909 --> 00:38:40.849
to our lives? So what is he saying? What does

00:38:40.849 --> 00:38:46.230
this mean? What does it mean for us? What was

00:38:46.230 --> 00:38:52.369
the message from that little church in Cuba?

00:38:54.230 --> 00:39:02.670
That we create a space. The church is the entity

00:39:02.670 --> 00:39:07.610
where we create a space, an environment, for

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God to encounter His people. For there to be

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encounter. For God to show up. For God to meet

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with you. This is not just, you know, sing a

00:39:19.550 --> 00:39:22.269
few songs and hear some scripture. This is a

00:39:22.269 --> 00:39:26.570
place where you encounter God. Where God speaks

00:39:26.570 --> 00:39:30.710
to you. Where you meet with the Almighty. That's

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the idea. Where we open our doors, we open our

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arms, we open our hearts, and we just say, here

00:39:37.610 --> 00:39:44.769
we are, Lord. Come meet with us. Come show yourself

00:39:44.769 --> 00:39:53.130
strong in our lives. Speak to us. I have nothing

00:39:53.130 --> 00:39:59.590
else to do except for just encounter you. And

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then when He comes and He inevitably will come

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encounter you, He'll speak to you. He'll reveal

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Himself to you. Then you need to know how to

00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:18.929
respond. We need to know how to respond to the

00:40:18.929 --> 00:40:23.230
encounter. When there's something... There's

00:40:23.230 --> 00:40:26.250
something from heaven that hits your spirit and

00:40:26.250 --> 00:40:28.989
you know that you've come in contact with the

00:40:28.989 --> 00:40:35.170
divine. There's a breath of life on something.

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And it doesn't have to be here in the church,

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right? It can be in your home. That's what I

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said. This can shift the culture of your home,

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of even your workplace. Imagine you back there

00:40:45.010 --> 00:40:49.489
in your cubicle on your knees just praying, making

00:40:49.489 --> 00:40:53.130
a little altar. Starting a little fire back in

00:40:53.130 --> 00:40:57.170
the cubicle. And then the next thing you know,

00:40:57.210 --> 00:40:59.070
there's a blessing that comes on the business.

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And your boss says, I don't like you, but you're

00:41:05.250 --> 00:41:09.989
staying. I don't know what's happening. What

00:41:09.989 --> 00:41:12.949
happened when the ark was in, was it Obed? I

00:41:12.949 --> 00:41:17.070
just went blank. Obed -Edom, right? What happened?

00:41:18.769 --> 00:41:22.489
Blessing, blessing, blessing came, right? Why?

00:41:22.489 --> 00:41:26.110
Because He was some holy person? It's because

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the presence was there. God was there. So we

00:41:34.590 --> 00:41:37.389
can encounter God. We can encounter His Holy

00:41:37.389 --> 00:41:41.630
Spirit. We can encounter His presence. Be looking

00:41:41.630 --> 00:41:46.329
for. So what does it mean to seek the Lord? You

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know, He's a rewarder of those that diligently

00:41:48.809 --> 00:41:52.380
seek Him. What does He reward you with? Encounter,

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presence. A moment in time where you meet with

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the living God. I mean, imagine Jacob. He met

00:42:01.539 --> 00:42:05.719
with God. Abraham met with God. Isaac, have you

00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:10.500
ever met with God? Jesus said, you search the

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scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal

00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:17.179
life, but it's them which testify of me. And

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you won't come to me that I might give you life.

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It's not worshiping a Bible. It's worshiping

00:42:26.849 --> 00:42:30.050
the living God. It's encountering Him. He's a

00:42:30.050 --> 00:42:34.150
living God. He's a risen, living Christ. He's

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alive. He's in this place. We have to tune ourselves

00:42:38.429 --> 00:42:45.449
up with Him. Look for Him in the sanctuary. Seek

00:42:45.449 --> 00:42:52.070
His face. Listen for His voice. You see, Paul

00:42:52.070 --> 00:42:55.070
the Apostle, He was on the road, right? He was

00:42:55.070 --> 00:42:59.010
zealous for God. He was seeking God. He just

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didn't have the knowledge to seek God rightly.

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But he was zealous for God. He was so zealous

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for God, he was killing those he thought were

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opposed to God. Everybody know? And what happened?

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I mean, he had an encounter. But what was interesting

00:43:23.619 --> 00:43:31.699
about his encounter was, he saw Jesus. In fact,

00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:35.099
he said, this gospel that I received, I received

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from the revelation of Jesus. In other words,

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he didn't receive it from Jesus sitting with

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him and telling him everything. The message that

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Paul preached, the Pauline revelation that we

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call, the message of the new creation, he received

00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:56.219
from seeing Jesus. The whole message was, I saw

00:43:56.219 --> 00:43:59.219
the risen Christ and he was revealed to me. My

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encounter gave me the message that I now preach

00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:08.739
to you. But what was interesting about his encounter

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that really stands out to me, because he had

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a heart for God. He said, I'm the Hebrew of the

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Hebrews. I sat at the feet of Gamaliel, you know.

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He had all these credentials in God. Which, by

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the way, he said, I count them all as dung in

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comparison to knowing him. To encountering him

00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:35.599
and the power of his resurrection. It's all fluff

00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:37.880
and dung is what he said. But he was hungry,

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he was zealous, he was seeking the Lord. I can

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just picture him riding down the road to Damascus,

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you know, with a smile on his face because he

00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:47.059
just killed another Christian. He was happy with

00:44:47.059 --> 00:44:50.320
himself because he knew he had a real zeal. And

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then Jesus, bam, Paul, Paul, actually, Saul,

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Saul, why do you persecute me? Why do you kick

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against the goads? And he said, who art thou,

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Lord? That was his born -again moment, by the

00:45:07.940 --> 00:45:11.219
way, because he confessed Jesus as Lord. He recognized

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his moment, his encounter. He said, I don't know

00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:21.579
you, but I know your Lord. Who are you, Lord?

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Obviously, he didn't know him because he was

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working against him, but he said, I know this

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is the God I've been seeking. I keep saying this,

00:45:36.659 --> 00:45:38.860
but this is what was interesting about his encounter.

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He heard the voice. He saw Jesus, but there was

00:45:45.820 --> 00:45:52.679
people with him that didn't, See Him? And they

00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:58.300
heard something, but they said, what? It has

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to be thunder. We heard something. What does

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that tell you? They weren't ready. They were

00:46:07.380 --> 00:46:10.519
spiritually sleeping. They weren't seeking God.

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They weren't seeking that encounter. Amen? Let's

00:46:17.579 --> 00:46:20.090
not be like those. Let's be... Seeking. Let's

00:46:20.090 --> 00:46:23.550
be ready. Let's be tuned up and ready to meet

00:46:23.550 --> 00:46:25.429
with the Lord when we come into the house, when

00:46:25.429 --> 00:46:28.590
we come in anywhere, any moment. You know, He

00:46:28.590 --> 00:46:31.449
can just meet you in any moment. What if God

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showed up to you and started revealing destiny

00:46:36.730 --> 00:46:39.889
to you? That's what He wants to do. He wants

00:46:39.889 --> 00:46:42.690
to give you vision for your life. He wants to

00:46:42.690 --> 00:46:45.929
reveal purpose. He wants to give you a specific

00:46:45.929 --> 00:46:51.769
word. A sharp, pointed word. But see, now when

00:46:51.769 --> 00:46:54.429
that happens, and maybe it's happened already,

00:46:54.909 --> 00:46:59.570
but when that happens, what we can do is respond

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how? What are we going to do? We're going to

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build an altar. Now does that mean we're going

00:47:07.949 --> 00:47:11.869
to go to Home Depot, get some wood, we're going

00:47:11.869 --> 00:47:16.289
to have our goat ready so we can... It's a spiritual

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structure. It's a spiritual thing. The altar

00:47:19.489 --> 00:47:24.469
is the heart posture that follows the encounter.

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It's a response of sacrifice. Because what did

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he say? We all, let's put 2 Corinthians 3, the

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last verse. Are you feeling equipped a little

00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.000
bit? I mean, come on, just be honest. You feeling

00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.280
ready to encounter? Okay, I'm starting to see.

00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:59.739
I know what to do. The church is for equipping.

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Very last verse, please. But we all, with unveiled

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face, behold it. Can we go one verse before?

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Because you've got to see this one. This is good,

00:48:15.300 --> 00:48:18.380
too. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the

00:48:18.380 --> 00:48:21.760
Spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom. But we

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all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror

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the glory of the Lord, encountering, right, are

00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:32.659
being transformed into the same image from glory

00:48:32.659 --> 00:48:34.639
to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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So he's saying that you encounter the glory.

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You encounter God. You encounter His glory. Even

00:48:43.750 --> 00:48:46.250
more than what Moses experienced. You can encounter

00:48:46.250 --> 00:48:49.909
the glory in this way. And when you see His glory,

00:48:50.130 --> 00:48:53.070
when you behold His glory, when you have that

00:48:53.070 --> 00:48:58.829
revelation of God, then there's a consecration.

00:48:59.789 --> 00:49:03.610
That's the altar. Right? There's a consecration.

00:49:03.969 --> 00:49:09.750
You say, I see you, Jesus, like Paul. Now, this

00:49:09.750 --> 00:49:13.340
revelation that you've given me, I consecrate

00:49:13.340 --> 00:49:17.699
myself to this revelation. I put myself on the

00:49:17.699 --> 00:49:21.119
altar, the sacrifice to this God that I've just

00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:25.739
encountered. But you're not going to encounter

00:49:25.739 --> 00:49:30.000
the fullness of His glory. You're going to go

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:35.539
from glory to glory. Right? So with each glory,

00:49:35.820 --> 00:49:38.460
that's why you should be so excited to come to

00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:43.849
church. Be so excited to wake up and pray tomorrow.

00:49:44.650 --> 00:49:46.909
Be so excited to read my Bible. Why? Because

00:49:46.909 --> 00:49:49.590
I'm going to encounter the glory of God. I'm

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going to meet with the Lord. Meet with Jesus.

00:49:52.710 --> 00:50:03.510
Yes. What else is there? How exciting. When I

00:50:03.510 --> 00:50:06.289
die, if you're still alive, put on my tombstone,

00:50:06.429 --> 00:50:09.670
here lies a man who loved Jesus. That's all I

00:50:09.670 --> 00:50:12.510
want. I don't care. You know, some place they

00:50:12.510 --> 00:50:14.610
call me doctor, some place they call me apostle,

00:50:14.849 --> 00:50:17.230
some place they call me trash. I don't care.

00:50:17.269 --> 00:50:23.150
Just put my title as this man loved Jesus. Because

00:50:23.150 --> 00:50:26.670
I love him. And we get to encounter him, encounter

00:50:26.670 --> 00:50:29.949
his glory. And what he's saying is the transformation

00:50:29.949 --> 00:50:34.909
comes with when we encounter this glory, whatever

00:50:34.909 --> 00:50:37.769
it is, whatever it is, then we place ourselves.

00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:43.260
In consecration to this revelation. Then there's

00:50:43.260 --> 00:50:47.679
a new revelation. Right? Because he's Jehovah

00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:49.780
Jireh. He's Jehovah Nisi. He's Jehovah Shalom.

00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:55.840
He's provider. He's healer. There's a new revelation.

00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:59.800
So then that requires what? A new response. A

00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:05.920
fresh. A fresh consecration. Are you seeing?

00:51:06.409 --> 00:51:09.369
The power of the altar. Are you seeing why we

00:51:09.369 --> 00:51:14.949
want an altar? Why we want a response? It's not

00:51:14.949 --> 00:51:18.690
to coerce you to some emotional thing where everybody,

00:51:18.949 --> 00:51:21.610
you know, come up front. No, it doesn't matter.

00:51:21.769 --> 00:51:24.829
It's between you and God. But at least we get

00:51:24.829 --> 00:51:27.289
an opportunity for you to encounter God and an

00:51:27.289 --> 00:51:31.789
opportunity to consecrate yourself. To give yourself

00:51:31.789 --> 00:51:38.599
once again. And the question is, you know, okay,

00:51:38.780 --> 00:51:41.860
I'm a gospel preacher, okay? I am grace, grace,

00:51:41.940 --> 00:51:44.699
grace to the max. So, you know, don't hear what

00:51:44.699 --> 00:51:46.820
I'm not saying, right? This is not a works -based

00:51:46.820 --> 00:51:50.039
thing. This is just unveiling mysteries of the

00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:52.119
Spirit and mysteries of the kingdom because there

00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:55.480
are systems and principles that we can... Get

00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:57.920
into the flow of according to the scripture that

00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:00.619
will enact certain things because jesus said

00:52:00.619 --> 00:52:03.579
my people Well, he he said you will know the

00:52:03.579 --> 00:52:06.079
truth. The truth will make you free So what we

00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:09.599
don't know is our problem and the scripture says

00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:13.239
My people god's people are destroyed because

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what we don't know So we need to know that there's

00:52:16.980 --> 00:52:20.349
things like this that God has set up. There's

00:52:20.349 --> 00:52:24.090
spiritual systems that God has set up that are

00:52:24.090 --> 00:52:28.050
there and in place for our edification, for our

00:52:28.050 --> 00:52:31.150
blessing, and ultimately for His glory in this

00:52:31.150 --> 00:52:33.570
earth. We're going to get there. Just a moment.

00:52:36.150 --> 00:52:40.309
So, while we're there, Romans 12. You know this

00:52:40.309 --> 00:52:56.219
one. Romans 12, 1 and 2. I beseech you therefore,

00:52:56.340 --> 00:52:58.559
brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present

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your bodies. Present your bodies. Living sacrifice.

00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:19.250
What does he mean? What we've just been talking

00:53:19.250 --> 00:53:23.690
about, right? Present your bodies. He's talking

00:53:23.690 --> 00:53:28.349
about, and then look at verse 2. Don't be conformed

00:53:28.349 --> 00:53:31.530
to this world, but be transformed. That's the

00:53:31.530 --> 00:53:34.110
same word that he used in 2 Corinthians 3 at

00:53:34.110 --> 00:53:38.530
the last verse. He says, we are being metamorphosed.

00:53:40.050 --> 00:53:43.170
We're being transformed. We're changing state

00:53:43.170 --> 00:53:49.780
from glory to glory. How? We can't surpass the

00:53:49.780 --> 00:53:53.800
glory of God that we behold. And to behold the

00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.480
glory, we have to encounter the glory. Right?

00:53:57.579 --> 00:53:59.860
Are you seeing? So you encounter that glory.

00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.219
And he said, then you present yourself. Just

00:54:03.219 --> 00:54:06.219
put your body upon the altar as a living sacrifice.

00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:11.360
That is your reasonable service. That in your

00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:15.380
mortal flesh, the life of Jesus may be manifested.

00:54:18.059 --> 00:54:21.780
Put yourself on the altar so that the death of

00:54:21.780 --> 00:54:24.360
Christ and the life of Christ can be manifest

00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:31.679
through you. So you can be transformed. You can

00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:35.440
be morphed, changed into another person continually

00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:43.159
by the revelations of God. Amen? And what's going

00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:46.920
to happen as you place yourself upon the altar?

00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:53.840
Look at this. Oh, we're about 15 ,000 feet. No,

00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:58.239
no, no, no. We may be 20 ,000 feet. Cross -check

00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:01.219
for all call. What is it? Oh, that's when you

00:55:01.219 --> 00:55:04.460
take off. One time I said that, and I was totally

00:55:04.460 --> 00:55:10.360
wrong how I said it. What is it? Cross -check

00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:15.139
for all call? Yeah. Two of you know what I'm

00:55:15.139 --> 00:55:18.579
talking about. That's fine. Look at this, okay,

00:55:18.719 --> 00:55:24.199
Acts chapter 1. Are we digesting the Word a little

00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:32.639
bit? Are we, you know, one, we have doctors in

00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:36.179
here, so I can't, you know, I can't, I've got

00:55:36.179 --> 00:55:38.099
to be careful I'm not wrong, because I'm probably

00:55:38.099 --> 00:55:43.199
wrong, but one thing that, you know, that your

00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:45.599
doctor will ask you, Well, how are you feeling?

00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:48.139
Oh, I don't know. I feel okay. Well, are you

00:55:48.139 --> 00:55:51.940
eating? How's your appetite? What does that mean

00:55:51.940 --> 00:55:54.820
if your appetite's not great? Oh, you could have

00:55:54.820 --> 00:55:57.480
something going on. Then you go back for a checkup.

00:55:57.739 --> 00:55:59.380
Oh, how have you been eating? How's your appetite?

00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:01.039
Oh, it's great. I've been eating everything.

00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:03.639
Well, then you're healthy. Good. Well, it's the

00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:06.059
same with the Word, you know. Sometimes if your

00:56:06.059 --> 00:56:08.920
appetite's less, you may want to check your spiritual

00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:10.599
system. That's why we prayed at the beginning

00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:12.719
because you've got to have an appetite, right?

00:56:12.860 --> 00:56:15.059
We've got to eat the Word. Let's be voracious.

00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.719
That's what we're doing today. Acts 1 and verse

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8. Let's go 7. Okay, this is Jesus talking. I

00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:37.019
want to go to Luke. He said, all right, we'll

00:56:37.019 --> 00:56:40.969
just start here. And he said, It's not for you

00:56:40.969 --> 00:56:43.349
to know times or seasons which the Father has

00:56:43.349 --> 00:56:45.570
put in his own authority. This is Jesus. Okay,

00:56:45.710 --> 00:56:52.010
close it off, close it off, close it off. Because

00:56:52.010 --> 00:56:56.329
you'll start reading and you won't listen. This

00:56:56.329 --> 00:57:01.969
is, Jesus rose from the grave, and then what

00:57:01.969 --> 00:57:06.429
is Pentecost? 50 days, right? 50 days after the

00:57:06.429 --> 00:57:10.179
resurrection was the day of Pentecost. So there

00:57:10.179 --> 00:57:16.760
was 40 days where Jesus showed himself. Now the

00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:20.260
Bible says, if there's no one that's been saved

00:57:20.260 --> 00:57:23.199
in here today, just listen. The Bible says that

00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:27.599
Jesus showed himself to over 500 people after

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he rose from the grave. He said he also did many

00:57:33.300 --> 00:57:38.840
undeniable signs. After he rose from the grave,

00:57:38.860 --> 00:57:43.300
such as walking through walls, and he even fed

00:57:43.300 --> 00:57:53.099
the Pope some fish, Peter. And he did many, many,

00:57:53.099 --> 00:57:56.460
many miracles for the span of 40 days after he

00:57:56.460 --> 00:57:59.599
rose from the grave. And then he told his disciples,

00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:02.940
he said, now, here's what's going to happen.

00:58:03.860 --> 00:58:11.349
Go to Jerusalem. And Terry, wait until you be

00:58:11.349 --> 00:58:13.949
endued with power from on high. Now they thought,

00:58:14.210 --> 00:58:17.929
I don't even know what this is. Never heard anything

00:58:17.929 --> 00:58:20.010
like it. There's no precedent like this. But

00:58:20.010 --> 00:58:23.230
I promise you, if you see a man rise from the

00:58:23.230 --> 00:58:24.769
grave and then you see him walk through walls

00:58:24.769 --> 00:58:26.829
and then he does other miracles, you're going

00:58:26.829 --> 00:58:29.750
to be listening to what he has to say. And he

00:58:29.750 --> 00:58:33.889
said, go to Jerusalem and wait until you be endued

00:58:33.889 --> 00:58:38.710
with power from on high. So, right after he says

00:58:38.710 --> 00:58:43.769
this, we're going to pick it up, okay? In Acts

00:58:43.769 --> 00:58:49.210
1 -7. Luke, the physician who wrote Luke and

00:58:49.210 --> 00:58:51.690
he wrote the book of Acts, he also records this.

00:58:51.730 --> 00:58:54.449
He says, he said unto them, now this is like

00:58:54.449 --> 00:58:59.710
day 40, okay? Of the 50. It's not for you to

00:58:59.710 --> 00:59:01.389
know times or seasons which the Father has put

00:59:01.389 --> 00:59:05.409
in his own authority. But you shall receive power.

00:59:05.630 --> 00:59:08.369
A reiteration of what he says was recorded in

00:59:08.369 --> 00:59:11.090
Luke. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

00:59:11.110 --> 00:59:14.769
Now listen to this, okay? You may not have ever

00:59:14.769 --> 00:59:18.230
considered this. You shall be witnesses to me

00:59:18.230 --> 00:59:24.389
in Jerusalem, Judea, all Judea, Samaria, and

00:59:24.389 --> 00:59:28.250
to the ends of the earth. Now, I can skim over

00:59:28.250 --> 00:59:34.369
that, but question. Does it sound suspiciously

00:59:34.369 --> 00:59:43.989
like what he said to Noah? And he said to Abraham,

00:59:44.170 --> 00:59:48.730
and he said to Isaac, and he said to Jacob? Can

00:59:48.730 --> 00:59:51.030
you pick the same spirit up of what he's saying?

00:59:53.909 --> 00:59:57.050
Yes, no, or I want to sleep. That's choice three.

00:59:59.489 --> 01:00:04.889
Can you see it? He said, the Spirit is going

01:00:04.889 --> 01:00:06.550
to come upon you. You'll be endued with power

01:00:06.550 --> 01:00:10.250
from on high. Why? To be witnesses of the resurrection

01:00:10.250 --> 01:00:17.170
all over the world. Now, to me, it sounds an

01:00:17.170 --> 01:00:21.829
awful lot like a reiteration of what he told

01:00:21.829 --> 01:00:25.769
Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. And not only that,

01:00:25.889 --> 01:00:37.000
but a power to get it done. Yes? Go into all

01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:43.900
the world. What else could it mean? Go into all

01:00:43.900 --> 01:00:46.760
the world. Make disciples. Preach the gospel.

01:00:48.639 --> 01:00:51.300
Be witnesses. Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and

01:00:51.300 --> 01:00:53.820
to the uttermost parts of the world. This is

01:00:53.820 --> 01:00:58.840
a restitution. In fact, this is the word that

01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:06.059
came to Adam was meant for you. The word that

01:01:06.059 --> 01:01:10.400
came to Noah was meant for you. The word that

01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:12.940
came to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob was meant for you.

01:01:17.300 --> 01:01:24.639
Don't look at me like that. Come on. The word

01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:30.039
of expansion was meant for us. God has a dream

01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:32.900
of the whole earth will be filled with my glory.

01:01:33.769 --> 01:01:36.670
As the waters cover the sea, the whole earth

01:01:36.670 --> 01:01:40.429
will be filled with my glory. And he says, I'm

01:01:40.429 --> 01:01:44.010
going to give you power to witness, to testify

01:01:44.010 --> 01:01:47.369
to the glory of the risen Christ. And I want

01:01:47.369 --> 01:01:50.369
you to do it in all the world. Start where you

01:01:50.369 --> 01:01:52.449
are, then go out a little, out a little, out

01:01:52.449 --> 01:01:54.449
a little, until you just fill the earth with

01:01:54.449 --> 01:01:57.090
my glory. And he said, it's not just going to

01:01:57.090 --> 01:02:02.079
be your efforts, it's going to be my power. Because

01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:04.000
was anybody there when Jesus rose from the grave?

01:02:05.900 --> 01:02:07.880
I know the scripture says we were risen with

01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:11.260
Christ. I know. That's not what I'm asking. Did

01:02:11.260 --> 01:02:16.900
anyone see Jesus rise from the grave? Now, we

01:02:16.900 --> 01:02:18.860
go out into the world and we tell them, Jesus

01:02:18.860 --> 01:02:26.659
is alive, right? It's a message that's hard to

01:02:26.659 --> 01:02:29.539
understand. It's hard to believe unless you have

01:02:29.539 --> 01:02:34.940
the power. of the witness right so you weren't

01:02:34.940 --> 01:02:38.980
there but who was there this holy spirit who's

01:02:38.980 --> 01:02:41.699
going to come and fill you up he's going to be

01:02:41.699 --> 01:02:43.139
with you he's going to help you he's going to

01:02:43.139 --> 01:02:46.239
guide you he's going to empower you to be a witness

01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:49.960
he's going to empower your life to be a living

01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:54.360
epistle of the reality of the resurrection he's

01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:57.880
going to do what you can't do he's going to make

01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:05.039
I want to prophesy. He's going to make your business

01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:08.119
prosper. He's going to make everything you put

01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:11.860
your hands to, to be blessed. He's going to make

01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:17.980
intangible things happen in your life. How did

01:03:17.980 --> 01:03:21.719
this contract come? How did this opportunity

01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:26.820
come? It can only be explained by this blessing.

01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:30.230
Oh, I have to show you this. Galatians 3 .14.

01:03:31.269 --> 01:03:33.610
Just stick with me, okay? I promise you, this

01:03:33.610 --> 01:03:38.110
is so good. This is not just... I said it's Bible

01:03:38.110 --> 01:03:40.070
study, but it's not. I promise you, something

01:03:40.070 --> 01:03:44.550
is unlocking in your life. I promise you. If

01:03:44.550 --> 01:03:49.010
ever there was a question about... I will quit

01:03:49.010 --> 01:03:52.869
the ministry if something amazing doesn't happen

01:03:52.869 --> 01:03:58.420
in your life. If you just stick with this. This

01:03:58.420 --> 01:04:02.239
is unto something. Look at Galatians 3, 13, 14.

01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:07.780
Now remember what he said to Abraham, Isaac,

01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:11.900
Jacob. Remember that, okay? Go back and meditate

01:04:11.900 --> 01:04:14.900
that. Then he said, the Holy Spirit's going to

01:04:14.900 --> 01:04:17.900
come upon you and empower you. And now look what

01:04:17.900 --> 01:04:22.159
he says here in Galatians 3, 13, 14. Christ has

01:04:22.159 --> 01:04:24.679
redeemed us from the curse of the law. having

01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:27.199
become a curse for us, for it is written, cursed

01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:30.860
is everyone who hangs on a tree, that the blessing

01:04:30.860 --> 01:04:37.719
of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ

01:04:37.719 --> 01:04:41.800
Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the

01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:44.400
Spirit through faith. Now do you see, he marries

01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:50.360
the two. The encounter, the altar where the Spirit

01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:55.409
of God comes. Then the blessing that's going

01:04:55.409 --> 01:04:57.630
to take this thing throughout the whole world.

01:04:58.130 --> 01:05:00.809
You see it? What was the blessing? Be fruitful.

01:05:01.329 --> 01:05:03.789
Multiply. Your seed is going to be a blessing

01:05:03.789 --> 01:05:08.329
everywhere you go. Last time I was ministering,

01:05:08.329 --> 01:05:10.969
I don't remember where it was, but I was praying.

01:05:12.269 --> 01:05:15.010
I'm not a professional preacher, if you can't

01:05:15.010 --> 01:05:17.389
tell. I'm not interested in that whatsoever.

01:05:17.489 --> 01:05:19.929
I just want to help people. That's all I wanted.

01:05:19.989 --> 01:05:21.909
I just want to help people. Live the life that

01:05:21.909 --> 01:05:25.030
God has for them. And I was standing, getting

01:05:25.030 --> 01:05:28.809
ready to minister, and I didn't know, you know,

01:05:28.849 --> 01:05:30.949
many times I have no idea what I'm going to say.

01:05:31.110 --> 01:05:33.050
Sometimes I know where we're going to take off,

01:05:33.150 --> 01:05:35.190
and I know where we're going to land, but, you

01:05:35.190 --> 01:05:38.929
know, we're going to take a lot of this. But

01:05:38.929 --> 01:05:42.050
I said, Lord, I cried from my heart. I said,

01:05:42.090 --> 01:05:44.710
Lord, help me be a blessing to these people.

01:05:44.929 --> 01:05:47.050
It wasn't here, it was somewhere else. Help me

01:05:47.050 --> 01:05:49.460
just be a blessing. And the Lord spoke to me

01:05:49.460 --> 01:05:51.239
and said, I have blessed you that you will be

01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:54.760
a blessing. And it goes right with this, right?

01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:59.679
The same word that came to Abraham. That you

01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:01.900
will, you know, all these wonderful things, fruitful,

01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:04.659
multiply, all these things. And then he sends

01:06:04.659 --> 01:06:07.699
the Spirit of God to empower us. And he says,

01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:10.960
Jerusalem, Judea, all over the world. And then

01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:16.300
he reiterates it and makes it clear for us that

01:06:16.300 --> 01:06:18.900
the same blessing. that was on Abraham, that

01:06:18.900 --> 01:06:22.159
caused him to, you know, fulfill everything that

01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:26.119
God wanted him to, is now the same promise, the

01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:30.480
same spirit that we receive. Amen? Isn't that

01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:40.639
wonderful? Oh, okay. It's not 12 o 'clock yet.

01:06:42.239 --> 01:06:44.159
And I want to read you one more scripture, and

01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:49.619
then I promise you will close, okay? I'm going

01:06:49.619 --> 01:06:54.519
to leave you with this because I think this is

01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:59.159
going to invoke some further study for you. The

01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:11.179
book of Ezekiel. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Ezekiel.

01:07:24.059 --> 01:07:37.980
Chapter 28. I'm going to read this. We're going

01:07:37.980 --> 01:07:39.920
to work through it for like two minutes, and

01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:41.920
then we're going to pray, okay? And we're going

01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:44.400
to receive something this morning that's going

01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:47.360
to make a huge difference in our lives. I mean

01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:51.519
it, a huge difference. We're going to receive...

01:07:52.610 --> 01:07:58.409
Something from God. Okay. Ezekiel 28, verse 12.

01:07:59.150 --> 01:08:01.949
Son of man, take up lamentation for the king

01:08:01.949 --> 01:08:03.809
of Tyre and say to him, thus says the Lord God.

01:08:04.869 --> 01:08:10.150
Now, this is talking about Lucifer, okay? So

01:08:10.150 --> 01:08:13.949
just relax. You were the seal of perfection,

01:08:14.230 --> 01:08:17.510
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were

01:08:17.510 --> 01:08:20.210
in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone

01:08:20.210 --> 01:08:23.229
was your covering. The sardius, topaz, and diamond,

01:08:23.409 --> 01:08:26.329
beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise,

01:08:26.369 --> 01:08:28.829
and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your

01:08:28.829 --> 01:08:31.270
timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the

01:08:31.270 --> 01:08:34.789
day you were created. Now listen to what he says.

01:08:36.029 --> 01:08:41.989
You were the anointed cherub who what? Covers.

01:08:42.649 --> 01:08:45.729
Now, God wants the whole earth to be covered.

01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:50.760
You were the anointed cherub who covers, literally

01:08:50.760 --> 01:08:54.140
spreads. Think of it like the foliage on the

01:08:54.140 --> 01:08:57.159
ground that just covers, it grows and just covers

01:08:57.159 --> 01:08:59.920
the earth. Now this is talking about Lucifer.

01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:05.800
The anointing that Lucifer received was not an

01:09:05.800 --> 01:09:11.279
unholy anointing. It was a holy anointing. But

01:09:11.279 --> 01:09:17.159
he corrupted his anointing. He received an anointing,

01:09:17.159 --> 01:09:19.520
which is a grace. It's a dimension of the Holy

01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:23.479
Spirit and a grace for a specific task. He received

01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:28.979
this anointing to cover, to spread. That means

01:09:28.979 --> 01:09:34.319
there is an anointing to cover. Are you with

01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:38.180
me? Or have you gone home? There's an anointing

01:09:38.180 --> 01:09:42.869
to spread. That means the anointing of God. that

01:09:42.869 --> 01:09:45.289
we thought was just for casting out demons and

01:09:45.289 --> 01:09:48.310
preaching the gospel, is much, much bigger than

01:09:48.310 --> 01:09:57.229
just that. The anointing that God has for us,

01:09:57.310 --> 01:10:00.329
if we want it, and the anointing that came at

01:10:00.329 --> 01:10:06.369
Pentecost was the anointing to spread. Can you

01:10:06.369 --> 01:10:09.569
see? Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria. It's the same

01:10:09.569 --> 01:10:11.789
anointing, the anointing to spread. There's no

01:10:11.789 --> 01:10:13.949
other, this is what's interesting here, there's

01:10:13.949 --> 01:10:18.810
no other time that this Hebrew word is used.

01:10:18.970 --> 01:10:21.369
It's the word mimshak. So I want you to remember

01:10:21.369 --> 01:10:26.970
that. Write it down. Mimshak. The mimshak anointing.

01:10:28.130 --> 01:10:30.890
The mimshak anointing that covers, that spreads.

01:10:36.809 --> 01:10:41.250
Theologians believe that Lucifer's task was worship,

01:10:41.430 --> 01:10:45.109
which is what? Spreading the glory of God. The

01:10:45.109 --> 01:10:48.590
worship would come to heaven or whatever, and

01:10:48.590 --> 01:10:53.850
he would be the administrator of the glory. You

01:10:53.850 --> 01:10:56.930
understand? So his task as worship leader was

01:10:56.930 --> 01:11:00.409
to literally spread and cover the earth with

01:11:00.409 --> 01:11:04.609
the glory of God. Because he had the anointing

01:11:04.609 --> 01:11:13.189
to cover and spread. That's why when Beyonce

01:11:13.189 --> 01:11:19.369
drops her greatest latest, what does it do? Come

01:11:19.369 --> 01:11:24.989
on, what does it do? Like a wildfire. It covers

01:11:24.989 --> 01:11:27.869
the earth. They'll be singing that in rural China.

01:11:28.729 --> 01:11:33.199
To the left, to the left. Is that the latest

01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:38.439
hit? I don't know. Don't laugh at that. Because

01:11:38.439 --> 01:11:42.800
Lucifer, he understands one thing. Covering the

01:11:42.800 --> 01:11:48.420
earth. This is something God's children, we have

01:11:48.420 --> 01:11:51.560
to get. For too long we've settled for an anointing

01:11:51.560 --> 01:11:54.859
to preach or to cast out demons or heal the sick

01:11:54.859 --> 01:11:57.399
or whatever. An anointing to administrate anything.

01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:01.060
But there's an anointing that covers. There's

01:12:01.060 --> 01:12:04.260
an anointing that spreads. And God wants us to

01:12:04.260 --> 01:12:08.279
receive that anointing to spread His glory throughout

01:12:08.279 --> 01:12:11.939
this earth. Spread His power. Witness to Him

01:12:11.939 --> 01:12:16.979
all over. It's not dependent upon our ability

01:12:16.979 --> 01:12:22.359
to administer and organize and do things for

01:12:22.359 --> 01:12:26.140
the Lord. It's dependent upon the anointing that

01:12:26.140 --> 01:12:29.319
spreads. Because those songs aren't any good,

01:12:29.479 --> 01:12:35.300
right? No, it's because there's a supernatural

01:12:35.300 --> 01:12:38.300
element to it. We can receive that supernatural

01:12:38.300 --> 01:12:43.640
element for our business. You may have a little

01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:46.800
kiosk, but if you receive the anointing to cover,

01:12:46.979 --> 01:12:51.819
it can cause that thing to grow. You're thinking

01:12:51.819 --> 01:12:57.960
of examples right now. How does someone... You

01:12:57.960 --> 01:13:00.220
were here yesterday and now you're here. The

01:13:00.220 --> 01:13:04.979
thing just covered, just exploded. Right? It's

01:13:04.979 --> 01:13:07.260
an anointing. It's a grace. It's an anointing

01:13:07.260 --> 01:13:10.340
to cover. It's an anointing to spread. Is anyone

01:13:10.340 --> 01:13:13.319
at all interested in that? Has anyone at all

01:13:13.319 --> 01:13:19.260
been frustrated with the speed and efficacy of

01:13:19.260 --> 01:13:22.380
their life? Has anyone felt stifled and like

01:13:22.380 --> 01:13:25.399
maybe things just ain't growing like they should?

01:13:26.760 --> 01:13:29.000
I want to do something for the Lord, but it's

01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:33.859
just not working. Anyone? Has anyone wondered,

01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:37.619
why is the church not taking more ground, doing

01:13:37.619 --> 01:13:43.060
more? We started in India four -ish years ago

01:13:43.060 --> 01:13:50.039
with 27 pastors and maybe a hundred person tribe

01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:54.520
or so. Now we have about 5 ,000 people. That's

01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:57.579
about 1 ,000 people a year. And I promise you

01:13:57.579 --> 01:14:01.300
it has nothing to do with any good organization.

01:14:02.300 --> 01:14:06.739
Nothing good about, am I right? This is not like

01:14:06.739 --> 01:14:08.479
good planning and look what we've done. We've

01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:11.779
hit this mile. Nothing. It's all about this memshack.

01:14:15.220 --> 01:14:18.460
It's like that vat of wheat. It just, something

01:14:18.460 --> 01:14:21.720
hit it. It was placed upon the altar and something

01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:24.140
hit it. And there's an intangible power that

01:14:24.140 --> 01:14:27.069
just causes it to spread. How do you explain

01:14:27.069 --> 01:14:32.409
life? How does a tree grow? It's the same intangible

01:14:32.409 --> 01:14:35.529
force in the anointing that causes whatsoever

01:14:35.529 --> 01:14:38.550
you do shall prosper. Is that what the Word says?

01:14:39.029 --> 01:14:41.489
You will be like a tree planted by the rivers

01:14:41.489 --> 01:14:43.850
of water and everything that you do shall prosper.

01:14:44.170 --> 01:14:49.109
The blessing of Abraham. We have to not settle

01:14:49.109 --> 01:14:51.729
for small, small in this year of a kingdom expansion.

01:14:54.189 --> 01:14:57.390
We have to not settle for small, small. We need

01:14:57.390 --> 01:15:03.069
to go for it. I was with my father, not my hostage

01:15:03.069 --> 01:15:05.670
-holding father, which you might be accusing

01:15:05.670 --> 01:15:10.729
me of that here pretty soon. But this guy I consider

01:15:10.729 --> 01:15:13.789
a spiritual father. I've been with him for several

01:15:13.789 --> 01:15:16.890
days and just seen amazing things happen. He

01:15:16.890 --> 01:15:19.510
stopped time. He healed people with his shadow.

01:15:20.069 --> 01:15:25.250
Jesus is alive, you know, in that place. And

01:15:25.250 --> 01:15:27.930
I was just going to tell him bye. I was heading

01:15:27.930 --> 01:15:30.909
back home. And he was sitting in the chair, and

01:15:30.909 --> 01:15:32.869
I just knelt down just to shake his hand and

01:15:32.869 --> 01:15:36.810
say thank you. And he's got this Reinhard Bonnke

01:15:36.810 --> 01:15:39.750
voice, just deep. I wish I had a preacher's voice

01:15:39.750 --> 01:15:44.229
like that. Just deep and strong, you know? And

01:15:44.229 --> 01:15:45.789
he looked at me. He was tired. He'd been preaching

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all day. And he looked at me and he said, Brad,

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go for it. Oh, it hit me so hard. Go for it.

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I said, yes, sir. I stood up like a man, you

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know, and I just started crying. Okay, I'm going

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to go for it. I'm going to go for it. But we've

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got to go for it. Anybody, let's just close our

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eyes right here. We're closing. Let's pray. Let's

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go for it, guys. Let's encounter the living God.

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Let's respond with... putting ourselves upon

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the altar with each passing revelation of God

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and build from glory to glory. And then let's

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experience the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

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Let's expect the anointing, the anointing to

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spread, the anointing of God that breaks yokes,

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the anointing to build, the anointing to grow.

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Would you just hold your hands out right now

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in this moment? We're not going to have any atmosphere

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music. We're not going to have anything fancy.

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But something is going to come upon your life

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as you're genuine and authentic with the living

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God in this moment. And you say, Lord, I want

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to encounter you. Lord, I want to put myself

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on the altar today. And Lord, I want a fresh

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anointing on this fine Pentecost Sunday. I want

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a fresh memshak. Mimshack. I want it, Lord. And

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then you're going to go from this place and there's

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going to be doors of opportunity that open for

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you. There's going to be things that happen where

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heaven and earth... Your eyes are closed now,

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okay? We're receiving. Where heaven and earth

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will shift out of the way. Just like that one

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fish that Jesus said, come get on my hook. And

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there was money in its mouth. The things are

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going to move out of the way for your life. as

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you dedicate yourself to live for His glory,

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His glory will be seen and expressed through

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your life. So right now in this moment, receive

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the anointing for Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,

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and the uttermost. Receive. You say, what does

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it mean? I'm just a homeschool mom. Receive the

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anointing, the memshak, to send your arrows.

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Think spreading. Think growth. Think life. We're

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praying, okay? We're still praying. Give us 30

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seconds. And just you're receiving. Something

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is soaking into your spirit right now. New dimensions

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are opening in your inner man right now to receive

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something from the living God. You're going to

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leave this place changed. And I speak and pray

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that something in your future, there's things

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waiting for you because of your choice to be

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here this morning and hear the word of God. And

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I pray that you begin to expect, expect those

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contracts, expect those things, expect that growth,

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expect that spreading. Not by power, not by might,

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but by the Spirit, says the Lord. Amen. Thank

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you guys so much for being willing and open to

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receive. I'm going to just stay up here. If you

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guys desire any further prayer or ministry, I'm

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open, but we are formally dismissed. I love you.