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Hey everybody! I hope y'all are doing good. I don't know who all is going to

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catch me live because I know it is very late, but this is just what ended up

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happening. So I was actually gonna get on before the Zoom meeting and then ended

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up that there was too short of amount of time between when I was gonna start the

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live when my Zoom teaching started. I wasn't teaching, I was listening to a

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teaching and so I thought, no, I don't want to cut it short for y'all and I

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just wanted to be able to, you know, be in a state of rest and just be

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able to speak, you know, as the Lord as the Lord led and not cut it out. So

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anyway, so for those of you who can't catch me live, hopefully you enjoyed the

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replay and always feel free to ask questions in the comments, you know, if

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anything that I'm saying, you know, brings up any questions or write them

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down and then we can talk to them, talk about them on Thursday or whatever. Also,

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just to mention, Carrie had gotten online and talked about the

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fact that she and I had been discussing some things this afternoon. We just went

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back and forth over a Facebook Messenger because I just reached out and I

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said, so how you doing? And then she said, well, you know, what's going on? She said, but I'm okay.

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I'm okay. I'm like, no, you're not. Why? Because I'm a human and every woman, every

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human says, I'm doing good. There's all of this stuff, but I'm fine and we're really

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not fine. So I knew that code because I've used that code, those code words

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before. So anyway, I wanted to check on her, make sure she's okay and that's when

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she explained, you know, a bit more in depth of, hey, this is what I'm going

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through and whatever. And I just wanted to encourage her is, hey Steph, I

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just wanted to encourage her that, hey, you know, we can enter into a state of

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rest literally at any point because rest is the state that we're supposed to live

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in regardless of what activities it is that we're doing, regardless of whether

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it is even in a relationship. This is not her issue because you heard what

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she was talking about, you know, the thing of like just being tired, you

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know, her son wasn't sleeping and then she felt that she was behind on things

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and whatever. So whether it is things like housework, taking care of family or

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even something that we think of as a lot more, not critical, but kind of, I

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don't know, has a tendency to kind of grab our soul and feel very emotionally

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disturbing like conflict in a relationship or something. You know, we're

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in the middle of it. In all of those places, we can always abide in this house.

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I'm so glad, Steph. I love that you feel like you're a hummingbird because I

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think that they're just the prettiest, neatest little creatures. You know, they

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beat 120, their wings beat what? 120 times? I don't know. Is it in a second? I mean,

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it's ridiculous how fast those things beat. But yeah, they move very, very

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quickly, but they're such delicate, pretty little things. But anyway, so

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regardless of what situation that we're in, we can always abide in a state of

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rest and that's what God desires. He desires us to always abide in a state of

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rest. It doesn't matter. Remember that rest is a state of being. It is not

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activity or inactivity. It has nothing whatsoever to do with it. The reason why

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we tend to connect the two is because... I'm sorry. Let me just... I know that

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Amy was wanting... Oh, I don't know. Is this how I can find it? Yes.

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Here we go. There we go. Because I know that Amy was watching for the live and I

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wanted to make sure that she grabbed it that she found it. So, the reason that we

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believe that inactivity is rest and the reason that we associate it... associate

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the two together is because we have not understood how to abide in that state

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until... until we stop. Oh, hey Amy! Until we stop and then we then stop all of our

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activity and then we and then we're finally able to move a bit more into a

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state of being called rest. So, that's why we tend to associate it with inactivity

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because it's the only way in which we've gotten ourselves to finally stop being

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so stressed and so we think that's how we've started to associate rest with

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with inactivity but it has nothing whatsoever to do with it. It's just that

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it's easier for us to land into that state of being.

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If we stop doing, we tend to, while we're being active, we tend to pull ourselves

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out of a state of rest and tend to pull ourselves into a state of stress. That's

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why we associate rest with inactivity, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

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And so I just wanted to point that out. So we're to, we're to abide in a state of

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rest and regardless. So what I was talking to her about and what she had

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mentioned that she had found encouraging, I told her, I said, you know I think that

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this is great that we're having this conversation because it lets me know

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that I should talk to other people about it and let everybody else know, you know,

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basically the same thing that I told her. And maybe we can talk about this in

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greater depth at some other time, but just basically the idea that get, and she

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mentioned this in her live, to get rid of our expectations. That we expect that

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well my child shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't be up at 3 in the morning. I

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should be getting sleep. I should be getting this much done around the house

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today. My laundry shouldn't be piling up. I should be doing the dishes

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directly after we eat. These are not details that she and I talked about. I'm

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just coming up with, coming up with things that tend to bother us women. I

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should be doing such-and-such in my business. I should have reached out to so

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many X number of people today. And if we list all of these, if we come up with

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this list of expectations, whether or not it's meeting our own standard of measure

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or we believe that we found it somewhere in the Bible and that God is holding us

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to it, regardless we've set up some kind of a standard of expectation and if we

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fall short of that expectation or we're concerned that we're going to fall short

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of that expectation, then it causes a lot of stress and it pulls us out of a state

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of rest and out of a state of being at rest. And so the very

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important thing to do is to release all of our expectations. Just completely

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release them and just realize, just stop fighting whatever situation

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that we're in thinking, it should not be like this. We need to stop doing that. We

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need to stop looking at everything around us and saying, I shouldn't be like this

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or this situation shouldn't be like this or my child shouldn't be like this.

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This shouldn't be. God desires something different. We need to let that go. And

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that's one of the steps that we can take to release, which moves us into a state

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of rest, regardless of what it is that we're doing, is to let go of that

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expectation. It's very, very difficult, especially at all of our ages, because

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we're not, you know, we're not in elementary school, we're not

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teenagers, we're not new to this world. We've been around it a long time and we

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have developed these terrible habits and we remember everything that our mothers

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told us. For some of it, you know, those of you who are mothers, you remember all

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the things that you've been telling your children and now we have to shift that

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paradigm. Now we have to totally change the way that we view the world and we

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view ourselves. Exactly, shoulds are self-judgment. Yeah, one of the things

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that began to break me of this is when I finally heard a teaching that

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said, you know, in the Lord there's no more shoulds and shouldn'ts. That

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really bothered me. I was so much in the state of, so much in a performance

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mentality, I thought, I've got no grid for that. I have got no grid for the fact

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that in God there's no shoulds and shouldn'ts. So, that's something that we

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can move into, you know, later, but it was just something that kind of

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whet my appetite for the possibility that there was something more and

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greater in regard to an amount of freedom that I hadn't yet stepped into.

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So, anyway, let's see. I don't know, maybe I should just be really loud, Amy. I don't

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know, maybe that's my issue. Okay, so I will try. I have my volume up, but that

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really shouldn't affect anything. I don't know what's going on. The only thing I

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can think of is to unplug my phone. Does that help at all?

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That help or is it just still the same, the volume? I'm afraid I don't know what

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else to do. There's nothing obstructing it being able to take in my voice, so

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hopefully it's better. Sorry, I'll try to speak loud. Okay, so as far as the Two

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Trees, I was very excited about this teaching. I've been talking to y'all about it

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for almost a week saying that, hey, we're gonna talk about this, and so finally

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we're here. And, of course, remember, all of these things, I've been talking about

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that.

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Hey, we're going to have this teaching and this is what's coming up next, but do

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you notice how it's been almost a week? And I'm like, we're fine. We haven't even

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gotten to it yet. I allowed other things. I allowed the Lord to just kind of guide

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in the Spirit and y'all would bring up questions. I'm like, okay, and I would just

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sense in the Spirit, okay, Lord, which one's important to do? And He's like,

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answer their question. You know, let's just allow, you said, Ashley,

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allow yourself to kind of flow with the Spirit in this. Again, just a state

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of rest. I don't have to be rigid that, well, I had this idea and I thought this

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would be helpful for everybody and it needs to go in this order. No! Just

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operate your business and the way that you interact with other people and what

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it is that you offer to other people of yourself, whether it is or is not in a

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business setting, do it just from a place of rest. Just let everything flow.

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Okay, got better when you got closer. Okay, good.

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Alright, so for the tree of life versus the tree of the knowledge of

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good and evil. Okay, so remember that back there in the garden, in fact, let me just

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pull that up for us just really quick. Remember back there in the garden that

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Satan, the very first question that Satan asked Eve was, I know all of this

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but I'm just gonna read it instead of just saying it out loud, just saying it

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from memory. Okay, remember that the very first question that he asked the

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woman is, did God really say? That's the first question he asked was, he asked her

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about something that caused her to, trying to get her to stop and question

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what it is that she believed about what it is that God said. So remember,

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so notice the two most important factors in there. What she believed about what

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God said. Those two things. So the Word of God and then what it is that we believe

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about it. That is the, that's the foundation of everything. Even Satan

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knows that. So the first time we're introduced to the potential of something

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in the world, in this perfect world that God created, going off track is we have

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those two things. That the Word of God was being questioned based off of what

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it is that we believe about it. That is what everything comes down to and so

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it's something that we're going to discuss later is the fact that sin, all

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sin is unbelief. That is what sin is. Now from unbelief stems other things. Stems

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from the fact that we're gonna reach for something because we think we don't have

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it and all of that. But the very basis and root of everything is unbelief. So

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Satan knew full well the first thing that I've got to get her to question is

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whether or not she believes what God said. In other words, believes his word. So

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that's the foundation of everything. So the woman said, you know, we can eat from

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fruit. We can eat fruit from the trees of the garden. But did God say

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you must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must

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not touch it. But God did say. I was thinking that sounded weird. But God did

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say you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You

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must not touch it or you will die. So it's fascinating. You think of how many

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trees that there are. How many trees would there be in the garden? That's a

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lot of trees. God said there was one she couldn't touch or one that she couldn't

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eat from. One. So you notice how interesting it is. I don't know

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that I would necessarily say that it caught her attention. But she pointed out

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we could eat from anything except this one. So do you see how we've

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narrowed our vision and created our entire world around the tree of the

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knowledge of good and evil when we have an entire garden to eat from? So we

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believe we've confused later on where I think it was I think that

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this idea was first introduced in the New Testament where Jesus talks about

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the fact that the way the Lord is narrow but then the way to to hell or I don't

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remember how he worded it is really really wide. And so we tend to think oh

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my goodness you know it's so much that there's so much more of the world and so

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much more what it is that is out there is is sinful and it's only a few things

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that are good. That it's the opposite. It is the exact opposite. We have not

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understood that passage correctly. We can see from the garden that what God

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created is huge and that's anything that is not of him that is an

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is of unbelief and anything that is born from that is very, very, very small.

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The universe and the spiritual principles are abundant and God gave that to us.

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We have switched them and we have thought that the world of sin and everything that

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it is that wants to pull us into sin is what makes up the majority of the world and makes

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up the majority of what it is that we should be defending ourselves from and being careful

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of and operating in spiritual warfare against.

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We think that what it is that God offers us is so small and is so narrow and is not abundant.

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We look at sin and we look at everything that the world has to offer and we think, oh my

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word, that's abundance and instead I'm going to be a good little martyr and I'm going to

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reduce my life to this.

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It is the opposite.

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God created a huge garden and it could have eaten out of anything except the tree of the

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knowledge of good and evil.

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We focused our world down to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and made that our

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whole focus, which fills up our world, which pushes out our knowledge and understanding

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of the abundance that God created and so we can't see it.

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We just think that that world is very large.

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Yes, destruction.

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The way of destruction is wide.

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What he did, what the serpent did, is he did the same thing with Eve that he tested Christ

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with in the wilderness.

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He tested the first Adam, because remember Eve was of the first Adam.

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She came out of the first Adam.

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And then of course it wasn't until Adam ate of the fruit, even though Eve did as well,

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it wasn't until Adam ate of the fruit that all of a sudden everything changed.

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Satan tested the first Adam in the exact same way that he tested the second Adam, Jesus,

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in the wilderness.

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He tested their belief of what God had said about their protection, their provision, and

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their placement or their position.

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In other words, their identity.

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Those are the three things, and we won't get into all of that detail, but I just wanted

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to mention that and y'all can go study it on your own.

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Those are the three things that Satan tempted Adam and Eve, the first Adam, with and those

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are the exact same things that you can find in the three tests that Satan tempted Jesus

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with.

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I think the very first one was his provision, which would be on the bread, and then I think

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that the next one was his protection, and then I think the protection, jumping off the

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temple, and God says that he's going to send his angels to protect you so that your feet

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doesn't even hit a stone, and then the third one was his identity.

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That's what it is that Satan tempts all of us with, is those things.

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Did God really say, and Jesus did what Eve and Adam did not do, which is he repeated

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God's words back to Satan.

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He's like, God said, God said, God said, period.

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The point, honestly, was not that he was quoting scripture.

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The point is that he was quoting God's word, his living and active word.

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We keep thinking that, oh my goodness, Satan comes against us, we need to quote scripture.

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Sure, if scripture's the word of God too, you can speak it, but it wasn't scripture

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that Jesus was pointing out, it was word of God, which comes forth out of him.

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So I wanted to mention that, that's what the serpent was tempting Eve with.

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So then he, of course, he has her start questioning, did God really say?

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So it's really fascinating what Eve did, and to me, it's always fascinating the process

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that the Bible detailed out that she went through.

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It doesn't just say that, well, she saw the fruit, or it doesn't say that, oh, well, she

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thought about what the serpent said, and she took it, and she took the fruit.

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The Bible talks about this whole process that she went through.

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in a very short time frame.

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this whole process of thinking about it,

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questioning the Lord,

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and then this process of going through with it,

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as opposed to making it very short,

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very sweet, very simple.

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So what is the difference between the tree of life

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and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

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So we tend to have a lot of resentment,

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even though none of us want to admit it.

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we've had to come to terms with,

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that we're disappointed that Adam and Eve

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made the choice that they did.

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They messed it up for the rest of us, right?

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But really, what it is that,

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we make that decision every single day,

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multiple times a day,

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am I gonna eat from the tree of life,

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or am I gonna eat from the tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil?

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They're just the first ones that did it.

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So what is the difference between eating

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from the tree of life versus eating

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from the tree of knowledge of good and evil?

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It's the source.

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Where are we getting the source of our actions,

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the source of our being,

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the source of our belief in where we get our protection,

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where we get our provision,

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where we get our identity,

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what identifies us, what protects us,

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and what provides for us?

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Is it God, or is it self?

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from allowing the Lord to provide for us

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and to be our source?

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Because this way, we can control the outcome.

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This way, we can plug in a formula

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to get an exact result,

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because they are spiritual principles

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that we can choose to operate by

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that will give us an exact result,

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because it is a law, right?

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You follow the law, you get an exact result.

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Says that, actually, it says that the law

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came about through angels,

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which I thought was really interesting,

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that God provided the law in order to protect

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the Israelites when they rejected relationship,

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but the law and being able to operate

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according to particular spiritual principles

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has existed long before the Israelites.

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It was just a specific type of covenant

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that, how would you put that?

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that used, that took advantage of

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and operated according to the spiritual principles

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that God had already put into place,

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and said, okay, you wanna know

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how to follow the spiritual principles?

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Okay, I'm gonna write them out for you.

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and you follow all those things.

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I've now revealed to you the spiritual principles

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that I wrote out a very long time ago,

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and that Adam and Eve chose a very long time ago.

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So anyway, so the difference is the source.

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Is it self, or is it God?

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Death or life?

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Law, relationship.

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Wage, I'm gonna work for my result,

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versus I'm just going to get a result

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based off of the fact that it's a gift,

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based off of my identity,

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not based off of how much I've worked.

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Good and evil, life.

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That's the difference.

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That's the choice that we're making.

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well then we can insure ourselves of a particular result.

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Why is that appealing to us?

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Satan made her question,

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because, I didn't read that second question.

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the second statement that the serpent made.

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You will not surely die,

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for God knows that when you eat of it,

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your eyes will be opened,

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and you will be like God,

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knowing good and evil.

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and she's acting and living in the earth,

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and governing the garden,

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because God provided the garden.

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She and Adam just governed the increase.

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and how to govern the garden,

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based off of relationship with God.

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between good and evil.

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you're operating out of your identity as a son,

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and out of being the essence of who God is,

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because remember we're born of God,

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and therefore everything you do is good.

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you have to have an arbitrary list,

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like the Israelites had to have.

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that God put into place.

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Choose between them,

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and then decide to, you know.

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tick them off, you know, hit all of the check boxes in order to ensure yourself

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that you're doing something good and that you're pleasing to God because you

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did these things and therefore you can ensure yourself that you're gonna get a

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particular result. We're working for it. If we follow, if we act out of

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relationship though, if we act out of the essence of the character of God, God is

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always good. He's the very definition of good. He is good as in the noun, as in the

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very, the very thing. How do we know what good is? Well, we look at God and

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whatever he is, that's what good is and we're taking everything else and

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comparing it up to him as the standard measure. Good is not this arbitrary idea

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that we compare God against in order to determine whether or not God's good.

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God is the standard of what good actually is and everything else compared next to

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it in order to know whether or not it is good. Does it look kind of like God?

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thing. Does it not look like God? Well, then it's not a good thing. But remember,

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if we pulled it out as this arbitrary idea and we try to follow it as an

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arbitrary idea, trying to look like the character of God but not allowing

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ourselves to be of his essence, then that, our source over here has been

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removed from God as the source and this is actually, this is actually

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death. This is actually self. I'm going to just do these things that look like him

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but the life source is not the essence of God himself because if I act out of

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a relationship with him, well then he's the life source. If I don't act out of a

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relationship with him and I pull myself away from him and I pull out,

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well what are some characteristics of God? Okay, let me write all of those down

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and follow those, then I'm relying on self. That's the difference between the

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two. So anyway, so the serpent told told Eve, you know, you're gonna be, you're

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gonna be like God. So in other words, God's holding out on you. God knows that

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if you eat of that tree, then you're gonna have this. So what he's telling Eve

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is that means there's something currently you don't have and God won't

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provide it for you. And so he's like, oh I had thought about that. I didn't know

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that I could know out there between good and evil. I'd like to know the

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difference between good and evil. I mean, is anybody else besides me

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ever seen this passage as, well isn't that like Eve wanting to do something

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good? See, it can sound really good. Well, I want to know the difference between

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good and evil. I mean, why does an evil person want to know the difference

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between good and evil? They don't care. They just want to do whatever it is they

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want to do. But a good person wants to know the difference between good and

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evil to please her father, right? But here's the problem. She thinks she's not

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pleasing to her father. She thinks God's holding out on her and that there's

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something that she's missing and that she needs it. That's the problem. So we

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villainize poor Eve as if, you know, what she's done is a terrible thing. Yes, she

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did choose to provide for herself. Absolutely. And she doubted the fact that

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God was providing something for her. But I read this passage as in she

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wanted to know. She wanted to know the difference between good and evil. What

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she didn't rely on and rest in is the fact that if she just stayed in

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relationship with God, she didn't need to know the difference between good and

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evil. What does that mean? It means that her mind could remain innocent. But when

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we come into the knowledge of evil, even in order to stay away from it, there is

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an essence in which we lose a bit of innocence. And I don't mean that we like

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we need to think of it as like sin or anything like that. But there is an

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element in which we have lost some innocence. And it talks about that later

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on in Scripture. Let's just point this out really quick. You go to...

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because God commended Thyatira, which was one of the seven churches of

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Revelation. He commended Thyatira for not even knowing about the bad things of

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Satan. So in other words, like even knowing him to stay away from him. He's

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like, you don't even need to know him. So that is... where is it? Okay, so here we go.

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So Revelation 2... well, let me start earlier because otherwise it'll sound

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confusing. Okay, so let me start in 220. Nevertheless, I have this against you.

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Because remember, this is Jesus talking to the angel. That's what it says. To the

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angel of the church.

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in Thyatira. It says, nevertheless I have this against you. You tolerate that

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woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads

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my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrifice to idols. I

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have given her time to repent of her immorality but she is unwilling so I

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will cast her on a bed of suffering and I will make those who commit adultery

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with her suffer intensely unless they repent of her ways. God is not talking to

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unbelievers here. He's talking to a church. He's talking to believers. He

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says, I will strike her children dead then all the churches will know that I

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am he who searches hearts and minds. So that was where they were sinning against

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the Lord in their hearts and minds. It said, and I will repay each of you, the

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church, each of you according to your deeds. Now I say to the rest of

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you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned

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Satan's so-called deep secrets, and then parentheses, I will all I will not

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impose any other burden on you. Only hold on to what you have until I come. He

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commended those in the church of Thyatira that did not, that had not

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learned Satan's so-called deep secrets. I mean, so in other words, there's an

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element of innocence in not knowing all of the wiles and the strategies of

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Satan. That's a bigger, deeper subject we can go into because

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there's a lot of people that have ministries around spiritual warfare and

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understanding everything to the nth degree. I'm not saying that all

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those things are bad, but there is an element of innocence that has to be

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sacrificed. God uses people like that. He uses people that understand the way that

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Satan has built up his world, has organized the demons and the

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fallen angels and all of the strategies that he uses against people and

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how people can defend themselves against it, how people can watch out for

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this, that, and the other and be aware that when such-and-such crops up in

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their life, you know, that's Satan lying to them. And God uses ministries like

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that. He calls people to ministries like that. Those are tools, but there is an

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element, in a way, that's still of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil

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if we think that that is required in order to attain righteousness. Remember,

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we already have righteousness, but it is a tool that can be used. However, when we

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operate according to the Spirit and we operate out of who we are, there's no

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more spiritual warfare because Satan is under our feet. If we're one with Christ

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and it says that Satan is under Christ's feet, then it means that Satan is under

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our feet. We don't need to fight him like this anymore. I just wanted to mention

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that. I'm giving you an awful lot in addition to the truth knowledge of good

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and evil tonight, aren't I? I'm trying to think if there was something else I was

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going to say about that. I think that I'll leave it there for now. Well,

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okay, so there is one thing that I wanted to mention. Remember that what happened

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when they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? They hid. They hid and

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they covered themselves with fig leaves. Were they any different before the fall

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than after the fall? Were they not naked before the fall, but then

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after they fell, now all of a sudden, oh my, we're naked. No, they were always naked.

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So what changed? Their mind, their belief. They changed systems and

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according to that new system that they chose, this was an issue. When it was, when

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they were in relationship with God, remember, everything they did was good.

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Everything that they were was good, but when they pulled the list out and

461
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then are trying to operate according to some arbitrary list of do's and

462
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don'ts, somehow the nakedness thing fell into an evil category instead of a good

463
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one and therefore they had to cover. They had to change. They had to hide. It was

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their mind that changed. It's what it is that they believed about God and what it

465
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is that they believed about themselves. They chose to operate

466
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according to a different system. It was all in their head. So if they

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could have just stayed in relationship.

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God said you're perfectly fine if you're naked. Isn't that interesting that they were

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perfectly fine being naked? But if they operate according to this system, when

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it's no longer in relationship, because it's removed from the life

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source of God himself, then all of a sudden nakedness isn't good anymore

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according to this list. But when you're in God, nakedness is perfectly fine.

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There's nothing wrong with it. There's nothing sinful. There's nothing lustful.

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There's nothing that leads you to lust because you're always operating

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according to the nature and relationship of the Lord. Over here, though, all of a sudden

476
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nakedness became a problem. What happened was their mind shift changed.

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They chose a different system. They chose, I'm gonna choose all of these things

478
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that are arbitrary outside and separated from the life source of God himself.

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Yes, so let's look at Galatians. Galatians, where do I want to start? We're gonna

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start in Galatians 1. Well, you know what? Before I do that, let me see if there

481
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was anything else. Okay, remember again that the thing about the tree of the

482
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knowledge of good and evil versus the tree of life. Remember that Jesus, when he

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came and he died, he didn't come to die to make bad people good. That's what

484
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tree of the knowledge of good and evil is. Jesus didn't die to make bad people good.

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Remember what I just talked about nakedness and how that seemed a little

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weird over here? It was fine and over here it's not. God didn't care.

487
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God didn't come over here to make bad people good. He came to make dead people

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live. Remember the tree of life? Life. Contrary to the tree of the knowledge of

489
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good and evil. God did not come here to make bad people good. He came to make

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dead people live, period. It's important that we realize that

491
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when we choose to operate according to the tree of knowledge of good and evil, we

492
00:37:20.600 --> 00:37:27.600
became enemies of God in our own mind. That's what it is that we did.

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Remember the whole nakedness thing? It's in their mind. That's the system that

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they chose. Let's operate according to spiritual principles. Let's pull it out of

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relationship with God because that is vulnerability. That's what nakedness is.

496
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Complete vulnerability and everything's fine. Over here, we want to protect

497
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ourselves against vulnerability. We protect ourselves because

498
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vulnerability is an unsafe thing and therefore we constantly want to cover.

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Yes, he came to make dead people live. That's right. We became enemies

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of God in our own mind. We had to hide. We had to cover. We do the same

501
00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:21.000
thing now because we believe that if I didn't tithe, if I treated someone badly,

502
00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:26.840
if I said something, if I did X, Y, or Z, if I didn't do whatever I think that a

503
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:30.480
good wife would do, if I didn't do whatever it is that I think that a

504
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:36.400
good mother would do, then we've condemned ourselves and we made

505
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ourselves enemies of God in our own mind because that's the standard that we set

506
00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:48.520
up for ourselves. God's over there going, what's the deal? I don't

507
00:38:48.520 --> 00:38:55.560
understand. What's the deal? Things haven't changed, but we dictated

508
00:38:55.560 --> 00:39:02.000
how our relationship with God would work from that point and because we

509
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:04.920
have the power and the authority to do so because God gave us that free

510
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:09.120
will to choose that. Let's look at Galatians really quick.

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Galatians 1, starting in verse 6, Paul is saying, I'm astonished that you were so

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quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are

513
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turning to a different gospel. This is Galatians. These are people who were

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saved. It says, which is really no gospel at all. Again, tree of the knowledge of

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good and evil. Evidently, and you're gonna see

516
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later on in the passage how it's very evident that he's talking about the

517
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tree of knowledge of good and evil versus the tree of life. Evidently, some

518
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people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the

519
00:39:43.120 --> 00:39:48.240
gospel of Christ. In other words, that the way to get to Christ or the way to get

520
00:39:48.240 --> 00:39:55.640
to God is by doing everything that you, doing all of this stuff. These

521
00:39:55.640 --> 00:39:59.520
are people that are already saved. They understood full well, all we

522
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have to do is...

523
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They say disbelieve on Christ,

524
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but Paul is getting onto them for what they did after that.

525
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He's like, okay, so you already know

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that all you had to do was to believe in Christ,

527
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and you're saved.

528
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So now that you're saved, and now that you know that,

529
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why on earth are you living life

530
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:18.280
according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

531
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As if this gets you in,

532
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but belief doesn't keep you there

533
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and make you please me before the Lord.

534
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So it says, evidently, some people are throwing you

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into confusion or trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.

536
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But even if we or an angel from heaven

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should preach a gospel other than the one we preach to you,

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let him be eternally condemned.

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As we have already said, so now I say again,

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if anybody is preaching to you a gospel

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other than what you have accepted,

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because again, this is past tense,

543
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they'd already accepted this, they're already saved.

544
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If anyone preaches a different gospel

545
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other than what we've already accepted,

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let him be eternally condemned.

547
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Am I now trying to win the approval of men?

548
00:41:03.520 --> 00:41:07.240
Again, listed do's and don'ts, shoulds and shouldn'ts,

549
00:41:07.240 --> 00:41:10.800
what have we all agreed as a society or to ourselves

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00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:15.040
that what are the standards that we're being held to?

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My house should look like this,

552
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my business should look like this,

553
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I should be doing these things,

554
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I shouldn't be doing these things.

555
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You know, am I trying to think of all of the things

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that your mothers have said or maybe continue to say to you

557
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the things that your fathers continue to say,

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the things that your siblings, the things that your friends,

559
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the thing that your pastor,

560
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the thing that your worship leader, whoever.

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You know, whoever it is that's in your head.

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00:41:38.080 --> 00:41:39.760
I used to have certain people in my head

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when I would pick out clothes.

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And trust me, I just, you know, everybody would know,

565
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I just very modestly and I would be careful,

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00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.200
you know, I would always be looking at prices, et cetera,

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and I would hear, I could not go buy something

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without hearing certain people in my life in my head

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in order to know, I wonder if I should buy this or not,

570
00:42:05.680 --> 00:42:07.360
what would they say?

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And it took me until I was 30-something years old

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to recognize that that's what I was doing.

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It was that ingrained in me.

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I never once realized I was hearing people in my head

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when I was making decisions.

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Certain people in my head, why?

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Because I was hearing that constant standard

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that society or they themselves

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and the way they'd interpreted society

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according to the culture that they grew up in,

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in whatever part of Texas or Wyoming or wherever it is,

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according to the way that they thought

583
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that God made things pleasing to God

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and or that other people would, if I follow these rules,

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00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:55.560
would find me, would agree that I was pleasing to God

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and wouldn't create trouble for me if they judged me

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00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:02.000
because they thought I wasn't pleasing to God.

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I was hearing people in my head.

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00:43:03.080 --> 00:43:04.680
It was just insane.

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Anyway, so am I now trying to win the approval of men

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or of God?

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00:43:12.640 --> 00:43:15.840
Or am I trying to, yeah, yeah,

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or am I trying to please men?

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If I were still trying to please men,

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I would not be a servant of Christ.

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So in other words, he's saying this is a perverted gospel.

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This is not how we get to Christ.

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This is not how we stay in Christ.

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I want you to know, brothers,

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that the gospel I preached is not something

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that man made up.

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Remember, what did Adam and Eve do?

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Adam and Eve came up with this idea in their minds

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that they should follow a list of do's and don'ts,

605
00:43:50.560 --> 00:43:52.120
shoulds and shouldn'ts,

606
00:43:52.120 --> 00:43:53.600
according to the spiritual principles

607
00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:54.600
that God put into place,

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that if they choose this system to rely on themselves

609
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.320
to know what's right and wrong,

610
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God said, then you will know what's right and wrong.

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Satan was right when he said that.

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00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:08.560
He said, well, God knows that you're gonna then know

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what's right and wrong

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because according to spiritual principles

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that God put into place,

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if that's the path that they chose

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to separate themselves from relationship with him,

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then they were gonna know right and wrong.

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So in knowing the things that were now right and wrong,

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they were creating a system that was man made.

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It's almost like, terrible as it sounds,

622
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:36.020
partnering with Satan to come up with this system

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that we now all follow

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because it is contrary to the Lord

625
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:44.800
in the way that he wants us to operate out of relationship.

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So I want you to know, brothers,

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00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:48.120
that the gospel I preached is not something

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00:44:48.120 --> 00:44:49.600
that man made up.

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I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it.

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Rather, I received it by revelation from Christ.

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I'm going to skip through.

632
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all of that. I highly recommend that y'all go and you read Galatians. Very,

633
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very, very, very good and it talks a lot about and talks a lot about the

634
00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:16.320
difference between the knowledge of the tree of life versus the tree of

635
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.920
the knowledge of good and evil. So if we skip to Galatians 3, you foolish

636
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:26.840
Galatians, who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly

637
00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:31.800
portrayed as crucified, I would like to learn just one thing from you. Did you

638
00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:39.120
receive this spirit by observing the law or by believing what you heard? Are you

639
00:45:39.120 --> 00:45:44.160
so foolish? After beginning with this spirit, because they believed on Jesus

640
00:45:44.160 --> 00:45:47.840
Christ and that's how they became saved, after beginning with this spirit are you

641
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:53.960
now trying to attain your goal by human effort? So you become saved like this but

642
00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:58.060
in order to be pleasing to God after you're in the kingdom, now you have to

643
00:45:58.060 --> 00:46:03.440
obey all of these rules? That doesn't make any sense. So have you suffered

644
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:08.520
so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing? Does God give you his spirit

645
00:46:08.520 --> 00:46:15.040
and work miracles among you because you observe the law or because you believe

646
00:46:15.040 --> 00:46:19.640
what you heard? Remember that believe what you heard because faith comes by

647
00:46:19.640 --> 00:46:25.560
hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Again, that's why Satan attacked the

648
00:46:25.560 --> 00:46:31.760
Word because it's the foundation of everything. So consider Abraham, he

649
00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:36.760
believed God, he believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. We keep

650
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:41.000
thinking if we do all these things, those are the righteous things to do and that

651
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:44.840
is the way that we can obtain righteousness but it says that that he

652
00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:53.200
believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. So understand then

653
00:46:53.200 --> 00:46:58.640
that those who believe are children of Abraham. The scripture foresaw that God

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would justify the Gentiles by faith and announced the gospel in advance to

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Abraham. All nations will be blessed through you so that those who have faith

656
00:47:09.080 --> 00:47:15.560
are blessed with Abraham, the man with faith. All who rely on observing the law

657
00:47:15.560 --> 00:47:20.680
are under a curse for it is written. Cursed is everyone who does not continue

658
00:47:20.680 --> 00:47:26.800
to do everything written in the book of the law. Remember, God's the one who

659
00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:32.920
created the law, right? I mean, he created the law, he read the law, he told, he's the

660
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:35.920
one who creates spiritual principles. Understand, Satan doesn't create

661
00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:40.720
spiritual principles. Satan's not that powerful. God created spiritual principles.

662
00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:47.240
So clearly no one is justified before God by the law because the

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righteous, it says, will live by faith. The law is not based on faith.

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On the contrary, the man who does these things will live by them. So whatever you

665
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.400
do, however you frame up your world, whatever standards that you set up,

666
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:09.600
you're gonna have to live by those. That's exhausting. It is so exhausting.

667
00:48:09.600 --> 00:48:13.080
However you frame up your world in the way that you believe that it

668
00:48:13.080 --> 00:48:17.440
works, God holds me to this. God holds me to these standards. This is what God

669
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requires. Then God's like, okay, well, as you declared and as you decreed, so be it.

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00:48:23.560 --> 00:48:26.840
That's how you framed up your world. You don't even have to say it out of your

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00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:32.360
mouth. If you say it out of your intention, out of spirit, it makes it so

672
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because you believe it to be so. But remember that this is unbelief.

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Anything that is not believing what God said is unbelief and it's sin.

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So I guess I'll just leave that there because then we could go on to

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talk about the law and the promise and all that, but I'm not going to.

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We've actually already covered some of that when we talked about the

677
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fact that we're one seed with Christ instead of two. Let me see what, whoops,

678
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oh my goodness, this has gone everywhere. So I have some notes here. I wanted to

679
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see if there was anything else. Okay, remember that if we believe, just like

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the Galatians, if we believe according to the tree of life, but we start operating

681
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according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil afterwards, what that

682
00:49:32.160 --> 00:49:41.160
means is that we are trying to get back into favor with God by using the very

683
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thing that got Adam and Eve kicked out of the garden. We cannot take the thing

684
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that kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden and use that thinking that's

685
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finally going to get us back in the garden. That doesn't make any sense

686
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whatsoever. We have to leave this tree

687
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Completely. Completely. It doesn't lead to anything but death. And so all you can

688
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get from working for a wage, I mean work, all you can get from striving is a

689
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wage. Remember that's the exchange program. Tit for tat. You do this, I'll

690
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bless you. You do this, I'll curse you. You know, that's the law. You follow the law.

691
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But it leads to nothing but death. And it repeats that repeatedly throughout

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scripture. Another thing to remember is that the fruit of the tree of the

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knowledge of good and evil is one fruit. There's just one. It's not

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like the tree grew apples and oranges. A tree only grows one fruit. And

695
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the Bible calls it the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It's only one

696
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fruit. So when you eat of it, even if whatever it is that you're doing is good,

697
00:50:55.900 --> 00:51:01.900
there's also evil in it. And the fact that it is not the life's force of God.

698
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It leads to nothing but death. It can't lead to life. And which is very

699
00:51:07.260 --> 00:51:12.140
interesting that the Lord uses fruit to symbolize all of this because remember

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that we always, that fruit brings life. I mean it's fuel. It brings life. It's

701
00:51:18.140 --> 00:51:23.500
meant to serve us. And yet this fruit actually brings death. It's the very

702
00:51:23.500 --> 00:51:31.100
opposite. It is so corrupted, so twisted that it doesn't even function according

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00:51:31.100 --> 00:51:38.220
to the way that God intended fruit to function. Which is to serve the sons of

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00:51:38.220 --> 00:51:45.460
God and fill them with life. That is how corrupted this thing is. That it's not

705
00:51:45.460 --> 00:51:53.860
even following its nature. So we could talk about, we could talk about the

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00:51:53.860 --> 00:51:58.780
law versus relationship and covenant. So however, there's so many things that we

707
00:51:58.780 --> 00:52:07.540
could say. I want to mention also that if we think that this is how we get

708
00:52:07.540 --> 00:52:14.660
saved, that there's things that we have to do and we have to do them right.

709
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And we have to do them in a particular way. Then it means that, in order for God

710
00:52:21.260 --> 00:52:26.020
to be pleased with this, then it means that we believe that Jesus' death, burial

711
00:52:26.020 --> 00:52:30.540
and resurrection was not powerful enough. That it was only powerful enough to get

712
00:52:30.540 --> 00:52:34.500
us to a certain point, but that we need the rest of this to get us the rest of

713
00:52:34.500 --> 00:52:41.460
the way. And we have to spend the rest of our lives following this. And that's not

714
00:52:41.460 --> 00:52:48.900
true. Either Jesus completely put us in the new place and has in the power that

715
00:52:48.900 --> 00:52:55.020
can put us in that place, has the power to sustain us in that place. So that no

716
00:52:55.020 --> 00:53:02.220
matter what we do, we can never fall and we can never fail. Then it doesn't need

717
00:53:02.220 --> 00:53:09.300
anything else. So for us to say that there's some yes but, means that what

718
00:53:09.300 --> 00:53:14.620
Jesus did wasn't enough. And it's fully enough. Remember, here's what's really

719
00:53:14.620 --> 00:53:23.660
fascinating. Adam and Eve could fall. After Christ's death, it was so

720
00:53:23.660 --> 00:53:27.900
powerful, death, burial and resurrection, it was so powerful, it is impossible for

721
00:53:27.900 --> 00:53:34.300
us to fall now. It's impossible. You can't do anything. We keep thinking, well, Adam and Eve fell.

722
00:53:34.820 --> 00:53:41.620
I can fall. No, you can't. You can't fall anymore. Because Christ is so powerful. He

723
00:53:41.620 --> 00:53:47.620
can not only place you there, he can sustain you in that place. And he

724
00:53:47.620 --> 00:53:52.140
does. He does sustain you. So we're in a very different situation and position

725
00:53:52.140 --> 00:54:03.220
than Adam and Eve were in. And yeah. So, um, let's see what... My goodness, so many things to talk

726
00:54:03.220 --> 00:54:08.020
about. So let me just mention just a lot, the last few of these things. So some of

727
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the things that we can be aware of are part of the tree of the knowledge of

728
00:54:13.620 --> 00:54:17.820
good and evil. We'll talk a lot more about all of this later. But things such

729
00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:26.100
as health, wealth, obviously. We'll be talking a lot about a business in the

730
00:54:26.100 --> 00:54:30.100
next, like, week or two. Like within the next couple of weeks.

731
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Because we're halfway through the intensive. So the next, the next, like, bit

732
00:54:34.340 --> 00:54:38.780
we're going to be talking, we're going to be talking a lot more about business

733
00:54:38.780 --> 00:54:42.100
specifically. How to be taking all of this foundation that we've been, that

734
00:54:42.100 --> 00:54:45.260
we've been discussing so far and implementing exactly in business. Making

735
00:54:45.260 --> 00:54:52.340
decisions, etc. Yes. Yes, exactly. The covenant was made between God. Let's...

736
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Sorry. Let me see. And Jesus on our behalf. We bring nothing to the table. Yes. In

737
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fact, let's talk about that really quick. I love that.

738
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I love that you brought that up, Amy. Let's look at Hebrews.

739
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Hebrews, here we go. Okay, so Hebrews 6, 13. So according to

740
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Hebrews 6, 13 through 20, that is how we know

741
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that God, we were not even part of the covenant.

742
00:55:25.200 --> 00:55:29.280
We were not. We were the beneficiaries

743
00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:35.920
of the covenant between God and himself so that

744
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we who were the, what would you call us? We were the

745
00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:44.320
thing that could have made the whole thing fall apart

746
00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:48.480
because we could leave. We could break the covenant.

747
00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:52.960
We could break covenant with God, right? God's like, I don't want to risk that.

748
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:56.160
So you're not even a part of the covenant. So when,

749
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I mean like in making the covenant, you just get to benefit

750
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:04.560
from the fact that I am making covenant with myself

751
00:56:04.560 --> 00:56:09.200
which cannot be broken and I'm, and neither one of me, the me that's

752
00:56:09.200 --> 00:56:11.920
the me that's creating the covenant and the me that's agreeing to the covenant,

753
00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:15.680
neither one of me is leaving. So therefore you don't have to worry

754
00:56:15.680 --> 00:56:19.520
about any of this falling apart because I'm not going to leave.

755
00:56:19.520 --> 00:56:23.840
And then you, the risk factor, had you been a, had you been a factor

756
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:27.600
in one of the parties, you know, the first of the party, the first part of the

757
00:56:27.600 --> 00:56:31.040
party of the second part, you know, that actually made the covenant,

758
00:56:31.040 --> 00:56:34.320
he said then the covenant would have been at risk

759
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and it's not at risk because it was only God making covenant with God. He put

760
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Abraham into a deep sleep. If you go back in Genesis and read that,

761
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he put Abraham, when he wanted to make covenant with Abraham, he was telling

762
00:56:44.560 --> 00:56:48.160
Abraham all these things. Abraham set up the altar, set up the doves, you know,

763
00:56:48.160 --> 00:56:51.280
divided the animals, you know, you know, because it said, you know, divide the

764
00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.800
animals in half, lay them on the altar, and then God passed between

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everything after he put Abraham into deep sleep.

766
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So God made covenant while Abraham's in deep sleep. What does that mean?

767
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Abraham was put into a state of rest. Same thing that God did with Adam

768
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:11.760
when he pulled Adam, when he pulled Eve out of Adam, which is

769
00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:15.840
interestingly making covenant. So, you know, because there's covenant between

770
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:21.040
man and woman and so he created the covenant between

771
00:57:21.040 --> 00:57:24.080
man and woman and he did it while Adam was asleep.

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Then he did the same thing with Abraham. I'm going to make a covenant, Abraham,

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you're going to be the beneficiary, so I'm going to put you in a deep sleep

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00:57:30.720 --> 00:57:34.160
and I'm going to do it. I'm going to put you in a place of rest so that there is

775
00:57:34.160 --> 00:57:38.800
no question that you did, that you were part of it at all,

776
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:42.960
that you could create it or that you could mess it up.

777
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And so he said, I'm just going to put you in deep sleep. You are in a complete

778
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:50.880
state of rest. I will do everything.

779
00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:54.080
Then God created additional, very fascinating,

780
00:57:54.080 --> 00:57:57.840
interesting reconciliation covenant while

781
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Jesus was asleep. In other words, Jesus was dead.

782
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So remember he was dead for three days. There was fascinating work

783
00:58:05.520 --> 00:58:10.720
that God did on making covenant while Jesus was dead.

784
00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:14.320
What is everybody saying? It says that we're halfway done.

785
00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:19.840
Oh no, but remember Steph, we're still friends. We could still talk about all of

786
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:24.080
this, right? Oh no.

787
00:58:24.080 --> 00:58:29.280
Okay, good. All right, so it froze. Sorry. So maybe you could watch the replay, Amy,

788
00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:32.320
and catch where it had frozen for you. So thanks,

789
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:35.520
Steph, for letting me know that it was still going on your end.

790
00:58:35.520 --> 00:58:38.880
Also, that little orange thing that Cheryl told me

791
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how to understand, it didn't pop down. So in other words, I think that my

792
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internet's okay, which is a good thing because it means you can

793
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re-watch it and it didn't skip. Okay, so Hebrews 6, 13 through

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20. So when God made his promise to Abraham,

795
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.720
since there was no one greater for him to swear by,

796
00:59:00.720 --> 00:59:07.520
he swore by himself saying, I will surely bless you and give

797
00:59:07.520 --> 00:59:11.840
you many descendants. So you see, God makes covenant with himself.

798
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And then he tells Abraham, hey, you're the third party beneficiary.

799
00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:20.160
Based off of the covenant that I'm making with myself,

800
00:59:20.160 --> 00:59:25.120
you get to benefit. It says, and so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what

801
00:59:25.120 --> 00:59:28.720
was promised. Men swear by someone greater than

802
00:59:28.720 --> 00:59:34.000
themselves and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument

803
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:40.560
because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose

804
00:59:40.560 --> 00:59:47.040
very clear to the errors of what was promised. He confirmed it with

805
00:59:47.040 --> 00:59:50.080
an oath. So God promised, so and then it says,

806
00:59:50.080 --> 00:59:54.480
God did this so that by two unchangeable things in which it is

807
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:58.000
impossible for God to lie. What are the two unchangeable things by

808
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.600
which it's impossible for God to lie?

809
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.040
In the previous verse it mentions,

810
01:00:03.040 --> 01:00:07.760
to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an

811
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:11.760
oath. Those are the two

812
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:15.360
unchangeable things by which it was impossible for God to lie. He promised

813
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:18.960
and he made an oath. So we who have fled to take

814
01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:25.360
hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged.

815
01:00:25.360 --> 01:00:28.400
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul,

816
01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:32.160
because it's our soul, you know, that kind of gets swayed and knocked around and

817
01:00:32.160 --> 01:00:35.680
is trying to figure, is scared. That's the reason why Adam and Eve

818
01:00:35.680 --> 01:00:40.480
reached out and took the fruit. Our poor little soul, you know, is

819
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:42.880
sitting on this wind and waves of emotion

820
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:46.560
and it's just like, oh what's going on? It has the potential to be swayed by

821
01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:51.280
every wind of doctrine, right? And it says we needed an anchor for our

822
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:54.080
soul to settle us down, to help us understand

823
01:00:54.080 --> 01:01:00.480
the reality of what it is, of how solid a state that our

824
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:03.920
spirit was being placed into, where it couldn't ever change.

825
01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:07.840
And we are reinserted back into Christ. We have this hope as an anchor for the

826
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:11.200
soul, firm and secure. And what is the hope

827
01:01:11.200 --> 01:01:14.560
that's the anchor for the soul? The fact that God made covenant with

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01:01:14.560 --> 01:01:19.280
himself, made promise and an oath with himself that

829
01:01:20.240 --> 01:01:26.320
that Abraham would be able to benefit and be brought back into

830
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:29.440
reconciliation. Abraham and all of his descendants

831
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:33.600
be brought back into reconciliation in relationship,

832
01:01:33.600 --> 01:01:38.480
remember law versus relationship, in relationship with God

833
01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:45.040
and based strictly on the fact that they believed. Because remember

834
01:01:45.040 --> 01:01:49.280
Abraham believed and it was credited to him as

835
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:54.320
righteousness. So now the reason that we see that

836
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:56.800
things kind of went haywire there for a little bit

837
01:01:56.800 --> 01:02:01.040
is because, well actually for a very long time, for hundreds of years,

838
01:02:01.040 --> 01:02:06.560
is the fact that when the Israelites, oh this is a very fascinating point

839
01:02:06.560 --> 01:02:10.480
to bring up, the Israelites were offered on at

840
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:14.960
Mount Sinai to come into covenant

841
01:02:15.040 --> 01:02:20.480
relationship with God, which was the fulfillment of the promise

842
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:25.280
that God made to Abraham. He said, hey I'm going to bring you and your

843
01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:28.880
descendants into relationship with me. This is my commitment.

844
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:34.880
This is my promise, whatever. So then 400, 450 years later, I don't

845
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:38.160
remember exactly how long, something like that, 400, 450 years later,

846
01:02:38.160 --> 01:02:41.440
the Israelites were brought to Mount Sinai and God's like, okay I promised

847
01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:46.000
your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Because every time there was a new

848
01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:50.880
generation, he said, I re-established my covenant with them. I said,

849
01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:54.000
you get to benefit too. You get to benefit too.

850
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:57.520
You know, you're all third-party beneficiaries. I'm going to allow you to

851
01:02:57.520 --> 01:03:00.800
receive the promise and the commitment and the covenant that I made with

852
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:04.720
Abraham. Isaac, I'm allowing you what it is

853
01:03:04.720 --> 01:03:08.320
that this document, if you will, this

854
01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:13.760
covenant that I made with your father, now it gets to be passed down to the son

855
01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:16.720
and then it gets to be passed down to Jacob, etc.

856
01:03:16.720 --> 01:03:20.160
So now the Israelites are all in front of Mount Sinai and God's like, I'm going to

857
01:03:20.160 --> 01:03:24.320
give it to you. And they got really scared and they

858
01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:28.240
said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We don't want to come to a relationship

859
01:03:28.240 --> 01:03:31.120
with God where he offers us to be sons of God

860
01:03:31.120 --> 01:03:35.200
and all of that and operate according to relationship.

861
01:03:35.200 --> 01:03:41.360
They said, we just want law. Moses, you do it for us and just tell us what

862
01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:44.000
to do and we'll do it. Do you see how all of

863
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:47.920
this sounds nice? The same thing with Eve. She looked at

864
01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:51.760
that and she thought, I want to know the difference between good and evil.

865
01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:56.560
I want to know the difference and then I can make sure to choose the good.

866
01:03:56.560 --> 01:04:01.360
This is what Israel said. Just tell us what to do

867
01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:06.880
and we'll do it. Both of them are resisting relationship

868
01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:11.120
though. It's fascinating. If you look in Deuteronomy,

869
01:04:11.120 --> 01:04:14.400
Moses, who's recounting the story to the

870
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:18.240
children of the generation that told Moses,

871
01:04:18.240 --> 01:04:21.440
just tell us what to do and we'll do it.

872
01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:24.720
You go and ask God what it is we'll do and we'll do it.

873
01:04:24.720 --> 01:04:29.200
In Deuteronomy, when the next generation down, after that generation that was at

874
01:04:29.200 --> 01:04:32.800
Mount Sinai, God took them to Canaan and they said,

875
01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:35.920
oh no, we can't take this. We're grasshoppers in their sight. God said,

876
01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:38.720
okay, fine. You're going to go wander around in the wilderness for 40

877
01:04:38.720 --> 01:04:43.920
years and you're going to die. He said, but your children I will take

878
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:48.000
into the land and be able to claim it. In Deuteronomy, Moses is talking to

879
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.400
the younger generation. He's talking to that

880
01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:53.680
generation who has grown up in the wilderness for 40 years while

881
01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:59.040
their ancestors died off. He's recounting the story. He

882
01:04:59.040 --> 01:05:02.000
said, we're ancestors.

883
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.080
they have the opportunity to have a relationship with the Lord. He said, and

884
01:05:04.080 --> 01:05:08.760
when they rejected him, and this is the part that we find out about the story in

885
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:13.480
Deuteronomy that it doesn't mention in Genesis, and that is the fact that Moses

886
01:05:13.480 --> 01:05:18.680
recounts, he said, he says, when the Israelites said that and said, hey look,

887
01:05:18.680 --> 01:05:24.040
just tell us what to do and we'll do it. He said, the Lord told me what they have

888
01:05:24.040 --> 01:05:30.280
said is good. Because it's from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

889
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:34.000
They had the option to choose between good things or

890
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:43.440
evil things. They chose a good one. It sounds good. I want to know, Lord, the

891
01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:50.840
difference between right and wrong. I want to do what you tell me to do.

892
01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:58.280
Everything sounds wonderful. It sounds humble. It sounds submissive. And God's

893
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like, I don't want submissive in that way. He said, I don't want

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submissive as a servant. I want submissiveness in relationship in the

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same way that a wife is submissive to her husband. Being submissive to one's

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husband in relationship is very different than being submissive to

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someone out of servanthood. Very, very different. I mean, no wonder people are

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afraid of the whole idea of submission and what that could possibly mean.

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Because this is all we think of when we think of submission. But this isn't.

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It's not a bad thing. I was trying to see if I had finished that

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passage. It just goes on to say, we have this hope as an anchor for the

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soul, firm and secure. Again, this is Hebrews 6. It enters the sanctuary

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behind the curtain where Jesus, who went before us, has entered in on our behalf.

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He's become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. So it talks

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about the fact that this covenant allows us past that veil into the Holy of

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Holies. And we get to reside there because Jesus Christ is the high priest,

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which is right. The high priest is allowed to go first and he made

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restitution for us, allowing all of us to come in after him. Because remember, the

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veil was torn. Meaning that it opened access to the Father for all

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of us. There's a lot more that we'll be talking about about the Tree of the

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Knowledge of Good and Evil, especially in the next teaching, which should be

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tomorrow. We're going to be talking a lot more in depth about the

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difference between three different realms and areas in which we can operate.

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The two main ones are what we've been talking about tonight, operating according

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to the Spirit and relationship versus the carnal or the Tree of the Knowledge

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of Good and Evil, which is outside of relationship. However, there are two

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different ways that we can kind of frame up operating out of this, the Tree of

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the Knowledge of Good and Evil, where people who operate according to the Tree

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of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we all kind of make, which is very typical of

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this tree, we make... there's... how would you put it? We put each other... we judge

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each other and create different standards of measure for each other and

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say, well, these people who believe this about God, they're down here. But then

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you're better and more mature if you do these things. And you're even better and

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more mature if you do these things. You're even better and more mature if you do these things. So this one over here, there's a lot of

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complexity to it. There's a lot of judgments, there's a lot of standards of

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measure, and there's... and we can kind of frame it up as the Lord does, as Jesus

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did in one of his parables. We can kind of divide this one into two very general

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categories of people... of Christians... we're not talking about non-believers... of

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Christians operating... who are all gonna go to heaven. All these people are gonna

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go to heaven. And I used to live... I was very good at this tree, by the way, for

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30-some-odd years. I'm very good at this tree. It was excellent. I could teach

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other people this tree. I did teach other people this tree. And I was noted for it.

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I was noted for being very, very good Christian. People told me

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that they wanted their children, their daughters, to be like me.

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It's terrifying. Terrifying. And I was doing this. It was awful. So the Lord saved me

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from myself, and I'm praying the Lord has saved all of those children, too, from

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following in these footsteps. But there are generally two different ways that we

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can operate over here. We can operate in an environment...

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more restrictive way than this, and then that we can operate in an even more

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restrictive way than this one. So there's two very general ways that Jesus said

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that we can operate according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

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but there's only one way to operate according to the tree of life. It's so

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much more effortless, it's a place of rest, etc. So we'll be talking about those

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essentially spirit, soul, and body. Soul and body is according to the tree of the

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knowledge of good and evil. It doesn't mean your body is bad, it doesn't mean

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your soul is bad. It's areas of operation. So we'll be talking about that

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tomorrow, and how this actually evidences itself, and what it is that we believe,

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what we believe about our health, what we believe about our nutrition, what we

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believe about spiritual warfare. All of that falls into these three

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realms, operating according to spirit, soul, or body. So look forward to

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tomorrow, and all of this is very, very, very important in order to understand, you

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know, how to flow, how to allow who we are in the spirit to flow down through

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our soul and body, so that we can manifest heaven into earth in our

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business. Very important. So all this foundation is very, very important, so

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because it's by changing yourself that your business will change. So anyway, I

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love each and every one of you. Hope you all have a really good night, and for

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those of you who stayed on, I don't know if anybody's still on, but if anybody's

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still on, no kudos to you. I'm sorry that it ended up being so late. Hopefully it

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will not be so late tomorrow, but I will see you all later. Bye.