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Okay, guys, I'm just putting this in, this thing, one second, this is so unprofessional,

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I'm so sorry, okay, okay, I think I'm the right way up, I think I'm the right way up,

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Ashley, I think I'm the right way up, come on, okay, hey, guys, well, thanks for tuning

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in, I'm super excited to share this session, I'm gonna be talking in a moment about Jesus

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Christ's perfect theology, a technical term for that would be Christology, and I'm gonna

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be speaking more into that, and I'm really excited about that, over the next two weeks

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after this week, I'm also gonna be sharing, I'm gonna be sharing this one on Jesus's perfect

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theology, Christology, and I'm gonna share, next week, I'm gonna share on David's stones,

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and the foundation of sonship, and that's gonna be super exciting, I'm gonna share some

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revelation that God shared with me out of, it was actually just a really cool encounter

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I had in the Scriptures, where God just started to reveal stuff to me in the Scriptures, and

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that was, I wanna share some of that with you, and then the week after, I wanna share

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on the place that God has hidden you, for you to find you, and so that's what's coming

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up for me in the next few weeks, but today I wanna talk on Jesus Christ's perfect theology,

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and I'm excited to see some of you guys tuning in, and I've just been, sorry I was a little

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bit late, I just got a little bit carried away down here, I'm in a recording studio

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right now at the bottom of our church, and I just had quite a fun prayer time, and I

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got a little bit carried away, and then I looked at the clock and thought, oh my gosh,

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I've gotta do this live session now, so here I am.

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I wanna begin by just saying this, God is good, and I wanna put a full stop at the end

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of that, hey Brendan, good to see you man, well, good to see your comment, at least,

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and the profile picture, but I wanna say God is good, and I wanna put a full stop at the

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end of that, and say God is good full stop, God is not 99% good, and 1% bad, He's not

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good 364 days a year, and then one day a year He's bad, in a bad mood, and does bad things,

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God is good all the time, full stop, God is good, and hey Owen, morning bro, hey Angela,

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and so I wanna begin by just saying that, and I probably am gonna end by saying that,

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and then I wanna just unpack that a little bit in the middle, but before I do, I wanna

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just share a God is good story from the weekend, we've been seeing God do some amazing things,

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and some amazing things, and a lot of people at our church have just been having crazy

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encounters with God, and unusual encounters with God, unusual encounters with God, and

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so that's been super fun to just witness, and be a part of, and to hear about, and to

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also myself having some cool encounters with God as well, and it just feels like God's

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up to something a little bit new, it feels like we're stepping into a kind of a new season,

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but here's just a couple of cool little stories from last Sunday, we had a lady come, and

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she had, well someone gave a word of knowledge for neck pain, just a pretty simple word of

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knowledge, and they actually shared that they had the word of knowledge, because they actually

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had pain in their neck, and they thought, well I don't think it's a word of knowledge,

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but honestly maybe if I sow healing into someone's neck, maybe I'll get healed too, which is

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just kind of a funny way to have a word of knowledge, but cool, and anyway a lady was

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at church, and she had, I think it was like two years of neck pain, but one of the causes

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of the pain was there was a big lump growing in the back of her neck that she could feel,

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and during the time that we were praying, she felt this like crack, crack, crack in

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the back of her neck, like someone was like cracking her neck three times, and she's like

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whoa, what was that, and then all of a sudden all the pain was completely gone, she was

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totally healed, the lump had started shrinking, and then within a few minutes the lump was

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completely disappeared, so that was just on Sunday, she was obviously pretty stoked, and

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we thought that was a pretty amazing testimony of just God's, God's miraculous hand touching

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someone's life, and one more just from Sunday.

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Sunday was, one more fun one, was a lady came and she had had a brain aneurysm.

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And I might get some of the story wrong, but as far as I understand, this is how it worked.

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She had a brain aneurysm, which is like a thing in the brain, and the aneurysm had caused

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her nerves to be kind of a little bit mixed up.

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So one of the things that happened as a result was, if you put your hand on her shoulder,

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she would feel like you were touching her head.

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So there was kind of like a mix up in the nerves.

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And anyway, in the prayer time, bam, she gets completely healed.

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Everything's back to normal.

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I just thought that was so cool, like a brain aneurysm, like a reworking of the brain just

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in the healing time on Sunday.

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So anyway, super cool, I just want to give you a couple of recent updates.

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And there are many more cool updates that I'm kind of like tempted just to share cool

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stories.

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But I do have something I want to share with you.

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And it's a little bit teachy.

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When I say teach, I don't mean boring, I just mean a little bit teachy.

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And I want to share that with you.

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I want to preface this by saying this is kind of an introduction to Jesus Christ's perfect

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theology.

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It's an introduction to Christology.

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It's by no means going to answer all of your questions.

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And honestly, one of my goals is that at the end of this, you would have more questions

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than what you began with, because questions lead you further into Jesus.

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And so please take any expectation off of me, or off of yourself, for me to answer all

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of your questions, because that simply is just not going to happen today.

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But I am going to share about some stuff that I'm really excited about.

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And we'll see where it goes.

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Feel free to comment.

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If you do have a burning question, I might be able to answer your question.

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So feel free to comment in the comments.

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And if I see it, I'll be looking at it.

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And if I have time, I'll answer your question.

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So I want to share again, God is good.

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And I want to talk about the way we see God.

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And I want to talk about something I believe God is doing right now, is He's unpixelating

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He's bringing us on a journey into greater and greater and clearer and clearer face-to-face

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relationship with Him.

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And it's almost like one of those pixelated images that's just becoming unpixelated as

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we move closer, as we move into a greater awareness of God's presence.

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We're starting to see His face clearer and clearer and clearer and clearer.

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And this is so important because of this.

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When we see Him clearly, we can know Him deeply, and we can represent Him gloriously.

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And the less clear we see God, the less we can know Him deeply, and the less accurately

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we represent Him gloriously.

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And so there is a huge, it's a huge deal.

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The way we see God is a huge deal.

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He cannot be seen clearly through us until He's been seen clearly by us.

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I'll say that again.

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He cannot be seen clearly through us until He's been seen clearly, first of all, by us.

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The clearer we see God, the deeper we know God, and the more glorious we represent Him.

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Until we're all walking like Jesus, seeing what the Father's doing, seeing what the Father's

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like and living out a perfect representation of what He is and who He is on the earth.

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And so this is a big deal, the way we see God.

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And I want to just share an illustration to kind of paint, set a little bit of a context

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and paint a little bit of a picture of this whole scenario.

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I have three daughters.

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As most of you know, I have a, oh sorry, Siri has just shown up.

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Siri, I don't want you.

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Siri, go away.

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Siri, leave.

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Sorry, Siri literally just showed up on my notes and I couldn't see my notes anymore.

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So I got three daughters.

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I've got Ari, she's my eldest daughter.

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I've got Sienna, she's my second daughter.

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And I've got Mila.

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And I remember a while ago, it's still true today, but particularly a few years ago, Ari

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and Sienna were obsessed with their dresses and dressing up.

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And one of their favorite places to be was their wardrobe, because in their wardrobe

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were all their favorite dresses, all their Barbie dolls, all their Lego, all their cool

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stuff was in their wardrobe.

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And they would spend hours in their wardrobe, like taking all the dresses out, putting their

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dresses on.

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They've got like Myanmar dresses, Indian dresses, Russian dresses.

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princess dresses, Elsa dresses, blah, blah.

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They've got all these different kinds of dresses

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and they just, they would just put on different dresses

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and they just loved their dresses, right?

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And one of their favorite places to be

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until it was time for bed.

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And what would often happen, and this happened,

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this happened for months on end actually,

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is particularly with my eldest daughter,

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is the sun would start going down,

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the light would start going down

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and it would be time for bed.

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So I'd put her in bed and say goodnight,

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pray for her, all the rest of it.

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And about, normally it was about 20 minutes later,

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she would come, hey Benji, what's up buddy?

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Stoked to see you too, or at least your profile picture

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and your comment there.

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And she would come in about 20 minutes later

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and she would say, dad or mom, I'm scared.

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I think there's something in the wardrobe.

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There's something in the cupboard.

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There's something in the wardrobe.

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I think there might be a monster in there.

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And we'd be like, babe, there's no monsters in the wardrobe.

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It's just the same dresses that were there in the daytime,

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the same dresses that are there in the nighttime.

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Just because the light's gone doesn't mean

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there's anything changed about the cupboard.

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It's all just the same.

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No, no, no, I saw a shadow.

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I saw something move.

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There's a monster in the cupboard.

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Dad, I need you to come and shut the cupboard door.

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And I would say, Ari, you can just go

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and shut the wardrobe door yourself.

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Just go and shut the wardrobe door.

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Everything's fine, it's okay, it's okay.

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And she'd be like freaking out.

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Dad, I need you, because I think there's a monster in there.

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And so I'd come in, I would look in the wardrobe

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and I'd say, yeah, there's no monster in there.

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I've checked through everything.

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There's no monster.

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But I'd shut the cupboard door

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because having the cupboard door open,

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the wardrobe door open at nighttime,

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with all the darkness and with the lack of light

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and all the shadows,

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she was imagining monsters in the wardrobe.

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Now here's the thing, here's the thing.

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Nothing's changed.

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All that's changed is there's less light.

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All that's changed is there's darkness.

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All that's changed is there's shadows.

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All that's changed is she's not seeing

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what's in the cupboard clearly.

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And so what is she left with?

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She's left with the figments of her own imagination.

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She's left with, she's left in this place

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where her imagination is conjuring up all these images

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that aren't really there, but she believes they're there.

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And therefore she's actually experiencing a real fear,

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a real sense of lack of safety,

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a real sense of there's something in there.

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And she's beginning to believe a lie that's not true.

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There's a lie about the cupboard.

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There's a lie about the wardrobe that she's believing

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that's absolutely not true.

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Her favorite place has become a place that she's afraid of

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because she's seen it differently

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because of a lack of light.

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And here's the thing, here's the thing.

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That's sometimes what it's like with us in God.

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And that's what it's like with the world in God

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is that we lost our sight.

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We lost, it's like the sun went down

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and it was nighttime on the earth.

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And at nighttime, when we couldn't see clearly

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and when the light was gone, can I just say something?

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Nothing changed about the wardrobe.

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Nothing changed about God.

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God never changed.

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God has always been the same.

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God has always been the same.

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But what changed is that we couldn't see Him clearly

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and because of that, we were left

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to our own darkened imagination

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that was filtered with our own shame

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and our own sin and our own guilt

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and our own sense of we deserve punishment

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and we deserve this because that's the way we saw ourselves

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and because we're now under a tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil

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and we're punishing and we're looking for right and wrong

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and we've got this whole different framework of life.

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And now we're seeing God through our own darkened lenses.

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And because of that, we began to believe things

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that are not true about God about God.

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And that, again, the less clearly you see God,

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the less you can know God, the less you can know God,

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the less you know yourself

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and the less you gloriously represent Him.

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And so we have a problem.

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And one of the things that Jesus did on the cross

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and not the only thing,

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but one of the things that Jesus did on the cross,

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Jesus died, He sacrificed His life to not only save you

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but to also save the image of God for you

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so that you could see what God's truly like.

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One of the things that is saved on the cross

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is the image of God.

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Jesus Christ is what God looks like.

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Jesus Christ is what God looks like.

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Jesus, God is 100% like Jesus

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and Jesus is 100% like God.

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Of course, Jesus is God.

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Jesus is the Son of God.

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Jesus is God the Son.

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there's God the Holy Spirit.

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But if you've seen the Son, you've seen the Father.

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If you've seen the Father, you've seen the Son.

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Jesus is what God looks like.

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Not 99%, but 100%.

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God is 100%.

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100% like Jesus, and Jesus is 100% like His Father.

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This is so cool because Jesus, for us,

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saves the image of God for us

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so that we can finally see Him clearly.

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Jesus is the dawning of a new day.

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Jesus is the light flooding in to my daughter's room

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and illuminating the once darkened cupboard,

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the once darkened wardrobe,

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so that she can see again

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what she'd lost sight of during the night.

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And in the new day, she can see,

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oh my gosh, nothing's changed about the wardrobe.

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I thought there were monsters in there,

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but there's no monsters in there.

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I wanna say, God does not have a dark side.

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God does not, there are not monsters in God.

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There are not monsters in the wardrobe.

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God is good, and He's 100% like Jesus.

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John 1.14 says this,

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that the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.

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just a side note, the Bible's not referring to itself.

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The Bible is referring to the man, Jesus Christ,

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to the God-man.

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He's referring to what God has to say about Himself,

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life, and you guys, made flesh.

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He's talking about the communication of God

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put into human flesh format

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so that we could all see Him, understand Him,

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and relate to Him so that we could know Him,

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know ourselves, and enter into the life

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He's designed for us.

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God is, or I should say, Jesus Christ,

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I heard someone say this, this is a great quote,

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Jesus Christ is what God has to say.

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He's the Word made flesh.

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Jesus Christ is the final Word of what God has to say.

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Jesus Christ is the full stop.

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God is good, full stop.

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Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh,

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and Jesus Christ is the dawning of a new day.

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He's the light flooding into the bedroom.

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He's the light flooding into the wardrobe,

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showing us that, guys, we might have believed

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for a moment that there was a dark side to God,

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but there is not, there is not.

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There is no dark side to God,

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and Jesus shows us that forever,

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and He stamps His final stamp of approval at the cross

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and says, man, if you could have done anything

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to push me away, if you could have done anything

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to draw that bad side of the angry side

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that, now, God does get angry, by the way,

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but it's an anger based on His love,

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and it's an anger based on His goodness,

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because He never strays from that, because it's who He is.

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But at the cross, we see this final stamp,

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we see this final punch, we see this final thing of God

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that says, if you could have done anything

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to push me away from you, it would have been murdering me.

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But even when you murdered me, no way, man,

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you can't push me away.

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I'm not gonna be bad just because you are bad.

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I never am bad, and I never stray from my nature.

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I always am who I am, and so it's pretty cool,

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but I get a little bit passionate about this, guys,

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because I really love God,

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and I want people to know that God is like Jesus.

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I want people to know what God's really like.

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In Hebrews 1, 1 to 3, in the Passion Translation,

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let me read this.

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I'm gonna read Hebrews 1, verse 1 to 3,

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and then I'm gonna read John 6, 46,

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and then we're gonna go from there.

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This is the Passion Translation, like I said.

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Chapter one of Hebrews, verse one.

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Throughout our history, God has spoken to our ancestors

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by His prophets in different ways.

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The revelation He gave them was only a fragment.

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Hey, Norm, hey, man, good to see you.

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The revelation He gave them was only a fragment.

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Listen here.

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The revelation He gave them was only a fragment at a time,

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building one truth upon another,

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but to us living in these last days,

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God now speaks to us openly in the language of a son.

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This is still the language He communicates with,

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the appointed heir of everything,

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for through Him, God created the panorama

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of all things and all time.

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The sun is the dazzling radiance of God's splendor.

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The exact, whoa.

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The exact expression of God.

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Okay, this is just too good just to say once.

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The exact expression of God's true nature, His mirror image.

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Let me just say that one more time, this is so good.

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The sun is the dazzling radiance.

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He's the new day.

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He's the rising of the sun on a new day.

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He's the light flooding into the wardrobe.

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The dazzling radiance of God's splendor,

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the exact expression of God's true nature,

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His mirror image.

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God spoke in fragments through the prophets

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throughout history.

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He spoke in fragments.

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He spoke in bits and pieces.

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He gave partial revelation.

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He gave little aspects of Himself

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through Moses, through Elijah, through David,

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through these ones who carried

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true and real revelation of God,

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but it wasn't the full revelation of God.

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They carried bits and pieces for moments of time

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and in moments of time, and they built on one another,

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but none of them had the full revelation

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of what God's like until Jesus came.

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And when Jesus came, the Word was made flesh,

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and the sun is the dazzling radiance of God's splendor,

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the exact expression of God's true nature,

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His mirror image.

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He's the fullness of what God has to say.

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He's not just part of what God has to say.

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He is what God has to say.

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He's the fullness of what God has to say.

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And then John 6, 46 says this.

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Not that anyone, this is Jesus.

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Not that anyone has seen the Father

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except the one who is from God, He has seen the Father.

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Not that anyone has seen the Father

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except the one who is from God,

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referring to Himself, He has seen the Father.

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was face to face with God in a cloud

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in his tent, speaking with God face to face

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as a man does to his friend,

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knowing that Jacob wrestled with God face to face,

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knowing that these different ones had obviously seen God.

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So in one sense, you've got to hear

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what Jesus is trying to say here.

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He's not saying, I mean,

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He is actually literally saying this,

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but He's not communicating that no one

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has ever seen God in part.

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What He's saying is that no one has fully seen the Father.

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No one up until this point has been able

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to fully represent the Father

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because no one up until this point

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has ever fully seen the fullness of who He is.

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No one has.

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It's as if compared to the way I see God,

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not Matt Lansdowne, but Jesus is saying,

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compared to the way I see the Father,

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it's as if kind of no one has seen the Father.

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Now, does that mean no one has seen the Father?

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No, no, let me put it like this.

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It's kind of like if you held a light bulb up

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and the light bulb was on

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and the light bulb was shining light,

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kind of like that light bulb right there.

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It's shining light, right?

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Now, that light bulb is producing real light.

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It's not dark, it's light.

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There's light coming from the light bulb.

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So that light is a revealer of what's in the room.

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That light bulb is a revealer of what's in the wardrobe.

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That light is a revealer of what the face of God is like.

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There's a light bulb and it's producing real light.

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It really is producing light.

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But if you took the sun

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and you placed it right alongside the light bulb

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and you compared the power of the two lights,

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the radiance of the sun is so intense

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that it's kind of as if the light bulb has no light at all.

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Because when you compare them, there's really no comparison.

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And that's what Jesus is referring to.

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Jesus is saying, hey, listen,

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I'm shining a light that kind of eclipses.

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Now, it doesn't disqualify.

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It's not saying that the light that has been

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is actually darkness.

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No, it's not saying that,

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but it's saying if you compare the two lights,

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there's really no comparison.

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The light that is the light of Jesus

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is the full light of God,

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the full radiance of His splendor,

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the exact representation of His nature

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and the full radiance of His glory.

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oh my gosh, it's as if the light bulb,

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you hear what I'm saying?

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And so let me just share this right now.

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This is as a side note,

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just in case any of you are worried.

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I believe in the whole Bible.

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In fact, I love the Bible.

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I love the scriptures.

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I love every book in the Bible

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from Genesis through to Revelation.

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The Bible, the scripture,

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is going to begin taking a more,

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is going to begin, I suppose,

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being honored more deeply again in the church.

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I believe that.

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That is very important.

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I, again, I believe that every single word,

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every scripture is God-breathed, okay?

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Let me just say that right from the beginning.

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But here's the other thing.

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Not all scripture and not all truth in the scripture

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is equally weighted.

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Not all truth in the scripture has the same level of volume.

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Not all truth in the scripture,

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not everything that is written in there

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is to be taken with the same amount of weight.

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And I love what John G. Lake says.

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He says this,

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the red letters in the Bible, the letters of Jesus,

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the words of Jesus, they are the high court of scripture.

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And I like that because the words of Jesus, they trump.

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Now, the words of Moses are good words,

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but the words of Jesus trump Moses' words every time.

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The words of Abraham, great words.

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The life of Abraham, the story of Abraham, great story,

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and a true story, and an amazing story,

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and part of our story, part of our foundation.

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And it's amazing.

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But the life and the words of Jesus,

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they trump those words and they trump that life.

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They hold more weight.

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And where there is like a sense of like,

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hey, this is not maybe lining up with this.

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And sometimes you get that.

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I'm gonna go into that in a little bit in a second.

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Sometimes you get that.

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Then what we do is we're actually disciples of Jesus.

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And our anchor is Jesus.

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Our anchor is not Moses, our anchor is Jesus.

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Moses reveals Jesus, not the other way around.

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Moses is meant to lead you to Jesus.

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And Jesus is the final word from God about who he is,

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about who you are, and about what life is all about.

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00:26:51.260 --> 00:26:53.220
When you see Moses,

495
00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:55.420
Moses couldn't say, when you've seen me,

496
00:26:55.420 --> 00:26:57.020
you've seen the Father.

497
00:26:57.020 --> 00:26:58.940
Moses could say, when you see me

498
00:26:58.940 --> 00:27:00.460
and hear what I have to say,

499
00:27:00.460 --> 00:27:02.740
you can see an aspect of the Father.

500
00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:05.580
But only Jesus can say, when you've seen me,

501
00:27:05.580 --> 00:27:10.060
you have seen the Father, the fullness of the Father.

502
00:27:10.060 --> 00:27:12.300
I am exactly what he's like.

503
00:27:12.300 --> 00:27:14.780
So I hope you're getting what I'm saying.

504
00:27:14.780 --> 00:27:19.580
Because this is kind of a huge deal.

505
00:27:20.020 --> 00:27:24.780
Let me read this other scripture to you from Luke 9.51.

506
00:27:24.780 --> 00:27:29.780
It's actually quite a challenging scripture.

507
00:27:33.820 --> 00:27:36.820
And this kind of illustrates from one of Jesus' disciples,

508
00:27:36.820 --> 00:27:39.820
from some of Jesus' disciples,

509
00:27:39.820 --> 00:27:42.820
kind of a little bit about why this is important.

510
00:27:42.820 --> 00:27:47.020
So Luke 9.51, when the disciples of Jesus

511
00:27:47.020 --> 00:27:48.700
were approaching for his ascension,

512
00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:50.620
he was determined to go to Jerusalem

513
00:27:50.620 --> 00:27:52.580
and he sent messengers on ahead of him

514
00:27:52.580 --> 00:27:54.940
and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans

515
00:27:54.940 --> 00:27:56.780
to make arrangements for him.

516
00:27:56.780 --> 00:27:58.300
But they did not receive him.

517
00:27:58.300 --> 00:27:59.980
The village did not receive Jesus.

518
00:28:01.380 --> 00:28:05.380
Hey guys, thanks for the comments.

519
00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:07.060
Thanks, oh, I love you, man.

520
00:28:07.060 --> 00:28:07.900
Miss you, bro.

521
00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:11.460
Hope you're recovering from your surgery well.

522
00:28:11.820 --> 00:28:13.020
And let me just carry on.

523
00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:15.580
Because he was traveling towards Jerusalem.

524
00:28:15.580 --> 00:28:17.940
When his disciples, James and John saw this,

525
00:28:17.940 --> 00:28:21.180
they said, Lord, how crazy is this?

526
00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:24.740
Lord, do you want us to command fire

527
00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:27.260
to come down from heaven and consume them?

528
00:28:27.260 --> 00:28:29.660
But he turned and rebuked them and said,

529
00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:32.140
you do not know what kind of spirit you are of.

530
00:28:32.140 --> 00:28:34.780
For the son of man did not come to destroy men's lives,

531
00:28:34.780 --> 00:28:35.820
but to save them.

532
00:28:35.820 --> 00:28:39.100
And he said, Lord, do you want us to command fire

533
00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:41.500
to come down from heaven and consume them?

534
00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:44.420
For the son of man did not come to destroy men's lives,

535
00:28:44.420 --> 00:28:45.340
but to save them.

536
00:28:45.340 --> 00:28:47.340
And they went on to another village.

537
00:28:47.340 --> 00:28:48.540
I just want to say this.

538
00:28:50.100 --> 00:28:54.700
Jesus goes to a Samaritan village, oh, sorry.

539
00:28:55.860 --> 00:29:00.500
They go to a Samaritan village and they get rejected.

540
00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:05.500
And James and John, sorry, I just had to remind myself,

541
00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:06.340
which ones were they?

542
00:29:06.340 --> 00:29:07.180
James and John.

543
00:29:07.380 --> 00:29:09.060
Oh yeah, and in their mind they think,

544
00:29:09.060 --> 00:29:11.420
yeah, Jesus is going to be totally down with this.

545
00:29:11.420 --> 00:29:12.740
Now, the reason that they think Jesus

546
00:29:12.740 --> 00:29:15.020
is going to be down with this is this,

547
00:29:15.020 --> 00:29:16.620
because they are referring back

548
00:29:16.620 --> 00:29:19.620
to one of their greatest national heroes, Elijah.

549
00:29:20.740 --> 00:29:23.940
And in some versions of the scripture,

550
00:29:23.940 --> 00:29:27.700
it actually refers to Elijah in this passage,

551
00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:30.220
that they're actually literally referring to Elijah,

552
00:29:30.220 --> 00:29:32.060
the one who called down fire from heaven

553
00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:36.900
and consumed armies and different people

554
00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:39.780
using his prophetic anointing to call down fire

555
00:29:39.780 --> 00:29:43.020
to kill people.

556
00:29:44.020 --> 00:29:46.380
And so they're like, well, it's in the scriptures

557
00:29:46.380 --> 00:29:48.860
and obviously Elijah did it and he's one of our prophets.

558
00:29:48.860 --> 00:29:51.100
And so they have a place to look back at

559
00:29:51.100 --> 00:29:53.540
and say, you know, like this is justified

560
00:29:53.540 --> 00:29:55.940
because it's in the Bible, it's in the scriptures.

561
00:29:58.060 --> 00:30:00.180
It's a way that they believed God.

562
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:02.800
moved in the past or a prophet.

563
00:30:02.800 --> 00:30:05.600
And I thought, well, you know, because of that,

564
00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:07.360
this must be what God's like.

565
00:30:07.360 --> 00:30:09.660
And so let's just suggest to Jesus

566
00:30:09.660 --> 00:30:11.880
that we've got all this power and authority now.

567
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:13.280
I'm pretty sure we could do it.

568
00:30:13.280 --> 00:30:14.720
I'm pretty sure we could call the fire down.

569
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.420
And honestly, the freaky thing is,

570
00:30:18.360 --> 00:30:21.400
you can use your gifting and your authority

571
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:24.040
and your anointing to call down fire,

572
00:30:24.040 --> 00:30:25.320
but here's the deal.

573
00:30:25.320 --> 00:30:26.460
Jesus says this.

574
00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:31.260
They say, basically, why don't we just kill everyone

575
00:30:31.260 --> 00:30:33.300
and call the fire down?

576
00:30:33.300 --> 00:30:35.520
And Jesus rebukes them.

577
00:30:35.520 --> 00:30:39.060
And he says, guys, you do not know what spirit you're of.

578
00:30:39.060 --> 00:30:42.220
The son of man did not come to take life, but to give life.

579
00:30:42.220 --> 00:30:43.740
And here's the thing.

580
00:30:43.740 --> 00:30:47.580
Jesus knows they're being inspired by Elijah.

581
00:30:47.580 --> 00:30:50.340
And this is what he's inferring, guys.

582
00:30:50.340 --> 00:30:51.740
Now, I love Elijah.

583
00:30:51.740 --> 00:30:53.780
He's one of my greatest heroes.

584
00:30:53.780 --> 00:30:58.780
And I love many things about Elijah's life.

585
00:30:59.020 --> 00:31:03.320
But here's what Jesus is implying, in my opinion.

586
00:31:03.320 --> 00:31:05.220
And I think it's a biblical opinion.

587
00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:07.780
And I think this is a valid opinion.

588
00:31:07.780 --> 00:31:09.060
Jesus is implying this.

589
00:31:10.300 --> 00:31:15.300
When Elijah called down the fire,

590
00:31:17.060 --> 00:31:22.060
he was not operating under the spirit of God.

591
00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:26.740
He was releasing a different spirit.

592
00:31:26.740 --> 00:31:27.820
And that's why Jesus says,

593
00:31:27.820 --> 00:31:31.020
you don't know what spirit you're of, guys.

594
00:31:31.020 --> 00:31:33.260
If you do that, that's a different spirit.

595
00:31:33.260 --> 00:31:34.380
That's not the Holy Spirit.

596
00:31:34.380 --> 00:31:35.860
That's not the spirit of God.

597
00:31:37.060 --> 00:31:38.900
I mean, I'm not gonna speak too much more on this,

598
00:31:38.900 --> 00:31:41.380
but if you just follow the logic,

599
00:31:41.380 --> 00:31:46.380
Jesus is saying, hey, that wasn't the spirit of God.

600
00:31:47.220 --> 00:31:49.380
Even though God was happy to get a little bit of mud

601
00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:50.820
on his face for a season,

602
00:31:50.820 --> 00:31:53.020
God's cleaning the mud off his face right now.

603
00:31:53.060 --> 00:31:54.780
And he's saying, hey, guys,

604
00:31:54.780 --> 00:31:57.100
that's actually not the way I am.

605
00:31:57.100 --> 00:32:00.480
That's the way you saw me in the Old Testament Scriptures,

606
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.500
but they're only a partial revelation

607
00:32:02.500 --> 00:32:06.840
of what my father is like, of what I'm like.

608
00:32:06.840 --> 00:32:08.540
They're only a partial revelation.

609
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:12.300
But in me, you're seeing the full picture.

610
00:32:12.300 --> 00:32:16.580
And I want you to know that that's not the spirit of God.

611
00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:22.880
The way you see him determines how deeply you can know him

612
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:25.680
and how clearly and gloriously you represent him.

613
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:30.680
And James and John were just about to misrepresent God.

614
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:33.920
Many Christians today misrepresent God

615
00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.620
because they believe wrong stuff about what he's like.

616
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:39.680
And it's because they're getting their bearings,

617
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:40.840
they're getting their compass,

618
00:32:40.840 --> 00:32:45.840
they're getting their reference for what God is like,

619
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:49.680
and they're putting more weight on the Old Testament

620
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.400
than some of those revelations

621
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.880
that God gave through the prophets and fragments in times.

622
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:58.000
They're putting as much weight on those things

623
00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:58.840
as on the life of Jesus.

624
00:32:58.840 --> 00:33:00.120
And the thing is,

625
00:33:00.120 --> 00:33:02.840
we're meant to put weight on those people's lives.

626
00:33:02.840 --> 00:33:04.960
I hope I'm explaining this clearly.

627
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:06.200
I don't want to be misunderstood here.

628
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:07.700
I love the Old Testament,

629
00:33:07.700 --> 00:33:10.800
but we're meant to put more weight on the life of Jesus.

630
00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:12.100
We're meant to put more weight,

631
00:33:12.100 --> 00:33:15.440
we're meant to put our anchor point is meant to be Jesus.

632
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:17.400
Okay, so hopefully I've made that clear.

633
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:18.580
If anyone has questions,

634
00:33:18.580 --> 00:33:20.260
feel free to fire them away.

635
00:33:32.820 --> 00:33:37.820
Here's something that's true, that's true.

636
00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:44.060
When we don't see him clearly,

637
00:33:44.060 --> 00:33:47.380
we misrepresent ourselves

638
00:33:47.380 --> 00:33:49.540
and we also misrepresent him.

639
00:33:49.540 --> 00:33:52.820
We can't know who we are until we know whose we are.

640
00:33:52.820 --> 00:33:54.820
And here's the thing, you become like what you worship.

641
00:33:54.820 --> 00:33:56.900
If your image of God is wrong,

642
00:33:59.360 --> 00:34:00.780
if your image of God is wrong,

643
00:34:00.780 --> 00:34:02.880
if the way you see God is wrong,

644
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.020
then you're going to be in a kind of a mixture

645
00:34:06.020 --> 00:34:09.100
of worshiping God for who he is,

646
00:34:09.100 --> 00:34:11.500
but then the parts of you

647
00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:13.380
that are seeing monsters in the cupboard

648
00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:16.380
or the parts of you that are seeing God

649
00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:19.100
for not truly for who he is

650
00:34:19.100 --> 00:34:21.540
or outside of how Jesus represented him,

651
00:34:21.540 --> 00:34:24.659
there's kind of a little bit of an idol there

652
00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:27.639
and you'll be coming like what you worship.

653
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:29.060
And if you're worshiping a false image,

654
00:34:29.060 --> 00:34:31.600
you're becoming like a false image.

655
00:34:31.600 --> 00:34:35.860
And what that means is if your image of God is wrong,

656
00:34:35.860 --> 00:34:37.420
then this is the result of that.

657
00:34:37.420 --> 00:34:39.060
If your image of God is wrong,

658
00:34:39.060 --> 00:34:41.080
then there's something in you

659
00:34:41.080 --> 00:34:42.900
that will remain not quite right.

660
00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:45.920
The clearer we see God,

661
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:49.360
the more we come in to who we are.

662
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.840
And I'm going to talk more about that in two weeks time.

663
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:54.580
We are made in the image of God.

664
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:56.920
We are made in the image of God.

665
00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:59.580
The way you see him is the way you represent him.

666
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.000
And when you see him wrong, you misrepresent him.

667
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:09.240
But not only that, when you see him wrong,

668
00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:14.240
you can even find yourself empowering what is not of him.

669
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:16.040
Like what James and John were about to do.

670
00:35:16.040 --> 00:35:18.080
And like, honestly, if I can just say it,

671
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:21.320
possibly what Elijah did.

672
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.280
Possibly what Elijah did is empowered

673
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:28.420
because he saw God, but there were parts of God

674
00:35:28.420 --> 00:35:29.260
that he wasn't seeing.

675
00:35:29.260 --> 00:35:31.440
There was a few shadows in the wardrobe.

676
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:34.920
And I think he actually, without knowing it,

677
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:38.300
empowered, sometimes empowered what wasn't of God.

678
00:35:40.720 --> 00:35:42.960
But through the authority that God had given him

679
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:43.800
in the name of God.

680
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:44.800
And so I hope that makes sense.

681
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.600
I can explain any more questions or anything like that.

682
00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:52.120
Some of this can be, I know, a little bit controversial.

683
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:59.000
So I want to share kind of something that happened to me,

684
00:35:59.060 --> 00:36:01.700
not kind of, something that happened to me

685
00:36:01.700 --> 00:36:05.980
on Queen Street in Auckland quite a few years ago now.

686
00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:10.580
But an illustration of how when we see him

687
00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:15.140
through our shadows and when we don't see him clearly,

688
00:36:15.140 --> 00:36:20.140
we misrepresent God and that can be quite detrimental.

689
00:36:20.980 --> 00:36:25.980
I've been related to wrongly.

690
00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:31.800
I've had people also look at me and not see,

691
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:36.200
like not, they're not seeing who I am.

692
00:36:36.200 --> 00:36:38.840
They're relating to me based on something that I'm not.

693
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:40.720
And the story I'm going to share with you

694
00:36:40.720 --> 00:36:43.660
is both a story of how someone was relating to me

695
00:36:43.660 --> 00:36:46.360
based on a lie around who I am.

696
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:49.640
And also because, and that's because God

697
00:36:49.640 --> 00:36:50.920
had been misrepresented to them

698
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:52.480
and they believed a lie about who God was

699
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.920
because of the way that God had been represented to them.

700
00:36:54.940 --> 00:36:57.660
So I was walking on Queen Street in Auckland,

701
00:36:57.660 --> 00:37:00.420
in New Zealand, and walking down the road

702
00:37:00.420 --> 00:37:02.420
and I see this guy on the side of the road,

703
00:37:02.420 --> 00:37:04.500
sorry, just by like the IMAX theater there

704
00:37:04.500 --> 00:37:07.160
by the Burger King, if you've been to Queen Street.

705
00:37:08.060 --> 00:37:11.180
And he's sitting down there, he's kind of eating a burger

706
00:37:11.180 --> 00:37:12.860
and he just looked a bit lonely and I thought,

707
00:37:12.860 --> 00:37:14.940
man, I'm just going to go say g'day to this guy.

708
00:37:14.940 --> 00:37:17.300
I'm going to say hi and I'm going to,

709
00:37:17.600 --> 00:37:18.440
um,

710
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:24.480
yes.

711
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:25.440
Let me just stop for a second.

712
00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:26.280
Storm just said,

713
00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:28.280
I get worried about embracing a marshmallow God

714
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:31.560
instead of a holy God that

715
00:37:33.560 --> 00:37:36.640
scripture says to reverence and fear.

716
00:37:36.640 --> 00:37:37.580
That's my honest thought.

717
00:37:37.580 --> 00:37:38.760
Yeah, awesome Storm.

718
00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:39.760
I love it.

719
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:42.240
The thing about a holy God is that

720
00:37:42.240 --> 00:37:45.880
God's holiness is perfectly represented in Jesus.

721
00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:49.140
Jesus is the picture of what a holy God looks like.

722
00:37:49.140 --> 00:37:51.260
And so yes, God is completely holy

723
00:37:51.260 --> 00:37:52.840
and he's not just a marshmallow God,

724
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:55.600
but he is according to scripture and according to,

725
00:37:56.820 --> 00:38:00.360
according to God, according to the word, which is Jesus.

726
00:38:02.020 --> 00:38:03.660
I'm not saying Jesus is a marshmallow God,

727
00:38:03.660 --> 00:38:08.020
but I'm saying Jesus is a God that is 100% like Jesus.

728
00:38:08.020 --> 00:38:09.980
Sorry, God is a God that's 100% like Jesus

729
00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:12.420
and Jesus is a God that's 100% like Jesus.

730
00:38:12.420 --> 00:38:13.780
So that's what I'm saying.

731
00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:15.760
Um, but good.

732
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:16.800
Yeah, I think that we,

733
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:19.120
I think that the fear of God is actually something

734
00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:22.000
that we are beginning to get more of a revelation on

735
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.360
and we are going to continue getting more of a revelation on.

736
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:27.300
And it's one of the keys for what we're stepping into

737
00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:28.800
as a global church right now

738
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.000
is an understanding of the fear of the Lord.

739
00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:34.440
And I'm excited about that,

740
00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:36.640
but that's a topic for kind of another day.

741
00:38:38.600 --> 00:38:40.360
So I say to this guy,

742
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:41.880
Hey, listen,

743
00:38:41.900 --> 00:38:44.500
um, I just wanted to come up.

744
00:38:44.500 --> 00:38:46.460
I just want to say, mate,

745
00:38:46.460 --> 00:38:49.060
you're, you just look like a champion.

746
00:38:49.060 --> 00:38:50.540
I want to say that if,

747
00:38:50.540 --> 00:38:51.380
can I just say this to you?

748
00:38:51.380 --> 00:38:52.200
God loves you, man.

749
00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:53.040
And I don't know,

750
00:38:53.040 --> 00:38:54.740
is there anything I can pray for you for?

751
00:38:54.740 --> 00:38:56.500
And he just stands up,

752
00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:57.340
this guy on Queen Street,

753
00:38:57.340 --> 00:38:59.140
he just stands up and he says,

754
00:38:59.140 --> 00:38:59.980
he says,

755
00:39:01.180 --> 00:39:02.100
he swore at me.

756
00:39:02.100 --> 00:39:03.760
I was thinking, how do I say that word?

757
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:04.700
I'm not going to say that word.

758
00:39:04.700 --> 00:39:06.420
He swore at me.

759
00:39:06.420 --> 00:39:08.300
He cursed me and he told me to,

760
00:39:08.300 --> 00:39:11.060
in very colorful language,

761
00:39:11.080 --> 00:39:12.320
go away.

762
00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:15.440
And so I said, bro, bro, bro.

763
00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:16.320
And he looked really angry.

764
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:17.160
And I said, bro,

765
00:39:18.560 --> 00:39:20.160
sorry if I've done anything to offend you.

766
00:39:20.160 --> 00:39:23.180
Like, I just wanted to bless you.

767
00:39:23.180 --> 00:39:24.600
Sorry if I've done anything to offend you,

768
00:39:24.600 --> 00:39:26.600
but is there like, what's going on?

769
00:39:26.600 --> 00:39:28.960
How come, why are you so angry?

770
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:31.120
And, and he goes,

771
00:39:31.120 --> 00:39:34.080
you beeping Christians.

772
00:39:34.080 --> 00:39:36.160
I hate you beeping Christians.

773
00:39:37.080 --> 00:39:38.920
And I said, mate,

774
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:39.760
sorry, man.

775
00:39:40.140 --> 00:39:41.100
What, what, what happened?

776
00:39:41.100 --> 00:39:42.020
Why do you hate,

777
00:39:42.020 --> 00:39:44.180
why do you hate Christians?

778
00:39:44.180 --> 00:39:45.500
And he said, he said,

779
00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:47.620
well, I was here not long ago,

780
00:39:47.620 --> 00:39:49.080
sitting in the same spot

781
00:39:49.080 --> 00:39:52.900
and this beeping Christian came up to me

782
00:39:52.900 --> 00:39:55.300
and he comes up to me and he says,

783
00:39:55.300 --> 00:39:56.340
he says,

784
00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:57.420
he says this to me

785
00:39:57.420 --> 00:39:58.900
and he's furious, man.

786
00:39:58.900 --> 00:40:00.700
Like his face is filled with anger.

787
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:09.840
with anger. He said, Hey, do you know about Jesus? I said, No. He goes, Do you know, if

788
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:17.480
you die tonight, do you know where you spend eternity? He goes, No. And then the guy said

789
00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:23.360
to me, Well, hold out your hand. And so I held out my hand, just thinking, Okay, hold

790
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:31.600
out his hand. And the guy gets a cigarette lighter out of his pocket and lights it. And

791
00:40:31.600 --> 00:40:38.080
then he, and he's fuming, man. He goes, the guy burnt my beeping hand. He got the cigarette

792
00:40:38.080 --> 00:40:44.040
lighter and he put the flame on my fingers and he burnt my hand. And I just about smashed

793
00:40:44.040 --> 00:40:48.840
the guy, just about punched the guy. And I said, Man, I probably want to punch the guy.

794
00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:54.840
And, and, um, and I told him to beep off and, and then I tried to run after him and

795
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:59.200
he, he sprinted off and I was angry. I was going to beat him up. And then he, and I,

796
00:40:59.200 --> 00:41:03.720
and just before he ran away, he said this to me, he said, See that feeling you're feeling?

797
00:41:03.720 --> 00:41:09.920
That's what hell is going to feel like, but all over your body for all of eternity. Now,

798
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:15.320
this is not a teaching on hell guys. So I'm not even going to mention hell right now.

799
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.640
And I'm not saying anything about hell and I'm not even saying that that's true or untrue.

800
00:41:19.640 --> 00:41:24.640
I'm not even going to go into that. But here's what I am saying. That is a freaking misrepresentation

801
00:41:24.640 --> 00:41:29.320
about what God's like. Jesus would never walk up to someone with a cigarette lighter and

802
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:33.720
burn their hands and say, you know, if you don't change, that's what your whole existence

803
00:41:33.720 --> 00:41:36.720
is going to be like for the rest of eternity. And your whole body is going to be feeling

804
00:41:36.720 --> 00:41:41.080
this pain and you better get saved. And you better follow me because if you don't, you're

805
00:41:41.080 --> 00:41:48.280
going to, you know, Jesus doesn't threaten people into relationship with him. He loves

806
00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:54.040
people into relationship with him. And so this guy had had Jesus misrepresented to him.

807
00:41:54.040 --> 00:42:01.480
Why? Probably because the guy that misrepresented God to him had had God misrepresented to him

808
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:08.800
in the first place. He wasn't seeing God clearly. So he was representing him grossly, wrongly.

809
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:16.760
And he was probably not able to know God to any level of depth because what he was

810
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:23.080
seeing of God was not true of God. And so this is the thing. There are no monsters in

811
00:42:23.080 --> 00:42:31.760
God's cupboard. God is love. There are no monsters in God's cupboard. Now is God a holy

812
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:38.400
God? Yes. Is God a just God? Yes. Does God get angry? Yes. But all those things are based

813
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.840
and built upon his love and his goodness. He never, ever strays from that. He's always

814
00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:51.240
the same. He's always like Jesus. God is a hundred percent like Jesus. What kind of God

815
00:42:51.240 --> 00:42:56.720
do you see in Jesus? Well, I mean, that's a huge question, but let me just run through

816
00:42:56.720 --> 00:43:00.840
a few little things to let you know. And like I said, this is kind of just an introduction

817
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:09.240
and guys, sorry, I hope it's been clear. And I haven't waffled too much, but hey, you

818
00:43:09.240 --> 00:43:17.040
know, give me some grace. But let me just run through a few things that just off the

819
00:43:17.040 --> 00:43:23.200
top of my head. Oh, let me, sorry, Raewyn, I just saw your comment. Oh, my heart is breaking

820
00:43:23.200 --> 00:43:29.320
for that man. Me too. The end of the story though, let me just share the end of the story

821
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:36.120
because it's a cool end of the story. I said to the guy, I said, man, and I was thinking

822
00:43:36.120 --> 00:43:46.600
to myself, WWJD, what would Jesus do right now? And I said, you know what, man, that

823
00:43:46.600 --> 00:43:52.440
guy that burnt your hand was completely misrepresenting what God's like. God is not like that, man.

824
00:43:53.000 --> 00:44:01.720
I'm so sorry that that tainted your view of what Christians are like and more so what

825
00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:04.880
God is like and what Jesus is like. And I want to let you know, God is not like that

826
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:10.920
at all. God is a God of love and He loves you so much. And yes, man, He does want change

827
00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:14.440
for your life because He wants the best for you. And you were designed to do life with

828
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:18.760
Him. You were designed to be in relationship with Him. And when you're not, something's

829
00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:23.560
going to be missing in you, man. You were designed for this. You weren't designed to

830
00:44:23.560 --> 00:44:27.040
lead your own life. You were designed to be led by Jesus. That's the way that God has

831
00:44:27.040 --> 00:44:31.560
designed your being. But here's the thing, God would never walk up to you. Jesus would

832
00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:36.320
never walk up to you and burn your hand. He loves you, man. And I'm so sorry that that

833
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:42.040
happened to you. And He said to me, man, thanks for talking to me, man. And thanks for being

834
00:44:42.040 --> 00:44:49.040
patient. Man, if Christians are more like you, man, Christians are awesome. And He's

835
00:44:49.520 --> 00:44:53.480
like, you're a good dude, man. You're a good dude. And if Jesus is like you, or if you're

836
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:57.800
like Jesus, man, maybe I'll give Jesus a go. And He started talking like that. And you

837
00:44:57.800 --> 00:44:58.760
could see just the...

838
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.460
the image of God being almost rescued on the inside of him.

839
00:45:04.460 --> 00:45:06.060
So it was a really cool end to the story.

840
00:45:06.060 --> 00:45:10.260
So thanks, positive waffling, ha ha.

841
00:45:10.260 --> 00:45:11.260
Thank you.

842
00:45:11.260 --> 00:45:12.260
Yeah, I know it's a bit waffly.

843
00:45:12.260 --> 00:45:14.880
Sorry, it's not much sleep last night, you know.

844
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:19.580
But anyway, let me get back to where I was at.

845
00:45:19.580 --> 00:45:21.500
God is like Jesus.

846
00:45:21.500 --> 00:45:23.180
What kind of God do you see in Jesus?

847
00:45:23.180 --> 00:45:24.180
You see this.

848
00:45:24.180 --> 00:45:25.180
You see a friend of sinners.

849
00:45:25.180 --> 00:45:29.180
You see someone who is number one on the door at all the parties.

850
00:45:29.180 --> 00:45:34.820
Like he's, no one is the guy that hangs out with the guys who are off the rails.

851
00:45:34.820 --> 00:45:35.820
This is Jesus.

852
00:45:35.820 --> 00:45:38.820
This is, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father.

853
00:45:38.820 --> 00:45:40.380
This is what God's like.

854
00:45:40.380 --> 00:45:47.500
God is a God that is not afraid of sin, is not afraid of sinners.

855
00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:49.500
He's anointed with joy more than all of his companions.

856
00:45:49.500 --> 00:45:54.260
In other words, he's the happiest guy in at least all of Israel at the time.

857
00:45:54.260 --> 00:45:57.340
He's the one that believes and knows that no one else is willing to believe.

858
00:45:57.340 --> 00:46:00.940
And he's the one that picks the fishermen, the fishermen.

859
00:46:00.940 --> 00:46:02.100
He's the one that picks the fishermen.

860
00:46:02.100 --> 00:46:04.180
He's the one that picks the ones that no one else will pick.

861
00:46:04.180 --> 00:46:06.580
He's the one that believes in you and no one else will.

862
00:46:06.580 --> 00:46:08.860
He's the one that fights for what's best for everyone.

863
00:46:08.860 --> 00:46:11.820
He's the one that doesn't pick a side.

864
00:46:11.820 --> 00:46:15.580
He's the one that is the only one with the right to throw the first stone.

865
00:46:15.580 --> 00:46:21.300
And yet he shows mercy at the expense even of his own reputation.

866
00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:25.740
He's the one that stands and the woman caught in adultery and the Pharisees dragged that

867
00:46:25.740 --> 00:46:30.100
woman up in front of Jesus and they say, according, that's another thing, guys, according

868
00:46:30.100 --> 00:46:33.980
to the Scriptures and according to the law and according to the law of Moses, this woman

869
00:46:33.980 --> 00:46:35.220
must be stoned.

870
00:46:35.220 --> 00:46:39.780
Of course, there's no mention of the man that she was committing adultery with.

871
00:46:39.780 --> 00:46:42.380
He gets completely let off the hook.

872
00:46:42.380 --> 00:46:46.820
But she's dragged out and shamed and embarrassed and she's dragged out.

873
00:46:46.820 --> 00:46:49.580
And what's happening, guys?

874
00:46:49.580 --> 00:46:55.500
You have religion's perspective and representation of what God's like clashing with God's perspective

875
00:46:55.500 --> 00:46:56.940
of what God's like.

876
00:46:56.940 --> 00:47:02.380
And Jesus says, he who is without sin, he who is without sin, you've got two opinions,

877
00:47:02.380 --> 00:47:07.900
you've got two perspectives of God, you've got the perspective of the wardrobe filled

878
00:47:07.900 --> 00:47:12.100
with light and you've got the perspective of the wardrobe flooded with shadows.

879
00:47:12.100 --> 00:47:16.220
You've got a religious community that have been studying the Scriptures, studying God,

880
00:47:16.220 --> 00:47:21.100
trying to know God for years and years, for decades and decades, for centuries and centuries.

881
00:47:21.100 --> 00:47:25.180
And they're left with their own darkened imagination and they're left with an incomplete picture

882
00:47:25.180 --> 00:47:26.180
of what God's like.

883
00:47:26.180 --> 00:47:28.740
And they're saying, stone her, stone her, stone her.

884
00:47:28.740 --> 00:47:34.060
And then God steps on the scene in Christ and God says, basically, I'm not like that.

885
00:47:34.060 --> 00:47:37.820
He who is without sin cast the first stone and they all leave.

886
00:47:37.820 --> 00:47:40.100
And then this is what he says in response.

887
00:47:40.100 --> 00:47:43.940
He doesn't say, oh, you're fine, just keep on living the way you're living.

888
00:47:43.940 --> 00:47:44.940
No, no.

889
00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:47.460
He holds it to account, but in love.

890
00:47:47.460 --> 00:47:51.780
And he says, go, where are your accusers?

891
00:47:51.780 --> 00:47:54.740
Jesus casts out accusation.

892
00:47:54.740 --> 00:47:57.420
Accusation is never from God.

893
00:47:57.420 --> 00:47:58.940
He casts out the accusers.

894
00:47:58.940 --> 00:48:03.300
He casts out the spirit of accusation, which, of course, is the Satan.

895
00:48:03.300 --> 00:48:05.620
And he says, where are your accusers?

896
00:48:05.620 --> 00:48:06.620
Gets rid of them.

897
00:48:06.620 --> 00:48:08.740
And then he says, go and sin no more.

898
00:48:08.740 --> 00:48:09.740
Go and change.

899
00:48:09.740 --> 00:48:12.580
Another way of saying it is, go and repent.

900
00:48:12.580 --> 00:48:14.780
Go and live life in a different way.

901
00:48:14.780 --> 00:48:20.260
But he gives grace in his mercy and in the way he responds to her and in the way he loves

902
00:48:20.260 --> 00:48:21.260
her.

903
00:48:21.260 --> 00:48:26.580
He gives grace that is imparted to her to actually be able to live differently.

904
00:48:26.580 --> 00:48:30.940
Accusation never gives grace to live differently, but love gives grace to live differently.

905
00:48:30.940 --> 00:48:38.060
And so he's the one that is the only one who has the right to cast the first stone.

906
00:48:38.060 --> 00:48:41.220
And he never casts the stone.

907
00:48:41.220 --> 00:48:42.860
He only casts love and mercy.

908
00:48:42.860 --> 00:48:44.420
That's what God is like.

909
00:48:44.420 --> 00:48:46.580
He's the one who healed all who came to him.

910
00:48:46.580 --> 00:48:51.660
He's the one that wept over the death of his friend, even though he knew he was about

911
00:48:51.660 --> 00:48:53.020
to be raised from the dead.

912
00:48:53.020 --> 00:48:54.020
That's compassion.

913
00:48:54.020 --> 00:48:59.020
He's the one that stands at Lazarus's grave and sees all these ones weeping and howling.

914
00:48:59.020 --> 00:49:02.740
And he starts to weep with tears.

915
00:49:02.740 --> 00:49:05.740
And it says that he was groaning from deep within himself.

916
00:49:05.740 --> 00:49:06.740
He was sobbing.

917
00:49:06.740 --> 00:49:08.220
He was upset.

918
00:49:08.220 --> 00:49:11.700
Not because he was upset that Lazarus had died, because that's not true.

919
00:49:11.700 --> 00:49:15.460
He's about to raise him from the dead, of course.

920
00:49:15.460 --> 00:49:19.740
But he has compassion because he's able to relate to you and your pain, even though he

921
00:49:19.740 --> 00:49:21.460
knows that your story ends well.

922
00:49:21.460 --> 00:49:22.460
He's the God of compassion.

923
00:49:22.460 --> 00:49:24.060
He's the God that relates to you.

924
00:49:24.060 --> 00:49:25.060
That's what God's like.

925
00:49:25.060 --> 00:49:26.740
That's what Jesus is like.

926
00:49:26.740 --> 00:49:31.900
He's the one whom which nothing was or ever will be impossible.

927
00:49:31.900 --> 00:49:39.340
He's the one who when we see a God, he's the one that washes our feet.

928
00:49:39.340 --> 00:49:41.100
He's a God that's not afraid of our dirt.

929
00:49:41.100 --> 00:49:43.060
He's the one that comes down to our level.

930
00:49:43.060 --> 00:49:44.060
He's the one.

931
00:49:44.060 --> 00:49:45.060
He's represented.

932
00:49:45.060 --> 00:49:46.060
This is what God's like.

933
00:49:46.060 --> 00:49:49.700
He's the one that comes and comes to the lowest place.

934
00:49:49.700 --> 00:49:51.620
He takes the role of a servant.

935
00:49:51.620 --> 00:49:53.220
He takes the lowest place in the house.

936
00:49:53.220 --> 00:49:57.860
This is God, the King of the universe, taking his all authority and using it to come in

937
00:49:57.860 --> 00:50:00.020
underneath us and serve us from the ground.

938
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.720
ground up he washes our feet he's not afraid of your dirt he's not afraid of

939
00:50:03.720 --> 00:50:07.280
the dirt of your day and he will make you clean this is amazing this is what

940
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:13.880
God's like he's the one who gave himself to a bloody torturous death all for the

941
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:18.680
sake of saving those who were to blame for his own murder I got a tender mercy

942
00:50:18.680 --> 00:50:22.320
rather forget radical forgiveness and selfless love this is what God's like

943
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:28.080
he's a God that died on a cross not on your best day not when you deserved it

944
00:50:28.080 --> 00:50:32.120
but on your very worst day on the day that you murdered God he died for you he

945
00:50:32.120 --> 00:50:35.560
gave his life to you saying there is nothing that will ever separate you from

946
00:50:35.560 --> 00:50:42.640
my love this is what God's like this is the God that we see in Jesus Jesus is

947
00:50:42.640 --> 00:50:52.200
the dawning of a new day Jesus is the sunrise of a new day Jesus is the light

948
00:50:52.200 --> 00:50:56.520
flooding into the into the wardrobe and I want to say this one more time there

949
00:50:56.520 --> 00:51:04.080
are no monsters in the wardrobe and and but if you if you look into the wardrobe

950
00:51:04.080 --> 00:51:10.320
without the light on there will be shadows and where there are shadows

951
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:16.520
where there are shadows you will be left to imagine through sometimes maybe your

952
00:51:16.520 --> 00:51:20.600
own darkened imagination what you imagine might be there and it probably

953
00:51:20.600 --> 00:51:25.800
won't do you any good it probably won't do you any good so this is what I

954
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:32.480
suggest as you're reading the scripture as you're reading the scripture read the

955
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:37.320
scripture through the lens of Jesus as you're looking at life look at life

956
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:42.020
through the lens of Jesus as you're as you're looking at your friend look at

957
00:51:42.020 --> 00:51:45.680
your friend through the lens of Jesus as you're looking at your enemy look at

958
00:51:45.680 --> 00:51:49.880
your enemy through the lens of Jesus as you're looking at yourself look at

959
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:53.860
yourself through the lens of Jesus whatever you look at look at that things

960
00:51:53.860 --> 00:51:57.980
through the light that is Jesus Christ and he will illuminate to you what's

961
00:51:57.980 --> 00:52:04.140
really there but if you don't if you fail if you neglect I should say to put

962
00:52:04.140 --> 00:52:09.740
on the light of Jesus Christ to put on the life of Jesus Christ to put on the

963
00:52:09.740 --> 00:52:15.100
perspective that Jesus gives us if you fail if you neglect to put on the Word

964
00:52:15.100 --> 00:52:19.860
of God to be clothed in the Word made flesh that tabernacled amongst us if you

965
00:52:19.860 --> 00:52:25.260
if you neglect to do that then when you read and when you see and when you relate

966
00:52:25.260 --> 00:52:29.940
and when you live you will be living through shadows that will hinder your

967
00:52:29.940 --> 00:52:35.220
capacity to see what's truly there and you will end up at some points in some

968
00:52:35.220 --> 00:52:39.740
way you will end up misrepresenting yourself misrepresenting God it will

969
00:52:39.740 --> 00:52:44.460
hinder your your relationship with God and you won't be able to represent him

970
00:52:44.460 --> 00:52:48.660
as glorious as you could be representing them if you wore the lens of Jesus

971
00:52:48.660 --> 00:52:56.900
Jesus is the highest form of theology

972
00:53:02.900 --> 00:53:11.380
and I'll end with a statement our experiences do not define who he is but

973
00:53:11.380 --> 00:53:17.820
if we will see him clearly and know him deeply who he is will define our

974
00:53:17.820 --> 00:53:25.900
experiences one more time our experiences do not define who he is

975
00:53:25.900 --> 00:53:34.300
say la think on that but who he but if I'm sorry but if we will see him clearly

976
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and we can see him clearly but if we will see him clearly and know him

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deeply who he is will begin to define our experiences until our lives begin to

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look just like the life of Jesus a practical step one thing you can do to

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begin looking at Jesus more as you could begin you could begin by reading the

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four Gospels I remember being at BCCM and and Papa Bill Johnson would say this

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all the time he would say his most read books in the Bible by far are the four

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Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John I'm so sorry that the recording died I don't

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know where it died but sorry about that if you have if I missed any vital point

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please feel free to ask a question but I want to suggest that that's maybe a

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place you can start is you can look at Jesus by looking into the life of Jesus

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through reading the the life of Jesus in the Gospels and that that's a great

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practical place for you to start I want to pray for you in a second that God

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will give you a spirit of wisdom revelation and as I pray I want to give

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you an opportunity to just join with me and I want to just ask you to be open to

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God showing you any areas in your own life where where you have been see you

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You have been relating to God in a way, you have been seeing God in a way that is incongruent

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with the God that we see in Jesus.

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I want to just ask you to be open to the Holy Spirit showing you like, hey, are there any

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ways that I've been seeing God and relating to God that are not based on actually who

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He is?

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And Jesus, if that's true, Holy Spirit, if that's true, could you show me so that I can

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actually repent, change, and start relating to you and seeing you the way you are, which

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is like Jesus?

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I'm going to pray for you in a second, but before I do, before I started this live, I

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had this impression, and I just want to ask out there right now, just in case anyone who's

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actually watching now has this, but I had this birthday.

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God often gives me dates, and they're normally, they're almost always, never wrong, they're

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always, that's, yeah, they're normally right, but I had this strong impression of a date

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when I started this Facebook live, and it was February the 14th, it was someone's birthday,

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I believe that someone, well, it's either your birthday, I think it's your birthday,

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it's February the 14th, so if that's you, just drop a comment, February the 14th, you

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might not be listening, you might be someone that tunes in later on, and if that's true,

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then you drop a comment then, February the 14th, but it's someone with their birthday,

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February the 14th, and you have a back injury, and I felt like it was your upper back, you

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have a back injury, and I feel like the Lord is actually healing you today, as you watch

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this, God is wanting to heal you, and so I declare over you right now, in fact, if anyone

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has any back injuries right now, just put your hand on your back, but particularly you,

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if your birthday is on February the 14th, I felt like God just said to me, I'm going

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to heal the person whose birthday is February the 14th who has a back injury, and so right

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now I declare the healing power of God over that person, oh, it's Valentine's Day, right

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on, yep, so someone who's got their birthday on Valentine's Day, and I just declare the

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healing power of God over that person right now, and I minister that in the Spirit right

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now over you, and I declare that your body comes into alignment with the Kingdom of God

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right now in Jesus' name, pay and go, thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord, that's awesome.

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There are a few other things, but I'm just going to end with that. Let me pray for you,

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Lord, thank you that you're so good, thank you that you're so loving, thank you that

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you're so kind, God, you're not a marshmallow, God, you're not a tame lion, you are to be

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feared, but you are to be loved, and your goal in our lives is to love us and to hold

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us, Lord, and I thank you for the way that you relate to us, I thank you for the way

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that you see us, God, I thank you for the sacrifice that you made for us, Lord, I thank

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you, God, for who you are to me, God, I thank you, God, for revealing yourself to me, and

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I thank you for revealing yourself to these people who are tuning in, God, I thank you,

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God, for a greater revelation, God, and I ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation

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to come upon every person who's watching right now, and upon your church, Lord, I declare

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the spirit of wisdom and revelation to see you clearly, to know you deeply, and to represent

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you gloriously, I declare, Lord, right now, I declare a tribe, an army of lovers, an army

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of ones who see you clearly, know you deeply, that would go out and represent you gloriously,

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God, I declare the rising up, the raising up, Lord, of an unveiled people, God, the

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raising up of a people who live face to face with you, the raising up of a people, the

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raising up of each person listening, to live in a space where they are so face to face

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with you, that everything else melts into insignificance because of the light that they're

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living in, God, I declare that every space in anyone's life, where they're looking in

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the wardrobe, or they're looking into your face, and they're looking in through shadows,

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and they're not seeing clearly, God, I declare that the light of Jesus shining so brightly,

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I declare that today is a new day, I declare that the sun has risen, and there is light

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in the room, and where the curtains are still drawn shut, I declare that they are being

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drawn open, because the veil has been torn, not only in the temple, but over the minds

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of the people, that as we turn to the Lord, who is the Spirit, there is a veil that is

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torn in our minds. And I declare that taking place right now over people's lives. I declare

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a clearer and a deeper and a more colorful and vibrant revelation of the true nature

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of God, and I declare it into your spirit, in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank

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you, Jesus. Wow. Well, guys, again, sorry for a small little bit of waffle there, but

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I had fun just sharing that with you. And if you have any questions, I'll be kind of

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just, I'll keep an eye on this feed over today. And if you have any questions, feel free to

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just put them in the comments. Storm, thanks for sharing your perspective before, too,

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and just talking about the marshmallow God. I love hearing that, because it's good for

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me, too, to know what I haven't covered super clearly, so I can cover a little bit more

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clearly. And so thanks for your comments. Thanks for tuning in. Cool to hear that people

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have been ministered to in their backs and all that kind of stuff. God bless you. You

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guys are just awesome. Amazing, amazing people. Again, I also want to say as well, just a

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quick, again, another thank you for some of you who prophesied over my friend Alexei while

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I was in Russia. And he was just sharing with me how blessed he was by those prophecies

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again. And so thanks again for loving on my friend in Russia. That's so cool. Be praying

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for us here. We are, sorry, be praying, which interpretive means, be praying for us here

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in Fangire at Bethel Church. We're going through a really good time right now. There's a little

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bit of shaking going on, which I think, you know, it's not comfortable, but I think it's

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good. But at the same time, there's some really amazing things starting to happen, like I

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mentioned at the beginning. And so please pray for us. I believe that God's about to

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do something pretty profound and big, and not only in our church, but in the church

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in general, but particularly also in our church. And so if you could be praying for us, that

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would be awesome. Anyway, love you guys. Bless you. Have a great day.