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Just about live.

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How are you doing?

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Sam is beautiful to be with you.

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It is great to be on this adventure together today.

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And we are gonna have a glorious, glorious time.

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So join me now as we jump into this.

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I'm gonna do the classic, do a quick checkup of the tech

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and make sure that everything's streaming

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like it should be.

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As I do that, why don't you get comfortable,

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start getting like posturing your heart

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in a place of prayer.

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And we're gonna pray for a moment

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and then we're gonna launch into it.

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So look at that, we are live.

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Everything's going how it should be.

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Hey, it is awesome to be with you.

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And what would be really cool is

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let me know some of the things that have been a blessing

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to you so far on this adventure.

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And we're going to pray

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and we are going on a glorious, glorious adventure.

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This is gonna be amazing story time today.

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It's gonna rock your world.

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It's gonna give you foundations to understand

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what God is doing in the earth

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and how we can be a part of it,

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which is gonna be wild.

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So let's pray.

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Ah, Papa.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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Whoa, Yeshua, wow.

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Holy Spirit.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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Oh, we thank you so much for oneness with you.

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Wow.

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We thank you for,

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we thank you for the bliss of effortless union.

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We thank you that in you,

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we live and move and have our being.

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We thank you that you have,

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we've always been one with you.

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We thank you that we have been swallowed up in your love.

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We thank you that your heart showers ecstasy on us.

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Your heart showers delight on us.

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The divine dance showers unspeakable love

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and wonders over us.

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And we want to give you all the glory and all the honor.

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And Papa, we don't just,

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we love you outrageously.

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And we love you so much that our hearts burn

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and long and shake with desire for more of you.

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And so Papa, what we have, what we know,

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what we understand, our experience of you,

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our experience of the divine life,

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it's glorious beyond measure,

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but we want to go beyond what we've ever known,

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beyond what our experience speaks of,

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beyond what, where we've ever imagined,

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beyond what we understand,

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beyond what we've seen,

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beyond where our faith has taken us,

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beyond where our level of revelation has permitted us to go.

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We want to go beyond.

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So Papa, whoa,

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would you pour it out?

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Whoa, the revelation we need,

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the grace we need,

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the mantles we need,

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the wonders we need.

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Would you unlock new dimensions of faith,

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new dimensions of the ecstasy of oneness,

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new dimensions of face-to-face, spirit-to-spirit,

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new dimensions of union with the divine nature?

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Would you take us deeper?

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And would you unleash power in us

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and through us and around us that reveals your glory

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like we have never imagined?

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Whoa, would you break out?

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Would you do again what you've done in the past

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as we lay our lives down,

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as we consecrate ourselves and set ourselves apart?

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Would you do whatever it takes in us

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to have your heart's desire in us

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that we would be those that carry this move of God

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that's burning in your heart?

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You do a work in us.

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So Papa, we lay down,

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we lay down,

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we lay down our current understanding and say,

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Papa, we don't even know what we don't know.

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But what we do know is we desperately need you

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to take us beyond where we are.

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Take us beyond.

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Papa, we need open heavens.

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We need revelation.

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We need more of your glory,

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more of your truth, more freedom.

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Papa, we don't even know what we don't know.

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And we're just asking, fill in our blind spots,

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fill in our gaps,

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and let your burning heart consume us.

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And not just a little bit,

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but infernos and tsunamis and explosions and hurricanes

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and just explosions of wonder.

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Don't just take us a little bit.

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Take us all the way, Papa.

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Take us way, way, way, way,

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way beyond what we did to dream.

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Way, way, way beyond what our culture has said is possible.

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Way, way, way, way beyond what we've believed is possible.

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Take us, take us, take us.

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Whoa, Papa, in your beautiful name.

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Ha, ha, ha.

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all the glory and all the honor. We adore you. We devote our lives to perpetual adoration of you.

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And you'll get it.

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You're our one thing. You're the thing we burn for and long for. We say come, pour out that

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all-consuming fire. Leave no stone of ignorance untouched. Pierce where our minds have been

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corrupted and defiled and we can't even tell. Would you pierce the darkness in our own minds?

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Would you pierce the areas where there's closed heavens, where there's a lack of revelation?

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Would you pierce those with an explosion of the most glorious revelation that we've ever

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imagined? That we would not just talk about the greater works, but we would live

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the greater works in your beautiful name, Jesus.

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Amen. Wow, family. Beautiful. Such an honor to be on this journey together and

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where we are going is we're going into a realm of ecstasy beyond what we've ever known. We're

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going into a realm of glory beyond what we've ever tasted, of wonders and signs and miracles

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that go beyond what we've imagined. So just join with me in this declaration.

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I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate that this wild move of God is taking us beyond,

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beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond where we've ever gone before in Jesus name. One more time.

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I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate that this wild move of God is taking us above and

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beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond where we've ever dared to dream or imagine

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in Jesus name. Wonderful. Well, fam, we're going to get into it and just a quick recap on some of

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the things we've talked about. This is the three day open heaven intensive. So let's remind ourselves

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what an open heaven is, what it looks like. An open heaven gives you easy access to truth, easy

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access to revelation, right? Wow. And what does revelation produce? Jesus said, you know, the truth

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and the truth will set you free. And what does freedom look like? It looks like, we have to be

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really careful with this because freedom looks like the divine life, but most of us don't know

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what the divine life looks like because it's so good. Because of the history of the church,

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our image of what the divine life looks like has been corrupted. All right. So what does it look

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like? What does freedom look like? Freedom, I'm going to tell you, and we've got to be honest,

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if we're going to be humble and real and authentic, we've got to say that the divine life, it's beyond

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what we've ever imagined. Take everything that you've ever seen that's glorious and outrageous

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and phenomenal and wonderful. It's better than that. It's multiplied exponentially beyond what

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we've ever imagined, right? So open heaven gives easy access to revelation that produces freedom

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that looks like the divine life. It's seamless union. It's ecstasies and wonders and power

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and glory like we've never imagined. And what's a closed heaven, right? So, I mean, open heaven,

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it's heaven on earth, but heaven on earth is union with the divine nature. Heaven on earth is

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oneness with the Trinity. Heaven on earth is the divine dance. That's the goal of heaven on earth

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is the divine dance, to be swallowed up in the divine dance as individuals, as communities,

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and as geographical regions, as the glory habitations in ballot entire nations. That's

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the whole dream of heaven on earth. What's a closed heaven? A closed heaven is the exact opposite.

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It's very difficult to get access to truth. You have to go crazy hard out to get access to

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truth. Like we looked at Josiah, he grew up in this place of a closed heaven, and it was ridiculous

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how long it took him to get revelation. It took him 18 years to figure out that they shouldn't

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have a giant statue of an Asherah pole, which is a giant penis erected in the temple, and then

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worship Asherah with having male and female prostitutes. That's what a closed heaven

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does. It restricts your access to revelation, which restricts your access to freedom and restricts

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your access to the divine life and restricts your access to heaven on earth. And the fruit is hell

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on earth, oppression, dysfunction, chaos, a defiled mind, a corrupt mind, a futile mind that will try

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and tell you that what is evil is good and what is good is evil. So that's our little

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recap of where we've been. And the dark trinity achieves hell on earth by eradicating truth,

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and it's been going after truth in the church for centuries right from the beginning. So join

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with me and just make this declaration. Let's get it back. I'm just going to declare this.

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I decree and I declare. I mandate and I legislate. We're going to get truth back in Jesus' name. I decree

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and I declare. I mandate and I legislate.

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We're going to get truth back in Jesus' name. I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate,

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we're going to get truth back in Jesus' name. Right now, I can just tell that God's opening

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up revelations. He's opening up portals of revelation and I release over you the Spirit

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of the Lord, the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, the Spirit of counsel, the Spirit of understanding,

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the Spirit of knowledge, the Spirit of might, and the Spirit of the fear of the Lord in Jesus' name.

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And I prophesy over you right now realms of revelation opening up to portals, doors, gates,

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into the realms of revelation opening up and revelation descending on you. I declare right now

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that revelation is being released to you, imparted to you, not just from me but directly from

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heaven from the throne of God. Revelation is being deposited in your spirit right now in Jesus' name.

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Amen. So let's go after this adventure. Today we are looking at how mystic saints

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saved the world, right? The mystic saints that saved the world. Is that a cool title

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or what? Let me know what you think. So we better start by explaining what a mystic is. So here's a

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quick dictionary definition. A mystic is a person who seeks by contemplation

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and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the deity or the absolute

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or who believes in spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect. So a

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Christian mystic is a person who seeks extreme intimacy with God, who regularly practices

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spiritual disciplines and who consistently hears God speaking to them, right? So as far as the term

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mystic goes, you don't have to be worried about that. The definition to a mystic is fitting to

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anyone who is intentionally seeking to cultivate a healthy relationship with God. So if you're

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seeking to cultivate a healthy relationship with God, where you have relationship, you're hearing

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from him and you're following him, you, my friend, are the dictionary definition of a mystic.

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And we have to understand that the majority of the heroes of the Christian faith, actually every

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single hero of the Christian faith, is accurately called a mystic, okay? So Saint Patrick,

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Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Anthony of Padua, Catherine of Siena, Madame Guyon, the list

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just goes on and on, okay? So to understand the context of how of the mystics, the mystic saints

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that saved the world, what we have to do is we have to actually understand the world that they

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lived in. So put your seat belts on, get ready, let me know if you're ready for a crash course in

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history. This is going to be wild, okay? So now let me know, you know, as we're going in now,

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let me know again, you know, just anything that you're loving, anything that's been of value that

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you can enjoy, put those comments in there. I love seeing those testimonies. And do you love

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church history or not? Yes or no? If you love it, say yes, I love it. If you don't, say no,

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not interested. But we're going to go deep on church history and it's going to give you the

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context. The reason we have to go deep on this is because we have to understand when and how

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truth was robbed, when and how the church was corrupted, and what we're actually fighting

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for, all right? This is going to be a crazy journey into wild realms of church history and

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glory. So buckle up, here we go into it. So we're going to go all the way back to the beginning,

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okay? So if you don't know AD or Anno Domini, it doesn't mean after death, right? It means

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in the year of our Lord. So it refers to the year that Jesus was born. So we're starting now with

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how the church was corrupted, and we have to look at the history of persecution to do that,

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okay? So in 35 AD, just not long at all after Jesus was crucified, Stephen got martyred, okay?

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So I mean, Jesus was crucified. Basically, there's never been a period where the church hasn't been

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persecuted. 35 AD, when Stephen was martyred, things ramped up a little bit, but they never

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stopped, okay? So you've got to understand the church has always been violently persecuted.

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People have been martyred since Jesus, right? The first martyr, and it never stopped. But in 202 AD,

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the Roman Emperor Septimius, he actually forbade anyone. He's like, it is forbidden, forbidden,

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my friend, forbidden to become a Christian, okay? So it's illegal now to become a Christian. So that

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puts a little bit of a pressure on you when you're about making the whole world Christians, right? So

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the persecution ramped up then. Then in 250 AD, okay? 250 AD, just a couple hundred years after

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Jesus, the Emperor Decius, he ordered universal sacrifice, okay? So what that meant was that

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every single person in the Roman Empire had to get a certificate that said that they had

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sacrificed to the pagan gods, all right? And if you didn't, they would chuck you in jail. So this

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is a bit of a problem for the Christians, right? So, and I think that there's a bunch of people

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right now that are like, oh my gosh, you know, just in terms of funny things like the Vatican.

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not really that funny, but they're like, well, if you don't get the vaccine, you can't travel

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a little bit like in Israel right now. If you haven't had the vaccine, you're like a second

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class citizen. So this was way, way, way more serious than that. You know, you're going straight

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to jail if you don't sacrifice to a pagan God. Now, after that, there was a little bit of a

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reprieve where they kind of chilled out on demanding that. And then a bunch of the people

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who had sacrificed to the pagan gods who were Christians actually went back into the church

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and actually caused a bit of a problem in the church because there's all these people who were

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staunch who've just been tortured in prison. They've had people dying all around them and

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they're released and they're like, okay, sweet, we're going back to the church. And then they

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find all these ones that have sacrificed to pagan gods that are coming into the church too. And

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they're like, hey, you guys denied the faith. And so there was a little bit of a, you know,

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just a tension there in the church. And some people who were like, no, no, we are all about

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real purity. We're all about, we're full on for purity. They actually started leaving

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the mainstream church there. And the first famous person to do that was Anthony the Great.

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So in 270 to 271 AD, Anthony the Great, he went out into the desert and just started

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praying, just seeking Jesus. And he's like, man, all I want is the authentic gospel.

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I want heaven on earth. I want relationship with you. I want you, Jesus.

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Well, he became, you know, one of the great, probably the great founder of the Desert Fathers

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Movement. And what happened was all of these people just started moving to the desert

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and devoting their lives to prayer. So you had this monastic movement where they're just praying

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all the time, 24-7 prayer. And by the time he died in 356 AD, there was thousands and thousands and

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thousands of people who'd become nuns and monks and just moved out into the desert. And they

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just moved out into the desert. And Athanasius, one of the church fathers, when he wrote about it,

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he said, indeed, here's his exact words. He said, the desert has become a city.

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So there was this whole movement there of purity just going after it. So then in 298 to 300 AD,

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all right, Christians are forced to leave the Roman army. Now, if you're getting rid of all

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the Christians out of the army, you know something's about to go down. In 303, a crazy huge

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persecution broke out against the church. Churches were destroyed. Christian literature was burnt.

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There was a systematic slaughter. And this time, instead of, it wasn't just, you know, like it

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wasn't just sacrifice to go to prison, it was sacrifice to pagan gods will die on the spot.

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Well, so this is crazy. So Christians got driven to the catacombs, Christians hiding everywhere.

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This is going crazy. All right. So then say Emperor Constantine. Okay. So Emperor Constantine

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in 312 AD. Actually, let me give you an exact date. This is a really interesting story.

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On the 27th of October in 312, Emperor Constantine, he was actually, there was three

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emperors. He was one of three and he was battling for control. And so this is his last, you know,

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one of his last battles for control of the Roman empire against the other emperors.

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And he, what he saw is he had a vision and it said, this is his words. In the vision, it said,

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in this sign conquer. And he saw a vision of a cross. So he got rid of the Roman eagles. He

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painted crosses on all their shields and he went to war in the, under the banner of the cross and

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he won. And then in 313, the very next year in January. So just a few months after that.

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So you've got full on pagan Rome. That's full on. That's absolutely like slaughtering Christians

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like crazy. And then it goes, boom, changes like that. He has this vision and this conquer

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in the sign conquer. He gets that cross. He takes over the emperor, not like the empire.

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He does have a couple more battles later on to just get absolute supremacy, but he's basically

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got the whole majority of the empire at that point. And he makes Christianity legal, not just

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Christianity. He gives freedom of religion. So everything changes just in a moment. And then

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just not, not just as he make freedom of religion, he actually ends up favoring Christianity. And so

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he makes Christianity the religion of the state. So you've got overnight, basically you've got

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full on pagan Rome switches from pagan Rome to Christian overnight. All right. Now this is a

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little bit crazy because you've got, you know, like all these Christians who are being slaughtered

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like crazy. They're just being massacred. And the next thing, you know, oh, they're in like,

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they are favored by the emperor and all of a sudden becoming a Christian is cool, right? This is the

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cool club now to be a Christian. So there were cool benefits as well, right? Like all the pagan

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priests, if you're a pagan priest, whatever the roles of pagan priests had, boom, just switched

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over that. Now the Christians are in those places of influence, all the pagan buildings and temples,

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they all get given to the Christians. Constantine start giving the church.

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heaps of money. So Constantine has got a lot of money there, a lot of influence, a lot of control.

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he was on his deathbed. And when he did get baptized, he got baptized by an Arian bishop.

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And the Arians were one of the biggest heretic, like one of the biggest kind of problems to the

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early church ever, because they had this belief that Christ wasn't fully divine, okay. So even

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when Constantine did get baptized on his deathbed, it was into a cult, well I would just say a

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movement that denied the deity of Christ, right. So that, well right there, that's an issue. And

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there's a lot of the early church fathers that just gave their lives to try and defend that,

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and that's what Constantine aligned with. So he was really influential in the church,

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but he wasn't actually a Christian. So all of a sudden, it's the call club to be in,

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you got benefits, like you didn't have to pay taxes. All these things started happening,

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you got access to a whole lot of government money. So you've got all these people who aren't

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even close to being Christians jumping into the leadership of the church. And can you imagine that

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that might just create a little bit of crazy town, a little bit of chaos, where you've got

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you've got these hardcore people who were just dying for their faith by the thousands, and then

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all of a sudden a big switch, and you've got all these random pagan guys who don't even follow

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Jesus leading the church. And so, but the thing is, in that stage, it was the Catholic church, but

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the word Catholic, all it means is universal, it's because there was only one church. So what

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do you name the church if there's only one church? Universal church, the Catholic church, it's just

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the one church, there's only one church, it's the universal church. So there was no other church to

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go to, and now there's this collision inside of this, all this wrestling going on in the inside

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of the church itself as a structure. Now, we fast forward a little bit, right, so go forward a little

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bit, and the Roman Empire starts crumbling away. Okay, the Roman Empire is enormous, they occupy

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territories all over the world, but there's uprisings happening everywhere, they start losing

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their power, and by 400 AD, the Roman Empire had lost, was starting to lose its power like crazy.

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And then in 476 AD, the Roman, like Rome itself, it fell as an empire. So what happened, right, as

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the dust settled, is actually the church arose as the power rather than the government, okay.

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And the church at the time created a folk, a fake document, right, they created a fake

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document, which was called the Donation of Constantine. It was a fake document that they forged,

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which said that Constantine gave them the authority to rule the empire, right. So they create this

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fake document, and basically they get all the power, and so instead of having like the government,

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you know, ruling over the church, now the church rules over the government, and that's how the

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Catholic Church came into absolute supremacy. So what you've got there is you've got the good,

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the bad, and the ugly all mixed in together. You've got a movement of thousands of people in this

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monastic life where they're just going after intimacy, radical intimacy with Jesus. There's

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mystics, you've got all these survivors of martyrdom and their descendants, you know, like

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the descendants of those people. You've got all sorts, it's a real mountain top, the church,

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but also at this point when the Catholic Church emerges as this universal power, the church has

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already had 150 years of corruption. So what is that corruption going to do? It's going to close

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the heavens, isn't it, okay. They're not teaching the truth about Jesus, and then they're just

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teaching whatever feels good, whatever sounds good, whatever's going to give them the best

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favor or what's going to give them the best political advantage, okay. So they're just

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preaching whatever, okay. So they're using it for power and control, and you can tell that that's

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what they're after because they fake a whole document just to create the pretext to seize

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control, okay. So it's pretty messed up, okay. So you've got a melting pot of the good, the bad,

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and the ugly, and into that context right there enters one of our next things. So the first guy

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that we talked about is Anthony the Great, who was the father of the desert movement, which

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spawned thousands of mystics, thousands of these people. They just moved there by the thousands,

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and he wasn't the only one. There was also some other fathers just kept going, kept going,

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kept going, kept growing out of that. It was like a seed of thousands of seeds of these mystics

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that then started going all over the place and carrying that seed, all right. So they've got

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that, but the majority of Christianity is stuck under the influence of this corrupt Catholic

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regime, which was really tyrannous and brutal, and so it's just craziness, right. But at that time,

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coming into the scene is Saint Patrick, okay. So with Saint Patrick, who loves Saint Patrick?

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We'll do an overview of Saint Patrick, and he's so, so critical to church history,

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to world history, and he's so critical. One of his prophecies that we're going to look at

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is so critical to the move of God that is unfolding in the earth right now. So he was born in the

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late 300s, there's a little bit of dispute around the exact dates of St. Patrick, but late 300s,

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so just as the Roman Empire is starting to collapse is when St. Patrick is born. He's born,

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he's just one of these guys that's marked from the outset with a real, real love for Jesus.

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You may know the story, when he's 16, he gets kidnapped by Irish pirates, and when he's there

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as a slave in Ireland, he learns the language, he learns the culture, but he also takes this

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real amazing love that he already had for Jesus, he took it real deep, and he went to this crazy

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level of wild intimacy with God, with heaven, he engaged with angels, he had visions, he had

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supernatural miracles and signs and wonders following him even from the time he was a child,

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so he is marked by God right from the beginning, and after six years in captivity, he has a vision,

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and the vision shows him where a ship is waiting from 200 miles away, and some people say it was

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an angel named Victor, Victory, that actually showed him this and led him, so he walked 200

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miles, bear in mind that if he'd been caught, he would have been executed as a runaway slave,

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and then he gets a ship back, the same ship he saw in the vision goes back to England,

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and he's in his 20s, and at this point he actually has a vision where he receives a call to go back

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to Ireland and minister to the Irish, but he doesn't go right back, he actually spends decades

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training for that calling, it's not till he's 60 that he goes back, he travels all around Europe,

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and he goes and connects with a lot of these amazing mystical saints that are all around Europe,

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and then in his 60s, he gets commissioned by the Pope and everything, and he goes over

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with this mandate, and in his heart, he's not just going to make disciples in nations,

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in Saint Patrick's heart, he's got a mission he's been preparing for for decades, and the mission is

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to disciple the entire nation, that was his goal, that was his heart, that's what he was after,

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and you see it right from the outset of what he does, so get ready, let me know if you're

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excited about Saint Patrick, because this goes wild, so he starts, one of his first acts,

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not his exact first act, but one of his first and most significant acts is when he goes to Ireland,

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he starts a fight with one of the kings, now there were multiple kings, not just one king,

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but there was a really, really influential king, and he started a fight with the king,

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can you imagine that? This is his very first act, he goes and starts a fight with the king,

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so here's how he did it, there's a particular feast that happened around Easter at that time,

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for this pagan festival, there was a particular feast that was happening, and no one was allowed

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to light a fire before the king, so he couldn't cook on any fire, he couldn't have any fire,

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there was no fire permitted in all of that region, until after the king had lit his big bonfire,

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and then everyone could light fires everywhere, and have a big party, but the king had the honor

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of lighting the first fire, so Saint Patrick makes this massive bonfire, and lights it on a big hill,

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right opposite where the king is, to start this big fight with the king, so the king's like, what?

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And then his, interestingly, in the culture, the Celtic culture, up until that time, they already

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had, through their druids, and in their culture, embedded, and they actually had a prophecy saying

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that a person like Saint Patrick was coming, and that he was actually going to really change the

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nation, he's going to be a man of huge influence, they even described, you know, the type of dress

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that he was wearing, so they had this, and there was a little bit of apprehension thinking, oh my

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gosh, is this the prophecy fulfilled when Saint Patrick turned up? So the king, actually his

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advisors, his druids, they said to him, listen, if you don't put that fire out before morning, it will

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become a fire and island that never goes out, and the man who lit it will be more famous than kings

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and queens, wow, that's what they said to him, so they rush over there, and they start this

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battle with Saint Patrick, basically, they send some people over, say, hey, bring him over,

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and then the first power encounter is with this druid who says, I've got so much power, and he's

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boasting in all his demonic power, he starts levitating in front of them, like, just boasting,

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this is like a David and Goliath moment, right, where he's just boasting in, you know, in demonic

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powers, and Saint Patrick starts praying, and the druid dies and falls to the ground dead,

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wow, now, I haven't really prayed for anyone to, you know, to die in my ministry before, you know,

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and who, I didn't, Patrick was necessarily praying for him to die, but Patrick's praying,

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here's the thing, though, is that sometimes where the move of God comes, sometimes with the glory,

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and we saw that with Uzzah, when we looked at it yesterday, Uzzah reached down, he touched the glory,

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and sometimes you can cross the line with God, majority of the time, you know, like, the loving

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heart of the Father never changes, but there is a dynamic of the glory that you can't mess with,

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and there is a dynamic as well, that if you get a covenant with demonic powers, that sooner or

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later, you can experience the consequence of that, and

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boom this guy he gets uh he dies right there in front of everyone they're like whoa what happened

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and that guy's followers they started raging right they started drawing swords they're going after

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saint patrick saint patrick starts praying and a storm comes right and all of those guys that

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were trying to come and kill him they all start they just turn on themselves and they just start

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fighting themselves and they killed about 50 of themselves uh and saint patrick standing there

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unharmed so we can see that the hand of god really is on saint patrick protecting him like

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very few other people have ever been protected in fact in the whole process of the taking of island

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this place that was full of druids full of kings who hated saint patrick full of enemies full of

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people always trying to take them out in that whole time there was only one recorded martyr

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in the whole process of the discipling of the entire nation of ireland now that is absolutely

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unheard of okay it's because this fear of god came around them not just fear of god but sovereign

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protection so you had to kind of watch out anytime someone was going to try and kill saint patrick

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something was going to happen you know god protected him like crazy and you're going to see

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why god protected his life like crazy in a moment so after those guys start you know like kill each

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other that things calm down and the king says right why don't you come to the palace tomorrow okay so

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they uh the king lays a trap an ambush for saint patrick uh on the way to the palace so saint

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patrick is going along he's praying it's the day that he actually made up saint patrick's prayer

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he just kind of prophetically released this amazing prayer we don't have time for it today

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but then while they're going through towards the palace there's these you know all these men all

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these druids and soldiers and wait uh to kill them but all they see is saint patrick so saint patrick

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took eight uh eight of his disciples with him and what they saw is they saw eight deer and a fawn

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walk in front of them and then they turn up at the palace and the king can't believe it that

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they've actually made it through the ambush he's got no idea how they're there so he gives them a

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drink and right the drink is poison so patrick tips the drink upside down and the poison falls

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out of it now this dynamic of saint patrick this is uh this these stories are all recorded but it

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takes it's like whoa these are wild it's it gets pretty wild and outrageous the story here but

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there's so much fruit and so much uh like there's written accounts of it but the most obvious

419
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testimony of the truth of this is the fact that in a very short time saint patrick was able to

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convert an entire nation from full-on druidism to one of the greatest open heavens the world has

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ever seen so hold on we're gonna um go deeper in this so he tips this cup upside down the poison

422
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falls out the drink stays in there and he drinks it and he's fine then they have another big power

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encounter another druid dies and then that druid's followers they come after saint patrick too and

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they want to kill him they've drawn their swords and what happens is the ground actually opened up

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and swallowed them oh my gosh this is insane signs wonders and miracles and that's one of the reasons

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why i compare saint patrick to the the moses of the new testament right he was so if you don't

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know the ins and outs about uh saint patrick right it was it'd be like if the israelites didn't know

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about moses okay saint patrick is a part of your spiritual heritage and not just a little part he

429
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is one of the most critical characters possibly the most important christian in the last 2 000

430
00:33:22.560 --> 00:33:27.600
years was saint patrick okay so he is like the moses of the new testament and i just you know

431
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for most people our inheritance is being robbed from us so one of the next things that saint

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patrick does is he goes up on what's now called mount patrick and he spends 40 days and 40 nights

433
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just like moses and while he's up there he is battling the forces of satan he's having angelic

434
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encounters he's having angels visit him he's having a huge amount of demonic oppression

435
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it's recorded that black birds from everywhere came and landed on the mountain and then when

436
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saint patrick got his breakthrough the black birds disappeared and white birds descended

437
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on the mountain but the crazy thing is that after that moment uh things just broke open in

438
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ireland like crazy okay so you've got to think you know a pagan barbarian society that that rages

439
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:15.920
against jesus right that's worshiping all sorts of other things oh it just breaks open there's

440
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this massive breakthrough in the spirit realm where saint patrick he deals with the spiritual

441
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principalities and powers that are causing remember they're causing what are they causing

442
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:30.480
they're causing a closed heaven they're restricting the access to truth it's difficult for people to

443
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:35.920
access truth he goes up on the mountain he battles he does warfare with these spiritual forces in high

444
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places and he gets the breakthrough and uh and then woof it begins this crazy outpouring of an open

445
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heaven in ireland that ireland became one of the greatest and i would suggest that we possibly

446
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right now obviously i wasn't there but based on saint patrick's prophecy based on history based

447
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on the accounts that came out of that irish open heaven

448
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seems to me that the island that St. Patrick created was the single greatest outpouring of

449
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an open heaven that we have seen in the New Testament definitely. I think the only thing

450
00:35:12.080 --> 00:35:17.360
that could possibly rival it would have been Solomon's kingdom at the very beginning, but

451
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my guess is, as I look at all things, I think it was possibly the single greatest

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open heaven in world history. We'll look at that a little bit more in a moment, but

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what we have to understand is there was a realm of revelation, okay, this is what I want

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you to help you grasp, but there was a dimension of an open heaven in that place

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that allowed them to walk in an open heaven, allowed them to walk in access to revelation that

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transcends what most of us have ever experienced. We cannot underestimate the impact

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of what it would have been like to live in the open heaven in Ireland at that time. The open

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heaven in Ireland at that time was so great that there was no dark ages in Ireland, right? There

459
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were no dark ages in Ireland. Instead of that, what they had is St. Patrick himself baptized

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around 120,000 people, planted 300 churches, established monasteries all over that, but then

461
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he raised up five generations of bishops. He lived and ministered there for 60 years. He actually got

462
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to minister and raise up and coach and lead five successive bishops, but he had people that he

463
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ministered to as a child that raised up, you know, and became leaders and he knew them with gray hair.

464
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So this is, he was there for 60 years or roughly ministering in Ireland and he saw this huge

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transformation and so you're thinking like monasteries all over the place with 24-7 prayer,

466
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and I'm saying that wrong for sure, but Ireland is one of the most famous ones, and then these

467
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disciples were phenomenal. They were some of the greatest missionaries and evangelists in world

468
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history and amazing things were happening. So they had these monasteries and their monasteries weren't

469
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just, you know, just a prayer meeting or some fadida people. They were full of full-on mystical

470
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revivalist missionaries, creatives, scientists. So what you had in these missionaries are places of

471
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amazing education. Kings and queens from all around Europe would send their kids to be raised in

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these monasteries and then they'd also be raised, you know, like educated right alongside the common

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kids. There was 24-7 prayer going on all over the time. They devoted themselves to the perpetual

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adoration of God. How wild is that? A culture devoted to the adoration of God. Wow, this is

475
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wild, and it wasn't just ones or twos. You're talking like these monasteries that they created,

476
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thousands of people would come to some of these places. Some of the monasteries that they created

477
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:54.880
became cities as a result because there'd be thousands of people coming to pray. Can you

478
00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:59.200
imagine that? Cities would, you know, places that they go into remote places just to pray,

479
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and they become massive, and some of the Irish monks, right, what they did is they went and they

480
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put a monastery out on one of the remote islands off the coast of Ireland because they thought that

481
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was the end of the world, and they devoted themselves because they thought that was the

482
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end of the world where Satan kind of entered the world from, but they were like, right, we're going

483
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to position ourselves here at the end of the world to do battle with Satan to protect the world. How

484
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wild is that? They just placed themselves on the ramparts battling for humanity, and so you had

485
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actually hundreds of years Celtic missionaries going out from that place. So it wasn't until

486
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the Vikings started raiding that they really started messing up some of the Celtic missions,

487
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but they still didn't stop. So you had this one Saint, Saint Columba, he was raised there in that

488
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Irish, he went to Scotland, and he established off the coast of Scotland a monastery called Iona,

489
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one of the most famous monasteries in the world, and they had 24-7 prayer. They had people coming

490
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there with technologies and amazing creatives. It was the Irish monasteries that preserved much of

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the literature, much of the creative arts that we have still preserved. They were preserved in those

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monasteries and created there. The whole world was like, wow, Ireland's this place of phenomenal

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creativity, and there was amazing artists and amazing jewels and creations constantly flowing

494
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out of this place. So, and then one of the royals, King, let me try and grab his name for you,

495
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I'm trying to remember his name, King Oswald, that's right, King Oswald, he'd been sent

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in fear for his life. They sent him to Iona, and he was raised there with Columba, and then he

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went back and became a king, and then he called the Celtic monks back to Britain. So

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a little bit of context again, so you had the Roman Empire crumbling, so when Saint Patrick left

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from Britain, it was a Roman colony, but when Columba

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and the other Celtic missionaries, when they started going back, all the Romans had left,

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the Roman occupation had ended, it was all back to crazy barbarian pagan worship. So you're in

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danger for your life. So Columba, he goes to Scotland, and he won all of Scotland in a similar

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way to how Patrick won Ireland. This is crazy. He won a whole nation, right? And then they got

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called by King Oswald to evangelize Britain, and they established another monastery, Lindisfarne.

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So you've got these monasteries, they're just hubs, they're open heavens is what they're

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creating, these open heavens, and they're full of prayer and worship and miracles and creativity,

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and they're just amazing, wonderful places. But they're also exploding out missionaries

508
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all over the continent of Europe, who are going out and taking monasteries and this whole DNA

509
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that St. Patrick had, they're taking it with them. So then Celtic missionaries, they actually won

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back England. That's why England was a Christian nation, because of the Celtic missionaries. And

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then you have this guy St. Columbanus. So St. Columbanus, he goes all the way to Italy, and he

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founds the monastery in a remote place called Bobbio. And St. Columbanus, he was famous for

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things like when whole groups of people were running out of food, he would pray, and like

514
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their whole storehouses would be replenished with food supernaturally. How wild is that?

515
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St. Columbanus was like, you know, saints like St. Francis. If you look at the pictures of St.

516
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Francis of Assisi, you will see all these animals around him, because he was famous for preaching to

517
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birds, and all sorts. You had these mystics at the time who could communicate with animals, they

518
00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:42.800
would preach to fish, they would preach to birds, they would speak to the wolves. There's a famous

519
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.560
story about the wolf of Bior, who was killing people, and one of the saints spoke to the wolf

520
00:41:46.560 --> 00:41:51.520
of Bior, and he actually became civilized in a sense, and actually became a pet in the village,

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where before that he'd been killing people. There's so crazy supernatural stuff that's going

522
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on with the interaction with nature. St. Columbanus, he needed a cave to go in, and so there was a bear

523
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:06.080
in this cave, and he asked the bear nicely, and the bear actually left. It's recorded as well that

524
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St. Columbanus, he needed to plow some fields, and he didn't have, you know, an ox or anything to

525
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:17.280
plow. He actually spoke to a bear, and harnessed a bear, and a bear plowed his fields with him. This

526
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:23.120
is crazy, all right? So the supernatural dynamics, the signs, the wonders, just amazing, and because

527
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they've been stewarding royalty, they've had royalty coming in from all over the place, then they end

528
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.840
up getting favor all over the world. You know, as they go to these different places, the king's like,

529
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oh yeah, I love Celtic, I was, you know, I was raised in a monastery, and so they've got favor

530
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:43.360
popping up all over the place, and actually the monastery that Columbanus set up in Bobbio in

531
00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:48.800
Italy is now like a huge city, and it's, you know, just revered as one of the most beautiful architectural

532
00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:56.000
places in Italy. So these guys broke out all over the world in a time, and remember, the time is

533
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you've got all this crazy corruption going on in the Catholic Church, and then you've got this wave

534
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:08.160
of Celtic missionaries, and monks, and bishops who are bringing open heavens like crazy, all right?

535
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All spawned out of the work that Patrick did that created one of the greatest open heavens

536
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:18.960
in world history. So right on St. Patrick's deathbed, he started having this vision, and in the

537
00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:26.000
vision, he saw the open heaven slowly eroding, much the same as how, probably over a slower process

538
00:43:26.080 --> 00:43:31.760
than Solomon's, but Solomon's open heaven, it faded. In the vision, St. Patrick, on his deathbed, saw that

539
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:36.880
after he died, over a period of centuries, the open heaven would collapse, the place would get covered

540
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:42.480
in darkness, and so he's like, God, no! He really started seeking God before he died, and then God

541
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:48.320
gave him the next part of the vision, which was a prophecy that showed the light, popping up,

542
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:55.120
showed the open heavens breaking out once again, and that prophecy right now, that, I believe that

543
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is what God has been trying to bring us back to for centuries, and I believe that is what is being

544
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fulfilled right now. God is moving us radically towards the fulfillment of the prophecy that he

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gave St. Patrick, you know, nearly 1500 years ago, and that prophecy, God is getting busy working on it.

546
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So yeah, when we're talking about open heavens, and we're talking about God take us beyond where

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we've ever been before, this is what I mean. They walked in a realm, they walked in a dimension of

548
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:28.000
faith, they walked in a dimension of the supernatural, they walked in a dimension of

549
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:33.920
adoration or dimension of intimacy with God that few of us have ever imagined, and not just ones

550
00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:38.880
or twos, thousands of them. They created open heavens over geographical regions, and this is

551
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:45.600
wild, and God wants to bring us back there, and then take us from glory to glory. Who thinks that

552
00:44:45.600 --> 00:44:50.160
would be crazy, right? Who thinks that that, to go glory to glory from beyond what St. Patrick had,

553
00:44:50.160 --> 00:44:55.760
imagining that in our world, who thinks that that would be crazy, right? Well, I guarantee you,

554
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that's where God's taken us. So let's

555
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:09.520
a look at another couple of people who were mystic saints just quickly. So let's look at

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Saint Francis Xavier. So Saint Francis Xavier, he was in the 1500s and he had an 11-year period

557
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from 1541 to 1552 where he was actually sponsored by King John II of Portugal. So he was a sponsored

558
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:46.480
missionary and in that 11 years things went crazy for him. So King John III from Portugal sponsored

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00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:53.280
Saint Francis Xavier to go on amazing missionary endeavors all over the place. So he, we'll talk

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00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:58.880
about this more tomorrow, but he lived in the days of the Reformation with Martin Luther and Calvin

561
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and the major crazy church split there and so there was war and all sorts of things happening

562
00:46:04.160 --> 00:46:12.240
there. He actually at one point, yeah we won't go any deeper on that, but in 1535 he just began

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00:46:12.240 --> 00:46:17.360
falling in love with Jesus. So let's look at some of the miracles that came out of a life, again,

564
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:23.680
just a life devoted to perpetual adoration and let's look at what happened. So he was a

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missionary to India, Madagascar, Malacca, Ceylon, Indonesia, and Japan. And so one of the first

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00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:37.760
miracles that happened, you know, outrageously for Saint Francis Xavier was the gift of tongues,

567
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:42.320
okay. This is before most people have got the gift of tongues and, but he could speak any, everywhere

568
00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:48.400
he went he preached and everyone understood him in their native tongue. That's amazing. So everyone,

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and estimations are people from about 30 different languages that he preached to and everyone could

570
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:59.120
always understand him. He was on a ship at one point and he was preaching to it on this ship

571
00:46:59.120 --> 00:47:03.120
and there's people from all around the world, just like an axe, people from all around the world

572
00:47:03.120 --> 00:47:08.560
and everyone could understand him. And because that was a, it's a pretty big, like, welcome, right?

573
00:47:08.560 --> 00:47:12.720
When you go in somewhere and you can speak their language perfectly and you've never even been there

574
00:47:12.720 --> 00:47:20.880
before, well, it's wild. So, yeah, everywhere he went, those types of things were happening. Let's

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00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:26.160
have a quick look at some of the miracles as well. So he had resurrections all the time.

576
00:47:26.160 --> 00:47:31.120
There was a bunch of resurrections. He resurrected one guy who was like already well decomposed,

577
00:47:32.080 --> 00:47:40.480
nastiness. He had really amazing as well, by location miracles where he would be in two places

578
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:45.440
at the same time. One of those was actually on a ship where they were on a ship and there was a

579
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:51.440
storm and there was like a girl and a few other people on this lifeboat, but the rope snapped

580
00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:56.960
and they got lost in the storm. St. Patrick goes and he prays in the, sorry, not St. Patrick,

581
00:47:56.960 --> 00:48:02.400
St. Francis Xavier. He prays and the storm clears and everyone's all gutted because they lost the

582
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.520
life raft with all the people on it. But he says to them, don't worry, on the third day they will

583
00:48:07.520 --> 00:48:13.520
return. And sure enough, on the third day they return, but everyone who's on the boat, they all

584
00:48:13.520 --> 00:48:17.040
jump on and they're like, oh, hey, where's Francis? Because they were expecting him to get out of the

585
00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:22.240
boat too. And they all said that he was on the boat with them the entire time. All right. So

586
00:48:22.240 --> 00:48:29.360
here's this guy, he's just got crazy miracles and like his impact was just, it was huge. So he was

587
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:35.440
leading and baptizing and immersing, you know, just thousands of people into the faith. And they were

588
00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:40.240
getting really like, they were fired up on fire, Jesus loving people that he was raising up in a

589
00:48:40.240 --> 00:48:46.480
time where it really was a closed heaven time in many ways. And there's this one guy carrying his

590
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:51.920
own bubble of revival, his own bubble of awakening. And that's this amazing thing, right? Like how one

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00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:56.800
person can just carry something phenomenal regardless of the open heavens. If your hunger,

592
00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:02.480
if your humility, if your work ethic is there and that grace is there, then you can carry an

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00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:07.760
open heaven regardless, right? Because what's an open heaven? A renewed mind is an open heaven.

594
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So if you'll go to the effort, if you'll take it seriously enough and you renew your mind,

595
00:49:11.520 --> 00:49:16.800
you can live in an open heaven in all its glory right now. And many people have, and that's what

596
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I'm trying to communicate with these stories of the saints. The list of these saints just goes on

597
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and on and on and on and on. These people have lived in radical supernatural power. They've

598
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:29.600
lived in a radical open heaven because they devoted themselves to intimacy with the Lord.

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00:49:29.600 --> 00:49:34.720
And it brought about this phenomenal open heaven and a bubble and they walked with radical signs

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00:49:34.720 --> 00:49:44.960
and wonders. Another, let me read his account of some miracles. So this is an account by Francis

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himself, Francis Xavier, to one of his leaders, another epic saint, to master Ignatius Loyola

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00:49:54.800 --> 00:50:00.000
from Francis Xavier sent from Cochin in India, December the 31st, 15.

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1443. I and Francis Mancius are now living among the new Christians at Comorin. They are very

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numerous and increasing every day. The fruit that is being reaped here I trust heartily.

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By the grace of God they show an ardent love for Jesus and an extraordinary zeal for learning

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and imparting it to others. Every day a vast number of sick natives come to us for prayer.

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There are too many to pray for each day. So I have taught the children to pray and the great

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number of sick persons are restored daily to health by way of their prayers. I've also taught

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these children to teach the rudiments of the Christian gospel, sharing it with those who

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are healed. And so daily the message of Jesus is spread throughout the villages. Jesus has made

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the very disease of their bodies the occasion of calling upon his name and into salvation.

612
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The Holy Spirit is drawing them into faith almost by force. There remains therefore for only one

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reason for me not becoming Christians and that is that there are not enough laborers to tell them.

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How wild is that? Okay so he carried this open heaven that just didn't just bubble up over

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himself it just bubbled up in a region and he saw it all over these places these nations that he

616
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went India, Madagascar, Malacca, Ceylon, Indonesia and Japan over and over and over again he saw the

617
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same thing. Radical awakening. He carried an open heaven personally that actually impacted places

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geographically everywhere he went. This was wild. Lepers healed. And I'll read to you one more

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account from a historian that is just crazy. So this is from the historian Bartoli and he wrote

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this and I just want to read it to you from the historian's words because it's such a crazy story

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okay. So it would appear that the invasion of Travancore was made by a formidable army

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who then turned their attention to the fishery coast. The particular, so an army is invading right

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in this place where Saint Francis Xavier is, the particular attention of this attack appears to be

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the villages of the new Christians and when Francis heard of the imminent attack he marched toward

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the oncoming army holding a cross and he rebuked them in the name of Jesus.

626
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This is a historical account of Saint Francis Xavier marching against an entire army

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just holding a cross right. The front ranks stopped and urged those behind to turn around

628
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because standing in front of them they saw a man of great height of terrible and majestic appearance

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in a black robe overawed and frightened. They could not bear the fire that flashed from his

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face and eyes. The leaders fell to the ground by some unknown power and the rest of the army

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turned and fled. More than a dozen witnesses came forward to testify in writing all recounting the

632
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same story. That is wild right and there's still a church there to this day celebrating that event.

633
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Moving on let me tell you one more story before we wrap this up. So this is the lady and do you

634
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like those stories? Do you like that? Like is that wild? There are so so many like that's just a

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snapshot of his testimonies but there's so many mystical saints that walked like this

636
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that it's crazy. So and they were in a time where there was this real in one sense there's this real

637
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closed heaven and massive amount of corruption in the church but these people would devote themselves

638
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to the perpetual adoration of God to a monastic lifestyle where they just live for God and out of

639
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that came the most radical open heavens right because a renewed mind is an open heaven right.

640
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You when you spend that type of time with Jesus it changes your psychology so you encounter the

641
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truth as a person you counter the truth as a revelation when you and just devote your life

642
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to truth it changes everything right. Your psychology is your spirituality everything

643
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shifts when you encounter truth like this and that's the whole point of a of an open heaven

644
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is easy access to truth so you start getting momentum there and things start blowing open

645
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and so what we've what we can see from history is that these other generations that have lived

646
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in a just radically outrageous higher deeper wider dimension of an open heaven they've had

647
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access to so much more revelation and faith than our generation has even come close to all right.

648
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They are so far beyond what we know as normal Christianity and God wants us to God wants to

649
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take us there he wants to bring us into that realm is that wild or what let me show you one more story

650
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uh this is this is a story about a lady and she's called the lady in blue all right so she was born

651
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in 1602 uh and at age of 12 she finally convinced her parents to allow her to become a nun again

652
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she's one of these people that just loves

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Jesus, St. Francis, from a young child, St. Francis of

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Xavier, he wasn't like that, you know, it wasn't till his latter

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years that he really started to follow Jesus. But at the age of

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12, she's like, yes, Jesus, she commits to becoming, you know,

657
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her mum allows her to become a nun, she takes her vows, and she

658
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becomes known as a saint, she becomes known, not as a saint

659
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then, but she becomes known as Maria of Jesus de Agreda. So,

660
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interestingly, she is probably the most famous missionary to

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Texas, even though she never left her home there in Agreda.

662
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All right. Now, this is crazy, right? Why is she the most

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famous missionary to Texas? Because in the 1620s, from the

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time she was 18 to 29, while in her prayer, something amazing

665
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began to happen. Now, let me read how someone described her

666
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prayer times. Meanwhile, her mystic life began, began before

667
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the eyes of a beggar in 1620, intensified. Almost daily, as

668
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she prayed, her spirit soared into the realm of ecstasy,

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trance, and rapture. She saw visions, her mystical journeys

670
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carried her into the presence of God himself. She's been taken to

671
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heaven, this is ascension, she's been taken to heaven. She's

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having radical encounters. She told her natural mother and the

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sisters of her convent, as if in an answer to her prayers, he

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commanded her to take his message to the native peoples of

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New Spain, including the deserts of the southwest. So what she

676
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was telling them is she gave them, she was sharing the

677
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testimonies, what was happening in these encounters, and God

678
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commissioned her to take the gospel to this group of Indians

679
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right in Texas. She's like, what? But what happened is from

680
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that time, from the time she was 18 to 29, she began to

681
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biolocate to Texas. Okay, so she's there praying in Spain.

682
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And but she simultaneously, she's in Texas preaching the

683
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gospel to two different groups of Indians, the Titlas and the

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Germano tribes. Okay, so that might sound crazy. She was

685
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telling people about these biolocation experiences. And

686
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they're probably not believing her. Some people were actually

687
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like, I'm not sure. And some people actually wanted to

688
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investigate it. But it took a while for them to investigate

689
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it. But in the meantime, in Texas, right? The first

690
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evidence of that is happens in San Antonio, right at the San

691
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Antonio Della Letta mission. So this one day, 50 of these

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Germano Indians turn up to the mission, and they knock on the

693
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door, they're like, hey, guys, I don't think they knocked on the

694
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door, but they're like, hey, guys, and they started, you

695
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know, chatting with the missionaries there and telling

696
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them that they wanted to be baptized. And they're like,

697
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what? How do you even know the gospel? Because they've walked

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from a long way. And they're like, what? Yeah, well, there

699
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was actually a picture of a nun at the mission. They said,

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well, a lady like her, but a lot younger, and in blue, came and

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told us the gospel. And these guys are perplexed, right?

702
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They're like, what? There's no missionaries out there. And

703
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definitely no woman. This is crazy. So but they went out

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there with the 50 Indians from the Germano tribe that went out

705
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there. And what they found is 2000 people instantly got

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baptized because they already knew the gospel. They were

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already well instructed and taught by her in the gospel.

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One account that I've read, it said that she trans she

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bilocated hundreds and hundreds of times in that, in that

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decade. How wild is that? Right? So oh, my gosh, just that's

711
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wild, crazy, phenomenal stuff, right? So does this, does this

712
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shift some thinking to you? Does this help open up your

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mindset that it's possible that despite what we know in the

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church, and these people lived in a time when the church was

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infinitely corrupt, you know, St. Francis Xavier, and, you

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know, St. Maria, they lived in a time where there was hundreds

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of years of war followed the Reformation, it's crazy, but

718
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they stepped into a place of devoting their life to intimacy,

719
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and it popped open and open to heaven for them that ended up

720
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impacting 1000s and 1000s of lives, St. Francis Xavier, his

721
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impact is probably millions of lives that are now impacted as

722
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his legacy. So St. Patrick, you've got St. Patrick, the open

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heaven that they created an island that is probably to this

724
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date, on par if not greater than than the you know, what the

725
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Kingdom of Solomon had and possibly the greatest open

726
00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:31.880
heaven in world history, and God is calling us back there. How

727
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wild is that? So in our next session tomorrow, we're going to

728
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go into exploring this whole dynamic of how God has been

729
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successively bringing us back, bringing us back, bringing us

730
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back to this point for centuries, how the heart of God,

731
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the burning heart of God is longing to bring us back into

732
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this place where we are discipling nations. Just imagine

733
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this, right? Just imagine this. Imagine the power of just having

734
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just one St. Patrick in our world right now, right?

735
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one person who walked in that same anointing or mantle that St. Patrick and Moses walked in.

736
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If you only need one person to walk like that, and both St. Patrick and Moses brought down

737
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:17.360
superpowers. Moses especially brought down the entire kingdom of Egypt, right? He was invincible,

738
01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:22.800
they couldn't touch him. And it was easy for him to disciple, like, just to, you know, like,

739
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what I'm trying to say is that when God starts moving, he's unstoppable, he's invincible,

740
01:00:27.520 --> 01:00:31.920
you cannot, there's nothing you can do. Like St. Patrick, they tried to kill him all the time,

741
01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:36.720
nothing happens. It doesn't matter what they brought against him, no plan prospered. So

742
01:00:39.200 --> 01:00:43.840
the prophecy of St. Patrick, right? What St. Patrick saw in his day, he prophesied

743
01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:48.720
with his last, you know, in his last days, he prophesied that what we've had here is going to

744
01:00:48.720 --> 01:00:53.120
be restored. Now, let me ask you, if you would want to align with that, if you would want to be

745
01:00:53.200 --> 01:01:00.000
a part of that, for me, I'm like, yes, God. So let's wrap it up now with a prayer. And tomorrow,

746
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:03.840
we're going to start getting into a little bit more like understanding as well. I'm like, okay,

747
01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:07.920
what do we actually need to do? Because there's some things that we can do to actually start

748
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:11.440
aligning ourselves with this. And we're going to start having momentum coming. Oh, sorry,

749
01:01:11.440 --> 01:01:15.760
it's not tomorrow. It's the next session, right? The next session, 3pm today. So the next session,

750
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we're going to go into this deep. So Jesus, you are phenomenal. You are glorious. You're wonderful.

751
01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:27.520
What we want, Jesus, what we want is we pray for beyond. What we want is your heart fulfilled.

752
01:01:27.520 --> 01:01:34.080
We want your burning heart's desire fulfilled. What we want, Jesus, we remember the word of

753
01:01:34.080 --> 01:01:39.440
the Lord that you gave to St. Patrick centuries ago of where you're going to take us, where you're

754
01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:45.520
going to bring us as the church. And Papa, we just say, take us there. Do whatever you have to do in

755
01:01:45.520 --> 01:02:03.120
us. Papa, Papa, Papa, would great grace come upon us? Would great grace come upon us?

756
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Would great grace come upon us to go where we've never gone before? We want to go into your heart.

757
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We want to follow your heart. We want to go, Jesus. We want that same anointing. We want that

758
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:20.160
same mantle. We want that same grace, the same open heaven, the same revelation, the same faith

759
01:02:20.160 --> 01:02:26.800
that you have put on hundreds of mystics in the past, on thousands of people in the past. We're

760
01:02:26.800 --> 01:02:32.480
asking that you give us that birthright, that you release it to us, that we could go, Jesus,

761
01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:38.480
beyond what we've ever experienced. We could be launched into everything you have for us in your

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beautiful name, Jesus. Amen. All right, fam. Hey, that's us for now. I'll see you 3 p.m. We're going

763
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to go get practical on this. I'll see you 3 p.m. New Zealand time today. It is going to be wild.

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Love you very, very much. We'll catch you soon. Have an amazing few hours before we go live again

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soon. Bless you. Actually, and just drop in the comments what you've loved, what stand out,

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what's been of value to you. Boom. Catch you soon. Bye-bye.