WEBVTT - AR Bernard - Oct 20 - 3:30 am 0:00:01.950 --> 0:00:02.310 Really? 0:00:02.750 --> 0:00:05.029 The real A.R. Bernard is on Instagram? 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:06.460 Did you say the real A.R. 0:00:06.470 --> 0:00:14.180 Bernard is on Instagram? You mean every other Thursday. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:14.560 At 3 p.m. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.140 Eastern Time, we can catch the real A.R. Bernard live 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:19.910 on Instagram? Yes. 0:00:20.300 --> 0:00:21.050 Join A.R. 0:00:21.090 --> 0:00:25.330 Bernard on Instagram Live every other Thursday at 3 p.m. 0:00:25.430 --> 0:00:25.710 Eastern. 0:00:25.730 --> 0:00:25.810 A.R. 0:00:26.270 --> 0:00:27.130 Bernard. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.480 You remove from the presence of God, there's no life. 0:00:37.700 --> 0:00:44.230 And that's what eternal death is. Eternal death is removal 0:00:45.409 --> 0:00:47.570 forever from the life of God. 0:00:48.610 --> 0:00:51.670 Welcome to A.R. Bernard Ministries. You are about to hear 0:00:51.750 --> 0:00:55.170 from A.R. Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry, 0:00:55.510 --> 0:00:59.730 a best-selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit-led truth. Today's 0:00:59.810 --> 0:01:04.070 thought-provoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually, inform 0:01:04.110 --> 0:01:07.610 you intellectually, and motivate you with renewed strength to stand 0:01:07.670 --> 0:01:10.060 boldly in your purpose and live out your faith in 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.740 today's ever-changing culture. Tune in and join us now for A.R. 0:01:13.780 --> 0:01:14.120 Bernard. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:17.540 Today, joining Dr. 0:01:17.580 --> 0:01:20.180 Bernard is his son, Pastor Jamal Bernard. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.340 God is the God of the living, not the God 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:28.970 of the dead. Got me off here. So Eden was 0:01:29.030 --> 0:01:32.670 the first place of his presence. That's why if you 0:01:32.750 --> 0:01:35.990 dig into Eden, if you get into Satan when he 0:01:36.030 --> 0:01:43.840 was there, when it describes the jewels, all these different gemstones, 0:01:44.810 --> 0:01:49.050 In Isaiah 14, talking about Lucifer, talking about Satan. All 0:01:49.070 --> 0:01:52.590 of those gemstones are the same gemstones that are in 0:01:53.060 --> 0:01:57.580 the vestment of the high priest who was part of 0:01:57.620 --> 0:02:01.980 the ritual that Moses established. So it points to Satan 0:02:02.140 --> 0:02:05.040 as a high priest. It says that you were in Eden, 0:02:05.060 --> 0:02:08.500 the garden of God, right? So where is he? So 0:02:08.980 --> 0:02:11.530 Eden was set up as a temple of God's presence 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.440 and his government in the earth. out of which would 0:02:14.500 --> 0:02:17.640 come a new humanity for the first time, a new 0:02:17.700 --> 0:02:21.030 species that would spread the earth. But that was undermined. 0:02:21.620 --> 0:02:24.350 And this is why God had to get them. Why 0:02:24.370 --> 0:02:26.230 did he put Adam and Eve out of the garden? 0:02:26.470 --> 0:02:28.830 He was removing them from his presence. I'm sorry I'm 0:02:28.870 --> 0:02:31.240 going so many different ways. I know, I know. He 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.160 had to remove them from his presence. And what did 0:02:34.180 --> 0:02:36.859 he do? He locked the garden so they would not 0:02:36.900 --> 0:02:39.940 have access to the tree of life because his life 0:02:40.020 --> 0:02:43.299 is in his presence. So when you are in the 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.959 presence of God, you have access to the life of God. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.020 The life of God is the essence of God. All 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.520 that makes him who he is. 0:02:51.620 --> 0:02:54.600 So when Jesus says you shall have life and more abundantly, 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.000 he's talking about some other type of life. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.770 That's it. That's it. That's it. Yes. That's it. So 0:02:59.810 --> 0:03:01.890 when you're in the presence of God, you have access 0:03:01.910 --> 0:03:04.090 to the life of God. He did not want them 0:03:04.130 --> 0:03:06.750 to have access to his life. So the tree of life, 0:03:06.770 --> 0:03:09.050 which was in the garden, he blocks off the garden, 0:03:09.380 --> 0:03:11.320 removes them from the garden. So he removes them from 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.160 his presence and cuts them off from having access to life. 0:03:15.820 --> 0:03:18.680 And people think that that was punishment. No, he wasn't 0:03:18.700 --> 0:03:21.859 punishing them. Because remember what it said. If they ate 0:03:21.900 --> 0:03:25.900 from the tree of life, right, they would live... Forever. 0:03:26.540 --> 0:03:28.900 That was a problem. He did not want them to 0:03:28.940 --> 0:03:33.220 have immortality in a fallen world. Wait, wait, wait. I'm 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.980 going to say this again. He did not want them 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.760 to have immortality in a fallen world. He would fix 0:03:39.810 --> 0:03:43.030 the world and then give them eternal life. He would 0:03:43.150 --> 0:03:44.570 then restore immortality. 0:03:44.630 --> 0:03:44.890 Oh, yes. 0:03:47.370 --> 0:03:51.170 Yes so he had to redeem mankind first and that's 0:03:51.210 --> 0:03:53.230 why the people that came to jesus saying good master 0:03:53.250 --> 0:03:55.980 what's my what's i do to inherit eternal life all 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.480 right they wanted immortality but he was not going to 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.780 grant immortality in a fallen world yes because think about 0:04:01.820 --> 0:04:11.870 it in yes in the antediluvian period Men lived for 0:04:11.870 --> 0:04:16.010 900 years, right? So they lived a long time. What 0:04:16.070 --> 0:04:18.310 was the result of them living a long time? 0:04:18.350 --> 0:04:18.810 Corruption. 0:04:18.950 --> 0:04:19.390 Violent. 0:04:19.430 --> 0:04:19.830 Violent. 0:04:19.870 --> 0:04:22.610 Corruption that ended in destruction. 0:04:22.650 --> 0:04:22.849 Yes. 0:04:23.150 --> 0:04:23.390 Right? 0:04:23.790 --> 0:04:26.630 So he's not going to give immortality to people in 0:04:26.690 --> 0:04:29.190 a fallen world. He's going to fix the fallen world 0:04:29.490 --> 0:04:31.610 and then bring immortality. 0:04:32.650 --> 0:04:34.950 Immortality to the fallen person gives them more time to sin. 0:04:35.570 --> 0:04:39.000 That's it. For corruption to spread and degradation. 0:04:39.020 --> 0:04:39.089 Yes. 0:04:39.300 --> 0:04:42.919 No, he's got to fix the world and then bring immortality. 0:04:43.100 --> 0:04:45.920 So people get confused when he says eternal life because 0:04:45.980 --> 0:04:48.360 in John 5, 24, but you got me moving here. 0:04:48.380 --> 0:04:49.060 I got you. 0:04:49.100 --> 0:04:51.220 You got me up here like, wow. 0:04:51.580 --> 0:04:54.810 See, and think about it. When Adam and Eve sinned, right, 0:04:54.850 --> 0:04:57.230 they were removed from the presence of God and therefore 0:04:57.270 --> 0:04:59.790 had no access to the life of God. And then 0:05:00.190 --> 0:05:02.630 in the new heavens and the new earth, what do 0:05:02.670 --> 0:05:04.789 we see in Revelation? The tree of life is back. 0:05:04.930 --> 0:05:05.120 Yes, yep. 0:05:06.029 --> 0:05:08.180 God's presence comes down to the earth, which is what 0:05:08.220 --> 0:05:12.500 he originally intended, and access to life is there. Which 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:17.340 means that apart from God, there's no life. You remove 0:05:17.380 --> 0:05:20.120 from the presence of God, there's no life. And that's 0:05:20.260 --> 0:05:28.590 what eternal death is. Eternal death is removal forever from 0:05:28.610 --> 0:05:31.070 the life of God. And this is why Jesus made 0:05:31.110 --> 0:05:35.779 a distinction between physical death and spiritual death. or eternal 0:05:35.820 --> 0:05:41.400 death as separation. So he would use language and confuse them. 0:05:42.100 --> 0:05:47.840 So when Lazarus was dead, right, Jesus responds to his disciples, says, no, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.580 Lazarus is just asleep. They're saying, oh, they're thinking in 0:05:51.620 --> 0:05:55.339 natural terms. Oh, okay, then he must be okay because 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.580 he's going to wake up again. So Jesus had to 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.839 say to them in their understanding, no, Lazarus is dead. 0:06:03.490 --> 0:06:06.010 All right. Dead to you, but not dead in the 0:06:06.070 --> 0:06:10.250 way God understands death. You see, that's why he could say, 0:06:10.290 --> 0:06:13.250 let the dead bury the dead, even though one was 0:06:13.300 --> 0:06:16.480 living and one was dead. So in the mind of God, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:24.080 physical death was sleep. Why? Because it's temporary. Eternal separation 0:06:24.180 --> 0:06:26.940 from God, which is spiritual death. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:27.700 All right. 0:06:27.860 --> 0:06:31.340 Spirit doesn't die. All right. But eternal separation from God. 0:06:31.779 --> 0:06:34.980 That is what the Bible calls the second death. And 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.159 those who are redeemed are in Christ. The second death 0:06:38.180 --> 0:06:40.980 has no power. We will not experience that second death. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.480 So we were born in the flesh, right? And destined 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.599 to die. We were born again, which makes us destined 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.339 to live. So now we have access to life. That's 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:55.860 why Jesus said in John 5, 24, he says, we 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:01.740 better go to it. You got me on an express 0:07:01.779 --> 0:07:05.679 train here. I didn't mean to do this. It's your fault. Okay, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:10.030 I'll take blame. I'll take blame because it's some good stuff. 0:07:10.070 --> 0:07:14.690 John 5, 24. Let's look at this. All right, ESV. Truly, truly, 0:07:14.970 --> 0:07:19.910 I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes 0:07:20.470 --> 0:07:26.800 him who sent me has eternal life. Notice what it says? Has, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:32.110 not will have. has eternal life. He does not come 0:07:32.310 --> 0:07:38.750 into judgment, but has, past tense, past, past tense, from 0:07:38.860 --> 0:07:47.060 death to life. So eternal life is a movement in 0:07:47.100 --> 0:07:54.140 relationship with God. It's a movement away from being estranged 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.190 from God and being brought back into relationship with God. 0:07:57.610 --> 0:08:02.630 So now immediately, the second death, eternal separation, has no 0:08:02.690 --> 0:08:06.330 power over you. So I don't have to worry about 0:08:06.750 --> 0:08:08.730 the second death. I don't have to worry about eternal 0:08:08.750 --> 0:08:13.240 separation from God. I've got eternal life with God. People 0:08:13.270 --> 0:08:17.560 didn't understand that, so they wanted immortality right here, right now. 0:08:18.180 --> 0:08:20.300 But again, he's not going to do that in a 0:08:20.380 --> 0:08:24.140 fallen world. He's going to fix the world first. Restore 0:08:24.180 --> 0:08:28.210 his presence to the earth. Oh, man, you got me 0:08:28.250 --> 0:08:33.530 messed up here. So let's kind of backtrack it here. 0:08:34.230 --> 0:08:38.250 And this is why Jesus came. Remember John 10.10? I 0:08:38.390 --> 0:08:43.050 am come that you might have life and that you 0:08:43.110 --> 0:08:48.540 might have it more abundantly. That's John 10.10. Let's go to, look, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.160 so Jesus came, all right, this is why Jesus came, 0:08:52.220 --> 0:08:55.870 as he said, to reconnect us to the life of God. 0:08:56.380 --> 0:08:58.510 But remember, the life of God is in the presence 0:08:58.530 --> 0:09:01.550 of God. So God has to be present in order 0:09:01.570 --> 0:09:05.729 to give access to his life. He became present in 0:09:05.770 --> 0:09:07.530 the person of Jesus Christ. 0:09:08.309 --> 0:09:13.270 ARB Ministries works hard to provide content and programs that 0:09:13.309 --> 0:09:17.339 will enrich and impact your life. 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Because remember, when we sin, our heart 0:10:12.900 --> 0:10:16.760 and minds were darkened. And we began to think differently. 0:10:17.500 --> 0:10:21.620 In terms of evil imaginings, things that were self-destructive, unhealthy 0:10:21.900 --> 0:10:24.700 to us personally, to the people around us. So now, 0:10:25.020 --> 0:10:29.100 when we have access to the life of God, the 0:10:29.260 --> 0:10:33.260 light of God comes on. And we begin to see ourselves, 0:10:33.580 --> 0:10:36.760 the life around us, differently. We begin to see through 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.360 the light of revelation, the revelation of God. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.520 So the progression is the life of God leads to 0:10:41.540 --> 0:10:42.360 the light of God. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:42.680 Yeah. 0:10:43.020 --> 0:10:45.870 From the life of God. There it is. The presence 0:10:45.900 --> 0:10:46.210 of God. 0:10:46.530 --> 0:10:46.750 Yes. 0:10:46.950 --> 0:10:49.569 All right? Gives us access to the life of God. 0:10:49.890 --> 0:10:52.620 The life of God gives us access to the light 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:53.839 of God. So you got that? 0:10:53.860 --> 0:10:56.460 The presence of God gives us access to the light 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.780 of God. And the life of God gives us access 0:10:59.820 --> 0:11:01.520 to the light of God. 0:11:01.540 --> 0:11:01.660 Yeah. 0:11:02.059 --> 0:11:05.070 So that light, all right? Remember, at the entrance of 0:11:05.110 --> 0:11:06.550 thy word gives light. 0:11:06.710 --> 0:11:06.950 Yes. 0:11:07.350 --> 0:11:09.630 That's the psalm. So when the word of God comes, 0:11:09.710 --> 0:11:11.929 that's what it says. The light shines in the darkness. 0:11:12.050 --> 0:11:13.209 It wasn't talking about physical light. 0:11:13.250 --> 0:11:13.390 Mm-hmm. 0:11:14.260 --> 0:11:18.179 It was talking about the light of understanding. Because as 0:11:18.220 --> 0:11:21.080 a result of sin, we are trapped, lost in spiritual 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.679 and moral ignorance. Revelation now has to come. That's why 0:11:24.750 --> 0:11:27.770 Job said, can you by searching find out God? No, 0:11:28.350 --> 0:11:31.630 you can't. Which means he has to reveal himself. So 0:11:31.650 --> 0:11:35.650 there's what is understood, like Paul said. The heavens declare 0:11:35.670 --> 0:11:37.819 the glory of God, David said. And then Paul said 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.579 the invisible things of God can be clearly seen in 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.660 Romans chapter 1, starting at verse 18, by the things 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.470 that are made. Even his eternal power and his nature 0:11:47.660 --> 0:11:50.770 can be seen. So by observing creation, we can see 0:11:50.830 --> 0:11:54.950 God's handiwork, his order, his discipline, his preciseness, his care 0:11:54.990 --> 0:11:59.979 for the details, right? But he must reveal himself in 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.740 order for us to see the unseen things like love 0:12:03.020 --> 0:12:07.910 and faith and hope and understanding and illumination. So the 0:12:07.950 --> 0:12:14.050 designer is seen, right? The design is seen, but not 0:12:14.070 --> 0:12:19.459 the designer. The designer has to reveal himself. It was me. See, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.280 you come into this building of CCC and our campus, right? 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.840 You get a hint of what someone did this, and 0:12:28.860 --> 0:12:29.719 they have certain tastes. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.790 Then you ask, okay, who did this? 0:12:31.890 --> 0:12:32.370 Exactly. 0:12:32.390 --> 0:12:35.890 Wow, this is nice. So I've met the work. Yes. 0:12:35.970 --> 0:12:39.950 Now I need to meet the man. Yes. So in 0:12:39.990 --> 0:12:43.110 the world, we examine the world around us. We see 0:12:43.190 --> 0:12:45.630 the work of God, and now we need to meet 0:12:45.670 --> 0:12:48.170 the man himself. And so what does he do? He 0:12:48.290 --> 0:12:51.530 comes in the person of Jesus Christ. Yes. It is I. 0:12:52.070 --> 0:12:58.300 If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. Yes. I'm 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.160 trying to help myself here because I live, eat, and 0:13:01.220 --> 0:13:05.370 breathe this. This is life. You understand? So he comes 0:13:05.420 --> 0:13:11.059 in the person of Jesus Christ to reveal the designer himself. People, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.969 you go to some exhibit, some display, you walk around, 0:13:15.150 --> 0:13:17.650 you see the works of art. Oh, I want you 0:13:17.670 --> 0:13:18.250 to meet the artist. 0:13:18.530 --> 0:13:18.809 Yes. 0:13:19.250 --> 0:13:20.730 Oh, I want you to meet the designer. Or for 0:13:20.770 --> 0:13:22.390 the women, you go and see all these shoes. 0:13:22.809 --> 0:13:24.490 The designer. 0:13:24.510 --> 0:13:28.750 Well, let me see the designer, right? Who makes red bottoms? 0:13:28.790 --> 0:13:32.830 Who makes Jimmy Choo? Exactly. By the design, you know 0:13:32.990 --> 0:13:36.510 the designer. But you have to meet the designer. Women 0:13:36.550 --> 0:13:41.790 wearing red-bottomed shoes never met, what's his name, Vuitton? Louboutin. Louboutin, 0:13:41.850 --> 0:13:45.320 something like that. They never met him, but they're wearing 0:13:45.340 --> 0:13:49.280 his shoes. And they're proud of those shoes. They even 0:13:49.340 --> 0:13:54.100 sit like, that this is show the red bottoms right 0:13:54.250 --> 0:14:00.120 making a shin muscle so the designer himself comes into 0:14:00.179 --> 0:14:02.800 human society not that he wasn't here before those were 0:14:02.820 --> 0:14:07.300 short visits now he came to dwell among us to 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.530 remain and that's why at the baptism At the baptism, 0:14:12.010 --> 0:14:15.310 what does John say? The Lord told him that whoever 0:14:15.390 --> 0:14:19.490 he sees the dove land on and remain, that's the one. 0:14:20.110 --> 0:14:23.030 So he came to remain, to dwell among us, walk 0:14:23.070 --> 0:14:26.150 with us, talk with us, experience everything about us. The 0:14:26.190 --> 0:14:30.670 designer himself comes into his own design and begins to 0:14:30.750 --> 0:14:34.760 reveal himself and manifest himself. So there is natural revelation 0:14:34.780 --> 0:14:38.180 which comes through us observing the created world. That's why 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.080 there's no conflict between science and faith. Science simply is 0:14:42.140 --> 0:14:45.630 God letting you, look at what I've done. Look at 0:14:45.650 --> 0:14:47.830 what I did. Take a look at that. Figure it out. 0:14:48.630 --> 0:14:51.710 See if you understand how that works. And then, now, 0:14:52.130 --> 0:14:55.350 I've got to reveal myself to you because I'm veiled. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.340 Very good reason. Because even in Jesus Christ, he had 0:14:59.380 --> 0:15:01.940 to veil himself because he could not expose us to 0:15:01.980 --> 0:15:06.500 his full power. Just for Jesus to go To enter 0:15:06.580 --> 0:15:10.250 another dimension of time, his whole body lights up. And 0:15:10.290 --> 0:15:13.690 he enters a dimension of time. And the disciples are 0:15:13.730 --> 0:15:16.050 allowed to see him on the Mount of Transfiguration talking 0:15:16.090 --> 0:15:19.750 to two folks. One of them should have been dead. 0:15:20.070 --> 0:15:23.410 Elijah and Moses. This is just, see, the word of 0:15:23.490 --> 0:15:28.320 God is real. It is a living thing. It is quick. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.130 It is powerful, the Bible says. And it redeems us. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.920 When you believe it and faith joins with the word, 0:15:35.580 --> 0:15:39.300 you talk like it. I never forget when I got saved, 0:15:39.340 --> 0:15:41.430 newly saved, I was working at the bank and I 0:15:41.470 --> 0:15:45.190 was describing this Jesus that I encountered to some of 0:15:45.670 --> 0:15:48.390 my colleagues at the bank. And they looked at me 0:15:48.410 --> 0:15:50.910 and said, man, I never forget. Looked at me and said, 0:15:50.930 --> 0:15:53.860 I wish I could believe that like you. So there 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.920 was a distinction. They saw that this was not something 0:15:57.020 --> 0:16:00.250 I read. This was something I believed in deeply and 0:16:00.290 --> 0:16:03.650 profoundly and has seized my heart and my mind. Took 0:16:03.690 --> 0:16:07.270 me over. And they saw the difference between how they 0:16:07.330 --> 0:16:08.650 saw it and how I saw it. 0:16:08.650 --> 0:16:08.970 Yes. 0:16:10.910 --> 0:16:13.700 See, this is why we have to come to a 0:16:13.740 --> 0:16:17.030 realization how crucial it is. 0:16:17.470 --> 0:16:19.330 How we as Christians live our lives. 0:16:19.770 --> 0:16:19.890 Yeah. 0:16:20.230 --> 0:16:20.410 Right? 0:16:20.460 --> 0:16:23.020 Because right now I think the church, we're at a reckoning, right, 0:16:23.060 --> 0:16:27.590 from a corporate perspective as well as the individual perspective 0:16:27.630 --> 0:16:30.010 where people are looking at the church and we have 0:16:30.150 --> 0:16:33.680 not represented christ properly in this world we have not 0:16:33.740 --> 0:16:37.100 represented christ properly so here we are walking around with 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.200 the presence of god you're telling me i have access 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.020 to the presence of god but this is how you're 0:16:41.060 --> 0:16:43.160 living this is how you're thinking this is how you're 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:44.320 breathing this is how you're. 0:16:44.140 --> 0:16:45.920 Walking come on you want me to accept this god 0:16:45.940 --> 0:16:48.120 that you serve come on i need something better than 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:48.900 that come on. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.480 And that we are now at a place in society 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.840 where people need the presence of god more than. 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.360 Ever we need to change the song What's the song? 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.220 This little light of mine needs to become a big light. Yes, yes, yes. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.060 We need to change the song. 0:17:03.100 --> 0:17:06.949 Yes, that's because people are playing with their connection with God. 0:17:06.970 --> 0:17:09.369 They're wise, afraid, and they need to fix the wires 0:17:09.390 --> 0:17:11.290 so they get better wires, so they get more power. 0:17:11.390 --> 0:17:13.270 Because the bigger the gaze, the more current they run. 0:17:13.430 --> 0:17:14.890 The more current they run, the brighter I live. 0:17:15.010 --> 0:17:15.210 Boom. 0:17:18.100 --> 0:17:18.240 Boom. 0:17:22.060 --> 0:17:24.419 So he veils himself in the person of Jesus Christ, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.960 his presence. He veils his presence in the person of 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.310 Jesus Christ. And the objective is to redeem mankind so 0:17:30.330 --> 0:17:34.790 that we can now become the representatives, the imagers of God. Remember, 0:17:34.970 --> 0:17:37.010 his whole objective is to conform us to the image 0:17:37.050 --> 0:17:39.609 of his son, Jesus Christ. Let's go through some scripture. 0:17:39.670 --> 0:17:41.570 We got to go back to the book here. We're 0:17:41.770 --> 0:17:44.030 in the book. We never left the book. No doubt 0:17:44.070 --> 0:17:47.280 about that. So he came to take up residence in 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:51.300 the earth, veiled in the person of Jesus Christ. And 0:17:51.340 --> 0:17:53.960 through that, he would make a way, God would make 0:17:54.030 --> 0:17:56.629 a way for the presence and life of God to 0:17:56.690 --> 0:18:00.170 take up residency in human beings. To take up residency 0:18:00.290 --> 0:18:02.359 in other human beings. Let's go to John chapter 7, 0:18:02.350 --> 0:18:05.470 Gospel of John chapter 7, verse 38. Look at what 0:18:05.490 --> 0:18:10.720 Jesus says. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, 0:18:11.660 --> 0:18:15.820 out of his heart, I love the King James language, belly, 0:18:16.500 --> 0:18:20.310 out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 0:18:20.590 --> 0:18:23.290 And look at the explanation in verse 39. Now this 0:18:23.410 --> 0:18:28.129 he said about the spirit whom those who believed in 0:18:28.190 --> 0:18:32.760 him were to receive. For as yet, the Spirit, which 0:18:32.820 --> 0:18:35.240 is presence of God, yes, it's the third person of 0:18:35.260 --> 0:18:38.610 the Trinity, but it also represents the presence of God. 0:18:38.790 --> 0:18:42.970 His Spirit filled the temple. His train filled the temple 0:18:42.990 --> 0:18:44.629 when they built it, and they couldn't even stay in there. 0:18:44.650 --> 0:18:47.129 They had to run out because it was so much power. 0:18:47.150 --> 0:18:49.310 They didn't know how to handle it. Now, this he 0:18:49.369 --> 0:18:53.919 said about the Spirit, whom... Those who believed in him 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.300 were to receive, for as yet the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.310 had not been given because Jesus was not yet glorified. 0:19:00.430 --> 0:19:03.830 He had to go through redemption, the redemptive act of 0:19:03.850 --> 0:19:07.210 the cross and the resurrection, in order to release and 0:19:07.270 --> 0:19:08.330 make Pentecost happen. 0:19:08.510 --> 0:19:10.190 And that's why he says to the disciples in Luke, 0:19:10.210 --> 0:19:11.840 the last chapter of Luke, he said, I had to 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.619 go through this so I can go get to my glory. 0:19:14.740 --> 0:19:15.060 Come on. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:16.619 Because if I didn't get to my glory, there would 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.240 be no release of this Spirit. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:18.419 Ooh. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.060 Said to the woman who saw him, don't touch me. 0:19:21.580 --> 0:19:24.960 I haven't yet ascended to my father. I'm in the 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.959 process here. I got to finish this out. Then you 0:19:27.980 --> 0:19:29.500 can come back and touch me all you want. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.320 And that's why when the lady with the issue of blood, 0:19:31.380 --> 0:19:33.770 when he touched her, he said, something left me. It 0:19:33.810 --> 0:19:35.680 wasn't ready to leave me yet because I haven't reached 0:19:35.700 --> 0:19:37.030 my glory, but I know something left me. 0:19:37.270 --> 0:19:38.590 It was for a purpose. Look at chapter 14, John 0:19:38.609 --> 0:19:39.929 chapter 14, verse 15 and 17. If you love me, 0:19:45.470 --> 0:19:47.899 You will keep my commandments and I will ask the 0:19:47.940 --> 0:19:51.020 Father and he will give you another commandment. helper to 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.700 be with you forever again never again the presence of 0:19:55.720 --> 0:20:00.580 God is going to leave forever ever ever even the 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.639 spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.670 neither sees him nor knows him You know him, for 0:20:07.710 --> 0:20:11.500 he dwells with you and will be in you. We're 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.399 going to go from God with us to God in us. 0:20:14.700 --> 0:20:18.950 Jesus was God with us, Emmanuel. But that was the beginning. 0:20:19.190 --> 0:20:20.780 He got with us so he can get in us. 0:20:21.609 --> 0:20:24.570 So the presence of God came and manifested, veiled in 0:20:24.609 --> 0:20:27.889 the person of Jesus, and eventually that would come out. 0:20:28.150 --> 0:20:30.609 And that's why Jesus says, if I don't go, the 0:20:30.650 --> 0:20:33.210 comforter can't come. I have got to get out the 0:20:33.250 --> 0:20:36.310 way because right now it's all in me. And in 0:20:36.369 --> 0:20:38.980 order to get it in you, I've got to extract 0:20:39.060 --> 0:20:44.340 myself so the Holy Spirit can come. Continues in, oh, 0:20:44.619 --> 0:20:48.580 look at this, 1 Corinthians 6.19. I love it. Do 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.010 you not know that your body is a temple of 0:20:51.030 --> 0:20:54.210 the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? 0:20:54.250 --> 0:20:56.930 You are not your own, for you were bought with 0:20:57.090 --> 0:21:01.080 a price. So glorify God in your body. This is 0:21:01.100 --> 0:21:03.060 what you were just talking about before, how we live 0:21:03.100 --> 0:21:05.980 it out, how people see it, how they perceive it. 0:21:06.780 --> 0:21:10.560 And you can grieve the Spirit of God in you. 0:21:10.820 --> 0:21:13.500 You can grieve. And to grieve is, you know, that's 0:21:13.580 --> 0:21:17.580 anthropomorphic language. But to grieve him is to make him 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:23.430 feel the deficiency of what he could be in you. 0:21:23.990 --> 0:21:26.109 Because you are just refusing to cooperate with him. You 0:21:26.130 --> 0:21:27.410 got to say it again. You got to say it again. 0:21:27.530 --> 0:21:30.390 You make the Holy Spirit feel the deficiency of what 0:21:30.470 --> 0:21:32.689 you could be and what he could do through you. 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.740 because you would just refuse to cooperate with him. He said, 0:21:35.780 --> 0:21:38.600 if you obey me, if you do what I tell 0:21:38.619 --> 0:21:39.000 you to do. 0:21:39.859 --> 0:21:42.200 See, and that's why that song today that the choir 0:21:42.220 --> 0:21:45.680