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Speaker 1: understanding Proverbs nine ten. Heavenly Father, it is your wisdom

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Speaker 1: Your wisdom shows me how to live day to day

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Speaker 1: I understand how love works. Coupled with the power you

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Speaker 1: Through the power of your word, I realize how childish

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Speaker 1: Kingdom principles. When I honor you and draw near to you,

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Speaker 1: I will follow you wherever you lead. I am in

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Speaker 1: this world, but not of it. I'm only passing through

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Speaker 1: You are preparing me for that day when we will

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Speaker 1: so ignorant of your ways. Strengthen me to set at

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Speaker 1: I might learn what is holy and pleasing in your

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Speaker 1: sight and the precious name of Jesus. Amen. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening to today's daily prayer for more inspiration and

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Speaker 1: an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay tuned to

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Speaker 1: pray dot COM's Sunday service.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning, Freedom has good morning, Wow Wow. All right.

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Speaker 2: I already love you guys, because I love your pastors,

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Speaker 2: all right, Pastor. God has given you beautiful pastors, you

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Speaker 2: know that, and so full of vision, so humble, and

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Speaker 2: so let me tell you this. I believe this church

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Speaker 2: is going to explode. And I don't believe it's an

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Speaker 2: accident that you're moving over to Anaheim. And I just

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Speaker 2: want to encourage you, please get behind this vision. And

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Speaker 2: I'm so thankful to see you're so close to that

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Speaker 2: three million dollar goal or five million dollar goal. I

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Speaker 2: just know it's going to be hit because listen, I

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Speaker 2: heard about this church in January. And what happened was

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Speaker 2: I was at Jacob Aaronza's conference in Louisiana speaking and

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Speaker 2: Obed was there, and Jacob and Obed Pastor Obed start

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Speaker 2: talking and they said, the church that we feel is

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Speaker 2: discipling the best of any church in the nation is

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Speaker 2: Freedom House. I said, who is Freedom House? I said,

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Speaker 2: who are these people? Because this is our passion at

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Speaker 2: Messenger Jesus's final words. We're going to all the world

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Speaker 2: and make disciples of all nations. And I thought, they

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Speaker 2: get it. You know, disciples are the ones that bring

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Speaker 2: and when I met Josiah and Marie, I thought, what

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Speaker 2: a great honor and a great privilege to be here today.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited to watch this church explode and literally

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Speaker 2: reach thousands and thousands and thousands of people. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this morning I'm going to share with you it's really

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Speaker 2: just not a message. It's it's a lot more. It's

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Speaker 2: it's a passion, it's a burden, it's a life message.

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Speaker 2: For thirty thirty years ago, God began to reveal to

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Speaker 2: It changed me forever, and it's answer a lot of

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Speaker 2: believing the Holy Spirit is gonna make these words come

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Speaker 2: We need transformation. So I personally believe your life can

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Speaker 2: ask for. Heavenly Father, we come before you as a

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Speaker 2: church Lord, both the Irvine campus the online campus here

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Speaker 2: and Lord, we first and foremost thank you for the

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Speaker 2: We are asking that you would do what you love

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Speaker 2: Here's a quick picture of my family. Lisa and I

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Speaker 2: book that I've written, called The Awe of God. I

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Speaker 2: want to say this. There is no way I can

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Speaker 2: cover what's in this book today. It's forty two chapters.

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Speaker 2: Now they are all six page chapters, but forty two chapters.

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Speaker 2: So I want to say this. I believe this is

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Speaker 2: one of the most important messages God has ever entrusted

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Speaker 2: me to bring the church. And I'm asking that if

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Speaker 2: Think about it. The fear of the Lord's God's treasure.

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Speaker 2: So back in nineteen ninety here, i am starting out

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Speaker 2: And so one day I'm in prayer and I'm like, God,

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Speaker 2: And the Holy Spirit softly said, because you tolerate sin.

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Speaker 2: long as I live. I am standing there and I'm petrified.

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Speaker 2: Do you understand what I just said. I am terrified,

427
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 2: but yet I'm drawn to it. It's the weirdest thing

428
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Speaker 2: to try to describe. You're petrified, yet you're drawn. And

429
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Speaker 2: I remember I am standing there and I'm going, oh

430
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Speaker 2: my god, I have never since an authority or a

431
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 2: presence like that in my life. It was awe sum

432
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 2: and I remember the thought goes through my mind. I'm

433
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 2: telling you this went through my mind. But vere you

434
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 2: say one wrong word, you make one wrong move, you're dead.

435
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: Would that have happened? I don't know. But there was

436
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Speaker 2: a husband and wife who were members of the Jerusalem

437
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 2: Church that came to a service, and they brought an offering,

438
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 2: and they came with that kind of an attitude, irreverent attitude,

439
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 2: and they fell over dead and they buried him that

440
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 2: day irreverence. Because let me tell you something, Daddy didn't

441
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 2: come in. The King came in. And I'm standing there

442
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 2: for ninety seconds listening to this wind blow and these

443
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 2: people scream, and I'm petrified, and I remember it gradually subsided.

444
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 2: When it subsided, left a literally awake of everybody in

445
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 2: that arena was collapsed. They were bent over the chairs, sobbing.

446
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 2: They were collapsed in between the chairs, sobbing. And I'm

447
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 2: standing there and I'm going, God, what do I do?

448
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 2: Only spirit finally spoke to me and said, son, I'm

449
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 2: through with you. So I said the leader, it's all yours.

450
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 2: And I remember they whisked me out. They put me

451
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Speaker 2: in the car. They put the soloist that night and

452
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Speaker 2: her husband in the car. She was the one that

453
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 2: sang the solo and she screams out, did you hear

454
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: the wind? Now? I didn't want to say it, so

455
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 2: I said maybe a jet airplane flew too low over

456
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Speaker 2: the arena. She goes, what do you talk talking about?

457
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 2: And her husband goes, sir, that was a no jed airplane.

458
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 2: I said, how do you know? He said, well, there

459
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: were security men and policemen all around the outside of

460
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Speaker 2: the arena. They're all union workers, of most of them

461
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,959
Speaker 2: aren't even saved. He said. When the wind blew, they

462
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,919
Speaker 2: start coming in saying what is the sound of the

463
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: wind coming from in here? He said, I'm at the

464
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Speaker 2: main soundboard. Make sure my wife's levels were right for

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Speaker 2: her singing. He said. The whole time the wind blew,

466
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 2: I watched the decimal meters. They were at zero. They

467
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: never moved, not one bit of the sound came through

468
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Speaker 2: our sound system. And then the driver says, do you

469
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 2: want to go eat? I said no, take me to

470
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 2: my hotel room. And I remember sitting on that balcony

471
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 2: until one thirty in the morning, worshiping God, and the

472
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 2: whole time thinking did this really happen tonight? The next morning,

473
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: you cannot believe the miracles that occurred in that same auditorium,

474
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 2: same people, because of awe and reverence. We heard about

475
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Speaker 2: this for twenty two years. Afterwards, we got snail mail,

476
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: got letters, we got emails, we got I mean, I

477
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 2: went down to Guayania, Brazil, in twenty sixteen to speak

478
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Speaker 2: to twelve thousand pastors in an arena. First pastor had

479
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 2: met me. I was in the building twenty years ago

480
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 2: when the wind blew. My life's never been the same.

481
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 2: That's because you're never the same when you meet the

482
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Speaker 2: awe of God. God says in Leviticus ten, verse three.

483
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Speaker 2: By those who come near me, I must be regarded

484
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 2: as holy, and before all the people, I must be glorified.

485
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: I learned something years ago by accident. I used to

486
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 2: struggle to get into the presence of God. When I

487
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: would pray, I'd struggle. One day I thought, I'm not

488
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 2: gonna sing, I'm not gonna pray, I'm not gonna say

489
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Speaker 2: a word. I'm just gonna think about the awesomeness of

490
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 2: my dad. And I started thinking about the fact that

491
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: he put the stars in the heavens with his finger.

492
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Speaker 2: Right all of a sudden, there was his presence. Oh whoa.

493
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Speaker 2: So the next day I thought, I'm trying that again.

494
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: Happened again. Next day, I'm gonna try it again. It

495
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 2: happened again. So third day I said, what is going on,

496
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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit? I used to struggle to get in the

497
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Speaker 2: presence of God. Why am I getting the presence of

498
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 2: God so easy? He said, what did Jesus teach his

499
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Speaker 2: disciples where he taught him to pry son? So I said,

500
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: Lord's prayer, our Father, which aren't in heaven? Hollow it?

501
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, there it is hollow? Would be your name?

502
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 2: Do you know what that means? In the in the

503
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Speaker 2: in the Greek, may your name be kept hotly, because

504
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: where your name is kept hotly. That's where the kingdom manifests,

505
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 2: and your will is done on earth as it is

506
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 2: in heaven. Jesus' taughtest disciples, you cannot come into the

507
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: presence of God except through reverential fear. Two years later,

508
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: I'm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the capital of Malaysia. Another meeting,

509
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: now Malaysia's Islam Misteak we had, but we had pastors

510
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 2: and believers from all over. The nag that came in

511
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 2: jam packed auditorium. It's non arena, it's an auditorium. This time,

512
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: we're at the end of this service, and that presence

513
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 2: came in again, but stronger. Not wind, no wind, but stronger.

514
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: When that presence came in, these quiet Asians started screaming

515
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 2: like they were being baptized on fire. I mean, I've

516
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 2: never seen anything like it. And again I'm standing there

517
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 2: and I'm petrified. And this is where I found out

518
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 2: there's a difference between my head and my heart. Because

519
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: my head was saying, God, I can't handle this. My

520
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: heart was going, God, please don't lift. I'm literally having

521
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 2: an argument, and I remember in the middle of this,

522
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 2: out of my mouth comes these words, this is the

523
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 2: spirit of the fear of the Lord, and I went

524
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: my mind kicked in and went, that's it, Isaiah eleven.

525
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 2: Spirit of the Lord would rest upon Jesus, the spirit

526
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 2: of wisdom, spirit of council, spirit of my spirit of knowledge,

527
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: spirit of understanding, and this spirit of the fear of

528
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 2: the Lord. This is one of the seven manifestations of

529
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. Again, I'm standing there thinking, you make

530
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: a wrong move, you say a wrong word, You're dead. Now.

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Speaker 2: This lasted for five or six minutes. It was about

532
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 2: four times longer than Brazil, and I remember again it

533
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 2: left in its wake. Everybody collapsed in the whole auditorium.

534
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Speaker 2: I'm standing there again, going what do I do? God said,

535
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 2: I'm through, So I turn over the leader. He's wise,

536
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 2: he said, we had a song plan. We were going

537
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Speaker 2: to end this with this, this whole conference with the song.

538
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 2: We're not doing anything. This service is over. But you

539
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 2: can stay as long as you want. People stay for

540
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Speaker 2: a long time. I left. When I started leaving, I

541
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 2: get to the back of the auditorium and there at

542
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Speaker 2: the doors is this couple from India. They were students

543
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 2: in the Bible School in Malaysia. And I'll never forget this.

544
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: The three of us just sat there and looked at

545
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 2: each other. Now I had noticed she and he got

546
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 2: nailed by this presence. And we're just looking at each other.

547
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: I mean, look, what did you say? Great service? Yeah,

548
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 2: it was really cool. So we're just staring at each

549
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 2: other and like thirty seconds and she breaks the silence

550
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 2: and she goes, I feel so clean. I feel so

551
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: clean inside. I said, oh my gosh, that's And I

552
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 2: didn't say a word I said, I just shook my head,

553
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 2: but inside my head I went, that's it. That's what

554
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 2: I felt in Brazil. That's what I felt in Texas.

555
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: Because I've had this happen like three or four, four

556
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 2: or five times in my life. I thought, that's it.

557
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 2: She cheat, cheat, cheak, she articulated it. I remember going

558
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: back to my hotel room the rest of the night

559
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 2: thinking clean. She nailed it clean. That's what I feel

560
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 2: is clean. So the next morning, I'm getting ready to

561
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 2: play basketball with the Bible school students because they love

562
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 2: basketball in Malaysia, and I'm down my Jim Schwartz and

563
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit said, son read Psalm nineteen, and I

564
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 2: had no idea what was in Psalm nineteen. So I

565
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,239
Speaker 2: go over there and I start reading verse one, two, three, four, five, six.

566
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 2: I get to verse nine, and look what I read.

567
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: The fear of the Lord is clean. I went, Oh,

568
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: my gosh, there it is. The fear of the Lord

569
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 2: is clean. Now look at this, Look at the next

570
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 2: words enduring forever. And right there in that hotel room,

571
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 2: the spirit of God said to me, Son Lucifer led

572
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: worship right before my throne. He beheld my glory. He

573
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: was anointed to do so. He didn't fear me. He

574
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 2: didn't endure forever. He said. A third of the angels

575
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 2: surrounded my throne. They beheld my glory. They didn't fear me.

576
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: They didn't endure forever. He said. Adam and Eve walked

577
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 2: in the garden in the presence of my glory. They

578
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: didn't fear me. They didn't endure forever. He said. Every

579
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 2: creative being will be tested in the fear of God

580
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: that surrounds my throne through eternity. I remember walking out

581
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: of that hotel room that morning thinking how many ministers

582
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: have started in ministry. I mean, the statistic is right now,

583
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 2: fifty percent of pastors will not make it five years.

584
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 2: Why do you know what Barna discovered. They did research,

585
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: a real deep dive research. Over thirty million Americans have

586
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: walked away from the face since the year two thousand

587
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 2: and not only that, not only do they stop going

588
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: to church and stop praying on a regular basis, they're

589
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 2: now professing agnostics, atheists, and spiritualists. Why because we don't

590
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 2: teach the fear of the Lord. But let me comfort you.

591
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: The Bible says Paul said, Hey, that day will not

592
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: come until there's a great falling away of the faith.

593
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 2: We're in it right now. We're in it. I mean,

594
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 2: Paul said, put up the scripture, show them it's there. Right.

595
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 2: But you know what Paul didn't, right, He didn't say

596
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 2: they wouldn't come back. And just as John the Baptist

597
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 2: was sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel,

598
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,479
Speaker 2: I believe there's a group of men and women going

599
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 2: forward in the future, and I believe they're going to

600
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 2: after lost sheep in the church. All right. The fear

601
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 2: of the Lord is to tremble at his word. What

602
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: does it mean to tremble at the word of God?

603
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 2: That's actually a biblical turn. You'll find it in Isaiah

604
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 2: sixty six. Verse two or three. What does it mean

605
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 2: to tremble at God's word? What does that mean? It

606
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 2: means we obey God immediately. You ever meet somebody and

607
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 2: they go, well, you know, the Lord's been dealing with

608
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: me about this now for several months, and they laugh

609
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,479
Speaker 2: about it. I'm like, really, you're laughing about your lack

610
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 2: of godly fear. Amazing, David says in psalmone nineteen. I

611
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 2: will hurry to obey your commands. It means we obey

612
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 2: God when it doesn't make sense. Has God ever told

613
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: you to do something that doesn't make sense? Does it

614
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: make sense to forgive somebody that's really hurt your family?

615
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 2: Does it make sense to bless somebody who is cursed

616
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 2: you and cause you to lose your job? Do I

617
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: need to go anymore? I could go the rest of

618
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: the morning. Does it make sense to spit in the

619
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: ground and put the mud on somebody's eyes and then

620
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: they see when they wash. Does it make sense to

621
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 2: tell a bunch of skilled sailors not to get on

622
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 2: the lifeboats on a sinking ship. Yeah, God tells us

623
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: to do things it doesn't make sense. When we tremble

624
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 2: at his word, it means we obey God even if

625
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 2: it hurts. The Bible says that Jesus obeyed the Father

626
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: even to the point of death, a gruesome death. And

627
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 2: Peter said, as Christ suffered for us in the flesh,

628
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 2: arm yourself with the same mind. The religious person seeks

629
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 2: out suffering for the God little g he or she serves.

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00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: The Christian says, I'm going to obey God in a

631
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 2: fallen world, and I know as a result, I'm going

632
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 2: to experience suffering. We tremble at God's word when we

633
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: obey God. Now listen even when we don't see a benefit.

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00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 2: We have developed disciples in the Church of America that

635
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Speaker 2: the only way we can get them to respond to

636
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Speaker 2: God's word is tell him the benefit. If you pray,

637
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Speaker 2: God will do this. If you obey, God will do this.

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Speaker 2: If you give, God will do this. If you serve,

639
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Speaker 2: God will do this? Does God? No? Wait? Does God

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Speaker 2: do this? This, this, and this? Yes? But that better

641
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Speaker 2: not be your motive. Okay, what if that was Queen

642
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Speaker 2: Esther's motive. I get out of this for going before

643
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Speaker 2: the King and risking my life. She got nothing. She's

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Speaker 2: already Queen Sarny got everything she wants. Now She might

645
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Speaker 2: lose her head for obeying God, but she says, I'm

646
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Speaker 2: going for the King. If I die, I die. She

647
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Speaker 2: fears God. That's why we read about her. We tremble

648
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Speaker 2: at God's word when we obey all the way to completion.

649
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Speaker 2: King Saul does ninety nine point ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 2: what God asks him to do, and God said, he's

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Speaker 2: disobeyed me, he's rebelled. Remember Jesus said, after you've done

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Speaker 2: all those things you were commanded, not ninety nine percent

653
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Speaker 2: of those things you were commanded, say we are unprofitable service.

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Speaker 2: We've only done our duty. Sure is quietness, Presbyterian Church.

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Speaker 2: Are you still here? I know you're just listening. I

656
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Speaker 2: get it. I just need you to breathe, Okay, breathe, okay,

657
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Speaker 2: all right. Let me spend the last ten minutes sharing

658
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Speaker 2: the benefits of holy fear. So, in studying this this

659
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Speaker 2: being my life message for thirty years, I've discovered there

660
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Speaker 2: are over forty distinct promises that are amazing that God

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Speaker 2: makes to only those who fear Him. So, now let

662
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Speaker 2: me tell you this a lot of times some of

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Speaker 2: these promises will say, hey, that's for me, But we

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Speaker 2: don't walk in the fear of God. Like let me

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Speaker 2: give you an example in this very place, Orange County,

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Speaker 2: two years ago. I'm here and I get done preaching

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, big church, and the guy walks up to

668
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Speaker 2: me goes, look, I'm single and I'm a businessman. I

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Speaker 2: really we need to talk to you. You know, I

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Speaker 2: am single, and you know, Gosh, John, I got needs

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Speaker 2: and I sleep with other women, and you know, I

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Speaker 2: realize it's a little wrong, and so I stopped doing it,

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Speaker 2: and then I just fall back into it. But that's

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Speaker 2: not what I'm here to talk to you about. What

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Speaker 2: I'm here to talk to you about is why isn't

676
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Speaker 2: my business doing better? I'm serious. Exactly the way the

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Speaker 2: conversation went, I went, are you kidding me? Are we

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Speaker 2: that ignorant of the holy fear of God in this

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Speaker 2: nation that you can literally walk up to somebody who

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Speaker 2: has just preached the word of God and say this

681
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Speaker 2: to me? So these forty benefits, I mean, I'll go

682
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Speaker 2: through him in the book, but there's no way I

683
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Speaker 2: can cover it. This morning. I got ten minutes. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to cover the first one, which I think is

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Speaker 2: the best one. Do you want me to cover the

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Speaker 2: first one, the first benefit intimate friendship with God. Okay,

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Speaker 2: listen to this. The Bible tells us, and you'll see

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Speaker 2: it in here, that the fear of the Lord is

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Speaker 2: the starting place of an intimate friendship with God starting place.

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Speaker 2: In other words, you haven't even begun to have a friendship,

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Speaker 2: of relationship, of friendship with God until you fear him. Okay,

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Speaker 2: look at Psalm twenty five, verse fourteen. I'll put this

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Speaker 2: one up so you can see it. Friendship with the

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Speaker 2: Lord is reserved for those who fear him. With them,

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Speaker 2: he shares his secrets. Who do you share your secrets with? Acquaintances?

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Speaker 2: Are close friends? Come on, I asked a question close friends.

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Speaker 2: God's no different. God says, my close friends are those

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Speaker 2: who fear me, and those are the ones I share

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Speaker 2: my secrets with. Now, who's the first guy that's called

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Speaker 2: the friend of God in the Bible? Abraham? Why is

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Speaker 2: Abraham called the friend of God? Because when he's old,

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Speaker 2: God comes to him one night and says, hey, yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: yes the Lord. Yes. You know your son that you

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Speaker 2: love more than anything or anyone else, who you waited

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Speaker 2: for for twenty five years, who I promised you? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Isaac sure he's sleeping right now. I want you to

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Speaker 2: go on a three day journey and sacrifice them for me.

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Speaker 2: That's it, period, That's all he said. He doesn't say,

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Speaker 2: if you go sacrifice them, I'll send my son. And

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Speaker 2: Abraham doesn't have Genesis to read. I would imagine he

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Speaker 2: got no sleep that night. I'm serious. I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I would sleep at all. But you

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Speaker 2: know what my Bible says, Early the next morning, Abraham's

714
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Speaker 2: on his way. Well, the Lord's been dealing with me

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Speaker 2: about just now for several months. Boy, you and Abraham

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Speaker 2: are two different birds, right now? Are you seeing this?

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Speaker 2: Early the next morning, he's on his way. Now, God

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Speaker 2: gives them a three day journey. Why because he wants

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Speaker 2: him to think it over. It's a little easier when

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Speaker 2: you heard the booming voice of God the night before,

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Speaker 2: But what about two and a half days later, when

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Speaker 2: you haven't heard one thing from heaven and now you

723
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Speaker 2: look at the mountain. You're going to put the most

724
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Speaker 2: important person in your thinking to death in your life

725
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Speaker 2: just because God said to do it and didn't give

726
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Speaker 2: you a reason. Abraham and Isaa go up in the mountain.

727
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Speaker 2: They're building the altar. Can you just imagine this, and

728
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Speaker 2: you just put a little salt in the womb? Isaac

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Speaker 2: the fourteen year old or thirteen year old Isaac goes, Dad,

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Speaker 2: where's the sacrifice? Just keep building? And he's building right,

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine. So Abraham, to his regret, gets the

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Speaker 2: altar finished. He said, it's time Isaac. He takes Isaac,

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Speaker 2: you're the sacrifice. He ties him down, lifts up the knife,

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Speaker 2: and is ready to put the most important personal thing

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Speaker 2: to death in his life, just because God said do

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Speaker 2: it and didn't give him a reason. Angel appears and

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Speaker 2: the Angel of the Lord says, don't touch him, because

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Speaker 2: now I know you fear God. How How does the

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Speaker 2: angel know that Abraham feared God? Because he obeyed instantly,

740
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Speaker 2: because he obeyed when it didn't make sense, because he

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Speaker 2: obeyed when it hurt, because he obeyed when he didn't

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Speaker 2: see a benefit, and because he the completion. Abraham puts

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Speaker 2: down the knife, unties his son with great relief, lifts

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Speaker 2: up his eyes and there's a ram caught in the thicket,

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Speaker 2: and Abraham goes Jehovah Gyron. God just revealed a facet

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Speaker 2: of his personality to Abraham. No human being had ever

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Speaker 2: known before because he's my friend. Okay, you're not getting this,

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Speaker 2: You're not getting this. Okay, wait a minute, Wait a minute.

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Speaker 2: All of you know me as job bevir speaker, some

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Speaker 2: of you know me as job of your author. But

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Speaker 2: there is a lady. I showed you her picture, and boy,

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Speaker 2: she's a lady. She knows me as job of your husband.

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Speaker 2: She knows me as job of your best friend, job

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Speaker 2: of your athlete, job of your dad. Jab mavir g daddy.

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Speaker 2: Can I say this? None of you will ever know

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Speaker 2: me as job of your husband. That's the fast of

757
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 2: my personality is a reserve for the closest person to

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Speaker 2: me on earth. God just revealed the facet of his

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Speaker 2: personality to Abraham, nobody had ever known before because he's

760
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Speaker 2: my friend. Now look at the relationship between God and Abraham.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. One day, the Lord says, do to Sodom

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Speaker 2: and gamorrow. We're playing on doing without talking to our

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Speaker 2: friend Abraham. So Lord comes down by the tarra of

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Speaker 2: the trees. He and Abraham go over the cliff and

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Speaker 2: they look over the plains of Jordan. Lord goes abe, Yeah, yeah, Lord, Abe,

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Speaker 2: we're thinking about blowing up these two cities. What do

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Speaker 2: you think? Abraham goes Sodom and Lord goes, yeah, yeah yeah,

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Speaker 2: And Gamora, what do you think? And Abraham's thinking, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, my nephew Lot, he's over in Sodom. And okay,

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Speaker 2: Abraham think, think, think, okay, God, all right, Lord, you

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Speaker 2: you wouldn't like blow up those cities. If there was

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Speaker 2: fifty righteous people, would you? And Lord goes, excellent idea,

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Speaker 2: excellent idea. Okay, we will not blow up the cities.

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Speaker 2: If there's fifty righteous people. Glad we talked to our

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Speaker 2: friend Abraham. Abraham goes with, if there's fifty, okay, Lord,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, wait a minute, what there was forty five?

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Speaker 2: Would you blow up the cities? If there was forty five?

778
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Speaker 2: The Lord goes another, good idea, Okay, we will not

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Speaker 2: blow up the cities. There's forty five. Glad we talked

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Speaker 2: to our friend Abraham. Now Abraham talks them all the

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Speaker 2: way down to ten. He figures there's got to be

782
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Speaker 2: ten lots one. Oh, I needs nine others, but there isn't.

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Speaker 2: Now this is amazing. The Bible says Sodom and Gomore

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Speaker 2: is buying, selling, trading marrying, giving a marriage, planting and harvesting.

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Speaker 2: What is that? In today's vernacular? Life is great, the

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Speaker 2: economy's booming. And if there is a God, he doesn't

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Speaker 2: mind our lewde lifestyle. They're twenty four hours away from

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Speaker 2: being obliterated and they're clueless. That is not what's scary.

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Speaker 2: This is what's scary. Everybody say Lot, Abraham's nephew Lot,

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Speaker 2: who the Bible calls righteous. It does tewod Peter Chapter two.

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Speaker 2: Can I put righteous in today's terminology? Born again Christian?

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Speaker 2: He's twenty four hours away from being obliterated. He's as

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Speaker 2: clueless as Sodom and gomor. It takes two messengers of

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Speaker 2: mercy because Abraham prayed, Thank God, Abraham praid to get

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Speaker 2: Lot oft out. Now here's two righteous men, two save

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Speaker 2: men men, two born again men. One righteous man knows

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Speaker 2: what God's going to do before he does it, and

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Speaker 2: even helps God decide how he's going to do it.

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Speaker 2: The other righteous say, born again man is as clueless

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Speaker 2: as the world. Why is that? Because this righteous, say,

801
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Speaker 2: born again man fears God. Therefore he's the friend of God.

802
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 2: Therefore God shares his secrets with him. This righteous say,

803
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 2: born again, man does not fear God. Therefore he is

804
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 2: not the friend of God. Therefore God does not share

805
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Speaker 2: his secrets with him. You'll see the same thing with

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Speaker 2: Moses and Israel. You say, John, is this in the

807
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Speaker 2: New Testament? Yeah? Look what Jesus says to us. He said,

808
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Speaker 2: you are my friends if okay, now, wait a minute.

809
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Speaker 2: If it is a condition, I'm amazed. We pre sermons

810
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Speaker 2: off of this scripture, we write songs off of this scripture,

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Speaker 2: but we never finished the statement. If I look at

812
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Speaker 2: you and say I will pay you two thousand dollars

813
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Speaker 2: if you work forty hours for me next week, and

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Speaker 2: you don't work the forty hours next week, and you

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Speaker 2: come to me for the two thousand dollars, what do

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00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 2: I say? It was a condition. It wasn't an automatic.

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00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 2: I said, if you work for me for forty hours,

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Speaker 2: you didn't work the forty four hours, you don't get

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Speaker 2: the two thousand dollars. That's basic English. You are my friends.

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Speaker 2: If if what Jesus said, you are my friends, if

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Speaker 2: you do whatever I command you. There it is the

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Speaker 2: fear of the Lord trembling at his word. You know

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Speaker 2: what Jesus is saying right here? Not everybody in the

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Speaker 2: church is my intimate close friend. In other words, we

825
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Speaker 2: have a lot of lots in the church in America.

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Speaker 2: But listen to me carefully. He passionately, Jesus passionately desires

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Speaker 2: to be your intimate close friend. But you're the one

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Speaker 2: that chooses the level of your relationship, not him. When

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Speaker 2: we embrace the holy Fear of God, the first benefit

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Speaker 2: is we become intimate friends of God, because not everybody

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Speaker 2: in the church is an intimate friend of God.

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