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in a few weeks, I'll be joining 
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few weeks ago, we had an 
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conference call to speak about 
what the meeting will be about 

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and I had no idea what the the 
conference theme was but they 

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had told me the title of it and 
the title of, it was something 

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that I've been chewing on really
since we have that phone 

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conversation and the title of 
that conference is I'm saved. 

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Now, what? 
I love it. 

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What is your purpose? 
Now that you're saved? 

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Or let's ask it even more. 
Precise question, what is the 

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point of this Bible study? 
What are we doing here tonight? 

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What's the you guys came from 
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Some of you came from school, 
some of you rush to be here and 

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you're sitting in a chair. 
Why are you here? 

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What's all the preparation 
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Why do we do this on a 
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I'm saved. 
Now? 

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What? 
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clear. 
You don't have to turn. 

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There were about the stand in a 
moment to pray together. 1st, 

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John 3:3. 
Therefore everyone who thus 

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hopes in him purifies himself as
he is pure. 

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Hoping in him concerning that 
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tense that he's going to redeem 
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And until that moment, my hope 
is in that, you know what, your 

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purpose of mine is that we 
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not because you need to get to 
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because you have been redeemed. 
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you claim to abide in Christ is 
that you desire to walk as Jesus

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walked as 1st, John 2:6, 
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in him, listen to how profound 
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thus says that he abides in him 
must walk as he walked Stay with

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me as we pray. 
There's no scripture reading. 

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We're going to pray together 
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So we're here why because we 
want to purify ourselves through

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the sanctifying power of the 
word of God, the saying Lord I 

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want to be found faithful when 
you return, father in this place

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tonight as we've chosen to be 
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life purpose is, now that we are
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Jesus is pure and we want to 
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us. 
So we pray that this Bible study

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by your grace would contribute 
to that mission. 

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That is Any other pursuit in our
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Any other plan, any other dream.
We have one desire to walk as 

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Jesus walked Lord, with this 
Bible study help us do that 

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tonight. 
In Jesus name we pray, amen. 

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You may be seated and this is 
what the Book of Numbers is all 

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about. 
In the old Covenant sense, that 

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God has redeemed his people. 
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Numbers Chapter 10, The camp, 
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location. 
Receiving instruction after 

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instruction, after instruction, 
and none of them have mobilized 

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yet. 
This Camp does not move forward 

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from the Wilderness of Sinai to 
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chapter 10. 
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from 1 to 10? 
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Commandments and laws for his 
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Yes. 
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through the Wilderness, but more
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Investment in the promised land 
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they can live as long as 
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The Promised Land. 
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their infant stage and here's 
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all these Commandments saying, 
listen, the reason why I'm doing

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this is so that when you get to 
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able to sustain the promised 
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You be able to sustain the 
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out on your life. 
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about and up to this point, as 
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We're in a good start here. 
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numbers. 
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They did according to all that 
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they did it. 
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Thus did the people of Israel 
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commanded Moses, so they can't 
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set out each one in his clan 
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house. 
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he come to the end of chapter 4,
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According to the Commandment of 
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were listed each one with his 
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thus, they were listed by him as
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Moses. 
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Israelites and that's going to 
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in chapter 5. 
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Lord continues to usher in more 
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represent him and to live with 
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An estate of blessing, the Lord 
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command the people of Israel 
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everyone who is leprous, or has 
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you shall put out both male and 
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camp that they may not defile. 
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I dwell here. 
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And the people of Israel did. 
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camp as the Lord said to Moses. 
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just amazing. 
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And this specific command is not
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As it sounds really, put 
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Israelite shoes as a lord gives 
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Remember, all of this, all of 
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what the Lord desires from his 
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advance in his purpose. 
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Investments. 
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rid of every single lepers 
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every person. 
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I want you to get rid of every 
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That is touch the dead have come
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dead. 
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difficult thing to do? 
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So you talking about, here's the
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through his prophet and you know
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after they hear that they're 
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around, they're saying oh Mom 
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Our good friend, he's touched a 
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what that was like to pile up, 
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them out into the outside of the
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This is a difficult thing but we
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thing because all those things 
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uncleanness of sin of death, 
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Contrary to the character of God
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these things and for some it 
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Reality for others. 
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clean, especially if there is a 
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be able to come back. 
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The Lord says, it's so clearly 
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midst of which I dwell, the 
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up with this conclusion and 
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their Dwelling Place. 
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And are we going to set up this 
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that moment. 
Are we going to set up an 

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environment that would make God 
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That would make him dwell, here 
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this for our own benefit and for
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For others to feel. 
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And listen, that is a question 
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to ask themselves. 
That if they want to know God's 

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Advance purposes for their 
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This is a question that every 
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themselves. 
Am I willing to make God 

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comfortable or others 
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Because we're not talking about 
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not talking about Jerusalem, 
being the holy city in the 

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sense, where that's where God 
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It is the holy city. 
God will come back in Christ and

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reign in that City. 
All those great things but a New

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Covenant sense, your the temple 
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that Holy Land. 
I'm that Holy Land and the New 

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Covenant sense. 
This church is the Temple of the

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Living God and we have to ask 
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Israelites probably have to ask 
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given. 
Are we willing to make God 

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comfortable here? 
Or we can arrange things for 

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people in their state of 
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And when you ask yourself that 
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within yourself that you want to
make God comfortable, the second

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question is this now Lord, what 
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Can I tell you something you 
want to advance in 

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sanctification if you really 
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As he is pure, if you really 
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Jesus gave. 
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although so many parables are 
different, a lot of them have 

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the same theme talking about a 
master, who has gone away for a 

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long while how many parables are
like that and what is that whole

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mindset? 
That he would come back and find

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it. 
People that are faithful, if you

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and I have determined within 
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comfortable in this temple in 
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The next question is Lord will 
what makes you comfortable? 

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It makes you uncomfortable and 
if you really sincerely, ask 

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that question, watch how you 
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in a moment, leap in your 
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asking that question. 
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And God has given us Specific 
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individual Hostess of present of
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just a few days ago in a grieve 
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much, megachurch multi campus 
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another. 
And one asks the other what it 

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was your philosophy before you 
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What was your what was your 
mindset before you planted your 

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first church? 
And now you have all these 

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churches and you know what? 
This man said he said well I ask

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myself as a pastor if I was a 
business man with three 

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children. 
Run and my vocation was not full

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time ministry. 
What kind of church would I want

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to go to? 
I asked myself this and it meant

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so much to me that if I was not 
a pastor, what kind of church 

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what I want to go to? 
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I was going to build Here's the 
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It's in direct contradiction to 
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told Timothy, who was left in 
Ephesus. 

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And First Timothy, 3:14, 15, you
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He says, listen, I'm writing 
these things to you because if I

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delay, you might know how you 
ought to behave in the household

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of God. 
We have the prescription for 

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what God wants from us in this 
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And we have that same 
prescription for what God wants 

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from us in this life. 
You've heard me use this example

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before, but this is a great 
question to ask even in those 

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gray areas, especially in the 
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We don't know if it's right or 
wrong and there are some 

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cultural influences on certain 
habits or decisions that we make

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just ask yourself this question.
Lord, does this make you 

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comfortable? 
And watch how you will have an 

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answer. 
If the spirit of God dwells in 

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you, you will know that nudge a 
teacher once said this, he went 

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into a place in India, a Bible 
teacher, and he was in a 

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specific place where culturally 
it was acceptable, even amongst 

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Christians to smoke, So, he went
into a church and as he pulled 

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up, he saw the men outside 
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He felt himself. 
Well, the Bible doesn't say 

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anything about smoking. 
What am I gonna do though? 

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Because this is harming the 
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It's not a good thing. 
So you've heard this but I'll 

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share for those who haven't and 
he got up on the pulpit and he 

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had a translator because it was 
a specific type of language that

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they were speaking in specific 
part of India and he said I 

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wanted today, teach you how you 
can smoke like a Christian So 

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this is what you need to know if
you want to smoke like a 

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Christian. 
Next time, you pull out a 

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cigarette Ask Jesus if he wants 
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And he left out of that. 
That's wisdom. 

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That's wisdom. 
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before he went up to the pulpit.
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you, something said, why he says
I stopped smoking. 

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message, and I asked Jesus, if 
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even on the specific subject. 
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mentioned behind the pulpit but 
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up and they would say, excuse me
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I said what's your question? 
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video game and he would tell me 
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young as 13, 12 years old. 
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meeting. 
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game he was talking about, it 
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parts, being chopped up, all 
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was a simple answer. 
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yes or no. 
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lines of next time. 
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play with you. 
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came back with that video game. 
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anymore and he looked at me and 
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I am not breaking your video 
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that I broke it. 
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I'll watch you. 
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what do you do? 
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just cheering while he was doing
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just it was amazing how you did 
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I think I recorded it too but I 
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my old phone and then that's it.
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If you want advance in your 
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And watch how things will pop up
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they're not mean anything to the
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for asking. 
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uncomfortable. 
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instructions given and the Lord 
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the people of Israel. 
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of the sins that people commit 
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He shall confess his sin that he
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made for the wrong. 
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go to the Lord for the priest. 
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atonement which atonement is 
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What's the idea here now? 
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revisiting this understanding of
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another brother or sister and 
how that ought to be figured out

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how that can be cleaned up. 
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giving concerning instruction. 
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have we seen this? 
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and just a past few weeks. 
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that with a specific offering. 
Does anybody remember the 

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offering that dealt with this? 
The trespass offering the guilt 

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This is one of the offerings 
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person with sin against another.
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that if you have wronged the 
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him or harming him, even 
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property. 
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behind. 
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He goes not only are you going 
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going to add a fifth to a 20% 
and the the idea behind God 

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doing this is so that people 
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going to not only how many 
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had this mindset would not be 
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something or I don't know what 
the laws are, not professional. 

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All these things you have to 
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fifth to it. 
It was a beautiful understanding

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there because even in the New 
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not required for salvation, it 
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somebody who understands Grace 
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how when he realized that the 
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eat with him. 
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up and he says, I'm going to 
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those I've robbed, I want to do 
this and it's just a response of

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wanting to make things right to 
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past, as a normal healthy 
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Christ in that That. 
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We talked about that in 
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up to me. 
After the Bible said he made a 

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great Point. 
What happens if you even as a 

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Believer want to make 
restitution but it just not 

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possible. 
It's just not possible 

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circumstances. 
The timing of it that person 

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doesn't doesn't exist anymore in
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I'm a firm believer that the 
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person concerning this area of 
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there isn't a law about it. 
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believers lives but that is a 
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The Holy Spirit. 
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even after you get saved he will
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you saying. 
You have to go make things right

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with that person that you wrong 
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it not possible that person 
that's not possible, either in a

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financial sense Anything 
property, anything even 

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emotional damage? 
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God is so realistic. 
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And Leviticus, we have the same 
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guilt offering at a fifth, do 
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look at verse 8, but if the man 
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So if that person does not live 
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restitution to a family member 
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doesn't exist, or that person 
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know, what you have to do next. 
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priest. 
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Old Testament, texts concerning 
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that. 
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want to make things right with a
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don't know where they are in 
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not make sense. 
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that person again or that 
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the best thing next to that is 
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Saying if you can't deal with 
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with a family member, just make 
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Let me see in your own heart 
that you desire you desire to 

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make things, right? 
But you couldn't What I I I 

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would love to show that person 
that I'm a changed man, changed 

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woman but I can't believe, you 
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Help me to live in light of your
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days. 
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And I just love the wisdom of 
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I love his realistic. 
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It's a beautiful thing. 
So in your own life, let that be

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true. 
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desire to do it and if you can't
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heart. 
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Passage. 
From verse 11, actually, to the 

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end of the chapter. 
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an interesting portion of 
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five. 
And 529. 

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We've seen these things before 
we seen these things in other 

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places of scripture. 
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We're coming to a ritual that is
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It is not found anywhere else. 
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And it's a test that God has 
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with validating whether somebody
has actually committed adultery 

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or not. 
It's a ritual that would reveal 

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whether a husband's jealousy for
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her being an adulterous or 
committing an adulterous ass is 

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actually something that is true 
or not. 

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And what's so surprising about 
this portion of scripture, when 

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I came about and read it is, how
much detail God has given this 

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text? 
Look at your Bibles from verse 

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11 down to the end of the 
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All of the rest of this chapter 
is dedicated to describing how 

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this thing will go about. 
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especially in our Western 
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If you have read it you're like 
this is kind of mystical. 

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And so again, whenever we come 
to a portion of scripture, what 

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is the rule that we have 
concerning our application in 

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these verses? 
What's the question that we 

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always ask? 
What is God's heart behind this?

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What is God's heart behind this?
What do I know about God through

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these texts? 
Now instead of just going and 

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touching on versus I want us to 
actually already. 

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So I need I need a few 
volunteers you that you're able 

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to vocalize and and you have 
strong voices so that everybody 

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can hear. 
So I need a person to read from 

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verses 11 to 15 and he 
volunteers verses 11 to 15 

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Barrett verses 16 to 22 Evan 
Verses 23 to 28 Tamara. 

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And lastly verses 29 and 31. 29 
and 31. 

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Matt go for it. 
So wherever starting, please 

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read out loud and follow through
your Bible. 

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And just imagine this in your 
minds as we're at this is bible 

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study, this is not a sermon. 
So we're going through the 

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scriptures together. 
Whoever can start us off 

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wherever took the first few 
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Lord spoke to Moses saying speak
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Any man's wife goes astray and 
breaks Faith with him. 

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If a Man Lies with her sexually 
and it is hidden from the eyes 

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of her husband and she is 
undetected though, she would has

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the file herself and there was 
no witness against her since she

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was not Taking in the act. 
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comes over him and he is jealous
of his wife who was the father. 

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So, or if the spirit of jealousy
comes over him and he is jealous

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of his wife though, she has not 
to bother self. 

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Then the man shall bring his 
wife to the priest and bring the

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offering required her a tenth of
an, ephah of barley flour. 

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He shall pour no oil on it, and 
put no frankincense on it for it

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is a grain offering a jealousy. 
The grain offering of 

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remembrance bringing iniquity to
remember because the stop there 

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for a moment. 
Is what we have up to this 

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point. 
This is not dealing with a sin, 

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this is dealing with suspicion. 
And so up to this point, if a 

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husband is suspicious Of his 
wife, who has? 

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It's not clear yet, but there is
evidence of perhaps that she's 

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committed, an act of adultery, 
he would come to the priest and 

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notice the language will get to 
this in a moment. 

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It's unknown to anybody else. 
The whole idea here is that the 

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Lord would expose it. 
The Lord would expose whether it

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is true or not. 
True. 

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And we'll get to why this is 
important. 

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Whoever has the next portion of 
scripture, please read the 

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priest shall bring her near 
consider the priest shall take 

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the holy water in the Earthen 
vessel and take some of the dust

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that is on the floor of the 
Tabernacle, put it all into the 

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water, then the priest shall 
stand the woman before the Lord 

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uncover, the woman's head and 
put the offering for remembering

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in her hands, which is the grain
offering of jealousy. 

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And the You shall have in his 
hand, the bitter water that 

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brings the curse and the priest 
shall put her under oath and say

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it's the woman. 
If no man is laying with you. 

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And if you have not gone astray 
to uncleanness while under your 

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husband's Authority, you free 
from This Bitter Water that 

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brings a curse. 
But if you have gone astray 

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while under your husband's 
Authority, and if you have to 

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follow yourself at some men, 
other than yourself, other than 

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your husband has Lain with you. 
You then the priest shall put 

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the woman under the oath of the 
curse and he shall say to the 

454
00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:41,900
woman, the Lord makes you a 
curse and an ovum on your 

455
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people. 
When the Lord makes your thigh 

456
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,300
rock and your belly swab and 
made this water, that causes the

457
00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:50,700
curse. 
Go into your stomach and make 

458
00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,200
your belly's. 
Well, and your thighs rots, then

459
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,300
the woman shall say, Amen. 
So be it. 

460
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,400
All right, so here's the next 
part. 

461
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,700
So you have a husband, bring the
wife, they come into the 

462
00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:02,300
Tabernacle, they bring it 
before. 

463
00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:03,600
The priest, the priest says, 
okay. 

464
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,600
You're under suspicion. 
So we're going to, I'm going to 

465
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,300
lay out what this is going to 
look like to you and he has her 

466
00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:10,400
unbind her hair now. 
Why is that? 

467
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,900
Because there's an instruction 
early on that. 

468
00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:16,300
The lepers had to unbind their 
hair and Let it Loose if the Let

469
00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:19,000
it Loose it was a state of 
uncleanness it was a state of 

470
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,200
uncleanness it. 
So she would do that then he 

471
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,400
went what he would take dirt put
it in water and it would be a 

472
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,500
bitter taste really it would be 
obviously dirt and water doesn't

473
00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:32,100
taste very good and he would lay
out these consequences to what 

474
00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:34,800
was about to take place and She 
was hearing all this and that 

475
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,200
she's hearing all of this. 
She has to come to the point 

476
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,100
where she says. 
Amen. 

477
00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:39,800
Amen, in other words. 
All right, let it be. 

478
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,700
So let it be so that if I did do
this after I drink the water, 

479
00:25:43,900 --> 00:25:46,500
then it and what would happen as
a result is that there would be 

480
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an infection, there'd be a 
disease that would cause her not

481
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to be able to have children 
anymore. 

482
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,400
But if she wasn't guilty of it, 
then she would be clear of all 

483
00:25:54,500 --> 00:26:05,600
such infection. 
Next portion of scripture, And 

484
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,300
you shall make the woman, drink 
the bitter water, and bring the 

485
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:10,100
curse. 
And the water that brings a 

486
00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:12,500
curse, shall I tell her to 
become bitter. 

487
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,000
And the priest shall take the 
grain offering of jealousy from 

488
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,700
the woman's hand, shall wait for
offering for the Lord and bring 

489
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:23,500
it to the Altar and a pre-show, 
take a handful of the offering 

490
00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:26,900
as it is memorial portion. 
Burn it on the Altar and 

491
00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:30,600
afterward make the woman drink 
the water when he has made her 

492
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,400
drink, the water that I shall be
if she has decided Yourself and 

493
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,700
being unfaithful, we told her 
husband that the water that 

494
00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,900
brings a curse, will enter them 
become bitter and your Valley 

495
00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,700
will swell forth. 
I will rock when the woman will 

496
00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:47,400
become curse among four people, 
but if the woman is not defile 

497
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,600
himself is clean and she shall 
be free, and they conceive 

498
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,400
children. 
So here's the next thing. 

499
00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:55,000
Not only is he putting dirt in 
the water. 

500
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,300
He's going to write out these 
curses on material and then put 

501
00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,200
it in the water. 
Let the ink go in whatever, 

502
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,800
whatever needed to go into that 
concern and then that would just

503
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,200
add to the bitterness of it. 
And then again is really the 

504
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,600
Bible's reinforcing. 
What would come about if she 

505
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,800
actually did this? 
That there would be a visible 

506
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,800
and there would be a reputation 
for the rest of her days. 

507
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,800
In that canvas. 
She had actually done this act 

508
00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:20,700
to very this is a very weighty 
and serious thing. 

509
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,800
Very waiting, very serious. 
And the finally the last two 

510
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,800
verses this is the law in cases 
of jealousy. 

511
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,600
When the wife go under her 
husband's Authority goes astray 

512
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,600
and the files herself. 
But when the spirit of jealousy 

513
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,100
comes over a man and he is 
jealous of his wife and he shall

514
00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,900
set the woman before the Lord, 
and the priest shall carry out 

515
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,300
for her. 
All this block, The man shall be

516
00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:44,600
free from iniquity but the woman
shall bear. 

517
00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,400
What do you think? 
The reason for all of this is 

518
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,900
relating to the Israelites and 
their immediate context, what 

519
00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,600
purpose is God have in giving 
this specific law and ritual? 

520
00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:02,200
What is the Lord trying to 
promote in the hearts of his 

521
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,300
people? 
Faithfulness. 

522
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:10,800
Yes. 
Another word with f.d.r., a holy

523
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,800
fear, a holy fear with the Lord 
is trying to promote in this 

524
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,300
moment. 
And through this, through this 

525
00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:19,500
text, is that he would have a 
people that would have a wholly 

526
00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:24,900
healthy, fear relating to 
faithfulness and marriage and 

527
00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:27,600
what this text is trying to show
you and I about God, is that he 

528
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:33,500
has a fierce zeal. 
And when two become one, they 

529
00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:37,600
stay one. 
Unfortunately, though, his 

530
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,500
people back then and today, do 
not have that same Zeal. 

531
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,100
And so he gives these 
instructions to the Israelites 

532
00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:48,800
to say, listen, what this will 
do is ultimately leave me to be 

533
00:28:48,808 --> 00:28:52,400
the judge, it's a very wise 
thing, it's amazing. 

534
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:57,000
The wisdom of the Lord that the 
Lord will be the ultimate one 

535
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,700
that would reveal and judge and 
exposed. 

536
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:04,100
Whatever, unfaithfulness there 
would be. 

537
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:06,800
Now we read this and we kind of 
think this is kind of unfair, 

538
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,300
because we have a husband who's 
kind of bringing the wife in. 

539
00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:13,600
And, and this is a, this is a 
template, but there is something

540
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,700
here for the wife. 
You have to understand that 

541
00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,500
there is something of great 
benefit through this law for the

542
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:19,800
woman. 
What do you think that is? 

543
00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:27,700
Fruitfulness. 
Vindication if she's right. 

544
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,500
That's that's partly true. 
Yeah, that is I think there 

545
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:34,000
would be a Vindication but 
there's something even more 

546
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,800
practical than that. 
Yeah. 

547
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,000
So this is like Vindicated that 
what you meant by Vindication? 

548
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,800
Like, she's going to prove 
herself to be faithful through 

549
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:43,400
this. 
Yes. 

550
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,700
Yes, it was just another 
confirmation for her to be able 

551
00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:51,500
to bear fruit. 
I absolutely trust her husband's

552
00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:53,100
trust so that is guaranteed 
through that. 

553
00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:59,000
Yes. 
That's right. 

554
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,700
So part of this, the way God set
it up, is that the woman because

555
00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:07,700
of God being involved directly 
would be protected from her 

556
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:12,400
husband, or from even others 
around that would try to respond

557
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,600
to her suspicions with 
mistreatment. 

558
00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:19,200
What this law does, is it 
removes any possibility for 

559
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,300
anybody to jump the gun through 
suspicion and through a violent 

560
00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,600
response or mistreatment? 
Or reputation being spread. 

561
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,700
God had brought this for the 
sake of protecting wives as 

562
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,600
well, so that they would go into
this place and if they are 

563
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,800
innocent, God would have the 
final word and her record would 

564
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,300
be clean before the sight of 
others. 

565
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,700
So we see that this is going 
both ways. 

566
00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:46,700
This is a very fair thing 
because if her husband did bring

567
00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:48,600
her in out of Suspicion, he was 
wrong. 

568
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:50,700
I mean, she has nothing to fear 
in the first place. 

569
00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:56,400
All right, let's just get this 
over with Has God's heart 

570
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,000
changed. 
Concerning how he feels about 

571
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,600
marriage from Numbers, Chapter 
62, 2018. 

572
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:09,300
Let me read this new testament, 
verse and Hebrews 13:4. 

573
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,400
Let marriage be held in honor, 
among all. 

574
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,900
And let the marriage bed, be 
undefiled for God will judge the

575
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:20,800
sexually immoral and adulterous,
that's not found in Numbers. 

576
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,300
Chapter 6, that's found in 
Hebrews. 

577
00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:28,100
That's Hebrews 13:4. 
Let the marriage bed. 

578
00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,600
Be undefiled, why? 
Because if not, then God will 

579
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,100
judge. 
And how he will judge. 

580
00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,800
Hebrews doesn't tell us number 
6, tells us, but Hebrews is not 

581
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,200
tell us, but it does says he 
will. 

582
00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:43,300
And he is the perfect judge. 
He knows exactly what to give as

583
00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:45,700
his act of discipline towards 
those who have been unfaithful. 

584
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,200
So here are some things that you
and I can learn from Numbers. 

585
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,000
Chapter 6, sitting with this 
text going, okay? 

586
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,300
I understand God has a heart for
faithfulness and marriage but 

587
00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:57,000
what else is a saying about the 
Lord? 

588
00:31:57,700 --> 00:31:59,400
Not only, what is he saying 
about the Lord? 

589
00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:05,700
What is he saying about you and 
me? 

590
00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:10,900
What I'm about to say in the 
next few minutes. 

591
00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:14,200
My prayer is always this and I 
pray that it would be true 

592
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,300
tonight that no matter how hard 
a word may be that you would 

593
00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:21,300
feel the love the love of Christ
in it. 

594
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,800
Always and I look at you and I 
praying into this Bibles that I 

595
00:32:24,808 --> 00:32:28,000
look at all of you and I say 
this with a heart throbbing with

596
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,300
love for you with a love to see 
you live, your life for Christ 

597
00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:34,700
and protect it from all the 
deceitfulness of sin. 

598
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,400
So, hear me tonight. 
And the rest of this Bible study

599
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,200
concerning this text. 
That it comes from a heart of a 

600
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:48,300
person that prays for you. 
If you hear an angry person, if 

601
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:51,100
you hear a person that wants to 
see you fail, if you're hearing 

602
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:52,900
a person that can't wait till 
you fall. 

603
00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:55,800
So I can say I told you so you 
do not know this heart. 

604
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,300
So I pray in this Bible, study 
in the rest of this text, you 

605
00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:01,700
would hear somebody that truly 
loves as a brother. 

606
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,800
One thing I take out of this 
text a very simple truth, a 

607
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,500
truth that people don't really 
live out on. 

608
00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:16,200
Understand number one, God sees 
it all, God sees it all. 

609
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,200
Notice in verse 13 of Numbers, 
Chapter 6, if a Man Lies with 

610
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:25,500
her sexually and it is hidden 
from the eyes of her husband and

611
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,200
she is undetected though, she 
has defiled herself and there is

612
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,700
no witness against the. 
Do you see that language there? 

613
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,000
If it's unknown to the husband. 
If she's done it, undetected 

614
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000
lie, if she's done it with no 
witness. 

615
00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:44,400
You know what? 
I learn here. 

616
00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:49,500
Even though her husband didn't 
know it, even though the priest 

617
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:57,300
did not see it, Jesus did. 
Jesus did and Jesus always, we 

618
00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:00,300
seized it, he sees it in great 
detail, he sees it better than 

619
00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:02,200
any security camera can capture 
it. 

620
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,100
He sees it better than any voice
recorder can record it, he sees 

621
00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:11,600
and he knows and he will bring 
it about. 

622
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,900
I need you guys to hear me very 
carefully that God is faithful 

623
00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:19,400
and every single command, and 
every single revelation of his 

624
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,199
character. 
But if I can personally testify,

625
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,100
and what's more important is 
what the word of God says, but 

626
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:28,699
if I can Come under the word and
testify concerning the, the 

627
00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:30,800
commands of God. 
The character of God if there is

628
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,699
one thing that the Lord has 
proven in my life and what I've 

629
00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:39,199
seen and what I've heard That 
there is a certain promise, a 

630
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,300
certain warning in this very 
same book that I have seen. 

631
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:51,699
Come to pass, not 95% of the 
time, 100% of the time numbers 

632
00:34:51,699 --> 00:35:01,600
32:23, Numbers 32:23 branded on 
your heart. 

633
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:10,800
But if you will not do so 
behold, you have sinned against 

634
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,300
the Lord and be sure your sin 
will find you out. 

635
00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:24,200
Be sure. 
Your sin will find you out. 

636
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,100
Let me say this way. 
If you and I do not learn how to

637
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:33,400
confess our sins to God. 
Be sure of this. 

638
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,200
Your sins will confess you to 
others. 

639
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,800
Let me say that one more time. 
If you and I do not learn how to

640
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:47,400
confess our sins to God. 
Be sure of this. 

641
00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:51,800
Your sins will confess you to 
others. 

642
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:56,000
In other words, let's simplify 
your sins will tell on you. 

643
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:02,500
Remember our friend, Saul after 
the Lord had commanded him. 

644
00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:05,100
You'd get rid of all the 
amalekites, you get rid of 

645
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,000
everything when I say destroy 
everything. 

646
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,300
I mean everything. 
In 1st Samuel, 15, Samuel comes 

647
00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:15,400
onto the scene in verse 13 13:14
and Saul comes and look. 

648
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,400
What saw says he goes Blessed Be
You To The Lord. 

649
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,000
I have performed the Commandment
of the Lord, and Samuel said, 

650
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,800
hold on. 
Why do I hear the bleating of 

651
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,900
sheep? 
In other words, you were 

652
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,100
supposed to destroy all the 
animals and I hear them 

653
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:37,500
bleeding. 
That tax terrifies me. 

654
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:39,800
You know why? 
Because it wasn't a soldier that

655
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,600
ran up to Samuel said Samuel, 
didn't you tell saw that? 

656
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,600
He was supposed to destroy 
everything. 

657
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,200
He didn't do it. 
It wasn't a fellow Prophet that 

658
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,700
went to the same school of 
prophets, with Samuel, that came

659
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:53,600
and said, the Lord had revealed 
to me that your servants saw 

660
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,500
there. 
The king did not perform your 

661
00:36:55,500 --> 00:37:02,500
vows, no, it was a sheep. 
It was a sheep and that name 

662
00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:05,900
that bad. 
Expose them. 

663
00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:13,400
And there's a another verse in 
Ecclesiastes, 10:20 That speaks 

664
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,800
of this listen to these words 
very carefully. 

665
00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:19,200
Even in your thoughts, do not 
curse the king. 

666
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:25,500
Nor in your bedroom curse, the 
rich for a bird of the air will 

667
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:28,100
carry your voice or some winged 
creature. 

668
00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:32,200
Tell the matter. 
What is the principle of that? 

669
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:35,600
That whatever you do in private?
Even if there's nobody around, 

670
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:38,000
just like in Numbers Chapter 6 
they thought that they were 

671
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,600
alone. 
And the Lord had a poetic 

672
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,100
fashion is saying, even if you 
think alone, the birds will tell

673
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:48,100
on you. 
Even if you think you're alone. 

674
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:54,500
I'll get nature to testify, you 
would be amazed of how God will 

675
00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:57,300
expose somebody who is an 
unconfessed sin, especially when

676
00:37:57,300 --> 00:38:00,600
it deals with another individual
private sin is one thing, but 

677
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,400
when it deals with other people,
when it deals with Community, 

678
00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:07,200
you up the ante, you up the 
chances of the Lord, pulling the

679
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:12,900
sheets. 
Let me say this very carefully 

680
00:38:12,900 --> 00:38:15,700
and in love, don't fall asleep 
though. 

681
00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:19,300
Your eyes are open right now. 
Let me make this very clear, 

682
00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:22,200
very clear as a brother who 
loves you? 

683
00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:30,300
Your sin will tell on you. 
And I don't want you to 

684
00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:34,700
experience the reality of the 
omniscient omnipotent, 

685
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:38,900
omnipresent God by him, exposing
sin. 

686
00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:41,600
I want you to experience the 
reality of God by you walking 

687
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,800
righteously and him blessing 
your life and you praying and 

688
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,400
God answering. 
That's how I want you to 

689
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,800
experience. 
God, not this way, not numbers 

690
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,500
32:23, not that way. 
Please don't let your experience

691
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:57,800
of God come to a place where you
see that he might not have seen 

692
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,900
but he actually Did don't go 
there don't flirt with it. 

693
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:03,900
Your sin will tell on you. 
And you know what the thing 

694
00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:06,700
about Sin is that it can stay 
quiet and people think that 

695
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:13,200
silence silence Concerning a 
sinful lifestyle is a way of 

696
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,600
God, expressing his affirmation 
wrong. 

697
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,100
Any extension of God's silence 
in your habitual sin is God's 

698
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:22,500
extension of Mercy for you, to 
confess it before. 

699
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:27,300
It's exposed I've been doing it 
a gut and God's, not revealing, 

700
00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:30,600
it just wait. 
Your sin is waiting for the 

701
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,300
perfect time and when you think 
that you have your hand over its

702
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:36,600
mouth, it will move that hand 
and say he's doing it. 

703
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,600
She's doing it. 
And it will be so loud. 

704
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:49,700
Somebody else is going to hear 
it. if you are not convinced 

705
00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:54,100
with these Old Testament 
scriptures, Be convinced of Luke

706
00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,700
chapter 12, the words of Jesus 
Christ himself in the first 

707
00:39:56,700 --> 00:40:05,800
three verses. in the meantime, 
when just Jesus, this is what he

708
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,800
preached to a crowd. 
This is what Jesus preached to a

709
00:40:08,808 --> 00:40:11,900
crowd. 
In the meantime, when so many 

710
00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:15,400
thousands of the people had 
gathered together that they were

711
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,200
trampling. 
One another, he began to say his

712
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,800
to his disciples first. 
So, what does Jesus do? 

713
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,700
And a multi-thousand conference 
setting, this is what he does. 

714
00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:27,500
Beware of the leaven of the 
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 

715
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,200
Nothing is covered. 
That will not be revealed. 

716
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,400
Or hidden, that will not be 
known. 

717
00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:39,400
Therefore, whatever you have 
said in the dark, shall be heard

718
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,000
in the light and whatever you 
whispered and private room shall

719
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,300
be proclaimed in the housetops. 
That's New Covenant. 

720
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,600
That's Jesus, taking 
Ecclesiastes, 1020 that's Jesus,

721
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,900
taking Numbers Chapter 6. 
That's Jesus. 

722
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:52,800
Taking numbers. 
Twenty thirty two, twenty three 

723
00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:55,800
and simplifying it in the New 
Covenant. 

724
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,700
If you do it in secret, it's 
going to come out in public. 

725
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,700
I want you to notice that in the
text that we just read a 

726
00:41:09,707 --> 00:41:15,300
Numbers, Chapter 6. 
That what would expose this sin?

727
00:41:16,900 --> 00:41:20,800
Was holy water to some degree. 
And we hear that we go. 

728
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,500
That's kind of terrifying, drink
this water, and if it makes you 

729
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:26,100
feel better, and you have this 
disease and that's it people 

730
00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:28,300
know, but in the new company, 
it's something else. 

731
00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:30,300
It's not holy water. 
It's the Holy Spirit. 

732
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,700
And so, that's even more 
terrifying and the New Covenant 

733
00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:38,300
since why? 
Because the ministers don't have

734
00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:40,300
to come up to you say, hey drink
this so we can find out if you 

735
00:41:40,308 --> 00:41:45,000
did it. 
You know what happens and then 

736
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,100
Isis of fire walk into church. 
Hey, we gave everything. 

737
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:52,800
Peter didn't go up and say, 
drink this, let's find out. 

738
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,000
If you really did it, The Holy 
Spirit was right there and says 

739
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:02,200
you lied. 
And you lied to me. 

740
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,900
So we look at Numbers Chapter 
60, this is severe. 

741
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,300
We're in the New Covenant. 
And the Holy Spirit, does the 

742
00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:15,400
work that this holy water does. 
Second truth, the power of 

743
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,300
confession, the power of 
confession. 

744
00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:20,600
You know, I'm reading this text 
and I think to myself in 

745
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,200
Numbers, Chapter 5, scuse me. 
I kept saying six, it's actually

746
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,900
chapter 5, well, edit that 
later. 

747
00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:29,500
In Numbers. 
Chapter 5, what I find 

748
00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:34,600
terrifying is that when you look
here, again in verse 22 may this

749
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,100
water that brings the curse pass
into your bowels and make your 

750
00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:41,700
womb swell and your thigh fall 
away and the woman shall say, 

751
00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:42,900
amen. 
Amen. 

752
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:47,100
What this text is showing you 
and me that there is a 

753
00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:49,700
possibility that someone who is 
guilty of this sin. 

754
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:53,000
And it's not just this since the
principle of Austin that they 

755
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,100
are willing to go through the 
entire process. 

756
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:03,600
They're willing to go through 
the entire process and only be 

757
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:08,900
found out when they are exposed.
Maybe I'm reading too much into 

758
00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:11,400
this but I wondered to myself. 
What would have been like if 

759
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,300
that person who was truly guilty
on the way to the Tabernacle was

760
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:17,100
like, I did it. 
I'm wrong. 

761
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,500
I did it and let's deal with 
this another way, this person is

762
00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:24,600
so stubborn, the possibility of 
a person being so stubborn that 

763
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,400
they go through the entire 
process. 

764
00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:28,800
And the only way that they'll 
even convey, and here's even the

765
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,000
scary part. 
Even to this day, there are 

766
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,100
people to this day in the New 
Covenant. 

767
00:43:35,900 --> 00:43:38,400
But even after they're exposed, 
they'll still deny it. 

768
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,600
You hear of this stuff. 
It's like, brother. 

769
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,000
There's evidence. 
It's like wah. 

770
00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:50,500
The stubbornness of man is 
unbelievable. 

771
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:56,100
The unbelief of, man is tragic 
And this person. 

772
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,600
The scripture says it's possible
for them to go through the 

773
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,400
entire thing. 
Who knows what they're thinking,

774
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:07,400
this isn't going to work. next 
thing, you know, The Bible 

775
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,000
doesn't give us that comment 
commentary on what they're 

776
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,600
thinking. 
But here's a possibility that 

777
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,800
somebody's willing to go through
that entire ordeal and only be 

778
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,900
found out when they're exposed 
and here's the power of 

779
00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:21,400
confession that you and I Need 
to confess before it gets to 

780
00:44:21,408 --> 00:44:25,200
that place. 
That's a scripture in Proverbs 

781
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:31,700
28:13 whoever conceals his 
transgression shall not Prosper,

782
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:36,500
but he who confesses and 
forsakes them will obtain Mercy.

783
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,100
Never forget that. 
Never forget that that whoever 

784
00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:44,900
tries to hide, it isn't going to
prosper, but a person who 

785
00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:49,400
confesses it will obtain Mercy. 
Listen on a horizontal level 

786
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,700
When sin is done to another. 
And that person that person 

787
00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:56,600
Confesses their sin and ask for 
forgiveness before it becomes 

788
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,500
this whole blowout. 
Even on a horizontal level, it 

789
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:03,000
changes the dynamic of the 
future of that relationship 

790
00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:05,200
because there's a humility 
there. 

791
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:07,600
Listen I did wrong. 
I'm not going to wait till this 

792
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,200
thing is exposed. 
I'm sorry you didn't even know 

793
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,300
it what a difference. 
Does it make listen an any level

794
00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:15,500
of sin if you and I were to come
to a place where whoever we send

795
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:18,500
against or send with or whatever
is the case and you say listen 

796
00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:20,500
you did not know this but I did 
this. 

797
00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:23,400
And I just need to ask for your 
forgiveness. 

798
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,800
Don't you think that that 
conversation? 

799
00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:33,200
Would heal that relationship 
compared to somebody who doesn't

800
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,500
do that and wait till it blows 
up in their face. 

801
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:40,600
And then says, yeah, I did this.
What's the principle here? 

802
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:44,900
May we be a people who know how 
to confess to one another and to

803
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:47,300
God. 
Don't conceal it. 

804
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,900
Don't hide it. 
Have you ever wondered what 

805
00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:53,400
David experience in that period 
of time when he had committed 

806
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,100
adultery with Bathsheba? 
Psalm 51 is written in his 

807
00:45:57,100 --> 00:45:59,800
confession. 
What his heart was like when he 

808
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,900
confessed to the Lord, but have 
you ever wondered? 

809
00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:05,600
What his life was? 
Like in that period before, 

810
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,000
Nathan came and pointed the Bony
finger in his face? 

811
00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:14,400
Some believe that Psalms 32 is 
that song, it's not explicitly 

812
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,800
clear but some believe that 
Psalms 32 was written after 

813
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:22,100
Psalms 51, where David is 
fulfilling his vow from Psalms 

814
00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:26,900
51, where he says, I will teach 
the transgressors your ways. 

815
00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:30,500
If you heal me, if you restore 
me, if you do not take your Holy

816
00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:33,400
Spirit from, he says that in 
verse 13, then I will teach 

817
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,900
transgressors your ways, and in 
Psalms 32, some believe is that 

818
00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:40,900
Psalm where he is teaching? 
And sinners from his own 

819
00:46:40,900 --> 00:46:45,000
experience of what they should 
avoid and look how he describes 

820
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:51,700
his state of unconfessed sin. 
Blessed is the one verse one. 

821
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,600
Whose transgression Is Forgiven,
whose sin is covered. 

822
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,000
Blessed is the man against whom 
the Lord counts, no equipment 

823
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,000
equity and whose Spirit, there 
is no deceit. 

824
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,200
Now, listen to this for when I 
kept silent. 

825
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,500
In other words, when I did not 
confess my sin, my bones wasted 

826
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:12,300
away. 
Through my groaning all day long

827
00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:15,400
for day and night. 
Your hand was Heavy upon me. 

828
00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:19,000
My strength was dried up as by 
The Heat Of Summer. 

829
00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:29,400
When a person lives in 
unconfessed sin, they are 

830
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,300
haunted to some degree. 
They are haunted to some degree 

831
00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:34,900
and part of that haunting is 
this. 

832
00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:38,200
You're living your life 
wondering. 

833
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:43,000
If anybody will ever find out. 
Can I tell you in love again as 

834
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,600
a brother? 
Whether you confess or not, it's

835
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:55,400
coming out. 
And you will be totally shocked.

836
00:47:56,300 --> 00:48:02,400
To know how it gets exposed. 
Confess it to him, quickly. 

837
00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:11,100
He's willing to give you Mercy. 
Lastly. 

838
00:48:12,700 --> 00:48:15,500
There is a holy confidence that 
there's three truths out of this

839
00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:17,900
text number one numbers five, 
there's three choose number one,

840
00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:20,300
God sees it all to. 
There's power and confession, 

841
00:48:20,300 --> 00:48:23,100
there's healing and confession. 
There is restoration and 

842
00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:25,800
confession. 
Number three, there is a holy 

843
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,700
confidence that comes from holy 
living. 

844
00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:33,600
Now look at verse 22 of Numbers.
Chapter 5, not from the 

845
00:48:33,607 --> 00:48:35,900
standpoint of somebody who might
be guilty for from the 

846
00:48:35,900 --> 00:48:40,200
standpoint for somebody. 
Who knows their innocent Me this

847
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:44,600
water that brings the curse past
into your bowels and make your 

848
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,600
womb swell and your thigh fall 
away and the woman shall say, 

849
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:48,600
amen. 
Amen. 

850
00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:53,500
Now here's the one, possibly a 
possible scenario of somebody 

851
00:48:53,500 --> 00:48:54,300
saying. 
Amen. 

852
00:48:54,300 --> 00:48:55,500
Amen. 
And they're going, I hope this 

853
00:48:55,500 --> 00:49:01,800
thing doesn't work. 
Here's another person who knows?

854
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:03,500
They're innocent that's going. 
Amen. 

855
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,200
Amen, let's get this thing over 
with. 

856
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,700
I want to tell you something 
that a clear conscience will 

857
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:15,900
give you a confidence. 
In all Lifestyles and all 

858
00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:18,700
matters and all decisions. 
Even when false accusations 

859
00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:22,900
come, Can I tell you something? 
You should not be. 

860
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,400
If anybody in here is scared. 
It's probably because there's 

861
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:26,700
something I need to get cleaned 
up. 

862
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:31,400
If you're sitting in your chair 
right now and you're scared it, 

863
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,500
probably because you need to get
something out of your life, that

864
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:37,200
would cause you. 
In the eyes of others, to 

865
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,800
question your testimony. 
At the question, where you're at

866
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,900
with the Lord. 
But if you're hearing something 

867
00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:45,200
like this and you're living in 
righteousness, you're hearing 

868
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,300
this news saying yes. 
I do have a holy fear and I 

869
00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:50,400
should always have a holy fear, 
but if I have a clear conscience

870
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,100
before God throw, whatever you 
want at me, God is my judge. 

871
00:49:56,300 --> 00:49:59,100
And there have been situations 
even in life, even with people 

872
00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:01,500
that I've talked to where they 
have had false accusations or 

873
00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:04,700
accusations because of 
suspicious behavior in their 

874
00:50:04,700 --> 00:50:07,700
lives or because of false, just 
not even a suspicion. 

875
00:50:07,700 --> 00:50:09,800
Because, you know what, this 
text tells us to that you and I 

876
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:14,000
should avoid suspicious Behavior
to give people no work to give 

877
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,200
people no evidence to get people
know firm of a grass for us to 

878
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,600
be able to be a potential 
question mark, that's what that 

879
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,400
showing us as well. 
But in some cases, some people 

880
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,100
like this, even a husband, my I 
have the spirit of jealousy come

881
00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:28,700
over and based on nothing, no 
matter what. 

882
00:50:28,700 --> 00:50:30,900
If accusations coming your way? 
You know, I always counsel 

883
00:50:30,900 --> 00:50:33,200
people with brother sister. 
Did you do it? 

884
00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:37,700
No, then what are you afraid of?
Well, they're saying this and 

885
00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:40,300
Earth isn't. 
Did you do it? 

886
00:50:40,300 --> 00:50:43,600
No, did you no? 
Okay then God is your judge. 

887
00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:50,000
And he will vindicate you. 
He'll vindicate you and that's a

888
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,700
confidence that you and I can 
walk in in this life that if we 

889
00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:56,600
know that before the Lord that 
in our private life styles, 

890
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,600
there is nothing for anybody. 
There's nothing for the devil to

891
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,700
use against us. 
There is such a holy boldness 

892
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,200
and a liberty that comes about 
in your life, it is so freeing 

893
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,700
to live clean in private. 
It's so freeing. 

894
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:20,800
And this text shows me not only 
here it shows me enrollments 12.

895
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:23,500
It shows me in so many other 
places that even if accusation 

896
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:27,800
comes to the place where they 
have to cut off my head, Think 

897
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,100
of Stephen, all these false 
accusers, they come to Stephen. 

898
00:51:31,100 --> 00:51:33,500
And they're saying this guy's 
telling us that the temple is 

899
00:51:33,500 --> 00:51:35,200
going to be destroyed and 
they're going to overthrow, he's

900
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,000
teaching at Jesus. 
Going to overthrow the law of 

901
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,300
Moses and it says, at the end of
that chapter, they all looked at

902
00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:40,600
Stephen. 
His face was shining like an 

903
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,300
angel. 
And then they ask them are these

904
00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:44,700
things. 
So, instead of Stephen going, 

905
00:51:44,700 --> 00:51:46,800
listen, this is all fake and 
starting defensive. 

906
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,500
He preaches an entire sermon 
because you got all need to 

907
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:56,300
repent. 
This is a confidence that comes 

908
00:51:56,300 --> 00:52:08,200
with clean living. 
I pray. the no matter where you 

909
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:15,300
go in life, you would walk in 
the light that we would walk in 

910
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:21,000
the light. 
Everything Changes. when you 

911
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,400
live with a conscious awareness 
that God is here, Wherever You 

912
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:30,100
Are. 
Do that, please. 

913
00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:32,900
And if there's something in your
life that you know, that if it 

914
00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:35,900
was exposed to others, that they
would bring shame to the name of

915
00:52:35,900 --> 00:52:39,100
Christ, it would bring harm to 
your community. 

916
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,600
If I were you the quickest thing
I would do tonight is run get 

917
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:53,400
before the Lord confess it. 
Lord, clean me up. because a 

918
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,100
person that has unconfessed sin 
in their life, is a ticking time

919
00:52:57,100 --> 00:53:01,900
bomb Because part of the 
deception of unconfessed sin is 

920
00:53:01,900 --> 00:53:04,500
that even if this thing does go 
out and people, somebody finds 

921
00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,100
out, it won't do that much 
damage, you have no idea. 

922
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,600
Might be wondering why the 
intensity because you have no 

923
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:20,200
clue how real this is. 
And God in his Mercy gives us 

924
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,200
versus like this to say. 
I see it. 

925
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,900
Don't try to hide it. 
Don't try to run from it. 

926
00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:28,900
Come to me. 
Come to me. 

927
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,600
And this is the beauty about 
Christian Living in community. 

928
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,000
And in Ministry, I'm a firm 
believer. 

929
00:53:38,100 --> 00:53:40,300
The Minister's don't need to 
play private investigator and 

930
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:44,400
everybody's life. 
It's as simple as this Lord, you

931
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,800
know? 
Lord, you know. 

932
00:53:49,300 --> 00:53:54,000
You're there a God. 
You're there, sanctifier. 

933
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,800
Protect this community. 
Protect this church. 

934
00:54:01,300 --> 00:54:04,600
Your judgment is perfect. 
Do what you need to do. 

935
00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:11,600
He's the best private 
investigator. 

936
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:19,500
We closing numbers chapter 6. 
And the Lord spoke to Moses 

937
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:21,700
saying speak to the people of 
Israel and say to them. 

938
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,300
When neither a man, either a man
or a woman makes us special vow 

939
00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:28,000
a vow of a nazirite to separate 
himself to the Lord. 

940
00:54:28,100 --> 00:54:30,700
He shall separate himself from 
wine and strong drink. 

941
00:54:30,700 --> 00:54:33,900
He shall drink no vinegar made 
from wine or strong drink and 

942
00:54:33,900 --> 00:54:37,000
shall not drink any juicer 
grapes or eat grapes fresh or 

943
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,800
dried all the days of his 
separation, he shall eat 

944
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,000
nothing. 
That is produced by the 

945
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,700
Grapevine, not even the seeds or
the Skins. 

946
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,200
All the days of his vow of 
Separation. 

947
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,100
No razor shall touch his head 
until the time. 

948
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,000
Is completed for which he 
separates himself to the Lord 

949
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,900
and he shall be holy, he shall 
let the locks of his hair of his

950
00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:55,800
head. 
Grow long, all the days that he 

951
00:54:55,808 --> 00:54:58,100
separates himself to the Lord. 
He shall not go near a dead 

952
00:54:58,100 --> 00:55:01,900
body, not even for his father, 
or his mother for brother or 

953
00:55:01,900 --> 00:55:05,700
sister, if they die. 
Shall he make himself unclean? 

954
00:55:05,700 --> 00:55:08,800
Because his separation to God, 
is on his head, all the days of 

955
00:55:08,808 --> 00:55:10,500
his separation, he is Holy to 
the Lord. 

956
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,300
Now, we've come to a place where
the Lord wants to give a 

957
00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:15,600
wonderful invitation. 
There is a vowel, there are many

958
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,400
vows that people can make in the
Bible. 

959
00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:21,100
This Oh, is a unique value. 
This vow was called the Nazarite

960
00:55:21,100 --> 00:55:22,400
vow. 
What is the purpose of this 

961
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,400
vowel? 
If any Israelite desire to get 

962
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,800
closer with God, he would take 
this valve. 

963
00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:33,000
And what this vow would do 
essentially is it would cause a 

964
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:39,100
person who intensely desired a 
more intimate passionate 

965
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:44,600
personal knowing of God. 
They would commit themselves to 

966
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,900
such a thing. 
It did not mean that those who 

967
00:55:46,900 --> 00:55:49,800
were not in a Nazarite vow, 
we're not whole hearted towards 

968
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:51,700
the Lord. 
What it does mean though is that

969
00:55:51,700 --> 00:55:56,200
if a person wanted a greater 
intensity a time of consecration

970
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,300
to seek God, this is what they 
would do. 

971
00:55:58,300 --> 00:55:59,600
And this is the instruction for 
that. 

972
00:56:00,700 --> 00:56:04,300
And what's amazing here is that 
there are three guidelines. 

973
00:56:04,900 --> 00:56:08,400
The first guideline is no wine 
or any fruit of the vine should 

974
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,300
be eaten. 
The second guideline was as long

975
00:56:11,300 --> 00:56:13,800
as your vow is, no matter how 
long you want it to be for, 

976
00:56:14,100 --> 00:56:17,600
you're letting your hair grow 
and it's just showing it's an 

977
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,900
outward external expression that
your consecrated unto the Lord 

978
00:56:20,900 --> 00:56:26,100
and people can see that. 
And lastly, no contact with dead

979
00:56:26,100 --> 00:56:28,200
bodies, even if it's a family 
member. 

980
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,500
And so specific is this to the 
Lord that these. 

981
00:56:31,500 --> 00:56:33,800
We won't read the next few 
verses he gives instruction if 

982
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,400
somebody just happens to die 
right before you, and that 

983
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,100
moment, and the process to go 
about that. 

984
00:56:41,100 --> 00:56:42,300
And I look at this and I go 
well. 

985
00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:46,500
Has arrived. 
I mean that's old Covenant and 

986
00:56:46,900 --> 00:56:48,900
is that apply to you and me as a
Believer? 

987
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,100
But again the ultimate question,
what does it reveal about God's 

988
00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:55,400
heart? 
Look at verse 1 and 2 again. 

989
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,400
The Lord spoke to Moses saying 
speak to the people of Israel 

990
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,000
and say to them. 
When either a man or a woman 

991
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:05,600
makes a special vow the valve 
and nausea you know what 

992
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,200
Nazarite means an original 
language consecrated or 

993
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:13,500
dedicated one. number one, truth
from this as we close concerning

994
00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:15,500
the Nazarite vow and what it 
reveals about God's heart, 

995
00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:18,500
whatever real is about you and 
me is that the Nazarite vow was 

996
00:57:18,500 --> 00:57:24,100
given As a possibility for 
anyone who is willing to do it. 

997
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,000
It was not just for the priest, 
it was not just for the Levites,

998
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,400
it was not just for a specific 
tribe. 

999
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,600
He goes whether a man or a woman
who ever wants to take this upon

1000
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,200
themselves. 
I'm making it available to you. 

1001
00:57:37,300 --> 00:57:41,700
And this is a cry from God's 
heart that he Longs for a people

1002
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,000
to say, I'm going to pursue God 
in this season of life in a way 

1003
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,500
that I haven't before, that's 
his heart. 

1004
00:57:49,900 --> 00:57:51,800
That's what I see there in the 
Old Testament, the Lord saying, 

1005
00:57:52,100 --> 00:57:55,600
would you would you in the 
busyness of your life, find it, 

1006
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,900
whether it's a day or two, just 
you take that vow, you take that

1007
00:57:59,900 --> 00:58:02,500
season. 
However, long you need and you 

1008
00:58:02,500 --> 00:58:07,000
just give all the focus to me 
and you just drive yourself to 

1009
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,100
know me and he goes, anyone 
whoever's willing to take it 

1010
00:58:11,100 --> 00:58:15,000
here, this vowel is for anybody,
that wants it because I want all

1011
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:21,600
of you, not just some of you And
the second principle is this is 

1012
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,000
that there are three guidelines 
and they're very specific and we

1013
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,500
can talk for the next 10-15 
minutes of why these specific 

1014
00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:28,300
guidelines and we won't. 
But the principle is still 

1015
00:58:28,300 --> 00:58:31,600
there, the overarching principle
is there is that if I do take 

1016
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:35,400
advantage out of consecration to
seek the Lord in my life, 

1017
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,300
whether it's a day, whether it's
a week, whether it's a month, 

1018
00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:39,800
what I bought. 
Don't put a timeline on. 

1019
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,000
I say, Lord, I'm going to do 
this until I see you and know 

1020
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:43,200
you in a way that I've never 
known before. 

1021
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,700
There's always a price. 
There's always a cost. 

1022
00:58:49,300 --> 00:58:51,300
For the Nazarite. 
And that day, it was these 

1023
00:58:51,300 --> 00:58:53,100
things for you. 
And me might be different, but 

1024
00:58:53,100 --> 00:58:57,300
there's always a price. 
If you and I desire to come 

1025
00:58:57,300 --> 00:59:02,000
closer to him. 
There has to be some separation 

1026
00:59:02,100 --> 00:59:06,300
that occurs. 
Might be a separation from 

1027
00:59:06,300 --> 00:59:09,700
activity. 
And might be separations from 

1028
00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:13,500
Association. 
Might be separation from even 

1029
00:59:13,900 --> 00:59:16,800
good things, like maybe a meal a
day. 

1030
00:59:18,300 --> 00:59:20,300
But I'm telling you, the Lord 
will customize that in your 

1031
00:59:20,300 --> 00:59:22,300
life. 
That if you've said it within 

1032
00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:26,000
yourself to say, God, In the New
Covenant sense. 

1033
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:30,500
I want to take a Nazarite vow 
and I want to pursue you 

1034
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:35,400
desperately, No this that God 
gives that invitation to 

1035
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,900
everyone here, like he did back 
then. and for them, there was a 

1036
00:59:38,908 --> 00:59:44,400
price and for you and me, 
there's a price And the rules. 

1037
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:50,000
Haven't changed though. 
The prescription has We're 

1038
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,800
closing this chapter in verse 22
of Numbers. 

1039
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:58,500
Chapter 6. 
And the Lord spoke to Moses 

1040
00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:01,200
saying, Speak to Aaron and his 
sons saying, thus, you shall 

1041
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,300
Bless the people of Israel, you 
shall say to them. 

1042
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,700
The Lord bless you. 
And keep you. 

1043
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,200
The Lord make his face to shine 
upon you. 

1044
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:16,100
And be gracious to you. 
The Lord lift up his countenance

1045
01:00:16,100 --> 01:00:20,200
upon you and give you peace. 
So shall they put my name upon 

1046
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:21,700
the people of Israel? 
And I will bless them. 

1047
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,600
Notice the nature of this 
blessing, they Raonic blessing, 

1048
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,000
it's call notice the nature of 
it, read a very slowly and 

1049
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:35,200
notice what blessing means 
really in life. 24. 

1050
01:00:36,300 --> 01:00:40,500
The Lord bless you and keep you.
That's a blessing for got to. 

1051
01:00:40,500 --> 01:00:45,500
Keep you and me to keep you 
close to keep you protected to 

1052
01:00:45,500 --> 01:00:47,400
keep you from Harm's Way, not 
just physically, but 

1053
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:52,300
spiritually, the Lord keep you. 
The Lord make his face to shine 

1054
01:00:52,300 --> 01:00:54,400
upon you. 
Not just his face, be towards 

1055
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,600
you, but for it to shine, Upon 
you. 

1056
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:04,800
Glistening favor a smile on his 
countenance upon you. 

1057
01:01:06,700 --> 01:01:12,300
And be gracious to you. 
Bible says that the Lord opposes

1058
01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:14,900
the proud and he gives grace to 
the humble. 

1059
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,500
Listen, it's one thing for Satan
to fight against you and me, 

1060
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,000
it's a whole nother thing when 
God fights against you and me. 

1061
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:25,900
And that word oppose is 
literally to fight against. 

1062
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:33,000
He fights against the proud. 
The Lord lift up his countenance

1063
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:37,600
upon you and give you peace. 
I don't know about you but I can

1064
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,900
use some peace in my life every 
day. 

1065
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,600
All the chaos in the world. 
I can't even take 10 seconds on 

1066
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,400
the news without feeling 
nauseated. 

1067
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,900
Because there's so much chaos, 
would you stand with me? 

1068
01:01:48,908 --> 01:01:50,700
And let's pronounce this ironic 
blessing. 

1069
01:01:56,500 --> 01:01:58,000
He has the worship, team comes 
up. 

1070
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,300
well, read this in closing after
the music, but 

1071
01:02:33,900 --> 01:02:35,500
Seen your own heart. 
Don't look to the left. 

1072
01:02:35,500 --> 01:02:40,400
Don't look to the right. you 
know, if the Holy Spirit spoke 

1073
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:56,900
to you through his word, 
But to say Lord give me clear 

1074
01:02:56,900 --> 01:03:02,200
conscience. 
Let me walk in the revelation. 

1075
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:09,200
that even if I walk in the dark 
where nobody sees you're right 

1076
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:19,100
there. 
The Lord. 

1077
01:03:19,100 --> 01:03:23,200
Let not my life be. 
Anywhere near. 

1078
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:29,400
That place where I would 
discover how real you are. 

1079
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:35,400
Because of unconfessed sin. 
But Lord, I pray. 

1080
01:03:37,100 --> 01:03:39,600
That any interaction that you 
have in my life, any 

1081
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:43,700
intervention that you would have
in my days would be the result 

1082
01:03:43,700 --> 01:03:45,600
of a life that is lived out For 
Your Glory. 

1083
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,600
How many disasters could be 
avoided? 

1084
01:03:56,700 --> 01:04:05,600
if people lived in light of that
text, It's true. 

1085
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:08,100
Love for somebody to say these 
things behind a microphone. 

1086
01:04:10,500 --> 01:04:11,300
It's true. 
Love. 

1087
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:15,700
If anybody were to see you 
walking off a cliff with you 

1088
01:04:15,700 --> 01:04:18,200
having blindfolds on, they would
not love you. 

1089
01:04:18,900 --> 01:04:22,400
They did not yell even to say 
watch where you're going, take 

1090
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:30,000
off the blindfolds. 
Just stay in that place of 

1091
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,000
prayer. 
This is between us and God. 

1092
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:39,200
Let her ring in the corridors of
your conscience tonight. 

1093
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:47,300
Whoever conceals his 
transgression will not prosper. 

1094
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,900
But he who confesses it and 
forsakes them shall obtain 

1095
01:04:52,900 --> 01:04:56,200
Mercy. 
An amazing. 

1096
01:04:58,100 --> 01:05:02,300
That is strong as the warning is
just as strong. 

1097
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:07,200
Is the reward. 
At the moment, I confess the 

1098
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,100
Lord. 
He's willing to shower. 

1099
01:05:10,100 --> 01:05:14,000
Mercy, upon me, do you know why 
God exposes things? 

1100
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:21,400
There are many reasons why. 
But sometimes in oftentimes, 

1101
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:30,200
it's in his Mercy, too. 
Even at the expense of someone's

1102
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:33,100
Ministry. 
Why? 

1103
01:05:33,100 --> 01:05:35,700
Because God cares about his 
relationship with you more than 

1104
01:05:35,700 --> 01:05:45,000
your service for him. 
As the music's playing. 

1105
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,700
Just bring your heart before the
Lord saying Lord. 

1106
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:54,300
I want that confidence that 
comes with a clear conscience. 

1107
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,600
I want to live in such a way 
that if anybody were to pull out

1108
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:09,800
my private records, there'd be 
no, hesitation Are you afraid to

1109
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:11,500
give people the password to your
computer? 

1110
01:06:14,700 --> 01:06:18,200
Are you afraid to give people? 
Your web browser history. 

1111
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:28,100
Can you say, hey, go for it. 
I'm telling you this because 

1112
01:06:28,100 --> 01:06:32,900
there is such a freedom that 
comes, I'm struggling, man, if 

1113
01:06:32,900 --> 01:06:35,200
you're struggling, you struggle 
in the light, don't struggle in 

1114
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:38,300
the dark. 
You know what that means. 

1115
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:43,000
You keep coming before the Lord.
You find an accountability 

1116
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:47,700
partner, you confess it, but 
there is no room for somebody to

1117
01:06:47,700 --> 01:06:51,500
portray a spirituality or to 
remain in some kind of a state 

1118
01:06:51,500 --> 01:06:54,400
of everything's fine. 
When a not really is and even 

1119
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:58,000
trying to do some kind of thing 
for the Lord, when your 

1120
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,900
character is not lining up with 
it, just live in the light. 

1121
01:07:00,900 --> 01:07:02,200
That's all the lord requires of 
us. 

1122
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Walk In The Light, walk in the 
light walking in the light does 

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not mean being perfect all the 
time. 

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It means being honest, all the 
time. 

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Big difference. 
The lord requires honesty from 

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you and me. 
And when we do walk in that 

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place, he walks with us 
graciously. 

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God is Not Looking. 
If you heard this in this Bible 

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study, you've heard the wrong 
God. 

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God is not waiting for you to 
sin and the moment you mess up 

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01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:34,900
and secret, nobody hurts my ego.
So I can't wait to pull the 

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sheets on you to show you that. 
I'm God wrong, God, wrong God. 

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01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:44,100
I believe that, I believe this 
with all my heart, because in 

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light of scripture that God in 
his wisdom knows when to expose 

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01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,300
it at the right time for your 
benefit and mine and I'm not 

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01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:53,200
going to play God to tell you. 
How that timeline works. 

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It can happen tonight, it can 
happen. 

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I don't know when, but I believe
it's one of his final Solutions.

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01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:05,800
The way God pursues, a person is
unbelievable for them to confess

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and the smallest setting 
possible before it becomes 

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01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:12,100
something that is public. 
It's amazing. 

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01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:16,300
I've read and heard, and sermons
way too many times in this, in 

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the Pastoral Ministry, that 
pastors who were living in 

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01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:25,300
secret sin, God had pursued them
way before became public. 

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Waking up other pastors in the 
middle of the night to pray for 

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01:08:30,399 --> 01:08:34,300
them, even giving people 
prophetic insight to say, 

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01:08:34,300 --> 01:08:35,600
listen, bro, I don't know what's
going on, but you need 

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01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:39,100
confessing get right with God. 
It's amazing what the Lord will 

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01:08:39,100 --> 01:08:42,200
do before he gets to that point.
It's unbelievable. 

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01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:47,600
And even in that act, So that he
can protect you from greater 

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01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:49,800
disaster. 
Imagine living in a state in 

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01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,899
which you don't confess your sin
and because you don't confess 

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01:08:51,899 --> 01:08:54,000
your sin and you don't see it 
being exposed, you continue in 

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01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:58,300
sin. 
When God, exposes, its always to

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01:08:58,300 --> 01:09:04,000
put a roadblock in your 
lifestyle, I can Ramble On and I

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01:09:04,008 --> 01:09:09,800
won't just look to the one. 
Who hates our sin but loves us 

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01:09:10,700 --> 01:09:15,500
and worship and confess to him 
and you can walk out of here 

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01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:19,600
feeling like a weight lifted off
your shoulders Lord help me walk

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01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:22,200
in the light. 
Help me walk in the light. 

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01:09:22,700 --> 01:09:25,000
Give me the holy confidence. 
That comes from clean. 

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01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,300
Living in private. 
I need it. 

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01:09:27,700 --> 01:09:11,399
God is willing to give Who hates
our sin but loves us and worship

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01:09:12,300 --> 01:09:16,700
and confess to him and you can 
walk out of here feeling like a 

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01:09:16,700 --> 01:09:20,300
weight lifted off your shoulders
Lord help me walk in the light. 

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01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,899
Help me walk in the light. 
Give me the holy confidence. 

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01:09:23,899 --> 01:09:26,000
That comes from clean. 
Living in private. 

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01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:28,500
I need it. 
God is willing to give