1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:09,880 Hey, man, surely the Lord is good in this place and whatever 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,000 you get tonight, you still got to come back midweek. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,000 You can't get enough to say I can take a week off. 4 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,680 Thank God for the presence of the Lord that's in this place 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:26,400 tonight. And I've, I don't know if you 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:33,040 call it learned or recognized or there there's a statement and 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,160 you've heard it. God can do more in one second 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,520 than we can do in a lifetime. All of my charm, my wife says I 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,120 have a little my charm, my witticisms, my anecdotes, my 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:51,120 stories, my wisdom, whatever that is, all of that combined is 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,760 a dull knife compared to the Spirit of God and the Word of 12 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,880 God. But tonight I could draw your 13 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,480 attention to Exodus chapter 30. Now I again want to honor Pastor 14 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:10,040 Sister McGee and their beautiful children. 15 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,520 You're a wonderful singer, by the way. 16 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:21,240 And Brother Trevor, just an excellent young man and this 17 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,120 praise team, I guess it's wrong for me to try to take him to 18 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,280 date. So I guess I won't. 19 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,160 But just wonderful, just the presence of God in this place. 20 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,520 And Bishop, Sister McGee, just beautiful people. 21 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,520 And he's got a better memory than me. 22 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,600 He said we, we, we've already met Tennessee. 23 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:46,040 So I used to think I never forgot a face, but now I forget 24 00:01:46,040 --> 00:02:00,360 names and faces. But in Exodus chapter 30, well 25 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,080 there is a verse here 34 Thank you sister. 26 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,680 It's like when I look down, it turns into Egyptian 27 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:14,200 hieroglyphics. I guess it's time for a large 28 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,520 print. And the Lord said unto Moses, 29 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,440 taken to the sweet spices, stacked tea and onicha and 30 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:27,320 Galvan of these sweet spices with pure frankincense of each, 31 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,320 shall there be a lightweight or a same weight? 32 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,080 And thou shalt make it a perfume of confection after the art of 33 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,840 the apothecary tempered together, pure and holy. 34 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,160 Just a little bit. I'll try not to be long. 35 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,720 Want to speak on the fragrance of imperfection? 36 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,840 Tell your neighbor, God's better to me than I deserve. 37 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,560 Amen. Thank you. 38 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:00,920 It's just an honor to be with you. 39 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:11,260 You may be seated tonight in this same chapter, just a few 40 00:03:11,260 --> 00:03:17,580 verses up. God gave them the recipe. 41 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:26,400 Verse 23 and 24, the recipe for anointing oil and for anointing 42 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,320 oil, there was a certain amount God told them to make. 43 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,760 And so I went to Amazon.com and thought how much would it cost 44 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:39,680 me to make that? And I picked the finest 45 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:50,400 ingredients, most expensive. And if you have $70,000, you can 46 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:55,560 make you some. Now that was the price about two 47 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,240 years ago, probably more with inflation going on evident that 48 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,000 that tells me the anointing is expensive and it's pricey. 49 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,480 And not to mention to cultivate it, it's, it's what you would 50 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:13,000 call a violent, possibly dirty process, digging in the mud 51 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,200 behind the bark of trees. It's not for the faint of heart 52 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:24,600 gathering these ingredients and then the Lord gives the 53 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:32,800 ingredients for the incense, for the altar of incense and incense 54 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:39,920 perfume, kind of synonymous. And your favorite perfume or 55 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:46,400 your favorite Cologne is comprised of top notes, heart 56 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,040 notes and bass notes. My wife. 57 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,920 You like the smell? Yeah. 58 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,200 Yeah. That you smell good. 59 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,240 That's nice. That's it. 60 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,120 I can no longer smell it any longer. 61 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,720 And I love Cologne. And I'm figuring if you can 62 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,960 smell me coming in, I've figured out quit wasting the Cologne 63 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,080 because I use it. And four years later, I still 64 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,920 got some. And I'm thinking I don't use it 65 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,240 enough. So I give a couple of extra 66 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:19,600 squirts. But when I spray it, God has 67 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,080 made us. We're fearfully and wonderfully 68 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,720 made. Oh Lord, we are so fearfully and 69 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,960 wonderfully made. There's 100,000 hairs average on 70 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,680 people's heads. With 7.8 billion people, you 71 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,280 have trillions of hairs. If you were to count them, it 72 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:42,440 would take you 22 million years. By that time you'd have to start 73 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,840 all over because we all lose a few here and there. 74 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,720 But I think that's just God showing off that he says, look, 75 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,120 the very hairs of your head or number. 76 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:57,440 If you don't think he cares about your problems, you see, 77 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:02,520 that's not a problem. That's just God saying, look, I 78 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:09,720 know who you are, I've got you. So he made it to where you don't 79 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,960 want to be captivated with the smell that you can't smell 80 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,880 danger. You don't want to be captivated 81 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,200 with the smell of your wife's perfume that when you're out to 82 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,000 eat and you start to eat something, you don't smell that 83 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,440 it's bad because that's why God put that nose right there next 84 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,720 to our mouth to keep you from ingesting something that has 85 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,880 spoiled. So the olfactory nerves, they 86 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,840 are in gear, but they clear themselves after just a few 87 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:45,240 moments. So ultimately your, your perfume 88 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,560 or your Cologne is really not for you. 89 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:54,800 It's it's for others. And the base note, it's what 90 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,800 causes you to purchase it again. It makes it last. 91 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,840 Now you, you may think, well, I can look at the ingredients on 92 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,480 this perfume or Cologne and I can just make some myself. 93 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,480 But it in actuality, there's between 10 to 50 secret 94 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,800 ingredients that the Trade Commission and the fair. 95 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,320 Packaging Act says. You don't have to list that or 96 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,840 everybody would have that. These ingredients do not have to 97 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,280 be disclosed, considered trade secrets. 98 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,200 It's interesting. Now, galbanum, one of the four 99 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:35,040 ingredients of the incense, is often used as a top note and a 100 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,800 base note serves as a fixative. And they're actually use it 101 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:46,000 today in modern perfumes. Some 2000 years later, the 102 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,240 ancient Egyptians used it. We're still using it today. 103 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,440 And the top layers, when you spray that Cologne on, it 104 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,200 quickly evaporates. But the fixative which is the 105 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,320 galbanum. And here's. 106 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,040 That in the molecular structure it allows it. 107 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,320 To stay. Attached to you so your friends 108 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:12,160 later can say man you smell good, but long since you can't 109 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,200 smell it anymore. The high cost of your favorite 110 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,040 fragrance wouldn't be justified if the fragrance didn't last. 111 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,120 Enter the fixative. They preserve the entire 112 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,320 fragrance by slowing down the rate of evaporation. 113 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,480 God's the one that told him to include it. 114 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,440 Look, if God says something's got to go, it's not for your 115 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,120 hurt. God's not going to hurt you. 116 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,400 Amen. The downside of your favorite 117 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,080 Cologne or perfume? You really don't get to enjoy 118 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,240 it. You get to enjoy the initial 119 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,240 sprayer application, but a minute or less, you can't smell 120 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,120 it any longer. Nose fatigue sets in. 121 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:08,640 So now stack T onicha, galbanum, frank, frankincense. 122 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:15,360 They're used in equal amounts. God says as far as the anointing 123 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:22,240 oil, he said very clearly 250 shekels worth, 500 shekels 124 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,720 worth. There was only a certain amount 125 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,800 of anointing oil that they were allowed to make, but when it 126 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,920 came to the altar of incense, God said you can make as much as 127 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,080 you want, but you got to do it in equal amounts. 128 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:44,120 You can make you can make a gallon of it, or you can make 129 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:50,120 1000 gallons of it and see two times in the morning. 130 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,920 The priests would pray not two times in the morning, but they 131 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:00,720 were told to pray morning and evening or to offer incense and 132 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,320 it was offered twice daily. They would burn 2.5 lbs in the 133 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:11,480 morning, 2.5 lbs in the evening, and Jewish history reveals that 134 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,040 they would make it 18140 lbs at a time. 135 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,560 And if you divide that by how much they use morning and 136 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:22,720 evening, they had 368 days worth. 137 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:29,280 Now I'm I'm of the. Understanding and the belief 138 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,160 that when those priests came together and said how much are 139 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:39,400 we going to make, it seems wisdom that they didn't make 140 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:45,440 just a week's worth, but they made over a year's worth. 141 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,000 That tells me that when you decide to start out for. 142 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,160 God just don't come to church for. 143 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,280 One week and decide it's not for you. 144 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,840 I mean, just go ahead and go ahead and look ahead and say 145 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,000 2025. And I tell you, I, I tell people 146 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,160 this a lot. I said, look, keep coming to 147 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:11,400 church whether you're mad. Bad, sad or glad, Just come on. 148 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,800 Now the missus is not here and I miss my wife and she she might 149 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,640 be she might be watching. She's not feeling well tonight, 150 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,360 but we have pulled up in the can I be transparent? 151 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,880 Can we cut the live feed for a second? 152 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,320 I'm just kidding. We'll pull up in the parking lot 153 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,120 and she said I you can just drop me off or I'm just going to drop 154 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,360 you off. I'm going home. 155 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,760 I'm sorry, honey, you're just saying that because you got a 156 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,760 priest tonight. She'll say same thing. 157 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,320 I'm I'm just I'm just going to drop you off. 158 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:49,680 I'm going back home. But we forgive each other. 159 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,720 You have to keep coming back. If you stay away from the House 160 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,560 of God when you're mad, you're going to miss some services bad 161 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:00,880 you're going to miss some services sad you're going to 162 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,720 miss some services even glad you're going to miss some 163 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,840 services. You shouldn't have a a fish in 164 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,000 the pond down the street when the singing is going on in here 165 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,000 because a big. One got away the other. 166 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,920 Day now you can go on vacation. That's OK. 167 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,440 I'm sure your pastor allows that. 168 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,400 But come to church whether you're mad, bad, sad or glad. 169 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,960 I love the wisdom of these priests that said we're going to 170 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:32,200 make a year's worth. And I don't believe they it's I 171 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:38,120 think it's impossible that they knew the healing properties of 172 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,400 these four ingredients. They simply gathered them 173 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,200 because God said this is what I want you together. 174 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:54,840 Now stack T these you're going to want to leave here and go get 175 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,800 these ingredients. But the problem is you're going 176 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,960 to have to go to Iran and they're probably not going to 177 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:06,680 let you in. Antimicrobial, arthritis, 178 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,720 ulcers, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, stimulates 179 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,760 the immune system, alleviates pain, promotes wound healing. 180 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,040 Onicha heals skin wounds, respiratory problems, blood 181 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:23,400 sugar levels, sinusitis, colds, coughs, bronchitis, sore 182 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,960 throats. Frankincense relieves asthma, 183 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,000 stress, pain. It's antifungal, reduces 184 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,240 anxiety, aids respiratory system disinfectant, stimulates blood 185 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,840 flow, wounds, aids in healing cancer. 186 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:39,840 Yeah. Bantam, decongestant, anti 187 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,760 parasitic pain reliever, new cell and tissue development, 188 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,120 bronchitis, flu, blood circulation. 189 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,600 Relieves mental trauma, arthritis pain, muscle spasm, 190 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,000 skin disorders, digestive issues, epileptic seizures, 191 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,000 wounds, rheumatism, gout, bladder ailments, water 192 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,600 retention, high blood pressure, chronic pulmonary complaints and 193 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:04,320 weakness of the back. Somebody say that sounds good to 194 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:10,160 me. God knew, but they didn't. 195 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,800 And when he tells us that something's good for us, you can 196 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,360 just believe it. You see, incense was offered 197 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:24,120 every morning and every evening and. 198 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,720 The Bible. Tells us in multiple places that 199 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,080 incense represents the prayers of the Saints. 200 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:39,320 To pray morning and evening seem to be a good start. 201 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,200 But then along comes Daniel. And he said that's not enough 202 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,400 for what's going on in my life. Daniel said I'm going to have to 203 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:51,800 pray three times a day. And then Fast forward to the 204 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:52,440 writing. Of. 205 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,160 Apostle Paul, he said twice. A day is not enough. 206 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,840 Three times not enough. Let's just go. 207 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,600 Ahead and say. Just go ahead and. 208 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,080 Pray without ceasing. Just go ahead and let prayer be 209 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,840 on your lips all day long, on your heart, in your mind, 210 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,600 because once a day is not enough. 211 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,560 Twice a day is not enough, three times a day is not enough. 212 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,560 But he didn't want to set no limit on it. 213 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:18,480 He said. Let's just say this, just go 214 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:25,120 ahead and pray all the time. When you combine that with David 215 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,800 who said I will bless the Lord at all times. 216 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,960 And David said, oh, that I might dwell in the house. 217 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,960 Of the Lord forever. I think you have somebody that's 218 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:38,000 going to be successful for God who's constantly praising, 219 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,880 constantly praying with a constant desire to be in the. 220 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:52,840 House of the Lord Incense, it was something that God required 221 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:59,080 and they you got to understand they're they're sacrificing 222 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:06,960 animals and this incense there's a good chance that the smells 223 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:12,400 that emanated from those sacrifices was covered by the 224 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:19,160 this ingredients of incense and these are not easy to get 225 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,960 either. Frankincense is. 226 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,680 It's almost. As if God says I want this to be 227 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,440 used for humans because if if this was if this was a 228 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,360 frankincense tree and this was a Cliff. 229 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:39,520 Some of the frankincense. Grows over the edge to where 230 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:44,280 animals can't get to it. God makes it difficult enough 231 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,800 for us to get, but it's almost as if to say, I made this for 232 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:55,240 you. And in Bible times, frankincense 233 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:03,880 was valued even more than gold. This concoction, this recipe, 234 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,079 this art of the apothecary had great value in it. 235 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:18,960 And it was for us. It was to be applied, it was 236 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,200 inhaled, it went through the nose. 237 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:29,840 You see just a few verses up. The anointing oil was applied 238 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:34,280 first on the right ear, then it was applied to the right thumb, 239 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,880 and then it was applied to the right. 240 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,120 Great, your great big toe on your right foot, but that 241 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:45,120 process of going through the pores of they they put blood 242 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:48,200 there and they put. Oil there, but that process? 243 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,640 Of going through the pores takes a little time to affect, whereas 244 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,240 when you inhale something through your nose, it's the 245 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,120 quickest route to your. Heart even quicker than 246 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:05,960 intravenous. And God says prayer, If you want 247 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,280 to get a hold of me, you can pray. 248 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:13,840 He says come boldly to the throne of grace to find help. 249 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,960 In the time of need. And you? 250 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:22,200 See even today the anointing. Might not be for everybody in in 251 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,480 the regard of. Of ministering behind a pulpit. 252 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,040 But the altar? Of incense and those 253 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,040 ingredients. They work here in this church. 254 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,000 They work in the car on the way to church. 255 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:40,160 They work in your home at 2:00 AM, seven AM, 4:00 PM. 256 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:44,080 No matter where you are, prayer works. 257 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:51,320 And it works quickly. It was so quickly that Daniel 258 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:55,440 prayed. And Jeremiah, the prophets speak 259 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:01,560 of the angels, and the angels travel at a speed of 600 and. 70 260 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,920 million miles an hour, That's pretty fast. 261 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,600 So Daniel prayed, and here's somebody. 262 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,720 Blocking the answer and the angels who? 263 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,480 Can fly 670 million. Miles an hour, in other words, 264 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,200 before you even. Ask God already knows. 265 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:25,800 But you got to. Ask Prayer is the most powerful 266 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,040 force on earth. It's it's our audience with. 267 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:33,480 God and he says you can come boldly to the throne of grace to 268 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:39,160 find help in time of need. But it's interesting that 269 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,280 galbanum was not something that smelled very good. 270 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,520 The priest didn't understand why God would. 271 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,400 Ask them to include. Something that smells so bad. 272 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:01,440 However, it was a one to four ratio. 273 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:05,360 The galbanum only represented well once, once they had the. 274 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,000 Other ingredients. Jewish history says that GAL 275 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:14,400 each of the four ingredients represented 19% each, or 76% 276 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,000 with the other. Ingredients that were not. 277 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:22,200 Disclosed representing the other 24%, but the truth is I. 278 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:27,960 I can tell you now that where. Sinned at the bound, graced us 279 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,200 much more abound. Somebody needs to understand 280 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,840 that we're not. Here because we're good. 281 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:40,480 We're here because he's God. We're not here because. 282 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,320 We're good. We're here because. 283 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,280 He's God and the blood of Jesus Christ. 284 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,480 Is a propitiation for our. Sins. 285 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,400 And a propitiation is when the husband. 286 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,160 Gets home. And before the wife lets him 287 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:00,440 see, the Amazon bill of $400.00 said, here's your favorite 288 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:05,400 slippers. And we don't get newspapers 289 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,040 anymore. They just hand you this and say 290 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:13,400 here, turn to foxnews.com and I got your favorite steak cooking 291 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,120 and your favorite dessert. I got your bath running. 292 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,000 And you're like, let me see the bill. 293 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,280 But that's what Jesus Christ did for us, because you can't be in 294 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,680 God's presence that way. But the. 295 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,080 Blood of Jesus that cleanses us from all. 296 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,000 Sin. Allows us to enter into. 297 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,840 His presence. It wouldn't have been very. 298 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:43,480 Good if the temple had a bad smell. 299 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:50,200 Everybody would want to avoid. Church if it smelled bad here at 300 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:56,480 first Apostolic Church, you see, it was Peter that dwelled with. 301 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,640 Simon the Tanner. And that process was one of the 302 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,600 dirtiest jobs that that you could have during that day. 303 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,600 As a matter of fact, the laws of the local town said if you're 304 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,320 going to be a Tanner, you got to do it downwind from the city. 305 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,520 They they were. Forbidden to to put a tannery 306 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,520 upwind to the city because if the wind blew it would bring 307 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,520 that smell to the. Town. 308 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,240 And that's where Peter. I, I, I got a lot of questions 309 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,800 for those, but I, I want to know why he was dwelling with Simon. 310 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:35,080 The Tanner, but him dwelling. With Simon the Tanner didn't. 311 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,600 Keep. Him from hearing from God twice. 312 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,920 They called him once when somebody had died. 313 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,800 They said go get Peter. He's with Simon the. 314 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,040 Tanner and then another. Time it was Cornelius that 315 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,760 prayed and said, send a Joppa for a man called Peter. 316 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,320 He's with Simon the Tanner. And then when God said, I I want 317 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,240 you to eat. And he showed him all, the 318 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:02,560 unclean beast. You know. 319 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:07,480 Peter knew very well that he wasn't to eat them, but he also. 320 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,120 Wasn't to touch them. But Peter was on enough. 321 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,640 Honest enough. Not to say I've never touched it 322 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,560 or ate it because he's living in a whole house full of all this 323 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,880 unclean smell, and if he got up in the night, his foot probably 324 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,480 brushed against a dead carcass or whatever it was. 325 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,080 So he was smart enough not to lie to God. 326 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,760 And he didn't say I've never touched it, but he did say I've 327 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,440 never eaten it. And that lets me know that in 328 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,240 this world with, with all the wickedness around us, it may be 329 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,680 touching us on our left and our right. 330 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,400 It may confront us when we leave these doors. 331 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,000 You, you might be touching it, but you don't have to consume 332 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,920 it. Let me insert here, Don't ever 333 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,720 believe the lie that if you think about it, you might as 334 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,560 well do it. Let. 335 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,480 Me just. Tell you that's a lie, you know, 336 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,680 because you know under grace you you could, you could think about 337 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,680 committing. Adultery all day long under 338 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,440 grace. It was under the law, rather. 339 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,960 There was no penalty at. All There was no penalty. 340 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,240 That thinking I'm going to. Kill you and I'm going to get. 341 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,360 You. The only penalty under the. 342 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,280 Law was when you actually. Did it? 343 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,240 But Jesus said I I say to you that if you look on a woman to 344 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,080 lust after her, you've already committed adultery. 345 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,680 You see, grace isn't something that's sloppy. 346 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,000 Grace wants to clean you from the inside out. 347 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,480 Grace wants to purify your thoughts. 348 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,680 Grace wants to bring every thought into captivity unto the 349 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:50,000 obedience of Christ. Galbanum had a very disagreeable 350 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,520 odor. Accurate. 351 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,920 Pungent and an unpleasant taste. There was some that said it 352 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,200 smelled like death and smelled like. 353 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:03,040 Turpentine and the priest. Wondered in if I can if I can 354 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:10,120 just question their conclusion because we still do it today. 355 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,640 The. Priest said I believe God wants 356 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,840 us to use galvanum because he wants us to include the sinners 357 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:25,000 that are not here in our prayer. That sounds like the cop out by 358 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,680 the priest there. It cut a little bit too close 359 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:29,480 to. Home. 360 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,400 Because it's not just them out there that smell, it's us that 361 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,680 have the problem and need a savior. 362 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,720 If I got the Holy Ghost and baptized Wednesday night, I 363 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,800 still need the preacher to tell me. 364 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,040 Let those hands that stowed steal no more. 365 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:54,640 You see, you're never going to get enough Holy Ghost to where 366 00:25:54,640 --> 00:26:03,240 the devil's going to stop coming after you when Satan when Jesus 367 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,520 was led into the wilderness to be. 368 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:12,840 Tempted by the devil? Jesus did not answer him in the 369 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,520 way that Satan. Was gunning for every time the 370 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,080 devil spoke. To him, he responded by It is 371 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:25,600 written and I'm going to tell you if you try to engage in a 372 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,880 verbal war with the enemy, you're going to find yourself on 373 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:34,720 the outside looking in. What you need to do is say it is 374 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:41,800 written. It's written if anybody could 375 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,240 have outwitted him. It could have been the. 376 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,360 Lord, but you know what I believe? 377 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,640 What the? Lord was showing us look, just 378 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:47,640 just. Tell him what? 379 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,040 The Bible. Says. 380 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,360 I got curious one day and I know this is in English, but I 381 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:57,080 counted the conversation of the words of Satan and the words of 382 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,080 Jesus and sure enough the devil talked more. 383 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,040 It tells me you don't have to out talk the devil to defeat 384 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,840 him, but you do have to give him the word of God. 385 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,760 So the priest said, let, let's not, let's not. 386 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,480 Have this incense without including those without. 387 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,960 And I agree that we include those without, but we got to 388 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,360 include those within. You see, the Word of God and the 389 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:31,480 Spirit of God is what we need. You might be saved, but you need 390 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:37,480 the preaching of the pastor and a Bishop, and God is so amazing. 391 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,080 Because in his spirit you'll be feeling him and. 392 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,120 All of a sudden he'll remind you of something. 393 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:46,800 You need to get rid of he'll. Remind you of something you need 394 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:47,680 to lay down. And. 395 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,080 When he reminds you, he's empowering you to make that 396 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,960 choice. The Talmud says galbanum smelled 397 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,040 bad. How in the world today include 398 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:06,440 something that stump because God says I need. 399 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,640 You in my representation, while we were yet sinners. 400 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:17,600 Christ died for the ungodly we don't have. 401 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,640 I don't know if it's audaciousness. 402 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,760 I'm not sure what's missing, but we don't have the language of. 403 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,480 Paul, today we don't. Stand up and say I'm on the 404 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,520 praise team and I'm the biggest. Sinner in the world, that just 405 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,400 don't sound good. I'm going to preach tonight. 406 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,360 But there's not a bigger. Sinner in this county than me, 407 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,800 It don't sound good to say, look, I'm back home in Illinois. 408 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,440 I was born here. I'm the biggest Sinner in this 409 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,520 state. Paul didn't say he came to save 410 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,680 sinners who I used to be Chief, but he said I am chief. 411 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,320 You know what? You know what that is? 412 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:05,280 That's built in protection that says I need a savior. 413 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,200 If you're willing to say I'm a big Sinner, then that means 414 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:17,840 you're saying I need a big God. That's why God said I need you 415 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,720 to clue galbanum in there, because our righteousness is as 416 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:29,840 filthy rags. If I can admit that I need God, 417 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,240 then I'm. Always going to need him. 418 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,200 I'm not sure the chronological order I've I've looked but 419 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,360 psalms don't. Necessarily come in order. 420 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,840 But I, I believe the words of David that that said, oh, that I 421 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,200 would dwell in the House of the Lord forever and his praise is 422 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,840 going to continue to be on my lips. 423 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,520 I don't believe those words happened before Psalms 51. 424 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,120 I don't believe those words were said before, even though we 425 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:01,120 still have the capacity to fail. But the Bible says if you add 426 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,880 brotherly kindness, that's one of the ingredients. 427 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,080 If you do these things, you'll never fall. 428 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,320 Listen, there is a place that you can abide where you don't 429 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,800 have to leave these doors and struggle with the addiction that 430 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,040 you're struggling with. The biggest lie is that we all 431 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:19,920 sin. Everybody sins. 432 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,920 Now, I'm not contradiction what I just said. 433 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,160 Don't condemn me because you sin differently. 434 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,720 Than I do no. No, no, no sins going to enter 435 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,240 there. The same rider that said if you 436 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,800 say you have no sin, you make him a liar. 437 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,360 That same rider said them that sin are of the devil. 438 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,280 You see, we got to, we got to start looking at sin in the. 439 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,320 Right eyes, no sins going to enter. 440 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:55,040 There. But yes, Paul. 441 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,720 Understood. If I can stay in need of His 442 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,320 grace, I'll be standing in a strong place. 443 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,640 So in second Corinths 12:00 and 7:00. 444 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,240 He said lest I should. Be exalted by measure that was 445 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,360 given to me. A thorn in the flesh comma, the 446 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,920 messenger of Satan. Comma to buff at me. 447 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,680 And God said. He asked him 3. 448 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,520 Times but God said my grace is sufficient for thee. 449 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:34,560 I'm almost done. Don't get worried, but I just I 450 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,240 just want to tell just short testimony. 451 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:45,000 I'm playing the drums one night, my dad's pastor back in the 80s 452 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,640 date myself and I felt like I was the biggest Sinner in the 453 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,640 world. I had thoughts going through my 454 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,480 mind that I never told anybody to this day, and I never will 455 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,640 tell anybody. Blasphemous thoughts. 456 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,560 Thoughts that. I I said, Lord, Take Me Out of. 457 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,360 This world for letting me think that. 458 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,520 And this happened over and over. I felt like I was lost and we 459 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,680 only had one daughter at the time, so I'm up there on the 460 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,040 drums on a Sunday night. At that time we had prayer 461 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,520 meeting on Tuesday and church on Thursday, I said. 462 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,400 Lord, let whoever's preaching. Thursday night let him preach on 463 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,280 grace. If your grace is sufficient for 464 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:36,120 me, let him preach on grace. I didn't even know where the 465 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,880 verse was at the time, but I looked it up in the concordance 466 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,440 and I found it in 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 467 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,200 7 where the Lord said my grace is sufficient. 468 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,520 For thee, for my strength. Is made perfect in weakness. 469 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,680 See God don't want to take away our capacity to sin. 470 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,360 And then we're just robots serving God without any choice. 471 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,160 While he don't want to. Take away your. 472 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,040 Capacity to sin, he's never. Going to take away his grace for 473 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,280 your sin. It's so autonomic, just like 474 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,160 your heart. Beating. 475 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,560 And your chest breathing that, Paul said, Shall we sin that 476 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,880 grace may abound? God forbid. 477 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:25,720 Listen, you can never outrun God's race, I said. 478 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,120 Lord, if if your grace is sufficient for me, let let 479 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,320 whoever's preaching Thursday night, and I didn't even know 480 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,920 who was preaching, let it. Let him preach on that. 481 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,520 I came back Thursday night and I'm sitting on the left side of 482 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,560 the church and the gentleman was Brother Dean and I haven't seen 483 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,080 him in many years. He said turn to 2nd Corinthians 484 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,200 chapter 12. But in my great faith I thought 485 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,000 he might read verse 21. He might not even read what I'm 486 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,040 talking about. He exhorted for about 20 minutes 487 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,120 till he finally started reading at verse 7. 488 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,640 And I got up and started doing laps around the church shouting 489 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,320 Hallelujah. I got back to my seat and I said 490 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,120 I'm sorry for interrupting this Bible study, but I. 491 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,320 Asked the Lord if his. Grace was enough for me to let 492 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,800 whoever was preaching. Tonight, preach on it. 493 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,560 Somebody needs to understand that the devil will lie to you 494 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,000 and tell you nobody loves you. Jesus don't love you. 495 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,760 You've gone too far, you've done too much. 496 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:32,159 But that's why we need a Savior. That's why I'm sorry but. 497 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,600 This. Nature that we received from 498 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,800 Adam, we're always going. To have it. 499 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,639 That's why Dane Joshua said choose you this day who you was 500 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:45,360 heard. As for me in my. 501 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,719 House. We're going to serve the Lord. 502 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,719 You got to make up in your mind that if you fall, you're getting 503 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,320 back up. If you fall five times, you're 504 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,440 getting back up six times. You're getting back up 7 times, 505 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,120 you're getting back up 8 times. You're getting back up as many 506 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,160 times as you're willing to get back up. 507 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,280 That's as many times as God is willing to restore. 508 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,960 They call me the snack king. They should. 509 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,400 Call me the Wreck King. I busted my teeth. 510 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,600 I don't know how many times I'm sitting there on. 511 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,480 I had a yellow banana bike and had a gear shift and I'm 512 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,720 thinking I'm getting ready to bake, Break the land speed 513 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:27,880 record. I had my own countdown. 514 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,680 I went down that hill. When I turned left, I was 515 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,000 approaching the breaking the sound barrier and the bike 516 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000 started shaking. I went over the handlebars and 517 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,040 landed on the curb, but I got back up. 518 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,640 Then I was riding in the back of the apartment complex and they 519 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,880 had the sewer with the with the big metal gap, big metal gap, 520 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,280 big mouth. I thought, I'm going to ride 521 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,120 across that. My tire slipped in that gap, 522 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,440 caught on the bolts, back tire went over the front. 523 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,360 Tire. This face landed on the 524 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,400 concrete. Busted my teeth out but I got 525 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:10,400 back up then I. Got the fastest motorcycle in 526 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,680 the in the in the neighborhood. It was a mini bike. 527 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,440 I'm riding this kid man. We're tooling around. 528 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:23,640 All of a sudden the brake snapped off and it got stuck on 529 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,320 full throttle. He jumped off. 530 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,160 To this day I don't know why he didn't pull me off with him. 531 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,240 I wish he would have. I was too scared to jump off, 532 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:37,080 but not too scared to run into the fence at the last second. 533 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,760 I just. Closed my eyes. 534 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:44,960 And I had an egg the size of the grade A extra large right here 535 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,240 on my forehead. But I got back up. 536 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,960 Well, Trevor, come here. Just just do me your your best 537 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,640 fake fall down. That's pretty good. 538 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:10,760 But that was really good. The Bible says that the priest 539 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,400 saw that guy and he just walked on by. 540 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,320 Everybody just walked on by. But the Good Samaritan came and 541 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,880 helped him. But if he fell down right in 542 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,400 front of me, I'd say, hey, bro, I I'd help him up. 543 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,160 Now, he probably didn't even need any help up. 544 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,080 But if you fall down, the natural reaction is to help 545 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,160 somebody. Get up. 546 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,560 How come we walk right on by and when they fall in the spirit, 547 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,920 how come we walk right on by and when they mess up and make a 548 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:56,200 mistake, take another dive. Don't hurt yourself, all right? 549 00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:02,240 Just say I preach for another two hours till 839 thirty. 550 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,440 He's still laying there. They turn the lights on. 551 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,880 He's still laying there. You guys come to midweek 552 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,240 service? He's still laying there. 553 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,040 Who would have the real problem, him or us at that point? 554 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,840 How can we leave here with him laying there? 555 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,040 How can we lock the doors with him laying there? 556 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,560 A lot of times we put the criticism on the one that failed 557 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:31,280 when Jesus said it's really on the one that's not willing to 558 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:36,840 pick him up. You see, Solomon, I misquoted 559 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,680 this scripture for years. Bible says 2's better than one 560 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,080 because if one falls, you'll have somebody to pick him up. 561 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,800 But Solomon in his wisdom didn't say that. 562 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,160 He said if you got two, he said if they fall. 563 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,240 In other words, he said, I want to let you know there is no 564 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:56,600 distinction. There is no difference between 565 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:02,520 him or me because tomorrow it could be me laying there and him 566 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,880 standing there. So if you want somebody to help 567 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:10,400 you get up tomorrow, then you need to help somebody get up 568 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:24,880 today, Paul said. He came to save sinners, of who 569 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:33,240 I am chief. Current present tense in Romans 570 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,320 7. I got another question for Paul. 571 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,280 He said the things I don't want to do, I do. 572 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,640 He said the things I want to do, I don't do. 573 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,520 I'm thinking, what else did you want to do? 574 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:54,720 You wrote 12 books or maybe more of the New Testament. 575 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,360 What is it you want to do? You evangelized all of Asia, and 576 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:06,920 you were. A tent maker, you said, forgive 577 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,880 me for not letting you pay me. He said. 578 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,280 I'm sorry. What is it he wanted to do? 579 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,320 Paul started out as I'm among the chiefest apostles. 580 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,880 He gives his resume, but by the end of his life, he's saying, 581 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,600 wait a minute, I'm the biggest Sinner that there is. 582 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,720 Somebody needs to understand that we represent the galbanum 583 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:38,640 in the incense oil. In other words, go ahead and 584 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,200 tell God what you're struggling with, because He already knows. 585 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,040 It it means go ahead and. Tell him your weakness. 586 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:53,400 So on Psalms. 51 and I'll I'll close with this if the musicians 587 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,520 can come. During during the miss of that 588 00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,800 trial. Went through and it was like 89 589 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,800 to 93. I would shake hands with a 590 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:07,160 preacher. I'd shake hands with a preacher 591 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:13,440 before church and my face would turn red because I felt like he 592 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,200 knew what I was thinking and my thoughts weren't pure and they 593 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,560 weren't right. So it was like a feedback loop 594 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,040 where he thinks I think he knows what I'm thinking. 595 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,160 Then I'd get embarrassed and ashamed of what I was thinking. 596 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,120 And this just went on and I'd, I'd be at a conference and I'd 597 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,040 meet eyes with the past and I think they're, they're going to, 598 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,360 they're going to cast the devil out of me. 599 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,000 Sure is the world. I didn't tell my wife a thing. 600 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,560 I couldn't. I just felt like if I told her 601 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,000 anything that it would come to pass. 602 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,560 I didn't want to give voice to what was going on up here. 603 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:48,760 Right or wrong. That's, that's what I did. 604 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,160 But I I did call and counsel with different people, but I 605 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,040 never told anybody. What I said but the. 606 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,800 Lord knew what I said. Or what I thought. 607 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:01,320 And in the midst of that, I'm standing back there at the door 608 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,480 and I hear, I have this dream. I'm standing there and Jesus 609 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:10,160 walked up the right side like that wall over there. 610 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:15,680 And he came here and stood and I'm back there being an usher. 611 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,480 And I thought, Oh no. Jesus is here. 612 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,600 And he knows what I'm thinking. And in my dream Jesus started to 613 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,920 leave. And I said I made that journey 614 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:31,000 from the back door all the way up here, and I said I can't let 615 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,680 him leave. I got to confess and the closer 616 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:42,160 I got, the lower I got. Until when I was. 617 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,000 Right here in front of Jesus. And I'm I'm quoting. 618 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,840 Psalms 51 that. That Second Corinthians 12 and 619 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,520 seven and Psalms. 51 will always be. 620 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,960 Special to me, I begin to say, created me a clean heart. 621 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,960 Renew the right. Spirit with me, He cast me not 622 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,680 away from thy presence. Take not that Holy Spirit from 623 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:07,080 me and in my dream I'm. On the floor with my face in the 624 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,840 carpet, and Jesus came behind. Me. 625 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,560 He didn't say anything. He stood me up. 626 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,960 He held my hands up as if to say just. 627 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,680 Praise me. And in that dream, I begin to 628 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,360 say Hallelujah. And when I got to number. 7 The 629 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:32,560 Holy Ghost fell. I went back to church and when 630 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,600 they said let's all praise the Lord, I promise you I scared 631 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,680 some people. I started saying Hallelujah as 632 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,160 loud as I can say it and they probably thought what's wrong 633 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:46,040 with him? Just like David's wife said to 634 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:51,480 David what's wrong with him? Don't ever question anybody's 635 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,200 worship. Don't ever tell you be. 636 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:58,320 Be be quiet. Nobody did tell me to be. 637 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,200 Quiet if they would. Have I should have took the 638 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,120 biblical? Formula and just cried even. 639 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,440 Louder. You never know the desperation 640 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,240 of the person that they're going through right on the same Pew as 641 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:13,120 you. I began. 642 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,400 To say Hallelujah and I counted. Every time. 643 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:20,480 But when I get to #7 the dream didn't happen and I kept doing 644 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:21,960 it over. And I promise you I got a loud 645 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,760 voice. I can shout Hallelujah really 646 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,800 loud. But I was back. 647 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,320 There at the same church where Stephanie's funeral was, and 648 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,520 that's where. It happened. 649 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,800 I'm up in the. Balcony 2 of the greatest 650 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,120 blessings I've ever had in my life. 651 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:35,640 Both been in the balcony. If you. 652 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:36,880 Can get in the house. Or. 653 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,920 Hear what's in the house. You're close. 654 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,280 Enough. If you have to stand in the 655 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:44,080 street and hear what the preacher says, you're close 656 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:49,160 enough. So I'm in the balcony and all of 657 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,680 a sudden Mike Williams is preaching. 658 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,560 At a men's conference. And all of a sudden I heard and 659 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:54,760 I felt. The wind. 660 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,360 Come from the left like. It was like. 661 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,440 And stopped right here I begin to count how to lose. 662 00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:03,960 And I thought I. Can't mess up this. 663 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,600 Preacher's message, I'm going to mess up his message. 664 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:14,080 And I didn't, thankfully. But when I got to #7 I just wept 665 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:18,840 and I wept and I wept because God does care. 666 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:28,040 So fast. Forward to 1998, which is now 26 667 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:34,160 years ago, I'm preaching and I'm preaching about the battle of 668 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,280 the mind. And prior to that, let me tell 669 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,400 you, I just had a fellowship meeting of the young people. 670 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,560 And the preacher said tonight I'm going to preach on the. 671 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,120 Battle of the mind and what he did. 672 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,360 I just started weeping because I knew God cared. 673 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,640 Just the title broke my. Spirit. 674 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:55,880 So I'm. Preaching, I said. 675 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:57,480 I want him in my mind all the time. 676 00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,560 I want him in my mind when I'm in my car. 677 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,800 When I'm on my job. When I'm on my bedroom and I 678 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,960 said I want him in my mind all the time. 679 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,200 And I said it with as much fervor as I could. 680 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:14,080 And when I did, time stood still and God said, let me take you 681 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,120 back to that darkest night of those four years. 682 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:22,000 And he said to me, look where you were then. 683 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,760 And he said, now I want you to look where you are now. 684 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:31,280 And I want to tell you the contrast of those two moments 685 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:36,800 over took me to such a degree that thankfulness flowed. 686 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,200 I began to speak in other tongues. 687 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:59,800 Hold the end of this. I climbed on the left seat of 688 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,760 that Pew at Light St. in our old building. 689 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:06,400 I said, Lord, if I could come up there right now, I'd come up 690 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:10,200 there and give you a big hug. That's exactly what I. 691 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:15,080 Said. And here's the thing you think. 692 00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:19,000 Sometimes you don't even have a God that cares, but he's mapping 693 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,160 your journey and your destination is heaven and your 694 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,920 destination is restoration. You got some galbanum in your 695 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:32,040 life that don't smell so hot. We've all got some galbanum. 696 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:37,160 That's our very make up is we need a savior. 697 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:50,040 I can't hear Psalms 51 without gratitude. 698 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,600 I can't hear 2nd Corinthians 12 and seven that my grace is 699 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,640 sufficient for thee. I can't hear that verse without 700 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,160 being grateful about a God that cared about me. 701 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,360 I love the line to the song they sing that chains break at the 702 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:18,040 weight of your glory. It's a true story. 703 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,720 It was in the Spanish American War and they made, I don't know 704 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:24,400 if it's a psychological experiment or they or what they 705 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:25,880 were trying to do, but. They made a. 706 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:31,400 Prison out of paper mache look like stone. 707 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,000 With the dirt floor, the prisoner came in. 708 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,400 Now I had another prisoner, the one that had been there, he 709 00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:41,600 said. I'm going to dig my way out of 710 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,040 here, he said. There's no use. 711 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:49,080 I've tried, somehow he got to keep a spoon and he start. 712 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,000 Digging and his hand slipped and it hit the wall. 713 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:58,800 To his amazement, it was only. Paper mache wasn't even real. 714 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,200 I'm going to tell you if you're bound. 715 00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:08,160 It's because God's watching. If you're bound, it's because 716 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:14,240 God's wanting to see how much you want to be free, because the 717 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:18,560 enemy can only put imaginary chains on you. 718 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:23,000 And when God told me, just praise me. 719 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,320 Look, there was a great battle in the Old Testament, and when 720 00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,440 they praise the Lord, God set ambushments. 721 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:37,880 I'm really quitting, David said. We never consulted the Ark of 722 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:39,520 the. Lord at all in the time of the 723 00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:40,640 reign of. King Saul. 724 00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:46,760 But there was one time that Saul came close and he was there with 725 00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,240 the high priest, and they were getting. 726 00:49:48,240 --> 00:49:49,840 Ready to add the Urim? And the thumb and they're 727 00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,000 getting ready to inquire about God. 728 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,600 But then he heard the. Noise of the Philistines. 729 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,160 In battle. And he said stop, I got to go to 730 00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,400 this fight. And when he got there it should 731 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,280 have been a life changing lesson. 732 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,120 The Philistines were consuming each other. 733 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:09,600 You're not needed at that battle as much as you're needed at this 734 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,920 halter. You're not needed at that 735 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:15,160 problem at home as much as you're needed here. 736 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:20,680 Never, never, never stay home to fight the devil. 737 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,200 Never stay home to fight the devil. 738 00:50:30,240 --> 00:50:33,800 This altar's open tonight. There might be somebody here 739 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,040 this bound. There might be somebody here in 740 00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,880 a trial, just like I was. I won't tell you. 741 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,320 God's going to bring you through it. 742 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:50,720 I don't deserve it and you choose me anyway. 743 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:58,680 Oh how amazing. Oh, how? 744 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,160 Amazing. Come on, Somebody needs a savior 745 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,400 tonight. Somebody needs a savior tonight. 746 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,240 I don't deserve it. I don't deserve. 747 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,200 It Somebody needs a healing tonight. 748 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,440 Somebody needs restored. Somebody. 749 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,280 Needs renew. Amazing. 750 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:39,840 Oh how amazing you see the side of me that no one. 751 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:46,480 Else can see. Come on, somebody go ahead and 752 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:50,320 confess it tonight. Go ahead and confess your 753 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,600 weakness tonight. He already knows. 754 00:51:52,880 --> 00:52:00,120 I cannot hide from your presence, you know.