1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,760 Body today in the House of the Lord. 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:04,720 Greetings to all of our guests this morning. 3 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,080 We're so happy that you have chosen to come and worship with 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:09,200 us. Amen. 5 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,320 And we appreciate you for doing so. 6 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:16,920 We had our winner's circle dinner last night at login with 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,120 those who could make it and we had a good time. 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:24,880 We even had dessert. Not to rub it in or anything, 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,640 but we just we even had dessert. Amen, Louise Glad that those 10 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,080 that could make it and yes, we are so glad to have sister 11 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:38,360 Brenda with us in July will have been a year since she's had her 12 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:44,160 bypass open heart surgery and then a spin tell of other things 13 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,560 of wounds not healing and the infection then that happened 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,640 with her ear that cause others. She just got out of the hospital 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:56,200 yesterday, folks, and she said she wanted to go to church. 16 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,560 And so with that, though, I think it's also good because 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,800 I've had to kind of a sideline view. 18 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,040 I think it's also good to give honor to Todd and Mindy because 19 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,280 they've kept very good care of their mom over these past 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,960 several, several months, tagging in and tagging out. 21 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:20,440 They have done it and we honor them because they have just been 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,440 tremendous son and daughter to their mom. 23 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,640 And I know she appreciates that wholeheartedly because they've 24 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,880 been here there for her, Amen. We're also glad to have Chad and 25 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:36,360 Angel visiting here today and their family and they've, 26 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,000 they've this used to be church for them And, and now they, you 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:45,120 know, he came on his, his horse and, and stole her heart and, 28 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,520 and such. But we're glad to have them, 29 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,080 Amen. Visiting this morning as well. 30 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,920 I'm going to be turning to the book of Ezekiel today, Old 31 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,560 Testament prophet book of Ezekiel this morning and I'm 32 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,680 going to be reading from chapter 39. 33 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,520 Got a few verses to read today in your hearing. 34 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,639 And that we'll see what the Lord will will speak through his 35 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,880 word. If he ever said like, well, I 36 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,120 never, God's just never speaks to me. 37 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,240 Like you know in your heart, your mind will just open His 38 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,680 Word, Amen. That it's His letter, His word 39 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:25,080 to all of us. And then Ezekiel chapter 39, and 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:29,960 I'm going to begin reading with verse #11 the Bible says, and it 41 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,480 shall come to pass in that day that I will give unto Gog. 42 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,040 And folks, just let's just Gog is so close to God. 43 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,400 I'm probably going to mess that up more than once today. 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,480 OK, let's just just lay it out straight. 45 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,440 But nonetheless I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in 46 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,240 Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the 47 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,240 sea. It shall stop the noses of the 48 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,360 passengers, and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude, 49 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,680 and they shall call it the valley of Hem and Gog. 50 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,720 And seven months shall the House of Israel be burying of them, 51 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,360 that they may cleanse the land. Yeah, all the people of the land 52 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,000 shall bury them. It shall be to them a renown. 53 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,320 The day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. 54 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,280 And they shall sever out of continual employment, passing 55 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,880 through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain 56 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,760 up on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the end of 57 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,160 seven months, just shall they search. 58 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,280 And the passengers that pass through the land, when they see 59 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,840 if a man's bones, then they shall set up a sign by it, till 60 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,720 the barriers have buried it in the valley of hem on dog. 61 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,160 And also the name of the city shall be Hamona. 62 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,040 With thus shall they cleanse the land. 63 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,480 Now, if you are a student of the Bible, Ezekiel 38 and 39 a lot 64 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,320 of times is debated as chapters that point toward the end of 65 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,080 time. And there's many that believe 66 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,120 that these verses have not been fulfilled because there's 67 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,760 there's no historical event that even closely matches the details 68 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,560 of of this chapter. And there's others that believe, 69 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,240 and I'm telling you this so that you know how I'm preaching this 70 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,880 today. So others believe that these 71 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,600 chapters could very well just be a model of the history that 72 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,000 Israel has had, meaning this the God's peoples are always been 73 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,560 plagued to a certain degree by a quote UN quote Gog. 74 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,320 There's always been an adversary, there's always been 75 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,680 an opponent. There's always been some type of 76 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:52,160 evil or enemy that's attempted to eradicate God's people and 77 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,520 frustrate God's people through history. 78 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,840 And so even if this event hasn't taken place on the prophetic 79 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:04,280 timeline, it's still reveals God's mind regarding how 80 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:09,920 opposing forces and opposing enemies are to be dealt with. 81 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:15,080 So forgive me this morning as I talk about this, I'm going to 82 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,000 talk about it as though it's already happened, although in 83 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,960 the prophetic timeline that's not, but it is a model really on 84 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,280 how God deals with things that opposes his people. 85 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,480 So our focus today is that how does God deal with, and then how 86 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,520 should we deal with the things that oppose us, attack us, 87 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,320 undermine us, how they should be dealt with? 88 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,320 And so my title today is simply this bury the dead. 89 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,240 Bury the dead. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. 90 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,480 Father, I love you today. Got a thankful Lord Jesus for 91 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,000 the group of people that have gathered in here this morning. 92 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,880 I pray, O God, that their lives will be Lord change challenge 93 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,920 Lord, helped, encouraged by the word of the Lord God. 94 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,760 Let your word, Lord Jesus stand out to us today. 95 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,400 Let it be instruction Lord, for our lives today. 96 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,280 I know Lord God, some come in Lord with their own issues and 97 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:09,560 with their own Lord opposition Lord, and struggles and 98 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,920 frustrations. But God, we submit them to you 99 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:16,000 today can under the Almighty God that's able to care Lord Jesus 100 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,800 and take care Lord of the needs of our life in the lovely name 101 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,360 of Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah and the church say 102 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,840 Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning 103 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:34,840 in Jesus name. What we spy upon here in 104 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:39,200 Scripture is really a story of a foe and the enemy that has been 105 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,400 defeated. Victory is in the camps of 106 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,920 Israel. There is a lot of things that 107 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,920 are going on. There is grave site and burial 108 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,760 ground that is taking place. But as you think about this, if 109 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,920 it were to be an adversary, if it were to be an arch enemy of 110 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,240 the Children of Israel, you would think that that victory 111 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,240 would be enough. I mean, after having been 112 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:11,000 antagonized by someone or a group army of someone's that was 113 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,560 coming against you and caused you a lot of heartache and, and 114 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,680 pain and uncertainty in life, you would think that the days 115 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:23,280 after that would just be times of celebration and times of, of 116 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,240 victory, slapping each other on the back and giving high fives 117 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,840 to one another. Because whenever the battle's 118 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,640 over, we all know, right, that when the battle is over, the the 119 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,240 enemy is defeated. We even sing songs almost along 120 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,640 those lines. You know that, that the enemy 121 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,960 has been defeated, you know, and death, death can't hold the Lord 122 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,600 down and all these type of things. 123 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,840 And, and so whenever God steps in and, and does what only God 124 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:55,080 can do, bring victory into our lives and we see that, then we 125 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,160 assume that the story is finished. 126 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,880 It's, it's kind of like the alpha and the Omega of it. 127 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,600 We put a period at the end of the sentence. 128 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:08,440 And so we shout and we celebrate and we testify because in our 129 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,320 minds, if the enemy is down, then the problem is over. 130 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,360 We equate that fallen enemies that are littering the ground, 131 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,000 bodies, if you will, that that's just finished business, that 132 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,240 Ezekiel chapter 39 kind of disrupts that type of mind frame 133 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,720 and that type of thinking. Because although Israel didn't 134 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,440 lose this battle, as a matter of fact, in Scripture, it doesn't 135 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,000 even look like much that they even fought the battle. 136 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:40,080 The Bible tells us in verses 3 and four that God himself 137 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,039 defeated Gog. The Bible says that God said, I 138 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,960 will smite the bow out of thy left hand and will cause thine 139 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,480 arrows to fall out of thy right hand, and thou shalt fall up on 140 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,320 the mountains of Israel. It doesn't even look like Israel 141 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,640 lifted much of A finger, but God showed up on the scene and he 142 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,160 fought their battle for them and secured the victory for them. 143 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,560 And so we would just naturally think that the next verse is 144 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,360 after such a proclamation of God saying, I'm going to take care 145 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,920 of business business and I'm going to do warfare and I'm 146 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,400 going to bring victory. We would think that the next 147 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,080 verses would just say, well, the land had rest and the people 148 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,160 rejoiced and the glory of the Lord just filled the place where 149 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,120 they were in their atmosphere again. 150 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,640 But that's not what took place. God secured the victory, and 151 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,560 then he told Israel to grab a shovel. 152 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:40,680 The text says that God would give Gog A burial place in 153 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:43,160 Israel. He said, I will give unto Gog a 154 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:48,000 place there of graves in Israel, particularly says I'll give them 155 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,560 a valley, Amen, where all of their bodies will be buried. 156 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,840 And this was a disgrace, of course, for the adversary. 157 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,920 This was a disgrace for the enemy. 158 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:02,720 For any enemy formidable enemy to be buried upon the opponent's 159 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,920 soil or the opponent's territory was a disgrace to them. 160 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,000 And it's just one thing because this army of Gog is described in 161 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,840 chapter 38 as a very well uniformed army, a heavily armed 162 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,400 army, a well marshalled army. They had a chair of tears and 163 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,680 they had people that could pull bow with arrows and they had a 164 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,720 Calvary, if you will, that can March out on the on the battle 165 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,080 scene. And for them to be defeated, 166 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,960 that's one thing. But it's quite another thing 167 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,960 then to have your remains, your defeated army to be buried in 168 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:44,280 the enemy territory, to be buried upon the soil of Israel. 169 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,880 And the Bible tells us, think of this slaughter. 170 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,520 This is going to be a huge slaughter. 171 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,040 The slaughter is so great that they are burying bodies for 172 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,400 seven months. There's such a decimation of the 173 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,480 army and such a size of the army that the House of Israel burying 174 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,680 bodies for seven months, Amen. Those seven months, it's not 175 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:10,480 their time necessarily of of celebration, but it is a time of 176 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,200 burial. And the victory that they got 177 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,400 was divine. The victory they got came by the 178 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,840 hand of the Lord. But although their victory was 179 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,600 divine, the cleanup was quite human. 180 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,440 All the people, the Bible says in verses 12 and 13 that all the 181 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,520 people of the land of the House of Israel shall bury them. 182 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,280 God brought the breakthrough as we sung just a little bit of 183 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:41,160 this morning, God brought the breakthrough, but he assigned 184 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:45,880 the responsibility of burying the dead to the House of Israel. 185 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,360 And so that confronts us with a little bit of a truth that 186 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,600 confronts us with a little bit of a situation that we don't 187 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,720 always recognize. And that is this, that just 188 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,520 because God has given you victory does not mean your 189 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:04,200 responsibility is over. Because the land was not deemed 190 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:09,000 pure and the victory wasn't absolutely secured until they 191 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,280 cleanse the body, the, the, the, the land of all the dead bodies. 192 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:19,640 The Bible says that God struck the bow from God's hand and God 193 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,960 caused the army to fall and he secured the victory. 194 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,080 Yes, but God did not bury the bodies. 195 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,680 He didn't go through the land and bury the bodies. 196 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,800 He handed that responsibility to his people. 197 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,720 Because here is the principle I believe the Scripture is 198 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:40,440 teaching in this moment that God will do what God does, what only 199 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,600 God can do. But he's not going to do what we 200 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,880 can do. The Bible says in the Gospel of 201 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,320 Luke chapter 18 and verse 27, it's a wonderful passage that a 202 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,520 lot of times people just quote. They talk about that the things 203 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:01,120 which are impossible with men are possible with God. 204 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,040 That means that you and I, our humanity has limits. 205 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,040 We can only do so much and there's things in our lives. 206 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,200 How many ever thought of something in your life being, 207 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:15,080 well, that's impossible? Will we leave the impossible 208 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,320 things to the God that specializes in impossibilities? 209 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,520 Hey, man, He has a capacity that's above ours and beyond 210 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,680 ours. But this also means that there 211 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:28,720 are some things that's possible with men. 212 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,040 There's things that are impossible with men, but there 213 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,320 are also some things that are possible with men. 214 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,800 There are things that God defeats. 215 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,760 Amen. That that he then expects us to 216 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,840 deal with the aftermath of burying the bodies. 217 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,600 What are you saying this morning, Brother McGee? 218 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,840 I'll say this today. We all have moments when we need 219 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,280 God to step. We all have situations where we 220 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:56,800 need God to step up and take control and demand the wind, if 221 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,520 you will. You remember the disciples on 222 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,880 the boat, He, they had to wake him up in order for him to go to 223 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,240 the helm and speak to the wind. A disciple couldn't take control 224 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,400 of that, but God could, and he came and he took control. 225 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,800 We have moments of time that we need God to step in and handle 226 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,120 the impossible, but there's still some things in the 227 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,000 aftermath that we got to deal with. 228 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,120 What are you saying? We all, if you've ever been 229 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,200 addicted to anything, you needed a God moment where God would 230 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,800 come in and deal with the addiction. 231 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,040 But we have to deal with the dead body. 232 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,120 We still got to change the environment. 233 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,960 There are times that God will come in and silence, if you 234 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,720 will, the voice, but sometimes our opportunity is to stop 235 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,400 listening for it and reintroducing it into our lives. 236 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,080 He'll bring the enemy down many times in our life, but we got to 237 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,320 remove what remains. We got got to bury the dead. 238 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,480 Sometimes we're celebrating victories while still living in 239 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,720 environments that shaped by what once fought us. 240 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,080 Imagine if they secured the victory and they're going to 241 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,080 walk around them for ages with these dead bodies that's just 242 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,520 going to decompose over time on the ground. 243 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,480 What type of situation would that really be, huh? 244 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,200 If there was no clean up, we got victory. 245 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,720 Oh, here's a body over here filled with worms and everything 246 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,160 else decomposing in the stench in the air. 247 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,920 That kind of puts a little tanked on the victory, doesn't 248 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,320 it? Praise God for victory. 249 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,320 They're they're walking through contamination if no one buries 250 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,920 the bodies, God saying I won the battle. 251 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,320 But there's still some work for you to do because according to 252 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,160 the biblical law, whenever something such as a dead body 253 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,640 was there open on the ground, not entombed and not in the 254 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,360 grave. It was known to be nothing 255 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:48,800 defiled. Amen. 256 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,480 That the arena or or the land or the space like a dead body. 257 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,600 Whenever life left a body, the moment that it happened, it 258 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,680 immediately became ceremonially unclean. 259 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,760 And if you touched it, the law said you were unclean for seven 260 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,040 days and you had to go through proper means of purification. 261 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,680 There were even some in the New Testament that they believed 262 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,920 that if this, your shadow touched the grave or the tomb of 263 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:20,040 where a corpse or part of a corpse, Amen, was buried, then 264 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,880 it brought impurity to you, Amen. 265 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,240 A matter of fact, the New Testament scripture, when it 266 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,720 talks about the whitewashing of the tombs, they did that with 267 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,200 intention because they wanted people to know where people were 268 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,240 in. They didn't want it to be a 269 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,720 hidden. They wanted people to know 270 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,240 because they didn't want them to be impure by their shadow 271 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,160 touching it or them walking over it. 272 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,520 And so all of these things with bodies just laying around, if 273 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,720 you were around a dead body or in the vicinity of a dead body, 274 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,760 it could keep you from celebrating some of the feast of 275 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,440 the Old Testament, sometimes for even as long as a month. 276 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,560 So it didn't just affect the people, it affected the land, it 277 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,720 affected the environment, it affected social gatherings, it 278 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,480 affected what you could be a part of, what you couldn't be a 279 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,240 part of. In other words, the dad still 280 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,160 had power to contaminate. Although they were dead, they 281 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:18,400 still had. History enforces this Ladies and 282 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,800 gentlemen, in our great history, our great president of Abraham 283 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,000 Lincoln. After the Battle of Gettysburg, 284 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,240 thousands of bodies in your history were left exposed across 285 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,840 the battlefield. The fighting had already 286 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,480 stopped. The battle was already over. 287 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,600 The outcome was already settled, but the environment was not 288 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,040 safe. At Gettysburg, after the battle 289 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,600 had been done, there was the smell and the stench of death 290 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,200 that had filled the air. And as a result of all these 291 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:51,480 dead bodies, their water sources started to be affected and 292 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,400 disease became a real problem because there were still bodies 293 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,000 on the ground. And so they had to Commission 294 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,280 some burial crews, Brother Fred to go in and start cleaning up. 295 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:06,640 And then what took weeks of enemy bodies and and and comrade 296 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,560 bodies. The battle was over. 297 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,840 But now there was a possible disease in the land because the 298 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,760 body was not yet buried. They were no longer fighting, 299 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,120 but it was still dangerous. It was still dangerous. 300 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,800 And so just because something is no longer alive doesn't mean it 301 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,400 may not still be trying to affect you if you've not buried 302 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,160 it. Sometimes we got to put the 303 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,000 hatchet in the tree, so to speak. 304 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,160 Don't let it just lie on the surface. 305 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:35,880 Don't let it just lie around your environment. 306 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,120 Don't let it just lie around your mind. 307 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,320 You got to bury it. You got to lay it to rest. 308 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,960 It's dead, but you got to lay some things to rest. 309 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:50,160 Yes, Sir. Things in our lives are no 310 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:55,400 longer active but still present because their presence has never 311 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,800 been buried. Contaminating our thinking, 312 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,320 contaminating our spirit, contaminating our environment. 313 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:06,200 God instructed Israel. He didn't say we got victory 314 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,160 today. Don't mind the the bodies, just 315 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,400 step over and it'll be OK. Ignore them. 316 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,840 Move forward. Just push him aside. 317 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:21,520 No, his plea was very simple. Bury the dead. 318 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,480 Bury the dead. Because burial does something 319 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,560 that defeat alone doesn't accomplish. 320 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,720 It puts it out of sight, out of mind. 321 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,560 It conceals the stench to a degree. 322 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:44,560 Yeah. Come on. 323 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,720 Burial removes the exposure. Burial. 324 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,000 We all know it. I often say we, we we do Funeral 325 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,720 services and sometimes we do graveside services. 326 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,400 And it's such a hard time, right. 327 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,520 Whenever the family's not going to see their loved one anymore, 328 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,920 that that finality and not seeing the love anymore, it's 329 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,360 like the separation that takes place. 330 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,560 Well, listen in a way in the spirit. 331 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:12,880 We need some separation. We need not to see anymore. 332 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,480 Burial stops the spread. Amen. 333 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,320 It's the difference between something just being defeated 334 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:23,840 and something being dealt with. The Bible calls on us as 335 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,720 converts and I was thinking about this today of how such a 336 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,480 great picture this is of our journey of coming to know the 337 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:35,000 Lord because the Bible tells us in Scripture as converts in Acts 338 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:41,960 238 that we should repent and be baptized in Romans 6, the 339 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,200 apostle Paul was asked in the church at Roman verses 3 through 340 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,800 4. He says, know ye not that so 341 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,920 many of you as were baptized in Jesus Christ were baptized into 342 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,960 his death. Look at the look at the 343 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:58,560 symbolism here. Therefore we are buried with him 344 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,800 by baptism in to death. That's a wonderful thing because 345 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,440 when I think of Christ's work at Calvary that we celebrated on 346 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,280 Good Friday not that long ago, the Bible says that Christ bore 347 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,880 our sins in his body according to first Peter chapter #2. 348 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:20,200 And the Bible says that in the Gospels there was one of Joseph, 349 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:25,080 Armethia that begged a pilot, if he could have the body of 350 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:30,080 Christ, that he could lay that body in his new tomb, that he 351 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:35,280 could bury the body in the tomb, that body that had become sin. 352 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,000 What didn't know any sin, but he took your sin and my sin and 353 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,160 took it upon himself. And so Joseph of Armathea 354 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:47,680 saying, can I take that body of sin and can I bury it in a tomb? 355 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,400 Amen. That body that's been destroyed 356 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,600 on the cross, can I bury it in the tomb? 357 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,000 Because it wasn't totally dealt with until it was buried. 358 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,120 And Joseph of Armathea said, let me take the body and bury it in 359 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:03,320 the tomb. What are you saying this 360 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:04,760 morning? I'm saying this. 361 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,360 If you've never been baptized, if you've never been buried with 362 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:13,560 him, I urge to do it so, to do so this morning, because all the 363 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,000 victory has been secured for all of us. 364 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,560 Although all of us cast our eyes back to a cross into blood that 365 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,160 was shed, Amen. There's still some things that 366 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,680 need to be buried, Paul acknowledged. 367 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,800 He said in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing. 368 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,840 I'll tell you what I'm going to do with that old flesh, this old 369 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,640 human flesh. I'm going to take it to a watery 370 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,760 grave and I'm going to bury it because something things, though 371 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,080 I had the victory, still need to be buried. 372 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,160 Happens happened in history whenever things are not dealt 373 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,040 with. This is back in the 1300s, 374 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,920 there's a siege of a city. There was some mongo forces. 375 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,480 They this was their tactic. They say this was maybe 1 of the 376 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,640 earliest indications of biological warfare. 377 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,760 It's kind of gruesome really to think of it, but these mongo 378 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:19,080 forces would catapult infected corpse over the wall into the 379 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,880 city. Those bodies were not alive, 380 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,080 they were not fighting, but they were plagued with disease 381 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,400 because they had died somewhere and been left. 382 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,000 They took them and hurled them over the city walls because 383 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,280 though dead, they still carried something deadly. 384 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,440 Why do you think that? Sometimes they have people come 385 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,640 in these hazmat suits to deal with certain illness and 386 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,920 disease? Because though that person, 387 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,920 whoever though the bodies even may be dead, you got to be 388 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,840 careful because there's still something deadly. 389 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,040 There's still something deadly about it. 390 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,400 Hey, man, there could be a rapid outbreak. 391 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,520 And that's what happened there in that city where they were 392 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,120 hurling these, these dead infected plague bodies over. 393 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,040 It started an outbreak then within the city that they were 394 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,360 trying to take siege over. Hey, man, because of they doing 395 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,840 this, folks, let me tell you something. 396 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,640 We need a burial today. We need a burial today. 397 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,960 Hey, man, thank God for cross, Thank God for Calvary, Thank God 398 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,640 for crucifying things in our life. 399 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,880 But we need to take it to the burial grounds. 400 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:30,640 Ananias, he gave some very sound advice to to Saul. 401 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,360 Saul was on his way to this Damascus. 402 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,440 He was going to wreak havoc to those that were teaching and 403 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,320 preaching Jesus. And he was struck blind. 404 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,920 And the Bible says God spoke to Ananias and says, Ananias, I 405 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,120 want you to go see Saul. I want you to lay your hands on 406 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:49,280 him. He's going to receive his sight. 407 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,520 He's going to be a great preacher for me. 408 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,240 And so Ananias did that. He's like, Lord, you know, this 409 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,560 guy's killed a lot of people, right? 410 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,480 Why send me? You could have sent such and 411 00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,440 such. Why me? 412 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,160 And he goes and he prays for Saul, and Saul gets his eyesight 413 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,840 back. And this is the advice that 414 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:10,600 Ananias gave Saul in Acts 2216. He says, now why Terrius, thou 415 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,960 look at that, Why Terry, Why wait? 416 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,640 Why delay? Why hold back? 417 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:20,440 Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins. 418 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,880 Calling on the name of the Lord, He says God's just done a great 419 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,960 work in your life by me laying my hands up on you on you, but 420 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,080 don't wait though it might be dead. 421 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,080 Go bury it. Take it to the waters of baptism 422 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,920 for the washing away. There's some folks. 423 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,200 This is more than just about getting wet. 424 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,080 It's about having your sins remitted. 425 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,360 It's about taking care of that which was deadly upon and in 426 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:48,240 your life. Thank God I'm not not what I 427 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,520 used. I used to be. 428 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,480 He was telling and, and Ice was telling him bury the dead, 429 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,880 because if we don't handle some things properly, they'll come 430 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,600 back to haunt us. Even after seven months, seven 431 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,640 months of burying people. In this chapter, the Bible says 432 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:14,160 there were selected special forces, if you will, of people 433 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,240 who would be under continual employment. 434 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,760 That's what the Bible says in verse #14 After seven months of 435 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,640 burying the dead, there's going to be a special forces unit 436 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,920 under continual employment. Their job for the chat is to 437 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,560 walk throughout the land. And if they were to find any 438 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:39,280 stray bone, any stray corpse in these mountainous regions of the 439 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,160 enemy, they were to set up a marker sign. 440 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,120 There must be some people that would go ahead of them and set 441 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:48,920 up some marker sign if they found it. 442 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,680 And they do that for a couple of reasons #1 they don't want 443 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,760 anybody else to be polluted by what this piece is. 444 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,600 But number 2 is the indication to this Special Forces unit that 445 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,400 when they saw it, there's something there that needs to be 446 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,240 buried. Twofold didn't want anybody else 447 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,080 to get polluted. But those who are responsible 448 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,000 still yet responsible for burying, that they would take 449 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,560 care of business even after seven months of already burying 450 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:21,400 things. Why? 451 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,760 Because we can't allow not one piece, not one remnant. 452 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,200 Have you ever found yourself in the mode that you thought you 453 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,120 got over or got past something only to recycle and be dealing 454 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,160 with it again and you thought you was over pass it and you 455 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,360 recycle it? You know ofttimes what that is? 456 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,520 It's getting victory, but not burying bodies. 457 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:51,400 Come on, it's good. Hey man, skin victory, but not 458 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,160 burying the body. And so we walk along in life and 459 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,640 lone to hold. We come across a bone from that 460 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,200 yesteryear thing that used to attack us. 461 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,720 We come across a remain of that yesteryear problem that we used 462 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,000 to deal with. And all of a sudden we start 463 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,040 hearing the voices and we start feeling the pool, and the 464 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:17,120 temptation comes and the mind starts to linger and think. 465 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,840 He says we got to mark this stuff because we don't need 466 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,600 people to be defiled again. And quite frankly, we need to 467 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,720 take this to the burial ground. There's a place for this, but 468 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,440 the place for it is not where it's at. 469 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,480 There's a place for us. That place is under the ground. 470 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,600 That place is that it would be buried to prevent further 471 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,200 defilement. We we got to set up a sign. 472 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,480 Here's here's I think sometimes the issue, we got people setting 473 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:59,280 signs, but we're building memorials rather than signs of 474 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,760 indication that something needs to be taken care of. 475 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,800 Sometimes we memorialize past events of our life rather than 476 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,760 marking them. Sister Cox for burial. 477 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,240 My wife and I have been in and out of the prison system 478 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,520 probably about 25 different states across the United States 479 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,680 of America, state penitentiaries. 480 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,280 And I hear sometimes them tell their stories. 481 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,280 And this doesn't just happen in prison, it just happens everyday 482 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,280 life. And let me say this, there is a 483 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:34,880 fine line between telling your past and giving glory to God and 484 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,760 magnifying the corruption that you were involved in, almost 485 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,400 like a badge of honor. Come on, come on. 486 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,960 Is everybody OK? Because I've heard sometimes 487 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,640 people talk about their past almost in a glory day mode 488 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,240 rather than giving glory to God Mode. 489 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,320 Like you won't believe how bad I am Like what I got by with an 490 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,880 XYZ. We're not careful. 491 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,280 We're memorializing a moment that we were in the vice of yes, 492 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,840 that's right. Rather than wanting to take the 493 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:16,480 remains and bury it. Hey, man, you know, it's, it's 494 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,720 the thing that happened whenever you read in the story of Joshua 495 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,320 chapter #7 the Bible talks about the children of Israel coming 496 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,240 into the land of promise. And one of the first places they 497 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,760 went was Jericho. And then they went to AI. 498 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,080 And the Bible says when they went to AI, there were some 499 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,000 accursed things that were some accursed things and they were 500 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,720 not to partake of the accursed things. 501 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,200 Those things belonged in the Lord. 502 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,360 The Lord would take care of those things. 503 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,160 The Bible says there was one man by the name of Akin that 504 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,760 whenever he went in and seen these things, the Bible says he 505 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,440 took a Babylonious garment and a wedge of gold and some shekels 506 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,800 of silver and he hid it under his tent. 507 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,800 And as a result of that there was some disdain. 508 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,840 There was some disdain that that that took place and they had 509 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,400 lost a battle and God was revealing that there was someone 510 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,600 among them that have taken of the accursed thing. 511 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,560 And the Bible says the lot fell. They were they were kind of 512 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,000 trying to decipher and discern who this was and it was Aiken. 513 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,440 And the Bible says when they found it was Aiken, they took 514 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,080 him and his family everything that he had taken. 515 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,120 And this is is quite, I know, severe, but they burned him and 516 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,000 his family and everything that they had taken. 517 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,200 And then the Bible says they put up this big old stack of stones 518 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,640 upon him. Listen, they were not 519 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:31,560 memorializing what Aiken done. They were not memorializing 520 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,400 that, hey, here's a guy that got by with getting 200 shekels of 521 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,560 gold and a wedge and, and about he they were not memorializing 522 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,480 it. What they were doing was telling 523 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,840 people there's some dead things right here, so stay at distance 524 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,360 because something is dead here. It's underneath this pile of 525 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,040 rocks and we don't want you to get too close unless something 526 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,520 happens to you. They weren't memorializing it. 527 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,080 It was a cold. Don't come any closer because 528 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,000 there's something dangerous right here, Honey, if we're 529 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,240 going to put markers in our life, we need to put markers in 530 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,200 our life where the danger occurs. 531 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,920 If it got you once there, you might need to put markers there. 532 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,160 I got to steer clear from that area because I got sucked in. 533 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,760 I got contaminated. I got I, I can't. 534 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:27,440 Ezekiel shows here in Scripture that this barrel act, this was a 535 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,560 deliberate act. This was not like a sideshow. 536 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,800 Well, you know, I guess we should do that. 537 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,800 No, this was a disciplined effort. 538 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,320 Look, look how look how organized it is. 539 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,480 This is not cash. This is not just the casual 540 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,800 cleanup after a battle. This is not, no, this is 7 541 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,640 months of all Israel being involved and then specialized me 542 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,680 and doing the work because they needed the land cleansed. 543 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,880 They needed the land pure and that required discipline. 544 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,360 It required discipline. Back in 2010 in Haiti, there was 545 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,600 a horrible earthquake that took place there. 546 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:04,560 Again, thousands of bodies laid in the open as a result of death 547 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,840 occurring from this earthquake. And they were all over the 548 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,480 place. Not because the people didn't 549 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,640 care, not because they didn't have an eye toward it, just 550 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:17,120 because all of the burial that was required of these thousands 551 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,920 of people in the coordination, the urgency of it all, it was 552 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,840 just overwhelming. And so the authorities of that 553 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,200 area understood something very, very well that they could not 554 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,400 afford though, to delay to take care of what was across the 555 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,040 ground, because the longer that they remain, the worse that the 556 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,360 condition, their living conditions for the living was 557 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,680 going to get. So burial crews were formed and 558 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,520 they acted upon it quickly because they knew if they didn't 559 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,880 do something decisively, it would just multiply the problem. 560 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,400 Even back years ago in the 14th century when you had the Black 561 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,640 Death that was all across the land land, their burial systems 562 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,360 just collapsed. And as a result of it, it just 563 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,760 got worse and got worse. Because when the dead isn't 564 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,160 dealt with, it's a downward spiral very quickly. 565 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,000 There's some things in my life, I know there's some things in my 566 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,159 life that if I just just try to ignore it, it's not going away. 567 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,120 Just turning my head doesn't make it go away. 568 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,840 No, it grows more dangerous by the day. 569 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,480 It's like someone, it's like someone coming to you with a 570 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,520 diagnosis and saying, well, I'm sorry, but you, you have XYZ, 571 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,360 you have cancer. It's like, well, OK, well we're 572 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,719 just going to let it go. Well, you just let it go. 573 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,320 You just open yourself up for the possibility of that just 574 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,400 growing worse. You, you just can't turn your 575 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,320 head away from some things. You you can't bat a eye over 576 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,280 some things. Some things require us getting 577 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,679 involved. I we can't, let me say it like 578 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:51,040 this, we can't afford to be casual what God has already 579 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:58,520 defeated. We got to bury the dead and that 580 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:04,680 requires discipline. All of this though, in 581 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:09,920 Scripture, in Ezekiel 39, it's more than just about cleansing 582 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,680 the land and more than just about the purity of the land. 583 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:18,080 We see in this, this book of Ezekiel, it's even about the 584 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:27,800 presence of God because anytime in Scripture that there is 585 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,560 defilement, and particularly when there's no intention for a 586 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:37,240 change, there's distance between humanity and God. 587 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,240 Adam and Eve transgress in the garden. 588 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,280 God would come down his voice in the cool of the day, meet with 589 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,040 them. But after their transgression, 590 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,080 what's Adam and Eve doing hiding among the trees? 591 00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:01,680 Separation is happening, the Bible says in Isaiah 59 and two, 592 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,480 he said. But your iniquities have 593 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,360 separated between you and your God. 594 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,200 He tells us a New Testament scripture of 2nd Corinthians 595 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,720 617. He says wherefore come out from 596 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:16,760 among them to them that he's referring back to is the idols 597 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,560 that someone went back to worship. 598 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,560 And he says come out from among them and be separate, saith the 599 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,600 Lord, And touch not the unclean, and I will receive you. 600 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,480 Distance. Distance took place. 601 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,160 It's not that God will not approach us. 602 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,360 It's not that God will not attempt to woo us if we are 603 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,080 defiled, but it's simply this, that God will not cohabitate 604 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,960 with that, right? That's right. 605 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,120 Yeah. It's not a, it's not a both and 606 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,560 it's a either or. He won't cohabitate with that. 607 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:52,000 Something's got to change. Body's got to be buried. 608 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,240 So God demonstrates this earlier in the book of Ezekiel, because 609 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:01,200 the Bible says that the glory of the Lord had removed itself from 610 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,440 the temple, the glory of the Lord had removed itself from the 611 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:09,240 Tabernacle because there were things that were unclean, things 612 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:14,880 that had been defiled by adultery and by sin, and God's 613 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,560 glory just progressively departed from the temple. 614 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:24,280 And now before that presence would ever return, the land had 615 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,040 to be clean. So this was more in Ezekiel 39 616 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,760 than just about removing bodies. It was about preparing A 617 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:36,200 dwelling place, a dwelling place for the glory of the Lord, a 618 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,440 dwelling place for the presence of God, Amen. 619 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,800 And that that just mirrors Scripture so well in our own 620 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,000 spiritual lives because oftimes the precursor to God filling 621 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,360 someone with His Spirit is that they repent or have been 622 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:55,240 baptized, or even if he does fill them with their spirit like 623 00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:58,080 Saul, Amen. They are monish baptism to 624 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:02,400 happen shortly thereafter, because once the body is buried, 625 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:08,160 Amen, It opens up this land, this body, this individual for 626 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,560 the presence of the Lord to come in, Amen. 627 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,560 God is interested in burial because he's intent on 628 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,320 resurrecting something inside of us, Amen. 629 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:24,720 Death cannot remain where a living God wants to dwell till 630 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:27,800 the death can't remain where living God wants to do well. 631 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,240 And So what we leave unburied doesn't just affect me, it 632 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:37,720 affects a man, the very manifestation of God in my life. 633 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,720 Again, it's not that God is not unwilling to come because he's 634 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:46,520 willing to go wherever he wants to go, but he is a holy God and 635 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:51,000 He's not going to coexist a man with any, if you will, things 636 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,480 that's leftover from the enemy, the opponent or the adversary. 637 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,240 So the Bible says in verse 16 of our text, it says they cleansed 638 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:02,000 the lamb. And then in chapter 43, you know 639 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,520 what's happening? Ezekiel says I see something 640 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,560 coming. I see something coming over the 641 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,560 hills and over the mountains in the distance. 642 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,960 What was it? He says it's the glory of the 643 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,000 Lord. Earlier he said it departed, but 644 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000 now that the land is cleansed, he said, I see the glory coming 645 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000 back. I see the presents coming back 646 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,680 because my people have buried the dead. 647 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,800 I brought them the victory, but they bear buried the dead. 648 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,600 There's been ties to my life. I've asked God, you know, 649 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,080 where's your glory at? Where's the dearness, Lord, that 650 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,360 we once had? Where where's you know, church 651 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,680 say, where's the move of God at anymore? 652 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,000 And since then I got to ask myself the question, Sister 653 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,160 Sheila, has something been left exposed? 654 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,920 There's something he cleansed. It's really burial. 655 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,920 It's about dealing with that past. 656 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:03,000 Whatever it may be, whatever your GOG is, whatever your GOG 657 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,560 is, substance abuse, relationship abuse, whatever 658 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:13,600 your dog is, God can bring the victory you can't bring 659 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,960 yourself. But he's going to hand you a 660 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:22,840 shovel to bury the dead two chapters earlier. 661 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:26,320 Probably 1 of the better known chapters of the book of Ezekiel. 662 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:32,360 Most people probably skip over Ezekiel, but one of the probably 663 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,000 best known chapters in Ezekiel's Ezekiel chapter 37, it's the 664 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,600 vision. But Ezekiel was taken away in of 665 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:46,240 a valley of dry bones. He was taken to this valley. 666 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:48,000 He's seen this valley of dry bones. 667 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,520 He says that they were very dry. They were scattered, they were 668 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,400 dismembered, there was no flesh upon them, no breath in them. 669 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,560 They were just bones all around. But the Spirit of the Lord came 670 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,160 to Ezekiel and he says, Prophet, I want you to prophecy to these 671 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,800 bones. I want you to command the wind 672 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,840 from the north, the South, the east and the West that there 673 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,400 would be a convergence up on these bones. 674 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,480 And the Bible says, OK Lord. And so he was obedient. 675 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,480 He prophesied to them and the wind came and the breath bone, 676 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,200 it started coming to bone. You know, you start singing a 677 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,280 little song with the knee bone connect to the, you know, bone 678 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,480 started coming to bone. Amen. 679 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,800 Flesh starts coming on their body, muscle and sinew starts 680 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,840 coming up on their body. Breath comes inside of them. 681 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,960 And the Bible says that this which was scattered bones all 682 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,960 over this body became an exceeding great army. 683 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,320 And the Scripture says that was an emblem of the whole House of 684 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,200 Israel, that they have been scattered, they've been dead, 685 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,200 they've been dismembered, and now the Spirit of God come back 686 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,520 and brought life unto them. But we take Ezekiel 37 and we 687 00:41:55,520 --> 00:42:00,040 contrast that with Ezekiel 39 because we're at another valley 688 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:09,160 and there is another army, but this time there is no command 689 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,760 coming that says speak to these bones. 690 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,880 There's no command coming that's saying prophecy, life into these 691 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,680 bones. There's not the connecting of 692 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,960 the tissue or the connecting of the bone to bone or the muscle. 693 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,480 None of that is taking place, no restoration. 694 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,480 God is speaking in this moment. The only thing God is saying is 695 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,080 bury them. Why? 696 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,200 Because not everything God allows to die is meant to live 697 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:43,400 again. Let me say it again. 698 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,800 Not everything that God causes to die is meant to live again. 699 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,600 In 1 chapter, God says, Israel, I'm going to resurrect you. 700 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,240 Israel, I'm going to bring your members back together. 701 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,520 Israel, I'm going to bring new life in you. 702 00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,760 But in the next moment he's looking at bones and he's saying 703 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,320 you got to bury that. You got to put that under the 704 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,920 ground. In one he's speaking life, in 705 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,720 the other he says put it in the ground. 706 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:12,080 And the wisdom is knowing the difference, knowing what needs 707 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,800 to be resurrected and what needs to be buried. 708 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,280 Honey, there might be some different remains in your life, 709 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,720 different categories of bones in your life, but you need the 710 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:28,640 wisdom of God to know what needs to be brought back together and 711 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,600 resurrected and what needs to be buried and departed with God. 712 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:41,720 We Why? Because if we get it confused 713 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:46,160 and you try to resurrect what God told you to bury there, 714 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,080 you're inviting contamination back in your life. 715 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,800 But if you try to bury what God wants to resurrect, you're 716 00:43:53,800 --> 00:44:04,980 missing out on your miracle. And so there's no ambiguity in 717 00:44:04,980 --> 00:44:09,420 the text. This is clearly not something 718 00:44:09,420 --> 00:44:13,880 God is restoring. This is something God has 719 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,920 secured. The victory, judged, defeated, 720 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:22,920 declared, finished. Bury Israel, bury the dead. 721 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:33,020 If you'll stand with me this morning, we are all standing on 722 00:44:33,020 --> 00:44:36,300 the ground. The victories that's been 723 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:43,380 granted to us over past struggles and where God has 724 00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:46,740 moved in and brought down some barriers in our life. 725 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,400 Sometimes, Bishop, though, there's Richard. 726 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:59,840 There's remnants of old thoughts, remnants of old 727 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:08,480 wounds, remnants of old habits still lingering, dead, still 728 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,760 lingering. But if I don't address them, 729 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,640 they make it. They, they might affect my, my 730 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:22,320 mind, could pollute my spirit mostly it could be a blockade of 731 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:27,040 separation to his presence. What are you saying this 732 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,800 morning, then, Mr. McGee? I'm saying this. 733 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:35,400 Somebody needs to grab a shovel today and you need to go back to 734 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,760 the battlefield and you need to deal with the remains. 735 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:47,400 Don't revisit what God has killed unless you tend on 736 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,120 burying it as you visit it. Yeah. 737 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,240 Come on. Yes. 738 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:55,640 Stop entertaining what he's already defeated. 739 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,680 Yes. Come on. 740 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,680 Come on. My my Grandpa Weisenberg used to 741 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,920 have a saying. You'd always say this talking 742 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,400 about whenever people, you know, got into argument or there was 743 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,920 some type of, you know, disagreement and just talking 744 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,080 about, you know, the old saying about burying the hatchet. 745 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,040 Grandpa always said this. Kevin Adams, he says if you bury 746 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,360 the hatchet and you can still see the handle, you didn't bury 747 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,960 it. What's that mean? 748 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:32,040 You left something exposed? We're not entertaining shallow 749 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:40,200 graves today because according to Scripture, the enemy isn't 750 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:43,840 completely defeated when the enemy falls. 751 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,840 Victory is complete when the dead bodies are buried and 752 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:55,600 ultimately when his glory comes back to the place. 753 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,720 If we bow our heads here this morning, Sir, ma'am, I know, I 754 00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:04,000 know, we have different guests with us today. 755 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,160 And I may not know you personally or even maybe perhaps 756 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:12,160 even much formally, but you've walked in here like the rest of 757 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,960 us has walked in here that we've had some dogs in our past. 758 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,680 We've had some opposition, we've had some enemies, we've had some 759 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,520 adversaries that that perplexed and frustrated our lives. 760 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,960 We, we followed some of those dogs. 761 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,920 We've allowed them to enter our life and cause harm and, and 762 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,200 intimidate and mess with our minds and cause pain and 763 00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,880 suffering and woe. And God has come in like a 764 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,240 knight on a White Horse and shining armor, and he's 765 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:44,800 slaughtered and he's put, he's put to the ground. 766 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,920 Some of those things that had the greatest influence and 767 00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:52,320 impact on us. We walked away celebrating and 768 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,800 crying out the victory. Only a few days from them 769 00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:01,120 walking along in the same area and tripping over an arm, you 770 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:07,760 hear me tripping over a body. It's dead, but it's still there. 771 00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,920 It's still composing, it's corrupting, it's contaminating. 772 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,480 Sir, ma'am, God wants you to live in victory. 773 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:17,840 God wants you to live in victory. 774 00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,040 God doesn't want you to be in the merry go round of VV. 775 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,520 Defeat, victory, defeat, victory, defeat, victory, 776 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:29,280 defeat. He has higher hopes of that than 777 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,840 that for you today. If you've ever dealt with 778 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:38,440 anything, you've ever contended with anything and God's brought 779 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,600 victory to your life again. And I know maybe I should have 780 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,920 brought a bunch of shovels up here this morning, but today you 781 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,520 just might need to get a shovel and say I'm, I'm going to bury 782 00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,440 this. I don't need to see this. 783 00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,480 It's no advantage to me. It's no advantage to me just to 784 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,440 have this laying around. It's no advantage to me to have 785 00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,800 this in ice distance or the aroma of this decay. 786 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,280 And it's no advantage to me to have it like that. 787 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,760 I just, I just need to, I just need to bury it in the ground. 788 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:11,000 I'm not going to put up a marker for a memorial to go back on a 789 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,240 certain day. And no, no, no, no, no, I'm, I'm 790 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,160 just going to cause a marker to indicate we're, we're going to 791 00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,240 bury something here. We're going to put it in the 792 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:20,240 ground and we're going to leave it. 793 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,960 God's brought the victory, but he asked me to deal with it. 794 00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,280 Ladies and gentlemen, if you're here today and you have not the 795 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,920 Spirit of the Lord, you're not filled with his Spirit, that 796 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,120 glory is not entered into your life. 797 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,680 Let me tell you, Calvary has taken place. 798 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,440 Victory has been secured for each and every one of us, but 799 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,760 perhaps today you need to be buried in the lovely name of the 800 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,480 Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps you need to be buried. 801 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,600 The Bible says it's for the remission, the removal, the 802 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:50,160 remittal of our sins. He says when we do that, you 803 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,600 shall receive that. The gift of the Holy Ghost, you 804 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,040 shall receive the gift of His Spirit, the glory. 805 00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:01,640 The glory comes, the glory comes, but dead bodies got to be 806 00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,480 buried. Dead bodies got to be buried. 807 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,160 Or can you begin to talk to the Lord right now, today? 808 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,760 Help me, Lord, can someone just begin to talk to him? 809 00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:12,680 Cry out, Lord, help me. Help me, Lord, to be 810 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,480 disciplined. Help me, God, not to leave some 811 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,040 things undone, Some things, Lord, undone. 812 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,920 No, Lord Jesus. God, we're going to, we're going 813 00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,000 to put together the plan. God, we're going to bury, Lord 814 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,960 Jesus, some things today, we're going to bury some things today, 815 00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,920 some old concepts, some old ideas, some old things that we 816 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,000 would use to participate in. Lord, God, that was really 817 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,040 destruction to our souls and destruction to our lives and to 818 00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,160 our marriages. Lord, we're going to put them to 819 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,720 rest today. We're going to lay them aside 820 00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:45,040 today. So our man, God's reaching for 821 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,160 you this morning. Maybe you would like to come to 822 00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,920 an altar of prayer today and said, God, I know you secured 823 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,720 some victories in my life, but God, I'm here today. 824 00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:55,000 My hands on the shovel today, God. 825 00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,400 My hands on the. I'm going to turn over a piece 826 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,720 of earth this morning. I'm going to bury some things. 827 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,440 I don't want to see that anymore. 828 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,240 I don't want to think of that anymore. 829 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,200 I don't want to be involved with that anymore. 830 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,760 I'm going to lay it to rest today, God. 831 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,800 I'm going to lay it to rest today, O God. 832 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,960 Hallelujah, Brother Mason, Amen. As we go to the Lord right now, 833 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,960 let his glory fill this place again. 834 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:27,120 Yes, God. Come on, Sir, ma'am, you can 835 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:28,880 bring your attention to the Lord. 836 00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:31,760 You can bring your shame, your guilt to the Lord. 837 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:38,600 You can bring the the perplexion of your your family, if you will 838 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,440 dynamic that may be disruptive. Bring it all to the Lord today. 839 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,920 Bring your diagnosis, bring your disease, bring your sickness. 840 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:53,200 Whatever your GOG is today, whatever your GOG is, bring it 841 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:58,000 today. God can give victory and we can 842 00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:58,960 parry the body.