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We continue in this book. 
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make sure we're all on the same 
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understand that when we talk 
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talking about pursuing knowledge
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Although clearly knowledge about
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to experience God as we know who
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about that. 
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we're not talking about pursuing
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Although clearly God wants us to
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blessings that he has for us. 
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God, we're not talking about 
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wonders of God, although clearly
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that. 
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that we are talking about the 
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Now for some of us that might be
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isn't God up there in the 
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some of you maybe you're here at
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your thinking. 
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of years ago but you know 
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He just some historical figure 
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See the heart of this message 
about pursuing, God is the truth

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that we can pursue God, the 
truth that we can experience his

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presence. 
A beautiful testimony, just 

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beautiful about the experience 
of presence of God, that he 

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prayed you gave it to him and 
you say presence that was a God 

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thing is, you share all that 
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Direction in his God's wisdom? 
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presence, God can be available 
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when we talk about pursuing God,
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suing God. 
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In other words, as if it can 
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think who has heard that phrase,
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this to you are, were your 
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crutches. 
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Yeah I'm I said that really have
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a Christian Have you read the 
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About how we supposed to run the
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Have you read the Bible about? 
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prize and throw off everything 
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You think that's a crutch? 
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that we have our part to play 
Jesus is we're going to find out

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in a moment is that everything 
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But we have a response to make 
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freedom into the presence of 
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That Jesus is blood has paid for
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pursuing God this message at its
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have a decision. 
We I have a decision whether or 

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not I'm going to respond urge 
God places in my heart to see so

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at the start of this talk, I'm 
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and up with only, you going to 
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Because if the answers yes, then
we have some work, which big and

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it brings us to chapter 3, 
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And it is called removing the 
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And we're going to look at 
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the screen and if you're at home
online and your device will be 

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on your device as well. 
Chapter nine ten, nineteen to 

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twenty, the writer to the 
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Therefore brothers and their 
sisters, since we have 

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confidence to enter the holy 
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the New and Living Way that he 
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curtain that is through his 
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And since we have a great priest
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what draw near. 
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Assurance of Faith with our 
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evil conscience and our bodies 
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Wow, that's pretty heavy, right?
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I mean, in some ways it sounds 
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aw Tozer does a very good job of
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I'm going to look at. 
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Apologies for based on a lot of 
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see, let's look at this. 
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It says here. 
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have confidence to enter what 
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if we to fully understand what 
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The holy place is or the holy of
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understand this, we need to go 
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Because there's some of you may 
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Israelites to build a 
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could go and worship God. 
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what that Tabernacle look like 
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there, the altar of burnt 
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priest would sacrifice offerings
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wash themselves, ceremonially. 
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that process before they got 
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Holy place. 
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with the shewbread the bread, 
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Jesus. 
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always in there. 
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Presence broke the bread of 
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have the curtain or the veil and
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the the holy place with the 
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holies and in that place is 
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was where the tablets of the ten
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process. 
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holy place and then you had the 
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Hebrews actually gives an 
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the first section in which, with
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talking about the Holy place 
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presence. 
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It is called the holy place now 
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curtain. 
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Having the golden altar of 
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Covenant covered on all sides 
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urn holding the manner and Aaron
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tablets of the Covenant above, 
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overshadowing, The Mercy Seat of
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And then, if you read Solomon's 
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one, they Place the labor with 
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then we had the Third Temple. 
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will have the third tent, read 
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very presence of God. 
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would present himself in the 
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place and only the high priest 
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only then once a year on Yom 
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festival the day of atonement. 
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would go through that ritual of 
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would offer the insect and then 
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them, manifest glory of God in 
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priest. 
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tie a golden wrote to the ankle 
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should die because they hadn't 
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properly. 
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God, no, it shows us. 
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uncleanliness. 
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unclean. 
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came in the Garden of Eden? 
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The curtain boom. 
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No more. 
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Have relationship with God. 
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I've got to say this fellow, I 
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about 60 foot high. 30 feet wide
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thick, this is not just some 
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of curtain, it's thick, it's 4 
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Now, you might be saying, okay, 
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and thank you to the historical 
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that got to do with the suing 
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Now I'm glad you asked me that 
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You're very clever, it's an 
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answer is found in the New 
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And we could continue read 
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want us to look at Matthew 7, 
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Your answer is found in the 
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Crucifixion. 
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cried out again with a loud 
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And behold the curtain of the 
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to bottom. 
This huge curtain this 4 inch 

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thick curtain was suddenly torn.
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tear it you know they said that 
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on either side with a rope to 
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It wasn't from the bottom up. 
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god, tore the court curtain no 
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between God and man. 
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holy Place. 
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Because of the blood of Jesus By
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through the curtain. 
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That is See, that curtain was 
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crucified as he was whipped 
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as they steered his side. 
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Because Jesus is our high priest
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on our behalf and rather than a 
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given once a year. 
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was all time. 
It is finished. and so the good 

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news is, is that the veil That 
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from entering into the very 
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Tip, it's gone. 
That means we are we fully 

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getting? 
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this because It's the same God 
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need to go through that process 
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yourself before. 
You can even come into my 

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presence that God hasn't 
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I'm not, God, is inviting us 
into his presence hurting, you 

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find that mind-boggling. 
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really. 
I mean, we should be going into 

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his presence every time we can, 
I mean, we should be looking to 

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enter his presence with much 
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Right? 
How come that doesn't happen? 

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Can you imagine if what if you 
love Back to the Future six 

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notes and you all know what it 
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I want a DeLorean. 
They're launching a new deloin, 

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a redneck. 
Like what am I doing? 

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Right there. 
Wasn't there wasn't there was a 

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point. 
Imagine if went to Back to the 

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Future and said to one of the 
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what is this? 
It's hard to belong. 

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We need to get to 88 miles an 
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to 2023 and he arrives, but 
where's the temple of God? 

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So what But where's my roads? 
And I have to work. 

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What? 
Where's the Laver? 

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No labor required. 
What This is amazing news. 

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You can imagine how excited he 
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Why am I not that exciting? 
FairPoint is. 

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Imagine if we got into the car 
back back in time let's God. 

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Sorry mate, only the high priest
over there. 

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I'm trying to just unpack it 
now, this is where Tozer takes 

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us from this point, where I'm 
going to start quoting a bit 

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closer because he makes the very
good point, which is this? 

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Why is it therefore, that we 
don't run into God's presence 

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before vendors to? 
Well, the second title, this is 

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sakis this tale of two veils. 
It takes a pause for dramatic 

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effect. 
Let me quote toes it because he 

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does a better job of than I do 
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We sent that the call is for us,
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and the years passed and we grow
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courts of the Tabernacle. 
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usually given simply that we are
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facts. 
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serious than coldness of heart. 
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coldness and be the cause of its
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What is it? 
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avail? 
Eval not taken away as the first

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veil was but which remains 
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light and hide in the face of 
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It is the veil of our flesh. 
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uncharged within us on crucified
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And toes are goes on to say, it 
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the self. 
The hyphenated sins of the human

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They are something you are and 
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subtlety. 
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The self sins are 
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Self-pity and self confidence 
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self-admiration self-love and a 
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They dwell too deep within us in
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come to our attention until the 
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Hmm, I think toes are makes a 
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See the grossest in that frame, 
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drunkenness sex outside marriage
or you know, pornography or, you

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know, gossip or slander, or 
swearing, you know, all of these

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things that are obvious. 
They say well we can name those 

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things. 
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these subtle sins that we have 
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That we Justified to ourselves. 
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that your pastor has some of 
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I was praying about this on 
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thinking about the word that I 
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Like, Lord, you've got to work, 
this talk in me beat me because 

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I've done the research. 
I've read, I've understand it, 

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but then, all of a sudden, The 
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yourself. 
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I'm just tired. 
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And I have challenging. 
No, you indulge in self-pity now

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I don't your ward. 
We don't have enough help around

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us. 
The kids are of an age now where

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they're going to know more you 
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Yeah I've learned that God is 
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new after we've kind of accepted
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So I was like, okay, how do you 
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As a Holy Spirit Shaunie's light
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I was like, you know, I have 
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I've made it so part of me but I
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a veil, Holy Spirit came and Ash
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And you see when we pursue God, 
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call to walk in as a disciple of
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Do some work. 
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Christian faith is this, Jesus 
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So go live your best life. 
I mean you just go surf YouTube 

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and you'll get hundreds those 
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You don't have to do anything, 
just have enough Faith, you can 

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have whatever you want. 
Sorry, I wasn't the Bible. 

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Talk about the work. 
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Oh don't worry, God's done it 
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Yes, he's removed that Veil. 
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Get into God's presence but 
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what I think is very important 
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very good point So how do we go 
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What do I need to do pasta? 
Well, there's some good news and

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some bad news. 
But you want this, it's right. 

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There is no bad news, no bad, 
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delivery. 
Let us beware of tinkering with 

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our inner life. 
Hoping ourselves to remove and 

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render the Veil. 
God must do everything for us 

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posture. 
I thought you said that we've 

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got to do some estimate. 
Our parts field. 

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Our Paws, Guild. 
We must confess for sake. 

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And reject myself way and then 
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But we must be careful to 
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acceptance from the real work of
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You must insist upon what we 
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neat doctrine of self 
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What does toes mean mother? 
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sense. 
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See the real work happens. 
I'm going to invite the band up 

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as I bring this plane to smooth 
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You know, Jesus himself said to 
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If anyone would come after me, 
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If anyone would come after me, 
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to pursue me. 
So this is a dress if you have 

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said start of this service of 
the start of my talk I want to 

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pursue God so if you said to 
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God then listen up because you 
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Okay my clear if anyone would 
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himself and take up his cross. 
Cross and follow me. but whoever

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would save his life will lose 
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for my sake, let me end with 
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are cool to take. 
That is rough and Eddie. 

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But it is effective. 
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Hang in there forever. 
There comes a moment when it's 

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work is finished and the 
suffering victim dies after that

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is resurrection glory and the 
pain is forgotten the joy that's

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available taken away. 
We have entered into actual 

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spiritual experience of the 
presence