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Hi, this is Dave Olson. 
I'm the senior leader of 

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Heartland Church located in 
Ankeny, IA. 

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I hope the following message 
challenges, encourages and 

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ultimately changes you. 
Thanks for joining us. 

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Revelation verse 1 of chapter 1.
We are we're going to continue 

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on in the vein that we've been 
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We're going to go ahead and I 
want to look at what what I 

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would call throne room protocol.
There's a, a situation a, a 

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scenario that John is ushered 
into that actually changes 

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history. 
It begins to move things from 

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heaven to earth and things are 
he alters human history through 

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his encounter. 
We see in chapter 1 verse 1, 

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John says the revelation of 
Jesus Christ which God gave him 

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to show to his servants the 
things that must soon take 

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place. 
He made it known by sending his 

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Angel to his servant John, who 
bore witness to the word of God 

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and to the testimony of Jesus 
Christ even to all that he saw. 

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And so John is ushered into this
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Now we need to understand the, 
the circumstance, the historical

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circumstance, the setting in 
which John receives this 

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revelation, because if you can 
understand what someone's going 

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through when they got something,
it will add to your insight and 

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why they got it. 
So God, there, there was a 

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certain scenario that John was 
going through. 

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John was at this time the only 
apostle left of the original 12.

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I believe there's still apostles
today, but I'm talking about the

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original capital, A apostles. 
He was, He was the only one 

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left. 
He had walked with Jesus. 

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He was the youngest of the 
disciples, and he walked with 

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him and saw all these tremendous
miracles, the dead being raised,

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the blind eyes being opened, and
then Jesus was crucified. 

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And Can you imagine how that 
shook the disciples? 

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They're trying to compute. 
Wait a minute, man, This guy, we

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could see him taking over. 
We thought the Kingdom was 

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coming, and now he's dead. 
And then three days later, it 

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was bigger than they thought. 
He raised from the dead. 

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And then they watch him ascend 
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And then they went into their 
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And by this time, John's the 
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All the other disciples have 
been murdered. 

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They've been all been martyred, 
hung upside down, crucified, you

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know, burned it, burned out the 
stake. 

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And now John is the only one 
left and there. 

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And now he's doing hard time for
preaching the Gospel. 

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And the mission is still the 
he's the one that's ruling as 

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the Caesar in Rome. 
He's a like most of those guys 

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are psychos and they're just, 
they have no value for human 

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life. 
They're crushing the vulnerable 

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under the wheels of history. 
And the the Roman government is 

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going on conquering more 
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And you can imagine how that 
could have been very 

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disillusioning for John. 
Have you ever been there? 

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You saw great things. 
You have great promises. 

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You think that, man, this thing 
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And as time goes on, you look 
around you and it's like, man, 

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this didn't turn out like I 
thought it would. 

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I thought things were going to 
go much faster. 

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I think that things were going 
to grow much bigger. 

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I thought there was going to be 
much more effect from what I'm 

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carrying. 
And so John is now, he's on this

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island in Patmos. 
But it says later on in this 

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passage she says I was in the 
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So even though things hadn't 
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is still doing the stuff, man. 
He's still being faithful. 

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He's having his DeVos. 
For those of you that don't 

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know, that means devotions. 
He's he's that. 

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That's Teen Challenge talk for 
doing your DeVos. 

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You're getting in the word every
day, you're praying, you're 

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getting before the Lord. 
And John was in the spirit on 

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the Lord's day. 
And so he was positioning 

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himself for encounter. 
He was positioning himself for 

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God to reveal himself. 
The reason John received the 

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revelation is John positioned 
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So the question is, are you in 
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That's the first thing we've got
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Spirit. 
First service. 

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I had someone pray for me, Andy 
and Melissa, I said, man, pray 

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for. 
They said, how you doing? 

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I said, I'm doing OK, but man, 
my mind is on 50 million 

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different things. 
I need you to pray for me. 

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And man, they prayed a great 
prayer, just that God would help

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me to get focused. 
You know, I don't think I'm the 

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only one. 
But there's times, man, I'll be 

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in worship, man, spirit of God's
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I'm walking around, people are 
crying, getting touched. 

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And then I'm thinking, I got to 
get my oil changed. 

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I'm going to get those. 
You know, I hate that dealing 

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with the things of this world, 
they're important, but we've got

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to fight for focus and get our 
mind, get in the spirit on the 

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Lord's day so that we can 
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And so that's the backdrop of 
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And so I, I know I'm taking a 
little bit of license thinking 

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what John was going through, but
the fact is he's the only one 

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left and it would have been very
easy for him to think, wow, I'm 

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a little disillusioned. 
I thought this was going to go 

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better. 
I thought this was going to be 

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greater. 
I thought this was going to move

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faster and now I'm the only one 
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I'm in prison and he's in the 
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the Lord takes him into a fresh 
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The answer to your problem is a 
fresh revelation of Jesus 

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Christ. 
That's the beginning. 

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That's not the end, but that's 
where you need to get. 

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You need to get in a place where
he he fills your vision, where 

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you are arrested once again by 
who he is. 

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I prayed all the time. 
God save me again. 

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Lord, I need you to save me all 
over again. 

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Lord, I am so easily distracted.
I'm prone to wander. 

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Lord, save me again and God will
graciously step in. 

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And so that's that's the 
backdrop of what's going on with

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John. 
And so look here in verse of 

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chapter one, verse 9. 
And so it says John says, I 

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John, your brother and partner 
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Kingdom and the patient 
endurance are in Jesus. 

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Stop there. 
Listen to that. 

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I John, your brother and partner
in what the tribulation, the 

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Kingdom and impatient endurance.
That's a sandwich right there. 

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I like the meat, meaty middle, 
the Kingdom, but this 

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tribulation thing and patient 
endurance bread, I don't like 

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that. 
But John said we're partnering 

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in this tribulation, the Kingdom
and patient endurance that are 

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in Jesus. 
All three of those are in him. 

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Well, I didn't get a lot of 
amens out of that, did I? 

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I might need to move on. 
Here was on the Isle of Patmos 

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on account of the word of God in
the testimony, and I was in the 

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Spirit on the Lord's Day. 
And I heard behind me a loud 

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voice like a trumpet saying, 
write what you see in a book and

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send it to the seven churches. 
And then he lists them. 

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So the first encounter John is 
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answer to other people's 
problems while he was having his

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own. 
And the reason he could be is he

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got his eyes focused on the 
right thing. 

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He was in the spirit on the 
Lord's Day. 

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He positioned himself to get a 
fresh revelation for his vision 

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to be consumed with the glory of
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download for these seven 
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And so he writes it down. 
But then we go to chapter 4 turn

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to chapter 4 with me and John is
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Now we talked about this a few 
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John closes the this this 
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preaching to the church at 
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behold, I stand at the door and 
knock. 

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Jesus is saying he's knocking at
the door of our heart and it's a

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door we have to open. 
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You've got to let him in. 
But then right after that, John 

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is ushered into another 
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This is not just for the seven 
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This is this is for the 
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It's for John in the moment. 
It's for the immediate audience 

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that he's going to send this to,
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And this he looks up and he 
says, behold, there was a door 

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already opened in heaven. 
So there's a door you have to 

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open and there's a door that God
has already opened and you will 

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never open the door in the 
heavens unless you open the door

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in your heart. 
So he says, after this, I looked

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and behold, the door standing 
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Man, we read over this stuff and
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Just think of that man. 
Here's this guy, he's in prison,

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he's doing time. 
He's on the Isle of Patmos. 

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He's downhearted man. 
He's he's the last one left. 

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Rome is still marching on, 
crushing human, the human 

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existence. 
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caught up and he sees an open 
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And it says, he says, come up 
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must take place after this. 
And he says at once I was in the

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spirit. 
There it is again. 

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Three times. 
John says I was in the spirit 

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and behold a throne in the 
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throne and now all of a sudden 
he's ushered into this throne 

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room vision where he sees the 
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Listen to his description. 
This is amazing, he says. 

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Let me see here. 
Look at verse 3. 

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And he sat there had the 
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carnelian, and under the throne 
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appearance of emerald. 
Around the throne were 24 

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Thrones. 
Seated on the Thrones were 24 

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elders clothed in white garments
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heads. 
From the throne came flashes of 

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lightnings, rumblings and peals 
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And before the throne were 7 
torches of fire burning, which 

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are the seven spirits of God. 
And before the Thrones it was as

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this. 
There were a sea of glass like 

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crystal around the throne. 
On each side were these four 

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living creatures. 
We won't get into that. 

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It says they were full of eyes. 
Dean Briggs mentioned this last 

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week. 
And by the way, he doesn't, he 

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didn't know what I've been 
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God's trying to talk to us. 
By the way, the worship team 

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didn't know I was going to 
preach out of this passage. 

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When we said open the scroll, 
you know that that's this 

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passage. 
They didn't know God's speaking 

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to us. 
Don't miss it. 

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And so he he sees these four 
creatures and there look at 

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verse, verse at the end of verse
8, they're singing holy, holy, 

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holy is the Lord God Almighty 
who was and is and is to come. 

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And whenever the living 
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and thanks to him who was seated
on the throne, who lives forever

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and ever. 
The 24 elders fell down before 

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him and they were who were 
seated on their Thrones and they

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worshipped him who lives 
forever. 

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And they cast their crowns 
before him, saying, worthy are 

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you Lord our God, to receive 
glory and honor and power, For 

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you have created all things, and
by your will, all things existed

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and they were created. 
Man, this is intense. 

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So John is ushered into this 
worship meeting in heaven. 

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Sometimes that's just all we 
need, man. 

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We just need to get a good 
vision of what's going on around

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the throne. 
We're so tuned into what's going

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on here. 
We need to be ushered in. 

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And I actually think that this 
passage is where we're at right 

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now. 
Yes, yes, yes. 

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I think this is the juncture 
that heartland is existing in 

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right now. 
Week after week, the Lord has 

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been causing us to ascend the 
all of the Lord and come before 

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the throne. 
And some of you are aware of it,

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and some of you aren't. 
But you realize there's a whole 

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lot of heavenly activity around 
the throne when we began to 

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worship. 
And we're simply adding our 

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worship to what's already going 
on. 

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This is not just us down here in
our weak, anemic voices. 

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Oh, Hallelujah, Lord, 
Hallelujah. 

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We're down here. 
We have ascended the hill of the

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Lord, and we're adding our voice
to what's already going on 

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around the throne. 
But there's more, and I believe 

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the Lord wants us to crossover 
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He's inviting us in. 
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Verse 5, chapter 5, verse one. 
Then I saw in the right hand of 

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him who was seated on the 
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the back sealed with 7 seals. 
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scroll in the right hand of the 
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he was in the middle of Heaven's
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There are things you will see in
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lifted up and glorified. 
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open up and you see things 
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God's presence and see Him 
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into focus. 
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of fades and He comes into focus
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rightful background role in your
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of a sudden our eyes are open 
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vivid here. 
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the throne, Speaking of 
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right hand. 
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still use it that way. 
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man. 
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the Father. 
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power and authority, and Jesus 
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the Jesus, but the Father sat on
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was a scroll. 
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It had the seals written about 
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documents that were little twins
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document and then a wax seal. 
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the witnesses and this setting 
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likely the seven spirits of God 
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You know what those are? 
I don't know either it there was

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this seal on those waxy 
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about that. 
I've you're kind of discouraged 

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your pastors up here doesn't 
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Well, hey, get used to it. 
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don't understand, but he knows 
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OK, so there's these wax seals. 
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stamp in the seal, and it would 
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preserved until the legal time 
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were like will, last will and 
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And so it was sealed up until 
the time that would register the

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release and the register and a 
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And so it had to be broken, the 
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He's living in this time where 
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Kingdom of God would have been 
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Now everybody's dead. 
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He's doing hard time. 
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encounter. 
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and they're not worried up 
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where lightning bolts are flying
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that's intense. 
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something he didn't see 
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It wasn't until that worship 
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creatures and the elders that it
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Then I saw there was a scroll. 
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purposes of God in his hand. 
And so there's purposes that God

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wanted to release from heaven 
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And the rest of the book is the 
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But there's something that had 
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in this passage when, when the, 
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whether it was the Lord or an 
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He does say there was an Angel, 
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there. 
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I'm not going to surmise who 
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Verse, chapter 4 verse. 
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After this, I looked and behold 
the door standing open. 

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The first voice which I heard 
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Come up here and I will show you
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That word must is spelled DEI, 
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unavoidably determined by prior 
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understood with contingency. 
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necessity. 
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necessity. 
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place. 
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that necessity. 
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wanting to do. 
This is what I want us to catch,

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that there are things that God 
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required John's involvement. 
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understand why. 
Why does God have mentioned all 

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this? 
Why does he if, if John is just 

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here to tell us what God told 
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said this is what God said. 
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this book. 
We have details of John's 

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interaction and John's response,
even his heart response to 

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what's going on. 
There's a reason for that 

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because this is not a one off 
anomaly that happened 

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historically, that we look back 
and think, oh, isn't that 

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awesome? 
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We are not cessationists in this
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We are continuous. 
We believe that these things 

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still happen, that God is 
looking for a people to usher 

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into His presence so that He can
release His purposes on the 

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earth. 
And it requires of us some heart

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responses that John has recorded
for us so that we can enter into

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this. 
Do you believe that this is this

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is not something that we look 
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would be awesome if we live then
Jesus himself said, it's better 

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that you live when we do than 
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giving to us a spirit that will 
usher us into these kind of 

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experiences. 
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not, we've been touching this 
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We've been bumping up against 
this dynamic. 

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But I believe there's a 
something we need to crossover 

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into. 
So listen to what he says here 

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in chapter 5. 
We read it this morning. 

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Let's read 51 again. 
Then I saw the right hand of 

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him. 
He was seated on the throne, a 

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scroll written within and on the
back sealed with 7 seals. 

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And I saw a mighty Angel 
proclaiming with a loud voice 

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who is worthy to open the scroll
and break its seals. 

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So this Angel yells out with a 
loud voice, and no one in heaven

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or on earth or under the earth 
was able to open the scroll or 

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to look into it. 
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OK, I understand nobody under 
the earth was worthy. 

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I even understand that nobody on
the earth was worthy. 

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But no one in heaven, nobody in 
heaven could open that scroll. 

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No one was worthy. 
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there, but they couldn't touch 
it. 

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innocence. 
It wasn't just that they were 

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innocent. 
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tells John, he says weep no 
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has overcome. 
So there was this overcoming, 

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this conquering that had to take
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You see, somebody had to go 
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every test. 
We've talked about this before 

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and more from a discipleship 
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Chambers, some of you have read 
some of his stuff. 

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My Utmost for His Highest is one
of his great devotionals, but he

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has some fascinating teaching on
this whole concept of there 

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being a distinction between 
innocence and purity. 

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And he says that innocence is 
nothing to be bragged about 

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because it's never been 
confronted. 

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It's never had an opportunity to
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hand, has been confronted. 
It's gone through the fire, it's

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been tested, and it maintained 
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It comes out the other side and 
it's what the New Testament also

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refers to as perfected. 
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what was in it by potential had 
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And that's what Jesus did, the 
opening of the scroll. 

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And I don't fully understand why
that was a requirement to open 

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the scroll, but I, I want to 
tune my ear and realize that 

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there are certain things that 
God wants to release on the 

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earth that only those who have 
gone through the fire can 

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access. 
In fact, there's God won't allow

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people to even see those 
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place where Jesus is at the 
center when he's being 

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glorified. 
All of a sudden we begin to see 

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things we didn't see before. 
Things come into focus and we 

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see things properly. 
And they were asking, is there 

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anyone worthy? 
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weep loudly. 
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Why? 
Because John intuitively 

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understood where he just came 
from and the circumstances he 

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just left behind momentarily, 
how desperately the world needed

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the the purposes of God to be 
released upon the earth. 

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And so there's this cry that 
erupts in John, nobody worthy. 

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And he understood the desperate 
need for those purposes to be 

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released. 
And they weren't, they, no one 

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could access them. 
And that's when the elder comes 

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and puts his armor on him and 
says, weep no more, for the lion

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of the tribe of Judah hath 
triumphed over the Prince of 

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origin. 
No, that's I'm getting ahead of 

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myself. 
The lion of the tribe of Judah 

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hath triumphed. 
I'll get there before 1. 

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And so he tells him, Weep no 
more. 

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Now that we've got to be very 
careful that we don't brush over

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that, Let me, we don't have much
time. 

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Let me read you a couple things 
here, so I'll OK weep no more. 

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This particular phrase is not a 
command for all, for few have 

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wept at all. 
Let me say it again. 

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He didn't say don't weep, he 
said weep no more. 

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There was a point at which the 
weeping was necessary, but they 

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crossed a line in which it was 
no longer necessary. 

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And if we're not careful, we 
accept the comfort of not 

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weeping when we haven't wept 
yet, we think that oh, we, we 

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don't need to be engaged. 
Jesus already overcame. 

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Jesus had already overcome 
before John wept. 

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So why did he say weep no more? 
Why didn't he say, hey, that's, 

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that's not proper up here. 
You got to be happy. 

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I think that there is a 
requirement, an emotional 

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response required of the human 
being to release the purposes of

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God. 
And that there are some things 

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that God wants to do that he 
must have a people of 

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wholeheartedness. 
He must have a people that get 

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inside this thing and feel his 
emotion and pray until it is 

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released. 
How did I do that? 

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Man, I almost got way off 
because I was. 

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I switched notes. 
We must jump. 

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We must not jump to this 
encouraging word of weep no more

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before we've been gripped with 
the weeping of travail. 

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We must not embrace the release 
before we've carried the burden.

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Now I was thinking about this 
this morning. 

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I'm just going to read you what 
I was thinking about. 

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When it comes to commentaries, 
one can find a plethora of 

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material on the cultural 
background and implications of 

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these passages, but very little 
commentary on the spiritual 

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significance of the humans 
responses. 

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In other words, you start 
reading commentaries and they 

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talk about the scroll and all 
the little strings and the legal

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ramifications and what that 
meant in the Roman Grecian world

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and all this stuff, but they 
blow right past John weeping. 

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Why? 
I'm convinced it's this, the 

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spiritual psychology, that's 
what we'll call it, the 

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psychological emotional response
of John when he's in the spirit.

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The spiritual psychology must be
interpreted by those with 

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experience in the spirit or the 
lesson can be easily missed. 

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So while academics look at that,
oh, just blow right past it, 

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there is a key to unlocking the 
purposes of God embedded in this

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story that is left there for our
lesson. 

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And if we're not careful, we 
think that, oh, that's just 

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that's that's for human interest
or it's, it's, you know, a 

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literary filler to fill in the 
gaps so that we understand what 

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was said to him and don't 
realize that's part of the 

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message for you and I that what 
John entered into was crucial 

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for what was happening. 
The purposes of God were not 

452
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:15,120
seen until John got in a setting
where Jesus with the lamb was at

453
00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:18,400
the center, the father was at 
the center and everybody was 

454
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,760
worshipping. 
And all of a sudden his eyes 

455
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,400
were open. 
He saw the scroll. 

456
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,920
And it's very specific. 
Then I saw the scroll and but 

457
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,120
still no one could open it. 
And everybody began. 

458
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,560
John begins to weep. 
And the elder comes up and says,

459
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,360
now weep no more. 
Something was released and when 

460
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:40,160
he says the lion of the tribe of
Judah, a lamb steps forward. 

461
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,400
And now we're off and running. 
And the rest of the book begins 

462
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,560
to unleash on human history. 
And depending on your 

463
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,640
eschatology, you know how much 
of that is still going on or 

464
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,760
still to happen. 
I'm sure we have people that are

465
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,480
all different stripes in this 
room. 

466
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,440
That's why it takes. 
I'll tell you what, I'm going 

467
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,520
into Wednesday night with fear 
and trembling. 

468
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,960
But the fact is, what unlocks it
is the tears of the Saints. 

469
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:24,310
So weep no more, for the lion of
the tribe of Judah hath 

470
00:28:24,310 --> 00:28:31,390
overcome. 
I was reading this and could not

471
00:28:31,390 --> 00:28:37,000
help but think of the story of 
the revival in 1954 in the 

472
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000
country of Argentina. 
That's why I said the lion of 

473
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,880
the tribe of Judah hath 
triumphed over the Prince of 

474
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:47,640
Argentina, because they heard 
that very word from the Lord and

475
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,080
it rocked a nation. 
In fact, I believe that right 

476
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,800
now that is one of the key case 
studies in Kingdom studying 

477
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,800
right now. 
So I I believe the Lord told me 

478
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,760
that there are two books that 
are Kingdom case studies that 

479
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,000
are crucial for us to understand
in this hour. 

480
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,160
One is Reese Hall intercessor 
and it gives us the keys to 

481
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,000
winning wars on our knees, 
literally world wars, to 

482
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,120
steering human history and and 
deposing dictators through 

483
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,800
prayer. 
Reese Hall Intercessor by Norman

484
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,240
Grubb. 
The other one is The Secrets of 

485
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:34,560
the Argentine Revival by RE 
Miller and RE Miller. 

486
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,080
Some of you have heard me tell 
this story. 

487
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,600
I'm sorry. 
I, I only have a little, I have 

488
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,000
a small number of stories. 
I, I talked to a preacher one 

489
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,320
time. 
Some of you know, Norm Wenig, he

490
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,240
told me, he said, Dave, you can 
preach the same thing again and 

491
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,360
again if you tell different 
stories and different jokes. 

492
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,000
I said that's not good. 
I preach different sermons, but 

493
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,760
the same stories and the same 
jokes. 

494
00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:01,880
So anyway, but Ari Miller was an
American missionary down in 

495
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,080
Argentina back in the late 40s. 
He had labored there for many 

496
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,720
years and pretty much saw no 
fruit. 

497
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:14,640
And he had eased his conscience 
think, you know, telling them 

498
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,400
all these reasons why himself, 
all these reasons why his 

499
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,120
ministry wasn't fruitful. 
Well, these people are gospel 

500
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,680
hardened. 
They, they've heard it before. 

501
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,400
They've already backslidden 
there. 

502
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,640
That's why otherwise we would 
see fruit. 

503
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,360
And he just kept telling them 
all the giving himself all these

504
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,240
excuses. 
Then one time him and a buddy 

505
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,600
went out to an area of Argentina
where the gospel had never been 

506
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,280
preached before. 
They set up a tent. 

507
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,080
And after three days, nobody got
saved. 

508
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,760
The people mocked them and he 
had to come face to face with 

509
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:50,600
his own barrenness, the lack of 
fruit out of his life and he it 

510
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,560
broke him and he cried out to 
God and he was wrestling with 

511
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,480
this lie. 
What he was toying with is, is 

512
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,000
it that there's just some 
special people who are anointed 

513
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,760
those those few people who have 
a a unique touch of God. 

514
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,880
And then there's the rest of us 
normal Joes that life just 

515
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:13,360
happens to us and we watch the 
big hitters and we're spectators

516
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,280
and then we die. 
He was living in an era of 

517
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,840
people like Catherine Coleman 
and some of the others that had 

518
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:26,000
these tremendous healing 
ministries and he had eased his 

519
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,880
conscience just kind of got out 
from underneath that burden by 

520
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,320
buying into the sly. 
But God was challenging him and 

521
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,680
the Lord spoke to him and said, 
if you will pray and fast like 

522
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,880
you've worked on the field, if 
you'll spend that much time in 

523
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,160
my, in my presence, praying and 
fasting, I will use you 

524
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,360
powerfully. 
I'll show you. 

525
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,640
So he made a commitment. 
I'm going to start praying 8 to 

526
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,600
10 hours a day. 
So he locked himself away, 

527
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,000
started fasting, praying, 
studying the word and just 

528
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,080
crying out to God, learning to 
pray. 

529
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,160
And this went on for one, two, 
3-4 months. 

530
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,440
The other missionary started 
getting irritated because he 

531
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,320
wasn't pulling his weight. 
Yeah. 

532
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,320
Oh, sure. 
You're in the secret place. 

533
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,240
I understand. 
Like he's just back there taking

534
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,560
naps, but he's crying out to 
God. 

535
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,680
And I don't remember the exact 
timeline. 

536
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,880
I want to say it was about the 
nine month mark. 

537
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,520
He hit a he hit a wall and he 
said, God, I can't do this 

538
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:20,440
anymore. 
I'm done. 

539
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,680
If you don't move by. 
I want to say it was midnight. 

540
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,840
It might have been like 9:00. 
But he said, Lord, if you don't 

541
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,200
move by this time today, I'm 
going to take that as a sign 

542
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,800
I've been deceived. 
I was imagining all this. 

543
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,880
And indeed, I am just the normal
Joe, and you only use special 

544
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,360
people. 
So he was praying that day, 

545
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,360
trying to stay in the pocket, 
you know, be faithful until that

546
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,800
hour came. 
And it's getting closer and 

547
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,400
closer, and he's getting more 
and more depressed, coming to 

548
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,000
terms with, yes, I was deceived 
and I am just a normal Joe, not 

549
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,920
God's not going to use me. 
And about 15 minutes till his 

550
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,920
deadline, there's a knock on the
door. 

551
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,960
He opens it and there's an 
Argentine pastor with his 

552
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,600
backslidden son and he says, 
Pastor Miller, I need you to 

553
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,040
talk to my son. 
He's backsliding. 

554
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,080
He's running from God. 
There's a kid listening to all 

555
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,840
this, you know, parents are 
preach to my son and the kids 

556
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,040
being dragged in there. 
And Arne Miller, he, he, he was 

557
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,520
so broken hearted. 
He had no desire. 

558
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,400
He had nothing in him to give. 
But just out of deference to his

559
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,160
friend, he sat down and starts 
talking to this young man. 

560
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,600
And all of a sudden the power of
God hits the kid and he gets 

561
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,680
radically saved. 
And the Lord spoke to him and to

562
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,080
Ari Miller and said, I can use 
you whenever I want now get back

563
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,880
to doing what I told you to do. 
God graciously gave him that 

564
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,880
little nugget, that little 
little breadcrumb to hold on to.

565
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,000
And he went back in prayer for a
couple more months. 

566
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,040
And then finally it this was the
story where then the Lord said, 

567
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,840
OK, call a prayer meeting at a 
very inopportune time, very 

568
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,160
inconvenient time. 
Four people signed up, 3 ladies 

569
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,360
and one of their husbands who 
wasn't even saved. 

570
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:53,920
They're going to have prayer 
meetings, 2 hour prayer 

571
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,320
meetings. 
He's arguing with the Lord. 

572
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,960
Lord, let's at least have it a 
convenient time. 

573
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,160
Just do what I say. 
So they do it. 

574
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:05,280
They're praying. 
It's like dusty dry crickets. 

575
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:06,840
You ever been to one of those 
permits? 

576
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,440
I've LED a lot of those permits,
OK, you know. 

577
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,600
And so they're, they're praying 
for two hours and then finally 

578
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,600
everybody come for OK, did 
anybody get anything? 

579
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,400
Nope, Nope, Nope. 
Of course, the unsaved guy. 

580
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,320
Absolutely. 
Nope. 

581
00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,600
And then his wife says, yeah, I 
just had this weird impression. 

582
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,159
I wanted to punch the table over
there, but of course I'd never 

583
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:26,440
do that. 
That's so weird. 

584
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,280
And it's just not proper for a 
lady to do. 

585
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:31,000
And Ari's like, hey, just do it.
No, I wouldn't do that. 

586
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,199
That's weird. 
So he can't talk. 

587
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,679
OK, let's go home. 
Same thing the next night. 

588
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:35,800
Anybody get anything? 
Nope. 

589
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,080
Nope. 
Of course Nope. 

590
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,600
And I just had that desire. 
So the next night he says, OK, 

591
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,239
we're going to do a prophetic 
act tonight. 

592
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,280
We're going to March around the 
table and everybody's going to 

593
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,360
punch this table as an act that 
we're praying for revival. 

594
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,880
Everybody goes, punches the 
table, boom, boom, boom. 

595
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,120
Her unsaved husband, boom. 
And that Lady, she still hasn't 

596
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,120
done it yet. 
They said, he said just punch 

597
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,080
the table. 
She hits the table and the power

598
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,560
of God hits her husband. 
He's thrown under the table. 

599
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,720
He was saved before he landed. 
And if I remember that he was 

600
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:12,440
already speaking in tongues on 
its way down and he got 

601
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,520
radically saved and that all of 
a sudden something broke and 

602
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,280
they started having wonderful 
meetings. 

603
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,040
They had their small church 
began to be visited. 

604
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:22,640
Other churches started inviting 
them. 

605
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,880
And it's starting to spread 
among these little bitty 

606
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,280
churches. 
And they're like, this is what 

607
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,600
we've longed for. 
And the Lord said, shut it down 

608
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,960
going to the Bible school and 
began to teach the students how 

609
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,560
to pray. 
And he's like, Lord, this is do 

610
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,720
what I say, yes, Sir. 
So he starts teaching at the 

611
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:41,400
Bible school. 
And one night, a young German 

612
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,880
student, it was in the middle of
the night, he got up, he was 

613
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,280
restless. 
He went out, out of the compound

614
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,040
because it was a walled compound
around the Bible school. 

615
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,400
And he walked out into a field 
and he was crying out to God. 

616
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,440
And all of a sudden, this Angel 
appeared to him and scared him 

617
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,040
spitless. 
He screamed, started running, he

618
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,560
ran back into the compound and 
as soon as he crossed the 

619
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,200
threshold of the compound, the 
Angel is coming right behind 

620
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,280
him. 
When the Angel entered the 

621
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,920
compound, every student that was
dead asleep rolled out of their 

622
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,800
bed simultaneously and began to 
just cry out to God. 

623
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,960
This just travail hit the whole 
school they went into. 

624
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,960
I believe it was 7 days of just 
intense travail. 

625
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,760
And at times that Angel would 
appear, he'd just stand in the 

626
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,960
corner of the room, and this one
young man would speak in tongues

627
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,840
the language he heard from the 
Angel, and another young man 

628
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,840
would dictate what he's saying. 
He would give the 

629
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,440
interpretation. 
And they all knew that they 

630
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,760
weren't making this up even when
they didn't see the Angel, 

631
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,680
because the young man who was 
given the interpretation was a 

632
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,320
very, very uneducated young man 
with a very small vocabulary. 

633
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,160
But he spoke very eloquently 
with big academic words. 

634
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:58,240
So finally after a few days, I 
thought, man, we need to write 

635
00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:01,560
this stuff down because it was 
all about prophecies of what God

636
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:02,960
was going to do across the 
earth. 

637
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,360
They prayed and prayed and 
prayed. 

638
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,680
They were. 
There was such a travail that 

639
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,680
came over them. 
They would weep for days. 

640
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,280
There's one of the stories, 
there was a young man leaning 

641
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,320
against a cinder block wall 
crying. 

642
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,880
After about two hours, literally
the cinder block that would 

643
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,760
absorb the tears would now wet 
to the touch and he was just 

644
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,760
still crying. 
They said after 8 hours, he was 

645
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,680
literally standing in a puddle 
of his own tears. 

646
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:38,480
That's physically impossible. 
But they were so gripped by a 

647
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,880
burden. 
God had gripped their hearts and

648
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,840
they were crying out. 
And it was, I believe on the 7th

649
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,040
day of their prayer, there was a
prophetic word and this is what 

650
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,120
it said. 
It's right out of this passage. 

651
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:54,720
Weep no more for the lion of the
tribe of Judah. 

652
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,600
That's what I said earlier. 
Hath triumphed over the Prince 

653
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,560
of Argentina. 
And Ari Miller said once that 

654
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,920
word was released, he said we 
couldn't have worked up a tear 

655
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,320
if we tried. 
There was such a joy that came 

656
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,960
in the room that the the 
weeping, the travail lifted and 

657
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,680
they knew they had the victory. 
Matter of fact, they saw a 

658
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:22,680
vision of Eva Peron, the the 
occult witch dictator's wife, 

659
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,640
who was introducing witchcraft 
at every level of government. 

660
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,480
She was appointing witches and 
warlocks into all their 

661
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,600
government. 
They had a vision of her pulling

662
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,240
your hair out, cursing God and 
dying. 

663
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:33,880
And that's exactly what 
happened. 

664
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,040
She was a 30 year old woman that
just had had hardened her heart 

665
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,320
and was introducing witchcraft. 
And within nine months of that 

666
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,200
prophetic word, they were 
filling the largest stadiums in 

667
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:51,040
Argentina, Hurricane Stadium, if
I'm not mistaken, Sat 110,000. 

668
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,000
I've got pictures of it where it
was filled to the rafters and 

669
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,680
thousands of people outside 
revival swept that nation. 

670
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,840
And what the what had happened 
is there was a an American 

671
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,520
evangelist by the name of Tommy 
Hicks that God called to go 

672
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,320
there. 
And he, I won't go into all the 

673
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,240
details because we're already 
over, but the Lord had given him

674
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,880
a word to go see Mr. Peron, and 
that would be the key. 

675
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:17,640
And Peron, he didn't know who it
was. 

676
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,120
He asked the stewardess on the 
plane. 

677
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,840
She said, he's our president. 
He went to the presidential 

678
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,920
palace, talked to a guard. 
The guard got healed, not 

679
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,320
knowing that he was the primary 
bodyguard of the president, 

680
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,760
said, come back tomorrow, I'll 
get you in. 

681
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,040
Went in to see the president. 
The president's skin was all 

682
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:38,640
cracked and oozing from this 
terrible bout of eczema. 

683
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,320
And so he said, I heard you 
healed my guard. 

684
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,840
He said, no, Sir, Jesus did. 
Can you heal me? 

685
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,480
He said, yes, Sir, give me your 
hand, He said, in the name of 

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00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,080
Jesus. 
And they said his hand became 

687
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,960
like baby skin right before 
their eyes. 

688
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,200
And the president said, you can 
have all the arenas, you can 

689
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:01,440
have all the transportation, you
can have the media, whatever you

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00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,280
need. 
And God rocked that nation. 

691
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,800
Now why am I bringing that up? 
Because I believe it is a 

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00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,240
historical case study of what 
John is teaching us here. 

693
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,800
John didn't just leave us what 
God said. 

694
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,640
He gave us the details of what 
triggered that. 

695
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,440
And those all, all those things 
are lessons to you and I that 

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00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,520
there must be the emotional 
engagement of the people of God 

697
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,240
that there's go ahead and 
stance. 

698
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:33,320
You know, I'm going to quit. 
Years ago, I read a book called 

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00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,840
Visioneering, and this phrase 
was worth the price of the book.

700
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:41,320
This is what it said. 
What could be is an idea. 

701
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:47,440
What should be is a dream. 
What must be is a vision. 

702
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,720
I believe that is an expression 
of three levels of prayer. 

703
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,320
There's a whole lot of could be 
praying. 

704
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,480
We pray, man. 
God, that'd be neat. 

705
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,480
That'd be awesome, man, if 
revival came, Lord, if you could

706
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:01,840
work that out, that'd be 
awesome. 

707
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,400
But I've got other things to do.
We're able to leave it there, 

708
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,480
and the fact is we can't work 
that stuff up, but we certainly 

709
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,480
can't avail ourselves to the 
Lord and ask Him to give us His 

710
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,320
heart, his burden. 
And then there's that should be 

711
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,160
kind of praying, where all of a 
sudden our heart is gripped and 

712
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,160
it's harder to leave that at the
altar. 

713
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,560
We find ourselves becoming 
burdened by that and we find 

714
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,640
ourselves sneaking off at work 
for a few moments just to pray a

715
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,280
few more minutes. 
That old blue Ingle rock comes 

716
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,040
over us. 
You know, we're, we're crying 

717
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,560
out to God. 
But what needs to happen is that

718
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,480
must be praying where we're so 
gripped that we're we'll, we'll 

719
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,400
wrap our things around it and 
we'll become a living, 

720
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,240
breathing, walking expression of
that request. 

721
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,520
And I, I truly believe that 
we're at a juncture as a church,

722
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,280
we've been bumping up against 
this. 

723
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,320
We've been stepping into the 
throne room, whether you realize

724
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,560
it or not. 
But what God is looking for are 

725
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,000
those who will give themselves 
wholeheartedly. 

726
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,320
And I believe the I've been 
asking the Lord for 23 years for

727
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,920
two things for this church. 
Number one, God grant us 

728
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,800
Apostolic authority for this 
region to break things open in 

729
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:18,680
the Spirit and #2 roll out the 
canons of travail. 

730
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,680
Lord, release travail. 
Grant us the ability to pray 

731
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:28,600
this stuff through so till we're
so gripped by it that we will 

732
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,840
not let go until we have the 
answer. 

733
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,680
So that's what I want to pray 
this morning. 

734
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,080
If you would just raise your 
hands, Father. 

735
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,360
Lord, I'm asking for an 
impartation from heaven. 

736
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:44,000
Lord, just as you did with 
Isaiah, you took a coal off the 

737
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,440
altar and touched it to his 
lips. 

738
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,280
Father, we ask that you would 
take a coal off the altar and 

739
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,160
put it in our heart. 
Father that you would give us a 

740
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:56,120
burden. 
Lord, that we would travail, 

741
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,600
that we would be able to give 
ourselves. 

742
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:02,120
Lord, we're not looking to 
manufacture anything, but we 

743
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:07,440
want to receive everything. 
So, Lord, I ask that you would 

744
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,200
grip our hearts, Lord, and that 
you would begin to move us 

745
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:17,560
towards your purposes, Lord. 
Lord, I thank you for what 

746
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,720
you've been doing in worship. 
Lord, I ask that you'd open the 

747
00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:25,840
eyes of our understanding that 
we'd have a greater perception 

748
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,360
of what's going on around us and
Lord, that you would usher a 

749
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,840
sin. 
Lord, don't let us be deceived 

750
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:40,520
by faulty theology that relieves
us of our responsibility in 

751
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,600
Jesus name, Amen. 
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00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,320
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753
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755
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