The Caller and The Called Part 3
January 19, 2021
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Let's talk about things that can trip us up in our calling.
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The Caller and The Called Part 3
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- he had already calledyour name
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- out of his own purposeand grace.
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- From Genesis to Revelation,if you're looking for
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- what would be acommon denominator
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- of a calling,well, it is when God
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- appoints a mortal--theimmortal invisible appoints
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- a mortal to makesomething about him visible.
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- Number two, calling--I'm makingup a word,
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- and I'm happy about it.
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- Calling consists of followshipfed by fellowship.
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- This is based on 1 Corinthians1:9, that says,
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- "God is faithful."
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- You were called by himinto fellowship with his son.
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- This is success.
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- Followship fed by fellowship.
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- This is how your lifeis a success,
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- it's how my life is a success.
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- It's not based on numbers;it's not based on results
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- that we can see.
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- It is based on did we,to the degree that we knew how,
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- did we follow the leadershipof Christ?
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- Did we follow him,and did we fellowship with him?
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- Those are all biggest guaranteesthat we will not miss
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- the specific areas of directionin our personal lives,
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- if we just havefellowship with him.
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- So we have the sensewhen he is leading us
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- to the right or to the left,that when we're led
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- by his Spirit--rememberRomans chapter 8.
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- "His spirit is the Spiritof Christ,"
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- so same one who was leading us.
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- Christ said in his physical bodyof flesh and blood,
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- "Come follow me."
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- He still says the same thing,but he leads us
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- through his Spirit.
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- Calling consists of followshipfed by fellowship.
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- Number three is this,
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- we cannot goif we will not leave.
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- That okay, one reasonwhy I'm not going
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- is 'cause I ain't leaving.
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- And again, it may or may not bea physical departure,
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- but it has to be of allegiance,
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- or we are going to follow theminstead of Christ Jesus
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- in his directionfor our personal lives.
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- And so here's what I want to sayto you
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- as we're talking about calling.
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- We're learning that ourallegiances will be tested,
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- our mentors, our mothers,our Aunt Marge,
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- we are learningthat he's going to test
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- our allegiancesto our people group,
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- to our denomination perhaps,mothers and fathers,
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- that he's looking for,"You follow me.
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- "I'm the best thingthat ever happened to you
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- "and I will the bestthing that ever happened to them
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- "in relationship to you,ultimately.
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- "They may notrecognize it for a while.
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- Ultimately, is the best thingthat ever happened to you."
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- Now, I'm going to talk to you,of course,
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- about call, call, over again.
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- Call.
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- We're talking about all of uscoming to a place
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- that we either have an arrivalor revival of a sense of awe
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- over our calling,
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- that we'd have either anawakening or a reawakening.
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- And I want to say a coupleof things to you,
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- thinking in termsof the metaphor of the phone.
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- You may have Godon call waiting,
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- you may be on a call with him
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- but most of the timeyou have him muted.
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- Anybody?
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- You ever just like justmute him.
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- Just mute him.
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- You may have an unanswered call.
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- You may have even gotten so madat him
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- that you have hung up on him,
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- but he has not yethung up on you.
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- He's still on the line.
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- What you do not have, I needsomebody to hear me clearly.
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- What you do not have if youare in Christ is a dropped call.
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- I need somebody to hear mesay that today.
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- What you do not--you mayhave a muted call,
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- you may be puttingoff answering your call,
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- you can have all sortsof things going on there,
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- but you do not havea dropped call.
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- And I can tell you that basedon Romans 11:29,
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- "that the gifts and callingof God are irrevocable."
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- You think, some of you,like I thought in my life
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- that you have sinnedso grievously
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- that your power to sinis more powerful
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- than his power to saveand sustain.
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- You still think you hadsomething to do
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- with him saving youbecause you think
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- you can make him get ridof you, and you can't.
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- And I don't know if anybodyin the room is glad
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- you cannot have a droppedcall but I am.
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- I am.
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- It may look differenton the other side,
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- but it often does.
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- You do not have a droppedcall and you need to know it.
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- Now let me tell youwhat we're going to be doing
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- during the restof this teaching time.
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- What we're goingto be thinking about,
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- we have that on your mindthat our calling consists
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- of followship fedby fellowship,
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- that we're going to leaveour allegiances,
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- spiritually speakingand we're going to follow Jesus.
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- But there are thingsthat can trip us up,
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- and it's important for usto establish these
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- so that you know themwhen they're happening,
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- and so that you can acknowledge,you know,
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- these are the things that canreally trip you up
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- in your followship,and in your calling with Christ.
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- I already know them in advanceso that when they happen,
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- I'm aware of them.
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- So what we're going to do,is we're going to have
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- an a, b, c and d,in these next minutes,
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- of things that can reallytrip us up in our calling.
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- So I want you to go with mefirst of all
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- to Judges chapter 15.
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- Now, I just want you to hold itopen for a minute,
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- but I would draw your attention,this is the saga of Sampson.
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- The saga of Sampson.
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- And you see,three different times
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- when it says specificallythat the Spirit of the Lord
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- rushed upon Samson.
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- 14:6, "The Spirit of the Lordrushed upon him,
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- "and although he had nothingin his hand,
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- he tore a lion in piecesas one would tear a young goat."
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- 14:19, "And the Spirit ofthe Lord rushed upon him,
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- "and he went down,
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- "and he struck down 30 menin the town
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- and took their spoils."
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- Judges 15:14,"Then when he came to Lehi,
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- "the Philistines cameshouting to meet him.
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- "Then the Spirit of the Lordrushed upon him,
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- "and the ropesthat were on his arms
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- "became as flaxthat has caught fire,
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- and his bonds meltedoff his hands."
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- You see, what I want to presentto you
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- based on what happenedis that Samson was in it
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- for the rush.
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- Oh, God had called him,all right,
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- and God had empowered him.
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- Now, listen carefully,the Holy Spirit worked
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- in a different way, verypurposely in the Old Testament
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- under the old covenant.
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- There are probably somewherearound,
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- roughly around 100 peoplein the Old Testament,
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- 70 at one time,so it doesn't leave many
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- of the rest of 'em that wouldbe--that would have had
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- this kind of experience.
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- The Holy Spirit would come uponsomeone to empower them
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- for a particular taskor to empower them
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- for a particular anointing,so he could come and go.
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- That changed completelyunder the new covenant.
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- Why?
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- Because what Christ did,there's this wonderful part
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- in the farewell discoursein John's Gospel,
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- where he talks and then he said,
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- "Listen, it is needful for you,"John 16, verse 7,
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- "it is needful for you that I goaway because if I go away,"
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- and he's talking about givinghis life on the cross
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- and then he's talking aboutascending to his father.
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- "Because if I go away,I will send my Spirit to you
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- but if I don't, I can't."
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- And the essence of it was,"Listen, right now,
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- "I'm walking with you,and to tell you the truth,
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- you're a train wreck."
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- If you want to seethe big difference
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- between impetuous Peterin the gospels before and after,
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- the differencewas the Holy Spirit
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- taking up residence in himbecause he's going like,
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- "I've walked beside youbut in this way,
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- my Spirit will be insideof you."
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- So everything changesunder the new covenant
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- because when he pours outhis Spirit in Acts chapter 2,
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- then is why it's so imperativeto understand
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- that we all have a calling,
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- because where the Holy Spirit
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- came upon themfor certain tasks,
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- and actions and anointingsin the Old Testament,
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- it's all of us now.
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- All of us receivehis Holy Spirit the moment
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- we are born again in Christ.
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- So it's just huge.
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- But the Word of God saysin Acts 1, verse 8,
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- "that when theHoly Spirit comes,
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- he comes with power."
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- With power.
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- You have real-liveHoly Ghost power in you.
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- Does anyone understand whatI'm saying to them today?
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- Whether you have ever accessedit or not, whether--'cause
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- if we just do everythingin our own strength,
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- we never look to it,
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- we never walk with him enoughto even know that it's possible.
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- We may not ever see itenacted in our own lives
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- but if we're walking with him,
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- the Holy Spirit--youhave real-life power in you
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- to be what you cannot beand to do what you cannot do.
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- You have the power in youto overcome addiction.
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- You have the power in you,day by day to live in freedom
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- over that, that has kept youin its clutches for so long.
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- You have real-liveHoly Spirit power in you.
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- But here is the thing,you've got this gifting,
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- enormous gifting,every single one of you do,
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- this enormous gifting in you.
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- And remember when Paul saidto Timothy in 2 Timothy 1,
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- he said to him,"You fan the flame
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- "of your gifting into a fire.
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- You fan it."
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- Well, we can either fan itinto a flame of the Holy Spirit
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- or we can fan itinto a flame of flesh.
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- Do not think we could not takethe gifting of God
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- and use it to give gloryto ourselves.
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- Hi, I'm Natalieand this is Selena.
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- (Beth Moore)I gotta tell you,
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- we have all been through a lotin the last years,
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- and I have never in my life,I say to you,
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- I have never had more confidence
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- in the pure gospelof our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
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- ♪ Lift up the nameof the one who saves ♪
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- ♪ He reigns forever ♪
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
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- ♪ Lift up your praise ♪
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- ♪ I will riseand bless the Lord ♪
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- ♪ O my soul ♪♪
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- Let me tell you something.
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- He's come to speak in powerto us this weekend,
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- because his Wordis fresh and alive.
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- (announcer)Come join us in a city near you.
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- Do not think we could not takethe gifting of God
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- and use it to give gloryto ourselves.
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- Remember that I told youwe'd be a, b, c and d here.
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- A is this, we can tripover our own feet:
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- I put a colon beside it,
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- this is what you'd callself-glory.
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- And here's the thing,for a while,
- 00:13:31.693 --> 00:13:34.629
- we will get away with it.
- 00:13:34.662 --> 00:13:36.698
- But there is a timer set on it.
- 00:13:36.731 --> 00:13:38.700
- You can know every single time.
- 00:13:38.733 --> 00:13:40.969
- You may not see it.
- 00:13:41.002 --> 00:13:42.370
- You may look at a situationthat you think, "Oh, my word.
- 00:13:42.403 --> 00:13:45.840
- I mean that is so--that isappallingly self-glorying."
- 00:13:45.874 --> 00:13:49.110
- I mean there's some timesthat you see things
- 00:13:49.143 --> 00:13:51.446
- that make the back of--the hairon the back of your neck
- 00:13:51.479 --> 00:13:53.982
- stand straight up.
- 00:13:54.015 --> 00:13:55.650
- And you think, "How arethey getting away with that?"
- 00:13:55.683 --> 00:13:58.119
- Well, it's on a timer.
- 00:13:58.152 --> 00:14:00.255
- I mean we'll think,is it okay with God?
- 00:14:00.288 --> 00:14:02.390
- Are you crazy?
- 00:14:02.423 --> 00:14:05.460
- We never self-glorythat it's okay with God.
- 00:14:05.493 --> 00:14:07.996
- Oh never.
- 00:14:08.029 --> 00:14:09.530
- Oh never.
- 00:14:09.564 --> 00:14:11.065
- The thing about it is he reallydid entrust gifting to us
- 00:14:11.099 --> 00:14:13.234
- and he's watching ussteward that gift.
- 00:14:13.268 --> 00:14:15.336
- And so the biggest thingwe see in Samson is,
- 00:14:15.370 --> 00:14:18.039
- man he is tripping overhis own gifted feet
- 00:14:18.072 --> 00:14:21.743
- with his own self-glory.
- 00:14:21.776 --> 00:14:24.279
- "When he finished speaking,he threw away the jawbone
- 00:14:24.312 --> 00:14:27.715
- "and he named the placeRamath-lehi.
- 00:14:27.749 --> 00:14:31.085
- "And he became very thirstyand called out to the Lord,
- 00:14:31.119 --> 00:14:33.087
- "'You have accomplishedthis great victory
- 00:14:33.121 --> 00:14:35.323
- "'through your servant.
- 00:14:35.356 --> 00:14:36.658
- "'Must I now die of thirstand fall into the hands
- 00:14:36.691 --> 00:14:39.560
- "of the uncircumcised?'
- 00:14:39.594 --> 00:14:41.796
- So God,"merciful and gracious is he,
- 00:14:41.829 --> 00:14:47.969
- "split a hollow placein the ground at Lehi,
- 00:14:48.002 --> 00:14:50.305
- "and water came out of it.
- 00:14:50.338 --> 00:14:51.940
- "And after Samson drank,his strength returned,
- 00:14:51.973 --> 00:14:54.575
- "and he revived.
- 00:14:54.609 --> 00:14:57.645
- "And that is why he named itEn-hakkore,
- 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:01.749
- "which is in Lehi today.
- 00:15:01.783 --> 00:15:03.484
- And he judged Israel 20 yearsin the days of the Philistines."
- 00:15:03.518 --> 00:15:08.823
- En-hakkore means the springof the caller.
- 00:15:08.856 --> 00:15:14.062
- The spring of the caller.
- 00:15:14.095 --> 00:15:16.130
- I want you to hearthis little excerpt
- 00:15:16.164 --> 00:15:18.199
- out of a Bible commentaryby Dr. D. I. Block.
- 00:15:18.232 --> 00:15:23.504
- And he writes this,in talking about this portion.
- 00:15:23.538 --> 00:15:26.240
- "Not one to miss an opportunityto leave his signature
- 00:15:26.274 --> 00:15:29.043
- "on the map,
- 00:15:29.077 --> 00:15:30.778
- "Samson named this springnear Lehi, En-hakkore,
- 00:15:30.812 --> 00:15:35.783
- a name it still bore at the timethis account was written."
- 00:15:35.817 --> 00:15:38.619
- I'm jumping down a little bitin his excerpt
- 00:15:38.653 --> 00:15:41.656
- where he talks about the name.
- 00:15:41.689 --> 00:15:44.759
- "It focuses on himand memorializes
- 00:15:44.792 --> 00:15:47.895
- "the power of this manto manipulate
- 00:15:47.929 --> 00:15:51.099
- "and move the hand of Godrather than the gracious action
- 00:15:51.132 --> 00:15:54.836
- of God on his behalf."
- 00:15:54.869 --> 00:15:57.071
- He named the springafter himself.
- 00:15:57.105 --> 00:16:00.742
- The spring of the caller.
- 00:16:00.775 --> 00:16:02.543
- Well, you know what dude?
- 00:16:02.577 --> 00:16:03.978
- Actually, he is the caller.
- 00:16:04.012 --> 00:16:05.480
- You and I are sittingnext to this spring.
- 00:16:05.513 --> 00:16:09.350
- Because it says,"His spirit was revived."
- 00:16:09.384 --> 00:16:12.020
- He's revived, and he didwhat he'd been called to do
- 00:16:12.053 --> 00:16:16.190
- for the next 20 years.
- 00:16:16.224 --> 00:16:18.326
- Disastrously, at times.
- 00:16:18.359 --> 00:16:24.799
- Will we be revived by a springwe name for ourselves
- 00:16:24.832 --> 00:16:31.639
- or by a springof the living water
- 00:16:32.707 --> 00:16:36.577
- where we know who our helpcomes from?
- 00:16:36.611 --> 00:16:40.014
- We know where our spring is.
- 00:16:40.048 --> 00:16:42.150
- Remember that the goal webelieve that God set for us is
- 00:16:42.183 --> 00:16:45.853
- that each one of us would eitherbe awakened
- 00:16:45.887 --> 00:16:50.825
- with a fresh aweover our divine calling
- 00:16:50.858 --> 00:16:54.529
- or reawakened,
- 00:16:54.562 --> 00:16:57.231
- that it will be an arrivalor a revival.
- 00:16:57.265 --> 00:17:01.602
- B is this, we can trip oversomeone else's feet, a rivalry.
- 00:17:01.636 --> 00:17:07.775
- I want you to think about this.
- 00:17:07.809 --> 00:17:09.644
- I was thinking aboutwhen I was growing up
- 00:17:09.677 --> 00:17:12.847
- in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
- 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:14.482
- And back in those days when wehad this kind of real-life phone
- 00:17:14.515 --> 00:17:17.919
- here that plugged in actually tothe wall, and we had two of 'em.
- 00:17:17.952 --> 00:17:21.022
- I had two of 'em.
- 00:17:21.055 --> 00:17:22.356
- But they were the same line, youknow, so you could answer it
- 00:17:22.390 --> 00:17:25.460
- in either end of the house.
- 00:17:25.493 --> 00:17:27.962
- And so my grandmother,
- 00:17:27.995 --> 00:17:29.330
- I was raised in afour-generation home
- 00:17:29.363 --> 00:17:31.732
- or a three-generation home,and my grandmother would listen
- 00:17:31.766 --> 00:17:37.338
- on the other line any timeus kids were on the phone.
- 00:17:37.371 --> 00:17:41.042
- And you'd--'causewe're a bunch of us.
- 00:17:41.075 --> 00:17:43.111
- I have lots of brothersand sisters.
- 00:17:43.144 --> 00:17:44.712
- And you know, we'd just walkedthrough the house to the kitchen
- 00:17:44.745 --> 00:17:46.914
- and there she'd be sitting.
- 00:17:46.948 --> 00:17:48.249
- I mean she's all like,she'd pull up a chair,
- 00:17:48.282 --> 00:17:50.218
- and she's all like.
- 00:17:50.251 --> 00:17:52.553
- And then she looks at you, you'dgo, "Nanny, get off the phone."
- 00:17:52.587 --> 00:17:55.623
- And she'd go, "Get on that.Scat."
- 00:17:55.656 --> 00:17:57.291
- I mean she wasshameless about it.
- 00:17:57.325 --> 00:18:00.661
- Shameless about it.
- 00:18:00.695 --> 00:18:02.363
- In essence, we're just listeningin on somebody else's calling.
- 00:18:02.396 --> 00:18:04.499
- We're just obsessedwith their calling.
- 00:18:04.532 --> 00:18:06.067
- Anybody know whatI'm talking about?
- 00:18:06.100 --> 00:18:07.502
- We see this in Peter.
- 00:18:07.535 --> 00:18:08.836
- In John chapter 21
- 00:18:08.870 --> 00:18:10.771
- when Christ gives hima little clue
- 00:18:10.805 --> 00:18:13.007
- about what he has ahead.
- 00:18:13.040 --> 00:18:14.342
- And he said--and he looks backat John and goes,
- 00:18:14.375 --> 00:18:15.843
- "What about him?"
- 00:18:15.877 --> 00:18:17.178
- And he's all on his phonetrying to listen to his call.
- 00:18:17.211 --> 00:18:19.914
- Pick up your own phonebecause you got your own call.
- 00:18:19.947 --> 00:18:24.952
- And when we got all obsessedwith somebody else's calling,
- 00:18:24.986 --> 00:18:27.255
- what happens is we trip up
- 00:18:27.288 --> 00:18:29.991
- all over their enormouslygifted feet.
- 00:18:30.024 --> 00:18:34.028
- Their enormously,beautiful feet.
- 00:18:34.061 --> 00:18:35.963
- Okay, may I call uponyour patience
- 00:18:35.997 --> 00:18:39.901
- to read you an excerptout of the book,
- 00:18:39.934 --> 00:18:42.970
- of Os Guinness's book,"The Call."
- 00:18:43.004 --> 00:18:45.139
- And I knew this basic story, andsome of you may know it as well,
- 00:18:45.173 --> 00:18:48.009
- but it will be a powerfulreminder.
- 00:18:48.042 --> 00:18:50.111
- "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartwould unquestionably
- 00:18:50.144 --> 00:18:53.314
- "be among a tiny handfulof people elected
- 00:18:53.347 --> 00:18:55.883
- "without contest to the highestcircle of human genius,
- 00:18:55.917 --> 00:19:01.155
- "'a wonderchild,''a prodigy of nature,'
- 00:19:01.189 --> 00:19:04.192
- "'a veritable miracle,''sublime,' 'celestial,'
- 00:19:04.225 --> 00:19:07.662
- 'precocious beyond belief,''surpassing all imagination.'"
- 00:19:07.695 --> 00:19:10.932
- All of these are in quotations.
- 00:19:10.965 --> 00:19:12.833
- "Odd tributes have pouredforth in response to his gifts
- 00:19:12.867 --> 00:19:16.904
- "as a composer and a musician,
- 00:19:16.938 --> 00:19:18.706
- "ever since he burstonto the world's musical stage
- 00:19:18.739 --> 00:19:21.709
- "in 1763 at the age of sevenunder the tutelage
- 00:19:21.742 --> 00:19:26.614
- "of his father Leopold.
- 00:19:26.647 --> 00:19:28.616
- "Not surprisingly,such utterly extraordinary,
- 00:19:28.649 --> 00:19:31.485
- "seemingly transcendentgiftedness,
- 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:33.754
- "has been seen as the focusof a matching envy.
- 00:19:33.788 --> 00:19:37.892
- "Most famously in connectionwith his contemporary
- 00:19:37.925 --> 00:19:40.962
- "Antonio Salieri.
- 00:19:40.995 --> 00:19:43.331
- "Five years older than Mozart,Salieri had been established
- 00:19:43.364 --> 00:19:46.734
- "seven years as court composerand conductor
- 00:19:46.767 --> 00:19:49.804
- "of the Italian Opera in Viennabefore Mozart moved there.
- 00:19:49.837 --> 00:19:54.375
- "For 33 years after Mozart died,he occupied
- 00:19:54.408 --> 00:19:59.847
- "the even loftier position
- 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:02.183
- "of the emperor's courtin Vienna.
- 00:20:02.216 --> 00:20:05.052
- "So from the perspectiveof the court and the public,
- 00:20:05.086 --> 00:20:08.155
- "Salieri had every reasonto pity Mozart,
- 00:20:08.189 --> 00:20:11.592
- "not to envy him.
- 00:20:11.626 --> 00:20:13.394
- "And there's no evidencefor the rumor
- 00:20:13.427 --> 00:20:15.496
- "that Salieri confessedthe year before he died in 1825
- 00:20:15.529 --> 00:20:20.334
- "that he had poisonedhis younger rival,
- 00:20:20.368 --> 00:20:22.670
- "yet the traumatic potentialof this rumored rivalry
- 00:20:22.703 --> 00:20:25.873
- "has attracted playwrightssuch as Alexander Pushkin,
- 00:20:25.906 --> 00:20:29.877
- "whose Mozart and Salieriwas set to music,
- 00:20:29.910 --> 00:20:32.747
- "and Peter Shaffer whoseaward-winning Amadeus
- 00:20:32.780 --> 00:20:36.617
- "was made into an award-winningfilm by Milos Forman.
- 00:20:36.651 --> 00:20:40.621
- "At one point in Shaffer's play,Salieri finds himself alone
- 00:20:40.655 --> 00:20:44.158
- "in a room with a portfolioof Mozart's compositions
- 00:20:44.191 --> 00:20:47.662
- "on the desk in front of him.
- 00:20:47.695 --> 00:20:49.697
- "He reaches out to take itbut as if fearful
- 00:20:49.730 --> 00:20:52.700
- "of what he might find,he pauses.
- 00:20:52.733 --> 00:20:56.037
- "Then he snatches it, tears ofthe ribbon and opens the case.
- 00:20:56.070 --> 00:21:00.908
- "His eye falls on the openingbars of Mozart's 29th Symphony
- 00:21:00.941 --> 00:21:06.847
- in A major."
- 00:21:06.881 --> 00:21:10.184
- He's going to say she.
- 00:21:10.217 --> 00:21:11.519
- I'm about to quote what he saysand this is straight
- 00:21:11.552 --> 00:21:13.187
- from the play.
- 00:21:13.220 --> 00:21:14.588
- He's going to refer to sheand he means Mozart's wife.
- 00:21:14.622 --> 00:21:17.458
- "She had said that these wereoriginal scores,
- 00:21:17.491 --> 00:21:21.095
- "first and only draftsof the music,
- 00:21:21.128 --> 00:21:24.231
- "yet they looked like faircopies.
- 00:21:24.265 --> 00:21:26.567
- "They showed no correctionsof any kind.
- 00:21:26.600 --> 00:21:29.403
- "It was puzzling.
- 00:21:29.437 --> 00:21:32.039
- "Then suddenly alarming,what was evident was that Mozart
- 00:21:32.073 --> 00:21:35.876
- "was simply transcribing musiccompletely finished
- 00:21:35.910 --> 00:21:40.981
- "in his head
- 00:21:41.015 --> 00:21:43.050
- "and finished as most musicis never finished.
- 00:21:43.084 --> 00:21:47.555
- "Displace one note andthere would be diminishment.
- 00:21:47.588 --> 00:21:51.592
- "Displace one phraseand the structure would fall.
- 00:21:51.625 --> 00:21:56.530
- "I was staring through the cageof those meticulous ink strokes,
- 00:21:56.564 --> 00:22:03.037
- at an absolute beauty."
- 00:22:04.438 --> 00:22:09.143
- So the author Guinness picksup again and says,
- 00:22:09.176 --> 00:22:11.312
- "Stunned, Salieri collapsessenseless to the floor
- 00:22:11.345 --> 00:22:16.384
- "where he lies quite still,
- 00:22:16.417 --> 00:22:18.252
- "his head next to the scoreof the heavenly music.
- 00:22:18.285 --> 00:22:22.022
- "As the clock strikes 9:00,he raises his head
- 00:22:22.056 --> 00:22:26.560
- and addresses God."
- 00:22:26.594 --> 00:22:28.829
- And I want to share with youfrom the play
- 00:22:28.863 --> 00:22:31.565
- what he says to God.
- 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:33.434
- "Capisco.I know my fate.
- 00:22:33.467 --> 00:22:37.671
- "Now for the first timeI feel my emptiness
- 00:22:37.705 --> 00:22:40.875
- "as Adam felt his nakedness.
- 00:22:40.908 --> 00:22:44.278
- "Tonight, at some inn,somewhere in this city,
- 00:22:44.311 --> 00:22:48.416
- "stands a giggling childwho can put on paper,
- 00:22:48.449 --> 00:22:53.087
- "without actually setting downhis billiard cue,
- 00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:57.458
- "casual notes which turnmy most considered ones
- 00:22:57.491 --> 00:23:01.162
- "into lifeless scratches.
- 00:23:01.195 --> 00:23:03.297
- "Grazie, Signore.
- 00:23:03.330 --> 00:23:05.433
- "You gave me the desire to serveyou, which most men do not have,
- 00:23:05.466 --> 00:23:10.438
- "then saw to it the servicewas shameful to the ears
- 00:23:10.471 --> 00:23:14.408
- "of the server.
- 00:23:14.442 --> 00:23:15.810
- "Grazie.
- 00:23:15.843 --> 00:23:17.545
- "You gave me the desireto praise you
- 00:23:17.578 --> 00:23:19.780
- "which most men do not feel,then made me mute.
- 00:23:19.814 --> 00:23:26.020
- "Grazie tante.
- 00:23:26.053 --> 00:23:28.022
- "You put into me perceptionof the incomparable
- 00:23:28.055 --> 00:23:32.526
- "which most men never know.
- 00:23:32.560 --> 00:23:35.229
- "Then ensured that I wouldknow myself forever mediocre.
- 00:23:35.262 --> 00:23:41.402
- "What?What is my fault?
- 00:23:42.536 --> 00:23:47.374
- "Until this day,
- 00:23:47.408 --> 00:23:48.776
- "I have pursuedvirtue with rigor.
- 00:23:48.809 --> 00:23:52.780
- "I have labored long hoursto relieve my fellow men.
- 00:23:52.813 --> 00:23:56.484
- "I have worked and workedthe talent you allowed me.
- 00:23:56.517 --> 00:23:59.553
- "You know how hard I've worked,solely, that in the end,
- 00:23:59.587 --> 00:24:05.159
- "in the practice of the art
- 00:24:05.192 --> 00:24:07.161
- "which alone makesthe world comprehensible to me,
- 00:24:07.194 --> 00:24:12.233
- "I might hear your voice.
- 00:24:12.266 --> 00:24:15.803
- "And now I do hear it and itsays only one name, 'Mozart.'
- 00:24:15.836 --> 00:24:21.609
- "And my only reward,my sublime privilege,
- 00:24:25.379 --> 00:24:29.850
- "is to be the sole manalive in this time
- 00:24:29.884 --> 00:24:34.622
- "who shall clearly recognizeyour incarnation.
- 00:24:34.655 --> 00:24:38.259
- "Grazie e grazie ancora.
- 00:24:38.292 --> 00:24:40.661
- "So be it.
- 00:24:40.694 --> 00:24:42.296
- "From this time on,we are enemies, you and I.
- 00:24:42.329 --> 00:24:45.866
- "I'll not accept it from you.
- 00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:47.968
- "Do you hear?
- 00:24:48.002 --> 00:24:49.470
- "They say God is not mocked.
- 00:24:49.503 --> 00:24:50.804
- "I tell you, man is not mocked.
- 00:24:50.838 --> 00:24:53.440
- "I am not mocked.
- 00:24:53.474 --> 00:24:55.976
- "They say the Spiritbloweth where it listeth.
- 00:24:56.010 --> 00:24:57.978
- "I tell you, 'No.
- 00:24:58.012 --> 00:25:00.648
- It must list to virtueor not blow at all.'"
- 00:25:00.681 --> 00:25:05.219
- I seek you, I don't even thinkthey seek you.
- 00:25:09.189 --> 00:25:11.358
- I don't even thinkthey take you seriously.
- 00:25:11.392 --> 00:25:14.495
- I mean those people are crazy.
- 00:25:14.528 --> 00:25:16.030
- Watch them, watch how they act.
- 00:25:16.063 --> 00:25:18.065
- Lord, are you watching thisTV show?
- 00:25:18.098 --> 00:25:21.535
- They're all buffoons.
- 00:25:21.569 --> 00:25:27.341
- You would do this.
- 00:25:27.374 --> 00:25:29.176
- I'm virtuous.
- 00:25:29.209 --> 00:25:31.612
- I've done what you told me to doand you stick somebody out there
- 00:25:31.645 --> 00:25:37.084
- more gifted than me.
- 00:25:37.117 --> 00:25:39.620
- Die to it.
- 00:25:39.653 --> 00:25:41.322
- It is poison to us.
- 00:25:41.355 --> 00:25:43.290
- Die to it.
- 00:25:43.324 --> 00:25:45.159
- This was a man,that as far as we know,
- 00:25:45.192 --> 00:25:46.894
- never ever found satisfaction
- 00:25:46.927 --> 00:25:50.297
- in what Godhad called him to do
- 00:25:50.331 --> 00:25:52.700
- because he was too obsessed
- 00:25:52.733 --> 00:25:54.535
- with what God had calledsomeone else to do.
- 00:25:54.568 --> 00:25:57.705
- Is anybody steppingin that with me today?
- 00:25:57.738 --> 00:26:00.708
- We have never had the rivalrylike we have now
- 00:26:00.741 --> 00:26:03.444
- because we see everyone now.
- 00:26:03.477 --> 00:26:09.049
- In our grandparents' day,that was not true.
- 00:26:09.083 --> 00:26:11.919
- Now everything's a competition.
- 00:26:11.952 --> 00:26:13.287
- Everything's a competition.
- 00:26:13.320 --> 00:26:14.688
- This will not come naturallyto your flesh, it will not.
- 00:26:14.722 --> 00:26:20.828
- You make the decision,"I'm just not competing."
- 00:26:20.861 --> 00:26:23.497
- And you're going like,"Well, they're still competing."
- 00:26:23.530 --> 00:26:25.065
- Let them.Knock yourself out.
- 00:26:25.099 --> 00:26:26.967
- Knock yourself out.
- 00:26:27.001 --> 00:26:28.335
- If they're trying to get infront of you, just like go.
- 00:26:28.369 --> 00:26:34.575
- "Go right ahead.
- 00:26:34.608 --> 00:26:36.176
- I will gladly esteemyou better than myself."
- 00:26:36.210 --> 00:26:37.878
- And you know what?
- 00:26:37.911 --> 00:26:39.213
- You will be free, andthey will be in bondage.
- 00:26:39.246 --> 00:26:45.219
- Amen.
- 00:26:45.252 --> 00:26:46.987
- [applauding]
- 00:26:47.021 --> 00:26:52.326
- You see, he's seeingall of time at once.
- 00:26:56.130 --> 00:26:57.931
- He sees what's happening,four generations from now,
- 00:26:57.965 --> 00:27:01.101
- that your now life is impacting.
- 00:27:01.135 --> 00:27:04.238
- You have no idea that it is,but it's going
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- to impact the lineafter you're gone.
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- "Ah Beth, I don'teven have children."
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- Listen, in the Word of God,its spiritual lineage that gets
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- the most press in the NewTestament framework of family.
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- It's spiritual lineage.
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- (Selena)If you don't already have plans
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- for getting into the Scripturesthis new year,
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- join us as we diveinto the study of Galatians.
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- (Natalie)And we look forward
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- to seeing you next week.
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