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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - The Mystery Revealed | December 1, 2024
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- Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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- Bishop t.d. jakes: how much more does god have to be revealed?
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- You are not here because somebody explained him to you.
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- You are here because he revealed himself to you.
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- He showed himself to you.
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- He chose to let you see him.
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- ♪ oh, oh, the potter's touch, ♪
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- ♪ the potter's touch." ♪♪
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- Bishop jakes: and, as i told you earlier, the greek word for mystery
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- Is mustérion.
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- And, it literally means--all throughout the new testament,
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- Wherever you see it; you will see it over and over again.
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- It literally means that the things of god that were once
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- Hidden are later revealed through christ unto us.
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- Okay, so, when we start talking about a mystery, we're not
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- Talking about something that didn't exist; we're just talking
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- About something that wasn't revealed.
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- I have a gift--i have several gifts for different ones of
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- My children, that they don't know anything about.
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- When i decide to let them know about it, i will let them know
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- About it.
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- When they know about it, that doesn't mean that i created it
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- Or i got it.
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- What they know about it, it was hidden from them, but it
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- Was theirs.
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- When you start talking about a mystery revealed, it is amazing.
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- There are levels to revelation.
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- Every preacher doesn't have the same level of revelation.
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- Every person doesn't have the same level of revelation.
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- Every marriage doesn't have the same level of revelation.
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- Revelation grows.
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- You can know it on one level and not know it on another.
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- I was thinking about this whole notion of how i would begin to
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- Talk about the mystery revealed, and god gave me an image of a
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- Woman, and she's--her cycle has stopped, and she's getting sick
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- In the morning.
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- She's getting sick in the morning strangely, and she's not
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- Normally sick and she's sick in the morning, and she can't
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- Figure out what's wrong.
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- What do you think might be wrong?
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- Oh, she's pregnant; she's pregnant.
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- She's pregnant, but she doesn't know it yet.
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- But, her not knowing it doesn't mean she's not pregnant.
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- It hasn't been revealed to her yet, but that does not negate
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- The fact that some living thing is growing inside of her body.
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- When she knows about it, that doesn't mean that it started; it
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- Could have started before she knew about it.
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- So, she goes; she gets a pregnancy test, and then she
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- Finds out, indeed, she is pregnant.
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- That's a level of revelation.
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- The moment she gets a revelation that she's pregnant, that is a
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- Level of revelation.
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- She doesn't know what gender it is; she just knows that
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- She's pregnant.
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- After months and months of formation, eventually she will
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- Go, and they will do an ultrasound on her and reveal
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- The gender.
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- Whoo, that's another revelation, okay?
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- And then she finds out, "i'm pregnant and it's a girl or it's
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- A boy."
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- But she hasn't met him yet.
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- After the third trimester is completed, she goes into labor,
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- She dilates, her water breaks, she gives birth, and prevails.
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- She pushes forth a baby, and the baby is revealed.
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- Those are three revelations before she meets the baby.
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- Are you hearing what i'm saying to you?
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- Now, she meets the baby when they lay the baby in her arms
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- And cuts the cord.
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- But she still doesn't know the baby.
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- She doesn't know the baby just because,
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- "ohh, boo boo boo boo boo."
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- Yeah, but you don't know boo boo yet.
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- You got to watch boo boo a while before you figure out whether
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- Boo boo is a liar or not, or whether boo boo can be trusted,
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- And whether boo boo is dependable, or whether boo boo
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- Is loyal.
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- You don't know them, but the baby has been revealed.
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- And then, as you raise them, you get to know them.
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- There are different levels of revelation.
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- From the book of genesis all the way to the book of revelations,
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- God is giving us different levels of revelations of what
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- Was hidden from the foundations of the world.
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- It's coming in stages; it's coming in phases; it's coming
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- Through--revelation knowledge is coming through teaching; it's
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- Coming through word; it's coming through experience until christ
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- Be formed in you.
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- Just because you came to the altar and gave your life to
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- Christ doesn't mean that christ is in full formation in you.
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- Paul said, in galatians, "my little children, in whom i
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- Travail in birth again until christ be formed in you."
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- Christ has to be formed in you.
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- It takes a lifetime to live holy.
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- Y'all ain't gonna talk to me.
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- I mean to really live holy, to really get it down, to get
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- Where--holiness is more than long dresses and not cutting
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- Your hair and all that kind of stuff.
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- Holiness is more than not fornicating and not drinking
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- Liquor and not smoking dope.
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- For holiness is more than that; holiness is where you don't
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- Think evil.
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- Oh, yeah, you're gonna clap 'fore it's over, yeah.
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- The bible said, "the very thought of foolishness is sin."
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- It takes a long time.
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- I hear people say, "oh, i'm holy."
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- Yeah, but, yeah, yeah, uh huh; that's cute; that's nice;
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- That's nice.
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- But, if everything you thought was played on a loudspeaker
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- Right now, you put up your finger and tip out of here right
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- Now because it takes a long time for christ to come into full
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- Formation in you.
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- Are you hearing what i'm saying to you?
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- A mystery is that which can only be known through the revelation
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- Of god.
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- That means that god cannot be proven; he cannot be explained;
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- He cannot be fussed about; he cannot be argued about.
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- He must be revealed.
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- The mri revealed it's a boy.
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- I didn't know it was a boy till they revealed the ultrasound,
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- Rather, revealed it was a boy.
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- I didn't know i was pregnant until the test revealed i
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- Was pregnant.
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- I didn't know they were gonna have dimples like grandma till i
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- Push out the baby, and it was revealed.
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- If you have to be revealed, how much more does god have to
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- Be revealed?
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- You are not here because somebody explained him to you.
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- You are here because he revealed himself to you.
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- He showed himself to you.
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- He chose to let you see him.
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- Some of it came through preaching, or some of it came
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- Through a song.
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- Some of you weren't even in church.
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- You might have been at the house; you might have been in
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- The club; you might have been in the car, and he just gave you
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- A sneak peek, and he revealed himself to you.
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- And, all of a sudden, you got convicted about things you
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- Weren't convicted about before.
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- And you decided to change your life, and the more you walk with
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- Him, you're taking off stuff every day, changing habits
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- And changing behaviors, because there are levels of revelation
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- Because our god is a mystery.
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- Great is the mystery of godliness.
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- Great is the mystery of godliness.
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- That's why you are not to judge one another.
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- "in a great house," the bible says, "there are vessels of
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- Honor and dishonor."
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- I got five kids, and only two of them the same age because
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- They're twins; the rest of them are all different ages, at
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- Different stages of development.
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- You don't have no 12 kids and all of them 7--yet church will
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- Force you to act like you're the same age as everybody else
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- Because we do not make room for the development of revelation,
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- Which takes time for christ to be formed in you.
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- So, you're 7 having to act like you're 27 because everybody's
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- Judging you like you're 27, but you're really still on
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- A 7 level.
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- Oh, y'all don't hear what i'm saying; i'm gonna make this
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- Thing clear.
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- It is this god that has chosen to reveal himself unto us all
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- Through the old testament, through shadows, through types.
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- He shows up in all kinds of ways.
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- He's the fourth man in the fiery furnace.
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- He's a kinsman redeemer for ruth.
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- He's the day star of the old testament.
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- He's a lover of my soul in the song of solomon.
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- He's the voice of the lord walking through the cool of
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- The garden.
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- All of these are quick glimpses and glances of him just giving
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- Us shadows of who he is.
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- Hallelujah, he is the tabernacle in the old testament.
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- He is a brazen altar and the brazen labor.
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- He is the mercy seat in the old testament.
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- He is the veil in the temple.
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- He is the bread on the table.
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- He is the altar of incense.
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- All of these eternal glimpses where he's giving you tests,
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- And you're coming through different stages of
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- The revelation.
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- He is the animal that was slain that covered adam's nakedness.
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- We don't know yet that it's a lamb; it's just an animal.
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- We don't find out that the animal is a lamb until we get to
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- The book of exodus.
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- And, in the book of exodus, we find out that the animal is
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- A lamb and a firstling.
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- We find out that it's a lamb in genesis with abel, but we don't
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- Know that it's a male and it's a firstling till we get to exodus,
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- And we don't know that it's slain and applied to
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- The doorpost until exodus.
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- And it's way over in the book of isaiah before we find out that
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- The lamb is really a man, "surely he hath borne our
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- Griefs, and carried our sorrows...
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- The chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
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- Stripes, we are healed."
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- And we still don't know which man.
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- It is only when john the baptist is baptizing in the jordan river
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- That we know that the lamb that was a coat of skin in the book
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- Of genesis, the lamb that was offered up by abel in the book
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- Of genesis, the lamb that was painted on the doorposts in
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- The book of exodus is only the man that was pointed out in
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- The jordan river with water running in between his legs.
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- All of a sudden, john says, "behold, this is the one; this
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- Is who isaiah is talking about.
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- Behold, the lamb of god, which will take away the sins of
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- The world."
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- This is god being revealed.
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- Jesus is god being revealed.
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- Bishop jakes: as we prepare to offer up before god in the
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- Spirit of thanksgiving, with a cheerfulness of heart and a
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- Purity of mind, into thy presence we now come.
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- Oh, oh, oh, you have been so good.
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- I can't even explain how good you've been.
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- You've been my everything, my everything, and as i lift up
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- Something before you, i realize that whatever i have given does
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- Not compare to your everything, but i want to have reciprocity.
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- I cannot let you be this good to me while i ignore my
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- Responsibility to reciprocate back to you.
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- Bishop jakes: god was manifest in the flesh, and paul is teaching timothy,
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- "this is a mystery."
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- You can't explain it; you can't argue about it.
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- The church has been arguing about the godhead for years.
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- I stopped arguing about the godhead because i think it's
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- Stupid because you cannot explain what must be revealed.
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- If you argue with me and tell me he's one, i can show you places
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- Where he was individually three.
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- If you tell me he's three, i want to know, are they gonna be
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- Sitting on top of each other in heaven?
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- Because there ain't but one throne.
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- Hah, god cannot be explained; he must be revealed.
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- He must be revealed.
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- There's no need in arguing about it; he must be revealed.
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- You need a doctrine to make you feel good, but it must
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- Be revealed.
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- This is a revelation, not a doctrine.
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- God was manifest in the flesh.
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- "behold, a virgin shall be with child.
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- They shall bring forth a child.
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- They shall call his name emmanuel."
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- God tabernacled with us.
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- "oh, wait, so that's what the tabernacle was about in
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- The old testament?"
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- God playing peek-a-boo; god showing us.
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- That's what the tabernacle was in the middle of the 12 tribes
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- Of israel.
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- The tabernacle is in the middle of the 12 tribes, and that is
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- A picture of christ being the dwell amongst us.
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- Y'all didn't hear that.
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- Benjamin didn't own him.
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- Judah didn't own him.
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- Y'all didn't hear.
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- Issachar didn't own him.
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- Nobody could say that they own god.
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- He's a dwell-amongst-us god.
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- Issachar couldn't say he owned him.
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- He's a dwell-amongst-us god.
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- In fact, he said, "where two or three are gathered in my name,
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- There am i in the midst of them."
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- Glory to god, not one of them, all three of them.
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- He said, "i dwell in your unity.
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- I'll come in the room.
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- If two or three of you gather in my name,
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- I'll jump in the middle of you.
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- I'll get in the middle of your praise.
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- If you start talking about me, i will sit down in the middle
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- Of your conversation."
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- That god would become--ohhh, now let me start--that god
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- Would become intimately entangled with people like us.
- 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.970
- Out of the same mouth comes blessings and cursings, and,
- 00:15:21.970 --> 00:15:25.406
- Yet, when we start saying, "hallelujah, he's worthy to be
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- Praised; hallelujah, he's worthy to be praised" out of our filthy
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- Mouth, god will come and sit down
- 00:15:32.847 --> 00:15:35.450
- In the middle of the prayer.
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- Great is the mystery of godliness.
- 00:15:36.784 --> 00:15:39.120
- God was manifest in the flesh.
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- Saint john chapter 1 says it this way; i want to read verse
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- 14 through 18, "and the word was made flesh."
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- Can you imagine saying something out of your mouth that
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- Became physical?
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- And the word, word, word, word, word, word, word, word, word,
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- Word, word, word, word, word, word, word...person.
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- Did you see that?
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- And the word, word, word, word, word, word, word...person.
- 00:16:12.620 --> 00:16:16.491
- The word was made flesh.
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- John 1:1 says, "in the beginning was the word, and the word was
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- With god, and the word was god.
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- All things were made by him, and without him was not anything
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- Made that was made.
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- In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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- Light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended
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- It not."
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- It's word all through 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, --14, poop, "is flesh."
- 00:16:34.175 --> 00:16:43.551
- And why would he want to be flesh in the first place,
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- When the carnality is an enemy against god?
- 00:16:46.454 --> 00:16:49.857
- And yet he took on filth so he could be kin to you,
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- So he could be touched by your moaning and groaning,
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- So that he could understand your frailties and your weakness,
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- So he would know what tired was.
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- Until he took on flesh, he didn't know what sleep was.
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- He didn't know what tired was.
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- He didn't know what irritated was.
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- When he took on flesh, now, he can be touched by the feeling
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- Of our infirmity.
- 00:17:23.257 --> 00:17:24.592
- Now he can redeem us because, according to the law, he has to
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- Be kin to me in order to redeem me, and he wasn't kin to me
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- As god.
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- He had to become man in order to be a kinsman so he could redeem
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- Me from the curse of the law and from sin and death.
- 00:17:39.373 --> 00:17:42.110
- "and the word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us, and we
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- Beheld his glory, as the glory as of the only begotten of
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- The father, full of grace and truth."
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- We--if that's the only way we got to see god was
- 00:17:55.756 --> 00:17:58.092
- Through jesus.
- 00:17:58.092 --> 00:18:01.696
- Jesus expresses him.
- 00:18:01.696 --> 00:18:03.364
- "john bare witness of him, and cried, saying,
- 00:18:03.364 --> 00:18:05.733
- 'this was he of whom i spake.
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- He that cometh after me is preferred before me,
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- For he was before me.'"
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- He was before me.
- 00:18:13.941 --> 00:18:15.977
- I'm gonna go back, go back to that scripture; i wanna read
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- That again, "he that cometh after me is preferred before me,
- 00:18:18.346 --> 00:18:24.952
- For he was before me."
- 00:18:24.952 --> 00:18:28.523
- Do you not know that jesus said, "before abraham was, i am?"
- 00:18:28.523 --> 00:18:36.898
- Are you following what i'm saying to you tonight?
- 00:18:36.898 --> 00:18:39.100
- I'm gonna go kind of deep with you, but you can hang,
- 00:18:39.100 --> 00:18:41.435
- Can't you?
- 00:18:41.435 --> 00:18:43.171
- "and of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace."
- 00:18:43.171 --> 00:18:50.178
- "and of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- 00:18:50.178 --> 00:18:56.717
- For the law was given by moses, but grace and truth came by
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- Jesus christ.
- 00:19:02.623 --> 00:19:04.926
- No man hath seen god at any time, the only begotten son,
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- Which is in the bosom of the father, hath declared him."
- 00:19:11.566 --> 00:19:17.371
- So jesus declares god to us.
- 00:19:17.371 --> 00:19:22.877
- He is god's declaration.
- 00:19:22.877 --> 00:19:25.913
- He is god revealed.
- 00:19:25.913 --> 00:19:28.216
- Philip said, "show us the father and it suffices us."
- 00:19:28.216 --> 00:19:32.853
- Jesus said, "have i been so long time with you, and you still
- 00:19:32.853 --> 00:19:36.224
- Don't know that i and my father are one?
- 00:19:36.224 --> 00:19:38.659
- If you have seen me, you have seen the father--"
- 00:19:38.659 --> 00:19:45.166
- That it is, god was manifest in the flesh.
- 00:19:45.166 --> 00:19:51.539
- Hebrews 1:1 through 3, let's look at this right quick,
- 00:19:53.007 --> 00:19:55.543
- Listen, "god, god, god, god, god, god--" hebrews 1 and 1,
- 00:19:55.543 --> 00:20:01.649
- "god, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times
- 00:20:01.649 --> 00:20:06.921
- Past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last
- 00:20:06.921 --> 00:20:13.928
- Days spoken unto us by his son, who he hath appointed heir of
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- All things, by whom also he made the worlds--" watch this;
- 00:20:19.533 --> 00:20:27.275
- This is what i love--"who being the brightness of his glory--"
- 00:20:27.275 --> 00:20:35.716
- The brightness--see, when i look at that light, i really
- 00:20:35.716 --> 00:20:40.254
- Can't see the light; i just see the brightness of the light.
- 00:20:40.254 --> 00:20:45.126
- In fact, the brightness stops me from seeing the light.
- 00:20:45.126 --> 00:20:50.698
- I can't tell you what size bulb is up there; i can't be sure of
- 00:20:50.698 --> 00:20:54.368
- It because all i can see is the brightness of the bulb.
- 00:20:54.368 --> 00:20:58.639
- So i can see the brightness of the light, but i cannot see
- 00:20:58.639 --> 00:21:01.976
- The light itself.
- 00:21:01.976 --> 00:21:03.344
- I couldn't tell you whether those lights were in brown
- 00:21:03.344 --> 00:21:06.013
- Casements or white casements or black casements because all
- 00:21:06.013 --> 00:21:10.151
- I can see is the brightness of their glory.
- 00:21:10.151 --> 00:21:13.220
- Christ is "the brightness of his glory, the express image of his
- 00:21:13.220 --> 00:21:21.362
- Person," the personality of god, "and upholding all things by
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- The word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins,
- 00:21:28.169 --> 00:21:34.842
- He sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high."
- 00:21:34.842 --> 00:21:42.683
- Do you hear what i'm saying to you?
- 00:21:42.683 --> 00:21:45.953
- This is, "god was made flesh."
- 00:21:45.953 --> 00:21:48.155
- This is a simple explanation of the incarnation.
- 00:21:48.155 --> 00:21:51.992
- You could spend weeks on the incarnation and not exhaust it.
- 00:21:51.992 --> 00:21:57.798
- It has to be revealed to you, that god--that jesus is god
- 00:21:57.798 --> 00:22:03.938
- Incarnate, dwelling amongst us, walking amongst us, riding ships
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- With us, going in deserts with us, in the wilderness with us.
- 00:22:11.145 --> 00:22:16.851
- He dwelt among us, and we beheld the wonder of his glory, whoa,
- 00:22:16.851 --> 00:22:23.591
- The brightness of his glory, whoa, the express image of
- 00:22:23.591 --> 00:22:30.030
- His person.
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- I see--the only way i could see the father is the light shining
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- From him.
- 00:22:37.872 --> 00:22:39.874
- Christ is the brightness of his glory.
- 00:22:39.874 --> 00:22:44.044
- I don't know how to make that any clearer than the brightness
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- Of that light, the brightness of the sun.
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- Oh, it's hot today; the sun is so bright i gotta put
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- On sunglasses.
- 00:22:55.189 --> 00:22:56.891
- Can i see the sun?
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- No, i see the brightness coming from the sun.
- 00:22:58.225 --> 00:23:05.299
- That's what jesus is: the brightness of god,
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- The express image of his person.
- 00:23:11.172 --> 00:23:15.075
- He is god's love made flesh,
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- God loving us through flesh.
- 00:23:21.916 --> 00:23:25.686
- He--the only thing he wanted from mary was a tent.
- 00:23:25.686 --> 00:23:34.395
- He said, "come here, girl, nobody touch you yet?"
- 00:23:34.395 --> 00:23:37.364
- He said, "let me get my tent from you."
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- So he got the tent from mary.
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- But that which is within her is conceived by the holy ghost.
- 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:53.647
- And he came out emanuel; god tabernacled with us; the tent is
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- All human, and the glory is all god.
- 00:23:59.386 --> 00:24:02.990
- To god be the glory, for the things he has done.
- 00:24:02.990 --> 00:24:06.927
- Is anybody getting any revelation in here?
- 00:24:06.927 --> 00:24:09.563
- I want to teach this till you get revelation down in
- 00:24:09.563 --> 00:24:12.867
- Your spirit.
- 00:24:12.867 --> 00:24:14.201
- I found him who my soul loveth.
- 00:24:14.201 --> 00:24:16.804
- I know who my god is.
- 00:24:16.804 --> 00:24:19.106
- Hallelujah, i've seen him, the express image of his person in
- 00:24:19.106 --> 00:24:27.414
- Jesus christ.
- 00:24:27.414 --> 00:24:30.584
- When jesus told them that he was god, they wanted to stone him.
- 00:24:30.584 --> 00:24:36.156
- But he is absolutely god, and yet absolutely man.
- 00:24:36.156 --> 00:24:40.327
- He is not the good man; he is the god man.
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- He is man enough to be kinsman to me.
- 00:24:44.164 --> 00:24:47.701
- He is god enough to redeem me.
- 00:24:47.701 --> 00:24:52.306
- So, the word was made flesh because the word had no blood.
- 00:24:52.306 --> 00:24:59.513
- And, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission
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- Of sin.
- 00:25:01.982 --> 00:25:03.350
- And he needed mary's tent so he could bleed out.
- 00:25:03.350 --> 00:25:07.521
- He bled out so i could get in.
- 00:25:07.521 --> 00:25:09.990
- Oh, y'all don't hear what i'm saying; i'm gonna keep on going
- 00:25:09.990 --> 00:25:12.426
- Till you get it.
- 00:25:12.426 --> 00:25:13.761
- All he needed the flesh was was so he could become
- 00:25:13.761 --> 00:25:17.231
- A living sacrifice.
- 00:25:17.231 --> 00:25:18.799
- And, when the bible says that he redeemed us "by himself,"
- 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.803
- It means he offered up himself.
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- He is both the offerer and the offering.
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- He is the priest and the lamb.
- 00:25:29.043 --> 00:25:31.679
- He entered into the holies of holies with himself.
- 00:25:31.679 --> 00:25:36.717
- Every other priest had to come in with something else to offer
- 00:25:36.717 --> 00:25:40.387
- Up, but jesus entered in by himself.
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- He is just as much lamb as he is priest.
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- Somebody online is listening to understand more fully a deeper
- 00:25:46.827 --> 00:25:51.298
- Revelation of your god, so, when you say, "hallelujah" to god,
- 00:25:51.298 --> 00:25:56.036
- You know to whom you're saying, "hallelujah" to.
- 00:25:56.036 --> 00:25:58.606
- When you say, "all hail the power of jesus's name; let
- 00:25:58.606 --> 00:26:02.343
- Angels prostrate fall," you know who you're talking to.
- 00:26:02.343 --> 00:26:07.881
- Bishop jakes: it is not my good times that reveal god the most
- 00:26:07.948 --> 00:26:12.119
- In my life.
- 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:13.454
- It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
- 00:26:13.454 --> 00:26:17.858
- It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that i
- 00:26:17.858 --> 00:26:22.696
- Saw god's glory shine the brightest.
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- Let there be light.
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