Welcome to BATTLES OF FAITH
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We're your host,
Ivor and Atonte Myers.
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Today our program is
entitled, the Science of the
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Laws of the Kingdom.
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All these programs are to
help you, like tools, to help
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you fight the battle,
that's why we call the program
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Battles of Faith!
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Satan is on the warpath,
but God has given us so many
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wonderful tools to help
fight in our spiritual walk.
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We want to help you to do
that here on Battles of Faith.
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This program, The Science
of Laws of the Kingdom is
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going to reveal that as
there aren't laws in a natural
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world, so there are
laws in the spiritual world.
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If we abide by those laws
in the spiritual world we will
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find that our walk with
Christ will be much easier walk,
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because we are actually
walking and living according to
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those laws and those principles.
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In fact there is a
correlation between many of the
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scientific laws that scientists
have so-called discovered
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and the laws that
govern the spiritual realm.
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We are going to take a look
at some of those laws today.
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There is a statement from a
book, Child Guidance, Atonte
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that I would like you to read.
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It actually shows us the
correlation between the laws
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of the natural world and
the laws of the spiritual world.
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It says, "the same power
that upholds nature is also
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working in man. The same great
laws that guide alike the star
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and the Atom control
human life. The laws that govern
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the hearts action, regulating
the flow of the current
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of life to the body, are
the laws of mighty intelligence
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that has the
jurisdiction of the soul. "
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Right, that gives us this
idea that as there are laws
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in the physical world
that govern the physical world,
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so there are laws in the
spiritual world that govern
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the spiritual world.
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We want to have our viewers
understand that these laws
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are so important, there is
a reason why we have to watch
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over children when
they are little, because
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children do not understand
the laws, for example,
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of gravity, and because
they don't understand these laws
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they will do crazy things
like jump off of high things
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not realizing that
there is a law in place.
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In breaking that law you
can get hurt, experience pain
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suffering and etc.
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In the same way there are
laws in the spiritual world
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that as we become aware
of them, they are magnificent
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laws that God has put
in place that help us on
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our Christian walk.
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We have been looking at
the issue of the entertainment
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industry, we've been
looking at the French Revolution
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and we have seen this
principle of the Science of
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Evolution, falsely
called, sprang out of the French
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Revolution, out of the abyss.
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How this is attempting to
manipulate our environment
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and have the world transformed
or adapt to the law of
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lawlessness, if you
will, the law of chaos.
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Well we are looking today
at the laws of the spiritual
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realm and scientific
laws, we have a graphic here.
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The scientific law is
described in three simple ways.
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It's very simple,
observable, repeatable, and
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predictable. Observable
meaning that we can see it,
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repeatable meaning if we
do it time and time again,
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the same thing happens,
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and predictable really
means the same thing, I can
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guarantee that every
time I drop the pen, what is
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going to happen?
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It's going to hit the floor.
It's going to hit the floor!
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That makes something a
law, it is unchangeable.
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In the same way, I would
like to put up on our screen,
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what a theory is, according to
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Webster's dictionary.
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I would put
evolution under a theory.
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It has yet to be
proven, it is a mere guess.
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You know millions of
billions of years ago...
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This is what
could have happened!
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This is what could
have happened it is a guess,
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it's guesswork.
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Now Atonte, interestingly enough
when we come to the word of
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God, the Word of
God is no guess work.
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The plan of
salvation is no guess work.
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These are fixed laws
that we are speaking of here.
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We want to go ahead and
jump into one of our first laws.
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We are going to be
discussing two laws today.
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One of our first laws of
the kingdom of Faith is simply
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this, the law of going broke.
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The law of going broke,
you would say, the law of going
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broke, I have never
heard that law before.
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You have! You never
heard it put like that.
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The law of going broke
simply states this, going broke
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pays... Atonte: how
can that be possible?
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When everyone around the
world is trying to get paid
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so they don't go broke.
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Going broke pays, we are
talking in the sense of the
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spiritual realm, what
does it mean, going broke pays?
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First of all we want to
see if this law of going broke
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pays is observable.
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In order to do that we
are going to go to the book of
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1 Kings 17, and in 1 Kings
chapter 17 there is a story
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of a widow, or
rather Elisha show who comes
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across a widow.
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We are going to just read
the story described in verses
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8 to 16, but we're going
to read verses 11 and 12.
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There will be a few
other verses so we can get
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the picture here.
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1 Kings 17:11 and 12,
Atonte would you read them?
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Now this here is
a time of famine.
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Elisha is hungry and thirsty
and he asks this widow woman
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who was passing by to fetch
him some water, that was in
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verse 10, and as she is
going he asked her would you
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bring me
something to eat as well.
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She says listen, I have
nothing, we are going to prepare
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the last thing we have then
I am my son are going to die.
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Notice what
Elisha says, verse 13.
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Elisha is about to reveal
to us the principle, the law of
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going broke pays.
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Notice what he says in verse 14.
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Elisha here is making a
challenge to this woman.
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He is saying, if you go
broke for God, I'm putting this
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in my words now, you go
broke for God, you will be paid.
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You will be filled, and
what do we see happening in this
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story, the woman goes in
verse 15, "she went and did"
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"according to Elisha and
she and he and her house did"
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"eat many days. "
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Which in your margin,
really means a full year.
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I never seen a days
worth of meals go a whole year.
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I wish it did.
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That's right, and you see
here this principle that God
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is laying out in the
Scripture, that Elisha lays out
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this law of going broke pays.
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We see that this
law is observable.
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The next question I want
to ask, is it repeatable?
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In other words is this
really a law, or was it just a
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one-time thing, a random thing.
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No, we will see this
law is indeed repeatable.
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We are look at another
story and this one is found in
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2 Kings 4:1-7, and I will
go ahead and read this story
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so you can get the picture
and will be able to hear this
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law as the story is read.
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Here it is a Atonte, she
has one pot of oil and you can
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already get the sense that
this pot of oil is going to
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play a very special role.
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It is all she has left.
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Elisha goes on
to say, in verse 3.
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Now I can imagine this
lady scratching her head, how am
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I going to pour, how am I
going to give all this oil
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into all these empty
vessels, to even have one full?
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But it goes on, verse 5.
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They had borrowed all
the vessels that they could.
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Here we find again this
principle of going broke pays.
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What does this really mean?
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What God is trying to say
is it is not if I spend my
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last dollar, He is going
to make me a millionaire, but
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when we
spiritually go broke for Jesus.
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When we give all that we
have in us for Him, that is
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when we receive the blessing.
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That is when we get paid as
it were, with that wonderful
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gift of fire for the Lord.
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Being on fire for God and
serving Him with all our heart.
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This is how we
get paid, so to speak.
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Some of you might be familiar
with the song, I Surrender
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All, well we learn
some new words to that song.
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It's called He surrendered
all, and it shows how Jesus,
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the first 3 verses of
the song shows how Jesus
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surrendered all first.
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He left heaven and
came down to say sinful man,
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you and I.
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Then in the last verse it
says, I Surrendered All, because
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He surrendered all,
we can surrender all.
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He is our perfect example.
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Now we want to look
at our third question.
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We see that the
law is observable.
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We have now seen that
the law is predictable,
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or rather repeatable.
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We have seen it happen more than
once and now we want to ask the
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question, is
the law predictable?
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Is this principle of
going broke pays predictable?
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In other words, will this
happen all the time, or will it
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just occur some of the
time, in some of the places.
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We are going to see
the law is predictable.
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In other words, we can
rest assured that if we give all
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for God, He will
bless us with all.
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We are not talking about
in the physical realm, we are
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talking about
spiritually speaking.
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Let's take a look
at Matthew 14:16-21.
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This is the story of a
young boy who was walking around
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with five loaves
of bread and two fish.
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There was a great
multitude, look at verse 15.
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Now let me say something here.
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I said this was the
story of a little boy with two
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loaves, but there is
another story that lays out the
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same principle where
there are 4000, I believe.
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This one has the story for
boy with the loaves and fish,
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the principle here is the same.
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We see here that from this
little, five loaves, two fish,
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it was multiplied
into a very great number.
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This law of going broke, giving
all that we have to Jesus,
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Jesus then
multiplies it beyond our dreams.
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Is nothing within ourselves
that can help us to be able
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to live that life that
Jesus wants us to live.
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All we can do is surrender
everything, going broke.
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If we do that, He is
saying, I'll do the rest.
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I will help you
the rest of the way.
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This is a law, we can
look at the story of the widow.
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The widow's mite, a widow
comes to the Temple, Christ
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and His disciples are
watching and she puts in all
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that she has, two mites.
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The Lord says, bless her
for this action and she will
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be remembered for this.
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The principle there again
is revealed, going broke pays.
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She gave all that she
had and the Lord blesses her.
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Even though she could not
see the blessing, the Lord
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had blessed her and we
believe she will be in heaven.
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This was the
pattern of her life.
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She was living
according to this principle
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of going broke.
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There is another story
Atonte, of a rich young ruler
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who did not want to live
according to this principle.
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God asked him,
will you go broke?
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Jesus asked him, will
you go broke, will you live
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according to this law?
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Don't fear, going broke pays.
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But this rich young ruler,
when Jesus said to him sale
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all you have and come and
follow Me and you will have
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riches in heaven.
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He said no, I don't believe
in that law, I don't believe
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in that principle and
he went away very sad.
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When we don't live our
lives according to the laws that
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God has laid out, we are
talking about the scientific
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laws of the spiritual
kingdom, true science.
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We will walk away sad,
we will live sad lives.
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In each of our lives that
the Holy Spirit is trying to
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come close to and saying,
are you willing to give that up?
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Are you willing
to go broke for Me?
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We do not want to be like
the rich young ruler and say
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no, we want to be like these
other examples in the Bible
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and say yes Lord, I'm
willing to give all that I have
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for you, and God will bless.
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The devil says hold onto this
stuff, are you going to become
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a Christian, be a Christian
but to still hold on to some
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of my stuff, or just change
your name to Christian and
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hold onto it and God says no.
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Going broke pays, give
all up for Him, give all into
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Him, go broke.
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There is a parable of a
merchant man seeking goodly
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pearls, and when he
found one pearl of great price
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went and sold how much?
Most of what he had? No!
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All of what he had, he
understood this spiritual
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principle that going broke pays.
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The way Jesus states this
law, we can find it in the
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Beatitudes where Jesus
says blessed are they who are
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poor in spirit, poor in spirit.
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Other translations read,
happy are those who know their
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spiritually poor, or how
blessed are those who are
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destitute in the spirit
for the kingdom of heaven
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belongs to them.
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We use the term
broke, hey I'm broke today.
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What does that mean?
It means I have no money.
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I'm financially broke,
and what God is saying is that
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He wants us to
become broke in spirit.
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Not financially, broken
spirit, going broke pays.
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You want to be on fire
for God, God says give Me
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everything you have, give
Me your whole heart, give Me
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your whole mind, if you
go broke I guarantee you that
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I will fill you with the Spirit.
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He can use us best in
that state of mind because He
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wants to come in
to mold and shape us.
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If we are still holding
onto something it makes it very
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difficult for Him.
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He needs to have
something that is void,
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that has nothing, like
the way the Earth was when He
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created it, He wants to
re-create us and needs us to be
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broke, void, have nothing.
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Jesus went broke for us,
His body was broken for us
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symbolizing that
He had given all.
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His everything for us, we
ought to go broke for Him.
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The second law, we've
seen the law, it is observable,
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it is repeatable,
and it is predictable.
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Now we want to get our
second law very quickly.
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It is another beautiful
law Atonte, what goes down
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must come up.
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This is a law of the
spiritual realm, the law of
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God's kingdom, what
goes down must come up.
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We are going to ask the
question first of all...
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In the science world
what goes up, must come down.
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And that is true as well,
when we look at the principle
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of Lucifer and of Jesus.
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We are going to talk
about Lucifer for a second.
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Lucifer desired to be
what? Exulted and in so doing
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he was brought down,
the Bible says, to the pits.
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What goes up, what
exults itself, must come down.
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We want to look at this
other law, mainly what goes
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down, must come up.
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Let's see, first of
all, if this is observable.
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We see that it is observable
when we look at the life
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of Joseph, Joseph story
covers much of the book of
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Genesis, so we are not
going to go through verses.
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We will say that Joseph
began his career, I would say
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probably a little
ignorant a little bit haughty.
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Why do we say that, well
he has this dream that his
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brothers basically end
up bowing down before him.
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What does he do? He runs
to his brothers and says,
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hey guys, guess what?
Look at what I dreamed.
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In the Bible he actually says,
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look at what I have dreamed.
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It was as though he was
taken the glory to himself which
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also angered his brothers,
his brothers were not right
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in the first place, but
this just added to their anger.
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And their jealousy
because he was favored among the
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brothers and so here Joseph
is saying look at my dream.
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What happens? Because of
Joseph spirit towards his
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brothers, they did not like him.
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What did they do? One day
they took him and cast him
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where? Down into a pit.
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After he is cast into this
pit, they bring him out and
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sell him down into slavery.
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Those who took them as
a slave, brought him down,
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the Bible says, into Egypt.
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In Egypt he's taken to
Potiphar's home and some
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incidents happen
that were unfortunate.
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He was being blamed for
something that he didn't do,
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but nonetheless, he went
further down into prison.
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So you have Joseph
going down, down, down.
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Throughout his story you
find Joseph now is having
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dreams and now his response
is not, hey I can tell you
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the dream, it is
dreams belong to God.
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The
interpretations belong to God.
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You see this Spirit of
humility coming about Joseph.
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Even when he is brought
to the Pharaoh to explain the
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dream that the Pharaoh
had had in terms of the famine
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that was coming, his
response has become so humbled.
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In other words, there is
nothing special in me, God is
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the One, God is the One.
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Before it was, look
at what I had dreamed.
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You guys are
going to bow down to me.
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What begins to happen,
you see Joseph, who had been
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brought down, down,
down now exalted to the very
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highest position in Egypt.
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What goes down must come up.
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Jesus is the same way, He
had to come down to our Earth,
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which had to be a
humbling experience.
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He is God in heaven and he
was exalted after His death.
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We are going to see
that, one of the stories we are
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going to use to show
this story is predictable.
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We are going to come back
to that, but the second story
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we can look at is, we
have seen it is observable,
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is it repeatable?
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We will look at
the life of Moses.
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Moses is a man who was to
be exalted into one of the
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highest places in Egypt,
but he had to be humbled.
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Because of His
exaltation, He was brought down.
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I can do this by myself,
I will lead Israel out of
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captivity and because he
slew a man, Lord says we will
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have to humble you and he
was brought down, down, down
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to where this man was
going to hold one of the highest
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places in Egypt.
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He spends 40 years in
the wilderness herding sheep.
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He is brought down, down,
down and when Moses has learned
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this lesson of humility the
Bible actually describes him
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as one of the most meekest
man on the face of the earth.
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Low and behold, who is
the that God exults to the
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position of leading all
of Israel out of Egyptian
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captivity, none
other than Moses.
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What goes down, must come up.
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This is the principle
that the devil comes and says,
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hey, through the entertainment
industry you can be
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exalted, he wants us to follow
those exulting themselves.
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They have the spirit of,
we are going up, we want to be
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worshiped as stars.
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We want to be worshiped
as highly exalted and in so
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doing people do not realize
that they are being set up
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for the principle that
what goes up, must come down.
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You know we travel and
get a lot of questions.
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What is wrong with Christian
rap music, or Christian
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rock 'n roll, or
Christian Reggae?
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What we are talking
about right now is one
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of the key issues.
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You have to be very
prideful to do that music.
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There is no humbleness nor
meekness about Christian rap,
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or Christian rock.
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All those things, it is
impossible to be humble and meek
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That is step number one
to really having a close
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connection with Jesus.
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It is the
principle of going down.
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This world's principle
is all about exalted self.
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You see going up, up, up.
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Jesus came, we seen it
observable, we seen its
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repeatable in the life of Moses,
and now we are going to see that
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this law is predictable.
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Jesus, the highest placed
in heaven, willingly came down,
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He lowered
Himself to become a man.
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Not only did He lower Himself
to become a man, He lowered
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Himself to become a man
with the nature of Adam after
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his fall, so it is not as
though He came in the perfection
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of manhood, He came in
the nature after the fall.
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So He lowered
Himself even further.
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Not only that, He didn't
come as a rich man, He came as
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a poor man, lowering
Himself even further.
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He lowered Himself, the
Bible says, even unto the death
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of the cross, and it was
at the death of the cross when
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He lowered Himself
even down into the grave.
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We read in Matthew chapter
28, when Mary and the others
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came looking for Jesus,
the angel that was there said,
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He is not here, He is risen.
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What goes down, must come up.
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Not only was He risen from
the earth, but He was risen
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with a glorified body.
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Not only was He risen
with the glorified body, but He
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was risen all the way up
into the heavens to the right
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hand of God.
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What goes down, must
come up and the same principle
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applies for us, we humble
ourselves and step away from
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the science of the devil
which says, exults yourself.
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Which manipulates
the environment and says
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do what you please.
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We humble ourselves,
even though we may go
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down to the grave.
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Even though we will go
down to the grave, God says
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don't worry the law is
true even when it seems like,
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He humbled himself
and died and is now dead.
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God says that's not
the end, what goes down,
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must come up.
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And we want to come up in
that glorious resurrection
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of Jesus Christ and it
would behoove us to begin to
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live according
to the principles.
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We do not have to fear, I
wonder if gravity is going to
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hold me down today? No, as
sure and certain as gravity
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is, is this sure and
certain as the law of what goes
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down, must come up and
the law of going broke pays
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applies to us spiritually.
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And God wants to exalt us
spiritually, not before the
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world, but change our
hearts that we are riding high,
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that we are overcoming
Satan's temptations as he tempts
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each and every day.
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1 Peter 5:6 tells us "humble
yourselves therefore unto
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the mighty hand of
God that he may exalt you
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in due time. "
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God bless you and we
will see you next time.
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