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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Td Young - The Presence of God

January 26, 2025 | S25:E22

Td Young - The Presence of God
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Td Young - The Presence of God | January 26, 2025
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  • Dr. ed young: everybody here
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  • Would like to have the power of god
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  • At your disposal, in your repertoire.
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  • We need the power of god to help us in our business,
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  • Help us in our vocation,
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  • Health challenges we might have.
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  • In any area of our life,
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  • All of us would love to have power.
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  • It's all about power.
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  • We want power to do this, power to do that,
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  • Permission to do this.
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  • All we need is power, power, power, more power,
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  • And the ark represented power,
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  • Even the power of almighty god.
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  • Think about it.
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  • To have that kind of supernatural power, real power,
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  • Immeasurable power,
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  • The power that would come from the ark.
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  • In the bible, power was always connected
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  • With something or some event.
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  • We go back to abraham
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  • And we see there was a smoking pot
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  • And a burning torch.
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  • Power was there.
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  • We go back to moses.
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  • He saw a bush that was burning.
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  • He saw it was a holy place.
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  • In that bush, he saw power, even the power of almighty god.
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  • Jacob saw power in a wrestler
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  • In which he grappled with all night long.
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  • Job saw power in a hurricane, in a wind, in a tornado.
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  • But in these illustrations of power,
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  • They're all the way through the bible.
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  • The power would work there with the bush,
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  • But didn't stay with the bush.
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  • The power worked in a tornado,
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  • It wasn't always in a tornado.
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  • But the one thing in the bible
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  • That power was manifested,
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  • It would come and it would go,
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  • But it would go back to the ark, the ark of the covenant.
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  • You read 1 samuel 4, 6, 7,
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  • And you see there about the ark.
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  • What was the ark?
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  • Let me remind you.
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  • The ark was a box
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  • That was four feet long
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  • And 2 1/2 feet by 2 1/2 half feet.
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  • Steven spielberg made it way too large
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  • In the movie incidentally,
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  • But we won't be too particular.
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  • On the top of the box,
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  • Acacia wood covered in gold,
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  • Two cherubim, two angels facing one another.
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  • In the middle was the mercy seat, a block of gold.
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  • Inside the ark, what do you have?
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  • Aaron's rod that budded, a little sample in a box of manna,
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  • And you have primarily the 10 commandments.
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  • The 10 commandments was the covenant
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  • That god had made with israel,
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  • And therefore you have in this place, the shekhinah.
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  • You have the glory of god.
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  • It would come and go with the ark,
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  • And the ark represented power,
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  • God's power, divine power.
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  • We know how it was used.
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  • It was used there when they came to the jordan,
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  • And it was strong, strong, and deep.
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  • And they took the ark outta the jordan,
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  • And the jordan river parted as had before the sea.
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  • They got the jericho.
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  • They had those high walls around.
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  • They had no way to get in.
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  • They took the ark and marched around the walls,
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  • And the walls came tumbling down.
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  • This was known to people all through that area
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  • The ark of god, the yahweh.
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  • And the jews believed for a while
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  • That god was in the box, in the ark.
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  • And then they came to believe
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  • That god was actually the box itself.
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  • And so we see the history of the ark
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  • And we bring it into play in these fabulous chapters
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  • That teach us about the very power of god himself.
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  • So look at it beginning in chapter number four.
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  • 1 samuel.
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  • "thus the word of samuel came to israel.
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  • Now israel went out to meet the philistines in battle
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  • And camped beside ebenezer
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  • While the philistines camped at aphek."
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  • Now we see how israel presumed the power of god.
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  • Did you get that?
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  • We're gonna see as we study this chapter
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  • How israel had the ark,
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  • And therefore they presume
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  • Because they were god's chosen people,
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  • God's peculiar people,
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  • God's anointed people,
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  • God's called out people,
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  • That they possessed the very power of god,
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  • And they went out to battle.
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  • And they presumed on god.
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  • Let me show you something you might be interested in.
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  • The sunday prior to 9/11, in our worship services,
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  • We had 17,495 people.
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  • The next week, after 9/11, we had 36,229 people.
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  • We had 6,479 in a prayer meeting service following 9/11.
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  • Well, what in the world happened?
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  • All the ceo christian showed up.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Christmas, easter only.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • And then all of a sudden, we in america recognized
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  • Where we had all of our power in those twin towers.
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  • There were no buildings on the face of the earth
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  • That had more the leaders in the economic world
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  • Than in those twin towers, and they came down.
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  • Had the radical muslim been success,
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  • They would destroyed the pentagon
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  • Where the military power of the world primarily was found.
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  • They destroyed only part of it.
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  • And had the other plane out,
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  • The white house would've been leveled
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  • Because that's where the most powerful
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  • Individual in the world would be.
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  • So we saw in 9/11 how in (whooshes)
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  • In just a few hours, all the power structures
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  • That we would have as human beings would be gone.
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  • That which we count on as americans,
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  • And therefore flags were everywhere.
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  • Prayer meetings were everywhere,
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  • And worship services were packed overflowing
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  • Because somehow we were trying
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  • That we'd assume the power on god.
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  • One nation under god, really?
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  • And suddenly one nation under god,
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  • It seemed that all of our foundational
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  • Secular things were at risk.
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  • We turned to god seeking for power.
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  • We thought that we had appropriated
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  • God, as had the jews.
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  • Read what happened to them here in our scripture.
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  • It says, "the philistines drew up
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  • To battle array them in israel.
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  • And when the battle spread,
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  • Israel was defeated before the philistines
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  • Who killed about 4,000 on the battlefield.
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  • When the people came to the camp,
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  • The elders of israel said," now follow this.
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  • "why has the lord," not the philistines,
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  • "why has the lord defeated us today before the philistines?"
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  • You see, they knew the philistines
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  • Could not defeat them
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  • Because they had apprehended god's power.
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  • They were god's peculiar people,
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  • God's blessed, god's chosen people.
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  • And they said, "the lord must have led to our defeat."
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  • Why is that?
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  • So they went out into the second battle.
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  • But before they went on second battle, look what they did.
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  • They said, "let us take to ourselves some shallow
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  • The ark of the covenant."
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  • Oh, they're gonna bring the ark into the battle.
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  • "that it may come along us
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  • And deliver us from the power of our enemies."
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  • The ark of god would be more powerful
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  • Than enemies of israel.
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  • So the people went to shiloh.
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  • And by the way, i was there this year.
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  • And from there they arrived,
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  • The ark of the covenant of the lord,
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  • To the host who sits above the cherubim
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  • And the two sons of eli, hophni and phinehas,
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  • Were there with the ark of the covenant of god.
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  • In the ark, you have these two little rings
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  • Where you can carry it in.
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  • And who was carrying the ark?
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  • Hophni and phinehas. who are they?
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  • They were the immoral, slimy, creepy,
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  • Sexual predators who were a priest,
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  • Priest in the temple,
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  • The sons of eli.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, when a worshiping body
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  • Allows immorality to rule and reign
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  • Known in the public circle of god's people
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  • And the people do not rise up against that,
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  • Let me tell you what is going on.
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  • It means the people themselves are satisfied with immorality
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  • That passes itself long in the form of religion.
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  • Now, hophni and phinehas bring the ark in.
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  • What happened? now the ark is there.
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  • The power of god is there. look what happened.
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  • And, "so the philistines," verse 10,
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  • "fought israel, was defeated and every man fled to his tent.
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  • And the slaughter was very great
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  • For there fell israel, 30,000 foot soldiers."
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  • Look what happened.
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  • "and the ark of god was taken."
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  • The philistines have the ark.
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  • "and the two sons of eli,
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  • Hophni and phinehas died in battle."
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  • What was wrong? why did they lose?
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  • Because there was immorality in the land,
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  • Said boy it's unusual then to lose.
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  • No, if you've been reading to the bible
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  • There has been 200 years in the book of judges
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  • When god's people were immoral and disobedient
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  • To the covenant of god,
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  • The contract he had made with them,
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  • There at the foot of sinai and therefore they lost
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  • And the whole nation was going downhill rapidly.
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  • And then the end of this chapter we have interesting thing.
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  • Phinehas, one of the immoral priests who was killed,
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  • His wife was pregnant and before she delivered a child
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  • She discovered that eli had died
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  • Hearing the news that his sons were killed,
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  • Hearing the news that the ark had been taken,
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  • And eli fell over backwards
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  • From the gate and broke his neck, a godly prophet,
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  • But phinehas, his wife, bore a child.
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  • But before she bore the child,
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  • She said name that boy ichabod.
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  • Which means the glory of god has departed from israel.
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  • That's what we thought after 9/11.
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  • God has left our country.
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  • We're being judged because of our godliness.
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  • And that's what she felt named this boy ichabod
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  • Because the glory has left this land.
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  • You see, what did the israelites do?
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  • They presumed on the power of god.
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  • They said, we've got the ark, we've got the power.
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  • Now the ark has been stolen.
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  • It's in the hands of godless pagans, whoa.
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  • Look at the next thing we learn about power.
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  • Is found as how the philistines handled it.
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  • Look at chapter five.
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  • By the way, we see the philistines
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  • Co-opted the power of god.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • They took the ark and they added it
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  • In there temple of worship to their other god,
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  • Their primary god, gorgon.
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  • And gorgon, they put the ark right down by gorgon,
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  • And look what happened there in their temple.
  • 00:12:08.206 --> 00:12:10.542
  • "now the full team took the ark of god
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  • And brought it from ebeneezer to ashdod.
  • 00:12:12.710 --> 00:12:16.114
  • And the philistines took the ark of god
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  • And thought it to be and brought it in the house of dagon
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  • And set it by dagon."
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  • Listen to this.
  • 00:12:24.923 --> 00:12:26.257
  • "and when the ashdodites arose next morning,
  • 00:12:26.257 --> 00:12:29.727
  • Behold, dagon had fallen on his face to the ground
  • 00:12:29.727 --> 00:12:35.366
  • Before the ark of the lord.
  • 00:12:35.366 --> 00:12:37.101
  • So they took dagon and set him in place.
  • 00:12:37.101 --> 00:12:40.505
  • When they arose early the next morning,
  • 00:12:40.505 --> 00:12:42.307
  • Behold, dagon had fallen to his face to the ground
  • 00:12:42.307 --> 00:12:45.710
  • Before the ark of the lord.
  • 00:12:45.710 --> 00:12:47.512
  • And the head of dagon
  • 00:12:47.512 --> 00:12:49.447
  • And both the palms of his hands were cut off.
  • 00:12:49.447 --> 00:12:53.751
  • Only thing was left was a trunk of dagon."
  • 00:12:53.751 --> 00:12:58.189
  • What happened?
  • 00:12:58.189 --> 00:13:00.158
  • I'm sure the first time dagon, there was the ark
  • 00:13:00.158 --> 00:13:02.727
  • And dagon fell down in the night on his face
  • 00:13:02.727 --> 00:13:06.130
  • And they must have went in and said,
  • 00:13:06.130 --> 00:13:07.899
  • "some of those mischievous teenage philistine boys
  • 00:13:07.899 --> 00:13:10.969
  • Have pushed over our god in this holy temple.
  • 00:13:10.969 --> 00:13:14.973
  • And they picked him up and put him back.
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  • We're gonna find out who did this."
  • 00:13:16.875 --> 00:13:19.210
  • But the next day they went down,
  • 00:13:19.210 --> 00:13:20.745
  • Dagon had fall his face and his head had been severed.
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  • No wisdom.
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  • His arms were cut off, no power.
  • 00:13:27.051 --> 00:13:30.054
  • And that tells us not only was the god in the ark
  • 00:13:30.054 --> 00:13:33.825
  • The god of israel, more powerful than dagon,
  • 00:13:33.825 --> 00:13:37.795
  • But we know that the god
  • 00:13:37.795 --> 00:13:39.898
  • Represented by the ark in israel
  • 00:13:39.898 --> 00:13:42.467
  • Was actually the only true god
  • 00:13:42.467 --> 00:13:44.769
  • Because dagon had no wisdom and had no power.
  • 00:13:44.769 --> 00:13:48.907
  • Was nothing, was pagan.
  • 00:13:48.907 --> 00:13:51.709
  • And then we've got a problem.
  • 00:13:51.709 --> 00:13:54.379
  • Here's the ark.
  • 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:55.813
  • Philistines have possessed the ark.
  • 00:13:55.813 --> 00:13:58.216
  • What's going to happen when godless people
  • 00:13:58.216 --> 00:14:00.385
  • Try to handle god and godly things?
  • 00:14:00.385 --> 00:14:04.055
  • We see, in verse six.
  • 00:14:04.055 --> 00:14:06.024
  • "now the hand of lord was heavy," by the word.
  • 00:14:06.024 --> 00:14:09.027
  • The word heavy there is chabod.
  • 00:14:09.027 --> 00:14:10.995
  • It is the glory, the hand of god, the glory of god,
  • 00:14:10.995 --> 00:14:14.465
  • The presence of god was heavy on these people.
  • 00:14:14.465 --> 00:14:19.470
  • It is says.
  • 00:14:19.470 --> 00:14:20.805
  • "and they smoked them with tumors,
  • 00:14:20.805 --> 00:14:22.407
  • Both ashdod and its territories."
  • 00:14:22.407 --> 00:14:25.576
  • Now godless people were trying to handle the ark,
  • 00:14:25.576 --> 00:14:28.079
  • The things of god.
  • 00:14:28.079 --> 00:14:29.414
  • And it says in your translation, tumors.
  • 00:14:29.414 --> 00:14:31.916
  • They were smiting with tumors.
  • 00:14:31.916 --> 00:14:33.885
  • Another translations said all of the got hemorrhoids, true.
  • 00:14:33.885 --> 00:14:37.055
  • In the in the hebrew, they all had hemorrhoids,
  • 00:14:37.055 --> 00:14:39.891
  • A better translation would be, the plague came.
  • 00:14:39.891 --> 00:14:43.895
  • And they began to kill people and they were suffering
  • 00:14:43.895 --> 00:14:46.864
  • Because they had what they perceived
  • 00:14:46.864 --> 00:14:49.334
  • And what was the literal power of god.
  • 00:14:49.334 --> 00:14:51.636
  • And they knew it came, this judgment on them
  • 00:14:51.636 --> 00:14:54.505
  • Because of how they had handled the ark.
  • 00:14:54.505 --> 00:14:57.275
  • And they had seen
  • 00:14:57.275 --> 00:14:58.609
  • That their pagan god was powerless before him.
  • 00:14:58.609 --> 00:15:02.413
  • They said, what are you gonna do with the ark?
  • 00:15:02.413 --> 00:15:04.849
  • They said, okay, we'll pass the ark on.
  • 00:15:04.849 --> 00:15:07.185
  • Look at verse eight, they sent it to gath.
  • 00:15:07.185 --> 00:15:09.821
  • Another one of the philistine's cities.
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  • What happened at gath?
  • 00:15:11.756 --> 00:15:13.091
  • The judgment came just like it did.
  • 00:15:13.091 --> 00:15:14.993
  • They were stricken with bubonic plague,
  • 00:15:14.993 --> 00:15:17.061
  • Judgment came on the end, (indistinct) said,
  • 00:15:17.061 --> 00:15:18.396
  • We don't want this thing.
  • 00:15:18.396 --> 00:15:21.599
  • This is what we're gonna do with it.
  • 00:15:21.599 --> 00:15:23.034
  • So they sent it to another philistine city, ekron.
  • 00:15:23.034 --> 00:15:25.970
  • See verse 10, and those ekron, they said,
  • 00:15:25.970 --> 00:15:29.240
  • "we don't want the ark and the judgment came on them.
  • 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.509
  • Until finally had a meeting at the philistine.
  • 00:15:31.509 --> 00:15:33.711
  • This is so interesting. chapter six.
  • 00:15:33.711 --> 00:15:36.180
  • "and the philistines called for the priest and the diviners
  • 00:15:36.180 --> 00:15:39.250
  • Saying, 'what shall we do with the ark of the lord?
  • 00:15:39.250 --> 00:15:45.189
  • Tell us how we shall send it to its place.'"
  • 00:15:45.189 --> 00:15:46.924
  • Send it back home.
  • 00:15:46.924 --> 00:15:49.093
  • And they said,
  • 00:15:49.093 --> 00:15:50.495
  • "if you send away the ark of the god of israel,
  • 00:15:50.495 --> 00:15:52.597
  • Do not send it empty
  • 00:15:52.597 --> 00:15:53.998
  • But you shall surely returned it with a guilt offering."
  • 00:15:53.998 --> 00:15:57.135
  • Now pagans feel guilty
  • 00:15:57.135 --> 00:15:59.504
  • About how they're handling the things of god.
  • 00:15:59.504 --> 00:16:01.906
  • Isn't that something?
  • 00:16:01.906 --> 00:16:03.341
  • So they make some gold and silver and they get a cart,
  • 00:16:03.341 --> 00:16:05.710
  • And look what happens.
  • 00:16:05.710 --> 00:16:07.045
  • I love this story.
  • 00:16:07.045 --> 00:16:08.379
  • Verse seven, chapter six, verse seven.
  • 00:16:08.379 --> 00:16:11.449
  • "now therefore take and prepare a new cart and two milch,"
  • 00:16:11.449 --> 00:16:17.388
  • That means cows that have regionally calved.
  • 00:16:17.388 --> 00:16:20.758
  • Their milking cows,
  • 00:16:20.758 --> 00:16:22.527
  • "on which there has never been a yoke
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  • And hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves,"
  • 00:16:25.229 --> 00:16:28.499
  • Listen to this, "back home away from them.
  • 00:16:28.499 --> 00:16:31.736
  • Take the ark of the lord and put it in the cart
  • 00:16:31.736 --> 00:16:34.939
  • And put the articles of gold which you were turn to them
  • 00:16:34.939 --> 00:16:38.109
  • As a guilt offering in a box by it side.
  • 00:16:38.109 --> 00:16:41.312
  • Then send it away that it may go.
  • 00:16:41.312 --> 00:16:44.916
  • Watch, if it goes up
  • 00:16:44.916 --> 00:16:47.585
  • By the way of its own country toward israel,"
  • 00:16:47.585 --> 00:16:50.521
  • That would be beth shemesh,
  • 00:16:50.521 --> 00:16:52.657
  • "then he has done this us this great evil."
  • 00:16:52.657 --> 00:16:55.993
  • They will know that god has judged them.
  • 00:16:55.993 --> 00:16:58.396
  • "but if not, then we'll know that it was not his hand,"
  • 00:16:58.396 --> 00:17:02.033
  • God's hand, "that struck us.
  • 00:17:02.033 --> 00:17:04.168
  • It happened to us by chance."
  • 00:17:04.168 --> 00:17:05.837
  • What's going on here?
  • 00:17:05.837 --> 00:17:07.872
  • They're trying to determine whether ark
  • 00:17:07.872 --> 00:17:10.241
  • And the way they dealt with the things of god
  • 00:17:10.241 --> 00:17:12.577
  • Had brought judgment upon them.
  • 00:17:12.577 --> 00:17:14.612
  • Or is it just an accidental thing
  • 00:17:14.612 --> 00:17:16.781
  • That in their cities they had plagues and they were dying,
  • 00:17:16.781 --> 00:17:20.518
  • And they said
  • 00:17:20.518 --> 00:17:21.853
  • We'll know for sure we'll put this ark,
  • 00:17:21.853 --> 00:17:23.955
  • This holy thing in a cart,
  • 00:17:23.955 --> 00:17:26.023
  • And we'll get two cows that have just calved,
  • 00:17:26.023 --> 00:17:29.427
  • They're feeding their calves.
  • 00:17:29.427 --> 00:17:30.761
  • We'll take the cows away from their calves,
  • 00:17:30.761 --> 00:17:33.664
  • We'll hitch them on the on the cart
  • 00:17:33.664 --> 00:17:35.733
  • To pull the cart toward israel.
  • 00:17:35.733 --> 00:17:38.803
  • And these cows had never been broken before,
  • 00:17:38.803 --> 00:17:41.806
  • Never had a yolk.
  • 00:17:41.806 --> 00:17:43.174
  • And if they go on toward israel,
  • 00:17:43.174 --> 00:17:46.144
  • The philistines knew this wasn't a chance thing
  • 00:17:46.144 --> 00:17:49.881
  • That judgment came on them.
  • 00:17:49.881 --> 00:17:52.550
  • Because the ark was to be headed back home
  • 00:17:52.550 --> 00:17:55.620
  • And anybody who knows anything about cattle
  • 00:17:55.620 --> 00:17:58.656
  • And i know about that much,
  • 00:17:58.656 --> 00:18:00.658
  • Those cows would've turned around
  • 00:18:00.658 --> 00:18:02.927
  • And go back to their newborn caves.
  • 00:18:02.927 --> 00:18:06.264
  • You couldn't have stopped them.
  • 00:18:06.264 --> 00:18:07.899
  • But what did they do?
  • 00:18:07.899 --> 00:18:09.767
  • They headed right for beth shemesh,
  • 00:18:09.767 --> 00:18:12.503
  • Right in the country of israel.
  • 00:18:12.503 --> 00:18:15.006
  • They headed back home with the ark
  • 00:18:15.006 --> 00:18:17.408
  • And the bible says in verses, i'll not read.
  • 00:18:17.408 --> 00:18:20.144
  • They went back home, lowing lowing loudly,
  • 00:18:20.144 --> 00:18:23.548
  • Taking the ark back to god's people.
  • 00:18:23.548 --> 00:18:25.917
  • And then god's people didn't handle it properly there
  • 00:18:25.917 --> 00:18:28.386
  • And 70 of them died when they said,
  • 00:18:28.386 --> 00:18:30.855
  • "let me look inside, see the 10 commandments still there."
  • 00:18:30.855 --> 00:18:33.457
  • Bang, a holy thing.
  • 00:18:33.457 --> 00:18:35.927
  • And then the art became a hot potato.
  • 00:18:35.927 --> 00:18:40.264
  • What are we gonna do with it?
  • 00:18:40.264 --> 00:18:43.301
  • See, they had co-opted the power of god.
  • 00:18:43.301 --> 00:18:46.671
  • They wanted the power of god
  • 00:18:46.671 --> 00:18:48.406
  • To be used for their pagan purposes.
  • 00:18:48.406 --> 00:18:51.475
  • How do we apprehend the power of god?
  • 00:18:51.475 --> 00:18:57.648
  • I'll tell you exactly how we do it.
  • 00:18:57.648 --> 00:19:00.885
  • With the presence of god.
  • 00:19:00.885 --> 00:19:03.421
  • It is only through the presence of god
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  • Do we have then the power of god.
  • 00:19:06.624 --> 00:19:10.595
  • We try to use the power of god
  • 00:19:10.595 --> 00:19:13.130
  • As did the israelis, as did the philistines
  • 00:19:13.130 --> 00:19:16.033
  • Without having the presence of god.
  • 00:19:16.033 --> 00:19:20.438
  • It never does work.
  • 00:19:20.438 --> 00:19:26.310
  • Well, we ask the question then,
  • 00:19:24.041 --> 00:19:28.746
  • How do we get in the presence of god?
  • 00:19:28.746 --> 00:19:31.782
  • How do we know we're in the presence of god?
  • 00:19:31.782 --> 00:19:33.951
  • There are always two or three things present
  • 00:19:33.951 --> 00:19:37.388
  • And are connected with the very presence of god.
  • 00:19:37.388 --> 00:19:41.826
  • First of all, unconditional commitment.
  • 00:19:41.826 --> 00:19:47.331
  • You can't go in the presence of god
  • 00:19:47.331 --> 00:19:49.300
  • Without selling out to god about giving him your hand,
  • 00:19:49.300 --> 00:19:53.638
  • Your feet, your mind, everything.
  • 00:19:53.638 --> 00:19:55.539
  • You can't hold back anything.
  • 00:19:55.539 --> 00:19:57.241
  • That's the first step to know the presence of god.
  • 00:19:57.241 --> 00:20:00.011
  • Remember, it is through the presence of god,
  • 00:20:00.011 --> 00:20:02.179
  • We then have the power of god.
  • 00:20:02.179 --> 00:20:04.682
  • So we go to him totally.
  • 00:20:04.682 --> 00:20:06.951
  • We give ourselves totally to him.
  • 00:20:06.951 --> 00:20:09.153
  • Completely to him.
  • 00:20:09.153 --> 00:20:11.155
  • Holding nothing back from him.
  • 00:20:11.155 --> 00:20:14.492
  • Let me tell you something, if you have something
  • 00:20:14.492 --> 00:20:17.495
  • You're talking to god about, praying to god about,
  • 00:20:17.495 --> 00:20:18.963
  • And there is living sin in your life or in my life,
  • 00:20:18.963 --> 00:20:23.134
  • We're practicing sin in any way, shape, form and fashion.
  • 00:20:23.134 --> 00:20:26.370
  • You're wasting your breath trying to talk to god
  • 00:20:26.370 --> 00:20:29.340
  • And get his power to god to operate in some area.
  • 00:20:29.340 --> 00:20:32.009
  • You have to first of all deal with that brokenness,
  • 00:20:32.009 --> 00:20:34.545
  • That sin in your life.
  • 00:20:34.545 --> 00:20:35.913
  • That's what total commitment is.
  • 00:20:35.913 --> 00:20:38.416
  • Lord, i want you to help.
  • 00:20:38.416 --> 00:20:39.750
  • I want you to lead. i want you to forgive.
  • 00:20:39.750 --> 00:20:41.619
  • Oh, no, no.
  • 00:20:41.619 --> 00:20:43.120
  • Go right back to that thing which is wrong in your life.
  • 00:20:43.120 --> 00:20:46.857
  • That has to be dealt with first.
  • 00:20:46.857 --> 00:20:49.527
  • For what had happened a long time ago, doesn't matter.
  • 00:20:49.527 --> 00:20:51.862
  • Give it to god, let him deal with it.
  • 00:20:51.862 --> 00:20:53.531
  • That has to be dealt with first.
  • 00:20:53.531 --> 00:20:55.132
  • And that is a total commitment.
  • 00:20:55.132 --> 00:20:57.168
  • If you draw near to god, if god draws near to us,
  • 00:20:57.168 --> 00:21:00.237
  • We have to begin with surrender and commitment.
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  • Not one time, but i'm sure many times.
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  • First thing i do every morning,
  • 00:21:06.143 --> 00:21:07.645
  • I hit my knees and i surrender, every single day.
  • 00:21:07.645 --> 00:21:10.948
  • Before i go to bed at night, i hit my knees, i surrender.
  • 00:21:10.948 --> 00:21:14.418
  • That is total commitment.
  • 00:21:14.418 --> 00:21:15.753
  • That's the first step to drawing near to god.
  • 00:21:15.753 --> 00:21:19.290
  • James says, "draw near to god,"
  • 00:21:19.290 --> 00:21:20.624
  • And what, "he'll draw near to you."
  • 00:21:20.624 --> 00:21:23.794
  • It's vital.
  • 00:21:23.794 --> 00:21:25.129
  • The first step is complete surrender.
  • 00:21:25.129 --> 00:21:27.098
  • The second step have to destroy some idols.
  • 00:21:27.098 --> 00:21:32.737
  • It may be a good thing.
  • 00:21:32.737 --> 00:21:34.438
  • Your idol may be work, that's a good thing.
  • 00:21:34.438 --> 00:21:37.041
  • But it has higher priority than things of god,
  • 00:21:37.041 --> 00:21:39.777
  • A good thing have become a bad thing.
  • 00:21:39.777 --> 00:21:43.013
  • What is that you must have?
  • 00:21:43.013 --> 00:21:45.282
  • What is the audience that you're living for?
  • 00:21:45.282 --> 00:21:48.219
  • Who are those that we want to approve of us?
  • 00:21:48.219 --> 00:21:51.188
  • They can become adulterous.
  • 00:21:51.188 --> 00:21:52.623
  • Anything, a house, money, positions, pleasure, sex
  • 00:21:52.623 --> 00:21:57.128
  • Can become an idol and it takes the place of god.
  • 00:21:57.128 --> 00:22:00.531
  • So first of all, we have to tear down those idols
  • 00:22:00.531 --> 00:22:04.902
  • In order to draw near to god and god to draw near to us.
  • 00:22:04.902 --> 00:22:07.605
  • Complete surrender, then there's destructive of idols.
  • 00:22:07.605 --> 00:22:10.241
  • And then what comes into play?
  • 00:22:10.241 --> 00:22:13.511
  • The mercy seat.
  • 00:22:13.511 --> 00:22:15.646
  • We have the idea.
  • 00:22:15.646 --> 00:22:16.981
  • Well, i can go and pray to god anytime.
  • 00:22:16.981 --> 00:22:19.049
  • Oh he's, i'm not present, he is,
  • 00:22:19.049 --> 00:22:21.118
  • But you and i can't pray time
  • 00:22:21.118 --> 00:22:24.355
  • Because i am unclean and you are unclean
  • 00:22:24.355 --> 00:22:26.624
  • And we go to god and god is holy
  • 00:22:26.624 --> 00:22:29.894
  • And god will listen to only people who are holy.
  • 00:22:29.894 --> 00:22:34.465
  • Ooh, you say, boy, he'll never listen to me.
  • 00:22:34.465 --> 00:22:38.102
  • Let me tell you how holiness comes
  • 00:22:38.102 --> 00:22:39.703
  • To every single one of us here.
  • 00:22:39.703 --> 00:22:42.039
  • We go right back to the ark.
  • 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:43.641
  • The reason god would come to the ark
  • 00:22:43.641 --> 00:22:45.876
  • And withdraw from the ark and use power in the ark,
  • 00:22:45.876 --> 00:22:48.579
  • And there was glory in the ark,
  • 00:22:48.579 --> 00:22:50.014
  • And he would speak through the ark,
  • 00:22:50.014 --> 00:22:51.515
  • Because the ark tells us exactly how we get right with god.
  • 00:22:51.515 --> 00:22:57.388
  • What happened?
  • 00:22:57.388 --> 00:22:58.722
  • Once a year,
  • 00:22:58.722 --> 00:23:00.157
  • The high priests would go into the holy of holies
  • 00:23:00.157 --> 00:23:03.861
  • Called the women court, the gentiles and the temple,
  • 00:23:03.861 --> 00:23:06.664
  • The holy place, then the holy of holies.
  • 00:23:06.664 --> 00:23:09.266
  • And there was the ark.
  • 00:23:09.266 --> 00:23:10.734
  • Remember what was in the ark, the 10 commandments.
  • 00:23:10.734 --> 00:23:15.005
  • What was on top of the ark?
  • 00:23:15.005 --> 00:23:16.373
  • The two cherubim.
  • 00:23:16.373 --> 00:23:17.708
  • What was between them? the mercy seat.
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  • What would the priest have to do
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  • When he went into the holy place?
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  • He couldn't go in and heaven himself.
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  • He was not holy.
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  • But he went in with a blood sacrifice
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  • And the blood was put on the mercy seat, why?
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  • Why? is this some antique old ancient riddling ritual?
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  • Oh no.
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  • You see, the commandments were there.
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  • The 10 commandments were there.
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  • And when we go before god, there's always that covenant,
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  • The ark of the covenant.
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  • There's those commandments.
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  • And every one of us here has broken
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  • Every single one of those commandments.
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  • If you doubt that, we'll debate after church.
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  • Every one of us has broken every one of the commandments.
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  • So we go to god,
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  • And we know there is the covenant that we broken.
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  • Therefore, there has to be the blood
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  • That covers that covenant so we can do business with god.
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  • So the mercy seat is always involved and so we go as holy.
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  • You and i, we're holy when we been there
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  • And the blood of jesus christ hadn't been applied.
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  • You're holy and i'm holy,
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  • And god can deal with us and we can deal with god.
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  • He can come near to us and we come near to him,
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  • And that his power begins to flow in our life.
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  • For his power is always connected with his presence.
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  • How do we get in his presence? total submission.
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  • How does that happen? we get rid of some idols.
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  • Then we have to go to the mercy seat
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  • Because you and i then become holy
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  • Because jesus who was holy has shed the blood
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  • And protects us,
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  • And he is there as our mediator between us and the covenant
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  • That every one of us has broken.
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  • Ed: have you ever tried to read a historical novel out of order?
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  • It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand the
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  • Plot, wouldn't it?
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  • And yet, we read and study the bible in much the same way.
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  • Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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  • With a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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  • And when you read it in chronological order,
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  • You will see history unfold in a new and understandable
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  • And memorable way.
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  • Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you
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  • To read through the bible in 52 weeks.
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  • When you give to the winning walk this month,
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  • We want to send you a one year chronological bible.
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  • It's arranged in daily readings that will take about 15 minutes
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  • To read each day.
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  • At the end of 52 weeks, you will know and understand
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  • Like never before the full story of the bible.
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  • Male vo: to get your copy of the one year chronological bible,
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  • Ed: one of the greatest challenges of our culture
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  • Is that we have lost the sense of the holiness of god.
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  • Like the philistines in today's study, we think we can put god
  • 00:26:26.897 --> 00:26:30.868
  • In a box and experience his power without the sacredness
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  • And fear of him.
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  • God wants us to worship and to serve him, exclusively.
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  • He cannot be just a part of our agenda, god must be involved
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  • In every aspect of your life and my life.
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  • So today, ask god to give you a fresh sense of his holiness,
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  • And he will change everything!
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  • Call the number on your screen.
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  • We would like to speak with you about how to have a deeper,
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  • Personal walk with the almighty.
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  • And thank you for watching today.
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  • And please tune in next time as we take another step on
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  • "the winning walk."
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