All right, that's decision one.
Decision one. Not too long ago, the man robbed this
person, like in the study, before he came out here. and it was
such a blessing to me. The first part came basically.
I was so very familiar with it. It's probably my favorite
portion of the book. I'm sure that's why I'm reading
it. But you enjoy reading that a moment ago, don't
you? I do. I thoroughly enjoy reading
that. So how about What I was reading
this last, whenever it was, I... The last several verses caught
my attention. This is a prayer by the Apostle
Paul, beginning with verse 15. A prayer for the sacred Ephesus. And this is my prayer for you. For me. This is my prayer for
the faith that counts, the faith that counts, the faith that counts
in Christ Jesus. All right? Let's read it, beginning
with verse 15. Wherefore I also, lest I heard
of no faith in the Lord Jesus, and love on the Holy Spirit. There are some people in here
who can know, can believe, can be certain of that. I was the
most certain that I am not one of God's children. They loved Christ. They loved God's people. They wanted to be alone. It's sad when they're alone,
isn't it? It's sad. Like a mother lying
with baby to the bed. God's people were alone. They did. And Paul says, that's
why I heard of you taking the word of Jesus and the word of
my mouth aside. He said, those things to us didn't
matter. For that is, I continue to give
thanks to you. And always making mention of
you in my prayer. Let's return over to, very quickly,
2 Thessalonians. Let's just return over to 2 Thessalonians,
chapter 2. Paul says, I... I face mine continually giving
thanks for you. And I thank you patiently. I thank you patiently for what
you've been doing for me. I do. And I thank you enough. I thank you for all you do for
me every time. Amen. I really do. But I say yes because I am giving
thanks to God, to you. See I have thanks, I have credit. I have credit. There is no credit
to me. You'll never find me standing
up here saying that. I'm still glad you came this
morning. You'll never hear me thanking you for coming
here. I hope you don't. You didn't
say that. I can't even say that. And just
remember, it's a slip of the tongue, you know, because you're
bound, look at those statements, you're bound to give thanks always
to God for you. And if it wasn't for God, you
wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be here. If it wasn't
for God's mercy and grace and love, we wouldn't even have slept
together. We're bound to thank God, but
as Paul says, I continually, I cease not to give thanks to
God for you. Thank you, Lord. Lord. Let's keep going. It's a good
time. Make a mention of you in my prayer.
He called me, Ezekiel. He called me. It's a humbling thing when certain
sensitive people are sentient like you, but it isn't. It ought to be. If we know ourselves, if we considered
ourselves to be less relieved, not worthy to be called a saint,
if somebody says, I'm thinking about you, John. Well, I am being
sentient. Then how would you bless the
time? Make a mention of you. That wasn't
someone I was talking about to you. I was just talking about
you. Hopefully it wasn't somebody else. You know, justice for women. I'm not telling about whatever. It was someone I was talking
about to you. I wasn't talking about anybody. I was just talking about you. God,
where's this message at? What about this? I'm about to
be mad at God. I've got a lot of needs. I have a lot of
needs. How about you? You have a lot
of needs? I have many needs. I am needy. I'm poor and needy. I call upon
God. I have needs, but... Lord, would
you bless me? It's just so strange. You know, it makes me forget
all about you and me. What about Pat? Do you have news? Oh, man, it's always the same
with you. It's the same with me, Pat. We've
never told anything. It's always coming up in our
lives. Some of those people... Do you know how many
times I've said that you can't get mad at somebody you're telling
jokes? I mean it's amazing. Have you
tried that? It's serious. It's serious. Make them mad at
you and not tell them jokes. And I don't like to go around
telling people that. It's kind of bargy, and I like
to do that. It's hard to do that under the
influence of the Holy Spirit, and for all I want to do it,
but I don't advise that to go killing people. That's the kind
of thing that's a little bit proud of me. But it is on your hand the sense that
comes on the third and fourth thinking about me, let alone
initially before God's plan. We don't... And here's what our
message, I hope, is, is that God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of Glory, the God of our Father, the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, the God of Heaven,
our God, the Father of Glory, our Father, He says, I'm sorry in His name.
He's all I am to do in His name, so I'm sorry in His name. But
He made good unto you what good is graciousness. And He made
sure that God made you gracious, and He delights you with graciousness. He giveth and giveth and giveth
again. Every good and perfect gift comes
from God, comes from God. That He might give unto you,
you don't. I'm praying that God would give
unto you this, what? A new car, which He so desperately
needs. A new Mercedes. A new house. I want you out of the A little
smile plays on it, and he'll mention, oh, he's got one. He's
got one coming. Don't need that now. This is
what he prays for. That he will give you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Christ. That he may give unto you the
spirit of wisdom and revelation. Do you have a margin of reference
there? Where's it set? Where's it set in the knowledge
of Him? Over in the margins. Is it set
for the acknowledgment of Him? In other words, that God would
make you wise and God would reveal to you facts. That you might
know Him. That you might know Him. That
God would make you acknowledge Him. Acknowledge Christ. You know, that's where it's going.
That's where it's going to take. That's where it's
going to take to get us, to get our eyes off of Egypt. To get
our eyes off the idols. of Solomon, we're no less rich
than he is. To get our eyes off the thing,
our baby, our home, our job, our spouse,
whatever, it's going to take the power of God for us just
in a moment in the day to acknowledge Him. Did I rise my spectre not
to thank the Lord and set him on fire? And take the fire of
God? And so he fell into it. And God would give us a year's
worth of revelation with knowledge of it. To think on things above. To not be like pigs. It's written in the mirror of
repentance. It's a story on the wings of evil that's holding
us back. God is going to have to get out of touch
with us. If we're sinful, it's going to
take God a long time to get out of touch with us. God is going to
have to call us to faith on the wings of evil. I have a bag that
I like to carry around. and you're gonna have nothing.
And who's gonna have a dog now? Dogs are just dogs nowadays. It takes a long time to find
a dog. If you don't find a dog, well,
it takes a lot of time. Every day. You have to spend
every day with that dog. One of the things that I learned
from the foremost dog trainers in the world was that you're
gonna have to get that dog to take it. Where'd I get caught? Where'd
I get caught? By like that fella on New Year's,
right? It was the 24th or something, I don't know. I don't know, he
was fed up, you know. He was fed up, and he had to
do something. But the 24th, he said, now that
I've got your attention. But I said, well, they lied to
me. I said, no, no, he was just chasing me this, and that, and
that, and that. I had to be calling him, calling him, calling him.
I had to give his attention. That's why I'm here. I'm talking
to you. I said nothing else but God,
you know. And that's it. God doesn't go
away. It's got to be a trick of our own. It's got to be. Somebody said that. It's good
I think so. Thanks. I'll leave it there.
You are my master. Thank you. God wants to get our
attention. Just to acknowledge Him. Just
to acknowledge Him. So it appears here that He wants
the spirit of wisdom. What's the spirit of wisdom in
Revelation? In the knowledge of Him. What's
the spirit of wisdom? Does anybody know what the beginning
of wisdom is? That's right. Anybody know what the
beginning of wisdom is? That's right. Anybody? The beginning of wisdom. What's that? Glory. 5 days 1 and 7 and 5 days
9 and 10. The beginning of wisdom. What? What? 5 days 1 and 7 and 5 days
9 and 10 and the knowledge of the holier, the holier one is
understanding. Who's the holier one? He wants to go to the first section.
That's the beginning of the gospel. And maybe you have the beginning
of the gospel. And that's my prayer, is that
God would give us this pure religion. Pure religion, the beginning
of religion. The knowledge of the Holy is understandable. The
knowledge of who God is and what he's like. He died, he has not
his life. He died. Wisdom, revelation and
knowledge is here. Knowledge is Christ. He is wisdom.
The gospel which is, needs to be revealed. It's a revelation. And knowledge is Christ. It's a salvation. Verse 18, God,
if you understand being righteous. God, if you understand being
righteous. We're just dying. We're dying,
my husband. And you know we're not a whole lot different from
that fellow, the Lord first healed him. When he first healed him
of his diamonds, remember that fellow? When he first anointed
his eyes, remember what he said? He said, I still remember watching
this tree. In other words, he and his son
perfectly clearly did it. Huh? He sawed man to man. And he saw, I believe he saw
Christ, but didn't, you know, make him out real clearly. He saw the sunshine, and he'd
never seen that before. He saw it somewhat. I think that's
spirit, I think that's spirit. And see, we see, we know and
talk. We don't see things clearly,
do we? Huh? Yes, we do. Why is it we understand that no God is superior or lower than
the division of the universe? It's in the history of the universe. And we heard that they were wise,
and we considered it the latter thing. That should be the only
thing I could think of. And we heard that they were wise,
and we considered it the latter thing. Go look up there. It's getting old. I don't like
it. I ain't forgettin' nothin' even though it isn't. That whole, that head
is that whole head of mine. What? They are? They are. They're a whole lot. Right, buddy?
I look at myself in the mirror this morning, thinkin', man,
they're about all gone from here. Just about all gone. What? I'm getting older. What? My hair is dying. What else? I'm dying. My sister was my age, and she's
dead. My brother was half my age, and
he's dead. Some of you just fell, or suddenly
someone goes, oh, you're good as dead. Oh, you just say you're
wise. Give us the Spirit of Wisdom,
and see that what is your life, and it's everything for you.
It's here for a moment, and passes away. You're gone. You're gone. You're gone. Don't slap ourselves up for nothing. Angie, I pulled my best friend
out of the garage in her basement. Her sister was dead. Year eight. Fourteen years old. Dead. Fourteen. Fourteen-year-old
died? Nobody believed it. I touched his chest. Bleeding. He's dead. Oh, the
trouble rises. Lord, give us the spirit of the
wisdom that we would consider our lot in. It was a part of
the monument to God, not to God. Not at the end of Christ, John Moses.
Not at the end of Christ, buddy. Because there's therefore no,
no condemnation to anyone at the end of Christ. Do you know
Christ? If you die today at autumn, you
are dead. We have to serious and sober
this morning, people. If I post this at any time less
than serious and sober, you find another person. I pray that the year I live that
God would give us the spirit of wisdom and reveal unto us
the importance of our lives and the sanctity of knowing how it
can be found within Him. That the eyes of our understanding
would be enlightened and would open our eyes and see the world. It's all the paper he's put on
the TV, and just watch what's going on around us. This thing's gone. This, this is really gone, gone. He's wrapping this thing
up like a bracelet. He's left this world with sacks. It's gone. Why is that so? I understand the enlightenment,
freedom, and open our eyes, and that we may know. Oh, that God
may teach us, that God may reveal to us, that we might know what
is the purpose of His calling, the purpose of His calling. Most of the people in this world
are hopeless people. If you ask them, they live in
a sense of despair and hopelessness. Go to the industry to get work. You don't have to go to the ghetto.
You go to the penthouse. Ask the fellow who has everything.
You'll be in despair. You'll have a sense of hopelessness.
The mood is despair. You'll be, oh, I'll give up.
Hopelessness. Oh, the way in this world makes
me satisfied. Groping for this and that, looking
for this and that, we can't find it without help. It's helping
us. It's contentment. It's fulfillment.
It's not to be found in us. That's fulfillment. He's got
it all. You're dying to get to it. He
said it's Barnabas. Barnabas. Barnabas. All places. God's beauty is young. If you may know what the truth
of this covenant is. If you know what He's talking
about tonight. Oh, we have too many prayers
that God would make too many. Do you? Have you heard the call? And he was without faith, without
God, without hope. The docks of pain. The docks
of pain, the hope of his calling. You see there's one Lord, one
Spirit, and one hope of his calling. One hope, one hope of ever finding
real happiness, and contentment, and peace, and joy in this life
is with you here, with somebody that gives you a call. With somebody that gives you
a call in the back of your heart. You've got almighty grace. And
it's going to have to be Him. It's going to have to be Him. Let me give you this lesson. Scripture says that we're all,
by nature of children of God, we're all condemned, as it were. We're all damned. a damned, guilted
person. And that's what comes, is your
own birthright. What do you think? What if you weren't actually
that person, that you weren't watching something? What do you
think? Are you your own birthright? And maybe a few years after it
moves and you're like, let's just hold it on and down and
just turn it off. And it doesn't turn off. It just goes on. That is weird. That's quite amazing, isn't it?
Take your friends out. Take them upstairs and go left.
Let them go. I got a full, free cardinal assigned
in my mind. You let him out. You let him
out. He's dead. That's it. That's it. Go on.
Go for it. Give me love. Give me love. No! No! No! Do you want this? Here. I can get it. Here. But that's not it. You're wrong. But you might know
what the richness of the glory of human heart is in Christ.
I heard a story this morning about a fellow who said, you're
screwed again. Where am I? Right. I've got a ring up here in the
bedroom if you want me to play with it. I'm saying that I want
to know who put you up. Everything's prepared. It's time to sleep. I'm going
to go sit at my table. I've got a plate on my right
hand. This evening, I'm going to eat
dinner with me and all my business partners. Come on. It's time
to do this. It's late, but it'll be good. No. No. No, you think that's a silly
illustration. Maybe it is. Silly because it
can't... Again, it's entirely a list of... That's the reason Carl says it
this way. It's a list of the good. That's
his inheritance, in a sense. A list of the good. The God,
the Father of glory. You know, I haven't seen, you
haven't heard, you haven't entered into the heart of man the things
that God has prepared you. There's nothing to compare. What
is to compare glory to? Heaven is called
glory. Something to compare glory to
is glory. You don't see this kind of thing.
I feel like I'm giving you some of that stuff. Give me what's
in my mind. There's a little bit. That's
when the gospel does come into your mind and help. Just a little
bit. You get a taste of straight up. Part of it. That's just, honestly, you've
got to see yourself some blending. Yes, I suppose. Part of the move
on your mind's not broken, is it? Huh? That's what it means
when somebody's not sure. But God always says to us, how
is my life not understanding that we are in death's land?
And I'm becoming merciful. And then we hear the hope of
his coming. This is the Lord. I forgive you. That's been, I believe, what's
the word I believe the Lord used to work in my testimony, a young
21-year-old boy, driving a caboose, and, uh, he was faced with failure. But, reading the book, I came to him and,
uh, I went over seven times and told you on the spot, And, uh,
he got to that first sermon. He said, Father, forgive me. Doesn't mean that way to him. Except, oh, he's not where he
should be. That's what he is, he says. Oh,
it pissed him off. Made him guilty. He doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't know where he's going.
He didn't know where he was going when he said that. But here,
keep it here before it cuts and leaves. I hope you do something. That's my attitude. I'm really going to
try to be honest with you. You don't
know what I'm talking about. The glory of His inheritance
and His promise, for I have not seen and felt it. With my... With my big tongue. With my mouth, I can't tell you,
but with my big tongue I have not seen and felt it. I'm real sorry for that. With my tongue. It'll be all fine. And this morning,
more important than this morning, I'm going out to the park. Joe's back. Wouldn't you like
to hang out, Joe? Wouldn't you want to hang out,
Joe? Come on in now, Joe. This is where I
hang out. All right. Going home. Oh, what
a cool place. It's so much fun. If you want to go to the church,
there are two occasions where you can go to the church. One, you pray from your house. Don't you pray from
your house. You pray from your house. It's
the best thing you can do. It's the best thing you can do.
And it will help you if you can't go to the church. And if there's nothing to it,
then that's fine. But if it looks like there's something to it, then it's worth it. Oh,
here we go. It looks like it's running out of water. Here we go. Oh, my goodness,
look at that. I found him in the grove. I found
him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in
the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove.
I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found
him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove.
I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the
grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found
him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found
him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found
him in the grove. I found him in the grove. I found him in
the grove. He told me. About his election,
about his... He told me. I got a brother.
He unbroke it, and I got a brother, my own son. He told me all about it. He told me. He told me, he
just told me. for He makes music. That's what I want to be saying.
He made it. I made it. He saved it. It's pretty nice, isn't it? It's an amazing day here, isn't it?
It's nice, it's nice. We've just had such a fun day. We've had a good time. And we're
tired now. We've been tired for the last
45 minutes. What God would say if He came
in the likeness of the Lord, His importance and strength,
and what is extremely great is that He came in the likeness
of His name. Extremely great is that He came
in the likeness of His name. But what should we do because
we are so empowered? There are things we want more
than that. There are things we want less. One man make a whip and eat that.
A lion lay down on a lion. Make a lion eat that. Make a whip on a wolf and eat it.
Well, if he walked in fast, that's some good he did it, he's gonna
get it. Here's the whole reason, Matter. God did this in fast. He did it in Christ, because
of Christ. Because of Christ. Three times. One time. Two times.
Three times. Four times. Because of Christ.
That means God can't give anything to me. God doesn't need me. He said that one time. He said, if you ask God, I'll
make a song for it. He said, I will make a song for
the children of Abraham out of song. God doesn't need me. He's been here all along. God
doesn't need me. There's a whole story of Him
being born on the first world. Just like me. I'm not in need. You're not in need. Nothing to
make about it. There's one in need. Jesus Christ. And God just went and looked
at His face and said, I'm going to do what it takes to help you. Because of Him, because of this
blood, this pain, and because He walked by, look at it, that
He roared in Christ and raised Him from the dead. Because Christ
died, I live. And not because He died. And for this moment, I'm as old
as dead. It's a great blessing for me. I'm not a boy of the
sun, and I'm still a child. But this morning, I'll be there
with all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you,
all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you,
all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you,
all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you,
all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you,
all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you,
all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you, all of
you, all of you, all of you So you clean it. Yes. And when it's time to do it,
get out of here. And he said, we did this, and
Christ lived. And Christ became our Rasputin. And Christ died. And Christ was
raised from the dead, and sat at the God's right hand, all
above, He was in the first line, all above all types of people,
all of them, in the middle of them, every one of them. And
on this road, I saw my Rasputin cross, and He said, I see Him,
and He speaks. He put all under his feet. Yes,
God sent it, so he took all his feet. This was him being on his
feet and all his feet. He had put all under his feet and
gave him, wait a minute, so he gave him to be the head over
all he'd sent. They've had to be deported as
well. They've had... Let me read something
to you. I hope you're still listening.
If you are, this one might be of interest to you. This is it.
You know, I wouldn't mind if you did this one. This is it.
This is Sheba, and poor Sheba came and saw Solomon while he
was living. And here's a sentence I wish to bring up on this. Can
we push on this for about 30 minutes, please? And we follow
the sentence. Solomon, the great king, was
standing up to his king, and all of his servants lined above
his king, and his people were in the row, and full of his cabal
of food, his cupboards, his clothing, his palm, his wisdom. She says she can't enjoy it because
she's so rich. And she says, then, that's what
she said most days, and I'm not sure of that. So she goes, I
don't know. I'm not sure. I don't know how. I'm not sure. And listen
what she said. Listen to this. Don't you be
deluded by that. It's deluded indeed. You can't
be on the throne of Asia. Because the Lord has made me
a believer forever, therefore he made me king." And then he
didn't hear it. And then he said to Jesus, yes,
he's been denied by God, he's looking at sin. And all he said
was, he says, He's belonged unto Him. God belongs in time. He
was blessed in time. He was praised in time. He was
set in time. And I shall accept of Him. This
was His. He belonged unto Him. Set me
on the throne, because He put His hand on that I can stand
in time, and put all things under His feet, and gave Him freedom. Because the Lord loves Israel
forever. His people forever. He loves
Solomon. He loves me. And because God
loves you, He made Christ love you. Go with Him. Come on. Go with Him to the church. Now, what are we going to tell
him about this time? Well, what are we going to tell
him? We're going to tell him to hear it over there, to the
church. And look at the last verse, and that's where it is,
okay? This is his voice. The church
is his voice. We're going to give it over. Father, you respond to the church,
and you respond to Christ. your opinion of, your suggestion
of, your participation, your, uh, dedication to, your... It's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot,
it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot,
it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's
a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's
a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's
a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's
a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's
a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's But maybe
you've read this verse many times, and I haven't read it many times. The fullness of Him that filleth
all of us. Is the curse the fullness of Christ? That's not what that says. The curse
is not the fullness of Christ. The curse is our fullness. In Him lies all the fulness. And
so, of course, he's not the fool, as it's called. David would be
with me, verses 22 and 23, and see if I can't read it in such
a way that I don't have time. He put it all into history and
gave you, in fact, gave you the whole of it. Go into the Spirit,
which is his voice. Go here. He is the Spirit of
heaven and of death. He says, uh, go here to the Spirit. Go. He is, he is the Spirit of
heaven and of death. He says, uh, go to the Spirit. He says, go to the Spirit. There
is one word that, let's just say one word. I'm looking for one word, just
one word. The fullness of human experience. The fullness of human experience. The fullness of human experience. The fullness of human experience. When you think of a word that
would say what he said, the fullness of human experience. Who is here? I'm always looking
for you. Escape. Escape. Escape. Escape. I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry, sir. Christ is the
Son of God, isn't He? He's the Son of God. And He's
the Son of God. He's the Son of God. He's the
Son of God. He's the Son of God. I love you. I love you. I feel so good right
now. And I hope that this is my chance
to be with you. I love you so much. I think I
love you. And I pray that right before
we go, you'll be listening, and I'll be listening, and I'll be
praying, and I'll be on the phone to be with you. It's about knowing what is good. And we can get it together and have a good time. All right,
let's go with it now, 255. The answer is here, right after
this one. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry. Okay. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. you uh... uh... I'm going to go ahead and turn
it off. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to go ahead and do
the same thing on the other side. I'm going to go ahead and turn
it off. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to
be able to do it. I don't know. Uh huh. I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording.