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we're talking today about uh discernment

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from the story of yeshua's Jesus's

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Temptations or testing it's really the

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same word both in in Hebrew and Greek in

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the wilderness after his baptism very

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very important story and very very uh

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Rich story in how we are tested just

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like he was tested okay or he was tested

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just like we're we're tested um and want

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us just to think before before we dive

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into Matthew chapter 4 about what was

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happening uh in the

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gospels uh right before this right

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before this in Matthew and and Luke you

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have the story of of yeshua's Life his

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young life and you think about it 30

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years is basically compacted into a few

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verses all right um and we don't know a

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lot about that life uh Luke 2:40 it

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talks after Yeshua was dedicated at the

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temple after his bar mitzvah there it

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says the child continued to grow and

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become strong increasing in wisdom and

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the grace of God was upon him uh that's

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about as much we know about his 30 years

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if you can imagine that of his life

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growing up there in Nazareth and it's

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important to realize that you know this

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is not Harry Potter okay Yeshua was not

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some Supernatural kid growing up that he

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would do all kinds of magic things and

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had powers he didn't have that at all

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okay all that begins in at the end of

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chapter Matthew 3 and 4 with his baptism

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but so what was his life he grew up as a

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normal Jewish kid up there in Nazareth

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what did that

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mean he was a he just helped his parents

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he went to school and he learned the

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word of God the Torah okay and the

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prophets remember they didn't have all

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kinds of other lure and TV and movies

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and blah blah blah and blah blah blah

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like we have all right they basically

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had the Scrolls of the Torah and the

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prophets at the synagogue that's where

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young men especially went to learn how

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to read and write and they learned and

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memorized huge amounts of scripture

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that's that's what they that was their

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TV their internet their L see fruit

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their literature okay and he grew up and

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he was a strong increasing in wisdom and

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the grace of God was upon him no

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magic no Supernatural we don't know what

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his Consciousness was of his divinity or

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anything like that we don't know it

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doesn't tell us and then we come and do

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we have the uh yeah um uh you can go

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back to the first picture at the

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beginning I just want you to see that

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picture before we miss it you see that

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picture okay this is how some a lot of

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people imagine what happens in this

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temptation like it's this battle between

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Yeshua and and this creature uh who

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looks like Satan right just I want to

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keep that in your mind as we go forward

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because what I'm want to tell you is

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that's exactly what it's not like okay

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because any 5-year-old can discern that

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that's Satan all right you know that

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right if if if some creature uh you know

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with a red suit and a pitchfork and

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horns shows up with smoke coming out of

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his mouth and ears and starts get

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telling you something that's not from

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God that's Satan and my nine-year-old my

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five-year-old when he was five could

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figure that out all right it's like

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Darth Vader you know uh in the movies

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we're so accustomed to it you know

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little music that for boing

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music and then some black creature who

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speaking in a dark voice is the oh

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that's the you don't even have to think

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about it that's the evil that's the evil

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one the bad guys right we're going to

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see what happens in in Yeshua in these

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Temptations is much more complex and

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much more similar to what we go through

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with thoughts in our mind okay so I just

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want you to keep that picture in mind

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that's what it's not like so that's Luke

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2 240 then he grows up and quickly the

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story moves to this baptism God leads

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him to John's Ministry to John's baptism

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he goes out there to the Jordan River

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and it says in Matthew 3:16-17

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after being baptized Jesus came up

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immediately from the water and behold

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the heavens were open and he saw the

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spirit of God descending as a dove and

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Lighting on him and behold a voice out

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of the heaven said this is my beloved

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Son in whom I am well pleased wow okay

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so he has just

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now um experiened something which I I

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think if there's any parallel in our

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lives he's basically born again and

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baptized in the holy spirit all at once

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but actually Yeshua didn't need to be

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born again because his Spirit was not

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defiled like ours is okay but

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everything's already just happens in

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this moment and you see the Triune God

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appearing right there for a few seconds

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in the at the Jordan River there is

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descending on him like a dove and the

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audible voice of the father speaking

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this is my beloved Son in whom I will

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pleas he's heard the voice the audible

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voice of the father about his sunship

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okay that's the background to what's

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happening and

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uh we're uh this whole question of

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discernment I said in the title of the

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message is is is this it's kind of long

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you know I like long title sometimes

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discernment equals identity

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The Voice slw word of God and the

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supernatural okay that when we're

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talking about Discerning the voice the

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will of God in our lives it's those

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three things come together our identity

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who we

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are the ability our knowledge to discern

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what is God's word what he's really

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saying and then third it has a lot to do

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with the Supernatural and understanding

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the spiritual realm Okay so let's fast

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forward this is what this is the

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background how yeshua's grown up he's

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got the word of God especially the Torah

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but a lot of the the Psalms and the

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prophets it's all been he's studied it

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he's done what a normal human being a

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normal Jew at his time would have have

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to do memorizing verses learning it

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speaking it all the time and he's come

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to this baptism he is now filled with

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the Holy Spirit a new channel

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into the spiritual realm has now been

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opened okay and this is I want to just

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mention this before we get into the

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Temptation This is what I understand

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happens to us when we are born again and

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especially then when we experience a

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baptism of the Holy Spirit we are there

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there's a we have a spirit man in us who

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is been transformed born again and now

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there is this straight channel to God

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like the radio has been turned on okay

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but at the same time that channel

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especially with if we're charismatics

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and Pentecostals with the B baptism of

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the Holy Spirit at the same time you're

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open not just to the Holy Spirit you're

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open to the whole spiritual realm in a

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way that you weren't before unless you

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were a real Satan worshipper which most

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people aren't okay and that's what

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happened now now Yeshua is open now the

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spirit can lead him and guide him he can

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hear the voice of God and the first

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thing that that voice or the spirit does

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is to lead him in the wilderness for 40

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days of fasting and ultimately testing

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okay and all this T you will see the

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test is all about

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identity the voice of God what is the

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word of God and the supernatural you

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with me all right and remember well

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let's read actually let's go to the next

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next uh scripture which is uh starting

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4 ma uh Matthew chapter 4 veres 1-4 then

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Yeshua was led up by the spirit Into the

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Wilderness to be tempted by the devil

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and after he had fasted 40 days and 40

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nights he then became hungry and the

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tempter came and said to him if you are

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the Son of God command that these Stones

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become bread but he answered and said it

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is written

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man shall not live on bread alone but on

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every word that proceeds out of the

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mouth of God all right now a few things

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this we know Matthew tells the story and

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he kind of reveals all the secrets he

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says he was led by the spirit to be

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tempted by the devil okay and then verse

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three says and the tempter came to him

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so we already know what's going on which

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if Matthew I said Matthew why did you

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write it that way you could have kept

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the suspense you know and not let us

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because this is really important I

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believe that Yeshua didn't

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know okay that's why it's a

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test okay if he knows if he was oh I'm

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going to be tempted by the devil oh

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that's the devil that's pretty easy okay

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uh let's just a few verses from Hebrews

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all right to talk about this idea of how

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Yeshua was

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tested tempted in every way just like we

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are Hebrews 2:17 and 18 therefore he had

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to be made like his brethren in all

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things so that he might become a

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merciful and faithful high priest in

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things pertaining to God to make

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propitiation for the sins of the people

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tempted in that which he has suffered he

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is able to come to the aid of those who

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are tempted Hebrews 4:15 for we do not

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have a high priest who cannot sympathize

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with our weakness but one who has been

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tempted in all all things just as we are

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okay tempted and tested is the same

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word you know brothers and sisters how

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are we tempted and tested by the

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devil does he show up in a voice in your

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mind like

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this like Darth

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Vader no that's too

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easy okay any 5-year-old can discern

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that he shows up in your mind in the

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exact same

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thoughts that you get from the whole the

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same way because it's your SP there's a

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spirit your spirit man and everything

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then from that Spirit comes through your

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soul into your mind okay there's no I

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don't know about you there's no

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qualitative difference in the voice you

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understand me it's not like God's voice

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is you know and the devil

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is no it's a

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thought so there is Yeshua just the like

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us he's done 40 days of fasting I heard

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from Asher in the teaching a few weeks

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ago of how everything in yeshua's life

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has a parallel has a type from the from

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the Torah from Moses and from the story

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of the people of Israel 40 years in the

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wilderness he's out in the wilderness

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right 40 years 40 days okay and he's now

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going to go through something and it's

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he apparently knew that he had to fast

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for 40 days okay now it's over the grace

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is gone for that fast and he's

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hungry okay now the question here the

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test is not if to

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eat or not the test is how why okay now

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in what would he do normally what would

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you do normally at the end of a fast do

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you go look for rocks to command them to

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turn into bread or to spaghetti or

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whatever you like or Mana no you would

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walk into the next

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Village buy food or and

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say you'd say your prayer and you'd eat

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like a normal human being that's what

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Yeshua would do and should do

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unless God has a different idea all

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right

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so he

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is at that place it's time to eat and he

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I don't want to say he hears a voice

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because it's that's not the test by the

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way if you're you're out there and

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you're hearing voices like of different

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quality like different radio signals in

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your brain that is very serious that can

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mean a very serious psychological

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illness or demonic possession you need

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really serious help that's not how God

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speaks to you okay the holy spirit is is

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not it's not a radio inside your head

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okay he comes into our spirit it comes

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through our soul and our thought life

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into our conscience and we learn learn

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over time as we grow to discern what is

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that the thoughts of God okay um so this

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is what happens to Yeshua now we have

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the the the the scripture is very very

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dense and short okay it doesn't say how

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long it was between the time that this

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thought came to him

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if you're the Son of God speak to the

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stones to turn them into bread and the

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time that he spoke and said it is

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written all right I believe that it was

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probably at least several minutes maybe

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even longer that Yeshua going through

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this test he had to discern and think

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and pray like we do and go through the

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scriptures and go through the stories

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and and and and and sort of you know

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meditate on those words and and and gain

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discernment okay it wasn't just like

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that I that's what I think because he

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went through he was tested just as we

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are all right so I want us to think

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about what he might have gone through uh

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as he was discerned his process of

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discernment I hope it will help all of

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us uh as well um first thing is the

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first words this if you are the Son of

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God

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then if you're the Son of God oh wait a

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minute I just heard 40 days

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ago the audible voice of the father say

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this is my

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son I know who I

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am

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okay um I believe Yeshua was very

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confident in who he was as the Son of

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God and here comes this these words that

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kind of say well you got to do something

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to prove it

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in particular something

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Supernatural

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okay and I think he's PR wait a minute I

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don't is that is that right I mean

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humanly speaking you if this was Harry

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Potter or this is me I'd be like he

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knows from growing up and reading the

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stories from Moses and Elijah and the

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prophets and about the Messiah that he's

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going to be doing signs and wonders he's

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going to be raising the dead and Healing

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The Sick and casting out demons but he's

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never done any of that before if it were

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me I'd say well Nobody's around this

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good good time to practice you know

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let's take the Rocks bread bread oh now

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you got to do it 10 times I don't

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know but no he did something said no no

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I'm not I don't not sure I need to do

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anything then I believe if I think if we

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think what stories from the Bible that

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he had memorized would speak into this

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situation that would help him discern

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because remember you see with all of the

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Temptations his final answer is quote

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quing a Bible verse okay and as we'll

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see it's not just one it's the verse but

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there's everything in that chapter and

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so he's thinking about the scriptures

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now what stories I'll put it this

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way

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Supernatural

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provision okay you've got no food or

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water and you're speaking to a

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rock ring a bell ring a bell tell

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me Moses where should be Moses remember

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he's got to do everything that Moses did

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in the people which story Numbers

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Chapter 20 The Waters of miva okay what

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happened in that story uh the people are

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complaining again you brought us out of

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Egypt that we would have to die here

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weren't there enough graves in Egypt

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blah blah blah Jewish people are amazing

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at gifty gifted complaining very verbose

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yeah and um we have the scripture up

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there this is Mo uh numbers chap 20: 101

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God says it's kind of tricky What God

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Says to to Moses and Aaron as they fall

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on their face in front of him and say

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what again what are we supposed to do

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and God says pick up your staff okay and

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go out and then God says speak to the

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Rock and The Rock will bring forth water

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what happens Moses for basically it's

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the only time that

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Moses how should we say loses is cool

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okay and he gets judged for it this this

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is verse 10 and 11 Moses says they

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gathered the assembly before the Rock

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and he said to

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them listen now you rebels shall we

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bring forth water for you out of this

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rock uhoh what do you hear in those

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words what was happening in Moses's

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Soul his ego suddenly these are you know

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all the other times Moses goes before he

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says God if you don't go before us God

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Mo God says to him I don't I'm going to

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I'm going to judge these people and kill

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them all and start over with you and

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some others says no no no God he

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intercedes no what will the Egyptians

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say what will they say about here a

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different Moses something happens he

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lost his cool he got angry he called the

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people Rebels and then he says what do

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we need to do bring forth water shall we

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do this bring forth water from the

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rod you hear a bit of this ego now what

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do I got to show you something something

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again then Moses lifted up his hand and

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struck the rock twice with his Rod God

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had told him to take the rod God didn't

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tell him to strike The Rock he told him

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to speak to the rod and water came forth

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abundantly the will of God was fulfilled

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anyway because God is Sovereign and

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that's what God wanted to

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do and all the people and the animals

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they all drank and we satisfied okay but

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then the next verse says God judges

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Moses said you did not sanctify me in in

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the sight of the people of Israel and

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because of this you and Aaron will not

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enter the promised land all right now

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I'm tell you again I'm Yeshua I'm not

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Yeshua if I'm Yeshua I'm standing there

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thinking all right speak to the Rock

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food water the story of Moses ego do I

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have to show something what else is

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different Yeshua is

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alone Moses wasn't alone

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do you ever was there ever a time where

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Moses was alone with God and something

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Supernatural

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happened yeah the beginning of his his

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call The Burning Bush did he have to

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make that happen no God spoke and it was

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there okay every other time that Moses

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did something Supernatural was a sign it

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was for the people think about yeshua's

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life and Ministry after this is there

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any time that our Lord Yeshua

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the one who had full command charge over

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the supernatural world who could speak

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and do anything whatever he said would

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come to pass did he ever do anything

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Supernatural for himself by himself

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that's recorded in

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scripture No provision he fed the 5,000

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he fed the 4,000 and at the end he said

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to pick up the crumbs that's tomorrow's

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morning that's breakfast

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tomorrow okay they were together for for

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three years how many is that that's 900

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a th000 days every day except two days

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they ate they paved they did the normal

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thing that human beings do there were

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time two times with this 5,000 in the

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fourth that it was a sign it was for the

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people okay it wasn't Yeshua saying I

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got to do something Supernatural so I

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can feel like I'm the Son of

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God okay never did that never did that

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with the supernatural right and Moses

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didn't do it either and this one time

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when Moses got his ego

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involved it was bad news for Moses and

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for the people okay um the other Story

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another story of miraculous provision

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let's think of the most important people

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the the Torah Moses and the prophets

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Elijah that's why in the Mount of

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transfiguration it's the two of them who

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appear Moses represents the Torah and

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Elijah the the prophets Elijah did he

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was he ever fed supernaturally

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what's the

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story

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Ravens right crows all right First Kings

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17 we'll just focus on First Kings 17

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veres 5 and 6 it's up there right this

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is where at the beginning when he he is

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he's uh announced that there will be no

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no rain for three years and now he's on

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the run and God leads him and he's he he

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went to according to the word of the

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Lord he went and lived by the Brook

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which is east of the Jordan the Ravens

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brought him bread and and meat in the

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morning and bread and meat in the

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evening takeaway W Vault whatever you

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want to call it okay think about that

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from the Crow's mouth where did they get

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bread I mean meat I get they can pick up

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some dead carcasses I don't know but

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bread they don't make bread you

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know and he's bringing it to them

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amazing he's alone how did it happen God

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spoke how did God

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speak God said

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to the Ravens do this right we didn't

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hear that and Elijah didn't hear it what

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did he hear the Ravens bringing me

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food God has

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spoken

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circumstance okay when God speaks you

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know when no one was around when he said

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let there be light we didn't hear that

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but God spoke and there's

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light that's how God speaks

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supernaturally most of the time is there

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it is

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okay so in another case here that Yeshua

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is processing this and wait a minute

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that but Moses and the prophets they

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didn't there was never a situation like

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this where they just by themselves for

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themselves did something Supernatural

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where God instead of God speaking and

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providing they had to do it themselves

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they had to command Okay so he takes

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those things

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together wait a minute I I don't need to

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prove I've

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heard 40 days ago that voice that voice

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that one time that's

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enough I don't need to keep on I don't

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need some Supernatural high or power to

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keep

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myself confident in my sunship my

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identity as a child of God you hear

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me some of us we'll talk about this at

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the end some of us and I'm I can tell

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you my own story at the end sometimes we

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00:24:30,159 --> 00:24:32,120
get a little bit

543
00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,679
addicted and we think we need something

544
00:24:34,679 --> 00:24:37,200
Supernatural from God to to get me

545
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,200
through this

546
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,279
well what that means what that

547
00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:44,760
Supernatural is going to look

548
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,919
like let him

549
00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:49,679
decide amen and be confident in who you

550
00:24:49,679 --> 00:24:53,000
are let's finish all right as again he's

551
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,240
going through this process of

552
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,640
discernment of

553
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,159
figuring out of of not fig he's praying

554
00:25:01,159 --> 00:25:04,360
he's he's he's meditating on this this

555
00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,399
thought that had come to him if you're

556
00:25:06,399 --> 00:25:08,120
the Son of God speak to the stones and

557
00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:09,880
turn them into bread and he's going

558
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,360
through scriptures in his mind he's

559
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:12,960
going through the stories of the

560
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,440
prophets and and Moses and then he comes

561
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,240
to this the third one which is the one

562
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,799
he he finishes with and speaks which is

563
00:25:19,799 --> 00:25:21,520
Deuteronomy

564
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,600
8 he speaks part of verse three um but

565
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,440
you remember um you know as was teaching

566
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,480
Romans 91011 how and encouraging people

567
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,840
all the time when there's a quote that

568
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,880
it may just be the tip of the iceberg

569
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,120
from that section in the Old Testament

570
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,520
and to stop and to go back and read not

571
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,000
just read around it okay and you'll find

572
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,080
oh he's referencing not just that that

573
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,559
one little phrase he's referencing the

574
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:53,200
whole thing of what's written in Isaiah

575
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,799
or what's written in in Moses and this

576
00:25:54,799 --> 00:25:59,360
is the same thing uh in um

577
00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:00,840
in Deuteronomy okay I'm going to read

578
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,520
from Deuteronomy 8 1-3 by the way all

579
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,840
three of yeshua's answers to the

580
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,240
Temptations and we'll talk about the

581
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,720
next Temptations in the next time um he

582
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:17,679
quotes his his trump card uh is a verse

583
00:26:17,679 --> 00:26:20,240
from Deuteronomy either chapter 6 or

584
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,279
chapter 8 okay we'll talk about that at

585
00:26:23,279 --> 00:26:25,960
the end why why those chapters

586
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,640
Deuteronomy 8 1-3 all the command ments

587
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,440
that I am commanding you today you shall

588
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,279
be careful to do that you may live and

589
00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:35,600
multiply and go in and possess the land

590
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,320
which the Lord swore to give your

591
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,919
fathers you shall remember all the way

592
00:26:39,919 --> 00:26:41,520
which the Lord your God has led you in

593
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,480
the wilderness these 40 years that he

594
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,480
might humble

595
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,440
you testing you to know what was in your

596
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,279
heart whether you would keep his

597
00:26:52,279 --> 00:26:55,320
Commandments or not not just whether but

598
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,360
why you would keep his Commandments What

599
00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,039
is the motivation of your heart of your

600
00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:04,120
ego he humbled you and let you be hungry

601
00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:06,919
and fed you with Mana which you did not

602
00:27:06,919 --> 00:27:09,880
know nor did your fathers know and I

603
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,039
would add and nor did Moses command the

604
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:17,320
Heavens to rain down how did the mana

605
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,000
come to the people of

606
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,399
Israel God spoke how did God speak he

607
00:27:23,399 --> 00:27:26,240
said let there be Mana every day and on

608
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,799
the sixth day on Friday let there be a

609
00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:30,240
double portion okay we didn't hear

610
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,440
nobody heard that voice what did you see

611
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,320
what did you get the Mana God spoke the

612
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,399
physical Universe testify here it is

613
00:27:38,399 --> 00:27:41,279
this is what God is saying all

614
00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:44,679
right that he might make you understand

615
00:27:44,679 --> 00:27:47,039
that

616
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,399
man the man does not live by bread alone

617
00:27:52,399 --> 00:27:55,320
but man lives by everything that

618
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,760
proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord

619
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,880
so when Yeshua when he answers and says

620
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,559
now it's not man does not live by bread

621
00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:08,399
alone what he and but by every word that

622
00:28:08,399 --> 00:28:09,960
comes out of out of the mouth of God he

623
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,640
said God hasn't spoken

624
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,200
here because if God according to the

625
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,600
Torah and according to Moses and

626
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,919
according to Elijah and according to my

627
00:28:21,919 --> 00:28:25,640
confidence as the Son of God if God

628
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,080
wanted me to eat miraculously

629
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,720
God would send the Ravens with some meat

630
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,640
and bread God would just the rock would

631
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,240
start you know leaking water and and and

632
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,000
bringing me food and and drink that

633
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,519
would be God speaking I don't have to

634
00:28:43,519 --> 00:28:46,399
make it up I don't have to do something

635
00:28:46,399 --> 00:28:48,600
Supernatural out here for myself to

636
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,320
practice I don't need it for my ego and

637
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,200
I know that when God there is going to

638
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:55,960
be some Supernatural things that's going

639
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,880
that I'm going to do feeding people but

640
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,799
it's it's going to be for them it's

641
00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:01,960
going to be for the people it's going to

642
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,480
be a sign it's going to be a Ministry

643
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,320
not for my ego okay that's what Yeshua

644
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,840
said just in that one phrase he's he's

645
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,360
all right here these verses are in his

646
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,200
mind about the Mana about Moses and

647
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,279
about Elijah and he's he's he's just

648
00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:23,240
Discerning wait a that thought that's

649
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,880
not a that's not a god

650
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,640
thought that's not a god thought

651
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,159
so I promised I'd tell just a little bit

652
00:29:32,159 --> 00:29:35,240
of my story where our time is almost up

653
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,480
um I came to the Lord you know in Tokyo

654
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,159
Japan in

655
00:29:39,159 --> 00:29:43,080
1992 and I came uh to the Lord in a very

656
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,919
dramatic and Supernatural way uh I heard

657
00:29:46,919 --> 00:29:50,840
the voice of God he spoke into my my I

658
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,799
was born again and that that channel was

659
00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:55,120
open into the spiritual realm and I was

660
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,600
given Isaiah 536 or 5 and 6

661
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,120
by his stripes you were healed verses I

662
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,559
had never read I hadn't read that much

663
00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:03,880
of the Bible and I was totally

664
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,200
transformed and for really for months

665
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,320
even about a year to a year and a half

666
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,200
afterwards I was like hearing like these

667
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,519
thoughts God was leading me in very

668
00:30:15,519 --> 00:30:19,640
Supernatural ways okay and it was

669
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,279
wonderful and by the after you I'm back

670
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:25,559
in my my home where I grew up in West

671
00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:29,240
Harford Connecticut uh in 1993 1994 was

672
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,039
starting doing different things in

673
00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:33,840
Ministry and over I don't think maybe

674
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,279
over the course of a month or so that

675
00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:38,360
sort of

676
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,279
Supernatural leading of God and of

677
00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:44,200
hearing this sort of these go here do

678
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,279
this do that sort of just kind of went

679
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:51,799
quiet okay and I was really confused I

680
00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:53,720
thought I've sinned I've done something

681
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,519
terrible what's happened God has left me

682
00:30:57,519 --> 00:30:59,200
and I took some I took a few days of

683
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,840
fasting and prayer to seek the Lord and

684
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,039
He one day just kind of as I was reading

685
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:06,880
and he led me very clearly to the

686
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,039
scripture the story in John of

687
00:31:09,039 --> 00:31:11,679
Thomas who you know after the

688
00:31:11,679 --> 00:31:13,720
resurrection he Yeshua appears to the

689
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,840
other disciples and Thomas says I I I

690
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,960
won't believe it until I see it and then

691
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,200
a week later or eight days later I think

692
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,320
boom there's Yeshua in the room and he

693
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,639
goes straight to Thomas and says here

694
00:31:24,639 --> 00:31:27,440
touch my hands you know and in other

695
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,120
words he Yeshua knew exactly what he

696
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,200
needed and he says my God my savior

697
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,120
something like that right and then

698
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:35,960
Yeshua says to

699
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,679
him it's it's great that you believe

700
00:31:38,679 --> 00:31:40,799
because you've seen But blessed are

701
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:45,799
those who having not seen

702
00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:50,360
believe and I went ah and I this thought

703
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,679
very came to my mind which said if I if

704
00:31:53,679 --> 00:31:56,600
you never have any more Supernatural

705
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,519
experience will you still follow me will

706
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:01,880
you still

707
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,679
believe and I said yes and I can tell

708
00:32:06,679 --> 00:32:09,000
you since that time I've had some

709
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,240
Supernatural experiences but not like it

710
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,600
was in that first year and I can also

711
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,120
tell you that most of the time that I

712
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,440
have strongly heard the voice of God or

713
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,760
even seen signs and wonders has been

714
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,760
when I've ministered to others or when

715
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,639
I've been sharing the gospel or helping

716
00:32:26,639 --> 00:32:28,159
people

717
00:32:28,159 --> 00:32:29,760
not for

718
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,200
myself okay and that's one of the the

719
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,200
big lessons we need to learn from

720
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,559
this when when when our ego is involved

721
00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:40,039
when our ego is there when our heart our

722
00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:41,919
desires are there we've got to be

723
00:32:41,919 --> 00:32:44,279
careful about how we hear the voice of

724
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,919
God I was talking to young lady a few

725
00:32:46,919 --> 00:32:49,720
weeks ago who would love to get married

726
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,240
she's single and she's praying and

727
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,679
praying she thinks he's hearing about

728
00:32:53,679 --> 00:32:55,320
this guy or

729
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,960
maybe and I said wow I have experienced

730
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,360
for that cuz I came to the Lord at age

731
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,919
25 and had to wait 18 years until God

732
00:33:01,919 --> 00:33:05,559
gave me my bride um and really had to

733
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:08,320
give up that thought but but how

734
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,799
much when our desire our heart our ego

735
00:33:11,799 --> 00:33:12,799
wants

736
00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:16,000
something we can tend to

737
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,960
manipulate the word of God or the voice

738
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,480
of God or the spirit or to use it for

739
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,960
our own I want

740
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,120
it uh and we got to be really really

741
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,559
careful of that we've got to walk like

742
00:33:27,559 --> 00:33:28,760
you

743
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,639
Yeshua we've got to be all so confident

744
00:33:32,639 --> 00:33:36,639
and we can be now in that same voice

745
00:33:36,639 --> 00:33:38,679
because of because of Yeshua because of

746
00:33:38,679 --> 00:33:40,360
his death and resurrection and the new

747
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,559
birth you are my beloved son or daughter

748
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:47,799
in whom I Delight I hope you all that's

749
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:49,919
that's scripture that's you if you

750
00:33:49,919 --> 00:33:52,519
believe in him in Christ Jesus we have

751
00:33:52,519 --> 00:33:56,120
that and we that peace that

752
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,880
righteousness peace and joy that we have

753
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,240
have that's it that's the kingdom of God

754
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,440
and we need to be so confident in that

755
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,080
that we don't need anything Supernatural

756
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,159
we don't need the the the high or the

757
00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:10,440
low doesn't matter what happens we're

758
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,679
confident we don't need to prove

759
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:17,280
anything about who we are right because

760
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,839
if you need to prove something then

761
00:34:18,839 --> 00:34:20,560
there's something faulty

762
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,560
with that new birth and that adoption

763
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,879
it's not enough we don't need to prove

764
00:34:25,879 --> 00:34:30,240
anything number one number two we are

765
00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:32,520
people of the word of God of the Holy

766
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,119
scriptures we've got to be learning it

767
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,560
memorizing it putting it deep into our

768
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,679
hearts so that when we are tested the

769
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:41,480
Holy Spirit can help and go through that

770
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,679
Library like it did with Yeshua and help

771
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:45,639
us process and discern and we don't need

772
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,000
to do that alone he's he's the son of

773
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,359
God he had to do it alone in the desert

774
00:34:49,359 --> 00:34:51,320
after 40 days we have past we have

775
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,800
friends we have leaders we can go to and

776
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,919
say you know I've been hearing something

777
00:34:55,919 --> 00:34:58,400
can you help me discern is this from God

778
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,320
or not right and we do that with the

779
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,920
scriptures we check our hearts it's

780
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,359
about our identity it's about learning

781
00:35:07,359 --> 00:35:11,920
the the word of God and learning to wait

782
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,520
for him to speak in through the

783
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,320
circumstances it takes time but when the

784
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,599
circumstances change after we pray he

785
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:25,200
has spoken right and then that's how we

786
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,079
can then begin to operate more and more

787
00:35:28,079 --> 00:35:31,320
in the Supernatural in Ministry to

788
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,920
others as God uses us to bring the

789
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,760
gospel to this world Amen let's pray

790
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:42,320
father we thank you for this example of

791
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,440
Yeshua and what he went through and

792
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,920
thank you God that you sent him and he

793
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,440
did this just as a man just like

794
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,319
us and through him Lord we can we in him

795
00:35:55,319 --> 00:35:58,280
we can learn to have the same level of

796
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,560
discernment of

797
00:36:03,079 --> 00:36:05,760
confidence L thank you that we that the

798
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,040
essence of the gospel of grace is that

799
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,800
we don't do anything to deserve it we

800
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,240
don't do anything to prove our Worth or

801
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:17,119
who we are as children of God we just

802
00:36:17,119 --> 00:36:20,319
receive it believe it and stay in

803
00:36:20,319 --> 00:36:23,079
it thank you Lord that you are we do

804
00:36:23,079 --> 00:36:24,839
believe in the

805
00:36:24,839 --> 00:36:26,839
Supernatural but Lord we want to be like

806
00:36:26,839 --> 00:36:28,720
Yeshua like like Paul like the others

807
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:32,160
like Moses who walked in it as they as

808
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,440
they brought the gospel brought the good

809
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,040
news of God to the

810
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,760
world so Lord use our friends use

811
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,480
everybody here help us to walk in these

812
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,079
things and to stand in these things so

813
00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:48,280
that we might be fully able to discern

814
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,880
what is the real voice the real bading

815
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,319
of the Holy Spirit and what isn't thank

816
00:36:54,319 --> 00:36:58,599
you Lord bashem Yeshua amen